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Contents Recently Published 19 Call Them by Their Mama’s Last Hug Elisabeth’s Lists 20

True Names 2 White Houses 21 Notes from the Fog 3 Convenience Store Woman 22 Kind of Blue 4 The Last Children of Tokyo 24 ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ 4 Choked 25 Portraits Without Frames 5 Island Song 26 My Enemy’s Cherry Tree 28 Natural Causes 29 January–June 2019 Painter to the King 30 The Cow Book 32 The Recovering 33 The Earlie King and the Certain American States 33

Kid in Yellow 6 Dark Blue 34 Not Working 7 West 35 Jokes for the Gunmen 8 The Heavens 36 Census 9 Rules for Visiting 38 Daphne 9 The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino 39 Jellyfish 10 The Way to the Sea 40 Childless Voices 11 Days of Awe 42 When the Rivers Run Dry 12 Four Soldiers 43 Fallout 13 Ghost Wall 44 Asymmetry 14 Granta 146: The Politics I Will Never See the World Again 16

of Feeling 45 Hiking with Nietzsche 17 Granta 147: Fortieth Hark 18 Birthday Special 45

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Call Them by Their True Names American Crises (and Essays) ORIGINAL

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Rebecca Solnit An essential new collection of essays from the bestselling phenomenon Rebecca Solnit.

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n this book, Rebecca Solnit calls for reflection and context to find radical, heartfelt engagement with a world that lurches into a new crisis every week. Beginning with the election of Donald Trump (‘The Loneliest Man in the World’) and expanding into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space, she unpicks some of the most urgent issues affecting us today.

December

The ultimate focus of the book is the climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit’s trademark deep analysis to bear on a range of contemporary crises.

And again, and spectacularly, she shows us how to hope.

‘Solnit is both a stylist and a fighter, distinguished by her rare combination of grit and grace’ Robert Macfarlane, New Statesman

January

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‘There’s a new feminist revolution brewing right now and Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices’ Barbara Ehrenreich the mother of all questions hb £12.99 978 1 78378 355 7

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rebecca solnit is the author of, among other books, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A Harper’s contributing editor, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.

February

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Notes from the Fog ORIGINAL

Ben Marcus October

Lethally good short stories from a peerless craftsman.

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aster-stylist Ben Marcus returns with a wonder-cabinet of brain-rearranging stories. From the horrifyingly strange to the deeply touching, each story is a literary masterclass unlikely to leave the reader unchanged.

Nobember

From parent–child relationships thrown agonizingly off kilter to intensely moving scenarios of dependence and emotional crisis; from left-alone bodies to new scientific frontiers, Ben Marcus is the great chronicler of the contemporary uncanny and the peculiar future. Notes from the Fog is the medicine for the surprising and deadly ailment we suffer from: being human.

Praise for Ben Marcus:

December

‘Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world’ George Saunders ‘One of the most stunningly original and profoundly unsettling writers of his generation’ Guardian

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leaving the sea pb £9.99 978 1 84708 636 5

January

ben marcus is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper’s and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Kind of Blue Miles Davis and the Making of a Masterpiece PAPERBACK

Ashley Kahn ‘The bestselling, most influential jazz record ever, put under the microscope in a beautifully written volume’ Observer October

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n the early spring of 1959, in New York City’s 30th Street Studio, legendary trumpeter Miles Davis assembled one of the most celebrated jazz line-ups in history. Two sessions later, they had recorded the greatest jazz album of all time.

‘Incredible… One of the most inspirational volumes on music’ The Times

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ashley kahn is a music historian, journalist and producer, and a frequent talking head on all matters jazz. He is currently a visiting professor at NYU, in the Department of Recorded Music. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mojo and the New Statesman. In 2014, he coauthored Santana’s autobiography, The Universal Tone.

‘Exterminate All the Brutes’

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‘Essential reading’ Jazz Rag music £9.99 October 2018 B format 198 × 129mm PB 368pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL, AU Agent: Persens Books LLC

Sven Lindqvist

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A GRANTA EDITION A classic work of travelogue and deep historical investigation, which reveals the true horror of Europe’s racist colonial past in Africa.

January

‘This book is important... we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it... it contains a message for our future’ Nicolas Lezard, Guardian

February

sven lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and is the author of several works of non-fiction, including Terra Nullius. non-fiction £10.00 October 2018 B format 198 × 129mm PB w/flaps 192pp Selling Territories: NCR

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September

Portraits Without Frames

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Lev Ozerov Edited by Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk

October

Translated from the Russian by Maria Bloshteyn, Robert Chandler, Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski

A classic work of Russian verse.

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ev Ozerov’s finest book comprises fifty intimate, skilfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive miniencyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic free verse, Ozerov’s portraits are like nothing else in Russian literature.

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lev ozerov (1914–1996), born Lev Goldberg, was a poet and literary critic of Jewish Ukrainian origin, and a prominent name in Soviet literature in his day. He is justly celebrated for his efforts to preserve the creative heritage of poets of his own generation who perished in the years of Stalinist repressions. maria bloshteyn, a scholar of Russian and American literature, is the translator of The Prank: The Best of Young Chekhov. © Anya Ozerova

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boris dralyuk’s most recent translations include Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories. He is the Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.

February

irina mashinski is the co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. She has received several Russian literary awards and, with Boris Dralyuk, First Prize in the 2012 Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Translation Prize competition.

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January

robert chandler’s translations include Soul and The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov, and Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman.

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The Earlie King and the Kid in Yellow PAPERBACK

October

Danny Denton A noir thriller, a lyric romance and a dystopian saga in one fearless novel ‘Absolutely marvellous’ Cillian Murphy

November

‘This book will blow your mind. Written in a hurl of playful poetry and whip-smart prose, Ireland is sinking into flood waters but a reporter is sifting (literally) through a legend to tell the story of city gangster Earlie King, a baby’s disappearance and the elusive Kid in Yellow who once loved King’s daughter. Utterly extraordinary, it’s best you read it. Right now’ Emerald Street

December

‘Denton’s captivating debut novel, which imagines a grim dystopian Ireland that is all too believable [is] highly original... Mashing ancient myth with a miserable future, Denton’s fierce and distinctive debut should set the books world alight’ Irish Times ‘A dystopian baroque, postmodern fairy tale, with gangsters, eternal rain and a contested baby… The world that Denton creates is thrillingly realised’ Financial Times

January

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danny denton is a writer from Cork, Ireland. He is writer-in-residence for Cork County Libraries. This is his first novel.

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Not Working Why We Have to Stop

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Josh Cohen February

An exploration of inactivity – a necessary and creative condition for a life worth living.

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e live in a culture that demonizes idleness. Work and connectivity are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades our quietest moments. The art of doing nothing is disappearing.

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In Not Working, psychoanalyst Josh Cohen explores the paradoxical pleasures of inactivity, and considers four of its faces – the burnout, the slob, the daydreamer and the slacker – along with the lives of four creative figures associated with these forms of idleness: Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, Emily Dickinson and David Foster Wallace. Drawing, too, on his personal experiences and stories from his consulting room, Cohen asks: how might we live a different and more fulfilled existence?

‘Josh Cohen knows a great deal about the forces that drive and sometimes overpower us. In this compelling new book, he explores writers and artists, brings himself and what he has learned from his patients into the mix, to make a passionate argument for the benefits of floating free from the chains of work. Scintillating’ Lisa Appignanesi

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how to read freud PB £6.99 978 186207 763 8

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josh cohen is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.

He is the author of The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013) and How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005).

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Jokes for the Gunmen

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Mazen Maarouf February

Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright

An award-winning blast of literary brilliance from a major new voice in world literature.

‘I ’m the man who can kill people with a joke.’

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old from a child’s pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective, these are stories of life in a war zone, life peppered by surreal mistakes, tragic accidents and painful encounters. In the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel, these tales are of of fantasist matadors, lost limbs and voyeuristic dwarfs – a collection about sex, death and the allimportant skill of making life into a joke.

April

The story ‘Jokes for the Gunmen’ won the inaugural Al-Multaqa prize for best Arabic short story in 2016.

‘A powerful reminder that only through imagination can we make sense of the brute senselessness of reality’ Sjón ‘I really loved this book. It deepens our sense of who we are to each other’ David Hayden, author of Darker With the Lights On

May

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mazen maarouf was born in Beirut in 1978. He is a Palestinian-Icelandic writer, poet, translator and journalist. He has published three books of poetry and two short story collections. He currently lives between Reykjavik and Beirut.

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June

jonathan wright is a British journalist and literary translator.

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January

Census PAPERBACK

Jesse Ball

February

‘Census is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches’ David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas.

‘A strange and wonderful novel which follows a dying man’s cross-country trip as a census taker to find someone to care for his disabled son’ Lithub ‘A detailed and moving portrait of a kind of radical innocence… powerful, unusual [and] impressive’ James Lasdun, Guardian ‘Uniquely memorable and utterly profound’ Financial Times

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jesse ball is the award-winning author of over ten books of prose, poetry, drawings and essays. He lives in Chicago.

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Daphne April

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Will Boast A provocative and surprising modern myth about selfdetermination, emotional baggage and the perpetual fight between love and safety.

‘Sleek and artful… touching’ Literary Review

May

‘Wry and witty, tender and weird... [It] expands beyond easy romance into a political exploration of the necessity of empathy, and the toll empathy can take… at once a fable and a beautifully engaged reflection on love’ Irish Times

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will boast is the author of a short story collection, Power Ballads, which won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and a bestselling memoir, Epilogue (Granta, 2015).

January

Jellyfish PAPERBACK

February

Janice Galloway A powerful short story collection by one of the foremost British writers of her generation.

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n sixteen razor-sharp stories, Janice Galloway takes on David Lodge’s assertion that ‘literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life’s the other way round’. Her multi-layered tales explore not only sex and sexuality, but parenthood, relationships, the connections between generations, death, ambition and loss. Here is visceral and exhilarating writing about the raw and poignant stuff of life, from one of Scotland’s best loved and most acclaimed authors.

‘With this electrifying volume Galloway proves herself a truly powerful writer who deserves to be much better known’ Independent

April

‘Sometimes beautiful, sometimes startling... a gift for the unforeseen and illuminating phrase’ Scotsman ‘Thoughtful, accurate, sorrowful, dark, infinitely tender, angry, memorable’ Herald

May

fiction £8.99 February B format 198 × 129mm PB 240pp Selling Territories: ALL Rights: US, SL Agent: Blake Friedmann 978 1 84708 667 9 (PB) 978 1 84708 669 3 (Ebook)

all made up PB £8.99 978184708 327 2

this is not about me PB £8.99 978 1 84708 099 8

janice galloway is the prize-winning author of three novels, two short story collections, two memoirs, a handful of collaborative books of short fiction and poetry, libretti, poems and one play. Her most recent book, All Made Up (Granta, 2011), won the 2012 Scottish Book of the Year award. She lives and works in Glasgow.

June

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January

Childless Voices Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice

Lorna Gibb

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February

A heartfelt, globe-crossing investigation into an issue that affects millions of people.

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March

rom the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world’s richest people to its powerless and enslaved, Lorna Gibb’s masterful Childless Voices paints a global portrait of people without children. Grouped by thematic commonality – those who long, those who were denied, those who choose – Childless Voices is a testament to the power of listening, and the power of sharing stories. It is an essential, moving and surprising book that gives generously and offers comfort.

Praise for A Ghost’s Story: ‘Compelling… rich and strange’ Sunday Express

April

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‘Gibb deftly weaves fact with fiction so that each page shimmers ectoplasmically with uncertainty’ Mail on Sunday

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‘A playful paean to the mystery and unknowability of the creative imagination’ Independent

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dr lorna gibb is the author of biographies of Rebecca West and Lady Hester Stanhope as well as the author of the novel A Ghost’s Story (Granta, 2015). She is a senior lecturer at Middlesex University.

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When the Rivers Run Dry The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It PAPERBACK

Fred Pearce

February

Why the world is running out of water – and what we can do to stop it.

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e cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly distributed resource, the planet is drying up.

March

Fred Pearce, the environmental consultant to the New Scientist, explores the growing world water crisis, from Kent to Kenya, taking us to places where waterways are turning to sand before they reach the ocean; where fields are parched and crops no longer grow; where wars are fought over access to water. But he offers us hope for the future, if we can radically revolutionize the way we treat water, and take personal responsibility for what we use.

This landmark work is necessary reading for a future on this still-blue planet.

April

‘If ever a book has been written that demands to be read it is this one… a journey through a hugely important and complex subject in the company of a natural storyteller’ Tim Smit, The Eden Project

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fred pearce is the long-standing environmental consultant of New Scientist magazine and a contributor to the Guardian and the New York Times, among many other publications. His research has taken him to 87 countries. He has written 14 books on environmental and development issues, including Fallout (Portobello, 2018).

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‘Accomplished… All too convincing’ Guardian

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January

Fallout A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, from the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste PAPERBACK

Fred Pearce

February

An eye-opening journey through the history and future of nuclear power, by the awardwinning science journalist who broke the true story of the Sellafield disaster.

‘By turns thoughtful and hair-raising, this is a vivid, immediate travelogue of places most people dare not enter’ Walt Patterson, author of Electricity Vs Fire

March

‘An extraordinary and necessary investigation of humanity’s brief but alarming relationship with atomic power… an illuminating tale which raises profound questions about our post-carbon energy future’ Gaia Vince, author of Adventures in the Anthropocene

April

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Asymmetry

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Lisa Halliday

A dazzling, provocative novel of asymmetrical parts, from a rare and extraordinary talent: ‘A literary phenomenon’ NewYorker.

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n New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story which has things to say about all of contemporary life.

‘A sharp examination of the unequal power dynamic between men and women, innocence and experience, fame and aspiration… asks a dizzying number of questions, many to thrilling effect’ Guardian ‘Exceptional… Halliday’s structure shows exquisite control of leitmotif and patterning; each half gradually intensifies in emotion to reach a devastating climax’ Financial Times ‘Scorchingly intelligent’ New York Times ‘Brilliant’ Scotsman fiction £8.99 February B format 198 × 129mm PB 288pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL, AU Agent: Abner Stein 978 1 78378 362 5 (PB) 978 1 78378 361 8 (Ebook)

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lisa halliday lives in Milan with her husband and daughter. She won a Whiting Award for Fiction in 2017.

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‘Elegant, funny, ingenious, profound and wildly enjoyable. I loved, admired and envied this novel. It’s a wonder’ Zadie Smith

‘Mary-Alice,’ he said tenderly, a moment later. ‘I know what you’re up to.’

‘What?’

‘I know what you do when you’re alone.’

‘What?’

‘You’re writing. Aren’t you?’

Alice shrugged. ‘A little.’

‘Do you write about this? About us?’

‘No.’ ‘Is that true?’

Alice shook her head hopelessly. ‘It’s impossible.’

He nodded. ‘Then what do you write about?’

‘Other people. People more interesting than I am.’ She laughed softly, lifting her chin toward the street.

‘Muslim hot dog sellers.’

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January

I Will Never See the World Again ORIGINAL

Ahmet Altan Translated from the Turkish by Yasemin Çongar

February

From the confines of his prison cell in Istanbul, Ahmet Altan, one of Turkey's greatest living novelists, reflects upon hope, despair and the light literature can bring to even the darkest places

March

The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine.

I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago.

I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his.

Like a cursed oracle, I foresaw my future years ago not knowing that it was my own.

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onfined in a cell four metres long, imprisoned on Kafkaesque charges, novelist Ahmet Altan is one of many writers persecuted by Erdoğan’s oppressive regime.

In this extraordinary memoir, Altan reflects upon his sentence and on the joys of language and literature, which can transform even a cage into a place of infinite beauty.

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May

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‘A remarkable memoir by a remarkable writer… it is something special to visit Ahmet Altan in his prison, and to leave with an unexpected feeling of elation, motivated by the sheer, towering greatness of the human spirit’ Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

June

Born in 1950, ahmet altan is a celebrated Turkish novelist. He has been awarded the Grand Prix from the Akademi Publishing House, the prestigious Freedom and Future of the Media Prize from the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig and the International Hrant Dink Award. In September 2016, he was arrested and later sentenced to life imprisonment by the Turkish state.

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January

Hiking with Nietzsche Becoming Who You Are

John Kaag

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February

At the midpoint of his life, a man goes in search of himself in the Swiss Alps, with the help of Friedrich Nietzsche.

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iking with Nietzsche is a tale of two journeys – one made by John Kaag as a teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances as a husband and father – both following the paths Nietzsche took up the Swiss Alps.

March

Entertaining and intimate, Hiking with Nietzsche explores not only Nietzsche’s ideals but how his philosophy relates to us in the 21st century. As Kaag hikes, alone or with his family, but always with Nietzsche, he finds that even slipping can be instructive. It is in the process of climbing and the inevitable missteps that one has the chance, in Nietzsche’s words, to ‘become who you are’.

April

Praise for American Philosophy: ‘Accurate, engaging and scrupulous… and genuinely entertaining’ Mark Greif, New York Times ‘The most enthralling book of intellectual history I’ve read since Wittgenstein’s Poker’ Heller McAlpin, NPR

john kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications.

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Sam Lipsyte

February

A laugh-out-loud, razor-sharp riot of a novel from the author of the bestselling The Ask.

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n an America convulsed by political upheaval, cultural discord, and spiritual confusion, many folks are searching for peace, salvation, and – perhaps most immediately – just a little damn focus.

March

Enter Hark Morner, an unwitting guru whose ‘Mental Archery’ – a combination of mindfulness, mythology, yoga and, well, archery – is set to raise him to near-messiah status.

But fame is a dangerous thing. As Hark’s message captivates the masses, he becomes a target for sinister factions and powerful fringe players, including a bow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars, a social media tycoon with a declining empire and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish.

April

‘Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical… a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all’ Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout ‘Madcap and full of love, laughter and unexpected beauty’ Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

May

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the fun parts PB £8.99 978 1 8470 8805 5

© Ceridwen Morris

June

Widely regarded as one of America’s greatest satirists, sam lipsyte is the author of The Ask, a New York Times bestseller, The Fun Parts (Granta, 2013), The Subject Steve, Home Land and Venus Drive. He teaches at Columbia University in New York.

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January

Mama’s Last Hug Animal and Human Emotions

Frans de Waal

ORIGINAL

February

A groundbreaking exploration of the emotions of animals and humans, from the author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

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March

ama’s Last Hug opens with the moving farewell between Mama, a dying chimpanzee matriarch, and her human friend, a professor who inspired the author’s work. So begins Frans de Waal’s whirlwind tour of new ideas about animal emotions – which he distinguishes from feelings – based on his renowned studies of the social and emotional lives of primates.

April

De Waal explores facial expressions, animal sentience and consciousness, the emotional side of human politics, and the illusion of free will.

Emphasizing the continuity between our own and other species, he makes the radical proposal that emotions are like organs: we haven’t a single organ that other animals don’t have, and the same is true for our emotions.

Praise for Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?: ‘An important corrective to human exceptionalism… fascinating’ Sunday Times ‘If you are at all interested in what it is to be an animal… you should read this book’ Guardian ‘Fascinating... eye-opening’ Daily Mail

© Catherine Marin

our inner ape PB £9.99 978 1 86207 882 6

June

frans de waal is the author of the New York Times bestseller Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (Granta, 2016). Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, he is the C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

PB £9.99 978 1 78378 306 9

May

popular science £14.99 March Demy 216 × 135mm HB b/w integrated images 272pp TBC Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL, AU Agent: Hodgman Literary 978 1 78378 410 3 (HB) 978 1 78378 412 7 (Ebook)

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January

Elisabeth’s Lists A Family History PAPERBACK

Lulah Ellender NEW COVER TO BE

A vivid and moving portrait of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an inherited book of handwritten lists.

February

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‘Tender… A moving, evocative read’ Sunday Express

‘A hauntingly beautiful meditation on life and death’ Guardian

March

‘Go to your “books to read” list and place Elisabeth’s Lists right at the top. It is charming without ever being whimsical and a vital voice as Elisabeth asserts her right to be more than simply an ambassador’s or a diplomat’s wife. A valuable historical record’ Damian Barr

April

‘A story of vulnerability, resilience and love, quietly and beautifully told… Ellender researches, uncovers, interprets, comments and responds to the life of her grandmother with uninhibited insight… poignant and original… As she perseveres with a story that travels between past, present and future, it is Ellender’s own courage at confronting and living through these painful truths that makes her book so powerful and enriching’ Juliet Nicolson, Spectator

May

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‘Fascinating as well as moving… The lists are a riveting piece of social history in their own right…

This book, as well as being a mediation on the solace of list-keeping, is also a meditation on the good and very bad things that run in families’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Daily Mail

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© Sarah Weal

June

lulah ellender’s writing has appeared in the Guardian, YOU magazine, Easy Living and Green Parent, among other publications. She lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with her family.

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January

White Houses PAPERBACK

Amy Bloom NEW COVER TO BE

Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers

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February

‘Irresistibly readable, fascinating… a remarkably intimate and yet informative novel’ Joyce Carol Oates

March

‘Bloom gives us the grace and dignity of cleareyed, enduring, imperfect love… If White Houses isn’t an example of the great American novel then frankly, I don’t know what is’ Financial Times ‘Bloom’s lyrical novel, laced with her characteristic wit and wisdom, celebrates love’ New York Times

‘A tender, heart-warming exploration of a hidden but profound love’ Irish Times ‘What a novel…A joy to read’ Roddy Doyle

April

‘White Houses demonstrates that real people are far more fascinating than icons. But in the hands of a master storyteller, the combination is dazzling’ Lionel Shriver ‘A refreshingly open tale of love in later life’ TLS

© Elena Seibert

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lucky us PB £7.99 978 1 84708 939 7

June

amy bloom is the highly acclaimed author of three collections of short stories, a collection of essays and three novels. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.

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away PB £7.99 978 1 84708 013 4

May

fiction £8.99 March 2019 (UK) November 2018 (Export) B format 198 × 129mm PB 224pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: WME 978 1 78378 174 4 (PB) 978 1 78378 173 7 (Ebook)

Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata

PAPERBACK

Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori

The surprise smash hit of the summer – Japan’s answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

NEW COVER TO BE REVEALED

Meet Keiko.

Keiko is 36 years old. She’s never had a boyfriend, and she’s been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years.

Keiko’s family wishes she’d get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won’t get married.

But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she’s not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store…

‘Exhilaratingly weird and funny... Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined’ Sally Rooney, Guardian ‘Best Books of the Summer’ ‘I couldn't put it down… Haunting, dark, and often hilarious’ Elif Batuman, author, The Idiot ‘A sure-fire hit of the summer... quirky [and] profound’ Irish Times ‘Poignant, darkly comic and wonderfully uplifting’ Herald fiction £8.99 March B format 198 × 129mm PB 176pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL, AU Agent: Grove Atlantic, Inc.

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sayaka murata is one of the most celebrated of the new generation of Japanese writers. She works part-time in a convenience store.

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ginny tapley takemori is an award-winning translator.

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‘Absurd, comical, cute... audacious, and precise’ Hiromi Kawakami, author of Strange Weather in Tokyo

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he time before I was a reborn as a convenience store worker is somewhat unclear in my memory. I was born into a normal family and lovingly brought up in a normal suburban residential area. But everyone thought I was a rather strange child.

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January

The Last Children of Tokyo Yoko Tawada

PAPERBACK

Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani February

In a near future where the old live almost for ever and the rest die young, an elderly man fights to keep his beloved greatgrandson alive.

‘Unsettling and enchanting… Tawada writes beautifully’ Sara Baume, author of A Line Made by Walking

March

‘A mini-epic of eco-terror, family drama and speculative fiction... a book unlike any other’ Guardian ‘An open-hearted fable... Tawada’s uberisolationist neo-Japan is much less cute than Wes Anderson’s. It’s also much, much funnier’ Financial Times

April

‘The Last Children of Tokyo has a recessive, lunar beauty... Arresting, with a flickering brilliance’ New York Times

May

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June

© Thomas Karston

memoirs of a polar bear PB £8.99 978 1 84627 632 3

yoko tawada has been awarded the most prestigious literary prizes in Germany and Japan, including the Goethe Medal. She is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear (Portobello, 2017).

previously published: June 2018 B format 198 × 129mm Flapped BPB £9.99 978 1 84627 670 5

margaret mitsutani has translated work by authors including Kenzaburo Oe, Mitsuyo Kakuta and Kyoko Hayashi.

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January

Choked The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future ORIGINAL

Beth Gardiner

February

The landmark book on air pollution: the biggest threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us.

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very year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, premature birth and dementia, among other ailments.

March April

In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution’s effects on the human body, and to trace the economic forces and political decisions that have allowed it to remain at lifethreatening levels. But she also focuses on realworld solutions, and on inspiring stories of people fighting for a healthier future. Choked is a vital contribution on one of the most important – but too often ignored – issues of our time.

beth gardiner’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic and the Wall Street Journal, and she is a former longtime Associated Press reporter. She has appeared on the BBC, Sky News, ITV and LBC talk radio. Both the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists supported Gardiner’s work on Choked.

978 1 84627 645 3 (HB) 978 1 84627 646 0 (Ebook)

May

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© Tina Mass

June

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Island Song ORIGINAL

Madeleine Bunting A spellbinding novel of love, families and hidden WWII secrets on the island of Guernsey.

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n 1940, Helene, young, naive and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her home, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation. Forty years later, her daughter Roz begins a search for the truth about her father, and stumbles into the secret history of her mother’s life.

Written with emotional acuity and passionate intensity, Island Song speaks of the moral complexities of war-time allegiances and the messy reality of human relationships in a tightly knit community. As Roz discovers, truth is hard to pin down, and so are the rights and wrongs of those struggling to survive in the most difficult of circumstances.

Praise for Love of Country: ‘[Bunting’s] crisp and luminous prose is the ideal medium to capture the ambiguities and dichotomies of the landscape… splendid, precise and gracious’ Scotland on Sunday

© Simon Robey

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love of country PB £9.99 ISBN 978 1 84708 518 4

‘Moving and wonderful… readable and full of empathy’ Guardian

the plot PB £9.99 ISBN 978 1 84708 144 5

madeleine bunting is the author of several works of non-fiction, including Love of Country (Granta, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize, and the acclaimed history The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940–45. Island Song is her first novel.

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or several hours after the bombing, Helene had not been able to get word home that she was safe. In Torteval, on the other side of the island, her father and old nanny had listened in horror to the bombing raid on St Peter Port.

Thirty-three had been killed.

Helene repeatedly saw in her mind the images of blood spreading over the granite cobbles.

One body lying beside a bombed lorry had been twisted at an awkward angle. Scattered around him were carnations, their buds still tightly closed.

Even worse was the memory of the boy playing in the waves. What kind of men were these Germans, who could strafe a child playing on a beach? It wasn’t only the bombing which had swallowed her words. She was choking on the disturbing feeling that the world was unsteady – that nothing was holding, and that the fragments seemed to presage the horror to come. Nanna stroked her hair as if she were a little girl again.

© Harald Biebel

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January

My Enemy’s Cherry Tree

ORIGINAL

Wang Ting-Kuo

February

Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun

Haruki Murakami meets Indecent Proposal in this novel of love, money and betrayal.

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ow long would you wait for her to come back?

March

A man who has come from nothing finds himself a dream wife. When she vanishes without a trace, he sets up a small cafe in her favourite spot on the edge of the South China Sea, hoping she’ll return.

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wang ting-kuo vanished from Taipei’s literary scene when his wealthy father-in-law gave him an ultimatum: give up writing or give up my daughter. My Enemy’s Cherry Tree, his first novel after more than two decades of silence, received all three of Taiwan’s major literary prizes and was hailed as the return of a master storyteller. howard goldblatt and sylvia li-chun have translated over a dozen novels, including those by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan.

June

May

April

Instead, he is confronted by the man he suspects may be responsible for everything he has suffered: Luo Yiming, a prominent businessman and philanthropist who holds the small town in his sway.

In the few moments the two men spend together, their troubled history will drive one of them mad...

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January

Natural Causes PAPERBACK

Barbara Ehrenreich

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March

‘Anarchic, funny and fizzling with the joy of living’ Sunday Herald

‘The wit and fighting spirit of this book will delight Ehrenreich's many admirers’ Sunday Times

‘Informative, provocative and entertaining’ The Times

February

NEW COVER TO BE

The seminal thinker and iconoclast offers a new understanding of our bodies and our selves, and our powerlessness in controlling either.

‘Joyous… [Ehrenreich] has a surgically precise way with words... A much-needed tonic’ Observer

April

‘Ehrenreich’s capacity to consider the complexities, contradictions and paradoxes inherent in the human condition is significant and humbling… Natural Causes [is] a fine contribution to the essential civilising dialogue concerning what it means to be human’ Irish Times

© Peter Azbug

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June

barbara ehrenreich is the author of fifteen books.

She has written for Time, Harper’s, the New York Times magazine and various British newspapers including The Times and the Guardian.

previously published: April 2018 Demy 216 × 135mm HB £16.99 978 1 78378 241 3

May

fiction £9.99 April B format 198 × 128mm PB 256pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: Curtis Brown 978 1 78378 242 0 (PB) 978 1 78378 243 7 (Ebook)

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Painter to the King PAPERBACK

Amy Sackville A novel of sheer imaginative brilliance and style, about the painter Velázquez and his royal subject and benefactor, King Philip IV of Spain.

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his is a portrait of Diego Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of Spain to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is the portrait of a relationship that is not quite friendship, between an artist and his subject, King Philip IV. It is a portrait of a ruler, burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess.

‘The finest novel of its kind that I have ever read…

For her skill and daring, her grasp of both subject and form, and her masterly chiaroscuro of human failure and endeavour, she is as distinct among her peers as Velázquez was among his’ Sarah Perry, Guardian ‘Through Velázquez’s eyes, we are shown the splendours and the miseries of Philip’s life and court… Sackville’s prose summons up the Spanish past in rich and appropriately visual detail’ Sunday Times

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‘Sackville writes beautifully…Her summoning of time and place is exquisitely done’ Spectator

the still point PB £7.99 978 1 84627 230 1

‘Superb’ The Times

orkney PB £8.99 978 1 84708 665 5

previously published: April 2018 Demy 216 × 135mm HB £14.99 978 1 78378 390 8

amy sackville is the author of The Still Point, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Orkney, which won a 2014 Somerset Maugham Award.

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he painter is, at once, embedded and removed, in his new black suit, paid for on credit; standing apart at the distance of a long-handled brush. The Sevillian, they call him, and he makes no effort to drop his accent; the son of a merchant with the name of an aristocrat; a palace official, discreet, obedient, with access to any secret that can be observed by a keen observer of fingers and faces, of mouths and their corners, of eyes and where and how and on what they focus, of solid objects and the hands that hold them.

He paints for private rooms, for private posterity, small commissions, without statecraft or symbols.

His colleagues in their dark garb, sneering— Another portrait! The man can only paint faces. That’s all there is to him—likenesses—portraits and peasants. How little this artist’s intellect comes between the canvas and the world. He does not invent, he transcribes. He observes.

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January

The Cow Book PAPERBACK

February

John Connell INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

An intimate account of a year on an Irish farm, and a keyhole history of man’s relationship with the cow.

March

‘A book of beauty, warmth and empathy that is a memorable guide not only to life on a small Irish farm, but also on how to live life itself’ RTÉ Guide ‘The strength and originality of this book lies in Connell’s searingly honest account of rebuilding his life… a brooding, powerful memoir’ Guardian ‘Vivid and sharply observed… a fascinating portrait’ Colm Tóibín

April

‘I usually view rural Ireland from a train or car window but reading this gripping, fascinating book I felt I was becoming a cattle farmer’ Roddy Doyle ‘An honest, vivid reckoning of what it’s like to simultaneously belong and not belong… a meditation on the real meaning of home and place’ Irish Times

May

non-fiction £9.99 April B format 198 × 129mm PB 256pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent: WME

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john connell is an award-winning journalist, writer and farmer. His work has been published in Granta magazine’s New Irish Writing issue. He lives on his family farm, Birchview, in County Longford.

June

© Eamonn Doyle

978 1 78378 418 9 (PB) 978 1 78378 419 6 (Ebook)

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January

The Recovering Intoxication and its Aftermath PAPERBACK

Leslie Jamison A magisterial account of addiction, recovery and creative lives.

February

‘Jamison has written an honest and important book, vivid writing and required reading’ Stephen King ‘Painstakingly and honestly delineated, with flashes of humour and wry wit that leaven the sense of waste... a brave, honest and surprisingly generous account of intoxication and its consequences’ John Burnside, Literary Review

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fiction £8.99 May B format 198 × 129mm PB 208pp Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL Agent:Wylie Agency 978 1 78378 221 5 (PB)

978 1 78378 376 2 (Ebook)

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March

leslie jamison is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Empathy Exams, as well as a novel, The Gin Closet.

She directs the graduate non-fiction program at Columbia University.

the empathy exams PB £8.99 978 1 84708 842 0

Certain American States April

PAPERBACK

Catherine Lacey Twelve stories – each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart – from one of Granta magazine’s Best of Young American Novelists.

Praise for Catherine Lacey:

May

‘Incantatory, cool, startlingly observant’ ‘Best Books of the Year’, New Yorker on Nobody is Ever Missing ‘Sharp and funny... beautifully sad’ Financial Times ‘Lacey has a poet’s eye, and pays minute attention to every sentence, every word’ Irish Times nobody is ever missing PB £7.99 978 1 78378 089 1

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the answers PB £8.99 978 1 78378 218 5

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June

catherine lacey is the author of The Answers and Nobody Is Ever Missing. Her books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German.

January

Dark Blue A Detective’s Fight Against the Police Force

Kevin Maxwell

ORIGINAL

February

An explosive insider’s account of racism, homophobia and wrongdoing in today’s police force, and his fight for change.

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evin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force – a young man with a long-held desire to serve his community and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing.

March

But, being both black and gay, he found himself coming up against entrenched prejudice, open racism and homophobia. After years of keeping his head down, he finally began to speak out, little realising the consequences.

memoir £14.99 May Royal 234 × 153mm TPB 304pp TBC Selling Territories: ALL Rights: SL, US, TN, AU

Agent: Rogers, Coleridge and White 978 1 84627 680 4 (TPB) 978 1 84627 682 8 (Ebook)

May

April

Dark Blue paints a sobering portrait of an institution whose prejudice is informing the cases they chose to investigate and the way they investigate them.

But it is also a message of hope, encouraging belief in a better, fairer future.

June

kevin maxwell served as a detective in both the Greater Manchester and London’s Metropolitan Police forces. He now writes and advocates for social justice and equality. He has written for newspapers and magazines including the Independent and the Guardian, and has appeared on television and radio for the BBC and Sky News.

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January

West PAPERBACK

Carys Davies

February

The highly acclaimed and exquisite debut novel of wonder and loss on the American Frontier.

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n the American frontier in the early 1800s, a widower sets off in search of ancient giant creatures, leaving his daughter

behind.

March

‘The best book I’ve read this year – Carys Davies’s miraculous little debut novel, a tale of a man wandering the 19th-century American wilds… so crisply and concisely written, and so warm and human in its economy, that it shames the behemoths sitting beside it on the nation’s bookshop shelves’ Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times ‘The scope and resonance of an epic…a bravura performance’ Daily Mail

April

‘Not a word is wasted; the canvas is as wide as her brush is fine’ Guardian ‘A haunting, beautifully weighted tale’ Evening Standard ‘Exquisite…Tense, captivating and whittled to perfection’ Metro

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May

fiction £8.99 April B format 198 × 129mm PB 160pp Selling Territories: NCR, NANZ Rights: SL Agent: United Agents

© Jonathan Bean

June

carys davies is a Welsh short story writer and novelist and the winner of the 2015 Frank O’Connor Award.

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January

The Heavens ORIGINAL

Sandra Newman The year’s most mind-expanding love story.

February

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ew York, 2000. Kate and Ben meet at a party and fall instantly, irrevocably in love. Around them, the city glows. It is the first year without a war anywhere. A woman is president, and an air of camaraderie permeates the streets of Manhattan. Kate falls asleep, knowing she is loved.

March

London, 1593. Kate wakes as Emilia – the mistress of a nobleman – and finds the plague at her door.

Afflicted by premonitions of a burnt and lifeless city, she sets out to save the world. Each decision she makes will change her life with Ben for ever.

Praise for Sandra Newman:

April

‘I can’t remember when I last read something so original or sophisticated or emotionally engaging or so breathtakingly ambitious… An astonishing achievement’ Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life ‘Extraordinary ... As the momentum builds ... raw, addictive lyricism develops’ Guardian ‘Haunting and heartbreaking... Epic’ Vanity Fair

May

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sandra newman’s previous novel, The Country of Ice Cream Star, was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of a memoir, The Changeling, and the novels Cake and The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.

June

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‘What a wonderful, strange, terrifying, brilliant novel this is’ Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire

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hey were silent for a minute. Ben was wondering what the parameters of no sex were. He was thinking about the Butterfly Effect in the case of falling for people; the small differences between one girl and another creating a cascade of results that changed your life. He looked at the grasses and decided he shouldn’t tell Kate this.

Then Kate said, sounding nervous for the first time, ‘Do you remember your dreams?

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January

Rules for Visiting Jessica Francis Kane

ORIGINAL

February

From the acclaimed author of The Report, a smart, funny novel about friendship, trees and the art of being a good house guest.

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ay is at a crossroads. Although her career as a gardener for the university is flourishing, the rest of her life has narrowed to a fixed routine. Her father is elderly, her brother estranged, and she keeps her neighbours at arm’s length. The missing element, she realises, might be friendship. As May sets off on a journey to visit four neglected friends one by one, she holds herself (and them) to humorously high standards, while at home she begins to confront the pain of her past and imagine for herself a different kind of future. May’s quest becomes an exploration of the power, and perhaps limits, of modern friendship.

April

‘An elegant and deeply moving meditation on friendship, family, and life on earth. Rules for Visiting is a wonderful novel’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ‘An engaging and compassionate portrait’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe

May

fiction £12.99 June Demy 216 × 135mm TPB Selling Territories: NCR Rights: SL, AU Agent: Janklow and Nesbit 978 1 78378 464 6 (TPB) 978 1 78378 466 0 (Ebook)

the report PB £7.99 978 1 84627 280 6

© L&M Brockett

June

jessica francis kane’s first novel, The Report, was chosen as one of the Best Reads of 2012 for the Channel 4 TV Book Club. She is also the author of two story collections, Bending Heaven and This Close. She lives in New York City with her family.

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January

The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino

ORIGINAL

Hiromi Kawakami Translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell February

From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop, an irresistible new novel about an elusive ladies’ man and the women who have loved him.

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March

ho loves Mr Nishino? Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino’s true love.

Bereaved Shiori is tempted by his unscrupulous advances. His colleague Manami should know better. His conquest Reiko treasures her independence above all else. Friends Tama and Subaru find themselves playing Nishino’s game, but Eriko loves her cat more. Sayuri is older, Aichan is much younger, and Misono has her own conquests to make. For each of them, an encounter with elusive Mr Nishino will bring torments, desires and delights.

Praise for Hiromi Kawakami:

April

‘Enchanting, moving, and funny in equal measure’ Stylist ‘Ever-readable, ebulliently imaginative’ Monocle ‘Delicate and haunting’ Independent

hiromi kawakami is one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists. Strange Weather in Tokyo won the Tanizaki Prize in 2001 and was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

978 1 84627 697 2 (TPB) 978 1 84627 702 3 (Ebook)

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May

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The Forgotten Histories of the Thames Estuary ORIGINAL

Caroline Crampton From a writer who grew up on the estuary, a fresh take on the Thames, from source to sea.

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ver the centuries, the Thames estuary has played a vital role in Britain’s industrial, military and commercial development, yet today it is valued so little that half-rotten boats are left to sink into its mud.

Born on its banks, Caroline Crampton, an avid sailor, navigates the waters of the estuary from its source in a small village in Gloucestershire to the North Sea. Along the way she seeks out its stories, from the archaeological Anglo-Saxon treasures of its riverbanks to the vast Victorian pumping stations that carry the capital’s waste. Digging into the histories of its empty warehouses and shipwrecks still inhabited by the ghosts of the drowned, she reminds us of the estuary’s significance – and of its enduring appeal.

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his river, unlike most other British waterways, has a peculiarly timeless sensibility; a particular way of sliding memories and stories together, so that they overlay each other in a palimpsest of experiences within the landscape. It has a historical and literary character all of its own, distinct from the country through which it flows. The Thames can be at once T.S. Eliot’s strong brown god, William Blake’s visionary waters of Sion, the sweetly medieval Tamesis of Hilaire Belloc’s imagination – and also the watery backdrop to a thousand tourists’ selfies.

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Days of Awe

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‘This prose has teeth. You cannot shake a Homes story off your mind’ Zadie Smith ‘These defiantly comic stories are like postcards from contemporary America’ Mail on Sunday ‘A complex, unsettling writer of real power’ Sunday Times

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‘Breathtakingly accurate satire and laser-cut portraits of American life from a seriously heavyweight author whose snapshots remain etched on the retinas’ Evening Standard

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Four Soldiers

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919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting for the inevitable resumption of the violence.

April

‘Oblique in his facts, spare in his prose, understated and delicate in his emotions, Mingarelli has once again delivered fiction of the highest order… Four Soldiers resonates like a bell in a winter forest. It is a beautifully sustained work of art’ Caroline Brothers, author of The Memory Stones

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sam taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist.

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Ghost Wall

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A masterclass in the art of the short, unnerving novel, from one of Britain’s best novelists.

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eenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life. Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax. Ghost Wall is the most powerful novel yet by one of Britain’s most intelligent and acclaimed writers.

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‘I love this book. Ghost Wall requires you to put your life on hold while you finish it. It draws you into its unusual world and, with quiet power and menace, keeps you there until the very last page.

Silvie’s story isn’t one you will ever forget' Maggie O’Farrell

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n 1979, Bill Buford, a student at Cambridge University, noticed that ‘some of the most challenging, diversified, and adventurous writing’ remained largely unread in Britain: contemporary American fiction. To address this cultural gap, he relaunched the university’s 1889 student periodical into the international literary quarterly it is now. Forty years later, Granta magazine publishes many of the world’s finest writers and photographers as they tackle some of the most important subjects. From Nobel laureates to debut novelists – from travel writing to translated fiction, investigative journalism and memoir – each themed issue of Granta reminds us of the power and urgency of the story.

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