New Books from Vintage Publishing June 2012

NEW BOOKS

FROM VINTAGE PUBLISHING JUNE 2012 Books from The Bodley Head – Jonathan Cape – Chatto & Windus – Harvill Secker – Pimlico – Square Peg – Vintage Books – Yellow Jersey

This summer, enter the magical world of Erin Morgenstern’s

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‘Playful and intensely imaginative... This is a marvellous book’ Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife

ERIN MORGENSTERN

‘A breathtaking feat of imagination, a flight of fancy that pulls you in and wraps you up in its spell’ The Times

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This summer enter the magical world of The Night Circus – a feast for the senses and a fantasia of magic, mischief and love The Night Circus was 2011’s biggest literary debut and the book everyone will be talking about this summer A Top Ten bestseller in hardback, selling over 45,000 copies in the UK and 300,000 worldwide

Major film in development by Summit, the makers of the Twilight films

Erin Morgenstern is a writer and a multimedia artist, who describes all her work as ‘fairy tales in one way or another’.

She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. www.nightcircus.co.uk www.facebook.com/thenightcircus www.erinmorgenstern.com

R E L AT E D T I T L E S :

Innovative and awardwinning online storyworld at www.nightcircus.co.uk

£7.99 | PAPERBACK | 7TH JUNE 2012 PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780099554790 EBOOK ISBN: 9781446468265

Erin was shortlisted for International Author of the Year at the Galaxy Book Awards and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award

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PUBLICITY: LISA GOODING 0207 840 8677

The Time Traveler’s Wife 9780099464464

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell VINTAGE BOOKS

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‘THIS SHAMBOLIC COP...IS ABSORBING COMPANY’ METRO ‘One of the most attractive figures to enter recent detective fiction’ INDEPENDENT

‘The most enchanting new detective I’ve come across in a good while’ GUARDIAN

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Max Cámara is back, taking his love of flamenco and brandy to seaside Valencia in a thrilling case involving a dead paella chef, an abortionist and corrupt politicians Brought up in England, Jason Webster has lived for several years in Valencia, the setting of his Cámara novels. www.jasonwebster.net

‘Does for Spain what Michael Dibdin did to wonderful effect in his ‘Zen’ novels for Italy... a marvellous novel ripe with passion, love and murder... it is wonderful to read about a crime thriller in the sun’ CRIMESQUAD.COM

Perfect summer reading – a vividly sizzling Spanish setting, an irresistible detective and lots of paella!

@maxcamara

£12.99 | TRADE PAPERBACK 7TH JUNE 2012 | 9780701185084

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Or the Bull Kills You 9780099546962

A Question of Belief

The NEXT BIG THING Arnaldur INDRIDASON

in Scandinavian crime –

over 7 million books sold worldwide

★ Perfect for readers of the Inspector Morse, Rebus and Detective Jack Frost novels ★ Like Mankell and Nesbo before him, Indridason's fanbase of devoted readers is growing book by book, and he is poised to break out to a mass market

Sunday Times

ARNALDUR INDRIDASON worked for many years as a journalist and critic before he began writing novels. Outside Iceland, he is best known for his crime novels featuring Erlendur and Sigurdur Óli, which are consistent bestsellers across Europe.

The series has won numerous awards, including the Nordic Glass Key and the CWA Gold Dagger.

His most recent novel is Outrage.

£12.99 7th June 2012 HARDBACK: 9781846555817 EBOOK: 9781446485026

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Publicist: BETHAN JONES 020 7840 8543

HARVILL

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‘One of the most brilliant crime writers of his generation’

man is making a crude leather mask with slits for eyes and mouth, and an iron spike fixed in the middle of the forehead. It is a 'death mask', once used by Icelandic farmers to slaughter calves. He has revenge in mind.

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Arnaldur INDRIDASON

Vintage Books Crime

On a cold night in Reykjavík a man lies dead, his throat cut, a bottle of Rohypnol nearby...

He offered her another margarita, and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her glass.

They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would give him no trouble...

★ His biggest book yet – Indridason has been crime writing’s best-kept secret – until now

Arnaldur Indridason is one of Iceland's most successful authors ever. His books have been translated into many languages and published in 26 different countries, winning literary prizes including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel of the year in the UK. His novel, Jar City, was filmed as Myrin, and is currently being remade in an English language version.

£6.99 7th June 2012 PAPERBACK: 9780099549352 Ebook: 9781409041429

★ Indridason is poised to break out like Jo Nesbo: Hypothermia doubled his UK readership

On a cold night in Reykjavík a man lies dead, his throat cut, a bottle of Rohypnol nearby ...

On a cold night in Reykjavík a man lies dead, his throat cut, a bottle of Rohypnol nearby ...

★ Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction for Silence of the Grave

ALSO BY ARNALDUR INDRIDASON IN VINTAGE

Jar City 9781843431015

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Silence of the Grave 9780099469544

Tainted Blood 9780099513124

The Draining Lake 9780099542216

Publicist: LISA GOODING 020 7840 8677

First published by Harvill Secker in 2011 9781846555503

Voices 9780099546627

Arctic Chill 9780099542322

Hypothermia 9780099532279

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‘Clare Clark is one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture.’

Hilary Mantel

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Clare Clark is the author of three highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink, Savage Lands and The Nature of Monsters.

Born in 1967, she graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a double first in History, and now lives in London with her husband and two children.

Harvill Secker Fiction

London, 1887. In a momentous year dogged by economic crisis, riots and a voracious press hungry for scandal - how can one MP’s wife bury the truth about her past?

Wonderfully intelligent, compelling historical fiction for fans of A.S.Byatt, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel and Alan Hollinghurst

‘Clare Clark writes with the eyes of a historian and the soul of a novelist’ Amanda Foreman

Set in a London incredibly similar to our own: a Jubilee year marked by LONGLISTED FOR THE economic crisis and ORANGE riots, presided over by PRIZE a scandal-mongering popular press

Savage Lands 9780099546641

£12.99 | HARDACK | 7TH JUNE 2012

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The Children’s Book 9780099535454

Restoration 9780099531951

Wolf Hall

HARDBACK ISBN: 9781846556050 EBOOK ISBN: 9781446499436

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‘When Morrison writes at her best, you can feel the workings of history through her prose’ Hilary Mantel

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ALSO BY TONI MORRISON:

The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison that excavates the pain of a soldier’s homecoming in 1950’s America Home explores the Korean War, giving a twentieth-century perspective on her classic themes of race, repression, wronged women and tortured manhood

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. She is the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise and, most recently, A Mercy. She has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction. www.facebook.com/tonimorrisonauthor

Sula 9780099760016

Song of Solomon 9780099768418

Beloved 9780099760115

Paradise The Bluest Eye R E L AT E D T I9780099759911 TLES: 9780099768210

Jazz 9780099750918

Love 9780099455493

2012 sees the 25th anniversary of Beloved, a perennial favourite on the Vintage list

‘Ms Morrison’s versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds’ Margaret Atwood

£12.99 | 3RD MAY 2012 HARDBACK ISBN 9780701186074 EBOOK ISBN 9781448138616

Tar Baby 9780099760214

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A Mercy 9780099502548

CHATTO & WINDUS

TIDE S of WA R

‘Hugely enjoyable...

Intelligent, classy, entertaining’

SUNDAY TIMES

STELLA

TILLYARD

DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Dazzling – I love this book.

It’s beautifully written, the characters are deeply involving and the historical settings are so right – in short, Tides of War is a triumph’

A sweeping epic of love and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency England and the battlefields of the Peninsular War Superbly written historical fiction – vividly recreates Regency London and returns us to the lost world of the past Stella Tillyard has been described by Simon Schama as ‘dazzling…a phenomenally gifted writer’. She has lived in the USA and Italy and now lives in London.

SIMON SCHAMA R EL AT ED T I T LES :

Perfect for fans of Wolf Hall and The Rose of Sebastopol

@stellatillyard £7.99 |PAPERBACK | 7TH JUNE 2012 PAPERBACK ISBN 9780099526421 EBOOK ISBN 9781446477564

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Wolf Hall

The Rose of Sebastopol VINTAGE BOOKS

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‘A perfectly sprung novel of the sort that owes more to Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell than Patrick O’Brian or Bernard Cornwall’

A dazzling ambitious and playful tale of family life in contemporary Delhi ‘A powerful tale’ Guardian

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‘Bold, playful, smart and lively’ Time Out

‘Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining’ The Times

A brilliant portrait of the complexities and colour of modern India – perfect for reading group discussion

Born in 1976, Alice Albinia read English Literature at Cambridge, and South Asian History at SOAS. In between, she worked for two years in Delhi as a journalist and editor.

Her previous book, Empires of the Indus, won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Authors’ Club Dolman Travel Award and the Jerwood/Royal Society of Literature Prize.

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www.alicealbinia.co.uk

£7.99 | 7TH JUNE 2012 PAPERBACK ISBN 9780099548492 EBOOK ISBN 9781409019619

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A Suitable Boy

Midnight’s Children 9780099578512

The God Of Small Things VINTAGE BOOKS

‘Grippingly good’

THEN JULIE

MYERSON

‘Dark … hypnotic’

Observer

Sunday Herald

‘Breathtaking… staggeringly accomplished’ Sunday Express

★ An astonishing, apocalyptic new novel,

Jonathan Cape Fiction

from the author of Something Might Happen (90,000 copies) and Out of Breath ★ Everything stopped at 9.22. First there was the burning air, then came the darkness, the fire, and finally the frost. Now, in a frozen, wasted city, a woman is fighting to stay alive. ★ Controversial, thoughtprovoking and powerful, with a twist in the tail

Julie Myerson was born in Nottingham in 1960.

She is the author of Sleepwalking (1993), The Touch (1996), Me and the Fat Man (1998), Laura Blundy (2000), Something Might Happen (2003) The Story of You (2006) and Out of Breath (2008).

She lives in London. £7.99 7th June 2012 PAPERBACK: 9780099554721 EBOOK: 9781446484234

An astonishing, apocalyptic new novel, from the author of Something Might Happen

THEN

by JULIE MYERSON Vintage Books/£7.99

ALSO BY JULIE MYERSON IN VINTAGE

First published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 2011 9780224093750 Sleepwalking 9780099494157

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Publicist: LISA GOODING 020 7840 8677

The Touch 9780099499329

Something Might Happen 9780099453529

The Story of You 9780099497097

Out of Breath 9780099516163

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‘Delightful and heartbreaking’ The Times 12

Tender yet wickedly intelligent summer

HARVILL SECKER FICTION

reading from Anne Tyler’s naughty little sister

‘Very funny’ Scotsman

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap comes a provocative and dazzlingly witty new novel about female desire ★ A high school end-of-term play in which women withhold sex from men, has a profound and surprising influence on the whole community

Tender yet wickedly intelligent summer reading from Anne Tyler's naughty little sister

★ Perfect for readers groups: popular but upmarket read with real issues to discuss ★ Meg Wolitzer is our Curtis Sittenfield – funny, wry, and a little bit dangerous

DISCOVER MEG WOLITZER IN VINTAGE Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Wife ('has you howling with recognition' Allison Pearson), The Position ('one of the best and most human books I've read all year' Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap ('wickedly, terrifically funny a true delight' Independent). She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.

£7.99 7th June 2012 PAPERBACK: 9780099553960

First published in trade paperback by Chatto & Windus in 2011 9780701186210

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The Position 9780099485056

The Ten-Year Nap 9780099523482

The Wife 9780099478195 VINTAGE BOOKS

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Anouk Markovits 14

I AM FORBIDDEN

Chatto & Windus Fiction

An extraordinary debut about three generations of women who take us from pre-World War Two Transylvania via Paris and England to present-day New York

The author’s remarkable life story closely mirrors the life portrayed in the book – expect lots of publicity

One of the launch titles for Chatto & Windus’ new transatlantic imprint – Hogarth

A powerful portrayal of family, sisters, faith and history

Anouk Markovits grew up in France.

She attended a religious seminary in England instead of high school. After she left home at the age of nineteen to avoid an arranged marriage, she attended Columbia University. Her first novel, Pur Coton, was written in French. I Am Forbidden is her Englishlanguage debut. She lives in New York.

Perfect for reading groups, with its combination of beautiful writing, a glimpse into a secret world, historical controversy and women’s lives

£12.99 | HARDBACK | 14TH JUNE 2012 BOOK ISBN 9781781090022 www.vintage-books.co.uk

PUBLICITY KATE BLAND 0207 840 8688

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The 19th Wife

The Red Tent

The Tiger’s Wife

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Night Dancer Chika Unigwe

A moving novel which focuses on one girl’s search for belonging, moving across the landscape of Nigeria’s recent past.

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★ A powerful novel about the

relationship between mothers and daughters and about the bonds of family. ★ Her previous novel, On Black Sisters’

Street was Alastair Campbell’s Book of the Year 2010 and was picked as an editor’s choice by the New York Times

Chika Unigwe was born in Nigeria and now lives in Belgium with her husband and four children. She is an awardwinning short story writer and the author of two novels, written in Dutch. On Black Sisters' Street was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009.

A moving novel which focuses on one girl's search for belonging, moving across the landscape of Nigeria's recent past

£12.99 7th June 2012 TRADE PAPERBACK: 9780224093835

‘Exquisitely observed and heartbreaking’ Guardian ‘This powerful book will leave you haunted’ Ali Smith

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A powerful novel about the relationship between mothers and daughters and about the bonds of family

Publicist: HANNAH ROSS 020 7840 8542

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Praise for On Black Sisters’ Street:

On Black Sisters' Street 9780099523949

Half a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie JONATHAN CAPE

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An island can feel very small when there’s nobody to trust...

Jonathan Cape Fiction

Gripping and moving in equal parts, San Carlos is an exciting new novel that packs a tremendous punch Perfect for fans of Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Michel Houellebecq and John Niven, and films such as Sexy Beast Neil Forsyth’s brilliant spoof Bob Servant titles, about international scam emails, have become word-of-mouth best-sellers, with 50,000 copies sold over both editions Neil Forsyth was born in Glasgow in 1978. He is the author of five previous books.

His trilogy of Bob Servant humour books have become cult favourites. He is working on his next book and writes for television and radio. He lives in London. £12.99 21/07/12 PAPERBACK: 9780224093446 EPUB: 9781448138609

Filth 9780099591115

Kill Your Friends 9780099516675

PUBLICITY: CHLOE JOHNSON-HILL 020 7840 8490

JONATHAN CAPE

A remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer

‘A strong , original voice and sharp wit’ IRISH EXAMINER

Pitch-black, very funny, provocative and deadly serious

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ALSO PUBLISHED THIS MONTH – CHARLES McLEOD’S SHORT STORY COLLECTION

Powerfully dark satire – perfect for fans of Joseph Heller, Hunter S. Thompson and Bret Easton Ellis Charles McLeod’s fiction has appeared in many publications. A Hoyns Fellow while at the University of Virginia, he has also received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; San Jose University, where he was a Steinbeck Fellow; and the Jentel Artist Residency Program. American Weather is his first novel.

Less Than Zero

£7.99 | 7TH JUNE 2012 PAPERBACK ISBN: 9780099552223 EBOOK ISBN: 9780753544495

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‘Channelling Bret Easton Ellis from Less than Zero to Glamorama, McLeod has produced a strident satire on the American-dream-turnednightmare... The writing 17 is sharp and clever’ GUARDIAN

National Treasures 9780099542230

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Invisible Monsters Remix Chuck Palahniuk 18

An expanded, radically refashioned ‘director’s cut’ of this favourite Chuck Palahniuk novel

Vintage Books Fiction

Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfils Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience.

Woven in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book’s characters.

Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the melding of fact and fiction, and decipher the book’s playful page design.

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club and 11 other bestselling novels. He is also the author of the non-fiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. @chuckpalahniuk £9.99 07/06/12 PAPERBACK: 9780099575054 EBOOK: 9781448129768

PUBLICITY: LISA GOODING 020 7840 8677

Tell-All 9780099526988

Damned 9780224091152

Pygmy 9780099526971

Fight Club 9780099765219

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RISING BLOOD

JAMES FLEMING

Another installment of rip-roaring adventure and intrigue, as Charlie Doig escapes from Russia to the Orient

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The final thrilling part of the brilliant Charlie Doig trilogy – the best yet from an accomplished writer with a growing reputation ‘James Fleming, nephew of Ian, is a class act: a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style’ Mail on Sunday James Fleming is the nephew of Ian Fleming – major publicity interest guaranteed

James Fleming, the nephew of Ian Fleming, was born in London in 1944. He is the author of four previous novels, all of them good: The Temple of Optimism, Thomas Gage, White Blood and Cold Blood. He writes in Scotland. www.jamesfleming.com £8.99 07/06/12 PAPERBACK: 9780099555377 EPUB: 9781446484593

Cold Blood 9780099529521

White Blood 9780099497080 PUBLICITY: LISA GOODING 020 7840 8677

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DUBLINESQUE ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS

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A moving novel about art, life and James Joyce from one of Spain’s greatest writers

Harvill Secker Fiction

Dublinesque is set to be Vila-Matas’s breakout book in the UK. Bartleby & Co and Montano already have scores of loyal fans Published on Bloomsday to coincide with 90th anniversary of the publication of Ulysses Born in Barcelona in 1948, Enrique Vila-Matas has had a long and outstanding literary career. His extraordinary oeuvre, translated into 30 languages, includes Bartleby & Co, Montano and Never Any End to Paris. www.enriquevilamatas.com £14.99 07/06/12 PAPERBACK: 9781846554896 EBOOK: 9781446485040

Bartleby & Co 9780099453727

Montano 9781843432159 PUBLICITY: FIONA MURPHY 020 7840 8592

HARVILL SECKER

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ADAMTINE Hannah Berry 22

A haunting new graphic novel from the author of Britten & Brulightly

Jonathan Cape Grahic Novel

Hannah Berry’s debut, Britten & Brulightly, was one of the most highly praised graphic novels of recent years, and was an Official Selection at Angoulême in 2010 Praise for Britten & Brulightly: ‘[The] perfect marriage of soaringly beautiful drawing and writing that makes you want to jump up and down with euphoria.’ The Times

Hannah Berry is a graduate of the illustration course at Brighton University. Her first book, Britten & Brulightly, was highly praised and an Official Selection at Angoulême in 2010.

£14.99 07/06/12 Trade Paperback: 9780224089081

The plot writhes and twists, needing its drizzly, downbeat epilogue to draw together the many strings.’

Guardian

Britten & Brulightly 9780224077903 PUBLICITY: HANNAH ROSS 020 7840 8542

JONATHAN CAPE

DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER Joff Winterhart

A tale of single parenting and heavy metal

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Joff Winterhart was runner-up in the Cape/Observer Graphic Short Story Award in 2009 Already well-known for his animated films like the BAFTA Cymru-winning Violet and Turquoise, here he shows himself to be a comics author of extraordinary talent

Joff Winterhart is an illustrator, film-maker and plays drums in his band, Bucky. He lives in Bristol, where he walks his greyhound, Peep-Peep. £9.99 07/06/12 Trade Paperback: 9780224090841 Ebook: 9781407085890

Vivid and moving, Days of the Bagnold Summer is similar to Shane Meadows’s observations of domestic blitz

PUBLICITY: HANNAH ROSS 020 7840 8542

Death of an Unsigned Band Tim Thornton 9780099531876

JONATHAN CAPE

DARKMARKET ‘A gripping tale, NEW MAFIA HOW HACKERS BECAME THE

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★ Author of the international bestseller, McMafia, Glenny now turns his attention to the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: digital online crime, warfare and industrial espionage

Yellow Jersey Cycling

★ A hugely important book that reveals the inherent dangers of our technological world – a must read ★ McMafia sold over 100,000 copies and was a Sunday Times bestseller ★ Dedicated website: www.darkmarketinsider.com and Misha can be followed on Twitter on @MishaGlenny

brilliantly researched’ Sunday Times

‘Riveting’Daily Telegraph ‘A thriller-paced read’ Metro

‘A real-life crime thriller…fascinating’ Mail on Sunday

★ Major poster advertising and online campaign

Misha Glenny is a distinguished journalist and historian. As the Central Europe Correspondent first for the Guardian and then for the BBC, he chronicled the collapse of communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He won the Sony Gold Award for an outstanding contribution to broadcasting. The author of four books, including the acclaimed McMafia, he has been regularly consulted by the US and European governments on major policy issues and ran an NGO for three years, assisting with the reconstruction of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. He now lives in London.

£8.99 7th June 2012 PAPERBACK: 9780099546559 EBOOK: 9781409027195

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Darker Market (Ebook only) 9781446499375

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia

Publicist: LISA GOODING 020 7840 8677 www.vintage-books.co.uk First published by The Bodley Head in 2011 9781847921260

McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime 9780099481256

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Yellow Yellow JerseyJersey Cycling Cricket 25

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Yellow Jersey Press Bodley Cycling Head Politics

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Yellow Jersey Cycling

The Ghost 28

‘Deeply personal a touching, heartfelt story’ Gary Imlach

Rob White & Julie Welch

Yellow Jersey Football / Memoir

The incredible biography of sixties Tottenham Hotspur legend, John White, who died aged just 27 after being struck by lightening Co-written by his son who never knew his father and includes interviews with Rob White’s teammates, followers and family A stunning portrait, not only of a brilliant and gifted young man, but of a lost era

Rob White is a professional photographer. The Ghost is his first book. Follow him @robawhite.

Julie Welch is the critically lauded author of Those Glory, Glory Days, 26.2: Running the London Marathon and Out On Your Feet: The World of Hundred-mile Walking.

‘Colourful and, at times, moving’ Four Four Two

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‘This book deserves to be read’ Jimmy Greaves My Father and Other Working Class Heroes 9780224072687

£8.99 | PAPERBACK |7TH JUNE 2012 BOOK ISBN 9780224083003 EBOOK ISBN 9781407092294

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PUBLICITY LISA GOODING 0207 840 8677

YELLOW JERSEY PRESS

MURDER, INTRIGUE and two decades of investigation: a gripping true crime story from an

PETER MOORE BEING A TRUE AND Detailed HISTORY * OF * BARBAROUS and INHUMANE MURDER AT and the QUICK AND AWFUL RETRIBUTION

THE * MOST

Murder, intrigue and two decades of investigation: a gripping true crime story from an energetic young historian

Peter Moore is a writer and freelance journalist. Born in Staffordshire in 1983, he studied history and sociology at Durham University and then spent six years working in the media in Madrid and London, where he was head of publishing at an award-winning digital agency.

He now teaches creative writing at City University in London. Damn His Blood is his first book. £16.99 21st June 2012 HARDBACK: 9780701186449 Ebook: 9781448138401

★ A VIVID REAPPRAISAL OF

GEORGIAN ENGLAND: no more

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bonnets and manners as in Jane Austen’s Georgian towns, instead there are grisly FEUDS, VIOLENT HIGHWAYMEN and the Napoleonic wars breeding an atmosphere of threat and fear ★ The story of the Oddingley murders was a media sensation: a FASCINATING story that spans nearly twenty-five years, numerous trials and inquests, and a cast of characters straight out of the pages of Dickens or Hardy

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MR WHICHER'S INHERITOR: T H I S I S PA C Y T R U E C R I M E AT I T S V E RY B E S T – A GRIPPING READ WITH A TWIST IN THE TA I L

Publicist: FIONA MURPHY 020 7840 8592 www.vintage-books.co.uk

Chatto & Windus True Crime

M R WH IC H E R’S I N H E R ITOR: T H I S I S PA C Y T R U E C R I M E AT I T S V E RY B E S T – A G R I PPI NG R EAD WITH A T W I S T I N T H E TA I L

ENERGETIC * YOUNG * HISTORIAN

The Suspicions of Mr. Mr Briggs’ Hat Kate Colquhoun Whicher Kate Summerscale CHATTO & WINDUS

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Frank McLynn has been feted as ‘one of Britain’s...national treasures’ by the GUARDIAN

Bodley Head History

Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn investigates the seven occasions when England came closest to revolution:

★ Mixes narrative and analysis, vividly recreating each episode and providing compelling explanations of why social turbulence stopped short of revolution

★ The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

★ Given present-day upheavals, this book poses the very pertinent question of why, in Britain, social turbulence stops short of revolution

★ The Jack Cade rising of 1450 ★ The Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536 ★ The English Civil War of the 1640s

★ Frank McLynn has been feted as ‘one of Britain’s ... national treasures’ by the Guardian, and has had an excellent commercial and critical track record

★ The Jacobite Rising of 1745–6 ★ The Chartist Movement of 1838–50 ★ The General Strike of 1926

Frank McLynn is a highly regarded historian, who specialises in biographies and military history. He has written over twenty books, including critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon and Richard the Lionheart. Other books include 1066, Stanley, 1759, and Marcus Aurelius. He lives in Dorset. £20.00 7th June 2012 HARDBACK: 9780224072939 EBOOK: 9781446449356

ALSO BY FRANK McLYNN IN VINTAGE Frank McLynn has been feted as 'one of Britain's ... national treasures' by the Guardian

Acclaimed historian Frank McLynn investigates the seven occasions when England came closest to revolution

The Burma Campaign 9780099551782

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Marcus Aurelius 9781844135271

Lionheart & Lackland 9780712694179

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Jonathan Cape Nature Writing

Strands

Three Houses, Many Lives GILLIAN TINDALL Praise for The House by the Thames:

The author of the hugely successful The House by the Thames traces the history of three houses, in minute detail 32

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The houses are a Cotswold vicarage, a one-time girls’ boarding school in Surrey and a Jacobean house now buried in inner London.

The author of the hugely successful The House by the Thames traces the history of three houses, in minute detail

History is told through the houses: the changing face of England during four centuries through the many people who have lived in them.

Each house has gone through a series of physical transformations, most of all the seventeenth century merchant’s house which eventually became a Conservative Club and then a drinking club for lorry drivers.

The author of the hugely successful The House by the Thames traces the history of three houses, in minute detail

‘A rare instance of a history book that, in its optimism about the indomitable spirit of the place, raises the hairs on the back of your neck’ Sunday Telegraph

RELATED TITLES Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, making a handful of people, a few places or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture. Well-known for the quality of her writing and the meticulous nature of her research, she has written highly praised regional histories of Kentish Town (The Fields Beneath), London's Southbank (The House by the Thames) and the Latin Quarter of Paris (Footprints in Paris), as well as prize-winning novels and history. She lives in London.

£17.99 7th June 2012 HARDBACK: 9780701185183 EBOOK: 9781409041207

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A stark and moving account

Ninety Days

of relapse and recovery, from the acclaimed author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Bill Clegg

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★ Bill Clegg is a beautiful, charismatic young New Yorker. This is the aftermath of his crash and burn addiction to crack cocaine, meth and alcohol. ★ Like his first book, this is an utterly compulsive and terrifying narrative of extraordinary frankness.

Praise for Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man:

‘An instant classic’ ‘Honest and wonderfully crafted’ Guardian

‘A remarkable achievement’ Irvine Welsh

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A stark and moving account of relapse and recovery, from the acclaimed author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Bill Clegg is also the author of Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man. He lives in New York.

£14.99 7th June 2012 HARDBACK: 9780224094245 EBOOK: 9781446475034

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he goal is ninety: just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything.

NINETY DAYS

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THE URBAN BEEKEEPER HOW TO KEEP BEES IN THE CITY 34

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STEVE BENBOW A hugely inspiring, practical diary of beekeeping in the city City beekeeping is a huge new trend, championed by the likes of Boris Johnson and Abel & Cole Steve Benbow runs hives across London’s greatest landmarks, including both Tate galleries, Fortnum & Mason, and the National Gallery, as well as hives in Shropshire and Salisbury. He supplies honey to Fortnum & Mason, Harvey Nichols, the Savoy tearooms and Harrods, chefs including Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing, and sells at local farmers markets and from his studio in Bermondsey. £14.99 07/06/12 Hardback: 9780224086899 EPUB: 9781448138647

Steve Benbow is the spokesperson for urban beekeeping and is regularly profiled in papers such as the Observer and Evening Standard and many food magazines

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A hugely affectionate but practical diary of a beekeeper’s year and the immense satisfaction of harvesting your own delicious honey. Read it and join the revolution

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GARETH MAY

ESSENTIAL TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE YOUNG MAN ABROAD FROM THE AUTHOR OF 150 THINGS EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW

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Gareth May is an author, humourist, part-time standup comic and minor internet celebrity. His first book, 150 Things Every Man Should Know, was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Independent on Sunday and has been published in the USA, Russia and China. Devonshire born and bred, he now lives in London. £12.99 07/06/12 TRADE PAPERBACK: 9780224086752 EPUB: 9781409041887

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An exciting and vivid examination of what the world of medieval chivalry was really like, and the role it played in the history of medieval England

Chivalry in England 1066–1500

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ELLS THE STORY of England

from the Norman Conquest to the aftermath of Henry VII’s triumph at Bosworth in the Wars of the Roses A fascinating look at medieval society, a society with very different values to our own – at once colourful and polite, as well as prickly and violent Comparable to Ian Mortimer’s The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, which has sold over 150,00 copies

‘A fine book’ BBC History Magazine

‘A rich book that

does ample justice to its complex theme’ The Times

Nigel Saul is Professor of Medieval History in the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include Richard II, A Companion to Medieval England, Death, Art and Memory in Medieval England and, most recently, The Three Richards. £12.99 7th June 2012 PAPERBACK: 9781845951535 EBOOK: 9781409027546

An exciting and vivid examination of what the world of medieval chivalry was really like, and the role it played in the history of medieval England

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N exciting and vivid examination of what the world of medieval chivalry was really like, and the role it played in the history of medieval England

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A PERFECT INTRODUCTION TO TOM WOLFE’S BRILLIANT AND MASTERFUL JOURNALISM

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A thrilling collection of some of Wolfe’s very best essays ranging from a survey of life at the turn of the second millennium to the birth of Sillicon Valley Tom Wolfe’s writing is extraordinary and wholly original. His savage parody piece about the New Yorker editor William Shawn sparked a huge controversy and is a stunning piece of writing

Tom Wolfe was born in 1931.

His first novel The Bonfire of the Vanities was published in 1987.

It was number one on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks and remained on the list for more than a year. Tom Wolfe is the author of contemporary classics such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He lives in New York City. £9.99 07/06/12 PAPERBACK: 9780099565888 EBOOK: 9781409018902

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