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Adult Rights Guide
London 2016
B L O O M S B U R Y P U B L I S H I N G Adult Rights Guide London 2016
BLOOMSBURY
PUBLISHING
CO NT E NT S
FICT I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
G E NE RA L N ON F I CTI O N AND CU R REN T AFFAIRS . . . 18
ME MO I R A N D B I O GR APHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
T RAV E L A ND NAT UR E WR I TI NG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SM A R T T HI NK I NG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SIG M A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SC I E N C E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ILL U S T R AT E D AND NO V E LTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SPO R T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
CO O K E RY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
SUBA G E NT S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
50 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3DP
Tel : +44 (0) 207 631 5600
rights@bloomsbury.com
www.bloomsbury.com
Joanna Everard
Rights Director
Scandinavia Special Interest and Cookery
Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5872
joanna.everard@bloomsbury.com
Flavia Esteves (maternity cover for Katie Smith)
Rights Manager
France, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Brazil
Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5873
Flavia.esteves@bloomsbury.com
Jo Blaquière
(Maternity cover for Vasiliki Machaira)
Rights Manager
Asia, Germany (illustrated and special interest),
Eastern Europe, Israel, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Middle
East, Greece
Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5876
Jo.blaquiere@bloomsbury.com
Maria Hammershoy
Rights Manager
Scandinavia, Germany (trade non illustrated)
+44 (0) 207 631 5736
Maria.hammershoy@bloomsbury.com
Ana Ortiz-Rosete
Rights Executive
Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary
Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5784
Ana.ortizrosete@bloomsbury.com
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FICTION
The Bricks that Built the Houses
Kate Tempest
Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel
takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multi-generational
tale of drugs, desire and belonging
It gets into your bones. You don’t even realise it, until you’re driving through it,
watching all the things you’ve always known and leaving them behind.
Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford
Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends,
dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of
escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London – the place they have
always called home.
Bloomsbury Circus
PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16
EXTENT: 416
Rights sold: Casa da Palavra
(Portuguese – Brazil), Meulenhof
(Dutch), Payot and Rivages
(French), Rowohlt (German),
Frassinelli (Italian), Brombergs
(Swedish)
As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn
between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between
desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done.
In The Bricks that Built The Houses Kate Tempest explores contemporary city
life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us irresistible stories of hidden
lives, and showing us how the best intentions don’t always lead to the right
decisions.
Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest is from south London.
Her epic poem Brand New Ancients won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry
in 2013. The following year she was named by the Poetry Society as a Next
Generation Poet. In the same week her debut solo album, Everybody Down, a
narrative driven hip hop record involving the same characters as the novel, was
nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Her most recent poetry collection
is the acclaimed Hold Your Own. The Bricks that Built the Houses is her first
novel.
‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith
‘A talent that knows no bounds’ Independent
‘A powerful mix of innocence and experience’ New York Times
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FICTION
The Memory Stones
Caroline Brothers
A compelling tale of a young woman’s disappearance in 1970s Argentina,
The Memory Stones is a sweeping, epic story of a family tragedy whose
consequences echo throughout generations
Buenos Aires, 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the
lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda,
gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives in Miami, and wilful
Graciela – nineteen, radiant and madly in love with her fiancé, José. They will be
the last days the family ever spends together.
Bloomsbury Publishing
EXTENT: 480
On their return, the Argentine military stages a coup, and Osvaldo is forced to
flee to Europe as friends and colleagues disappear overnight. When José is
abducted, Graciela goes into hiding. Osvaldo can only witness the disintegration
of his family from afar, while Yolanda fights on the ground to find their beloved
daughter – rumours of the Junta’s brutality darkening her fears. Soon, she
realises they may be fighting for an unknown grandchild as well.
Heartbreaking and beautiful, The Memory Stones tells the story of the
Disappeared, thousands of Argentinians who fell victim to the violence of the
period. Depicting the despair and hope of one family seeking to rebuild itself
after unimaginable loss, it is a lyrical, devastating portrait of a country that has
come face to face with terror and the long, dark shadow it leaves behind.
Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University
College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin
America, and as a journalist at the International New York Times. She is the
author of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland. She divides her time
between London and Paris.
carolinebrothers.com
@CaroBrothers
Praise for Hinterland:
'A heart-wrenching story of two young brothers on a long, hard road; a story
that all of us should read' Daily Mail
‘An illuminating and timely story … a book that haunts and shames in equal
measure’ Guardian
Rights sold: Newton Compton
(Italian), Berlin Verlag (German),
Signatuur (Dutch), Mlada Fronta
(Czech)
‘A moving account … Brothers’ elegant prose holds sentimentality at bay,
complementing some impressive reportage’ Financial Times
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FICTION
Confidence
Rowland Manthorpe and Kirstin Smith
Starter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking
philosophical novel about the power – and the dangers – of confidence
God may be dead, but getting through Finals will take a miracle
The nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that whatever does
not kill us makes us stronger.
Nietzsche was obviously never forced to down an entire jar of stilton by a sixfoot, fifteen-stone rugby player...
EXTENT: 320
Ellie Taber’s final year at university is hurtling to a close at alarming speed.
Defeated by her philosophy dissertation and uncertain as to why she can’t
quite commit to her faultlessly supportive boyfriend, she is disenchanted with
university life. Charlie, on the other hand, is determined to use his final year to
become the man he was always meant to be. He plans to play the field, do just
enough work to secure his degree, finally develop his brilliant business idea and
basically have an awesome time.
They are both in for a surprise.
Rowland Manthorpe is an editor at Wired magazine. His writing has been
published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic and Spectator.
Rowland studied History at Cambridge and Political Theory at the London
School of Economics, and has been awarded the Ben Pimlott Prize for Political
Writing by the Guardian and The Fabian Society.
Kirstin Smith was born in Edinburgh and studied English at Cambridge. Having
worked extensively as an actor in film, television and theatre, Kirstin completed
a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. Her
prize-winning research on the history of stunts has appeared in The Drama
Review.
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FICTION
The Gun Room
Georgina Harding
A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange
Prize-shortlisted author Georgina Harding
The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else.
Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a
young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image,
of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great
photographs of the war. But what he has seen in that village is more than he
can bear, and he flees.
Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where
there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds
and subways and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no
longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and
in the heat of the summer.
EXTENT: 224
Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph
and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a
witness to other events buried far deeper in his past.
The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral
complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Painter of
Silence
Shortlisted for
the Orange
Prize
The
Solitude
of
Thomas
Cave
Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave,
The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an
Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for
the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.
Praise for Painter of Silence:
‘Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Ondaatje … At once delicate and sweeping
… A novel about that passage of time, the senselessness of war, and the need
to find and preserve meaning. This is a satisfying read’ Daily Mail
‘This is fiction of the most graceful kind … a quiet storm of imagery and
emotions’ Independent on Sunday
The Spy
Game
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FICTION
The Photographer’s Wife
Suzanne Joinson
By the author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, an LA Times
bestseller: a beautiful and gripping story of love and betrayal, set in
1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels
the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious – and wildly
eccentric – plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the
desert. Prue, known as the ‘little witness’, eavesdrops underneath the tables of
tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city's elite, watching
everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled
Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a
political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.
EXTENT: 352
When Prue’s father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial
photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that
sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem
photographer. And, after Harrington learns that Eleanora’s husband is a
nationalist, intent on removing the British, those sparks fan dangerously into
a flame.
Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her
young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels
her world, and she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets longago buried in Jerusalem.
The Photographer’s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and
daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in
the complex period between the two world wars.
Suzanne Joinson is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose
work has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon,
Lonely Planet travel writing anthologies and the Independent on Sunday. Her
first novel, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (2012), was translated into sixteen
languages and was a national bestseller. She lives in Sussex.
suzannejoinson.com
@suzyjoinson
RIGHTS SOLD: Presses de la
Citie (French), Shanghai Century
Literature Company (Chinese
simplified), Berlin (German),
Intrinseca (Portuguese – Brazil),
Elliot (Italian), Turbluenz (Danish),
Laguna (Serbian), Nishimura
Shoten (Japanese), Roca
(Spanish), The House of Books
(Dutch), Vigmostad and Bjorke
(Norwegian)
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Praise for A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar:
‘An impressive debut, its prose is lucid and deep as a
mountain lake’ New York Times
‘An ambitious, accomplished debut’ Daily Mail
FICTION
Everything Love Is
Claire King
From the author of The Night Rainbow: a poignant, mysterious and
unforgettable story of love, and of the happy endings we conceive for
ourselves
Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other people’s happiness. Moored on his
beloved houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, he helps his clients navigate the
waters of contentment, yet remains careful never to make waves of his own.
Baptiste is more concerned with his past than his future: particularly the
mysterious circumstances of his birth and the identity of his birth mother.
But Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar, believes it is time for Baptiste to
raise his aspirations and rediscover passion and leads him into the world on his
doorstep he has long tried to avoid.
EXTENT: 384
However it is Baptiste’s new client who may end up being the one to change
his perspective. Elegant and enigmatic, Amandine Rousseau is fast becoming
a puzzle he longs to solve.
As winter approaches and tensions rise on the streets of the city, Baptiste’s
determination to avoid both the highs and lows of love begins to waver. And
when his mother’s legacy finally reveals itself he finds himself torn between
pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves.
Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was published by Bloomsbury
in 2013. She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. After
fourteen years in southern France, Claire has recently returned to the UK and
now lives with her family by a canal in Gloucestershire.
claireking.com @ckingwriter
Praise for The Night Rainbow:
‘Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it!’ Joanne Harris
‘At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare, The Night Rainbow is a
daring novel about a child faced with the baffling world of adult grief. Claire
King nails the voice of the child narrator from the first page; Pea is a heroine
you won’t forget’ Maggie O’Farrell
‘Emotional and beautifully written, you’ll be on tenterhooks throughout’ Stylist
RIGHTS SOLD: Orlando (Dutch),
Berlin Verlag (German), Piemme
(Italian), Pegasus (Turkish),
Pascal (Polish)
‘An original, beguiling debut about the consequences of an imaginatively lived
life’ Marie Claire
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FICTION
Show Me A Mountain
Kerry Young
From the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao, set
against the backdrop of Jamaican independence, a story of revolution
and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal
Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant
who conjured a fortune out of nothing; her African heritage mother grew up on a
plantation and now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road.
But the Chinatown haunts where her father spends his time are out of bounds
to Fay, and the airy rooms of Lady Musgrave Road are filled with her mother’s
long kept secrets and uncontrollable rages – rages against which Fay rebels as
she grows from a girl into a beautiful, headstrong woman.
For hers is a country where even the smallest difference in skin colour can mark
the boundary between the promise of a future and the burden of the past, where
the struggle for power is played out not only in government buildings, but also
on the manicured lawns of the schools for Kingston’s elite.
Bloomsbury Circus
EXTENT: 400
ALSO AVAILABLE
Pao
As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, striving for
independence in a homeland that is trying to do the same, Fay’s eyes are opened
to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when her mother decides that
she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that leads
to sacrifice and profound betrayals.
Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother
of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She moved to England in 1965 and lives in
Leicestershire. Kerry is a reader and mentor for The Literary Consultancy, and
a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in
the School of English at The University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative
Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester. She was writer-in-residence at
The University of Sheffield (2014-2016) as a part of the Royal Literary Fund
Fellowship Programme.
kerryyoung.co.uk
Praise for Pao:
‘A blindingly good read’ Observer
‘Captivating’ Daily Mail
Gloria
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‘Heart-felt, sparky and absorbing’ Guardian
FICTION
Please Do Not Disturb
Robert Glancy
A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and
innocence, Please Do Not Disturb is the funny, disturbing and deeply
affecting new book by the author of Terms & Conditions
Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the
eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for
the annual appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo.
Sean, an Irishman who’s given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo,
struggles to write the great African novel – if only his crazed fiancée and fierce
thirst would stop distracting him.
Josef, mythmaker and kingmaker, who paved the way for Tafumo’s rise to
power, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet.
EXTENT: 304
RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur
(German)
Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive, maintaining the
façade of the powerful ruler, as she mourns her own broken dreams.
And in the countdown to the Big Day, storm clouds are gathering as petty
criminal, Jack, smuggles something into Bwalo – to the Mirage Hotel – that will
change the lives of all of them for ever…
Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved
from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first
novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical
acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in
New Zealand, where he currently lives with his wife and children.
Praise for Terms & Conditions:
‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-affirming” written on it but this one
actually is’ Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive
‘It’s wonderful. Funny, poignant, simple and profound’ Gavin Extence, author
of The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Terms & Conditions
Robert Glancy
RIGHTS SOLD:
Droemer Knaur (German), Host
(Czech), Sindbad (Russian)
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FICTION
Sidney Chambers and The Dangers
of Temptation
James Runcie
The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’
series, now a major ITV drama
Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is beginning to think that the life of a full-time
priest (and part-time detective) is not easy. So when a bewitching divorcee in a
mink coat interrupts Sidney’s family lunch asking him to help locate her missing
son, he hopes it will be an open and shut case.
The last thing he expects is to be dragged into the mysterious workings of a
sinister cult, or to find himself tangled up in another murder investigation. But, as
always, the village of Grantchester is not as peaceful as it seems …
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 336
RIGHTS SOLD: AST (Russia);
Hoffman und Campe (German);
Actes Sud (French), Duomo
Ediciones (Spanish), Vallardi
(Italian), Massolit (Sweden)
From the theft of an heirloom to an ominous case of blackmail, Sidney is
once again rushed off his feet in this eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in the
Grantchester Mysteries series.
James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of eight novels.
Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester
Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers
and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil and
Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins. In October 2014, ITV launched
Grantchester, a prime-time, six-part series starring James Norton as Sidney
Chambers. James Runcie lives in Edinburgh.
‘Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ The Times
‘Runcie works his magic using simple sentences, archetypal characters and
a sense of suspense that creates an atmosphere of delicious anticipation’
Independent
ALSO AVAILABLE
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NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA
FICTION
Mr Iyer Goes to War
Ryan Lobo
An inventive, ambitious interpretation of Don Quixote for our times,
Mr Iyer Goes To War is a playful, profound adventure heralding a bold
new voice in Indian fiction
The worst effect of the accident was that Iyer became very prone to losing his
temper with mere humanity and became, as Mr Khanolkar often called him,
completely mad.
Bloomsbury India
EXTENT: 352
Dispatched to a hospice in the sacred city of Varanasi, seventy-something
Lalgudi Iyer spends his days immersed in scripture and awaiting spiritual
transcendence. When an accident leaves him with a concussion, he sees a
vision of his past incarnation – he is the reincarnation of the mythological warrior
Bhima sent from the heavens to destroy evil.
Convinced of his need to continue his mission and revive the noble principles
of Hindu mythology, Iyer embarks on an epic adventure across India with the
help of his trusted companion Bencho the undertaker. His attempts at restoring
order to the world, and in the process, winning over the heart of the deeply
disinterested maiden Damyanti, are hampered only by his complete detachment
from sanity and the reality of contemporary India.
Ryan Lobo is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in
Bangalore. Publications in which his writing has featured include the Boston
Review, National Geographic, Caravan, Bidoun Magazine and the Wall Street
Journal.
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FICTION
Tanya Tania
Antara Ganguli
A book about being a teenager in Pakistan and India. Through letters
we follow the lives of four girls, two wealthy and two poor, two Pakistani
and two Indian. Two who know exactly what their future holds and two
who are convinced that they will never measure up
Last night there was a snowstorm that made my window disappear. I woke up
gasping at the heater. This is my first letter in three years. First letter since I left
Pakistan. First letter since Nusrat.
Bloomsbury India
EXTENT: 224
The first letter in Tanya Tania, a novel in letters, is from Tanya Tilati, a Pakistani
student at an American university, in the winter of 1996. The letter is to Tania
Ghosh, her mother’s best friend’s daughter in Bombay, India. Except this is not
her first letter. Tanya and Tania wrote thirty-eight letters to each other between
the summer of 1991 and January 8, 1992 when they abruptly stopped. Until
now. It is 1991. Mangoes, biker shorts and liberalisation are in. Hips, boom
boxes and Whitney Houston are out. Boyfriends are hurtful but necessary,
school politics draw fragile lines of power. The letters reveal mysteries at home
and hazards at school.
In Tanya’s house, her American mother has gone from quiet to silent, turning
from the house to her garden where she obsesses like a new mother over her
roses and orchids.
Tania is terrified her father is having an affair. She oscillates between blaming and
admiring her mother who used to be a part-time employee at a small family-run
firm and is now a workaholic partner in a brash multinational.
But then something happens that makes these heartaches pale. In Karachi,
Tanya’s brother receives a kidnapping threat. And in Bombay, the Babri Masjid
in Ayodhya is attacked.
Through an unlikely friendship between two girls coming of age in two countries
that are coming of age, Tanya Tania makes us question identity: Indian and
Pakistani, Hindu and Muslim, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. And, in
the end, it makes us confront the truth of what makes us human.
Antara Ganguly works in international development and is a frequent contributor
to Indian and international publications on gender and education policy. She
was selected to be an Asia Society Young Leader for India and Pakistani in
2014. Her first novel, The Buggles, was published in 2001. She lives in New
York.
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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: ORIGINAL FICTION
Jonathan Strange and
Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke
RIGHTS SOLD: Agave Kiado
(Hungarian), Hunan Literature and
Arts Publishing (Simplified Chinese),
Salamandra (World Spanish),
Casa da Palavra (Portuguese),
Robbert Laffont (French), Dobrovsky
(Czech), Slovart (Slovak), Mag
Jacek Rodek (Polish), Berlin Verlag
(German), Zalozba Sanje (Slovenian),
Companhia das Letras (Brazilian
Portuguese), Atticus Azbooka
(Russian), Alfa Yayinlari (Turkish),
Casa das Letras (Portuguese)
Life! Death! Prizes!
Stephen May
‘Written with a wry wit’ The Times
RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag (German)
When Mr Dog Bites
Pig’s Foot
‘I loved Dylan Mint. He made me
laugh out loud and his tenacity had
me rooting for him from the first
page’ Stephen Kelman
‘Spellbinding’
Independent on Sunday
Brian Conaghan
Carlos Acosta
RIGHTS SOLD: Kero (French)
RIGHTS SOLD: Arche Verlag (German), Argo
Nakladatelsvi (Czech), Pegasus Yayinlari
(Turkish), Rocco (Brazilian Portuguese),
Rosinante (Danish)
Wake Up Happy
Every Day
Stephen May
‘Razor-sharp wit’ Guardian
WE ARE PIRATES
Daniel Handler
RIGHTS SOLD:
Record (Brazilian Portuguese),
Pegasus (Turkish), Baldini Castoldi
(Italian), Siruela (Spanish)
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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: ORIGINAL FICTION
Tom & Lucky (and
George & Cokey Flo)
C. Joseph Greaves
Mimi
The Gamal
‘A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in
fiction form’ Sunday Telegraph
‘A gritty, modern Romeo and Juliet…
compelling’ Independent
Lucy Ellmann
Ciarán Collins
RIGHTS SOLD: Editions Joelle Losfeld
(French), Berlin Verlag (German)
Wilderness
The Hollow of the Hand
Lance Weller
PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy
‘Epic … big, bold debut’
Financial Times
RIGHTS SOLD: Samlaget (Norwegian),
Sexto piso (Spanish – World)
RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag
(German), Editions Gallmeister
(French), Keller Editore (Italian)
The Private Life of Mrs
Sharma
Ratika Kapur
‘Kapur hits the nail on the head in this
portrayal of the conflicting demands
of motherhood and selfhood’
Independent
‘Frighteningly good’
Mohammed Hanif
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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: LITERARY FICTION
Clay
Don’t Let Him Know
‘Instantly beautiful in its calm and
wise tone’ Robert Macfarlane
‘This artful novel is a true delight’
Daily Mail
‘Heartlfelt, elegiac ... Lovingly
observed’ Sunday Times
‘A believable and wonderfully
written story of secrets between the
generations’ The Times
Melissa Harrison
Sandip Roy
A Slant of Light
Jeffrey Lent
RIGHTS SOLD: Les Escales (French)
The Hired Man
Helium
The Memory of Love
‘Supremely masterful’ Independent
‘A wonderfully well-woven tale that
shines a light on fascinating and
appalling events’ Michael Palin,
Observer, Books of the Year
RIGHTS SOLD: Ailantus/Boom(Dutch),
Albatros (Poland), Alfaguara (Spanish),
Antalog (Macedonian), Beijing Heping
Yahua Cultural Communications(Simplified
Chinese), Cavallo di Ferro (Italian), DVA
(German), Euromedia (Czech), Grupo
Editorial Paz e Terra (Brazilian Portuguese),
Gyldendal Norsk (Norwegian), Ikar
(Slovak), Into Publishing (Finnish), Tideme
Skifter(Danish)
Aminatta Forna
RIGHTS SOLD: Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch),
Santillana (Spanish), Tiderne Skifter
(Danish), Zala Publishing House (Slovenian)
Jaspreet Singh
Aminatta Forna
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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS:
HIGHLIGHTS WOMEN’S FICTION
From a Distance
Raffaella Barker
‘Wonderful writer ...
Incredible books’ David
Baldacci, New York Times
‘One of the cleverest and
freshest of British novelists’
Daily Mail
The Private Papers
of Eastern Jewel
Maureen Lindley
RIGHTS SOLD: Agam (Hebrew),
Alma Littera (Lithuanian),
Berlin Verlag (German), Mehta
Publishing House (Marathi),
Neri Pozza (Italian), Oceanida
(Greek), Polirom (Romanian),
Profil International Limited
(Croatian), Proszynski (Polish),
Prozoretz (Bulgarian), Ripol
(Russian), Sanskrit (Thai),
Tericum (Hungarian)
A Girl Like You
Miss Carter’s War
‘A sweeping coming-ofage novel’ Western Mail
‘A rich and absorbing story
you won’t want to put
down’ Daily Express
Maureen Lindley
RIGHTS SOLD: Proszynski
(Polish)
Sheila Hancock
FICTION HIGHLIGHTS: CRIME FICTION
Sleeping Dogs
Thomas Mogford
‘Superb series … moves
Mogford’s shrewd
and atmospheric
Mediterranean noir into
the newest and darkest
of territories’ Guardian
Summer Reading
16
Shadow of the
Rock
Thomas Mogford
‘Very original … A rare and
enviable talent’ William
Boyd
Sign of the Cross
Hollow Mountain
‘Will leave the reader
eagerly anticipating the
next instalment’
Irish Times
‘Exciting and assured …
Popular fiction at its best’
Susan Hill, Spectator,
Books of the Year
Thomas Mogford
Thomas Mogford
FICTION HIGHLIGHTS
One Thousand
and One Nights
Hanan al-Shaykh
‘Magical’ Donna Tartt, The
Times
RIGHTS SOLD: Actes
Sud (French), Sindbad
(Russian), Vulkan (Serbian)
GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Inflatable
Woman
Rachael Ball
The Odyssey
Seymour Chwast
The Canterbury
Tales
Seymour Chwast
Dante’s Divine
Comedy
Seymour Chwast
RIGHTS SOLD: Companhia
das Letras (Brazil),
Knesebeck (German),
Kronos Yayincilik (Turkish)
17
GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
Gangster Warlords
Ioan Grillo
From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads
of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives them, what sustains
their power, and how they might be brought down
In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five
hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil’s biggest city, a mysterious
prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards
in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while
enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 384
RIGHTS SOLD: Penguin Random
House Mexico (Spanish – World)
A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock
star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over
much of the world’s trade in narcotics, guns, and humans. What they do affects
you now – from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of
thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U.S. Gangster
Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central
and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S.
after the Cold War. Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo has
covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the
cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas.
Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers,
Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of
control – one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.
Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media
including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour,
the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El
Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages
and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England,
Grillo lives in Mexico City.
ALSO AVAILABLE
El Narco
Ioan Grillo
RIGHTS SOLD: De Agostini (Italian),
Modernista (Swedish), Remi (Polish),
Urano (Spanish), Meta (French),
Gendaikika (Japanese), Corint
(Romanian)
18
The Fate of Gender
Frank Browning
A deeply reported, provocative, and path-breaking look at the fastchanging global landscape of gender today, from the bestselling author
of The Culture of Desire
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 304
Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from
gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather
casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and
Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. Along the way he elucidates
the neuroscience that distinguishes male and female biology, shows us how
all parents' brains change during the first weeks of parenthood, and finally how
men's and women's responses to age differ worldwide based not on biology
but on their earlier life habits. Starting with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous
observation that one is not born a woman but instead becomes a woman,
Browning goes on to show equally that no one is born a man but learns how to
perform as a man, and that there is no fixed way of being masculine or feminine.
Increasingly, the categories of “male” and “female” and even “gay” and “straight”
seem old-fashioned and reductive. Just visible on the horizon is a world of
gender and sexual fluidity that will remake our world in fundamental ways.
Linking science to culture and behavior, he challenges the traditional division
of Nature vs. Nurture in everything from plant science to sexual expression,
arguing in the end that life consists of an endless waltz between these two
ancient notions.
Former NPR science reporter Frank Browning grew up on an apple farm in
Kentucky and now lives in Paris. His books include The American Way of Crime
(with John Gerassi), The Culture of Desire, A Queer Geography, Apples: The
Story of the Fruit of Temptation, and The Monk & the Skeptic. He writes on art
and culture for the Huffington Post and has contributed to the Washington Post
Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Salon, and other publications.
19
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things
Were
Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott
A tour of some of the world’s most iconic and endangered species, and
what we can do to save them
Most of us are aware that many animals are threatened by extinction – the
plight of iconic creatures such as polar bears, tigers and whales has been well
publicised. While typically attributed to climate change and habitat destruction,
few people realise that there is a direct link with consumer demand for cheap
meat.
EXTENT: 320
Some may see intensive farming as a necessary evil. After all, we need to
produce more food for a growing global population and are led to believe that
squeezing animals into factory farms and growing crops in vast, chemicalsoaked prairies, is efficient and leaves land free for wildlife – but this is far from
the truth. With the limits of the planet’s resources now seemingly within touching
distance, awareness is growing about how the wellbeing of society depends
on a thriving natural world. Through the lens of a dozen iconic and endangered
species, Dead Zone examines the role of industrial farming in their plight and
meets the people doing something about it.
By the authors of the internationally successful Farmageddon, Dead Zone
takes the reader on a global safari involving some of the world’s most iconic
and endangered species. The focus shifts from the plight of farm animals to the
impact of industrial farming on specific endangered species, as the book lays
bare the myths that prop up factory farming and shows what we can do to save
the planet with healthy food.
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare
organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on
the effects of industrial farming.
Farmageddon
Philip Lymbery with Isabel
Oakeshott
‘A wake-up call to the perils of
industrial agriculture’ Observer
RIGHTS SOLD: Nikkei BP (Japanese)
AND Publishing (Complex Chinese)
Illumatio Lukasz (Polish), Nutrimenti
(Italian)
20
Churchill’s Legacy: Two Speeches
to Save the World
Alan Watson
‘Although they were attacked and denounced at the time, Winston
Churchill’s two great speeches of 1946 – delivered 4,700 miles away from
each other – created the political architecture for the whole postwar
period. To a very great degree, the geostrategic world we inhabit today
sprung from the words Churchill spoke at Fulton, Missouri and Zurich,
Switzerland. Alan Watson’s scholarly, well-written and penetrating
analysis shows how that came about.’ Andrew Roberts
Churchill’s role in restoring European unity from the perspective of his two key
speeches in 1946 at Fulton and Zurich.
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 224
Churchill’s Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war
politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946.
Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to
preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the United States
in the restoration of Europe.
In Fulton Missouri, Churchill alerted America to the reality of ‘Uncle Joe’ —
a tyrant determined to dominate Europe at any cost. Churchill called for an
Anglo-American alliance based on their shared values and the deterrent of
America’s possession of the atomic bomb. Churchill also urged the Americans
to recognise the debt they owed Britain for opposing Hitler in 1940. In doing so,
he contributed to the US thinking behind the need for the Marshall Plan.
In Zurich, Churchill boldly proposed a partnership between France and Germany:
a United States of Europe. The hatred stirred up by the war had to be replaced
by partnership for Europe to recover its economic vitality and regain its moral
stature. Together, the Anglo-American Alliance and a United States of Europe
led by France and Germany would have the power to ‘smite the crocodile’ of
Soviet ambition.
To understand what Churchill intended with these two speeches requires
perspective. The daring of his imagination and the scale of his architecture for a
new Western Alliance was extraordinary. At the time, not many recognized the
symmetry of what was proposed. At Churchill’s funeral in 1965, commentators
bemoaned the end of an era. In truth, Churchill was the catalyst of a new era—
one built upon effective defence, economic revival, and European unity. His
speeches have been awarded UNESCO heritage status.
Alan Watson is a broadcaster, author, High Steward of Cambridge University,
former President of the Liberal Party, public relations consultant and Peer.
An accomplished public speaker, presenter, campaigner and consultant, his
fascination with Churchill has been lifelong. His enthusiasm for Britain at the
interface of Churchill’s three circles – Europe, America, and the English-speaking
world – remains unmatched.
21
You Could Look It Up
Jack Lynch
An illuminating exploration of reference books through time and across
cultures, from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi to Wikipedia
“Knowledge is of two kinds,” said Samuel Johnson in 1775. “We know a subject
ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Today we think
of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just
the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge – reference works that have
shaped the way we’ve seen the world for centuries.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 464
You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great
works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From
The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient
Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny’s Natural History; from the
11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham
Ortelius’s first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the
English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates
the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring
impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of
knowledge.
Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in
English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English
language. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer's
Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
and Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and
Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey.
“Lively and erudite . . . Lynch offers a reference book of reference books, a
magical volume of infinite regress . . .You Could Look It Up can serve as a
reminder of our enduring and impudent desire to keep the chaotic universe in
some kind of neat and serviceable order.” New York Times Book Review, Alberto
Manguel (Editor’s Choice)
“[A] wholly absorbing chronicle of the reference book.” The Wall Street Journal
“A casual but fascinating read that feels like sneaking into a library after hours,
it offers an absorbing glimpse into the world-changing and frequently turbulent
history of the reference shelf.” NPR.org
22
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers,
an eyewitness exposé of the horrific dangers of America’s hidden fiftyyear-long nuclear policy that continues to this day
At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took
the top secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top
secret documents related to America's nuclear buildup in the 1960s. Here for
the first time he reveals the contents of those documents, and makes clear their
shocking relevance for today.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 384
Rights Sold: Xinhua (Simplified
Chinese)
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most
dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy--and renewal
under the Obama administration – threatens the very survival of humanity. It is
scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies
without penetrating the secret realities of nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower
and early Kennedy years when Ellsberg had high-level access to them. No other
insider has written so candidly of that long-classified history, and nothing has
fundamentally changed since that era. Ellsberg’s analysis of recent research on
nuclear winter shows that even a “small” nuclear exchange would cause billions
of deaths by global nuclear famine.
Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take in this election year to avoid
nuclear catastrophe. Framed as a memoir, this gripping exposé reads like a
thriller, with cloak-and-dagger intrigue, placing Ellsberg back in his natural role
as whistleblower. It is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story, but an ultimately hopeful-and necessary – book.
In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the Department of Defense and the
White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. Later
he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Senate and the press. He lectures and
writes on the dangers of the nuclear era and the need for whistleblowing. A
Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is the author of
Secrets and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Most
Dangerous Man in America. He lives in Kensington, California.
23
Tips from Widowers
Jan Robinson
A unique, practical and thoughtful manual of tips, anecdotes and
practical advice from men who have lived through the loss of a wife or
partner, with a foreword from acclaimed journalist Robert Peston
When Jan Robinson's husband died suddenly and unexpectedly, she had the
idea of asking any other widows, whenever and wherever she met them, for two
tips about how to deal with widowhood. From this advice, she constructed her
beautiful first volume, Tips from Widows.
To Robinson’s surprise, the book generated an overwhelming response not
only from widows, but also from widowers. From these outpourings it became
evident that a second book, this time for widowers, was inevitable.
EXTENT: 112
Grief is an unmanageable emotion and the form it takes is unique to every man
whose wife or partner has died. There are no set rules about coping with loss.
Some people struggle with it for years and maybe never get over it. Others
manage to move on. This book makes no claim to be an authority on how to
cope as a widower; it is, quite simply, tips from widowers. You may be alone in
your boat on the ocean, but Tips from Widowers will help you to recognise that
other boats are out there too.
Jan Robinson began collecting advice from widows after her husband died.
Six months later, she decided to turn this into a book and sell it through her
website. Tips From Widows was picked up by Bloomsbury and published in
2015; Tips from Widowers is the companion volume. She has four children,
seven grandchildren and lives in London.
tipsfromwidows.co.uk
Tips from Widows
Jan Robinson
‘A wonderful, beautiful little book’
Joanna Lumley
24
The Ethical Carnivore:
My Year Killing to Eat
Louise Gray
What would happen if you could only eat animals you killed yourself?
This is the story of how one woman took an extreme dinner party
challenge seriously, and what she learned about herself and the animals
we eat along the way
Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in
agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently
finds the extraordinary ‘rabbit with a white blaze’, she vows to do its death
justice and continue her quest to find out what it really means to kill and eat
animals.
BLOOMSBURY NATURAL
HISTORY
EXTENT: 288
Inspired by the hand-wringing at middle class dinner parties, where everyone
claims to care about animal welfare, Louise Gray sets out to find exactly where
our meat comes from. The Ethical Carnivore takes the reader on the entire
journey from field to fork, including the moment of death. At times shocking and
always enlightening, the story promises to make us fully appreciate not only the
farmers and fishermen behind our meals, but most of all the animals themselves.
Starting small, Louise shoots and traps game such as pigeon and squirrels,
and learns how to skin and cook them in the traditional way. Louise infiltrates
elite shoots and considers whether killing game birds can ever be justified. She
bravely visits halal and non-halal slaughterhouses and finds out how animals
are killed and processed, and the effect it has on the men and women who do
it on our behalf.
The biggest animal Louise kills is a stag, in a chapter about blood lust, the
question of masculinity and whether we are really meant to hunt and kill. At the
end of the year, Louise goes wild fowling on the Isle of Lewis to shoot a goose
for Christmas and reflects on how she has become more connected to nature
and as a result a more compassionate person.
Confronting current anxiety about the modern food system, Louise Gray’s frank
and funny writing encourages us all to reconnect with the countryside and take
responsibility for the animals on our plates.
Louise Gray is former Environment Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph,
where she covered annual UN talks on climate change, travelled to Paraguay to
investigate GM crops and got more than one scoop on recycling. Since leaving
the newspaper at the end of 2013 she has written freelance for The Sunday
Times, Guardian, Country Life and Spectator, and has also appeared on BBC
Radio 4 and LBC. Through her blog she has built up a sizeable readership
worldwide, and is fast becoming the go-to person for environmental matters, a
subject that grows and grows.
www.louisebgray.com / @loubgray
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NON-FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS
In Manchuria
A Village Called Wasteland
and the Transformation of
Rural China
Michael Meyer
RIGHTS SOLD: Gusa Press
(Complex Chinese), Shanghai
Translation Publishing House
(Chinese Simplified)
The Kennedy
Half-Century
Larry J. Sabato
‘In The Kennedy Half-Century, Larry
Sabato not only sheds new light on
the assassination, but, and more
importantly, masterfully explains the
enduring legacy of Kennedy and his
1,000 days in office’ John Grisham
26
Mecca
Ziauddin Sardar
‘A major achievement ... Hugely
enjoyable’ William Dalrymple
RIGHTS SOLD:
Payot et Rivages (French), Czarne
(Polish); Arab Network for Research
& Publishing (Arab); Nesil Publishing
(Turkish), Linkius Publishing (Complex
CHinese), PT Zaytuna Ufuk Abadi
(Indonesian)
On the Trail of
Genghis Khan
Tim Cope
‘Weaving acute observation, honest
introspection, and a sense of history,
Cope crafts a marvelously perceptive
travelogue of an audacious odyssey’
Booklist
RIGHTS SOLD: Piper/Malik (German);
Jagiellonian University Press (Polish)
Owning the Earth
The Searchers
‘An extremely important book’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A gracefully presented narrative … A
thoroughly researched, clearly written
account of an obsessive search
through the tangled borderland of
fact and fiction, legend and myth’
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Andro Linklater
RIGHTS SOLD: Wuhan Enlightenment
Compilation and Translation
Company (Simplified Chinese)
Glenn Frankel
RIGHTS SOLD: Shinchosha
(Japanese)
Return of a King
William Dalrymple
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson
Prize, 2013
RIGHTS SOLD: Adelphi
(Italian),Buchet-Chastel (French),
Wydawnictwo(Polish), Social
Sciences Academics Press
(Simplified Chinese), Menla
Publishing House (Marathian)
Story of a Death
Foretold
Pinochet, the CIA and the Coup
against Salvador Allende, 11
September 1973
How the Beatles
Rocked the Kremlin
Lesley Woodhead
RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Fine Arts
Publishing (Chinese)
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
‘Fascinating … Commendable for
[its] originality and research’
Washington Post
Meeting the Enemy
Furies
What?
RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffmann und Campe
(German)
RIGHTS SOLD: Critica (Spanish), WBG
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
(German)
RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffman und Campe
(German), Butik Yayincilik (Turkish),
Exmo (Russian), Random House
Korea (Korean)
Richard van Emden
Lauro Matines
Mark Kurlansky
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Glorious Misadventures
Owen Matthews
‘A thrilling story of swashbuckling
adventure’ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Gallipoli
Richard van Emden
and Stephen Chambers
Tommy’s War
Richard van Emden
‘Riveting ... Pictures like these offer an
intimate understanding’ Daily Telegraph
RIGHTS SOLD:
Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc (French),
EXMO Publishers (Russian)
Dreamland
Kidnap in Crete
National Book Critics Circle
Finalist
‘Rollicking ... The fullest, most fluent
record of the kidnap yet’ William
Dalrymple
Sam Quinones
Rick Stroud
RIGHTS SOLD: Medium Media (Polish)
28
The Kaiser's Army
David Stone
The Health Gap: The
Challenge of an Unequal
World
Michael Marmot
RIGHTS SOLD: Dong Nyok (Korean), Il
Pensiero Scientifico (Italian)
Blood Ransom
Stories from the front line in the
war against Somali piracy
John Boyle
RIGHTS SOLD: Medium Media (Polish)
The God Argument
Unspeakable Things
RIGHTS SOLD: madibooks (Korean),
Loxodonta (Danish), McMillan d.o.o.
(Serbian)
Laurie Penny
The Emperor Far Away
The Impulse Society
A. C. Grayling
Travels at the Edge of China
David Eimer
‘Fascinating ... A side of China that’s
rarely examined’ Daily Telegraph
RIGHTS SOLD: Hakusisha (Japanese),
Gusa Press (Complex Chinese),
Uniwesytet Jagiellonski (Polish)
Sex, Lies and Revolution
RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German)
Ordfront (Swedish)
America in the Age of Instant
Gratification
Paul Roberts
RIGHTS SOLD: China Citic Press
(Simplified Chinese), Minumsa
(Korean), Diamond Inc (Japanese),
Commonwealth Publishing Co
(Complex Chinese)
29
Jihad Academy
Nicolas Hénin
RIGHTS SOLD: French (Fayard),
(Arabic), (Turkish), (Chinese
simplified), (German)
30
MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet
and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King
Claude Monet is perhaps the world’s most beloved artist, and among all his
creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most
famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by
the power of Monet’s brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet
himself intended them to provide “an asylum of peaceful meditation.” Yet, as
Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece,
these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced at the
difficulties of capturing the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also
reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of
his life.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 416
54 b&w images throughout and a
16 page color insert
RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij
(Dutch), Record (Brazilian
Portuguese), Rizzoli (Italian),
Random House (Canadian),
Atticus Azbboka (Russian), Park
Kiado (Hungarian)
Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies,
as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny, and a
new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso,
were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French
newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then 73 and one of the world’s
wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his
beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what
Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of painting"--was
threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing
age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before.
Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas
unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait
of an iconic figure in world culture--from his lavish lifestyle and tempestuous
personality to his close friendship with the fiery war leader Georges Clemenceau,
who regarded the Water Lilies as one of the highest expressions of the human
spirit.
Ross King is the bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and
the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power,
Leonardo and the Last Supper and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives
just outside Oxford.
Leonardo and the Last Supper
RIGHTS SOLD:
De Bezige Bij (Dutch), Record (Brazilian Portuguese),
Random House (German), Rizzoli (Italian), Semicolon
(Korean), Park (Hungarian), Kinneret (Hebrew), Dogan
Kitap (Turkish), Noirsur Blanc (Polish), Atticus Azbooka
(Russia)
31
Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the
Imagination
Ghislaine Kenyon
A visual biography and intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the muchloved illustrator and artistic genius of our age
Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Best
known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and
the Pelly and Me, The Twits, and Matilda, he is cherished by young and old alike.
Still, his work has not attained “fine art” status. How does Blake’s background
in education inform his work? And what is the relationship between the work he
makes and the life he leads? Distinguished curator Ghislaine Kenyon spent a
great deal of time with Blake and in this biography, she provides profound insight
into an extraordinary man and his remarkable body of work.
Bloomsbury Continuum
EXTENT: 256
A shared enthusiasm for education brought Kenyon and Blake together.
Kenyon staged a jointly curated exhibition, Tell Me A Picture, during Blake’s
tenure as Children’s Laureate (1999–2001). She followed Blake during the years
he continued to work “off the page,” producing work for hospitals in Angers
and Paris and staging major exhibitions around the world. Kenyon shows that
Blake’s life informs his illustrations and his artwork, in turn, informs his life—a life
which is extremely private, mysterious, and full of complexities and ambiguities.
Kenyon has produced not merely a biography but a critical view of the artist’s
work. This book is a fitting tribute to Quentin Blake’s journey and to his great
artistic legacy.
Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National
Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several
exhibitions, including Tell Me a Picture in 2000 with Quentin Blake.
32
The Fall of the House of Wilde
Emer O'Sullivan
A fascinating insight into the Wilde family’s double fall from grace
Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics – his precocious
intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his
sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values – to his parents.
Oscar’s mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist,
advocating in 1848 a rebellion against colonialism. Proud, involved and
challenging, she became a salon hostess and opened the Wilde’s Dublin home
at No. 1 Merrion Square to the public. Known as the most scintillating and
stirring hostess of her day, she passed on her infectious delight in the art of living
to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily.
EXTENT: 512
His father was Sir William Wilde, one of the most eminent men of his generation.
Acutely conscious of injustices in the social order, Sir William laid the foundations
for the Celtic renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common
ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But
Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually
assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shock waves
through Dublin society.
After his death the Wildes moved to London where Oscar burst irrepressibly
upon the scene. The one role that didn’t suit him was that of the Victorian
husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath the swelling
forehead was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was
unable to recognise when the party was over.
The Fall of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member
of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times, and also in
the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive
account, this is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose
own fall from grace in a trial as public as his father’s marked the end of fin de
siècle decadence..
Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an
MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she also
lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London.
“Emer O’Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean
literature…Not since Ellmann’s masterly 1988 biography has a book been
published that will be so warmly welcomed by those still held in thrill by the
myth and reality of Oscar Wilde, that miracle of mind and personality. Perhaps
even more importantly, this is a book that reminds us how very unlikely it is that
a genius is likely to born in a vacuum: Oscar was, O’Sullivan demonstrates,
every inch his parents’ child. I feel perhaps most moved and surprised by the
potential of their other son, the largely forgotten Willie. How easily he could
have been the Wilde we would have remembered.” Stephen Fry
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Daddykins
Kalpana Mohan
After spending most of her life in California, Mohan flew down when her 89 year
old father took ill. Her memoir of the time she spent with him between his illness
and his death is a richly humourous and moving account of her relationship with
her cantankerous, stubborn father and a thoroughly recognizable account of
a man holding the various indignities of old age at bay for as long as he can.
Born in the 20s in the small South Indian village where people were being
mowed down by the plague, Daddykins was so poor that he’d walk to school
barefoot. He has since sent both of his daughters to good universities and now
developers are falling over themselves to buy his land for a shopping strip.
Filtering Indian history through the recollections, experiences and philosophical
outlook of her father, Mohan has also provided a portrait of what India once was,
from the last days of British rule, to the economic boom that defines it today and
all that has been lost and gained in the process.
Bloomsbury India
PUBLICATION DATE: tbc
EXTENT: tbc
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Kalpana Mohan is a California-based journalist whose work has appeared in
publications including NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Hindu. She is a
regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY COMING SOON
Mario Vargas Llosa: A
Life
The Life of Lucian Freud
William Feaver
Gerald Martin
RIGHTS SOLD: Random House
Penguin (Spanish World), Suhrkamp
(German)
RIGHTS SOLD: Albatros (Polish), Atlas
Contact (Dutch)
The Chief Engineer:
Washington Roebling,
the Man who Built the
Brooklyn Bridge
Erica Wagner
MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS
The Lost Detective:
Becoming Dashiell
Hammett
Nathan Ward
No Way But
Gentlenesse
Richard Hines
A Guest at the Shooters’
Banquet
Rita Gabis
‘This is a work of enchanting honesty
and tenderness; it is as gentle and
inspiring to the reader as a falconer
is with his hawks. Hines has a deep
and lifelong passion for birds of prey,
creatures of implacable wildness
which have nevertheless lived and
hunted with humans for millennia. It
speaks of love, family, history, and
education, and illuminates how an
obsession can enrich and shape
one’s life. Reading it was a true
pleasure.’ – Helen Macdonald
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The Disinherited
MOB Rule
Claude Lévi-Strauss
‘Immaculately written ... A fascinating
picture of a forgotten underside of
English aristocratic and public life’
Lucy Lethbridge, Observer
‘Gives an insight into the challenges,
drama and fun of raising boys’
Mother & Baby
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Sindbad (Russian), Beijinh Taofen
Book (Simplified Chinese)
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Chinese), Atlas Contact (Dutch),
Beijing Guangban New Century
Culture (Simplified Chinese),
Everrich Holdings (Korean),Grupo
Saggiatore (Italian), Objetiva (Brazilian
Portuguese)
Pope Francis
Margaret Thatcher
Ansel Adams
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(French), WBG (German),
Wydawnictwom (Polish)
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Co (Simplified Chinese)
Mary Street Alinder
Robert Sackville-West
Paul Vallely
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Hannah Evans
Jonathan Aitken
Patrick Wilcken
A Biography
Cairo
Ahdaf Soueif
‘Soueif is a political analyst and
commentator of the best kind’
London Review of Books
RIGHTS SOLD: Alhambra Forlag
(Swedish), Donzelli (Italian) , Knopf
(US), Metaixmio (Greek)
Genius At Play
The Curious
Mathematical Mind of
John Horton Conway
Siobhan Roberts
Let Me Tell You a Story:
A Memoir of a Wartime
Childhood
Renata Calverley
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(Spanish), Gummerus (Finnish),
Weltbild Polska (Polish)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gerald Martin
Revised postscript now available
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Arabic), Bertelsmann Media (Polish),
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(Czech), Grasset (French), Iwanami
Shoten (Japanese), Kultur Yayinari
is Turk (Turkish), Linking (Complex
Chinese), Magveto (Hungarian),
Meulenhoff (Dutch), Mikri Arktos
Publishing House (Greek), Mondadori
(Italian), Penguin Random House
(Spain), Sandorf (Croatian), China
Citic Press (Simplified Chinese),
Slovo (Russian), TIMY Partners
(Slovak), Uniscorp (Bulgarian)
Philip Larkin
Life, Art and Love
James Booth
‘Superb ... A satisfying and believably
complex picture’ Spectator
37
Mr Mojo: A
Biography of Jim
Morrison
Dylan Jones
Empire of Imagination
Michael Witwer
RIGHTS SOLD: Casa da Palavra
(Portuguese – Brazil), Born Digital
(Japanese)
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A Prince Among Stones
Respect Yourself
‘This book is far more than a
footnote to the Rolling Stones; it is an
elegantly written account of how two
cultures came together’
Lynn Barber, Sunday Times
‘A masterful storyteller, music
historian Gordon artfully chronicles
the rise and fall of one of America’s
greatest music studios, situating
the story of Stax within the cultural
history of the 1960s in the South ...
Gordon deftly narrates the stories of
the many musicians who called Stax
home’ Publishers Weekly
Prince Rupert Lowerstein
Robert Gordon
TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING
Havana
Mark Kurlansky
A city of tropical heat, sweat, African music and religion, a city that
always surprises, newly in the public eye–Havana is brought to pulsing
life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky
On the heels of restored diplomatic relations with the United States, awardwinning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider’s view of Havana: the elegant
and tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural
history, part travelogue, with recipes throughout, Havana celebrates the city’s
exceptional music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding,
neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 224
The book will include recipes, with
the author’s sketches, etchings
and photographs through-out
Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it
is today–from the native Taino to Columbus’s landing, from Cuba’s status as a
U.S. protectorate to Batista’s dictatorship and Castro’s revolution, from Soviet
presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes;
a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through
areas that have not been painted or repaired since the revolution.
Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo
Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and
Hemingway. He introduces us to the Cuban baseball league’s two dominant
teams and their highly opinionated fans; the city’s music scene, alive with the
rhythm of Son; and its culinary legacy, which incorporates everything from home
cooking to state-run restaurants. Once the only country Americans couldn’t
visit, Cuba is now opening to us, and so is Havana, not only by plane or boat
but also through Kurlansky’s multilayered portrait as it brings the long-elusive
city to electrifying life.
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The
Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and International Night,
among many others. He received the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for
Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award in 2006, the 1999
James Beard Award and the 1999 Glenfiddich Award, both for Cod. Salt was
a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City.
www.markkurlansky.com
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When the Last Lion Roars: How the
King of the Beasts was Brought to
the Brink
Sara Evans
The story of a continent losing its most charismatic predator at
unprecedented speed
There are no lions left north of the Sahara and their range in southern Africa has
shrunk considerably. Two sub species have already gone. With numbers down
to just 20,000, many experts believe, that without effective conservation plans
in place, Africa’s remaining lions will be wiped out by the mid half of this century.
Bloomsbury Natural History
EXTENT: 320
Sara Evans considers the cultural significance of the Lion over thousands of
years as well as its historic rise and fall as a global species. She also explores the
many, and often complex, reasons that explain why numbers have plummeted
so catastrophically in recent decades. As humans are the lion’s only predator,
she asks what is being done to reverse, or at least stem this haemorrhage?
By interweaving vivid personal encounters with Africa’s last lions – from Kenya in
the northeast to Botswana in the south – visits to breeding projects in the west
and their protectors all over the continent, she hopes to answer this question as
well as turn the spotlight on the plight of Africa’s most iconic and mesmerising
animals.
The narrative also includes photographs, illustrations and maps as well as
insights from experts in the field.
Sara Evans is an award-winning writer and photojournalist, specialising in travel
and wildlife. Newspapers and magazines that have featured her work include:
Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday,
The Australian Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Boston Globe, Lonely Planet
Travel Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Africa Geographic Countryside, and
Wildlife magazine.
She won the 2005 Independent on Sunday and Bradt Travel Writing competition
and has been shortlisted in a number of BBC writing competitions and been a
panelist at Bradt travel-writing seminars.
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The Most Perfect Thing:
Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg
Tim Birkhead
From the author of Bird Sense and The Wisdom of Birds, a revealing and
enthralling book about the extraordinary creation that is a bird’s egg
‘I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect
thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird’s egg’
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862
How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are?
When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks?
How are the colours and patterns of an eggshell created, and why do they vary?
And which end of an egg is laid first – the blunt end or the pointy end?
EXTENT: 288
RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij
(Dutch)
The Red
Canary
Tim Birkhead
Bird Sense
Tim Birkhead
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Buchet-Chastel (French),
Destino (Spanish), Galaktyka
(Polish), Kawade Shobo Shinsha
(Japanese), OWL Publishing Ltd
(Taiwanese), The Commercial
Press (Chinese), XO Books (The
Commercial Press)
These are just some of the questions The Most Perfect Thing answers, as the
journey of a bird’s egg from creation and fertilisation to its eventual hatching is
examined, with current scientific knowledge placed within an historical context.
Beginning with an examination of the stunning eggs of the guillemot, each
of which is so variable in pattern and colour that no two are ever the same,
acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead then looks at the eggs of hens, cuckoos
and many other birds, revealing weird and wonderful facts about these miracles
of nature. Woven around and supporting these facts are extraordinary stories
of the individuals who from as far back as Ancient Egypt have been fixated on
the study and collection of eggs, not always to the benefit of their conservation.
Firmly grounded in science and enriched by a wealth of observation drawn
from a lifetime spent studying birds, The Most Perfect Thing is an illuminating
and engaging exploration of the science behind eggs and the history of man’s
obsession with them.
Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches
animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to
understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist,
BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The
Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, The Red
Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize, The Wisdom of Birds and Bird
Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.
The Wisdom of Birds
Tim Birkhead
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Forest of Imagination (Korean),
Readme.fi (Finnish), Greystone/
Douglas (Canada), The Commercial
Press (Simplified Chinese), Libros
del Jata (Spanish – Spain only)
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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING HIGHLIGHTS
Darjeeling
The Colourful History and
Precarious Fate of the World’s
Greatest Tea
Jeff Koehler
Finalist for the IACP Award and
Winner of the 2015 Gourmand
Award for ‘Best Tea Book’
Cuckoo
Kaleidoscope City
Cheating by Nature
A Year in Varanasi
Nick Davies
Piers Moore Ede
Winner of British Birds and the
British Trust for Ornithology Best
Bird Book of the Year 2015
‘Affectionate and inquiring at the
same time’ Daily Telegraph
‘Amazing detective story by one of
the country’s greatest field naturalists’
Sir David Attenborough
RIGHTS SOLD: Chijin Shokan
(Japanese), Atlas Contact (Dutch)
The Naked Shore
Herring Tales
‘Tom Blass ... Has undertaken in this remarkable book
to portray it in the round, winds and all, and thus makes
a reassuring whole of it ... The sunless subject of the
narrative, which threatens to be monotonous, turns out of
be almost kaleidoscopically varied ... Terrifically enjoyable’
Literary Review
‘Murray mixes folklore, personal reminiscence, cookery...
and intertwines herring culture with political history.’
Times Literary Supplement
Tom Blass
RIGHTS SOLD: Mare (German)
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Donald S. Murray
‘Mr Murray is a gregarious and engaging raconteur as
he flips between the diverse aspects of this versatile little
creature.’ Economist
SMART THINKING
Soccermatics: Mathematical
Adventures In the Beautiful Game
David Sumpter
Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and
league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the
modern game is filled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How do we
make sense of these? The answer lies in the mathematical models
applied in biology, physics and economics. Soccermatics brings football
and mathematics together in a mind-bending synthesis, using numbers
to help reveal the inner workings of the beautiful game
How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically?
What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style?
What can defenders learn from lionesses?
Bloomsbury Sigma
How much of a scoreline is pure randomness and how much is skill?
PUBLICATON DATE: 05/05/16
How can probability theory make you money at the bookies?
EXTENT: 288
Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly by David
Sumpter through the prism of football. No matter who you follow – be it Bristol
City, Burton Albion, Barnet or Barrow, or one of the Premier League big boys
– you’ll be amazed at what mathematics has to teach us about the world’s
favourite sport.
RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish –
World), Benevento (German),
Volante (Sweden)
David Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala,
Sweden. Originally from London, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics
at Manchester, and held academic research positions at both Oxford and
Cambridge before heading to Sweden.
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SMART THINKING
Buddhist Economics
Clair Brown
An economist at the University of California at Berkeley, and a practicing
Buddhist, Clair Brown saw something very wrong with the GDP. She felt stifled
by the classical economic model she was required to teach in her Econ 1
course, a model which made no room for some of our world’s most pressing
concerns: climate change, environmental degradation, and wealth inequality.
Classical economics, which holds that more is always better, has led us to focus
on the wrong values and to pay attention to the wrong measurements. It gauges
performance by national output; quality of life by average income; and the health
of the market by how much people are shopping.
Bloomsbury Press
EXTENT: 224
Drawing upon the work of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful:
Economics as if People Mattered, as well as capability and ecological
economists, Brown went in search of a different kind of economic system
based not on the values of individualism and materialism, but rather on
interconnectedness and compassion. The science of economics—in curricula,
in theory, and in practice—can and should be a force for good. Buddhist
Economics issues a powerful challenge to the prevailing economic system, and
makes a heartening and truly groundbreaking case for bringing humanity back
into “the dismal science.”
Dr. Clair Brown is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,
Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof Brown is a
past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR, now IRLE) at UCB, and
Chair of the Committee on Education Policy of the Academic Senate. Clair has
published research on many aspects of the labor market, including high-tech
workers, labor market institutions, firm employment systems and performance,
the standard of living, wage determination, and unemployment.
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SMART THINKING
The Great Acceleration
Robert Colvile
A revelatory account of how our society is speeding up, The Great
Acceleration is a fascinating insight into the science and promise of the
modern world from a brilliant new writer
Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging.
From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster.
But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this
vitally important new book, Robert Colvile explains how the cult of disruption in
Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology and our own fundamental
appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect
of daily life.
EXTENT: 320
Drawing on the latest research, this book traces the path of this acceleration
through our working and social lives, the food we buy and the music to which
we listen. It explains how it’s transforming the media, politics and the financial
markets – and asks whether our bodies, and the natural environment, can cope.
As we race towards the future – into a world packed with new technologies,
new ideas and new discoveries – this scintillating and engrossing book is an
invaluable, must-read guide to the wonders and dangers that await us.
Robert Colvile has been a columnist, leader writer and comment editor with the
Daily Telegraph. Among his many duties, he was supervising the paper’s Science
and Digital Life pages, serving as comment editor of the Sunday Telegraph while
still in his twenties, and producing a host of editorials, features, reviews and
opinion pieces. He went on to be news director at BuzzFeed UK. He has a
Masters degree from Cambridge in International Relations, is a regular pundit
on Sky News, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies (a leading
British think-tank) and author of an influential report on how the internet is
transforming British politics, which was praised by Chancellor George Osborne
among others.
@rcolvile
‘In a run, run, runaway world, Colvile’s The Great Acceleration is an
indispensable guide to keeping up. A book that raises eyebrows and questions
in equal measure. A meticulous, thoughtful, candid, sometimes stark and
yet ultimately optimistic study of humanity, and our breath-taking desire for
change’ – Boris Johnson
‘It’s true - life is speeding up. But don’t despair, overall that’s a good thing for
prosperity and quality of life, though it may not feel so as the emails pile up…
This book is as fast-paced as its subject matter, and well worth making time
for’ – Mark Lynas, author of ‘The God Species’
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SMART THINKING HIGHLIGHTS
A More Beautiful
Question
Warren Berger
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Chinese), Domain Publishing
Company (Complex Chinese), Popuri
Publishers (Russian), Berlin Verlag
(German), Book 21 Publishing Group
(Korean), Diamond Inc (Japanese),
Aleph (Brazilian Portuguese),
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Finding the Space to Lead
Janice Marturano
RIGHTS SOLD:
Arbor Verlag (German),
Bulkwang Publishing Co. (Korean),
Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information
(Simplified Chinese), De Boeck
Supérieur (French); Martin Fontes
(Brazilian Portuguese); Øivind Arneberg
(Norwegian), Amber (Polish)
SIGMA
Sigma is Bloomsbury’s new science imprint which launched in 2014. Targeted squarely
at the popular science market, it represents a series of brilliantly written ‘good reads’,
backed up by serious science, with readability being key.
The broad subject area is the natural sciences, from evolution, psychology and paleontology to astronomy, toxicology,
medicine and weather sciences, with plenty of technology and a serious spoonful of the history of science for good
measure.
Sigma authors include some of the best and brightest talents in science communication today, including marine
biologist Helen Scales, conspiracy psychologist Rob Brotherton, stem-cell researcher Helen Pilcher, astrophysicist
Elizabeth Tasker and dinosaur expert David Hone.
Big Data
Timandra Harkness
What is Big Data, and why should you care? This book tells you
everything you need to know (and plenty of stuff you don't)
From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over 30,000 years ago, to the Large
Hadron Collider, which produces 40 million megabytes of data per second, data
is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently
than ever before. It has made possible scientific and social achievements that
would have been impossible just a few years ago. But being too dazzled by the
scale, the speed and the geeky jargon can lead us astray. It’s big, but it’s not
always clever.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
Timandra Harkness cuts through the hype to put data science into its reallife context. Stories, locations and people, plenty of jokes and personal asides
bring to life what is essentially a human science, demystifying Big Data, telling
us where it comes from and what it can do for us. The book then asks the
awkward questions – what can't it do? What are the unspoken assumptions
underlying its methods? Are we being bamboozled by its size, its speed and its
shiny technology?
Nobody needs a degree in computer science to grasp what Big Data is all
about, what it can do for us – and what it can't. This book asks you to decide –
are you a data point, or a human being?
Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who has been
performing on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days
of the 20th Century. In 2010 she co-wrote and performed the hit Your Days
Are Numbered: The Maths of Death, with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker,
which was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring the rest of the
UK and Australia. Science comedy since then includes her current solo show,
Brainsex.
She is a regular on BBC Radio, often presenting science documentaries, and
she has been the presenter of four series of The Human Zoo on BBC Radio 4.
Timandra is the only comedian to have had articles published in both Men's
Health and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society.
timandraharkness.com / @TimandraHarknes
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SIGMA
Sorting the Beef from the Bull
Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple
The story of food fraud forensics
Horsemeat in our burgers, melamine in our infant’s milk, artificial colours in our
fish and fruit … as our urban lifestyle takes us further and further away from our
food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonesty, duplicity and
profit-making short-cuts. Food adulteration, motivated by money, is an issue
that has spanned the globe throughout human history. Whether it’s a matter of
making a good quality oil stretch a bit further by adding a little extra ‘something’
or labelling a food falsely to appeal to current consumer trends – it’s all food
fraud, and it costs the food industry billions of dollars each year. The price to
consumers may be even higher, with some paying for these crimes with their
health and, in some cases, their lives. So how do we sort the beef from the bull
(or horse, as the case may be)?
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
Rights Sold: Alpina O O (Russian),
Nikkei BP (Japanese)
This book explains the scientific tools and techniques that revealed the century’s
biggest food fraud scams. It looks in detail at the biggest scams in recent
times; drawing on the lead author’s extensive experience at the forefront of
the fight against these fraudsters, it goes on to explore the arms-race between
scientists and adulterers as better techniques for detection spur more creative
and sophisticated means of adulteration. Finally, it looks at the up-and-coming
techniques and devices that will help the industry and consumers fight food
fraud in the future.
Engagingly written by Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple, this book lifts the
lid on the forensics involved, and brings the full story of a fascinating and underreported applied science to light.
Richard Evershed FRS is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of
Bristol. His thirty-year career has seen tremendous changes in the world of
analytical chemistry. Initially, Evershed’s work focused on chromatographic and
mass spectrometry studies, especially in archaeology, an area he continues
to research; the methodologies he pioneered have been used in several other
areas, notably in detecting food fraud, where his team developed methods for
detecting the highly lucrative but dangerous and illegal adulteration of vegetable
oil. His methods have even been used in tandem with the Metropolitan Police to
help in murder investigations.
Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer. Her writing has
taken her from the precipices of volcanoes in Ethiopia to the banks of salmon
streams in Canada's temperate rainforest. Based in Bristol, Nicola works with
universities, research councils and individuals to develop engaging science
stories on how research has an impact beyond the closeted world of academia.
nicolatemple.com / @nicolatemple
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SIGMA
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles
David Hone
The tyrannosaurs - how they lived, bred, fed and died
Tyrannosaurus is by some margin the most famous dinosaur in the world, adored
by children and adults alike, and it is often the only one that many people can
name. An impressive beast, it topped 10 tons, was more than 15m long, and
had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal, ever. Despite the
hype, Tyrannosaurus and its relatives (the tyrannosaurs) are fascinating animals,
and perhaps the best-studied of all dinosaur groups. They started small, just a
couple of metres long, and over the course of 70 million years evolved into the
giant meat-slicing bone-crushers that the world is now familiar with.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs, and presents
the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive
statistics – tyrannosaurs had feathers, may have hunted in groups, and fought
and even ate each other. This entertaining book presents the science behind
this research, and tells the evolutionary story of the group though their anatomy,
ecology and behaviour, exploring how they came to be the dominant terrestrial
predators of the Mesozoic and, in more recent times, one of the great icons of
biology.
David Hone is rapidly becoming the ‘face’ of dinosaur research. Based at QMW
in London, where he is Lecturer in Ecology, he has published more than 50
academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in
the tyrannosaurs, while his fieldwork has included a spell working on the famous
feathered dinosaur deposits of China. He writes a regular blog for the Guardian,
Lost Worlds (http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds), a major source
of dino-info for the general public.
David includes among his writing credits the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs. He
has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5Live and RTE, acted as
consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for New
Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times,
and many others.
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SIGMA
Bring Back the King: The New
Science of De-Extinction
Helen Pilcher
A unique blend of the science of de-extinction, cloning and comedy
If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time,
what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher
has thought about this problem, a lot. In Bring back the King, Helen explains the
cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real
possibility, and highlights her choices from eras gone by, from the King of the
Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, to the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Elvis Presley.
From dinosaurs to Dodos, Neanderthals to rock legends, Bring Back the King
explains how the burgeoning field of DNA science is being used to help resurrect
not just individual animals but entire species from their stony graves.
Bloomsbury Sigma
EXTENT: 288
Funny, intriguing and informative, Bring Back the King describes current initiatives
and future plans to restore deceased animals, and uses both science and willful
irreverence to assess how these genetic Lazarus’s might fare in their brave new
world. Could a pet dinosaur be trained to roll over? Would Neanderthals enjoy
opera? Could a returning Dodo seek vengeance upon humanity?
Blending the very latest de-extinction technology with cloning, dinosaurs with
rock legends, and hard-core popular science with plenty of gags, Bring Back
the King is a book that you will simply have to read.
Helen Pilcher was a stand-up comedian for more than ten years, she performed
at the Edinburgh comedy festival, at London’s Comedy Store, and at various
smoky pubs and clubs across Britain.
Helen is also a professional science writer, with a PhD in stem-cell biology. She
was formerly a journalist for Nature online, specialising in genetics; before that,
she ran the Science in Society programme at the Royal Society, and before
that, she worked as a senior scientist for a biotechnology company, engineering
a series of human stem cell lines for transplantation into damaged human
brains, this following on from her doctoral research into stem-cell therapy for
Alzheimer’s disease.
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears:
the Search for Life in the Universe
Louisa Preston
Across a Universe of at least 100 billion habitable, earth-like worlds, life
cannot be restricted solely to the Earth. Or can it? Read this book to find
out the hows and whys of astrobiology – the study of extraterrestrial life
All life as we know it is carbon-based, and reliant on sources of liquid water
and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet, the
Earth – a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a Universe of at least
100 billion habitable, earth-like worlds, life cannot be restricted to just this one
place? Or can it?
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The Earth is just the right distance from the Sun – within the so-called ‘Goldilocks
zone’ – and has a protective shielding atmosphere to allow for life to thrive. Life’s
journey in four billion years from single-celled organism to upright humanoids
with the capacity to undertake missions to other planets is remarkable. But there
is a chance that life exists (or existed) elsewhere in the Solar System, and recent
discoveries of just how common planets are in other systems means it is highly
likely that there is life does indeed occur on other planets.
How might life appear on these other worlds? It is possible to make bestguesses using facts rooted in physics, chemistry and biology, and by studying
‘extremophiles’, organisms such as nematodes and water bears that can
survive in the harshest conditions that Earth can offer. Ultimately, we need to
figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the
confines of the Earth and colonise another body in the Solar System, such as
the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction?
These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology – the study of
the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere in the universe, and the
search for it. This book is an accessible introduction to this most fascinating of
all the astro-sciences – are we alone in the Universe? Goldilocks and the Water
Bears looks at this and many other questions as the search for life elsewhere in
the Universe goes on.
Louisa Preston is an astrobiologist and planetary geologist, whose research
has focused on Mars-like environments on Earth and the use of infrared
spectroscopy to identify biosignatures of life. After her PhD in Astrobiology at
Imperial, Louisa completed her first postdoc at Western University in Ontario,
working on lunar space mission simulations; she then moved to The Open
University to work on the creation of a global database of martian and lunar
analogue environments for the European Space Agency.
Louisa is a TED Fellow and gave a TED talk on the search for life on Mars in
March of last year, and is a STEM-NET Ambassador, and has given dozens of
lectures and talks on the search for extraterrestrial life. She is also a scientific
advisor for the BBC’s Horizon, Stargazing Live, and Dara O’ Briain’s Science
Club, and has appeared on the BBC’s The Sky at Night. Her writing credits
include pieces for the The Times and New Scientist, and a regular blog for
Nature’s Soapbox Science.
http://louisajpreston.com / @LouisaJPreston
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Science and the City: the
Mechanics behind the Metropolis
Laurie Winkless
The science of the city, now and in the future
There is an incredible amount of hidden science behind urban life, secretly
working to keep things moving. Science and the City looks at this in detail, on
a journey of discovery around the great cities of the world, both now and into
the future.
Technological advances in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, ergonomics
and thermodynamics are proving increasingly important in city life, and the urban
world will turn to science to deliver solutions to the problems of the future – 50%
of the world’s population now lives in cities, and that proportion is growing fast.
Can technology provide the answer to a viable megacity future?
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Science and the City starts at your front door, and guides you through the
technology of everyday city life – how new approaches to materials help to
build the tallest skyscrapers in Dubai, how New Yorkers use light to treat their
drinking water, how Tokyo commuters’ footsteps power gates in train stations
– and looks at the technology that will help us solve future problems as the
world's population soars to eight billion, ten billion, twenty billion – the need for
ever-higher skyscrapers, or the demand for power, water and internet access,
or indeed how to simply get about in a megacity of tens of millions of people.
Written in an enjoyable and informal style, Science and the City is built on solid
foundations of science fact, with a decent sprinkling of speculation on top.
Laurie Winkless is a physicist based in London. Following a degree at Trinity
College, Dublin, during which time she enjoyed a placement at NASA’s Kennedy
Space Centre, and a masters in Space Science at UCL, Laurie worked at
the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), specialising in Functional Materials –
carbon nanotubes, water-repellent surfaces, organic electronics and spacecraft
materials were her bag. She was also involved in a major EU project exploring a
potentially world-changing technology, thermoelectric energy harvesting, which
involves the capture and conversion of waste heat into electricity.
Laurie is an experienced science communicator and blogger, who has given
TEDx talks, worked as a reporter for the Naked Scientists, appeared in The
Times magazine, and exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
@laurie_winkless
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The Brightness of Things: An
Adventure in light and Time
Kate Devlin
We are surrounded by the material culture of the people who lived
before us: architecture, artworks and artefacts. But can we be certain
that, even when allowing for the ravages of time, what we observe is
the same as what the original creators of these items would have seen?
Light can’t be captured in the archaeological record, of course, yet lighting
conditions can completely alter our perception, leading to dramatic changes
in interpretation for archaeologists, art historians and psychologists. The
Colourful Past examines the way that our understanding of archaeological
sites and objects has often been surprisingly inaccurate, and how the latest
image sampling and virtual-reality techniques are providing startling insights in
archaeological places, objects and peoples.
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Focusing on light, colour and perception, the book shows how computer
graphics technology is quietly revolutionising archaeology. It outlines the need
for perceptual realism in virtual heritage, and explores case studies where the
application of perceptual knowledge can enhance archaeological understanding.
After an introduction to the subject, The Colourful Past takes a chronological
narrative, beginning with stone-age rock art and working through examples from
the Classical period into medieval times, before finishing with the present and
ideas on the future direction of research. The narrative spans the globe, from
European and African rock art and Mayan frescoes to Egyptian temples and
medieval religious paintings, to name a few.
Why did medieval artists use so much gold leaf? Were palaeolithic artists in
prehistoric France making animations on cave walls? What effect does sunshine
have on the layout of an Egyptian temple? How can we tell how things would
have looked to people in the past? All these questions and many more are
answered in Kate Devlin’s brilliant book.
The story of a new branch of historical research that is revolutionising our
interpretation of the past, incorporating art, archaeology, virtual reality, the
psychology of perception and computer sciences.
Kate Devlin is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. While completing
her PhD in computer graphics and visual perception, Kate began to question
the validity of the images that were created as archaeological reconstructions,
and she started exploring the psychology and visual perception behind realistic
image generation. Since publishing one of the first papers in the field in 2001,
Kate has become a leading expert in archaeology and visual perception.
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Furry Logic: the Physics of Animal
Life
Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher
How animals use cool physics as part of their daily battle to survive
Furry Logic looks in detail at the animals that use cool physics in weird and
intriguing ways as part of their daily battle to survive. It details the role of physics
in the lives of a number of animals, as uncovered by scientists researching the
field of biomechanics.
The book is divided into seven chapters, each representing a separate arm of
physics. Each chapter examines the animals’ key features before describing
the ways they use physics, how this was discovered, and what remains to be
found out. We learn:
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• how pistol shrimps can generate a force strong enough to destroy aquarium
glass using their claws
• how whales hear using fat
• how cats and dogs lap up milk thanks to the laws of surface tension
• why reindeer use ultraviolet light for foraging
• how a male peacock’s train generates infrasound’ to attract a mate
• how ants navigate thanks to magnetic fields
• how mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops.
Furry Logic makes the incredible interdisciplinary world of animal biomechanics
accessible to all, in an enthralling and entertaining read.
Matin Durrani is the Editor of the international magazine Physics World. After
his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (on polymers), Matin did a
postdoc before moving into publishing in the late nineties. He has been editor of
Physics World since 2006.
Liz Kalaugher also has a PhD in physics, along with qualifications in Biological
Sciences. She is the editor of environmentalresearchweb.org, a leading news
resource on environmental issues.
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SIGMA HIGHLIGHTS
Chilled
Spirals in Time
A is for Arsenic
Rights sold: MID (Korean)
RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Normal
University Press (Simplified Chinese),
Tsukiji Shokan (Japanese)
RIGHTS SOLD: Iwanami Shoten
(Japanese), J. C. Lattes (French),
RAO Editura (Romanian), Lijang
Publishing House (Simplified Chinese)
Breaking the Chains of
Gravity
p53
Atoms Under the
Floorboards
Tom Jackson
Amy Shira Teitel
Lijang Publishing House (Simplified
Chinese)
Helen Scales
Sue Armstrong
RIGHTS SOLD: Chongqing Publishing
House (Simplified Chinese);
Cheomnetworks (Korean), Cite
Publishing Ltd (Complex Chinese)
Kathryn Harkup
Chris Woodford
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Ferber (Russian), Hoffmann und
Campe (German), Publicat (Polish),
Cite Publishing (Complex Chinese),
Chemical Industry Press (Simplified
Chinese), Bookie Publishing ( Korean)
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Suspicious Minds
Sex on Earth
RIGHTS SOLD:
Faces Publications Taiwan (Complex
Chinese), Diamond Inc. ( Japanese),
Grand China Publishing (Simplified
Chinese)
RIGHTS SOLD: Blackie Books
(Spanish); The Commercial Press
(Simplified Chinese); Kadakawa
Corporation (Japanese); Puriwa Ipari
(Korean)
Rob Brotherton
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Jules Howard
Herding Hemingway’s
Cats: Understanding
how our genes work
Kat Arney
RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Paper Jump
Cultural Development (Simplified
Chinese)
SCIENCE
Waves Passing in the Night:
Walter Murch in the Land of the
Astrophysicists
Lawrence Weschler
From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile
of a film legend and amateur scientist whose theory could reshape our
understanding of the universe
Bloomsbury USA
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For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary–arguably the most admired film
and sound editor in the world from his work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather
trilogy, and so many others. Outside of the studio, his mind is as wide-ranging
as the universe–indeed, his passion, which he has pursued for several decades,
is astrophysics, and in particular a long-dismissed theory of how the planets
in our universe are arranged, known as the Titius-Bode Theory. Rejected by
the scientific community, he has nonetheless made advances even scientists
are intrigued by–including a connection between Titius-Bode and Johannes
Kepler’s theory of musical harmony in the heavens—and Murch soldiers on in
the best tradition of the outsider scientist.
Long-fascinated by Murch’s wide-ranging intellect, acclaimed writer Lawrence
Weschler brings his quest alive in its seemingly quixotic, yet still plausible,
splendor. "The wholesale rejection of alternative theories has repeatedly held
back the progress of vital science," Weschler observes, citing for example
German researcher Alfred Wegener, whose early theories about continental
drift were ridiculed, only to be accepted fact years later. Theoretical physicist
Lee Smolin says "It is controversy that brings science alive,"–and Murch’s quest
does that in spades. His fascination with the way the planets are arranged–
which Weschler captures in pithy, elegant prose–opens up the whole field of
celestial mechanics for general readers, making us ever more aware of the giant
and (to us) invisible forces constantly at work in the universe.
Lawrence Weschler is a cultural and art critic, journalist, and author who was
a staff writer at the New Yorker for over twenty years. His many books include
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about the artist Robert
Irwin), Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, for which he was shortlisted for the
Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Everything That
Rises, which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.
He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and a recipient of the Lannan
Literary Award. A contributing editor to McSweeney's, the Threepenny Review,
and The Virginia Quarterly Review, he has written for the Los Angeles Times,
the New York Times, the Believer, the Nation, Salon, Truthdig, and Harper's,
among others.
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SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
The Universal Sense
Beasts
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(Japanese), HGV (Hungarian)
RIGHTS SOLD: Baronet (Czech);
Sondo (Italian)
The Great Disruption
The Fate of the Species
Survival of the Beautiful
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Portuguese), Mauritsgroen (Dutch)
RIGHTS SOLD: Kawade Shobo
Shinsha (Japanese)
RIGHTS SOLD: Kungree Press Co.
(Korean)
Seth S. Horowitz
Paul Gilding
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Fred Guterl
Storms of My
Grandchildren
James Hansen
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Editora Senac (Portuguese –
Brazil), Aulbiente (Italian), Post
Six Telecommunications (Chinese
Simplified), PTS Publications
(Malaysian)
David Rothenberg
SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Don’t Even Think
About It
The Attacking Ocean
Last Ape Standing
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RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish),
Emamama (Korean), Seidosha
(Japanese)
Spectrums
The Intimate Bond
A New History of Life
RIGHTS SOLD: Bloomsbury Germany
(German), Foksal (Polish), Kinokuniya
(Japanese)
Brian Fagan
Why Our Brains Are Wired to
Ignore Climate Change
Brian Fagan
George Marshall
David Blatner
How Animals Shaped Human
History
RIGHTS SOLD:
Kawadeshobo-Shinsha Publishing
(Japanese)
Chip Walter
The Radical New Discoveries
about the Origins and Evolution of
Life on Earth
Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink
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DVA (German), Kachi (Korean),
Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese),
The Commercial Press (Simplified
Chinese)
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SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Light
Bruce Watson
RIGHTS SOLD: (Chinese simplified)
‘An ingenious combination of science and art
history.’ Kirkus starred review
‘This is a story and a book chock-full of great and
fascinating figures, each of whose personality and
doings Watson deftly presents without detracting
from the impetus of his millennia-spanning
narrative. A dazzling book, as seems completely
appropriate.’ Booklist starred review
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ILLUSTRATED AND NOVELTY
Farmageddon in Pictures
The True Cost of Cheap Meat –
in bite-sized pieces
Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott
Farmageddon: the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening
our countryside, farms and food
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– world)
OPTION PUBLISHERS: Nikkei
BP (Japanese), AND Publishing
(Complexx Chinese), Illuminatio
lUkasz (Polish), Nutrimenti (Italian)
Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of
food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is
entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal
demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution
threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live
in the world.
Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the
closed doors of a runaway industry across the world – from the UK, Europe
and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to
change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find
a way to a better farming future.
Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare
organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on
the effects of industrial farming.
Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on
BBC One’s Sunday Politics show.
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Maps of War: Mapping Conflict
Through the Centuries
Jeremy Black
A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned,
using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its
documentation has changed through the centuries
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There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period,
but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strategists began
to document the wars in which they were involved and later, to use mapping
to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, this
sumptuous new volume covers the history of the mapping of war on land and
shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war.
Content includes:
The beginnings of military mapping up to 1600 including the impact of printing
and the introduction of gunpowder.
The seventeenth century: The focus is on maps to illustrate war, rather than as
a planning tool and the chapter considers the particular significance of maps of
fortifications.
Metropolis: Mapping
The City
Jeremy Black,
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Beijing Han Tang Yang (Simplified
Chinese)
The eighteenth century: The growing need for maps on a world scale reflects
the spread of European power and of transoceanic conflict between Europeans.
This chapter focuses in particular on the American War of Independence.
The nineteenth century: Key developments included contouring and the creation
of military surveying. Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American
Civil War.
The twentieth century including extended features on the First and Second
World Wars including maps showing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance.
Much of the chapter focuses on the period from 1945 to the present day
including special sections on the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter University and the prolific author
of more than 100 books including Metropolis (Bloomsbury 2015). He is an
acknowledged expert on the history of mapping. He teaches and lectures
regularly in the US and has been visiting chair at several American universities.
He is a winner of the Morrison Prize at the Society of Military History.
MAPS: Their Untold
Stories
Rose Mitchell
and Andrew Jones
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Chinese)
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A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens; Alex Goodwin and Tess
Gammell
Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens’s most
famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs
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In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed
on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question
– ‘Please, sir, I want some more’ – he unwittingly sparks a series of events
that lead him to the smoke and grime of the big city, where he encounters a
host of four-legged friends and foes such as the crafty Fagin, mischievous Artful
Dodger, faithful Nancy and treacherous Bill Sikes, who sweep young Oliver off of
his paws and into the underworld of Victorian London.
A Guinea Pig Nativity
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A Guinea Pig Pride &
Prejudice
Jane Austen, Alex Goodwin and
Tess Grammell
RIGHTS SOLD: Fisher (German)
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Knives & Ink
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton
Chefs and tattoos are inextricably linked. From New York Times
bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and BuzzFeed books editor
Isaac Fitzgerald comes this stunning four-color illustrated book of
stories behind the tattoos that chefs – celebrity and otherwise – proudly
wear, featuring their signature recipes throughout
Bloomsbury USA
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Chefs take tattoos as seriously as they do their knives. From gritty grill cooks
in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world’s most popular
restaurants, it’s hard to find a cook who doesn’t sport some ink. From the
hilarious (chef John Gorham of Portland’s Toro Bravo has his sous chef’s name
tattooed on his backside) to the very serious (sushi chef Johny Daley has “rice”
and “fish” tattooed on his knuckles), chefs’ tattoos are as numerous and colorful
as the food artists who wear them. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more
than 60 chefs, both behind-the-scene line cooks and such rockstars in the
kitchen as Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese in New York, who remembers his
mother with fiery angel wing tattoos on his forearms, and Dominique Crenn of
San Francisco’s Atelier, whose ink is about “doing anything in life that you put
your heart into.” Like the dishes they thoughtfully create, every tattoo has a rich,
personal story behind it. Knives & Ink portrays these tattoos as the beautiful
works of art they are, and shares the fascinating stories behind them, along with
special chef recipes throughout.
Isaac Fitzgerald has written for McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, and The
San Francisco Chronicle. He is the editor of BuzzFeed Books. Visit him at
isaacfitzgerald.net and follow him @isaacfitzgerald. He lives in New York City.
ALSO AVAILABLE
Pen & Ink
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy
MacNaughton
RIGHTS SOLD:
Letterpress (Korean)
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Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books
include Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology and
The Essential Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert. Her work
has appeared in places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Lucky
Peach, and Print Magazine. Visit her at wendymacnaughton.com and follow her
@wendymac. She lives in San Francisco.
Gardens of Awe and Folly
Vivian Swift
An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from
beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift
Nine masterpiece gardens.
Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy.
From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is
always something to learn about being human from a great garden.
BLOOMSBURY US
Vivian Swift is the author of When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s
Journal of Staying Put and Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and
France. When not traveling, she lives on Long Island Sound with her husband.
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watercolours throughout
Le Road Trip:
A Traveller’s Journal of
Love and France
Vivian Swift
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CITIC Press (Simplified Chinese),
Common Master Press (Complex
Chinese), Kidary (Korean)
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The Gutsy Girl
Caroline Paul
Illustrated by Wendy McNaughton
New York Times Bestseller!
From a real-life derring-do woman, exhilarating stories, activities, and
tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement
Why should girls miss out on the joy of adventure? They can jump off rocks,
swing on ropes, and climb trees just as well as boys can. But girls often allow
fear to stand in their way.
BLOOMSBURY USA
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Books (Romanian)
In The Gutsy Girl, author Caroline Paul emboldens girls to seek out a life of
exhilaration. Once a young scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear
got in the way of the life she wanted–of excitement, confidence, self-reliance,
friendship, and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers, climbed
tall mountains, and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San
Francisco. In The Gutsy Girl, she shares her greatest escapades as well as those
of other girls and women from throughout history, and offers engaging activities
such as confidence-building stances, creating a compass, positive self-talk, and
using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Each section includes a place
for girls to “journal” their adventures, thus encouraging a new generation to
develop a zest for challenges and a healthy relationship to risk. The Gutsy Girl is
Lean In for young girls, a book about the glorious things that happen when you
unshackle from fear and open up to exhilaration. Fully illustrated and enlivened
throughout by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton’s whimsical pen-andink drawings.
‘Caroline Paul’s inspiring and sometimes astonishing stories of the adventures
that she and other great women have undertaken, alongside Wendy
MacNaughton’s beautiful illustrations, make The Gutsy Girl the book of the year
for daredevils, doers, and dreamers of all ages.’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild
‘Delightful . . . There’s a lot here that will thrill any girl--or boy--of any age.’
San Francisco Chronicle
‘The perfect book for young feminists, or really any woman who needs a dose
of inspiration in her life . . . Viva la Gutsy Girl!’ Buzzfeed
Caroline Paul is the author of the memoir Fighting Fire and the novel East Wind,
Rain. Most recently she published Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation,
and GPS Technology. She is a longtime member of the San Francisco Writers'
Grotto. Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose
books include Lost Cat, Pen & Ink, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. They live
in San Francisco.
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Abbey Road
Alastair Lawrence
Heirloom Harvest
Amy Goldman
RIGHTS SOLD: Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese)
Dogs Make Us Human
Art Wolfe and Jeffrey Moussaieff
Masson
RIGHTS SOLD: Rizzoli (Italian)
Lost Cat
Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton
RIGHTS SOLD: Global Group Holdings (Complex Chinese),
Heyne (German), Jilin (Simplified Chinese), Salani Editore
(Italian), Will Book (Korean), Versus Yayinlard (Turkish),
Ariel (Spanish), Forgalet Press (Norwegian), Kodansha
(Japanese), Vellant Publishing (Romanian)
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ILLUSTRATED AND NOVELTY HIGHLIGHTS
UNBORED ADVENTURE UNBORED
ADVENTURE
Joshua Glenn and
Joshua Glenn and
Elizabeth Foy Larsen
Patternalia
Roy G. Biv
RIGHTS SOLD: Film Art Sha
(Japanese
RIGHTS SOLD: Foksal (Polish),
Artbooks (Korean), China CITIC
Press (Simp. Chinese), Cube Press
(Comp. Chinese), Exmo (Russian),
Filmart-sha (Japanese)
Jude Stewart
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Jude Stewart
UNBORED GAMES
Joshua Glenn and
SPORT
Golden Kicks: The Sneakers that
Changed Sport
Jason Coles
Golden Kicks reveals the fascinating histories behind the most
significant sports shoes ever made and the role they played in some of
sport’s greatest moments
Bloomsbury Sport
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throughout
Sports shoes are now a part of mainstream fashion and have been widely
adopted as streetwear. The Converse All Star, Adidas Stan Smith, Reebok
Classic or Nike Air Jordan are nowadays considered everyday footwear and
have lost much of their sporting connection. Lost in the transition from sports
shoe to fashion are the fascinating histories and sporting origins of our shoes
and the way they played a significant role in some of the most important events
in the development of sport. Golden Kicks will reveal these extraordinary stories,
many of which have never been told before.
Join us on a global journey that begins in the early 1900s and ends in the
present day, charting the development of sports shoes and sport itself through
the ages. Through lavish photography and archive images we travel from the
spikes made by Adidas founder Adi Dassler in which Jessie Owens destroyed
Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy, to the gold Puma Complete Theseus shoes in
which Usain Bolt destroyed world records. Both sports fans and sneakerheads
will discover the amazing stories behind the shoes, the people who made them
and the athletes who wore them.
Jason Coles is a self-confessed sneaker-head and is rarely seen out of his
Adidas Superstars. What he doesn’t know about the history of sports shoes
just isn’t worth knowing.
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The Billionaire’s Club
James Montague
A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the
super-rich
Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it
is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas,
from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the
universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with
our beautiful game?
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In The Billionaires’ Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has
dared, to tell this story for the first time. It is part history of club ownership, part
in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich
around the globe, and part travel book as he crosses national boundaries in an
attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football.
Whilst almost always cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his
head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership – a rare Achilles
heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits for journalists and outsiders.
And so Montague criss-crosses the world – from Texas to North Shields, from
Malaysia to Montevideo, from Russia to Rajasthan – to profile this new elite,
their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.
At its heart The Billionaires’ Club is a football book, about some of the biggest
clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us,
the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become
an essential cog in this machine.
An extraordinary, ground-breaking investigation into the international money
network behind the world’s biggest sport.
James Montague is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes primarily
about money, politics and corruption in football. His work has appeared in the
likes of the New York Times, CNN, World Soccer and the Guardian. He also
features regularly on the BBC World Service’s World Football podcast. His
previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and ThirtyOne Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders. Sports Illustrated described him
as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’. @JamesPiotr
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The Wenger Revolution
Twenty Years of Arsenal
Amy Lawrence and Stuart MacFarlane
A stunning photographic celebration of Arsene Wenger's twenty years
at Arsenal
In September 1996 a Frenchman, so little known in English football the
newspaper headline ran “Arsene Who?”, walked into Arsenal. In the subsequent
twenty years as manager he has transformed the club. English football’s longest
serving manager has overseen a period of radical change. His experience spans
across the spectrum from complex challenges to historic success.
Bloomsbury Sport
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official Arsenal club photographer
Stuart MacFarlane
The Wenger Revolution chronicles this fascinating era through the combination
of distinctive photographs taken from the inner sanctum, and words from Amy
Lawrence.
This is a stunning photographic journey, based on the images captured by
official club photographer Stuart MacFarlane, who has had exclusive access for
many years. Publication coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Wenger’s
arrival in England.
The Arsenal he joined bears little resemblance to what the club looks like as
we approach 2016. A total renovation in terms of training, stadium, style,
economics and a global audience has taken place under Wenger’s instruction.
His successes illustrate what a sensation he created in English football. He is
regarded as a guru of new football methods, getting a club with a traditional
English culture to give up drinking, modernize diet, embrace new training
methods, and play with a panache that ripped up the stereotype of Boring
Arsenal. The Wenger Revolution is worth commemorating, and this book will
do so in style.
Amy Lawrence has watched football avidly since her first trip to Highbury at
the age of six. She has written about the game, mostly for the Guardian and
the Observer, for over 20 years, and broadcasts, mostly for BBC 5 Live, on
radio and television. She was the FSF Football Writer of the Year in 2014. She
has written two acclaimed books about Arsenal, Proud to Say That Name and
Invincible.
Stuart MacFarlane has been a sports photographer for over 25 years. Stuart’s
first commissioned shoot for Arsenal was in 1990 and in January 2001 he joined
the Club as their Staff Photographer. Most of Stuart’s time is spent around
the 1st team squad covering matches, training sessions, player features and
exclusive behind the scenes images of the players and staff. Stuart has won a
number of awards but the most notable is Life magazine’s “Best image covering
the world of sports” in 1999.
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The Ageless Body: How to Hold
Back the Years To Achieve a Better
Body
Peta Bee and Sarah Schenker
From the co-author of the bestseller Fast Exercise, and the nutritional
adviser for the bestselling The Fast Diet Recipe Book, the truth about
how to hold back the years, what exercise will keep you looking young
and how to avoid gym-face
Discover the new goals and new rules that are the route to a healthier, better
looking and better functioning body. For life.
Bloomsbury Sport
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RIGHTS SOLD: Kosmos (Dutch),
Random House (German)
From Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Aniston and Naomi Watts,
a new breed of 40 and 50 plus women are redefining not just what an ageless
body looks like, but what’s entailed in achieving it. A dramatic shift in body
expectations in the last few years means that, despite being plagued by a
slowing metabolism and a naturally-occurring loss of muscle mass, pre- and
post-menopausal women can realistically aim for the healthy, well-functioning
body they crave as well as a physique that looks good with a flat stomach and
sculpted arms.
Peta Bee and Dr Sarah Schenker are the living embodiment of this new breed
of woman: both in their forties with children, both with hectic careers and social
lives. And both with the same bodies they had in their 30s. What matters,
they have discovered through self-experimentation and trawling the scientific
literature, is how you go about holding back the years. And the rules - for both
exercise and diet - have changed.
Peta Bee is a health and fitness journalist who writes for The Times, Sunday
Times and Irish Examiner as well as numerous other publications. With degrees
in Sports Science and Nutrition, her work has won her numerous awards
including the Medical Journalists Association’s Freelance of the Year (twice).
She has appeared widely on television and radio and is the author/co-author
of seven books, including Fast Exercise, the 2014 bestseller co-written with Dr
Michael Mosley, and The Ice Diet.
Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist with a PhD in Nutrition
and an Accreditation in Sports Dietetics. She is a member of the British Dietetic
Association, The Nutrition Society and The Association for Nutrition. Sarah is the
nutritional adviser for the bestselling The Fast Diet Recipe Book and regularly
contributes to newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail, Top Sante,
Reveal and Glamour as well as shows including This Morning, Watchdog and on
BBC Radio. Sarah has also worked as a nutrition adviser to several Premiership
football clubs.
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Re:cyclists: 200 Years on Two
Wheels
Michael Hutchinson
A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling
Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest
summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more
or less instant.
Bloomsbury Sport
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Re:cyclists is the tale of what happened next, of how we have spent two centuries
wheeling our way about town and country on bikes – or on two-wheeled things
that vaguely resembled what we now call bikes. Michael Hutchinson picks his
way through those 200 years, discovering how cycling became a kinky vaudeville
act for Parisians, how it became an American business empire, and how it went
on to find a unique home in the British Isles. He considers the penny-farthing
riders exploring the abandoned and lonely coaching roads during the railway
era, and the Victorian high-society cyclists of the 1890s bicycle craze – a time
when no aristocratic house party was without bicycles and when the Prince of
Wales used to give himself an illicit thrill on a weekday afternoon by watching the
women’s riding-school in the Royal Albert Hall.
Re:cyclists looks at how cycling became the sport, the pastime and the social
life of millions of ordinary people, how it grew and how it suffered through the
1960s and ’70s, and how at the dawn of the twenty-first century it rose again,
much changed but still ultimately just someone careering along on two wheels.
Michael Hutchinson is a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national
titles in both Britain and Ireland, and represented both countries internationally,
as well as Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games of 2002, 2006 and
2010. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a regular broadcaster
on the sport. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up to his previous critically acclaimed
book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the World’s Fastest
Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way.
A professional cyclist himself and a well-known personality in the cycling world,
Michael Hutchinson is also the star columnist for the UK’s biggest cycling
magazine, Cycling Weekly (ABC figures of 27.5k).
Praise for Faster:
‘If you want to know how to turn yourself into a Merckx or a Froome, read
Faster’ – Guardian
‘Fascinating, convincing and witty’ – Outdoor Fitness
‘A revelatory examination of what makes athletes tick’ – Independent
‘It’s an amusing, informative and hugely satisfying read that’s genuinely difficult
to tear yourself away from.’ – Cycling Weekly
‘Well researched and delivered perfectly; definitely one for the permanent
collection.’ – Road.cc
‘For anyone with a keen interest in time trialling or an obsession with speed
this book is a must-read.’ – Wheelsuckers.co.uk
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I’ll See you Out There: Arsenal,
Manchester United and the Premier
League’s Greatest Rivalry
Rob Smyth
The full story of the furious and sensational rivalry between Arsenal and
Manchester United from 1996 to 2005
The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early
2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams
have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the
epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations and even a
pizza fight.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 304
Like all great rivalries, this was a study in contrasts: north versus south, British
and Irish versus French. Both regularly tried to claim the moral high ground,
often at the same time. The rivalry centred on four people: the managers, Arsène
Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, and the hard men, Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane,
who regularly came together like nitroglycerin and gunpowder.
Over time those involved have developed the mutual respect of boxers
embracing after the final bell. They played when football was a mixture of silk
and steel, artistry and aggro, and know such a feud could no longer happen
because of the sanitisation of the game. Their rivalry was not just the greatest of
its kind in English football; it was also the last.
Rob Smyth is a specialist in modern sport history who has written about football
for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, FourFourTwo, Yahoo, Manchester
United, ITV, Intelligent Life, GQ and Virgin Media. He is co-author of Danish
Dynamite, one of the Observer’s Sports Books of the Year 2014, and was highly
commended at the 2010 Sports Journalists’ Association awards.
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The Captain Myth: The Ryder
Cup and Sport’s Great Leadership
Delusion
Richard Gillis
A fresh look at one of international sport’s highest-profile tournaments –
and what role the captains really play in Ryder Cup success
The War on the Shore, the Battle of Brookline, the Miracle of Medinah: the Ryder
Cup is golf’s – and arguably one of international sport’s – most intense, highprofile tournaments. Two teams tussle through 28 matches over three days
for no prize money but enormous national pride. And purportedly in charge of
those two teams are the captains, whose reputations are shaped forever by their
players’ results out on the course.
Bloomsbury Sport
EXTENT: 320
Justin Rose’s unlikely 35-foot on the 17th green at Medinah Country Club set up
Europe’s triumph – and one of modern sport’s most remarkable turnarounds – in
the 2012 Ryder Cup. It also established Davis Love II as ‘a bad captain’ and saw
José María Olazábal feted for a series of leadership masterstrokes.
In reality, neither captain had much to do with that putt being sunk. Yet the
pressure remains on the captains to lead their team to victory. As each Cup
passes, more theories are put forward about how to win. Some of these
combine traditional golfing nous with cutting-edge sports psychology. Others
are red herrings that have led captains down any number of blind alleys. So
what can a captain do to win the Ryder Cup?
Using exclusive interviews and saturation reporting, Gillis shows how strategy
has evolved since the very first match in 1927, exploring the enduring and often
surprising role played by some of the game’s greatest stars including Walter
Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tony Jacklin, Seve Ballesteros and
Paul Azinger. The Captain Myth uses golf’s greatest event to examine some
fundamental questions about leadership, teams and motivation.
Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s
leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness
International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish
Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign
in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach
Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where
he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about
sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and
communications consultancy work.
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The End of the Road: The Festina
Affair and the Tour that Almost
Wrecked Cycling
Alasdair Fotheringham
The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the
1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling
Bloomsbury Sport
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The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar’s most spectacular
and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the
opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team’s soigneur Willy Voet was
arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after
police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there
were riders’ strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse
andone expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters
remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported
to have doped. The 1998 ‘Tour de Farce’s’ status as one of the most scandalstruck sporting events in history was confirmed.
Voet’s arrest was just the beginning of sport’s biggest mass doping controversy
– what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional
cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question and the
cycling family began to split apart. And yet, ironically, the 1998 Tour was also
one of the best races in years.
The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth
analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998
Tour. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world’s biggest
bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its
knees. He explores its long-term consequences – and what, if any, lessons were
learned.
Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist based in Spain. He has covered
22 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, as well as numerous other major
races. The Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s correspondent on
Spain and cycling, he is also a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling
magazines and websites. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of Spain’s first Tour
de France winner, Federico Martin Bahamontes, was published in 2012, and
Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña was published in 2014.
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The Rookie: An Odyssey through
Chess (and life)
Stephen Moss
A doomed-to-fail attempt to become a grandmaster offers a wry take on
both chess and midlife identity
Chess has been played for more than 1,500 years; it is played in every country
and by an estimated 10% of the world’s population. Stephen Moss sets out to
master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of its enduring appeal. What, he
asks, is the essence of chess? And what will it reveal about his own character
along the way?
Wisden
EXTENT: 400
In a witty, accessible style that will delight newcomers and irritate purists,
Moss imagines the world as a board and marches across it, offering a mordant
report on the world of chess in 64 chapters – 64 of course being the number of
squares on the chessboard. He alternates between “black” chapters – where he
plays, largely uncomprehendingly, in tournaments – and “white” chapters, where
he seeks advice from the current crop of grandmasters and delves into the lives
of great players of the past.
It is both a history of the game and a kind of “Zen and the Art of Chess”; a
practical guide and a self-help book: Moss’s quest to understand chess and
become a better player is really an attempt to escape a lifetime of dilettantism.
He wants to become an expert at one thing. What will be the consequences
when he realises he is doomed to fail?
Moss travels to Russia and the US – hotbeds of chess throughout the 20th
century; meets people who knew Bobby Fischer when he was growing up
and tries to unravel the enigma of that tortured genius who died in 2008 at
the inevitable age of 64; meets Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, world
champions past and present; and keeps bumping into Armenian superstar
Levon Aronian in the gents at tournaments.
He becomes champion of Surrey, wins tournaments in Chester and Bury St
Edmunds, and holds his own at the famous event in the Dutch seaside resort
of Wijk aan Zee (until a last-round meltdown), but too often he is beaten by
precocious 10-year-olds and finds it hard to resist the urge to punch them. He
looks for spiritual fulfilment in the game, but mostly finds mental torture.
Stephen Moss has worked for the Guardian as an editor and writer since 1989.
He was the paper’s literary editor, has written widely on sport and culture, and
in 2006 edited Cricket’s Age of Revolution, a history of the game since the Kerry
Packer coup, for Wisden.
He won the Surrey Chess Championship in 2014, though if pressed will
admit his success came in the section for players graded below 140 – a level
grandmasters consider to be mentally challenged and which many precocious
10-year-olds eschew, boldly preferring to play in the division above.
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Endurance: The Extraordinary Life
and Times of Emil Zátopek
Rick Broadbent
The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of
running, redemption and political exile
Voted the ‘greatest runner of all time’ by Runner’s World in 2013, Emil Zátopek
redefined modern running training techniques – with remarkable results. He
is famed for setting a raft of world records, and winning the Olympic 10,000
metres in London in 1948, followed by the remarkable and unprecedented
treble of the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon four years later in Helsinki. However,
his story goes way beyond races and results.
Wisden
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From a lowly factory worker, ‘the Czech Locomotive’ became a global hero due
to his success on the track but – at a time of political instability – Zátopek risked
everything for the love of his friends and country, and soon found himself cast
adrift into political exile.
At its heart, this is a love story as Emil courts and marries Dana, a promising
javelin thrower. Born on the same day, they end up winning Olympic gold medals
within the space of half an hour. Due to the unprecedented involvement of Dana,
award-winning Times author Rick Broadbent has gained unique access to a
dramatic past involving blood and guns and the love that sustained the cruellest
twists of fate and beatings by Soviet henchmen.
With traces of Chariots of Fire and Laura Hillenbrand’s New York Times
bestseller/film Unbroken, this is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale
of hope and strength in the face of crushing injustices.
Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff
writer at The Times for 10 years and spent 2007–13 as the paper’s athletics
correspondent. He has written eight books. These include That Near-Death
Thing, winner at the British Sports Book Awards 2013 and shortlisted for the
William Hill prize, and Ring of Fire, also shortlisted for the William Hill Prize. He
was also the ghost-writer of Jessica Ennis’s Sunday Times top-10 bestselling
autobiography. He lives in Bournemouth. @ricktimes
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Hope: My Life in Football
Hope Powell
The story of the pioneering England women’s football manager
Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever
wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively
discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the
amazing story of how a kid from a Greenwich housing estate became one of the
most influential women in world football.
A revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of England,
Hope Powell will forever be the face of English women’s football. She took the
national game from amateurism to top-flight performance – and dedicated
herself to opening up the sport to hundreds of thousands of girls and young
women at the grassroots level.
BLOOMSBURY SPORTS
EXTENT: 304
A black, gay woman who’s been a relentless pioneer for equal rights, the story
of her battles against authority are an object lesson in how determination and
bravery can make a lasting change.
Hope Powell was a revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years,
manager of the England women’s football team. She now works as an elite
coach and technical advisor around the world for FIFA and UEFA, and as an
advocate for change and development in women’s football. She has been
coaching QPR’s male Academy players, and working with women prisoners in
Peterborough Jail. She lives in London.
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The Manager
Podium
Mike Carson
The Monuments
Ben Oakley
Peter Cossins
RIGHTS SOLD: ArtPeople (Danish),
Auditorium (Finnish), Editora Belas
Letras (Brazilian Portuguese), EXMO
(Russian), Optimist Yayin Dagitim
(Turkish), Random House Korea
(Korean), Rebish (Polish), Softbank
(Japanese), Tawseel (Arabic),
Vydavatelstvo TATRAN (Slovak),
Xiamen Yuejiezu (Simplified Chinese),
Knigomania (Bulgarian)
The Oval World:
A Global History
of Rugby
Tony Collins
Faster
Michael Hutchinson
RIGHTS SOLD: WPG Uitgeivers
Belgie(Dutch)
Reckless
Alasdair Fotheringham
Floodlights and
Touchlines:
A History of
Spectator Sport
Rob Steen
RIGHTS SOLD:
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This Love Is Not
for Cowards
Futebol
Robert Andrew Powell
RIGHTS SOLD:
Zahar(Brazilian
Portuguese), Forlaget
Herrevaerelset
(Norwegian), De Fontein
Tirion (Dutch), Helios
Marek Wawrzynowski
(Polish), Ast (Russian), Arial
(Spanish), Kalima(Arabic)
Danish Dynamite
Foul Play
Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen
& Mike Gibbons
RIGHTS SOLD: Art People
(Danish), Pintxo Forlag
(Swedish)
Alex Bellos
Mike Rowbottom
RIGHTS SOLD:
X-knowledge (Japanese)
Thirty-One Nil
James Montague
Game, Set and
Match
Mark Hodgkinson
The Dirtiest Race
in History
Sod Seventy
Sir Muir Gray
Richard Moore
RIGHTS SOLD: De Fontein
Tirion (Dutch)
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The Saffron Tales
Recipes from the Persian Kitchen
Yasmin Khan
A glorious celebration of the food and people of Iran: stories from home
kitchens and more than 80 delicious modern recipes
Armed with little more than a notebook and a bottle of pomegranate molasses,
British-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan traversed Iran in search of the country’s most
delicious recipes.
EXTENT: 240
RIGHTS SOLD: Fontaine (Dutch),
DK Verlag (German)
Her quest took her from the snowy mountains of Tabriz and the paddyfields of
Gilan to the cosmopolitan cafés of Tehran and the pomegranate orchards of
Isfahan, where she was welcomed into the homes of artists, farmers, electricians
and teachers. Through her travels, she gained a unique insight into the culinary
secrets of the Persian kitchen and the lives of ordinary Iranians today.
In The Saffron Tales, Yasmin weaves together a tapestry of stories from Iranian
home kitchens with exclusive photography and fragrant, modern recipes that
are rooted in the rich tradition of Persian cooking. All fully accessible for the
home cook, Yasmin’s recipes range from the inimitable fesenjoon (chicken with
walnuts and pomegranates) to kofte berenji (lamb meatballs stuffed with prunes
and barberries) and ghalyieh maygoo (prawn, coriander and tamarind stew).
She also offers a wealth of vegetarian dishes, including tahcheen (baked saffron
and aubergine rice) and domaj (mixed herb, flatbread and feta salad), as well as
sumptuous desserts such as rose and almond cake, and sour cherry and dark
chocolate cookies.
With stunning photography from all corners of Iran and gorgeous recipe images,
this lavish cookbook rejoices in the land, life, flavours and food of an enigmatic
and beautiful country.
Yasmin Khan is a writer and cook from London who loves to share people’s
stories through food. An avid traveller whose passport is never too far from her
pocket, she runs cooking classes, pop-up supper clubs and writing retreats
around the world. Prior to immersing herself in the fragrances and flavours of the
Persian kitchen, Yasmin worked as a human rights campaigner, running national
and international campaigns for NGOs and grassroots groups, with a special
focus on the Middle East.
thesaffrontales.com / @yasmin_khan
‘Barberries, fresh herbs, date molasses, dried limes, saffron; Yasmin’s Persian
pantry staples are a roll call of my favourite ingredients. Her recipes are a
mouthwatering showcase of a beautiful country’ – Yotam Ottolenghi
‘Not just a great cookbook but a book full of stories – a love letter to Iran and
its people’ – Diana Henry
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On the Side
Ed Smith
An inspiring selection of superlative side dishes
On the Side is a rare recipe book in that it brings the oft-neglected supporting
acts to centre stage. Instead of leaving what often makes up the majority of a
meal to an over-boiled afterthought or throwaway “serve with seasonal greens”
line, in On the Side it’s the accompaniments that get the star billing.
Bloomsbury UK
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The book is a collection of inspiring side dishes to complement all styles of food,
ranging from ones that will spark a whole meal (PX braised radicchio, salt and
thyme baked celeriac, scorched sweet potato with sobrasada butter), through
the classics (mac ’n’ cheese, caponata, boulangère potatoes), to simple ways
with less familiar ingredients (agretti, turnip tops, cauliflower greens). The central
premise of the book is that not only can sides really elevate a meal – they can
become its focus, the dishes you go back to for seconds and thirds.
Inventive, playful, and yet hardworking, this book establishes Ed Smith as a
major new name in British food writing. On the Side is the kitchen companion
that everyone has been missing.
Ed Smith is a former lawyer who left his job in 2012 in pursuit of a career in food.
He retrained as a chef and is now a freelance food writer, and Creative Director
of British cured meat wholesalers and retailers, Cannon & Cannon, based at
London’s Borough Market. The author of the website www.rocketandsquash.
com, a food journal regularly updated with restaurant reviews, recipes, news
round-ups and short films, Ed has featured as a resident chef for The Guardian’s
Cook supplement, and guest cookery writer at The Independent on Sunday.
At the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2015, he won the award for
Best Online Restaurant Writer and was shortlisted alongside Diana Henry and
Yotam Ottolenghi for Best Cookery Writer. On the Side was shortlisted for the
inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award, presented to a first-time writer of a book
on food to be published in 2017.
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Land of Fish and Rice
Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China
Fuchsia Dunlop
Exquisite recipes from Shanghai and the southern Yangtze region, by
internationally renowned Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop
The lower Yangtze region, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known
since ancient times as the ‘Land of Fish and Rice’. For centuries, local cooks
have been using the plentiful produce of its lakes, rivers, fields and mountains,
combined with delicious seasonings and flavours such as rice vinegar, rich soy
sauce, spring onion and ginger, to create a cuisine that is renowned in China for
its delicacy and beauty.
EXTENT: 368
RIGHTS SOLD: Norton (US),
Karakter (Dutch)
Drawing on years of study and exploration, Fuchsia Dunlop explains basic
cooking techniques, typical cooking methods and the principal ingredients
of the southern Yangtze larder. Her recipes are a mixture of simple peasant
cooking and rich delicacies – some are famous, some unsung. You’ll be inspired
to try classic dishes such as Beggar’s chicken and sumptuous Dongpo pork.
All the recipes contain readily available ingredients and, with Fuchsia’s clear
guidance, you will soon see how simple it is to create some of the most beautiful
and delicious dishes you’ll ever taste. With evocative writing, stunning location
photography and mouth-watering recipe pictures, this is an important new work
about one of China’s most fascinating regions.
Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Higher Institute
of Cuisine, and has been travelling around China and collecting recipes for
more than two decades. She has written for publications including the Financial
Times, Saveur, the New Yorker and the Observer, and has appeared on Gordon
Ramsay’s The F-Word and The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Her previous
books include the award-winning Sichuan Cookery, Every Grain of Rice: Simple
Chinese Home Cooking and Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour
Memoir of Eating in China. She speaks, reads and writes Chinese, and she lives
in East London.
fuchsiadunlop.com / @fuchsiadunlop
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Good Good Food
Recipes to Help You Look, Feel and Live Well
Sarah Raven
250 gorgeous, colourful, healthy recipes from award-winning food
writer and qualified doctor Sarah Raven
Not only is Sarah Raven an inspirational cook, but she was also once a doctor
and so has a wealth of medical training and knowledge behind her. Here she
brings together her unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes,
sharing her medical knowledge to explain exactly how and why certain foods
help protect your body and give you the best possible chance of a longer,
healthier life.
EXTENT: 376
The 250 sumptuous and colourful recipes include Coconut sugar marmalade,
Spiced aubergine salad with pomegranate raita, Lemon chicken and summer
herb salad, Cashew hummus, Black bean burritos, Blood orange sorbet and
Basil yoghurt ice cream. Woven through the book are 100 mini ‘superfood’
biographies, where Sarah draws on her expertise and experience to explain the
science behind good-for-you ingredients such as kale, broccoli, salmon, red
wine, blueberries, apples and seeds.
With luminous photography by Jonathan Buckley, this generous and stylish book
offers recipes to make you feel well, look well and live longer – by using the most
beneficial ingredients and without ever compromising on sheer deliciousness.
Sarah Raven worked as a doctor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in
Brighton before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has cooked
all her life for family and friends with an emphasis on goodness, healthiness and
general wellbeing. Sarah runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch
Hill in East Sussex, and has established a mail order gardening company with
80,000 active customers. She has made regular appearances on the BBC’s
Great British Garden Revival and Gardeners’ World; and she is the author of
Sarah Raven’s Food for Friends and Family, Sarah Raven’s Complete Christmas,
Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers’ Cookery
Book of the Year 2008) and The Cutting Garden.
sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden
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Mammissima
Family Cooking from a Modern Italian Mamma
Elisabetta Minervini
The cookbook that reveals how to be the ultimate Italian mamma – with
simple and delicious Puglian recipes
Puglia is the ‘heel’ of Italy. Bordering the iridescent Adriatic Sea, this is a region
where the olive oil is like liquid gold, where the fish is cooked up fresh from the
sea, and where sun-dried tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are at the heart
of the cuisine. The food here is light, nutritious and rustic, and firmly centred
around family life.
EXTENT: 208
Born in this charming region, vivacious and modern mother-of-two Elisabetta
Minervini has brought the vitality of Puglian cooking to her home in London,
and in Mammissima she shares the traditional recipes that her children (and
their friends) have come to adore. These include orecchiette (‘little-ear’ pasta),
focaccia, pasta al forno (oven-baked pasta), Salento rustic pie, and the ultimate
pizza that will get everyone involved. This kind of cooking suits a hectic lifestyle
and can be prepared quickly and easily, using inexpensive ingredients.
With enchanting food photography, illustrations and plenty of personality, this
glorious book will allow you to add Italian panache and bring la dolce vita to your
own everyday cooking.
Elisabetta Minervini was born in Molfetta near Bari, a medieval port in the
beautiful region of Puglia in southern Italy, and she moved to England in 1997.
She is the founder of award-winning publishing company Alma Books. She lives
in Richmond, London, with her husband Alessandro and their two children,
aged twelve and nine. Mammissima is her first book.
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River Cottage Ingredients: An A-Z
of our favourite things (and how to
cook them)
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
An authoritative and glorious A–Z of more than 300 ingredients and 300
recipes, set to become an essential tome in the River Cottage library
This huge and beautiful book is a River Cottage ‘Larousse’ of ingredients. With
entries on vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, meat, fish, fungi, foraged foods,
dairy, oils, vinegar and much more, it celebrates more than 300 ingredients that
the modern cook might come across.
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 672
Each ingredient is described by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall or an expert
contributor from his River Cottage team – for example Nick Fisher covers
seafood and John Wright writes on mushrooms. They explain which varieties
to look for and how best to prepare them, and provide detailed information on
seasonality, habitat, alternative names, Latin names, landing sizes (for fish), and
easy growing instructions (for vegetables and herbs). There is also a delicious
recipe for every entry.
With stunning photography by Simon Wheeler and evocative illustrations, this
is an ambitious work that will become an indispensable guide for every kitchen.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series
for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage
books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy and the
André Simon Food Book of the Year. Joining him for this book are the team from
River Cottage, including Gill Meller, Nikki Duffy, Mark Diacono, Pam Corbin, John
Wright, Nick Fisher, Steven Lamb and Tim Maddams, all experts in their fields.
rivercottage.net / @rivercottage
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River Cottage Gluten Free
Naomi Devlin
More than 120 inspiring recipes for those who want to cut out gluten
without compromising on taste – perfect for anyone with coeliac
disease or gluten intolerance
Gluten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for
so many of us. Whether you need to cut gluten out of your diet or you’re cooking
for friends and family with gluten intolerance, River Cottage Gluten Free will
provide the tools you need to gain inspiration and navigate mealtimes. Expert
nutritionist Naomi Devlin gives clear advice for gluten-free eating – including
detailed guidance on alternative flours, methods of fermentation and delicious
baking ideas.
EXTENT: 272
She offers ingenious recipes for breakfasts, bread, pastry, soups, salads,
snacks, main meals and puddings, including Prosciutto and egg muffins, Blinis
with crème fraîche and smoked salmon, Leek and bacon quiche, Courgette
hummus, Blackberry bakewell tart, Luscious lemon cake and Chocolate
fondants.
With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and helpful tips from Naomi
throughout, this is the definitive gluten-free cookbook – it will add fresh vitality to
your cooking and eating, and a host of recipes to make you feel great.
Once dubbed ‘the Nigella of gluten-free’, nutrition expert Naomi Devlin is an
unashamed foodie who was blessed with a coeliac diagnosis. After studying
native diets around the world, she now believes that the key to health and
happiness is to cook from scratch wherever possible. It doesn’t have to be
fancy, but it should be tasty and satisfying. Using gluten-free wholegrains and
sourdough cultures, she teaches people about the endless possibilities and rich
flavours of gluten-free grains at River Cottage and Ashburton Cookery School,
and at bespoke cookery days in her own steamy kitchen. Naomi lives in West
Dorset with her husband, son and ginger cat in a sustainable house they built
themselves.
rivercottage.net / @naomidevlin
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Risotto! Risotto!
Valentina Harris
A fully updated edition of Valentina Harris' seminal work on this iconic
Italian dish
Prized for its texture, flavour and versatility, risotto has been part of the Italian diet
since the eighth century and is one of its most famous dishes. This revised and
updated edition of Valentina Harris’ seminal work shows you how to prepare,
cook and serve this iconic Italian dish using any ingredient from the humble
tomato to the much sought-after truffle.
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 192
With a fully updated introduction and some brand new recipes, as well as
background information on the history of this famous dish, Valentina provides
essential information on the variety of rice that can be used for risotto and
how to make the all-important stock. Recipes are supplemented by beautiful
photography of the dishes by Ian Garlick and a step-by-step guide to the perfect
risotto.
This is the perfect book for any risotto lover.
Educated in Italy, renowned cookery writer Valentina Harris is the youngest
member of a large Anglo-Italian family full of colourful gourmets. In 1976 she
brought her qualifications for teaching and cooking from Rome to London
and quickly build up her reputation, going on to publish more than 30 awardwinning cookery books and becoming an authority on Italian cuisine. She
regularly appears on TV, following the success of her first BBC series, Italian
Regional Cooking. She now offers culinary adventures across Europe, sharing
her passion for food hosting bespoke cookery courses and private catering
commissions, and is often found at food festivals in the UK.
valentinaharris.com / @ChefValentina
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Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Raymond Blanc
A stunningly illustrated journey through the year at Raymond Blanc’s
legendary Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons is one of the finest hotel-restaurants in the world.
This is a chance to step behind the walls for Raymond’s personal tour, season
by season. He reveals how every element of the place – from the Japanese
garden to the Citronelle bedroom – came into being, and leads you into the
kitchen to show you the culinary secrets of this two-Michelin-starred restaurant.
The book features recipes for 120 of Le Manoir’s most celebrated dishes,
including ricotta agnolotti, venison grand veneur, blood orange carpaccio, and
apple tart Maman Blanc. With spectacular photography and elegant illustrations,
this book will allow you to bring a taste of Le Manoir into your own home.
Bloomsbury UK
EXTENT: 544
Totally self-taught, Raymond Blanc is one of Britain’s most respected chefs. His
hotel-restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford has been awarded two
Michelin stars for the past 26 years, and in 2007 he was awarded an OBE for
services to culinary excellence. He is the bestselling author of several books,
including Kitchen Secrets.
belmond.com/lemanoir / @lemanoir
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SPUNTINO
Comfort Food (New York Style)
Russell Norman
A sizzling New York cookbook from the bestselling author of POLPO
Hidden behind a rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London’s Soho,
Spuntino is the epitome of New York’s vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing
the bàcari of Venice to the backstreets of the British capital at his critically
acclaimed restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the scruffiest and
quirkiest boroughs of the Big Apple to find authentic inspiration for an urban,
machine-age diner. Since its smash-hit opening in 2011, the restaurant has
delivered big bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the crowds who flock to
its pewter-topped bar.
EXTENT: 304
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Spuntino will take you on a culinary adventure from London to New York and
back, bringing the best of American cuisine to your kitchen. The 120 recipes
include zingy salads, juicy sliders, oozing pizzette, boozy desserts and
prohibition-era cocktails. You’ll also get a glimpse of New York foodie heaven
as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s cultural hubs and quirky
neighbourhoods such as East Village and Williamsburg, discovering family-run
delis, brasseries, street traders, sweet shops and liquor bars.
With radiant photography by Jenny Zarins capturing New York’s visceral
grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy, dynamism and extraordinary
cuisine that the world’s greatest melting pot has inspired.
Russell Norman is a restaurateur. Over the last 20 years he has worked in many
of London’s landmark restaurants as a waiter, bartender, maître d’, general
manager and operations director. In 2009 he founded an independent restaurant
company with his best friend and has since opened eight restaurants in central
London including Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s. His book POLPO: A Venetian
Cookbook (of Sorts) was voted Waterstones Book of the Year 2012, and in
2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary
for BBC2.
russellnorman.co / @russellnorman_
spuntino.co.uk / @Spuntino
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Junk Food Japan
Scott Hallsworth
In Junk Food Japan ex-Nobu Head Chef Scott Hallsworth showcases
the incredible food that is making his Kurobuta restaurants some of the
most talked-about places to eat in London
Absolute Press
EXTENT: 304
Packing a heavy punch and offering a fresh new look at Japanese food, Junk
Food Japan showcases Kurobuta's ‘insanely delicious delicacies’ (Jay Rayner,
The Observer). It is food that is both incredibly inventive yet comfortingly familiar.
Signature dishes featured in this exciting new cookbook include Barbecued Pork
Belly in Steamed Buns, with a Spicy Peanut Soy Sauce, Tea Smoked Lamb, and
Kombu, Roasted Chilean seabass. It is food full of flavour, achievable to create
at home and guaranteed to wow friends, family and hungry gatecrashers.
Chapters with titles such as Snack, Junk Food Japan, Significant Others,
Something Crunchy and On the Side give an idea of the gastronomic fun that is
to be found within. Featuring approximately 100 recipes brilliantly showcasing
Scott’s wild and inventive style, Junk Food Japan presents Japanese classics
with twists and turns alongside a selection of new, stunning Scott-conceived
dishes, including Tuna Sashimi Pizza and Wagyu Beef Sliders. Superb
photography from legendary photographer David Loftus features throughout.
Scott Hallsworth has been forging a mighty path in Japanese cuisine for nearly
two decades, having worked for many years as Head Chef at the legendary
Nobu in London and then later opening Nobu in Melbourne in his native
Australia. He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with more television
and press profile planned.
kurobuta-london.com / @KurobutaLondon / @scotthallsworth
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sketch
Mourad Mazouz, Pierre Gagnaire
A dreamscape book about one of London's most fascinating restaurants:
sketch
Absolute Press
EXTENT: 320
sketch is a unique meeting place in the centre of London created by Mourad
Mazouz and Pierre Gagnaire. The converted 18th-century building in Mayfair
is an opulent, zany maze with treasures to be discovered in every room. A
mad hatter’s fantasy comes alive in the enchanted woodland Glade tearoom.
Eccentric tasty tricks abound in the Parlour patisserie. Eat your fill of gorgeous
flavours in the Gallery bistro art installation. Chic pre-dinner cocktails in the
urbane East Bar prepare you for the Michelin magic unleashed in the vibrant
Lecture Room & Library. Whether you want a tearoom, bistro, restaurant, bar
or nightclub, sketch has the best to offer. Now these myriad food, drink and
entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium
of all things sketch.
Unique cuisine is at its heart, world-renowned three-Michelin-star chef Pierre
Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus.
Interlaced throughout are artistic interpretations of the recipes, contributed
by an array of people involved in all elements of sketch, ultimately creating a
sensual feast in a book.
Photography by Jean Cazals.
Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the
most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have
created unique experiences in Paris, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Beirut.
Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical
mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French fare and mad-scientist food
experiments, with restaurants in Paris, Berlin, London, Moscow, Las Vegas,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai.
sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon
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Indian Harvest
Vikas Khanna
A vibrant vegetarian cookbook from New York’s hottest Indian chef
One of Vikas Khanna’s favorite places in the world growing up was the garden
he and his grandmother planted at their home in Amritsar, India. He would rush
home from school to tend to the aromatic basil and cardamom, tomatoes, peas,
and squash. His intimate knowledge of spices and produce would guide him
on his journey to become the Michelin-starred chef at one of New York’s most
highly regarded Indian restaurants, Junoon. And this knowledge of nature’s
bounty and its seasons informs his inspiring and beautiful cookbook, in which
vegetables are the star ingredients. Vegetables have always been integral to
Indian cuisine, and Khanna’s dishes expertly showcase their natural goodness,
their flavor and color and hidden nuances.
Bloomsbury USA
EXTENT: 416
Khanna brings together traditional recipes, handed down over generations,
alongside exciting new ones–for soups, salads, and starters; main courses;
rice dishes and lentil dishes; breads; condiments; desserts; and drinks. Though
the flavors are complex, the recipes are written to be simple and inviting, to
encourage seasonal substitutions and experimentation. Vikas Khanna’s love of
food and culture, his enthusiasm and warm hospitality shines on every page.
Bursting with 125 recipes and more than 200 color photographs from Michael
Swamy and Khanna himself, Indian Harvest opens a new world of inspiration to
vegetarians and omnivores alike.
Vikas Khanna was born and raised in Amritsar, India, and studied at the Culinary
Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu. He is the host of MasterChef India
and has been a guest chef on The Martha Stewart Show, a consultant chef on
Kitchen Nightmares, and a judge on Throwdown! with Bobby Flay and Hell’s
Kitchen. He was a 2014 finalist for the James Beard Book Award for his book
Return to the Rivers, and his Flatiron restaurant, Junoon, has been awarded a
Michelin star. Khanna lives in New York.
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Heston Blumenthal
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Paul Hollywood
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The Flavour Thesaurus
Every Grain of Rice
Ben Vear
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Sarah Raven’s Garden
Cookbook
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Sarah Raven
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Gurpareet Bains
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Alex Mackay
COOKERY HIGHLIGHTS
POLPO
Russell Norman
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Cooking for Real Life
Joanna Weinberg
International Night
Mark Kurlansky and
Talia Kurlansky
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Jacob Kenedy
80 Cakes From Around
the World
Claire Clark
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A Year at Otter Farm
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John Wright
Sea Fishing
Nick Fisher
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Pam Corbin
John Wright
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John Wright
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John Wright
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Gill Meller
Game
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Tom’s Table
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Ever Dishes
Tom Kerridge
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Atul’s Curries of the
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Benares
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