Press Books Catalogue CONTENTS Fourth Estate pages 2 – 42 Harper Press pages 43 - 75 The Friday Project pages 76 - 81 Contacts: Harper Press Helen Ellis helen.ellis@harpercollins.co.uk 020 8307 4250 Katherine Josselyn Katherine.josselyn@harpercollins.co.uk 020 8307 4447 Fourth Estate Michelle Kane michelle.kane@harpercollins.co.uk michelle kane@harpercollins co uk 020 8307 4149 Patrick Hargadon patrick.hargadon@harpercollins.co.uk 020 8307 4067 Rebecca McEwan rebecca.mcewan@harpercollins.co.uk 020 8307 4247 The Friday Project Robin Harvie robin.harvie@harpercollins.co.uk 020 8307 4167
Fourth Estate Catalogue g Januaryy to June 2011
Fourth Estate was founded in 1984 as a small press from cramped offices in Westbourne Grove. It soon established a reputation for challenging and innovative publishing – a creative energy and integrity it has fiercely retained since becoming part of HarperCollins in 2000. Fourth Estate has always sought to publish books that defy categorization. Exceptional writing, provocative ideas and arresting design drive our publishing. Early success with narrative non‐fiction – Dava Sobel’s Longitude, Simon Singh’s Fermat’s Last Theorem and Jean‐Dominique Bauby’s The Diving‐Bell and the Butterfly – was the beginning of an incredibly diverse and award‐winning non‐fiction list, which includes Bad Blood by Lorna Sage, The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton, Stuart: a Life Backwards by Alexander Masters and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, as well as more recent successes such as The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross and Leviathan by Philip Hoare. We commission some of the best polemical non‐fiction, from Robert Fisk to Nick Cohen, and groundbreaking contemporary science writing, such as Ben Goldacre’s bestselling Bad Science. Fourth Estate is also at the vanguard of illustrated book design year after year. Our award‐winning cookery books are some of the most coveted in the country, combining original design with the best contemporary voices in food writing, from Rose Prince’s The English Kitchen to Giorgio Locatelli’s Made in Italy, from the Riverford Farm Cook Book to Nigel Slater’s seminal The Kitchen Diaries and Tender I and II. Building on an early list of outstanding American novelists, including Annie Proulx, Michael Chabon and Michael Cunningham, our fiction list now includes literary greats such as J G Ballard and Doris Lessing; contemporary chroniclers of England such as Nicola Barker and Philip Hensher; and modern literary bestsellers such as Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen , and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Fourth Estate’s books have won or been shortlisted for every major prize, reflecting the eclecticism of our list: in the last three years alone Fourth Estate authors have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the inaugural Walter Scott Prize – and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. We are dedicated to publishing – both physically and digitally – the best books from around the world, whatever they may be.
Anthony Doerr
MEMORY WALL Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new collection of stories is about memory: the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In 'The River Nemunas', a teenaged orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. 'Village Village 113' 113 is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seedkeeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in 'Afterworld‘, the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. The stories in Memory Wall show us how we figure the world, and show Anthony Doerr to be one of the masters of the form. ‘It's fair to say that Anthony Doerr is doing things with the short story that have rarely been attempted and seldom achieved. The stories in Memory Wall have such scope and depth that they hit as hard as novels three times their length. Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do.’ Dave Eggers
Anthony Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho with his wife and twin sons. He is the author of The Shell Collector and About Grace, and is one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists.
ISBN: 978-0-00-736771-9 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 06 January 2011 UK Price: £14.99 ISBN: FOUR SEASONS IN ROME: On Twins, Insomnia and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
ISBN: ABOUT GRACE Size: 978-0-00-714699-4 Format: Selldown
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Laura Hillenbrand
UNBROKEN Th new book The b k from f the h author h off the h bestselling b lli and d much-loved hl d Seabiscuit. S bi i On a May afternoon in 1943, a US bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channelled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war called, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and thousands of miles of open ocean. Adrift on his foundering raft, Zamperini would face sharks, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, he would answer desperation with ingenuity and his suffering with hope, resolve, and humour. Telling an unforgettable story of one man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body and spirit.
Laura Hillenbrand is a contributing writer/editor to Equus magazine among many other journals. Her article on Seabiscuit won the Eclipse Award for Magazine Writing; she served as a consultant on the Universal film of this book, released in 2003. She lives in Washington DC.
ISBN: 978-0-00-737801-2 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £20.00 ISBN: Collins Gem — 100 WAYS ISBN: THE DREAM DICTIONARY ISBN: THE ELEMENT ISBN: THE ELEMENT FROM A TO Z: The Ultimate A-Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GHOSTS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIRTHDAYS TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY to Interpret the Secrets of Your HAUNTINGS: The Ultimate A-Z Size: 978-0-00-729893-8 Size: 978-0-00-727588-5 Dreams of Spirits, Mysteries and the Format: Grade 5 Format: Grade 5 Size: 978-0-00-729904-1 Paranormal Format: Grade 4 Size: 978-0-00-729906-5 Format: Grade 5
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Michael Cunningham
BY NIGHTFALL Th whole The h l course off one’s ’ life lif really ll can change h i an instant. in i Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, childless, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary art dealing scene. He has been married to Rebecca for close on twenty years. Their marriage is sound, in the way marriages are. Peter might even describe himself as happy. Then Rebecca’s much younger brother, Mizzy, shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drugg problems, p , Mizzyy is wayward, y , at loose ends,, and lookingg for direction. And in his presence, p , Peter finds himself questioning his artists, his marriage, and his career – the entire world he has so carefully constructed for himself. Like his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, Michael Cunningham’s masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty, and the place of love in our lives.
‘A genius’ Tim Lott
Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York. His first novel A Home at the End of the World was published in 1990, and his second Flesh and Blood; in 1995. The Hours was awarded both the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730776-0 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £16.99 ISBN: THE HOURS Size: 978-1-84115-035-2 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SPECIMEN DAYS Size: 978-0-00-715606-1 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: The Perennial Collection — THE HOURS Size: 978-0-00-726830-6 Format: Print on demand
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with and perished from - for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to b easily be il vanquished i h d iin an all-out ll ‘ ‘war against i cancer’.’ Mukherjee kh j recounts centuries i off di discoveries, i setbacks, victories and deaths, told through the eyes of predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast, to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation and chemotherapy and Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimes to survive and to increase the store of human knowledge knowledge. ‘A magisterial narrative of the fight against cancer’ Elle USA
Siddhartha Mukherjee M.D., Ph.D., is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York with his wife and daughter.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725091-2 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 20 JJanuary 2011 Published: UK Price: £25.00
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David Levithan
THE LOVER’S DICTIONARY How does one talk about love?
yearning, n./adj. At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone. But how does one describe love? How does one chart its delights and pleasures, its depths and desolations? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary starts where we all once started – with the alphabet. Constructing the story of a relationship as a dictionary, Levithan explores the intimacies and workings of love through his nameless narrator, to paint a moving portrait of love through everyday words. Cleverly using the confines of language to provide an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being part of a couple, Levithan gives us a highly original and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.
David Levithan is the author of many acclaimed young-adult novels, including Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, Love is the Higher Law, and (along with Rachel Cohn) the New York Times bestselling Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, which has been adapted into a popular film. He is an editorial director at Scholastic in the US. .
ISBN: 978-0-00-737797-8 Size: 197x130 mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 03 February Published: F b 2011 UK Price: £12.99 ISBN: A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON [10th Anniversary edition] Size: 978-0-00-732215-2 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE Size: 978-0-00-732214-5 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: THE SILENT AND THE DAMNED Size: 978-0-00-732213-8 Format: Grade 6
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Bryan Malessa
THE WAR ROOM A coming-of-age f story about b a young boy’s b ’ painful f l relationship l h with h his h family f l and d its past. Sam is a curious boy growing up in an Ohio village. Trying to understand his father’s seemingly anonymous past, he is confronted with the rarely discussed fact that Germans form the largest ethnic group in America. After recognizing that his father’s obsession with the subject is merely a way to avoid facing his own p past,, Sam delves deeper, p , with violent results. As his family slowly disintegrates around him, Sam embarks on a personal odyssey that spans the North American continent, from Mexico to Canada. Venturing deep into the heart of the Old South, on to the great expanse of Colorado and the US Cycling Team at the Olympic Training Centre, Sam finally reaches California, certain the land of opportunity will solve all his problems... An epic investigation of America’s America s underbelly underbelly, The War Room examines the painful conflicts that arise in exploring one’s identity – whether ethnic, national, religious or sexual – and the dramatic consequences of such actions.
Bryan Malessa graduated from Berkeley, where his fiction was awarded the Chancellor and Eisner prizes. During 2002, he studied Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. This is his first novel.
ISBN: 978-0-00-724107-1 Size: 153x234mm Format: Trade Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £14.99 ISBN: The Martin Beck series — ISBN: The Martin Beck series — ISBN: The Martin Beck series — ISBN: The Martin Beck series — THE FIRE ENGINE THAT MURDER AT THE SAVOY THE MAN ON THE BALCONY THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN DISAPPEARED Size: 978-0-00-724296-2 Size: 978-0-00-724293-1 Size: 978-0-00-724294-8 Size: 978-0-00-724295-5 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 3
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Annie Proulx
BIRD CLOUD Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.
‘Bird Cloud’ is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and 400-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, bluebirds harriers harriers, kestrels, kestrels elk, elk deer and a dozen antelope antelope. She knew she had to purchase the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she would build on it – a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her character – a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Proulx's first non-fiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of building that house – solar panels, a Japanese soak tub, a concrete floor, elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets – and an enthralling natural history and archeology of the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho and Shoshone Indians. It is also a family history, going back to nineteenth-century Mississippi river boat captains and Canadian settlers, and an illuminating autobiography. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion, turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time. Annie Proulx's books include the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Fine Just the Way It Is. Her many honours include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story Brokeback Mountain, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Yorker was made into a BAFTABAFTA and an Academy Award-winning film. She lives in Wyoming.
ISBN: 978-0-00-723198-0 Size: 216x135mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 03 February Published: F b 2011 UK Price: £18.99 ISBN: THE SHIPPING NEWS Size: 978-1-85702-242-1 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: FINE JUST THE WAY IT IS: ISBN: THAT OLD ACE IN THE Wyoming Stories 3 HOLE Size: 978-0-00-726974-7 Size: 978-0-00-715152-3 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: HEART SONGS Size: 978-1-85702-404-3 Format: Grade 5
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David Baddiel
THE DEATH OF ELI GOLD Th new novell from The f D id Baddiel, David B ddi l comedian, di columnist l i and d author h off the h critically-praised i i ll i d The Th Secret S P Purposes. In New York's Mt. Sinai hospital, the world's greatest living writer, Eli Gold, is dying. Witnessing his death are his precocious 8-year-old daughter by his present (fifth) wife, his anxiety-ridden 44-year-old son from his third marriage, and his 89-year-old first wife, watching on TV from a care home in London. And also, secretly, his fourth wife's fundamentalist Mormon brother, who has never got over his sister's death in a suicide p pact with Eli – a suicide p pact that he,, Eli,, survived. The Death of Eli Gold is a comedy, a thriller, and a meditation on love, death, aging, sex, fame, and the idea – the dying idea – of The Great Man.
David Baddiel was born in 1964 in Troy, New York, but grew up and lives in London. He is a comedian, television writer, columnist and author of three previous novels, of which the most recent is The Secret Purposes.
ISBN: 978-0-00-727083-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £18.99 ISBN: GALILEE Size: 978-0-00-617805-7 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW Size: 978-0-00-617908-5 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: SACRAMENT Size: 978-0-00-648264-2 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: EVERVILLE Size: 978-0-00-647225-4 Format: Grade 5
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James Gleick
THE INFORMATION: A History, y, a Theory, y, a Flood James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality — the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world. The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, own when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself itself. And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.
ISBN: 978-0-00-722573-6 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £25.00
James Gleick was born in New York in 1954. He worked for ten years as an editor and reporter for The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius, Faster, and What Just Happened.
ISBN: THE COMPLETE MCAUSLAN Size: 978-0-00-651371-1 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ISAAC NEWTON Size: 978-0-00-716318-2 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: ELEGANCE Size: 978-0-00-715143-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: THE REAVERS [Unabridged edition] Size: 978-0-00-726212-0 Format: Grade 6
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Lucy Siegle
TO DIE FOR: Is Fashion Wearing g Out the World? An expose on the fashion industry written by the Observer's 'Ethical Living' columnist, examining the inhumane and environmentally devastating story behind the clothes we so casually buy and wear.
Coming at a time when the global financial crisis and contracting of consumer spending is ushering in a new epoch for the fashion industry, To Die For offers a very plausible vision of how green could really be the new black. Taking particular issue with our current mania for both big-name labels and cheap fashion, To Die For sets an agenda for the urgent changes that can and need to be made by both the industry and the consumer. Far from outlining a future of drab, ethical clothing, Lucy Siegle believes that it is indeed possible to be an 'ethical fashionista', simply by being aware of how and where (and by whom) clothing is manufactured. The global banking crisis has put the consumer at a crossroads: when money is tight should we embrace cheap fast fashion to prop up an already engorged wardrobe, or should we reject this as the ultimate false economy and advocate a return to real fashion, bolstered by the principles of individualism and style pedigree?
Lucy Siegle is the author of Green Living in the Urban Jungle and contributing writer on A Good Life. From a strong journalistic background, she is a specialist in ecological and ethical lifestyle matters. As well as writing her weekly Observer column, she is an environmental columnist for Marie Claire and a regular contributor to Grazia, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Elle and New Consumer magazine, and a f frequent t commentator t t on ttelevision l i i and d radio, di regularly appearing on BBC One’s The One Show.
ISBN: 978-0-00-726409-4 Size: 216x135mm Format: Trade Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 03 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: £12.99 ISBN: The One Minute Manager ISBN: THE ONE MINUTE GOLFERISBN: Geography in Place (1) — — THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER Size: 978-0-00-718209-1 BOOK 1 [Second edition] MEETS THE MONKEY Format: Grade 6 Size: 978-0-00-711648-5 Size: 978-0-00-711698-0 Format: Selldown Format: Grade 2
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Joyce Carol Oates
A WIDOW’S STORY: A Memoir ‘My husband died, my life collapsed.’
On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a week, even as Joyce was preparing for his discharge, Ray was dead from a hospital-acquired virulent infection, and Joyce was suddenly faced – totallyy unprepared p p – with the realityy of widowhood. A Widow's Story illuminates one woman’s struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century. Joyce Carol Oates shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of ‘death duties,’ and the solace of friendship. She writes unflinchingly of the experience of grief – the almost unbearable suspense of the hospital vigil, the treacherous ‘pools’ of memory that surround us, the vocabulary of ill illness, the h absurdities b di i off commercialized i li d fforms off mourning. i H Here iis a ffrankk acknowledgment k l d off the h widow's desperation – only gradually yielding to the recognition that ‘this is my life now.’ Enlivened by the piercing vision, acute perception and mordant humour that are the hallmarks of the work of Joyce Carol Oates, this is an extremely moving tale of life and death, love and grief.
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and is one of America most highly respected literary figures. She currently holds the post of Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
ISBN: 978-0-00-738816-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £20.00 ISBN: LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN Size: 978-0-00-734256-3 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: MY SISTER MY LOVE Size: 978-0-00-730576-6 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: I’LL TAKE YOU THERE ISBN: MIDDLE AGE: a romance Size: 978-0-00-714645-1 Size: 978-0-00-733660-9 Format: Print on demand Format: Print on demand
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Philip Hensher
KING OF THE BADGERS After the success of The Northern Clemency, shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Philip Hensher brings us another slice of contemporary life, this time the peaceful civility and spiralling paranoia of a small English town. Hanmouth, situated where the river Hand flows into the Bristol channel, is usually quiet and undisturbed. But it becomes the centre of national attention when an eight-year-old eight year old girl vanishes. vanishes This tragic event serves to expose the range of segregated existences in the town, as spectrums of class, wealth and lifestyle are blurred in the investigation. Behind Hanmouth’s closed doors and pastoral façade, the extraordinary individual lives of the community are laid bare. The undisclosed passions of a quiet international aid worker are set against his wife, seemingly a paragon of virtue to the outside world; a recently-widowed old woman tells a story that details her late discovery of sexual gratification; and the Bears have a memorable party. As the search for the missing girl continues, the case is made for increased surveillance, and old notions of privacy begin to crack. King of the Badgers is a powerful study of the vital importance of individuality and the increasingly intrusive hand of political powers. Like its predecessor, it is another devastating - but frequently very funny - portrait of England from one of this country’s finest novelists.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730133-1 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 31 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: £18.99
Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. He has written six novels, including The Mulberry Empire and the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, and one collection of short stories. He lives in South London.
ISBN: THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY Size: 978-0-00-717480-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: KITCHEN VENOM Size: 978-0-00-715242-1 Format: OBSOLETE
ISBN: THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY Size: 978-0-00-730899-6 Format: OBSOLETE
ISBN: PLEASURED Size: 978-0-00-729168-7 Format: OBSOLETE
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Riverford Farm
Everyday y y and Sunday y 'What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish – from farm to table, the Riverford way. Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is, we can tell you.' Riverford Farm was started by Guy Watson in 1985 with the three acres of land owned by his family in Staverton, South Devon. Within two yyears Guyy had dedicated the entire area to organic g farmingg and now Riverford is one of the country's largest independent growers, as certified the Soil Association. This leap came when Guy began to deliver his produce to local shops, including those owned by his brother. Eventually, word spread and an incredibly successful box scheme was set up, in which local distributors were incorporated to provide home delivery, with all the boxes packed at Riverford Farm. Continuing on from the success of the first Riverford Farm Cook Book and the popularity of the Riverford Organic Vegetables website, this book will be an accessible guide to help readers get the most out of their box all year round. Guy Watson and Jane Baxter, head chef of Riverford's Field Kitchen, share useful advice on seasonal variations and simple, delicious recipes, with the must-have guide handily organised into months to allow the reader to enjoy it from January to December December. Not only is this a brilliant guide for moving produce from the field to the kitchen, but it is also a celebration of healthy, local and organic food. Guy Watson began farming organically at Riverford in 1985 on three acres of the Watson family farm in South Devon, eventually moving into local shops, which soon morphed into a groundbreaking home delivery box system. With regional sister farms sprouting up, they have now become one of the country's largest independent growers and deliver around 47,000 boxes a week to homes around the UK.
ISBN: 978-0-00-738826-4 978 0 00 738826 4 Size: 221x153mm Format: Trade Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £18.99
Jane Baxter has been head chef at Riverford's farm restaurant, the Field Kitchen, since 2005. Jane trained in Dartmouth at the Carved Angel with Joyce Molyneux, before moving on to the River Café in London. Subsequent years of travelling and cooking her way around the Southern hemisphere have greatly influenced her cooking style.
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Tim Radford
THE ADDRESS BOOK At the start of each school term, at the age of about ten, I did something that I suppose a million other ten-year-olds have done… The Address Book starts with some of the fundamental questions asked by everyone, in every culture since the beginning of civilisation. Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going? Tim Radford attempts to answer them by drafting in a technique he first used as a school-boy, when he wrote his address in the inside front cover of his exercise book everyy term,, startingg with the house number,, the street name,, the town,, and proceeding upwards through levels of scale - the hemisphere, the planet, the solar system, the galaxy until he reached the final line, the universe itself. We open with Tim in the present day, in Hastings, sitting at his desk, thinking about his house, his possessions, how they have shaped him and how he has affected them, how a house becomes part of our identity and what binds us to the objects in it. The next chapter deals with Hastings itself; the town as a unit of scale, why we associate ourselves with one place rather than another. And so on, upwards through levels of magnitude. As the units of space grow larger, so Tim himself dwindles and the bigger, colder forces of astronomy and astrophysics come into play. By the time we reach the address's final line we are beginning to understand that there is no final answer to the question "Where am I?“; behind every answer lies a new question, receding into unthinkable distance, to the spectacle of galaxies falling away from each other into nothingness.
Tim Radford is a freelance journalist. He worked for the Guardian for 32 years, becoming (among other things) letters editor, arts editor, literary editor and science editor. He won the Association of British Science Writers award for science writer of the year four times. He served on the UK committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. He has lectured about science and the media in dozens of British and foreign cities. He has written one b k The book, Th C Crisis i i off Lif Life O On EEarth, th and d edited dit d ttwo b books k off science writing for the Guardian.
ISBN: 978-0-00-725520-7 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £16.99
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Innocent ltd
Innocent Recipe Book For Kids: contains 106 quick and easy recipes for all the family, family 52 things for kids to do and one recipe for stick insect pie Tasty and smooth, just like innocent innocent'ss smoothies, these recipes have been especially selected for small people. innocent is the UK and Europe's favourite smoothie brand. innocent's mission is to make it easy for people to do themselves some good. And to make it taste nice at the same time. As one of the UK's largest growing food and drinks companies, the innovative team at innocent have been making smoothies, veg pots and fruit tubes for years. Now it's time to let their expertise shine out on its own in the family kitchen. The innocent recipe book for kids is a brilliant source of classic, smart meals and drinks for the whole family from quick breakfasts, snacks-on-the-go, to clever lunches and big dinners all served up with the innocent twist. Including a separate section on food for journeys, top tips to bag your five-a-day with minimum fuss, helpful portion ratios in relation to children's ages, a clear breakdown of seasonal food and some clever solutions to overcome the resistance of the most reluctant diners, this book informs about healthy eating habits and fully engages children in the cooking process. Using ingredients that are super-rich in specific nutrients and other good stuff to keep your little ones nice and healthy, from food for bears, to broccoli trees and secrets feasts, this book is packed full of great food and drinks perfect for picky eaters and growing appetites. Innocent's smoothies, fresh juices and veg pots are now some of the most easily recognisable products on our supermarket shelves. shelves innocent have gone from selling 20 smoothies on their first day in 1999 to two million a week in 2010. innocent are now an international brand, have won numerous awards, including the Quality Food and Drink Awards and The Grocer Gold Awards, and are stocked by over 10,000 retailers nationwide.
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Sylvia Nasar
GRAND PURSUIT: Great 20th century economic thinkers and what they discovered about the way the world works Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate.
Nasar's account begins with Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and publishing the condition of the poor majority in mid 19th century London, the richest and most glittering place in the world. This was a new pursuit. She then describes the efforts of Marx, Engels, Alfred Marshall, Beatrice and Sydney Webb, and Irving Fisher to put those insights into action - with revolutionary consequences for the world. From the great John Maynard Keynes to Schumpeter, Schumpeter Hayek, Hayek Keynes Keynes'ss disciple Joan Robinson Robinson, the influential American economists Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman, and India's Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen, she show how the insights of these activist thinkers transformed the world - from one city, London, to the developed nations in Europe and America and now the entire world. In Nasar's dramatic account we witness men and women responding to personal crises, world wars, revolutions, economic upheavals, and each others' ideas to turn back Malthus and transform the dismal science into a triumph over mankind's hitherto age-old destiny of misery and early death. This story, unimaginable less than 200 years ago, is a story of trial and error, and ultimately transcendent, rendered here in stunning narrative. ISBN: 978-1-84115-455-8 Size: 234 x 153mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 2 May 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ25
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Sylvia Nasar is the author of the bestselling A Beautiful Mind. She is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Nick Cohen
YOU CAN’T READ THIS BOOK After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living in an age of unparalleled freedom. You Can’t Read This Book argues that this view is dangerously naive naive. From the revolution in Iran that wasn’t, to the Great Firewall of China and the imposition of super-injunctions from the filthy rich protecting their privacy, the traditional opponents of freedom of speech – religious fanaticism, plutocratic power and dictatorial states – are thriving, and in many respects finding the world a more comfortable place in the early 21st century than they did in the late 20th. This is not an account of interesting but trivial disputes about freedom of speech: the rights and wrongs of shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, of playing heavy metal at 3 am in a built-up area or articulating extremist ideas in a school or university. Rather, this is a story that starts with the cataclysmic reaction of the Left and Right to the publication and denunciation of the Satanic Verses in 1988, that saw them jump into bed with radical extremists. And it ends at the juncture where even in the transgressive, liberated West, where so much blood had been spilt for Freedom, where rebellion is the conformist style y and playing p y g the dissenter the smart career move in the arts and media, you y can write a book and end up destroyed or dead. ISBN: 978-0-00-730890-3 Size: 135x216mm Format: Trade Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £12.99
Nick Cohen is a journalist and commentator for the Observer and Evening Standard. He is also the author of ‘What’s Left’? – the most important and provocative commentaries on how the Left lost its way.
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ISBN: WAITING FOR THE ETONIANS: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England Size: 978-0-00-730892-7 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: WHAT'S LEFT?: How the Left Lost its Way Size: 978-0-00-722970-3 Format: Grade 5
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Assaf Gavron
CROCATTACK! A darkly comic novel about the bizarre realities of life in Israel today.
‘Why is everyone so paranoid in this country? Can't dark guys get on buses with suit bags any more?’ Eitan Enoch – ‘Croc’ to his friends – is taking his usual bus to work in Tel Aviv one morning when a fellow passenger starts to worry about the dark-skinned man with the suit-bag sitting up at the front. Thus begins g a week of bloodyy bombings g and bloodier reprisals, p , at the end of which Croc is transformed into an inadvertent national celebrity: ‘CrocAttack – the man the terrorists couldn't kill!’ Naturally, the Palestinian cell behind the attacks are less than happy about this reluctant symbol of Israeli defiance. They may not have been after him before, but they are now. Meanwhile, in a hospital somewhere in Jerusalem, a young Palestinian suicide bomber lies in a coma, fighting for his life and trying to piece together how he got there – and just exactly what happened when he finally met the Croc… ‘Unflinching and compassionate’ David Mitchell ‘Excellent: smart, funny and authentic’ Joe Dunthorne
Assaf Gavron is a writer and translator. He grew up in Jerusalem, studied in London and Vancouver, and now lives in Tel Aviv. In Israel he has published four novels, a short story collection, and a collection of falafel reviews.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732749-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 06 January 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: SHAKESPEARE: The World as a Stage [Unabridged edition] Size: 978-0-00-726218-2 Format: Grade 1
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Dominic Prince
JUMBO TO JOCKEY: One midlife crisis, a horse, and the diet of a lifetime How one man turned a midlife crisis into the realisation of a childhood dream at the 4pm at Towcester
Dominic Prince, journalist, documentary-maker, racing enthusiast and bon viveur hit the scales at nearly 16 stone on his 47th birthday. It was not always so. His first love was and still is horses. As a child he would bunk off school to ride his first horse, Conker, and it was onlyy after an horrific accident that left him and his horse wound up in barbed wire that he stepped down off his mount and gave in to the lure of Fleet Street and the three hour lunch. But the smell of oats and the mist of early morning canters were never far away, even if he was living it from the other side of the paddock. In the 20 years since he last rode a horse he has made a film on Lester Piggott, bought and sold one race horse and won and lost thousands on 'the occasional flutter'. Through the drastic changes to his overindulgent lifestyle that he has had to go through to make the weight for the 4pm at Wincanton in October, is weaved an insider's account of the very particular world of jockeys, jockeys racing and the multi multi-billionaire billionaire owners who pull the strings at the world's world s greatest race courses. Memoir, sports book, exposé of the dark world of horse racing, at heart Jumbo to Jockey is the story that all middle aged men will know well of the realisation of a childhood dream before it is too late.
Dominic Prince is a free-lance journalist and documentary maker who writes for the Telegraph, Sunday Times, Mail, Tatler and Private Eye and has made award-winning films on Lester Piggott and the last Waterloo Cup. He is married to the food writer, Rose Prince and lives in London, currently on a diet of lentil broth and oatmeal.
ISBN: 978-0-00-728867-0 Size: 135x216mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 06 January 2011 UK Price: £10.99 ISBN: HAUNTED: Scariest storiesISBN: DEREK ACORAH: EXTREMEISBN: GHOST HUNTING WITH ISBN: DEREK ACORAH’S GHOST from the UK's no. 1 psychic PSYCHIC DEREK ACORAH TOWNS Size: 978-0-00-726741-5 Size: 978-0-00-723322-9 Size: 978-0-00-718348-7 Size: 978-0-00-722954-3 Format: Grade 6 Format: Grade 6 Format: Grade 6 Format: Print on demand
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Michael Chabon
MANHOOD FOR AMATEURS: The Pleasures and Regrets g of a Husband,, Father and Son A shy manifesto; an impractical handbook; the true story of a fabulist; an entire life in parts and pieces: Manhood for Amateurs is the first memoir from Michael Chabon. In these insightful, provocative, slyly interlinked essays, one of our most brilliant and humane writers presents his autobiography and vision of life in the way so many of us experience our own: as a series of reflections, regrets and re- examinations, each sparked by an encounter, in the present, that holds some legacy of the past. What does it mean to be a man today? Chabon invokes and interprets and struggles to reinvent for us, with characteristic warmth and lyric wit, the personal and family history that haunts him even as it goes on being written every day. As a son, a husband, and above all as a father of four young children, Chabon's memories of childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce, of moments of painful adolescent comedy and giddy encounters with the popular art and literature of his own youth, are like a theme played – on different instruments, with a fresh tempo and in a new key – by the mad quartet of which he now finds himself co co-conductor. conductor At once dazzling, hilarious and moving, Manhood for Amateurs is destined to become a classic. ‘Warm, wincing and witty’ Daily Telegraph ‘Funny, surprising and elegant insights into what it means to be both a parent and a child today’ Sunday Times Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels – including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – two collections of short stories, and two works of nonfiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715041-0 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION Size: 978-0-00-715093-9 Format: Grade 1
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Dorothy Rowe
WHY WE LIE Why do we lie?
Because we are frightened of being humiliated, being treated like an object, being rejected, losing control of things, and, most of all, we are frightened of uncertainty. Often we get our lies in before any of these things can happen. We lie to maintain our vanity. We lie when we call our fantasies the truth. Lying is much easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient it is. We lie to others,, and,, even worse,, we lie to ourselves. In both private and public life, we damage ourselves with our lies, and we damage other people. Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are. Lies have played a major part in climate change and the global economic crisis. Fearing to change how they live, many people prefer to continue lying rather than acknowledge that we are facing a very uncertain but undoubtedly unpleasant future unless we learn how to prefer the truths of the real world to the comforting lies that ultimately betray us. We are capable of changing, but will we choose to do so? ‘Rowe asks why we tell lies and puts the answer down to a mixture of vanity and terror … scary stuff, but Rowe is so wise that you begin to think it might be possible to change’ Guardian
Dorothy Rowe was born in Australia in 1930, and worked as a teacher and child psychologist before coming to England, where she obtained her PhD at Sheffield University. From 1972 until 1986 she was head of Clinical Psychology. She is now engaged in writing, lecturing and research, and is world-renowned for her work on how we communicate and why we suffer. Her books include: Wanting Everything, Beyond Fear and Time On Our Side. Side
ISBN: 978-0-00-735797-0 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 03 February Published: F b 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: WHY WE LIE: The Source of our Disasters Size: 978-0-00-727885-5 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: BEYOND FEAR [20th Anniversary edition] Size: 978-0-00-724659-5 Format: Grade 4
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David Flusfeder
A FILM BY SPENCER LUDWIG A hilarious and heartbreaking father-son road movie of a novel.
Spencer Ludwig, idealist and filmmaker, is making one of his regular duty visits from London to New York City to tend to his declining but still fearsome father. Driving back from one of their doctors’ appointments, Spencer decides not to take the turn to his father’s apartment: instead, they hit the road. Ahead of them will be an emotional ride taking in police and prostitutes, film festivals and gambling in Atlantic City, y, as father and son tryy to make sense of each other’s lives and hearts,, and their own. To reach,, Spencer hopes, a suitably cinematic conclusion.
‘A Film By Spencer Ludwig is such a joy to read … Spencer’s own justification of his life as a “real artist”, and his reasons for despising mainstream cinema, are perfectly drawn’ Guardian p , poker p tables and unsavouryy types, yp , all spooled p through g ‘A tale of familial bondingg involves encounters with the law,, prostitutes, Spencer’s filmic narrative … the most memorable sections of Flusfeder’s whimsical novel have the intimacy of a home movie’ Sunday Times ‘Pays fine tribute to the tenacious love that somehow binds this unlikeliest of father-son teams’ Daily Mail ‘A classy and original novel – wry, sad, tough-minded and stylishly written’ Al Alvarez
David Flusfeder is the author of six novels: Man Kills (1993), Like Plastic (1996), which won the Encore Award, Morocco (2001), The Gift (2003), The Pagan House (2007) and A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010).
ISBN: 978-0-00-725032-5 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: A FILM BY SPENCER LUDWIG Size: 978-0-00-725031-8 Format: Grade 6
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Anjali Joseph
SARASWATI PARK A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraph’s 20 best UK writers under 40.
Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letterwriter outside the main post office. But Mohan's lack of engagement with the world has caused a thawing of his marriage. g At this delicate moment Mohan – and his wife,, Lakshmi – are jjoined at their home in Saraswati Park by their nephew, Ashish, a sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college. As the novel unfolds, the lives of each of the three characters are thrown into relief by the comical frustrations of family life: annoying relatives, unspoken yearnings and unheard grievances. When Lakshmi loses her only brother, she leaves Bombay for a relative's home to mourn not only the death of a sibling but also the vital force of her marriage. Ashish, meanwhile, embarks on an affair with a much richer boy in hi college his ll and, d not llong afterwards, f d succumbs b to the h overtures off hi his EEnglish li h tutor. As Mohan scribbles away in the margins of the sort of books he secretly hopes to write one day, he worries about whether his wife will return, what will become of Ashish, and if he himself will ever find his own voice to write from the margins about the centre of which he will never be a part. ‘Joseph Joseph contrasts the inner and outer lives of her characters, and the uneasy friction between new and old cultures, with wit and delicacy' The Times Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, and has taught English at the Sorbonne. More recently she has written for the Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). She graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia with distinction in 2008. Saraswati Park is her first novel.
ISBN: 978-0-00-736078-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: SARASWATI PARK Size: 978-0-00-7360772 Format: Grade 6
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Susan Fletcher
CORRAG SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN LLEWELLYN RHYS PRIZE The new novel from Susan Fletcher, author of the bestselling Eve Green and Oystercatchers.
The Massacre of Glencoe happened at 5am on 13th February 1692 when thirty-eight members of the Macdonald clan were killed by government troops who had enjoyed the clan's hospitality for the previous ten days. Many more died from exposure in the mountains. Fifty miles to the south Corrag is condemned for her involvement in the Massacre. She is imprisoned, accused of witchcraft and murder, and awaits her death. The era of witch-hunts is coming to an end – but Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist and Jacobite, hears of the Massacre and, keen to publicise it, comes to question her on the events of that night, and the weeks preceding it. Leslie seeks any information that will condemn the Protestant King William, rumoured to be involved in the massacre, and reinstate the Catholic James. Corrag agrees to talk to him so that the truth may be known about her involvement, and so that she may be less alone, in her final days. As she tells her story, Leslie questions his own beliefs and purpose – and a friendship develops between them that alters both their lives. ‘Crowded with images stunning in their freshness and simplicity …it is a novel of extraordinary beauty and quiet power, it is impossible, having read it, not to look at the world anew' Guardian Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. Eve Green was her first novel which went on to be a best-selling success; her second novel was Oystercatchers.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732160-5 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: PILLOW TALK Size: 978-0-00-724592-5 Format: Grade 1
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Marcus du Sautoy
THE NUMBER MYSTERIES Every time we download a song from iTunes, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our mobile phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. Maths may fail to provide answers to various of its own problems, but it can provide answers to problems that don't seem to be its own – how prime numbers are the key to Real Madrid's success, to secrets on the Internet and to the survival of insects in the forests of North America. In The Number Mysteries, Marcus du Sautoy explains how to fake a Jackson Pollock; how to work out whether or not the universe has a hole in the middle of it; how to make the world's world s roundest football. He shows us how to see shapes in four dimensions – and how maths makes you a better gambler. He tells us about the quest to predict the future – from the flight of asteroids to an impending storm, from bending a ball like Beckham to predicting population growth. It's a book to dip in to; a book to challenge and puzzle – and a book that gives us answers. 'Marcus du Sautoy digs up the unusual places where maths lurks in the real world…it's a hard task making the world of maths accessible and intriguing to the general public … he builds a persuasive case for how relevant these mathematical mysteries are to our everyday lives' Sunday Times
Marcus du Sautoy has been named by the Independent on Sunday as one of the UK's leading scientists, has written extensively for the Guardian, The Times and the Daily Telegraph and has appeared on Radio 4 on numerous occasions. In 2008 he was appointed to Oxford University’s prestigious professorship the Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science, a post previously held by Richard Dawkins.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730986-3 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £8.99 ISBN: THE NUMBER MYSTERIES:ISBN: FINDING MOONSHINE: A A Mathmatical Odyssey through Mathematician's Journey Everyday Life Through Symmetry Size: 978-0-00-727862-6 Size: 978-0-00-721462-4
ISBN: THE MUSIC OF THE PRIMES: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
ISBN: THE MUSIC OF THE PRIMES: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
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Phyllida Law
NOTES TO MY MOTHER-IN-LAW With h a new foreword f d by b Emma and d Sophie h Thompson h ‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) ‘Mutt and Jeff’. So Phyllida began to write out the day’s gossip at the kitchen table, putting her notes by Annie's bed before going to hers. One night as her husband wandered off to bed he muttered darkly that she spent so much time each evening writing to Annie she could have written a book. 'And illustrated it!' Here it is. It is a book full of the delights of a warm and loving household. Of Boot the Cat being sick after overindulging in spiders; the hunt for cleaning products from the dawn of time; persistently and mysteriously malfunctioning hearing aids; an unusual and potentially hilarious use for a clove of garlic; and the sad disappearance of coconut logs from the local sweetshop. It s about the special place at the heart of a home held by a woman born in another age It’s age. Who polished the brass when it was ‘looking red at her’. Who still bore a scar from being hit by her employer when, as a young woman, she was in service. Who could turn the heel of a sock and the collar of a shirt, and make rock-cakes, bread pudding and breast of lamb with barley. ‘I just sat down and read it straight through and cried. Dreadfully funny and incredibly touching’ Joanna Lumley Moving, funny, funny enchanting. enchanting A beautiful, beautiful original portrayal of family life’ life Sheila Hancock ‘Moving Phyllida Law has appeared in numerous plays, television series and films, including Peter's Friends, Much Ado about Nothing, Foyle's War and Kingdom. She was married to Eric Thompson, the writer and narrator of the English version of The Magic Roundabout, until his death in 1982. She has two daughters, Emma and Sophie.
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Nicola Barker
BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX THEFT From the award-winning author of Darkmans comes a comic epistolary novel of startling originality and wit.
Reading other people’s letters is always a guilty pleasure. But for two West Yorkshire policemen – contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, retrieved from a back alley behind the hairdresser's in Skipton – it's also a job of work. The quaint moorside village of Burley Cross has been plunged into turmoil by the theft of the contents of its postbox, and when PC Roger Topping takes over the case, which his higher-ranking g g schoolmate Sergeant g Laurence Everill has so far failed to crack,, his expectations p of success are not high. Yet Topping's investigation into the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, Baxter Thorndyke, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirza Parry (widow), and a splendid array of other weird and wonderful characters, will not only uncover the dark underbelly of his scenic beat, but also the fundamental strengths of his own character. Brazenly mischievous and irresistibly readable, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is a Cranford for today, albeit with a decent dose of Tamiflu, some dodgy sex-therapy and a whiff of cheap-smelling vodka. ‘Nothing short of dazzling.' Observer 'A superb comic novel…the collective, whispery subconscious of a small community is brilliantly suggested through almost imperceptible echoes.' Daily Mail
Nicola Barker lives and works in east London. She was the winner of the David Higham Prize for Fiction and joint winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award for Love Your Enemies, her first collection of stories. Her second story collection, Heading Inland, received the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize. Her novel Wide Open won the IMPAC Prize in 2000, Clear was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004, 2004 and Darkmans was shortlisted in 2007. 2007 She is one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists of the decade.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735628-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 31 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: £8.99 ISBN: BURLEY CROSS POSTBOX ISBN: DARKMANS THEFT Size: 978-0-00-719363-9 Size: 978-0-00-735500-6 Format: Grade 4 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: CLEAR: A Transparent Novel Size: 978-0-00-719361-5 Format: Grade 6
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Matt Ridley
THE RATIONAL OPTIMIST Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.
Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against p g disease than their Stone Age g ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. The paperback edition will include a new chapter – addressing the controversial responses that The Rational Optimist has provoked. ‘Breathtaking in its sweep and scope…This inspiring book is a glorious defence of our species… a devastating rebuke to humanity's self-haters’ Sunday Times
ISBN: 978-0-00-7267125 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: GENOME: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Size: 978-1-85702-835-5 Format: Grade 2
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Matt Ridley received his BA and DPhil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. He has a regular column in the Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of The Red Queen (1993) and TheOrigins of Virtue (1996) Genome (1999) and Nature via Nurture (2003). His books have sold over half a million copies copies, been translated into 25 languages and been shortlisted for six literary prizes. In 2004 he won the National Academies Book Award from the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine for Nature via Nurture. In 2007 Matt won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert.
Hugo Hamilton
HAND IN THE FIRE You have a funny way of doing things here.
The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant whose immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one night. The legal fallout forces them into an ever closer, uncertain partnership, drawing Vid right into the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter on a major renovation project and becoming more and more involved in their troubled familyy story. y While he claims to have lost his own memory in a serious accident back home in Serbia, he cannot help investigating the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara who was denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years ago. Was it murder or suicide? And what dark impact does this event in the past still have on the Concannon family now? As the deadly echo of hatred and violence begins to circle closer around them, Vid finds this spectacular Irish friendship coming under increasing threat, with fatal consequences. 'Hugo Hamilton is a major international writer who just happens to have grown up in Ireland. In its strength and grace, his work glows.' Anne Enright
Hugo Hamilton was born and grew up in Dublin. He is the author of six highly acclaimed novels: Surrogate City, The Last Shot and The Love Test (Faber); Headbanger, Sad Bastard (Secker) and Disguise; one collection of short stories; and two memoirs, the internationally acclaimed The Speckled People and The Sailor in the Wardrobe.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732483-5 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ7.99 ISBN: THE SAILOR IN THE WARDROBE Size: 978-0-00-723240-6 Format: Grade 5
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ISBN: DISGUISE Size: 978-0-00-731470-6 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: THE LAST SHOT Size: 978-0-00-719877-1 Format: Print on demand
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Matthew Syed
BOUNCE: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham and the Science of Success LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD Everyone knows that David Beckham crosses the ball better than anyone, and that Tiger Woods never ‘chokes’. But what are the hidden factors which allow the most successful sports stars to rise above their competitors – and are they shared by virtuosos in other fields?
What are the real secrets of sporting success, and what lessons do they offer about life in general? Matthew Syed explains why the best figure skaters are those that have fallen over the most and why one small street in Reading – his own – has produced more top table tennis players than the rest of the country put together. As a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis champion and two-time Olympian, Matthew is perfectly placed to show just what it takes to get to the top in any discipline. And as an award-winning writer for th sports the t and d commentt pages off The Th Ti Times - and dh holder ld off a prize-winning i i i d degree ffrom O Oxford f d University – he knows the facts, the science and the personalities better than anyone. Bounce is not simply the Freakonomics of sport though – it looks at big questions such as the nature of talent, what kind of practice actually works, how to achieve motivation, drugs in sport (and life) and whether black people really are faster runners. Fresh, ground-breaking and tackling subjects with wide appeal, pp this is sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the yyear. ‘A gripping examination of the hidden forces that come together in the making of a champion.' Michael Atherton, former England cricket
ISBN: 978-0-00-735054-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £8.99
Matthew Syed is an award-winning journalist on The Times, writing for both the sports pages and the comment pages. He is a three-time Commonwealth table-tennis bl i champion h i and d competed d iin two Olympics. He studied PPE at Balliol College Oxford where he was awarded a prize-winning first class degree.
ISBN: FINDING MOONSHINE: A Mathematician's Journey Through Symmetry Size: 978-0-00-721462-4
ISBN: THE MUSIC OF THE PRIMES: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
ISBN: BOUNCE: How Champions Are Made Size: 978-0-00-735052-0 Format: Grade A+
ISBN: THE MUSIC OF THE PRIMES: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
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Sebastian Junger
WAR From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger’s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.
They were known as ‘The Rock’. For one year, between 2007 and 2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more fire fights than he can count, count men he knew were killed or wounded, wounded and he himself was almost killed killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain. War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoonmates who would rather die than let each other down. Gripping, honest, intense, War explores the neurological, g , psychological py g and social elements of combat,, and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the 'War on Terror'; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. ‘Beautifully written in unshowy prose and thoughtful, honest and profound. A masterpiece of the genre.’ Mail on Sunday ‘An intense account…Junger account Junger uses his documentary skills to ask his comrades tough questions about killing, killing dying, dying loyalty and friendship. The result is a book not just about war, but about the limits of courage and, yes, love under pressure.’ Guardian
ISBN: 978-0-00-733771-2 ISBN 978 0 00 733771 2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £8.99
ISBN: THE PERFECT STORM: A ISBN: WHERE THE HEART IS True Story of Man Against the Size: 978-0-00-726592-3 Sea Format: Grade 2 Size: 978-0-00-723006-8 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: WAR Size: 978-0-00-733770-5 Format: Grade A+
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Sebastian Junger is the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, which spent over three years on the bestseller lists and was the basis of a Warner Bros motion picture starring George Clooney. Junger has reported on the conflicts in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. He is the winner of the National Magazine Award for his reporting in Vanity Fair. He is co-director, with Tim Hetherington, of the film Restrepo, which won the 2010 Grand Jury Prize for documentary at the Sundance film festival.
Rebecca Connell
TOLD IN SILENCE The new novel from exciting young author Rebecca Connell
From the outside, Violet seems to lead an ordinary and uneventful existence – single, working in a shop, and living with her parents in rural Kent – but her life has already been touched by tragedy. At 21, Violet is a young widow, and the couple she lives with, Harvey and Laura Blackwood, are not her own parents but those of her late husband, Jonathan. Rocked by grief, Violet has shut herself away from the world, but she soon finds that she cannot escape reality. When Max Croft, an old friend of Jonathan’s, enters her life, she is faced not only with the possibility of a new attraction, but with the knowledge that there are secrets behind her husband’s death that she has not yet uncovered, and which threaten to shake her faith in everything she knows about their past life together. Told in Silence is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel of desire, deception and the lengths that we will go to for love.
‘Connell evokes the weirdness of the set-up, especially the menace implicit in their alien social rituals, with subtle elegance… a vivid, compelling affair’ Guardian
Rebecca Connell lives in South London. She graduated from Oxford University, where she read English, in 2001. After working in television for several years, devising and researching factual entertainment programming, she moved to market research in 2005. She currently works as a researcher and writer of articles and reports dealing with aspects of youth culture and lifestyle. Her first novel, The Art of Losing, was published in 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730061-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 28 April Published: A il 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: THE YIDDISH POLICEMEN’S UNION Size: 978-0-00-715093-9 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: TOLD IN SILENCE Size: 978-0-00-730060-0 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: WONDER BOYS Size: 978-1-85702-405-0 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: THE ART OF LOSING Size: 978-0-00-730057-0 Format: Grade 5
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Paul Barker
THE BOOK OF DAD The Book that will forever define the essentially comic state of being, acting, looking, and sounding like a Dad.
You think you know your Dad? You think he gets up to go to work every morning, does his job, eats his lunch, has an afternoon snack or three, then comes home and eats dinner in front of the TV? On the weekend, maybe he mows the lawn or fixes that broken shelf, or has a few jars down the pub with the lads? You think that’s what Dads do, don’t you? You think that’s all there is? Oh, how little you know. A hymn to all things paternal, The Book of Dad will change the way you think about your Dad, my Dad, his Dad, their Dad, Everybody’s Dad. Including such marvellous chapters as Know Your Dad, The World According to Dad, Dads Through The Ages (from Caveman Dad up to Victorian Dad), How To Be A Dad, and The Dad-to-Be, The Book of Dad is a highly illustrated, high-quality, highly anticipated romp through the pantheon th off Dadness…and D d db beyond…but d b t nott ttoo ffar.
ISBN: 978-0-00-741852-7 Size: 189x246mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 26 May 2011 UK Price: £10.99
Paul Barker is a writer for The Enthusiast. The Book of Dad was his first book.
ISBN: THE BOOK OF DAD Size: 978-0-00725847-5 Format: Selldown
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Salley Vickers
APHRODITE’S HAT A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers.
The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves between friends, between parents and children, between children and other adults; love even, in one case, for a pet. Psychologically acute, acute sharply written in lucid and often witty prose prose, these stories stories, set in Venice Venice, Greece and Rome as well as London and the English countryside, take us into the complex geography of the human heart. Sometimes joyous and humorous, sometimes melancholy and poignant, this collection confirms Salley Vickers' reputation as one of our most subtle and engaging writers. Praise for Salley Vickers: ‘A A writer whose subtle intelligence and unobtrusive command of narrative I always enjoy enjoy. She sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand, and she knows how the world works; and these qualities are much rarer than they should be’ Philip Pullman ‘If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers.’ Washington Post
Salley Vickers subtle, witty style and clear-eyed observation of human nature has been compared to Penelope Fitzgerald and Barbara Pym. She has worked as a university teacher of literature, specialising in Shakespeare, and in adult education, where she specialised in the literature of the ancient world. She is a trained analytical psychologist and lectures widely on the connections between literature, psychology and religion. She divides her ti time b t between L d London, V i and Venice d the th West W t Country. C t
ISBN: 978-0-00-737106-8 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 09 June Published: J 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: MISS GARNET’S ANGEL ISBN: THE OTHER SIDE OF YOU ISBN: MR GOLIGHTLY’S HOLIDAY ISBN: INSTANCES OF THE Size: 978-0-00-651421-3 Size: 978-0-00-716545-2 Size: 978-0-00-715648-1 NUMBER 3 Format: Grade 2 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 5 Size: 978-1-84115-659-0 Format: Grade 5
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Mark Lynas
THE GOD SPECIES: How Humanity Must Manage the Earth to Save it In 2008 Mark Lynas attended a meeting of leading scientists in Sweden when it suddenly dawned on him that what was being discussed represents a revolutionary new approach to maintaining the life of, and life on, our p planet. For the first time, these scientists were beginning g g to understand not onlyy that there are a number of processes, or systems, that are crucial to the stability and sustainability of human life on Earth, and not only that there is a 'boundary' value for each system, a level below which the Earth can function safely, above which it will spiral into catastrophe, but also, critically, that all these systems are intimately linked to each other and can only be properly understood and managed together, not individually. Climate change is just one of these systems; the others include the nitrogen cycle, land use, ocean acidity and so on. These scientists - the boundaries team, as Mark calls them, are suggesting that we need to move from a world of Mutually Assured Destruction of competing national interests to Mutually Assured Survival of cooperation and shared interest. The God Species is an incredibly important and timely next step in the debate on global warming.
Mark Lynas is the author of Six Degrees, which won the 2008 Royal Society Science Prize. He is also an activist, journalist and traveller. He was editor of the website www.oneworld.net and has made many appearances in the press and TV as a commentator on environmental issues.
ISBN: 978-0-00-731342-6 Size: 135x216mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 June 2011 UK Price: £12.99 ISBN: INDIA: A History Size: 978-0-00-638784-8 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: SIX DEGREES: Our Future ISBN: Collins Gem — CARBON ISBN: HIGH TIDE: How Climate on a Hotter Planet COUNTER Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet Size: 978-0-00-720905-7 Size: 978-0-00-724812-4 Size: 978-0-00-713940-8 Format: Grade 5 Format: Grade 6 Format: Selldown
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Arabella Weir
THE REAL ME IS THIN The hapless and hilarious tale of a life lived under the constant and ruthless reign of a chocolate biscuit…
Lumped into the ‘too fat for potatoes group’ by her mother, carefree eating isn't something Arabella Weir had much experience of growing up. Written with startling frankness, Arabella unravels her own eating history in this humorous appraisal of our attitudes towards eating disorders and obesity. Not easy for someone who still can’t can t be alone unsupervised in a room with a packet of chocolate biscuits. Charting Arabella’s neurotic relationship with food, from prolonged abstinence to binge eating, this humorous memoir recreates a childhood besieged with battles over food. Subjected to her mother’s capricious feeding regime and taught early on that food was her enemy, happiness meant being allowed to eat what she liked – or more importantly what everyone else was eating. ‘This book is honest, very funny and sometimes sad, but Weir ends on a high with an important message: love the size you are. It’s a memoir for anyone who, in Arabella’s words, “had ever thought twice about anything she’s putting into her mouth”. And unlike a packet of biscuits, you won’t feel guilty when you devour this book in one sitting’ Stylist magazine
ISBN: 978-0-00-738660-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £8.99
Arabella Weir is the author of the best-selling Does My Bum Look Big In This? She is best known for her role in BBC2's The Fast Show and is a frequent commentator on current issues in the Guardian. Arabella contributed regularly to the Radio 4 comedy series Smelling of Roses, appeared pp in E4’s teen drama Skins and in the West End show Calendar Girls. She lives in north London with her husband and two children.
ISBN: HUMBLE PIE Size: 978-0-00-722968-0 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: GORDON RAMSAY’S PLAYING WITH FIRE Size: 978-0-00-725988-5 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: MY KITCHEN Size: 978-0-00-729470-1 Format: Grade A+
ISBN: HUMBLE PIE [Abridged edition] Size: 978-0-00-724801-8 Format: Selldown
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Penny Smith
SUMMER HOLIDAY The riotously funny, and startlingly true, new novel from Penny Smith.
Miranda Blake is divorced. At 45, things are starting to head south. She’s toying with the idea of Botox. Toying with the idea of facial surgery. Toying with getting a job. Toying with getting a toy boy. The only block to all those things is her stiff, uppity daughter, 23-year-old Lucy, who takes after her father. Pompous, is how Miranda describes it. (Sane, is how Lucy sees it.) Her son, Sam, is taking an extended gap yyear. He’s 21 and been backpacking p g since he left school at 18 with a clutch of A-levels. Her friends are trying to set her up with a collection of bankers and company directors… similar types to her ex-husband, Nigel. Nigel – just saying his name makes her wince. How on earth could she have ever married Nigel, let alone have sex with him? It must have been the pheromones, or the hormones – possibly just the fact that she could not be bothered to get a job and her parents were having a go at her. Every new date ends in disaster now. So, one summer’s day, Miranda decides to go and help clean out a local canal, where she falls for Alex, a dreadlocked eco-warrior, and things start to get complicated… Praise for Coming Up Next: ‘A brilliant darkly comic novel about the fall and rise of a TV presenter. A lot of fun.’ Bella ‘A brilliantly funny read.’ S magazine, Sunday Express Penny Smith has worked as a journalist and TV presenter. She has presented the GMTV News Hour since 1993, and has also worked for Sky News and Classic FM. She also has a regular newspaper column. ‘Coming Up Next’ was her first novel.
ISBN: 978-0-00-736073-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: COMING UP NEXT Size: 978-0-00-726889-4 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: COMPLETE MISSION PRAISE [New 25th Anniversary Words edition] Size: 978-0-00-728603-4 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: AFTER THE BREAK Size: 978-0-00-731528-4 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: COMPLETE JUNIOR PRAISE [Words edition] Size: 978-0-00-725978-6 Format: Selldown
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Isabel Allende
ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue – now known as Haiti – Tété is the product of violent union between an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When bloody revolution arrives at the gates of Saint Lazare, they flee the island for the decadence and opportunity of New Orleans Orleans. There There, Tété finally forges a new life – but her connection to Valmorain is deeper than anyone knows and not so easily severed. ‘Island Beneath the Sea is a seductive, intoxicating saga. It starts with slavery, forbidden relationships and rebellion in Haiti, and expands to include struggles over secret children, racial castes and family heirs in Louisiana. Isabel Allende’s latest novel is sweeping, provocative and impossible to put down’ Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes
ISBN: 978-0-00-734865-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate P bli h d 09 June Published: J 2011 UK Price: £8.99
Isabel Allende was born in 1942, and is the niece of Salvador Allende, who went on to become famous as the elected President of Chile deposed in a CIAbacked coup. Her first novel for adults, The House of the Spirits, was published in Spanish in 1982, beginning g g life as a letter to her dying y g grandfather. g It was an international sensation, and ever since all her books have been acclaimed and adored in numberless translations worldwide.
ISBN: ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA ISBN: ISLAND BENEATH THE SEAISBN: THE SUM OF OUR DAYS [AU, NZ, OM-only] Size: 978-0-00-734864-0 Size: 978-0-00-726949-5 Size: 978-0-00-734866-4 Format: Grade 2 Format: Grade 5 Format: Export
ISBN: INÉS OF MY SOUL Size: 978-0-00-724118-7 Format: Grade 5
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Dan Lepard
Short and Sweet The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard, the country's foremost baking guru. From sesame chilli cornbread and spiced lentil flatbread to the simplest scones and caramel hazelnut layer cake, Short and Sweet is a veritable cornucopia of baking treats. For those who have a love of professional f i lb baking, ki or simply i l lloathe th supermarket k t stodge, t d Dan D Lepard's L d' much h anticipated ti i t d ffourth th book brings his trademark quality and creativity to the domestic kitchen. Hailed as the leading baker for a new generation unconvinced by celebrity chefs, Dan's weekly column in the Guardian is much-loved and has a legion of followers. Compiled of carefully selected recipes from this column, Short and Sweet covers all the baking basics to allow both experienced bakers and newcomers to the kitchen to make great-tasting breads, cakes, biscuits and pastries.
Dan Lepard is a baker and photographer who has worked with the likes of Ottolenghi, Giorgio Locatelli and Fergus Henderson. Henderson He is the author of The Handmade Loaf and has a very popular baking column in the Saturday Guardian. He writes frequently for Sainsbury’s Magazine and is also currently designing a range of baking products for Sainsbury’s. Originally from Australia, he now lives in London.
ISBN: 978-0-00-739143-1 978 0 00 739143 1 Size: 200x130mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ14.99
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Judith Flanders
THE INVENTION OF MURDER: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime ‘We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offense, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us move our money out of it.’ Punch
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera – even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders – author of The Victorian House – retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder – both famous and obscure. From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeny Todd and Jack the Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London’s East End, Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh, to Greenacre who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, ‘The Invention of Murder’ is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.
ISBN: 978-0-00-724888-9 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £20.00
Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House and Consuming Passions, as well as the critically acclaimed A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Burne- Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin, which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. She is a frequent contributor to the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Evening Standard, and TLS.
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Maya Jasanoff
LIBERTY’S EXILES: How the Loss of America Remade the British Empire From the prize-winning author of Edge of Empire comes an exhilarating, ambitious, personality-filled book, at once an intimate narrative history and a compelling new account of the making of the Modern British Empire.
On a November day in 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing British rule in the United States to an end. It was the ggreatest British imperial p defeat in ggenerations. None felt the loss more immediately than the hundreds of thousands of Americans who had remained loyal to Britain. What would happen to them in the new United States? Would they and their families be safe? Facing grave doubts, some sixty thousand loyalists decided to leave their homes and become refugees, to rebuild their shattered lives elsewhere in the British Empire. They sailed for Britain, for Canada, for Jamaica and the Bahamas; some ventured as far as Sierra Leone and India. Wherever they went, the voyage out of America was a fresh beginning and it carried them into a dynamic, if uncertain, new world. Liberty's Exiles tells, for the first time, the story of this extraordinary global diaspora – the most wideranging refugee crisis Britain had ever faced. Through painstaking archival research and vivid story-telling, award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff recreates the astonishing journeys of ordinary individuals whose lives were overturned by extraordinary events. ‘One of the most exciting historians to emerge in years.’ Amanda Foreman
ISBN: 978-0-00-718008-0 Size:153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £30.00
Maya Jasanoff was born in 1974. She graduated from Harvard before earning her Masters degree at Cambridge University. Her PhD was completed at Yale. She is now Professor of British History at the University of Virginia. She is widely known for her pioneering work on the study of Empire.
ISBN: EDGE OF EMPIRE: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850 Size: 978-0-00-718011-0
ISBN: SPACE RACE: The Battle to Rule the Heavens Size: 978-0-00-720994-1 Format: Grade 6
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Francis Pryor
THE BIRTH OF MODERN BRITAIN: A Journey into Britain Britain’ss Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present From the author of Britain BC, Britain AD and Britain in the Middle Ages comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past
It might be thought that in the modern world, where documentary evidence abounds, there is no place for archaeology. But nothing could be further from the truth. Documentary records alone are not sufficient to provide a balanced view of Britain's recent history. This is hardly surprising in the agricultural and industrial 'revolutions', when pioneers were too busy inventing to record what was happening around them. But the same could apply in much later times. In the Second World War the imminent threat of invasion and the sheer pressure of events made the keeping of records less important than the building of physical defences, such as concrete anti-tank cubes and pill-boxes. As a result, archaeological evidence still provides the most reliable guide to the extent of Britain's Britain s anti-invasion anti invasion defences in the autumn of 1940. Covering the whole of the post-medieval period, from 1550 to the present day, Francis Pryor brings his customary wit and erudition to the study of modern historical archaeology, probably the fastest-growing branch of the subject. Ranging over topics as diverse as the birth of modern agriculture, the growth of towns and cities, and the development of roads, canals and railways, he brings to a gripping conclusion his illuminatingg journey j y into Britain's archaeological g past. p
ISBN: 978-0-00-729912-6 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 17 February 2011 UK Price: £25.00
Francis Pryor has spent 30 years studying the prehistory of the Fens. He has excavated sites as diverse as Bronze Age farms, field systems and entire Iron Age villages. From 1980 he turned his attention to pre-Roman religion. In 1982, while working in a drainage dyke at Flag Fen, on the outskirts of Peterborough, he discovered the waterlogged timbers of a Bronze Age religious site site. In 1987, with his wife Maisie Taylor, he set up the Fenland Archaeological Trust, which opened Flag Fen to the public. He appears frequently on TV's 'Time Team' and is the author of 'Seahenge' as well as 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages'.
ISBN: BRITAIN BC: Life in Britain ISBN: BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE ISBN: BRITAIN AD: A Quest for ISBN: SEAHENGE: a quest for life and Ireland Before the Romans AGES: An Archaeological History Arthur, England and the Anglo- and death in Bronze Age Britain Size: 978-0-00-712693-4 Size: 978-0-00-720362-8 Saxons Size: 978-0-00-710192-4 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 5 Size: 978-0-00-718187-2 Format: Grade 6
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Peter Taylor
TALKING TO TERRORISTS: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor
In Talking to Terrorists Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis. What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more than 35 years of reporting terrorism, Taylor asks these difficult questions as he tries to understand the motives of the men and women behind some of the world's most notorious terror attacks. The reality behind terrorism is complex. As the saying goes, 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'. Taylor asks what lessons can be learned from the resolution of conflict in Northern Ireland in confronting the threat of Islamic extremism, extremism and tackles head-on head on the highly topical issue of extracting actionable intelligence that could save lives. When does interrogation become torture? Often, he argues, there is little choice but to talk to the enemy.
ISBN: 978-0-00-732552-8 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £20 £20.00 00
Peter Taylor is a highly respected BBC investigative journalist who has reported on terrorism for over 30 years. He began his career covering Bloody Sunday, and his Troubles trilogy Provos, Loyalists and Brits - is considered to be the definitive account of the conflict. Following peace in Northern Ireland his focus switched to the new security threat posed by Al Qaeda and he has since presented three television series on the Islamic terror threat: ‘The The New Al-Qaeda Al Qaeda’, ‘The The Age of Terror’ and ‘Generation Jihad’. In 2002 he received an OBE for services to broadcasting, and in 2008 he was awarded the highly prestigious James Cameron Memorial Prize 'for work as a journalist that combined moral vision and professional integrity'.
ISBN: APPETITE: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? Size: 978-1-84115-470-1 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: REAL FOOD Size: 978-1-84115-144-1 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: TENDER: Volume I, A cook and his vegetable patch Size: 978-0-00-724849-0 Format: Grade A+
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Dipika Rai
SOMEONE ELSE’S GARDEN A big, intensely involving and evocative Indian novel, reminiscent of Vikas Swarup’s Slumdog Millionaire with its emotive story of hardship and, ultimately, redemption.
'The dew hasn't formally evaporated off the mustard leaves outside. Except for the sleeping baby, she is alone at home. Her mother gave her this much. As an excuse Lata Bai left Shanti behind for Mamta to look after. She has an hour before her mother will return from the well. Mamta runs her hand over her wedding sari. For a minute she considers why it is already lying unwrapped, in precise folds gleaming like a treasure in her mother's tin trunk, then she remembers her mother had used the wrapping to deliver Shanti. She picks up a corner and looks through the sheerness of the fabric. Everything turns red, the red of love. Mamta smiles. It is as it should be. "Keep my world red, oh Devi," she prays. "Jai ho Devi, Devi Jai ho," she recites her mother's words. Almost a married woman, she feels she has an equal right to them.’ Mamta is one of seven children and learns early on in her childhood what it means to be born female in rural India. Married to a savagely unkind and brutal husband, she flees to the city to try and make a new life for herself. Sharing her story are her mother, Lata Bai, the saintly Lokend, her ever-loving brother Prem, a soul-searching bandit and a brutal landlord. This is a redemptive and lyrical story, despite the often unforgiving setting, and one that is impossible to put down.
ISBN: 978-0-00-735509-9 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £14.99 £14 99
Dipika Rai, was born and raised in New Delhi. She was educated in one of India's most prestigious boarding schools in the foothills of the Himalayas and then went on to do an MBA before going into banking. After a career change, she worked as a journalist for many years, writing for publications including Vogue India and Marie Claire. She now divides her time between India and the island of B li where Bali h she h lilives with ith h her h husband b d and d ttwo children. This is her first novel.
ISBN: THE LEGEND OF SIGURD ISBN: UNFINISHED TALES: of AND GUDRÚN Numenor and Middle-earth Size: 978-0-00-731724-0 Size: 978-0-261-10216-3 Format: Grade 2 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: THE HOBBIT [Illustrated edition] Size: 978-0-261-10330-6 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: LETTERS FROM FATHER CHRISTMAS Size: 978-0-00-728049-0 Format: Selldown
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Adam Nicolson
SMELL OF SUMMER GRASS: Pursuing Happiness – Perch Hill 1944 1944-2011 2011 Perch Hill is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, the cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.
Adam Nicolson was determined to leave metropolitan life but the rundown farm in the Sussex Weald was not q quite what he bargained g for. The sceneryy was breathtakingg and the rural neighbours g charmingg but the hard end of real farming life was another matter - mud, cold, planning regulations and unco-operative livestock. But for the reader the whole enterprise is full of delight thanks to Adam Nicolson's writing: frank, witty and touching, it is a testament to the importance of holding on to your dreams and turning them into reality. 'Candid, Candid, observant and often very funny. funny.’ Daily Mail 'A delightful memoir – a reminder that the very best writing starts at home.' Robert McCrum, Observer
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Adam Nicolson is the author of many book on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724054-8 Format: Selldown
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Peter Ransley
PLAGUE CHILD The first instalment of a captivating trilogy set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.
September 1625: Plague cart driver, Matthew Kneave, is sent to pick up the corpse of a baby. Yet, on the way to the plague pit, he hears a cry - the baby is alive. A plague child himself, and now immune from the disease, Matthew decides to raise it as his own. Fifteen years on, on Matthew’s Matthew s son Tom is apprenticed to a printer in the City City. Somebody is interested in him and is keen to turn him into a gentleman. He is even given an education. But Tom is unaware that he has a benefactor and soon he discovers that someone else is determined to kill him. The civil war divides families, yet Tom is divided in himself. Devil or saint? Royalist or radicalist? He is at the bottom of the social ladder, yet soon finds himself within reach of a great estate - one which he must give up to be with the girl he loves.
ISBN: 978-0-00-731235-1 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 14 April 2011 UK Price: £14.99
Peter Ransley has written extensively for television. His BBC adaptation of Sarah Waters’s ‘Fingersmith’ was nominated for a BAFTA for best series in 2006 and his ITV drama ‘Falling Angel’, starring Emilia Fox and Charles Dance, was screened in 2007. He is a winner of the Royal Television Society’s Writer’s Award.
ISBN: A CHANGE OF CLIMATE ISBN: AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE Size: 978-0-00-717290-0 Size: 978-0-00-717288-7 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: CROW STONE Size: 978-0-00-724713-4 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: THE BURIED CIRCLE Size: 978-0-00-725122-3 Format: Selldown
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Mitchell Zuckoff
LOST IN SHANGRI-LA An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.
Three months before the end of Second World War, a U.S. Army plane flying over New Guinea crashed in uncharted mountains inhabited by a Stone Age tribe. Nineteen passengers and crew were killed and two were mortally wounded. But somehow three survived: a lieutenant whose twin brother died in the crash,, a sergeant g who suffered terrible head wounds,, and a beautiful member of the Women's Armyy Corps. Hurt, unarmed and afraid, they prayed for deliverance – from their wounds, from the elements, and from the spear-carrying, Dani tribesmen who roamed the mountains, men who were untouched by modernity. For seven weeks, the survivors experienced one remarkable adventure after another, until they were rescued in a truly incredible mission. Rounding out the true-life cast is a rogue filmmaker who’d left Hollywood after being exposed as a jewelthief; a smart-alek pilot who flew best when his plane had no engine, and a cowboy colonel whose rescue plan seemed designed to increase the death toll. Using a huge range of sources, including first hand accounts from the survivors themselves, Mitchell Zuckoff exposes the enlightening and terrifying adventure of three individuals lost on unknown soil and the relationships they built not only with each other, but also with a lost civilization.
ISBN: 978-0-00-738663-5 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback I Imprint: i t HaperPress H P Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £18.99
Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of Robert Altman: An Oral Biography, Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, Judgment Ridge: The True Story of the Dartmouth Murders, with Dick Lehr and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting, and the winner of numerous national awards as a reporter for the Boston Globe. He lives outside Boston. ISBN: 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow Size: 978-0-00-712374-2 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: THE PERFECT STORM: A True Story of Man Against the Sea Size: 978-0-00-723006-8 Format: Grade 4
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Bella Bathurst
THE BICYCLE BOOK A fascinating exploration of the 21st century’s great transport success story – the bicycle.
Since the millennium, use of the bicycle in Britain has doubled – and doubled again. Every day, more people take up cycling and thousands now cycle to work. Yet, cycling is more than merely a form of transport; it is a way of life, a philosophy. Companionable or solitary, competitive or amicable, cycling can, unlike anything else, reinvent familiar geography and offer us our surroundings in a very different way. In her brilliant new book, Bella Bathurst explores the cycling phenomenon. A cyclist herself, she looks at what people ride and why, how the bicycle was born and what the future holds for it. Travelling across the globe – to Europe, India, China and the United States – she uncovers an array of weird and wonderful stories about the bicycle; an international cycling race for couriers held in a different city every year, Manhattan’s Ghost Bike scheme, which remembers those cyclists who have been injured or killed on the city’s roads, and the realities of life as a rickshaw cyclist in London’s West End. Utterly unique and completely refreshing, The Bicycle Book is as enjoyable as a truly great bike ride.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730588-9 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: p HarperPress p Published: 3 March 2011 UK Price: £16.99
Bella Bathurst is a writer and photographer. Her first book, The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses of Robert Louis Stevenson, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Somerset Maugham g Prize. Her second novel Special was published in 2002 to wide acclaim, and her most recent book, The Wreckers, was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award. She has written for the Observer, Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Guardian, among many others.
ISBN: THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS Size: 978-0-00-7204434 Format: Grade 6
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Amanda Eyre Ward
CLOSE YOUR EYES The new page-turning, beautifully written novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Forgive Me, How to be Lost and Sleep Toward Heaven.
My father smelled like cigarettes and cardamom. When I was small, and wanted comfort, he would put down the wooden spoon when he was cooking, or the pen when he was writing. Always, he would halt what he was doing and crouch down. I pressed my cheek to his warm chest. In his arms, I was safe. The savage murder of eight-year-old Lauren's mother, and the sentencing of her father Izaan to life imprisonment for the murder, tears her world apart. As an adult, she can't understand why she has panic attacks, is unable to accept her boyfriend's marriage proposal, or listen to her brother Alex attempt to convince her of their father's innocence and wrongful imprisonment. Meanwhile, Sylvia Hall is running away from her loser boyfriend, determined to keep the baby he doesn't want. She knows her best friend since childhood, Victoria, will help her - but Victoria has her own problems that threaten to consume her. 'Amanda Eyre Ward goes straight to the heart of her complex, nuanced characters, and with empathy and insight she lays them bare. As a reader, you're powerless against the elegance of her prose and the emotional honesty of her story. You'll close the cover on this book, but you won't forget it.' Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Fragile
ISBN: 978-0-00-723387-8 Size: 153x221mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress P bli h d 03 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ12.99
Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City, and graduated from Williams College and the University of Montana. Her short stories have been published in various literary reviews and magazines. She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels Sleep Towards Heaven and How to be Lost, and was named by the New York Post as one of five Writers to Watch in 2003. She lives in the US with her husband, geologist Tip Meckel.
ISBN: FORGIVE ME Size: 978-0-00-723386-1 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: THE CORRECTIONS [Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary edition] Size: 978-0-00-730879-8 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: LOVE STORIES IN THIS TOWN Size: 978-0-00-731742-4 Format: Selldown
ISBN: FORGIVE ME Size: 978-0-00-723385-4 Format: Selldown
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Philip Eade
YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP A revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip, published to coincide with his 90th birthday
Prince Philip will be 90 years old in 2011. We have grown so used to seeing him as a loyal, dutiful and occasionally bad-tempered old man that it is easy to forget what a strange and intriguing life he led when he was younger. Published to coincide with his 90th birthday, Young Prince Philip will tell the story of the first, more interesting, half of his life. In this fast-paced and highly entertaining biography, Philip Eade will focus on those aspects of the Prince’s early life that are most compelling: his father’s dramatic flight from revolutionary Greece; the subsequent madness of his deaf mother and prolonged absences of his feckless father; his school days in Nazi Germany; his relationship with his four sisters, all married to Germans, one to an officer in the SS; his rather breezy courtship and marriage to the most eligible girl in the world; and his alleged infidelities and membership of raffish circles during the 1950s and ‘60s. Written with great verve, Young Prince Philip will be less reverential in tone than the traditional royal biography but no less meticulously researched and authoritative. Praise for Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: '[Philip [ p Eade]] is a natural writer: p percipient, p sympathetic, y p amusing…Those g with an interest in the adventures of British eccentrics during the last decades of the Empire will have their knowledge agreeably enriched; and those who have never heard of Sylvia Brooke are in for a treat.' Michael Holroyd
ISBN: 978-0-00-730536-0 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £20.00
Philip Eade read History at Bristol University. After a year in Spain and a brief career as a criminal barrister, he took up journalism and he has since written for the Daily Telegraph and a range of magazines. His first book, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.
ISBN: THE ESSENTIAL JUNG: Selected Writings Size: 978-0-00-653065-7 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: FEET OF CLAY Size: 978-0-00-638423-6 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: MUSIC AND THE MIND Size: 978-0-00-686186-7 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SOLITUDE Size: 978-0-00-654349-7 Format: Grade 5
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Philip Marsden
THE LEVELLING SEA: Falmouth, Britain and the Age of Sail The story of Britain’s glorious maritime past seen through the changing fortunes of the Cornish port of Falmouth.
Within the space of few years, during the 1560s and 1570s, a maritime revolution took place in England that would contribute more than anything to the transformation of the country from a small rebel state on the fringes g of Europe p into a world p power. Until then, it was said, there was onlyy one Englishman g capable of sailing across the Atlantic. Yet within ten years an English ship with an English crew was circumnavigating the world. At the same time in Cornwall, in the Fal estuary, just a single building – a lime kiln – existed where the port of Falmouth would emerge. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, Falmouth would be one of the busiest harbours in the world. Th LLevelling The lli SSea uses the h story off FFalmouth's l h' spectacular l rise i and d ffallll to explore l wider id questions i about b the sea and its place in history and imagination. Drawing on his own deep connection with Cornwall, award-winning author Philip Marsden writes unforgettably about the power of the sea and its ability to produce greed on a piratical scale, dizzying corruption, and grand and tragic aspirations. Reviews for The Barefoot Emperor: ‘An amazing story … a page-turning narrative of a sort I haven’t read in years.’ Spectator
ISBN: 978-0-00-717453-9 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £18.99
Philip Marsden is the author of A Far Country: Travels in Ethiopia, The Crossing Place: Among the Armenians (which won the Somerset Maugham Award) and The Bronski House, and is the editor of The Spectator Book of Travel Writing.
ISBN: THE CHAINS OF HEAVEN:ISBN: THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR: ISBN: THE BRONSKI HOUSE An Ethiopian Romance An Ethiopian Tragedy Size: 978-0-00-720452-6 Size: 978-0-00-717348-8 Size: 978-0-00-717346-4 Format: Grade 6 Format: Grade 5 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: THE MAIN CAGES Size: 978-0-00-713759-6 Format: Selldown
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Araminta Hall
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING A brilliant and mesmerising debut
Cupboards were sticky from spilt jam and honey, and the oven smoked when you turned it on because of the fat that had built up over the years. Agatha would never, ever let her future home end up like this. She would never leave it every day like Ruth did. She would never put her trust in strangers. Ruth and Christian are - just - holding their marriage together, together after Christian Christian'ss disastrous affair a year ago. But chaos beckons, and when the family are suddenly left without any childcare, Agatha comes into their lives to solve all their problems. But Agatha is not as perfect as she seems and her love for the children masks a deeper secret. Everything and Nothing is a stunningly assured debut, superbly evoking an atmosphere of inexorable and sinister menace that builds to a mesmerising climax in a story that is, at its heart, about thwarted and damaged love.
ISBN: 978-0-00-741394-2 Size: 153x234mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: HarperPress Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ12.99
Araminta Hall began her career in journalism as a staff writer on teen magazine Bliss, becoming Health and Beauty editor of New Woman. On her way, she wrote regular features for the Mirror's Saturday supplement and ghost-wrote the super-model Caprice's column.
Translation rights sold in Germany, France, Russia and Holland
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Simone van der Vlugt
SHADOW SISTER Gripping psychological suspense, from Holland’s Queen of Crime
Married. One child. A career: Lydia has her life in perfect order - if only everyone else around her could be as organised as she is. Her unmarried twin sister Elisa is still struggling to find what she wants to do. And her colleagues at the school where she teaches often fail to reach her high standards. But one day day, it all falls apart for Lydia Lydia. When she is threatened by one of her pupils pupils, her sister is the first person she turns to. But Elisa is powerless to stop the campaign of intimidation that follows. How far will it go? Or is someone else taking advantage of the situation? And what is Elisa’s part in all of this? Twins are close. Aren’t they.
Simone van der Vlugt is an acclaimed Dutch writer. She was born in Hoorn and lives with her husband and two children in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. She has written a number of books for young readers. Her debut novel for adults, The Reunion, has sold over 200,000 copies and has been translated into English, French and German.
ISBN: 978-0-00-730138-6 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: HarperPress Published: 06 January 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: THE REUNION Size: 978-0-00-7301379 Format: Grade 6
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Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler
CONNECTED: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives Is happiness catching? Are your friends making you fat? Can your sibling make you smart? Is wealth contagious? Where is true love found? Does free will exist?
Based on exciting discoveries in mathematics, genetics, psychology and sociology, Connected is an innovative and fascinatingg exploration p of how social networks operate. p Think it's all about who yyou know? It is. But not the way you think. Turns out your colleague's husband's sister can make you fat, even if you don't know her. And a happy friend is more relevant to your happiness than a bigger income. Our connections – our friends, their friends, and even their friends' friends – have an astonishing power to influence everything from what we eat to who we sleep with with. And we we, in turn turn, influence others others. Our actions can change the behaviours, the beliefs and even the basic health of people we've never met. ‘In the category…of works of brilliant originality that stimulate and enlighten and can sometimes even change the way we understand the world.’ New York Times Review of Books ‘An An illuminating account of the pervasive and often bizarre qualities of social networks…We networks We like to think we are largely in control of our day-to-day lives, yet most of what we do, and even the way we feel, is significantly influenced by those around us – and those around them, and those around them.…The authors excel at drawing out the devil in the detail: their explanations of how the architecture networks dictate their dynamics are compelling.…profound.’ Michael Bond, New Scientist
ISBN: 978-0-00-730360-1 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £9.99
Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, is a Harvard professor with joint appointments in Care Policy, Sociology and Medicine who has been studying social networks for the last ten years. His work has been covered by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek and Time magazine, which recently voted him one of the 100 Most Influential People in 2009.
ISBN: Collins Business Secrets — ISBN: Collins Gem — PSYCHIC ISBN: Collins Need to Know? — ISBN: CONNECTED: The Amazing COMMUNICATION POWERS NLP Power of Social Networks and Size: 978-0-00-732444-6 Size: 978-0-00-724201-6 Size: 978-0-00-721655-0 How They Shape Our Lives Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 3 Format: Grade 5
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Basharat Peer
CURFEWED NIGHT: A Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and War in Kashmir Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and winner of the Crossword Prize for Non-fiction Curfewed Night is a passionate and important book – a brave and brilliant report from a conflict the world has chosen to ignore.' Salman Rushdie
Basharat Peer was a teenager when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir in 1989. Over the following years countless young men men, fuelled by feelings of injustice, injustice crossed over the ‘Line Line of Control’ Control to train in Pakistani army camps. Peer was sent off to boarding school in Aligarh to keep out of trouble. He finished college and became a journalist in Delhi. But Kashmir – angrier, more violent, more hopeless – was never far away. In 2003 Peer, now a young journalist, left his job and returned to his homeland. Drawing a harrowing portrait of Kashmir and her people – a mother forced to watch her son hold an exploding bomb, politicians living in refurbished torture chambers chambers, picturesque villages riddled with landmines – this is above all, a story of what it really means to return home – and the discovery that there may not be any redemption in it. Lyrical, spare, gut-wrenching and intimate, Curfewed Night is a powerful and intensely moving debut, combining the insight of a journalist with the prose of a poet. ‘One of the finest books I’ve read this year…Basharat year Basharat Peer’s memoir reminds us why peace in Kashmir is important, important not just to India and Pakistan, but to the world.’ Hari Kunzru, Guardian
ISBN:978-0-00-735071-1 Size: 130x197mm Format:Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £8.99
Basharat Peer was born in Kashmir in 1977. He studied political science at Aligarh Muslim University and journalism at Columbia University. He has worked k d as a reporter at Rediff diff and d Tehelka h lk and dh has written for various publications including the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and Foreign Affairs, where he was assistant editor. He is currently based in New York.
ISBN: CURFEWED NIGHT: A ISBN: SACRED CAUSES: Religion ISBN: SEVENTY-TWO VIRGINS ISBN: Collins Gem — 100 WAYS Size: 978-0-00-719805-4 TO BOOST YOUR ENERGY Frontline Memoir of Life, Love and Politics from the European Format: Grade 5 Size: 978-0-00-727588-5 and War in Kashmir Dictators to Al Qaeda Format: Grade 5 Size: 978-0-00-735070-4
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Peter Stothard
ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brought a peculiar terror to the people of Italy. Its leaders were gladiators. Its purpose was incomprehensible. Its success was unprecedented. The Spartacus Road is the route along which this rebel army outfought the Roman legions between 73 and 71 BC, BC bringing both fears and hopes that have never wholly left the modern mind mind. It is a road that stretches through 2,000 miles of Italian countryside and out into 2,000 years of world history. In this inspiring and original memoir, the former editor of The Times, Peter Stothard, takes us on an extraordinary journey. The result is a book like none other – at once a journalist’s notebook, a classicist’s celebration, a survivor’s record of a near fatal cancer and the history of a unique and brutal war. On the Spartacus Road makes for a wonderfully rich and endlessly thought-provoking brew, part ancient history, part modern travelogue, part personal memoir, with a distinctly philosophical strain…Beautifully written, musing and far-sighted…here is Stothard not just as a fine and engaging historian, but a historian with an imagination that can vault with ease over two millennia…an outstanding success.' Christopher Hart, Literary Review ‘Haunting, erudite, and beautifully written.’ Tom Holland, Spectator
ISBN: 978-0-00-734080-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £9.99
Peter Stothard was Editor of The Times from 1992 to 2002, the period of its greatest commercial success for a century, and d iis currently l Editor di off the h Times Literary Supplement. He was knighted for his services to newspapers in 2003. He has written extensively on politics and literature.
ISBN: ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA ISBN: ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA ISBN: ON THE SPARTACUS [AU, NZ, OM-only] Size: 978-0-00-734864-0 ROAD: A Spectacular Journey Size: 978-0-00-734866-4 Format: Grade 2 through g Ancient Italyy Format: Export Size: 978-0-00-734078-1
ISBN: THE SUM OF OUR DAYS Size: 978-0-00-726949-5 Format: Grade 5
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Johanna Moran
THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES In 1899 Henry Oades discovers he has two wives – and many dilemmas…
In 1890, Henry Oades decided to undertake the arduous sea voyage from England to New Zealand in order to further his family's fortunes. Here they settled on the lush but wild coast – although it wasn't long before disaster struck in the most unexpected of ways. A local Maori tribe, tribe incensed at their treatment at the hands of the settlers settlers, kidnapped Mrs Oades and her four children, and vanished into the rugged hills surrounding the town. Henry searched ceaselessly for his family, but two grief-stricken years later was forced to conclude that they must be dead. In despair he shipped out to San Francisco to start over, eventually falling in love with and marrying a young widow. In the meantime, Margaret Oades and her children were leading a miserable existence, enslaved to the local tribe. When they contracted smallpox they were cast out and, ill and footsore, made their way back to town, five years after they were presumed dead. 'Irresistible…as comical as it is poignant.' Daily Mail 'Johanna Moran's fine first novel is a fascinating story…Moran is a careful writer, a spare stylist who never wastes a word. She also has a well-tuned ear for the jargon of the period, colorful language that adds warmth, humor, and humanity to her story ' Boston Globe story.
ISBN: 978-0-00-733927-3 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £7.99
Johanna Moran lives in Florida with her husband, John. She has travelled extensively, working as a Pan Am stewardess, and has visited all the places mentioned in this book. She first came across the story through her father, a professor of law. The Wives of Henry Oades is her first book.
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THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES Size: 978-0-00-7339266 Format: Grade 6
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Brunonia Barry
THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lace Reader comes an emotionally resonant novel of tragedy, secrets, identity and love.
Zee Finch is a respected psychotherapist and she’s about to get married, but the shocking death of her most troubled patient brings to the surface secrets in Zee’s own life. Zee is finally forced to confront the truth behind her mother’s death and the unfinished story she left behind. With a rich atmosphere, colourful, memorable, engaging characters, Brunonia Barry has written a wonderful new novel that will appeal to fans of The Lace Reader but also to new readers who enjoy sophisticated, emotionally gripping fiction.
'An unusual and beguiling literary thriller about a fascinating family of women. The setting of the tight-knit Salem community, still haunted by a heritage of witchcraft and persecution, is marvellously evoked. Enchanting, whimsical and menacing by turns and with a brightly drawn oddball cast it's an exhilarating and ultimately uplifting read.' Rachel Hore, The Memory Garden
ISBN: 978-0-00-731455-3 Size: 153x234mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: HarperPress P bli h d 03 February Published: F b 2011 UK Price: £14.99
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Brunonia Barry studied literature and creative writing at Green Mountain College in Vermont and at the University of New Hampshire. After nearly a decade in Hollywood, Barry returned to Massachusetts, where, along with her husband, she founded an innovative company that creates award-winning word, visual and logic puzzles. Happily married, Barry lives with her husband and her twelve-year-old |Golden Retriever named Byzantium.
ISBN: THE LACE READER [OMonly] Size: 978-0-00-730737-1 Format: Export
ISBN: THE LACE READER Size: 978-0-00-734582-3 Format: Grade 4
ISBN: TULLY Size: 978-0-00-649001-2 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: THE MAP OF TRUE PLACES [Export, OM-only] Size: 978-0-00-731850-6 Format: Grade 6
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Juliet Gardiner
THE THIRTIES: An Intimate History of Britain A Wartime As W ti did ffor th the 1940 1940s, thi this b bookk will ill grasp th the b broad d spectrum t off events t iin th the 1930 1930s iin th the words d off contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich material available in the British Library.
J.B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenthcentury England and the new, post-war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and international tensions, yet also a place of complacent suburban homeowners with a baby Austin in every garage garage. Now Juliet Gardiner, acclaimed author of the award-winning Wartime, provides a fresh perspective on that restless, uncertain, ambitious decade, bringing the complex experience of thirties Britain alive through newspapers, magazines, memoirs, letters and diaries. Gardiner captures the essence of a people part mesmerised by 'modernism' in architecture, art and the p proliferation of 'dream p palaces',, byy the cult of fitness and fresh air,, the obsession with speed, p , the growth and regimentation of leisure, the democratisation of the countryside, the celebration of elegance, glamour and sensation. Yet, at the same time, this was a nation imbued with a pervasive awareness of loss – of Britain's influence in the world, of accepted political, social and cultural signposts, and finally of peace itself. ‘The cinematic clarity of Gardiner’s descriptions of accidents and ceremonies tells more about the decade than a page of statistics.…for the depth p of its research, the quality q y of the writing g and the sheer richness and vibrancy y of the material, this is a quite outstanding work of social history.’ Telegraph
ISBN: 978-0-00-731453-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 February 2011 UK Price: £12.99
Juliet Gardiner is a respected commentator on British social history from the Victorian times through to the 1950s. She was Editor of History Today magazine and is also l author h off the h critically i i ll acclaimed l i d and db bestselling lli Wartime.
ISBN: THE THIRTIES: An Intimate ISBN: EARTHLY POWERS: The History of Britain Conflict between Religion & Size: 978-0-00-724076-0 Politics from the French Format: Grade 3 Revolution to the Great War Size: 978-0-00-719573-2 Format: Grade 6
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Adam Zamoyski
CHOPIN A new edition of Adam Zamoyski’s definitive biography of Chopin, first published in 1979 and unavailable in English for many years.
Few composers elicit such strong emotions as Chopin. Few have been more revered and cherished. And few have had so much sentimental nonsense written about them. Adam Zamoyski Zamoyski'ss compelling biography cuts through the mass of anecdote and myth that has sprung up around the composer's life and the ebullient and striking personalities of Romantic Paris among whom he lived, including Liszt, Berlioz, Victor Hugo and George Sand, in search of the real Chopin.
Zamoyski brings to the subject an unrivalled knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the composer's native Poland as well as of the France in which he spent most of his creative life. He has scoured d the h archives hi off W Warsaw, K Krakow, k P Paris i and d LLondon d iin hi his quest ffor the h truth, h and dh has b based d hi his account exclusively on primary sources and contemporary accounts. 'A close, intimate and thoroughly absorbing portrait…Zamoyski has written a thoughtful, lively and moving account of an extraordinary and exceptional man.' Mail on Sunday
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Adam Zamoyski was born in New York, was educated at Oxford, and lives in London. A full-time writer, his books include Paderewski, The Last King of Poland, 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, and Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna. He is married to the painter Emma Sergeant.
ISBN: CHOPIN Size: 978-0-00-734184-9 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: 1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow Size: 978-0-00-712374-2 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: POLAND: A history Size: 978-0-00-728275-3 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: RITES OF PEACE: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna Size: 978-0-00-720306-2 Format: Grade 5
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Matt Rudd
WILLIAM’S PROGRESS Remember William Walker? Hapless journalist and ineffectual romantic, who nearly ruined his marriage to the girl of his dreams through no fault of his own? Well, he's back. And this time he's got a baby.
William Walker loves his gorgeous wife and new son – even if he did faint at the birth. What man wouldn't, after two whole days of labour and only one small sip of (medicinal) whiskey to sustain him? But now he's a father, and a proud one at that. It's just a shame that parenthood doesn't stop him doing the wrongg thingg at precisely p y the wrongg time,, with comicallyy catastrophic p results for his small – and increasingly gy exasperated - family. This hilarious romantic comedy will have you laughing out loud as William battles everything from floods to the Machiavellian denizens of a sinister Kentish village with more than a few hints of Royston Vasey…
‘F b l ‘Fabulously l Funny...fast-paced F f t d and d completely l t l unputdownable.’ td bl ’ Heat H t ‘Charming, slickly plotted and extremely funny.’ Sunday Times
ISBN: 978-0-00-741915-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress P bli h d 03 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: £7.99
Matt is a writer and editor on the Sunday Times, where he has worked for seven years. In the name of journalism, he has fought three Mexican wrestlers single-handed, had an affair on 'SecondLife', bingedrunk at Wetherspoons, bruised himself on a Japanese toilet and spied on his wife Harriet using the very latest GPS technology. technology He has also stress-tested stress tested M&S Y-fronts Y fronts but prefers not to talk about it. He lives in Kent with Harriet and their two young sons.
ISBN: WILLIAM WALKER’S FIRST ISBN: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ISBN: Collins Classics — EMMA YEAR OF MARRIAGE: A Horror Size: 978-0-00-734744-5 Size: 978-0-00-735078-0 Story Format: Grade 5 Format: Grade 6 Size: 978-0-00-730897-2 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: Collins Classics — SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Size: 978-0-00-735079-7 Format: Grade 6
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Peter Mandelson
THE THIRD MAN: Life at the Heart of New Labour The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects.
Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. The Third Man is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during its unprecedented three terms in government. Much of the book is devoted to the defining political relationships of Peter Mandelson Mandelson’ss life – with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Charting what he terms the ‘soap-opera’ years of the Labour government, his book is certain to ruffle many feathers. Forced to resign from Cabinet twice in three years, Peter Mandelson has cut a divisive figure through British politics but his time as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland gained him many supporters. He was a highly regarded European Commissioner before being brought back into British politics by G d B Gordon Brown iin 2008 to serve as Secretary S off State S for f Business, B i IInnovation i and d Skill Skills, and d as Fi First Secretary. ‘Lord Mandelson has written the best account of the destruction wreaked by the Blair-Brown rivalry.’ Daily Telegraph ‘A very good book…this is a serious book by a serious man.’ Sunday Telegraph
ISBN: 978-0-00-739530-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress P bli h d 03 March Published: M h 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: Scott Pilgrim — SCOTT ISBN: Scott Pilgrim — SCOTT PILGRIM GETS IT TOGETHER: PILGRIM VS THE UNIVERSE: Volume 4 Volume 5 Size: 978-0-00-734049-1 Size: 978-0-00-735147-3 Format: Grade 1 Format: Grade 1
ISBN: Scott Pilgrim — SCOTT PILGRIM AND THE INFINITE SADNESS: Volume 3 Size: 978-0-00-735146-6 Format: Grade 1
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Peter Mandelson was born in London in 1953 and educated at Hendon County Grammar School and Oxford University. At the age of thirty-two he became Labour’s Director of Campaigns and Communications, and he was elected as MP for Hartlepool in 1992. During Tony Blair’s premiership he was Minister without Portfolio,, Secretaryy of State for Trade and Industry, y, and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. He stood down as an MP in 2004 to become EU Trade Commissioner, before returning to the government under Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, First Secretary of State, and Lord President of the Council. He remains in Parliament as a member of the House of Lords.
Michael Burleigh
MORAL COMBAT: A History of World War II A clear, chronological narrative exploring many of the ethical dilemmas posed for real people during and after the Second World War.
Literature on the Second World War is voluminous. In Moral Combat, however, Michael Burleigh achieves what few historians can claim to have done; by exploring the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war, he presents readers with an entirely fresh perspective p p of this conflict. Opening with the 'predators' – Mussolini, Hitler, Prince Hirohito of Japan – and moving onto appeasement (a popular policy or a 'wrong' policy?), the rape of Poland, Barbarossa, the role of Churchill, and the Holocaust, Burleigh analyses the moral dimension of the Second World War's most important moments. More than merely a history of 'great men', however, Burleigh also examines the moral reasoning of individuals who had to make choices under circumstances difficult to imagine. Stressing the maxim that th pastt is the i used d tto make k sense off the th presentt world ld we lilive iin, h he ttakes k us right i ht up tto ttoday's d ' war on terror – a war of competing ideas. What, in the end, will constitute its victory? Burleigh's fascinating and deeply engaging exploration refuses to draw lessons from the past for the future, remaining instead firmly focused on the on-the-spot decisions that came to define the conflict. ‘Magnificent…No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book’ Simon Heffer Daily Telegraph Heffer, ‘One of the most important books on the Second World War to be published in recent years’ Richard Holmes, Evening Standard
ISBN: 978-0-00-719577-0 978 0 00 719577 0 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 03 March 2011 UK Price: £10.99
ISBN: BLOOD AND RAGE: A Cultural history of Terrorism Size: 978-0-00-724225-2 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: EARTHLY POWERS: The ISBN: SACRED CAUSES: Religion Conflict between Religion & and Politics from the European Politics from the French Dictators to Al Qaeda Revolution to the Great War Size: 978-0-00-719575-6 Size: 978-0-00-719573-2 Format: Grade 5 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: MORAL COMBAT: A History of World War II Size: 978-0-00-719576-3 Format: Grade A+
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Michael Burleigh is Distinguished Research Professor in Modern History at Cardiff University. He is the author of nine well-received books, including Earthly Powers, Sacred Causes and The Third Reich, for which he was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2001.
Juliet Gardiner
THE BLITZ: The British Under Attack From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population.
September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain. Lasting eight months, the Blitz was the form of warfare that had been predicted throughout the 1930s, and that the British people had feared since Neville Chamberlain's declaration that Britain was at war. Images of Britain’s devastated cities are amongg the most iconic of the Second World War. Yet compared with other great moments of that war – Dunkirk, the North African campaign, D-Day – the Blitz remains curiously unexamined. Apart from fragmentary accounts and local records, there is little in the way of a comprehensive account of the experience that so many British civilians went through – as well as the social, political and cultural implications of the bombardment. Designed to break the morale of the British p population, p , the nightly g y bombings g certainlyy did devastate. But,, as Juliet Gardiner shows in this hugely important book, they also served to galvanise the nation; from those eight terrifying months a new determination amongst Britain’s people and politicians steadily emerged. Revealing, original and beautifully written, The Blitz is a much-needed exploration of one of the most important moments in Second World War history. ‘A treasure trove of vivid, detailed anecdotes. Gardiner’s book captures the experience of ordinary people’ The Guardian ‘Enthralling, absorbing and truly impressive. Page after page brings tears, anger, horror, disgust and utter admiration in equal measure’ The Times ISBN: 978-0-00-738661-1 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £9.99
Juliet Gardiner is a respected commentator on British social history from the Victorian times through h h to the h 1950s. 9 0 Sh She was Editor di off History i Today magazine and is also author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime.
ISBN: BURNING BRIGHT Size: 978-0-00-717836-0 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: THE THIRTIES: An Intimate History of Britain Size: 978-0-00-724076-0 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: BURNING BRIGHT [Abridged edition] Size: 978-0-00-721679-6 Format: Grade 6
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Antony Woodward
THE GARDEN IN THE CLOUDS: From Derelict Smallholding to Mountain Paradise The story of one man’s unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious ‘Yellow Book’ – the Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity guide – in just one year.
The son of two passionate gardeners, Antony Woodward was born with chlorophyll running through his veins. Unfortunately, y growing g g up p with Latin plant p names took its toll, and he was ingrained g earlyy on with a profound loathing of both gardens and gardening. Buying Tair-ffynnon, a derelict smallholding 1,300 feet up in the Black Mountains of Wales, changed everything. Hooked by its beauty – when not buried in cloud – Woodward battles to meet the strict requirements of the famous ‘Yellow Book’ in this unlikely terrain. He finds himself driven by apparently inexplicable compulsions: wood chopping, hauling a 20-tonne railway carriage up a mountain, even beekeeping Soon beekeeping. Soon, his voyage along the rocky path to his own patch of paradise takes on a more personal tenor as he unearths the deep roots linking gardening and his childhood in this warm, funny and unlikely memoir. Beautifully written and effortlessly engaging, The Garden in the Clouds is a compelling read for anyone who has ever gardened – or ever dreamt of doing so. ‘Woodward’s tongue-in-cheek account of finding, making and growing his own little patch of heaven is right on the button, as is his nostalgic, romantic, down-to-earth attitude of make do, mend, maintain and modernise, making a life worth living and a garden worth showing right here at home in the mud.’ The Times
ISBN: 978-0-00-721652-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 31 March 2011 UK Price: £8.99
Antony Woodward is the author of the bestselling Propellerhead and co-author of the 2007 Christmas book The Wrong Kind of Snow. He has written columns f Country for C Life if and d Tatler, l and db before f that, h won many awards as an advertising copywriter. For some reason all his books so far have had something to do with clouds.
ISBN: LA Candy — SWEET LITTLE ISBN: THE GARDEN IN THE ISBN: LA Candy — SWEET LITTLE ISBN: COLLINS COMPLETE WOODWORKER’S MANUAL CLOUDS: From Derelict LIES [Export, Airside, IE-only] LIES: An LA Candy Novel Smallholding to Mountain [New edition] Size: 978-0-00-735737-6 Size: 978-0-00-735306-4 Paradise Size: 978-0-00-716442-4 Format: Export Format: Grade 1
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Fergal Keane
ROAD OF BONES: The Epic Siege of Kohima 1944 The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history – fought at a major turning point of the Second World War.
Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of British and Indian troops faced the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. Outnumbered ten to one, the defenders fought the Japanese hand to hand in a battle that was amongst the most savage in modern warfare. A garrison of 1,500 fighting men, desperately short of water and with the wounded compelled to lie in the open, faced a force of 15,000 Japanese. They held the pass, preventing a Japanese victory that would have proved disastrous for the British. Another six weeks of bitter fighting followed as British and Indian reinforcements strove to drive the enemy out of India. When the battle was over, a Japanese army that had invaded India on a mission of imperial conquest had suffered the worst defeat in its history. Thousands lay dead, while tens of thousands more starved in a catastrophic retreat eastwards. They called the jjourneyy back to Burma the ‘Road of Bones’. Fergal Keane has reported for the BBC from conflicts on every continent over the past 25 years. He brings to this work not only rigorous scholarship but a raw understanding of the pitiless nature of war. Based on original research in Japan, Britain and India, Road of Bones is a story of extraordinary courage and the folly of imperial dreams. ‘A brilliant story of human endeavor and suffering. Masterly.’ Max Hastings The equal of Beevor’s Stalingrad.’ General Sir David Richards
Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. He is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents, having worked for the corporation in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Balkans. He has been awarded a BAFTA and has been named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and the Sony Radio Awards. He has also been named Reporter of the Year in the Amnesty International Press Awards and won the James Cameron Prize and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the US Overseas Press Association.
ISBN: 978-0-00-713241-6 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON [10th Anniversary edition] Size: 978-0-00-732215-2
ISBN: THE BLIND MAN OF SEVILLE Size: 978-0-00-732214-5 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: THE SILENT AND THE ISBN: ROAD OF BONES: The DAMNED Siege of Kohima 1944 - The Epic Size: 978-0-00-732213-8 Story of the Last Great Stand of Format: Grade 6 Empire
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Max Hastings
DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION?: A Family Fable The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings.
The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrote plays and essays, y and penned p an enchantingg memoir of his own Victorian childhood. His great-uncle g was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Max's heroes. The author tells a richly picaresque story, featuring guest appearances by a host of celebrities from Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to John Betjeman and Osbert Lancaster, who became Anne Scott-James's third husband. 'All families are dysfunctional', Anne asserted impenitently to Max, but the Hastingses managed to be more dysfunctional than most. His father roamed the world for newspapers and was a presenter for BBC TV's legendary Tonight programme, while his mother edited Harper's Bazaar, became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books. books Here, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears, 'a tribe of eccentrics', as he himself characterises them. By turns moving, dramatic and comic, the book portrays Max's own childhood fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight. His story will make a lot of people laugh and perhaps a few cry. It helps to explain why Max Hastings, whose family has produced more than eighty books over three generations, felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism.
Max Hastings studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism. Among his bestselling books Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After ten years as Editor and then Editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was knighted in 2002. He now lives in Berkshire.
ISBN: 978-0-00-727172-6 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: ÂŁ8.99 ISBN: DID YOU REALLY SHOOT ISBN: NEMESIS: The Battle for ISBN: WARRIORS: Extraordinary ISBN: FINEST YEARS: Churchill as THE TELEVISION?: A Family Japan, 1944-45 Tales from the Battlefield Warlord 1940-45 Fable Size: 978-0-00-721981-0 Size: 978-0-00-719885-6 Size: 978-0-00-726367-7 Size: 978-0-00-727171-9 Format: Grade 2 Format: Grade 5 Format: Selldown
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Suzannah Dunn
THE CONFESSION OF KATHERINE HOWARD The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE.
When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious of her. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it's Cat in whom Katherine confides and, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at seventeen,, Katherine leaves Cat in the company p y of her ex-lover,, Francis,, and the two begin g their own,, much more serious, love affair. Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne for Katherine. The future seems assured for the new queen and her maid in waiting, although Cat would feel more confident if Katherine hadn't embarked on an affair with one of the king's favoured attendants, Thomas Culpeper. However, for a blissful year and a half, it seems that Katherine can have everything she wants. But then allegations are made about her girlhood love affairs. Desperately frightened, Katherine recounts a version of events which implicates Francis but which Cat knows to be a lie. With Francis in the Tower, Cat alone knows the whole truth of Queen Katherine Howard – but if she tells, Katherine will die. 'Dunn gives the story a vivid, contemporary feel, and Katherine's conversations with her closest friend, Cathryn Tilney, are gossipy and intimate, full of sly innuendo and confidences.' Marie Claire
ISBN: 978-0-00-725830-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £7.99
Suzannah Dunn is the author of ten previous books, all of which have been critically acclaimed. She has written three historical novels: The Queen of Subtleties, The Sixth Wife and The Queen’s Sorrow.
ISBN: THE QUEEN’S SORROW Size: 978-0-00-725828-4 Format: Grade 3
ISBN: THE CONFESSION OF KATHERINE HOWARD Size: 978-0-00-725829-1 Format: Grade A+
ISBN: THE CONFESSION OF KATHERINE HOWARD [Exportonly] Size: 978-0-00-734034-7 Format: Grade A+
ISBN: BLOOD SUGAR Size: 978-0-00-654707-5 Format: Print on demand
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Janie Hampton
HOW THE GIRL GUIDES WON THE WAR A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world – the Girl Guides – and how they helped win the war.
Mention Girl Guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong. They either loved them or hated them; they were either proud to wear their uniform or refused to join. Whatever their feelings, most former Guides retain strong memories of their experiences. All too often regarded merely in terms of biscuit sales and singsongs, hardly anybody is aware of the massive impact that the Guides had on gender equality and, more fundamentally, the outcome of the Second World War. In this eye-opening history, Janie Hampton explores how the Guides' work was crucial to Britain's victory. When the Blitz broke out, the Guides knew what to do. They kept up morale in bomb shelters, demonstrating 'blitz cooking' with emergency ovens made from the bricks of bombed houses at the request of the Ministry of Food. They grew food on their company allotments and knitted for the entire country. country The embodiment of the Home Front spirit spirit, they dug shelters shelters, provided crucial First Aid and also assisted the millions of children who were forced to flee their city homes to safer places in the country. It is difficult to imagine what the war effort would have looked like without the Guides. Full of fond and funny anecdotes and rich social history, How the Girl Guides Won the War takes us on the journey of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary movements.
Janie Hampton is the author of fifteen books including biography, fiction and text books. She has been a journalist in Africa, a producer at the BBC World Service and has written articles for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Independent, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman. She has worked in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zaire, Rwanda and Uganda, living in rural communities, travelling by canoe, bus, river-boat and train
ISBN: 978-0-00-735632-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £8.99 ISBN: LOST SECRETS OF THE SACRED ARK: Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold Size: 978-0-00-714296-5 Format: Grade 6
ISBN: APACHE Size: 978-0-00-728817-5 Format: Grade A+
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Richard Aldrich
GCHQ A gripping exploration of the last great unknown realm of the British secret service: Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ).
GCHQ is the successor to the famous Bletchley Park wartime code-breaking organisation and is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the country. During the war, it commanded more staff than MI5 and MI6 combined and has produced a number of intelligence triumphs, as well as some notable failures. Since the end of the Cold War,, it has played p y a pivotal p role in shaping p g Britain's secret state. Still, we know almost nothing about it. In this ground-breaking new book, Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ's evolvement from a wartime codebreaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside, staffed by eccentric crossword puzzlers, to one of the world leading espionage organisations. It is packed full of dramatic spy stories that shed fresh light on Britain's role in the Cold War – from the secret tunnels dug beneath Vienna and Berlin to tap Soviet phone h lilines, and dd daring i submarine b i missions i i to gather h iintelligence lli ffrom the h SSoviet i fl fleet, to the h notorious i case of Geoffrey Pine, one of the most damaging moles ever recruited by the Soviets inside British intelligence. The book reveals for the first time how GCHQ operators based in Cheltenham affected the outcome of military confrontations in far-flung locations such as Indonesia and Malaya, and exposes the shocking case of three GCHQ workers who were killed in an infamous shootout with terrorists while working undercover in Turkey. Today's GCHQ struggles with some of the most difficult issues of our time. time A leading force of the state's security efforts against militant terrorist organisations like Al-Qaeda, they are also involved in fundamental issues that will mould the future of British society. Compelling and revelatory, Aldrich's book is the crucial missing link in Britain’s intelligence history. Richard Aldrich is a regular commentator on war and espionage and has written for the Evening Standard, the Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph. He is the author of several books, including The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence which won the Donner Book Prize in 2002.
ISBN: 978-0-00-731266-5 Size: 130x197mm F Format: t Paperback P b k Imprint: HarperPress Published: 09 June 2011 UK Price: £12.99
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Girls’ School Society
YOUR DAUGHTER Th ultimate The lti t guide id to t raising i i girls. il
A major new parenting book written by the Girls’ Schools Association of the UK. Your Daughter features the combined wisdom of the heads and teachers of the leading girls’ schools up and down the country. With decades of experience teaching hundreds of thousands of girls they have seen and had to deal with every emotional, social and educational problem imaginable. Based on their hugely successful mydaughter.co.uk website, the book compiles all of the best articles and features plus a whole host of new and original material. It contains everything a parent needs to knows for dealing with girls of all ages. Each chapter features a useful Q&A section containing real questions posed by users of the website answered by teachers and heads. Full of practical and common sense advice Your Daughter is never preachy and always straighforward and balanced. This is probably the first time you have helped to raise a girl - the authors of this book have been doing it for decades. It is deliberately aimed at all parents, not just those interested in private education.
The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) is the professional association representing the Heads of leading independent girls' schools in the UK.
ISBN: 978-0-00-737122-8 Size: 197x130mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 20 January 2011 UK Price: £9.99 ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724054-8 Format: Selldown
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Bob Burke
THIRD PIG DETECTIVE AGENCY – THE CURDS AND WHEY MYSTERY The latest mystery for the Third Pig Detective Agency.
Harry Pigg is back… …and it’s a good job he isn’t scared of spiders. When Little Miss Muffet turns up at the Third Pig Detective Agency she presents Harry and his team – an ex-genie and a precocious kid called Jack Horner – with a most intriguing case. Her charming little B&B has been infested with giant spiders and she wants to find out who is responsible. Harry dives headfirst into this web of intrigue (sorry!) and finds himself caught up in rather more than a simple arachnid problem problem. The Third Pig Detective Agency series has been acclaimed by readers, crime writers and prize judging panels alike. If you haven’t discovered what makes Harry Pigg so popular then now is the time! ‘‘This is undoubtedly the most whimsical hardboiled detective novel ever written, and it's utterly delightful.’ MATT REES author of THE BETHLEHEM MURDERS ‘The Third Pig Detective Agency is a wonderful pastiche of noir-ish detective stories like The Maltese Falcon. The design is an absolute gem, with coffee stains on some pages and a genuinely vintage looking cover.’ www.culch.ie
ISBN: 978-0-00-736403-9 Size: 165x111 mm Format: Hardback Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £6.99 ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724054-8 Format: Selldown
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Warwick Cairns
IN PRAISE OF SAVAGERY One man man’ss journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. Africa
As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explorer Wilfred Thesiger and the two men struck up an unlikely friendship. Invited to visit him at his African home, Cairns decides to make a bit of an adventure of it and do some of the journey on foot. When he himself was a young man, Thesiger led an expedition to explore the course of the Awash river in Ethiopia. Every westerner that had gone before him had been killed by local tribesmen. Needless to say, he survived. Alternating chapters chart Warwick’s journey with that of Thesiger creating a captivating dual narrative that is part travel book, part biography, part autobiography, part history with fair doses of philosophy and humour thrown in for good measure. In Praise of Savagery is a highly original book that defies classification but is always effortlessly readable. Praise for About the Size of It: 'A full and convincing account of why our well-tried and trusted traditional measures make human sense' ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH 'His direct, engaging conversational prose is a delight to read… inspirational' ANDREW ROBERTS Warwick Cairns was born in Dagenham in 1962. He studied English and Psychology at Keele, and then a few years later took a postgraduate degree in English Literature at Yale under the brilliant but eccentric Professor Harold Bloom. He has worked shifting boxes in a warehouse, and lending money to people in a bank, before writing letters to the people asking why theyy weren’t paying p y g the moneyy back,, and whyy theyy weren’t returning his phone calls. He also spent time drilling wells on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota and travelling in Africa with the explorer Wilfred Thesiger – the subject of his third book -before settling on a career in advertising.
ISBN: 978-0-00-741403-1 Size: 197x130mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £8.99 ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
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John Lenahan
SHADOWMAGIC – PRINCE OF HAZEL AND OAK The eagerly-awaited sequel to Shadowmagic.
Having returned to the real world from Tir Na Nog at the end of the last book, our hero Conor finds himself arrested for the murder of his father. When he Wh h explains l i tto th the cops th thatt hi his d dad d iis safe f and d wellll and d enjoying j i lif life as ki king off a lland d off elves, l iimps and banshees they understandably think he is a nutcase. That is until he is rescued by Celtic warriors on horseback and taken back to Tir Na Nog, accidentally bringing a policeman with him. Once safely back in The Land Land, Conor finds that all is not well well. His father is dying dying, the girl he loves is betrothed to another and a rather confused American cop is wandering around causing havoc. It falls to our young hero, and his band of friends, to find a cure for the king. On their epic journey they encounter one of the most mystical and dangerous races in The Land, the shapeshifting Pooka, and find their fates linked in ways they could never have imagined. The Prince of Hazel and Oak is a stunning fantasy adventure that takes fans of Shadowmagic further in to the land and brings back many of the favourite characters from the first book.
ISBN: 978-0-00-742559-4 Size: 197x130mm Format: Paperback Original Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 28 April 2011 UK Price: £6.99 ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724054-8 Format: Selldown
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Nick Edwards
IN STITCHES Th true The t story t off an A&E doctor d t that th t became b a huge h word-of-mouth d f th hit - now revised i d and d updated. d t d
Forget what you have seen on Casualty or Holby City, this is what it is really like to be working in A&E. Dr Nick Edwards writes with shocking honesty about life as an A&E doctor. He lifts the lid on government targets that led to poor patient care. He reveals the level of alcohol-related injuries that often bring the service to a near standstill. He shows jjust how bloodyy hard it is to look after the people p p who turn up p at the hospital door. But he also shares the funny side - the unusual ‘accidents’ that result in with weird objects inserted in places they really should have ended up - and also the moving, tragic and heartbreaking. It really is an unforgettable read. First published in 2007 when The Friday Project was a small independent, In Stitches went on to sell over 15,000 copies in the UK, the majority of which have come in the years since then. It has proved to be a real word-of-mouth hit. This new edition includes lots of additional material bringing Nick’s story completely up to date including plenty more surprising surprising, alarming alarming, moving and unforgettable moments from behind the A&E curtain curtain. Dr Nick Edwards is an Accident and Emergency (A&E) Doctor working in the UK and a passionate believer in the NHS. However the reforms, political correctness and the Anglo-Saxon culture of binge drinking and fighting and the resulting A&E visits are a strain on his sanity. So, to keep up his morale, he began writing down his feelings a form of literaryy cathartic therapy py the results of which make up his first book 'In stitches the highs and lows of life as an A&E doctor.'
ISBN: 978-1-905548-70-5 Size: 197x130mm Format: Paperback Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 01 March 2011 UK Price: £7.99 ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724055-5 Format: Grade 2
ISBN: ARCADIA: England and the Dream of Perfection Size: 978-0-00-724053-1 Format: Grade 5
ISBN: SISSINGHURST: An Unfinished History Size: 978-0-00-724054-8 Format: Selldown
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