no ordinary cat - ANTHEA
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UK<br />
scholastic<br />
(Clare Argar)<br />
uK Publi<strong>cat</strong>ion date April 2013 Fiction<br />
Mark Lowery<br />
BOXER SHORTS:<br />
My Part in their Downfall<br />
From the author of Socks Are <strong>no</strong>t E<strong>no</strong>ugh, shortlisted for<br />
the Roald dahl Funny Prize and winner of the Calderdale<br />
Best Children’s Book of the Year, comes this hilarious<br />
sequel.<br />
Michael Swarbrick thinks he’s solved his problems. But<br />
following his arrest for flashing at a stolen donkey, he<br />
realises that they’ve only just begun... As his mother<br />
attempts to turn him into a global nudist icon, he lurches<br />
from one disaster to a<strong>no</strong>ther: setting fire to himself while<br />
dressed as a giant custard cream, being stalked by a<br />
naked French woman, and crushing his friend Lucy,<br />
The Most Wonderful Girl in the universe.<br />
Just as you thought it couldn’t get any worse/funnier<br />
than in SoCKS ARE <strong>no</strong>T E<strong>no</strong>uGH, Michael’s life<br />
spirals out of control. Both hysterically funny and cringemaking,<br />
children will laugh out loud at Michael’s latest<br />
antics.<br />
UK<br />
little Brown<br />
(Lennie Goodings)<br />
US<br />
random House<br />
(Susanna Porter)<br />
Canada<br />
Harpercollins<br />
Holland<br />
orlando Uitgevers<br />
Italy<br />
neri Pozza<br />
uK Publi<strong>cat</strong>ion 4 April 2013 Fiction<br />
Sarah Dunant<br />
BLOOD AND BEAUTY<br />
From the acclaimed <strong>no</strong>velist of the Italian renaissance,<br />
Sarah dunant, comes a visceral, epic <strong>no</strong>vel that will<br />
challenge what we think we k<strong>no</strong>w about one of history’s<br />
most dynamic and maligned families, the Borgias.<br />
Rooted in the energetic, brutal and corrupt world of 15th<br />
Century Italy, BLood And BEAuTY opens with Cardinal<br />
Rodrigo Borgia, clever and charismatic, buying his way to<br />
the Papal crown. In this he is <strong>no</strong>t unusual. neither is the<br />
fact that he has illegitimate children.<br />
What does mark him out is his blood; he is a Spaniard in<br />
a country run by established Italian families. To thrive,<br />
even to survive, he must create his own dynasty using the<br />
papacy and his family as the building blocks of power.<br />
His son Cesare is his most brilliant pupil. Fearless and<br />
calculating, (later immortalised as Machiavelli’s The<br />
Prince) he provides the driving energy and the muscle.<br />
The Pope’s daughter, Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is<br />
their marriage tool. Just 12 when the <strong>no</strong>vel opens, she<br />
is to have one dynastic union annulled, and a second<br />
– loved – husband murdered by her own brother to make<br />
way for a third strategic marriage, all before the age of 20.<br />
Hers is a journey from pawn to political player.<br />
using the high wire tension of a political thriller, this<br />
portrait of power and it’s personal costs is the most<br />
thrilling saga to come out of Italy since The Godfather.<br />
The Borgias emerge, <strong>no</strong>t as the poisoning sexual monsters<br />
of popular myth, but in all their ruthless determination<br />
and complex humanity. They will <strong>no</strong>t easily be forgotten.<br />
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Russia<br />
eksmo
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