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 NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS GUIDE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 Angela Rose, Rights Director Direct Line: +44 (0)20 7605 1369 Email: [email protected] Helen James, Rights Executive and Contracts Manager Direct Line +44 (0)20 7605 1394 Email: [email protected] 1
FICTION Danny Denton Austin Duffy Lorna Gibb Wioletta Greg Cynan Jones Han Kang Walter Kempowski NON‐FICTION Patrick Barkham Caroline Criado‐Perez Matthew Green Michael Jacobs Victoria Moore Tim Philips Mark Rowlands THE EARLIE KING AND THE KID IN YELLOW 3
THIS LIVING AND IMMORTAL THING 4 A GHOST’S STORY 5 SWALLOWING MERCURY 6 COVE 7 THE WHITE BOOK 8 UNTITLED NOVEL 9 ISLANDER 10 DO IT LIKE A WOMAN 11 AFTERSHOCK 12 EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING 13 THE WINE DINE DICTIONARY 14 THE SECRET TWENTIES 15 A GOOD LIFE 16 2
FICTION THE EARLIE KING AND THE KID IN YELLOW Danny Denton Ireland is drowned. It is only ever raining. Everybody wears skins, takes ‘pharm’, runs, smuggles, muses on what is lost. Mister Violence stalks the land and a vigilante named Saint Vincent de Paul is on the rampage. A reporter keeps a list of all the dead, all the victims of the Earlie King – the lord of Ireland – and his vicious henchmen The Earlie Boys (a swaggering band of thugs who wear ‘Kandinskee shirts’ and carry knives). The Kid in Yellow is a runner for the king, but he has fallen in love with the King’s daughter, and they have a child. The Kid has made a promise and he must honour his word. The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow is a thrilling blast of poetry and drama. It’s a gangster ballad, a love story and a lyrical dystopian thriller. It’s full of extraordinary poetry, tangled myth and dark hearted theatre. If Quentin Tarantino, Sean O’Casey’s ghost and Tom Waits collaborated on a medieval miracle play they might birth this exceptional debut. Danny Denton is from Cork, Ireland, and has published fiction and prose in various publications, including The Stinging Fly. He has been awarded three arts bursaries for his work, and won a Faber Academy fellowship in 2009. His novel, The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow is forthcoming from Granta in 2018. January 2018 ∙ Fiction ∙ 248pp 3
THIS LIVING AND IMMORTAL THING Austin Duffy Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016 ‘A tremendous, strange and beguiling novel that has a bearing on all our lives. Droll, disturbing and surreptitiously profound’ William Boyd ‘An immortal, indeed, and yet strange thing: In his unshrinking examination of bodily death and spirits in limbo, Austin Duffy has created a miraculously life‐affirming novel’ Gavin Corbett ‘My life is in your hands, doctor, they would sometimes say, which it never was...’ This Living and Immortal Thing inhabits a world of medicine, research, cancer and death. Its disillusioned and darkly funny narrator is an Irish oncologist, who is searching for a scientific breakthrough in the lab of a New York hospital while struggling with his failing marriage and his growing alienation within the city’s urban spaces. Tending to the health of his laboratory mice, he finds comfort in work that is measurable, results that are quantifiable. But life is every bit as persistent as the illness he studies. As he starts a new treatment on his mice, he meets a beautiful but elusive Russian translator at the hospital, his estranged wife begins to call, his neighbours are acting strangely and his supervisor pressures him to push ahead professionally. And always there is the pull of family; of the place he considers home. Shot through with Duffy’s haunting, beautiful descriptions of the science underlying cancer, which starkly illustrate the paradox of an illness at whose heart is a persistent and deadly life force, This Living and Immortal Thing shows how the cruelty of the disease is a price we pay for the joy and complexity of being in the world. Austin Duffy grew up in Ireland and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. He is a practising medical oncologist at the National Cancer Institute in Washington DC, where he now lives with his wife and son. In 2011, Duffy was awarded RTE’s Francis MacManus award for his short story ‘Orca’. This Living and Immortal Thing is his first novel. Published (February 2016) ∙ Fiction ∙ 304pp 4
A GHOST’S STORY Lorna Gibb ‘This enchanting novel, written by a superb biographer, gives ghosts a voice and has much to say about how we ghost our lives, projecting into the others the personalities we yearn to find in ourselves. Based on meticulous historical research, and leavened by a playful imagination, A Ghost's Story will haunt and delight all kinds of readers’ Carl Rollyson ‘This intriguing novel teasingly moves between truth and fiction with all the inventiveness and unpredictability of the mediums, frauds, and spirits who crowd its pages. The dazzling succession of extraordinary characters and bizarre happenings leaves the reader as puzzled as the dogged Victorian investigators of the “spirit world” – but much better entertained. For as well as being both horrifying and funny by turns, the novel becomes a touching love‐story of the most unusual kind’ Charles Palliser, author of The Quincunx Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries séances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One ‘ghost’ appeared more than any other, the Katie King spirit. A Ghost’s Story presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. A profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the cheap trickery of parlour cheats and exploitative swindlers? Katie King is both, and more. This is the tale of a ghost’s quest to understand human faith, loss and passion. It is also the tale of a contemporary scholar desperate to understand the allure of the spirit world, journeying with Katie from the candle‐lit drawing rooms of Victorian London to the Imperial Palaces of Tsars; from the shadiest of gimmicks and tricks, to the most poignant sincerity of the death‐bed wish. A Ghost’s Story announces a narrator like no other, moving in and out of time and space, obstreperous, witty and profoundly honest. Above all, it is an examination of belief and a spectacular insight into what lies on the other side. Lorna Gibb was born in Belshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. She is a university lecturer and now lives in London. She is the author of Lady Hester: Queen of the East and West’s World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West. A Ghost’s Story is her first novel. Published (November 2015) ∙ Fiction ∙ 336pp 5
SWALLOWING MERCURY Wioletta Greg Translated by Eliza Marciniak ‘Greg writes with a precise, strange charm, and the poet's acute sensitivity to detail. Little by little, I felt the presence of young Wiola appear beside me ‐ vital, quick‐witted and curious, picking her way through the dark woods of faith, family, sex and politics as if in some melancholy fairytale. I experienced the book like a series of cool, clear drinks, each more intoxicating than the last: I love and admire it in equal measure’ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent ‘I really loved this strange book, which is sometimes sinister and sometimes lovely, and many other things besides’ Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds, Singing ‘I have been utterly ‘swallowed’ by this odd yet oddly familiar folk novella – somewhere between memoir and fairytale – which has magic and menace in perfect measure’ Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither Set in rural south Poland in the 1980s, this novella follows a young girl’s passage to adulthood in her village, where folklore lives alongside religious belief and peculiar personal metamorphoses are the norm. Wiola lives in a close‐knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola’s father was a deserter but now he’s a taxidermist. Wiola’s mother tells her that killing spiders brings on storms. Wiola must never enter the seamstress’s ‘secret’ room. Wiola collects matchbox labels. Wiola is a good Catholic girl brought up with folktales and nurtured on superstition. Wiola lives in a Poland that is both very recent and lost in time. Wiola’s life is peculiar. Wiola’s life is just a life. Following Wiola’s progress from childhood to adolescence, Swallowing Mercury is a novella about the ordinary passing of years filled with extraordinary days. In vivid prose, filled with texture, colour and sound, it depicts an enchanting world of horse‐drawn carts and local markets, folk customs and political unrest, freshly‐picked cherries and rival cigarette brands. It is a precise and sensitive character study of a clever, strong‐willed, thoughtful girl who grows into a unique young woman, both an observer of and a participant in her world. Wioletta Greg is the author of six volumes of poetry and a novella, Swallowing Mercury, translated here into English for the first time. Her poetry collection, Finite Formulae & Theories of Chance, was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Essex. Eliza Marciniak is an editor and translator. She lives in London. January 2017 ∙ Fiction ∙ 128pp
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COVE Cynan Jones ‘I found it hypnotically compelling, as exciting as it is meditative, and adored the pared down yet powerful, rippling, sensate writing. A terrific read’ Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins ‘One of the most accomplished writers working in the UK today ... authentically rooted, moving evocative’ Jon McGregor ‘Jones’s use of language is frequently stellar ... There is no doubt that he is one of the most talented writers in Britain’ Independent on Sunday From the Jerwood‐award winning author of The Dig, here is a short, sharp punch of a book about a man and a boat in deep, uncertain waters. Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak, his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered. Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore, and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return. With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature, this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction. Cynan Jones was born near Aberaeron, Wales in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014). He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. November 2016 ∙ Fiction ∙ 112pp 7
THE WHITE BOOK Han Kang Translated by Deborah Smith From the Man Booker International shortlisted author of The Vegetarian comes a stunning and uncategorisable meditation on the colour white, about light, about death, ritual and the figure in the city. Both the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang. Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth. A fragmented exploration of white things ‐ the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story ‐ unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow‐streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders 'Can I give this life to you?'. The White Book is a book like no other. It is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, was published by Portobello Books in 2015 and has been shorlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Deborah Smith (@londonkoreanist)'s literary translations from the Korean include two novels by Han Kang, The Vegetarian and Human Acts (both Portobello UK, Crown US), and two by Bae Suah, The Essayist's Desk (Open Letter 2016) and The Low Hills of Seoul (Deep Vellum 2016). Deborah recently founded @TiltedAxisPress, a not‐for‐profit press focusing on contemporary literary fiction. November 2017 ∙ Fiction ∙ tbc 8
UNTITLED NOVEL Walter Kempowski Translated by Anthea Bell From the bestselling author of All For Nothing, a sharply evocative novel, which explores the troubled legacy of World War II on the first generation of post‐war Germans. Jonathan Fabricus is a journalist living in West Germany at the end of the 80s. In 1988 – the year before the Berlin wall comes down – he is asked by a car manufacturer to travel to the contested lands of former East Prussia to write about the route for a car rally. It’s a plum job, but his interest is piqued too by his own connection to those lands. Fleeing the advancing Russians in 1945, his mother died in childbirth on the refugee route trail out of East Prussia and was buried in a village that under Allied victory was given over to what is now communist Poland. On this sometimes darkly comical and often dangerous road trip – where the Nazi legacy lives on in buildings and fortifications, and violence is never far from the surface – Jonathan comes face to face with his painful family history, as well as devastating questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity and guilt in the war. Walter Kempowski (1929‐2007) was one of Germany's most important post‐war writers. He is known for his acclaimed series of novels German Chronicles (Deutsche Chronik) and his immense, eight‐volume collection of first‐hand accounts of World War II, Echo Soundings (Das Echolot), the final volume of which, Swansong 1945, was published by Granta in English in 2014. His last novel All for Nothing (Alles Umsonst), a bestseller in Germany in 2006 and critically applauded, sealed his reputation. November 2017 ∙ Fiction ∙ tbc 9
NON‐FICTION ISLANDER Patrick Barkham A funny, curious and surprising book about the islands of Britain and their human history, ranging from the Neolithic to the present day, from the bestselling author of The Butterfly Isles. The people of the British Isles are an island race. We are distributed across two large islands but also across an archipelago of 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, are like miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Samson in the Isles of Scilly, are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths, old curses and rats. There are islands like Easedale, once famed for its slate mines, which house tiny, tight‐knit communities; then there are islands like Brownsman in the Farne Islands, which are strictly for the birds ‐ literally, as a sanctuary for seabirds. Our islands are places of refuge, places of isolation, party retreats and oases of peace. They entice, unnerve and delight us, but what it is about islands that make their allure so irresistible? In this evocative and fascinating book, Patrick Barkham explores the essence of islands and island living: how do societies work differently on small islands, and do islands change the way we behave? Are eccentrics attracted to islands, or do islands make people eccentric? Do they keep us sane or drive us mad? Patrick's journey across the British Isles' isles sets out to answer these questions. Along the way, he uncovers bizarre and touching stories about island life, meets a host of curious characters, and sees some of the most beautiful landscapes in Britain. Patrick Barkham was born in 1975 in Norfolk and was educated at Cambridge University. He is a features writer for the Guardian, where he has reported on everything from the Iraq War to climate change. He is the author of The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals, Badgerlands: The Twilight World of Britain's Most Enigmatic Animal and Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore. He lives in Norfolk. October 2017 ∙ Travel writing ∙ 288pp 10
DO IT LIKE A WOMAN ...And Change the World Caroline Criado‐Perez ‘Like Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist handbook Lean In, but without the corporate focus, it’s an inspiring read, celebrating game‐changers across the globe’ Scotsman ‘Need inspiring? Do It Like A Woman brings together stories of kick‐ass women from around the world who have shown great heroism and bravery. It’s rousing and immensely readable’ Good Housekeeping Every day, all over the world, women are making a positive difference to their lives and the lives of the people in their communities. Most of these women are cut off from the rhetoric and theory of Western feminism; many are active in deeply patriarchal and socially restrictive societies; some may not even describe themselves as feminists. Nevertheless, these women are proving to themselves, and to the world, that a powerful force for change can sometimes start with a single brave action. In Do It Like A Woman, Caroline Criado‐Perez, an outspoken activist and campaigner, uncovers these stories and investigates what they mean for the feminist movement as a whole. She gathers together stories from beatboxers in Malta and prostitutes in Merseyside to fighter pilots in Afghanistan and doctors in Portugal, and shows how women are taking positive, practical steps to challenge injustice or inequality, and change their world. While some of these stories (the Everyday Sexism campaign and the trial of Pussy Riot) are already known, the majority of the stories here have not yet been told, and demand to be heard. Caroline Criado‐Perez is a British journalist and feminist activist whose work has appeared in The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian and the Independent. She is one of the co‐founders of The Women’s Room, a website whose goal is to raise awareness of the marginalisation and underrepresentation of women in the media. In 2013 she successfully campaigned for the inclusion of a woman on the £10 note (after the Bank of England planned to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill). She tweets @CCriadoPerez. This is her first book. Published (May 2015) ∙ Non‐fiction ∙ 336pp Rights sold: Audio (W F Howes 11
AFTERSHOCK Fighting War, Surviving Trauma and Finding Peace Matthew Green ‘Compelling, humbling and hugely inspiring accounts from the real heroes of our era. We have a duty to understand what these men have given on our behalf’ Bear Grylls ‘This is a most compelling book which tells the story of those who have suffered so much in the conduct of operation to protect our security. Mental health pressures need to move centre stage in our priorities – now!’ Sir Richard Dannatt, former General Chief of Staff ‘If we expect our lives and freedoms to be protected we have a duty to those who do this. As a society, as people, surely we must take responsibility for the bodies, minds, and indeed souls of those who fight for us? Aftershock makes this point again and again, powerfully and compellingly’ Justine Hardy, trauma therapist, author Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our veterans’ journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return. Through wide‐ranging interviews with former combatants – including a Royal Marine sniper and a veteran operator in the SAS – as well as serving personnel and their families, physicians, therapists and psychiatrists, Aftershock looks beyond the labels of shell shock and PTSD to get to the heart of today’s post‐conflict experience. It pursues the question that the military are so reluctant to ask: why do people who are trained to thrive within the theatre of war so often find themselves ill‐
prepared for peace? As a new generation of battle‐scarred troops begins to lay their weapons down, Aftershock offers an empathetic yet hard‐hitting account of the hidden cost of conflict. And its message is one that has profound implications, not just for the military, but for anyone with an interest in how we experience trauma and survive. For the past fourteen years, Matthew Green has worked as a correspondent for Reuters and the Financial Times, reporting from over thirty countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. His first book, The Wizard of the Nile: The Hunt for Joseph Kony, won a Jerwood Award and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. His writing has also appeared in the Economist, The Times and Esquire. www.matthewgreenjournalism.com Published (October 2015) ∙ Non‐fiction ∙ 336pp 12
EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING Journey into a Painting With an introduction and coda by Ed Vulliamy Michael Jacobs ‘The posthumous publication of Michael Jacobs’ unfinished voyage around Las Meninas is an occasion to celebrate the life and work of an exceptionally gifted writer...one of the great non‐
fiction writers of this and the last century ... The story twists and turns back on Jacobs: the boyish humanity and exuberance, his deep‐rooted, optimistic conviction that by engaging with others uninhibitedly he would discover himself; the happy carousing and uncoordinated dancing; his wide‐eyed openness to wonder; his altogether un‐English rush of enthusiasm – is all on show in the book as he stands again before the frozen conundrum of the painting [Las Meninas]’ Simon Schama, Financial Times Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velázquez’s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the picture, as well as his own memories of and relationship to this extraordinary work. From Jacobs’ first trip to Spain, to the complex politics of Golden Age Madrid, to his meeting with the man who saved Las Meninas during the Spanish Civil war, via Jacobs’ experiences of the sunless world of the art history academy, Jacobs’ dissolves the barriers between the past and the present, the real and the illusory. Cut short by Jacobs’ death in 2014, and completed with an introduction and coda of great sensitivity and insight by his friend and fellow lover of art, the journalist Ed Vulliamy, this visionary, meditative and often very funny book is a passionate, personal manifesto for the liberation of how we look at painting. Michael Jacobs was born in Italy and studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was the author of Andes (Granta 2010) and The Robber of Memories (Granta 2012). He divided his time between London and a remote Spanish village. He died in January 2014. Published (August 2015) ∙ Non‐fiction ∙ 240pp 13
THE WINE DINE DICTIONARY
Good Food and Good Wine: An A–Z of Suggestions for Happy Eating and Drinking
Victoria Moore International Wine Columnist of the Year and Online Communicator of the Year at the 2015 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards ‘[Moore] has a deceptively effortless style, and as regular readers of her column in the Guardian will know, few food or drink writers can match her graceful way with a simile … She is also clearly very knowledgeable and passionate … Most important, however, is the quality of the advice she offers’ Fine Wine Here is the book that is currently missing from our kitchen shelves: a brilliantly intuitive handbook for matching food and wine, from the author of the bestselling How to Drink. Want to pick the perfect wine for dinner? Wondering what to eat with a special bottle? Let The Wine Dine Dictionary be your guide. Arranged A‐Z by food at one end and A‐Z by wine at the other, this unique handbook will help you make more informed, more creative, and more delicious choices about what to eat and drink. It includes chapters on picking by mood, picking by place, wines that go with (almost) everything and ‘game‐changer’ ingredients like goats’ cheese, chilli and lemon. As one of the country’s most popular and influential wine journalists, as well as an expert in the psychology of smell and taste, Victoria Moore doesn’t just explain what goes with what, but why and how the combination works, too. Written with her trademark authority, warmth and wit, this is a book to consult and to savour. Victoria Moore is an award‐winning wine writer and currently writes a weekly drink column for the Telegraph. She has written on wine for the New Statesman and the Guardian and has appeared on Radio 4’s Food Programme and You & Yours. She is the author of How To Drink, also published by Granta Books. She lives in London. May 2017 ∙ Food / Drink ∙ 336pp 14
THE SECRET TWENTIES British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age Timothy Phillips A thrilling true story of espionage and counterespionage between the Soviets and the British during London's Roaring Twenties At the height of the hedonistic Jazz Age, many in British society became convinced that they were under attack from the Soviet Union. Still reeling from the Russian revolution of 1917, disturbed by the development of militant workers movements at home, and deeply paranoid about the recent wave of White Russian immigrants to the UK, the British government tasked the intelligence services to look for evidence of espionage. Over the next decade, as the political pressure mounted, the spooks began to cast their net of suspicion wider, to include not only suspect Russians, but British aristocrats, Bloomsbury artists, ordinary workers, and even members of parliament. It was the biggest spying operation in the agency's history to date and its ramifications were profound. On the strength of the evidence they uncovered, Britain deported hundreds of Russians and broke off diplomatic links with Moscow for more than two years. This was the first Cold War, and it not only set the rules of engagement for Russia and Britain for decades to come, but also sent shockwaves through the British establishment, bringing down a government and ending political careers. Drawing on a wealth of recently declassified and previously unseen material, Tim Phillips uncovers a world of suspicion and extremism, bureaucracy and betrayal set against the sparkling backdrop of cocktail‐era London. The Secret Twenties shines fresh light on a glamorous decade, and offers a gripping account of the lives of the Soviet spies, the British Secret Service and the double agents in their midst. Timothy Phillips is the author of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 (Granta 2008). A fluent Russian speaker, he has travelled widely in the former Soviet Union and has worked extensively as a translator. He holds a doctorate in Russian history and lives in London, where he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the BBC Russian Service. October 2017 ∙ 20th Century History ∙ 320pp 15
A GOOD LIFE Philosophy from Cradle to Grave Mark Rowlands From the bestselling author of The Philosopher and the Wolf comes a gripping and provocative story of one man’s life through a philosophical lens. Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day – and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin’s death, A Good Life is one man’s reckoning with the life he has led and the choices he made. It is at once a philosophical handbook for living and a page‐turning narrative. A Good Life is one man’s life (birth, death, education, religion, morality, illness and so on) told through a philosophical lens. It is a riveting examination of the ethical questions we face, and the decisions we must make, and a defence of the idea that at the beating heart of morality we find love. And it is written with the conviction that, on their own, moral rules and principles are childish things – risible and easily refuted. It is only a life in its entirety that can be morally judged. A Good Life is sometimes profoundly funny, sometimes deeply serious. It is as readable as a novel and as provocative as the best philosophy. It is the finest work to date by a charming and brilliant thinker. Mark Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales. He is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami and the author of sixteen books, including the bestselling The Philosopher and the Wolf, also published by Granta. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Published (November 2015) ∙ Philosophy ∙ 304pp Rights sold: Korea (Chungrim), Greece (Ekdoseis), Audio (Audible)
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