no ordinary cat - ANTHEA

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Fiction

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uK Publication 10 May 2012 Fiction uK Publication 10 May 2012 Fiction
Mark Haddon
THE RED HOUSE
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering
bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
After his mother’s death, Richard, a newly remarried
hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his
estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for
a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four
adults and four children, a single family and all of them
strangers. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card
games and wet walks.
But in the quiet and stillness of the valley, ghosts begin to
rise up. The parents Richard thought he had. The parents
Angela thought she had. Past and present lovers. Friends,
enemies, victims, saviours. And watching over all of
them from high on the dark hill, Karen, Angela’s stillborn
daughter.
THE REd HouSE is about the extraordinariness of the
ordinary, weaving the words and thoughts of the eight
characters together with those fainter, stranger voices
– of books and letters and music, of the dead who once
inhabited these rooms, of the ageing house itself and the
landscape in which it sits.
A literary tour de force that illuminates the puzzle of
family with the profound empathy so beloved of the
millions of readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-time.
UK
Quercus
(Jane Wood)
Alice Peterson
TEN YEARS ON
Rebecca is happily married to olly and content with her
job at a glamorous London art gallery. But when tragedy
strikes, she decides to move back to her childhood home
in the country, hoping time will help her to heal.
Joe, born in the same country town as Rebecca, had
a falling out with her a decade earlier. now he’s the
successful owner of a wine bar, Maison Joe, and is
breaking local hearts by dating a striking actress, Peta.
When Rebecca and Joe meet again, bitter-sweet
memories rush back, along with unanswered questions
about the past. What was the secret that olly was hiding?
And can Rebecca ever forgive and forget?
Alice’s novel Monday to Friday Man reached number 1
on the Kindle chart, knocking Fifty Shades of Grey off the
top spot. It has now sold nearly 500,000 EBooks.
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egmont
(Nick Lake)
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(Anne Hoppe)
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Graff
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Ast
uK Publication 17 May 2012 Fiction
Garth Nix
A CONFUSION OF PRINCES
A major standalone opera, this is Garth nix’s first novel
for older readers since the conclusion of the old kingdom
trilogy…and it’s worth the wait.
A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes,
A ConFuSIon oF PRInCES is also a page-turning
action adventure.
These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his
own words, we follow him as he trains to become a Prince
of the Empire, an enhanced human being, equipped
with biological and technological improvements that
make him faster, stronger and smarter than any ordinary
person. not to mention the ultimate benefit: should he
die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn…
Which is just as well, because no sooner has Prince
Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the
terrible truth behind the empire: there are a million
princes and all of them want each other dead because
there can only be one Emperor…
UK
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(Marion Lloyd)
US
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(Karen Wojtyla)
uK Publication 2 August 2012 Fiction
Moira Young
REBEL HEART
The Tonton have been defeated. Lugh has been rescued.
The heartstone has brought Saba and Jack together. now,
Saba and her family head west to meet him and start a
new life. All should be well. But shadows of the dead are
stalking Saba. And a new kind of shadow is creeping over
the dustlands. Then a messenger shows up. With news of
Jack.
danger. Betrayal. destiny. Passion. The superb sequel to
Blood Red Road, winner of the Costa Children’s Award
2011.
Saba has rescued her kidnapped brother and defeated the
fanatical Tonton. But the price to be paid for her violent
victory is terrible. Jack has disappeared – and can no
longer be trusted. A new and formidable enemy is on
the rise in the dustlands. no one is safe. And Saba must
confront the terrible secret hidden in the darkest depths
of her soul.
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uK Publication 16 August 2012 Fiction
Pat Barker
TOBY’S ROOM
Toby and Elinor, brother and sister, friends and
confidants, are sharers of a dark secret, carried from
the summer of 1912 into the battlefields of France and
wartime London in 1917.
When Toby is reported ‘Missing, Believed Killed’, another
secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor’s world:
how exactly did Toby die – and why? Elinor determines
to uncover the truth. only then can she finally close the
door to Toby’s room. Moving from the Slade School of Art
to Queen Mary’s Hospital, where surgery and art intersect
in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded,
ToBY’S RooM is a riveting drama of identity, damage,
intimacy and loss. It is Pat Barker’s most powerful novel
yet.
‘For Barker, the wounded faces of the soldier victims are
realities, and also emblems of what must never be forgotten
or evaded about war, and must continue – in her plain,
steady, compelling voice – to be turned into art.’– Guardian
Hermione lee
‘Once again Barker skilfully moves between past and
present, seamlessly weaving fact and fiction into a gripping
narrative.’ – Sunday Telegraph Mark sanderson
‘Heart-rendering return to the Great War…at once
forensically observant and imaginatively sublime.’– The
Independent steve davies
UK
Atlantic Books
(Margaret Stead)
uK Publication 1 September 2012 Fiction
A N Wilson
THE POTTER’S HAND
A. n. Wilson’s first novel since Winnie and Wolf tells the
epic story of the Wedgewood dynasty.
In 1774, Josiah Wedgewood, master craftsman possessed
with a burning scientific vision, embarks upon the
thousand piece Frog Service for Catherine the Great.
Josiah’s nephew Tom journeys to America to buy clay
from the Cherokee for this exquisite china. Tom is caught
up in the American rebellion, and falls for a Cherokee
woman who will come to play a crucial role in Josiah’s
late, great creation: the Portland vase. As the family
fortune is made, and Josiah’s entrepreneurial brilliance
creates an empire that will endure for generations, it is
his daughter Sukey, future mother of Charles darwin,
who bears clear-eyed witness.
A novel of epic scope, rich in warmth, intellect and
humanity, THE PoTTER’S HAnd explores the lives and
loves of one of Britain’s greatest families, whose travails
are both ordinary – birthday, deaths, marriages, opium
addiction, depression – and utterly extraordinary.
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(Jocasta Hamilton)
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Holt
(Barbara Jones)
uK Publication 13 September 2012 Fiction
Sebastian Faulks
A POSSIBLE LIFE
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War
closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a
sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire; across the country in
a workhouse, a father is too ashamed to acknowledge his
son; and in upstate new York a skinny girl steps out of
Chevy with a guitar and sings four songs that send shivers
through the skull.
Soldiers and lovers, parents and children, scientists and
artists risk their bodies and hearts in search of connection
– some key to understanding what makes us who we are.
Sebastian Faulks’s dazzling novel journeys across
continents and time to explore the chaos created by love,
separation and missed opportunities. Provocative and
profound, it traces the anguish and longing of highly
particular lives until a general consolation emerges: that
we might not be as separate or distant from one another
as we fear.
‘It does what any good novel should – it unsettles, it moves,
and it forces us to question who we are.’ – The Sunday
Times lucy Atkins
‘A tightly written, moving and exciting work of fiction that
deserves success, it should thrill established readers as
well as win new fans.’ – Telegraph Anthony cummins
US
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
(Lauren Wein)
Germany
suhrkamp Verlag
uS Publication 25 September 2012 Fiction
Antoine Wilson
PANORAMA CITY
our hero is oppen Porter, a curious, openhearted,
bicycle-riding, binocular-wearing outsider, who, believing
he is on his deathbed, decides to record everything his
unborn son, the happy result of his affair with a nowretired
prostitute, will need to know to become a man of
the world. PAnoRAMA CITY is the transcript of these
tapes, which tell the story of the forty days oppen spends
with his aunt in a suburb outside of Los Angeles – his
first time away from home – following the death of his
father. nodding to nicholson Baker, Thomas Bernhard,
and, of course, Mark Twain, PAnoRAMA CITY is tight,
delightfully funny satire, underscored with disarming
emotional truths and rich insights into the oddities of
contemporary suburban life.
Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel The Interloper,
published to critical acclaim by other Press in 2007.
His work has appeared in The Paris Review,
StoryQuarterly, and Best New American Voices, among
other publications, and he is a contributing editor of
A Public Space. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’
Workshop and recipient of a Carol Houck Smith Fiction
Fellowship from the university of Wisconsin, he lives and
surfs in Los Angeles.
‘This is a book you will hold in your head all day long, a book
you will look forward to when you get home from work,
a book you will still be savoring as you drift into sleep.
Panorama City is often very funny. It is filled with joy and
wonder, and a sort of goodness you had stopped believing
might be even possible. Antoine Wilson’s sentences are like
diamond necklaces but his greatest treasure is his human
heart.’– Peter Carey
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(Kate Mills)
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(Sarah Knight)
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Ambo Anthos
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uK Publication 11 october 2012 Fiction
Andrew Pyper
THE DEMONOLOGIST
Professor david ullman is among the world’s leading
authorities on demonic literature. not that he’s a
believer. He sees what he teaches as a branch of the
imagination and nothing more. So when offered a luxury
trip to venice to be a consultant on a “phenomenon”, he
accepts, taking his 11-year old daughter Tess with him.
Amidst the decadent splendour of the city, david makes
his way to the address he’s been asked to visit. What he
witnesses in the tiny attic room shakes him to the core: a
man restrained in a chair, clearly insane. But what david
hears the man say is worse. The voice of his father, dead
for thirty years, repeating the last words he ever spoke
to his son. Words that have left scars – and a mystery
– behind.
Terrified, david is determined to leave with Tess as
quickly as possible. But he can’t shake the feeling that
something is following him. And then, before his eyes
on the roof of their hotel, Tess disappears. But before
she falls into the Grand Canal’s waters, she utters a plea:
Find me.
At once frightening and deeply moving, Andrew Pyper’s
page-turning thriller explores the lengths a father will go
to find his daughter, and the darkness he is prepared to
confront along the way.
‘Richly crafted, deliriously scary and compulsively pageturning
from beginning to end. Imagine The Exorcist and
The Da Vinci Code as penned by Daphne du Maurier.
Don’t miss this one!’ – Jeffery Deaver.
UK
Quercus
(Jane Wood)
Germany
Goldmann
uK Publication 3 January 2013 Fiction
Virginia Ironside
NO! I DON’T NEED MY
READING GLASSES
Following her best-selling No! I Don’t Want to Join
a Bookclub comes a second diary about growing old
disgracefully. It starts, as a new diary should, with a
list of new Year’s resolutions – never to drink again for
fear of further damaging her ageing brain cells, to try
acupuncture to see if it helps the increasing stiffness
every morning, to clear her house of years of accumulated
junk and to have a face-lift. But the only resolution Marie
manages to keep is the last one.
Instead she finds herself dealing with the increasing
confusion of her beloved friend Archie, a planned new
hotel on a rare patch of green near her home which leads
to some strange alliances to save the local plane trees,
and the pain of separation when her son decides to move
to new York with Marie’s beloved grand-son, Gene.
But there are compensations too – of old friendships, of
new challenges, and could it be that there might even be
new romance?
‘Touching, astute, and very funny indeed, the further
adventures of Marie Sharp faces up to the losses that ageing
brings with a clear eye, as well as with wisdom and wit.
Immensely charming, immensely uplifting.– Marian Keyes
‘Marie Sharp is a genius comic creation. Few books are so
original, so entertaining and so thought-provoking.’– Daily
Express
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France
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uK Publication 3 January 2013 Fiction
Owen Martell
INTERMISSION
new York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring
twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, record two live
albums – Sunday at the village vanguard and Waltz for
debby – that will go down in musical history.
Ten days later LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and
Evans disappears for seven months. InTERMISSIon
tells the story of what happens next.
Exhaustively researched, vividly realised,
InTERMISSIon takes a period from the life of one
of America’s great artists and creates from it an
extraordinary novel of imaginative skill and ambition.
Written in spare, evocative prose, it inhabits the lives
of four people in orbit around a tragedy and its fallout,
presenting an intense and moving portrait of the burden
of grief and of a man lost to his family, and to himself.
It is also a conjuring of a pivotal moment in music and
culture in America, and a unique representation of the
jazz scene in the early 1960s. InTERMISSIon is a novel
of pure control and power.
owen Martell was born in South Wales and studied at the
universities of Aberystwyth and oxford. He has published
two previous novels in Welsh, and has won the Wales
Book of the Year Award. He currently lives in Paris.
UK
orion
(Genevieve Pegg)
US
Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt
(Andrea Schulz)
Denmark
c & k Forlag
Germany
Verlagsgruppe
random House
Norway
Gyldendal norsk
Portugal
dom Quixote
uK Publication 17 January 2013 Fiction
Robert Wilson
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Charles Boxer, ex-army, ex-police, has found his niche
in private security. His speciality: high stakes kidnap
resolution. But it’s a rootless life that doesn’t impress
his teenage daughter, Amy, or her mother, detective
Sergeant Mercy danqah.
Alyshia d’Cruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Francisco
‘Frank’ d’Cruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai
wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening
out, she gets in the wrong cab home…
When d’Cruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows
Frank’s colourful business career has made him plenty of
enemies along the way. despite the vast d’Cruz fortune,
the kidnappers don’t want cash – instead favouring a
cruel and lethal game. But the uK government don’t want
their big new investor to lose his daughter in the heart of
the capital. MI6 officers in India follow Boxer’s leads and
soon it seems more lives than Alyshia’s are at stake, as the
trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil.
To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics,
Indian mobsters and London’s homegrown crimelords.
CAPITAL PunISHMEnT is a journey to the dark side of
people and places that lie just out of view, waiting for the
moment to tear a life apart.
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Atticus
Spain
rBA libros

UK
Hutchinson
(Jocasta Hamilton)
Holland
Atlas contact
uK Publication 7 February 2013 Fiction
Paula Lichtarowicz
THE FIRST BOOK OF CALAMITY
LEEK
‘Then I closed my eyes for better remembering the most
glorious story ever told – the truth of how we sisters
came to be.’
Calamity’s version of the truth is what she records in her
book. It is her attempt to explain the strange world in
which she grew up, and to understand how that world
came to fall apart.
It had all started when Truly Polperro looked over the
Wall.
What Truly saw (or did not see) was to introduce the first
seeds of doubt into the Garden. So instead of preparing
themselves for Mother’s War against demonmales, the
sisters had begun to doubt everything they had been told
about the world outside.
So what could Calamity do but watch over the others, as
Aunty asked her?
But then Truly died. And Annie got out. And a
demonmale got in. So Mother got very, very cross.
And then came the fire...
now the garden is destroyed, Aunty’s health has been
broken, and here lies Calamity, entrapped by her potted
leg, writing her book and trying to make sense of it all.
Can this really be the end of all Mother’s plans?
UK
Waywiser
(Philip Hoy)
Picador
(Kate Harvey)
US
little Brown
(Laura Tisdel)
Australia
text
uK Publication date March 2013 Fiction
Gabriel Roth
THE UNKNOWNS
What does a lifelong computer nerd do the day after
the Internet bubble makes him rich? If he’s Eric Muller
– brilliant, self-conscious, and painfully lonely – he
applies his hyper-analytic mind to the girlfriend problem.
But when he meets Maya Marcom, Eric discovers that
the difficulty of finding love is trivial compared to the
difficulty of loving. Set in San Francisco in 2002, as
the boom is winding down and the war is gearing up,
THE unKnoWnS traces one geek’s struggle with the
mysteries that make another human being harder to
understand than ten thousand lines of code.
‘Gabe Roth is a natural. This is a very assured first book-
fast, funny, full of snappy dialogue, and never losing its poise
even when it’s glancing into the abyss. I think he’s a find.’
– Sebastian Faulks
‘A beautifully written and deeply intelligent novel.’– Alex
Garland
‘A wise and mature novel, a cool and contemporary one.
It announces the arrival of a bright new talent.’– Andrew
O’Hagan
Paula Lichtarowicz has created a wildly imaginative world
and peopled it with the most unusual characters you are
ever likely to meet. The voice of Calamity is unforgettable
as she tells her darkly hilarious and tragic story. THE
FIRST BooK oF CALAMITY LEEK is a prodigiously
inventive and unique debut.
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UK
chatto & Windus
(Juliet Brooke)
Holland
Artemis
uK Publication date 7 March 2013 Fiction
Jennie Rooney
RED JOAN
‘Joan had always imagined they would come for her
at night. She did not imagine a day like this, cold and
bright and perfectly still.’
Joan Stanley is a thoroughly ordinary old lady of 85 – or
so it appears. But once Ms Hart and Mr Adams from MI5
come to call, so begins a round of daily questioning that
unlocks her surprising past.
Her story begins when in 1937 she wins a place to study
natural Science at newnham College, Cambridge and
along with her home-made clothes, her mother borrows
an unsuitably glamorous mink coat for Joan to take with
her. The coat brings her to the attention of the radiant
Russian-born beauty Sonya Galich, and through her Joan
meets her charismatic cousin, Leo.
It is only at the end of the Second World War, with
the dropping of the bomb, when she has become
personal assistant to Professor Max davis at the Metals
Research Facility in Cambridge that she decides to pass
information to Russia because she believes it will make
the world a safer place. And by now she has access to
secrets that are important.
If Leo has never told Joan everything, then she in turn
now begins to betray Max, even though she is falling in
love with him. And what, later, of her adopted son? How
does nick feel all those years later when his mother is
revealed to have been a Soviet spy?
Can we ever really know everything about one another,
even those closest to us? In the post-War world of smoke
and mirrors, who should we trust? And is there ever such
a thing as a higher loyalty than to those we love?
UK
Harpercollins
(Katie Espiner)
uK Publication 28 March 2013 Fiction
Rosie Garland
THE PALACE OF CURIOSITIES
THE PALACE oF CuRIoSITIES is set in early victorian
London, and is told through the eyes of EvE, the Lionfaced
Girl, and interwoven with the story of ABEL,
the Flayed Man. Both of them freaks of nature, both
searching for escape. It explores life on the outer fringes
of society in 1850; what it is like to be different, and
traces their struggle for self-discovery on the boundaries
of what is perceived as human.
The novel is inspired by ‘freak show’ performer Julia
Pastrana, who suffered from hypertrichosis terminalis,
a condition where the body is completely covered with
thick hair. She was discovered by a man who taught
her to sing and dance, toured the world with her, and
eventually married her.
Rosie Garland lives in Manchester. Following her MA in
English Literature, she made a living singing with Goth
band The March violets. She began writing seriously in
the 1990s. Since then her stories have won numerous
prizes and she has published five poetry collections.
‘An author completely in control of her material.’– Sarah
Waters
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UK
scholastic
(Clare Argar)
uK Publication date April 2013 Fiction
Mark Lowery
BOXER SHORTS:
My Part in their Downfall
From the author of Socks Are not Enough, shortlisted for
the Roald dahl Funny Prize and winner of the Calderdale
Best Children’s Book of the Year, comes this hilarious
sequel.
Michael Swarbrick thinks he’s solved his problems. But
following his arrest for flashing at a stolen donkey, he
realises that they’ve only just begun... As his mother
attempts to turn him into a global nudist icon, he lurches
from one disaster to another: setting fire to himself while
dressed as a giant custard cream, being stalked by a
naked French woman, and crushing his friend Lucy,
The Most Wonderful Girl in the universe.
Just as you thought it couldn’t get any worse/funnier
than in SoCKS ARE noT EnouGH, Michael’s life
spirals out of control. Both hysterically funny and cringemaking,
children will laugh out loud at Michael’s latest
antics.
UK
little Brown
(Lennie Goodings)
US
random House
(Susanna Porter)
Canada
Harpercollins
Holland
orlando Uitgevers
Italy
neri Pozza
uK Publication 4 April 2013 Fiction
Sarah Dunant
BLOOD AND BEAUTY
From the acclaimed novelist of the Italian renaissance,
Sarah dunant, comes a visceral, epic novel that will
challenge what we think we know about one of history’s
most dynamic and maligned families, the Borgias.
Rooted in the energetic, brutal and corrupt world of 15th
Century Italy, BLood And BEAuTY opens with Cardinal
Rodrigo Borgia, clever and charismatic, buying his way to
the Papal crown. In this he is not unusual. neither is the
fact that he has illegitimate children.
What does mark him out is his blood; he is a Spaniard in
a country run by established Italian families. To thrive,
even to survive, he must create his own dynasty using the
papacy and his family as the building blocks of power.
His son Cesare is his most brilliant pupil. Fearless and
calculating, (later immortalised as Machiavelli’s The
Prince) he provides the driving energy and the muscle.
The Pope’s daughter, Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is
their marriage tool. Just 12 when the novel opens, she
is to have one dynastic union annulled, and a second
– loved – husband murdered by her own brother to make
way for a third strategic marriage, all before the age of 20.
Hers is a journey from pawn to political player.
using the high wire tension of a political thriller, this
portrait of power and it’s personal costs is the most
thrilling saga to come out of Italy since The Godfather.
The Borgias emerge, not as the poisoning sexual monsters
of popular myth, but in all their ruthless determination
and complex humanity. They will not easily be forgotten.
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eksmo

UK
david Fickling
Books
uK Publication 4 April 2013 Fiction
Andy Mulligan
THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS
Two heads are always better than one – isn’t that how the
saying goes? It’s not how Richard feels, when he wakes
up with a second head growing right out of his neck. It’s
a living, breathing, thinking head – with a very talkative
tongue – that calls itself Rikki. It wouldn’t be so bad, of
course, if the newcomer was as calm and reasonable as
11-year old Richard – it might even help with the coming
exams. Alas, the intruder is rude, rebellious and cruel,
with scores to settle and an agenda of his own. on the
football pitch, they’re brilliant together, and the whole
team loves them. In the classroom, however, Richard’s
old friendships shatter due to his new twin’s vicious
tongue. The school can’t cope and neither can his parents.
When Rikki disrupts a live Tv show with a foul-mouthed
invective and this is followed by violence and arson, a
medical team moves in to help. But they have an agenda
of their own and Richard/Rikki find themselves in mortal
danger.
Andy Mulligan is the most exciting new talent to emerge
in children’s fiction for years. Trash has been translated
into 21 languages and is to be filmed next year by Stephen
daldry with a script by Richard Curtis. It was shortlisted
for this year’s Carnegie Medal.
UK
sceptre
(Suzie Doore)
uK Publication 25 April 2013 Fiction
Jess Richards
COOKING WITH BONES
Two sisters leave their home in the city of Pandora and
find their way to a village by the sea, where old Kelp’s
cottage – and her recipe book – await them. For Amber,
the older by two years, she is where she knows she
belongs, baking honey cakes each night for the villagers
to collect in the morning. She is drawn to the cottage,
and to the set of bone spoons that allow her to add truth
and lust and confusion to her pies and puddings. Meg,
the youngest, is a formwanderer, a child engineered to
reflect the wants of others, and what Amber wants most
is for Meg to find herself. As they adjust to their new
home it is Kip, a child growing up amongst the songs
and stories of the village, who delivers the ingredients
to old Kelp’s cottage and collects the cakes left out.
It is Kip who uncovers the absence of Lizzie and the
Quiet Woman, and who knows something that can’t be
told. Through Kip and Amber and Meg the secrets of a
generation are stirred and set free, and the pattern of life
in the village is renewed.
The magical new novel from the author of Snake Ropes,
CooKInG WITH BonES is a dark, lavish fairytale with
sharp teeth – for fans of Angela Carter and Margaret
Atwood.
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UK
Atlantic
(Ravi Mirchandani)
US
doubleday
(Gerry Howard)
uK Publication date May 2013 Fiction
Hanya Yanagihara
THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES
In 1950 a young medical school graduate, dr norton A
Perina, joins an anthropological expedition to the remote
Micronesian island of Ivu’ivu, the home, according to
local rumour, and a 4,000 year old creation myth, of a
lost tribe. Completely untouched by modern man, the
‘forbidden island’ as neighbouring islanders call it, is
teeming with unknown, beautiful, and fearsome life
– and a secret that will change the world: the key to
eternal life. norton returns from the expedition claiming
the discovery that will bring him international fame and
a nobel prize. He will also, in time, adopt forty-three
children from the island he has inadvertently destroyed,
and through these children bring on his own destruction.
THE PEoPLE In THE TREES is the story of norton
Perina’s life – from a childhood of loneliness and loss,
to his world-stirring discovery and subsequent downfall
– written in prison, edited and annotated by his friend
and besotted colleague, dr Ronald Kubodera. This
extraordinary debut collapses the line between myth and
reality, the real and the surreal, paying homage to two
masters of our last century, nabokov and Conrad.
UK
Pan Macmillan
(Jenny Geras)
uK Publication 9 May 2013 Fiction
Pippa Wright
THE FOSTER HUSBAND
Kate left her seaside home town of Lyme Regis for the
bright lights of London when she was eighteen, and
never looked back. Why would she? She had it all: the
glamorous career, the big townhouse, the gorgeous
husband. until her marriage failed and she found herself
with nowhere else to go but home.
now she’s unemployed, separated, and holed up in her
dead granny’s bungalow while she works out what to
do with the rest of her life. Worse, she’s forced to share
the bungalow with Ben, the clueless and domestically
challenged fiancé of her bossy sister Prue. Ben is a man in
need of simple instruction. And Kate is a woman in need
of a project. Her own marriage may be beyond saving, but
perhaps she can stop her sister’s husband from making
all the mistakes that doomed her own relationship.
Kate decides that she will secretly train Ben, her foster
husband, as a selfless pre-wedding gift to her sister.
Ben will be the man her own husband should have been.
But Kate may be about to learn a few of her own lessons
about what makes a good marriage.
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UK
Weidenfeld and
nicholson
(Kirsty Dunseath)
Brazil
editora novo
conceito
Catalan
columna edicions
China
Beijing Heping
Yahua cultural
communications
co.
Finland
WsoY
Germany
droemer
Holland
the House of
Books
Italy
Mondadori
Norway
cappelen damm
Poland
Proszynski
Spain
espasa
uK Publication 16 May 2013 Fiction uK Publication 7 June 2013 Fiction
Eva Weaver
THE PUPPET BOY OF
WARSAW
THE PuPPET BoY oF WARSAW is the story of Mika,
a Jewish boy living with his mother and grandfather in
the Warsaw ghetto. When his grandfather is shot dead in
the street whilst defending a young girl from a German
soldier, Mika inherits his coat and discovers many secret
pockets in the lining. In one of the many pockets he finds
a puppet. He then discovers that his grandfather had
been secretly making many different puppets and hiding
them away in a cupboard. Mika finishes making them
and becomes a puppeteer in the ghetto entertaining the
children in the orphanage and the hospital. Then, one
day, he is discovered and forced to put on shows for the
occupying German troops.
It is also the story of Max, a German soldier stationed
in Warsaw, whose experiences in Poland and later in
Siberia’s Gulag present a different face of that devastating
war.
A war-torn legacy is passed from one generation to the
next through Mika’s puppets. While Mika himself keeps
the princess, the crocodile and the fool, Max carries
off his puppet prince and they are not to be reunited
for many years… ultimately, THE PuPPET BoY oF
WARSAW is a novel of courage and redemption.
UK
random House
US
simon & schuster
France
editions Belfond
Douglas Kennedy
FIVE DAYS
Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her twenty
year marriage has flat lined and her husband, dan, has
become a stranger to her since losing his job eighteen
months ago. So when she is invited to a weekend
conference in Boston, she jumps at the opportunity.
While checking in she gets talking with a man she
immediately characterises as grey and uninspired.
His name is Richard Coleman. He’s a fifty something
insurance salesman, also from Maine, also in Boston
for the weekend. But when a chance meeting later that
evening brings them together again, Laura begins to
discover another man beneath the salesman façade:
smart, animated and surprisingly literate.
Two lonely people meet by chance in a city not their own.
Two people desperate for a connection, yet terrified of
the implications. In his remarkable new novel, douglas
Kennedy takes the premise of a brief encounter and turns
it into a hugely compelling exploration of how and why
we fall in love, and the way in which the entire trajectory
of a life can change thanks to the music of chance.
A profoundly moving love story that inspires tears and
serious rumination, FIvE dAYS speaks directly to the
manifold contradictions of the human heart.
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UK
titan Books
(Cath Trechman)
uK Publication 28 June 2013 Fiction uK Publication 4 July 2013 Fiction
George Mann
THE EXECUTIONER’S HEART:
A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation
victorian London and a serial killer is loose on the
streets, murdering apparently random members of
the gentry with violent abandon. The corpses are each
found with the chest cavities cracked open and their
hearts removed. It is clear that some new and strange
contraption is being used to effect this procedure. Charles
Bainbridge, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, suspects
an occult significance to the crimes and brings in the
inimitable team of newbury and Hobbes.
It soon becomes apparent, however, that something
much more sinister is going on. It transpires the victims
are all agents of the Queen, many of whom newbury
and Hobbes were completely unaware of. They find
themselves on the trail of an assassin known as ‘the
Executioner’, a female mercenary renowned for her use
of bizarre gadgetry and weapons.
Stalked through the fog-laden alleyways of London,
how will newbury and Hobbes stay alive long enough to
bring an end to the reign of the Executioner? Who can
they trust, when every agent they know might be the
Executioner’s next victim…or her ally and co-conspirator?
And what does the Executioner want with her victim’s
hearts?
THE ExECuTIonER’S HEART is an action-packed
steampunk murder mystery, a story of betrayal and the
search for redemption and a fable of a woman who longs
so much for a heart that she cannot prevent herself from
stealing those of others?
George Mann is the author of The Affinity Bridge, The
Osiris Ritual, The Immorality Engine and many others.
UK
orion
(Kate Mills)
Fanny Blake
OTHER WOMEN’S HUSBANDS
‘Fanny Blake is a wonder. Put on the tea, ring up the girls
and have a party... Fanny writes with hilarity, warmth
and truth about how to navigate the tricky waters of
womanhood.’– Adriana Trigiani author of
The Shoemaker’s Wife.
The plan was for family and friends to relax and enjoy the
many pleasures of Casa Rosa, daniel and Rose’s Tuscan
villa. Instead, it would turn out to be a September of
shocks and surprises.
First an intercepted text message shatters Rose’s absolute
belief in her long and happy marriage. Then close friend
Eve discovers a colleague has been nursing a hidden
agenda that requires her total focus if her business is
to survive – and this just when her commitment to
her own marriage is in question. daniel and Rose’s
adult daughters hardly contribute to a harmonious
atmosphere: Anna is as self-preoccupied as always, and
Jess is at war with her father. The perfect holiday is set to
become a perfect nightmare. And then tragedy strikes.
Can we ever understand other people’s marriages? How
much do we really understand our own? What if the man
you love turns out not to be the person you thought you
knew?
Moving on to a memorial service in London, a 25th
wedding anniversary celebration in Cornwall and
then back to Casa Rosa eighteen months later, all
the characters in Fanny Blake’s wise, wry and richly
entertaining new novel are forced to consider profound
questions of loyalty and love – and to reach a new
understanding of what really matters.
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France
denoel
Germany
Piper
French and German Publication 2013 Fiction
Clara Salaman
THE LITTLE UTOPIA
Set in the 1980s, THE LITTLE uToPIA is about a
young, adventurous couple, Johnny and Clem, who
are backpacking in Turkey and having the time of their
lives. until they run into trouble in a small fishing town.
Johnny and Clem are rescued by a charismatic older
couple with a child and are smuggled out on their boat,
the Little utopia. They have every intention of getting
back on land later that day but instead the boat ventures
further out to sea.
Frank, the father, is unlike anyone Johnny or Clem have
ever come across: he is a truly independent thinker and
a natural teacher. He opens their hearts and minds in
ways unimaginable. His wife is no less intriguing and the
daughter, Smudge, latches onto Johnny.
Two days become three and three days become four, and
the atmosphere becomes highly charged. It is not until
the end of the first week that Johnny and Clem discover
the true nature of life on the Little utopia and they
desperately need to escape.
only there is nowhere to go…
Non-Fiction
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UK
Allen lane
(Stuart Proffitt)
uK Publication 19 April 2012 non-Fiction
Tom Watson and Martin Hickman
DIAL M FOR MURDOCH
Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been hacking phones,
blagging information and casually destroying people’s
lives for years, but it was only after a trivial report
about Prince William’s knee in 2005 that detectives
stumbled on a criminal conspiracy. A five year cover-up
then concealed and muddied the truth. dIAL M FoR
MuRdoCH gives the first connected account of the
extraordinary lengths to which the Murdochs’ news
Corporation went to “put the problem in a box” (in James
Murdoch’s words), how its efforts to maintain and extend
its power were aided by its political and police friends,
and how it was finally exposed.
This book is full of details which have never been
disclosed before in public, including the smears and
threats against politicians, journalists and lawyers.
It reveals the existence of brave insiders who pointed out
those pursuing the investigation towards pieces of secret
information that cracked open the case. By contrast,
many of the main players in the book are unsavoury,
but by the end of it you have a clear idea of what they did.
Seeing the story whole, as it is presented here for the first
time, allows the character of the organisation which it
portrays to emerge unmistakably. You will hardly believe
it.
Tom Watson is the MP for West Bromich East and was
a leading figure in the Culture, Media and Sport Select
committee, into the phone hacking scandal. Martin
Hickman has worked for the Independent since 2001,
and has driven the paper’s coverage of the Murdoch
empire.
UK
Portobello
(Laura Barber)
US
knopf
(Sonny Mehta)
Holland
Atlas
uK Publication 7 June 2012 non-Fiction
Andrea Stuart
SUGAR IN THE BLOOD:
One Family’s Story of Slavery
An epic and intimate story of the crop that created
nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples – and
determined the destiny of one family for four centuries.
In the late 1640s, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known
maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the
promise of the new World, to settle in Barbados where he
fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation
owner. With George Ashby’s first crop, the cane
revolution was underway and would go on to transform
the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches, establishing
a thriving worldwide industry that bound together
ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black
workers. As it grew, this sweet colonial trade fuelled the
Enlightenment and financed the Industrial Revolution,
but it also had more direct, less palatable consequences
for the individuals caught up in it, consequences that still
haunt the author’s past. In this unique personal history,
Andrea Stuart follows the thread of her own family’s
involvement with sugar through successive generations,
telling a story of insatiable greed and forbidden love, of
abuse and liberation.
‘This is a family history with an ambitious range. In tracing
her origins down the centuries, Andrea gives a clear,
imaginative and often deeply shocking account of the dark
history of the sugar trade and her ancestors’ part in it.’
– Daily Mail
‘Andrea Stuart has written a magisterial work of history’
– The Independent
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US
knopf
(Victoria Wilson)
uK Publication 19 June 2012 non-Fiction
Anthony Heilbut
THE FAN WHO KNEW TOO
MUCH
In THE FAn WHo KnEW Too MuCH, Heilbut writes
about art and obsession, from country blues singers
and male sopranos to European intellectuals and the
originators of radio soap opera—figures transfixed and
transformed who helped to change the American cultural
landscape. THE FAn WHo KnEW Too MuCH is a
revelatory look at some of our American icons and iconic
institutions, high, low, and exalted.
‘The Fan Who Knew Too Much is the book Heilbut’s gospel
fans have been waiting for since The Gospel Sound (1972).’
– The Paris Review
‘The Fan Who Knew Too Much feels like a late Beethoven
string quartet, drawing on a rich career’s obsessions and
paying tribute to sources of inspiration.’– The Daily Beast
‘Surprising and deeply moving . . . Rousing and impassioned
. . . Heilbut’s various obsessions are weaved through this
deeply personal collection, giving it the charismatic stamp of
a single man and a single mind.’ – The Boston Globe
‘A dazzling exploration of American culture—from high
pop to highbrow—by acclaimed music authority, cultural
historian, and biographer Anthony Heilbut, author of the
now classic The Gospel Sound (“Definitive” – Rolling Stone),
Exiled in Paradise, and Thomas Mann ’ – “electric”– Harold
Brodkey
UK
Penguin Press
(Simon Winder)
China
Beijing Yanziyue
culture and Art
studio
Germany
s Fischer Verlag
Holland
Atlas contact
Korea
cum libro
Italy
Guanda editore
Taiwan
linking Publishing
uK Publication 2 August 2012 non-Fiction
Pankaj Mishra
FROM THE RUINS OF EMPIRE
The victorian period, viewed in the west as a time of
self-confident progress, was experienced by Asians as a
catastrophe. Foreign soldiers and merchants tore apart
the great empires which had once formed the heart of
civilisation. As the British gunned down the Summer
Palace in Beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the
ottoman Empire, it was clear that for Asia to recover a
vast intellectual effort would be required.
Pankaj Mishra allows the reader to see the events of two
centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets,
radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and
Asia. Sitting in the midst of ruins of the old empires
which now seemed doomed to permanent partition by
predatory foreigners, these thinkers created the ideas
which in turn were to doom the new empires, and which
lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party
to Al Qaeda, from Indian nationalism to the Muslim
Brotherhood.
‘Deeply researched and arrestingly original…this
penetrating and disquieting book should be on the reading
list of anybody who wants to understand where we are
today.’ – Independent John Gray
‘Brilliant ... Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon
the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the
majority of the world’s population – from Turkey to China...
Excellent.’ – Orhan Pamuk
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uS Publication 24 August 2012 non-Fiction
Mark Harrison
CONTAGION
US
disease and commerce are among the most powerful
Yale University forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also
Press
(Heather McCallum) closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been
the single most important factor in the spread of diseases.
In this groundbreaking book, Mark Harrison provides the
first major international history of contagious illness and
of commerce.
Beginning with the plagues that ravaged much of
Eurasia in the fourteenth century, Harrison charts
both the passage of disease and the measures taken to
prevent it. He examines the emergence of public health
in the Western world and its subsequent development
elsewhere, highlighting the persistent abuse of sanitary
measures for economic and political gain, and revealing
how quarantines and sanitary embargoes have even
become weapons of war. Harrison also traces growing
opposition to these practices among merchants, medical
practitioners and humanitarian reformers, and explores
the development of international regulations and
institutions to govern public health.
drawing on a wealth of original source material from
archives and libraries around the world, Mark Harrison
offers a new and horrifyingly relevant perspective on the
history of humanity and the world we inhabit today.
UK
simon & schuster
(Mike Jones)
Factual TV rights
Plum Pictures
uK Publication 30 August 2012 non-Fiction
Dom Joly
SCARY MONSTERS AND SUPER
CREEPS
dom Joly, writer, television comedian and journalist, sets
off round the world again, but this time he’s not looking
to holiday in a danger zone – he’s monster hunting.
Ever since he was given a copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s
Mysterious World for his ninth birthday dom has been
obsessed with the world of cryptozoology (monster
hunting), and in SCARY MonSTERS And SuPER
CREEPS he heads to six completely different destinations
to investigate local monster sightings.
He explores the Redwood Curtain in northern California
in search of Sasquatch; in Canada he visits Lake
okanagan hoping to catch a glimpse of a thirty-foot
snake-like creature called ogopogo; and near Lake Tele in
Congo he risks his life tracking the vegetarian sauropod
Mokele-mbembe. naturally he heads to Loch ness – but
for this hunt he has his family in tow; he treks across the
Khumbu valley in nepal looking for Yeti; and in the hills
above Hiroshima in Japan he enlists the help of a local
man to find the Hibagon, a terribly smelly ‘caveman ape’.
In typically hilarious and irreverent fashion, dom
explores the cultures that gave rise to these monster
myths and ends up in some pretty hairy situations with
people even stranger than the monsters they are hunting.
Are the monsters all the product of fevered minds, or is
there a sliver of truth somewhere in the madness? Either
way, the search gives dom an excuse to dive into six
fascinating destinations on a gloriously nutty adventure.
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UK and Canada
simon and
schuster
(Mike Jones)
US
it Books,
Harpercollins
(Denise Oswald)
France
Le Mot et le Reste
uK Publication 27 September 2012 non-Fiction
Peter Hook
UNKNOWN PLEASURES:
Inside Joy Division
‘It’s funny really. Over the years Joy Division have become
such a massive part of music culture; and a lot of people
think they know what happened! But they don’t! Anyone
who’s ever written a book or made a film about Joy Division,
unless they were sat in that van with us, they know fuck-all
about it. And there weren’t any writers or filmmakers in the
van; we didn’t have the space. There was just the five of us:
me, Bernard, Stephen, Ian and Rob. Only us lot know what
really happened…’ – Peter Hook
Inspired by the attitude, energy and sound of Punk,
particularly the Sex Pistols, Peter Hook and his old school
friend Bernard Sumner started a band which continues
to influence popular music 35 years later, uniting with a
gifted lead-singer and lyricist, Ian Curtis, and a brilliant
drummer, Stephen Morris. With some cobbled together
instruments and a clapped out old van, four young lads
from Manchester and Salford shared the same vision and
created their own unique sound in pubs and clubs first
across the north-west, then across the whole of Britain,
until in 1980 they had released two albums and were on
the cusp of touring America. Then Ian Curtis committed
suicide leaving everyone around him bereft.
Best known for the propulsive bass guitar melodies
of ‘Love Will Tear us Apart’ Hooky was at the heart
of the sound that came to define an era and inspire a
generation. In the frank, no-holds-barred style that has
seen his previous book The Hacienda: How Not to Run a
Club hailed as one of the best music books of 2009, Peter
‘Hooky’ Hook gives us the inside story of life with Joy
division.
World English
simon & schuster
(Mike Jones)
US
scribner
(Kelsey Smith)
uK Publication 31 January 2013 non-Fiction
Andrew Wilson
MAD GIRL’S LOVE SONG:
Sylvia Plath before Ted Hughes
on 25th February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia
Plath stepped into a roomful of people at a party and first
encountered Ted Hughes – and to this day his enormous
shadow has obscured many aspects of her life and work…
After Plath’s death, Hughes became Plath’s literary
executor, the guardian of her writings, and, in effect,
became responsible for how she was perceived. But
Hughes repressed Plath’s prose writing, viewing it as a
‘waste product’ of her ‘false self’, and his poor view of
her early poetry has meant that her other earlier work is
largely unknown.
Before she met Ted however, Plath had lived a complex,
creative and disturbing life. She had dated hundreds
of men, had been unofficially engaged, had already
attempted suicide and had written over 200 poems.
MAd GIRL’S LovE SonG digs deep into these early
years to find the sources of her deep mental instabilities
and will show how a range of personal, economic and
societal factors – the real disquieting muses – conspired
against her.
drawing on exclusive interviews with friends and
lovers who have never spoken openly before and using
previously unavailable archives and papers, this is the
first book to focus on the early life of the twentieth
century’s most popular and enduring female poet.
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UK
Hodder and
stoughton
(Rowena Webb)
uK Publication 14 February 2013 non-Fiction
James Bowen
BOB: NO ORDINARY CAT
A STREET CAT nAMEd BoB stormed to the top of the
uK bestseller charts on publication earlier this year and
has remained there ever since. With over 100,000 copies
sold to date and 14 translation sales, Bob is fast-becoming
a global phenomenon!
When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat
curled up in his hallway, the last thing he needed was
a pet. Yet, James couldn’t resist helping the strikingly
intelligent tom cat, whom he christened Bob. Soon the
pair were inseparable, and their diverse, comic and
occasionally dangerous adventures, would transform
both their lives, slowly healing the scars of each other’s
troubled pasts.
BoB: no oRdInARY CAT is a version of this popular
book geared towards the 8-12 year old readership. It will
be supplemented by a brand new photographic insert
which will be unique to this edition.
‘Bob has entranced London like no feline since the days of
Dick Whittington’ – London Evening Standard
‘A heart-warming tale with a message of hope.’ – Daily Mail
UK
serpent’s tale
(Rebecca Gray)
Canada
Harper collins
Italy
Playground
uK Publication 11 April 2013 non-Fiction
Helen Humphreys
TRUE STORY
Helen Humphreys’ younger brother was gone before she
could come to terms with the fact that he had terminal
cancer. diagnosed with stage 4B pancreatic cancer at the
age of 45, he died three months later, leaving a grieving
family.
Martin was an extraordinary pianist who turned his back
on a performing career to become a music teacher and a
wandering spirit, living in 16 different places before he
died. Yet the two siblings, though often far apart, shared
a deep and abiding bond.
TRuE SToRY is a deeply felt, haunting memoir both
about and for Martin. Speaking directly to him, Helen
Humphreys lays bare their secrets, their disagreements,
their early childhood together, their intense though
unspoken love for one another…
TRuE SToRY is a book of quiet, elegant grace full of
touching passages and images. A memoir of grief and
an honest self-examination in the face of profound pain,
this poetic, honest and intimate book is an offering to the
memory of Martin but that will speak to anyone who has
experienced the loss of a loved one.
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UK
random House/
rider
(Judith Kendra)
uK Publication date Spring 2013 non-Fiction
T J Higgs
TRUE SPIRIT:
Unveiling the Secrets of the Afterlife
The Afterlife is shrouded in myth and misunderstanding.
To many, the “other side” is a complicated dimension,
one that is beyond their comprehension. Yet, it doesn’t
need to be so daunting and difficult to understand.
In TRuE SPIRIT, acclaimed medium T. J. Higgs draws
back the veil of secrecy and reveals the truth about the
Afterlife. Through a series of revealing anecdotes and
personal experiences, she dispels myths about a range of
subjects.
T. J. also unveils the surprising truth about organised
religion’s attitude towards mediums and how mediums
can communicate with those who are in limbo between
this world and the next.
Throughout, Higgs’ unique blend of honesty, heart and
humour – her own true spirit – shines through.
UK
Faber and Faber
(Angus Cargill)
Finland
like
Sweden
Forma Books
uK Publication 27 September 2013 non-Fiction
Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood
BIRTH SCHOOL METALLICA
DEATH
BIRTH SCHooL METALLICA dEATH will be the
definitive two-volume history of Metallica by Paul
Brannigan and Ian Winwood, a landmark release in the
history of music biographies.
Metallica are one of the world’s biggest rock bands and
have sold in excess of 100 million albums. Their journey
from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the
world’s biggest and most storied stadia has been an epic
and often traumatic one. There are countless memorable
stories about the band yet to make it into print: tales
of bed-hopping and drug-taking and car-crashes and
fist-fights and back-stabbing that occur when you mix
testosterone and adrenaline and alcohol and egomania.
no music writers have been afforded greater access to
Metallica over the past two decades than Brannigan and
Winwood. The duo have conducted approximately 75
hours of interviews with the band, gaining not only an
unparalleled knowledge of the group’s history but also an
insiders’ view of how this story has developed. The pair
have ridden in the band’s limos, flown on their private jet,
joined them in the studio during the recording of seminal
albums, been invited to the quartet’s ‘HQ’ outside San
Francisco and shared beers and stories with the four
piece backstage in venues across the globe.
This will be a rock ‘n’ roll saga more perceptive, more
emotionally attached, more intellectually rigorous and
more readable than any which has gone before.
Paul Brannigan is the author of This Is A Call: The Life
and Times of Dave Grohl, which was a Sunday Times
bestseller, and Ian Winwood is one of the uK’s finest
music writers.
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UK
Viking Penguin Uk
(Joel Ricketts)
Holland
Balans
uK Publication date october 2013 non-Fiction
Paul Willetts
RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN
TEAROOM
Set in London during the ominous calm that preceded
the Blitz, REndEzvouS AT THE RuSSIAn TEARooM
is the story of one of the most significant yet littleknown
espionage operations of the Second World War.
Central to this narrative is Tyler Kent, a debonair young
American encryption expert, compulsive womaniser
and Soviet spy. Transferred from his country’s Moscow
embassy, Kent soon finds himself on a collision course
with the man destined to inspire the character of “M”
in the James Bond novels: eccentric British spymaster,
Maxwell Knight, who has just been promoted to run
MI5’s top secret new counter-espionage organisation.
Through his job at the united States Embassy, Kent
discovers that President Roosevelt is exchanging coded
telegrams with Winston Churchill. Kent’s Machiavellian
plan to topple Roosevelt entails him passing copies of the
telegrams to a nazi spy-ring, led by his current girlfriend,
Anna Wolkoff, an elegant Russian emigré working as
dressmaker to the duchess of Windsor.
With the outcome of the war at stake, Knight launches a
mission to infiltrate this glamorous circle of conspirators
who hold regular meetings in a chic South Kensington
restaurant, source of the best caviar in town. Against
an atmospheric backdrop of air-raid drills, blacked-out
streets and speculation about the imminent German
assault on Britain, REndEzvouS AT THE RuSSIAn
TEARooM unravels a murky story, populated by an
idiosyncratic supporting cast.
UK
cape
(Dan Franklin)
US
knopf
(sonny Mehta)
Canada
knopf canada
(Louise Dennys)
Brazil
editora schwarz
sA companhia das
letras
Denmark
rosinante
uK Publication date 2013 non-Fiction
Jung Chang
EMPRESS DOWAGER CIXI:
The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Empress dowager Cixi is the most important woman in
Chinese history. She ruled for forty-seven years, from
1861 (when she was twenty-six) to her death in 1908, and
during that time she transformed China from a medieval
state into modern society.
Born into the family of a middle-level Manchu official,
she was selected to be one of the 3,000 concubines
to the emperor, but quickly caught his attention and
was the only one to produce a male heir to the throne.
When the emperor died her 5 year old son succeeded
to the throne and she swiftly launched a coup, ousting
the eight powerful regents appointed by her husband.
Totally dominating her first son, and then his successor,
her nephew Emperor Guangxu, during her reign, China
acquired industries, mines, railways, cars, electricity,
telegraph, telephones, Western medicine, an army
and navy with modern weapons and modern ways of
conducting foreign trade and diplomacy. This great
moderniser also decreed education for women and
abolished the ancient practice of foot-binding (as a
Manchu her feet had not been bound but she felt the pain
of the Han women). At the same time she loved luxury,
acquired many palaces and wore fabulous clothes and
jewels. She routinely spent two to three hours a day doing
her toilette. Her lifestyle was a unique mix of old and
new, her Mercedes-Benz pulled by horses and donkeys.
using a huge number of archival documents and pictures
that have only recently become available, bestselling
author Jung Chang will cut through the legends and lies
to create a portrait of one of the most intriguing and
powerful women of all time.
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Finland
otava
Germany
Blessing Verlag
Holland
Meulenhoff
Boekerij
Italy
longanesi
Japan
kodansha
Norway
Gyldendal
Sweden
norstedts

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