FICTION & CRIME

CONTENTS

FICTION & CRIME 2

FICTION & CRIME 20 PAPERBACKS

NON-FICTION 26

NON-FICTION 50 PAPERBACKS

CLASSICAL MUSIC 60

POETRY

CHILDREN’S 82

fiction & crime autumn 2021

SALLY ROONEY is the author of the novels Conversations with Friends and Normal People. She was the winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award in 2017. Normal People was the Waterstones Book of the Year, winner of the Costa Novel Award and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

The new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends.

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young – but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

‘The literary phenomenon of the decade.’ Guardian

‘Rooney has given us a spellbinding twenty-first-century love story, and asserted herself as one of the major young writers in the English-speaking world.’ TLS

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The Country of Others

Leïla Slimani

This enrapturing new novel, from international sensation Leïla Slimani, is the heart-rending tale of her own French Moroccan origins – and a major new work of historical fiction.

1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman. Her life is now that of a farmer’s wife – with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings. Suffocated by the heat, by her loneliness on the farm and by the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner, Mathilde grows increasingly restless. As Morocco’s struggle for independence intensifies, Mathilde and her husband find themselves caught in the crossfire. This story of two nations at war, two cultures at loggerheads and one family torn apart is as tenderly observed as it is devastatingly true.

‘Slimani writes devastatingly perceptive character studies.’ New York Times Book Review LEÏLA SLIMANI is the first Moroccan woman to be awarded France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby. A journalist and frequent commentator on women’s and human rights, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.

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SARAH HALL has been nominated for the Man Booker Prize twice; she is the winner of the Edge Hill and Portico prizes and the East Anglian Book Award. She is the only author to be four times shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award, which she won in 2013 and in 2020.

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Burntcoat Sarah Hall

An electrifying novel of passion, connection and transformation – from ‘a writer of showstopping genius’ (Guardian).

You were the last one here, before I closed the door of Burntcoat. Before we all closed our doors. In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making her final preparations. The symptoms are well known: her life will draw to an end in the coming days. Downstairs, the studio remains lit – a crucible glowing with memories and desire. It was here, when the first lockdown came, that she brought Halit. The lover she barely knew. A presence from another culture. A doorway into a new and feverish world.

‘An edgy, sensuous, and immediate writer of striking power and grace.’ Sunday Times

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Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

An exquisite, winter tale of courage – and its cost –set in Catholic Ireland.

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. Early one morning, he makes a delivery to the local convent – and confronts the darkness and complicit silences of a town controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

‘[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.’ Hilary Mantel CLAIRE KEEGAN was brought up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Foster was named by The Times as one of the top fifty novels to be published in the twenty-first century. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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SARA GRAN is the author of six critically acclaimed novels, including the Claire de Witt series. She also writes for film and TV, including Southland and Chance, and has published in the New York Times, the New Orleans Times Picayune, and USA Today.

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Come Closer

Sara Gran

Discover this cult classic, available in the UK for the first time in many years, and step into a world of the dark, bizarre and unexplained . . . It wasn’t like everything went wrong all at once.

Strange noises in the apartment. Impulsive behaviour. Intense dreams.

There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on.

Shoplifting. Fighting. Blackouts.

There must be a reasonable explanation for all this.

‘It will scare the pants off you. It is a perfect horror novel.’ Paul Tremblay

Wild Pets

Amber Medland

A visceral, elegant literary debut that tells one of the oldest stories in the world – first love – with joyous insouciance and wicked verve.

Wild Pets follows three graduates entering the real world in a time of Trump and #MeToo. Iris goes to New York to write, Ezra’s band starts making waves and Nance becomes involved with an older academic. They fall in and out of bed with each other, while losing themselves in substances and late nights. Confronting adulthood with high wit and low behaviour, they seem to have everything going for them. So why are they still swimming desperately against the tide? A bold, honest novel that serves as a litmus test for a generation, Wild Pets is about the fragility of mental health, power imbalances in friendship and sex, and creative ambition fused with destruction – and the lingering power of first loves.

‘A new, millennial bright spark.’ Andrew O’Hagan AMBER MEDLAND read English Literature and has an MPhil in American Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge. She has an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York. She was born in 1990 and lives in London.

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ROBERT HILLMAN has written a number of books including his 2004 memoir The Boy in the Green Suit, which won the Australian National Biography Award, and The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted, published by Faber in 2019. He lives in Melbourne.

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The Bride of Almond Tree

Robert Hillman

Luxuriate in an orchard’s shade, for a tale of love and loneliness.

Welsey Cunningham grew up running barefoot through the orchards of Almond Tree, dreaming that one day he’d build a house of his own. The Second World War interrupted those fantasies. Now in his twenties, returning from combat, Wes finds his home town changed. Even Beth Hardy – his headstrong, fiercely intelligent and beautiful neighbour – is no longer the woman he once knew. Their dreams and desires may be at odds, but there is something they don’t yet know. Wes and Beth need each other, desperately: neither will be able to survive what life has in store without the other.

‘An emotional, beautiful, bittersweet story that was captivating and delightful.’ Five Star reader review of The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Godspeed

Nickolas Butler

Part morality tale, part mystery, a searing story of friendship, family and temptation.

My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true – then it probably is. Bart, Teddy and Cole founded their own construction company because they yearned to build a legacy. When Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it’s the job that will secure their future. But the house Gretchen wants has to be completed to a nearimpossible deadline. What is she hiding from them? When does ambition turn into greed? And what might be the true cost of their dreams?

‘A page-turning, race-against-the-clock novel about fatal obsession, love, violence, addiction, and faith. After you turn the last page it’ll stay with you for a long, long time.’ C. J. Box NICKOLAS BUTLER is the author of three novels, including the international bestseller Shotgun Lovesongs and Little Faith, which won the Edward Stanford Travel Award for Best Novel 2020. Butler, who attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, currently lives in Wisconsin with his wife and their two children.

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JEAN HANFF KORELITZ was born and raised in New York City and graduated from Dartmouth College and Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of eight novels, including Admission, The Devil and Webster and The Undoing, now a major series on HBO and Sky Atlantic.

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz

This season’s gripping page-turner from the author of The Undoing, the major series on HBO and Sky Atlantic.

When a young writer dies before completing his first novel, his teacher, Jake (himself a failed novelist), helps himself to its plot. The resulting book is a phenomenal success. But what if somebody out there knows? Somebody does. And if Jake can’t figure out who he’s dealing with, he risks something far worse than the loss of his career.

‘Brilliant.’ Metro on The Undoing

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Dream Girl

Laura Lippman

From the New York Times bestselling author, a psychological thriller about a writer whose dream girl may just have come back to haunt him.

Gerry Andersen has been having trouble sleeping. He’s unwell – bed-bound – and has only his night nurse and his PA for company. But what’s really troubling him are the phone calls. Phone calls from a woman claiming to be the ‘real’ Aubrey. But that can’t be. Aubrey’s just a character Gerry made up in a book, years ago. Can Gerry see past the ever-blurring lines of fact and fiction and figure out who is threatening him, or has his long-overdue moment of reckoning finally arrived?

‘Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the master. She is simply a brilliant novelist, an unflinching chronicler of life in America right now.’ Gillian Flynn LAURA LIPPMAN’s novels have won many crime fiction prizes, including the Edgar, Anthony and Agatha awards. Sunburn (2018) was nominated for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and was a Waterstones Book of the Month. Her most recent novel, Lady in the Lake (2019), featured in numerous Best of the Year lists.

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JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of eighteen novels, including Snow, The Book of Evidence, The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize, and the Quirke Series of crime novels under the pen name Benjamin Black. Other major prizes he has won include the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and the Prince of Asturias Award. He lives in Dublin.

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April in Spain John Banville

A sweltering mystery from the Booker Prize winner, his follow-up to the bestselling Snow.

On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax – despite the beaches, the cafes and his disarmingly lovely wife. So when he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at the bar Las Arcadas, it’s hard, at first, to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Because this young woman can’t be April Latimer. April Latimer was murdered by her brother, in a scandal that shook one of Ireland’s foremost political dynasties. Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home and Detective Inspector St John Strafford is soon dispatched to Spain. But he’s not the only one en route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown.

Praise for Snow:

‘Stylish. Engrossing . . . Banville has taken a classic crime construct and produced a subtle, incisive novel that is superb to the last drop.’ Independent

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Harsh Times

Mario Vargas Llosa

The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning master of fiction – the true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s.

Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, a fiction which forever changed the development of Latin America: that those in power had encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Mario Vargas Llosa has written a drama on a world stage. Ironic and sensual, provocative and redemptive, Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting Cold War interests, the echoes of which are still felt today.

‘Vargas Llosa has remarkable gifts. He demonstrates the superabundant vitality of the Latin American imagination in its most challenging form.’ Sunday Times MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. He has also won the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most distinguished literary honour. His many works include Sabers and Utopias, The Discreet Hero, The Feast of the Goat, The Bad Girl, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.

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HELEN OYEYEMI is the author of six previous novels, including Mr Fox, Boy, Snow, Bird and Gingerbread, and the short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours. In 2013, Helen was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

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Peaces

Helen Oyeyemi

‘A writer of sentences so elegant that they gleam.’ Ali Smith

Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As they roll along, Otto and Xavier discover that each carriage is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues. This is a brilliant, wise, strange and, above all, beautiful novel by a major British novelist.

‘As with the best writers, she never seems afraid to try new things, to break different boundaries, to cross lines previously left untouched.’ Daisy Johnson

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The Missing Hours

Julia Dahl

A twenty-first-century psychological thriller about toxic masculinity, social media and a woman who won’t be beaten.

She doesn’t remember. He won’t let her forget. When Claudia Castro wakes up in her dorm room on the first day of spring break, she knows immediately that something isn’t right. Nausea, pounding headache, missing phone: all signs of a wild night out. But Claudia can’t remember a thing. Two days later, a video goes viral and is the talk of campus. A video of Claudia. The footage is obviously meant to humiliate her – who wouldn’t be embarrassed of a video like that? But whoever filmed this video, whoever sent it, has misjudged this situation. Because Claudia isn’t ashamed – she’s angry and she’s determined not to be the victim.

‘An absolutely crackling, unputdownable mystery. I loved it.’ Gillian Flynn on Invisible City JULIA DAHL is the author of the acclaimed Rebekah Roberts series: Invisible City (2014), which won the Macavity, Barry and Shamus awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award and a Mary Higgins Clark award; Run You Down (2015); and Conviction (2017). She teaches journalism at NYU.

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Rooted in history, Faber Editions are books for the future. Spanning the twentieth century, these distinctive voices share a radical literary spirit and speak to new generations.

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Mrs Caliban Rachel Ingalls

Introduced by Irenosen Okojie Dorothy is a lonely suburban housewife – until an escaped sea monster arrives in her kitchen, and her passionate affair with Larry the frogman goes beyond her wildest dreams.

An amphibious cult classic, Mrs Caliban is a feat of surrealist magic that has inspired readers for decades.

‘A perfect novel.’ New Yorker

Rachel Ingalls was born in Boston in 1940 and settled in England in 1965. Over half a century, she wrote eleven acclaimed story collections and novellas. She died in 2019.

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Palace of the Peacock Wilson Harris

Introduced by Jamaica Kincaid When a riverboat crew embarks on a voyage through the rainforest, their destination soon becomes the mysterious Palace of the Peacock.

A modernist fever dream, epic prose poem, modern myth: Wilson Harris’s masterpiece has defied definition for over sixty years.

‘One of the great originals.’ Guardian

Sir Wilson Harris was born in 1921 in British Guiana. He worked as a rainforest surveyor before moving to London in 1959, where he wrote twenty-six prize-winning novels. He died in 2018.

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fiction & crime paperbacks autumn 2021

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Mayflies

Andrew O’Hagan

In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite a friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over, they rush towards a magical weekend of youthful excess in Manchester against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded. And there a vow is made: to go at life differently. Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has news.

‘What a stunning novel . . . A requiem for youth and friendship.’ Graham Norton ‘Funny, passionate, heartbreaking.’ Tracey Thorn ‘Starts as a celebration of wild youth and music but then turns into something tender and heartbreaking about friendship and time. I loved it.’ David Nicholls

07/10/2021 PB | 9780571363018 | 240pp | £8.99 UK C/Wealth + Can, EU

Reality, and Other Stories

John Lanchester

Household gizmos with a mind of their own. The wrong kind of cold calls. And the creeping suspicion that none of this is real. Reality, and Other Stories is a gathering of deliciously chilling entertainments – stories to be read as the evenings draw in and the days are haunted by all the uncanny technologies and absurd horrors of modern life.

‘These entertainments are brisk, vinegar-sharp satires that horrify and amuse in equal measure.’ Guardian ‘Eight deliciously eerie tales of ghostly goings-on . . . Pure pleasure.’ Mail on Sunday ‘A Tales of the Unexpected for the digital age.’ i newspaper

07/10/2021 PB | 9780571362707 | 352pp | £8.99 UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can

Snow

John Banville

The bestselling first book of the new 1950s crime series. ‘The body is in the library,’ Colonel Osborne said. ‘Come this way.’ Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House – the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family – Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate.

‘Superb.’ The Times ‘Outstanding.’ Irish Independent ‘Exquisite.’ Daily Mail

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The Dead of Winter

Nicola Upson

December 1938: storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Writer Josephine Tey and Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose gather their friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, can Josephine and Archie prevent the murderer from striking again?

‘Unforgettable . . . There is a truly brilliant twist, and oodles of excitement.’ The Times ‘The ninth novel in Upson’s fine series . . . An absorbing plot.’ Sunday Times

Devotion

Madeline Stevens

Ella is lonely, hungry and broke. Lonnie is rich, talented and beautiful – with a doting husband and son to match. When Ella is hired by Lonnie as a nanny, she quickly becomes mesmerised by Lonnie’s girlish affection and her disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage. But soon dangerous resentments grow.

‘A page-turner . . . rife with obsession, jealousy, lust, and betrayal.’ New York Journal of Books

Erasure

Percival Everett

Hilarious yet moving, serious yet satirical, a masterful novel of one man’s experience of what it means to be black, or not black enough, in twenty-first-century America. Reissued with an introduction by Brandon Taylor, Bookershortlisted author of Real Life.

‘Truly brilliant.’ Los Angeles Review of Books ‘A classic.’ The Times ‘A remarkable novel.’ Wall Street Journal

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The Guyana Quartet

Wilson Harris

British Guiana: a colony haunted by slavery and murder, in which men chart mysterious quests along rainforest rivers. Reissued to mark Sir Wilson Harris’s centenary, The Guyana Quartet is a blazing modern epic, as revolutionary as it was over half a century ago.

‘A towering figure . . . Breathtaking.’ Guardian ‘The Guyanese William Blake.’ Angela Carter

Alessandra Lippuci ©

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Discover William Golding beyond Lord of the Flies: three experimental modern classics by the radical Nobel Laureate, with striking new artwork and high-profile introductions.

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The Inheritors

Introduced by Ben Okri Neanderthals on the cusp of a new age.

‘A tour de force . . . Genius.’ Daily Telegraph

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Pincher Martin

Introduced by Marlon James A shipwrecked sailor’s psychic disintegration.

‘Wizardry of the first order.’ Observer

The Spire

Introduced by Benjamin Myers One medieval man’s obsession.

‘A kind of miracle.’ Guardian

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non-fiction

autumn 2021

AKWAEKE EMEZI is a writer and video artist based in liminal spaces. Their novels include the critically acclaimed debut Freshwater and the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji. Emezi’s writing has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, BuzzFeed and The Cut, among other publications.

Dear Senthuran

A Black spirit memoir Akwaeke Emezi

A book that shatters boundaries and explodes the way we think about the idea of the self.

In letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family – both biological and chosen – and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities. Through heartbreak, chronic pain, intimacy with death, becoming a beast, this is embodiment as a non-human: outside the boundaries imposed by expectations and legibility. This book is an account of the gruelling work of realignment and remaking necessary to carve out a future for oneself. The result is a Black spirit memoir: a powerful, raw unfolding of identity.

‘Akwaeke Emezi parts the seas of the self.’ Vanity Fair

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Black Teacher

Beryl Gilroy

Introduced by Bernardine Evaristo, this unforgettable memoir by a pioneering Caribbean woman in post-war Britain is a rediscovered classic.

Working amid the East End’s bomb sites. Serving as a lady’s maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Raising children in English suburbia. Becoming one of the first black headteachers in Britain. Beryl Gilroy’s new life wasn’t what she had expected. In 1952, she moved from British Guiana to London to pursue her dream of teaching, only to face a racist post-war society – but her belief in the power of education to promote diversity resulted in a historic career. Her inspirational memoir is as entertaining and unflinching as it was almost fifty years ago – a testament to how one woman’s spirit, humour and dignity transcended her era.

‘Fresh and vital . . . Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion . . . A hugely important memoir.’ Bernardine Evaristo Born in 1924 in British Guiana, BERYL GILROY trained as a teacher before moving to London to study in 1952. In spite of the colour bar, she rose to become one of Britain’s first black headteachers and an award-winning writer of fiction, children’s books and essays. She died in 2001.

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Dr JENNIFER OTTER BICKERDIKE is a cultural historian and author. She has appeared on BBC Radio 6, BBC 4, Channel 4 and ITV and has written for the Guardian. She is the author of several books, including the bestselling Why Vinyl Matters. Originally from Santa Cruz, California, she now lives in London.

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You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone

The Biography of Nico Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

A myth-shattering biography of one of rock’s most underestimated creative forces.

Over the course of her life, Nico was an ever-evolving myth, an enigma that escaped definition. Though she is remembered for contributions to The Velvet Underground & Nico, she is often overlooked, while fellow Velvets Lou Reed and John Cale are hailed as icons. Defying the sexist casting of Nico’s life as the tragedy of a beautiful woman losing her youth and fame, You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone cements her legacy as one of the most vital artists of her time, inspiring a generation of luminaries including Björk, Morrissey and Iggy Pop. Containing over one hundred new interviews and rare archival material, this is the Nico biography we have been waiting for.

‘What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.’ Marianne Faithfull

Some Answers Without Questions

Lavinia Greenlaw

From the prizewinning poet and writer, a concise, elegant, feminist polemic.

The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is a rigorous and lyrical work of self-investigation. Lavinia Greenlaw sets out to explore the impulse to say something, to write or sing and finds herself confronting matters of presence and absence, anger and speechlessness, authority and permission. The result is important and timely, a spirited and vital exploration of what enables anyone – but a woman and an artist, in particular – to speak even when not invited to do so. Some Answers Without Questions arises from decades of answering questions that don’t really matter – and not being asked the ones that do.

‘Everything Greenlaw touches glitters and resonates.’ Vogue ‘[Greenlaw’s] prose has a sharp honesty and she wields her erudition lightly.’ Sunday Times LAVINIA GREENLAW has published three novels and six collections of poetry. Her two books of non-fiction are The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. Her writing has appeared in frieze, the London Review of Books and the New Yorker, among other publications.

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Introducing the Music Matters Series. Short Books About the Artists We Love.

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Why Solange Matters

Stephanie Phillips

Launching Faber’s Music Matters series, Black feminist punk performer and journalist Stephanie Phillips chronicles the dramatic story of Solange Knowles, an incandescent artist who, despite being Beyonce’s sister, found international success on her own terms and became a beloved voice for the Black Lives Matter generation.

Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

Tanya Pearson

A remarkable feminist history, biography and memoir that features fragments from the five-decade career of iconic artist Marianne Faithfull. An avid fan, recovered addict and queer musician, Pearson explains Faithfull’s absence from male-dominated history and explores how Faithfull sculpted her own musical rebirth.

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

Karen Tongson

An intimate hybrid of memoir and biography exploring Karen Carpenter’s ability to transcend cultural differences despite the suburban, whitewashed mainstream culture usually associated with Carpenter’s legacy. Tongson excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of their sound and finds the beauty in Karen Carpenter’s all-too-short life.

06/05/2021 HB | 9780571368983 | 256pp | £9.99 Ebook | 9780571368990 UK C/Wealth ex Can 05/08/2021 HB | 9780571368969 | 256pp | £9.99 Ebook | 9780571368976 UK C/Wealth ex Can 04/11/2021 HB | 9780571369003 | 256pp | £9.99 Ebook | 9780571369010 UK C/Wealth ex Can

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The Magic Box

Rob Young

A companion to the groundbreaking Electric Eden; a riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its television and film.

The cross-genre feast of moving pictures that were produced in Britain between the 1950s and 1980s – from Bagpuss to The Wicker Man and Brideshead Revisited – contributed to a national conversation. It played out tensions between past and present, dramatised the fractures and inequalities in society and acted as a portal for ghostly visions and alternative histories. In The Magic Box, Rob Young takes us on a fascinating personal journey into this influential, golden age of screen and discovers what it reveals about the nature and character of Britain, its uncategorisable people and buried histories.

Praise for Electric Eden: ‘Phenomenal.’ Observer ‘Astonishing . . . genuinely groundbreaking.’ The Word ROB YOUNG is the author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music and All Gates Open: The Story of Can. A former editor of The Wire magazine, he has also written for Uncut, Guardian, Sight & Sound, Art Review and frieze. He lives in Oslo.

05/08/2021 HB | 9780571284597 | 560pp | £20.00 Ebook | 9780571284610 World English Language

Born in Salford, Manchester, in 1943, MIKE LEIGH has developed a unique method of creating films through controlled improvisations. Secrets & Lies won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1996. TopsyTurvy (1999) won two Oscars and Vera Drake (2004) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh

A new, revised edition that brings the great director’s career up to date.

Five-time Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner, the only British director to have won the top prize at both the Cannes and Venice film festivals – Mike Leigh is unquestionably one of world cinema’s pre-eminent figures. In their commingling of bleakness and humour, Leigh’s films recreate the tragicomic world of people whose everyday lives are far from glamorous: a world in which ‘the done thing’ usually prevails, contrary to our inner hopes, wants or needs. Above all, Leigh is an accomplished storyteller. Within the pages of the book, Leigh speaks to Amy Raphael more openly than ever before of his life and inimitable working method, revealing himself as passionate and forthright, with a dry, playful Mancunian wit.

‘For anyone interested in theatre or film-making, it’s a must.’ The Spectator

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We Travelled

Essays and Poems David Hare

A powerful compilation of prose and poetry by one of the distinctive thinkers of our time. ‘I can’t remember if I had any plans for the twenty-first century. I was already fifty-two when it arrived. But events raced off in such unexpected directions that any possible ideas must have gone out the window. Many of us shared the sensation that history was speeding up.’ Recording dizzying changes in culture and politics, these elegant essays range in subject from the photographer Lee Miller to the Archbishop of Canterbury, from the actress Sarah Bernhardt to the rapist Jimmy Savile, from a celebration of Mad Men to a diagnosis of the incoherence of conservatism in the new century. The poems, in contrast, are private: tender meditations filled with love, memory, vulnerability and the melancholy of ageing.

DAVID HARE’s first full-length play was produced in 1970. Since then, he has written over thirty stage plays and twentyfive screenplays for film and television. In a millennial poll of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, five of the top hundred were his.

‘Our best writer of contemporary drama.’ Sunday Times 05/08/2021