Penguin Rights Guide 2011

Penguin
Rights Guide
2011
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CONTENTS
NEW TITLES
FICTION 3
MEMOIR
11
GENERAL NON-FICTION
15
MUSIC BIOGRAPHY
18
ART & CULTURE
20
CURRENT AFFAIRS
22
SCIENCE
23
HISTORY
24
FOOD & WINE
30
HEALTH & WELLBEING
35
PORTFOLIO
38
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
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THE COLOUR OF MILK
Nell Leyshon
A searing novel told in the fierce, urgent
voice of Mary, an illiterate young farmer's
daughter in the 1830s.
The year is eighteen hundred and thirty one
when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the difficult
task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with
a sharp tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary
leads a harsh life working on her father's farm
alongside her three sisters. In the summer she is
sent to work for the local vicar's invalid wife and
the reasons why she must record the truth of
what happens to her there, and the need to
record it so urgently, are gradually revealed.
PUBLICATION
DATE
31st May 2012
FORMAT
216 x 135mm
EXTENT
224
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
RIGHT SOLD
Italian (Corbaccio)
IMPRINT
Fig Tree
Nell Leyshon's first novel, Black Dirt, was
long-listed for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted
for the Commonwealth prize. Her plays include
Comfort Me with Apples, which won an Evening
Standard Award, and Bedlam, which was the first
play written by a woman for Shakespeare's Globe
Theatre. She writes for BBC Radio 3 and 4, and
won the Richard Imison Award for her first radio
play.
'Leyshon's talent for dialogue is evident in her
novels' - The Observer
'Laudable . . . the prevailing atmosphere of this
spare and beautifully crafted novel is one of
impending doom' - Guardian
'Infusing domestic events with a creepily obscure
expectation of danger is one of Leyshon's great
strengths' - Time Out
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ASHENDEN
Elizabeth Wilhide
An atmospheric debut which tells the story
of a country through the fortunes of a
Palladian house and the people connected
with it.
When brother and sister Charlie and Ros
inherit Ashenden from their aunt, the beautiful
Palladian villa built in 1775 is falling apart and
neither of them have the money to repair it.
The novel moves back in time from the workers
who built the house, to the rakish owners who
gamble it away, to the family who are pillars of
Victorian respectability and through two world
wars. The house is neglected, restored, stripped
and refitted - but it is always strong enough to
withstand whatever is thrown at it. Ashenden
tells the story of the house over two and a half
centuries, weaving together the lives of its
owners, their staff and others who visit and the
varying fortunes of the building itself, reflecting
the past in a subtle, allusive way.
PUBLICATION
DATE
7th June 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
400
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Fig Tree
Elizabeth Wilhide is the author of over 20 books
on interior design and architecture, collaborating
with authors such as David Linley and Terence
Conran. Ashenden is her first novel.
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THE JUMP ARTIST
Austin Ratner
A prize-winning debut novel about one of the
20th century's most iconic artists - and a
murder trial that shook Europe.
In 1928, a twenty-year-old Jew named Philip
Halsman was arrested, tried and convicted of
murdering his father while walking in the
Austrian Alps. Convinced of his innocence and
the trial's anti-Semitic bias, the great and the
good of Europe, including Thomas Mann and
Albert Einstein, spoke out in his name, until one
of Austria's leading lawyers managed to have the
case reopened. The retrial became a cause
célèbre, gripping the nation as Dreyfus's had
gripped France. Freud himself was called to
testify. Halsman went on to become one of the
twentieth-century's greatest photographers,
notable for his 'jump' portraits and iconic
photographs of Dali, Monroe, Hepburn and, of
course, Einstein. This superbly crafted novel,
winner of the 2011 Rohr Prize for Jewish
Literature (worth $100,000), brings to life this
most troubled man, and describes how in
tumultuous Europe he made his way from an
outcast and prisoner at death's door, back to
life, freedom and ultimately great fame.
PUBLICATION
DATE
1st July 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
256
US RIGHTS
Bellevue Literary Press
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Viking
Austin Ratner grew up in Ohio and trained as a doctor
before turning his attention to writing and graduating
from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His
debut novel The Jump Artist was praised as 'a remarkable
work' by Harper's Magazine and featured in Publishers
Weekly in 2009 as one of ten promising
debuts. He lives in Brooklyn and is now published by
Reagan Arthur at Little, Brown in the US.
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THE APARTMENT
Greg Baxter
A stunning first novel about the costs of war
and the mysteries of friendship.
'She was always in many places at once, invested
deeply in a hundred different notions, and of all
the things I liked about Saskia that was the thing
I liked most'
One snowy morning in an old European capital,
a man wakes in a hotel room. A young local
woman he has befriended calls to the hotel, and
the two of them head out into the snow to find
the man an apartment to rent. Greg Baxter's
astonishing first novel tells the story of these
two people on this day - and the old stories
that brought them to where they are. Its
magically subtle and intense narrative takes them
across the frozen city and into the past that the
man is hoping to escape, and leaves them at the
doorstep of an uncertain future. The Apartment
is a book about war, the relationship between
America and the rest of the world, and the
brittle foundations of Western culture; but
above all it is a book about the mysteries and
alchemies of friendship - truthful, moving and
brilliant.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th April 2012
FORMAT
198 x 129mm
EXTENT
224
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Penguin Ireland
Greg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974. He lived
for a number of years in Dublin, and now lives in
Berlin. His memoir, A Preparation for Death, was
published in 2010 and acclaimed by Anne Enright,
Roy Foster, Hugo Hamilton and David Shields,
amongst others.
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BLACK HEART BLUE
Louisa Reid
In the bestselling tradition of Before I Die
comes a haunting and powerful new novel
about twin sisters and their terrifying
struggle to escape abusive parents.
'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral
today. In the end I'd had to give in ... I'd been
walking in her shadow for sixteen years and I
liked its cool darkness. It was a good place to
hide.'
How would you feel if your twin sister died
suddenly? Particularly if she was the beautiful
one and you were horribly disfigured. And how
would it feel to be alone now if you and your
sister were the only ones to know the truth
about what takes place behind closed doors at
home? And what would you do if it was your
parents who brought danger and terror into
your life? Would you dare reveal how your
sister died? And would you be brave enough to
find an escape of your own? Black Heart Blue is
a powerful novel about the domestic horrors
that can unfold within a small community - and
one girl's quest to stand up for the truth.
PUBLICATION
DATE
10th May 2012
FORMAT
198 x 129mm
EXTENT
304
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
RIGHTS SOLD
Brazilian (Novo Conceito)
French (Editions Plon)
IMPRINT
Puffin
Louisa Reid currently teaches English in a girls'
school in Cambridge. She has lived in London and
Zurich.
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CRUSADE
Stewart Binns
The second blockbuster from the bestselling
author of Conquest.
1072 - England is firmly under the heel of its
new Norman rulers.
The few survivors of the English resistance look
to Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the
English throne, to overthrow William the
Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil
war follow: brother against brother, family
against family, friend against friend. In the face of
chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a
secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice
and freedom wherever they are denied. But
soon they are called to fight for an even greater
cause: the plight of the Holy Land. Embarking on
the epic First Crusade to recapture Jerusalem,
together they will participate in some of the
cruellest battles the world has ever known, the
savage Siege of Antioch and the brutal Fall of
Jerusalem, and together they will fight to the
death.
PUBLICATION
DATE
26th April 2012
FORMAT
198 x 129mm
EXTENT
420
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Michael Joseph
Stewart Binns' debut novel, Conquest, sold
outstandingly well, with a total of 55,000 copies
sold to date and is one of the top 20 paperback
debuts in the UK this year. He is also a successful
documentary maker who began his career at the
BBC. He has won a BAFTA and a Peabody for his
documentaries.
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CAN WE STILL BE FRIENDS
Alexandra Shulman
A debut novel by British Vogue's editor
follows three twenty-something female
friends who graduate together in the 1980s.
It's the summer of 1983 and best friends, Sal,
Annie and Kendra have left university to embark
on adulthood. Three very different girls with
very different paths ahead.
- Sal, the aspiring journalist whose personal
demons threaten to destroy everything she has
achieved.
PUBLICATION
DATE
12th April 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
320
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
William Morris
IMPRINT
Fig Tree
- Annie, the capable domestic beauty, convinced
that marriage will give her everything she wants.
- Kendra, the daughter of chic, liberal parents
who, searching for her own identity, encounters
a life she never expected.
As they navigate the decade of ra-ra skirts and
shoulder pads, 80s pop music and Margaret
Thatcher, they discover that the future is what
happens to you, not what you plan. Their
interwoven tale captures brilliantly what it is to
learn the exhilarating and painful truths about
love, work, family and the ties of friendship.
Full of wonderful period details, Can We Still Be
Friends is an assured fiction debut by the
phenomenal Editor of British Vogue since 1992,
Alexandra Shulman.
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THE FAT CHANCE GUIDE TO DIETING
Claudia Pattison
A hilarious and fun novel about friends, food
and finding love where you least expect it.
Think nothing tastes as good as slim feels?
You're obviously not eating the right food.
Holly, Naomi and Kate are determined to win
the battle of the bulge. So it's down to the local
slimming club, where carbs are strictly off the
menu and there's no escaping the scales. But
calorie-counting isn't the only thing on their
minds.
PUBLICATION
DATE
29th December 2011
FORMAT
198 x 129mm
EXTENT
400
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
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Michael Joseph
Newly engaged Holly should be over the moon.
So why does she blush every time her sexy boss
walks into the room? Curvaceous Naomi finds
herself the object of a very unusual fetish and a
shocking secret is revealed when an unexpected
visitor arrives on Kate's doorstep.
Yet with a little group support (and a
particularly brutal weight-loss boot camp) the
women manage to stick to their regime, in time
for the glamorous Slimmer of the Year Awards.
But with tempting buffet tables, highly
competitive contestants and even the odd fat
fetishist lurking, it's anyone's guess as to what
will happen.
Claudia Pattison is a former magazine journalist.
She lives in Kent.
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HELGA'S DIARY
Helga Weiss
An extremely rare and important publishing event: the
diary of a Jewish girl who lived through the Holocaust.
In 1939 when she begins her diary, Helga is eleven years
old. Alongside her father and mother and roughly 40,000
Jews who lived in Prague at the time, she endures the
first wave of the Nazi invasion and racist brutality.
Gradually, as the Nazis' full intentions unfold,
deportations begin and her friends and family start to
disappear. In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the
concentration camp of Terezin, where they live for three
years. Then, in 1941, Helga's father is sent to Auschwitz.
Helga and her mother choose to follow him there, not
realising what lies in wait for them. Helga's diary survives
as her uncle bricks it into a wall in order to preserve it.
At Auschwitz, Helga's father is murdered, but
miraculously Helga and her mother survive the camp, the
many transports and journeys of the last days of the war,
and manage ultimately to return to Prague. As Helga
writes down her experiences since Terezin, completing
the diary, she is fifteen and a half. Barely a single Jew
remains in the city. Written in pencil in school exercise
books and translated here for the first time, Helga's diary
is a strikingly immediate and exceptionally important
first-hand account of the Holocaust.
PUBLICATION
DATE
3rd May 2012
FORMAT
216 x 135mm
ILLUSTRATIONS
20 black and white
paintings
EXTENT
208
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Viking
Helga Weiss was born in Prague in 1929. Of the
15,000 children brought to Terezin and later deported to
Auschwitz, only 100 survived the Holocaust. Helga was
one of them. After the war. Helga studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and became an artist.
In 1954 she married the musician Jiri Hosek. She has two
children, three grandchildren and lives to this day in the
flat where she was born.
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THE DIARY OF A NOSE
A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur
Jean-Claude Ellena
The story behind the creation of a scent,
from the 'parfumeur exclusif' at Hermès.
Perfume creation is an insular and secretive business.
What is day-to-day life like for a
perfume-maker?
How does the creation of a new perfume begin,
and what inspires a new scent?
PUBLICATION
DATE
28th June 2012
FORMAT
216 x 135mm
EXTENT
200
US RIGHTS
Penguin
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Sabine Wespieser Editeur
IMPRINT
Particular Books
For one year, Jean-Claude Ellena kept a diary of his life as
'parfumeur exclusif' ('le nez' or 'the nose') for Hermès.
His diary offers readers a rare insight into the
extraordinary everyday life of one of the world's most
important and admired perfumers.
Ellena believes that creating a scent is like creating a work
of art. Every moment is filled with an obsession for scent
and a desire to bring these smells to bear onto a
fragrance. All of the five senses come into play when
creating a perfume. 'The painter learns to see, the pianist
learns to listen, I learned to smell. But it's a
question of the brain, not of the nose, and you
learn it simply by experience. Everyone can
smell everything I can smell, but they don't
know how to understand it, distinguish
elements, or how to speak about it.' This is the
story behind the creation of a scent: the quest
to capture what is most elusive.
In 2004, Jean-Claude Ellena was made Hermès' first
'parfumeur exclusif'. He lives and works in the
hills in Grasse in France.
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BETWEEN THE SHEETS
Scarlett O'Kelly
The true story of one woman's surprising
and daring plan to beat the recession.
What do you do when you become a statistic -
jobless, hopeless and mired in debt? Well, one
Irish woman answered that question by
becoming an escort. And in doing so, she
discovered a side of herself she could never
have imagined.
'I am an ordinary mum getting on with life. I'm
someone who you would comfortably chat to at
the school gates - perhaps you have - or in the
doctor's surgery or while queuing at the post
office. I am basically anyone who looks like an
attractive, educated woman hitting forty. How I
pay my mortgage, fund the children's hobbies
and put food on the table may make me
unusual, but I hope it doesn't change who I am.'
PUBLICATION
DATE
2nd February 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
288
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Penguin Ireland
Between the Sheets is an explicit account of a
year spent working in a way that is unimaginable
to the average woman, and a gripping
description of the high price of living a double
life. In learning her clients' deepest fears and
desires, the author saw a side of men she never
expected, a side she believes remains hidden
from most women. And, much to her surprise,
she came to the conclusion that by letting go of
their hang-ups and embracing their sexuality,
ordinary women just like her could increase
their confidence and build stronger
relationships.
The author is and shall remain anonymous.
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MUM'S LIST
St John Greene
The story of a mother's dying wishes and a
father's quest to fulfil them.
This is the heart-wrenching memoir of St John
'Singe' Greene, an ordinary man whose wife
died in January 2010 of cancer, leaving behind
two sons aged 4 and 5. Over the last twenty
days of her life, as she lay on her deathbed, Kate
focused her energies on creating Mum's List,
scribbling her thoughts down on assorted scraps
of paper or texting them at all times of day and
night to help Singe create a happy life for their
boys after her death. The list is both
heartbreaking and life-affirming, funny and
profound: 'please teach the boys to say what
they mean', 'always kiss boys goodbye and
goodnight'.
PUBLICATION
DATE
1st March 2012
FORMAT
198 x 129mm
EXTENT
288
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
RIGHTS SOLD
German (Ullstein)
Korean (Munhakdogne)
IMPRINT
Michael Joseph
It wasn't the first time Singe and Kate were
exposed to such trauma: both children had
survived critical illnesses. It was the spring after
baby Finn's premature birth and Reef's recovery
from stomach cancer, when Kate was diagnosed
with breast cancer. Mum's List is structured
around Singe's diary, starting from the day Kate
died. Her incredible courage, her passion for
her children and the huge love between her and
Singe makes for a stirring, remarkable and
ultimately uplifting book.
Singe Greene, 45, founded his own company,
Training Saints, which specialises in teaching extreme
sports to young people. He is also a qualified paramedic
and enjoys training stuntmen and working as a film extra.
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THE LAUNDRY MAN
Kenneth Rijock
Memoirs of a multi-million money launderer -
Mr Nice meets Catch Me If You Can.
Meet Ken Rijock. Decorated Vietnam veteran.
High flying lawyer. And one of the world's
biggest money launderers.
In 1980s Miami, Ken Rijock was the middle
man between the Colombians and the
domestic cartels flooding America's streets
with cocaine. Rijock's operation was
responsible for 'cleaning' over $200 million of
dirty cash. And all the time he was in
love with a cop.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th July 2012
FORMAT
214 x 153mm
EXTENT
256
US RIGHTS
Penguin
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin
RIGHTS SOLD
French (Le Serpent a Plumes)
IMPRINT
Viking
It finally came crashing down when a client
testified against him. He agreed to go undercover
for the FBI, and he now works with banks and
governments to track the new generation
of money launderers. Like Frank Abagnale's
Catch Me If You Can and Howard Marks'
Mr Nice, The Laundry Man is the remarkable story
of an ordinary man caught up in an extraordinary life.
Kenneth Rijock is a financial crime consultant
based in Miami. He has more than 25 years'
experience in the field of money laundering, as a
practising laundryman, financial compliance
consultant, and trainer/lecturer to law and
intelligence agencies including the FBI.
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DOWN COLOMBIAN ROADS
Tom Feiling
Writer and journalist Tom Feiling has travelled the
length and breadth of Colombia to paint a vivid
portrait of one of the world's most notorious yet
least-known countries. Drawing on ten years of
forays into Colombian culture and countryside,
Down Colombian Roads revels in the stories that
its people tell. It explores how a country likened
to paradise by the first Spanish soldiers to land on
its shores became a byword for hell on earth and
describes the fratricidal conflict that has consumed
the energies of its people for decades. We see the
process of awakening that Colombians are
engaged in today, emerging from the "narcostate".
Oblique, multi-faceted, shocking and funny, this
book combines history and reportage with the
best of travel writing to unpick the tangled fabric
of a fascinating country.
PUBLICATION
DATE
30th August 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
304
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Allen Lane
Tom Feiling is a writer and journalist. Following a
year spent living and working in Colombia, he
made Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which
won awards at film festivals around the world, and
was broadcast in four countries. His first book
The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the
World was hailed a classic account of travel and
reportage.
'It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as
a QC or the new Paul Theroux. He has written
a vivid, argumentative, arresting book.' - The
Sunday Telegraph
'I've read a few documentary accounts of the
rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of
them. It's clear, sharp and solid. Very well told.'
- Evening Standard
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HATE MAIL
Mr Bingo
From the hugely popular illustrator, Mr
Bingo, comes his collection of darkly funny,
hilariously inappropriate postcards.
Mr Bingo loves post. In April 2011 he launched
a service on his website, where, for a small
payment, he would send his customer a vintage
postcard with one of his iconic sketches and an
offensive message on the back. So the purchaser
gets a much sought-after original signed drawing,
the postman gets a laugh and the world gets a
little bit happier. Six days after launch, it had
become so popular that he had to temporarily
close the service. But fear not! Mr Bingo is set
to make a return next Christmas, teaming up
with Penguin to create a book that will
showcase his comic cards and even include
some that you can pop in the post yourself. . .
PUBLICATION
DATE
11th October 2012
FORMAT
178 x 129mm
ILLUSTRATIONS
Full colour
illustrations
throughout
EXTENT
100
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Michael Joseph
Mr Bingo is a London-based illustrator with a
dedicated following of fans and a broad client list
that includes The Mighty Boosh, QI, the Guardian,
MTV and The New York Times. As well as
illustrating, Mr Bingo is regularly invited to speak
at events about his work and about things that
interest him. His interests include dogs who wear
clothes and the British abroad.
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FOOLS GOLD
The True Story of The Stone Roses
Simon Spence
The first ever book from the iconic
Manchester band behind one of the best
albums of all time.
I Wanna Be Adored. She Bangs the Drums.
Waterfall. This Is the One. I Am the
Resurrection. The Stone Roses defined a
generation. Their eponymous 1989 debut album
is widely recognised as one of the best ever
made. It sold more than 2 million copies and
still inspires new music. The making of their
second record - and the spectacular break-up
that followed - is the stuff of legend. But the
true story behind their rise and fall has never
been told. Until now. Written in collaboration
with the band, and featuring over 100 interviews
with the key figures in their remarkable 12-year
lifespan, Fools Gold takes us inside the world of
The Stone Roses for the first time. From the
Manchester backwaters to the worldwide
sell-out Second Coming tour, this is the
astonishing story of incandescent talent and
jaw-dropping excess.
PUBLICATION
DATE
25th October 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
352
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
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Viking
Simon Spence was the co-author of Stoned and
2Stoned, the acclaimed memoirs of Rolling Stones
manager Andrew Loog Oldham. He has written
for the NME, i-D, Dazed & Confused and the
Independent. He was at the Stone Roses'
legendary Blackpool and Alexandra Palace shows
in 1989 and covered their era-defining Spike Island
show for The Face. Two decades later he has
worked with them to tell their story for the first
time.
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TELLIN' STORIES
Tim Burgess
A laceratingly frank and vivid memoir by the
lead singer of indie rock-band The
Charlatans.
From his mid-teens Tim Burgess spent as much
time as he could at the legendary Hacienda in
Manchester. He was invited to be the vocalist in
newly formed The Charlatans, who went from
supporting The Stone Roses to having four
number one singles and riding the wave of
Britpop. The band survived first the
imprisonment of influential keyboardist Rob
Collins on a charge of armed robbery, then the
death of Collins in a car accident; and in more
recent years the actions of Burgess himself as he
disappeared into the music and drugs scene of
Los Angeles. In this sharply honest memoir,
Burgess describes the mad life of a rock star: the
dynamics of the band, the creativity,
self-destruction and the drugs, but also the rock
'n' roll - his obsession with music shines off the
page as he writes about his influences and his
encounters, from Dylan to New Order, from
the Rolling Stones to Oasis.
PUBLICATION
DATE
7th June 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
256
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Viking
Tim Burgess was born in Salford in 1967 and grew
up in Northwich, Cheshire. He is the lead singer of
the indie rock band The Charlatans with whom he
has had four number one singles.
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HOW THE FRENCH THINK
An Affectionate History of An Intellectual People
Sudhir Hazareesingh
Why are the French such an exceptional nation?
Why do they think they are so exceptional? High
on the list of any answers to these intriguing
questions must be that in France, moral and
intellectual prowess has always been given pride of
place; in France, intellectual activity is regarded
not just as something for intellectuals (though the
breed has found its highest expression there) but
for almost everyone. Explaining why this is so, and
what the French intellectual tradition actually is, is
the task of this brilliant book by Sudhir
Hazareesingh, a young Fellow of Balliol College,
Oxford. French thought is austere and often
opaque, yet undeniably bold and innovative; it is
obsessed by its own scientific quality, even when it
is speculative; it combines an abstract universality
with a concrete sense of history; and it is driven
by a relentless quest for the regeneration of
humanity. Hazareesingh traces this history in an
enormously enjoyable and highly original manner,
showing how the French way of thought and the
French way of life connect. It will be one of the
most revealing books written about any European
country for years.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th March 2015
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
288
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
RIGHTS
Penguin UK
IMPRINT
Allen Lane
Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius and has
been a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol
College, Oxford, since 1990. Among his books are
The Legend of Napoleon (Granta, 2004) and Le
Mythe Gaullien (Gallimard, 2010). He won the Prix
du Memorial d'Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation
Napoleon for the first of these, and a Prix
d'Histoire du Senat for the second.
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THE WESTERN LITERATURE SURVIVAL KIT
How to Read the Classics Without Fear
Sandra Newman
An intelligent, witty and practical guide to
the great works of Western literature.
To many, the Great Books evoke angst: the
complicated Renaissance dramas we anxiously
bluffed our way through at school, the dusty
Classics on our bookshelves making us feel
guilty because they've never been opened... On
a mission to restore the West's great works to
their rightful place (they were intended to be
entertaining!), Sandra Newman has produced a
reading guide like no other. Starting with Greek
and Roman literature, she takes us through
hilarious detours and captivating historical
titbits on the road to Modernism. Who knew
there were parallels between Rabelais and South
Park, Jane Austen and Sex and the City? Packed
with pop culture gems, stories of literary hoaxes
and bad reviews of books that went on to
become classics, this hilarious and sophisticated
book uncovers the original humour and
risk-taking that propelled great authors to
celebrity. From the classroom to the cocktail
party, bookworms and literary phobes alike can
enjoy centuries of classics as they were meant to
be savoured.
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DATE
5th April 2012
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216 x 135mm
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Sandra Newman is the author of Cake and The
Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, and a
memoir, Changeling. She is co-author of the
bestselling How Not to Write a Novel and Read
This Next. Newman lives in Brooklyn.
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THE SHADOW WORLD
Inside the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein
A hard-hitting and harrowing exposé of the
truth behind the global arms trade, based on
groundbreaking research and reporting.
The global arms trade is worth between $35
and $55 billion a year and it is said to account
for over 40% of all corruption in all world trade.
Yet despite this momentous influence and
far-reaching significance in global politics, few
people are party to the knowledge and facts
necessary to understand its complexities and
impact. Andrew Feinstein resigned as an ANC
Member of Parliament in South Africa after
President Mbeki prevented him investigating a
multi-billion pound arms deal that was tainted
by high level corruption. Since then he has
investigated arms deal corruption around the
world, developing an incomparable network of
those involved. Feinstein draws on his first-hand
experience to investigate how the international
arms trade operates and what motivates those
in the business and the governments who do
business with them.
PUBLICATION
DATE
3rd November 2011
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
704
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Farrar Straus &
Giroux Inc
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Hamish Hamilton
Andrew Feinstein is the author of the bestselling
memoir After the Party. His journalism has been
featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph,
Prospect, The New York Times, der Spiegel and
the New Statesman. He regularly provides analysis
on the arms industry, corruption and South
African politics on the BBC, Sky, CNN and Al
Jazeera.
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HUMAN EMPIRE
The Remarkable Stories of Our Bodies
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
A highly enjoyable, wide-ranging cultural
history of the human body, for readers of Bill
Bryson.
Why are some of us left-handed? Why do some
cultures think of the heart as the seat of our
souls and passions, while others place them in
the liver? Why is it that in the eyes of the law in
many countries, your body does not actually
belong to you? Until we fall ill, most of us take
this extraordinarily complicated collection of
flesh, bones and fluids, entirely for granted. But
attitudes to the human body - from the
celebratory to the taboo - are as varied and
changing as human history. From ancient body
art to plastic surgery today, from grave-robbers
to artists, doctors to extreme athletes, Hugh
Aldersey-Williams brings his hugely successful
blend of science, history and literature to bear
on this richest of subjects. The result is a treasure
trove of surprising facts, stories and information, woven
into an effortlessly enjoyable narrative.
PUBLICATION
DATE
3rd January 2013
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234 x 153mm
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300
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Viking
Hugh Aldersey-Williams is the author of Periodic
Tales, a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller which has sold
in 8 languages. He studied natural sciences at
Cambridge, is the author of several books
exploring science, design and architecture and has
curated exhibitions at the V&A and the Wellcome
Collection.
Praise for Periodic Tales:
'Science writing at its best ... if only chemistry
had been like this at school ...' - Matt Ridley
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HOW EMPIRES WORK
John Darwin
Author of the bestselling After Tamerlane: The
Rise and Fall of Global Empires, John Darwin now
makes the same brilliant use of anecdote and
analysis to tell the story of the British Empire - its
rise and fall and its extraordinary range of forms of
rule - from settler colonies to island outposts,
from Indian princely states to port enclaves. Far
from there ever being any serious 'masterplan' the
British created an empire through innumerable
local advantages, mistakes and initiatives. The
result is a remarkable history of the largest and
most complicated empire the world has ever
known and a serious attempt to describe the
contradictory and localized ways in which empires
really function. How Empires Work is essential
reading for anyone wishing to understand how the
modern world came into being.
PUBLICATION
DATE
25th April 2013
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Allen Lane
John Darwin is a University Lecturer and a Fellow
of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is the author of
After Tamerlane, Britain and Decolonization, The
End of the British Empire, Britain, Egypt and the
Middle East and The Empire Project.
After Tamerlane (2007) has sold 26,000 copies
in the UK and rights have been sold in 8
languages.
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VANISHED KINGDOMS
The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Norman Davies
A magical history, bringing back to life the
forgotten parts of Europe which were once
the major states of their time.
That 'the past is a foreign country' has become a
truism. Europe's past is littered with kingdoms,
empires and republics which no longer exist but
which in their time formed important pieces in
the historical kaleidoscope. This book shows
the reader how to peer through the cracks of
mainstream history-writing, and to catch a
glimpse of 'the Empire of Aragon', of the 'Five,
Six or Seven Kingdoms of Burgundy', or of the
Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which once was
Europe's largest state.
PUBLICATION
DATE
27th October 2011
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
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32 pages colour
74 maps
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848
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Allen Lane
All the chapters consist of three parts. Each of
the opening sections presents a contemporary
sketch - of Russian Kaliningrad, for example,
formerly Koenigsberg, Prussia's first capital. The
second sections tell the story of the vanished
realm - of Prussia, Galicia, Montenegro or
Saxe-Coburg Gotha. And the final sections offer
reflections on remembrance, historiography, or
the shortcomings of historical information. The
author closes with an essay on 'How States Die'.
Professor Norman Davies is the author of the
prize-winning history of Poland, God's Playground
(1981) and the number 1 bestseller Europe: A
History (OUP, 1996). Professor Davies was
awarded the CMG in 2001 for 'services to history',
and has collected several Polish distinctions
including the Order of Merit.
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CITIES OF THE CLASSICAL WORLD
An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient
Civilization
Colin McEvedy
A fascinating illustrated history of the most
important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria
to York.
Colin McEvedy's highly original historical atlases
revolutionised the way the history of the
Western world was seen. Cities of the Classical
World, the last book he compiled before his
death in 2005, is the result of a lifetime's
enthusiasm for classical history, and of many
years spent travelling to major ancient sites from
Babylon to Pompeii. This fascinating illustrated
history maps the most important cities of
antiquity and tells their stories. It offers a
compelling imaginative guide to the centres of
ancient civilization that shaped the world as we
know it today. There is information about the
cities' strategic importance, imperial dynasties,
power struggles and the lives of the ordinary
population. We learn about Athenian democracy,
Roman baths in Paris, the many faiths of Jerusalem,
ancient shipwrecks off Marseille, the tombs of Petra and
the churches of Constantinople. Alongside this, there are
over 120 unique hand-drawn maps tracing the
cities' thoroughfares and defences, monuments
and mistakes. The result is a unique, elegantly
designed and beautiful book, which opens a new
window on to the distant past and transforms
the way we see it.
PUBLICATION
DATE
3rd November 2011
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
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120 integrated maps
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448
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Allen Lane
Colin McEvedy (1930-2005) was a psychiatrist,
historian and demographer. He has written many
books including the Penguin Atlases of History.
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REVOLUTIONARY IRAN
Michael Axworthy
A major new work by the author of Iran:
Empire of the Mind.
With a population of some 75 million people, a
large percentage of the world's oil reserves and
a strategic position between South Asia and the
Arabian Peninsula, Iran is one of the great
puzzles of the modern world. One of the few
countries with the assets and the ideology to
allow itself to stand aside from the western
mainstream, Iran's treatment of its own citizens
and its plans to develop nuclear power and
weapons make it deeply frustrating to western
policy-makers - its revolutionary leadership
using a rhetoric which is both baffling and
threatening. Revolutionary Iran is the major new
work by Michael Axworthy, whose Iran: Empire
of the Mind has established itself as the best
single-volume history of Iran. Stripping away
layers of myth and misunderstanding, Axworthy
tells the story of Iran since the revolution of the
ayatollahs, including a full account of the terrible
Iran-Iraq War, one of the most bloody since the
Second World War and a conflict which has had
a profound impact on Iranian society.
PUBLICATION
DATE
29th November 2012
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153 x 234mm
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400
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Allen Lane
Michael Axworthy is the former head of the Iran
desk at the Foreign Office and author of a very
well-received book on Nader Shah and Iran:
Empire of the Mind, which sold 17,000 copies and
rights have been sold in 6 languages.
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SAVAGE CONTINENT
Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two
Keith Lowe
An awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe
emerged from the ashes of WWII.
The Second World War might have officially
ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on
for another 10 years.
Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged,
entire cities razed and more than 35 million
people had been killed in the war. The
institutions that we now take for granted - such
as the police, the media, transport, local and
national government - were either entirely
absent or hopelessly compromised. Crime rates
were soaring, economies collapsing, and the
European population was hovering on the brink
of starvation. In this epic book, Keith Lowe
describes a continent still racked by violence,
where large sections of the population had yet
to accept that the war was over. He outlines the
warped morality and the insatiable urge for
vengeance that were the legacy of the conflict.
He describes the ethnic cleansing and civil wars
that tore apart the lives of ordinary people from
the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, and the
establishment of a new world order that finally
brought stability to a shattered generation.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th April 2012
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234 x 153mm
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416
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Viking
Keith Lowe is the author of Inferno: The
Devastation of Hamburg, 1943, and a recognised
authority on the Second World War.
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THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
The Deification of Jesus the Jew
Geza Vermes
'The greatest Jesus scholar of his generation' -
Sunday Telegraph
The creation of the Christian Church is one of
the most important stories in the development
of the world's history, but it is also one of the
most poorly understood.
With a forensic, brilliant reading of all the key
surviving texts, Geza Vermes recreates the true
narrative of how Jesus, who himself never made
any divine claims, was converted first into a
superhuman figure and then into a sort of god
in the wake of his shocking death. As his
message spread across the eastern
Mediterranean the religion based on his teaching
changed from a predominantly Jewish one to a
Gentile faith. As this faith was organized and its
principles hammered into place, it moved ever
further from its humble origins. The book ends
with the Emperor Constantine's adoption of
Christianity as the official religion of the Roman
Empire and the stamping out of all variant forms
in favour of a single, centralized, state-backed
litany.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th July 2012
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234 x 153mm
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200
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Allen Lane
This fascinating book is Vermes' masterpiece and a superb
example of how to bring the ancient world to life.
Geza Vermes was born in Hungary in 1924. He studied
in Budapest and Louvain, and was the first Professor of
Jewish Studies at Oxford. He is one of the world's
greatest experts on early Christianity and the Dead Sea
Scrolls.
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THE LITTLE PARIS KITCHEN
Classic French Recipes with a Fresh and Fun Approach
Rachel Khoo
Rachel Khoo cooks up a storm from her tiny
Parisian kitchen, bringing the magic of France
into our homes.
For years, the classic food of France has been
celebrated throughout the world. For all its
richness and grandeur, it can sometimes be
stereotyped as old-fashioned, or a bit too
complicated to make at home. British cook,
Rachel Khoo, was determined to learn more so
she moved to Paris and enrolled at Le Cordon
Bleu, the world-famous cookery school. Five
years later, she still lives and works in Paris,
cooking up a selection of classic French dishes
and giving them her own modern twists. The
120 recipes in the book range from the classic
Boeuf Bourguignon to a deliciously fragrant
Provencal lavender and lemon roast chicken,
from everyday dishes like Omelette Pipérade to
delicious desserts like Crème Brûlée and Tarte
Tatin. Rachel celebrates real French food and
shows how simple these dishes are. Add a little
French culinary touch to your everyday life at
home, no matter where you are in the world, or
how big your kitchen is!
PUBLICATION
DATE
12th April 2012
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246 x 189mm
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Michael Joseph
Rachel Khoo is a British cook and food writer
living in Paris. She now travels the world working
on a variety of projects, from workshops to
catering for blue-chip client events to smaller
pop-up restaurants. She also runs 'La petite cuisine
à Paris' (Paris' smallest underground restaurant).
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SAVED BY CAKE
Marian Keyes
A beginner's baking cookbook from the UK's
bestselling women's fiction author.
Saved by Cake gives a frank and vivid account
of Marian Keyes' recent depression, and how
baking helped her to focus and get back on
track. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian
decided to bake a cake for a friend one day and
that was it: she realized that baking was what
she needed to put all her energy into in order
to get her through each day. And so she baked,
and little by little the depression lifted, along
with her sponges and soufflés ...
Never patronizing, always honest and witty,
accessible and full of fun, the delicious bakes and
cakes that Marian serves up in this cookbook
will put a smile on your face. From her
Consistently Reliable Cupcakes and Very
Chocolately Macaroons, to the ease of her
Fridge-set Honeycomb Cheesecake, you will
want to have a go at making all of Marian's
recipes. The shoe and handbag biscuits
particularly. Very covetable. Very Marian.
PUBLICATION
DATE
16th February 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
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Full colour
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208
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Michael Joseph
Marian Keyes is the UK's most popular writer of
women's fiction. Her international bestselling
novels include Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance
Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other
Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This
Charming Man and The Brightest Star in the Sky.
Marian lives in Dublin with her husband.
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SORTED FOR BEGINNERS
Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor
Perfect for novice cooks who are about to
hit the kitchen for the first time.
The Sorted crew help you knock up meal after
meal of cracking food, seasoned with a healthy
dose of fun. Whether a complete recipe rookie,
a busy parent in need of inspiration, or a
student faced with a small food budget, Sorted
will help sort all your kitchen dilemmas.
Ben Ebbrell and Barry Taylor head up the Sorted
crew - a group of childhood friends who got
together during their university holidays to share
anecdotes, experiences, and problems that they
were each facing during their first year away from
home. After mocking each other's laughable set of
domestic skills in the kitchen, Ben decided to help
them out with recipe ideas and 'Sorted' was the
result.
PUBLICATION
DATE
10th May 2012
FORMAT
246 x 189mm
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368
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Michael Joseph
With Ben cooking and Barry taking photographs
and using his design skills, the crew set
themselves up on YouTube to upload filmed
recipes. Their videos currently have 20 million
views and the group has self-published two recipe
books: 'A Recipe for Student Survival' and 'A
Rookie's Guide to Crackin' Cooking'. Reworked
with Penguin, all the recipes from the books are
now contained within this new edition.
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THE WEEKEND COOKBOOK
Catherine Hill
This unique cookbook is aimed at everyone who
wants to cook at the weekend, whether staying at
home or self-catering on a weekend away
throughout the year. It transports the notion of a
'staycation' to another level as more and more
people are choosing to spend time at home or
holidaying in their own country. The approach is
relaxed, very real and packed full of recipes, tips
and advice on how to make your weekend
cooking something to remember.
The chapters include:
Friday Night Easy
Breakfasts and Brunch
Saturday Night Special
Sunday Lunches
PUBLICATION
DATE
7th June 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
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Full colour
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196
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Michael Joseph
From quick assembly dishes to wow-factor puds,
this book is packed full of simple to make,
mouth-watering recipes.
Catherine Hill is a renowned food stylist and
writer. She has worked as Food and Wine editor
for titles such as Woman and Home, Essentials,
Family Circle and BBC Veggie Good Food and has
a client list which includes Sainsbury's, Tesco,
Sunday Times Style, numerous other magazines,
and the Daily Mail Weekend. Her approach to
food is realistic, relaxed, desirable and
unpretentious.
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THE GRAPE
Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson, Jose Vouillamoz
A new and indispensable book for every wine
lover.
Where do wine grapes come from and how do
they relate to each other? What is the historical
background of each grape variety? Where are they
grown? What sort of wines do they make and most
importantly, what do they taste like? Containing many
unpublished discoveries and dispelling many a myth,
The Grape shares recent - and often exclusive - DNA
research to reveal the true origins and relationship of all
grape varieties currently in commercial wine production.
The Grape offers essential and original information in
greater depth and breadth than has ever been available
before.
PUBLICATION
DATE
4th October 2012
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80 colour illustrations
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1248
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Allen Lane
Jancis Robinson is one of the world's best known
wine writers. In 1984 she was the first person
outside the wine trade to qualify as a Master of
Wine. The Financial Times wine writer, she is the
author/editor of dozens of wine books, including
two of the most respected and garlanded, The
Oxford Companion to Wine (OUP) and The
World Atlas of Wine (Mitchell Beazley). Her
award-winning website, www.JancisRobinson.com.
has subscribers in 100 countries.
José Vouillamoz is a botanist and grape
geneticist with an international reputation and is
currently based in his native Switzerland.
Julia Harding passed the notoriously stiff Master
of Wine exams at the first attempt, the top student
of her year. She is Jancis Robinson's full-time
researcher, co-ordinator and associate palate.
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EVERYDAY ENLIGHTENMENT
His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa
A practical and modern guide to finding
happiness and spiritual fulfilment by the
leading Tibetan Buddhist discovered by the
Dalai Lama.
In Everyday Enlightenment, His Holiness helps
you expand your spiritual horizon. He guides
you along your path to understanding yourself
and achieving greater inner freedom, clarity and
happiness. He shows you how to deal with the
demands and challenges of daily life and gives
you methods to connect with your true self, not
your ego. Only once you have learned to love
yourself can you love others and live a
harmonious life. He explains that your gurus are
closer than you think and describes the need to
be inspired, not influenced, in order to then go
on and inspire others. Packed with practical
exercises and meditations, as well as fascinating
personal anecdotes, Everyday Enlightenment
shows you how to let go of your ego and
transform fear into fearlessness. Unlike other
spiritual leaders, His Holiness is modern and
forward-thinking, and his teachings are
extremely relevant to contemporary life.
PUBLICATION
DATE
19th January 2012
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234 x 153mm
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280
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His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa is a leading
Tibetan Buddhist who has millions of followers
worldwide. He was only 3 years old when the
Dalai Lama discovered him, and over the years he
has become one of the most influential Buddhist
leaders in the world and sits on the Earth Awards
Committee which is spearheaded by Prince
Charles.
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THE PYRAMID DIET
Danni Levy
The utterly brilliant, absolutely workable diet
for food lovers everywhere from a rising
health & fitness star.
Low carb, low fat, low calorie ... you've probably
tried them all. But throw the word 'low' into
the mix and your loyalty to any eating plan is
not likely to last long enough to lose weight and
keep it off. The Pyramid Diet is an exciting and
rewarding diet which has lifetime sustainability.
It is also the most balanced diet to date: you can
eat carbs and you can eat fruit! It is also adaptable to
any social situation: you can still go to your local
Chinese restaurant, as long as you follow Danni's
recommendations as to what to order. It is based on
a simple, easy to follow, 3-day cycle: day 1: high carbs,
day 2: low carbs and day 3: no carbs.
PUBLICATION
DATE
10th May 2012
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234 x 153mm
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300
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Michael Joseph
By rotating your carbohydrate consumption, you keep
your metabolism elevated. Danni also tells you which
days are best for cardiovascular and resistance
exercises if you want a bikini body in time for the
beach this summer. Effective and achievable, The
Pyramid Diet provides dieters with the structure they
need and allows them to eat the food they love. The
weight is over - welcome to a new you!
Danni Levy is a 27-year-old health and fitness
journalist. She is a regular contributor for the
health pages of The Sun and numerous magazines. She
presents a diet and workout show and is soon to feature
in a new series on Living TV. She took on the role of
Mileena in Warner Bros' game 'Mortal Kombat' and she
will be featuring as Catwoman in their new 'Batman'
game.
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THE FOOD HOSPITAL
Simple, Delicious Recipes for a Healthy Life
Lucy Jones, Dr Gio Miletto, Dr Shaw Somers
With expert advice from a GP, dietitian and a
gastrointestinal specialist, The Food Hospital will
show how food can heal everyday complaints and
help protect against more serious conditions.
You'll also discover how to experience
health-giving benefits by combining certain foods.
Divided into chapters: Gut Feeling; On The
Outside; Mind Matters; Just for the Girls; Eat
Yourself Better; When Things Get Serious and
covering a diverse range of conditions - from
coughs and colds to depression and even cancer -
the book advises what to eat to achieve your very
best health. And with 45 delicious recipes, healthy
eating has never been easier.
PUBLICATION
DATE
10th November 2011
FORMAT
230 x 190mm
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288
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Michael Joseph
Dr. Gio Miletto worked in hospitals for six years
before moving into General Practice. He has
written about medicine for the London Evening
Standard and contributed to Sky TV and BBC
radio.
Shaw Somers is a consultant surgeon,
specialising in upper gastro-intestinal and
bariatric (weight-loss) surgery. His busy
schedule includes clinical work and work in the
media, including Channel 4's Embarrassing
Bodies and Britain's Fattest Man.
Lucy Jones is a senior specialist registered
dietitian, working both in the NHS and in
private practice. She is a media spokesperson
for the British Dietetic Association regularly
appearing on national news programmes and in the
press commenting on current nutrition stories.
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THE GROWTH MAP
Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond
Jim O'Neill
Ten years ago, Jim O'Neill made a startling
prediction: that the world would no longer be run
from New York, London or Tokyo. A new era was
rising in which Brazil, Russia, India and China,
overflowing with raw materials and ambition,
would overtake the largest Western economies.
The BRICs concept was born. No other economic
idea has defined the 21st Century more powerfully
or more accurately. In tipping the four
fastest-growing economies, Jim O'Neill flipped the
world on its axis and redrew the map of economic
growth. The concept was embraced by the
markets and championed by the leaders of the
four constituent nations. The Growth Map is Jim
O'Neill's personal account of the BRICs
phenomenon and how it has taken on a life of its
own. He pinpoints the next set of growth engines
including a universe of countries he defines as the
'Next 11': Indonesia, Mexico, Korea and Turkey,
Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Phillipines and Vietnam. Of these, O'Neill identifies
Indonesia, Mexico, Korea and Turkey as new
'Growth Markets'.
PUBLICATION
DATE
1st December 2011
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
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272
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Portfolio
Jim O'Neill is Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset
Management. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1995,
rising to chief economist, and in 2001 he led the
team that conducted the original BRIC analysis. He
is a member of the boards of the UK Royal
Economic Society, Itinera and Bruegel, and also
chairman of the charity SHINE. He has a lifelong
passion for Manchester United FC, and has served
as a non-executive director of the club's board.
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SUPERTEAMS
Khoi Tu
In business, sport and life, individual talent is not
enough. The best results come from the best
teams...and here are their secrets.
What do the SAS, Ferrari and the Rolling
Stones have in common? Their success is about
much more than talented individuals. They are
Superteams. Every organisation, whether a
business or a sports club, lives or dies by the
quality of its teamwork. No man can be an
island for long; only great teams can face a crisis
and emerge stronger. So how do you build the
right team? In this incisive and inspirational
book, renowned teamwork specialist Khoi Tu
explains how to make sure your team delivers
consistently superior results, whatever your aim.
Superteams takes ten legendary teams -
including animation studio Pixar, Europe's 2010
Ryder Cup winners, and the people behind the
Northern Ireland peace process - and analyses
their inner workings, evolution and defining
moments. The route to excellence, Khoi Tu
argues, lies in the seven tasks that will turn your
team into a superteam.
PUBLICATION
DATE
6th September 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
352
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TRANSLATION
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Khoi Tu is a sought-after leadership and teamwork
consultant. He has advised some of the world's
most influential individuals and companies, including
banks, oil giants, celebrity chefs and private equity
entrepreneurs. A graduate of LSE and INSEAD, he
took key roles at Shell and online marketing
specialist Razorfish. He founded the Panthea
consultancy in 2002 and now runs the boutique
advisory company Inverstar.
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MRS MONEYPENNY'S CAREERS ADVICE FOR
AMBITIOUS WOMEN
Heather McGregor, Mrs Moneypenny
No-holds-barred advice from the world's
best-known career woman.
Welcome to the world of Mrs Moneypenny,
where it's all about who you know and what
you know. Where you can't have it all, but you
have to do it all. The high-flying,
über-connected Financial Times columnist is on
a mission to help you get ahead at work. In this
incisive, hilariously frank book, Mrs Moneypenny
tells you everything you need to know about
taking control of your career. From nurturing
your personal network and getting noticed, to
the art of outsourcing and understanding
numbers, she distils a lifetime's experience of
running businesses and shaping careers into
original, practical advice. Whether you're just
starting out or a rung from the top, whether
you're a store manager or a CEO, let Mrs
Moneypenny be your ultimate mentor - and
guide you to success.
PUBLICATION
DATE
5th January 2012
FORMAT
216 x 135mm
EXTENT
256
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(Portfolio)
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Portfolio
Heather McGregor is a leading London
headhunter. She owns and runs Taylor Bennett,
the executive search firm that identifies senior
talent for many of the world's leading companies.
She also co-founded Osborne McGregor, a search
company that focuses on identifying female talent.
Mrs Moneypenny is a working mother of three
who runs a business in London, outsources her
children - the 'cost centres' - to various
educational establishments and has been married for
more thank 20 years. She writes a weekly column for
the FT which keeps people entertained from Seattle to
Shanghai.
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START YOUR BUSINESS IN 7 DAYS
James Caan
Work for yourself in just one week with Britain's
most dynamic entrepreneur.
After leaving school at 16, James Caan started his
first business in a broom cupboard. 14 years later
he sold it for £25 million, and grew a second
business to 147 offices in 30 countries. He now
manages a portfolio of 41 businesses with an
annual turnover of £400 million. Safe to say, James
knows a thing or two about starting, running and
building businesses. Start Your Business In 7 Days
delivers hands-on, practical advice on how all of us
can turn our dreams and ideas into reality and
start working for ourselves in just a week.
PUBLICATION
DATE
1st March 2012
FORMAT
234 x 153mm
EXTENT
320
US RIGHTS
Penguin UK
TRANSLATION
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Portfolio
James Caan is a winner of both
PriceWaterhouseCooper's and Asian Jewel's
Entrepreneur of the Year awards, he joined the
panel of the BBC's Dragon's Den in 2007. He
started a business column for the Daily Telegraph
in 2008, the year he released his bestselling
autobiography The Real Deal and joined Sky
News' money panel. In 2009 he was appointed by
the UK government as co-chair of the Ethnic
Minority Business Taskforce. He has also written
Get the Job You Really Want (Penguin, 2011).
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Recent Highlights
GENERAL NON-FICTION
IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR?
By David Bellos
Is That A Fish in Your Ear? will charm and delight those who love reading. Funny and
surprising on every page, it offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to
know what someone else means - whether we wish to understand Asterix or a foreign
head of state. David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the
ways we use translation - from the historical routes of written language, to the stylistic
choices of Ingmar Bergman. Is That A Fish in Your Ear? describes why translation sits deep in
human experience, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to
our appreciation of literature: indeed Bellos claims all great writers are great translators.
Written with great joie de vivre and littered with wonderful asides, it promises any reader
new eyes through which to understand the world.
Particular Books, September 2011, 400pp.
Rights sold: French (Flammarion), Spanish (Editorial Ariel), US (Farrar Strauss & Giroux Inc)
WHO, OR WHY, OR WHICH OR WHAT…?
By John Oldale
A book to pique the curiosity of armchair travellers and followers of global events
everywhere, Who, or Why, or Which, or What...? presents a compendium of the most
unusual, enlightening and eyebrow-raising facts about every nation on Earth. Track down
the world's top spymaster, most snake-infested country and the island paradise which was
named after an accountant. Find out where the penalty for not flushing the loo is $150,
how to deal with jellyfish stings, the best recipe for a Bloody Mary and what the odds of
death in Russian Roulette really are. With illustrations that explain everything from how
the Berlin Wall worked to why piranhas aren't as dangerous as you might think, this book
will permanently change the way you see the world.
Particular Books, September 2011, 320pp
Rights sold: German (Rowohlt Verlag), US (Penguin Group Plume)
FICTION
KONSTANTIN
By Tom Bullough
This vivid novel, set in 19th Century Russia, tells the story of a young boy obsessed with
the stars and space, who when he is small becomes partially deaf from scarlet fever. Based
on a real figure, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the boy grows up to become the father of the
Russian space race - but that's just the end of the story. Konstantin is the incredibly moving
tale of a boy following his obsession - powerfully evocative of a particular time and place,
harsh, beautiful and utterly real. You feel the world on the brink of change, at a moment of
great dreams and great invention. It is one of the most original and brilliantly written
novels to come from a young writer in a long time.
Viking, March 2012, 308pp.
Rights sold: French (Editions Calmann Levy), German (C B Beck Verlag), Hebrew (Modan),
Portuguese (Materia Prima), Serbian (Laguna)
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THE WHORES’ ASYLUM
By Katy Darby
When you read these words, and all those that follow, I am afraid it must be because I am no longer
here to speak them to you. Love is a disease; no doubt of it, and one which has proved mortal to
many men down the ages . . . Oxford, 1887: Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her
reign, a stone's throw from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy
streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female
that ever lifted her petticoats. When Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is
persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his
closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows
the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre
and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems
destined to drive them apart.
Fig Tree, February 2012, 352pp
Rights sold: Czech (Euromedia)
LANDFALL
By Helen Gordon
Alice Robinson is having doubts about her job on a fashionable London art magazine. Agreeing
to house-sit for her parents, she moves back to the suburban streets of her childhood, a world
of Girl Guides, Tudorbethan houses and blossom trees, and finds herself confronting some
truths about the way she's chosen to live her life. How can we connect? What are the maps
and manuals that show us how to live today?
Exploring the landscape of the South East and the nature of life on an island, this clear-eyed,
mordantly witty, warm and unsparing novel culminates in one of the most surprising and
destabilizing endings you'll have read in some time.
Landfall marks the arrival of a new, intriguing voice and a major literary talent.
Fig Tree, October 2011, 224pp
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING MYRTLE
By Ulrika Jonsson
Myrtle and Austin have shared a dutiful marriage for over forty years and, during that time, her
life has been one of meek submission to an authoritarian husband. But everything changes in an
instant when Austin collapses on the bus and dies in the arms of Gianni, a kind-hearted
gardener who makes it his mission to find the dead man's family and share his sympathy. Even
without the confines of her marriage, Myrtle finds herself trapped by her newfound freedom.
Who is she without Austin? How can she cope with no friends to call upon? And whatever
became of the carefree, passionate girl she used to be? Friendship can be found in the
unlikeliest of places, and Gianni and Dorothy, her neighbour, bring the fragile and unhappy
Myrtle into their vivid, warm world. But Austin's death has revealed startling new questions
Myrtle's two daughters want answered and the secrets of the past must be brought into the
light, as must Myrtle herself, before any of them can move on.
Michael Joseph, September 2011, 416pp.
Rights sold: Swedish (Forum)
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HOTHOUSE FLOWER
By Lucinda Riley
Ideal for fans of Kate Morton's The House at Riverton and Victoria Hislop's The Island - this is
commercial/literary fiction with a dual narrative strand, spanning the period from the 1930s
to the present day. The two strands focus on two very different love affairs. In the present,
Julia - a gifted concert pianist - is struggling with overwhelming grief at the death of her
husband and young child. Her family are trying desperately to bring her back to the land of
the living and a chance visit with her sister to Wharton Park, the local stately home, brings
her back into contact with Kit, heir to the estate - and her possible salvation.
In the 1930s, we are introduced to Harry, former heir to Wharton Park and Olivia, his
young society bride. But the outbreak of war interrupts their fledgling marriage and Harry
finds his time as a PoW in Thailand leaves him much changed - and in love with Lidia, a
beautiful Thai girl. Wharton Park holds many secrets and only Julia's grandmother has the
key to unlock them all. Hothouse Flower has now sold 700,000 copies around the world.
Michael Joseph, November 2010, 592pp
Rights sold: Brazilian (Novo Conceito), Chinese Simplified (Beijing Booky Publishing), Czech (Vikend),
Dutch (De Kern), German (Goldmann Verlag), Greek (Oceanida Publications), Italian (Giunti),
Lithuania (Tyto Alba), Norwegian (Cappelen Damm), Polish (Albatros Andrzej Kurylowicz), Russian
(AST Publishers), Serbia & Montenegro (Laguna Publishing House), Spanish (Plaza & Janes Editores),
Turkish (Pegasus), US (Simon & Schuster).
THE GIRL ON THE CLIFF
By Lucinda Riley
From the bestselling author of Hothouse Flower comes another sweeping epic in the vein of
Kate Morton's House at Riverton. Grania Ryan has lost her way in life. Returning home in
desperate need of solace, she is drawn into an unusual friendship with Aurora Lisle: a small girl
whose family story will prove strangely entwined with Grania's own. And she may lead Grania
herself into a new story altogether. As secrets are uncovered, from a bittersweet romance in
wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York, from love for a
foundling child to long-hidden memories of a lost brother, Lucinda Riley's wonderful
storytelling will immediately capture your heart. Deftly weaving together past and present, this
is a multi-layered, atmospheric and moving novel.
Michael Joseph, November 2011, 576pp
Rights sold: Brazilian (Novo Conceito), Dutch (De Kern), German (Goldmann Verlag), Norwegian
(Cappelen Damm), Portuguese (Edicoes ASA II S.A.), Russian (AST Publishers), Turkish (Pegasus), US
(Simon & Schuster)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
HONEY MONEY
By Catherine Hakim
Catherine Hakim's groundbreaking book reveals how erotic capital is just as influential in life
as how rich, clever, educated or well-connected we are. Drawing on hard evidence, she
illustrates how this potent force develops from an early age, with attractive children assumed
to be intelligent, competent and good. She examines how women and men learn to exploit it
throughout their lives, how it differs across cultures and how it affects all spheres of activity,
from dating and mating to politics, business, film, music, the arts and sport. She also explores
why erotic capital is growing in importance in today's highly sexualised culture and yet,
ironically, as a 'feminine' virtue, remains sidelined.
Honey Money is a call for us to recognize the economic and social value of erotic capital, and
truly acknowledge beauty and pleasure. This will not only change the role of women in
society, getting them a better deal in both public and private life - it could also revolutionize
our power structures, big business, the sex industry, government, marriage, education and
almost everything we do.
Allen Lane, August 2011, 384pp.
Rights sold: Brazilian (Distribuidora Record), Chinese complex (Wealth Press), German (Campus
Verlag), Italian (Arnoldo Mondadori), Japanese (Kyodo Tsushin), Korean (Minumsa), Russian (Alpina),
Spanish (Editorial Debate), Taiwan (Wealth Press), US (Basic Books)
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HISTORY & POLITICS
AI WEIWEI SPEAKS
with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of
art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of
interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses
the many dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging,
nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work. He also talks
candidly about his father, his childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state.
Together, these extraordinary discussions give a unique insight into the outstanding
complexity of Ai Weiwei's thought and work, and are an essential reminder of the need for
personal, political and artistic freedom.
Penguin, May 2011, 128pp.
Rights sold: Brazilian (Editora WMF Martins Fontes), French (Manuella Editions), German (Carl
Hanser), Japanese (Misuzu Shobo), Korean (The Open Books Co.)
THE GREAT SEA
By David Abulafia
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of
world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth
century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David
Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean from the erection
of the mysterious temples on Malta around 3500 BC to the recent reinvention of the
Mediterranean's shores as a tourist destination.
Part of the argument of Abulafia's book is that the great port cities - Alexandria, Trieste and
Salonika and many others - prospered in part because of their ability to allow many different
peoples, religions and identities to co-exist within sometimes very confined spaces. He also
brilliantly populates his history with identifiable individuals whose lives illustrate with great
immediacy the wider developments he is describing. The Great Sea ranges stupendously
across time and the whole extraordinary space of the Mediterranean from Gibraltar to Jaffa,
Venice to Alexandria. Rather than imposing a false unity on the sea and the teeming human
activity it has sustained, the book emphasises diversity - ethnic, linguistic, religious and
political. Anyone who reads it will leave it with their understanding of those societies and
their histories enormously enriched.
Allen Lane, May 2011, 816pp
Rights sold: Brazilian (Objetiva), Dutch (Unieboek Spectrum), German (S. Fischer Verlag), Greek (Psichogios),
Italian (Arnoldo Mondadori) Korean (Cum Livro), Turkish (Alfa Publishing Group), US (Oxford
University Press)
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS
By Neil MacGregor
A chipped stone that was one of the first things ever made by human hands; a clay tablet
telling the story of the great flood centuries before the Bible; a broken hunter's spear
dropped by one of the earliest settlers in America; a hoard of gold abandoned in the Wars of
the Roses. Every object tells a story. A History of the World in 100 Objects is a kaleidoscopic
book of history that tells the story of human civilization in a completely fresh way: through the
fascinating objects that have made us who we are.
Neil MacGregor tells the intriguing stories behind these carefully chosen objects, from
primitive tools to great works of art, told chronologically from almost two million years ago
up to the present day. Through these stories, MacGregor explores key events in human
history, highlighting often unexpected connections and universal themes. No book has
described and shown the history of humankind quite like this before.
Allen Lane, October 2010, 736pp
Rights sold: Dutch (Unieboek Spectrum), German (C H Beck), Italian (Adelphi Edizioni), Japanese (Chikuma
Shobo), Korean (Dasan Books), Chinese simplified (Thinkingdom), Chinese complex (Domain Press),
Russian (Eksmo Publishing House), Spanish (Debate)
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LIFESTYLE
QUEEN OF CRAFTS
By Jazz Domino Holly
Feeling the itch to stitch and the urge to preserve? Well then, get your craft on with
crafter-about-town Jazz Domino Holly. As the daughter of rock-royalty and founder of the
Shoreditch Sisters Women's Institute, Jazz is the perfect guide.
Have fun and impress your friends and family with your crafting skills as you learn how to:
·Unravel the mystery of knits and purls and whip up a Girlie Bow Headband
·Fix your stitches and sew a string of Heart-Felt Bunting
·Feel the heat in the kitchen and bake a batch of Queen of Crafts Jam Tarts
·Preserve tradition and fill your empty jars with delicious Oh My Darling Clementine
Marmalade
·Get green-fingered and plant a Herbal Tea Garden
·Become your own beauty expert and mix up a pot of Get Lippy Lip Balm
Jazz will show you how to make all these things and many, many more. You'll be hosting the
perfect tea party, organising a bake-off and setting up your own knitting circle in no time
(and having a lot of fun along the way).
Fig Tree, September 2011, 240pp.
THE ART OF CAMPING
By Matthew De Abaitua
Could there be another way of life? Can I survive with less stuff? Should I run for the hills?
These are all good questions that people have asked before, throughout history, and which
have inspired people to set up camp. But now camping is part of the drive for selfsufficiency,
a reaction against mass tourism, a chance to connect with the land, to
experience a community, to leave no trace . . .
From packing to pitching, with hikes into the deep history of the subject and encounters
with the great campers and camping movements of the past, this is the only book you'll
need to pack when you next head off to sleep under the stars.
If there is one thing that campers like more than camping, it’s dreaming about their
next trip.
Hamish Hamilton, July 2011, 304pp
BRAVE OLD WORLD
By Tom Hodgkinson
In this indispensible and delightful addition to Tom Hodgkinson's much-loved series of
guides for the free-spirited, the author takes us on a modern tour of the ancient arts of
everyday living: philosophy, husbandry and merriment. Drawing on the wisdom of an
eclectic range of thinkers and writers, from Virgil to Huxley, on medieval calendars and
manorial records, and, as ever, on Tom's own, honestly recounted, frequently imperfect,
attempts to travel the road to self-sufficiency, Brave Old World is designed to give us all
hope. Why, he asks, shouldn't we return to the ideals of a pre-capitalist, pre-Puritan, preconsumerist
world of feasting, dancing, horse-riding, wood-chopping, fire-laying, poultryrearing,
bartering, bread-baking, bee-keeping and home-schooling? From January to
December, Brave Old World charts the progress of a year in pursuit of the pleasures of the
past, taking seriously - though not without much incidental comedy, G.K. Chesterton's
exhortation, 'We must go back to freedom or forward to slavery'.
Hamish Hamilton, July 2011, 304pp.
Rights sold: Czech (Nakladatelstvi Jota Sro), German (Rogner & Bernhard)
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COOKERY
PERFECT
By Felicity Cloake
How can I make deliciously squidgy chocolate brownies? Is there a fool-proof way to poach
an egg? Does washing mushrooms really spoil them? What's the secret of perfect pastry?
Could a glass of milk turn a good bolognese into a great one? Perfect will answer all these
questions and many, many more. Having rigorously tried and tested recipes from all the
greats - Elizabeth David and Delia Smith to Nigel Slater and Simon Hopkinson - Felicity
Cloake has pulled together the best points from each to create the perfect version of 68
classic dishes. Never again will you have to rifle through countless different books to find
your perfect roast chicken recipe, mayonnaise method or that incredible tomato sauce - it's
all here in this book, based on Felicity's popular Guardian columns, along with dozens of
invaluable prepping and cooking tips that no discerning cook should live without. Whether
you're a competent cook or have just caught the bug, Perfect has a place on every kitchen
shelf.
Fig Tree, August 2011, 272pp.
PORTFOLIO
START IT UP
By Luke Johnson
'We all have brilliant concepts which will never come to fruition because they are impractical, or
because we are too lazy or distracted. Making it happen is what really counts - which is why so
many seemingly clever schemes fail.'
An inspiring guide to starting your own business from a man who has run, built and owned
dozens of famous companies over the last 25 years. This book is packed full of ideas,
practical advice and myth-busting insights. It's for the new mum looking to sell baby food
online, for the couple who want to open a hotel, for the mechanic setting up his own
garage. Short chapters offer simple lessons and case studies, covering everything from
branding to financing to staff.
Portfolio, September 2011, 256pp
Rights sold: Spanish (Conecta)
SHINE: HOW TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE AT WORK
By Chris Baréz-Brown
When Bono goes into any organisation on his mission to eradicate Third World debt, he
asks "Who's the Elvis around here?" It's a fabulous question. The "Elvis" Bono is looking
for is the person who stands out, breaks the rules, makes things happen, shines a bit more
brightly (and loves every minute of it). This book is for those who want to shine a little
brighter in their workplace.
Most of us want something more from work. It may be a promotion, more money, better
connections or even a more effortless life. Often the answer is not how to fit in, but how
to stand out. Chris Barez-Brown believes everyone can make their mark. In this
inspirational business book he shows us how.
Shine will contain about 20 lessons and tips, each offering a new twist on a basic human
truth: including 'Build Allies', 'Flex Your Perspectives', 'Know What You Stand For', and
'Daydream'. Stunning text design will make the book accessible and relevant to all.
Portfolio, July 2011, 224pp
Rights sold: Chinese simplified (Blue Lion), US (Penguin Group Portfolio)
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USA & Serial
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Alex Elam, Head of Rights (UK and Portfolio)
Portfolio Translation Rights, Serial & Film/TV
Email: alex.elam@uk.penguingroup.com
Kate Burton, Senior Rights Manager
Western Europe (excl. France and Germany), Scandinavia,
South America
Email: kate.burton@uk.penguingroup.com
Catherine Wood, Senior Rights Executive
Eastern Europe, Russia, Greece
Email: catherine.wood@uk.penguingroup.com
Ansa Khan Khattak, Rights Executive
Turkey, Asia & Middle East
Email: ansa.khankhattak@uk.penguingroup.com
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