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3. Little, Brown
20. Abacus
36. Virago
53. Sphere
77. Atom
97. Piatkus
127. Orbit
Little Brown Book Group, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DY
T +44 (0)20 7911 8000 F +44(0)20 7911 8100 www.littlebrown.co.uk
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Cancel the ApocalypseThe new path to prosperity Andrew Simms
Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone.
From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, butwhat if everything could turn out, well, even better than before?
What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and
a surplus of old orthodoxies?
It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same
amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods as it exports,
and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic
value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay.
In fascinating and iconoclastic detail – on everything from the cash
in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our
working lives – Cancel the Apocalypse describes how the
relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth
winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to
our environment, and hasn't even made us any happier in the
process.
Simms believes passionately in the human capacity for change,
and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While globalwarming and financial meltdown might feel like modern-day
horsemen of the apocalypse, Simms shows how such end of the
world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning.
About the author
Andrew Simms is 'a master at
joined-up progressive thinking'
according to New Scientist
magazine. He is a Fellow andleading light of nef (the new
economics foundation).
• A bold and radical look at a world in which
we have become obsessed with economic
growth at the expense of quality of life –
and what we can do to change.
• Simms is a regular on Radio and T.V.
• From the author of Tescopoly
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January
9781408702369
Sociology, Social Studies
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Salvation of a Saint
Keigo Higashino
When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home,
his beautiful wife Ayane immediately falls under suspicion. Allclues point to her being the logical suspect, but how could she
have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away?
As Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly
unrelated sequence of events, he finds himself falling for Ayane.
When his judgement becomes dangerously clouded his assistant
must call on an old friend for help; it will take a genius to unravel
the most spectacular web of deceit they have ever faced . . .
Salvation of a Saint is a magnificently complex and page-turning
thriller, starring international crime fiction's most enigmaticsleuth. This is essential reading for all fans of exceptional crime
fiction.
About the author
Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka.
He started writing novels while still
working as an engineer at Nippon
Denso Co. He won the EdogawaRampo Prize for writing at the age
of 27, and subsequently left his job
to start a career as a writer in
Tokyo.
• Keigo Higashino is a cult figure and massive
bestseller
• His previous novel The Devotion of Suspect
X was made into a cult film and sold over
2 million copies in his native Japan
• Salvation of a Saint reunites readers with
Detective Kusanagi and physics professor
Yukawa from The Devotion of Suspect X
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February
9781408704196
Crime & Mystery Fiction
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The Fields
Kevin Maher
Dublin, 1984: Ireland is a divided country, the Parish Priest
remains a figure of immense authority who commands absolute
respect, and Jim Finnegan is thirteen years old, the youngest in a
family of five sisters. Life in Jim's world consists of dealing with the
helter-skelter intensity of his rumbustious family, taking break-
neck bike-rides with his best friend, and quietly coveting the local
girls from afar. But after a drunken yet delicate rendition of 'The
Fields of Athenry' at the Donohues' raucous annual party, Jim
captures both the attention of the beautiful Saidhbh Donohue and
the unwanted desires of the devious and dangerous Father Luke
O'Culigeen.
Bounced between his growing love for Saidhbh and the abuse he
receives at the hands of O'Culigeen, Jim's life starts to unravel. He
and Saidhbh take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London that has
dark and difficult repercussions, forcing Jim to look for the
solution to all his problems in some very unusual places.
The Fields is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character:
Jim's voice leaps off the page and straight into the reader's heart,
as he grapples with his unfairly interrupted adolescence, with the
influence of the Church and with the divided loyalties that the
Troubles have provoked. Lyrical, funny, profoundly original and
endlessly inventive, it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new
voice.
About the author
Kevin Maher was born and brought up in
Dublin, moving to London in 1994 to
begin a career in journalism. He wrote
for the Guardian, the Observer and TimeOut and was film editor of The Face
until 2002, before joining The Times
where for the last eight years he has
been a feature writer, critic and
columnist.
• Major new literary voice that sizzles with
life and energy.
• The big L, B debut fiction launch of spring
2013
• Won in a heated auction and publishing
simultaneously with Reagan Arthur Books
at HBGUSA, this is a novel with
international appeal
• Perfect for fans of Roddy Doyle, Mark
Haddon and Paul Murray's Skippy Dies
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March
9781408704165
General & Literary Fiction
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The Tank War
The men, the machines and the long roadto victoryMark Urban
From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to
Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front
line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw
them serve in Africa as part of the Desert Rats, before returning to
Europe for the Normandy landings. Wherever they went, the
notoriety of the ‘Filthy Fifth’ grew – they revelled in their
reputation for fighting by their own rules.
The Tank War explains how Britain, having lost its advantage intank warfare by 1939, regained ground through shifts in tactics
and leadership methods, as well as the daring and bravery of the
crews themselves. Overturning the received wisdom of much
Second World War history, Mark Urban shows how the tank
regiments’ advances were the equal of the feats of the German
Panzer divisions.
Drawing on a wealth of new material, from interviews with
surviving soldiers to rarely seen archive material, this is an
unflinchingly honest, unsentimental and often brutal account ofthe 5th RTR’s wartime experiences. Capturing the characters in
the crews and exploring the strategy behind their success, The
Tank War is not just the story of an battle hardened unit, but
something more extraordinary: the triumph of ordinary men,
against long odds, in the darkest of times.
About the author
Mark Urban is Diplomatic and
Defence Editor for Newsnight and
the author of the Number One
Sunday Times bestseller, Task ForceBlack.
• Bestselling author with a proven track
record on BookScan
• Task Force Black has sold over 76,000
copies and was a Number One Sunday
Times bestseller
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March
9781408703632
History
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Fractured Times Culture and society in the twentieth
centuryEric Hobsbawm
Born almost a hundred years ago in Alexandria – the cultural heart
of a bourgeois Mitteleurope – Eric Hobsbawm, who was to
become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our
age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and
artistic change. As the century progressed the forces of
Communism and Dadaism, Ibiza and cyberspace, would do battle
with the bourgeois high culture fin-de-siècle Vienna represented –
the opera, the Burgtheater, the museums of art and science, City
Hall. In Fractured Times, Hobsbawm unpicks a century of cultural
fragmentation and dissolution with characteristic verve andvigour.
Hobsbawm examines the conditions that created the great
cultural flowering of the belle époque and held the seeds of its
disintegration, from paternalistic capitalism to globalisation and
the arrival of a mass consumer society. Passionate but never
sentimental, Hobsbawm ranges freely across his subject: he
records the passing of the golden age of the ‘free intellectual’ and
examines the lives of great, forgotten men; he analyses the
relation between art and totalitarianism and dissects cultural
phenomena as diverse as surrealism, women’s emancipation and
the American cowboy myth.
Written with consummate imagination and skill, Fractured Times is
the last book from one of our greatest modern-day thinkers.
About the author
Eric Hobsbawm was a Fellow of the
British Academy and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Before retirement he taught atBirkbeck College, University of
London, and after retirement at the
New School for Social Research in
New York. Previous books include
Age of Extremes, The Age of
Revolution and The Age of Empire.
He died in October 2012.
• Little, Brown/Abacus has sold over 150,000
copies of Eric Hobsbawm’s books
• ‘Arguably Britain’s most respected historian
of any kind, one of a tiny handful of
historians of any era to enjoy genuine
national and world renown . . . Both in his
knowledge of detail and his extraordinary
powers of synthesis, he was unrivalled’
- Guardian
8
March
9781408704288
History,Popular Culture
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The Trundlers
Harry Pearson
Some men are born medium-paced, some achieve medium-pace
others have medium-pace thrust upon them.
Bowlers who take wickets not with pace or spin, but – at speeds
between 65 and 85mph – by nagging accuracy are the commonest
in cricket. So far, however, nobody has paid them any attention.
Yet seam bowling remains one of cricket's most mysterious arts.
George Hirst, one of the best early exponents of swerve, was as
puzzled by it as his opponents. 'Sometimes it works,' he said, 'and
sometimes it doesn't.'
Examining the history of medium-pace bowling, explaining howswing both normal and reverse actually works, and telling the
story of some of the great and not-so-great dobbers such as
Shackleton ('His bowling, like his hair, never less than immaculate,'
noted Wisden approvingly), The Trundlers will bring bread-and-
butter bowlers who 'do a bit off the seam', 'wobble the odd one
about' or simply 'nag away at off-stump' out into the limelight for
the first time.
Warm, affectionate and told with Harry Pearson's trademark
humour , The Trundlers celebrates dobbers in all their sleeves-rolled-up, uncomplaining workaday glory.
About the author
Harry Pearson is a journalist and
writer who contributes regularly to
the Guardian, GQ and When
Saturday Comes.
• Pearson’s last book, Slipless in Settle, won
the MCC Book of the Year, the Cricket Book
of the Year at the British Sports Book
Awards and the Wisden Book of the Year
• Slipless in Settle has so far sold over 10,000
copies
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April
9781408704066
Sports & Outdoor Recreation
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American Dream Machine
Matthew Specktor
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome,
and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962
with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive
brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most
successful agency in Hollywood.
Through the eyes of his son, we watch Beau and his partner
go to war, waging a seismic battle that redraws the lines of
an entire industry. We watch Beau rise and fall and rise
again, in accordance with the cultural transformations that
dictate the fickle world of movies. We watch Beau's partner,the enigmatic and cerebral Williams Farquarsen, struggle to
contain himself, to control his impulses and consolidate his
power. And we watch two generations of men fumble and
thrive across the LA landscape, learning for themselves the
shadows and costs exacted by success and failure.
About the author
Matthew Specktor was born and
raised in Los Angeles. His father was
a talent agent and his mother was a
screenwriter. Specktor worked infilm development for many years,
and has written several
screenplays. His writing has
appeared or is forthcoming in the
Paris Review , The Believer , Tin
House, Black Clock and Salon.com,
among other publications. He is a
senior editor and founding member
of the Los Angeles Review of Books.• Matthew Specktor grew up the son of
Hollywood royalty. American Dream
Machine is his take on his own youth and
experiences
• Specktor is very well connected, and is
currently collaborating on a screenplay with
James Franco, as well as editing the Los
Angeles Review of Books
• This is a big, intelligent all-engrossing book
of Hollywood glamour, grit, desperation
and ambition – a piercing look at theauthentic world of LA. Perfect for anyone
who loves Madmen, Entourage and Jennifer
Egan
• Protagonist Beau Rosenwald is utterly
engaging and strikingly real – a character
who will stay with you for long after you
finish readingApril
9780751551624
Modern Fiction
Trade Paperback
£12.99
Photo credit: Lisa Jane Persky
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The Collector of Lost Things
Jeremy Page
The worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as
if the Earth had torn in two along this line. This was a place, if
there ever was a place, where you could disappear.
The year is 1845 and young researcher Eliot Saxby is paid to go on
an expedition to the Arctic in the hope of finding remains of the
by now extinct Great Auk. He joins a regular hunting ship, but the
crew and the passengers are not what they seem. Caught in the
web of relationships on board, Eliot struggles to understand the
motivations of the sociopathic, embroidery-loving Captain Sykes,
the silent First Mate French, the flamboyant laudanum-addicted
Bletchley and, most importantly of all, Bletchley's beautiful butstrange 'cousin' Clara. As the ship moves further and further into
the wilds of the Arctic sea, Eliot clings to what he believes in,
desperate to save Clara but drawn irrevocably back into the past
that haunts him.
About the author
Jeremy Page grew up in north
Norfolk and has worked as a script
editor and writer for FilmFour and
the BBC, in addition to teaching onthe Creative Writing MA at UEA. He
lives in London with his wife and
three children. He has published
two previous novels with Viking UK
and Viking US: Salt and The Wake.
• Praise for Page’s Salt :
‘Stunningly good’
- Rose Tremain
‘Striking, funny. Terrifying’
- Margaret Forster
• Jeremy's first novel was shortlisted for The
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best FirstBook and the Jelf First Novel Award
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April
9781408704189
General & Literary
Fiction,Historical Fiction
Hardback
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The Book of Fate
Parinoush Saniee
A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an
ordinary girl, passionate about learning. On her way to school she
meets a local man and falls in love – but when her family discoverhis letters they accuse her of bringing them into dishonour. She is
badly beaten by her brother, and her parents hastily arrange a
marriage to a man she's never met. Facing a life without love, and
the prospect of no education, Massoumeh is distraught – but a
female neighbour urges her to comply: 'We each have a destiny,
and you can't fight yours.'
The years that follow Massoumeh's wedding prove transformative
for Iran. Hamid, Massoumeh's husband, is a political dissident anda threat to the Shah's oppressive regime and when the secret
service arrive to arrest him, it’s the start of a terrifying period for
Massoumeh. Her fate, so long dictated by family loyalty and
tradition, is now tied to the changing fortunes of her country.
Spanning five turbulent decades of Iranian history, from before
the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic and up to the
present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and
passion, fear and hope – and a rare insider's view of Iranian
society.
About the author
Parinoush Saniee is a sociologist
and psychologist. She worked for
the Iranian government in the
Ministry of Labour. She has writtenseveral novels, of which The Book
of Fate is the first; her second, The
Father of the Other One, was also
published to great acclaim in Iran;
others are awaiting approval by the
censorship board.
• Winner of the Boccaccio Prize in Italy
• Iran’s bestselling novel of all time – even
though it was banned for many years
12
April
9781408704608
General & Literary Fiction
Hardback
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The Serpent's Promise
Steve Jones
The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some
things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones’ new book
rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended
from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the Bible’s
great flood really a memory of the end of the Ice Age? Will we
ever get back to Methuselah given that British life expectancy is
still rising by six hours a day, every day?
Many people deny the power of faith, many more the power of
science. In this ground-breaking work, geneticist Steve Jones
explores their shared mysteries – from the origins of life and
humankind to sex, age, death and the end of the universe. Hesteps aside from the noisy debate between believers and
unbelievers to show how the same questions preoccupy us today
as in biblical times – and that science offers many of the answers.
Erudite and accessible, The Serpent’s Promise is a witty and
thoughtful account of the ability and the limits of science to tell us
what we are.
About the author
Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics
at University College London and
the president of the Galton
Institute. He delivered the BBCReith Lectures in 1991, appears
frequently on radio and television
and is a regular columnist for the
Daily Telegraph.
• Darwin's Island was long-listed for the BBC
Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in
2009
• Steve Jones' books have combined sales of
over 100,000 copies
13
May
9781408702857
Popular Science
Hardback
£25.00
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The Guns at Last Light The war in Western Europe, 1944 –1945Rick Atkinson
In the first two volumes of his bestselling Liberation trilogy, Rick
Atkinson recounted how the American-led coalition foughtthrough North Africa and Italy to the threshold of victory. Now he
tells the most dramatic story of all – the titanic battle for Western
Europe.
D-Day marked the commencement of the European war's final
campaign, and Atkinson's riveting account of that bold gamble
sets the pace for the masterly narrative that follows. The brutal
fight in Normandy, the liberation of Paris, the disaster that was
Market Garden, the horrific Battle of the Bulge, and finally the
thrust to the heart of the Third Reich – all these historic events
and more come alive with a wealth of new material and a
mesmerising cast of characters.
With the stirring final volume of this monumental trilogy, Rick
Atkinson's remarkable accomplishment is manifest. He has
produced the definitive chronicle of the war that unshackled a
continent and preserved freedom in the West.
About the author
Rick Atkinson is the bestselling
author of An Army at Dawn (winner
of the Pulitzer Prize for history), The
Day of Battle, The Long Gray Line, Inthe Company of Soldiers, and
Crusade. His many other awards
include two Pulitzer Prizes for
journalism, the George Polk award,
and the Pritzker Military Library
Literature Award. He is a former
staff writer and senior editor at the
Washington Post .
• The final volume in the bestselling trilogy,
this is a brilliantly researched book, rich
with new material and vivid insights – the
definitive history of the war in North Africa1942 –1943
• An Army at Dawn won the Pulitzer Prize for
History in 2003
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May
9780316725590
History
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Night Raid
Taylor Downing
The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach
alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a
sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and anti-aircraft guns at the British bombers? British aerial reconnaissance
discovered what seemed to be a rotating radar tower on a clifftop
at Bruneval, near Le Havre. The truth must be revealed.
The decision was taken to launch a daring raid on the Bruneval
site to try to capture the technology for further examination. The
planned airborne assault would be extremely risky. The parachute
regiment had only been formed a year before on Churchill's
insistence. This night raid would test the men to the extremelimits of their abilities.
Night Raid tells the gripping tale of this mission from the planning
stages, to the failed rehearsals, when the odds seemed stacked
against them, to the night of the raid itself, and the scientific
secrets that were discovered thanks to the paras' precious cargo –
the German radar. Its capture was of immense importance in the
next stages of the war and the mission itself marked the birth of
the legend of the 'Red Devils'.
About the author
Taylor Downing is a television
producer and writer. He was
educated at Cambridge University
and went on to become ManagingDirector and Head of History at
Flashback Television, an
independent production company.
His most recent books include Spies
in the Sky, Churchill's War Lab and
Cold War (with Sir Jeremy Isaacs).
• The Bruneval Raid was a major turning
point in the Second World War
• The last book on the Bruneval Raid was
published in 1976
• Night Raid draws on sources, oral
testimonies and documents that were not
available in the 1970s to tell one of the
most gripping narratives of the war• Written by one of the UK's most successful
producers of TV history
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May
9781408703724
History
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Women at the ReadyThe remarkable story of the Women’s
Voluntary Services on the home front Robert and Patricia Malcolmson
From the summer of 1938, British women from all walks of life
joined the Women’s Voluntary Services (WVS). This disparate
band of women came together for the common good – to help
serve and protect their communities. By 1941 a million women
had enrolled.
These brave and dutiful women played a vital role in Britain's
victory. The positive impact of the WVS on wartime society was
universally acknowledged. They were instrumental in
implementing the large-scale evacuation of children from bomb-
targeted cities, in the care of the wounded, and in keeping those
in war service fed. Lady Reading, founder and fearless leader, was
one of the most influential women in twentieth-century Britain.
The story of the WVS has never been fully told before. Social
historians Patricia and Robert Malcolmson bring this vital part of
the Second World War to life in a vivid and engaging way through
the diaries and records of the women serving their country on the
Home Front. Women at the Ready promises to be a magnificentsaga of sacrifice and determination.
About the authors
Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are
social historians with a special
interest in the Mass Observation
archive. They have edited severalwartime and post-war diaries,
including Nella Last's Peace and
Nella Last in the 1950s. They live in
Nelson, British Columbia.
• Publication coincides with the 75th
anniversary of the Women's Royal
Voluntary Services (WRVS)
• The book has the full support of the WRVS,
which remains very active and involved
with a host of activities
• The authors draw on the riches of the
WRVS archive and Mass Observation
archive (diaries and records) to provide a
full and engaging account of everyday life
for the volunteers
16
May
9781408704103
History- Modern Period
Hardback
£20.00
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The Hive
Gill Hornby
Welcome to St Ambrose Primary School. A world of
friendships, fights and feuding. And that's just the mothers.
Rachel Mason has always seen herself as bit of an outsider –
keeping an amused distance from the cliques and petty
squabbles at the school gates. But this year is different.
Recently divorced, Rachel needs her friends more than ever.
So why is Beatrice Stuart – her supposed best friend and
undisputed queen bee of the hive – ignoring her?
Meanwhile, the school is in desperate need of a new library.Enter the school committee, armed with a terrifying
schedule of fun runs, pub quizzes and bake sales. Bea – who
must be obeyed – has jobs for everyone, except herself. But
for every Heather (eager to volunteer, eager to wear a
fluorescent tabard) there is a Georgie (eager to step outside
for a fag; would rather fake her own death than wear a
tabard, thank you very much). And by the end of the school
year, everything will have changed – especially for Rachel . . .
The Hive is an irresistible novel – laugh-out-loud funny,
brilliantly observed and filled with fresh, fascinating, utterly
familiar characters. From the joys and perils (well, mainly
perils) of the Lunch Ladder; to the military operation that is
the Car Boot Sale; to the creation of a vaguely convincing
Dalek costume for a small child, all human life is here.
About the author
Gill Hornby is a journalist and
writer. She has four children and
lives with her husband, Robert
Harris, in Kintbury, Berkshire.
• The sensational international debut by a
major new talent
• Already causing a stir in the media with the
Sunday Times heralding it as the start of a
new wave of fiction
• One of the most heated auctions in recent
memory in the UK
• Sold in big deals in the US, Germany,
France, Italy, Holland, Brazil, Hungary and
Korea
17
May
9781408704356
Fiction,General & Literary
Fiction, Modern Fiction
Hardback
£12.99
Photograph by Gavin Smith, Camera Press London
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Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's
England How our ancestors lived two centuries agoRoy and Lesley Adkins
Jane Austen, arguably the greatest novelist of the English
language, lived from 1775 to 1817. Her fiction focuses on the
gentry and aristocracy, and her heroines are young women
looking for love. Yet the comfortable, tranquil country that she
brilliantly devised is a complete contrast to the England in which
she actually lived. For twenty-nine of Jane Austen's forty-one
years, the country was embroiled in war. These were troubled
times, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a
constant dread of invasion. The loss of America was followed by
terrifying revolution in neighbouring France, provoking fears that
the sporadic unrest and rioting in England might lead to wholesale
insurrection and the overthrow of the ruling classes.
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England
of that time. From forced marriages and the sale of wives in
marketplaces to boys and girls working down mines or as chimney
sweeps, this book eavesdrops on the daily chore of fetching water,
bull baiting, sedan chairs, highwaymen and the stench of corpses
swinging on roadside gibbets.
Giving a voice to these forgotten people and revealing how they
worked, played and struggled to survive , Eavesdropping on Jane
Austen's England is an authoritative and gripping account that is
sometimes humorous, often shocking, but always entertaining.
About the authors
Roy and Lesley Adkins are husband-
and-wife writers and
archaeologists, the bestselling
authors of over eighteen widelyacclaimed books on social and naval
history, archaeology, ancient Rome,
ancient Greece and Egyptology.
Their books include the bestselling
Jack Tar, Trafalgar, The War for All
the Oceans, Empires of the Plain
and The Keys of Egypt and have so
far been translated into sixteen
languages worldwide.
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June
9781408703960
Language, Literature And
Biography
Hardback
£20.00
• ‘Roy and Lesley Adkins bring their world
alive . . . The material is so rich, that this is a
fascinating, even humbling read’
- Sunday Times
• ‘An extraordinary read’
- History Books of the Year, Daily Mail
• For further information about them and
their books, see their website
www.adkinshistory.com
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Last Friends
Jane Gardam
Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling
tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong
Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife
Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with
Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and – though it was
never spoken of – in love.
Veneering's were not the usual beginnings of an establishment
silk: the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in north-east England
and a devoted local girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far
East as a man of panache, success and fame. But, always, at the
stuffy English Bar he is treated with suspicion: where did thisblond, louche, brilliant Slav come from?
Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship and
grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and
the disappointments and consolations of age.
About the author
Jane Gardam has been awarded the
Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a
lifetime's contribution to the
enjoyment of literature; she hastwice won a Whitbread Award and
has been shortlisted for the Booker
Prize. She was awarded an OBE in
January 2009.
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• ‘What a lot Jane Gardam knows
about love and its
accommodations; the rich
contradictory play of desire and
loyalty; the sudden storms of
feeling. And how elegantly andintelligently she writes about the
instinctive, tendril-like gropings of
one human heart towards another’
- Jane Shilling, Daily Telegraph
• Jane Gardam’s classic novel Old
Filth was shortlisted for the
Orange Prize
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Stonemouth
Iain Banks
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile
his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston,
and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he wasrunning for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous
than turning up.
An estuary town north of Aberdeen, Stonemouth, with its five
mile beach, can be beautiful on a sunny day. On a bleak one it can
seem to offer little more than sea fog, gangsters, cheap drugs and
a suspension bridge irresistible to suicides. And although there's
supposed to be a temporary truce between Stewart and the
town's biggest crime family, it's soon clear that only Stewart is
taking this promise of peace seriously. Before long Stu steps back
into the minefield of his past to confront his guilt and all that it has
lost him, uncovering ever darker stories. Soon his homecoming
takes a more lethal turn than even he had anticipated.
Tough, funny, fast-paced and touching, Stonemouth cracks open
adolescence, love, brotherhood and vengeance in a rite of passage
novel like no other.
About the author
Iain Banks came to widespread and
controversial public notice with the
publication of his first novel, The
Wasp Factory , in 1984. He has sincegained enormous popular and
critical acclaim for both his
mainstream and his science fiction
novels.
• The hardback was a Sunday Times
bestseller
• Stonemouth was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime
read by David Tennant.
• ‘Readable, gripping . . . One of his best’
William Leith, Evening Standard
•‘Addictive, funny and brilliantly observed’ - Daily Mail
• ‘Banks at his waspish, intelligent, nuanced
best’
- Scotland on Sunday
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A Million Heavens
John Brandon
On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies
in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the
clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico
winter – strangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical,
or just an escape. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a
religion. Just beyond this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf
on his nightly rounds, protecting and threatening, learning too
much. And above them all, a would-be angel sits captive in a
holding cell of the afterlife, finishing the work he began on earth,
writing the songs that could free him. This unlikely assortment – a
small-town mayor, a vengeful guitarist, all the unseen desert
lives—unites to weave a persistently hopeful story of improbablecommunion.
About the author
John Brandon was raised on the
Gulf Coast of Florida, and has
worked at a lumber mill, a
windshield warehouse, and for aCoca-Cola distributor. Acclaim for
his first novel, Arkansas, led to his
appointment as a John and Renee
Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing
at the University of Mississippi.
• His books are a major talking point in the
US, garnering reviews from all top national
papers.
• Brandon was shortlisted for America's
prestigious Young Lions Award, for the
most promising writers under the age of 35
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In the Shadow of the SwordThe battle for global empire and the end
of the ancient world
Tom Holland
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two
great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on,
and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a
dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower
had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this
upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world.
But the changes that marked the period were more than merely
political or even cultural: there was also a transformation of
human society with incalculable consequences for the future.
Today, over half the world's population subscribes to one of the
various religions that took on something like their final form
during the last centuries of antiquity. Wherever men or women
are inspired by belief in a single god to think or behave in a certain
way, they bear witness to the abiding impact of this extraordinary,
convulsive age – though as Tom Holland demonstrates, much of
what Jews, Christians and Muslims believe about the origins of
their religion is open to debate.
In the Shadow of the Sword explores how a succession of great
empires came to identify themselves with a new and
revolutionary understanding of the divine. It is a story vivid with
drama, horror and startling achievement, and stars many of the
most remarkable rulers ever seen.
About the author
Tom Holland is the author of
Rubicon, which was shortlisted for
the Samuel Johnson Prize and won
the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History2004; Persian Fire, which won the
Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman
Award 2006; and the highly
acclaimed Millennium. He has
adapted Homer, Herodotus,
Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio.
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• Was a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller
• L, B/Abacus has now sold over
320,000 copies of Tom Holland’s non-
fiction
• ‘A stunning blockbuster’
Robert Fisk, Independent
•‘Every bit as thrilling a narrative historyas Holland's previous works, [it] is also
a profoundly important book’
- Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
• ‘Written with flamboyant elegance and
energetic intensity. Unputdownable’
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Times
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The Crocodile
Maurizio de Giovanni
Transferred from Sicily to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian
Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono feels that he's
marking time, waiting out an awkward scandal. But when thebloodied bodies of teenagers start appearing around the city,
victims of a strange and sinister killer whom police and locals take
to calling The Crocodile, it soon becomes clear to Lojacono that
the killings are more than simple Mafia hits, and that the narrow
streets of Naples are more deadly than he'd dared imagine. Can
he catch the killer in time and save the city's children?
The Crocodile is a dark, bloody story of murder and revenge that
will grip and thrill you.
About the author
Maurizio de Giovanni lives and
works in Naples. In 2005 he won a
writing competition for unpublished
authors with a short story set in the1930s featuring the detective
Ricciardi, and then went on to write
his bestselling series of Ricciardi
novels. The Crocodile marks the
beginning of a new crime series set
in present-day Naples and starring
Detective Inspector Lojacono. His
books have been successfully
translated into several languages,
and a television adaptation isunderway in Italy.
• A dark new crime thriller from Italy that's
perfect for fans of bestsellers Michele
Giuttari and Donato Carrisi.
• Maurizio de Giovanni is a bestseller in Italy
and is published in several other European
countries.
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Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book
of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world
tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of theAustralian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to
the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn
about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveller's
experiences.
Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English
countryside or marvelling over a disembodied human arm in a
taxidermist's shop, Sedaris takes us on side-splitting adventures
that are not to be forgotten.
About the author
David Sedaris is the author of a
number of bestselling books,
including Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk,
When You Are Engulfed in Flames,Dress Your Family in Corduroy and
Denim and Me Talk Pretty One Day .
He lives in London.
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
and Me Talk Pretty One Day have sold over
40,000 copies
• ‘Sedaris’s anecdotes play off his sublime
talent for turning the absurdly neurotic into
the hilariously funny’
- GQ
• ‘Howlingly funny, jaw-snappingly honest
and endlessly perceptive. Sedaris’s
wellspring of quirky yet strangely universal
comic experiences show no sign of drying
up’
- Daily Mail
• ‘Sedaris can make Woody Allen appear
ham-tongued, Oscar Wilde a drag’
- Observer
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The Limpopo Academy of Private
Detection
Alexander McCall Smith
Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi have always relied on theadvice of the classic guide to their trade, The Principles of Private
Detection. But who is the eminent author, Mr Clovis Andersen,
and what if he were to come to Botswana? That seems a very
unlikely possibility, and yet . . . When Mr Andersen visits Botswana
on holiday, he is delighted and intrigued to stumble across a
roadside sign that reveals the existence of the No.1 Ladies'
Detective Agency.
Professional courtesy suggests that he call and announce himself.
Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are embarking on
married life and building a new house – a tricky business under
any circumstances but especially hazardous when the name of the
contractor is the Joy and Light Building Company.
About the author
Following a distinguished career as
a Professor of Medical Law,
Alexander McCall Smith has turned
to writing full-time. He is the authorof over sixty books on a wide array
of subjects, and his books have
been translated into forty-six
languages. He lives in Edinburgh
with his wife.
• Unveiling a brand new look for everyone's
favourite series
• Time to celebrate – the new Botswana
paperback will be backed by his biggest
marketing campaign ever
• PR activity and online promotion around
publication
• English language sales for McCall Smith's
titles now exceed 20 million copies
worldwide
• Winner of Author of the Year three times
(BA, NIBBIES and Waterstones)
• www.alexandermccallsmith.co.uk
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When I DieLessons from the death zone
Philip Gould
On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He wasstoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his
illness. In the face of difficult decisions he sought always to
understand the disease and the various medical options open to
him, supported by his wife Gail and their two daughters, Georgia
and Grace.
In 2010, after two hard years of chemotherapy and surgery, the
tests came up clear – Philip appeared to have won the battle. But
his work as a key strategist for the Labour party took its toll, and
feeling ill six months later, he insisted on one extra, precautionary
test, which told him that the cancer had returned. Thus began
Philip's long, painful but ultimately optimistic journey towards
death, during which time he began to appreciate and make sense
of his life, his work and his relationships in a way he had never
thought possible. He realised something that he had never heard
articulated before: death need not be only negative or painful, it
can be life-affirming and revelatory.
Written during the last few months of his life, When I Diedescribes the journey Philip took with his illness, leaving to us
what he called his lessons from the death zone. This courageous,
profoundly moving and inspiring work is as valuable a legacy to
the world as anyone could wish to bestow – hugely uplifting,
beautifully written with extraordinary insight.
About the author
Philip Gould was polling and
strategic adviser to Tony Blair and
was deputy chairman of Freud
Communications. He was a visitingprofessor in media and politics at
the London School of Economics
and a member of the House of
Lords, as well as the author of The
Unfinished Revolution. Philip Gould
died at the age of sixty-one in 2011.
• A Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller
• ‘It should really be prescribed on the
NHS…the most life-enhancing book I've
ever read’
- Rachel Johnson, The Lady
• ‘The book's power comes from the urgency
and simplicity of the message’
- Sunday Ti mes• ‘An extraordinarily moving book . . .
inspiring in its discussion of mortality’
- Matthew D’Ancona, Daily Telegraph
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Simon Mawer
Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought
up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half
British, naive yet too clever for her own good. But when she isrecruited from her desk job by SOE to go undercover in wartime
France, it seems her hybrid status – and fluent French – will be of
service to a greater, more dangerous cause.
Trained in sabotage, dead-drops, how to perform under
interrogation and how to kill, Marian parachutes into south-west
France, her official mission to act as a Resistance courier. But her
real destination is Paris, where she must seek out family friend
Clément Pelletier, once the focus of her adolescent desires. Anuclear physicist engaged in the race for a new and terrifying
weapon, he is of urgent significance to her superiors. As she
struggles through the strange, lethal landscape of the Occupation
towards this reunion, what completes her training is the
understanding that war changes everything, and neither love nor
fatherland may be trusted.
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is both a gripping adventure story
and a moving meditation on patriotism, betrayal and the limits of
love.
About the author
Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in
England, and spent his childhood
there, in Cyprus and in Malta. He
has lived with his wife in Italy formore than 20 years, and he
teaches at the English School in
Rome.
• The Glass Room, shortlisted for the Man
Booker prize , has sold nearly 100,000
copies across all formats and was loved by
critics, readers and booksellers alike
• ‘Masterly . . . A tour de force that grips and
never lets go’
- Mail on Sunday
•‘I read late into the night and cried a littlewhen I was done. He writes about fear and
bravery better than any contemporary
novelist I know’
- Rachel Cooke, Observer
• ‘Mawer is a genuinely great contemporary
writer’
- Simon Schama, Financial Times
• ‘If you only read one book this year, read
this one’
- Allan Massie, Scotsman
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The book that gave us tartan noir
The book that made us all feel wonderful
The book that inspired a million journeys
The book that announced a genius
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The book that rebuilt Rome
The book that dared to tell a different story
The book that told the truth about women
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The book that inspired the world
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The book that moved millions
The book that broke all the rules
The book that changed how we
think
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• Isabel Dalhousie is Edinburgh's MmaRamotswe
• Reissued with stunning new jackets
• Nearly 300,000 paperbacks sold of The
Sunday Philosophy Club
• Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library
Award (for a body of work)
• English language sales for McCall Smith's
titles are now almost 10 million copies
worldwide
• Winner of Author of the Year three times
(BA, NIBBIES and Waterstones)
• www.mccallsmith.com
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About the author
Alexander McCall Smith has a
double existence. He is a Professor
of Medical Law, but also an author
who has now written over sixtybooks on a wide range of
subjects. His collection of African
stories, Children of Wax , received
critical acclaim and has been the
subject of an award-winning film.
Alexander McCall Smith Paperbacks
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Kingdom of Strangers
Zoe Ferraris
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The Day of the Battle
Rick Atkinson
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Robert Winder
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Rupert Everett
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Penelope
Rebecca Harrington
Meet Penelope O’Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.
To make friends at Harvard, she just has to be herself – but not
too much.
Armed only with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and
party conversation modelled on the repartee of Noël Coward,
Penelope is bewildered by the apparent lack of kindred spirits on
campus. And her roommates are baffling: Emma is busy signing up
for insanely difficult courses and obsessing about something called
a 'finals club'; and the rarely glimpsed Lan has painted her room
black and shut the door. Gustav, a dashing, rumpled-linen-suit-
wearing upperclassman of uncertain European origins who has
caught Penelope’s eye, never seems to be in the freshman dining
hall, so it seems unlikely she will ever find out if he matches up to
her hero, Hercule Poirot.
Penelope follows our heroine's progress through her first year
among America's elite, as she navigates the mysteries of life, love,
inappropriate tutors, marionette operation and how to kiss on
both cheeks and avoid disaster.
About the author
Rebecca Harrington read English at
Harvard, Journalism at Columbia
and now works as a staff writer for
the Huffington Post . Penelope is herdebut novel.
• A debut as charming and witty as The Dud
Avocado
• A campus novel for the twenty-first century
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Bedsit Disco Queen
Tracey Thorn
I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a
band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls
and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasingrecords.
Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half
of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released
nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless
tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed and
interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts,
out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an indie
darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't
always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the
realities of a pop career – there are thrills and wonders to be
experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent
lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again,
sometimes within minutes.
About the author
Tracey Thorn was singer and
songwriter with Everything But the
Girl from 1982 –2000. At that point
she semi-retired from the musicbusiness to bring up her children.
She has since recorded two solo
albums, Out of the Woods and Love
and Its Opposite. Her new album is
to be released on 29th October
2012. She lives in London with her
husband Ben Watt and their three
children.
• Tracey Thorn is a much-loved artist with a
devoted fanbase: Everything But the Girl
had numerous hits and sold 9 million
records; and her solo albums have sold over
50,000 albums.
• Tracey Thorn has over 30,000 followers :
@tracey_thorn
• ‘The Alan Bennett of pop memoirists. I
loved her book so much, I wanted to form a
band too’
- Caitlin Moran
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Rumer Godden her novels reissued for the first time as
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Rumer Godden – her novels reissued for the first time as
Virago Modern Classics
Virago will publish fifteen of Rumer Godden’s titles in beautiful new editions in 2012 –14.
From the iconic Black Narcissus to Godden’s books for younger readers, such as Thursday’s Children,
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Virago Modern ClassicsListen to the Nightingale and Thursday's Children mark a new and exciting departure for the
Virago Modern Classics: stories for younger readers to treasure.
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About the author
Rumer Godden (1907-98) was the
acclaimed author of over sixty
works of fiction and non-fiction for
adults and children. Born in
England, she and her siblings grew
up in Narayanganj, India, and she
later spent many years living in
Calcutta and Kashmir. Several of
her novels were made into films,
including Black Narcissus, The
Greengage Summer and The River,
which was filmed by Jean Renoir.
She was appointed OBE in 1993.
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In Diamond Square
Mercè Rodoreda
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the
working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks
her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charmingand forceful, and she takes his hand.
They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an
awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed
pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter – and infuriate his
wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts, and lays waste to the city
and to their simple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona,
struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists,
and one by one his beloved birds fly away.
A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more than
twenty languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid and
powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of
history.
About the author
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908 –83)
was born and raised in Barcelona.
She began writing fiction and
published her first novel, Aloma, in
the 1930s. At the outbreak of the
Spanish Civil War in 1936, Rodoreda
sought exile in France and
Switzerland, where she remained
until the 1970s. In Diamond Square
was published in 1962; it went on
to become the most highly
acclaimed Catalan novel of modern
times. She was awarded Catalunya's
highest literary honour, the Premid'honor de les Lletres Catalanes,
and the Mercè Rodoreda literary
prize for short stories and
narratives was established in her
honour.
• A moving and compelling depiction of the
Spanish Civil War in Barcelona that will
appeal to fans of Irène Némirovsky and
Suite Franҫaise or Hans Fallada's Alone in
Berlin
• Translated by the world-renowned
translator Peter Bush
•
‘The most beautiful novel published inSpain since the Civil War’
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala
The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high,
moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from
there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now thather life has been undone?
Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story – the loss of her two boys, her
husband and her parents – without artifice or sentimentality. In
the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger and guilt, she
struggles through the first months following the tragedy –
someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself,
her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't
face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years,
slowly allowing her memory to function again.
Then she goes back through the rich and joyous life she's
mourning, from her family's home in London to the birth of her
children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge,
to her childhood in Colombo, while learning the balance between
the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and her fundamental
need to keep her family, somehow, still with her.
About the author
Sonali Deraniyagala has an degree
in Economics from Cambridge
University and a doctorate in
Economics from the University of
Oxford. She is on the faculty of the
Department of Economics at SOAS,
University of London, and is a
research scholar at Columbia
University. She divides her time
between the U.K. and the U.S.
• Written with great power and insight that
bears comparison to Joan Didion's The Year
of Magical Thinking
• ‘The most powerful and haunting book I
have read in years’
- Michael Ondaatje
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Fifty Shades of Feminism
Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach and
Rachel Holmes
Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, havewomen really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring
machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and
masochism – all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?
In this volume, fifty women young and old – writers, politicians,
actors, scientists, mothers – reflect on the shades that inspired
them and what being woman means to them today.
Contributors so far include: Tahmima Anam, Joan Bakewell,
Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, LindaGrant, Natalie Haynes, Siri Hustvedt, Jude Kelly, Kathy Lette, Kate
Mosse, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Ahdaf Soueif, Shirley Thompson,
Natasha Walter, Jeanette Winterson – alongside the three editors.
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Susie Orbach
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Mom and Me and Mom
Maya Angelou
'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good
time to be born black, or woman, in America.'
So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first
black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a
gambling business and rooming house, and mother to one of our
most cherished literary treasures.
Anyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in
Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom and Me and Mom, Angelou details
what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well
of emotions Angelou experienced long afterwards as a result.
While Angelou's six autobiographies tell of her out in the world,
influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, Mom
and Me and Mom shares the intimate, emotional story about her
own family.
About the author
In addition to her six volumes of
autobiography, Maya Angelou has
written several collections of
poetry, including On the Pulse of
the Morning for the inauguration of
President Clinton. She has a life-
time appointment as Reynolds
Professor of American Studies at
Wake Forest University.
• Virago has sold over 2 million copies of
Maya Angelou’s books
• President Obama awarded Maya Angelou
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying,
‘her voice has spoken to millions’
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Blood & Beauty
Sarah Dunant
Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance Sarah Dunant now
takes on the era's most infamous family: the Borgias.
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of
Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more
than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia
buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not
just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate
children, but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by
Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic,
consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women and
power must use papacy and family to succeed.
His eldest son Cesare, a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even
colder soul, is his greatest – though increasingly unstable –
weapon. Later immortalised in Machiavelli's The Prince, he
provides the energy and the muscle. His daughter Lucrezia,
beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old
when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages:
from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to
political player.
Stripping away the myths around the Borgias, Blood and Beauty is
a majestic novel that breathes life into this astonishing family and
celebrates the raw power of history itself: compelling, complex
and relentless.
About the author
Internationally bestselling writer
Sarah Dunant is famous for her
Italian historical novels: The Birth of
Venus, In the Company of the
Courtesan and Sacred Hearts, which
have been translated into more
than thirty languages. She has
worked widely in television, radio
and print, and has written ten
novels and edited two collections of
essays. She lives in London and
Florence.
• ‘There is no more accomplished guide to
Renaissance Italy’
- Michael Arditti
• ‘Writes like a painter, and thinks like a
philosopher’
- Amanda Foreman
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The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud
‘I'm halfway through my life, or maybe more, and I'm finally
awake to the fact that it's in my hands alone. I've believed in other
people, had faith, been patient, waiting for my moment – enough,already. Who have I been kidding?’
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter,
colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the children and the parents
adore her; but her real passion is her art, which she makes alone,
unseen. To be an artist is, she is sure, her real destiny.
Then one day Reza Shahid appears in her classroom: eight years
old, a perfect, beautiful boy. Reza's parents are on a year-long visitfrom Paris: Skandar, his father, has a fellowship at Harvard; Sirena,
his mother, is a glamorous installation artist apparently on the
brink of huge success.
For that magical year, Nora is admitted into their charmed circle,
and everything is transformed. Or so she believes. As it turns out,
her liberation from the benign shackles of her old life is not quite
what it seems, and she is about to suffer a betrayal more
monstrous than anything she could have imagined.
About the author
Claire Messud was born in 1966
and was educated at Yale and at
Cambridge. She is the author of
three novels, including The
Emperor's Children, a New York
Times bestseller. She lives in Boston
with her husband and their two
children.
• Claire Messud’s previous novel, The
Emperor's Children, was longlisted for the
Man Booker Prize and has sold more than
half a million copies
• Virago is delighted to have become Claire
Messud’s new UK publisher
• The Woman Upstairs is a searing novel of
huge emotional force
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Careless People Murder, Mayhem & the Invention of The
Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell
Since its publication in the spring of 1925, The Great Gatsby hasbecome one of the recognised masterpieces of the twentieth
century, beloved by readers across the world and regularly named
as one of the greatest novels ever written in English.
Now comes a book which tells of the mayhem and the surprising
story behind the novel, exploring in newly rich detail the relation
of Fitzgerald's masterpiece to the chaotic world in which he lived.
Careless People is a fascinating reconstruction of the crucial
months during which Fitzgerald returned to New York in the
autumn of 1922 – the parties, the drunken weekends at Great
Neck, Long Island, the drives back into the city to the jazz clubs
and speakeasies, the casual intersection of high society and
organized crime and the growth of celebrity culture of which the
Fitzgeralds themselves were the epitome.
Combining elements of biography, social history and, for the first
time, a proper investigation of the high-profile murder which was
a crucial source of inspiration for the deaths at the heart of the
novel, Careless People is a passionately written and compelling
story of the genesis of one of the twentieth-century's greatest andmost popular masterpieces.
About the author
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of
American Literature and Public
Understanding of the Humanities at
the University of East Anglia. She
reviews widely.
• A wonderful piece of literary detective
work, a reconstruction of the crucial
months before The Great Gatsby was
written
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Our Cheating Hearts
Kate Figes
Most of us manage to be monogamous, most of the time. But most
of us also know that adultery is the ‘crime’ we could imagine
ourselves committing.
For centuries the couple relationship has sat uncomfortably at the
apex of private and public life, but now the state, and even many
religions, no longer insist that we marry in order to enjoy sexual
pleasure, to have children, to be good citizens or to protect our
economic security. So it is absolute fidelity in sexual love above all,
which stands as the primary symbol of commitment to that love. In
our progressive times, monogamy has become the ideal.
But reality is far from the ideal: in the UK alone, research suggest
that up to two-thirds of married women and three-quarters of
married men have engaged in at least one extra-marital sexual
activity and a quarter of all couples present for therapy because of
an affair. 'Adultery is both ordinary and forgivable,' writes Siri
Hustvedt, and yet we don't understand it.
This book lifts the taboos, asks the tough questions, suggests that we
can survive an affair and that it can lead to a better understanding of
ourselves and our relationships. Monogamy is possible and manycouples manage it either throughout their relationship or for long
periods of time. But for the countless others a more honest and
humane public debate around the subject of infidelity is essential.
Our Cheating Hearts, by the author known and respected for
charting the emotional territory of relationships, is that book.
About the author
Kate Figes is the author of four
previous works of non-fiction: The
Big Fat Bitch Book , Life After Birth,
The Terrible Teens – What Every
Parent Needs to Know and, most
recently, Couples: How We Make
Love Last , as well as two novels.
• Kate Figes is a respected writer with a
strong media profile, recognised as the
expert on relationships.
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Pregnancy, Birth & Baby
Care: Advice
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Essays, Journals, Letters & Other Prose
Works
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The Salem Witch Society
K.N. Shields
Salem, New England, many dark nights ago.
It is a time of spells and shadows, of black magic and blood.
And the most famous witch hunt in history is about to begin . . .
Years later, a young woman is found savagely murdered, a
pitchfork thrust through her neck, her body arranged in the shape
of a star: the death pose of a witch. Someone – or something – is
reviving the terror of the notorious Salem witch hunts. And only
one man – a brilliant, eccentric loner with a dazzling mind and a
fascination with witchcraft – can keep the evils of the past at bay.
About the author
K.N. Shields grew up in Portland,
Maine. He graduated from
Dartmouth College and the
University of Maine School of Law.
He continues to reside along the
coast of Maine with his wife and
two children. This is his first novel.
• Sphere's January debut
• Rich in history, mystery and witchcraft, The
Salem Witch Society is a twisting, terrifying
thriller
• Perfect for readers who loved A Discovery
of Witches and The Interpretation of
Murder
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The Valentine's Card
Juliet Ashton
The Valentine's card was meant to be Orla's fairy-tale ending, but
really, it was only the beginning . . .
Orla adores her actor boyfriend, Sim, who's away filming a
sumptuous costume drama. Although the long-distance
relationship means that she can eat toast for dinner and watch as
much reality TV as she likes, she misses him like crazy.
But Valentine's Day changes everything . . . The same morning
Orla learns that Sim has died, she receives a card from him. As
Orla travels from Ireland to London, to live and breathe Sim's final
moments, can she bring herself to open the Valentine's card and
read his final message?
A heart-warming and heart-breaking novel about the power of
love, laughter and friendship.
About the author
Juliet Ashton is an Irish writer living
in chaotic exile in London with her
family and animals. This is her
debut novel.
• Perfect for readers of Marian Keyes, Cathy
Kelly, Lisa Jewell and books like One Day
and P.S. I Love You
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Death in St James's Park
Susanna Gregory
Five years after Charles II's triumphant return to London there is
growing mistrust of his extravagant court and of corruption among
his officials – and when a cart laden with gunpowder explodesoutside the General Letter Office, it is immediately clear that such
an act is more than an expression of outrage at the inefficiency of
the postal service.
As intelligencer to the Lord Chamberlain, Thomas Chaloner cannot
understand why a man of known incompetence is put in charge of
investigating the attack while he is diverted to make enquiries
about the poisoning of birds in the King's aviary in St James's Park.
He becomes even more suspicious of his employer's motives when
he discovers that the witnesses he needs to interview have closelinks to the business conducted in the General Letter Office,
activities more firmly centred on intercepting people's mail than
delivering it.
Then human rather than avian victims are poisoned, and Chaloner
knows he has to ignore his master's instructions and use his own
considerable wits to defeat an enemy whose deadly tentacles
reach into the very heart of the government: an enemy who has
the power and expertise to destroy anyone who stands in the
way.
About the author
Susanna Gregory was a police
officer in Leeds before taking up an
academic career. She has served as
an environmental consultant during
seventeen field seasons in the polar
regions, and has taught
comparative anatomy and
biological anthropology.
She is the creator of the Matthew
Bartholomew series of mysteries
set in medieval Cambridge as well
as the Thomas Chaloner books, and
now lives in Wales with herhusband, who is also a writer.
• Susanna Gregory is also the author of the
Matthew Bartholomew series, the latest of
which was selected for the Big City Read in
York.
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The Soul of It AllMy music, my life Michael Bolton
After four decades in the music industry, Michael Bolton has
become one of the most successful musicians of our time. The
Soul of It All is a backstage pass into his life lived thus far – into the
venues, buses, limos and hotel rooms of stardom, and finally into
his home and heart.
His story will go long and dive deep, not only into his self-
proclaimed 'vagabond vampire'