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Autumn 2011 Catalogue

Welcome to the Elliott & Thompson Autumn 2011 catalogue. Launched in 2009, we are an exciting young independent publishing house with a rapidly developing list, focusing predominantly on general adult trade non-fiction and featuring partnerships with leading UK brands alongside a growing strength in both sport and narrative non-fiction. E&T also publish the cult David Charters series – wickedly funny, fast-paced, fast-living books on the City featuring financial antihero, Dave Hart. The fifth title, The Ego’s Nest, is published this June.

Our lead title for Autumn is the untold story of one of the largest financial scandals – and the aristocratic conman Gerard Bevan at its heart – ever to have rocked the banking world. Full of underhand dealings in Edwardian England and involving a flight across Europe, replete with disguises and false passports, Fortune’s Spear is gripping true crime at its best. We have sports fans well-catered for also, with titles on cricket, golf and football, including a dramatic, in-depth account of the tumultuous 10-year span between the 1960s and 70s that defined the cricketing world as we know it today.

There is much more besides, and we welcome you to peruse our catalogue and explore our books...

Welcome

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Jumpers for Goalposts is a fascinating and funny reflection on why football has changed so much since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, and why the old descriptions of “the beautiful game” and “the people’s game” no longer fit. Smyth looks at all the things that have stripped the charm and innocence from football, a list that includes grotesque wages and transfer fees, diving, 4-5-1, TV overkill, political correctness – and the lack of decent moustaches. With a wit and concern for the game we love, Jumpers for Goalposts is an engaging study of how football has sold its soul – and, perhaps more importantly, whether it can get it back.

Author: Rob Smyth is an experienced cricket journalist who writes for the Guardian, Wisden Cricketer, the Economist and many other newspapers and magazines. He is the author of The Spirit of Cricket, paperback edition published by Elliott & Thompson in May 2011.

Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold its SoulRob Smyth

PubdAte: 1September2011 ISbN13: 9781907642227 PrIce: £11.99 FormAt: Paperback dImeNSIoNS: demy exteNt: 224pp cAtegory: Sport/Football bIc: WSJA rIghtS: World

SePtember

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In a decade spanning the 1960s and 70s three major crises gripped the world of cricket. The Close affair in 1967, when Brian Close was relieved of the England captaincy in controversial circumstances, laid bare the ugly class prejudice which had lingered on from the days of Gentlemen and Players. The d’Oliveira affair saw the selection of an England touring party become a major international incident that divided the nation. And the birth of World Series cricket forced players and establishment alike to confront the very nature of the game, and how it should be played.

Torn between the politics of the sport and the shifting social pressures of the day, the venerable institution of cricket found itself caught at a crossroads that would come to define how the game would be played and received for years to come. Based on original research and interviews with key figures of the day, Guy Fraser-Sampson evokes the era of the 1960s and 70s, the attitudes and politics of the period, and tells for the first time the story of the decade that dragged cricket forever into the modern era.

Along the way the book tells the story of some of the cricketing greats, and of their triumphs, disasters, and personal tragedies. Gary Sobers, Colin Cowdrey, Ted Dexter, Ray Illingworth, John Snow, Derek Underwood, Geoff Boycott. The ups, the downs, and the elusive what-ifs.

Author: Guy Fraser-Sampson is a well-known best-selling business author and also writes history and fiction. Although he has been devoted to the sport since the age of 10, this is his first book about cricket.

Cricket at the Crossroads: The Tumultuous Decade that Changed the Game ForeverGuy FRaSeR-SampSon

PubdAte: 22September2011 ISbN13: 9781907642333 PrIce: £18.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: royal exteNt: 288pp colour: mono cAtegory: Sport/cricket bIc: WSJc rIghtS: World

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Those delicious moments of pleasure we take in the misfortune of others…

Some of us actively pursue them.Some of us only think them.Some of us deny them.But we all have them.

It’s the book which previously dare not speak its name. Now, each dark pleasure has been uncovered in all its shady detail; each one named, defined and explained.

Yours is in here somewhere.

Turparphilia:To delight in the less than pulchritudinous nature of a friend’s offspring.

Nimbuphilia:To take pleasure in driving wildly through a kerb-side puddle which you know to be too close to a pedestrian.

Famaphilia:To delight in witnessing a celebrity in an everyday pickle.

Revel in mankind’s darkest pleasures laid bare with Schadenfreude: The Little Book of Black Delights.

Author: Tim Lihoreau is one of Classic FM’s most popular presenters, as well as a best-selling author on topics ranging from music to modern phobias.

Schadenfreude: The Little Book of Black Delightstim LihoReau

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PubdAte: 6october2011 ISbN13: 9781907642371 PrIce: £9.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: Aformat exteNt: 224pp colour: mono cAtegory: humour bIc: Wh rIghtS: World

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The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers is a fascinating and knowledgeable history of golf through the most talented men and women to ever have played the game.

From Old Tom Morris via Walter Hagen and Ben Hogan to legendary figures such as Jack Nicklaus and contemporary greats including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers recounts the lives and achievements of the sport’s leading lights through engaging text, fascinating anecdotes and insights into the development of the game across the decades.

Arranged alphabetically and with additional sections on the greatest ever drivers, bunker players and putters, The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers is the ideal pick-up-and-dip-in book for all golfing aficionados, whatever their handicap.

Author: Andy Farrell is an experienced golf journalist and the secretary of the Golf Writers’ Association.

The 100 Greatest Ever Golfersandy FaRReLL

PubdAte: 13october2011 ISbN13: 9781907642357 PrIce: £14.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: demy exteNt: 312pp colour: mono(100b&wphotographs)

cAtegory: Sport/golf bIc: WSJg rIghtS: World

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Gerard Lee Bevan was the black sheep of one of London’s most respectable banking families. A high-living womanizer and upper-class rogue of almost pantomime proportions, he exploited a glittering range of social connections. After a long run of success in City dealings he perpetrated a massive fraud that ruined both the City Equitable Fire Insurance Company and his stockbroking firm, Ellis & Co. He fled the country but was eventually arrested, tried and jailed.

Based on new research, Martin Vander Weyer tells this incredible true story for the first time. Exploring exactly how Bevan managed it, he reconstructs in rich Edwardian detail the environment and characters of the day, as well as Bevan’s desperate attempt at disguise and flight across Europe.

With resonances in today’s financial world, from the 2008 crash to the likes of fraudsters such as Bernard Madoff, Fortune’s Spear is a compelling true crime tale and a fascinating glimpse into a bygone financial world.

Author: Martin Vander Weyer is Business Editor and Any Other Business columnist of the Spectator. He spent fifteen years as a banker with Barclays and is the author of Falling Eagle: The Decline of Barclays Bank.

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Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920smaRtin VandeR WeyeR

PubdAte: 13october2011 ISbN13: 9781907642319 PrIce: £18.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: royal exteNt: 368pp colour: mono(8-pageb&wplatesection) cAtegory: truecrime bIc: btc rIghtS: World

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Nature Tales is a charming collection of encounters with the natural world from historic greats to modern household names, including:

Roger DeakinRichard MabeySimon BarnesColin TudgeNan ShepherdRuth PadelSamuel Taylor ColeridgeRobert Macfarlane

With beautifully drawn illustrations and a foreword by Sir David Attenborough, Nature Tales is a reflection of the capacity of Britain’s wildlife and countryside to inspire us all.

AuthorS: Michael Allen is the Chairman of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts; Sonya Patel Ellis is an experienced freelance writer on the environment, wildlife and travel.

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Nature Tales: Encounters with Britain’s WildlifeedS. michaeL aLLen and Sonya pateL eLLiSFoReWoRd by SiR daVid attenboRouGh

‘This wonderful collection of some of the greatest nature writers in Britain’s history is a pleasure to read from start to finish and a valuable addition to any naturalist’s library.’SiR daVid attenboRouGh

PubdAte: 1July2011 ISbN13: 9781907642210 PrIce: £9.99 FormAt: Paperback dImeNSIoNS: bformat exteNt: 400pp colour: mono(9full-pageb/willustrations)

cAtegory: Nature bIc: WNc rIghtS: World

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Each diary has clear week-to-view pages, a 3-year calendar, time zones, country dialling codes, On-This-Day facts, anecdotes and illustrations, and is produced in high-quality imitation leather. The Londoner’s Diary also contains a map of the London Underground.

July

Classic FM Diary 2012

The Londoner’s Diary 2012

PubdAte: 28July2011 ISbN13: 9781907642272 PrIce: £12.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: 216x135mm exteNt: 144ppcAtegory: Stationery bIc: WZS rIghtS: World

PubdAte: 28July2011 ISbN13: 9781907642289 PrIce: £12.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: 216x135mm exteNt: 144ppcAtegory: Stationery bIc: WZS rIghtS: World

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Dave Hart is an investment banker. Detestable and motivated by greed, he positively revels in his notoriety. But he is so much more than your average investment banker. He is also a fast-living, wickedly funny antihero who despises other bankers – all of them that is, except for the stunning (and stunningly brilliant) Laura ‘Two Livers’ Mackay.

Shining a satirical light onto the financial world, the adventures of Dave Hart – from saving Africa to becoming embroiled in the credit crunch – are both outlandish and yet disturbingly close to reality. An incorrigible and charismatic individual, Dave Hart is the antihero for our decade.

dAvIdchArterS

The cult Dave Hart series from David Charters

Atbonustime,NoonecanhearyouScreamISbN13:9781904027744PrIce:£6.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:bformatexteNt:192pp

WhereegosdareISbN13:9781904027775PrIce:£6.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:bformatexteNt:192pp

theegohaslandedISbN13:9781904027768PrIce:£6.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:bformatexteNt:192pp

trustme,I’mAbankerISbN13:9781904027751PrIce:£6.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:bformatexteNt:192pp

theego’sNestOuT JuNE 2011ISbN13:9781907642234PrIce:£6.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:bformatexteNt:192pp

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receNtlyPublIShed

The Classic FM Hall of Fame

The Smart Entrepreneur

ISbN13: 9781907642173 PrIce: £25 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: 256x196mm exteNt: 256ppcolour: Fullcolour (32full-pageillustrations) cAtegory: classicalmusic(Western) bIc: Av rIghtS: World

ISbN13: 9781904027881 PrIce: £12.99 FormAt: Paperback dImeNSIoNS: 216x135mm exteNt: 256ppcAtegory: business bIc: KJ rIghtS: World

‘There’s something here for every fan.’ SiR Simon RattLe

How to evaluate your business idea before committing all your capital, from the #1 Entrepreneurship school in Europe.

A beautifully illustrated, full-colour treasure trove of the most popular classical music as selected by the public.

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ISbN13: 9781907642029 PrIce: £18.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: 234x156mm exteNt: 352pp colour: monocAtegory: history bIc: bm rIghtS: uK+comm

ISbN13: 9781904027911 PrIce: £6.99 FormAt: hardback dImeNSIoNS: 142x107mm exteNt: 200ppcAtegory: travel/gift bIc: Wtl rIghtS: World

Memories After My Death

Hints to Lady Travellers

A poignant memoir of Israeli politician and broadcaster Tommy Lapid, encompassing the human story of Jews, Israel and Israeli politics in the twentieth century.

Exclusive travel advice for women from the Victorian era with period details from the original Royal Geographic Society archive.

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Backlist Titles

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SpiritofcricketISbN13:9781907642203PrIce:£7.99 FormAt:PaperbackdImeNSIoNS:b-formatexteNt:224pp colour:mono cAtegory:Sport/cricketbIc:WSJc rIghtS:World