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2064 - Securely fenced off from the rest of the
world, life in Euroasia, except for a handful
of suicide bombings and border disputes, is
constantly improving. On the other side of
the fence, countries are being exploited and
wracked by regression, dictatorship, and
religious fanaticism. People live in poverty and
misery.
Max Schwartzwald is the owner of Chez Max,
a smart Parisian restaurant, but he is also
an Ashcroft agent, a member of a secret
government organisation whose mission is to
promptly identify and weed out anything that
may threaten the political status quo.
CHEZ
MAX
JAKOB ARJOUNI
TRANSLATED BY ANTHEA BELL
Provoked by the events of 9/11 and the US reaction, Jakob Arjouni
has written a clever and satiric novel focusing on a state intelligence
officer and the workings of mass hysteria
Jakob Arjouni is the author of the celebrated
Kayankaya novels featuring a Turkish detective
in Frankfurt. Titles include Happy Birthday
Turk, More Beer, One Man One Murder and
Kismet. Magic Hoffmann, a standalone novel was
shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. His latest novel,
Holy Eddy, has just been published in Germany.
He divides his time between Germany and France.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/chezmax/
Schwartzwald’s biggest problem is his Ashcroft
partner, Chen Wu, a self-righteous loudmouth,
who leaves no taboo unbroken, attacks every
human weakness and takes liberties at will - all
because of the spectacular successes he has
achieved within the organisation.
But is Chen a double agent who is bringing
illegal immigrants into the Euroasian world and
is this the opportunity for Max to get rid of his
partner once and for all?
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‘If you are looking for an
entertaining mystery, look no
further. Nectar of the Gods is
a sparkling brew.’
- The Compulsive Reader
‘An amazing debut,
ingenious plot – fast paced,
with a fascinating insight
into wine making.’
- Mystery Women Magazine
Gwen C. Watkins has
worked in the wine industry
for over twenty years,
travelling extensively on
business in Australia, New
Zealand and Chile. She
now lives in South Florida
with her husband, and is
currently working on the
next two Sarah Bennett
mysteries.
NECTAR
OF THE
GODS
GWEN C.
WATKINS
When wine trade businesswoman turned sleuth Sarah
Bennett stumbles upon an audacious plot to hijack the
billion-dollar Australian wine industry, she uncovers a
bloody trail of corruption and murder that threatens
to destroy her.
In the bestselling tradition of Lynda La Plante and
Clare Francis, Nectar of the Gods is a blistering debut
novel from a bold new master of suspense.
With an insider’s knowledge of the international wine
business, Gwen C. Watkins has produced a dazzling
psychological thriller to rival the best in contemporary
crime fiction.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/nectar/
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TOM ROBBINS
Once upon a time (right about now) there was a planet ‘One of the bravest writers in America.’
(how about this one?) whose inhabitants consumed
- Chicago Tribune
thirty-six billion gallons of beer each year (it’s a fact,
you can Google it). Among those affected, each in his
‘One of the wildest and most
or her own way, by all the bubbles, burps, and foam, entertaining writers in the world’
was a smart, wide-eyed, adventurous young schoolgirl
– Financial Times
named Gracie; her distracted mum, her insensitive
‘Impossibly imaginative’
dad, her non-conformist uncle and a magical, buttkicking
intruder from a world within our world.
– Vanity Fair
Populated by the aforementioned characters - and ‘Tom Robbins has a grasp on things
as charming as it may be subversive - B Is for Beer
that dazzles the brain’
involves readers, young and old, in a surprising, farreaching
investigation into the limits of reality, the
– Thomas Pynchon
transformative powers of children, and, of course, the
ultimate meaning of a tall, cold brewski.
Billed by Robbins as ‘the first children’s book about beer,’
this inspired work taps into the barrel of life’s existential
mysteries and is, of course, truly meant to sit proudly with
his other novels in the grown-up literature section.
Tom Robbins has written eight
previous novels - Another Roadside
Attraction, Even Cowgirls Get
the Blues, Fierce Invalids Home
from Hot Climates, Half Asleep in
Frog Pajamas, Jitterbug Perfume,
Skinny Legs and All, Still Life With
Woodpecker and Villa Incognito.
plus his non-fiction collection Wild Ducks Flying
Backward. This is his ninth novel.
B Is for
Beer
A Children’s Book for Grownups
A Grown-up Book for Children
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/beer/
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8 B&W Illustrations
All original artwork created by Les Lepere
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CONMAN
RICHARD ASPLIN
Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a
kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy.
If you met him, you would assume he runs a
failing comic memorabilia store in London’s
Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself
out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping
basement flood, he needs to claim on his
insurance. Which he would do – if he’d
remembered to pay his premium.
Richard Asplin is the author of two previous
novels, T-Shirt & Genes and Gagged – A
Thriller With Jokes. He is a lover of midperiod
Woody Allen movies, Richard Dawkins,
David Mamet, Elvis Presley, Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy, Texas Hold’em, vintage guitars and
his cat. Richard currently lives in London.
Somewhere in the shadows,
where High Fidelity meets
The Usual Suspects, where David
Mamet meets Ben Elton, Conman
will keep you laughing, guessing
and up all night until the last page
is turned and the breathtaking
truth is revealed.
‘The first blue-chip young
novelist of the 21st Century.
Catch him if you can’
– Tony Parsons
Terrified of losing everything Neil reluctantly
agrees to help Christopher – a passing confidence
trickster – use his premises for a big sting. So the
con is on and the trap is set.
But things are never as they seem in the
twilight world of the confidence man. And
when Christopher’s real target is revealed, Neil
finds himself plotting, switching, swapping and
scamming for revenge, for redemption. And for
his life.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/conman/
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THE
– Jeff VanderMeer, Washington Post
RESURRECTIONIST
Your only child is lost between
this world and the next, and
more than anything you want
him back. A controversial
doctor and a mysterious
stranger claim they have the
answer. Who do you trust? Are
you willing to risk everything?
Are you prepared to enter Limbo?
Part classic noir thriller, part
mind-bending fantasy, The
Resurrectionist is a wild
ride into a territory where
nothing is as it appears. It
is the story of Sweeney, a
druggist by trade, and his
son, Danny, the victim of an
accident that has left him in
a persistent coma. Hoping for
a miracle, they have come to
the forbidding, fortress-like
Peck Clinic, whose doctors
‘A brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth of a
quasi-real world as only a master artist could
draw it.’ – James Ellroy
‘Jack O’Connell has riffed on language, firecleansed
genre conventions, and stripped the
artifice from the modern noir novel, creating a
body of work both exciting and entirely original.’
– George Pelecanos
‘A masterpiece, O’Connell’s tour de force has
a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy
of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the
noir of Chandler.’
– Andrew Gulli, Editor, Strand Magazine
‘Brilliant writing, original concepts, emotional
resonance’
claim to have ‘resurrected’
other patients who were lost
in the void. What Sweeney
comes to realize, however,
is that the real cure for his
son’s condition may lie in
Limbo, a fantasy comic book
world into which his son had
been drawn at the time of his
accident. Plunged into the
intrigue that envelops the
clinic, Sweeney’s search for
answers leads to sinister back
alleys, brutal dead ends, and
terrifying corners of darkness
and mystery.
No Exit Press publishes Jack
O’Connell’s books in the UK:
Box Nine
Wireless
The Skin Palace
Word Made Flesh
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/resurrectionist/
JACK
O’CONNELL
Jack O’Connell is the
author of four critically
acclaimed novels, which
have earned him something
of a cult status. His work
has been praised by James
Ellroy, George Pelecanos,
Neil Gaiman, Katherine
Dunn and Jonathan Carroll,
among others.
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Queenie Doyle ruled over south London gangland
and her four daughters – Frankie, Mags, Sharon and
Roxie - with an iron fist.
When Queenie´s death brings the Doyle empire
crashing down, the sisters grow apart, each taking
a different path in life. Eldest sister Frankie has a
lot of love to give but her dreams have been stifled
by being forced into becoming mother to the girls at
just eighteen. Crazy Mags committed the ultimate
rebellion against her upbringing - by joining the
police force. Baby Roxie is living it up on the Costa
Del Sol, but she leaves a string of dead men behind
her. Sharon marries Monty, an accountant and
settles down to raise a family and to live a perfect
life in suburbia - but her world is shattered when
Monty dies in mysterious circumstances.
But is it an accident or murder? As the Doyle sisters
pull together to find out what really happened to
Monty they enter a world of drugs, dirty money and
clean guns, risking their own safety to deal out their
own brand of justice...
THE
LIPSTICK
KILLERS
GANGSTERS WIVES
NOW REPRINTED
‘A must read!
Wonderful characters...
F*** off plot.’ - Martina Cole
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LEE MARTIN
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/lipstickkillers/
‘ lively and funny
novel where the
sisters take the
law into their own
hands’
– OK Magazine
****
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D.I. Geraldine Steel expects the quiet town of
Woolsmarsh to be dull.
She quickly discovers she is wrong.
When D.I. Geraldine Steel relocates to a quiet
village near Woolsmarsh, she expects her new
home to be somewhere where nothing much
happens; a space where she can battle her demons
in private. But when she finds herself pitted
against a twisted killer preying on local young
women she quickly discovers how wrong she is.
By day, the park is a place for children’s games,
for people walking their dogs or taking a short
cut to avoid the streets. But in the shadows a
Leigh Russell is a secondary school English teacher,
specialising in supporting pupils with Specific Learning
Difficulties. She is married with two daughters and lives
in Hertfordshire.
In the tradition of
Ruth Rendell, Lynda la Plante,
Frances Fyfield and Barbara Vine,
Cut Short is a gripping
psychological thriller introducing
D.I. Geraldine Steel,
a woman whose past is threatening
to collide with her future.
CUT SHORT
LEIGH RUSSELL
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predator prowls, hunting for a fresh victim.
When an unwitting bystander comes forward as
a witness she quickly becomes the next object
of his murderous obsessions - someone whom the
killer must stop at all costs.
D.I. Geraldine Steel is locked into a race against
time, determined to find the killer before they
discover another naked corpse . Can she save the
lives of the town’s young women - or will Geraldine
herself become the killer’s ultimate trophy?
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‘A digital-age John le Carré’
– Ted Greenwald, Senior Editor, Wired Magazine
‘At last, a book where the words finance and
thriller truly belong in the same sentence’
– Steve Eckett, co-founder of Global Investor
Bookshops and Harriman House
‘More shocking than a squirt of lemon juice
in the eye’
– Sally Nicoll, author of Bets and the City
‘Terrifying’
– Geoff Cutmore, CNBC Anchor
‘It captures the nature of the traders behind
the foolishness and greed stalking the
financial markets’
– Alex Brummer, City Editor, Daily Mail
THE
ARMAGEDDON TRADE
CLEM CHAMBERS
Jim is the cockney boy wonder who can read
stock charts like fifty foot road signs. His
uncanny talent has taken him from tea boy to
trading superstar. Is he a genius, or a fluke? He
doesn’t know.
The mysterious Max Davas, emperor of trading,
makes billions dealing US treasuries using more
computing firepower than NASA – but now his
models are telling him that something is about
to go catastrophically wrong.
Clem Chambers is the London-based
CEO of ADVFN (www.advfn.com),
Europe’s number one stocks and
shares Web site. He has written for
Wired Magazine, The Business, the
Daily Telegraph and the Scotsman and
broadcasts on investment matters for
channels including SKY News, CNBC
and the BBC. This is his first novel.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/armageddontrade/
The same trading system that has made him
one of the richest and most powerful men in
the world is telling him that in a year’s time,
Gold will be at $0 an ounce, so will oil, so will
Microsoft and the dollar won’t be trading at all.
The euro, the pound, the yen, sugar, wheat,
coffee... all will fall down to zero.
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WIDOW’S WALK
NEW EDITION
ROBERT B. PARKER
A new edition of a classic Parker,
one of the most consistent
crime writers of the last twenty
years, featuring his most popular
character, PI Spenser.
‘Robert B Parker is one of
the greats of the American
hard-boiled genre...’
– The Guardian
Robert B Parker is the
best-selling author of over
50 books, many published
in the UK by No Exit Press.
He lives in Boston, Mass.
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PI Spenser is a triumph of style
and substance...’
– Daily Mirror
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/widowswalk/
SEA CHANGE
NEW EDITION
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/seachange/
ROBERT B. PARKER
‘timing and pace are all.
Parker knows what he’s
about, and Sea Change is a
cracker’
- Daily Telegraph
‘Parker writes old-time,
stipped-to-the-bone, hardboiled
school of Chandler...His
novels are funny, smart and
highly entertaining...There’s
no writer I’d rather take on
an aeroplane....’
- Sunday Telegraph
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‘Edward Bunker is a true
original of American letters. His
books are criminal classics:
novels about criminals, written
by an ex-criminal, from the
unregenerately criminal
viewpoint’
– James Ellroy
If ever there was a great writer,
the late, great Bunker was one.’
– Independent
DEATH ROW
BREAKOUT AND
OTHER STORIES
Death Row Breakout brings together seven previously
unseen short stories that draw fully on Edward Bunker’s
incomparable experience of the U.S. prison system.
The title story Death Row Breakout details the routine of
being on Death Row, before exploding into action when the
plans for a breakout kick in. In L.A. Justice, a black man
falls foul of the law after a minor traffic incident and once
inside the prison system he finds it a labyrinth impossible
to escape from...
EDWARD
BUNKER
hhCWA Gold Dagger Winner
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of most. At 40 he was a hardened criminal
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with a substantial prison record. Twentyfive
years later, he was hailed by his peers
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as America’s greatest living crime writer.
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Co-screenwriter of the Oscar nominated
movie, The Runaway Train, he appeared
in over 30 feature films, including Straight Time with Dustin
Hoffman, the film of his book No Beast So Fierce. Edward
Bunker died in 2005.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/deathrow/
As Salt River begins, two years have passed
since Turner’s lover, Val Bjorn, was shot down
as they sat together on the porch of his cabin.
Turner, now in his 50s, ex-cop, ex-con, Vietnam
veteran, former therapist and now Sheriff in
small town Cripple Creek, is trying to face a
truth head-on: ‘Sometimes you just have to
see how much music you can make with what
you have left.’ Then the sheriff’s long-lost son
comes ploughing down Main Street into City
Hall in a stolen car. And waiting at Turner’s
cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown. ‘They
think I killed someone,’ he says. Turner asks:
‘Did you?’ And Eldon responds: ‘I don’t know.’
Turner goes in search of a truth he’s not sure
he can live with...
James Sallis is a renowned poet, critic,
essayist, editor, translator, musicologist,
biographer and novelist, author of Cripple
Creek, Cypress Grove, Drive and a series of
books set in New Orleans featuring private
detective Lew Griffin. He lives in Arizona
with his wife Karyn.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/saltriver/
SALT
RIVER
JAMES SALLIS
‘Sallis writes crime novels that read
like literature’
– Los Angeles Times
‘Sallis is an unsung genius of
crime writing’
– Independent
‘James Sallis is a superb writer’
– Times
‘Sallis creates vivid images in very few
words and his taut, pared down prose
is distinctive and powerful’
– Sunday Telegraph
‘Sallis is always about good writing.
This little gem is a case in point.’
– Kirkus Review
‘sublime third novel to feature the
philosophical John Turner’
– one of Publishing Weekly’s
Best Books of the Year 2008
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Could it be the end for Sharman?
For seven years, ex-cop Nick Sharman has lived
in ‘exile’ on a Caribbean island with no UK
extradition treaty - his life of luxury funded by
the proceeds of a bank robbery where he was
the last man standing. Then a phone call out of
the blue from London changes everything. The
voice from the past belongs to the only woman
that he loves, his daughter Judith. Like father,
like daughter, she’s a police officer, but the
family resemblance doesn’t stop there - Judith
is in big trouble with the law, and has no one to
turn to except her father.
Mark Timlin has written some thirty novels under many different
names, including best selling books as Lee Martin, innumerable
short stories, an anthology and numerous articles on diverse
subjects for various newspapers and magazines.
His serial hero, Nick Sharman, who appears in Stay Another Day,
has featured in a Carlton TV series, starring Clive Owen, before
he went on to become a Hollywood superstar.
Mark lives in a Docklands penthouse with a panoramic view
across the River Thames of his beloved south London. He is
currently working on Gangsters Widows, the new Lee Martin
novel and Bad Guys, Spies & PIs: 101 Best TV Crime Shows
STAY
ANOTHER
DAY
THE LATEST
NICK SHARMAN NOVEL
MARK TIMLIN
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/stayanotherday/
Returning under an assumed name to a bleak
mid-winter England, Nick finds things have
changed, and so has he. He´s grown older, but
perhaps no wiser and finds his once beloved
London moving too fast for him. Vowing to
clear his daughter’s name by any means
necessary, Sharman finds himself enmeshed with
blackmailers, murderers, the security services,
and Russian gangsters all baying for his blood
– until he, Judith, and his old sparring partner
Jack Robber, take on all-comers in a dramatic
finale on the mean streets of the capital.
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Much of the slang popularly associated with the
hippie generation of the sixties actually dates
back before WW2, hijacked in the main from
jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating
to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you
can beat your chops, why eat when you can line
your flue and why snore when you can call some
hogs? You’re not drunk - you’re just plumb full of
stagger-juice and your skin isn’t pasty, it’s just
cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That’s a shot
of java, nix on the moo juice.
Containing thousands of examples of hipster
slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and
exploitation films, blues, country and rock’n’roll
lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s
to the 1960’s, Straight From the Fridge, Dad
lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you
hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroudtailors,
bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds,
trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.
STRAIGHT
FROM THE
FRIDGE, DAD
A DICTIONARY OF
HIPSTER SLANG
NEW REVISED, UPDATED AND
FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION
Max Décharné was born in England,
and has flung various books and
records at the public, and travelled
to a variety of countries, firstly as a
member of Gallon Drunk, and since
1995 with his band The Flaming
Stars, in an effort to spread peace,
goodwill and partial deafness among
the youth of the world. He still
divides his drinking time between
London and Berlin.
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Max Décharné
‘If you enjoy watching noir films,
listening to blues or jazz, reading pulp
novels or poring over certain song
lyrics, this guide to hep as it was
spoken through the first half of the
last century, will prove indispensable’
– Independent
‘ The lexicon for the hep cats of
London’s most swinging trotteries’
– Times
‘Max is the man. He shoots the works
to fascinating and often
hilarious effect’
– Esquire
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‘Reading this book is like listening
to someone whose companionable,
open-ended stories are absorbing
yet elusive: you must make of them
what you will’
– Daily Telegraph
LUCA ANTARA
‘A book rich in ideas, at once erudite and
eclectic, and full of beautifully unexpected
and evocative descriptions... This is backpacking
for the mind, a trip full of remarkable
sights.’
New to Sydney, impoverished and displaced,
Martin Edmond ekes out a living as a taxi
driver and in his spare time scours second hand
bookshops in search of Australia’s history.
‘a wonderfully original memoir’
– Observer
‘a pure pleasure to read’
– Literary Review
MARTIN EDMOND
‘a graceful and mesmerizing blend of history,
autobiography, travel and romance.’ - JM Coetzee
Amidst the rare books he savours, Edmond
stumbles upon the extraordinary tale of a
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da Nova, sent to find the mysterious Luca Antara
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Martin Edmond lives in Sydney, working as an author
(EXCL. AUSTRALIA & NZ.)
and a screenwriter. He has written the feature films
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Illustrious Energy and Terra Nova; his books include
The Autobiography of my Father, The Resurrection of Philip
Clairmont and Chronicle of the Unsung, which won the
Biography Award at the 2005 Montana Book Awards.
www.oldcastlebooks.com/titles/lucaantara/
The lives of Edmond and da Nova and the
strange customs and unique social mores of
each man’s culture and time intertwine in
this quest for a history of Australia; a quest
that takes the reader to the far Marquesas
Islands, Paris at the time of the Commune,
the Portugal of the Fátima revelations,
seventeenth century Dutch fatalities on the
Houtman Abrolhos and the mysterious first
Portuguese voyages into northern Australia.
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THE ANTIGALLICAN
TOM BOWLING
Captain Jean Cotterell, sole survivor of his
foundered fishing vessel is rescued by a French
frigate – The Hortense – off the Grand Banks of
Nova Scotia in May 1794. The Hortense is part
of Republican Admiral Jan Van Stabel’s great
fleet of over 100 ships bringing corn to France,
and in a move to alter the whole course of the
war, Lord Howe’s Channel Fleet is off Brest,
hoping to intercept them.
Life on The Hortense is like France under the
Terror; chaotic, ungovernable, obsessed with
Tom Bowling is a Londoner born into a
seafaring family in the Neckinger, a part of
Bermondsey allegedly named after the Devil’s
Neckinger or noose worn by pirates executed
there. He is the author of the Pocket Essential
Pirates and Privateers and is currently
working on the second book featuring Jean
Cotterell, A Ship Aground.
A tale to delight fans of
Patrick O’Brian,
Bernard Cornwell and
C.S. Forester
The first historical fiction
to really explore naval war
of the period from the
French perspective
First of a series of novels to feature
Jersey-born sailor, Jean Cotterell
savage, radical political theories. Separated
from the French fleet in the Western Approaches
she is intercepted by two British frigates and
battle is joined...
The Antigallican is the first in a series of
seafaring novels set at the end of the eighteenth
century, in Britain, in the Channel Islands and
in Revolutionary France. In Jean Cotterell we
find a character that bears comparison with
Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe, in a narrative that
will delight fans of Patrick O’Brian.
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The first English-language book
about Studio Ghibli, makers of the
award-winning Spirited Away
3 of the top 10 grossing non-English
language films come from Studio Ghibli
Anime and manga are now hugely
popular outside Japan with dedicated
sections in video and book stores
In the UK sales of manga now exceed
that of non-manga comic books
An English version of the latest Ghibli
masterpiece, Ponyo On The Cliff By The
Sea, is released in 2009
STUDIO GHIBLI
THE FILMS OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI AND ISAO TAKAHATA
COLIN ODELL & MICHELLE LE BLANC
The animations of Japan’s Studio Ghibli are
amongst the highest regarded in the movie
industry. Their delightful films rank alongside
the most popular non-English language films
ever made, with each new eagerly-anticipated
release a guaranteed box-office smash. Yet
this highly profitable studio has remained
fiercely independent, producing a stream of
imaginative and individual animations. The
studio’s founders, long-time animators Isao
Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, have created
timeless masterpieces. Although their films
are distinctly Japanese their themes are
Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc are freelance authors and
film critics. They have co-authored books about John Carpenter,
Tim Burton, Horror Films, Jackie Chan and Vampire Films and
contributed to Wallflower Press’s Alter Image and The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. They are regular writers
for Kamera.co.uk and Vector.
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universal: humanity, community and a love for
the environment.
No other film studio, animation or otherwise,
comes close to matching Ghibli for pure
cinematic experience. This Kamera Book
examines all their major works, as well the
early output of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao
Takahata, exploring the cultural and thematic
threads that bind these films together.
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10,000 WAYS TO DIE
A DIRECTOR’S TAKE ON THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN
‘40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a
book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000
Ways to Die. It’s an embarrassing tome when I
look at it now: full of half-assed semiotics and
other attenuated academic nonsense. In the
intervening period I have had the interesting
experience of being a film director. So now,
when I watch these films, I’m looking at them
from a different perspective. A professional
perspective, maybe...
Independent British filmmaker Alex Cox is
responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films
from Sleep Is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid & Nancy,
Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman
to Death and the Compass, Revengers Tragedy,
Searchers 2.0 and Repo Chick. From 1987 to
1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series
‘Moviedrome’, bringing unknown or forgotten
films to new audiences. He’s also the author of
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, and has written
on the subject of film for publications including Sight & Sound, The
Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment.
www.kamerabooks.com/10000ways/
Written by iconic filmmaker Alex Cox
Recently in news with his
autobiographical book X-films: True
Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker
Touring season of Spaghetti Westerns
in 2010, curated by Alex Cox
All season’s films discussed in book
Extensive national press coverage
and online promotion
ALEX COX
I’m thinking about what the filmmakers intended,
how they did that shot, how the director felt
when his film was recut by the studio, and he
was creatively and financially screwed. 10,000
Ways to Die is an entirely new book about an
under-studied subject, the Spaghetti Western,
from a director’s POV. Not only have these films
stood the test of time; some of them are very
high art’. – Alex Cox
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They are tough. They are the fastest, coolest
gunslingers of the sixties and they don’t talk much.
They are the heroes of the Italian Spaghetti
West and they changed the Western forever.
Clint Eastwood’s poncho-clad, cigar-smoking
Man With No Name is the enduring symbol of the
genre and his Dollars trilogy with Sergio Leone
reinvented action cinema, adding a European
freshness to the time-worn Western myths.
But Leone and Eastwood weren’t the only
hombres to saddle-up and head West, and this
Kamera Books edition rounds up and reviews the
best of a very wild bunch, including perennial
cult classics Django, The Big Gundown, Django
Kill and They Call Me Trinity.
Howard Hughes is the author of The Pocket Essential American
Indian Wars, Once Upon a Time in the Italian West, Crime
Wave: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great Crime Films,
Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers’ Guide to the Great
Westerns and Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood,
and is a contributing writer to Cinema Retro.
Includes The Good, The Bad and the
Ugly, Death Rides a Horse, Django Kill,
They Call Me Trinity, Once Upon a Time
In The West, Compañeros and many
more…
Complete range of films discussed,
along with the impact of the spaghetti
western genre on modern cinema
‘Accessible and attractively produced,
Kamera Books is an excellent, wellwritten
and researched series that will
be welcomed by the curious moviegoer
and film buff alike’
- Adrian Wootton, CEO, Film London
SPAGHETTI
WESTERNS
HOWARD HUGHES
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Howard Hughes analyses the entire genre,
from the mainstream offerings to more
offbeat oddities, and includes notes on
Ennio Morricone’s fabulous groundbreaking
Western scores. He also charts the Spaghetti
Western careers of actors like Lee Van Cleef,
Terence Hill and Klaus Kinski as they rode
the trail to international stardom. As well as
an introduction to the genre, 34 of the best
Spaghetti Westerns are analysed in detail.
There is also a fully updated multi-media
reference section, with details of DVDs,
soundtracks, books and websites.
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The stylistic and bloody excesses of the films of
Dario Argento are instantly recognisable. Vivid,
baroque and nightmarish, his films lock violent
deaths in a twisted embrace with an almost sexual
beauty. Narrative and logic are often lost in a
bombardment of atmosphere, technical mastery
and provocative imagery. It’s a body of work which
deals explicitly with death and violence, all the
while revelling in perversely alluring stylistics and
shot through with an unflinching intensity.
Setting the tone with earlier gialli films such as The
Animal Trilogy and Deep Red, Argento has steadily
pushed the boundaries; through his elaborately
gothic fairytales Suspiria and Inferno, right up
to his more recent contributions to TV’s Masters
of Horror compendium and the conclusion of his
Three Mothers trilogy, Mother of Tears: The Third
James Gracey has written for Film Ireland, Alternative
Ulster, Paracinema and Culture Northern Ireland. He has
also contributed to Drowned in Sound, Twisted Ear and
Eat My Brains.
Recent conclusion to his revered
Three Mothers Trilogy and a
proposed remake of Suspiria has
sparked an interest in his work again
with many critics revaluating his films
and his influence on horror cinema
His work is often cited in studies of
film, especially Italian cinema,
on-screen violence, Horror, feminism
and auteurism
His work has influenced the likes of
Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter
and Martin Scorsese
DARIO ARGENTO
JAMES GRACEY
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Mother. Along the way, his prowling camera
work, pounding scores and stylistic bloodshed
have only gained in intensity and opulence.
Hailed as one of horror cinemas most significant
pioneers, Argento continues to create inimitable
and feverishly violent films with a level of
artistry rarely seen in horror films. His high
profile and mastery of the genre is confirmed
with his role as producer on celebrated classics
such as George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead
and Lamberto Bava’s Demons, and his work has
influenced the likes of Quentin Tarantino, John
Carpenter and Martin Scorsese.
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You’ve got TV, internet, phone, radio, movies,
music, magazines and newspapers – and that’s
just the tip of the iceberg. Unless we live on a
desert island, there is no escape from media
communications of one sort or another. So how
do we begin to understand today’s all-embracing
media culture?
Dr. Laughey covers all the key issues and debates in
media studies are covered in a lively and accessible
style. You will learn about the main features of
global media corporations, and approaches to the
study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity,
A user-friendly guide to key theories of
the media
Includes an overview of today’s global
media industries and trends
Packed full of examples to help make
sense of complex ideas
Budget priced guide for media students
and the general reader
MEDIA STUDIES
DR DAN LAUGHEY
Dr Dan Laughey is Senior Lecturer in Media
and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan
University. He is the author of Music and Youth
Culture and Key Themes in Media Theory. His
two kids are technologically savvier than him.
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journalism and new media. From surveillance to
simulation, genre to gender, political economy
to the postmodern, the reader will be guided
through a matrix of intellectual endeavour on
all media matters.
Whether you are a student, researcher,
practitioner or just someone with a general
interest, Media Studies will serve as a handy
reference guide on your journey through this
complex but fascinating subject.
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The Kamera Book on Movie Movements is a onestop
guide to the major movements that have
shaped our sense of what cinema is and can be.
It introduces the reader to definitions of the
founding concepts in Film Studies such as
authorship and genre, technological impacts
and the rise of digital cinema, social influences
and notions of the avant-garde, and cinema’s
emergence as a major art form that reflects and
shapes the world.
Essential reading
for Film Studies
students
Covers all major
movie movements
2009 marks 70th
anniversary of
realist masterpiece
La Règle du Jeu
2009 marks 50th
anniversary of
British New Wave
precursor We Are
The Lambeth Boys
MOVIE MOVEMENTS
James Clarke is the writer of The Pocket Essentials:
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He has also
written The Virgin Film Guide: Coppola and The Virgin
Film Guide: War Films. His work has been published
by The Guardian and the magazines Empire, Moving
Pictures and Resurgence. He has also written for the
British Film Institute and has worked as a writer and
producer in community media and short filmmaking.
James teaches Film Studies at the University of
Sussex.
• REALISM
It explores, in concise and clear sections, how
major works from the classic French realist
La Règle du Jeu to the dazzling animation
of Norman McLaren and the memorial
documentary of Shoah, were conceived,
developed and produced, and eventually
received by the public, critics and film history.
Offering a concise overview of a vast and
compelling subject, it’s a book for both the
film enthusiast and the Film Studies student.
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• SURREALISM
• EXPRESSIONISM
• AVANT GARDE
• DIGITAL CINEMA
• DOCUMENTARY
• SOVIET MONTAGE
• NATIONAL CINEMA
REVIVALS
JAMES CLARKE
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Tension. Fear. Exhilaration. Atmospheric
synthesizers. You’re in John Carpenter territory.
One of the most iconic directors of American
cinema John Carpenter has astonished audiences
the world over with his tightly crafted horror,
thriller and science-fiction films. Not just a
director, Carpenter’s talents also extend to writing
the screenplays and soundtracks to many of his
films.
From the existential comedy classic Dark Star
through to the terrifying smash hit Halloween, the
taut siege of Assault on Precinct 13 to the visceral
Vampires there’s action and tension all around.
But it’s not all ghosts from The Fog or horrific
mutations in The Thing, there’s time for romance
One of the icons of cult cinema, breaking
low-budget films such as Halloween into
the mainstream
Invaluable for all interested in genre
study, horror, science-fiction and thrillers
Carpenter’s hands-on approach to filmmaking
makes him an inspiration to low
budget and no budget film-makers
Interest in his work has increased in
recent years due to a number of highprofile
remakes of his films
JOHN CARPENTER
COLIN ODELL & MICHELLE LE BLANC
Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc are freelance authors
and film critics. They have co-authored books about Studio
Ghibli, Tim Burton, Horror Films, Jackie Chan and Vampire
Films and contributed to Wallflower Press’s Alter Image and
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
They are regular writers for Kamera.co.uk and Vector.
www.kamerabooks.com/johncarpenter/
in the science-fiction road movie Starman and
even for The King himself in the superior bio-pic
Elvis — The Movie. John Carpenter’s films are
always memorable, distinctive and unashamed
of their genre roots.
The book explores his films and his work as a
director, composer, writer and producer. It
examines Carpenter’s influences and style and
the films that have, in turn, been influenced by
him. An indispensable guide to the ultimate cult
auteur.
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Timeless Adventures is a critical history of Doctor
Who, covering the series’ 45 years, from the
creation of the show to its triumph as Britain’s
number one TV drama.
Opening with an in-depth account of the
creation of the series within the BBC of the
early 1960s, each decade of the show is tackled
through a unique political and pop cultural
historical viewpoint, exploring the links between
contemporary Britain and the stories Doctor Who
told, and how such links kept the show popular
with a mass television audience.
Chapters range from discussions on the cultural
and political relevance of Doctor Who monsters
like the Daleks (based on lingering wartime
Brian J. Robb has written biographies of Leonardo DiCaprio,
Wes Craven, Johnny Depp and Ewan McGregor and is the
author of Counterfeit Worlds, a study of the films of Philip
K. Dick. He is currently Managing Editor at Titan Magazines,
Editor-in-Chief of the Official Star Wars Insider Magazine, and
oversees magazines for Lost, Stargate, Smallville, Star Trek and
Supernatural, as well as being Managing Editor on Total Sci Fi.
With the success of the latest series
Dr Who has experienced a massive
upsurge of popularity both in the UK and
internationally
Offers a new perspective on the cultural
significance of the Dr Who phenomenon
Brian J. Robb has a unique perspective
on the 1980s, being Editor of the official
fan newsletter and involved with the
production team led by John Nathan Turner
Includes unique interviews with Doctor
Who producers Barry Letts (early 1970s)
and Philip Hinchcliffe (late 1970s)
TIMELESS ADVENTURES
HOW DOCTOR WHO CONQUERED TV
BRIAN J. ROBB
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fears) and the Cybermen (1960s spare part
replacement surgery), through to themes
like energy and the environment in the 1970s
(Doctor Who stories tackled big real-life
themes in a fantasy format and so connected
with a mass audience).
Brian J. Robb also addresses the cancellation
of the show in the late 1980s (following the
series becoming increasingly self-obsessed)
and the ways in which a narrowly-focused
dedicated fandom contributed to the show’s
demise and yet was also instrumental in its
regeneration for the 21st Century under
Russell T. Davies.
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What is Blaxploitation? In the early 1970s a type of
film emerged that featured all-black casts, really
cool soul, R’n’B and disco music soundtracks,
characters sporting big guns, big dashikis, and
even bigger ’fros, and had some of the meanest,
baddest attitudes to shoot their way across our
screens.
More than that, for African-American audiences
these films were an antidote to the sanitised ‘safe’
images of blackness that Sidney Poitier and Bill
Cosby presented to America. These films depicted
a reality about the world which African-American
audiences could identify with, even if the stories
themselves were pure fantasy.
Mikel J. Koven is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Film
Studies at the University of Worcester. He has published
extensively on the topic of folklore and film and is the author of
La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
(2006) and Film, Folklore and Urban Legends (2007).
Considers Blaxploitation from the
perspective of class and racial
rebellion, genre – and Stickin’ it to the
Man
Over 60 Blaxploitation films reviewed
and discussed
Fully up to date, including Baadasssss!
and The Hebrew Hammer
Sections include Blaxploitation horror
films, kung-fu movies, Westerns and
parodies
BLAXPLOITATION
FILMS
www.kamerabooks.com/blaxploitation/
MIKEL J. KOVEN
Mikel Koven considers Blaxploitation from
the perspective of class and racial rebellion,
genre — and Stickin’ it to the Man, with over
60 Blaxploitation films reviewed and discussed.
Sections include Blaxploitation horror films,
kung-fu movies, Westerns and parodies and it
is fully up to date, including Baadassss and The
Hebrew Hammer and covers the deaths of Isaac
Hayes and Rudy Rae Moore.
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THE ART OF
ACTING
...and how to master it
Aimed at both the amateur enthusiast and for
those wanting to take their interest further
and undertake professional training, The Art
of Acting offers a wide-ranging introduction
for people wishing to develop their talents.
Advice is given on the basic skills which every
actor needs to develop, such as breathing,
voice control, the use of body language, timing
and handling the audience. Auxiliary activities
such as actors’ exercises and warm-ups are
evaluated with specific skills discussed, such as
the learning of lines, mime, mastering dialects
and accents, period manners, and ensuring that
make-up is suitable to the role.
Carter looks at the importance of understanding
a text and the interaction of the characters
Dr. David Carter has more than 30 years experience with
amateur drama, as actor, director and for many years as
chairman of a leading group in the South of England. He has
written Pocket Essentials on Georges Simenon and Literary
Theory and Kamera Books on East Asian Cinema, The Western
and Plays... and how to produce them
An introduction for the amateur
enthusiast and anyone planning to
undertake professional training as an
actor
Includes excerpts and quotes from
famous actors, directors and theorists
of acting and drama teachers
Provides advice on the basic skills
that every actor needs to develop
throughout all stages of the acting
process, including games and exercises
DAVID CARTER
within it, and the relationship between
the actor and director, and considers the
differences between stage and screen acting;
the problems of acting in the open air and the
particular demands of certain playwrights,
such as Shakespeare and Brecht.
David Carter also summarises the ideas
of famous theorists, directors and actors,
including Stanislawski, Lee Strasberg, Michael
Chekhov and Dorothy Heathcote; Peter
Brook and Peter Hall; and John Gielgud,
Laurence Olivier, Simon Callow, Ian McKellen,
Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Michael Caine
and Dirk Bogarde.
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ALAN MOORE
LANCE PARKIN
NEW EDITION
This updated and expanded
edition examines the recurring
themes and how Alan Moore’s
work has evolved over the
years from his early graphic art
in Captain Britain and 2000 AD,
through milestone series like
V for Vendetta, Marvelman,
Swamp Thing and Watchmen,
to his current genre-stretching
work. Fully updated to include
all of Moore’s latest material,
this edition coincides with
the release of the film of
Moore’s iconic graphic novel,
Watchmen.
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Lance Parkin is the author of
numerous Doctor Who books,
as well as other television
and drama work.
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BRUCE LEE
NEW EDITION SIMON B. KENNY
Bruce Lee was the most
influential martial artist of the
20 th century. Way beyond his
time in terms of his physical
training, he went against the
grain of traditional martial arts
to develop his own unique
martial art, Jeet Kune Do.
However his art was much more
than a physical fighting art, it
was a philosophical way of life.
This updated edition examines
the films of Bruce Lee and
explores some of the myths that
surround them. It serves as a
great introduction to his life, his
martial art, his philosophy and
his poetry.
www.pocketessentials.com/film/brucelee/
Simon Kenny is a freelance
journalist and author, trained
in mixed martial arts and the
creator and author of
www.siuloong.co.uk,
a site dedicated to Bruce Lee
and related martial artists.
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THE
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
NEW IN PAPERBACK SEAN MARTIN
The Templars have exerted a unique
influence over European history:
orthodox historians see them as
nothing more than soldier-monks
whose arrogance was their ultimate
undoing, while others see them
as occultists of the first order, the
founders of Freemasonry, possessors
of the Holy Grail and creators
of the Turin Shroud. Sean Martin
considers both the orthodox and
conspiratorial version of events,
and includes the latest revelations
from the Vatican Library.
With over 40,000 copies sold in
hardback The Knights Templar
finally makes it into paperback.
www.pocketessentials.com/history /knightstemplar/
www.pocketessentials.com/history/freemasonry/
Sean Martin is a filmmaker,
poet and writer. His books for
Pocket Essentials include
The Cathars, The Gnostics,
Alchemy and Alchemists,
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But reading is not enough. Hands on experience is
what you need if you are to fully understand the
wiles of the con man. And The Gentleman’s Guide
contains dozens of proposition bets and games
you can’t lose that show just how easy we are
to manipulate when the circumstances around a
scam are so carefully crafted as to make even the
most outlandish proposition a safe bet. Warn your
friends and practice on your enemies.
And always remember that if you can’t spot the
sucker at the table, then it’s probably you.
£9.99 HARDBACK
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2009
‘Crown Octavo’ Format
(186 X 124mm)
256pp
RIGHTS: WORLD
ISBN: 978-1-84344-044-4