no ordinary cat - ANTHEA

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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