June – December 2017
Books for the Independent Reader
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CONTENTS NEW TITLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PAPERBACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Inferior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 In the Days of Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Postcard from the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Kingdom of Olives and Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A Book of American Martyrs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Borne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Mighty Franks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Little Black Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Modern Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Dead Now of Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 What We Lose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Memory Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 My Absolute Darling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Made at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Bookshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret . . . . 22 South and West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Fresh Complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Modern Cook’s Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 When They Go Low, We Go High . . . . . . 26 Ranger Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Letters to the Lady Upstairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Christmas Chronicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Where the Past Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Reservoir Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tribe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Heartfix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 We Are Not Such Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Age of Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 When in French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Nicotine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars . . 37 Bolshoi Confidential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Behold the Dreamers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Moonglow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Time Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Glass Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny ‘Standard Deviation is a marvel’ Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, this sensational debut will appeal to fans of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby, Nora Ephron and Lorrie Moore. Graham’s second wife, Audra, is everything his first wife was not. She is charming and spontaneous and fun, but life with her can be exhausting. In the midst of the day-to-day difficulties and delights of marriage and raising a child with Asperger’s, his first wife, Elspeth, reenters Graham’s life. Former spouses are hard to categorize – are they enemies, old flames, or just people who know you really, really well? Graham starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did he make the right choice? Is there a right choice? ‘A book so funny and perceptive I want to be friends with its author’ Laline Paull, author of The Bees ‘An irresistibly charming novel about age-old institutions: marriage and parenting. But Heiny’s brilliantly drawn characters and her keen insights make both topics feel brand new. A delightful, refreshing novel’ Elin Hilderbrand, author of Here’s to Us
Katherine Heiny is the author of Single, Carefree, Mellow, a fantastically received short story collection. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children. Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-810552-5
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Inferior How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
Angela Saini From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. Scientists claim to have written the definitive account of us, starting from the very dawn of evolution. But this is not the whole story. Speaking to the scientists who are exploring gender and revisiting the landmark experiments that have informed us, awardwinning journalist Angela Saini digs deep into some of our most cherished beliefs about men and women. What emerges is an enlightening, alternative account of women’s bodies, and their minds. Shedding light on controversial studies and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Inferior takes us on an eye-opening journey of women through science, challenging our preconceptions and, most importantly, rewriting our story. ‘This is an important book which I hope will be widely read’ Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, author of The Woman That Never Evolved ‘A lively, well-written, informed account of women’s proven powers. She shows that science, long used as a weapon against women, is today an ally in their steady advance. Inferior is another nail in the coffin of male supremacy’ Melvin Konner, author of Women After All
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Angela Saini presents science programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, Science, Wired, Vogue, GQ and the Economist. Her work has won a string of awards, including the Association of British Science Writers’ best news story in 2012 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s gold prize for radio in 2015. Non-Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-817202-2
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In the Days of Rain Rebecca Stott In the vein of Bad Blood and Why be Happy When You Can be Normal?: an enthralling, at times shocking, and deeply personal family memoir of growing up in, and breaking away from, a fundamentalist Christian cult. As Rebecca Stott’s father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years. He wanted to tell the story of their family, who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect. Yet, each time he reached a certain point, he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories and could not go on. In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father’s story, and her own, and follows him into the thicket to tell of her family’s experiences within the sect, and the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away. ‘Beautiful, dizzying, terrifying, Stott’s memoir maps the unnerving hinterland where faith becomes cruelty and devotion turns into disaster. A brave, frightening and strangely hopeful book’ Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City ‘
Rebecca Stott is a novelist and historian. She is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in Norwich. Non-Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £16.99 978-0-00-820916-2
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Postcard from the Past Tom Jackson WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON In Postcard from the Past, collector Tom Jackson gathers together the funniest, strangest and most moving messages he has found in his vast archive of vintage postcards, turning the throwaway scribblings of a generation into a symphony of voices, glimpses into past lives and tantalising hints of stories. Lovingly written in rainy campsites and over grim hotel breakfasts, on sweltering beaches and in windy seaside car parks, these missives from another era form an off-kilter and laughout-loud tribute to the British character. All our lives on the back of a postcard. ‘Resurrecting these postcards, relics of forgotten times and forgotten holidays, was the simplest and most brilliant idea. Tom Jackson combines the images with just a few of the words scribbled on the back, and his eye for the choice sentence, the perfect phrase, is miraculous. Thanks to his assiduous, obsessive work as collector and curator, each one of these postcards becomes a poem, a short story, an elegy for lost England, a work of art’ Jonathan Coe ‘Sublimely funny’ Jason Hazeley, author of the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups
‘Transfixing, beguiling, warmly haunting. These are the ghosts of a childhood’ Robin Ince ‘A hilarious and occasionally disturbing look at how the British remain resolutely small-minded wherever they go’ Charlie Higson Tom Jackson started putting old postcards on Twitter in 2016. He lives in South London. @pastpostcard Non-Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £9.99 978-0-00-822053-2
‘My favourite Twitter account is now my favourite book. Irresistible!’ Jill Mansell ‘This book is an absolute treat’ Holly Walsh
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Kingdom of Olives and Ash Writers Confront the Occupation
Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Tóibín, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today’s most renowned novelists and essayists, have joined forces with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories. Their writing enables readers to understand the human narratives behind the litany of grim destruction broadcast nightly on the news. Together they all stand witness to the human cost of the occupation.
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Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children. Ayelet Waldman is the author of, among other books, the memoir A Really Good Day and the novel Love & Treasure. She is the editor of the anthology Inside This Place Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. Non-Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-822919-1
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A Book of American Martyrs Joyce Carol Oates Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women’s reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times – religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment – this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To read it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity – its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope. ‘The most relevant book of Oates’s half-centurylong career ... To enter this masterpiece is to become invested in Oates’s search for some semblance of atonement, secular or divine’ Washington Post ‘Oates’s American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities’ USA Today
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN/ Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, and, most recently, The Lost Landscape and The Man Without a Shadow. Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £16.99 978-0-00-822167-6
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Borne Jeff VanderMeer ‘Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it’s a thorough marvel’ Colson Whitehead A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne. At first, Borne looks like nothing at all – a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland and she prevents her lover, Wick, from rendering Borne down as raw genetic material. But nothing is quite the way it seems. If Wick is hiding secrets, so is Rachel – and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed. Praise for the Southern Reach Trilogy: ‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King ‘Hauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces’ Guardian ‘A psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instill the reader with a deep, delicious unease’ Financial Times
Jeff VanderMeer is an awardwinning novelist and editor, and the author most recently of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’s-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-815917-7
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The Mighty Franks A Memoir
Michael Frank A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar – about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. Michael Frank’s upbringing was unusual to say the least. His aunt was his father’s sister and his uncle his mother’s brother. Most unusual of all was his aunt, ‘Hankie’: a beauty with violet eyelids and leaves fastened in her hair, a woman who thought that conformity was death, a Hollywood screenwriter spinning seductive fantasies. With no children of her own, Hankie took a particular shine to Michael, taking him on Antiquing excursions, telling him about ‘the very last drop of her innermost self ’, holding him in her orbit in unpredictable ways. This love complicated the delicate balance of the wider family and changed Michael’s life forever. ‘An utterly magical book. Michael Frank inherits Truman Capote’s glorious ability to recreate the past in an act of exquisite, knowing retrieval. I hung on every word, spying through his child’s eyes. This is intense and lyrical prose: I never wanted it to stop’ Philip Hoare 'P.G. Wodehouse could not have invented Michael Frank's aunt. An astonishing story of a relationship and a family that ends up the wrong side up and inside-out. Beautiful, strange and true' Ian Sansom
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Michael Frank’s short fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, Glimmer Train, and Tablet. His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times. He served as a Los Angeles Times book critic for nearly ten years. He lives in New York City and Liguria, Italy. Non-Fiction 1 June 2017 Hardback, £16.99 978-0-00-821519-4
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Little Black Book A Toolkit for Working Women
Otegha Uwagba The essential career handbook for women working in the creative industries, and beyond. Full of fresh ideas and no-nonsense practical advice to help working women along their way, Little Black Book covers everything you need to build a successful creative career: from money management to building a killer personal brand, via a crash course in networking like a pro, and tips on overcoming creative block. With contributions from inspirational creative women including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Penny Martin, Caryn Franklin and Pandora Sykes, this is a curation of wisdom from other women’s experiences and hard-won career insights. Whether you’re a thinker, a maker, an artist or an entrepreneur, you’ll find inspiration for your working life here. Praise for Otegha Uwagba: ‘Otegha Uwagba is one of London’s new generation of female CEOs’ Evening Standard ‘A toolkit for women in the creative industry that covers all the usual opportunities for instruction – but does it in a friendly, straightforward, non-pandering way’ Fast Company
Otegha Uwagba is the founder of Women Who, a platform she created to connect and support creative working women worldwide, and an endeavour inspired by her time working at some of London’s top ad agencies and cult youth brand Vice Media. Besides running Women Who, she is also a freelance writer and brand consultant. Non-Fiction 15 June 2017 Paperback, £5.00 978-0-00-824511-5
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Modern Gods Nick Laird ‘Modern Gods has realer-than-real characters, unexpected turns of plot into unknown corners of the world, and language that finds its way through the darkest moments and states of mind to shine its clear bright light, revelatory and unforgiving’ Michael Chabon Two sisters’ lives are about to be shaken apart. Alison Donnelly, still in Ulster where she was born, wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape, bound up with sectarian violence. Her fiercely independent sister, on an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea making a TV show about the world’s newest religion, finds herself becoming increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of the subject of her show, a charismatic middle-aged woman who is the leader of a cargo cult. Both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide just what the living owe to the dead. ‘Nick Laird’s prose disseminates unease – a sure sign of originality. The aura of danger derives not so much from his theme (how religious faith is inseparable from violence) as from his sensibility: the reader feels the ever-present likelihood – the risk – of confrontation with unpalatable truths. Laird is a poet-novelist; his fictional world may be harsh and raw, but it is balanced by the imaginative habits of a poet, which always tend towards forgiveness and, indeed, towards celebration’ Martin Amis
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Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He has published two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover’s Mistake, and three collections of poetry, To a Fault, On Purpose, and Go Giants. He is the recipient of many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. Fiction 29 June 2017 Hardback, £12.99 ISBN: 9780008257323
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RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR Philip Hoare From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet. In the third of his watery books, Hoare goes in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Of people enchanted or driven to despair by the water, accompanied by whales and birds and seals – familiar spirits swimming and flying with the author on his meandering odyssey from suburbia into the unknown. He encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes – famous or infamous, they are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to the sea. Here humans challenge their landbound lives through art or words or performance or myth, through the animal and the elemental. And here they are forever drawn back to water, forever lost and found on the infinite sea. Praise for Philip Hoare: ‘A passionate, wonderfully engaging book … His oceanic pursuit of the most remarkable animals on the planet has produced two books of the utmost interest’ Christopher Hirst, Independent ‘Everything he writes is remarkably interesting, and always expressed in his singular prose, at the one and the same time both exact and numinous … Packed full of strange delights – perhaps a bit of a ragbag, but what rags! And what a bag!’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand, Spike Island, England’s Lost Eden, Leviathan, or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction; and The Sea Inside. He lives in Southampton. Non-Fiction 13 July 2017 Hardback, £16.99 978-0-00-813366-5
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The Party Elizabeth Day A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. When Martin Gilmour wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn’t wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. At Ben’s 40th birthday party, the great and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne, drugs and glamour, and Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite belonging. But Ben wouldn’t do anything to damage their friendship. Would he? ‘Witty, dark and compelling’ Sebastian Faulks ‘Superb. Clever, gripping, psychologically acute’ Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us ‘Kept me up into the small hours … Elizabeth Day’s latest novel is sinister and seductive and nothing short of breathtaking’ Francesca Seagal, author of The Innocents
Elizabeth Day is the author of three previous novels. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone, won a Betty Trask Award and Home Fires was an Observer book of the year. Her third, Paradise City, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Evening Standard. She is also an awardwinning journalist and has written extensively for the Telegraph, The Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the Mail on Sunday, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle. Fiction 13 July 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-819426-0
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Dead Now of Course Phyllida Law From the beloved author of Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland? comes another instalment in Phyllida Law’s charming trilogy. While the first two volumes focused on her role as a mother (to actresses Sophie and Emma Thompson), and as a devoted carer to her own mother and mother-in-law, Dead Now of Course explores Phyllida Law’s early life as an actress. From tales of sewing her own false eyelashes, to flammable costumes and absent actors, Dead Now of Course is filled with funny, charming anecdotes of thespian life. And at the heart of the story is an enchanting account of meeting the love of Phyllida’s life, her husband Eric Thompson. Praise for Phyllida Law: ‘Phyllida Law has a delightfully natural style, a gift for anecdote and the knack of seeing the funny side of pretty much everything. Someone so accomplished could write a book about their weekly trip to the supermarket and make it highly amusing … funny, brave and heartening’ Spectator ‘Something quite splendid, new and unforgettable’ Stephen Fry
Phyllida Law has appeared in numerous plays, television series and films, including Peter’s Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Foyle’s War and Kingdom. She was married to Eric Thompson, the writer and narrator of the English version of The Magic Roundabout, until his death in 1982. She has two daughters, Emma and Sophie. Non-Fiction 27 July 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-824474-3
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What We Lose Zinzi Clemmons A short, intense and moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death . Thandi is a black woman, but often mistaken for Hispanic or Asian . She is American, but doesn’t feel as American as some of her friends . She is South African, but doesn’t belong in South Africa either . Her mother is dying . ‘Zinzi Clemmons's debut novel signals the emergence of a voice that refuses to be ignored’ Paul Beatty, Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2016 ‘Navigates the many registers of grief, love and injustice ... Clemmons’s prose is rhythmically exact and acutely moving’ Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland ‘Wise and tender and possessed of a fiercely insightful intimacy ... Zinzi Clemmons has gifted the reader a rare and thoughtful emotional topography, a map to the mirror regions of their own heart’ Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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Zinzi Clemmons was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, the Paris Review Daily, Transition and elsewhere. She is a cofounder and former publisher of Apogee Journal and a contributing editor to Literary Hub. Clemmons lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College. Fiction 13 July 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-824593-1
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Memory Wall Anthony Doerr A breath-takingly virtuosic collection of short stories by the author of the #1 bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning All the Light We Cannot See Within the wet enclosure of a single mind a person can fly from one decade to the next, one country to another, past to present, memory to imagination. A teenager moves from Kansas to Lithuania and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. A seedkeeper guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. A woman who escaped the Holocaust finds solace in her grandson’s tender ministrations. Set on four continents the stories in Memory Wall remind us of the grandeur of life and the fragile wonder of memory. ‘Doerr has set a new standard, I think, for what a story can do’ Dave Eggers A lusciously good stylist whose inner journeys and outer travels are equally fascinating to follow’ Guardian ‘Ambitiously wide-ranging and inventive ... movingly investigates the ways in which we are nothing without memory’ Sunday Times
Anthony Doerr’s short stories have won the 2010 Story Prize, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in Boise, Idaho. Fiction 13 July 17 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 9780007367726
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The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep Juliet Butler Based on the true story of conjoined twins, Maria and Daria Krivoshlyapova: a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. Dasha cannot imagine life without her sister. Masha is feisty and fearless. Dasha is gentle, quiet and fears everything; from the Soviet scientists who study them, to the other ‘defective’ children who bully them and the ‘healthies’ from whom they must be locked away. For the twins have been born conjoined in a society where flaws must be hidden from sight and where their inseparability is the most terrible flaw of all. Through the seismic shifts of Stalin’s communism to the beginnings of Putin’s democracy, Dasha and her irrepressible sister strive to be more than just ‘the together twins’, finding hope – and love – in the unlikeliest of places.
Juliet Butler has worked in Russia and the UK as a journalist and translator for a number of organisations. She knew the twins, Masha and Dasha, over a period of some fifteen years, during which time she interviewed and recorded them on the many occasions she visited them. She collaborated with them on their autobiography, published in German in 2000. Fiction 10 August 2017 Hardback, £12.99 978-0-00-820375-7
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My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent As powerful and beautiful as Room and A Little Life, My Absolute Darling is a heartstopping story of violence, love and courage, and one girl’s journey to find her freedom . At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall; that chaos is coming and only the strong will survive it; that her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world . And he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her with him . She doesn’t know why she feels so different from the other girls at school; why the line between love and pain can be so hard to see; why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done and what her daddy will do when he finds out … Sometimes strength is not the same as courage . Sometimes leaving is not the only way to escape . Sometimes surviving isn’t enough . ‘There are books we like well enough to recommend, but there are a very few—To Kill a Mockingbird, Catch-22, The Things They Carried—that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling ... This book is ugly, beautiful, horrifying, and uplifting. The word “masterpiece” has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one’ Stephen King
Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his B.A. from Willamette University in 2010, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City. Fiction 29 August 2017 Hardback, 12.99 978-0-00-818521-3
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Made at Home Giorgio Locatelli From the much-loved author of Made in Italy and Made in Sicily comes a collection of modern Italian recipes to enjoy at home. From Tuscan tomato soup and gnocchi with fish ragu to satisfying salads and enticing mint gelato, Made at Home will gather together the perfect collection of Italian dishes for feeding you and your family. Praise for Giorgio Locatelli: ‘Made in Italy is quite simply the perfect book … Buy this and you’ll never want to look at another Italian cookbook again’ Gordon Ramsay, The Times ‘This book is nothing short of a masterpiece’ Nigel Slater ‘The ultimate gift for anyone interested in Italian food’ Telegraph
Giorgio Locatelli is one of Britain’s best-known Italian chefs. Giorgio began his career at his family’s restaurant in Italy before coming to London. He was head chef at Zafferano in London from its opening to a storm of praise and press coverage in 1994, before moving in 2002 to open Locanda Locatelli, where he remains chefpatron. Cookery 7 September 2017 Hardback, 25.00 978-0-00-810051-3
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The Bookshop Film Tie-In
Penelope Fitzgerald Now a major film, starring Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Bill Nighy and directed by Isabel Croxiet. In the small East Anglian town of Hardborough, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop . The town becomes a battleground . Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too . Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice . Shortlisted for the Booker Prize . ‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer’ David Nicholls ‘A gem, a vintage narrative … a classic whose force has not merely lasted but has actually improved in the passage of years’ New York Times
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which she won in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, won America’s National Book Critics’ Circle Award. She died in April 2000, aged eighty-three. Fiction 7 September 2017 Paperback, 7.99 ISBN
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99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret Craig Brown From our funniest writer, a portrait of our most talked-about royal. 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by turns comic and tragic, is about fame and art, snobbery and deference, fact and fiction. John Fowles dreams of seducing her. Andy Warhol photographs her. Lucian Freud dances with her. Jack Nicholson puts his arm around her. Gore Vidal adores her. John Lennon blushes before her. Marlon Brando clams up in her company. Picasso plots to marry her. She is Princess Margaret. The one with the puffy face and the wraparound shades; the sad Royal, her life spent in decline; the most glamorous woman on earth; the unfailing presence in the index of every memoir, diary or letters collection from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Praise for Craig Brown: ‘The wittiest writer in Britain today’ Stephen Fry ‘We love Craig Brown’ Elton John ‘The greatest humourist in America or Britain today’ Simon Sebag Montefiore ‘The most screamingly funny living writer’ Barry Humphries
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Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and the Guardian. He is the author of several books, most recently The Lost Diaries and One on One. Non-Fiction 21 September 2017 Hardback, 16.99 978-0-00-820361-0
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South and West From a Notebook
Joan Didion From the legendary writer, two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks – writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles. Here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She writes about a deserted reptile farm, a ladies’ brunch, the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulphurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage. And from a different notebook: the ‘California Notes’ that began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage. Praise for Joan Didion: ‘You’ll learn more about America’s future from Didion’s 40-year-old field notes than you will from tomorrow’s newspaper’ Esquire
Joan Didion is the author of five novels and nine books of non-fiction, including The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. Born in Sacramento, California, Didion now lives in New York City. Non-Fiction 21 September 2017 Hardback, £10 978-0-00-825717-0
‘There’s a universal rule against reading someone else’s diary – but in this case, it’s not just OK, it’s required reading’ Marie Claire
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Fresh Complaint Jeffrey Eugenides
Ranging from the reproductive antics of ‘Baster’ to the wry, moving account of a young traveller’s search for enlightenment in ‘Air Mail’ (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997), this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people’s wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in ‘Bronze’ a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling, beautifully written, and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long. Praise for Jeffrey Eugenides: ‘Eugenides is a big and a big-hearted talent’ Jonathan Franzen ‘A marvellous, compulsive storyteller; he reminds us that while love may not always triumph, it follows its own wayward course to the end’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Eugenides is blessed with the storyteller’s most magical gift, the ability to transform the mundane into the extraordinary’ New York Times
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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Marriage Plot, which won the Prix Fitzgerald and the Madame Figaro Literary Prize . Eugenides is a professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton . Fiction 5 October 2017 Hardback, 16.99 9780007447886
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The Modern Cook’s Year Anna Jones A long-awaited new cook book from rising food star Anna Jones, author of A Modern Way to Eat and A Modern Way to Cook. The Modern Cook’s Year will be filled with hugely inventive, easy recipes that will continue to transform vegetarian main meals into vibrant, energising food that everyone wants to eat. Working through the year, and containing delicious recipes such as chickpea pudla with squash, paneer and mustard seeds and a baked celeriac macaroni with crispy olives and greens on top, The Modern Cook’s Year will be full of Anna’s simple but flavour-packed recipes. Praise for Anna Jones: ‘The kind of cook who makes you want to eat vegetarian food even if you aren’t vegetarian … Anna’s skill is that she manages to make veggie food simple and super desirable, so even if you’re a staunch meat-eater, you won’t feel like you’re missing out’ Grazia ‘Simple, seasonal, veg-led fare that is as delicious as it is virtuous’ Guardian
Anna Jones is a cook, food writer and stylist, and the author of two previous cook books. She has a weekly Guardian column, ‘The Modern Cook’, and lives, writes and cooks in Hackney, East London. Cookery 5 October 2017 Hardback, 25.00 978-0-00-817245-9
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When They Go Low, We Go High Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them
Philip Collins Informed by Collins’s own experiences as a speech writer, When They Go Low, We Go High is a passionate defence of the power of good public speaking to propagate and protect democracy and an urgent reminder of how words can change the world. When They Go Low, We Go High explores the ways in which the most notable speeches in history have worked, analysing the rhetorical tricks to uncover how the right speech at the right time can profoundly shape the world. Travelling across continents and centuries, Collins reveals what Thomas Jefferson owes to Cicero and Pericles, who really gave the Gettysburg Address and what Elizabeth I shares with Winston Churchill. And in telling the story of the great speeches he tells the story of democracy. For it is in the finest public speeches that progress unfolds: and we need those speeches now more than ever.
Philip Collins is a columnist for The Times and an Associate Editor of Prospect magazine. He was Chief Speech Writer to Prime Minister Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street between 2004 and 2007 and has subsequently written keynote speeches for a range of senior politicians, leaders of charities and NGOs and Chief Executive Officers. Mr Collins is the author of The Art of Speeches and Presentations and pioneered the analysis of major speeches in The Times. Non-Fiction 5 October 2017 Hardback, 16.99 978-0-00-823569-7
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Ranger Games A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
Ben Blum A tense and layered true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber. Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with one unshakeable goal in life: become a U.S. Army Ranger. But on the first day of his leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, and committed armed robbery. How could he do such a thing? This question haunted the entire Blum family, but none more so than Ben, Alex’s first cousin. Determined to get to the truth, and to help his splintering family cope, Ben set about unravelling the complex threads of this bizarre story. Praise for Ranger Games: ‘A sprawling American saga, Ranger Games will captivate, transport and madden readers all at once. Ben Blum uses the war on terror and clandestine Army Rangers as backdrop to explore something even more immense and arcane: a human heart in conflict with itself. This is a special story and a superb work of narrative non-fiction’ Matt Gallagher, author of Youngblood
Ben Blum holds an MFA in fiction from New York University, where he was awarded the New York Times Foundation Fellowship. He also holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Non-Fiction 5 October 2017 Hardback, 16.99 978-0-00-755458-4
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Letters to the Lady Upstairs Marcel Proust, translated by Lydia Davis A poignant glimpse of a lost time, published for the very first time in English. 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madam Williams with her second husband, an American dentist, and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, feverishly trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the incessant noise from the apartment above him – the footsteps and banging and unbearable moving of boxes and crates. Written by Proust to Madam Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this little cache of letters was discovered a few years ago in a Paris museum. In them we read of the comings and goings of a Paris building; of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; of illness; and – above all – of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls. ‘The greatest novelist of the twentieth century’ Graham Greene
Marcel Proust is the one of the world’s most famous writers. Renowned for his epic novel in seven volumes, In Search of Lost Time, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. He lived at 102 Boulevard Haussmann between 1907 and 1919 and died in 1922. Lydia Davis is a prize-winning translator of French literature and the author of one novel and six shortstory collections. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2013. Non-Fiction 5 October 2017 Hardback, £10
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The Christmas Chronicles Notes, stories and essential receipes for midwinter
Nigel Slater From the bestselling author of Eat, The Kitchen Diaries and Toast comes a new book featuring everything you need for the winter solstice. Written as a diary, and starting in September, this is the story of Nigel Slater’s love for winter, its fables and its family feasts. Here are legends and folktales, myths and memoir, all told in Nigel’s warm and intimate signature style. Nigel Slater’s new book will have everything you need to prepare for and survive midwinter, from a rundown of Europe’s Christmas markets and which books to read and films to watch, to where to go for a winter break and what candles to buy. And at the heart of the book are Nigel’s recipes, from quick fireside suppers to winter baking and marmalade making. Praise for Nigel Slater: ‘The greatest cookery writer of them all’ Guardian ‘No one writes more temptingly about food’ Independent
Nigel Slater has been food columnist for the Observer for over twenty years. His writing has won the National Book Awards, the Glenfiddich Trophy, the André Simon Memorial Prize and the British Biography of the Year. He was the winner of a Guild of Food Writers’ Award for his BBC 1 series Simple Suppers. Cookery 19th October 2017 Hardback, £16.99 ISBN
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Where the Past Begins A Writer’s Memoir
Amy Tan
In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals, and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gives evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Through spontaneous storytelling, she shows how a fluid fictional state of mind unleashed near-forgotten memories that became the emotional nucleus of her novels. Praise for Amy Tan: ‘Tan is a gifted storyteller’ Financial Times ‘Among our great storytellers’ New York Times ‘Tan is prodigal with her talent’ Sunday Telegraph
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From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.
Amy Tan is the author of The Valley of Amazement, The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, and two children’s books. Tan was also a co-producer and coscreenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club. She lives with her husband and her dogs in California and New York. Fiction 19 October 2017 Hardback, £16.99 978-0-00-758554-0
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The Reservoir Tapes Jon McGregor As broadcast on BBC Radio 4: the fifteen ‘prequel’ stories to Reservoir 13.
First broadcast as a series of specially commissioned stories on BBC Radio 4, The Reservoir Tapes returns to the world of Reservoir 13 in the years leading up to the disappearance of Becky Shaw. Old characters are revealed in new lights, previously unheard voices speak and long-held secrets are unearthed. Praise for Jon McGregor: ‘If people were not already aware that here is one of our most accomplished living writers, they certainly will be now’ Sarah Perry ‘If you don’t yet know you should read novels by Jon McGregor, then I can’t help you’ Evie Wyld
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‘He leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall
Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset Maugham Award, and has twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, where he edits The Letters Page, a literary journal in letters. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham. Fiction 2 November 2017 Hardback, £9.99 978-0-00-823565-9
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Tribe
On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding – to ‘tribes’. This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society. Sebastian Junger demonstrates that regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. ‘A brilliant little book driven by a powerful idea’ Evening Standard ‘An eloquent and thought-provoking book’ The Times Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, Fire, and War. He lives in New York City. Non-Fiction • 1 June 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-816818-6
Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal
Why You Should Ditch Your Morning Meal for Health and Wellbeing
Terence Kealey Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it. Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal asks where is the reliable scientific and medical evidence for eating breakfast? And who should consider intermittent fasting by removing breakfast from their daily routine? Praise for Terence Kealey: ‘Impeccable medical credentials’ Telegraph Terence Kealey trained in medicine before moving to Oxford for a PhD in clinical biochemistry. He is now a visiting scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, DC. Non-Fiction • 1 June 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-817236-7
The Heartfix
An Online Dating Diary
Stella Grey Praise for Stella Grey: ‘Shocking, tender and funny … as gripping as a thriller’ Miranda Sawyer Totally compulsive, painfully true and darkly comic, this is an unputdownable account of one woman’s search for love online. • COVER NOT FINAL •
Stella Grey is the writer of the Guardian column Mid-Life Ex-Wife. Non-Fiction • 1 June 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-820175-3
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The Living
Anjali Joseph ‘Joseph’s is a deep and unusual talent; she attends to questions for which not every novelist is equipped. The Living is an exceptional, unexpected work’ Amit Chaudhuri, Guardian Anjali Joseph’s first novel, Saraswati Park, won the Betty Trask Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize, and Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction in India. Another Country, her second novel, was published in June 2012. • COVER NOT FINAL •
Fiction • 29 June 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-746284-1
We Are Not Such Things
Murder. Justice. The Search for Truth.
Justine van der Leun A Making a Murderer for South Africa – a gripping true-crime mystery in the shadow of apartheid. Justine van der Leun has written about South Africa for Harper’s and the Guardian. She lived in Cape Town from 2011 to 2013 and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Non-Fiction • 29 June 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 978-0-00-819109-2
Age of Consent Marti Leimbach
An intensely compelling, frighteningly topical novel about a relationship between a radio DJ and a teenage girl. Marti Leimbach is the author of several novels including Dying Young, now a major feature film starring Julia Roberts, and Daniel Isn’t Talking. Marti now lives in the UK. Fiction • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-816797-4
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When in French
Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins ‘Lauren Collins understands everything about language, love, time and place. This is a brilliant book’ India Knight A funny, thoughtful memoir on how language shapes our lives, and our loves.
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Lauren Collins began working at the New Yorker in 2003. Since 2010, she has been based in Europe, covering stories from London, Paris, Copenhagen and beyond. Non-Fiction • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-810062-9
Nicotine Nell Zink
‘Zink writes with a joyful recklessness – the sense that maybe she did write this novel in three weeks – that makes her one of the freshest talents around’ Joe Dunthorne, Guardian Nell Zink’s books include The Wallcreeper and Mislaid. She lives near Berlin, Germany. Fiction • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-817921-2
Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars Miranda Emmerson
How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role? A mystery, a love-story and a darkly beguiling tale of secrets and reinvention set in 1960s London. ‘Fabulous’ Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand Miranda Emmerson is a playwright and author living in Wales. She has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4 as well as some highly acclaimed original drama. Miss Treadway & The Field of Stars is her first novel. Fiction • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-817060-8
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Bolshoi Confidential
Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
Simon Morrison An enthralling history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage. ‘An intoxicating mix of grandeur and gossip … Sweeping and authoritative history’ Guardian
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Simon Morrison is a professor of music at Princeton University and the author of The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Non-Fiction • 10 August 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 978-0-00-757663-0
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine Alexandra Kleeman
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‘Single White Female as scripted by Miranda July’ Observer Alexandra Kleeman lives in New York City. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine is her first novel, and she is also the author of a story collection called Intimations. Fiction • 10 August 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-821087-8
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue
A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and of what we’re prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A formidable storyteller’ Jonathan Franzen • COVER NOT FINAL •
Imbolo Mbue is a native of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a BS from Rutgers University and an MA from Columbia University. A resident of the United States for more than a decade, she lives in New York City. This is her first novel. Fiction • 10 August 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-823799-8
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Moonglow
Michael Chabon ‘The product of a writer in full command of his novelistic faculties … Not only probably Chabon’s greatest, but an example of a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017’ The Times Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of novels, essays and short story collections including Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. • COVER NOT FINAL •
Fiction • 21 September 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-754892-7
Time Travel A History
James Gleick ‘This book is a bit like you imagine time travel to be: a dizzying mind-rush through a century of ideas. It is vertiginous, exciting, paradoxical – and worth making the journey’ Sunday Times James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and technology, the bestselling author of Chaos, Genius and The Information. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
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The Transition Luke Kennard © Jacob Kennard
Black Mirror meets David Nicholls in this dark and funny novel about love in dystopian times. ‘The sort of book that has you walking blindly through seven pages of traffic with your face pressed obliviously to the page’ The Times Luke Kennard is the author of five collections of poetry. The Transition is his first novel. Fiction • 7 September 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 978-0-00-820045-9
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The Glass Universe
The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
Dava Sobel ‘A peerless intellectual biography. “The Glass Universe” shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist
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Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude, a prize-winning international bestseller, and Galileo’s Daughter, which was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. Non-Fiction • 2 November 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 978-0-00-754820-0
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