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CONTENTS NEW TITLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PAPERBACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
The Reservoir Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Twelve-Mile Straight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Where the Past Begins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Devil’s Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What She Ate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Maybe Esther . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The King Is Always Above the People . . . . 9 The Wife’s Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 The Friendly Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 House of Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Lament for the Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 The Sing of the Shore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 All the Beautiful Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Who is Rich? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Autobiophilosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Darling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Pops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Elefant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Slay in Your Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Essex Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Birds Art Life Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Victorians Undone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 In the Days of Rain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Reservoir 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 What We Lose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Annihilation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Peculiar Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Inferior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Little Labours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Plot 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Emergency Admissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 My Absolute Darling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Borne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Mighty Franks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Dad You Suck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Ranger Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
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The Reservoir Tapes ESTATE
Jon McGregor First broadcast and originally commissioned for BBC Radio 4, The Reservoir Tapes returns to the territory of the Booker-longlisted Reservoir 13, revealing the web of connections that bind us, and the many layers on which we build our truths. Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. But the aftershocks of Becky Shaw’s disappearance have origins long before then, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own . . . A woman remembers a son’s inexperience – and a father’s rage; a young wife pushes against the boundaries of her marriage, whilst an older one finds ways to ensure the survival of hers. A hunt for a birthday present takes an alarming turn, and a teenage game grows serious. Fresh hurts open old wounds, salvation comes from unexpected quarters and chance encounters release long-buried memories. ‘One of our most accomplished living writers’ Sarah Perry
Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize and has been three times nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Nottingham. Fiction 28 December 2017 Hardback £9.99 9780008235659
‘He leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall ‘He’s an extraordinary writer, unlike anyone else’ Paula Hawkins
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The Twelve-Mile Straight Eleanor Henderson Tender and savage, heart-breaking and hopeful, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a future classic, a To Kill a Mockingbird for our times. Cotton County, Georgia. 1930. In a house full of secrets, two babies – one light-skinned, the other dark – are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined. A web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the truth. ‘Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent’ Ann Patchett ‘Mesmerising, disturbing, riveting’ Dana Spiotta ‘This is no ordinary novel. It is art of the highest order’ Cristina Henríquez
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Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel Ten Thousand Saints was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times and a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons. Fiction 11 January 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008158682
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Where the Past Begins A Writer’s Memoir
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Amy Tan 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 In Where the Past Begins, 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 gathers together evidence of all that made it both unlikely and inevitable that she would become a writer. Tan explores shocking truths uncovered by family memorabilia – the real reason behind an IQ test she took at age six, why her parents lied about their education, mysteries surrounding her maternal grandmother – and, for the first time publicly, writes about her complex relationship with her father, who died when she was fifteen. Written with candour and characteristic humour, Where the Past Begins takes readers into the idiosyncratic workings of her writer’s mind, a journey that explores memory, imagination, and truth. ‘A master storyteller’ O, the Oprah Magazine ‘She is both a consummate storyteller and writer whose prose manages to be emotionally charged without a trace of sentimentality’ Sunday Times
Amy Tan is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels and two children’s books. Her essays and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her work has been translated into thirty-five languages. She lives with her husband in San Francisco and New York. Biography and autobiography 25 January 2018 Hardback £18.99 9780007585540
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The Devil’s Highway Gregory Norminton Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. The Devil’s Highway is a thrilling, epic and intimate tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism and sacrifice. A Roman road, an Iron Age hill fort, a handcarved flint, and a cycle of violence that must be broken. An ancient British boy, discovering a terrorist plot, must choose between his family and his tribe. In the twenty-first century, two men – one damaged by war, another by divorce – clash over their differing claims on a landscape. In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world. Their stories are linked by one ancient road, the ‘Devil’s Highway’ in the heart of England: the site of human struggles that resemble one another more than they differ. The Devil’s Highway is a breathtakingly original novel that challenges our dearly held assumptions about civilization. ‘A striking and dazzlingly poetic meditation on the resonance of place, conflict and kinship. Unfurling like a time-lapse flower across three thousand years, Norminton’s skilfully wrought novel is a memorable and thought-provoking read’ Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture ‘Deftly conjures the vertiginous shiver of time passing through place – and raises vital questions about our future’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time
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Gregory Norminton is the author of five novels, two collections of short stories and a book of aphorism. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield. Fiction 25 January 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008243753
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What She Ate Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
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Laura Shapiro ‘If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, you’ll love What She Ate’ Elle Dorothy Wordsworth believed that feeding her poet brother, William, was her part to play in a literary movement. Cockney chef Rosa Lewis became a favourite of King Edward VII, who loved her signature dish of whole truffles boiled in champagne. Eleanor Roosevelt dished up some of the most dismal meals ever seen in the White House. Eva Braun served champagne and cake in the bunker before joining Adolf Hitler in suicide. Barbara Pym’s novels overflow with enjoyment of everyday meals in mid-century England. Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown’s idea of a delicious dessert was sugarfree Jell-O made with so little water it had the texture of rubber. In What She Ate Laura Shapiro uses food to tell new stories about these six fascinating women. ‘A bounteous and elegant feast for hungry minds’ BookList ‘Redeems the whole genre of food writing’ Slate ‘Such a fun read ... deliciously satisfying’ Chicago Tribune ‘A unique and delectable work that sheds new light on the lives of women, food, and men’ Kirkus Reviews
Laura Shapiro has written on every food topic from champagne to Jell-O for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, Gourmet, and many other publications. She is the author of three classic books of culinary history. Her awards include a James Beard Journalism Award and one from the National Women’s Political Caucus. She has been a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, where she also co-curated the widely acclaimed exhibition Lunch Hour NYC. Non-Fiction 25 January 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008281076
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Maybe Esther Translated by Shelley Frisch
Katja Petrowskaja The haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century history Katja Petrowskaja’s family story closely shadows the history of twentieth-century Europe. There is her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomat in Moscow in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her Ukrainian grandfather, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty years later; and her greatgrandmother – who may or may not have been called Esther – who was killed by a Nazi outside her house in Kiev. Taking the reader to Moscow, Kiev, Warsaw and Berlin, and deep into archives, conversations, photos and memories, Maybe Esther is a journey into language, memory, philosophy, history and trauma, and a singular, beautiful, unforgettable work of literature ‘Rarely is research into family history this exciting, this moving. If this were a novel it would seem exaggerated and unbelievable. This is why it is great literature’ Der Spiegel ‘Modern German literature is richer for this intelligent, flamboyant and extremely original voice’ Die Zeit ‘Katja Petrowskaja’s family now have a home: this book. She ties today with yesterday and draws it all together to be carried over into the future as the literature of tomorrow’ Frankfurter Rundschau
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Born in 1970 in Kiev, Katja Petrowskaja studied literature in Tartu, Estonia and then completed a PhD in Moscow. She has lived in Berlin since 1999. Her debut Maybe Esther was first published in German in 2014. It won numerous prizes, was a Spiegel bestseller, and has been translated into nineteen languages. Non-Fiction 8 February 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008245283
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The King Is Always Above the People
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Daniel Alarcón An unforgettable collection of stories from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40, and one of the best storytellers of our time. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón’s hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives’ mysterious deaths and his father’s mental breakdown and incarceration in ‘The Bridge’. A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in ‘The Ballad of Rocky Rontal’. And in the tour de force novella, ‘The Auroras’, a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King Is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world. ‘Alarcón is a serious, talented, charming and often beautiful writer’ Guardian ‘The great new Latin American voice’ Alberto Fuguet ‘One of the most exciting and ambitious writers to emerge in recent years’ Colm Tóibín
Daniel Alarcón was born in Lima, Peru, in 1977 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. His collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, was published in 2005 to great acclaim, and was followed by a novel, Lost City Radio, in 2007. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, n+1, and Harper’s, and he has been named one of the 20 best writers under 40 by the New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, California. Fiction 22 February 2018 Paperback Original £8.99 9780007517367
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The Wife’s Tale A Personal History
Aida Edemariam The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans. Born in 1916, and a child bride at eight years old, Aida Edemariam’s grandmother has stood, shaking, as fascist troops searched her home for guns she knew were there; in the late 1930s and early 40s she fled both Italian and Allied bombardment. She has begged for mercy from Emperor Haile Selassie, for a husband imprisoned for treason. Aida here records her grandmother’s enthralling stories, which span an extraordinary century in Ethiopian history – in which feudal fiefdoms run by slave-owning warlords gave way to centralized empire; centralized empire became Marxist dictatorship; Marxist dictatorship became (in name at least) democracy. This is a story with an extraordinary cast of characters, from emperors to slaves; from martyrs to the Virgin Mary – but above all, her grandmother, who is grand and haughty and sometimes difficult but also generous and who despite everything still provides an infectious sense of mischief and joy.
Aida Edemariam is a senior feature writer and an editor on the Saturday Guardian Biography and autobiography 22 February 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780007459605
‘At once a poignant, intimate memoir, a revelatory history and a formally inventive work in which the truth is made as strange as the best fiction’ Judges of 2014 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction
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The Friendly Ones
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Philip Hensher A stunning new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency The things history will do at the bidding of love. On a warm Sunday afternoon, Nazia and Sharif are preparing for a family barbecue. In the garden next door is a retired doctor. When the shadow of death passes over Nazia and Sharif ’s party, Doctor Spinster’s actions are going to bring the two families together, for decades to come. The Friendly Ones is about two families. In it, people with very different histories can fit together, and redeem each other. They can be haunted by the reverberations of trauma and shame across history. Spanning decades and with a big and beautifully drawn cast of characters all making their different ways towards lives that make sense, The Friendly Ones shows how the legacies of our history can be mastered by the decision to know something about people who are not like us. ‘Hensher is incapable of writing a dull sentence’ Daily Telegraph ‘Hensher is gifted with a great virtuosity and a relentless intelligence’ Guardian ‘What a writer he is!’ Philip Pullman
Philip Hensher has written nine novels, including The Mulberry Empire, the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, King of the Badgers and Scenes from Early Life, which won the Ondaatje Prize in 2012. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bath Spa and lives in South London and Geneva. Fiction 8 March 2018 Hardback £18.99 9780008175641
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The Skills From First Job to CEO – What Every Woman Needs to Know
Mishal Husain The ultimate handbook for both young women starting out and those closer to the perceived ‘glass ceiling’, from the host of the Today programme. Since starting on Today in 2013 Mishal Hussain has found the question she hears most often is ‘how?’ How did she get to the position she is now in, and how does she cope with the scrutiny and intellectual rigour – as well as the antisocial hours of Radio 4’s flagship show – alongside a family life? In this intimate portrait of her life and career, Mishal breaks down some of the skills she has had to develop: from being confident in her ambition, and how presentation skills learned in front of a camera or microphone can help to make the best impression. Mishal also interviews other successful women to help dispel the idea that career-driven women are ‘an exception’. The Skills is honest about the barriers, but also honest about facing them. It’s about building on the achievements of women who fought for equality, and realizing that making a good case for yourself is a skill you need throughout your life – whether in pitching for a job, a pay rise or a new direction.
Mishal Husain is one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s influential Today programme and presents the television news on BBC1. In January 2016, she was named by the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential people in Britain. She has won several awards for her work over the years, including Broadcaster of the Year at the 2015 London Press Club Awards and Presenter of the Year at the 2015 Women in Film and TV Awards. Social Science 8 March 2018 Trade Paperback £14.99 9780008220631
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Women
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Chloe Caldwell ‘A beautiful read / a perfect primer for an explosive lesbian affair / an essential truth’ Lena Dunham ‘I have meditated repeatedly on what it was about Finn that had me so dismantled.’ A young woman moves from the countryside to the city. Inexplicably, inexorably and immediately, she falls in love with another woman for the first time in her life. Finn is nineteen years older than her, wears men’s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile – and a long-term girlfriend. With precision, wit and tenderness, Women charts the frenzy and the fall out of love. ‘Her prose has a reckless beauty that feels to me like magic’ Cheryl Strayed ‘A breathless comet-book that commands an evening with your heart, and a next-day passalong to all the women you treasure’ Bustle ‘One of the most endearing and exciting writers of a generation’ L A Review of Books ‘Heady, evocative and sensual. Caldwell’s exploration of relationships and identity blends brutal and fragile truths with great skill. A remarkable talent’ Anneliese Mackintosh
Chloe Caldwell is the author of the essay collection I’ll Tell You in Person and the novella, WOMEN. She teaches creative nonfiction writing in New York City and online, and lives in Hudson. Fiction 8 March 2018 Hardback £10.00 9780008254919
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House of Beauty Translated by Elizabeth Bryer
Melba Escobar A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel with a feminist edge, set in and around a beauty salon in Bogotá Karen moves to Bogotá in search of a better life, and she soon finds a job at a high-end salon called ‘House of Beauty’. Like any well trained beautician, Karen knows that there is more to her role than the beauty treatments she performs. The beauty salon is a female sanctuary, and when her clients want to talk – to reveal their secrets, desires, and fears – she listens. So when one of her clients is found dead in a suspicious circumstances – a teenage girl she treated only that afternoon – Karen is one of the last people who saw her alive, and the girl’s mother is desperate to talk to her … Narrated by Claire, a bourgeois woman with a fixation on Karen, House of Beauty is an edge-ofyour-seat thriller about misogyny, corruption, injustice and inequality in a country where truth belongs only to those who can pay for it. ‘A novel that unveils the fragility of women in our society today. With sharpness and acuteness, Melba hits the nail on the head in her criticism of the macho and class culture with a story in which many women, of different condition, search for justice in a country sunk in corruption and desperation’ Jorge Franco
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Melba Escobar writes for the Colombian newspapers El Espectador and El País. Her novel House of Beauty was chosen as one of the best books of 2016 by the Colombian National Novel Prize. She lives in Bogotá. Fiction 8 March 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008264239
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Lament for the Ash
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Lisa Samson A lament for a crucial but disappearing part of the British landscape, and a call to arms to enjoy what we still have. ‘You may walk past the ash – its slenderness and height blend easily into any wood or hedgerow – but in spring you’ll stop to admire the bluebells shimmering in the light that filters through its foliage.’ The ash tree is under threat. Ash Dieback, a fungus which started in Europe and was carried on the wind to the Norfolk broads, has quickly spread across the country. Black blotches develop on the leaves, the wood turns purple, and the tree dies. There is no way to control it. The tumour in Lisa Samson’s brain has returned, and it is growing. It has made the right side of her face numb. It stops her closing her mouth. It prevents her from walking in a straight line. In this fascinating and personal memoir, Lisa Samson journeys across the United Kingdom, exploring the twisting roots and mythology of the ash tree, and the bleak future that possibly lies ahead of it. This journey will take her to Hardy’s ash, surrounded by grave stones, and to Ashwellthorpe Lower Wood where they desperately search for a way to stop the rot.
Lisa Samson co-ordinates the Writing Development Service for the School of Cultural Studies and teaches the Creative Writing module to Literature students at Leeds Beckett University. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction and her work has appeared in anthologies and on-line journals. She is a contributor to www.caughtbytheriver.net. Non-Fiction 22 March 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780007544615
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Morning Allan Jenkins ‘For years now I have been getting up by 5am. It suits me. I like the energy, the awareness before the day wakes. The quiet before dawn in winter, the shift from night to day in summer. I get things done. It is my best time of day’. Through interviews with leading scientists and psychologists, as well as with night workers and market porters, Morning will look at what makes the early hours of the day so special. Morning will examine different breakfast routines, and their importance for many cultures. It will visit yoga shalas and gyms, sharing in their morning practice. It will consider how making an effort to rise early once a week can add precious hours to our lives. And it will include a series of exercises, physical, psychological and spiritual, for making the most of the first few hours of the day. This is Allan Jenkins’ exploration of how the light lifts, the sun rises, the birds sing (or not) at different times of the year. It is the story of morning: its rituals, its inhabitants and its benefits. Praise for Allan Jenkins ‘Brave, exquisitely written and utterly compelling’ Nigel Slater ‘The sort of book you never forget reading’ India Knight. ‘The best family memoir I’ve read in years’ Bill Buford
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Allan Jenkins is editor of Observer Food Monthly. He was previously editor of the Observer Magazine, food and drink editor on the Independent newspaper and once lived in an experimental ecocommunity on Anglesey, growing organic food on the edge of the Irish sea. Health 22 March 2018 Hardback £9.99 9780008264345
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The Sing of the Shore Lucy Wood
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An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Weathering. At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards. It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam, caught in eddying tides. Restless children haunt empty holiday homes, a surfer struggles with the undertow of family life, a girl watches her childhood spin away from her in the whirl of a night-time fairground and, in a web of sea caves, a brother and sister search the dark for something lost. These astonishing, beguiling stories of ghosts and shifting sands, of static caravans and shipwrecked cargo, explore notions of landscape and belonging, permanence and impermanence, and the way places can take hold and never let go. ‘Her stories have a purity and strength, and an underlying human warmth; they resonate in the mind’ Philip Hensher ‘Fresh, distinctive voices are very rare. Lucy Wood has one’ Michel Faber
Lucy Wood is the author of a critically acclaimed collection of short stories, Diving Belles and a novel Weathering. She has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award. Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She lives in Cornwall. Fiction 5 April 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008193393
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All the Beautiful Girls Elizabeth J Church From the author of The Atomic Weight of Love: a powerful novel about a gutsy showgirl trying to conquer her past amid the glamour of 1960s Las Vegas. In the summer of 1968, Ruby Wilde is the toast of Las Vegas. Showgirl of the Year, in her feathers and rhinestones, Ratpackers, gamblers and astronauts vie for her attention. But not so long ago Ruby Wilde was Lily Decker from Kansas: an orphaned girl – raised by an aunt who took too little interest and an uncle who took too much – determined to dance her way to a new life. Now, as Ruby Wilde, the ultimate Sin City success story, she discovers that the glare of the spotlight cannot banish the shadows that haunt her. As the years pass and Ruby continues to search for freedom, for love and, most importantly, herself, she must learn the difference between what glitters and what is truly gold. ‘A riveting novel, at once raw and tender, of a woman’s struggle to heal the wounds of a devastating childhood . . . Elizabeth J. Church makes us feel Ruby Wilde’s pain and root for her to survive. This is a heartbreaking story, passionately told’ Ellen Feldman, author of Next to Love
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Elizabeth J. Church is the author of The Atomic Weight of Love. All the Beautiful Girls is her second novel. She lives in Northern New Mexico. Fiction 5 April 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008267933
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Who is Rich? ESTATE
Matthew Klam ‘A tantalizing novel – acute and smart and stark, but mostly it’s unrelentingly funny about a large number of very inappropriate things’ Richard Ford Every summer, a once-sort-of famous cartoonist named Rich Fischer leaves his wife and two kids behind to teach a class at a weeklong arts conference in a charming New England beachside town. It’s a place where drum circles happen on the beach at midnight, clothing optional. Rich finds himself worrying about his family’s nights without him, his back taxes, his stuttering career and his own very real desire for love and human contact. One of the attendees this year is a forty-one-year-old painting student named Amy O’Donnell. Amy is a mother of three, unhappily married to a brutish Wall Street titan who commutes to work via helicopter. Rich and Amy met at the conference a year ago, shared a moment of passion, then spent the winter exchanging inappropriate texts and emails and counting the days until they could see each other again. Now they’re back. ‘I loved every page of this book. It got into my bloodstream – and kind of destroyed me’ Curtis Sittenfeld ‘Matthew Klam is a brilliant satirist and keen observer of Unequal America, and his new novel takes a hard look at society’s extravagant hypocrisies. His work is thrilling and distinctive – and political in a way that is not always noted because it is also so funny’ Lorrie Moore
Matthew Klam was named one of the twenty best fiction writers in America under 40 by the New Yorker. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his works has been featured in Harper’s Magazine, Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. He is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Hollins College. Fiction 3 May 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008282516
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Autobiophilosophy Robert Rowland Smith A philosophical look at how one life can be examined, informed and understood by some of history’s great thinkers. How can Freud help you grieve for the loss of your father? How can Derrida help you overcome the fear of making a bad decision? How can Heidegger help us reason with the joy, and frustrations, of living with someone? In Robert Rowland Smith’s astonishingly frank and arresting memoir, he asks how philosophy, psychology and anthropology can bring us closer to answering some of the most central questions about our lives, such as what is it to be human? Subscribing to Socrates’ idea that ‘An unexamined life is not worth living’, Smith examines his own life, with an intense honesty. He pulls apart his feeling around his father’s chronic illness and their own fractious relationship, his role in raising his own children, and the series of events that led to his several break-ups, and asks why did it all happen. Praise for the author’s other work: ‘Smith’s work is witty, inventive and intelligent’ THES
Robert Rowland Smith is the author of six books, including Breakfast with Socrates and The Reality Test. Alongside his writing, Robert advises organizations on strategy and leadership, and is a leading practitioner of Constellations, the technique for exploring hidden dynamics in systems. Non-Fiction 3 May 2018 Trade Paperback £14.99 9780008218461
‘This book is elegant proof that philosophy doesn’t have to be fusty and musty’ A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically ‘This is a fascinating and deeply impressive book’ Daily Mail ‘A thoughtful and continuously entertaining picture of human behaviour’ WIRED
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Darling
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Rachel Edwards A white teenage girl clashes with her new black stepmother in this fresh, original, thought-provoking thriller Lola doesn’t particularly want a new stepmother. Especially not one who has come out of nowhere and only been with her dad for three months. And – she’s not racist or anything – but since when did her dad fancy black women anyway? Darling doesn’t particularly want a new stepdaughter. Especially not one as stroppy, spiteful and spoilt as Lola. She does want Lola’s dad though. And he wants her. So Darling and Lola will just have to learn to get on with each other. But within six months, one of them is dead.
Rachel Edwards lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and twin step-children. She was inspired to write Darling after being subjected to racist abuse the morning after the 2016 EU referendum. This is her first novel. Fiction 17 May 2018 Hardback £10.99 9780008281113
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Pops Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon ‘You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand you. And that ought to be enough. But it is never enough’ Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. In 2016, Michael acted as reluctant minder to his son Abraham Chabon, then thirteen, on a trip to Paris Men’s Fashion Week. Possessed of a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized and turning a critical eye to the most ‘lit’ runway looks; Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at ‘thrift-shopping for vintage western shirts’, was too hot. Despite his own indifference, however, what emerged was a deep respect for his son’s passion, for his bravery in the face of conformity, and a sense of awe in seeing him transform into his own person. With ‘My Son, the Prince of Fashion’ at its centre, this collection features gems on the magic and mysteries of fatherhood. Whether you know the joy and struggles of being a father, or were shaped by one, you will find a home in these stunning essays. ‘One of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists’ New York Times
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Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of eight novels including Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Moonglow; the short story collections A Model World and Werewolves in Their Youth; and the essay collections Maps and Legends and Manhood for Amateurs. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children. Non-Fiction 17 May 2018 Hardback £14.99
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Elefant
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Translated by Jamie Bulloch
Martin Suter The international bestseller about friendship, second chances and a tiny glow-in-the-dark pink elephant What would you do if you woke up to see a living, breathing, tiny, glowing, pink elephant? If you’re anything like Schoch, who lives under a bridge in Vienna and is decidedly down on his luck, you might well think it’s time to put away the bottle before your hallucinations get any stranger, and go back to sleep. But what if the tiny pink elephant is still there when you wake up? And clearly needs someone to take care of it? And what if you discover that it’s been created through genetic engineering, by a group of scientists who just want to use it to get rich and don’t care about the elephant’s welfare? And that they’re in cahoots with a circus and will stop at nothing to get it back? What if this little elephant is about to change your life? ‘A very gripping story which tugs at your heartstrings’ Neue Deutsche Rundfunk, Hannover ‘The topic (genetic engineering) is serious, the pace swift, the plot excellently constructed’ Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich A quirky tale composed with tangible joy’ Landshuter Zeitung
Martin Suter, born in Zürich in 1948, is a writer, columnist and screenwriter. He worked as a creative director in advertising before deciding to focus exclusively on writing. His novels have enjoyed huge international success. Martin Suter lives with his family in Zürich. Fiction 31 May 2018 Paperback original £8.99 9780008264314
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Slay In Your Lane The Black Girl Bible
Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebenene Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible is the long-awaited, inspirational guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives. Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible fills a keenly felt void in books focused on the experiences of black women. It touches on work, dating, representation, money, education and health, and takes a look at how being black and female affects each of these areas. Illustrated with stories from Yomi and Elizabeth’s own lives, and with personal anecdotes and tips from some of the most successful black women in Britain – including Amma Asante, Charlene White, Jamelia, Denise Lewis, Malorie Blackman and Dawn Butler MP – this provocative, honest, engaging and inspiring book recognizes and celebrates the strides black British women have already made, whilst offering practical advice and inspiration for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future. (Foreword by Karen Blackett, OBE.)
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Yomi Adegoke is a producer at Channel4 News. In 2013, she founded Birthday Magazine, a publication aimed at BAME teenage girls and has since gone on to write for the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Huffington Post among others. Elizabeth Uviebinene is a Marketing Manager at HSBC. She was a Google Top Black Talent mentee and contributes regularly to BBC Newsnight and Newsbeat. Non-Fiction 12 July 18 Hardback £16.99 9780008235628
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The Ice Laline Paull By the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees. ‘a gripping, brilliantly textured climate thriller. Its timeliness is chilling. A stunning read’ Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture It’s the day after tomorrow and the Arctic sea ice has melted. While global business carves up the new frontier, cruise ships race each other to ever-rarer wildlife sightings. The passengers of the Vanir have come seeking a polar bear. What they find is even more astonishing: a dead body. Laline Paull was born in London of Indian parents. She studied English at Oxford, screenwriting in LA and theatre in London. The Ice is her second novel Fiction • 28 December 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780007557776
Essex Poison Ian Sansom ‘Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail Swanton Morley sets off to Essex to continue his history of England. Morley’s daughter Miriam continues to cause chaos and his assistant Stephen Sefton continues to slide deeper into depression and despair. But when the mayor dies suddenly at the civic reception suspicion falls on his fellow councillors. Is it a case of food poisoning? Or could it be … murder? Ian Sansom is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and the London Review of Books, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Essex Poison is the third in his County Guide series. Fiction, Crime and Mystery • 11 January 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008147082
Birds Art Life Death Kyo Maclear ‘This book is a delight’ Nigel Slater ‘A beautifully crafted memoir’ Leslie Feist, musician ‘Intricate and delicate as birdsong’ Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way One winter, Kyo Maclear became unmoored. Her father had fallen ill and she suddenly found herself lost for words. There was only one way to cope: to stop and listen to the birds. Delicate as birdsong, Birds Art Life Death asks how our passions shape us, and how we might overcome our anxieties and begin to cherish the urban wild spaces many of us live in. Kyo Maclear is a novelist, essayist, and children’s author. She lives in Toronto where she shares a home with two sons, two cats, and a musician. Biography and autobiography • 11 January 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008225049
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Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
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Kathryn Hughes ‘Intriguing, gleefully contentious and – appropriately enough – fizzing with life, the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail ‘Brilliant. One of the best books I’ve read in ages’ Lucy Worsley, Sunday Express Focusing on the bodily – a thickened index finger or deep baritone voice – Victorians Undone is an eye-opening, deeply intelligent, groundbreaking account that brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives. Kathryn Hughes is a highly regarded social historian and biographer. Her books include the bestselling The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot: The Last Victorian. History • 25 January 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007548385
In The Days of Rain Rebecca Stott ‘This book is important; … there isn’t an uninteresting paragraph in this furious and compassionate book’ The Times 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. Rebecca Stott is a novelist and historian. She is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in Norwich Biography • 25 January 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008209193
Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor ‘McGregor writes with such grace and precision, with love even, about who and where we are, that he leaves behind all other writers of his generation’ Sarah Hall Midwinter in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England ... Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside. Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He is the winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize and has been nominated three times for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Nottingham. Fiction • 8 February 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008204891
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What We Lose Zinzi Clemmons ‘Luminescent’ Independent ‘Profoundly moving’ Guardian ‘The debut novel of the year’ Vogue 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 was raised in Philadelphia by a South African mother and an American father. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the Colburn Conservatory and Occidental College. Fiction • 8 February 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008245979
Annihilation Film Tie-in
Jeff VanderMeer Welcome to Area X. An Edenic wilderness, an environmental disaster zone, a mystery for thirty years. The inspiration for the major motion-picture starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Issac. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in gunfire, the eleventh in a cancer epidemic. Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown. Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. Fiction • 8 February 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 •9780008263348
Peculiar Ground Lucy Hughes-Hallett ‘Extraordinarily accomplished, absolutely involving … Tolstoyan in its sly wit and descriptive brilliance … This is a remarkable achievement’ Guardian ‘One of the best novels of the year’ The Times In the 17th century, a wall is built around Wychwood, enclosing its ornamental lakes, majestic avenues and many secrets. In the 20th century, the rise and fall of the Berlin wall form the background to erotic, emotional and political entanglements in modern Wychwood. Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of Cleopatra, Heroes, and The Pike, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Costa Biography Award. Fiction • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008126544
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Inferior How Science Got Women Wrong – and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
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Angela Saini ‘An immensely readable and compelling book’ Professor Athene Donald ‘Angela Saini has written a compelling and much needed account that challenges deeply rooted preconceptions about sex differences’ Adam Rutherford, author of Creation Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, she explores what these revelations mean for us, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included, rather than excluded. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Science • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008172039
The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep Juliet Butler Based on a true story: a tale of survival and self-determination, innocence and lies. Dasha cannot imagine life without her sister. Masha is fearless whilst Dasha fears everything. For the twins have been born conjoined in Stalin’s Russia: a society where flaws must be hidden away. Through the seismic shifts of communism to the beginnings of Putin’s democracy, the sisters strive to be more than just ‘the together twins’, finding hope – and love – in the unlikeliest of places. But can a life lived in a sister’s shadow only ever be half a life? Juliet Butler has worked in Russia and the UK as a journalist and translator. She knew Masha and Dasha and interviewed and recorded them on many occasions. Fiction • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008203795
Little Labours Rivka Galchen ‘Glistens and lodges in the memory … small as opposed to minor’ Guardian ‘Odd, witty, nimble, stimulating … a unique slant on new parenthood’ Observer ‘Galchen does something more profound than tackle motherhood; she utterly reinvents and reanimates the subject’ Interview Magazine One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka Galchen, a puma moved into her apartment. And everything changed. Little Labours is a slanted enchanted book about new parenthood, about an odd and tender world of wonder. Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations. In 2010 she was named by The New Yorker as one of the top twenty American authors under the age of forty. She lives in New York. Biography • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £7.99 • 9780008225209
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Plot 29 A Memoir
Allan Jenkins ‘Plot 29 is a superbly written testament to the power of earth to nourish and heal’ Monty Don ‘The sort of book you never forget reading’ India Knight Longlisted for The Baillie Gifford Prize Allan Jenkins and his brother were rescued from their care home and fostered by an elderly couple. There, the brothers started to grow flowers. In the allotment Allan found comfort, but also dug deeper into his past. Allan Jenkins is editor of Observer Food Monthly, and once lived in an experimental eco-community on Anglesey. Biography • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £7.99 • 9780008121952
Emergency Admissions Memoirs of an Ambulance Driver
Kit Wharton ‘An adrenaline-filled ride through the highs and lows of life on the NHS frontline … Memorable and blackly humorous’ Express An S&M party gone horribly wrong. A dead man locked in a car with a hungry bull terrier. A teenage girl with suspicious abdominal pains. It’s just another day at work for Kit Wharton. Kit Wharton has worked for the emergency ambulance service for the past 12 years. He lives with his partner and two children. Biography and autobiography • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008188634
The Party Elizabeth Day ‘Think Donna Tartt’s The Secret History or Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty ... a gripping page-turner’ Observer Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn’t wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But when he meets the dazzlingly popular, wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, he gains admission to an exclusive world. Yet Martin has a secret. He knows something about Ben that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years. That is, until Ben’s 40th Birthday party when those bonds may finally break... Elizabeth Day is the author of three previous novels. She is the winner of a Betty Trask Award and an award-winning journalist. Fiction • 5 April 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008194307
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My Absolute Darling ESTATE
Gabriel Tallent ‘The word “masterpiece” has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one’ Stephen King 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 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 … Gabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He lives in Salt Lake City. My Absolute Darling is his first novel. Fiction • 3 May 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008185244
Borne Jeff VanderMeer ‘A thorough marvel’ Colson Whitehead ‘Borne is a fantastic read, a vivid vision of an apocalyptic future that defies expectations’ Starburst ‘No one writes a post-apocalyptic landscape like VanderMeer’ Guardian 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. Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. Fiction • 8 May 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008159214
The Mighty Franks A Memoir
Michael Frank ‘Move Over, Royal Tenenbaums: Meet The Mighty Franks’ New York Times Michael Frank’s aunt was his father’s sister and his uncle his mother’s brother. The two couples lived blocks apart in the hills of LA, with both grandmothers in an apartment together nearby. Most unusual of all was his aunt, ‘Hankie’. Hankie took a shine to Michael, holding him in her orbit in strange ways. Michael Frank’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Tablet and Glimmer Train. He served as a Los Angeles Times book critic for nearly ten years. He lives in New York City and Liguria, Italy. Biography • 15 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008215224
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Dad You Suck Tim Dowling Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best-loved journalists. ‘My sons have been present on countless occasions when I have, as we say in my homeland, completely lost my shit. During these stressful moments I have often wished to turn to them as a judge might to a jury and say, “Please strike the next few minutes from the record”, but many of those instances are chronicled in these pages…’ Tim Dowling is the author of several books including the Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, How to Be a Husband. His popular weekly Guardian column charts the ups and downs of his family life. Non-Fiction • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780007527717
Ranger Games A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
Ben Blum ‘A labyrinthine, utterly engrossing meditation on matters as seemingly disparate as the perils of loyalty, the seductive force of mathematical certainty, the toxicity of “honour”, the Stanford Prison Experiment, the weirdness of daytime television, and the dangerous power of family mythology. It is an astonishing book, unlike anything else I have ever read’ Jon Krakauer A tense and layered true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber 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. True Crime • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007554607
Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny ‘One of the funniest books you will ever read’ Daily Mail ‘Looking for a blissful summer novel? Here it is’ Washington Post ‘This is the beach book for summer 2017’ The Times ‘A comic masterpiece’ Observer A divinely funny novel about the challenges of a good marriage, the delight and heartache of raising children, and the irresistible temptation to wonder about the path not taken. Katherine Heiny is the author of the short story collection, Single, Carefree, Mellow. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children. Fiction • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008105532
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Philip Hoare ‘A masterpiece’ Observer ‘Wonderful…This beautifully written book is a delight’ BBC Radio 4 ‘Everything he writes is remarkably interesting’ Mail on Sunday In the third of his watery books, the author goes in pursuit of stories of the sea. Out of the storm-clouds of the twenty-first century and our restive time, these stories reach back into the past and forward into the future. And here they are forever drawn back to the water, forever lost and found on the infinite sea. Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including Leviathan, or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction; and The Sea Inside. He lives in Southampton. Earth Sciences • 14 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008133702
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