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B l o o m s b u ry
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Guide
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Publishing
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G eneral N on - F iction �� 2 8
C urrent A ffairs �� 3 6
Memoir and B iograph y �� 4 2
Travel and N atu re W riting �� 5 6
Smart Thin k ing �� 6 4
Science �� 6 8
Sigma�� 7 1
Sport �� 7 9
I llustrated and N ovelt y �� 8 8
Cookery �� 9 5
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Fiction
The Private Life of Mrs Sharma
Ratika Kapur
A wickedly witty portrait of modern India from a distinctive, bold and
original new talent
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort
in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai.
Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the
New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals,
life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an
uncommonly self possessed stranger at a metro station. Because while Mrs
Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it
wouldn’t be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it?
With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is
a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a
dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
Bloomsbury Publishing
PUBLICATION DATE: 03/12/15
EXTENT: 208
Ratika Kapur’s first novel, Overwinter, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary
Prize. Elle magazine’s Indian edition included Ratika in a Granta-inspired list of
twenty authors under forty to look out for from South Asia. She lives in Delhi with
her husband and son.
ratikakapur.wordpress.com
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Fiction
The Memory Stones
Caroline Brothers
A compelling tale of a young woman’s disappearance in 1970s Argentina,
The Memory Stones is a sweeping, epic story of a family tragedy whose
consequences echo throughout generations
EXTENT: 256
Buenos Aires, 1976. A long hot summer has trapped the city in a bell jar of
humidity. Everything has hardened or softened in the heat: bread grows stale
before the bakers can sell it; lettuces wilt on grocers’ shelves; lovers too irritable
for sex lie pearled in sweat. The garbage collectors haven’t been seen since
the day of the military coup, and rubbish builds up in the street in mounds;
dogs fight amongst the debris at night. In the midst of the heat the Ferrero
family escape to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished middleaged doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta
who lives with her husband in Miami, and the beautiful, wilful Graciela – nineteen,
radiant, and madly in love with her fiancé José. It would be the last time they
were all together.
For on their return, the military junta starts tightening its grip on the nation, and
Osvaldo is forced to flee. Exiled, he can only listen to Yolanda’s tales of the
terror and anxiety that descends as friends and colleagues disappear overnight.
Graciela and José go into hiding, driving Yolanda mad with worry. And then
comes the day when Graciela, José and their friends are dragged from their
hide-out by plain-clothes policemen, leaving Osvaldo with nothing to do but
witness the slow disintegration of his family from afar.
Beautifully written, carefully observed, The Memory Stones is a devastating
portrait of one family’s unbearable loss, and a country’s resounding silence.
Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University
College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin
America. She is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune and the
New York Times, and is currently an Editor at the International New York Times.
She is the author of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland, published
by Bloomsbury in 2012. She lives in Paris.
www.carolinebrothers.com
@CaroBrothers
Praise for Hinterland:
'A heart-wrenching story of two young brothers on a long, hard road; a story
that all of us should read' Daily Mail
‘An illuminating and timely story … a book that haunts and shames in equal
measure’ Guardian
‘A moving account … Brothers’ elegant prose holds sentimentality at bay,
complimenting some impressive reportage’ Financial Times
Rights sold: Newton Compton
(Italian), Berlin Verlag (German)
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Fiction
Everything Love Is
Claire King
From the author of The Night Rainbow: a poignant, mysterious and
unforgettable story of love, and of the happy endings we conceive for
ourselves.
Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other people’s happiness. Moored on
his beloved houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, he helps his clients navigate
the waters of contentment, whilst remaining careful never to make waves of
his own.
Unlike those who come to him for help, Baptiste is more concerned with his past
than his future: particularly the mysterious circumstances of his birth and the
identity of his birth mother whose only legacy to her orphaned son was a violin,
a wooden statuette and a word inked into the skin of her arm.
EXTENT: 288
But Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar, believes it is time for Baptiste to
raise his aspirations and rediscover passion … and she thinks she can help. She
talks of striving for something more and leads him into the world on his doorstep
he has long tried to avoid.
However it is Baptiste’s new client who may end up being the one to change
his perspective. Elegant and enigmatic, Amandine Rousseau is fast becoming
a puzzle he longs to solve.
As winter approaches and tensions rise on the streets of the city, Baptiste’s
determination to avoid both the highs and lows of love begins to waver. And
when his mother’s legacy finally reveals itself he finds himself torn between
pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves.
Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow was published by Bloomsbury
in 2013.
She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. Having graduated
from Cambridge she now lives and works in France.
www.claire-king.com
@ckingwriter
Praise for The Night Rainbow:
‘Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it!’ Joanne Harris
‘At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare, The Night Rainbow is a
daring novel about a child faced with the baffling world of adult grief. Claire
King nails the voice of the child narrator from the first page; Pea is a heroine
you won’t forget’ Maggie O’Farrell
‘Emotional and beautifully written, you’ll be on tenterhooks throughout’ Stylist
RIGHTS SOLD: Orlando (Dutch),
Berlin Verlag (German), Piemme
(Italian)
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‘An original, beguiling debut about the consequences of an imaginatively lived
life’ Marie Claire
Fiction
The Photographer’s Wife
Suzanne Joinson
By the author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, an LA Times
bestseller: a beautiful and gripping story of love and betrayal, set in
1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels
the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious – and wildly
eccentric – plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the
desert. Prue, known as the ‘little witness’, eavesdrops underneath the tables of
tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city's elite, watching
everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled
Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a
political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.
EXTENT: 320
When Prue’s father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial
photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that
sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem
photographer. And, after Harrington learns that Eleanora’s husband is a
nationalist, intent on removing the British, those sparks fan dangerously into
a flame.
Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her
young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels
her world, and she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets longago buried in Jerusalem.
The Photographer’s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and
daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in
the complex period between the two world wars.
Suzanne Joinson is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose
work has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon,
Lonely Planet guides and the Independent on Sunday. Her first novel, A Lady
Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (2012), was translated into sixteen languages and
was a national bestseller. She lives in Sussex.
suzannejoinson.com
@suzyjoinson
Rights sold: Presses de la
Citie (French), Shanghai Century
Literature Company (Chinese
simplified), Berlin (German),
Intrinseca (Portuguese – Brazil),
Elliot (Italian), Turbluenz (Danish),
Laguna (Serbian), Nishimura
Shoten (Japanese), Roca
(Spanish), The House of Books
(Dutch), Vigmostad and Bjorke
(Norwegian)
Praise for A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar:
‘An impressive debut, its prose is lucid and deep as a
mountain lake’ New York Times
‘An ambitious, accomplished debut’ Daily Mail
5
Fiction
The Gun Room
Georgina Harding
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange
Prize-shortlisted author Georgina Harding
The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else.
Vietnam, early 1970s. Jonathan Ashe has made his way there with the dream
of becoming a war photographer, and a chance encounter gives him his break.
A pilot offers him a ride in a chopper, over the jungle at dawn. They see the
mist clearing, the mountains and the delta, and in the distance, the smoke of a
burning village. Descending into mayhem, he gets the shot that might make his
career. But what he has seen is more than he can bear, and he flees.
EXTENT: 288
He drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there
are different kinds of pictures to be taken, pictures of crowds and subways
and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost:
innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat
of the summer.
But even here, in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph
and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a
witness to other events buried far deeper in his past.
The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral
complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.
also available
Painter of
Silence
Shortlisted for
the Orange
Prize
The
Solitude
of
Thomas
Cave
The Spy
Game
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Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave,
The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an
Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for
the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Her first book was a work of non-fiction, In
Another Europe, recording a journey she made across Romania in 1988 during
the worst times of the Ceausescu regime. It was followed by Tranquebar: A
Season in South India, which documented the lives of the people in a small
fishing village on the Coromandel coast. Georgina Harding lives in London and
on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
Praise for Painter of Silence:
‘Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Ondaatje … At once delicate and sweeping
… A novel about that passage of time, the senselessness of war, and the need
to find and preserve meaning. This is a satisfying real’ Daily Mail
‘This is fiction of the most graceful kind … a quiet storm of imagery and
emotions’ Independent on Sunday
Fiction
Show Me A Mountain
Kerry Young
From the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao, set
against the backdrop of Jamaican independence, a story of revolution
and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal.
Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant
who conjured a fortune out of nothing; her mother grew up on a plantation and
now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road, sipping Earl Grey tea in
the sultry Kingston afternoons.
But the Chinatown bars where her father conducts his business are out of
bounds to Fay, and the airy rooms of Lady Musgrave Road are filled with her
mother's dark secrets and inexplicable rages – rages against which Fay rebels
as she grows from a girl into a beautiful, headstrong woman.
Bloomsbury Circus
EXTENT: 288
For hers is a country where even the smallest difference in skin colour can mark
the boundary between the promise of a future and the burden of the past, and
where the struggle for power is not only played out in government buildings
and military camps, but also in the alleyways of Back’o’Wall, the streets of
Chinatown, and the manicured lawns of the schools for Kingston’s elite.
As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, striving for
independence in a homeland that is trying to do the same, Fay’s eyes are
opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. She encounters gangsters
and revolutionaries, priests and prostitutes and witnesses great sacrifices and
deep betrayals. But when her parents decide that she must marry the racketeer
Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that may lead to sacrifices and betrayals
of her own.
also available
Pao
Kerry Young was born in Kingston Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother
of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She moved to England in 1965 and lives
in Leicestershire, where she is a reader for The Literary Consultancy, a tutor
for the Arvon Foundation, and a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship
Programme, where she is writer-in-residence at The University of Sheffield. She
is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at The University of
Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester.
kerryyoung.co.uk
Praise for Pao:
Gloria
‘A blindingly good read’ Observer
‘Captivating’ Daily Mail
‘Heart-felt, sparky and absorbing’ Guardian
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Fiction
Please Do Not Disturb
Robert Glancy
A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and
innocence, Please Do Not Disturb is the funny, disturbing and deeply
affecting new book by the author of Terms & Conditions
Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the
eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for
the annual appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo.
Sean, an Irishman who’s given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo,
struggles to write the great African novel – if only his crazed fiancée and fierce
thirst would stop distracting him.
EXTENT: 272
RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur
(German)
Josef, mythmaker and kingmaker, who paved the way for Tafumo’s rise to
power, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet.
Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive, maintaining the
façade of the powerful ruler, as she mourns her own broken dreams.
And in the countdown to the Big Day, storm clouds are gathering as petty
criminal, Jack, smuggles something into Bwalo – to the Mirage Hotel – that will
change the lives of all of them for ever…
Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved
from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first
novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical
acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in
New Zealand, where he currently lives with his wife and children.
Praise for Terms & Conditions:
‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-affirming” written on it but this one
actually is’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans
‘It’s wonderful. Funny, poignant, simple and profound’ Gavin Extence, author
of The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Terms & Conditions
Robert Glancy
RIGHTS SOLD:
Droemer Knaur (German), Host
(Czech), Sindbad (Russsian)
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Fiction
The Bricks that Built the Houses
Kate Tempest
Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s astonishing debut novel
elevates the ordinary to the extraordinary in this multi-generational tale
set in contemporary south London
It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it, until you're driving through it,
watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind.
Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are escaping the city with a suitcase
full of stolen money. Taking us back in time, and into the heart of the capital, The
Bricks that Built the Houses explores a cross-section of contemporary urban life
with a powerful moral and literary microscope, exposing the everyday stories
that lie behind the tired faces on the morning commute, and what happens
when your best intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions.
Bloomsbury Circus
EXTENT: 256
Rights sold: Casa da Palavra
(Portuguese – Brazil), Meulenhof
(Dutch), Payot and Rivages
(French), Rowohlt (German),
Frassinelli (Italian)
Wise but never cynical, and driven by empathy and ethics, it leads us into the
homes and hearts of ordinary people and their families and communities, giving
us a unique perspective on how we live with and love each other.
The Bricks that Built the Houses introduces a thrilling new literary voice.
Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest grew up in south-east
London, where she still lives. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients – a modernday myth set in south London – won the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation
in poetry in 2013, making her the first-ever recipient under 40. Her plays
include GlassHouse, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted. Her debut solo album,
Everybody Down, a narrative-led hip hop record based on The Bricks that Built
the Houses, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Kate Tempest’s
second poetry collection, Hold Your Own was published in 2014, when she was
also named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet, a once-a-decade
accolade. The Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel.
‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith
‘A talent that knows no bounds’ Independent
‘A powerful mix of innocence and experience’ New York Times
‘Raw. Urgent, honest and, most of all, riotously talented with words’
Bristol Post
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FICTION: POETRY/PHOTOGRAPHIC
Fiction
The Hollow of the Hand
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy
The debut book by artist and writer PJ Harvey, in collaboration with filmmaker and photographer Seamus Murphy, emerges as a one-of-a-kind
collection of poetry and images
Between 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series
of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington DC. Harvey
collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they have created
an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks
the first publication of Harvey’s powerful poetry, in conversation with Murphy’s
indelible images. It is a landmark project and will be published internationally in
October 2015.
As PJ Harvey says:
Bloomsbury Circus
EXTENT: 232
RIGHTS SOLD: Samlaget
(Norwegian), Sexto piso (Spanish
– World)
‘Gathering information from secondary sources felt too far removed for what I
was trying to write about. I wanted to smell the air, feel the soil and meet the
people of the countries I was fascinated with. Following our work on Let England
Shake, my friend Seamus Murphy and I agreed to grow a project together lead
by our instincts on where we should go.’
Seamus Murphy adds: ‘Polly is a writer who loves images and I am a
photographer who loves words. Our relationship began a few years ago when
she asked me if I would like to take some photographs and make some films
for her last album Let England Shake. I was intrigued and the adventure began,
now finding another form in this book. It is our look at home and the world.’
The Hollow of the Hand will be available in a hardback edition with highest
quality photographic reproductions, as well as a reader’s paperback version.
PJ Harvey has released eight critically acclaimed albums, been nominated
for six Grammy Awards, and is the only artist to have been awarded the UK’s
prestigious Mercury Prize twice (for her albums Stories from the City, Stories
From The Sea and Let England Shake). In 2013, she was awarded an MBE
for services to music. The Hollow of the Hand is her first published collection
of poetry.
Seamus Murphy has documented life and change around the world in still
and moving images. He has won seven World Press Photo awards for work
in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Gaza, Lebanon, Peru, Ireland and England.
His depiction of Afghanistan and the Afghans over more than a decade was
published as a book, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan. He later made this into
an award-winning film. In 2011, he created 12 Short Films for PJ Harvey’s Let
England Shake.
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FICTION: GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Inflatable Woman
Rachael Ball
An unconventional and magical debut graphic novel about unrequited
love, illness, hope, comrades and delusion
Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she’s known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper
looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life
becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the
attempts of her friends – Maud, Granma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group
of singing penguins – to comfort her, Iris's fears begin to encircle her until all
she has to cling to is the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39.
EXTENT: 544
The Inflatable Woman combines magic realism with the grit of everyday life to
create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.
Rachael Ball is a cartoonist and a teacher. Her illustrations and cartoons have
appeared in various publications including City Life, Deadline, Fanny, the Times
Educational Supplement, the Radio Times, The Strumpet and Russ Kick's
Graphic Canon of Childrens' Literature. The Inflatable Woman is her first graphic
novel.
@rachaelcartoons
11
FICTION: CRIME
Fiction
Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey
Flo)
C. Joseph Greaves
A gripping novelization of one of the most colourful – and fateful –
courtroom showdowns in US history, between special prosecutor Tom
Dewey and Lucky Luciano, the Mob’s ruling overlord
The year is 1936. Charles “Lucky” Luciano is the most powerful gangster in
America. Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him
down, and Cokey Flo Brown – grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute
– is the witness who claims she can do it. Only a wily defense attorney named
George Morton Levy stands between Lucky and a life behind bars, between
Dewey and the New York Governor’s mansion.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 304
As the Roaring Twenties give way to the austere reality of the Great Depression,
four lives, each on their own incandescent trajectory, intersect in a New York
courtroom, introducing America to the violent and darkly glamorous world of
organized crime and leaving the culture, laws, and politics of the nation changed
forever.
Based on a trove of newly discovered documents, Tom & Lucky (and George &
Cokey Flo) tells the gripping true story of a seminal trial in American history; an
epic clash between a crime-busting district attorney and an all-powerful mob
boss; a battle for the heart and soul of a dispirited nation; a portrait of a world
where corruption rules and history remembers the villains.
C. Joseph Greaves is a former L.A. trial lawyer now living in Colorado. His first
novel, Hard Twisted, was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction and
was named Best Historical Novel in the SouthWest Writers’ International Writing
Contest, in which Greaves was also honoured with the grand prize Storyteller
Award. Writing as Chuck Greaves, he is a Shamus Award-finalist for his Jack
MacTaggart series of legal/detective mysteries.
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FICTION: CRIME
Sidney Chambers and The Dangers
of Temptation
James Runcie
The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’
series, now a major ITV drama
It’s the summer of love in late 1960s England, and Sidney Chambers, the
loveable English clergyman, continues his amateur sleuthing investigations.
A bewitching divorcee enlists Sidney’s help in convincing her son to leave a
hippy commune; at a soirée on Grantchester Meadows during May Week
celebrations a student is divested of a family heirloom; Amanda’s marriage
runs into trouble; Sidney and Hildegard holiday behind the Iron Curtain; Mrs
Maguire’s husband returns from the dead and an arson attack in Cambridge
leads Sidney to uncover a cruel case of blackmail involving his former curate.
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 304
RIGHTS SOLD: AST (Russia);
Hoffman und Campe (German);
Actes Sud (French), Duomo
Ediciones (Spanish), Vallardi
(Italian)
Charming, witty, intelligent – and filled with a strong sense of compassion – here
are six new stories guaranteed to satisfy and delight this clerical detective’s
many fans.
James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of eight novels.
Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester
Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers
and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil and
Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins. In October 2014, ITV launched
Grantchester, a prime-time, six-part series starring James Norton as Sidney
Chambers. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh.
‘Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ The Times
‘Runcie works his magic using simple sentences, archetypal characters and
a sense of suspense that creates an atmosphere of delicious anticipation’
Independent
also available
NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA
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FICTION: TV ADAPTATION
Fiction
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
A major bbc seven-part tv series, includes a new preface from susanna
clarke. over 1 million copies sold.
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall
long to behold me...
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
EXTENT: 1024
RIGHTS SOLD: Agave Kiado
(Hungarian), Hunan Literature
and Arts Publishing (Simplified
Chinese), Salamandra (World
Spanish), Casa da Palavra
(Portuguese), Robbert Laffont
(French), Dobrovsky (Czech),
Slovart (Slovak), Mag Jacek
Rodek (Polish), Berlin Verlag
(German), Zalozba Sanje
(Slovenian), Companhia das
Letras (Brazilian Portuguese)
The year is 1806. England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and
centuries have passed since practical magicians faded into the nation's past.
But scholars of this glorious history discover that one remains: the reclusive Mr
Norrell whose displays of magic send a thrill through the country. Proceeding to
London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of
ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged
by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange.
Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very opposite of Norrell. So begins
a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms the one
between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings
with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.
Susanna Clarke lives in Cambridge with her partner, the novelist and reviewer
Colin Greenland. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was first published in 2004 in
more than thirty countries and shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award
and the Guardian First Book Award. It won British Book Awards Newcomer of
the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award in 2005. The Ladies
of Grace Adieu, a collection of short stories, some set in the world of Jonathan
Strange & Mr Norrell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2006.
‘Unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last
seventy years. It’s funny, moving, scary, otherworldly, practical and magical’
Neil Gaiman
‘A nourishing, 19th-century-style novel that will warm readers through
any number of dark and stormy nights ... Clarke makes her magical story
ridiculously engrossing’ Daily Telegraph
‘This is, in both the precise and the colloquial sense, a fabulous book ... a
highly original and compelling work’ Sunday Times
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BLOOMSBURY INDIA
Tanya Tania
Antara Ganguli
A book about being a teenager in Pakistan and India. Through letters
we follow the lives of four girls, two wealthy and two poor, two Pakistani
and two Indian. Two who know exactly what their future holds and two
who are convinced that they will never measure up.
Last night there was a snowstorm that made my window disappear. I woke up
gasping at the heater. This is my first letter in three years. First letter since I left
Pakistan. First letter since Nusrat.
EXTENT: 224
The first letter in Tanya Tania, a novel in letters, is from Tanya Tilati, a Pakistani
student at an American university, in the winter of 1996. The letter is to Tania
Ghosh, her mother’s best friend’s daughter in Bombay, India. Except this is not
her first letter. Tanya and Tania wrote thirty-eight letters to each other between
the summer of 1991 and January 8, 1992 when they abruptly stopped. Until
now. It is 1991. Mangoes, biker shorts and liberalisation are in. Hips, boom
boxes and Whitney Houston are out. Boyfriends are hurtful but necessary,
school politics draw fragile lines of power. The letters reveal mysteries at home
and hazards at school.
In Tanya’s house, her American mother has gone from quiet to silent, turning
from the house to her garden where she obsesses like a new mother over her
roses and orchids.
Tania is terrified her father is having an affair. She oscillates between blaming and
admiring her mother who used to be a part-time employee at a small family-run
firm and is now a workaholic partner in a brash multinational.
But then something happens that makes these heartaches pale. In Karachi,
Tanya’s brother receives a kidnapping threat. And in Bombay, the Babri Masjid
in Ayodhya is attacked.
Through an unlikely friendship between two girls coming of age in two countries
that are coming of age, Tanya Tania makes us question identity: Indian and
Pakistani, Hindu and Muslim, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. And, in
the end, it makes us confront the truth of what makes us human.
Antara Ganguly works in international development and is a frequent contributor
to Indian and international publications on gender and education policy. She
was selected to be an Asia Society Young Leader for India and Pakistani in
2014. Her first novel, The Buggles, was published in 2001. She lives in New York
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BLOOMSBURY INDIA
Half of What I Say
Anil Menon
Genre-crossing, polyphonic and darkly-humourous, Half of What I Say
examines the importance of ficiton in a world hungry for truths and
marks a striking departure for the contemporary Indian novel.
Is there is any work of fiction that the world absolutely cannot do without? In
fact, do we need fiction at all? Half of What I Say offers a story to answer this.
Bloomsbury India
EXTENT: 452
The anti-corruption movement in India has resulted in an important institution
called the Lokshakti. Vyas, the Director of the Lokshakti’s Cultural Affairs
department, is obsessed with tracking down Ajaya, an obscure banned movie
by the late Durga Dhasal, an academic and popular politician killed at the hands
of a Lokshakti-controlled mob. Vyas, a long-time admirer of the film-maker,
had not only sent Dhasal his unpublished and eponymous novel but learns
that Dhasal’s Ajaya has the same basic Ramayana-inspired theme, namely, the
havoc a long separation wreaks on a loving couple.
Vyas’ efforts to locate the movie leads him to the financially troubled Shabari
Khargane, Dhasal’s loyal personal assistant who, unknown to Vyas, also has
the sole audio copy of Dhasal narrating an alternative version of the Ramayana.
The story’s other threads involve Kannagi, Dhasal’s last doctoral student, and
her relationship with Sawai Gawai, the student leader protesting the Lokshakti’s
abuses; the entrepreneur Anand Dixit, Kannagi’s brother-in-law, and his efforts
to bring cheap, fast net access to the masses; the Bollywood actress Saya
and Mir Alam Mir, the scriptwriter of Ajaya, who is protected by Saya’s love;
Bilkis Ansari, Vyas’ war-traumatized friend and, finally, the strange estranged
love between Vyas and his wife Tanaz Cyrusi.
Shabari’s release of the movie and the audio recording and her suicide-note
implicating Vyas and Tanaz result in their arrest with possibly fatal consequences.
The novel explores the necessity of fiction in many ways and through many
characters: The scientist Kannagi who lives a passionate life, innocent of all
literature; the slow corruption of Vyas, despite all his literary erudition; Mir Alam
Mir who dies defending fiction.
Anil Menon’s stories have appeared in a variety of leading spec-fic magazines
and antholo
gies including Albedo One, Chiaroscuro, Interzone, Interfictions,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Sybil's Garage and Strange Horizons.
His stories have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Hebrew and
Romanian. His YA novel, The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan Books, 2009)
was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword Children's Fiction Award and
the Carl Brandon Society's Parallax Prize. Along with Vandana Singh, he edited
the Breaking the Bow anthology, a collection of speculative tales, inspired by the
Ramayana (Zubaan Books, 2011).He’s currently working with the curator Prem
Krishnamurthy and Elizabeth Thomas of the NYC based gallery Project Projects
on a 2015 exhibition Doppelgestalt, themed around one of his stories.
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FICTION: BQFP
Alhambra
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
From celebrated travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith comes an
engrossing 14th century thriller in the vein of Robert Harris
Terrorists are nothing new.
The year is 1368 and Granada, capital of the Moors in Spain, is under threat
from violent extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter who has
had wives and concubines on three continents and is still searching for the right
woman, and his West African slave Sinan, the one with the brawn, the brains,
the looks – and the demons in his past.
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation
Publishing
EXTENT: 268
They arrive to find Granada's labyrinthine palace-citadel, the Alhambra, nearing
its triumphant completion. But Sinan and Abu Abdallah are drawn into a darker
maze, where inexplicable events and baffling mysteries lie in wait at every turn. It
begins with the death of an alchemist, and threatens to ruin for ever the delicate
balance of Muslim-Christian power in Spain – unless Sinan and his master can
first penetrate the terrorists' cell and neutralize their horrific weapon, known only
as 'the Remedy'.
And over all of it hangs the fate of one of the most famous gemstones in history:
the Black Prince's Ruby . . .
In his fiction debut, Mackintosh-Smith dazzles with his potent mix of majestic
storytelling and impeccable historical research.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, award-winning writer and lecturer.
For almost thirty years his home has been the Yemeni capital San'a where he
lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city, next to the donkey market.
Tim presented a major BBC documentary series, Travels with a Tangerine,
recounting his experiences walking in the footsteps of fourteenth century
traveller Ibn Batuttah.
'Mackintosh-Smith has all the assets a travel writer needs: erudition, rather
subversive good humour and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complex
detail in a few telling lines' Daily Telegraph
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Fiction: BQFP
Kilimanjaro Spirit
Ibrahim Nasrallah
They all came knowing what they wanted from the mountain, few knew what the
mountain wanted from them
A group of disparate individuals, amongst whom two Palestinian adolescents
who have lost their legs in Israeli bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount
Kilimanjaro. They have nothing – and everything – in common.
Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America, the characters test the
limits of their physical and emotional strengths to prove to themselves that they
can transcend their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.
Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of adventure, as well as ode
to the resilience of the human spirit.
Publishing
EXTENT: 240
Born in a refugee camp in Jordan, Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Jordanian-Palestinian
poet, novelist, painter and photographer. He has won a number of awards for
his works including the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity and the Sultan
Bin Al Owais Prize. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the first to
include participation of an Arab author and was in support of charity work for
Palestinian and Arab children in need of medical care.
Nancy Roberts is a prize-winning translator with experience in the areas of
modern Arabic literature, current events, Christian-Muslim relations and Islamic
thought, history and law. She lives in Amman, Jordan with her husband and
two daughters.
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Fiction: BQFP
The Holy Sail
Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud
In the name of the Cross, Portuguese fleets head to the Gulf.
In the name of Allah, Arabian tribes must resist...
Oblivious to the invasions, massacres and religious fanaticism that characterise
the 15th century, a young girl falls in love with a noble Arabian tribal leader. But
all eyes are on the Portuguese fleets in the Arabian Gulf, intent on securing the
profitable spice trade.
Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud weaves a tapestry of momentous historical events with
stories of love, honour and nobility, while guiding us around the medieval world
of Lisbon, Cairo, Jeddah and Istanbul.
The Holy Sail brings to life a neglected episode of history that impacted not only
the region but the world for centuries to come.
Publishing
EXTENT: 448
RIGHTS SOLD: Leya/Texto
(Portuguese exc. Brazil)
Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud is a Qatari engineer and journalist. He has a BA
in engineering from Clarkson University in New York and an aviation and
engineering diploma from the UK. He worked as editor-in-chief of Alsharq and
The Peninsula newspapers as well as www.aljazeera.net. This is his second
novel.
Karim Traboulsi is an Arabic to English translator, educated in Beirut, New
York and Portsmouth. As well as literary historical translation, Karim translates
political editorials in newspapers and a wide variety of technical texts.
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Fiction: BQFP
In the Hope of Virgins
Jamal Naji
Set in Jordan and Syria in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this is no
ordinary coming-of age novel…
In the eyes of the West, the Arab Spring is ‘over’. For Alwaleed, struggling in a
society that condemns him as an illegitimate son, the ongoing political unrest
offers him a chance to prove himself.
On leaving university – vulnerable and uncertain – he is an easily target for the
Recruiters, and eventually finds himself fighting the Syrian regime. But is he
fighting for what he believes in?
Set in Jordan and Syria following the Arab Spring, In the Hope of Virgins is a
coming-of-age story amidst the growing power of ISIS and the crumbling of the
old Arab regimes.
Publishing
EXTENT: 400
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Jamal Naji is a Jordanian novelist and short story writer who was shortlisted for
the IPAF in 2010 for his novel I’ndama Thasheekh AlDhiaab (When Wolves Got
Old). He has written dozens of novels and short story collections and is widely
published in the Arab World. He received the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014
for his narrative writing.
Fiction: BQFP
A Cloudy Day on the Western
Shore
Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil
It’s the dawn of the 20th Century, and Britain’s glittering Empire extends
far and wide, full of the dangerously seductive promise of untapped
riches.
At first glance, modest, stammering Howard Carter has nothing whatsoever
in common with Aisha, the young Egyptian whose profile bears more than a
passing resemblance to Nefertiti’s beautiful face depicted on the Pharaonic
relics Howard loves so much.
Bloomsbury BQFP
Publication date: 28/01/16
Extent: 320
Howard’s artistic talent takes him on an expedition to try and locate
Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt. There, amidst growing unrest between the
tyrannical British rulers and the so-called ‘barbarians’, he meets Aisha – a
bewildering mix of contradictions. A village girl, yet she speaks four languages;
Muslim, yet with a tattoo of the cross on her arm; a stranger, yet with an achingly
familiar face.
As well as being a page-turning gallop through some of the most momentous
occasions in recent world history, A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore explores
questions of national identity and the implications of European intervention – for
better or worse – in the discovery and exploration of some of the most beautiful
treasures on earth today.
Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed Mansi Qandil was born in the Nile
delta. He went to medical school, and worked as a local countryside doctor
before turning his hand to literature.
His first novel, Breaking of the Spirit, was inspired by events surrounding workers’
unrest in the city. His second novel, Moon over Samarqand, was inspired by a
conversation with a taxi driver in Uzbekistan. He has published several novels,
short story collections and children’s books, and now lives in Canada.
@MansiKandil
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fiction highlights: Original Fiction
We Are Pirates
When Mr Dog Bites
Pig’s Foot
RIGHTS SOLD:
Record (Brazilian Portuguese),
Pegasus (Turkish), Baldinicastoldi
(Italian), Siruela (Spanish)
‘I loved Dylan Mint. He made me
laugh out loud and his tenacity had
me rooting for him from the first
page’ Stephen Kelman
‘Spellbinding’
Independent on Sunday
Daniel handler
Brian Conaghan
Carlos Acosta
RIGHTS SOLD: Kero (French)
RIGHTS SOLD: Arche Verlag (German), Argo
Nakladatelsvi (Czech), Pegasus Yayinlari
(Turkish), Rocco (Brazilian Portuguese),
Rosinante (Danish)
Life! Death! Prizes!
Africa39
Vernon Downs
‘Written with a wry wit’ The Times
With an introduction by Nobel Prize
winner Wole Soyinka
‘Moving and edgy in just the right
way. Love (or lack of) and Family
(or lack of) is at the heart of this
wonderfully obsessive novel.’
Gary Shteyngart, author of Super
Sad True Love Story
Stephen May
RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag (German)
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Edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
‘Vivid, evocative, colourful and
surprising ... Unusual and utterly
compelling’ Mariella Frostrup
Jaime Clarke
fiction highlights: Original Fiction
Wake Up Happy
Every Day
Stephen May
‘Razor-sharp wit’ Guardian
Mimi
The Gamal
Wilderness
‘A wildly hilarious, modern
film noir in fiction form’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A gritty, modern Romeo
and Juliet…compelling’
Independent
‘Epic … big, bold debut’
Financial Times
Lucy Ellmann
Lance Weller
Ciarán Collins
RIGHTS SOLD: Editions Joelle
Losfeld (French), Berlin Verlag
(German)
RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag
(German), Editions Gallmeister
(French), Keller Editore (Italian)
fiction highlights: Literary Fiction
The Hired Man
Helium
The Memory of Love
‘Supremely masterful’ Independent
‘A wonderfully well-woven tale that
shines a light on fascinating and
appalling events’ Michael Palin,
Observer, Books of the Year
RIGHTS SOLD: Ailantus/Boom(Dutch),
Albatros (Poland), Alfaguara (Spanish),
Antalog (Macedonian), Beijing Heping
Yahua Cultural Communications(Simplified
Chinese), Cavallo di Ferro (Italian), DVA
(German), Euromedia (Czech), Grupo
Editorial Paz e Terra (Brazilian Portuguese),
Gyldendal Norsk (Norwegian), Ikar
(Slovak), Into Publishing (Finnish), Tideme
Skifter(Danish)
Aminatta Forna
RIGHTS SOLD: Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch),
Santillana (Spanish), Tiderne Skifter
(Danish), Zala Publishing House (Slovenian)
Jaspreet Singh
Aminatta Forna
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fiction highlights: Literary Fiction
Clay
Don’t Let Him Know
Some Here Among Us
‘Instantly beautiful in its calm and
wise tone’ Robert Macfarlane
‘This artful novel is a true delight’
Daily Mail
‘Heartlfelt, elegiac ... Lovingly
observed’ Sunday Times
‘A believable and wonderfully
written story of secrets between the
generations’ The Times
‘A beautiful novel about the loss of
innocnce, the ineffable passing of
time and the inescapable weight of
the past’ Mail on Sunday
Melissa Harrison
Sandip Roy
RIGHTS SOLD: Les Escales (French)
Like Gods and Angels
David Park
‘He writes prose of gravity and grace’
Guardian
‘One of the shrewdest observes of
the way we live now’ Independent
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A Slant of Light
Jeffrey Lent
Peter Walker
fiction highlights: Women’s Fiction
From a Distance
Raffaella Barker
‘Wonderful writer ...
Incredible books’ David
Baldacci, New York Times
‘One of the cleverest
and freshest of British
Novelists’ Daily Mail
The Private Papers
of Eastern Jewel
Maureen Lindley
RIGHTS SOLD: Agam (Hebrew),
Alma Littera (Lithuanian),
Berlin Verlag (German), Mehta
Publishing House (Marathi),
Neri Pozza (Italian), Oceanida
(Greek), Polirom (Romanian),
Profil International Limited
(Croatian), Proszynski (Polish),
Prozoretz (Bulgarian), Ripol
(Russian), Sanskrit (Thai),
Tericum (Hungarian)
A Girl Like You
Miss Carter’s War
‘A sweeping coming-ofage novel’ Western Mail
‘A rich and absorbing story
you won’t want to put
down’ Daily Express
Maureen Lindley
RIGHTS SOLD: Proszynski
(Polish)
Sheila Hancock
fiction highlights: CRIME Fiction
Sleeping Dogs
Thomas Mogford
‘Superb series … moves
Mogford’s shrewd
and atmospheric
Mediterranean noir into
the newest and darkest of
territories’ William Boyd,
Guardian Summer Reading
Shadow of the
Rock
Thomas Mogford
‘Very original … A rare and
enviable talent’ William
Boyd
Sign of the Cross
Hollow Mountain
‘Will leave the reader
eagerly anticipating the
next instalment’
Irish Times
‘Exciting and assured …
Popular fiction at its best’
Susan Hill, Spectator,
Books of the Year
Thomas Mogford
Thomas Mogford
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fiction highlights: BQFP Fiction
The Hidden Light
of Objects
Days of Ignorance
Laila Aljohani
Black Book of Arabia
Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi
‘A medley of unbelievable and
relatable vignettes’ – The Peninsula
Qatar
Mai Al-Nakib
Winner of 2014 First Book
Award from Edinburgh
International Book Festival
The Arch and the
Butterfly
Bitter Almonds
Telepathy
Mohammed Achaari
‘Enthralling… riveting’ – The Lady
Winner of the prestigious
International prize for Arabic Fiction The Arab Booker 2011
Rights Sold: Cappelen Damm
(Norway)
‘A giant among Arabic fiction writers’
– Daily News, Egypt
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Lilas Taha
Amir Tag Elsir
fiction highlights: Retellings
One Thousand
and One Nights
Hanan al-Shaykh
‘Magical’ Donna Tartt, The
Times
RIGHTS SOLD: Actes
Sud (French), Sindbad
(Russian), Vulkan (Serbian)
Graphic adaptations of literary Classics
The Odyssey
Seymour Chwast
The Canterbury Tales
Seymour Chwast
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Seymour Chwast
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general non-fiction
Building Storeys
Roma Agrawal
The wonders of engineering revealed – by the inspirational young female
engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building
Our cities are full of incredible engineering feats and most of us live with little idea
of what we are looking at in the built environment, let alone how a new building
goes up, what it is built upon or how it remains standing.
In this book Roma Agrawal uncovers the astonishing science behind her
profession. Each of the eight chapters will tackle a great engineering challenge
– how we keep a building from falling down, or how a bridge is built to span
vast distances – explaining solutions from modern times, reaching back to the
Romans and other ancient cultures who developed techniques still used today.
Interweaving science, history, illustrations and personal stories, Roma will offer a
new window into a subject that touches our everyday lives.
EXTENT: 352
RIGHTS SOLD: Hanser Verlag
(German)
Roma Agrawal is a 31-year-old structural engineer who builds BIG – bridges,
skyscrapers and sculptures – and is currently working on two buildings over
London underground stations. Her first project was to construct a bridge across
an eight-lane motorway in Newcastle; one year later, aged just 23, she began
work on the Shard, with responsibility for the building’s peak and foundations.
She is increasingly the public face of engineering, featuring in last year’s national
advertising campaign for Marks & Spencer. Roma Agrawal shares Sir James
Dyson’s belief that we need to encourage young people, particularly women, into
the engineering professions. She’s a tireless advocate, lecturing to institutions,
schools and universities, and increasingly appears in television documentaries,
on radio and in print. Building Storeys is her first book.
romatheengineer.com / @RomaTheEngineer
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general non-fiction
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers,
an eyewitness exposé of the horrific dangers of America’s hidden fiftyyear-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took
the top secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top
secret documents related to America's nuclear buildup in the 1960s. Here for
the first time he reveals the contents of those documents, and makes clear their
shocking relevance for today.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 384
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most
dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy--and renewal
under the Obama administration – threatens the very survival of humanity. It is
scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies
without penetrating the secret realities of nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower
and early Kennedy years when Ellsberg had high-level access to them. No other
insider has written so candidly of that long-classified history, and nothing has
fundamentally changed since that era. Ellsberg’s analysis of recent research on
nuclear winter shows that even a “small” nuclear exchange would cause billions
of deaths by global nuclear famine.
Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take in this election year to avoid
nuclear catastrophe. Framed as a memoir, this gripping exposé reads like a
thriller, with cloak-and-dagger intrigue, placing Ellsberg back in his natural role
as whistleblower. It is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story, but an ultimately hopeful-and necessary – book.
In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the Department of Defense and the
White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. Later
he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Senate and the press. He lectures and
writes on the dangers of the nuclear era and the need for whistleblowing. A
Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is the author of
Secrets and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Most
Dangerous Man in America. He lives in Kensington, California.
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general non-fiction
The Kaiser's Army
David Stone
The definitive reference to the German army under Kaiser Wilhelm II,
encompassing its development, organisation, personnel, weapons and
equipment, as well as its victories and defeats during World War I.
In this comprehensive book, David Stone describes and analyses every aspect
of the German Army as it existed under Kaiser Wilhelm II, encompassing
its development and antecedents, organisation, personnel, weapons and
equipment, its inherent strengths and weaknesses, and its victories and defeats
as it fought on many fronts throughout World War I.
Conway
EXTENT: 512
The book deals in considerable detail with the origins and creation of the
German army, examining the structure of power in German politics and wider
society, and the nation's imperial ambitions, along with the ways in which the
high command and general staff functioned in terms of strategy and tactical
doctrine. The nature, background, recruitment, training and military experiences
of the officers, NCOs and soldiers are examined, while personal and collective
values relating to honour, loyalty and conscience are also analysed. There is also
an evaluation of all aspects of army life such as conscription, discipline, rest and
recuperation and medical treatment.
In addition the army’s operations are set in context with an overview of the army
at war, covering the key actions and outcomes of major campaigns from 1914
to 1918 up to the signature of the Armistice at Compiègne. For anyone seeking
a definitive reference on the German Army of the period – whether scholar,
historian, serving soldier or simply a general reader – this remarkable book will
prove an invaluable work.
David Stone is a former British army infantry officer. Much of his service was in
Germany, both with and alongside soldiers of the Bundeswehr in peacetime
and on operations. He became a military historian in 2002, and is the author
of the authoritative works Hitler's Army: The Men, Machines and Organisation,
1939-1945 (2009) and Fighting for the Fatherland: The Story of the German
Soldier from 1648 to the Present Day (2006). Richard Holmes described the
latter as 'the most comprehensive and accessible account of the German
soldier ever published in English'. His other titles include the acclaimed 'First
Reich' (2002), Battles in Focus: Dien Bien Phu (2004), Wars of the Cold War
(2004), War Summits (2005), and Twilight of the Gods (2011). He also wrote
Cold War Warriors (1998) and was a consultant and co-author of World War II
Chronicle (2007).
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general non-fiction
You Could Look It Up
Jack Lynch
An illuminating exploration of reference books through time and across
cultures, from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi to Wikipedia.
“Knowledge is of two kinds,” said Samuel Johnson in 1775. “We know a subject
ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Today we think
of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just
the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge – reference works that have
shaped the way we’ve seen the world for centuries.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 464
You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great
works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From
The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient
Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny’s Natural History; from the
11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham
Ortelius’s first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the
English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates
the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring
impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of
knowledge.
Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in
English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English
language. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer's
Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
and Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and
Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey.
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general non-fiction
Heart of a Lion
William Stolzenburg
The extraordinary saga of one wild mountain lion’s two-thousand-mile
journey from the American West to the Atlantic Coast.
Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising
down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New
England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.
Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a
bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more
fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. The lion was three years old, with a
DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country
odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. It was the
farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely
weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 304
William Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey – from his embattled
birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River,
through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale
upon Connecticut’s Gold Coast. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with
people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause.
Heart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering
odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. It is a testament
to the resilience of nature, and a test of humanity's willingness to live again
beside the ultimate symbol of wildness.
William Stolzenburg has written hundreds of magazine articles about the science
and spirit of saving wild creatures. A 2010 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow, he
is the author of the books Where the Wild Things Were and Rat Island. He is also
the screenwriter of the documentaries Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great
Predators, and Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship.
He lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
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non-fiction highlights
In Manchuria
A Village Called Wasteland
and the Transformation of
Rural China
Michael Meyer
RIGHTS SOLD: Gusa Press
(Complex Chinese), Shanghai
Translation Publishing House
(Chinese Simplified)
The Kennedy
Half-Century
Larry J. Sabato
‘In The Kennedy Half-Century, Larry
Sabato not only sheds new light on
the assassination, but, and more
importantly, masterfully explains the
enduring legacy of Kennedy and his
1,000 days in office’ John Grisham
Mecca
Ziauddin Sardar
‘A major achievement ... Hugely
enjoyable’ William Dalrymple
RIGHTS SOLD:
Payot et Rivages (French), Czarne
(Polish); Arab Network for Research
& Publishing (Arab); Nesil Publishing
(Turkish), Linkius Publishing (Complex
CHinese)
On the Trail of
Genghis Khan
Tim Cope
‘Weaving acute observation, honest
introspection, and a sense of history,
Cope crafts a marvelously perceptive
travelogue of an audacious odyssey’
Booklist
RIGHTS SOLD: Piper/Malik (German);
Jagiellonian University Press (Polish)
Owning the Earth
The Searchers
‘An extremely important book’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A gracefully presented narrative … A
thoroughly researched, clearly written
account of an obsessive search
through the tangled borderland of
fact and fiction, legend and myth’
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Andro Linklater
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Compilation and Translation
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Glenn Frankel
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Return of a King
William Dalrymple
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson
Prize, 2013
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Sciences Academics Press
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Story of a Death
Foretold
Pinochet, the CIA and the Coup
against Salvador Allende, 11
September 1973
How the Beatles
Rocked the Kremlin
Lesley Woodhead
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Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
‘Fascinating … Commendable for
[its] originality and research’
Washington Post
Meeting the Enemy
Furies
What?
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Lauro Matines
Mark Kurlansky
Glorious Misadventures
Owen Matthews
‘A thrilling story of swashbuckling
adventure’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Tips from Widows
Jan Robinson
‘A wonderful, beautiful little book’
Joanna Lumley
Gallipoli
The Dardanelles Disaster in
Soldiers’ Words and Photographs
Tommy’s War
The Western Front in Soldiers’
Words and Photographs
Richard van Emden and Stephen
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Richard van Emden
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Kidnap in Crete
Sam Quinones
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Rick Stroud
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current affairs
Jihad Academy
Nicolas Hénin
A powerful, contrarian analysis of ISIS and the roots of terrorism in the
Middle East, by a journalist held captive by ISIS for 10 months.
In June 2013, French journalist Nicolas Hénin was captured by ISIS. He spent
10 months in captivity, much of it with James Foley, the first prisoner beheaded,
and with others who suffered the same fate. He was released after intense
negotiations between the French government and ISIS. While he acknowledges
he could have made much more money writing a memoir of his experience, as
a journalist with a Masters in the history of international relations, he knew his
greater contribution would come in presenting his perspective on how and why
the West misunderstands Islamic State and the causes and purpose of jihadi
terrorism – and the devastating effect of this ignorance in the region.
Bloomsbury India
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Hénin sees Islamic State as having arisen out of injustice and a lack of hope,
not out of a desire to attack the West. Indeed, its real victims are civilians in the
region, the millions who have been killed or displaced. And yet the West sees
ISIS as a security issue, the embodiment of evil that needs to be confronted and
destroyed – thereby becoming ISIS’s greatest recruitment agent. Hénin asserts
that while ISIS has done terrible things, it is nothing new: Groups have practiced
political violence on civilians for millennia, ISIS is just the latest to do so. Keeping
ISIS in perspective is crucial; until we understand that civilians in the region,
rather than our own, and a viable society in the region are our priorities, we will
never win the battle.
Jihad Academy is a fresh and powerful assessment by a writer with the
perspective of a historian, the passion of a journalist committed to the welfare of
the region, and the credibility of someone who has looked terrorists in the eye.
Nicolas Hénin has spent most of his career as a freelance journalist covering
events in Iraq and Syria. From the fall of Baghdad to the capture of Raqqa, he
has witnessed the events leading to the rise of Islamic State. He lives in Paris
with his family, and travels frequently in the Middle East.
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current affairs
Gangster Warlords
Ioan Grillo
From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads
of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives them, what sustains
their power, and how they might be brought down.
In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five
hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil’s biggest city, a mysterious
prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards
in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while
enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies.
Bloomsbury Press
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House Mexico (Spanish – World)
A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock
star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over
much of the world’s trade in narcotics, guns, and humans. What they do affects
you now – from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of
thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U.S. Gangster
Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central
and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S.
after the Cold War. Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo has
covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the
cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas.
Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers,
Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of
control – one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.
Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media
including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour,
the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El
Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages
and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England,
Grillo lives in Mexico City.
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current affairs
The Fate of Gender
Frank Browning
A deeply reported, provocative, and path-breaking look at the fastchanging global landscape of gender today, from the bestselling author
of The Culture of Desire.
Bloomsbury USA
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Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from
gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather
casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and
Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. Along the way he elucidates
the neuroscience that distinguishes male and female biology, shows us how
all parents' brains change during the first weeks of parenthood, and finally how
men's and women's responses to age differ worldwide based not on biology
but on their earlier life habits. Starting with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous
observation that one is not born a woman but instead becomes a woman,
Browning goes on to show equally that no one is born a man but learns how to
perform as a man, and that there is no fixed way of being masculine or feminine.
Increasingly, the categories of “male” and “female” and even “gay” and “straight”
seem old-fashioned and reductive. Just visible on the horizon is a world of
gender and sexual fluidity that will remake our world in fundamental ways.
Linking science to culture and behavior, he challenges the traditional division
of Nature vs. Nurture in everything from plant science to sexual expression,
arguing in the end that life consists of an endless waltz between these two
ancient notions.
Former NPR science reporter Frank Browning grew up on an apple farm in
Kentucky and now lives in Paris. His books include The American Way of Crime
(with John Gerassi), The Culture of Desire, A Queer Geography, Apples: The
Story of the Fruit of Temptation, and The Monk & the Skeptic. He writes on art
and culture for the Huffington Post and has contributed to the Washington Post
Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Salon, and other publications.
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current affairs
Ethical Carnivore
Louise Gray
If you had to look an animal in the eye and kill it yourself, could you still
eat it? This is the story of one woman's quest to find out what it really
means to kill and eat animals.
Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in
agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently
finds the rabbit, she vows to do its death justice by finding out what it really
means to kill and eat animals.
Bloomsbury Natural History
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Many people claim to care about the meat they eat, but do they really know
how the animal died? The Ethical Carnivore addresses this difficult yet universal
question through a personal and emotional quest. Taking the current fashion for
‘ethical meat’ to its logical conclusion, journalist Louise Gray vows to reconnect
with her food by only eating animals she has killed herself over the course of
nearly two years.
Starting small, Louise shoots and traps game such as hare and squirrels, and
learns how to skin and cook them in the traditional way. Louise considers killing
game birds as part of organised shoots, and whether it can be justified. Louise
also visits slaughterhouses and finds out how animals are killed and processed,
and the effect it has on the people who do it on our behalf.
The biggest animal Louise kills is a stag, in a chapter about blood lust, the
question of masculinity and whether we are really meant to hunt and kill. Louise
goes wildfowling in the Orkneys to shoot a goose for Christmas dinner and, at
the end of her quest, she reflects on how the rabbit she first shot taught her to
appreciate all the meat she eats by facing up to the death of animals and to look
deeply at her own morals and values.
Louise Gray is former Environment Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph,
where she covered annual UN talks on climate change, travelled to Paraguay to
investigate GM crops and got more than one scoop on recycling. Since leaving
the newspaper at the end of 2013 she has written freelance for The Sunday
Times, Guardian, Country Life and Spectator, and has also appeared on BBC
Radio 4 and LBC.
Through her blog she has built up a sizeable readership worldwide, and is fast
becoming the go-to person for environmental matters, a subject that grows
and grows.
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current affairs
The Health Gap: The Challenge of
an Unequal World
Michael Marmot
One of the world’s leading doctors and public intellectuals reveals social
injustice to be the greatest threat to health in the world, and explains
how socio-economic status directly affects health
There are dramatic differences in health between countries and within countries.
But this is not a simple matter of rich and poor. A poor man in Glasgow is
rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian’s life expectancy is
8 years shorter. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty;
the Glaswegian of violent death, suicide, heart disease linked to a rich country’s
version of disadvantage. In all countries, people at relative social disadvantage
suffer health disadvantage, dramatically so. Within countries, the higher the
social status of individuals the better is their health.
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These health inequalities defy usual explanations. Conventional approaches to
improving health have emphasised access to technical solutions – improved
medical care, sanitation, and control of disease vectors; or behaviours –
smoking, drinking – obesity, linked to diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These
approaches only go so far. Creating the conditions for people to lead flourishing
lives, and thus empowering individuals and communities, is key to reduction of
health inequalities.
In addition to the scale of material success, your position in the social hierarchy
also directly affects your health, the higher you are on the social scale, the longer
you will live and the better your health will be. As people change rank, so their
health risk changes.
What makes these health inequalities unjust is that evidence from round the
world shows we know what to do to make them smaller. This new evidence
is compelling. It has the potential to change radically the way we think about
health, and indeed society.
Born in England and educated in Australia, Sir Michael Marmot is Professor
of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. He will take up the Lown visiting
professorship at Harvard in 2015 and Presidency of the World Medical
Association. He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of
Health (2005-8), his recommendations have been adopted by the World
Health Assembly and taken up by many countries and the British Government
appointed him to conduct a review of social determinants and health inequalities.
The Marmot Review and its recommendations are now being implemented in
three-quarters of local authorities in England. He lives in North London.
@MichaelMarmot
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current affairs highlights
Farmageddon
The God Argument
Unspeakable Things
‘A wake-up call to the perils of
industrial agriculture’ Observer
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Sex, Lies and Revolution
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Stories from the front line in the
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John Boyle
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Travels at the Edge of China
David Eimer
‘Fascinating ... A side of China that’s
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America in the Age of Instant
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Paul Roberts
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MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY
Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the
Imagination
Ghislaine Kenyon
A visual biography and intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the muchloved illustrator and artistic genius of our age.
Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Best
known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and
the Pelly and Me, The Twits, and Matilda, he is cherished by young and old alike.
Still, his work has not attained “fine art” status. How does Blake’s background
in education inform his work? And what is the relationship between the work he
makes and the life he leads? Distinguished curator Ghislaine Kenyon spent a
great deal of time with Blake and in this biography, she provides profound insight
into an extraordinary man and his remarkable body of work.
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A shared enthusiasm for education brought Kenyon and Blake together.
Kenyon staged a jointly curated exhibition, Tell Me A Picture, during Blake’s
tenure as Children’s Laureate (1999–2001). She followed Blake during the years
he continued to work “off the page,” producing work for hospitals in Angers
and Paris and staging major exhibitions around the world. Kenyon shows that
Blake’s life informs his illustrations and his artwork, in turn, informs his life—a life
which is extremely private, mysterious, and full of complexities and ambiguities.
Kenyon has produced not merely a biography but a critical view of the artist’s
work. This book is a fitting tribute to Quentin Blake’s journey and to his great
artistic legacy.
Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National
Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several
exhibitions, including Tell Me a Picture in 2000 with Quentin Blake.
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The Lost Detective: Becoming
Dahiell Hammet
Nathan Ward
A fascinating portrait of the overlooked Dashiell Hammett – from his
years as a Pinkerton detective to becoming the author of arguably the
most iconic detective novels of the twentieth century.
Bloomsbury USA
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Before he became a household name in America as perhaps our greatest hardboiled crime writer, before his attachment to Lillian Hellman and blacklisting
during the McCarthy era, and his subsequent downward spiral, Dashiell
Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor Maryland family, Hammett
left school at fourteen and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National
Detective Agency as an operative in 1915 and, with time off in 1918 to serve at
the end of World War I, he remained with the agency until 1922, participating
alike in the banal and dramatic action of an operative. The tuberculosis he
contracted during the war forced him to leave the Pinkertons – but it may well
have prompted one of America’s most acclaimed writing careers.
While Hammett’s life on center stage has been well-documented, the question
of how he got there has not. That largely overlooked phase is the subject of
Nathan Ward’s enthralling The Lost Detective. Hammett’s childhood, his life in
San Francisco, and especially his experience as a detective deeply informed
his writing and his characters, from the nameless Continental Op, hero of his
stories and early novels, to Sam Spade and Nick Charles. The success of his
many stories in the pulp magazine Black Mask following his departure from
the Pinkertons led him to novels; he would write five between 1929 and 1934,
two of them (The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man) now American classics.
Though he inspired generations of writers, from Chandler to Connelly and all in
between, after The Thin Man he never finished another book, a painful silence
for his devoted readers; and his popular image has long been shaped by the
remembrance of Hellman, who knew him after his literary reputation had been
made. Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the
first book to illuminate Hammett’s transformation from real detective to great
American detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America’s most
celebrated and remembered novelists and his world.
Nathan Ward is the author of Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront.
He was an editor at American Heritage, and he has written for the New York
Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Fall of the House of Wilde
Emer O'Sullivan
A fascinating insight into the Wilde family’s double fall from grace
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics – his precocious
intellectualism, his nimble-wittedness, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his
recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values – to
his parents.
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Oscar was the son of Sir William Wilde, one of the most eminent Victorian
men of his generation. Acutely conscious of injustices in the social order, Sir
William laid the foundations for the Celtic cultural renaissance in the belief that
culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor,
Protestant and Catholic. But he was also a philanderer. When Sir William stood
accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent
shock waves through Dublin society. Oscar’s mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to
public prominence as a political journalist, advocating in 1848 a rebellion against
colonialism. Proud, involved and challenging, she became a salon hostess and
opened the Wilde home at No 1 Merrion Square to the public. Known as the
most scintillating and stirring hostess of her day, she passed on her infectious
delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily.
After the Sir William's public disgrace and death in 1876, Jane moved her family
to London where Oscar burst upon the London scene and at once set upon the
task of inventing himself. America started the legend, and in no time his face
was one of the most photographed on both sides of the Atlantic. The one role
he failed to triumph in was that of the Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance,
was to discover. For beneath the swelling forehead was a self-destructive itch. A
lifelong devourer of public attention, Oscar never knew when the party was over.
Ultimately, his trial heralded the death of decadence and also of Oscar Wilde. It
deprived him irrecoverably of the power to be loved and to write, which for him
were intimately linked.
The Wilde family was one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families in Victorian
Ireland. But their enlightened questioning of the governing order, fuelled the rise
of Irish nationalism and their newfound belief in Irishness, ended by toppling the
Protestant ruling classes and the Wilde family in particular.
The Fall of the House of Wilde is a remarkable and perceptive account, not only
of one of the most prominent writers of the late nineteenth century, but also of
his remarkable family and social context.
Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an
MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she also
lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London.
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Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life
Gerald Martin
The first comprehensive biography of the brilliant author of Conversation
in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Script-Writer and The Feast of the
Goat, who ran for the presidency of Peru in 1990 and in 2010 won a
Nobel Prize for Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world’s great writers of the past fifty years. He
is almost unique among Latin American novelists in the sense that he is on the
right of the political spectrum: ideologically his views are liberal in political terms
and neo-liberal in economic terms. This undoubtedly connects in part to the fact
that he is not in any meaningful sense a ‘magical realist’ writer (as so many Latin
American novelists of his generation are) but, rather, a classical ‘realist’ in the
tradition of Balzac, Flaubert and – rather more surprisingly – Faulkner.
Bloomsbury UK
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The fabled ‘Boom’ of the Latin American novel in the 1960s centred on four
writers: Julio Cortázar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, Gabriel García
Márquez of Colombia, and Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru. Vargas Llosa was the
youngest of these writers by more than a decade and he was also a prodigy:
he had published three major best-selling novels by the age of thirty, all of them
critically acclaimed. Had he stopped writing then he would still today be one of
the greatest novelists in Latin American history.
Like García Márquez, Vargas Llosa was profoundly committed to politics. The
two men met in the 1960s and even though it was known that they had come
to disagree sharply about the Cuban Revolution (1959), the most important
event in Latin America since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, it came as a
great surprise – indeed, a sensation – when Vargas Llosa publicly felled García
Márquez with a right hook at a movie premiere in Mexico City in 1976. Following
that event, still the subject of unceasing press speculation to the present day,
the two men have never spoken again.
Handsome, elegant and debonair, Vargas Llosa is the most polite and
considerate of men at a personal level; yet he has alienated many of his friends
and colleagues over the course of a long career. However, no one meeting him
for the first time without knowing who he was would dream that this gentleman
could be the author of several genuinely shocking books.
Gerald Martin knows the man and the work well and will bring the same
meticulous research, scrupulous attention to detail and narrative verve to bear
on a life that holds equal fascination with that of his fellow Nobel Prize winner
Gabriel García Márquez.
Gerald Martin is Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh
and president of the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature.
Publications include Gabriel Garcia Marques: A Life, Journeys Through the
Labyrinth and a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturias’s Hombres de maíz.
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Monet: and His Water Lilies
Ross King
We have all seen—live, in photographs, on postcards—some of Claude
Monet’s legendary water lily paintings. They are in museums all over the world,
and are among the most admired paintings of our time. Yet nobody knows
the extraordinarily dramatic story behind their creation. Telling that story is the
brilliant historian, Ross King’s, new project—and in the process, he presents a
compelling and original portrait of perhaps the most beloved artist in history.
Bloomsbury US
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As World War I exploded within hearing distance of his house at Giverny, Monet
was facing his own personal crucible. In 1911, his adored wife, Alice, had died,
plunging him into deep mourning at age 71. A year later he began going blind.
Then, his eldest son, Jean, fell ill and died of syphilis, and his other son was sent
to the front to fight for France. Within months, a violent storm destroyed much
of the garden that had been his inspiration for some 20 years. At the same time,
his reputation was under attack, as a new generation of artists, led by Pablo
Picasso and Henri Matisse, were dazzling the art world and expressing disgust
with Impressionism. Against all this, fighting his own self doubt, depression, and
age, Monet found the wherewithal to construct a massive new studio, 70 feet
long and 50 feet high, to accommodate the gigantic canvases that would, he
hoped, revive him.
Using letters, memoirs, and other sources not employed by other biographers,
and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist’s life, Ross King reveals
a more complex, more human, more intimate Claude Monet than has ever
been portrayed, and firmly places his water lily project among the greatest
achievements in the history of art.
Ross King is the highly praised author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo
and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of
Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives just outside Oxford.
Leonardo and the Last Supper
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The Life of Lucian Freud
William Feaver
A complete and unique biography of the artist Lucian Freud, grandson
of Sigmund, documented by his close friend William Feaver.
Lucian Freud is one of the most important artists of the twentieth-century. Hailed
as the ‘best living realist painter’ in his life time, his work was exhibited by Peggy
Guggenheim at the age of just sixteen, is in museum collections all over the
world and fetches huge prices at auction.
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Born in Berlin in 1922 to Jewish parents, the grandson of Sigmund Freud,
Lucian’s family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Enrolling
in the Central School of Art, he spent most of his time avoiding academic
instruction and funded both his studies and misadventures in London’s Soho
with gold he stole from his father’s stash.
Freud knew Picasso, the Woolfs, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Henry
Moore, spent a sojourn on Goldeneye with Ian Fleming and was a great friend
and gambling partner of Francis Bacon. His love life was eventful and he fathered
fourteen known children. The subjects of his portraits include David Hockney,
Jerry Hall, Kate Moss and the Queen.
Drawing on a huge volume of tapes and notes of innumerable conversations,
plus the memories of close friends now dead, The Life of Lucian Freud will be
the definitive, inspiring and indispensable biography of a life like no other.
William Feaver, former art critic at the Observer, was a long-time friend of Freud,
and curated exhibitions of his work at the Tate and Museo Correr in Venice. He
had unprecedented access to Freud, from the start of their friendship in the
1970s.
47
The Chief Engineer: Washington
Roebling, the Man who Built the
Brooklyn Bridge
Erica Wagner
An unparalleled biography of one of the most important figures in
American civil engineering history – Washington Roebling, builder of the
Brooklyn Bridge.
His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling
who built it after his father’s tragic death. The iconic feat of human engineering
has stood for more than 130 years and is as much a part of New York as the
Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognizable as the bridge
is, its builder is too often forgotten.
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Now, forty years after the publication of The Great Bridge by David McCullough,
Erica Wagner has written a brilliant chronicle of one of America’s most
distinguished engineers and interesting people. Meticulously researched,
revealing archival material only recently uncovered at Rutgers University,
including Washington Roebling’s own memoir that was previously thought to be
lost to history, Wagner relates the history of the bridge and its first family for a new
generation of readers. Roebling’s experience as an engineer building bridges for
the Union Army during the Civil War has never before been documented, and
played a central role in the bridge linking Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Chief Engineer is an engaging portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of
his era.
Erica Wagner is an American writer and literary critic. She is the former literary
editor of The Times (UK), and has previously been a judge for the Man Booker
Prize in 2002 and 2014. She lives in London, and is the author of Ariel’s Gift: Ted
Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters (Norton, 2002) and the
short story collection Gravity (Granta, 1997).
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Empire of Imagination
Michael Witwer
Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive biography of geek and
gaming culture's mythic icon, Gary Gygax, and the complete story
behind his invention of Dungeons and Dragons.
The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has been
told only in bits and pieces. Michael Witwer has written a dynamic, dramatized
biography of Gygax from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to his
untimely death in 2008.
Bloomsbury USA
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Gygax’s magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in popularity
throughout the 1970s and ’80s and irreversibly alter the world of gaming. D&D
is the best-known, best-selling role-playing game of all time, and it boasts an
elite class of alumni – Stephen Colbert, Robin Williams, and Junot Diaz all have
spoken openly about their experience with the game as teenagers, and some
credit it as the workshop where their nascent imaginations were fostered.
Gygax’s involvement in the industry lasted long after his dramatic and involuntary
departure from D&D’s parent company, TSR, and his footprint can be seen in
the genre he is largely responsible for creating. But as Witwer shows, perhaps
the most compelling facet of his life and work was his unwavering commitment
to the power of creativity in the face of myriad sources of adversity, whether
cultural, economic, or personal. Through his creation of the role-playing genre,
Gygax gave two generations of gamers the tools to invent characters and entire
worlds in their minds. Told in narrative-driven and dramatic fashion, Witwer
has written an engaging chronicle of the life and legacy of this emperor of the
imagination.
Michael Witwer is a lifelong gamer and gaming enthusiast. He holds degrees
from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, where this book
first emerged as the subject of his master’s thesis. He is also a film and theater
actor and marketing professional, and is the brother of actor Sam Witwer, who
originally introduced him to Dungeons & Dragons. He lives in Chicago, Illinois,
with his wife and two children.
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A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet
Rita Gabis
In prose as beautiful as it is powerful, Rita Gabis follows the trail of her
grandfather’s collaboration with the Nazis – a trail riddled with secrets,
slaughter, mystery, and discovery.
Rita Gabis comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian
Catholics. She was close to her Catholic grandfather as a child and knew one
version of his past: prior to immigration he had fought the Russians, whose
brutal occupation of Lithuania destroyed thousands of lives before Hitler’s army
swept in.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 464
Five years ago, Gabis discovered an unthinkable dimension to her family story:
from 1941 to 1943, her grandfather had been the chief of security police under
the Gestapo in the Lithuanian town of Svencionys, near the killing field of
Poligon, where eight thousand Jews were murdered over three days in the fall
of 1941. In 1942, the local Polish population was also hunted down. Gabis felt
compelled to find out the complicated truth of who her grandfather was and
what he had done.
Built around dramatic interviews in four countries, filled with original scholarship,
and mesmerizing in its lyricism, A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet is a history
and family memoir like no other, documenting “the holocaust by bullets” with
a remarkable quest as Gabis returns again and again to the country of her
grandfather’s birth to learn all she can about the man she thought she knew.
Rita Gabis is an award-winning poet and prose writer. Her grants and fellowships
include a New York Foundation for the Arts Award for creative nonfiction
and residencies at Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown,
Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collection The Wild Field
(Alice James Books). Her work has appeared in Harvard Review, Poetry, and
elsewhere. She lives and teaches in New York City.
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No Way But Gentlenesse
Richard Hines
From Richard Hines, the inspiration for Billy Casper in the classic novel
A Kestrel for a Knave, comes the real-life story of one boy and his kestrel
set against the backdrop of a crumbling mining community
‘There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke’ Edmund Bert, 1619
In 1968, Penguin published a novel about a young boy’s relationship with a
kestrel. Made into a film by Ken Loach and set as a GCSE key text, A Kestrel for a
Knave has since become a classic, widely read across the UK by schoolchildren
and adults alike. What few people know, though, is that the author, Barry Hines,
took his inspiration from his younger brother, Richard.
EXTENT: 320
Barry and Richard both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire mining
village, and they share memories of spoil heaps and coal dust, listening out for
klaxons at the end of mine shifts and whispered details of accidents. But after
the 11+ exams, their paths diverged dramatically. While Barry passed and was
sent to grammar school, with the belief that university would follow, Richard
failed and was left without much hope of academic achievement.
Crushed by a system that had swiftly and permanently branded him a knave,
Richard was adrift. Until one morning, walking in the grounds of a ruined medieval
manor, he came across kestrels nesting in the walls. Instantly captivated but
without a working-class role model to learn from, he sought whatever ancient
texts the local library could offer on the subject of falconry, and improvised by
buying dog leads for tresses and getting fatty meats from his local butcher for
food. And it was in bringing up and training of kestrels that Richard discovered
a purpose again.
No Way But Gentlenesse is a moving tale of cultures lost to time and the true
tale of one boy’s attempt to find salvation in the natural world.
Richard Hines was raised in Hoyland Common, a village in South Yorkshire.
After leaving school, he became a documentary filmmaker, starting his own
production company and working for the BBC and Channel 4, before becoming
a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in South Sheffield and frequently
walks on the Derbyshire moors, from where he can see the ruins of Tankersley
Hall.
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Renata Calverley
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A Prince Among Stones
Respect Yourself
‘This book is far more than a
footnote to the Rolling Stones; it is an
elegantly written account of how two
cultures came together’
Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING
When the Last Lion Roars: How the
king of the beasts was brought to
the brink
Sara Evans
The story of a continent losing its most charismatic predator at
unprecedented speed.
There are no lions left north of the Sahara and their range in southern Africa has
shrunk considerably. Two sub species have already gone. With numbers down
to just 20,000, many experts believe, that without effective conservation plans
in place, Africa’s remaining lions will be wiped out by the mid half of this century.
Publication date: 20/10/16
Extent: 320
Sara Evans considers the cultural significance of the Lion over thousands of
years as well as its historic rise and fall as a global species. She also explores the
many, and often complex, reasons that explain why numbers have plummeted
so catastrophically in recent decades. As humans are the lion’s only predator,
she asks what is being done to reverse, or at least stem this haemorrhage?
By interweaving vivid personal encounters with Africa’s last lions – from Kenya in
the northeast to Botswana in the south – visits to breeding projects in the west
and their protectors all over the continent, she hopes to answer this question as
well as turn the spotlight on the plight of Africa’s most iconic and mesmerising
animals.
The narrative also includes photographs, illustrations and maps as well as
insights from experts in the field.
Sara Evans is an award-winning writer and photojournalist, specialising in travel
and wildlife. Newspapers and magazines that have featured her work include:
Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday,
The Australian Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Boston Globe, Lonely Planet
Travel Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Africa Geographic Countryside, and
Wildlife magazine.
She won the 2005 Independent on Sunday and Bradt Travel Writing competition
and has been shortlisted in a number of BBC writing competitions and been a
panelist at Bradt travel-writing seminars.
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The Most Perfect Thing:
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
Tim Birkhead
From the author of Bird Sense and The Wisdom of Birds, a revealing and
enthralling book about the extraordinary creation that is a bird’s egg
Which end of an egg is laid first, the blunt end or the pointed end? How are eggs
of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the
shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the
colours and patterns of an eggshell created, and why do they vary? These are
just some of the questions Tim Birkhead answers in his fascinating new book.
EXTENT: 288
A Bird’s Egg places current scientific knowledge within an historical context and
takes the reader on a captivating journey from the creation and fertilisation of
eggs, to their development and eventual hatching. Birkhead begins by focusing
on the stunning guillemot eggs, each of which is curiously pointed, and so
variable in pattern and colour that no two are the same, but then broadens his
subject matter to the eggs of hens, cuckoos and many other birds to explain
the science of these miraculous constructions, and to reveal many weird and
wonderful facts along the way.
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches
animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to
understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist,
BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The
Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, The Red
Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize, The Wisdom of Birds and Bird
Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
The Red Canary
Tim Birkhead
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Bird Sense
The Wisdom of Birds
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Herring Tales
Donald S. Murray
A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring and
our love affair with the silver darlings.
Scots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Swedes look on
with relish as they open bulging, foul-smelling cans to find them curdling within.
Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Germans and the English
enjoy their taste best when accompanied by pickle's bite and brine.
Throughout the long centuries men have fished around their coastlines and
beyond, the herring has done much to shape both human taste and history.
Men have co-operated and come into conflict over its shoals, setting out in
boats to catch them, straying, too, from their home ports to bring full nets to
shore. Women have also often been at the centre of the industry, gutting and
salting the catch when the annual harvest had taken place, knitting, too, the
garments fishermen wore to protect them from the ocean's chill.
EXTENT: 272
Following a journey from the western edge of Norway to the east of England,
from Shetland and the Outer Hebrides to the fishing ports of the Baltic coast
of Germany and the Netherlands, culminating in a visit to Iceland's Herring Era
Museum, Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of
central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how both it - and those
involved in their capture – were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music and
folklore of life in northern Europe.
Blending together politics, science, history, religious and commercial life, Donald
contemplates, too, the possibility of restoring the silver darlings of legend to
these shores.
Donald S. Murray comes from Ness at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis and
now lives in close proximity to 'the Ness' at the southern end of Shetland. His
poetry and prose is often about islands and the wildlife on and around them. The
Gannet features strongly in his prose accounts, The Guga Hunters and Praising
The Guga, books inspired by the men who hunt the guga (or young Gannets)
each year on Sulasgeir, which is off the north-east coast of Lewis. Gannets also
feature in his wonderfully eclectic collection of prose and poems, The Guga
Stone; Lies, Legends And Lunacies Of St Kinda, illustrated by his friend and
collaborator, Doug Robertson. The Guga Stone was shortlisted as one of The
Guardian's nature books of the year in 2013.
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Magic Bustard
Nigel Redman
A hippie birder's journey through 70s Western Asia, packed with drugs,
casual sex and scarce endemic plovers
The hippie trail – a gentle, hallucinogen-powered bus-bound trundle through
western Asia from Istanbul to Kathmandu – came into being in the early 1970s.
Back then this was an intrepid trip into the almost completely unknown, through
places that are largely off-limits to travellers today, such as Iran and Afghanistan,
that broadened already-mellowed minds to a backdrop of The Who, Jethro Tull
and Pink Floyd.
The birds of this region were similarly largely unknown, but all this was to change
following an epic trip in 1978 by a band of birding hippies, which heralded the
beginning of large-scale bird trips to Asia and beyond. Nigel Redman, a young,
bored accountant with a lifelong passion for birds, decided to jack it all in and
head off on this adventure to birding nirvana.
EXTENT: 288
Magic Bustard is the story of that ground-breaking trip, comparing the habitats,
people, places and birds of the 1970s with current observations as Nigel
revisits old haunts along the trail, from the famous ‘Pudding Shop’ where the
journey began right across to the final destination and gateway to the world of
Himalayan endemics, Kathmandu in Nepal. Part-travelogue, part-memoir, the
book delivers a commentary on the incredible changes that have been wrought
on the region and its birds in the 40 years since that first trip, with bizarre ground
jays, sensational sandgrouse, bounteous buntings, and yes, even a magic
bustard or two on the way.
Of appeal to birders, hippies, ex-hippies, and above all people who enjoy a good
travel yarn, Magic Bustard is both an enjoyable testament to the awakening of
the possibilities of travel in the postwar era, and a fun travelogue packed with
drugs, casual sex and scarce endemic plovers. Groovy.
Nigel Redman has been an active birder since the mid 1960s. A publisher by
profession, he also works as a bird tour leader. He is a former chairman of
the Oriental Bird Club, has served on the councils of the British Ornithologists’
Union, the Ornithological Society of the Middle East and the African Bird Club,
and has been a member of the editorial board of British Birds since 1998. Nigel
is also co-author of Where to Watch Birds in Britain and senior author of Birds of
the Horn of Africa. His latest book, Magic Bustard, is based on a life-changing
overland trip to Asia, following the legendary hippie trail to Kathmandu.
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On a Wing and a Prayer
Sarah Woods
Trying to encounter a harpy eagle in the wild, Sarah Woods trekked
through the world’s densest jungles, falling under the spell of Latin
America’s extraordinary wildlife and making some heart-wrenching
discoveries about herself along the way.
As a young child, Sarah Woods imagined going on epic voyages to exotic,
illusory lands filled with bizarre creatures, intoxicating rhythms, vibrant colours
and other-worldly forests. As soon as she was old enough she packed a bag
and set off to see the world for real, leaving friends and family behind to fulfil her
childhood dreams.
EXTENT: 272
To journey solo through Central and South America was perhaps the ultimate
challenge. Leaving the tourist traps behind, Sarah ventured into the wilderness,
experiencing disease-ridden swamps, shark-infested waters and dense tracts
of primary rainforest that are home to jaguars, anacondas and tusk-gnashing
peccaries.
One animal, though, is truly emblematic of these forests – the awe-inspiring
harpy eagle. But to see it you have to be prepared for serious hardship…
Facing gruelling, energy-sapping jungle conditions and constant challenges that
saw her question the deepest and most intimate aspects of her life, Sarah’s
intrepid travels on the trail of iconic wildlife took her through some of the toughest
terrain imaginable, and led to encounters with extraordinary indigenous people
of the forest, with whom she experienced kindnesses and cultures beyond her
wildest dreams.
This book tells the incredible story of one woman’s adventure into the heart of
the rainforest.
Sarah Woods has been travelling nonstop for two decades, circumnavigating
the globe in several directions along the way. She has scaled volcanoes,
navigated windswept deserts and spent time with indigenous tribes in riverside
thatched settlements. Now UK-based, Sarah works for Europe’s largest wildlife
conservation charity, the RSPB. She is a regular contributor to travel magazines,
travel and documentary programmes and BBC radio. Sarah has won awards for
her books, TV broadcasting and travel writing. She is author of the Bradt Travel
Guides to Panama and Colombia.
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One Wild Song
Paul Heiney
After his son committed suicide aged only 23, television presenter Paul
Heiney decided to set sail on a voyage to Cape Horn to connect with his
son's ‘voice’. Not only a hugely challenging experience physically, this
turned out to be an emotional journey of much more importance.
When Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney’s son Nicholas committed suicide
aged 23, Paul and his wife, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the
core. Nicholas had been a highly gifted promising young man, albeit he had
struggled to keep his head above water at times as severe depression slowly
dragged him down over many years.
Adlard Coles
EXTENT: 240
Nicholas was a keen sailor, with several of his posthumously-published writings
having a nautical theme. To try to reconnect with this happier memory of his son,
Paul decides to set out – alone – on a voyage he would have liked them to have
embarked upon together.
Cape Horn is the sailor’s Everest. One of the most remote and bleak parts of
the world, it takes courage, physical strength and mental fortitude to face its
tempestuous seas, violent winds and barren landscape. During the voyage Paul
finds a peace of mind and a way to face the future without his son.
Poignant, moving, funny, thought provoking and beautifully written, Paul’s
account of setting his own course through seemingly insurmountable grief
makes for a powerful story. Injected with humour, perceptiveness and
philosophy, recounting his highs, lows, frustrations and triumphs, the honesty
and openness of Paul's story makes this very personal account a universal tale.
Paul Heiney has been a TV and radio broadcaster for over 30 years, starting on
Radio 1 before working on Radio 4's Today programme. He was a presenter on
That's Life! from 1978 until 1982, and more recently has presented Watchdog
on BBC 1. He currently presents the ITV primetime show Countrywise. He wrote
a weekly column for The Times for 7 years about working 40 acres traditionally
with Suffolk Punch horses. He has written over a dozen books, both fiction and
non-fiction. His popular science book, Can Cows Walk Downstairs?, has been
a bestseller in 15 languages.
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The Naked Shore
Tom Blass
An incredible history of the North Sea that stretches from an ancient
past to the uncertain future
Like the Celtic and Nordic gods of the countries surrounding it, the North Sea
has battered and bewildered, produced and provided, damaged and destroyed
in equal measure. Its inclement weather and perilous tides have made it a
playground and a proving ground, a nursery and a grave, an object of veneration
and a mighty adversary. A sea like no other, it has shaped our modern world
and yet remained the same ancient beast known to the earliest inhabitants of
its shores.
EXTENT: 320
In The Naked Shore, journalist Tom Blass trawls the bottom and skims the
waves of the North Sea, searching for all that glistens, enraptures, enrages,
and appalls. He sets out to meet the men and women who have devoted their
lives to uncovering its secrets, from marine biologists studying the North Sea’s
submerged landscapes to the world’s leading expert on Doggerland.
Travelling by tram, ferry, and twelve-seater aircraft around the eclectic
borderlands, Blass interviews local fishermen, ornithologists, and bombdisposal experts, capturing the wild, war-torn history of the North Sea, as well as
the ways in which humanity has ecologically transformed it through overfishing
and the race for energy.
The Naked Shore scatters light into the sea’s cold and murky depths, exploring
its wonders and its relationship with humanity—from drug gangs to the
Schleswig-Holstein question to the sea’s new role as a headline-grabbing
environmental battleground.
Tom Blass is a journalist who has travelled widely in search of stories. Tom
studied social anthropology and, more recently, political geography at university
and is the director of a small consultancy which advises on international
boundaries and borders.
tomblass.com
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A Rose for Morville
Katherine Swift
A rich, personal history of the rose in England by the bestselling author
of The Morville Hours - for Nigel Slater ‘the most beautiful book I have
read in years'
The rose is a garden favourite and, more than any other flower, permeates
literature, art and religion. In A Rose for Morville, Katherine Swift weaves yet
another thread into this complex web of symbolism. Taking as a starting point
the five indigenous wild English roses, Swift sets out to discover how each
species has been shaped by climate, geology and environment.
EXTENT: 320
The book takes place over the course of a year, in which Katherine makes a
series of journeys, biographical and geographical, on foot and in time, out from
the garden, to find each rose in its native habitat, each time returning to the
garden at Morville and finding it changed both by the seasons and by what has
been learned on the journey. Woven into this narrative is the history of the rose
in England - in literature, art, music and folk lore - and the history of a book, the
Roman de la Rose, written in French in the thirteenth century - a story of love,
lust and possession which serves as a metaphor for our relationship with the
natural world.
A Rose for Morville is a book about roses, love and longing, about a garden,
and about the environmental crisis which faces the twenty-first century. It is
a love letter to the husband from whom she separated in 2002, and to the
landscapes and wild roses of her adopted county of Shropshire. It is about
mothers and daughters, medieval poetry and the varieties of love. It is about
learning to garden in a new age.
Katherine Swift lives at The Dower House, Morville Hall in Shropshire. She
worked as a rare book librarian in Oxford and Dublin before becoming a full-time
gardener and writer in 1988. She was for four years gardening columnist of The
Times, and has written widely in the gardening press, including an acclaimed
series on the gardens and landscapes of Orkney for Hortus. She is the author of
The Morville Hours, a Sunday Times bestseller.
also available
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Morville
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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING Highlights
Darjeeling
The Colourful History and
Precarious Fate of the World’s
Greatest Tea
Jeff Koehler
Cuckoo
Kaleidoscope City
Cheating by Nature
A Year in Varanasi
Nick Davies
Piers Moore Ede
‘Amazing detective story by one of
the country’s greatest field naturalists’
Sir David Attenborough
‘Affectionate and inquiring at the
same time’ Daily Telegraph
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Smart Thinking
Soccermatics
Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game
David Sumpter
Football and mathematics – together, much more than a game
Football – the most mathematical of sports – is riddled with numbers, patterns
and shapes. How to make sense of them? The answer lies in mathematical
modelling, an applied science with applications in a host of biological systems.
More than a Game brings the two together in a thrilling, mind-bending synthesis.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
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What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style?
How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? And how can we relate
the mechanics of a Mexican Wave to the singing of cicadas in an Australian
valley? Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly
by David Sumpter through the prism of football. Football – more than a game,
and packed with game theory.
David Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala,
Sweden, where he runs the Collective Behaviour Research Group. Originally
from London, he studied his PhD in Mathematics at Manchester and has held
academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading
to Sweden, where he lives with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he
trains a successful 9-year old boys’ football team, Upsala IF 2005.
An incomplete list of the applied maths research projects on which David has
worked include pigeons flying in pairs over Oxford; clapping undergraduate
students in the north of England; the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; fish
swimming between coral in the Great Barrier Reef; swarms of locusts traveling
across the Sahara; disease-spread in Ugandan villages; the gaze of London
commuters; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built
by Japanese slime moulds. His research has appeared in Science, Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, and Proceedings of the Royal Society,
among many others.
David is a Liverpool supporter.
@djsumpter / collective-behavior.com
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Smart Thinking
Buddhist Economics
Clair Brown
An economist at the University of California at Berkeley, and a practicing
Buddhist, Clair Brown saw something very wrong with the GDP. She felt stifled
by the classical economic model she was required to teach in her Econ 1
course, a model which made no room for some of our world’s most pressing
concerns: climate change, environmental degradation, and wealth inequality.
Classical economics, which holds that more is always better, has led us to focus
on the wrong values and to pay attention to the wrong measurements. It gauges
performance by national output; quality of life by average income; and the health
of the market by how much people are shopping.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 224
Drawing upon the work of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful:
Economics as if People Mattered, as well as capability and ecological
economists, Brown went in search of a different kind of economic system
based not on the values of individualism and materialism, but rather on
interconnectedness and compassion. The science of economics—in curricula,
in theory, and in practice—can and should be a force for good. Buddhist
Economics issues a powerful challenge to the prevailing economic system, and
makes a heartening and truly groundbreaking case for bringing humanity back
into “the dismal science.”
Dr. Clair Brown is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,
Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof Brown is a
past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR, now IRLE) at UCB, and
Chair of the Committee on Education Policy of the Academic Senate. Clair has
published research on many aspects of the labor market, including high-tech
workers, labor market institutions, firm employment systems and performance,
the standard of living, wage determination, and unemployment.
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Smart Thinking
The Great Acceleration
Robert Colvile
A revelatory account of how our society is speeding up and why we
should embrace the acceleration, The Great Acceleration is a fascinating
insight into the science and promise of the modern world from a brilliant
new writer
Instant messaging. Superfast broadband. High-frequency trading. The world is,
undeniably, accelerating.
In this magisterial study or modern living, Robert Colvile examines how and why
this great acceleration of change is happening, why it’s unlikely we’ll be able to
slow down – and why this may be no bad thing.
EXTENT: 320
It’s a book peppered with slogans from this new world’s heavy hitters: Reid
Hoffman, the inventor of LinkedIn: ‘If you’re not embarrassed by your first
version, you waited too long to ship it’; ‘Carry on failing until you succeed’; Jeff
Bezos, ‘Amazon isn’t happening to the book business, the future is happening
to the book business’; ‘You jump off a cliff and you assemble an aeroplane on
the way down’ is from Mark Zuckerberg; ‘Move fast and break things’ is another
of his. This is a book that zips along but whose words will make you slow down
and think.
Comparing the development of cities and villages, advanced economies and
underdeveloped countries, Colvile explores the opportunities that this faster
communication and operation could bring and how we must adapt ourselves
to cope with the constant need to disrupt and fracture ourselves to survive.
The Great Acceleration is a vertiginous read, incredibly fast itself, and incredibly
smart.
Robert Colvile has been a columnist, leader writer and comment editor with the
Daily Telegraph. Among his many duties, he was supervising the paper’s Science
and Digital Life pages, serving as comment editor of the Sunday Telegraph while
still in his twenties, and producing a host of editorials, features, reviews and
opinion pieces. He went on to be news director at BuzzFeed UK. He has a
Masters degree from Cambridge in International Relations, is a regular pundit
on Sky News, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies (a leading
British think-tank) and author of an influential report on how the internet is
transforming British politics, which was praised by Chancellor George Osborne
among others.
@rcolvile
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Smart Thinking Highlights
A More Beautiful
Question
Warren Berger
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Aleph (Brazilian Portuguese), Amber
(Polish)
Finding the Space to Lead
Janice Marturano
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(Norwegian)
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science
Light
Bruce Watson
Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, Light
captures the wonder and awe of humanity’s study of light across three
millennia of discovery.
Light begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After
sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers’
queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture,
when light was the soul of the divine.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 304
Battling darkness and despair, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals while
Dante dreamed a “heaven of pure light.” Later, following Leonardo’s advice,
Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific
Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the
rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. But even
after Newton, light was an enigma. Particle or wave? Did it flow through an
invisible “ether”? Through the age of Edison and into the age of lasers, Light
reveals how light sparked new wonders – relativity, quantum electrodynamics,
fiber optics, and more.
Although lasers now perform everyday miracles, light retains its eternal allure.
“For the rest of my life,” Einstein said, “I will reflect on what light is.” Light
explores and celebrates such curiosity.
Bruce Watson is a frequent contributor to Smithsonian magazine, writing on
topics ranging from eels to pi to profiles of artists and writers. His work has also
appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
and other publications. Watson is the author of four books, including Bread
and Roses, Sacco and Vanzetti (nominated for an Edgar Award), and Freedom
Summer. He lives in western Massachusetts.
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science highlights
The Universal Sense
Beasts
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The Great Disruption
The Fate of the Species
Survival of the Beautiful
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Portuguese), Mauritsgroen (Dutch)
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Shinsha (Japanese)
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(Korean)
Seth r. Horowitz
Paul Gilding
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Fred Guterl
Storms of My
Grandchildren
James Hansen
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science highlights
Don’t Even Think
About It
The Attacking Ocean
Last Ape Standing
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Spectrums
The Intimate Bond
A New History of Life
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Brian Fagan
Why Our Brains Are Wired to
Ignore Climate Change
Brian Fagan
George Marshall
David Blatner
70
How Animals Shaped Human
History
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Chip Walter
The Radical New Discoveries
about the Origins and Evolution of
Life on Earth
Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink
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sigma
Sigma is Bloomsbury’s new science imprint which launched in 2014. Targeted squarely
at the popular science market, it represents a series of brilliantly written ‘good reads’,
backed up by serious science, with readability being key.
The broad subject area is the natural sciences, from evolution, psychology and paleontology to astronomy, toxicology,
medicine and weather sciences, with plenty of technology and a serious spoonful of the history of science for good
measure.
Sigma authors include some of the best and brightest talents in science communication today, including marine
biologist Helen Scales, conspiracy psychologist Rob Brotherton, stem-cell researcher Helen Pilcher, astrophysicist
Elizabeth Tasker and dinosaur expert David Hone.
Big Data
Timandra Harkness
What is Big Data, and why should you care? This book tells you
everything you need to know (and plenty of stuff you don't)
From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over 30,000 years ago, to the Large
Hadron Collider, which produces 40 million megabytes of data per second, data
is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently
than ever before. It has made possible scientific and social achievements that
would have been impossible just a few years ago. But being too dazzled by the
scale, the speed and the geeky jargon can lead us astray. It’s big, but it’s not
always clever.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
Timandra Harkness cuts through the hype to put data science into its reallife context. Stories, locations and people, plenty of jokes and personal asides
bring to life what is essentially a human science, demystifying Big Data, telling
us where it comes from and what it can do for us. The book then asks the
awkward questions – what can't it do? What are the unspoken assumptions
underlying its methods? Are we being bamboozled by its size, its speed and its
shiny technology?
Nobody needs a degree in computer science to grasp what Big Data is all
about, what it can do for us – and what it can't. This book asks you to decide –
are you a data point, or a human being?
Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who has been
performing on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days
of the 20th Century. In 2010 she co-wrote and performed the hit Your Days
Are Numbered: The Maths of Death, with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker,
which was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring the rest of the
UK and Australia. Science comedy since then includes her current solo show,
Brainsex.
She is a regular on BBC Radio, often presenting science documentaries, and
she has been the presenter of four series of The Human Zoo on BBC Radio 4.
Timandra is the only comedian to have had articles published in both Men's
Health and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
timandraharkness.com / @TimandraHarknes
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sigma
A is for Arsenic
Kathryn Harkup
Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn’t
mean its all made-up ...
Agatha Christie’s detailed plotting is what makes her books so compelling.
Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder
method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, and her choice
of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical and physiological
characteristics of each poison provide vital clues to discovery of the murderer.
With gunshots or stabbings the cause of death is obvious, but not so with
poisons. How is it that some compounds prove so deadly, and in such tiny
amounts?
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 320
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(Japanese), J. C. Lattes (French)
Christie demonstrated her extensive chemical knowledge (much of it gleaned
from her working in a chemists during both world wars) in many of her novels,
but this is rarely appreciated by the reader. A is for Arsenic celebrates the use of
science in Christie’s work. Written by Christie fan and research chemist Kathryn
Harkup, each chapter takes a different novel and investigates the poison (or
poisons) the murderer used. A is for Arsenic looks at why certain chemicals kill,
how they interact with the body, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering
and detecting these poisons, both at the time the novel was written and today.
This book is published as part of the 125th anniversary celebration of Christie's
birth.
Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because its fiction doesn’t mean its
all made-up ...
Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a doctorate on her
favourite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research
before realising that talking, writing and demonstrating science appealed a bit
more than hours slaving over a hot fume-hood. For six years she ran the outreach
in engineering, computing, physics and maths at the University of Surrey, which
involved writing talks on science topics that would appeal to bored teenagers
(anything disgusting or dangerous was usually the most popular). Kathryn is
now a freelance science communicator delivering talks and workshops on the
quirky side of science.
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sigma
Suspicious Minds
Rob Brotherton
The psychology of our belief in conspiracy theories
We’re all conspiracy theorists. Some of us just hide it better than others.
Conspiracy theorists do not wear tin-foil hats (for the most part). They are not
just a few kooks lurking on the paranoid fringes of society with bizarre ideas
about shape-shifting reptilian aliens running society in secret. They walk among
us. They are us.
Everyone loves a good conspiracy. The plots of countless Hollywood
blockbusters, bestselling books, and beloved TV shows revolve around
conspiratorial shenanigans. And surprising numbers of people believe that the
kinds of vast, insidious conspiracies that Mulder and Scully routinely unearthed
in The X-Files are happening right now in the real world. Yet conspiracy theories
are not a recent invention. And they are not always a harmless curiosity.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 304
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In Suspicious Minds, Rob Brotherton explores the history and consequences
of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so
many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and unproveable conspiracy
theories. These resonate with some of our brain’s built-in quirks and foibles,
and tap into some of our deepest desires, fears, and assumptions about the
world. But conspiracy theories are by no means unique in eliciting our brain’s
biases. From our love of heroic underdogs to our tendency to see a hidden
hand behind ambiguous events, the same mental quirks that make conspiracy
theories appealing constantly shape how we think about the world.
The fascinating and often surprising psychology of conspiracy theories tells us
a lot – not just about why we are drawn to theories about sinister schemes,
but about how our minds are wired and, indeed, why we believe anything at
all. Conspiracy theories are not some psychological aberration – they’re a
predictable product of how brains work. This book will tell you why, and what
this means.
Of course, just because your brain’s biased doesn’t always mean you’re wrong.
Sometimes conspiracies are real. Sometimes, paranoia is prudent.
Rob Brotherton is an academic psychologist and science writer who likes to
walk on the weird side of psychology. Rob completed a doctoral degree on
the psychology of conspiracy theories, and taught classes on why people
believe weird stuff and science communication as a member of the Anomalistic
Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. He now lives in
New York City.
Rob writes about conspiracy theories on his website
ConspiracyPsychology.com.
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sigma
Death on Earth
Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Jules Howard
A ground-breaking exploration of death and its role in evolution
As you read these words Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each
going about their own business; eating, reproducing, thriving … Yet the life
of almost every single entity draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why?
Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven’t animals
evolved to break free of its shackles?
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
In this ground-breaking exploration of death, Jules Howard attempts to shed
evolutionary light on this, one of our biggest and most unshakeable taboos.
Encountering some of the world’s oldest animals, and meeting the scientists
attempting to unravel their mysteries, Jules also comes face-to-face with
evolution’s outliers; the animals that may one day avoid death altogether.
Written in his familiar engaging and humorous style, Jules’s journey inevitably
ends with our own fate: can we ever become immortal? And even if we could,
would we really want to?
Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger and broadcaster. He writes on a host
of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation, and appears regularly in
BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and TV, including on BBC’s The One Show,
Nature and The Living World as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s Today
programme. Jules also runs a social enterprise that has brought almost 100,000
young people closer to the natural world. Death on Earth is his second book,
following Sex on Earth (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Also available
Sex on Earth
A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
Jules Howard
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74
sigma
Sorting the Beef from the Bull
Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple
The story of food fraud forensics.
Horsemeat in our burgers, melamine in our infant’s milk, artificial colours in our
fish and fruit … as our urban lifestyle takes us further and further away from our
food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonesty, duplicity and
profit-making short-cuts. Food adulteration, motivated by money, is an issue
that has spanned the globe throughout human history. Whether it’s a matter of
making a good quality oil stretch a bit further by adding a little extra ‘something’
or labelling a food falsely to appeal to current consumer trends – it’s all food
fraud, and it costs the food industry billions of dollars each year. The price to
consumers may be even higher, with some paying for these crimes with their
health and, in some cases, their lives. So how do we sort the beef from the bull
(or horse, as the case may be)?
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
This book explains the scientific tools and techniques that revealed the century’s
biggest food fraud scams. It looks in detail at the biggest scams in recent
times; drawing on the lead author’s extensive experience at the forefront of
the fight against these fraudsters, it goes on to explore the arms-race between
scientists and adulterers as better techniques for detection spur more creative
and sophisticated means of adulteration. Finally, it looks at the up-and-coming
techniques and devices that will help the industry and consumers fight food
fraud in the future.
Engagingly written by Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple, this book lifts the
lid on the forensics involved, and brings the full story of a fascinating and underreported applied science to light.
Richard Evershed FRS is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of
Bristol. His thirty-year career has seen tremendous changes in the world of
analytical chemistry. Initially, Evershed’s work focused on chromatographic and
mass spectrometry studies, especially in archaeology, an area he continues
to research; the methodologies he pioneered have been used in several other
areas, notably in detecting food fraud, where his team developed methods for
detecting the highly lucrative but dangerous and illegal adulteration of vegetable
oil. His methods have even been used in tandem with the Metropolitan Police to
help in murder investigations.
Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer. Her writing has
taken her from the precipices of volcanoes in Ethiopia to the banks of salmon
streams in Canada's temperate rainforest. Based in Bristol, Nicola works with
universities, research councils and individuals to develop engaging science
stories on how research has an impact beyond the closeted world of academia.
nicolatemple.com / @nicolatemple
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sigma
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
Amy Shira Teitel
The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA.
NASA’s history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong
taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America’s space agency wasn’t
created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together
some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 304
In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, the focus both of scientists
hoping to fly into space and of the German armed forces, looking to circumvent
the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures in this period
was Wernher von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became
the devastating V-2. As the war came to its chaotic conclusion, von Braun
escaped from the ruins of Nazi Germany, and was taken to America where he
began developing missiles for the US Army. Meanwhile, the US Air Force was
looking ahead to a time when men would fly in space, and test pilots like Neil
Armstrong were flying cutting-edge, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin upper
atmosphere.
Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America’s nascent space
program, its scientific advances, its personalities and the rivalries it caused
between the various arms of the US military. At this point getting a man in space
became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, otherwise known as NASA.
Amy Shira Teitel is a lifelong space-history nerd who has turned her schoolgirl
fascination with the Apollo missions into a career researching the minutiae of
spaceflight’s history.
Amy started writing for the public with her blog, Vintage Space. She has also
written for a number of other online and print publications including Discovery
News Space, Al-Jazeera, The Guardian and Universe Today. She runs a
thriving YouTube channel (also called Vintage Space), and has appeared on the
Discovery channel, the Military channel, SyFy, and the Science channel, and she
is a host on DNews, Discovery Channel’s online daily news show. Amy was also
an embedded journalist on the New Horizons team, bringing the excitement of
humanity’s first mission to Pluto to the space-loving public.
@astVintageSpace
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sigma
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
David Hone
The tyrannosaurs - how they lived, bred, fed and died.
Tyrannosaurus is by some margin the most famous dinosaur in the world, adored
by children and adults alike, and it is often the only one that many people can
name. An impressive beast, it topped 10 tons, was more than 15m long, and
had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal, ever. Despite the
hype, Tyrannosaurus and its relatives (the tyrannosaurs) are fascinating animals,
and perhaps the best-studied of all dinosaur groups. They started small, just a
couple of metres long, and over the course of 70 million years evolved into the
giant meat-slicing bone-crushers that the world is now familiar with.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs, and presents
the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive
statistics – tyrannosaurs had feathers, may have hunted in groups, and fought
and even ate each other. This entertaining book presents the science behind
this research, and tells the evolutionary story of the group though their anatomy,
ecology and behaviour, exploring how they came to be the dominant terrestrial
predators of the Mesozoic and, in more recent times, one of the great icons of
biology.
David Hone is rapidly becoming the ‘face’ of dinosaur research. Based at QMW
in London, where he is Lecturer in Ecology, he has published more than 50
academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in
the tyrannosaurs, while his fieldwork has included a spell working on the famous
feathered dinosaur deposits of China. He writes a regular blog for the Guardian,
Lost Worlds (http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds), a major source
of dino-info for the general public.
David includes among his writing credits the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs. He
has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5Live and RTE, acted as
consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for New
Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times,
and many others.
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sigma highlights
p53
Spirals in Time
Sue Armstrong
Helen Scales
The Gene That Cracked the
Cancer Code
The Secret Life and Curious
Afterlife of Seashells
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House (Simplified Chinese);
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Chilled
Atoms Under the Floorboards
Tom Jackson
Chris Woodford
How Refrigeration Changed the
World and Might Do So Again
The Surprising Science Hidden in Your
Home
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Chinese)
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sport
The Last Warriors: Arsenal, United
and the End of an Era
Rob Smyth
The full story of the furious and sensational rivalry between Arsenal and
Manchester United from 1996 to 2005
The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early
2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams
have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the
epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations and even a
pizza fight.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 304
Like all great rivalries, this was a study in contrasts: north versus south, British
and Irish versus French. Both regularly tried to claim the moral high ground,
often at the same time. The rivalry centred on four people: the managers, Arsène
Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, and the hard men, Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane,
who regularly came together like nitroglycerin and gunpowder.
Over time those involved have developed the mutual respect of boxers
embracing after the final bell. They played when football was a mixture of silk
and steel, artistry and aggro, and know such a feud could no longer happen
because of the sanitisation of the game. Their rivalry was not just the greatest of
its kind in English football; it was also the last.
Rob Smyth is a specialist in modern sport history who has written about football
for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, FourFourTwo, Yahoo, Manchester
United, ITV, Intelligent Life, GQ and Virgin Media. He is co-author of Danish
Dynamite, one of the Observer’s Sports Books of the Year 2014, and was highly
commended at the 2010 Sports Journalists’ Association awards.
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sport
The Captain Myth: The rise of the
Ryder Cup’s leading man
Richard Gillis
A fresh look at one of international sport’s highest-profile tournaments –
and what role the captains really play in Ryder Cup success
The War on the Shore, the Battle of Brookline, the Miracle of Medinah: the Ryder
Cup is golf’s – and arguably one of international sport’s – most intense, highprofile tournaments. Two teams tussle through 28 matches over three days
for no prize money but enormous national pride. And purportedly in charge of
those two teams are the captains, whose reputations are shaped forever by their
players’ results out on the course.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 320
Justin Rose’s unlikely 35-foot on the 17th green at Medinah Country Club set up
Europe’s triumph – and one of modern sport’s most remarkable turnarounds – in
the 2012 Ryder Cup. It also established Davis Love II as ‘a bad captain’ and saw
José María Olazábal feted for a series of leadership masterstrokes.
In reality, neither captain had much to do with that putt being sunk. Yet the
pressure remains on the captains to lead their team to victory. As each Cup
passes, more theories are put forward about how to win. Some of these
combine traditional golfing nous with cutting-edge sports psychology. Others
are red herrings that have led captains down any number of blind alleys. So
what can a captain do to win the Ryder Cup?
Using exclusive interviews and saturation reporting, Gillis shows how strategy
has evolved since the very first match in 1927, exploring the enduring and often
surprising role played by some of the game’s greatest stars including Walter
Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tony Jacklin, Seve Ballesteros and
Paul Azinger. The Captain Myth uses golf’s greatest event to examine some
fundamental questions about leadership, teams and motivation.
Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s
leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness
International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish
Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign
in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach
Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where
he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about
sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and
communications consultancy work.
80
sport
The Ageless Body: How To Hold
Back The Years To Achieve A
Better Body
Peta Bee & Sarah Schenker
From the co-authors of the bestsellers Fast Exercise and The Fast Diet
Recipe Book, the truth about how to hold back the years, what exercise
will keep you looking young and how to avoid gym-face.
Discover the new goals and new rules that are the route to a healthier, better
looking and better functioning body. For life.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 256
From Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Aniston and Naomi Watts,
a new breed of 40 and 50 plus women are redefining not just what an ageless
body looks like, but what’s entailed in achieving it. A dramatic shift in body
expectations in the last few years means that, despite being plagued by a
slowing metabolism and a naturally-occurring loss of muscle mass, pre- and
post-menopausal women can realistically aim for the healthy, well-functioning
body they crave as well as a physique that looks good with a flat stomach and
sculpted arms.
Peta Bee and Dr Sarah Schenker are the living embodiment of this new breed
of woman: both in their forties with children, both with hectic careers and social
lives. And both with the same bodies they had in their 30s. What matters,
they have discovered through self-experimentation and trawling the scientific
literature, is how you go about holding back the years. And the rules - for both
exercise and diet - have changed.
Peta Bee is a health and fitness journalist who writes for The Times, Sunday
Times and Irish Examiner as well as numerous other publications. With degrees
in sports science and nutrition, Peta likes to probe the evidence behind latest fads
and trends and her work has won her numerous awards including the Medical
Journalists Association’s Freelance of the Year (twice). She has appeared widely
on television and radio and is the author of seven books, including Fast Exercise,
the 2014 best-seller co-written with Dr Michael Mosley, and The Ice Diet.
Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist with a PhD in Nutrition
and an Accreditation in Sports Dietetics. She is a member of the British Dietetic
Association, The Nutrition Society and The Association for Nutrition. Sarah is
co-author of the best-selling Fast Diet Recipe Book and regularly contributes
to newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail, Top Sante, Reveal and
Glamour as well as shows including This Morning, Watchdog and BBC Radio.
Sarah has also worked as a nutrition adviser to several Premiership football
clubs.
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sport
The End of the Road: Festina and
the Tour that Almost Killed Cycling
Alasdair Fotheringham
The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the
1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 320
The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar’s most spectacular
and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the
opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team’s soigneur Willy Voet was
arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after
police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there
were riders’ strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse
andone expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters
remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported
to have doped. The 1998 ‘Tour de Farce’s’ status as one of the most scandalstruck sporting events in history was confirmed.
Voet’s arrest was just the beginning of sport’s biggest mass doping controversy
– what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional
cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question and the
cycling family began to split apart. And yet, ironically, the 1998 Tour was also
one of the best races in years.
The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth
analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998
Tour. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world’s biggest
bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its
knees. He explores its long-term consequences – and what, if any, lessons were
learned.
Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist based in Spain. He has covered
22 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, as well as numerous other major
races. The Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s correspondent on
Spain and cycling, he is also a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling
magazines and websites. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of Spain’s first Tour
de France winner, Federico Martin Bahamontes, was published in 2012, and
Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña was published in 2014.
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sport
Zeitnot: An Odyssey through Chess
(and Life)
Stephen Moss
A doomed-to-fail attempt to become a grandmaster offers a wry take on
both chess and midlife identity
Chess has been played for more than 1,500 years; it is played in every country
and by an estimated 10% of the world’s population. Stephen Moss sets out to
master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of its enduring appeal. What, he
asks, is the essence of chess? And what will it reveal about his own character
along the way?
Wisden
EXTENT: 320
In a witty, accessible style that will delight newcomers and irritate purists,
Moss imagines the world as a board and marches across it, offering a mordant
report on the world of chess in 64 chapters – 64 of course being the number of
squares on the chessboard. He alternates between “black” chapters – where he
plays, largely uncomprehendingly, in tournaments – and “white” chapters, where
he seeks advice from the current crop of grandmasters and delves into the lives
of great players of the past.
It is both a history of the game and a kind of “Zen and the Art of Chess”; a
practical guide and a self-help book: Moss’s quest to understand chess and
become a better player is really an attempt to escape a lifetime of dilettantism.
He wants to become an expert at one thing. What will be the consequences
when he realises he is doomed to fail?
Moss travels to Russia and the US – hotbeds of chess throughout the 20th
century; meets people who knew Bobby Fischer when he was growing up
and tries to unravel the enigma of that tortured genius who died in 2008 at
the inevitable age of 64; meets Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, world
champions past and present; and keeps bumping into Armenian superstar
Levon Aronian in the gents at tournaments.
He becomes champion of Surrey, wins tournaments in Chester and Bury St
Edmunds, and holds his own at the famous event in the Dutch seaside resort
of Wijk aan Zee (until a last-round meltdown), but too often he is beaten by
precocious 10-year-olds and finds it hard to resist the urge to punch them. He
looks for spiritual fulfilment in the game, but mostly finds mental torture.
Stephen Moss has worked for the Guardian as an editor and writer since 1989.
He was the paper’s literary editor, has written widely on sport and culture, and
in 2006 edited Cricket’s Age of Revolution, a history of the game since the Kerry
Packer coup, for Wisden.
He won the Surrey Chess Championship in 2014, though if pressed will
admit his success came in the section for players graded below 140 – a level
grandmasters consider to be mentally challenged and which many precocious
10-year-olds eschew, boldly preferring to play in the division above.
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sport
Endurance: The Extraordinary Life
and Times of Emil Zátopek
Rick Broadbent
The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of
running, redemption and political exile
Voted the ‘greatest runner of all time’ by Runner’s World in 2013, Emil Zátopek
redefined modern running training techniques – with remarkable results. He
is famed for setting a raft of world records, and winning the Olympic 10,000
metres in London in 1948, followed by the remarkable and unprecedented
treble of the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon four years later in Helsinki. However,
his story goes way beyond races and results.
Wisden
EXTENT: 304
From a lowly factory worker, ‘the Czech Locomotive’ became a global hero due
to his success on the track but – at a time of political instability – Zátopek risked
everything for the love of his friends and country, and soon found himself cast
adrift into political exile.
At its heart, this is a love story as Emil courts and marries Dana, a promising
javelin thrower. Born on the same day, they end up winning Olympic gold medals
within the space of half an hour. Due to the unprecedented involvement of Dana,
award-winning Times author Rick Broadbent has gained unique access to a
dramatic past involving blood and guns and the love that sustained the cruellest
twists of fate and beatings by Soviet henchmen.
With traces of Chariots of Fire and Laura Hillenbrand’s New York Times
bestseller/film Unbroken, this is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale
of hope and strength in the face of crushing injustices.
Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff
writer at The Times for 10 years and spent 2007–13 as the paper’s athletics
correspondent. He has written eight books. These include That Near-Death
Thing, winner at the British Sports Book Awards 2013 and shortlisted for the
William Hill prize, and Ring of Fire, also shortlisted for the William Hill Prize. He
was also the ghost-writer of Jessica Ennis’s Sunday Times top-10 bestselling
autobiography. He lives in Bournemouth. @ricktimes
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sport
The Oval World: A Global History of
Rugby
Tony Collins
A comprehensive social history of rugby from its earliest beginnings to
the present day
Rugby has always been a sport with as much drama off the field as on it. For
every thrilling last-minute Jonny Wilkinson drop-goal to win the World Cup or
Jonah Lomu rampage down the touchline for a try, there has been a split, a feud
or a controversy.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 608
The Oval World is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its
origins in the village-based football games of medieval times up to the globalised
sport of the twenty-first century, now played in over 100 countries. It tells the
story of how a game played in an obscure English public school became the
winter sport of the British Empire, spreading to France, Argentina, Japan and
the rest of the world and commanding a global television audience of over four
billion for the last World Cup final. It also explores how American football – and
other games such as Australian, Canadian and Gaelic football – emerged from
their English cousin.
Featuring the great moments in the game’s history and its legendary names –
David Duckham, Serge Blanco, Billy Boston and David Campese, alongside
Rupert Brooke, King George V, Boris Karloff, Charles de Gaulle and Nelson
Mandela – The Oval World investigates just what it is about rugby that enables
it to thrive in countries with very different traditions and cultures. This is the
definitive world history of a truly global sport.
Tony Collins is Professor of History in the International Centre for Sports History
and Culture at De Montfort University. His previous books include Rugby's Great
Split, Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain, and A Social History of English
Rugby Union, each of which won the Aberdare prize for sports history book of
the year. In 2009, his Social History of English Rugby Union was selected as a
book of the year by the New Statesman, the Guardian and the Independent on
Sunday. @collinstony
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The Manager
Mike Carson
Podium
Ben Oakley
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Auditorium (Finnish), Editora Belas
Letras (Brazilian Portuguese), EXMO
(Russian), Optimist Yayin Dagitim
(Turkish), Random House Korea
(Korean), Rebish (Polish), Softbank
(Japanese), Tawseel (Arabic),
Vydavatelstvo TATRAN (Slovak),
Xiamen Yuejiezu (Simplified Chinese),
Knigomania (Bulgarian)
Faster
Michael Hutchinson
The Monuments
Peter Cossins
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Belgie(Dutch)
Reckless
Alasdair Fotheringham
Floodlights and
Touchlines: A History of
Spectator Sport
Rob Steen
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sports highlights
This Love Is Not
for Cowards
Futebol
Robert Andrew Powell
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Zahar(Brazilian
Portuguese), Forlaget
Herrevaerelset
(Norwegian), De Fontein
Tirion (Dutch), Helios
Marek Wawrzynowski
(Polish), Ast (Russian), Arial
(Spanish), Kalima(Arabic)
Danish Dynamite
Foul Play
Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen
& Mike Gibbons
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(Danish), Pintxo Forlag
(Swedish)
Alex Bellos
Mike Rowbottom
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X-knowledge (Japanese)
Thirty-One Nil
James Montague
Game, Set and
Match
Mark Hodgkinson
The Dirtiest Race
in History
Sod Seventy
Sir Muir Gray
Richard Moore
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Tirion (Dutch)
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illustrated and novelty
Metropolis
Jeremy Black
How the city was imagined in maps from ancient times to the present
day.
Conway
EXTENT: 224
The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and
order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was published by Braun
and Hogenburg in 1572 for the armchair traveller interested in a world that was
opening up around him. Since then our fascination with foreign cities has not
abated. This sumptuous volume looks at the development of the mapping and
representation of the city revealing how we organize the urban space. From
skyline profiles, bird's eye views and panoramas, to the schematic maps of
transport networks and road layouts to help us navigate, and statistical
maps that can provide information on human aspirations, cities can reveal
themselves in many ways. Focusing on key points in the development of urban
representation and including visions of the future of how we would be living
today, this enlightening book illustrates some of the oldest, youngest, liveliest,
and most contested cities in the world. Each map has a purpose and its design
reflects this. Extended captions explain its relevance and elegance. For anyone
interested in the city in which they live or with the desire to explore the history
and culture of a metropolis overseas, this book is an enlightening companion.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior
Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy
Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of more than eighty books
and has lectured extensively around the world. Jeremy's recent publications
include Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 191840 (Bloomsbury, 2012), The Great War and the Making of the Modern World
(Continuum, 2011) and London: A History (Carnegie, 2009).
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Knives & Ink
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton
Chefs and tattoos are inextricably linked. From New York Times
bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and BuzzFeed books editor
Isaac Fitzgerald comes this stunning four-color illustrated book of
stories behind the tattoos that chefs--celebrity and otherwise--proudly
wear, featuring their signature recipes throughout.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 144
Chefs take tattoos as seriously as they do their knives. From gritty grill cooks
in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world’s most popular
restaurants, it’s hard to find a cook who doesn’t sport some ink. From the
hilarious (chef John Gorham of Portland’s Toro Bravo has his sous chef’s name
tattooed on his backside) to the very serious (sushi chef Johny Daley has “rice”
and “fish” tattooed on his knuckles), chefs’ tattoos are as numerous and colorful
as the food artists who wear them. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more
than 60 chefs, both behind-the-scene line cooks and such rockstars in the
kitchen as Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese in New York, who remembers his
mother with fiery angel wing tattoos on his forearms, and Dominique Crenn of
San Francisco’s Atelier, whose ink is about “doing anything in life that you put
your heart into.” Like the dishes they thoughtfully create, every tattoo has a rich,
personal story behind it. Knives & Ink portrays these tattoos as the beautiful
works of art they are, and shares the fascinating stories behind them, along with
special chef recipes throughout.
Isaac Fitzgerald has written for McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, and The
San Francisco Chronicle. He is the editor of BuzzFeed Books. Visit him at
isaacfitzgerald.net and follow him @isaacfitzgerald. He lives in New York City.
also available
Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books
include Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology and
The Essential Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert. Her work
has appeared in places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Lucky
Peach, and Print Magazine. Visit her at wendymacnaughton.com and follow her
@wendymac. She lives in San Francisco.
Pen & Ink
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy
MacNaughton
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The Gutsy Girl
Caroline Paul
From a real-life derring-do woman, exhilarating stories, activities, and
tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement.
Why should girls miss out on the joy of adventure? They can jump off rocks,
swing on ropes, and climb trees just as well as boys can. But girls often allow
fear to stand in their way.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 160
In The Gutsy Girl, author Caroline Paul emboldens girls to seek out a life of
exhilaration. Once a young scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear got
in the way of the life she wanted--of excitement, confidence, self-reliance,
friendship, and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers, climbed
tall mountains, and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San
Francisco. In The Gutsy Girl, she shares her greatest escapades as well as those
of other girls and women from throughout history, and offers engaging activities
such as confidence-building stances, creating a compass, positive self-talk, and
using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Each section includes a place
for girls to “journal” their adventures, thus encouraging a new generation to
develop a zest for challenges and a healthy relationship to risk. The Gutsy Girl is
Lean In for young girls, a book about the glorious things that happen when you
unshackle from fear and open up to exhilaration. Fully illustrated and enlivened
throughout by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton’s whimsical pen-andink drawings.
Caroline Paul is the author of Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and
GPS Technology (also illustrated by Wendy); the novel East Wind, Rain; and
Fighting Fire, a memoir about her career as a San Francisco firefighter. She is a
longtime member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Wendy MacNaughton
is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Lost Cat, Pen &
Ink, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. They live in San Francisco.
also available
Lost Cat
Caroline Paul & Wendy MacNaughton
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Chinese), Salani Editore (Italian), Will Book (Korean),
Versus Yayinlard (Turkish), Ariel (Spanish), Forgalet
Press (Norwegian), Kodansha (Japanese), Vallant
Publishing (Romanian)
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The Illustrated Farmageddon:
The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Philip Lambery
An illustrated edition of the bestselling Farmageddon packed full of
photographs and infographics. The perfect introduction to the way food
is produced and how current farming practice effects our world.
EXTENT: 192
Option Publishers: Nikkei
BP (Japanese), AND Publishing
(Complex Chinese), Illuminatio
Lukasz (Polish), Nutrimenti
(Italian), Garamond (Czech)
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of
food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is
entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal
demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution
threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live
in the world.
A brilliant, infographic book investigating the quiet revolution of mega-farming
that is threatening our countryside, farms and food. Follow this industry around
the world – from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and
Mexico. A highly accessible, engaging, and fresh look at our current food
production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming
future. Fascinating for children and adults alike!
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare
organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on
the effects of industrial farming.
Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on
BBC One’s Sunday Politics show.
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Patternalia
Jude Stewart
From the author and designer of ROY G. BIV, a delightful, fully illustrated
new volume on patterns, from polka dots to plaid: their histories, cultural
resonances, and hidden meanings.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 160
We wake up in the morning and put on our striped socks and our plaid shirts,
sit down to breakfast at a gingham tablecloth, perhaps eyeing the wallpaper
with its fleur-de-lis. Patterns are everywhere--yet they can go unnoticed. In fact,
every pattern is a story, a surprisingly deep trove of historical information and
cultural associations.
Jude Stewart, author of ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About
Color, brings her same sprightly sense of humor, sparkling personality, and
roving curiosity to this cultural history of patterns. From camouflage to keffiyeh,
plaid to paisley, slipping out of the Carmelites' scandalously striped mantle and
into an itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot bikini, Patternalia plumbs the
backstories of individual patterns, the surprising kinks in how each developed,
the parallels between patterns natural and invented, and the curious personalities
these patterns accrue over time. Boldly designed by Oliver Munday and cleverly
cross-referenced, Patternalia is pure pattern pleasure: a beautiful object and a
dazzling read that will appeal to anyone interested in design, fashion, and the
cultural history buzzing all around us.
Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for Slate, the Believer, Fast
Company, Design Observer and other publications. She is also a contributing
editor at PRINT magazine. Her first book, ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising
Book About Color was published in six languages. Stewart lives in Chicago.
Read more at www.judestewart.com or @joodstew.
also available
Roy G. Biv
Jude Stewart
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Unbored Adventure
70 seriously Fun Activities for Kids and Their
Families
"It’s a book! It’s a guide! It’s a way of life!"* The exciting new book in the
acclaimed, bestselling, award-winning UNBORED series: Here comes
UNBORED Adventure.
Bloomsbury USA
PUBLICATION DATE 06/10/15
EXTENT: 176
UNBORED Adventure has all the smarts, innovation, and free-wheeling spirit
of the original UNBORED and its 2014 spinoff, UNBORED Games, but with
a fresh focus on encouraging kids to break out of their techno-passivity and
explore the world around them--whether that’s a backyard, a downtown, or a
forest. Combining old-fashioned favorites with today’s high-tech possibilities,
the book offers a goldmine of creative, constructive activities that kids can do
on their own or with their families. From camouflage techniques, survival skills,
and cloudspotting advice to instructions on how to build an upcycled kite or
raft, to using apps to navigate and explore, it’s all here--along with comics that
dive into the secret history of everything from bicycling to women explorers.
A fun corrective to our over-anxious parenting culture, UNBORED Adventure
encourages kids to become more independent and resilient, to solve problems
and ask questions, and to engage with both their community and natural
environment.
The original UNBORED is already a much beloved, distinctly contemporary
family brand. Along with UNBORED Games, UNBORED Adventure extends
the franchise in a handy, flexibound format so that the whole family can enjoy
themselves indoors, outdoors, online, and offline.
also available
UNBORED
Joshua Glenn and
Elizabeth Foy Larsen
RIGHTS SOLD: O’Reilly
(Japanese)
UNBORED
Games
Joshua Glenn and
Elizabeth Foy Larsen
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illustrated and novelty highlights
Le Road Trip:
A Traveller’s Journal of
Love and France
Vivian Swift
Abbey Road
Alastair Lawrence
Heirloom Harvest
Amy Goldman
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Shinsha (Japanese)
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CITIC Press (Simplified Chinese),
Common Master Press (Complex
Chinese)
Dogs Make Us Human
Art Wolfe
& Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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A Guinea Pig’s Nativity
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A Guinea Pig Pride &
Prejudice
Jane Austen, Alex Goodwin and
Tess Grammell
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cookery
The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the
Persian Kitchen
Yasmin Khan
A glorious celebration of the food and people of Iran: stories from home
kitchens and more than 80 delicious modern recipes
Armed with little more than a notebook and a bottle of pomegranate molasses,
British-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan traversed Iran in search of the country’s most
delicious recipes.
Her quest took her from the snowy mountains of Tabriz and the paddyfields of
Gilan to the cosmopolitan cafés of Tehran and the pomegranate orchards of
Isfahan, where she was welcomed into the homes of artists, farmers, electricians
and teachers. Through her travels, she gained a unique insight into the culinary
secrets of the Persian kitchen and the lives of ordinary Iranians today.
EXTENT: 320
In The Saffron Tales, Yasmin weaves together a tapestry of stories from Iranian
home kitchens with exclusive photography and fragrant, modern recipes that
are rooted in the rich tradition of Persian cooking. All fully accessible for the
home cook, Yasmin’s recipes range from the inimitable fesenjoon (chicken with
walnuts and pomegranates) to kofte berenji (lamb meatballs stuffed with prunes
and barberries) and ghalyieh maygoo (prawn, coriander and tamarind stew).
She also offers a wealth of vegetarian dishes, including tahcheen (baked saffron
and aubergine rice) and domaj (mixed herb, flatbread and feta salad), as well as
sumptuous desserts such as rose and almond cake, and sour cherry and dark
chocolate cookies.
With stunning photography from all corners of Iran and gorgeous recipe images,
this lavish cookbook rejoices in the land, life, flavours and food of an enigmatic
and beautiful country.
Yasmin Khan is a writer and cook from London who loves to share people’s
stories through food. She runs Persian cookery classes, pop-up supper clubs,
and consults on Iran-related artistic projects. Outside of the kitchen, Yasmin
has worked as a campaigner running high-profile campaigns for NGOs and
grassroots groups, with a special focus on the Middle East.
thesaffrontales.com / @yasmin_khan
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cookery
Land of Fish and Rice
Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China
Fuchsia Dunlop
Exquisite recipes from Shanghai and the southern Yangtze region, by
internationally renowned Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop
The lower Yangtze region, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known
since ancient times as the ‘Land of Fish and Rice’. For centuries, local cooks
have been using the plentiful produce of its lakes, rivers, fields and mountains,
combined with delicious seasonings and flavours such as rice vinegar, rich soy
sauce, spring onion and ginger, to create a cuisine that is renowned in China for
its delicacy and beauty.
EXTENT: 384
Drawing on years of study and exploration, Fuchsia Dunlop explains basic
cooking techniques, typical cooking methods and the principal ingredients
of the southern Yangtze larder. Her recipes are a mixture of simple peasant
cooking and rich delicacies – some are famous, some unsung. You’ll be inspired
to try classic dishes such as Beggar’s chicken and sumptuous Dongpo pork.
All the recipes contain readily available ingredients and, with Fuchsia’s clear
guidance, you will soon see how simple it is to create some of the most beautiful
and delicious dishes you’ll ever taste. With evocative writing, stunning location
photography and mouth-watering recipe pictures, this is an important new work
about one of China’s most fascinating regions.
Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Higher Institute
of Cuisine, and has been travelling around China and collecting recipes for
more than two decades. She has written for publications including the Financial
Times, Saveur, the New Yorker and the Observer, and has appeared on Gordon
Ramsay’s The F-Word and The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Her previous
books include the award-winning Sichuan Cookery, Every Grain of Rice: Simple
Chinese Home Cooking and Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour
Memoir of Eating in China. She speaks, reads and writes Chinese, and she lives
in East London.
fuchsiadunlop.com / @fuchsiadunlop
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Good Good Food
Sarah Raven
© Jonathan Buckley
250 gorgeous, colourful, healthy recipes from award-winning food
writer and qualified doctor Sarah Raven
EXTENT: 464
Not only is Sarah Raven an inspirational cook, but she was also once a doctor
and so has a wealth of medical training and knowledge behind her. Here she
brings together her unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes,
sharing her medical knowledge to explain exactly how and why certain foods
help protect your body and give you the best possible chance of a longer,
healthier life.
The 250 sumptuous and colourful recipes include Coconut sugar marmalade,
Spiced aubergine salad with pomegranate raita, Lemon chicken and summer
herb salad, Cashew hummus, Black bean burritos, Blood orange sorbet and
Basil yoghurt ice cream. Woven through the book are 100 mini ‘superfood’
biographies, where Sarah draws on her expertise and experience to explain the
science behind good-for-you ingredients such as kale, broccoli, salmon, red
wine, blueberries, apples and seeds.
With luminous photography by Jonathan Buckley, this generous and stylish book
offers recipes to make you feel well, look well and live longer – by using the most
beneficial ingredients and without ever compromising on sheer deliciousness.
Sarah Raven worked as a doctor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in
Brighton before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has cooked
all her life for family and friends with an emphasis on goodness, healthiness and
general wellbeing. Sarah runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch
Hill in East Sussex, and has established a mail order gardening company with
80,000 active customers. She has made regular appearances on the BBC’s
Great British Garden Revival and Gardeners’ World; and she is the author of
Sarah Raven’s Food for Friends and Family, Sarah Raven’s Complete Christmas,
Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers’ Cookery
Book of the Year 2008) and The Cutting Garden.
sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden
also available
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cookery
Mammissima
Elisabetta Minervini
The cookbook that reveals how to be the ultimate Italian mamma – with
simple and delicious Puglian recipes
Puglia is the ‘heel’ of Italy. Bordering the iridescent Adriatic Sea, this is a region
where the olive oil is like liquid gold, where the fish is cooked up fresh from the
sea, and where sun-dried tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are at the heart
of the cuisine. The food here is light, nutritious and rustic, and firmly centred
around family life.
EXTENT: 208
Born in this charming region, vivacious and modern mother-of-two Elisabetta
Minervini has brought the vitality of Puglian cooking to her home in London,
and in Mammissima she shares the traditional recipes that her children (and
their friends) have come to adore. These include orecchiette (‘little-ear’ pasta),
focaccia, pasta al forno (oven-baked pasta), Salento rustic pie, and the ultimate
pizza that will get everyone involved. This kind of cooking suits a hectic lifestyle
and can be prepared quickly and easily, using inexpensive ingredients.
With enchanting food photography, illustrations and plenty of personality, this
glorious book will allow you to add Italian panache and bring la dolce vita to your
own everyday cooking.
Elisabetta Minervini was born in Molfetta near Bari, a medieval port in the
beautiful region of Puglia in southern Italy, and she moved to England in 1997.
She is the founder of award-winning publishing company Alma Books. She lives
in Richmond, London, with her husband Alessandro and their two children,
aged twelve and nine. Mammissima is her first book.
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River Cottage Love Your Leftovers
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
100 imaginative recipes for making the most of every potential ingredient
in your kitchen
We all occasionally suffer a guilty conscience about those languishing ingredients
that stay untouched in the fridge or cupboard for days: the bendy carrots, the
wilting salad, the foil-wrapped roast chicken, the rock-like bread and that little
nugget of Cheese…
EXTENT: 336
In this new bible, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall offers nifty and creative ideas to
transform leftovers into irresistible meals. Hugh starts by giving practical advice
for cooking on a weekly basis with leftovers in mind – helping to save money and
avoid waste – and provides tips on how best to store your ingredients to make
them last for as long as possible.
Hugh then gives handy recipe templates that can be applied to all kinds of
leftover ingredients, and provides simple and flexible recipes. He shows,
for instance, how you can transform leftover meat into Chilli beef noodles,
Stew enchiladas, Spicy chicken salad with peanut butter dressing; surplus
root vegetables into Roast root hummus, Quick lentil and parsnip curry and
Beetroot and caraway seed cake; spare eggs into Hazelnut remoulade and easy
Macarons. He also gives ingenious ideas for Christmas leftovers, shows how
to assemble a delicious meal in under ten minutes, and how to make simple
store-cupboard suppers.
With more than 100 recipes, and gorgeous photographs and illustrations, this
is the ultimate companion for everyone’s kitchen – you’ll never be bored of
leftovers again.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series
for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage
books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy and the
André Simon Food Book of the Year. Hugh’s additional broadcasting, like the
hugely influential Fish Fight, has earned him a BAFTA as well as awards from
Radio 4, the Observer and the Guild of Food Writers. Hugh lives in Devon with
his family.
rivercottage.net / @rivercottage
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River Cottage Gluten Free
Naomi Devlin
© Laura Edwards
More than 120 inspiring recipes for those who want to cut out gluten
without compromising on taste – perfect for anyone with coeliac
disease or gluten intolerance
EXTENT: 272
Gluten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for
so many of us. Whether you need to cut gluten out of your diet or you’re cooking
for friends and family with gluten intolerance, River Cottage Gluten Free will
provide the tools you need to gain inspiration and navigate mealtimes. Expert
nutritionist Naomi Devlin gives clear advice for gluten-free eating – including
detailed guidance on alternative flours, methods of fermentation and delicious
baking ideas.
She offers ingenious recipes for breakfasts, bread, pastry, soups, salads,
snacks, main meals and puddings, including Prosciutto and egg muffins, Blinis
with crème fraîche and smoked salmon, Leek and bacon quiche, Courgette
hummus, Blackberry bakewell tart, Luscious lemon cake and Chocolate
fondants.
With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and helpful tips from Naomi
throughout, this is the definitive gluten-free cookbook – it will add fresh vitality to
your cooking and eating, and a host of recipes to make you feel great.
Once dubbed ‘the Nigella of gluten-free’, nutrition expert Naomi Devlin is an
unashamed foodie who was blessed with a coeliac diagnosis. After studying
native diets around the world, she now believes that the key to health and
happiness is to cook from scratch wherever possible. It doesn’t have to be
fancy, but it should be tasty and satisfying. Using gluten-free wholegrains and
sourdough cultures, she teaches people about the endless possibilities and rich
flavours of gluten-free grains at River Cottage and Ashburton Cookery School,
and at bespoke cookery days in her own steamy kitchen. Naomi lives in West
Dorset with her husband, son and ginger cat in a sustainable house they built
themselves.
rivercottage.net / @naomidevlin
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cookery
SPUNTINO
Russell Norman
A sizzling New York cookbook from the bestselling author of POLPO
Hidden behind a rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London’s Soho,
Spuntino is the epitome of New York’s vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing
the bàcari of Venice to the backstreets of the British capital at his critically
acclaimed restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the scruffiest and
quirkiest boroughs of the Big Apple to find authentic inspiration for an urban,
machine-age diner. Since its smash-hit opening in 2011, the restaurant has
delivered big bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the crowds who flock to
its pewter-topped bar.
EXTENT: 304
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Spuntino will take you on a culinary adventure from London to New York and
back, bringing the best of American cuisine to your kitchen. The 120 recipes
include zingy salads, juicy sliders, oozing pizzette, boozy desserts and
prohibition-era cocktails. You’ll also get a glimpse of New York foodie heaven
as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s cultural hubs and quirky
neighbourhoods such as East Village and Williamsburg, discovering family-run
delis, brasseries, street traders, sweet shops and liquor bars.
With radiant photography by Jenny Zarins capturing New York’s visceral
grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy, dynamism and extraordinary
cuisine that the world’s greatest melting pot has inspired.
Russell Norman is a restaurateur. Over the last 20 years he has worked in many
of London’s landmark restaurants as a waiter, bartender, maître d’, general
manager and operations director. In 2009 he founded an independent restaurant
company with his best friend and has since opened eight restaurants in central
London including Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s. His book POLPO: A Venetian
Cookbook (of Sorts) was voted Waterstones Book of the Year 2012, and in
2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary
for BBC2.
russellnorman.co / @russellnorman_
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Junk Food Japan
Scott Hallsworth
In Junk Food Japan ex-Nobu Head Chef Scott Hallsworth showcases
the incredible food that is making his Kurobuta restaurants some of the
most talked-about places to eat in London.
Absolute Press
EXTENT: 304
Packing a heavy punch and offering a fresh new look at Japanese food, Junk
Food Japan showcases Kurobuta's ‘insanely delicious delicacies’ (Jay Rayner,
The Observer). It is food that is both incredibly inventive yet comfortingly familiar.
Signature dishes featured in this exciting new cookbook include Barbecued Pork
Belly in Steamed Buns, with a Spicy Peanut Soy Sauce, Tea Smoked Lamb, and
Kombu, Roasted Chilean seabass. It is food full of flavour, achievable to create
at home and guaranteed to wow friends, family and hungry gatecrashers.
Chapters with titles such as Snack, Junk Food Japan, Significant Others,
Something Crunchy and On the Side give an idea of the gastronomic fun that is
to be found within. Featuring approximately 100 recipes brilliantly showcasing
Scott’s wild and inventive style, Junk Food Japan presents Japanese classics
with twists and turns alongside a selection of new, stunning Scott-conceived
dishes, including Tuna Sashimi Pizza and Wagyu Beef Sliders. Superb
photography from legendary photographer David Loftus features throughout.
Scott Hallsworth has been forging a mighty path in Japanese cuisine for nearly
two decades, having worked for many years as Head Chef at the legendary
Nobu in London and then later opening Nobu in Melbourne in his native
Australia. He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with more television
and press profile planned.
kurobuta-london.com / @KurobutaLondon / @scotthallsworth
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MasterChef: the Masters at Home
Master chefs from around the globe congregate in this ground-breaking
book to celebrate delicious food for perfect weekends at home.
The incredible selection of chefs includes Ferran Adria, Andoni Aduriz,
Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton, Joe Bastianich,
Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark, Wylie
Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon,
Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar,
Pierre Koffmann, Jamie Oliver, Ashley Palmer-Watts, Neil Perry, Gordon
Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone,
David Thompson, Mitch Tonks and Tetsuya Wakuda.
Absolute Press
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Ever wondered what chefs such as Tom Kerridge, Jamie Oliver and Bill Granger
love to cook when they are in their own kitchen? Away from the intensity and
heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off?
33 globally renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for their favourite
weekend treats in this special MasterChef collection of food at home.
The fascinating background of each chef is explored and accompanying candid
snapshots from their home life provide a unique, never-seen-before window into
their world. Such an intimate showcase of chefs’ private cooking is artistically
captured by the legendary photographer David Loftus.
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Quinntessential Baking
Frances Quinn
Quintessential baking ideas for turning simple cakes and biscuits into
ingenious creations, from Frances Quinn, winner of The Great British
Bake Off
EXTENT: 320
Frances Quinn wowed the judges with her imaginative showstoppers and
extraordinary baking skill to win The Great British Bake Off in 2013. Here is
Quinntessential Baking: a treasure trove of inspirational ideas to bring a spark
of creativity and a teaspoon of wonder into your kitchen. Frances' combination
of ideas and ingredients will provide you with straightforward master recipes or
‘building blocks’, and she explains how to apply a little magic to turn them into
beautiful bakes. She’ll show you how to take a basic flapjack recipe and create
honey bee bites; transform shortbread into a giant jammy dodger; and turn
chocolate sponge into hidden bulb cakes. Frances will give you the foundation
to create distinctive and different bakes – and it’s easy once you know how.
Whether you’re a baker novice or extraordinaire, you’ll find achievable bakes for
all occasions. With striking graphic design and photography and Frances’ own
illustrations sprinkled throughout, this book will capture your imagination and
become the classic you turn to for definitive cake recipes, original designs and
quintessential baking ideas.
Frances Quinn is the winner of the Great British Bake Off 2013. Having studied
Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University, she worked at design companies
in London and Vancouver, and has most recently worked for Joules Clothing
as their baby toddler wear designer. Combining a love of design and baking,
Frances produces unique and unforgettable bakes.
francesquinn.co.uk / @frances_quinn
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sketch
Mourad Mazouz, Pierre Gagnaire
A dreamscape book about one of London's most fascinating restaurants:
sketch.
Absolute Press
EXTENT: 320
sketch is a unique meeting place in the centre of London created by Mourad
Mazouz and Pierre Gagnaire. The converted 18th-century building in Mayfair
is an opulent, zany maze with treasures to be discovered in every room. A
mad hatter’s fantasy comes alive in the enchanted woodland Glade tearoom.
Eccentric tasty tricks abound in the Parlour patisserie. Eat your fill of gorgeous
flavours in the Gallery bistro art installation. Chic pre-dinner cocktails in the
urbane East Bar prepare you for the Michelin magic unleashed in the vibrant
Lecture Room & Library. Whether you want a tearoom, bistro, restaurant, bar
or nightclub, sketch has the best to offer. Now these myriad food, drink and
entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium
of all things sketch.
Unique cuisine is at its heart, world-renowned three-Michelin-star chef Pierre
Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus.
Interlaced throughout are artistic interpretations of the recipes, contributed
by an array of people involved in all elements of sketch, ultimately creating a
sensual feast in a book.
Photography by Jean Cazals.
Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the
most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have
created unique experiences in Paris, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Beirut.
Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical
mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French fare and mad-scientist food
experiments, with restaurants in Paris, Berlin, London, Moscow, Las Vegas,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai.
sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon
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Tom’s Table
Tom Kerridge
Simple everyday recipes with irresistible flavour – from Michelin-starred
chef Tom Kerridge
Absolute Press
EXTENT: 256
Tom Kerridge is known for beautifully crafted food and big, bold flavours. Tom’s
Table features 100 delicious everyday recipes so that anyone can achieve his
Michelin-starred cooking at home. This is the sort of food you’ll cook again and
again, whether you bring his hearty and delicious starter, side, main and dessert
recipes to quick mid-week meals or weekend dinners. The recipes include
Cheddar and ale soup, Simple sunflower-seed-crusted trout, the ultimate Roast
chicken, Lamb ribs with roasted onions, Stuffed green peppers, Home-made
ketchups, Popcorn bars, Date and banana milkshake, Pecan tart, and many
more. With every recipe photographed by Cristian Barnett, this book is full of
inspiring yet simple ideas from the man of the moment.
Tom Kerridge worked as a chef in restaurants across Britain before deciding to
set out on his own and take over a rundown pub in the quiet town of Marlow.
He opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth in 2005, and it went on to
become the first pub in the world to acquire two Michelin stars. In 2014 he
opened The Coach, his second pub in Marlow. As well as hosting his own BBC
television series, Tom has recently been at the helm of the BBC’s Food & Drink
and Spring Kitchen series, and appears regularly on major broadcasts such as
Saturday Kitchen, Great British Menu and MasterChef.
Tom Kerridge’s
Proper Pub Food
Tom Kerridge
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Tom Kerridge’s Best
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Tom Kerridge
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Indian Harvest
A vibrant vegetarian cookbook from New York's hottest Indian chef.
One of Vikas Khanna’s favorite places in the world growing up was the garden
he and his grandmother planted at their home in Amritsar, India. He would rush
home from school to tend to the aromatic basil and cardamom, tomatoes, peas,
and squash. His intimate knowledge of spices and produce would guide him
on his journey to become the Michelin-starred chef at one of New York’s most
highly regarded Indian restaurants, Junoon. And this knowledge of nature’s
bounty and its seasons informs his inspiring and beautiful cookbook, in which
vegetables are the star ingredients. Vegetables have always been integral to
Indian cuisine, and Khanna’s dishes expertly showcase their natural goodness,
their flavor and color and hidden nuances.
Khanna brings together traditional recipes, handed down over generations,
alongside exciting new ones--for soups, salads, and starters; main courses;
rice dishes and lentil dishes; breads; condiments; desserts; and drinks. Though
the flavors are complex, the recipes are written to be simple and inviting, to
encourage seasonal substitutions and experimentation. Vikas Khanna’s love of
food and culture, his enthusiasm and warm hospitality shines on every page.
Bursting with 125 recipes and more than 200 color photographs from Michael
Swamy and Khanna himself, Indian Harvest opens a new world of inspiration to
vegetarians and omnivores alike.
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The Detox
Kitchen Bible
Lily Simpson and
Rob Hobson
Benares
Atul Kochhar
The Seahorse
Social Sweets
Mitch Tonks
Jason Atherton
The Boat
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Tom Stevenson
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Atul Kochhar
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Heston Blumenthal
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Sarah Raven
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Fuchsia Dunlop
Alex Mackay
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POLPO
International Night
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Russell Norman
Cooking for Real Life
Joanna Weinberg
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80 Cakes From Around
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Claire Clark
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A Year at Otter Farm
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Nikki Duffy
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