New Books from Faber July – December 2010
Contents
New Books July — December 2010 Original Fiction
Original Poetry
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44 Human Chain 46 Maggot 48 Of Mutability 50 Selected Poems of Mick Imlah 51 The Waste Land Facsimilie 52 Letters to Monica 54 W. H. Auden Prose Volume 4 55 Selected Poems and Translations of Ezra Pound 56 Shakespeare’s Sonnets 57 The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 58 Kid 58 Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis 58 The Whitsun Weddings 59 Dart 59 Nil Nil 59 Ariel
Lights Out in Wonderland Sunset Park Beautiful Malice Long Time, No See Private Life Orchid Blue Foster Cedilla The Spot Two For Sorrow Unholy Awakening
Original Non-Fiction 24 26 28 30 31 32 34 36 37 38 39 40 41
Livin’ the Dreem Answer Me This How I Escaped My Certain Fate How to Keep a Pet Squirrel The Bedwetter She-Wolves Victory Roll Catherine of Aragon When God Made Hell The Kaiser’s Holocaust Red Plenty When a Billion Chinese Jump Believe in People
Original Drama 62 64 65 66 67 67 68
Theatre The Early Diaries Simon Gray Plays 1, Plays 2 Simon Gray Plays 3, Plays 4, Plays 5 Tales of Ballycumber Andersen’s English Bruckner’s Pains of Youth
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Dunsinane David Greig Plays 1 The Absence of Women Haunted Greta Garbo Comes to Donegal Ibsen’s Ghosts Eigengrau If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet Strandline The Line The Priory Bulgakov’s The White Guard The Promise Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothings
Original Music 78 Why Mahler? 79 The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten 80 When That Rough God Goes Riding Through 81 Electric Eden
Original Film 84 85 86 87
Sean Connery Tough Without a Gun Danny Boyle Collected Screenplays of Paul Auster
Original Children’s
Paperback
90 Alana Dancing Star: Samba Spectacular 91 Alana Dancing Star: LA Moves 92 Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash 93 School of Night: Demon Storm 94 The Hoozles: My Magical Teddy 94 The Hoozles: The Naughty Croc 95 The Hoozles: A Penguin Problem 95 The Hoozles: The Big Parade 95 The Hoozles: The Rabbit Rescue 96 Boy Zero Wannabe Hero 97 Furnace: Prison Break 98 Vampyre Labyrinth: RedEye 99 Doctor Doom
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Audio 102 102 102 105 105 105
The Waste Land The Children’s Stories of Ted Hughes The Children’s Poems of Ted Hughes Invisible Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky Beautiful Malice
The Museum of Innocence Invisible Eye of the Red Tsar Pilgrims All the Colours of the Town Voice Over Shortcomings A Gambling Man Newton and the Counterfeiter The Eitingons Franklin MINI William Golding Samuel Johnson We Need to Talk About Kelvin Love of the World Talking About Detective Fiction The Maul and the Pear Tree Ship of Fools The Secret Life of France Travels with a Typewriter Sydney Contact! The QI Book of the Dead The Complete Book of Sisters
113 The War Poems 113 Rain 113 The Anathemata 113 In Parenthesis 114 Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens 114 The Half 114 Different Drummer 115 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 115 Heriot 115 Carol Ann Duffy’s New and Collected Poems for Children
International Editions 116 116 116 116 117
Eye of the Red Tsar Advanced Banter Parrot and Olivier in America Chronic City Collected Stories of Hanif Kureishi
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Index Contents
Original Fiction
Original Fiction
Lights Out in Wonderland DBC Pierre
The spectacular third novel from DBC Pierre, one of the great fantastical storytellers of his generation. Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twentysomething decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that’s to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo and Berlin, Lights Out in Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell’s remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel’s adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin’s majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes as his urge towards self-destruction transforms into a vitalising epiphany.
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Lights Out in Wonderland carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror in Gabriel’s voice, which is at once sceptical, idealistic, seductive and broken. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre’s third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.
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DBC Pierre lives in County Leitrim, Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the MAN Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. Ludmila’s Broken English, his second, was published in 2006.
Goodbye then carbon footprint, farewell the Royal Mail, adieu lager louts, egg & cress, Posh and Becks. Cheerio my dear, beloved place. Smaller lives than yours may come and go, and the seasons within them may flourish and wither. But this night like a moonlit churchyard – this is my night. 7
04/11/2010 320pp UK and Commonwealth excluding Canada
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Original Fiction
Sunset Park Paul Auster
Paul Auster’s new novel goes right to the heart of the anguish of contemporary America. The book begins in the sprawling flatlands of Florida where 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago.
What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father that he has been avoiding for years. Pulsing with the energy of Auster’s previous novel, Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness – not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.
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Original Fiction
Beautiful Malice Rebecca James An intensely gripping, brilliantly plotted psychological thriller, set to be the must-read book of 2010. Following a horrific tragedy that leaves her once perfect family devastated, Katherine Patterson moves to a new city, starts at a new school, and looks forward to a new life of quiet anonymity. But when Katherine meets the gregarious and beautiful Alice Parrie her resolution to live a solitary life becomes difficult. Katherine is unable to resist the flattering attention that Alice pays her and is so charmed by Alice’s contagious enthusiasm that the two girls soon become firm friends. Alice’s joie de vivre is transformative; it helps Katherine forget her painful past and slowly, tentatively, Katherine allows herself to start enjoying life again.
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But being friends with Alice is complicated – and as Katherine gets to know her better she discovers that, although Alice can be charming and generous, she can also be selfish and egocentric. Sometimes, even, Alice is cruel. And when Katherine starts to wonder if Alice is really the kind of person she wants as a friend, she discovers something else about Alice: she doesn’t like being cast off. Shocking and utterly absorbing, Beautiful Malice will grip readers from the very first page.
01/07/2010 288pp UK, EU exclusive and Commonwealth excluding ANZ
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Rebecca James was born in Sydney in 1970. She grew up in numerous places throughout Australia – including Bourke, Sydney, Wellington and Bathurst. Rebecca has worked as a waitress, a kitchen designer, an English teacher in both Indonesia and Japan, a barmaid, and (most memorably) a mini-cab telephoneoperator in London. Rebecca lives in Australia with her partner and their four sons.
‘So. Were you glad, deep down? Were you glad to be rid of her? Your perfect sister? Were you secretly glad when she was killed?’
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07/10/2010 978 0 571 210749 320pp _
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Dermot Healy is an Irish poet, novelist and playwright. His most recent novel was Sudden Times, back in 1999.
And, behold, I said, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. He was not, he said.
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Original Fiction
Long Time, No See Dermot Healy
The long-awaited return (after an 11-year-absence) of one of the greatest of contemporary Irish novelists. Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche: an isolated townland on the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibuprovider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend, The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on the cusp of adulthood, undone by a recent traumatic event. Hanging out with men some forty-plus years his senior proves hazardous for Mister Psyche when the appearance of a bullet-hole in Uncle Joe-Joe’s window draws him into a series of (mis)adventures which unsettle and bemuse. Perhaps The Blackbird is losing
it? Or perhaps The General has decided to act on a decades-old grudge? Whichever way, as the paranoia grabs a creeping hold of Uncle Joe-Joe, his fragile world threatens to collapse. And it is Mister Psyche who must digest this and acknowledge the new world taking shape in the old . . . A novel about community, family, love and bonds across generations, Long Time, No See is one of the most significant novels to come out of Ireland in this new century. An epic in miniature peopled by a cast of innocents and broken misfits, its’ still lyrical power casts a miraculous literary spell.
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Original Fiction
Private Life Jane Smiley
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s the most famous man their Missouri town has ever produced: a naval officer and an astronomer – a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret’s mother calls the match ‘a piece of luck’.
Yet Andrew confounds Margaret’s expectations from the moment their train leaves for his naval base in San Francisco, and soon she realizes that his devotion to science leaves little room for anything, or anyone, else. She stands by him through tragedies both personal and those they share with the nation. But as World War II approaches, Andrew’s obsessions take a darker turn, forcing Margaret to reconsider the life she’d so carefully constructed. Private Life is a portrait of marriage and the mysteries that endure even in lives lived side by side, a riveting historical panorama, and an unforgettable novel from one of our finest storytellers.
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06/05/2010 978 0 571 258741 432pp _
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Jane Smiley is the author of eleven novels, as well as four works of non-fiction. She is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. She lives in Northern California.
‘A diverse and masterly writer.’ New York Times
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Original Fiction
04/11/2010 978 0 571 237548 304pp _
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Orchid Blue Eoin McNamee Eoin McNamee was born in Kilkeel, County Down, in 1961. He was educated in various schools in the North of Ireland and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book, the novella The Last of Deeds, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize and his novels include The Ultras, Resurrection Man, which was later made into a film, and The Blue Tango which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Sligo.
In the vein of David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet and the early novels of James Ellroy comes Orchid Blue, Eoin McNamee’s haunting masterpiece. January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs, and that the accused, the enigmatic Robert McGladdery, will struggle to get a fair hearing. Presiding over the case is Lord Justice Curran, a man who nine years previously had found his own family in the news, following the murder of his nineteen year old daughter, Patricia.
‘McNamee writes about violence with dreamy poetic immediacy.’ John Banville, Observer on Resurrection Man
‘Haunting, dark, graceful, less thriller than elaborate dance of death . . . It is an unforgettable narrative of flashbacks, doubt and moments of shocking clarity.’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times on The Blue Tango
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In a spectacular return to the territory of his acclaimed, Booker longlisted The Blue Tango, Eoin McNamee’s new novel explores and dissects this notorious murder case, which led to the final hanging on Northern Irish soil.
01/07/2010 978 0 571 255658 128pp _
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Original Fiction
Foster
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan was born in 1968 and grew up on a farm in Wicklow. Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was completed in 1998. It announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in County Louth, Ireland.
A moving, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers. A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. Over the long, hot summer the strangers’ house, she discovers a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is. Winner of the Davy Byrnes Award, Foster is now published in a revised and expanded version. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan’s great accomplishment and talent.
‘Foster puts on display an imposing array of formal beauties at the service of a deep and profound talent . . . She brings a thrilling synaesthetic instinct for the unexpected right word, and exhibits patient attention to life’s vast consequence and finality . . . a high-wire act of uncommon narrative virtuosity.’ Richard Ford
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Original Fiction
07/10/2010 978 0 571 245369 500pp _
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Cedilla
Adam Mars-Jones Adam Mars-Jones’s first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time.
Cedilla continues the history of John Cromer (‘adventures’ sounds rather too hectic) begun by Pilcrow, described by the London Review of Books as ‘peculiar, original, utterly idiosyncratic’ and by the Sunday Times as ‘truly exhilarating’. These huge and sparkling books are particularly surprising coming from a writer of previously (let’s be tactful) modest productivity, who had seemed stubbornly attached to small forms. Now the alleged miniaturist has rumbled into the literary traffic in his monster truck, and seems determined to overtake Proust’s cork-lined limousine while it’s stopped at the lights. John Cromer is the weakest hero in literature – unless he’s one of the strongest. In Cedilla he launches himself into the wi(l)der world of mainstream education, and comes upon deeper joys, subtler setbacks. The slow unfolding of themes is perhaps closer to Indian classical music than the Western tradition – raga/saga, anyone? This isn’t an epic novel as such things are normally understood, to be sure. It contains no physical battles and the bare minimum of travel, yet surely it qualifies. None of the reviews of Pilcrow explicitly compared it to a coral reef made of a billion tiny Crunchie bars, but that was the drift of opinion. Page by page, Cedilla too provides unfailing pleasure.
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04/11/2010 978 0 571 251339 256pp _
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Original Fiction
The Spot
David Means David Means is the author of A Quick Kiss of Redemption, Assorted Fire Events and The Secret Goldfish. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Zoetrope and Best American Short Stories. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.
The Spot is an old blacksmith shed in which a gang of men tweeze apart the intricacies of a botched bank robbery. The Spot is a place deep in Riverside Park, along the Hudson River, where two lovers walk with a keen sense that their adultery is about to come to an end. The Spot is at the bottom of Niagra Falls, where the body of a young girl floats as if caught in the tangled currents of her own tragic story. The Spot is a place in a young father’s mind where love, fear and responsibility merge in the struggle with his son’s potentially devastating diagnosis. The Spot lies in the eardrum of a madman plagued by a noisy upstairs neighbour on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This highly anticipated collection by internationally acclaimed short story master David Means is exceptional not only in its language but also in the diversity of the narratives, as he searches out with delicate precision the intricate relationship between immortality and grace.
‘It is Means’ signature talent to view the lives of his characters, and life itself, from somewhere just beyond, in a position of maximum understanding and honourable detachment. A semi-divine vantage point for the examination of hopelessly human affairs.’ Jeffrey Eugenides
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01/07/2010 978 0 571 246335 304pp _
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Two for Sorrow Nicola Upson Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey – one of the leading authors of Britain’s Golden Age of crime writing. She lives with her partner in Cambridge and in Cornwall, which is the setting for her second Josephine Tey novel, Angel with Two Faces.
London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences . . . When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers, she can have little idea that the research for her book will be needed to help solve a modern-day killing – the sadistic murder of a young seamstress, found dead in the Motley sisters’ studio, amid preparations for a star-studded charity gala. The girl’s death seems to be the result of a long-standing domestic feud, but Josephine’s friend, Inspector Archie Penrose, is unconvinced; and when a second young woman is involved in an horrific accident soon afterwards, the search begins for a vicious killer who will stop at nothing to keep the past where it belongs.
‘A new and assured talent.’ P. D. James
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Moving between the decadence and glamour of a private women’s club, the bleak surroundings of Holloway prison, and the deprivation of London’s slums, Two for Sorrow is a dark and unsettling exploration of the way in which the crimes of the past destroy those left behind – long after justice is done.
05/08/2010 978 0 571 237906 464pp _
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Original Crime
Unholy Awakening Michael Gregorio
A female corpse is found in the town of Lotingen. The girl’s neck has been ripped open, all the blood drained from the body. Hanno Stiffeniis hastens to investigate a case more terrifying than murder. Would any human being kill in such a gruesome fashion? Emma Rimmele has come to Lotingen to bury her mother. A beautiful woman travelling with a coffin in her baggage, Emma attracts gossip like a magnet. When a corpse is discovered near the house where she is living, speculation about the mysterious stranger reaches fever pitch. When two more ravaged bodies are found, fingers point accusingly in her direction. One word is heard on every tongue. Vampire . . .
Michael Gregorio are Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio. She teaches philosophy. He is interested in the history of photography in the nineteenth century. They have been married for over twenty-five years and live in Spoleto, a small town in central Italy. Their first novel, Critique of Criminal Reason introduced the Prussian Magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis. Unholy Awakening is the fourth novel in the Hanno Stiffeniis series.
News arrives from a nearby town. A French officer’s throat has been ripped out. Another French soldier has bled to death. The horror of Lotingen is happening elsewhere. Colonel Lavedrine, a criminologist in the Grand Armée, is ordered to collaborate with Magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis. Two years earlier, they had worked together to solve a murder despite fierce clashes of character and opinion. Once again, each man is drawn into the forbidden world of dark graveyard paths and reading in pursuit of a curse which has plagued Prussia for centuries.
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Original Non - Fiction
07/10/2010 978 0 571 260157 250pp _
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Harry Hill is an award-winning comedian and world-class swingball player. Born in Woking in 1964, he holds a medical degree from the University of London. His books include Flight from Deathrow and Tim the Tiny Horse. He has been a stand-up since the early 90s and is currently the star of TV Burp and the voice of You’ve Been Framed.
‘No one skewers the glorious silliness of British popular culture like Harry Hill.’ The Times
‘His surreal brand of humour walks a superbly successful tightrope between the silly and the sinister, the mainstream and the elite. He could be sending either (or neither) up at any moment. The comedy historian Oliver Double has described him as “Ronnie Corbett possessed by the ghost of Salvador Dalí”.’ Daily Telegraph 24
Original Gift and Humour
Livin’ the Dreem
A Year in the Life of Harry Hill
Harry Hill
Harry Hill’s unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration.
Read of his dog’s ongoing battle with the bottle, and how he is sacked from the sniffer staff at Gatwick Airport due to sexual harassment.
Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price.
Learn how Harry’s Nan gets on in her holiday home in Iraq, her affair with the milkman and her subsequent struggle to have fun whilst living on a curfew.
This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one hectic year in the eye of the showbiz storm, cut with a heavy mix of the day-to-day goings-on in Bexhill, where Harry lives at home with his mother and occasional Filipino fiancé, Lay Dee. Follow the near fatal goings-on during Harry’s filming of Britain’s Most Dangerous Roads, his attempts to become a judge on X Factor and his struggle to meet the Welsh chanteuse Duffy at Warwick Avenue.
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Original Gift and Humour
Answer Me This!
Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann Answer Me This! (http:// answermethispodcast.com) is a weekly interactive comedy podcast, presented by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann. In each show Helen and Olly answer listener-submitted questions, as diverse and fantastical as ‘Why does golf bring out the worst in people?’, ‘Who invented the scotch egg?’ and ‘Why do all girls hate me?’ In the Answer Me This! Question Compendium, Helen and Olly bring their trademark irreverence to the page for the first time in an inventive and witty spin on the classic Q&A format.
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Since its debut in January 2007, Answer Me This! has been chosen as an iTunes Podcast of the Year in 2008, and in 2009 became the first independently produced podcast to be nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award. With listeners all over the world, and more than 1.5 million downloads per year, the show is now one of the most popular comedy podcasts in Britain.
04/11/2010 978 0 571 260560 240pp _
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Helen Zaltzman has written for The Now Show and appeared in Radio 4’s Transatlantic with Rory Bremner. She appears live as part of Robin Ince’s Book Club and School for Gifted Children, and with Edinburgh comedy awardwinner Josie Long. Olly Mann has worked as a TV producer-director, with credits including The Culture Show, ITV’s The London Programme and, for Yahoo! Video, the online comedy series Get Your Island On. In 2006, Olly compiled the world’s first play to be based on real people’s blogs, Bloggers: Real Internet Diaries (www.seebloggers.com).
‘There’s a post-Charlie Kaufman feel to their comedy, what with all the warmth, interactivity and media-savviness.’ Guardian
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02/09/2010 978 0 571 254804 304pp _
Stewart Lee began stand-up in 1988 at the age of 20, and won the Hackney Empire new act of the year award in 1990. In 2001 he was asked to write the libretto for Jerry Springer: The Opera which went on to win four Olivier awards. His most recent standup shows have been Stand Up Comedian (2004), 90s Comedian (2005), 41st Best Stand-up Comedian (2007) and If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One (2009). Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, featuring stand-up shows and sketches, appeared on BBC2 in Spring 2009.
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How I Escaped My Certain Fate
The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian
Stewart Lee
Darling of the broadsheets, irritant to the Mail on Sunday and officially one of the 20 Funniest Men on the Planet (Shortlist, January 2010) Stewart Lee is blessed and cursed with the tag ‘the comedian’s comedian’.
How I Escaped My Certain Fate is an illuminating and original look at performance and the craft of stand-up. It offers a rare glimpse into the world of Lee, whose work inspires the most histrionic critical praise for its unflinching subject material and stylistic approach.
In this, his first work of nonfiction, he presents the texts of the three stand-up shows he wrote and performed between 2004 and 2008, with notes and commentary, anecdote and autobiographical detail where relevant. It also includes the fallout from his contribution to Jerry Springer: The Opera.
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Original Gift and Humour
21/10/2010 978 0 571 255986 48pp _
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How To Keep a Pet Squirrel Axel Scheffler Axel Scheffler has achieved worldwide acclaim for his illustration. The Gruffalo, published in 1999, has become a modern classic, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide and translated into more than twenty languages. He is the illustrator of many other awardwinning titles, including The Gruffalo’s Child, Monkey Puzzle, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and Tiddler. An edition of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats with Axel’s illustrations was published by Faber in 2009. Born in Germany, Axel now lives in London.
While dipping into The Children’s Encyclopaedia of 1910, Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to procuring and caring for your pet squirrel. Intrigued by the unlikely notion of a child attempting to keep so wild an animal, Axel created a series of delightful, beautifully finished illustrations to accompany the text. How to Keep a Pet Squirrel is the result: a charming and beguiling curiosity, packed full of wise advice: Plenty of nuts should be provided. Remember that the squirrel is by its nature a very agile creature, springing from tree to tree. Kind and gentle care will soon make a young squirrel very friendly and affectionate.
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02/09/2010 978 0 571 251261 208pp _
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Original Gift and Humour
The Bedwetter
Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman’s father taught her to curse – at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter – until she was old enough to drive. She lost her virginity at age 19 – but didn’t really know it. These are just a few of the outrageous true tales that Silverman shares in her alternately hilarious and moving collection of autobiographical essays. With her signature taboo-breaking humour, Silverman writes on everything from her epic struggle with hairy arms (there wasn’t enough wax in the world) to the death of her infant brother (It was Nana’s fault) and always leaves the reader with a smile.
Sarah Silverman is the co-creator and star of The Sarah Silverman Program. She starred in the feature-length film version of her one-woman show, Jesus is Magic. She won an Emmy in 2009 for her video I’m F***ing Matt Damon, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on The Sarah Silverman Program. She has engaged in sexual relations with men from places such as Queens, Brooklyn and the lower east side as well as parts of Chelsea. Silverman grew up in New Hampshire and now lives in Los Angeles, CA, (by way of her beloved New York City) with her dog, Duck, presuming he does not die prior to publication, which is moderately to extremely likely.
Mixed in among the essays are scores of embarrassing photos, mortifying childhood diary entries, and truly humiliating e-mails to and from her comedian friends. This is the book your mother warned you about but you have to read anyway.
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Original History
She-Wolves
The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Helen Castor
When Edward VI – Henry VIII’s longed-for son – died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female. In 1553, England was about to experience the ‘monstrous regiment’ – the unnatural rule – of a woman. But female rule in England also had a past. Four hundred years before Edward’s death, Matilda, daughter of Henry I and granddaughter of William the Conquerer, came tantalisingly close to securing her hold on the power of the crown. And between
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the 12th and the 15th centuries three more exceptional women – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, and Margaret of Anjou – discovered, as queens consort and dowager, how much was possible if the presumptions of male rule were not confronted so explicitly. The stories of these women – told here in all their vivid humanity – illustrate the paradox which the female heirs to the Tudor throne had no choice but to negotiate. Man was the head of woman; and the king was the head of all. How, then, could a woman be king, how could royal power lie in female hands?
07/10/2010 978 0 571 237050 400pp _
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Helen Castor is a historian of medieval England, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her previous book, Blood & Roses, a biography of the fifteenthcentury Paston family, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2005 and won the English Association’s Beatrice White Prize in 2006. She lives in London with her husband and son.
The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured by disease and by the treatments his doctors had prescribed in the attempt to ward off its ravages. Their failure could no longer be mistaken. 33
07/10/2010 978 0 571 247943 288pp _
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James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Gerontius, winner of a Whitbread Prize; Seven-Tenths: The Sea and its Thresholds; Playing With Water; and most recently, of the wild comic trilogy Cooking With Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies. He is also an unabashed fan of great aircraft.
‘One of England’s greatest writers.’ Vanity Fair
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Victory Roll
When Britain’s Aircraft Led the World
James Hamilton-Paterson
In 1945 Britain was the world’s leading designer and builder of aircraft – a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex.
How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? And what was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war moment when innovative new British aircraft made their debut, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling book that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane spotter with a ruefully realistic history of British decline – its loss of self confidence and power. It is the story of great and charismatic machines and the men who flew them: heroes such as Bill Waterton, Neville Duke, John Derry and Bill Beaumont who took inconceivable risks, so that we could fly without a second thought.
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Catherine of Aragon Henry’s Spanish Queen
Giles Tremlett Giles Tremlett is the Guardian’s Madrid correspondent. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University twenty years ago. His first book was Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through a Country’s Hidden Past.
The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburnhaired beauty in her twenties with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had driven the Moors from their country. This daughter of conquistadors showed the same steel and sense of commmand when organising the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Flodden and Henry was to learn, to his cost, that he had not met a tougher opponent on or off the battlefield when he tried to divorce her.
‘Giles Tremlett is a worthy member of that band of writers, from Richard Ford and Ernest Hemmingway to Gerald Brenan and Michael Jacobs, who have fallen for Iberia.’ Sunday Times
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Henry introduced four remarkable women into the tumultuous flow of England’s history: Catherine of Aragon and her daughter ‘Bloody’ Queen Mary; and Anne Boleyn and her daughter, the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. ‘From this contest, between two mothers and two daughters, was born the religoius passion and violence that inflamed England for centuries’ says David Starkey. Giles Tremlett’s new biography is the first in more than four decades to be dedicated entirely and uniquely to the tenacious woman whose marriage lasted twice as long as those of Henry’s five other wives put together. It draws on fresh material from Spain to trace the dramatic events of her life through Catherine of Aragon’s own eyes.
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When God Made Hell
The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921
Charles Townshend A compelling work of political and military history, this is a highly original account of the conquest of Mesopotamia in 1914 – Britain’s first invasion of Iraq. Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led – within seven years – to imperial expansion on a dizzying scale, with fateful consequences for the Middle East and the world.
Charles Townshend is Professor of International History at Keele University, specialising in the study of modern political violence and insurgency. He is the editor of the Oxford History of Modern War and the author of Easter 1916: the Irish Rebellion, among others. He is married with two sons.
Charles Townshend charts Britain’s path from one of its worst military disasters – the surrender of an entire British army after the siege of Kut – to extraordinary success with largely unintended consequences, through overconfidence, incompetence and dangerously vague policy. With monumental research and exceptionally vivid accounts of on-the-ground warfare, this a truly gripping account of the Mesopotamia campaign, and its place in the wider political and international context. For anyone seeking to understand the roots of British involvement in Iraq, it is essential reading.
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The Kaiser’s Holocaust
Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
David Olusoga & Casper W. Erichsen David Olusoga is an AngloNigerian historian and producer. Working across radio and television, his programmes have explored colonialism, slavery and scientific racism. He has travelled extensively in Africa, and has been drawn to Namibia and its troubled history since the middle 2000s. He currently works as a producer for the BBC. Born in Denmark, Casper W. Erichsen has lived in Africa for the last 14 years. He obtained both his Degrees in History at the University of Namibia, devoting much of his scholarship to the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples. He is currently the Director of a Namibian NGO dealing with HIV and AIDS.
The unknown story of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Germany’s forgotten African Empire – an atrocity that foreshadowed the Nazi genocides forty years later. On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of SouthWest Africa, modern Namibia – the beginnings of Germany’s African Empire. As colonial forces moved in, their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later, the people and ideas that drove the ethnic cleansing of German South-West Africa would influence the formation of the Nazi party. The Kaiser’s Holocaust uncovers extraordinary links between the two regimes: their ideologies, personnel, even symbols and uniform.
Shark Island, a squat, mean-looking ridge of rock, lies just across the bay, in full view of the town. Here, on the southern edge of Africa, the death camp was invented.
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The Herero and Nama genocide was deliberately concealed for almost a century. Today, as the graves of the victims are uncovered, its re-emergence challenges the belief that Nazism was an aberration in European history. The Kaiser’s Holocaust passionately narrates this harrowing story and explores one of the defining episodes of the twentieth century from a new angle. Moving, powerful and unforgettable, it is a story that needs to be told.
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Red Plenty
Francis Spufford Once upon a time in the Soviet Union . . . The unlikely truth is that the grey old, oppressive old USSR was founded on a fairytale. On a variety of twentieth-century magic called ‘the planned economy’, which would create a bounty that capitalism could never match. In the heady years of the late 1950s, it looked like the magic was working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away. It’s about the brief era when the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan, and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It’s about the scientists who did their brilliant best to make the dream come true. It’s history, it’s fiction. It’s a comedy of ideas, and a novel about the cost of ideas.
Francis Spufford, a former Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (1977), has edited two acclaimed literary anthologies and a collection of essays on the history of technology. His first book, I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, was awarded the Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 1996 and a Somerset Maugham Award, and also inspired a Frankfurt Ballet production and a clown show at the Edinburgh Festival 2001. His second, The Child that Books Built, was described as ‘witty, compelling and elegant’ by the New Statesman. His third book, Backroom Boys, was called a ‘beautifully written book’ by the Daily Telegraph and was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Francis Spufford lives in Cambridge.
By the award-winning (and famously unpredictable) author of The Child That Books Built and Backroom Boys, Red Plenty is as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant – and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
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When a Billion Chinese Jump
How China will save the world – or destroy it
Jonathan Watts Jonathan Watts is the Guardian’s Asia environment correspondent and recently covered the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He was short-listed for Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards, and he and his research assistant were awarded the One World Media Award for best press story in 2007. In 2009, he was a co-winner of the environment prize at the One World Media Awards for a series on the global food crisis.
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Part travelogue and part polemic, When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China’s – and the world’s – biggest crisis. With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe, or make radical changes. Travelling the vast country to witness this environmental challenge, Jonathan Watts moves from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands, examining the responses of those at the top of society to the problems and hopes of those below. At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that – even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited – the actions of individuals can make a difference. Consistently attentive to human detail, Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. No reader of his book – no consumer in the world – can be unaffected by what he presents.
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Believe in People
The Essential Karel Capek V
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A hugely engaging collection of pieces by Karel Capek, one of the great European writers of the last century. V
Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word ‘robot’ in his play RUR, Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia in the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his journalism – his brief, sparky and delightful columns – that Capek can be found at his most succinct, direct and appealing. V
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This selection of Capek’s writing, translated into English for the first time, contains his essential ideas. The pieces are animated by his passion for the ordinary and the everyday – from laundry to toothache, from cats to cleaning windows – his love of language, his lyrical observations of the world and above all his humanism, his belief in people. The letters to his wife Olga, also published here, are extraordinarily moving and beautifully distinct from his other writings. V
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Uplifting, enjoyable and endlessly wise, Believe in People is a collection to treasure.
‘Capek is not just a Czech writer, he is a writer of world stature, and he confronts in his journalism subjects that matter to us all.’ V
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Human Chain Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney’s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present – the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other ‘hermits songs’ which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet’s early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled ‘Route 101’ plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of the poet’s first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead – friends, neighbours, family – which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.
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Human Chain also adapts a poetic ‘herbal’ by the Breton poet Guillevic – lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things which excludes human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included.
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Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations – including Beowulf (1999) – which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle (2006), his eleventh collection, was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize. Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
‘In his Nobel lecture, Seamus Heaney commended the achievement of Yeats, whose “work does what the necessary poetry does, which is to touch the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic reality of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed”. It is a fair comment on what he himself has done.’ Frank Kermode 45
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Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He read English at Queen’s University, Belfast, and published his first collection of poems, New Weather, in 1973. He is the author of ten books of poetry, including Mules, Why Brownlee Left, Quoof, Meeting The British, Madoc: A Mystery, The Annals of Chile, Hay, Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Horse Latitudes. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is the Howard G. B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, and the 2003 Griffin Prize.
‘The range and ambition of Horse Latitudes are as impressive as its idiosyncrasy. It encompasses epic, lyric, short story and intimately interlocked sequences. He has helped more than one generation to think afresh about the dramatic possibilities of poetry and, perhaps most significantly, about the role of rhyme as an incitement to meaning.’ Sean O’Brien, Sunday Times 46
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Paul Muldoon In his eleventh full-length collection, Paul Muldoon reminds us that he is a traditional poet who is steadfastly at odds with tradition. If the poetic sequence is the main mode of Maggot, it certainly isn’t your father’s poetic sequence. Taking as a starting point W. B. Yeats’s remark that the only fit topics for a serious mood are ‘sex and the dead’, Muldoon finds unexpected ways of thinking and feeling about what it means to come to terms with the early twenty-first century. It’s no accident that the centerpiece of Maggot is an outlandish meditation on a failed poem that draws on the vocabulary of entomological forensics. The last series of linked lyrics, meanwhile, takes as its ‘subject’ the urge to memorialize the scenes of fatal car accidents.
The extravagant linkage of rot and the erotic is at the heart of not only the title-sequence but many of the round-songs that characterise Maggot – and has led Angela Leighton, writing in the TLS, to see these new poems (on their earlier appearance in Plan B, an interim volume) as giving readers ‘a thrilling, wild, fairground ride, with few let-ups for the squeamish’.
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Of Mutability Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott’s award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988–1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation. In Of Mutability – her first collection since her much-praised versions of Rilke in Tender Taxes (2001) – Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change – in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people – these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality.
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By turns grave and playful, arresting and witty, the poems in Of Mutability celebrate each waking moment as though it might be the last, and in so doing restore wonder to the smallest of encounters.
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Jo Shapcott was born in London. She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (twice).
‘Jo Shapcott’s is a voice that reaches out and grabs. In all her work, she transforms the extraordinary into the immediately plausible . . . Whatever her province, her concern remains for the chaotically unaccountable in humanity.’ Times Literary Supplement 49
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Selected Poems Mick Imlah Mick Imlah (1956–2009) was born and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1983–6, and then Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement for sixteen years from 1992. His poems appeared in The Zoologist’s Bath (1982), Birthmarks (1988), Penguin New Poets 3 (1994) and Diehard (2006). He edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford, 2000) and made selections for Faber of the poems of Tennyson and Edwin Muir. His final collection, The Lost Leader, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2008. He died in 2009.
Mick Imlah’s second and longawaited collection, The Lost Leader, was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his premature death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah’s earlier full-length collection, Birthmarks (1988), but also including uncollected and previously unpublished work. The Lost Leader won the Forward Prize and revealed a poet of dazzling virtuosity, eloquence and subtlety – breaking through, as Imlah said of Edwin Muir (whose poems he selected in his last year) ‘to a field of unforced imaginative fluency and an unexpected common cause’.
‘For all its dazzling allusiveness there is nothing like it. The technique is breathtaking, the wit dark and complex, the emotional effects keen, subtle and disconcerting. To say that ‘The Lost Leader’ itself is a great poem is not to slight the other sixty masterpieces in this unmissable book.’ Alan Hollinghurst
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Behind its accomplishment lie the multifarious atmospheres, nefarious personae and mordant storytelling of Imlah’s early poetry. Edited by Mark Ford and with an essay by Alan Hollinghurst, the Selected Poems brings together the best work of a poet who can now be seen, with increasing clarity, as a ‘lost leader’ of Scottish poetry in our time.
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The Waste Land Facsimile T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He published his first volume, Prufrock and Other Observations, in 1917. His most famous work, The Waste Land, was published in 1922. The poem was included in the first issue of his journal The Criterion. In 1925 he became a director of Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber. His masterpiece Four Quartets began with ‘Burnt Norton’ in 1936. He died in January 1965.
When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentiethcentury literature was solved. The manuscript was not lost, as had been believed, but had remained among the papers of John Quinn, Eliot’s friend and adviser, to whom the poet had sent it in 1922. If the discovery of the manuscript was startling, its content was even more so, because the published version of The Waste Land was considerably shorter than the original. How it was reduced and edited is clearly revealed on the manuscript though the handwritten notes of Ezra Pound, of Eliot’s first wife, Vivien, and of Eliot himself. In order that this material might be widely available for study, the poet’s widow Mrs Valerie Eliot prepared the present edition, in 1971, in which each page of the original manuscript was reproduced in facsimile, with a clear transcript on facing pages. Mrs Eliot also included an illuminating introduction, explanatory notes and crossreferences, together with the text of the first published version of The Waste Land, thus completing the evolution of the most influential poem in modern literature.
‘The more we know of Eliot the better. I am thankful that the lost leaves have been unearthed. ‘‘The mystery of the missing manuscript” is now solved. Valerie Eliot has done a scholarly job which would have delighted her husband.’ Ezra Pound, 1969
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Letters to Monica
Philip Larkin Edited by Anthony Thwaite
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Philip Larkin met Monica Jones at University College Leicester in autumn 1946, when they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she was an English lecturer. In 1950 Larkin moved to Belfast, and thence to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester, becoming by turns his correspondent, lover and closest confidante, in a relationship which lasted over forty years until the poet’s death in 1985.
Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, Kipling, Dickens, Kingsley Amis) and with the experiences that shaped Larkin’s poems. Their impressionistic immediacy – liberally sprinkled with Larkin’s cartoons – and their relaxed privacy offer a view of the poet’s personality and its resources which was often screened from his other epistolary relationships, already familiar to readers of Anthony Thwaite’s edition of the Selected Letters (1992).
This remarkable unpublished correspondence only came to light after Monica Jones’s death in 2001, and consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards and telegrams, which chronicle – day by day, sometimes hour by hour – every aspect of Larkin’s life and the convolutions of their relationship. The letters deal extensively with other writers, living and dead (D.H. Lawrence,
The collection was acquired by the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 2004, and the present selection is made possible through a collaboration between Faber and Faber and the Bodleian Library. Letters to Monica offers a richly characteristic selection from Larkin’s side of the correspondence, and one which tells both sides of their story.
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Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John’s College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism, All What Jazz: A Record Library and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, and the W H Smith Award.
‘I went home on Saturday afternoon, 1.30 to Grantham – a lovely run, the scorched land misty with heat, like a kind of bloom of heat – and at every station, Goole, Doncaster, Retford, Newark, importunate wedding parties, gawky and vociferous, seeing off couples to London . . .’ Philip Larkin, 1955
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Prose: Volume 4 1956–1962
W. H. Auden Edited by Edward Mendelson W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907, and brought up in Birmingham. He went to Christ Church College, Oxford, where Stephen Spender privately printed a booklet of his poems. After university he lived for a time in Berlin, before returning to England to teach. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. Other volumes of poems and plays followed during the 1930s. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.
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This fourth volume in a complete edition of W.H. Auden’s prose writings provides a unique window upon his mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 to 1962, including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The volume includes his most important individual prose collection, The Dyer’s Hand, as well as scores of essays, reviews and lectures on subjects ranging from J.R.R. Tolkien to Martin Luther, psychedelic drugs, cooking and Homer. Much of the material has never been collected in book form, and some of it – including Auden’s witty ovations written for Oxford ceremonies – is almost entirely unknown. Edward Mendelson’s introduction and notes provide biographical and historical explanations of obscure references. The text incorporates extensive corrections and revisions that Auden marked in his own copies of his work, but which have never been printed.
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Selected Poems and Translations
Ezra Pound Edited by Richard Sieburth
This edition replaces Ezra Pound’s Selected Poems 1908–1969, and offers a revaluation of the poetry by conjoining early and late works within a new overview. Emphasis has also been laid on the interpenetration of original composition and translation within Pound’s career, and the edition includes the complete ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’ in its original lineation, Pound’s early translations from Cavalcanti and the troubadours, and his late translations of the Confucian Odes, Horace and Sophocles. As a lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of publishers and journals in England, America, France, and Italy. The new edition takes account of this complex publishing history, by giving the poems in the chronological order of their original magazine publication: we can thereby observe Pound as he first emerges onto the literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford’s English Review or Harriet Monroe’s Chicago-based Poetry, or acting as an agent provocateur in such avant-garde publications as Blast, The Little Review or the Dial.
Ezra Pound was born in 1885 in Hailey, Idaho. He came to Europe in 1898 and settled in London, where he was to meet Yeats, Eliot, Ford, Hulme and Gaudier-Brzeska. In 1920 he moved to Paris, and later to Rapallo. His acquaintances by now included Joyce, Hemingway, Brancusi, Picabia, Cocteau, Antheil and C. H. Douglas. During the Second World War he broadcast over Rome Radio – for which, eventually, he was tried for treason in Washington. He was committed to a hospital for the insane, where he was held for thirteen years. He was released in 1958 and returned to Italy, dying in Venice in 1972. His main publications include The Cantos (I–CXVII), Collected Shorter Poems, Translations, The Confucian Odes, Literary Essays, Guide to Kulchur: Selected Prose and ABC of Reading.
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets Don Paterson Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963. He works as a musician and editor, and has written four collections of poems, Nil Nil (1993), God’s Gift to Women (1997) – winner of both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize – The Eyes (1999) and Landing Light (2003), which won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. Rain, his most recent collection, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2009. Find out more about Don Paterson at his own website.
Shakespeare’s sonnets of 1609 are as thrilling and persuasive today as they were when they were first published: perhaps no collection of verses before or since has so captured the imagination of lovers and readers as these. In this stunning new edition of the work, Don Paterson, an award-winning sonneteer and lyric poet in his own right, offers an illuminating and accessible guide to these unforgettable verses. In a series of mesmerising and highlyentertaining short commentaries, placed alongside the sonnets themselves, Don Paterson explains the inner workings of the poems: their hidden structures and techniques, their narratives and their brilliance. An approachable handbook to the sonnets and the sonnet form, packed with reading tips and advice on the craft, this new edition offers an enjoyable and indispensable insight into our greatest Elizabethan writer by one of the leading poets of our own day.
‘Paterson is simply one of the best living poets in the UK.’ Jackie Kay, Observer
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 Various
The Forward Book of Poetry 2011, published on National Poetry Day, collects the best contemporary poetry of the year, chosen from all the submissions considered for this year’s Forward Prizes for Poetry. Described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘a litmus test for what is being currently written in poetry in the British Isles’, this highly-praised anthology includes poems by the most respected poets of their generation. Past anthologies include work by Carol Ann Duffy, Andrew Motion, Roger McGough, Sean O’Brien, Don Paterson, Paul Farley, Lavinia Greenlaw, Robin Robertson, John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald.
‘. . . a wonderful feast of contemporary poetry and at an absurdly low price, too.’ Daily Mail
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Kid Simon Armitage Simon Armitage’s Kid won the inaugural Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1992, and marked the arrival at Faber and Faber of one of the most distinctive new voices to have emerged in decades.
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Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis Wendy Cope When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published in 1986, it catapulted Wendy Cope
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Dart Alice Oswald Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002, Dart creates a wonderfully varied and idiomatic narrative of the River
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Dart in Devon. A hypnotic work, it is the first book that Alice Oswald published with Faber and Faber.
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Nil Nil Don Paterson Nil Nil, Don Paterson’s first volume of poetry, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993 and heralded the arrival of a major new talent of great formal skill and imaginative daring.
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Ariel Sylvia Plath Ariel (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath’s best known poems written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. The first of four collections to be
published by Faber and Faber, it is the volume on which her reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century rests.
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David Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays and screenplays include Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Winslow Boy, The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog and The Verdict, the last two of which gained Academy Award nominations. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and a book on acting, True and False. His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998.
‘A glorious book, stunning, thrilling, provocative, funny. A hand grenade in paper covers.’ Sunday Times on True and False
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David Mamet The question of art is neither, ‘How does it serve the State?’ (Stalinist) nor its wily modification into ‘How does it serve Humanity?’, but ‘How does it serve the Audience?’ If theatre were a religion, explains iconic playwright and director David Mamet, ‘many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical’.
Containing a distillation of his thoughts and practice over a working life of more than forty years, Mamet explodes many of the holy cows of contemporary theatre. Performance art, Stanislavsky, creative writing classes, issue plays, political theatre, politically correct theatre, subsidised theatre and elitists all fall under his mischievous and critical gaze. Calling for the death of the director and the end of acting theory, Mamet champions the supremacy of the word and the actor in this provocative and hugely entertaining manifesto. What can the director do? Gently suggest the nature of the scene (a leave-taking, a dismissal, a please, a reprimand), and block the damn thing and go smoke a cigarette. That’s it.
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The Early Diaries
An Unnatural Pursuit / How’s That for Telling ’Em, Fat Lady
Simon Gray Simon Gray’s witty, painful and acutely observed early diaries chronicle the highs and lows of bringing two of his plays to the stage.
Simon Gray was born in 1936. He wrote five novels, many plays for TV and radio, and over thirty stage plays, amongst them the award-winning Butley, Otherwise Engaged and The Late Middle Classes. In 1991 he was made BAFTA Writer of the Year. His acclaimed works of non-fiction are: An Unnatural Pursuit, How’s That for Telling ’Em, Fat Lady?, Fat Chance, Enter a Fox, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer, The Last Cigarette and Coda. He was appointed CBE in 2005 for his services to Drama and Literature. Simon Gray died in 2008.
An Unnatural Pursuit records the London production of The Common Pursuit, from the tense process of finding a producer through rehearsals to the firstnight post-mortem. An enthralling insight into the world of Simon Gray and his working relationship with Harold Pinter, who directed many of his plays. In How’s That for Telling ‘Em, Fat Lady? Gray describes his experiences with The Common Pursuit and Dog Days in Los Angeles and New York.
‘There are few things more enjoyable than reading the diaries of Simon Gray.’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
‘A remarkable account of a remarkable experience.’ Harold Pinter on An Unnatural Pursuit
‘It’s a terrific comic adventure, terrifically told with exquisite ill-temper.’ John Osborne on How’s That for Telling ‘Em, Fat Lady 64
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Butley; Wise Child; Dutch Uncle; Spoiled; The Caramel Crisis; Sleeping Dog Simon Gray ‘Accessible, elegant and tender . . . Both on stage and on the printed page, laugh-out-loud funny.’ Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph
‘What is so wondrous about a play so basically defeatist and hurtful is its ability to be funny. The stark, unsentimental approach to the homosexual relationship, the cynical send-up of academic life, the skeptical view of the teacher–pupil associations are all stunningly illuminated by continuous explosions of sardonic, needling, feline, vituperative and civilised lines.’ Evening Standard on Butley
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Otherwise Engaged; Dog Days; Pig in a Poke; Man in a Sidecar; Plaintiffs and Defendants; Molly; Two Sundays; Simply Disconnected Simon Gray ‘A superbly written play, a funny play, an agonising play. It is, moreover, a play of truth and insight. A play to savour.’
‘Life in the theatre hasn’t brought me anything more rewarding than directing Simon Gray’s plays.’
Punch on Otherwise Engaged
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Quartermaine’s Terms; Stage Struck; Close of Play; Rear Column; A Month in the Country; Tartuffe; The Idiot Simon Gray ‘The brave little lives that Gray so compassionately illuminates could be lived by any of us, and
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that’s why they arouse emotions that are anything but small.’ New York Times on Quartermaine’s Terms
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Hidden Laughter; The Common Pursuit; The Holy Terror; After Pilkington; Old Flames; They Never Slept Simon Gray ‘Sharp, funny and clever . . . What a pleasure to re-encounter a play that combines unabashed intelligence and
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zinging wit with a rare generosity of spirit.’ Daily Telegraph on The Common Pursuit
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Cell Mates; Life Support; Japes; Just the Three of Us; Little Nell; The Old Masters; The Late Middle-Classes Simon Gray ‘Like a Henry James novella; circuitous, ambiguous, 66
enthralling and chilling.’ Financial Times on The Late Middle Classes
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Tales of Ballycumber Sebastian Barry ‘Barry is probably (and this is a very large statement) the finest Irish poet to work in the theatre since Yeats. The language is incredibly poetic, it has that power, that mesmerising rhythm to it, that richness, and yet a kind of clarity that is very difficult to do – and he does that better than anybody else.’
‘A lyrical work of great and compelling beauty.’
Fintan O’Toole, The View (RTE)
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‘Like Synge, Barry turns Irish speech into beautiful stage poetry. This ghost-haunted play, beautifully set among a field of golden daffodils, lingers potently in the memory.’ Tales of Ballycumber premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in November 2009.
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Andersen’s English Sebastian Barry Celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad’s Hill Place in the Kent marshes – home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.
Andersen’s English premiered at the Theatre Royal, Bury, in February 2010 in a production by Out of Joint and Hampstead Theatre.
To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens’s household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn’t at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens’s marriage. 67
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Bruckner’s Pains of Youth Martin Crimp ‘Pains of Youth takes ugly truths and makes them into something beautiful . . . every exchange is a startlingly wellobserved miniature of the power play of relationships, rendered in Martin Crimp’s translation with a beautifully spare hostility.’ The Times
‘A revelatory revival . . . a forensic analysis of a doomed, death-haunted generation.’ Guardian
Martin Crimp’s version of Ferdinand Bruckner’s Pains of Youth premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2009.
‘Blackly exhilarating in its ruthless (often mordantly amusing) anatomy of anomie.’ Independent
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Dunsinane David Greig Late at night in a foreign land, an English army sweeps through the landscape under cover of darkness and takes the seat of power. Struggling to contain his men and the ambitions of his superiors, the commanding officer attempts to negotiate the unspoken rules of this alien country. He seeks to restore peace to a country ravaged by war. This is Scotland in the eleventh century at the height of the fight for succession to the Scottish throne.
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Dunsinane premiered in February 2010 at Hampstead Theatre, London, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Outlying Island; San Diego; The American Pilot; Pyrenees; Kyoto; Being Norwegian; Brewer’s Fayre
David Greig David Greig was born in Edinburgh. His plays include Europe, The Architect, The Speculator, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, Outlying Islands, San Diego, Pyrenees, The American Pilot, Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee , Damascus, Midsummer [a play with songs] and Dunsinane. In 1990 he co-founded Suspect Culture to produce collaborative, experimental theatre work. His translation of Caligula was presented at the Donmar Warehouse in an awardwinning production in 2003, and his version of Euripides’ The Bacchae was seen at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Lyric Hammersmith in 2007.
This collection brings together four key plays by David Greig, described in the Daily Telegraph as ‘one of the most interesting and adventurous British dramatists of his generation’. In Outlying Island two young Cambridge ornithologists are sent to a remote island. Together with its authoritarian leaseholder and his niece they observe an innocence that is about to be destroyed forever. San Diego offers a strange and occasionally nightmarish journey into the heart of the contemporary American dream, weaving together stories of illegal immigrants, of film stars and whores, and even of the playwright himself. Pyrenees follows a man found lying in the foothills snow as he tries to piece together his identity. In The American Pilot a crash-landing in a remote valley of a distant country raises questions about how the world sees America and how America sees the world. The collection also includes a trilogy of short plays, Being Norwegian, Kyoto and Brewers Fayre, published here for the first time.
‘I can’t recommend it highly enough . . . A rich, charged play, veering between the comic and the poetic as innocence gives way to experience.’ Daily Telegraph on Outlying Island
‘A surreal and intriguing piece of theatre . . . dazzling . . . Home and awake from the mythical dream that is San Diego, the name David Greig remains imprinted on our minds.’ Independent on San Diego 69
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The Absence of Women Owen McCafferty – he hadn’t forgotten i was there – he just didn’t care whether i was there or not – it would’ve been better him forgetting rather than not caring at all
Gerry and Iggy face the ends of their lives in a London hostel. As they drift from present concerns – the funeral of an old drinking partner, the relative sizes of their swollen livers, tube routes, street names, God and the lure of Belfast – to remembering ghosts from long ago, we catch a poignant glimpse of what might have been. The Absence of Women, heartrending and darkly comic in turn, premieres at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, in February 2010.
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Haunted Edna O’Brien ‘A beguiling memory play of such subtle and elusive beauty, you feel it might disintegrate if you were to put your finger on it. But the action forms a delicate tissue of loss and regret as the bewitching Hazel causes Mr Berry to reflect on the wife he has lost and the child he never had.’ Guardian
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‘Combines youthful freshness with a wise, rich, wholly livedin quality . . . O’Brien digs deep, like elaborate crochetwork where the needles lance to the heart.’ Daily Telegraph
Haunted premiered at Manchester’s Royal Exchange in 2009 and transfers to the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, in February 2010 before a UK tour.
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Greta Garbo Came to Donegal Frank McGuinness In the summer of 1967 Greta Garbo comes to Donegal.
Greta Garbo Came to Donegal premieres at the Tricycle Theatre, London, in January, 2010.
Ireland is on the verge of violent change. Two couples are on the verge of parting. A woman tries to save her family, while a girl tries to save her future. Seemingly above it all is the loveliest and loneliest of all women, the great Garbo. But when the gods arrive, they can cause havoc, not least to themselves, as the divine Greta is to learn.
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Ibsen’s Ghosts Frank McGuinness Oswald, standing in the doorway then, the pipe in his mouth, it was as if I saw his father alive again.
Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, in this vital new version by Frank McGuinness, opens at the Duchess Theatre, London, in February 2010.
Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage, built in memory of her late husband. Her beloved artist son Oswald has returned from Paris to honour the occasion. But his long awaited homecoming rapidly descends into tragedy as his presence triggers the exposure of a dark story of hypocrisy and betrayed love.
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Eigengrau Penelope Skinner Eigengrau / [ay-gen-gr-ow ] – noun. intrinsic light; the colour seen by the eye in perfect darkness. Rose believes in true love and leprechauns. Her flatmate Cassie is engaged in a fervent struggle against patriarchal oppression. Across London, Mark believes in the power of marketing. His flatmate Tim Muffin is engaged in a fervent struggle against his own waistline.
In a city where Gumtree can feel like your closest friend, looking for the right person can lead you all the wrong places. Eigengrau premieres at the Bush Theatre, London, in March 2010 in a Strawberry Vale production.
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If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet Nick Payne Surviving school as a fat kid is tough enough. When your mum’s a teacher, it’s hell. What’s more, Anna’s dad is obsessed with saving the world and her maverick uncle is dossing on the couch.
‘Nick Payne is a fantastically idiosyncratic and sharply observant playwright, and his If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet is a very enjoyable comedy about getting it wrong.’
‘A comic tour de force.’
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‘A constant delight.’ Daily Telegraph
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If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in October 2009.
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Strandline Abbie Spallen ‘In Spallen’s potent and densely layered play her contemporary setting reverberates with mythological echoes, her story set-up parcels out salient political points, and as the figure of an artist and a distrusting community crash together, comedy and disquiet blur into one . . . A fastidious plot and a wide scope of allusions . . . awash with style and verve, wit and intellect.’
‘Combines complex thriller, treatise on identity and brooding character study . . . superbly sketched out via Spallen’s blackly comic use of vernacular . . . compelling.’ Sunday Times
Strandline was premiered by Fishamble at the Project Art Centre, Dublin, in November 2009.
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The Line Timberlake Wertenbaker ‘Timberlake Wertenbaker’s new play is a portrait of an artist as an old lion, and another artist as a young lioness: Edgar Degas, about to enter the twilight of his career, and Suzanne Valadon, his young pupil. The title is both technical and spiritual:
the painter’s line defines and encloses objects and persons, but also gives them their potential, their dynamism, their bursting life . . . This is one of Wertenbaker’s best plays.’ Sunday Times
The Line opened at the Arcola Theatre, London, in November 2009.
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The Priory Michael Wynne A few friends. People we like. No craziness. The days of a big blowout are over.
‘A perceptive piece, laced with Wynne’s customary wit and insight. And it has serious points to make about success, failure, peer pressure and loneliness . . . There is plenty to savour.’
‘A neat tragicomedy that is almost a guilty pleasure . . . Wynne is juggling a wouldbe caustic commentary with something more compassionate.’ Variety
The Priory premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in November 2009.
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Bulgakov’s The White Guard Andrew Upton See? All we need is . . . a map and . . . some kind of plan. This overcoat is neutral darling, neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik. Just essence of Prole. In Kiev during the Russian Civil War, the Turbin household is sanctuary to a ragtag, closeknit crowd presided over by the beautiful Lena. As her brothers prepare to fight for the White Guard, friends charge in from the riotous streets amidst an atmosphere of heady chaos, quaffing vodka, keeling over, declaiming, taking baths, playing 74
guitar, falling in love. But the new regime is poised and in its brutal triumph lies destruction for the Turbins and their world. And those are the real enemies we face, deep in the shadows. This modern man with no name, no past, no love. This desperate hatefilled man born of loneliness and frustration. This man with nothing to be proud of, nothing he is part of . . . Andrew Upton’s version of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard premieres at the National Theatre, London, in March 2010.
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The Promise Ben Brown It’s the beginning of World War I and Herbert Samuel – the first practising Jew ever to sit in the Cabinet – dreams of using British power to back a return of the Jews to Palestine after 1,800 years. However, his cousin Edwin Montagu – also in the Cabinet – is implacably opposed to the idea, a conflict complicated by Montagu’s passion for the beautiful aristocrat, Venetia Stanley, a confidante of the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith.
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Politics, religion and love collide with world-changing effect in this new play of political and sexual intrigue, and the origins of Israel. The Promise premieres at the Orange Tree Theatre in London in February 2010. Ben Brown’s Larkin With Women won the TMA Best New Play award in 2000.
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Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothings David Harrower A young man has an affair with a married woman. He is terrified her husband will challenge him to a duel and kill him. At a party, he flirts with a girl who believes she is truly loved. Life seems full of joy. The doorbell rings. The husband enters the room.
Based on Schnitzler’s play Liebelei, David Harrower’s Sweet Nothings captures the power of sexual longing, the cruelty of tradition and the vulnerability of those in love. The play premieres at the Young Vic, London, in March 2010.
‘I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?’ Arthur Schnitzler
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Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World
Norman Lebrecht Norman Lebrecht is one of the most widely read commentators on music and cultural affairs. Based in London, his columns appear in many languages, including Chinese, and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3, Bloomberg and New York’s WNYC. He has written twelve books about music, among which The Maestro Myth (1991) and Maestros, Masterpieces and Madness (2007) provoked lasting debate. He is also an award-winning novelist, receiving a Whitbread Prize for The Song of Names in 2002.
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a boxoffice draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions. Many believe it has the power to heal emotional wounds and ease the pain of death. Others struggle with the intellectual fascination of its contradictory meanings. Long, loud and seldom easy, his symphonies are used to accompany acts of mourning and Hollywood melodramas. Sometimes dismissed as deathobsessed, Mahler is more alive in the twenty-first century than ever before.
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Why Mahler? Why does a Jewish musician from a land without a name capture the yearnings and anxieties of post-industrial society? Is it the music, is it the man, or is it the affinity we feel with his productive peak – a decade when Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Joyce and Mahler reconfigured the ways we understand life on earth? In this highly original account of Mahler’s life and work, Norman Lebrecht – renowned writer, critic and cultural commentator – explores the Mahler Effect, a phenomenon that reaches deep into unsuspecting lives, altering the self-perceptions of world leaders, finance chiefs and working musicians. Part biography, part travelogue, part hitchhiker’s guide, Why Mahler? is a multi-layered exploration of the role that music plays as a soundtrack to our lives.
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The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten John Bridcut
John Bridcut is a documentary director for British television. He has had a lifelong enthusiasm for English music, and his feature-length films Britten’s Children (2004) and The Passions of Vaughan Williams (2008) have won awards. He is currently working on a portrait of Elgar. In 2008 he produced a BBC documentary Charles at 60: The Passionate Prince for the BBC. Other film subjects have included Rudolf Nureyev, Roald Dahl, Hillary Clinton, and the Queen. His book Britten’s Children was published in 2006.
Benjamin Britten was one of the greatest opera composers of the twentieth century, producing a feast of songs, orchestral and chamber music, as well as a wide range of music for children and amateurs. He was also both a performer – a first-rate conductor and pianist – and an impresario. In this incisive pocket guide, John Bridcut discusses Britten’s music and traces his musical influences; the pieces he grew up with, and those he played and listened to. Bridcut also explores the composer’s complex personality, his emotional and professional relationships with men, women, and children, and the fascinating nooks and crannies of his daily life which are normally overlooked. Key features include: Britten: his life, year by year Britten: his music, work by work The pieces Britten never wrote Essential Britten: a Top Ten Britten on CD and DVD Britten online This Faber Pocket Guide is both an accessible introduction to the man and his work, and also an indispensable source of fresh insights into this towering figure in British music.
‘Britten has been for me the most purely musical person I have ever met and I have ever known. It always seemed to me that music sprang out of his fingers when he played the piano, as it did out of his mind when he composed.’ Michael Tippett
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When That Rough God Goes Riding Listening to Van Morrison
Greil Marcus Greil Marcus is the author of The Shape of Things to Come, Like a Rolling Stone, Mystery Train and The Old Weird America; a twentieth anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York. His column ‘Real Life Rock Top Ten’ appears regularly in The Believer. He lives in Berkeley.
A celebratory and revelatory exploration of the artist in his most sublime moments by one of the most revered cultural commentators of these times. ‘Van Morrison,’ says Greil Marcus, ‘remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.’ When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was largely ignored. When it was re-released as a live album in 2009 it reached the top of the Billboard charts, a first for any Van Morrison recording. The wild swings in the music, mirroring the swings in Morrison’s success and in people’s appreciation of his music, make Van Morrison one of the most perplexing and mysterious figures in popular modern music, and a perfect subject for the wise and insightful scrutiny of Greil Marcus. This book is Marcus’s quest to understand Van Morrison’s particular genius through the extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day. In these dislocations Marcus finds the singer on his own artistic quest precisely to reach some extreme musical threshold, the moments that are not enclosed by the will or the intention of the performer but which somehow emerge at the limits of the musician and his song.
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Electric Eden
Mapping Britain’s Visionary Music
Rob Young In this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of musicmaking in the Britsh Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations of musicians – song collectors, composers, Marxist revivalists, folk-rockers, psychedelic voyagers and electronic innovators. Here is a panorama of the British soundscape that takes in Cecil Sharp and Vaughan Williams; the industrial folk revival of Ewan MacColl and Al Lloyd; the folk-rock of Fairport Convention, Shirley Collins and Pentangle; the heady psychedelia of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and The Incredible String Band; the acid folk of Trees, Forest, Mr Fox and Comus; the early Glastonbury and Stonehenge festivals, and the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk. Electric Eden maps out an indigenous British musical voice that reflects the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism. Electric Eden is a wild combination of pagan echoes, spiritual quest, imaginative time travel, pastoral innocence and electrified creativity.
Rob Young is Editor at Large of the Wire magazine and contributes to Uncut, Sight & Sound, Frieze and Art Review. His books include the histories of record labels Warp and Rough Trade.
Hack a path through the briars and push open the gate. The creak is a music that wakes the dead, and gives them permission to keep haunting us. Concealed beneath these overgrown thickets of memory lies a patch of ground. Some call it Eden, others Arcadia . . . We have glimpsed them, time and again, in this survey of the music of the British Isles. 81
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Sean Connery Christopher Bray After dropping out of school at 15, Christopher Bray worked for eight years as a typesetter and designer, before resuming his studies in the University of Warwick’s department of Film and Literature. He has since written on movies, books, music and paintings for the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the TLS, Literary Review, the New York Times, the New Statesman and the Word. The author of Michael Caine: A Class Act, a book the renowned film critic David Thomson described as ‘Excellent . . . Bray has thought hard about this man, and he has a fascinating story to tell’, he lives in south-east London.
For almost fifty years, men around the world have been measuring themselves against our age’s prime definition of masculinity: Sean Connery. Connery’s creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee, the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies from which audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him. Moulding and remoulding his image to fit the contours of each age, Connery has gone from Sadeian sixties sex symbol to the sagacious magus figure to which today’s young stars are forever turning. Spirited, argumentative and sardonically celebratory, Christopher Bray’s Sean Connery is both a biography of a star and an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. Also, it’s a critical tribute to a secular icon who has shaped so many dreams.
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Tough Without a Gun Humphrey Bogart, Men in Movies, and Why it Matters
Stefan Kanfer Stefan Kanfer is the author of Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball and Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando. He was a writer and editor for Time magazine for more than twenty years. He lives in New York and on Cape Cod.
A Humphrey Bogart comes along only once in a century: someone who isn’t conventionally handsome or particularly versatile, but who can convince an audience that whatever character he’s playing is of great importance, because he represents something vital about themselves and their time. He honed his craft for years in the theatre, only becoming a star at the age of 42 as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon. In the sixteen years that were left to him, he made an indelible mark on movies – such that film-makers as diverse as Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard paid homage to him in their films. At the heart of this biography is Bogey’s love affair with the 19-year-old Lauren Bacall, who stole To Have and Have Not – and his heart – by lolling in a doorway, tossing insolent remarks and teaching him to put his lips together and whistle.
‘Humphrey Bogart is the greatest male star in the history of movies.’ American Film Institute
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Danny Boyle Amy Raphael Amy Raphael was born in London in 1967. She has worked on The Face, Elle and Esquire and now freelances for the Observer and the Telegraph. Her first book, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock, was published by Virago in 1995. She conducted the conversations and edited Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh, which was published in 2008.
The Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire talks about his career. Danny Boyle’s journey to Oscar night began in a working-class family in Lancashire in 1956. After a career in the theatre – working for such esteemed companies as Joint Stock and the Royal Court – Boyle went to the BBC and produced dramas in Belfast such as Alan Clarke’s Elephant, as well as directing Mr Wroe’s Virgins. Shallow Grave announced the arrival of a dynamic new talent to British cinema – a reputation that was confirmed with the blistering Trainspotting – the zeitgeist film of the nineties. The succeeding films – A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Millions, 28 Days Later, Sunshine And Slumdog Millionaire – established him as the leading director of his generation – one for whom the collaboration between director, producer and writer was of the essence. The Danny Boyle who emerges from these interviews is frank, funny, charming and wholeheartedly inspiring.
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Collected Screenplays Paul Auster
Paul Auster’s screenplays collected together for the first time.
Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Paul Auster’s novels have earned him ther reputation as ‘one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers’. He also brought this sense of invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost. Smoke tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths and end up changing each other’s lives in indelible ways. Set in contemporary Brooklyn, Smoke directly inspired Blue in the Face, a largely improvised comedy shot in a total of six days. Lulu on the Bridge is both a thriller and a fairy tale: when Jazz musician Izzy Maurer is accidently hit by a bullet during a performance in a New York club, he is led on a journey into the strange and sometimes frightening labyrinth of his soul. The Inner Life of Martin Frost follows the unsettling experiences that befall writer Martin Frost when he borrows a friend’s country house and wakes up with a woman beside him in bed. The passionate affair that follows is jeopardised when she suddenly falls ill. The volume also contains production notes, as well as interviews with Paul Auster about his work for the silver screen. 87
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07/10/2010 978 0 571 259892 112pp _
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Alana Dancing Star Book 1: Samba Spectacular
Arlene Phillips Arlene Phillips was a founding member of the hugely popular dance group, Hot Gossip, and is the world-renowned Director and Choreographer whose work has been seen widely on stage, feature film, concert arena, television, music videos and commercials. She has collaborated on music videos with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Robbie Williams, George Michael, Elton John, Queen, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, The Bee Gees, and many more; on international stage shows such as Saturday Night Fever, Starlight Express, Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lord of the Dance, Flashdance, Sleeping Beauty, The Sound of Music, Grease and We Will Rock You; and in television productions including Strictly Dance Fever, Friday Nights with Jonathan Ross, the Friday Night Project, the One Show, the Brit Awards, the Royal Variety Show, Children in Need, Party in the Park, Party at the Palace and the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. For six years Arlene was a judge on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing and continues to tour with the Strictly Come Dancing live UK tour. She is now a judge on the BBC1’s newest Saturday night primetime show, So You Think You Can Dance?, the hugely successful US import, hosted by Cat Deeley. In 2009 she was appointed as the Government’s Dance Tsar to help improve the UK’s health and fitness in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games.
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World-famous choreographer and star judge of BBC1’s primetime Saturday night show, So You Think You Can Dance?, Arlene Phillips’s Alana Dancing Star will be the hottest new series in girls’ fiction. Meet Alana – totally mad about dancing and surrounded by totally mad people. There’s mum Suzanne and sister Abi pestering her non-stop at home, snotty Verity at dance class, and clumsy new girl Alice. Tomorrow’s the big Latin show at Step Out Studio: but her Samba routine still isn’t good enough and now mum’s forgotten to make her dress. Things could be heading for a major disaster! So when Alana discovers Mademoiselle Coco’s mysterious costume shop she can’t believe her luck. Not only does she find the perfect dress, but it marks the beginning of a wonderful magical adventure of dancing and making new friends at the Brazilian carnival. Full of magic, glamour, glitter and loveable characters, each story centres around a brand new dance – from samba to tango, Bollywood to street dance. Alana Dancing Star will be perfect for fans of Darcey Bussell’s Magic Ballerina and Katie Price’s Perfect Ponies, as well as TV hits such as Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing on Ice, So You Think You Can Dance?, X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
07/10/2010 978 0 571 259915 112pp _
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Alana Dancing Star Book 2: L A Moves
Arlene Phillips Welcome back to Alana’s world – dancing is her number one passion. But everyone at school prefers pop stars to ballroom stars. Can she and her best friend, Meena, pull off a great routine for the school review? Soon enough, a trip to Mademoiselle Coco’s Costume Emporium has Alana on another magical dance adventure, this time doing the coolest street dancing moves in LA with the hottest boy band around. Maybe she can show everyone just how cool dancing can be after all?
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02/09/2010 978 0 571 253494 160pp _
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Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash Grubtown Tales
Philip Ardagh Philip Ardagh, whose very first Grubtown Tale won him the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, is the author of numerous books including the award-winning Eddie Dickens adventures, currently in over 30 languages. He wrote BBC radio’s first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children’s book and is a ‘regularly irregular’ reviewer of children’s books for the Guardian. Married with a son, he divides his time between Tunbridge Wells and Grubtown, where he cultivates his impressive beard.
Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner Philip Ardagh is back with a new tale of grubbiness and chaos in his hilarious Grubtown Tales series, perfect for fans of Mr Gum and Horrid Henry. News just in from Beardy Ardagh: when a yachting trip turns to disaster and the shipwrecked crew, including Mango Claptrap, end up using the impressively large Flabby Gomez as a manmade floating island, they need help. Who better to rescue them than the exceedingly useless lifeboat crew over at Limp, assisted by Grubtown’s very own chief of police, Grabby Hanson? But they have problems of their own. Can Jilly Cheeter save the day? And what about those hungry sharks . . . ?
‘Philip Ardagh has invented his own style of storytelling.’ Michael Rosen, Children’s Laureate
‘Lovers of the absurd and disgusting will delight in Ardagh’s new series.’ Guardian on Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky
‘This hilarious book will have you splitting your sides with laughter and wanting to read more, more, more!’ Blue Peter Book Club on Grubtown Tales: The Year that It Rained Cows 92
02/09/2010 978 0 571 245086 224pp _
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School of Night Book 1: Demon Storm
Justin Richards Justin Richards has written over forty novels as well as non-fiction books. He has also written audio scripts, television and stage plays, edited anthologies of short stories, been a technical writer, and founded and edited a media journal. Justin is the author of The Death Collector, The Parliament of Blood, The Chaos Code and The Invisible Detective series. He is also Creative Consultant to the BBC’s bestselling range of Doctor Who books. He lives in Warwick with his wife and two children, and a lovely view of the castle.
The Terror is only just beginning! From the author of The Parliament of Blood comes a chilling new series, perfect for young readers of Darren Shan, Derek Landy and Joseph Delaney. There is an unseen world most people can’t begin to imagine . . . Unless they can see the ghosts. Ben’s sister Sam saw them all the time. Then she looked into the Judgement Box, and that’s when Ben’s life changed for ever.
www.justinrichards.co.uk
Would you look into the Judgement Box? Would you dare? If you can see what’s inside, then maybe you have what it takes to join . . . the School of Night.
‘You can always trust Justin Richards to provide a rip-roaring story that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
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The Hoozles
Book 1: My Magical Teddy Jessie Little Fresh from Working Partners, the team that created the multimillion-success-stories Rainbow Magic, Beast Quest and Animal Ark, comes this wonderful new series for 5–7-year-olds about magical teddies, talking toys and terrific adventure. Fully illustrated throughout, and with puzzles, maps and stickers, the Hoozles books will be the newest collectable treat for young children everywhere.
They’re not just toys – they’re the magical Hoozles! And every Hoozle needs a special friend . . . Willow and Freddie can’t wait to stay with their Auntie Suzy in her toyshop by the sea. But when they meet the magical Hoozles, their adventures really begin! Freddie’s Hoozle needs help – can Willow and her new pals come to the rescue in time?
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The Hoozles
Book 2: The Naughty Croc Jessie Little When lonely Jack visits Auntie Suzy’s toyshop, Willow and Freddie know just what he needs – a magical Hoozle! But soon Croc the naughty Hoozle is out causing trouble for everyone. Can they stop him and find Jack the perfect cuddly friend?
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The Hoozles
Book 3: A Penguin Problem Jessie Little Grouchy the penguin Hoozle is feeling poorly, and naughty Croc is causing trouble all over Summertown.
01/07/2010 978 0 571 248063 64pp _
Can Willow and her Hoozle pals help Grouchy get better before Croc makes things much worse?
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The Hoozles
Book 4: The Big Parade Jessie Little Everyone’s excited about the wonderful Summertown Parade. But the town’s mayor has disappeared so the parade might not happen. Is Croc the
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naughty Hoozle behind the trouble? And can Willow and friends find the mayor in time for everyone to enjoy the special day?
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The Hoozles
Book 5: The Rabbit Rescue Jessie Little Willow is very excited when Clemmie comes to stay in Summertown. She’s got her own Hoozle too – a pretty bunny rabbit called Smooches.
But naughty Croc is trying to steal Smooches’s magical pocket heart. Can Willow and her Hoozle friends come to the rescue in time? 95
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Boy Zero Wannabe Hero The Attack of the Brain-Dead Break-Dancing Zombies
Peter Millett Peter Millett was born in New Zealand. He was first published aged nine when one of his humorous poems appeared in the national press. He has since gone on to publish a great many children’s books in New Zealand, including picture books and educational books. He has a passion for zany English humour and Spike Milligan is one of his all-time heroes. He lives with his family in Auckland.
Is it a falling bird? Is it an outof-control plane? No, it’s Boy Zero, Wannabe Hero. This is the second title in this hilarious new illustrated series, perfect for fans of Captain Underpants and Ben 10. General Pandemonium’s back and he’s badder than ever. Disguised as pop singer Andy Dandy, he’s out to brainwash the world with his hypnotic songs and turn everyone into a bunch of bamboozled break-dancing boneheads. Once again, it’s Charlie Applejack to the rescue. But before Charlie can defeat the general and save the world, he must face his greatest fear of all — spiders! Will he be a hero or will he be a zero?
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07/10/2010 978 0 571 259397 288pp _
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Furnace
Book 4: Prison Break
Alexander Gordon Smith Alexander Gordon Smith is the author of the terrifying Furnace series, as well as The Inventors, which was shortlisted for the Wow Factor competition, and The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls. He has also written a number of non-fiction books, as well as hundreds of articles for various magazines. He is the founder of Egg Box Publishing, an independent press that promotes talented new writers and poets, and is the co-owner of Fear Driven Films. He lives in Norwich.
The fourth nail-biting installment. Prepare to be terrified . . . I am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We’re out, but we’re not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown – the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here – creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself. Now a war is raging as he tries to bring the world to its knees. I can still feel the warden’s poison inside me. It’s the only thing keeping me alive, but it’s turning me into one of them, into a monster. I don’t know how much longer I can fight it before the rage takes over. If I don’t find a cure soon then it will be me out there tearing this city apart, me feasting on blood. If I ever want to be truly free then I have to travel into the heart of the darkness. I have to find Alfred Furnace before he finds me.
‘Furnace is hotter than hell and twice as much fun! Sign me up for a life sentence of Alexander Gordon Smith.’ Darren Shan
We made it out but the nightmare followed us, and soon the whole world will be our prison . . . Prison Break meets Darren Shan in one of the most addictive, terrifying and surprising series ever to have been published. With huge appeal to Anthony Horowitz and Darren Shan fans, it will leave the heart racing for days.
‘An adrenalin-packed thriller for teens that grumpy boys will gulp down.’ Amanda Craig, The Times
‘Fresh and ferocious Furnace will hook boys with its gritty, unrelenting surprises.’ James Patterson 97
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Vampyre Labyrinth Book 1: RedEye
G. P. Taylor G. P. Taylor is the author of several bestselling novels, including Shadowmancer, Shadowmancer: The Curse of Salamander Street, Wormwood and Tersias, as well as the Mariah Mundi trilogy. A former vicar of Cloughton in Yorkshire, he has enjoyed a varied career, moving from rock music to social work to ten years in the police force before his ordination. He now lives with his family in Scarborough.
You will come to know hell better than most, Jago. I have waited all these years for you to come back to this town. England, 1940: Britain is entrenched in war with the Germans when young Jago is evacuated from the Blitz bomings in London to the Yorkshire coast. With just the memory of his dead mother for comfort, Jago is desperate only to survive the war in some peace. But arriving at the hostile Streonshalgh Manor in the town of Whitby, he is confronted with cruel and frenzied locals, seemingly possessed by ancient stories of clannish retribution and sadistic horrors. The RedEye comet hovers fatefully over the town; people are being viciously killed; and Jago’s nights are spent as waking nightmares, darting through bloodstained and murderous streets. As shades of his past come rushing back to haunt him, Jago must confront the truth of this town – the perilous and violent truth of the ancient Vampyres.
‘The practically perfect conclusion to an excellent series. Rich and cleverly plotted, this gothic thriller is G. P. Taylor at his best.’ Book Bag on Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools 98
01/07/2010 978 0 571 249701 192pp _
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Doctor Doom
Oli and Skipjack’s Tales of Trouble
Ceci Jenkinson Ceci Jenkinson is the author of The Mum Shop, Gnomes are Forever, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize, The Spookoscope and Mirror Mischief. She lives in Wales with her husband and two young sons.
It’s trouble time again! Join Oli and Skipjack on their latest adventure of unstoppable trouble and hilarious escapades! Trainee Secret Agent Oli Biggles is on a mission – to track down an International Criminal Mastermind. Oli’s friend Skipjack is also on a mission – to escape being bashed by his old enemy Slugger Stubbins. Dodgy dentist Professor Vladimir Vakloff is on a mission, too – but it’s a secret. When all these missions meet at the summer fancy-dress fair – it’s trouble!
‘Will appeal to anyone who loves Horrid Henry.’ Observer on Oli and Skipjack’s Tales of Trouble
‘I recommend this to everyone.’ Sunday Express on Oli and Skipjack’s Tales of Trouble
‘Oli and Skipjack have an uncanny knack of getting into trouble . . . The results are wild, wacky and very funny.’ Julia Eccleshare 99
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The Waste Land T. S. Eliot, read by the author Eliot’s masterpiece depicts the breakdown both of an individual consciousness and of civilisation as a whole, in a variety of voices and moods from witty satire to nightmare vision, from
This previously unknown and unheard recording of Eliot reading The Waste Land was recorded in America in 1935.
03/06/2010 978 0 571 259502 _ _
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despair to a glimpse of peace.
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The Children’s Stories Ted Hughes, read by the author, selected and introduced by Michael Morpurgo
A selection of Ted Hughes’s wonderfully vivid children’s fiction, read by the author and selected and introduced by Michael Morpurgo.
03/06/2010 978 0 571 259496 _ _
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The Children’s Poems
Ted Hughes, selected and introduced by Michael Morpurgo, read by Morpurgo and Juliet Stevenson Ted Hughes’ poetry for children is as rich, powerful and magical as anything he wrote. This new recording consists of a collection of the children’s poems of Ted 102
Hughes, introduced and selected by acclaimed writer Michael Morpurgo, and read by both Morpurgo and actor Juliet Stevenson.
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Invisible Paul Auster, read by the author Three different narratives tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the left bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a
03/11/2010 978 0 571 269303 _ _
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book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice . . . A work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as ‘one of America’s most spectacularly inventive writers’.
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Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky Philip Ardagh, reader TBC
01/07/2010 978 0 571 259830 _ _
All hail Grubtown – where mayhem rules the day and exceptional silliness is a way of life! This is the first book in Phil Ardagh’s brilliant and wacky Grubtown series
that won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Here for the first time is an original audio recording – bringing Phil’s vivid stories to life in an exciting new format.
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Beautiful Malice Rebecca James, reader TBC To coincide with our publication of this intense, gripping, unputdownable thriller from Australian writer Rebecca James comes an original audio CD. With an unforgettable, strong voice at it’s centre – and
with publication lined up in 27 territories – this promises to be a major publishing event in 2010.
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Paperbacks
Paperback Fiction
02/09/2010 978 0 571 237029 768pp _
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The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk
‘A compelling, aching, heavy-hitting and beautiful thing.’ David Mitchell, Guardian Books of the Year
‘Spellbindingly told.’ Washington Post
01/07/2010 978 0 571 249527 320pp _
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Invisible Paul Auster
‘A tantalising page-turner.’ Joanna Briscoe, Guardian
‘The finest novel Auster has ever written.’ New York Times
01/07/2010 978 0 571 245352 352pp _
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Eye of the Red Tsar Sam Eastland
He was condemned to the Gulags. Now Stalin wants him back. The first in a new series of Russian historical crime novels.
01/07/2010 978 0 571 252435 304pp _
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Pilgrims
Garrison Keillor
‘Richly satisfying . . . very, very funny, but also brilliantly accurate on the pathos of late middle age and the falsehood of romantic and heroic illusions.’ A. N. Wilson 106
05/08/2010 978 0 571 239849 256pp _
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All the Colours of the Town Liam McIlvanney
‘An authentic, atmospheric and ambitious debut. Liam McIlvanney nails it.’ Val McDermid ‘Smart and engrossing.’ Observer
07/10/2010 978 0 571 229970 208pp _
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Voice Over Céline Curiol
‘The finest first novel I have read in many years.’ Paul Auster
‘Tremendously fresh, unpredictable and a huge pleasure to read.’ Linda Grant
05/08/2010 978 0 571 233304 112pp _
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Shortcomings Adrian Tomine
‘This is a funny, spare and expressively drawn book that’s too subtly drawn to be simply a jeremiad about prejudice . . . A superb piece of work.’ Daily Telegraph
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07/10/2010 978 0 571 217342 592pp _
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A Gambling Man Jenny Uglow
‘Whatever she writes about she makes absolutely fascinating, and this book is a case in point.’ Diana Athill, Scotsman Books of the Year
‘Terrific.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Telegraph Books of the Year
05/08/2010 978 0 571 229932 _ _
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Newton and the Counterfeiter Thomas Levenson
‘A delightful piece of narrative history.’ Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘Enormously entertaining.’ Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday
07/10/2010 978 0 571 234738 320pp _
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The Eitingons Mary-Kay Wilmers
‘The non-fiction book of the year.’ Andrew O’Hagan, Telegraph Books of the Year
‘A riveting piece of story-telling.’ Colm Tóibín, Guardian Books of the Year
01/07/2010 978 0 571 231614 448pp _
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Franklin
Andrew Lambert ‘Andrew Lambert has written another brilliant piece of research combined with old-fashioned detective work. Franklin is a heart-breaking journey through unwarranted hope and avoidable despair and yet utterly compelling.’ 108
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01/07/2010 978 0 571 248117 304pp _
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Paperback History
MINI
Simon Garfield ‘A great story . . . as much social history as industrial, the portrait of an age.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A book that Mini fans will love.’ Herald
02/09/2010 978 0 571 231645 400pp _
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Paperback Biography
William Golding
John Carey
‘Biographical perfection.’ Penelope Lively, Telegraph Books of the Year
‘Compelling, revealing and very readable.’ Seamus Heaney, TLS Books of the Year
05/08/2010 978 0 571 226368 448pp _
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Samuel Johnson David Nokes
‘Nokes presents Johnson in an entirely fresh way.’ Frances Wilson, Sunday Times Books of the Year
‘A lively, learned account [which] finds the man behind the myths.’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year
02/09/2010 978 0 571 244034 208pp _
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Paperback Science
We Need to Talk About Kelvin Marcus Chown
‘Chown writes very fluently, helping us to visualise things with matchboxes and Lego bricks, and he has a knack for the startling comparison.’ Stephen Poole, Guardian 109
Paperback Literary Criticism
02/09/2010 978 0 571 245123 352pp _
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Love of the World John McGahern
‘A wonderfully life-enhancing book.’ Bernard O’Donoghue, Irish Times
‘Anyone who loves McGahern’s work will be enthralled.’ John Boland, Irish Independent
07/10/2010 978 0 571 253586 144pp _
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Talking About Detective Fiction P. D. James
A personal and engaging account of the development of crime fiction, from Sherlock Holmes through the Golden Age to the achievements of the present and a glimpse of the future, by ‘the queen of the genre’ (Sunday Times).
Paperback True Crime
04/11/2010 978 0 571 258086 352pp _
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The Maul and the Pear Tree P. D. James and T. A. Critchley
A new package for the only true crime book by P. D. James. ‘An enthralling story.’ New York Times
Paperback Current Affairs
01/07/2010 978 0 571 260751 240pp _
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Ship of Fools Fintan O’Toole
The number one Irish bestseller. ‘Superb.’ Terry Eagleton, Guardian 110
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01/07/2010 978 0 571 236121 288pp _
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Paperback Travel Writing
The Secret Life of France Lucy Wadham
‘Anyone who is remotely curious about what makes the French tick will love this book . . . it’s all here, as juicy and satisfying as a steak served bleu . . . I really couldn’t put this book down.’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
02/09/2010 978 0 571 240906 224pp _
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Travels with a Typewriter Michael Frayn
‘A testament to a lifetime of looking.’ Tim Adams, Observer ‘Entertaining, sometimes eccentric but essentially serious reportage that has stood the test of time.’ Financial Times
01/07/2010 978 0 571 241798 256pp _
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Sydney
Jan Morris Renowned and much-loved travel writer Jan Morris turns her eye to Sydney: ‘not the best of the cities the British Empire created . . . but the most hyperbolic, the youngest at heart, the shiniest.’
02/09/2010 978 0 571 250691 224pp _
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Contact!
Jan Morris
‘An ideal bedside companion . . . wistful and witty, a box of small gems.’ Tom Adair, Scotsman Books of the Year
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Paperback Humour & Gift
07/10/2010 978 0 571 244911 400pp _
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The QI Book of the Dead
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
‘Breezy, witty mini-biographies of great, good and simply odd lives, from Epicurus to Tallulah Bankhead.’ Brian Schofield, Sunday Times Books of the Year
07/10/2010 978 0 571 248018 288pp _
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The Complete Book of Sisters Luisa Dillner
‘If you’re searching for a stocking-filler for your sister give her this.’ She, Christmas Books, Editor’s Choice
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04/11/2010 978 0 571 240098 160pp _
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Paperback Poetry
The War Poems Siegfried Sassoon
Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry in The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918).
05/08/2010 978 0 571 251742 64pp _
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Rain
Don Paterson Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2009. ‘The best collection of poetry to appear in years.’ Carol Ann Duffy, Guardian Books of the Year
05/08/2010 978 0 571 259793 256pp _
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The Anathemata David Jones
‘Very probably the finest long poem written in English this century.’ W. H. Auden
05/08/2010 978 0 571 259809 256pp _
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In Parenthesis David Jones
‘This work of a poet-painter has its every word chiseled out of experience, and it is probably the World War I monument most likely to survive.’ Stephen Spender, New York Times Book Review 113
Paperback Poetry
05/08/2010 978 0 571 260089 144pp _
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Selected Poems Wallace Stevens
‘One of the most considerable poets of the last hundred years . . . Poems that are as distinguished as any written in the last century.’ Thom Gunn
Paperback Drama
04/03/2010 978 0 571 237739 320pp _
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The Half
Simon Annand ‘From Joan Plowright to Daniel Radcliffe, all theatre’s royalty is here. As a piece of theatre history, The Half is astonishingly rich, but its real value is to reveal the magical process of transition an actor must undergo, daily, to become someone new.’ Observer
Paperback Music
02/09/2010 978 0 571 243037 688pp _
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Different Drummer Jann Parry
‘Jann Parry has written a biography on the grand scale, as extravagant as any of the ballets she describes – it is not just a labour of love, but, one feels while reading it, an offering, an homage to the power of dance.’ Patrick O’Connor, Literary Review
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07/10/2010 978 0 571 252480 80pp _
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
T. S. Eliot, illustrated by Axel Scheffler ‘The perfect pairing of poet and artist.’ Sunday Express
01/07/2010 978 0 571 232116 352pp _
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Heriot
Margaret Mahy ‘The queen of children’s fiction . . . her plots are complex, her language is both rich and precise. Mahy displays a deep understanding of the emotions and conflicts of growing up.’ Independent on Sunday
07/10/2010 978 0 571 219698 320pp _
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New and Collected Poems for Children Carol Ann Duffy
‘A beautiful edition comprising all four of the Poet Laureate’s volumes for children, as well as a selection of new work. An enormously enjoyable volume.’ Bookseller
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01/07/2010 978 0 571 250585 352pp _
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Eye of the Red Tsar Sam Eastland
The first in a new series of Russian historical crime novels. ‘A compact but rollicking debut.’ Guardian
01/07/2010 978 0 571 254842 448pp _
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Advanced Banter
John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
A big, funny and really useful book of quotations, from the writers of the international bestsellers The Book of General Ignorance and The Book of Animal Ignorance.
05/08/2010 978 0 571 253319 512pp _
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Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Carey
‘A vigorous, lyrical masterpiece.’ Edmund White ‘It’s possibly the most charming and engaging novel this demon of a storyteller has yet written.’ Paul Auster
05/08/2010 978 0 571 235674 512pp _
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Chronic City
Jonathan Lethem
‘Astonishing . . . The Fortress of Solitude was a great novel but Chronic City is even better.’ New York Times Book Review
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‘An enormous pleasure to read.’ Literary Review
02/09/2010 978 0 571 249817 416pp _
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Collected Stories Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi’s stories collected together for the first time.
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Index (A – N)
New Books July — December 2010 A The Absence of Women, Owen McCafferty, 70 Advanced Banter (International Edition), John Lloyd & John Mitchinson, 116 Alana Dancing Star: LA Moves, Arlene Phillips, 91 Alana Dancing Star: Samba Spectacular, Arlene Phillips, 90 All the Colours of the Town, Liam McIlvanney, 107 The Anathemata, David Jones, 113 Andersen’s English, Sebastian Barry, 67 Simon Annand, The Half, 114 Answer Me This, Helen Zaltzman & Olly Mann, 26 Philip Ardagh, Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash, 92 Philip Ardagh, Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky (CD), 105 Ariel, Sylvia Plath, 59 Simon Armitage, Kid, 58 Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothings, David Harrower, 75 W. H. Auden, Prose Volume 4, 54 Paul Auster, Sunset Park, 8 Paul Auster, Collected Screenplays, 87 Paul Auster, Invisible, 106, (CD), 105 B Sebastian Barry, Tales of Ballycumber, 67 Sebastian Barry, Andersen’s English, 67 Beautiful Malice, Rebecca James, 10, (CD), 105 The Bedwetter, Sarah Silverman, 31 ˇ Believe in People, Karel Capek, 41 Boy Zero Wannabe Hero, Peter Millett, 96 Christopher Bray, Sean Connery, 84 John Bridcut, The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten, 79 Ben Brown, The Promise, 75 Bruckner’s Pains of Youth, Martin Crimp, 68 Bulgakov’s The White Guard, Andrew Upton, 74 C ˇ Karel Capek, Believe in People, 41 John Carey, William Golding, 109 Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America (International Edition), 116 Helen Castor, She-Wolves, 32 Catherine of Aragon, Giles Tremlett, 36 Cedilla, Adam Mars-Jones, 18 The Children’s Poems (CD), Ted Hughes, 102 The Children’s Stories (CD), Ted Hughes, 102 Marcus Chown, We Need to Talk About Kelvin, 109 Chronic City (International Edition), Jonathan Lethem, 116 Collected Screenplays, Paul Auster, 87
Collected Stories (International Edition), Hanif Kureishi, 117 The Complete Book of Sisters, Luisa Dillner, 112 Contact!, Jan Morris, 111 Wendy Cope, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, 58 Martin Crimp, Bruckner’s Pains of Youth, 68 T. A. Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree, 110 Céline Curiol, Voice Over, 107 D Danny Boyle, Amy Raphael, 86 Dart, Alice Oswald, 59 Different Drummer, Jann Parry, 114 Luisa Dillner, The Complete Book of Sisters, 112 Doctor Doom, Ceci Jenkinson, 99 Carol Ann Duffy, New and Collected Poems for Children, 115 Dunsinane, David Greig, 68 E The Early Diaries, Simon Gray, 64 Sam Eastland, Eye of the Red Tsar, 106, (International Edition), 116 Eigengrau, Penelope Skinner, 72 The Eitingons, Mary Kay-Wilmers, 108 Electric Eden, Rob Young, 81 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land Facsimilie, 51 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (CD), 102 T. S. Eliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, 115 Casper W. Erichsen, The Kaiser’s Holocaust, 38 Eye of the Red Tsar, Sam Eastland, 106, (International Edition) 116 F The Faber Pocket Guide to Britten, John Bridcut, 79 The Forward Book of Poetry 2011, 57 Foster, Claire Keegan, 17 Franklin, Andrew Lambert, 108 Michael Frayn, Travels with a Typewriter, 111 Furnace: Prison Break, Alexander Gordon Smith, 97 G A Gambling Man, Jenny Uglow, 108 Simon Garfield, MINI, 109 Simon Gray, The Early Diaries, 64 Simon Gray, Plays 1, Plays 2, 65 Simon Gray, Plays 3, Plays 4, Plays 5, 66 Michael Gregorio, Unholy Awakening, 21 David Greig, Dunsinane, 68 David Greig, Plays 1, 69 Greta Garbo Comes to Donegal, Frank McGuinness, 71
H The Half, Simon Annand, 114 James Hamilton-Paterson, Victory Roll, 34 David Harrower, Arthur Schnitzler’s Sweet Nothings, 75 Haunted, Edna O’Brien, 70 Dermot Healy, Long Time, No See, 12 Seamus Heaney, Human Chain, 44 Heriot, Margaret Mahy, 115 Harry Hill, Livin’ the Dreem, 24 The Hoozles: A Penguin Problem, Jessie Little, 95 The Hoozles: My Magical Teddy, Jessie Little, 94 The Hoozles: The Big Parade, Jessie Little, 95 The Hoozles: The Naughty Croc, Jessie Little, 94 The Hoozles: The Rabbit Rescue, Jessie Little, 95 How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee, 28 How to Keep a Pet Squirrel, Axel Scheffler, 30 Ted Hughes, The Children’s Stories (CD), 102 Ted Hughes, The Children’s Poems (CD), 102 Human Chain, Seamus Heaney, 44 I Ibsen’s Ghosts, Frank McGuinness, 71 If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, Nick Payne, 72 Mick Imlah, Selected Poems, 50 In Parenthesis, David Jones, 113 Invisible, Paul Auster, (PB), 106, (CD), 105 J Rebecca James, Beautiful Malice, 10, (CD), 105 P. D. James, Talking About Detective Fiction, 110 P. D. James & T. A. Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree, 110 Ceci Jenkinson, Doctor Doom, 99 David Jones, The Anathemata, 113 David Jones, In Parenthesis, 113 K The Kaiser’s Holocaust, David Olusoga & Casper W. Erichsen, 38 Stefan Kanfer, Tough Without a Gun, 85 Claire Keegan, Foster, 17 Garrison Keillor, Pilgrims, 106 Kid, Simon Armitage, 58 Hanif Kureishi, Collected Stories (International Edition), 117 L Andrew Lambert, Franklin, 108 Philip Larkin, Letters to Monica, 52 Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings, 58 Norman Lebrecht, Why Mahler?, 78 Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate, 28
Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City (International Edition), 116 Letters to Monica, Philip Larkin, Anthony Thwaite (ed.), 52 Thomas Levenson, Newton and the Counterfeiter, 108 Lights Out in Wonderland, DBC Pierre, 6 The Line, Timberlake Wertenbaker, 73 Jessie Little, The Hoozles: My Magical Teddy, The Hoozles: The Naughty Croc, 94 Jessie Little, The Hoozles: A Penguin Problem, The Hoozles: The Big Parade, The Hoozles: The Rabbit Rescue, 95 Livin’ the Dreem, Harry Hill, 24 John Lloyd, The QI Book of the Dead, 112 John Lloyd, Advanced Banter (International Edition), 116 Long Time, No See, Dermot Healy, 12 Love of the World, John McGahern, 110 M Maggot, Paul Muldoon, 46 Margaret Mahy, Heriot, 115 Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, Wendy Cope, 58 David Mamet, Theatre, 62 Olly Mann, Answer Me This, 26 Greil Marcus, When That Rough God Goes Riding Through, 80 Adam Mars-Jones, Cedilla, 18 The Maul and the Pear Tree, P. D. James & T. A. Critchley, 110 Owen McCafferty, The Absence of Women, 70 John McGahern, Love of the World, 110 Frank McGuinness, Greta Garbo Comes to Donegal, 71 Frank McGuinness, Ibsen’s Ghosts, 71 Liam McIlvanney, All the Colours of the Town, 107 Eoin McNamee, Orchid Blue, 16 David Means, The Spot, 19 Edward Mendelson (ed.), W. H. Auden Prose Volume 4, 54 Peter Millett, Boy Zero Wannabe Hero, 96 MINI, Simon Garfield, 109 John Mitchinson, The QI Book of the Dead, 112 John Mitchinson, QI Advanced Banter (International Edition), 116 Jan Morris, Sydney, 111 Jan Morris, Contact!, 111 Paul Muldoon, Maggot, 46 The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk, 106 N New and Collected Poems for Children, Carol Ann Duffy, 115 Newton and the Counterfeiter, Thomas Levenson, 108 Nil Nil, Don Paterson, 59 David Nokes, Samuel Johnson, 109
Index (O – Z)
New Books July — December 2010 O Fintan O’Toole, Ship of Fools, 110 Edna O’Brien, Haunted, 70 Of Mutability, Jo Shapcott, 48 Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot, 115 David Olusoga, The Kaiser’s Holocaust, 38 Orchid Blue, Eoin McNamee, 16 Alice Oswald, Dart, 59 P Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence, 106 Parrot and Olivier in America (International Edition), Peter Carey, 116 Jann Parry, Different Drummer, 114 Don Paterson, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 56 Don Paterson, Nil Nil, 59 Don Paterson, Rain, 113 Nick Payne, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 72 Arlene Phillips, Alana Dancing Star: Samba Spectacular, 90 Arlene Phillips, Alana Dancing Star: LA Moves, 91 DBC Pierre, Lights Out in Wonderland, 6 Pilgrims, Garrison Keillor, 106 Sylvia Plath, Ariel, 59 Plays 1, Simon Gray, 65 Plays 1, David Greig, 69 Plays 2, Simon Gray, 65 Plays 3, Simon Gray, 66 Plays 4, Simon Gray, 66 Plays 5, Simon Gray, 66 Ezra Pound, Selected Poems and Translations 1908–1969, 55 The Priory, Michael Wynne, 74 Private Life, Jane Smiley, 14 The Promise, Ben Brown, 75 Q The QI Book of the Dead, John Lloyd & John Mitchinson, 112 QI: Advanced Banter (International Edition), John Lloyd & John Mitchinson, 116 R Rain, Don Paterson, 113 Amy Raphael, Danny Boyle, 86 Red Plenty, Francis Spufford, 39 Justin Richards, School of Night: Demon Storm, 93
S Samuel Johnson, David Nokes, 109 Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems, 113 Axel Scheffler, How to Keep a Pet Squirrel, 30 School of Night: Demon Storm, Justin Richards, 93 Sean Connery, Christopher Bray, 84 The Secret Life of France, Lucy Wadham, 111 Selected Poems, Mick Imlah, 50 Selected Poems, Wallace Stevens, 114 Selected Poems and Translations of Ezra Pound 1908-1969, Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (ed.), 55 William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 56 Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Don Paterson, 56 Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability, 48 She-Wolves, Helen Castor, 32 Ship of Fools, Fintan O’Toole, 110 Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine, 107 Richard Sieburth (ed.), Selected Poems and Translations of Ezra Pound 1908–1969, 55 Sarah Silverman, The Bedwetter, 31 Penelope Skinner, Eigengrau, 72 Jane Smiley, Private Life, 14 Alexander Gordon Smith, Furnace: Prison Break, 97 Abbie Spallen, Strandline, 73 Splash, Crash and Loads of Cash, Philip Ardagh, 92 The Spot, David Means, 19 Francis Spufford, Red Plenty, 39 Wallace Stevens, Selected Poems, 114 Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky (CD), Philip Ardagh, 105 Strandline, Abbie Spallen, 73 Sunset Park, Paul Auster, 8 Sydney, Jan Morris, 111 T Tales of Ballycumber, Sebastian Barry, 67 Talking About Detective Fiction, P. D. James, 110 G. P. Taylor, Vampyre Labyrinth: RedEye, 98 The War Poems, Siegfried Sassoon, 113 Theatre, David Mamet, 62 Anthony Thwaite (ed.), Letters to Monica, 52 Sárka Tobrmanová-Kühnová (ed.), Believe in People, 41 Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings, 107 Tough Without a Gun, Stefan Kanfer, 85 Charles Townshend, When God Made Hell, 37 Travels with a Typewriter, Michael Frayn, 111 Giles Tremlett, Catherine of Aragon, 36 Two For Sorrow, Nicola Upson, 20
U Jenny Uglow, A Gambling Man, 108 Unholy Awakening, Michael Gregorio, 21 Nicola Upson, Two For Sorrow, 20 Andrew Upton, Bulgakov’s The White Guard, 74 V Vampyre Labyrinth: RedEye, G. P. Taylor, 98 Victory Roll, James Hamilton-Paterson, 34 Voice Over, Céline Curiol, 107 W W. H. Auden Prose Volume 4, W .H. Auden, Edward Mendelson (ed.), 54 Lucy Wadham, The Secret Life of France, 111 The Waste Land (CD), T. S. Eliot, 102 The Waste Land Facsimilie, T. S. Eliot, 51 Jonathan Watts, When a Billion Chinese Jump, 40 We Need to Talk About Kelvin, Marcus Chown, 109 Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Line, 73 When a Billion Chinese Jump, Jonathan Watts, 40 When God Made Hell, Charles Townshend, 37 When That Rough God Goes Riding Through, Greil Marcus, 80 The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin, 58 Why Mahler?, Norman Lebrecht, 78 William Golding, John Carey, 109 Mary-Kay Wilmers, The Eitingons, 108 Michael Wynne, The Priory, 74 Y Rob Young, Electric Eden, 81 Z Helen Zaltzman, Answer Me This, 26
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