reasons to stay alive matt haig

JANUARY
REASONS TO STAY ALIVE
MATT HAIG
The most talked about memoir of 2015
– now in paperback
Aged 24, Matt Haig’s world caved in. He could see no
way to go on living. This is the true story of how he
came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that
almost destroyed him and learned to live again.
A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to
live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to
Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about
making the most of your time on earth.
‘Maybe the most important book I’ve read this year’
Simon Mayo
Matt Haig is the author of five novels, including the bestselling The
Last Family in England, The Radleys and The Humans. His works have
been translated into over twenty languages, and he has also written
award-winning books for children. He lives in Brighton.
‘Warm and engaging, and shot through with
humour’ Sunday Times
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THE AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF EGYPT
ALAA AL ASWANY
From the bestselling author of The
Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting
at the seams with exuberant Egyptian life
An absorbing and epic tale of Cairo as seen
through the eyes of the Gaafar family.
In The Automobile Club of Egypt two very different
worlds collide – Cairo’s European elite and the
Egyptian staff. When tragedy befalls the Gaafars,
they are drawn into the turbulent politics of the
club. As Egypt’s social upheaval begins to
subsume both servants and masters, Egyptians
inside and outside of the Automobile Club will all
face a stark choice.
‘Alaa Al Aswany’s writing has been translated into 29
languages and published in over 100 countries. His first novel
The Yacoubian Building sold over a million copies worldwide.
He lives in Egypt.
‘Among the best writers in the Middle East today…
Al Aswany has his own magic’ Guardian
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THE OUTRUN
AMY LIPTROT
A remarkable memoir introducing a
significant new voice in nature writing – for
fans of Helen Macdonald and Rebecca Solnit
When Amy Liptrot’s drinking spirals out of
control, she finds herself washed up back home
on Orkney. Spending early mornings swimming,
the days tracking Orkney’s wildlife and nights
searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy
slowly makes the journey towards recovery from
addiction. A beautiful, inspiring book about living
on the edge, about the pull between island and
city, and about the ability of the sea, the wind and
the moon to restore life and renew hope.
‘Amy Liptrot has worked as a journalist, an artist’s model and
in a shellfish factory. The Outrun, her first book, emerged from
her Caught by the River column.
‘Luminous, life-affirming . . . I’ll be pressing it into
people’s hands for years to come’ Olivia Laing
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14th January 2016
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THE CONFIDENCE GAME
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CON AND WHY WE FALL FOR IT EVERY TIME
MARIA KONNIKOVA
A fascinating investigation into the minds,
motives, and methods of the con artist by a
New York Times bestselling psychologist
Con men are artists of persuasion and exploiters
of trust. They hold a deep fascination for us.
But how do they do it?
Exploring the psychological principles that
underlie each stage of the confidence game, the
profile of the con artist and his mark, and telling
stories of the most seductive imposters in history,
Maria Konnikova reveals why we believe in
confidence artists and how our sense of truth can
be manipulated by those around us.
Maria Konnikova is an established voice in pop psychology,
writing for The New Yorker and Slate among other major
publications. Her first book Mastermind was a New York Times
bestseller.
‘A delightful tour of the science of memory,
creativity and reasoning’
Steven Pinker on Mastermind
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GUN BABY GUN
A BLOODY JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF THE GUN
IAIN OVERTON
Shortlisted for the CWA non-fiction dagger
There are almost one billion guns across the globe
today - more than ever before. Every minute of
every day, someone somewhere is shot. Gun Baby
Gun is a hard-hitting and urgent investigation into
the gun’s lifespan, into our hugely complex
relationship with firearms and their undeniable,
long-reaching and often hidden impact. Along the
way, award-winning journalist Iain Overton
unearths some stark truths about the everyday
human cost of gun crime.
‘Brilliant’ Jon Snow
‘Iain Overton is Director of Investigations at Action on
Armed Violence and an award-winning investigative journalist
who has worked in over eighty countries around the world.
This is his first book.
‘A gripping book that’s as disturbing as it is
enlightening’ GQ
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THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF PORTUGAL
YANN MARTEL
The new novel from the Booker Prizewinning author of Life of Pi
Yann Martel’s new novel, The High Mountains of
Portugal, is an uncommon adventure story that
takes us from Africa in the 1600s, through
Portugal at the turn of the 20th century, to the
USA of the 1980s and reminds us that it is our
ability to weave remarkable stories that makes us,
and keeps us, human.
Tender, heartfelt, clear-eyed and frequently
hilarious, with The High Mountains of Portugal
Yann Martel will once again charm the millions of
fans who fell for Life of Pi.
Yann Martel is the author of the internationally acclaimed
2002 Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was
translated into thirty-eight languages. Yann Martel lives in
Saskatchewan
‘Martel is incapable of writing a dull sentence’
Daily Express
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2nd February 2016
ON LOVE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Raw and romantic, On Love captures one of
our funniest, fiercest, and most daring writers
on a subject that touches all of our lives
Charles Bukowski was a man of intensely felt
passions. In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning
with the complications of love and desire, as well as
its exaltations. Whether writing about his daughter,
his lover, or his work, Bukowski is fiercely honest
and reflective, using love as a prism to look at the
world and to view his own vulnerable place in it.
‘My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet
moment on the bough,’ he writes. ‘As the same cat
crouches.’ Memorably moving and, at times,
hilarious, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most
candid and affecting.
Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known
contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would
claim, its most influential and imitated poet.
‘A laureate of American low life’ Time
‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’
Leonard Cohen
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4th February 2016
THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON
TASHA KAVANAGH
‘Genuinely chilling, this is one of the best books
I’ve read this year’ Independent
This dark and utterly addictive debut thriller with
the most unreliable and obsessive teenage
protagonist you’ll have encountered in years is the
perfect
word-of-mouth read.
‘It grips from the very beginning’ Daily Mail
‘This is a novel you read half covering your eyes,
willing it not to venture where you fear it might. But
of course it does, with great panache’ Guardian
‘Could be the next Gone Girl success story’
Independent
Tasha Kavanagh worked in film editing for ten years, on
features including Twelve Monkeys, Seven Years in Tibet and The
Talented Mr Ripley. Things We Have in Common is her first novel.
‘Unsettling, deeply moving and very, very readable.
I loved it’ Nathan Filer
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4th February 2016
CURE
A JOURNEY INTO THE SCIENCE OF MIND OVER BODY
JO MARCHANT
A scientific and accessible investigation into
the science of mind-body medicine to
understand the role the mind
plays in our health
The field of mind-body medicine is plagued by
wild claims that can instil false hope. By taking a
scientific approach to understanding how our
mental state influences our physiology, can we
finally live in tune with our bodies based on
concrete evidence? Jo Marchant delves deep into
the latest scientific research and asks how the
mind might keep us free from disease, taking us
on a remarkable journey on what it means to be
human.
Award-winning science journalist Dr Jo Marchant has a PhD
in genetics and medical microbiology from St Bartholomew’s
Hospital Medical College, and an MSc in Science
Communication from Imperial College London.
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18th February 2016
ONE LIFE
MY MOTHER’S STORY
KATE GRENVILLE
This vivid, intimate, narrative memoir celebrates
the life of bestselling and award-winning
novelist Kate Grenville’s mother
One Life is the story of Kate Grenville’s mother
Nance Russell, whose life spanned a century of
tumult and change. In an act of great imaginative
sympathy, her daughter has drawn on the fragments
of memoir Nance left, to create an intimate account
of the patterns in her mother’s life.
A sensitive and striking portrait of the power of
mother and daughter bonds, One Life is a deeply
moving homage, a testament to the incredible
lifelong influence one mother has had on her
daughter.
Kate Grenville’s bestselling novel The Secret River received the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man
Booker Prize. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize.
‘Clear, authentic and utterly engaging . . .
it is as successful as it is authentic’
Independent on Sunday
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25th February 2016
TEN DAYS
GILLIAN SLOVO
House of Cards meets Homeland in this
powerful and unputdownable thriller
It’s 4am and dawn is about to break over the
Lovelace estate. Cathy Mason drags herself out of
bed as temperatures reach the 30s.
Home Secretary Peter Whiteley gulps tea before
heading to Parliament, whilst his new Police Chief,
Joshua Wares, begins his first day with a run.
All three will have reasons to recollect this morning
as their lives collide over ten days they will never
forget.
Research for Gillian Slovo’s play The Riots inspired Ten Days. Her
novel Ice Road was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She was
President of English PEN from 2010 to 2013 and is a fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature.
‘Extraordinary – a page-turner thick with greed,
ambition, love and secrets, and simultaneously an
incisive portrayal of power and powerlessness in
today’s Britain’ Kamila Shamsie
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THE SICK BAG SONG
NICK CAVE
Somewhere between The Waste Land and Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas , Nick Cave’s new book is a
hellhound road trip into the American soul
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and
memory. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during
Cave’s 22-city journey around North America in 2014. It
soon grew into a restless full length contemporary epic.
Spurred by encounters with modern day North America,
and racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave
teases out the significant moments, the people, the books
and the music that have influenced and inspired him, and
drops them
into his sick bag.
The lead singer of The Birthday Party, The Bad Seeds and Grinderman,
Nick Cave has been performing music for more than 30 years. His debut
novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, was published in 1989 and was followed
by the internationally bestselling The Death of Bunny Munro in 2009.
‘About as rock’n’roll as you can get . . . [The Sick Bag
Song] is shot through with fantasy, fiction,
apocalyptic musings and tall stories’ Sunday Times
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SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
CAITLIN DOUGHTY
The critically acclaimed account of Caitlin
Doughty’s first year working on the funerary
frontlines
‘A zingy, fresh and important book about death . . .
This book might change your life’
Evening Standard
‘Doughty is a convincing and impassioned advocate
for changes in our cultural attitudes towards death.
There’s much to enjoy in this thoughtful, unflinching
and highly entertaining memoir’ Guardian
‘Compassionate, unblinking and very, very funny’
Meg Rosoff
‘Eye-opening . . . occasionally haunting, always
insightful’ David Eagleman
Caitlin Doughty is a licensed funeral director and the creator of
the Ask a Mortician YouTube series. She founded the death
acceptance collective The Order of the Good Death
and co-founded Death Salon.
‘Important and timely’
Sunday Times
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3rd March 2016
GODS OF THE MORNING
A BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF A HIGHLAND YEAR
JOHN LISTER-KAYE
A lyrical celebration of the British countryside
from one of our best known nature writers
‘I love this book . . . No one writes more movingly,
or with such transporting poetic skill, about
encounters with wild creatures. Its pages course with
sympathy, humility, and wisdom’ Helen Macdonald
‘Exquisitely observed and deeply evocative . . . A
joyful affirmation of the changing seasons and the
wonders of wildlife. John Lister-Kaye is a national
treasure’ Patrick Barkham
‘A rich treasury of secrets stolen from the highlands’
Chris Packham
Sir John Lister-Kaye was awarded an OBE in 2003 for services to
nature conservation. He runs the world-famous Aigas Field Centre
in the Scottish Highlands.
‘Compelling . . . a tour de force of forensic
observation and imaginative reconstruction’
Mark Cocker
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THE LONELY CITY
OLIVIA LAING
A dazzling investigation into loneliness,
art and the modern city from the critically
acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring
When Olivia Laing moved to New York in her midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a
daily basis. Fascinated by the experience, she began to
explore the lonely city by way of art –
from Edward Hopper to Andy Warhol,
from David Wojnarowicz to Henry Darger.
The Lonely City is a stunning mix of cultural history,
memoir and psycho-geography, at once humane,
provocative and deeply moving.
Olivia Laing is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
To The River won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel
Book of the Year and The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the
Costa Biography Award and the Gordon Burn Prize.
‘Beautiful . . . knowledgeable yet intimate. She
can evoke a state of mind as gracefully as she
evokes a landscape’
Hilary Mantel on The Trip to Echo Spring
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WHAT HAPPENED, MISS SIMONE?
ALAN LIGHT
Inspired by the critically acclaimed Netflix
documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? is
an intimate and vivid portrait of the legendary
Nina Simone
What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of
incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina
Simone, one of the most influential, provocative, and
least understood artists of our time. Drawn from a
trove of rare archival footage, audio recordings and
interviews (including Simone’s remarkable private
diaries), this nuanced examination of her life harnesses
the singular voice of Miss Simone herself.
Incorporating candid reflections from those who knew
her best, including her only daughter, music journalist
Alan Light brings us face to face with a legend,
examining the very public persona and very private
struggles of one of our greatest artists.
A veteran music journalist, Alan Light is the author of The Holy or the
Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"
and Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain. Light was
previously the editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin and a senior writer for
Rolling Stone. He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times.
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THE DEFINING DECADE
MEG JAY
Why thirty is not the new twenty –
Meg Jay is a phenomenon with over
7.5 million views on TED Talks
For clinical psychologist Dr Meg Jay,
twenty-somethings have so far been caught in a
swirl of hype and misinformation, much of
which has trivialised what is actually the most
defining decade of adulthood. She shows us how
work, relationships, social networks and even the
brain can change more during this time than at
any other point in adulthood – if we use the time
wisely. This is about making the most of the
years we cannot afford to miss.
Dr Meg Jay is a clinical psychologist who specialises in adult
development, especially twentysomethings. She is an assistant
clinical professor at the University of Virginia, and maintains
a private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.
‘The Defining Decade is the book twentysomethings
have been waiting for’
Rachel Simmons, The Good Girl
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THE ABUNDANCE
ANNIE DILLARD
A stunning new collection from the Pulitzer
Prize-winner, with an introduction
by Geoff Dyer
‘Dillard opens our eyes to the world and to new
ways of articulating what we see’ Geoff Dyer
Intense, vivid, at once precise in language and
deeply meditative in spirit, Annie Dillard illuminates
the seemingly ordinary moments of life with her
unique wit, impish spirit, boundless curiosity and
fierce, undeniably singular voice. From a sublime
lunar eclipse to a moth consumed in a candle flame,
Dillard’s wide-eyed awe at the fragility and beauty of
the natural world rejuvenates and inspires wonder,
pleasure and heartache.
Annie Dillard is a much-celebrated poet, novelist, nature writer
and author of ten books, including the Pulitzer
Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
‘Dillard’s prose is spirited and gale-force’
Robert Macfarlane
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7th April 2016
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD | HOLY THE FIRM |
TEACHING A STONE TO TALK
ANNIE DILLARD
Available for the first time in the UK as ebooks, two highly celebrated collections and a childhood memoir
‘A book of great richness, beauty and power . . . A rare and precious book’
New York Times Book Review on Holy the Firm
‘Dillard transcends all other writers of our day in all the simple, intimate and beautiful ways of the natural master’
Buckminster Fuller on Teaching a Stone to Talk
‘Loving and lyrical, nostalgic without being wistful, this is a book about the capacity for joy’
Los Angeles Times on An American Childhood
‘Annie Dillard has always been at her best when
considering death; the contemplation of mortality
gives her writing an extraordinarily fierce and
burnished quality’ Olivia Laing
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7th April 2016
GET IN TROUBLE
KELLY LINK
‘A brilliant, giddying read’ Sarah Waters
Fantastic, fantastical and utterly incomparable,
Kelly Link’s new collection explores everything
from the essence of ghosts to the nature of love.
And hurricanes, astronauts, evil twins,
bootleggers, Ouija boards, iguanas, The Wizard of
Oz, superheroes, the pyramids . . .
Strange, dark and wry, Get in Trouble reveals Kelly
Link at the height of her creative powers and
stretches the boundaries of what fiction can do.
Kelly Link is the author of Stranger Things Happen, Magic for
Beginners and Pretty Monsters, a collection for young adults. She
edited the anthology Trampoline, co-edits the zine Lady
Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and co-runs Small Beer Press.
Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
‘Welcome to the fabulous mind of Kelly Link . . .
Get in Trouble is just as brilliant as her last’
The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)
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7th April 2016
THE BRAIN
DAVID EAGLEMAN
A thrilling journey into understanding how your
life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes
your life
Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a
journey into the questions at the heart of our existence.
What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make
decisions? Why does your brain need other people?
How is technology poised to change what it means to
be human? A whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos,
this is the incredible story of how the brain fashions the
rich narratives of your reality and identity.
‘The hottest thing in neuroscience’
The Times
Dr David Eagleman is a neuroscientist who specializes in brain
plasticity, time perception, synesthesia, and the intersection of science
with social policy. He is the author of the bestseller Sum and Incognito.
‘Eagleman is a true original’
Time Magazine
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7th April 2016
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THE BONES OF GRACE
TAHMIMA ANAM
The much-anticipated new novel by one of Granta’s
Best Young British Novelists
The Bones of Grace is an epic love story, and an epic story
of love. It follows the thwarted passions of Zubaida
Bashir for Elijah Strong, a man from whom she cannot
bear to be separated and yet Zu cannot face the
consequences of what a life together would mean.
Zu comes to discover how love bends and distracts but
ultimately forges the very people
we are. She also discovers who she wishes to be, and she
learns that in knowing her own story, and the story of
those who have loved her,
she can love herself.
Tahmima Anam’s work has been shortlisted for the Guardian First
Book Award and the Costa First Novel Award. She was also longlisted
for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011
‘Anam’s prose is glowing and graceful’
Guardian
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5th May 2016
MIND OVER MONEY
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY AND HOW TO USE IT BETTER
CLAUDIA HAMMOND
A book about the psychological
impact that money has on us, by Radio 4’s
voice of psychology
We know we need money, and we often want more
of it, but we don’t always think about the way it
affects our minds and our emotions, skews our
perceptions and even changes the way we behave.
Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience,
psychology and biology, Claudia Hammond explores
our relationship with money and draws an anatomy
of the power it holds over us. She also reveals some
extraordinary tools for making better decisions
about the ways we use it.
Claudia Hammond is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and
psychology lecturer. She is the voice of psychology on BBC Radio
4 and her book Time Warped won the 2013 British Psychological
Society Book Award for popular science.
‘With an engaging, light touch, Hammond describes
the ingenious experiments psychologists have
devised to explore how our brains construct – and
warp – time’ New Scientist on Time Warped
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5th May 2016
A NOTABLE WOMAN
THE ROMANTIC JOURNALS OF JEAN LUCEY PRATT
EDITED BY SIMON GARFIELD
‘Extraordinary. Timeless, funny and utterly
absorbing’ Hilary Mantel
In the 1920s, fifteen-year-old Jean started a journal
that she would keep for the rest of her life. She wrote
about anything that amused, inspired or troubled her,
laying bare her life with honesty and humour.
Throughout the Second World War and beyond, she
documented the hopes and fears of a nation, and the
shifting role of women in society. A slice of British
history, Jean’s diaries are a revealing chronicle of life
in the twentieth century.
Jean Lucey Pratt was born in 1909 and kept track of her life in the
most lyrical of ways until just a few days before her death in 1986.
Simon Garfield is the author or editor of seventeen books
including To the Letter, On the Map and Just My Type.
‘What a find! Jean’s voice sings across the
decades, fresh and vivid’
Deborah Moggach
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5th May 2016
ENDGAME
AHMET ALTAN
Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most significant writers,
after Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak
In Endgame we are led by a highly untrustworthy narrator and
find ourselves pulled into a world of desire, ambition and death.
On page one we learn that he has killed someone.
What we don’t know is who.
Like a detective story turned on its head, Endgame is sensual,
compelling and laced with a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul
Auster. This is one of the
most exciting international voices to have
emerged in years.
Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey’s most significant authors and journalists whose
books have sold over 1.5m copies and
been translated into many languages.
Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives
and works in Istanbul.
‘A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about
love, desire, loneliness and landscape. Ahmet Altan
is one of the foremost voices in Turkish literature
and has much to say to the world’ Elif Shafak
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THE SEED COLLECTORS
SCARLETT THOMAS
I have no idea why everyone thinks nature is so
benign and glorious and wonderful. All nature is
trying to do is kill us as efficiently as possible
A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of
inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and
family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important
novel yet from one of the world’s most daring
and brilliant writers.
As Henry James said of George Eliot’s Middlemarch,
The Seed Collectors is a ‘treasurehouse of detail’ revealing
all that it means to be connected, to be part of a
society, to be part of the universe and to be human.
Scarlett Thomas’s other novels include The End of Mr.Y, which was
longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. She teaches
creative writing at the University of Kent.
‘Scarlett Thomas is one of my favourite writers ever
and The Seed Collectors might be her best yet . . .
Barbed, casually genius, philosophical and intensely
readable. A joy’ Matt Haig
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SCARLETT THOMAS
THE END OF MR. Y
A reissue of the cult classic, Orange-longlisted novel. The End of
Mr. Y has sold over 190,000 copies to date
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When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand
bookshop, she can’t believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author,
the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas, to know that copies are
exceedingly rare. And, some say, cursed.
With Mr. Y under her arm, Ariel finds herself thrust into a thrilling
adventure of love, sex, death and time-travel.
POPCO
A reissue of the brilliant, mind-melting adventure. Canongate’s
previous edition of PopCo has sold over 40,000 copies to date
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Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all
written in code. The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking
skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she’s been wearing
round her neck since she was ten.
PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles, big business and
the power of numbers.
5th May 2016
ABOVE THE WATERFALL
RON RASH
‘A writer’s writer who writes for others’
Colum McCann
Sheriff Les Clary is just three weeks from
retirement. He will no longer have to contend with
the ravages of crystal meth, or the small duplicities
he has undertaken to make life in his Appalachian
town function. But before he ends his working life
he tells the story of his relationship with Becky
Shtyle, the park ranger – a tale of broken promises
and finding solace in the lyrical beauty of nature.
Echoing the poetic quality of William Faulkner
this novel demonstrates once again Ron Rash’s
prodigious talent.
Ron Rash is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and
novelist. Also a New York Times bestseller and 2009
PEN/Faulkner finalist, he lives in the Appalachian Mountains.
‘One of the great American writers at work today’
New York Times
‘Magnificent is suddenly too small a word’
Irish Times
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19th May 2016
MY OLD MAN
EDITED BY TED KESSLER
A poignant collection of paternal experiences,
with contributions from celebrities and journalists
The stories we have about our dads stay
with us forever.
If you were asked to write about your father, what
would you say? A star-studded list of contributors
open up – many for the first time – about their
paternal experiences. Whether they are heart-rending
and tragic, expressions of joyful love or a quick
snapshot of a life, these beautifully written pieces are
all deeply personal. My Old Man is as universal as it is
powerful, offering a unique opportunity to reflect on
our own relationships with our dads.
Ted Kessler is features editor for Q Magazine and has written for
the Observer magazine, New Statesman and NME, turning in over fifty
cover stories during the magazine’s Britpop heyday.
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26th May 2016
JUNE
MORE MOANING
THE RETURN OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONE
KARL PILKINGTON
The brand new book from the millioncopy bestselling television star
Karl is back on the road once again looking
for answers to some of life’s big questions. In
his inimitable style, he tackles the juicy
subjects of health, art, values, identity and
pollution. Will his travels around the world
reveal the meaning of life? Find out in this
hilarious new book.
Karl Pilkington is the author of six bestselling books
including the official tie-in to Sky 1’s An Idiot Abroad, The
Further Adventures of An Idiot Abroad
and The Moaning of Life.
‘The funniest man on the planet’
Spectator
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TADUNO’S SONG
ODAFE ATOGUN
A Kafkaesque Nigerian tale by an utterly
fresh new writer
When African singer Taduno returns from
political exile to the country of his birth, he finds
that the dictatorship’s efforts to erase all trace of
him have been so successful that he has been
forgotten, even by his closest friends and
neighbours.
But one man remembers: the country’s dictator.
And upon his return home Taduno discovers its
leader has imprisoned the woman he loves and
will murder her unless he performs in support of
the regime. Taduno must make an impossible
choice: fight the power or save the woman he
loves. Taduno’s Song is about sacrifice,
love and redemption.
Odafe Atogun was born in Nigeria, in the town of Lokoja,
where the Rivers Niger and Benue meet. Now a full-time
writer, he is married and lives in Abuja.
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FEAR OF DYING
ERICA JONG
Fear of Dying - the event novel of 2015 is now available in paperback
‘A hymn to love’ Fay Weldon
‘It’s going to happen to all of us and yet
talking about it seems taboo. Just as she
once ripped the lace modesty vest off sex,
Erica Jong has now exposed death in all its
immodesty’ Shirley Conran
‘I loved Fear of Dying . . . Irreverent, funny,
tender and very wise and it made me feel
more alive’ Rachel Joyce
Erica Jong is best known for Fear of Flying (27 million
copies sold). Her work has appeared all over the world.
‘‘The perfect spirited, funny bookend to Fear of
Flying . . . I loved it!’ Susan Cheever
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THE TRUTH
AN UNCOMFORTABLE BOOK ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
NEIL STRAUSS
From the author of the 2.5 million-copy-bestseller
The Game
Do you believe in monogamy? Neil Strauss didn’t.
That is, until he met the woman who forced him to ask the
questions that men and women are asking themselves every day:
• Is it natural to be faithful to one person for life?
• Do alternatives to monogamy lead to better relationships and
greater happiness?
• Can you keep passion and romance from fading over time?
Strauss set out on a quest for answers. What he discovered
changed everything he knew about love, sex, relationships and,
ultimately, himself.
Neil Strauss is the author of the international bestsellers The Game, Rules of The
Game, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead and Emergency. A writer for Rolling
Stone, Strauss lives in Los Angeles.
‘The guy who wrote The Game and lived The Game searches for
love and learns that it’s way, way harder. And funnier’ Time
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THE GAME
NEIL STRAUSS
This is a true story. It really happened.
The Game, which has sold over 2.5 million copies
worldwide since its publication in 2005, recounts
the incredible adventures of an everyday man who
transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer
into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style, a
character irresistible to women.
But just when life is better than he could have ever
dreamed (he uses his techniques on Britney
Spears, receives life coaching from Tom Cruise,
moves into a mansion with Courtney Love and is
officially voted the World's Number One Pickup
Artist) he falls head over heels for a woman who
can beat him at his own game.
Neil Strauss is the author of the international bestsellers The
Game, Rules of The Game, Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead,
Emergency and The Truth. A writer for Rolling Stone, Strauss lives
in Los Angeles.
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2nd June 2016
TOAST ON TOAST
STEVEN TOAST
Welcome to the world of Steven Toast, and be
inspired by this genius who happens to boast the
most luxuriant quiff-and-tache combo in showbiz
Toast on Toast is the must-have book for all budding
actors - and non-actors too. In this part memoir, part
‘how to act’ manual, Steven Toast draws on his vast and
varied experiences to reveal the secrets of his success.
He discloses how to nail a professional voiceover and
reveals the often ruthless struggle for ‘top billing’. The
end result is a book that will inspire and educate anyone
who wants to tread the floorboards.
Matt Berry is a writer, actor, comedian and musician. He co-writes
and stars as Steven Toast in Channel 4's cult comedy show Toast of
London and is known for appearing in The IT Crow, House of Fools, The
Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
Arthur Mathews is an Irish comedy writer and actor, who is best
known for Father Ted, which he co-wrote with Graham Linehan. He
has also contributed to The Fast Show, Harry Enfield and Chums and
has co-written Toast of London with Matt Berry.
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THE LOST TIME ACCIDENTS
JOHN WRAY
From the author of the critically acclaimed
Lowboy comes a much-anticipated new
novel about time travel, family secrets, and
the madness of the twentieth century
The Lost Time Accidents takes us from turn-ofthe-century Viennese salons buzzing with
rumours about Einstein’s radical new theory to
the death camps of World War Two, from the
golden age of post-war pulp science fiction to a
startling discovery in a Manhattan apartment
packed to the ceiling with artefacts of modern
life.
‘One of our most astonishing and
relevant young writers’ Esquire
John Wray is the author of The Right Hand of Sleep, which
won a Whiting Writers’ Award, and Canaan’s Tongue. He was
chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists
in 2007. Born in 1971, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
‘John Wray is the next wave of American fiction’
Jonathan Lethem
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WHITE SANDS
EXPERIENCES FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD
GEOFF DYER
Geoff Dyer is back on the road
Taking the form of ten journeys, White Sands is an
exploration of why we travel from perhaps
Britain’s greatest globetrotter. Episodic, wideranging, funny and smart, it marks a return to the
subject of Dyer’s most successful backlist book,
Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, albeit
with the wisdom of age. In his trademark style he
blends travel writing, essay, criticism, and fiction,
with a smart and cantankerous wit that is
unmatched. Like De Botton’s On Travel and
Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost, this is a book
for armchair travellers and slacker philosophers
everywhere.
Geoff Dyer is the multi-award winning author of Jeff in Venice,
Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine
non-fiction books. He lives in London.
‘Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain’
Daily Telegraph
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30th June 2016
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THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1999-2000:
VOLUME 25
CHARLES M. SCHULZ
The final volume in this collectible and
much loved series
In the final year of the defining comic strip of
the 20th century, Rerun takes centre stage and
cements himself as the last great Peanuts
character – when he embarks on a career as an
underground comic book artist! This volume
also features the complete Li’l Folks, Schulz’s
weekly one-panel comic for his hometown
paper that was a precursor to Peanuts.
Charles M. Schulz gained a reputation worldwide as a
cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
‘The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little
human comedy for the innocent reader and for the
sophisticated’ Umberto Eco
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THE PEANUTS GUIDES
7th January 2016
The final four titles in Canongate’s
Peanuts Guide to Life series
In The Peanuts Guide to Brothers and Sisters the gang
celebrate siblings, from Charlie Brown helping his sister
Sally with her homework to Linus learning to deal with a
big sister who is always in charge.
In The Peanuts Guide to Friendship Linus shows that man’s
best friend is perhaps his blanket and Lucy teaches us
that a little friendly criticism can go a long way.
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Peppermint Patty, the forthright little tomboy who is
always falling asleep in class and Linus, the well-meaning
little boy with his security blanket, offer their wisdom on
life in these two Peanuts gift books.
Charles M. Schulz gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist
for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
‘I became obsessed . . . It’s hilarious. We all went to
school with a Lucy, or a Linus’ Jude Law
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