Granta Books Catalogue July to December 2022

July –December 2022

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Contents

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Scattered All Over the Earth 3 Life Ceremony 4 The Night Interns 6 Acting Class 7 The Unfolding 8 Wild Maps 10 Endless Flight 12 The Curtain and the Wall 14 Mr B. 15 Our Share of Night 16 Your Wish Is My Command 18 Heritage Aesthetics 19

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Granta Magazine

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Paperbacks

Orwell’s Roses 22 The Faraway Nearby 23 Wanderlust 23 Paul 24 Fried Eggs and Rioja 25 Job 26 The Emperor’s Tomb 27 What I Saw 27

Mozart in Motion 28 The Real Odessa 28 Slime 29 And When Did You Last See Your Father?

30 Granta Editions 31 Season at a glance 32 Bestsellers 34 Get in touch 38 Sales contacts 39

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Scattered All Over the Earth Yoko Tawada

Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as ‘the land of sushi’. Hiruko, a former citizen and climate refugee, has a job teaching immigrant children with her invented language, Panska (Pan-Scandinavian).

Along with the friends she makes on her travels, Hiruko searches her new homeland, determined to find another person who can still speak her mother tongue.

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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.

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Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

yoko tawada is the author of Memoirs of a Polar Bear and The Last Children of Tokyo, which won the National Book Award in 2018 published under the title The Emissary. margaret mitsutani

is a translator of the Nobel laureate Kenzaburō Ōe.

Praise for Yoko Tawada:

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THE LAST CHILDREN OF TOKYO 978 1 84627 670 5 MEMOIRS OF A POLAR BEAR 978 1 84627 632 3

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‘Tawada writes beautifully about unbearable things’ Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither

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nd whenever somebody died, instead of a funeral it became customary to hold a type of ritual called a life ceremony. Some people still held an old-fashioned wake and funeral, but financial subsidies were available for life ceremonies, so the vast majority opted for this considerably cheaper alternative.

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Guests at a life ceremony would eat the deceased’s body, and also seek an insemination partner among the other guests.

FICTION £12.99 July Demy 216 × 135mm TPB 272pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 737 1

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Life Ceremony Sayaka Murata

Translated from the Japanese

by Ginny Tapley Takemori

From a young girl who finds herself deeply enamoured with the curtain in her childhood bedroom to a country whose inhabitants honour their dead by eating them and then procreating, from old ladies who love each other to young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony mixes taboobreaking body horror with feminist revenge fables.

Exclusive to this edition is ‘A Clean Marriage’, Murata’s breakthrough story.

Praise for Sayaka Murata:

© Bungeishunju Ltd.

From the author of the international bestseller Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a collection of twisted, mind-blowing short fiction – like nothing you’ve ever read before.

is the author of Convenience Store Woman, which has sold more than two million copies, and Earthlings.

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ginny tapley takemori has translated Ryu Murakami and Kyoko Nakajima, among other writers.

EARTHLINGS BPB £8.99 978 1 78378 569 8

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN BPB £8.99 978 1 84627 684 2

‘Exhilarating, weird and funny’ Sally Rooney ‘Shocking, hilarious and hugely, darkly entertaining … Unforgettable, original’ Financial Times 55

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The Night Interns © Theo Duffy

Austin Duffy

is the author of Ten Days and This Living and Immortal Thing, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and runner-up for the McKitterick Prize.

He is a practicing oncologist.

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Three surgical interns face the drama, beauty and danger of death in this immersive and provocative novel by the critically acclaimed Irish novelist.

Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the night shift patrol the nocturnal world of the hospital, doing what they can to keep the patients alive. Moving, shocking and darkly funny, Duffy’s new novel fizzes with nervous energy and moral tension as it depicts the dysfunctional hierarchies of the hospital workplace and the bodily reality of the patients facing life and death on the frontline.

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TEN DAYS 978 1 78378 631 2 THIS LIVING AND IMMORTAL THING 978 1 78378 168 3

‘Austin Duffy’s uniquely dry, laconic style adds a subversive and compelling charge to this moving and intense story… A terrific novel’ William Boyd ‘Duffy displays enormous skill and subtlety…

A quietly wonderful novel’ Sunday Times FICTION £12.99 August Demy 216 × 135mm flapped TPB 208pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 833 0

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Acting Class Nick Drnaso A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker Prize-longlisted graphic novel Sabrina.

From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together in an acting class under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable leader. The social misfits and restless searchers in the group have one thing in common: they are out of step with their surroundings and desperate for change.

nick drnaso was born in 1989. He is the author of Sabrina, the first graphic novel to be nominated for the Booker Prize.

He lives in Chicago with his wife and their two cats.

Praise for Sabrina:

‘The best book – in any medium – I have read about our current moment. It is a masterpiece’ Zadie Smith ‘A profoundly American nightmare. It’s a shattering work of art’ New York Times

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xtra-ordinary circumstances. There is a moment when you have to be ready to take action,’ the Big Guy says. ‘This is the kind of story you tell your children; it’s about the night you woke up, realized that things were not what they seemed and you did something about it.’

‘What are we going to do?’ the man asks.

‘Something big,’ the Big Guy says.

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The Unfolding A.M. Homes

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of likeminded men to reclaim their version of America.

As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions.

Dark, funny and prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today’s divided world.

Praise for A.M. Homes:

‘Homes is devastating satirist… wickedly sharp’ Financial Times ‘One of the most acclaimed American writers of her generation’ Richard Grant, Telegraph Magazine

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The dazzling new state-of-the nation novel from the Women’s Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven: an alternative prequel to our contemporary political moment and a revealing family portrait. a . m . homes

is the author of 13 books, among them May We Be Forgiven, which won the Women’s Prize in 2013, and This Book Will Save Your Life, a Richard and Judy pick.

MAY WE BE FORGIVEN BPB £8.99 WEST 978 1 84708 978 323 14 78378 423 3

DAYS OF AWE BPB £9.99 978 1 84708 326 5

THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE BPB £8.99 978 1 86207 933 5

THE END OF ALICE Flapped BPB £10.00 978 1 78378 716 6 99

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Wild Maps

A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds Illustrated by Manuel Bortoletti Consultant: Ian Wright

From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a colourful cartographic journey through our planet’s weirdest and most wonderful phenomena.

Which nations have launched which animals into space?

Which countries have no sea views?

Where have creatures become extinct in the 21st century?

Who is behind the great avocado boom?

Where can you hug the world’s oldest trees?

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mike higgins is a freelance editor and writer. manuel bortoletti is an award-winning freelance graphic designer. ian wright is the founder of www. brilliantmaps.com

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With infographic maps covering the entire globe, Wild Maps will delight lovers of maps and lovers of nature, as well as anyone with an interest in all that is fascinating and awe-inspiring in the world around us. Beautifully designed and illustrated, Wild Maps is an eye-opening celebration of our planet and the plants and animals with whom we share it.

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he lowest of all Jews, looked down upon by everyone – including by himself as he scaled the social strata of the central and western European capitals, developing a split identity that straddled de haut en bas snobbery and self-disgust. It was an image that would gnaw at Roth throughout his life, even as literary acclaim placed him in renown. He would, dichotomous as ever, evoke his homeland in terms of shame and pride: he internalised his hosts’ contempt for the East, rarely returning in person and obscuring his origins there, but wrote nostalgically of the place and its people in his fiction, more so the longer he stayed away.

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BIOGRAPHY £25.00 October Royal 234 × 153mm HB 496pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 509 4

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Endless Flight The Life of Joseph Roth

The first English-language biography of the great European novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, a writer who captured life in Europe between the wars like no other.

Joseph Roth, author of the European 20thcentury masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his times. Born and raised on the eastern edge of the AustroHungarian Empire, his life’s decline mirrored the collapse of civilised Europe. With rigour and sensitivity, Keiron Pim delivers a visceral portrait of Roth’s restlessness and search for belonging in this definitive English-language biography.

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Keiron Pim

keiron pim is the author of the critically acclaimed and prize-winning Jumpin’ Jack Flash: David Litvinoff and the Rock’n’Roll Underworld. He has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator.

Praise for Jumpin’ Jack Flash:

‘Definitive… A considerable work of detection and human sympathy unpicking old myths and making them new’ Iain Sinclair ‘Vivid, engrossing… Compassionate and humane… [Pim’s] prose is always careful and stylish’ Guardian 13 13

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The Curtain and the Wall © Sam James

A Journey in the Shadow of the Cold War

timothy phillips

is the author of The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age and Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1. He grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives in London.

Timothy Phillips From the Arctic Circle to the Turkish border, a landmark journey along the old Iron Curtain, tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy.

For decades, the Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, and the Berlin Wall was its most tangible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ended, Europe has transformed itself. But the Curtain and the Wall cast a long shadow. In this major new book, Phillips transports the reader across 5,000 kilometres of Europe and through eight decades, to show how one of the defining stories of the 20th century continues to shape our world today.

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THE SECRET TWENTIES 978 1 84708 328 9 BESLAN 978 1 86207 993 9

‘[Phillips] is an accomplished raconteur who tells his tales with a brisk pace [and] a sharp eye for detail... a rattling good read’ Literary Review HISTORY / TRAVEL £20.00 October Royal 234 × 153mm HB 384pp All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 576 6

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Mr B.

George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century

From the author of Apollo’s Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modern‑ ised ballet, set against the tragic and vibrant backdrop of the century that shaped him.

George Balanchine did for dance what Picasso did for painting: he changed the art and the way we see the human form. In this magisterial portrait, Homans follows ‘Mr B.’ from his childhood in Tsarist Russia through revolution, two world wars and the Cold War to his death in New York City in 1983. It is a story of love and exile; of vast talent, uncompromising conviction and the boundless energy it took to reimagine dance.

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Jennifer Homans

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is a historian and former professional dancer. Her first book, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Praise for Apollo’s Angels:

‘Homans writes with translucent beauty and authority’ Observer

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‘A tremendous book, crucially written by a former dancer... Always extending its thinking outwards’ Sunday Times APOLLO’S ANGELS 978 1 84708 256 5

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e repeated the words, caressed the lock of hair, made the summons in the virulent language that must be used for the ritual of ashes. And, with his eyes closed, he saw rooms and empty corners, quenched fires, abandoned clothes, dry rivers. But he went on wandering until finally he returned to the hotel bathroom, to the silence and his son’s distant breathing, and then he summoned again. Not a touch, not a tremor, not a feint, not even a treacherous shadow. She wasn’t coming.

FICTION £18.99 / £14.99 November Royal 234 × 153mm HB / Export TPB 488pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 673 2 (HB) 978 1 78378 935 1 (Export TPB)

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Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez

Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Six-year-old Gaspar and his father Juan are on the run. Gaspar’s mother is dead, and Juan fears his son faces a terrible inheritance: the strange powers that have allowed Juan to commune with demons and ghosts. It is these powers that the Order, a ruthless cult, has spent centuries exploiting, convinced that it will help them achieve immortality.

Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s military junta, Our Share of Night is a haunting book about the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

Praise for The Dangers of Smoking in Bed:

‘The beautiful, horrible world of Enriquez [is] the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time’ Kazuo Ishiguro, Observer, Best Books of the Year

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A thrilling, epic novel that follows the horrors and heartbreaks of one family’s devastating entanglement with a demonic cult, from an International Booker Prize-shortlisted author.

mariana enriquez is the award-winning author of Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

is the award-winning translator of Samanta Schweblin and Alejandro Zambra, among other writers.

megan mcdowell

THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED BPB £8.99 978 1 78378 821 7

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE BPB £8.99 978 1 84627 636 1

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Your Wish Is My Command Deena Mohamed

Translated from the Arabic by the author

deena mohamed

Set in an alternate Cairo, a city of immense inequality where wishes can be bought and sold, Your Wish Is My Command follows three characters whose lives are changed when they come into possession of a rare and coveted firstclass wish: Aziza, who has recently lost the love of her life; Nour, an upper-class student who needs to find the right wish to cure their depression; and Shokry, the elderly seller of wishes who has to make a choice about the last of his wares.

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is an Egyptian illustrator and graphic designer, whose debut comic went viral. Your Wish Is My Command was awarded Best Graphic Novel and the Grand Prize of the Cairo Comix festival.

A dazzling fable set in a fantastical Egypt, by a young feminist pioneer of the graphic novel genre.

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Heritage Aesthetics DRAFT COVER

An eviscerating and uncompromising eye on patriarchy, empire and race from one of the most important poets writing in the UK today.

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Anthony Anaxagorou

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Heritage Aesthetics is a cinematic and frenetic hymn to personhood. Unpacking how perception is shaped, how we perform politics and how we love, Anaxagorou uses colonial literatures as a spring‑board to examine diasporic identity, a philosophical searching into lived structures.

Intensely honest and hopeful, Heritage Aesthetics merges furious linguistic dexterity and experim‑ entalism to communicate a self in the world.

is a Britishborn Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator.

His second collection, After the Formalities, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Praise for After the Formalities:

‘A burning rage with a delicate taste’ Akala original

‘A manifesto for a complete, multifaceted masculinity... essential reading for our times’ London Magazine POETRY £10.99 November B-format 198 × 129mm Flapped PB 112pp All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 91505 100 4

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The UK’s most prestigious literary quarterly brings you prize-winning new fiction, reportage, memoir, poetry and photography from debut writers and established voices.

‘Lagomorph’ by Alexander MacLeod was chosen as the winner of the 2021 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Art Award. The story was first published in Granta 141: Canada. Four writers published in Granta were chosen for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35: Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nathan Harris, Lee Lai and Claire Luchette.

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The Best American Essays 2021 featured essays by Ruchir Joshi and Amy Leach. The Best Canadian Essays 2021 featured Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s ‘Upirngasaq (Arctic Spring)’, which will also be featured in an anthology published by the Wellcome Collection, This Book Is a Plant.

Contributor Natalie Diaz won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Granta published work by all five of the authors shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best First Collection: Kayo Chingonyi, Tishani Doshi, Selima Hill, Luke Kennard and Stephen Sexton.

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Granta 161: New Francophone Writing

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GRANTA 161 £14.99 November 210 × 145mm PB 978 1 90988 951 4

Sigrid Rausing is Editor and Publisher of Granta magazine and Publisher of Granta Books.

She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in PostSoviet Estonia and the memoirs Everything Is Wonderful and Mayhem.

© Charos Pix

Granta’s autumn issue will be a special edition of Francophone writing in translation, featuring fiction, memoir, reportage, bande dessinée, poetry and photoessays from French speakers across the world. Authors like Annie Ernaux, Édouard Louis, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Modiano and David Diop have already found critical acclaim in the Anglophone world – but who are the emerging voices in French literature today?

This issue will feature rising and established voices from the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Americas, as well as from l’Hexagone and la France profonde.

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Orwell’s Roses

is the author of more than 20 books, including Recollections of My Non-Existence, which was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Roses, pleasure and politics: an exhilarating take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.

Rebecca Solnit explores the intertwined politics of nature and power, and how George Orwell’s love of nature illuminates his commitment as a writer and antifascist. A remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty and joy as acts of resistance, which finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today.

‘An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times’ Margaret Atwood

RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NON-EXISTENCE 978 1 78378 549 0

‘Expansive and thought provoking’ Independent

MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME 978 1 78378 079 2

‘Luminous… It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations’ New Statesman

THE MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS 978 1 78378 355 7 WHOSE STORY IS THIS? 978 1 78378 543 8

BIOGRAPHY £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 320pp No Canada rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 552 0

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Solnit Reissued

The Faraway Nearby An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others.

‘Complicated, powerful, acutely, even painfully, personal’ Olivia Laing ‘Extraordinary… dizzyingly expansive’ Irish Times ‘Finely wrought, intense and eloquent’ Guardian

MEMOIR £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 272pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 736 4 july

Wanderlust A History of Walking

A profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.

‘Superb and wide-ranging’ Observer ‘A writer of startling freshness and precision’ New York Times

LITERARY ESSAYS £9.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 336pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 735 7

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‘Radical, humane, witty, impassioned and serious’ Alain de Botton

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© James McNaught

Paul

daisy lafarge ’s debut collection of poetry, Life Without Air, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Paul, her first novel, won a Betty Trask Award.

Daisy Lafarge An unsettling summer romance: as a young woman seeks freedom on a French farm she is ensnared in a toxic relationship, in this shimmering exploration of unchecked male power.

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering on an eco-farm in rural France.

There she comes under the influence of Paul – the charismatic, domineering owner. As his hold over her tightens, she finds herself entangled in a strange, uneven relationship. A compelling, claustrophobic and beautifully constructed debut.

‘Lafarge’s writing really shines’ Evening Standard ‘Crisp and elegant… With an intelligence lightly worn, this is an immersive, maddening, unsettling read’ Irish Times

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‘Light and fast-moving… [A] beautifully constructed novel’ Guardian LIFE WITHOUT AIR 978 1 78378 633 6

FICTION £8.99 July B format 198 × 129mm PB 336pp All territories US, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 788 3

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Fried Eggs and Rioja What to Drink with Absolutely Everything

© Clara Molden

Victoria Moore A trustworthy, celebratory and unpretentious guide to which wine to drink with dinner, lunch, or just because.

From sofa snacks and comfort food to celebration meals and festive feasts, Victoria Moore helps you choose the wine that will taste most delicious with whatever you’re eating. Based on the bestselling The Wine Dine Dictionary, this new guide also includes new recipes, portraits of the top twelve best-loved wines and quick-look lists for perfect pairings.

victoria moore

is a journalist and the author of How to Drink and The Wine Dine Dictionary.

‘A lovely little book… from one of Britain’s best wine writers. The perfect Christmas present for the wine lover in your life (or yourself!)’

Daily Express ‘So insightful… a boon companion for all’ Jeremy Lee

FOOD AND DRINK £9.99 September B format 198 × 129mm PB 256pp All territories 978 1 78378 913 9

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‘It promises to be as well used as The Flavour Thesaurus, and appreciated for its additional intoxicating kick’ Pen Vogler HOW TO DRINK 978 1 84708 136 0

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Roth Reissued

Job

The Story of a Simple Man

Joseph Roth

Translated from the German by Dorothy Thompson

A taut fable and one of Roth’s most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving streets of New York.

FICTION £8.99 August B format 198 × 129mm PB 240pp No Canada rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 849 1

joseph roth was a prolific journalist and novelist. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, his work traces the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist threat in Europe. dorothy thompson was a renowned American journalist and anti-fascist.

THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER 978 1 78378 846 0

THE HOTEL YEARS 978 1 78378 847 7

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‘Enthralling… Roth’s most perfect book’ Independent

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The Emperor’s Tomb Joseph Roth

Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

A companion to Roth’s masterpiece, The Radetzky March, this is an aching novel reckoning with the legacy of war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the rise of the Nazi party.

‘An inspired variation on the traditional coming-of-age narrative… a profound farewell gesture of love and sorrow, such heartbreaking sorrow’ Irish Times

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What I Saw

FICTION £8.99 August B format 198 × 129mm PB 208pp No Canada rights Serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 850 7

Reports from Berlin 1920–33

Joseph Roth

Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

A classic of reportage: Roth’s compassionate, incisive account of Berlin in the 1920s, chronicling the moral bankruptcy of the Jazz Age and the first signs of fascism.

‘Tender and caustic all at once… thrilling’ Observer

REPORTAGE £9.99 August B format 198 × 129mm PB 240pp No Canada rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 848 4

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was a prolific journalist and novelist. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century, his work traces the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the rising fascist threat in Europe. michael hofmann is the acclaimed translator of Joseph Roth, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht and many more writers. joseph roth

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Mozart in Motion His Work and His World in Pieces

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Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity’s most important figures.

‘As “kaleidoscopic” as the composer’s own genius… immersive and thought-provoking’ Financial Times patrick mackie has published books of poems with Carcanet and CB Editions and was a visiting fellow at Harvard.

The Real Odessa

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BIOGRAPHY £10.99 September B format 198 × 129mm PB 368pp No Canada rights Translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 600 8

How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

Uki Goñi

HISTORY £12.99 September B format 198 × 129mm PB 448pp All territories US, translation, serial and audio rights 978 1 78378 925 2 PB

With a new introduction by Philippe Sands

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism revealing the complicity of the Vatican and the Swiss government in aiding Nazi war criminals’ escape from Europe to Argentina – reissued with new material.

‘A fascinating exposé… essential’ New Statesman uki goñi is a journalist and writer based in Argentina. He regularly contributes to the Guardian and the New York Review of Books. He has also been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times.

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Slime

A Natural History

Slime revolts yet compels us; it underpins all our bodily functions and sustains all ecosystems.

With authority and wit, Susanne Wedlich leads us through this slippery subject, from the debunked theory of primordial slime and the ectoplasm of ghost stories to the inside of our guts and the nebulous beauty of a jellyfish.

© Noah Wedlich

A Radio 4 Book of the Week, this is an original and revelatory journey through the history of slime – a substance upon which our world depends.

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Susanne Wedlich

Translated from the German by Ayça Türkoğlu

writes for Der Spiegel, National Geographic and Spektrum der Wissenschaft. She lives in Munich.

ayça türkoğlu is a literary translator from German and Turkish.

‘Rich and strange… a deft cultural history as well as an up-to-the-minute exegesis of [slime’s] science’ Telegraph

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And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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A vibrant and deeply moving portrait of Blake’s father during his battle with cancer, and a dazzling memoir of masculinity, family and bereavement.

From Arthur’s outlandish money-saving schemes and his wayward behaviour on family holidays through to his cancer diagnosis and the slow erosion of the man Blake once knew, this fearless account captures the accommodations and resentments that lie cloistered within familial love.

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‘A painful, funny, frightening, moving, marvellous book… everybody should read it’ Nick Hornby AS IF 978 1 84708 417 0

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