picador paperback

Transcription

picador paperback

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PICADOR PAPERBACK
THE GOOD SOLDIERS
(EARLY RELEASE, ON SALE 8/03/10)
BOX 21
2
4
6
7
10
Arnaldur Indridason
SEPTEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS
YOU BETTER NOT CRY
11
12
32
33
34
Caroline Fraser
DELILAH
35
India Edghill
MATHILDA SAVITCH
36
Victor Lodato
THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL
DESTINATION
15
Peter Cameron
Michelle Wildgen
AESOP’S MIRROR
CITY OF GOLD
14
Augusten Burroughs
BUT NOT FOR LONG
RED CLOUD AT DAWN
REWILDING THE WORLD
8
Barbara Ehrenreich
ARCTIC CHILL
31
Jim Krane
Martin Booth
BRIGHT-SIDED
HOW MARKETS FAIL
Michael D. Gordin
Veronica Buckley
A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN
29
30
John Cassidy
Hilary Mantel
THE SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV
NOVEMBER BACKLIST TIE-INS
THE PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD
Ann Crittenden
David Finkel
WOLF HALL
28
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström
37
Maryalice Huggins
THERE IS NO FREEDOM WITHOUT
BREAD!
SELLEVISION-REISSUE
16
Constantine Pleshakov
THE HAWK AND THE DOVE
17
Nicholas Thompson
COWBOYS FULL
18
James McManus
OCTOBER BACKLIST TIE-INS
THE APPOINTMENT
19
20
Herta Müller; Translated by Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm
THE LAND OF THE GREEN PLUMS
21
Herta Müller; Translated by Michael Hofmann
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF
LYDIA DAVIS
22
Lydia Davis
FAME
(PAPERBACK ORIGINAL)
23
HILARY MANTEL REISSUES
EVERYDAY IS MOTHER’S DAY
VACANT POSSESION
SARAH BLAKE AND PER PETTERSON
PROMOTION
COLUM McCANN PROMOTION
PICADOR CRIME
RECENT PICADOR HIGHLIGHTS
BESTSELLING BACKLIST
READING GROUP GUIDES
SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS
CUSTOMER SERVICE
INDEX
Tom Payne
BEYOND AMERICA’S GRASP
24
Stephen P. Cohen
FLY BY WIRE
25
William Langewiesche
THE SECRET LIVES OF BUILDINGS
26
Edward Hollis
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Harriet Reisen
27
38
Augusten Burroughs
Cover design by Henry Sene Yee
39
40
41
42
44
46
48
50
52
55
PAPERBACK
DAVID FINKEL
The Good Soldiers
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AND TOP TEN BOOK OF 2009
“Spellbinding . . . Finkel has made art out of a
defining moment in history. You will be able to
take this book down from the shelf years from now
and say: ‘This is what happened. This is what it
felt like.’”—Doug Stanton, The New York Times
Book Review
Current Affairs/History
978-0-312-43002-3
$15.00 • NCR
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 336 pp
Includes 34 b&w photos throughout
Hardcover
978-0-374-16573-4
2 August
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January
2007, President George W. Bush announced a new
strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. Among those
called to carry it out were the young, optimistic army
infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed
the Rangers.
Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home
forever changed. Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington
Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Baghdad,
and almost every grueling step of the way.
Combining the action of Mark Bowden’s Black
Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s
The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an
unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the
story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the
ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal
tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all
time.
Early Release, On Sale 8/03/10
“Let me be direct: The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is
the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly
rendered account of modern war I’ve ever read.”
—Daniel Okrent, Fortune
CREDIT: LUCIAN PERKINS
A Chicago Tribune Best Nonfiction of 2009
A Kansas City Star Top Ten Books of 2009
A Christian Science Monitor Best Books of
2009: Nonfiction
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2009
• NEXT Selection
• National Advertising
“Over and over, I cried. I endured nightmares. I have
read hundreds of books about war and almost two
dozen books about the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan
and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has
affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers.”
—Steve Weinberg, The Kansas City Star
“Heart-stopping . . . captures the surreal horror of
war.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“A whole generation of these men will (God willing)
be coming home, and The Good Soldiers is as good a
guide as I can imagine to who they’ll be when they get
here.”
—David Friedman, GQ
• National Radio Publicity
• National Review Coverage
• A New York Times Bestseller
• Select Author Events
• Internet Marketing
Outreach to Veterans and
Military Organizations
Picador Website Feature
• Academic Marketing
Campaign
DAVID FINKEL is a staff writer for The Washington
Post, and is also the leader of the Post’s national reporting team. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory
reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.
funded democracy efforts in Yemen. Finkel lives in
Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two
daughters.
August 3
PAPERBACK
HILARY MANTEL
Wolf Hall
A Novel
Winner of the 2009
Man Booker Prize
A New York Times Bestseller
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2009
A Christian Science Monitor Best
Book of 2009
The Economist Best Books of 2009
A Financial Times Best Book of 2009
“Dazzling . . . Wolf Hall has epic scale but lyric
texture. Its 500-plus pages turn quickly, winged
and falconlike. . . . Both spellbinding and believable.” —Christopher Benfey, The New York Times
Book Review
Fiction
978-0-312-42998-0
$16.00 • NCR
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 592 pp
Hardcover
978-0-8050-8068-1
Also available
Beyond Black
978-0-312-42605-7 $16.00
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
978-0-312-42289-9 $15.00
Giant, O’Brien, The
978-0-312-42688-0 $14.00
Place of Greater Safety, A
978-0-312-42639-2 $18.00
4 September
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If
the king dies without a male heir, the country could
be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul
his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn.
The pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this
impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original
man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and
opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of
energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened
by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But
Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous.
Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what
will be the price of his triumph?
In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel re-creates an era
when the personal and political are separated by a
hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power
but a single failure means death.
September
“A darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry
VIII . . . magnificent.”
—Richard Eder, The Boston Globe
CREDIT: JANE BOWN
“Both fresh and finely wrought: a brilliant portrait of a
society in the throes of disorienting change . . . her
best novel yet.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“Nothing short of astonishing. She burrows down
through the historical record to uncover the tiniest,
most telling details, evoking the minutiae of history
as vividly as its grand sweep.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Reader, you’re in excellent hands with Hilary
Mantel. . . . This is political intrigue pulsing with
energy and peopled with historical figures who have
never seemed more alive—and more human. . . . Wolf
Hall is a thrumming, thrilling read.” —Miami Herald
“Brilliant . . . a spellbinding, immensely witty and
brutally heartfelt look at a much-trod era and littleknown man . . . a provocative, beautifully written
book that ends much too soon.”
—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
• National Print Advertising
• National Print Publicity
• National Bestseller
The New York Times
USA Today
Washington Post
Publishers Weekly
Los Angeles Times
Boston Globe
Denver Post
• Shortlisted for the
Costa Novel Award
“Startlingly enjoyable . . . A great read from a great
mind, an addictively rich window into a time both
alien to and mirroring our own.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“A startling achievement, a brilliant historical novel.”
—The New York Review of Books
Newly Reissued—see page 39:
Every Day Is Mother’s Day
978-0-312-66803-7 $14
Vacant Possession
• An Indie Next Pick
Online Advertising
Targeted Literary Blog and
Website Outreach
Reading Group
Promotion
Online Reading Group
Guide
Picador e-Newsletter and
Website Feature
Backlist Promotion
978-0-312-66804-4 $14
HILARY MANTEL is the author of ten novels, and
the memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, winner of the 2006
Hawthornden Prize. Her reviews and essays appear in
The New York Times, The New York Review of Books,
and the London Review of Books.
September 5
PAPERBACK
September
VERONICA BUCKLEY
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
Françoise d’Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
A New York Times Book Review
Editors’ Choice
“A lively, sympathetic portrayal of the woman
who, against all odds, succeeds in taming the
royal tomcat . . . Buckley imaginatively penetrates
her subject’s innermost thoughts.”
—The New York Time Book Review
Biography/History
978-0-312-43005-4
$18.00 • $22.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 528 pp
Plus one 16-page color photo insert
Hardcover
Françoise d’Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, was
born in a French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. Yet, armed with beauty,
intellect, and shrewd judgment, she was to make her
way to the center of power at Versailles, the most
opulent and ambitious court in all Europe.
Acclaimed biographer Veronica Buckley traces the
extraordinary story of Françoise’s progress from pauper child to salonnière to the compromised position of
Louis XIV’s secret wife and uncrowned queen.
Sparkling with irresistible wit, fine detail, and
novelistic sweep, this exactingly researched biography is a pinnacle of the form.
“This real-life fairy tale is told with flair and compassion.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
978-0-8050-8785-7
“Buckley finds a modern parable in the rags-to-riches
story of a striving felon’s daughter whose devotion
won the debauched heart of an aging king.” —Vogue
VERONICA BUCKLEY is the author Christina,
Queen of Sweden. She lives in Vienna.
6 September
MEDIA TIE-IN
September
Martin Booth
A Very Private Gentleman
A Novel
Now a major
motion picture,
The American,
from Focus
Features,
starring George
Clooney
“A psychological suspense thriller invested with
life-and-death gravitas.” —Seattle Times
The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him
Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly—for he appears to be a
discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But
Farfalla’s real profession—molding custom guns for
assassins—is deadly. As his feelings for a local
brothel-worker named Clara begin to intensify, Farfalla resolves to make his next job his last—all the
while sensing a treacherous circle closing in on him.
Part thriller, part morality tale, part psychological
study, A Very Private Gentleman shows Martin Booth
at the very height of his powers.
Fiction
978-0-312-43001-6
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 288 pp
Hardcover
978-0-312-30908-4
“With Farfalla, Booth has created a rich, conflicted
antihero whose clever rationalizations mask a soul
weary with self-doubt . . . making us question our
own moral values, our sense of right and wrong—and
where exactly to draw the line.” —The Boston Globe
• NEXT Selection
• Movie Tie-in Art
• Co-Promotion with Focus Features
• National Broadcast and Print Media Campaign
Targeted Entertainment and Literary Blog
Outreach; e-Cards
Reading Group Promotion
Online Reading Group Guide
Picador e-Newsletter and Website Feature
Also available
Cannabis
978-0-312-42494-7 $16.00
Golden Boy
978-0-312-42626-2 $14.00
MARTIN BOOTH, novelist, critic, biographer,
children’s author, and social historian, died in 2004
in Devon, England. His novel Islands of Silence
was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
September 7
PAPERBACK
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Bright-sided
How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has
Undermined America
“Ehrenreich’s examination of the history of positive thinking is a tour de force of well-tempered
snark, culminating in a persuasive indictment of
the bright-siders as the culprits in our current
financial mess.” —The Washington Post
Social Science
978-0-312-65885-4
$15.00 • $18.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/4" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
Hardcover
978-0-8050-8749-9
Also available
Bait and Switch
978-0-8050-8124-4 $13.00
Dancing in the Streets
978-0-8050-5724-9 $16.00
Nickel and Dimed
978-0-8050-8838-0 $14.00
This Land Is Their Land
978-0-8050-9015-4 $15.00
8 August
Americans are a “positive” people—cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: This is our reputation as well as
our self-image. But more than a temperament, being
positive is the key to getting success and prosperity.
Or so we are told.
In this utterly original debunking, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the false promises of positive thinking
and shows its reach into every corner of American
life. Evangelical megachurches preach the good news
that you have only to want something to get it,
because God wants to “prosper” you. The medical
profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for
new departments of “positive psychology” and the
“science of happiness.” Nowhere, though, has brightsiding taken firmer root than within the business
community, where, as Ehrenreich reveals, the refusal
even to consider negative outcomes—like mortgage
defaults—contributed directly to the current
economic disaster.
With the myth-busting powers for which she is
acclaimed, Ehrenreich exposes the downside of positive thinking: personal self-blame and national denial.
This is Ehrenreich at her provocative best—poking
holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and
ending with a call for existential clarity and courage.
Early Release, On Sale 8/03/10
CREDIT: SIGRID ESTRADA
“Deeply satisfying . . . I have waited my whole life for
someone to write a book like Bright-sided.”
—Hanna Rosin, The New York Times Book Review
“A precisely crafted, hard-hitting . . . analysis of the
national mass fantasy of wishful thinking.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Ehrenreich convinced me completely. . . . I hesitate to
say anything so positive as that this book will change
the way you see absolutely everything; but it just
might.”
—Nora Ephron, The Daily Beast
“Bright-sided scours away the veneer of conventional
wisdom with pointed writings and reporting. . . .
Helping us face the truth is Ehrenreich at her best.”
—The Miami Herald
“Contrarians rejoice! With a refreshingly caustic tone,
Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the relentlessly upbeat
attitude many Americans demand of themselves, and
more damagingly, of others.”
—USA Today
“A brilliant exposé of our smiley-faced culture.”
—Forbes.com
“Ehrenreich delivers her indictments of the happiness
industry with both authority and wit. . . . Bright-sided
offers both a welcome tonic and a call to action—and
a blessed relief from all those smiley faces.”
—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
• National Public Radio
Campaign
The New York Times
Boston Globe
National Indie Bestseller
• An Indie Next Pick
• Select Author Appearances
• Internet Marketing:
Online Advertising
Targeted Blog and Website
Outreach, e-Cards
Author Website:
BarbaraEhrenreich.com
• Academic Marketing
Campaign
BARBARA EHRENREICH is the bestselling author
of sixteen previous books, including the bestsellers
Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harper’s and The Nation, she has also been a
columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine.
August 9
PAPERBACK
September
ARNALDUR INDRIDASON
Arctic Chill
A Reykjavík Thriller
Inspector Erlendur returns to crack the case of a
murdered ten-year-old boy in this critically
acclaimed series from Iceland
On an icy January day, the Reykjavík police are called
to a block of apartments where a body has been found
in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy is frozen to
the ground in a pool of blood. Erlendur and his team
embark on their investigation and soon unearth tensions simmering beneath the surface of Iceland’s outwardly liberal, multicultural society. Meanwhile, the
boy’s murder forces Erlendur to confront a tragedy in
his own past.
Master crime writer Arnaldur Indridason’s Arctic
Chill renders a vivid portrait of Iceland’s brutal, littleknown culture wars in a taut, fast-paced police procedural.
“This Icelandic tale is delivered with exquisite sensitivity, in a moody translation by Bernard Scudder and
Victoria Cribb.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
Book Review
Mystery
978-0-312-65530-3
$15.00 • NCR
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 352 pp
“A solid police procedural . . . well-constructed and
certainly unflinching in its view of the human condition.”
—The Washington Post
“Arctic Chill is most reminiscent of Henning Mankell’s
Kurt Wallander series.”
—Booklist
Hardcover
978-0-312-38103-5
• Co-Promotion with Hypothermia, including excerpt
(Minotaur; 978-0-312-56991-4; $24.99)
• Special Retail Offer
Also available
The Draining Lake
978-0-312-42858-7 $14.00
Silence of the Grave
978-0-312-42732-0 $14.00
Voices
978-0-312-42806-8 $14.00
10 September
Mystery and Genre Site Outreach
Macmillan Crime e-Newsletter and Picador
Website Feature
ARNALDUR INDRIDASON has won the CWA
Gold Dagger Award and the Glass Key Award for Best
Nordic Crime Novel. His thrillers have sold six million
copies in over thirty countries around the world. He
lives in Iceland.
BACKLIST TIE-INS
September
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Freedom (978-0-374-15846-0, FSG, $28)
The Discomfort Zone (978-0-312-42640-8, $14)
How to Be Alone (978-0-312-42216-5, $15)
The Corrections (978-0-312-42127-4, $16)
Strong Motion (978-0-312-42051-2, $15)
The Twenty-Seventh City (978-0-312-42014-7, $16)
DAVID GROSSMAN
To the End of the Land (Knopf, $27.95)
Writing in the Dark (978-0-312-42860-0, $14)
Someone to Run With (978-0-312-42194-6, $15)
The Zigzag Kid (978-0-312-42099-4, $16)
Be My Knife (978-0-312-42147-2, $16)
See Under: LOVE (978-0-312-42069-7, $17)
The Yellow Wind (978-0-312-42098-7, $15)
ARNALDUR INDRIDASON
Hypothermia (978-0-312-56991-4, Minotaur, $24.99)
Arctic Chill (978-0-312-65530-3, Picador, $15)
The Draining Lake (978-0-312-42858-7, $14)
Voices (978-0-312-42806-8, $14)
Silence of the Grave (978-0-312-42732-0, $14)
Jar City (978-0-312-42638-5, $14)
NTOZAKE SHANGE & IFA BAYEZA
Some Sing, Some Cry (978-0-312-19899-2, SMP, $26.99)
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo (978-0-312-14091-5, $15)
Betsey Brown (978-0-312-13434-1, $13)
11 September
PAPERBACK
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
You Better Not Cry
A New York Times bestseller about Christmases
past and present from the number-one bestselling
author of Running with Scissors, Dry, and A Wolf at
the Table
“From the very beginning there had been warning
signs. . . . As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all
mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one
sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped
Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house?”
At eight-years-old, Augusten Burroughs profoundly
misunderstood the meaning of Christmas. Now proving himself once more “a master of making tragedy
funny” (The Miami Herald), he shows how the
holidays can bring out the worst in us and sometimes,
just sometimes, the very best. From the author
described by USA Today as “one of the most
compelling and screamingly funny voices of the new
century” here is a book about surviving that holiday
we love to hate, and hate to love.
Memoir
978-0-312-43006-1
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
4 1/2" x 7 1/8" • 224 pp
Hardcover
978-0-312-34191-6
Also available
Dry
978-0-312-42379-7 $14.00
Running with Scissors
978-0-312-42541-8 $14.00
A Wolf at the Table
978-0-312-42827-3 $14.00
12 October
“Burroughs succeeds best at evoking true holiday
spirit, reminding us that whatever’s left after the bulbs
stop twinkling, the cookies are all eaten, and the trees
lose their tinsel is what’s most important.”
—Elle
“For those who like their holiday spirit with gallons of
vodka and a heaping portion of irreverence, You Better
Not Cry is at times a laugh-out-loud read. . . .
Burroughs is as frank and revealing as ever. . . . Fans
won’t be disappointed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“In his trademark wit and self-deprecating humor . . .
Burroughs compiles his favorite Christmas memories
in his new book, You Better Not Cry. From gnawing
the face off of a life-size wax Santa to waking up
beside a naked real-life Saint Nick outside of the
Waldorf Astoria, Burroughs spares no details describing why Christmas has always been his favorite
holiday.”
—Vanity Fair
October
“Burroughs is the master of making tragedy funny. . . .
You Better Not Cry is no exception. Burroughs follows
his own strange relationship with Christmas . . . in his
terribly funny, tragically honest style. You may not
cry, but you’ll definitely laugh.” —The Miami Herald
“These are hard-edged stories of considerable charm,
certainly very funny and strangely sentimental;
‘strangely,’ because sentimentality isn’t a quality one
attaches to deeply dysfunctional families, drunkenness and self-loathing. Nonetheless, something
endearingly soppy and loveable bleeds through, and
its Christmas themes aside, You Better Not Cry is a
good fit for the season as a pilgrim’s diary, tracing a
path towards something that looks a whole lot like
salvation.”
—The Globe and Mail (UK)
CREDIT: DENNIS PILSITS
“Burroughs unleashes his dark wit on holiday memories. . . . A welcome antidote to standard holiday
treacle.”
—Entertainment Weekly
• National Print Publicity
The New York Times
Boston Globe
Indie Bound ABA
Online Advertising
Outreach to Literary Sites
and Bloggers
e-Cards and Author Video
Website Feature
Author Website:
augusten.com
Also Available and Newly Repackaged
see page 38:
Sellevision
978-0-312-43007-8 $14
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS is the New York Times
bestselling author of A Wolf at the Table, Possible Side
Effects, Magical Thinking, Dry, Running With Scissors,
and the novel Sellevision. His work has been published
in more than twenty-five countries. He lives in New
York City.
October 13
PAPERBACK
October
MICHELLE WILDGEN
But Not for Long
“A stirring meditation on modern angst and the
meaning of selflessness.”
—Joanna Powell, People magazine
Greta is the newest—and least likely—member of a
sustainable foods cooperative house in Madison,
Wisconsin. Soon after she arrives, the husband she
left behind shambles onto the co-op porch, drunk,
and it’s suddenly clear to her two well-meaning
housemates what she’s running from. Then a blackout
hits the city and a gas shortage sets in, drawing out a
disquietude that had been lurking under the surface
for each of the residents. As the outage spreads, they
are forced out of their house and into the community,
toward a confrontation with a much broader sense of
unease. Set over three days, But Not for Long is an
insightful, haunting novel about the struggle to live
decently when crisis seems to loom everywhere.
Fiction
978-0-312-65531-0
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 336 pp
Hardcover
“Wildgen is great at catching the moments of connection and conflict between people . . . Her characters
are touching and believable, her place descriptions
vivid.”
—Emily Carter, The Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“A sensitively conceived and crafted novel.”
—Barbara Fisher, The Boston Globe
978-0-312-57141-2
• NEXT Selection
• Reading Group Guide Bound in Book
• An Indie Notable Pick
Also available
You’re Not You
978-0-312-36952-1 $14.00
14 October
MICHELLE WILDGEN’s You’re Not You was named
one of People magazine’s Ten Best Books of 2006 and a
New York Times Editors’ Choice. She lives in Madison,
Wisconsin.
PAPERBACK
October
Month
MARYALICE HUGGINS
Aesop’s Mirror
“Great reading—part history, part love story, and
an altogether fascinating look at the secretive,
seductive world of rare things.”
—Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief
Falling in love at first sight with a mirror in a Rhode
Island auction, Maryalice Huggins sets out to discover
its history and learns that it was likely passed down
through generations of the illustrious Brown family.
Certain of the mirror’s prestige, she goes up against
the leading lights of the fascinating high-end antiques
world and discovers that the value of a beautiful
object and its market value are not the same thing at
all. As Huggins concludes her quest of sleuthing,
research, and obsession, she finds the true meaning
of art.
Memoir
978-0-312-65532-7
$15.00 • $18.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 304 pp
“In an age in which art’s bottom line is generally
thought to be the bottom line, the book attests to the
true reasons we cherish rare objects that have come
down to us from the past: the way they elicit our
desire to possess their beauty and their mystery.”
—Benjamin Moser, Harper’s
“Maryalice Huggins has somehow transformed an
obsession with an antique mirror into an erudite
nail-biter.”
—Billy Collins
Includes one 8-page b&w
photo section
Hardcover
978-0-374-10103-9
“It’s ‘Art Roadshow’ meets detective novel.”
—Better Homes and Gardens
Outreach to Literary, Lifestyle and
Antiques/Interior Design Sites
MARYALICE HUGGINS has worked in New York
for twenty-five years as a restorer of high-end antiques
and mirrors. She lives in Middletown, Rhode Island.
October 15
PAPERBACK
October
CONSTANTINE PLESHAKOV
There Is No Freedom Without
Bread!
1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism
“Both clear and beautifully lyrical . . . Of all the
books that mark this anniversary, Pleshakov’s is
the one that must be read. He writes history with
a human face.”
History
978-0-312-65533-4
$17.00 • $20.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
The conventional story of the end of the cold war is
simple: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign
against communism, outspent his opponent, and
forced Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall.”
In There Is No Freedom Without Bread!, Russianborn historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a
different interpretation. The revolutions that took
place that year were the result of politicking, tensions
between Moscow and local governments, compromises between revolutionary leaders and communist
old-timers, and the will and anger of the people. In a
dramatic narrative culminating in that whirlwind
year, Pleshakov challenges the received wisdom and
argues that 1989 was as much about national civil
wars and internal struggles for power as it was about
Eastern Europeans throwing off the yoke of Moscow.
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 304 pp
Hardcover
“Masterful and readable.”
—The Nation
978-0-374-28902-7
“Enlightening . . . rich historical detail.”—Mother Jones
“A breath of fresh air . . . chock full of revelatory
details.”
—Russian Life
• Academic Marketing Campaign
CONSTANTINE PLESHAKOV is the author of
16 October
several works of history. He teaches at Mount Holyoke
College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
PAPERBACK
October
NICHOLAS THOMPSON
The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the
Cold War
“Brimming with fascinating revelations about the
men and the harrowing events they steered
through.”
—The New York Times
Only two Americans held positions of great influence
throughout the Cold War. These two men embodied
opposing strategies for winning the conflict. Yet they
dined together, attended the weddings of each other’s
children, and remained lifelong friends. Paul Nitze
was a consummate insider who believed the best way
to avoid a nuclear clash was to prepare to win one.
George Kennan was a diplomat turned academic
whose famous “X article” persuasively argued that we
should contain the Soviet Union while waiting for it
to collapse from within. In this masterly double
biography, Nicholas Thompson manages to tell the
story of the Cold War along with the story of an epic
friendship.
History
978-0-312-65886-1
$17.00 • $20.00 Can.
“Thoroughly engrossing . . . Thompson succeeds
admirably in blending biography and intellectual
history.”
—The New York Times Book Review
Trade Paperback
6 1/8" x 9 1/4" • 416 pp
Includes 15 b&w photos throughout
Hardcover
978-0-8050-8142-8
“Few men did more to shape postwar U.S. foreign
policy than Paul Nitze and George Kennan. In tracing
their dueling visions of America’s role in the world,
Nicholas Thompson provides a white-knuckle glimpse
inside the 20th century’s most dangerous moments.”
—Time
NICHOLAS THOMPSON is an editor at Wired
magazine, a fellow at the New America Foundation,
and a regular contributor to CNN. A grandson of
Paul Nitze’s, he lives in New York City with his wife
and son.
October 17
PAPERBACK
October
JAMES McMANUS
Cowboys Full
The Story of Poker
“McManus writes with verve and knowledge. . . .
Entertaining, informative and genial.”
Cowboys Full traces the story of poker from its roots
in China, the Middle East, and Europe to its ascent as
a global phenomenon. It describes how early Americans took a French parlor game and turned it into a
national craze by the time of the Civil War. It explains
how poker, once dominated by cardsharps, is now the
most popular card game in Europe, East Asia, Australia, South America, cyberspace, and on television.
Along the way, James McManus examines poker’s
remarkable hold on American culture, from paintings
by Frederic Remington to countless poker novels,
movies, and plays. Cowboys Full is the definitive story
of the game that, more than any other, explains who
we are and how we operate.
History/Games
978-0-312-43008-5
$18.00 • $22.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 560 pp
Plus one 8-page b&w photo insert
“McManus has a writer’s eye for anecdotes and details
that bring the material to life. The book covers a lot of
ground, but thanks to McManus’s particular blend of
skills, it does so with insight, clarity and credibility.”
—The Seattle Times
“A deal-me-in delight.”
—The Boston Globe
Hardcover
978-0-374-29924-8
• NEXT Selection
• National Radio Campaign
Online Advertising
Outreach to Poker and Gaming Sites
Also available
Going to the Sun
978-0-312-42329-2 $14.00
Positively Fifth Street
978-0-312-42252-3 $16.00
18 October
JAMES McMANUS has covered poker for many
major publications. His book Positively Fifth Street was
a New York Times bestseller and is already considered a
classic.
BACKLIST TIE-INS
October
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
By Nightfall (978-0-374-29908-8, FSG, $25)
Flesh and Blood (978-0-312-42668-2, $14)
Specimen Days (978-0-312-42502-9, $14)
Laws for Creations (978-0-312-42607-1, $13)
The Hours (978-0-312-24302-9, $14)
A Home at the End of the World (978-0-312-20231-6, $14)
ALEX ROSS
Listen to This (978-0-374-18774-3, FSG, $27)
The Rest Is Noise (978-0-312-42771-9, $18)
IAN FRAZIER
Travels in Siberia (978-0-374-27872-4, FSG, $28)
Lamentations of the Father (978-0-312-42835-8, $14)
Gone to New York (978-0-312-42504-3, $14)
The Fish’s Eye (978-0-312-42169-4, $14)
Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (978-0-312-42285-1, $13)
On the Rez (978-0-312-27859-5, $16)
Great Plains (978-0-312-27850-2, $15)
19 October
PAPERBACK
November
Month
HERTA MÜLLER;
Translated by Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm
The Appointment
A Novel
PICADOR REISSUES TWO NOVELS FROM
“Powerful . . . Müller achieves something beautiful. She has wrested poetry from one woman’s
desire to remain human in an inhuman system.”
—Newsday
Fiction
978-0-312-65537-2
$15.00 • $18.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
“I’ve been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp.”
Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory
worker during Ceausescu’s totalitarian regime. Her
crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men’s suits
bound for Italy. “Marry me,” the notes say, with her
name and address. As she rides the tram to her interrogation, she thinks over the events and people of her
life under terror. In her distraction she misses her
stop and finds herself alone on an unfamiliar street,
and what she discovers there makes her fear of the
interrogation pale in comparison.
Nobel Prize–winning author Herta Müller pitilessly renders the humiliating terrors of a crushing
regime. Bone-spare and intense, The Appointment confirms her standing as one of Europe’s greatest writers.
“A taut and brilliant book.”
—The Chicago Tribune
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp
“The Appointment echoes Kafka’s The Castle and The
Trial in its account of someone summoned repeatedly
for ominous interrogations.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle
Born in Romania in 1953, HERTA MÜLLER lost her
job as a teacher and suffered repeated threats after
refusing to cooperate with Ceausescu’s secret police.
She succeeded in emigrating in 1987 and now lives in
Berlin. She won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for
The Land of Green Plums and received the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 2009.
20 November
PAPERBACK
November
HERTA MÜLLER;
Translated by Michael Hofmann
The Land of Green Plums
A Novel
NOBEL LAUREATE HERTA MÜLLER
Winner of the International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award
“Describes in precisely hewn detail what it was
like to live in Romania under communism. . . .
Müller has triumphed in her honesty, and The
Land of Green Plums is her testimony.”
Fiction
978-0-312-42994-2
$15.00 • $18.00 Can.
Herta Müller, herself a survivor of Ceausescu’s police
state, speaks from intimate experience. Scene by
scene, in language at once harsh and poetic, she constructs a devastating picture of a society and a generation ruined by fear. In simple images of hieroglyphic
power—policemen filling their pockets and mouths
with green plums; girls sleeping with abattoir workers
for bags of offal; a docile proletariat making things
no one wants—“tin sheep and wooden watermelons”—Müller anatomizes a country and its citizens
and the corruption that has rotted the core of both.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
Hardcover
978-0-8050-4295-5
“Ms. Müller’s rich, harsh, obsessive imagery captures
the surreal beauty and the difficulty of Ceausescu-era
Romania.”
—The Boston Book Review
• Newly Repackaged
• Nobel Address Bound in Books
November 21
PAPERBACK
November
LYDIA DAVIS
The Collected Stories of
Lydia Davis
Favorite Fiction of 2009 from the L.A. Times
Editors’ Choice
“A body of work probably unique in American
writing . . . I suspect that The Collected Stories of
Lydia Davis will in time be seen as one of the great,
strange American literary contributions.”
—James Wood, The New Yorker
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential
writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. This volume contains all
of her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break it
Down to the 2007 National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance.
Fiction
978-0-312-65539-6
$18.00 • $22.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
4 1/2" x 7 1/8" • 752 pp
Hardcover
978-0-374-27060-5
“Lydia Davis is one of the best writers in America. . . .
She is the funniest writer I know.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Davis is a writer who really knows how to work in
miniature. . . . [These stories] remind us that, in the
hands of a writer as gifted and precise as Davis, even
the tiniest of stories can change how you view
things.”
—Vogue
• NEXT Selection
LYDIA DAVIS is the recipient of a MacArthur
22 November
Fellowship and a noted translator. She lives in upstate
New York.
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
November
TOM PAYNE
Fame
What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity
In this erudite, acidly funny book, Tom Payne
discovers in the constellation of our celebrity
culture parallels between the immortals of
Homer and today’s luminaries
We may regard celebrities as deities, but that doesn’t
mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a
primal urge to first exalt the famous, but then to sacrifice them (Michael Jackson, anyone?). From Greek
mythology to the stories of Christian martyrs to Dr.
Faustus, Payne makes the fascinating argument that
our relationship to celebrity is perilous, and that we
wouldn’t have it any other way. He also shows that the
people we choose as our heroes and villains throughout the ages say much about ourselves—and what it
says is sometimes quite frightening. A dazzling, hilarious look at the mortals, and the immortals—us and
them.
Popular Culture/Literature
978-0-312-42993-5
$16.00 • $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pp
“Wonderfully witty and erudite.” —Sunday Times (UK)
“Payne takes us through all the various similarities
between sacrificial rituals and the world of Hello and
Grazia. . . . He explains these and other ideas with
tremendous gusto, humour and many flashes of selfknowing irony. . . . Fame is a good read.”
—The Observer (UK)
• National Public Radio Campaign
• Advance Reading Copies
• Special Retail Offer
Outreach to Literary and Entertainment Sites
Author Video
TOM PAYNE read Classics at Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge. For four years he was deputy literary
November 23
editor of The Daily Telegraph.
PAPERBACK
November
STEPHEN P. COHEN
Beyond America’s Grasp
A Century of Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East
Country by country, president by president,
Cohen illustrates America’s troubled history
of diplomacy in the Middle East over the
past century
Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S.
policy in the region from the breakup of the Ottoman
Empire to the present. A century ago, there emerged
two dominant views regarding the uses of America’s
power: Woodrow Wilson urged America to promote
national freedom and self-determination—in stark
contrast to his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who
had advocated a vigorous foreign policy based on
national self-interest. In concise, pointed chapters,
Cohen offers a lucid primer on the complexities of
the region, and an eye-opening commentary on how
different Middle East countries have struggled to
define themselves in the face of America’s stated idealism and its actual realpolitik.
Current Affairs/History
978-0-312-65544-0
$16.00 • $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 304 pp
notes, biblio, index
“Required reading for those interested in the Middle
East, Cohen provides a richly detailed history of
diplomacy in the region. . . . Prescient, and the
rigorously researched history Cohen provides makes
his words ring true.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Hardcover
978-0-374-28124-3
“Magnificent . . . Both hectoring and wise, this historical blueprint makes a powerful argument for building
mutual respect in the region.”
—Kirkus Reviews
24 November
STEPHEN P. COHEN, the president of the Institute
for Middle East Peace and Development, has lectured
at Yale Divinity School and elsewhere.
PAPERBACK
November
WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE
Fly by Wire
“Langewiesche gives us an insightful analysis of
the changing world of commercial aviation.”
In Fly By Wire, one of America’s greatest journalists
takes us on an intriguing and sometimes humorous
journey into the fascinating and rapidly changing aviation industry. Langewiesche concisely and artfully
renders forty years of history in the field by examining the financial problems, the unions, and ultimately
the recent advances in technology. And he finds that
aviation safety is a field in which machine has now
surpassed man, but man still manages to find ways—
hubris, ineptitude—to cause accidents. Advances
such as fly by wire suggest that in some cases it may
prove best to cede authority to the machines, even if
it means questioning our assumptions about human
beings and heroism in the process.
Current Affairs/Science
978-0-312-65538-9
$14.00 • NCR
“Fly by Wire has drama in it, history in it, and ideas in
it. . . . Written for everyone who rides in airliners and
wonders what might happen if those powerful jet
engines suddenly refused to work.”
—The Seattle Times
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 208 pp
Includes one map
Hardcover
978-0-374-15718-0
“A masterpiece of modern journalism . . . an enduring
work of literature . . . expertly researched, rendered in
spare, pitch-perfect prose.”
“A breathtaking narrative.”
—Booklist
Outreach to Science and Engineering Sites
WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE is the author of six
previous books, most recently The Atomic Bazaar. He
is the International Editor for Vanity Fair, and was a
national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.
November 25
PAPERBACK
November
EDWARD HOLLIS
The Secret Lives of Buildings
From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in
Thirteen Stories
“A beautifully wrought book . . . Here are
wondrous stories writ in stone, and Edward
Hollis has written about them very well indeed.”
—The Guardian (UK)
Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable,
as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither
fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to
each succeeding age. The Parthenon, that epitome of
a ruined temple, was for centuries a working church
and then a mosque; the cathedral of Notre Dame was
“restored” to a design that none of its makers would
have recognized; the remains of the Berlin Wall, once
gleefully smashed, have become precious relics. Here
Edward Hollis recounts the most enthralling of these
metamorphoses, and shows how buildings have come
to embody the history of Western culture.
Architecture
978-0-312-65536-5
$16.00 • $19.00
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 352 pp
Includes 14 b&w illustrations
throughout
Hardcover
“What a happy tingle of discovery to come across a
book that differs sharply from all the others in its
field. . . . Hollis thinks with such originality and
writes with such flair that he is a pleasure to read.”
—The American Scholar
“An architect by occupation, Hollis writes history
eclectically, informatively, and entertainingly.”
—Booklist
978-0-8050-8785-7
Outreach to Architecture-related Sites
Trained at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities,
EDWARD HOLLIS worked for five years in the
United Kingdom as a practicing architect, specializing
in alterations to historic buildings.
26 November
PAPERBACK
November
HARRIET REISEN
Louisa May Alcott
The Woman Behind Little Women
“At last, Louisa May Alcott has the biography that
admirers of Little Women might have hoped for.”
—The Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year
This is a fresh, modern take on this remarkable and
prolific writer, a woman who secretly authored pulp
fiction, harbored radical abolitionist views, and
served as a Civil War nurse. Harriet Reisen’s vivid
biography explores Alcott’s life in the context of her
works, all of which are to some extent autobiographical. This lyrically written biography will appeal to
anyone who ever loved Alcott’s works, and will reveal
the origins of her fiction in the far-reaching experiences of her life.
“A magnificent new biography that I predict will
become not only a best-seller but also a classic.”
—The Washington Times
Biography
978-0-312-65887-8
$16.00 • $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp
Hardcover
978-0-8050-8299-9
“Fans will adore Harriet Reisen’s sympathetic biography Louisa May Alcott … With charming verve, she
details Alcott’s remarkable if difficult life.”
—USA Today
“A biography as vibrant as its subject.”
—Vogue
“Punctures the myths of the Alcott family, rendering
Louisa May with nuance.”
—Chicago Tribune
HARRIET REISEN has written dramatic and historical scripts for PBS and HBO, including a recent PBS
documentary on Louisa May Alcott. She lives in
Massachusetts with her husband and son.
November 27
PAPERBACK
November
ANDERS ROSLUND AND
BÖRGE HELLSTRÖM
Box 21
A Novel
A New York Times Notable
Crime Book of 2009
A Lithuanian woman, sold into sex slavery,
extracts cold payback from her captors in this
intricate and intense thriller from Sweden
Three years ago, Lydia and Alena were two hopeful
girls from Lithuania. Now they are sex slaves, lured to
Sweden with the promise of better jobs only to
become trapped in a Stockholm brothel, forced to
repay their “debt.” Suddenly they are given an unexpected chance at freedom, and with it the opportunity
to take revenge on their enslavers and reclaim the
lives and dignity they once had. What will happen
now that the tables are turned and the victims fight
back? Box 21 is a mind-blowing psychological thriller
of the highest order.
Fiction
978-0-312-65534-1
$15.00 • $18.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp
Hardcover
“Superb . . . Roslund and Hellström play out the tale in
taut, short scenes, meting out revelations and shocks
in sure, knowing fashion. . . . Box 21 is profound.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Gripping . . . the story takes a number of surprising
twists and turns.” —The Washington Post Book World
978-0-374-28295-0
“This dark, explicit novel is another impressive crime
thriller from Scandinavia. . . . A good read.”
—Arizona Republic
Outreach to Crime and Genre Sites
Macmillan Crime e-Newsletter and
28 November
ANDERS ROSLUND is the founder and former head
of Kulturnyheterna (Culture News) on Swedish Television. BÖRGE HELLSTRÖM is an ex-criminal who
helps to rehabilitate young offenders and drug addicts.
BACKLIST TIE-INS
November
PAUL AUSTER
Sunset Park (978-0-8050-9286-8, Holt, $25)
Invisible (978-0-312-42982-9, $15)
Collected Prose (978-0-312-42992-8, $20)
The Book of Illusions (978-0-312-42901-0, $15)
The Brooklyn Follies (978-0-312-42900-3, $15)
Man in the Dark (978-0-312-42851-8, $14)
Oracle Night (978-0-312-42895-2, $14)
Timbuktu (978-0-312-42894-5, $13)
Travels in the Scriptorium (978-0-312-42629-3, $12)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost (978-0-312-42703-0, $11)
City of Glass (978-0-312-42360-5, $15, graphic novel)
Hand to Mouth (978-0-312-42232-5, $14)
ALAN BENNETT
A Life Like Other People’s (978-0-374-19192-4, FSG, $22)
The Uncommon Reader (978-0-312-42764-1, $12)
Untold Stories (978-0-312-42662-0, $20)
The Complete Talking Heads (978-0-312-42308-7, $14)
The Laying On of Hands (978-0-312-42225-7, $14, POD)
Writing Home (978-0-312-42257-8, $20)
November 29
PAPERBACK
December
ANN CRITTENDEN
The Price of Motherhood
10th
Anniversary
Reissue
Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the
Least Valued
“A landmark book.”—San Francisco Chronicle
In the path-breaking tradition of Backlash and The
Second Shift, this provocative book shows how
mothers are systematically disadvantaged and made
dependent by a society that exploits those who
perform its most critical work. Drawing on hundreds
of interviews and research in economics, history,
child development, and law, Ann Crittenden proved
definitively that although women have been liberated,
mothers have not.
Bold, galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The
Price of Motherhood offers a much-needed accounting
of the price that mothers pay for performing the most
important job in the world.
“A bracing call to arms.”
Current Affairs/Women’s
Studies
978-0-312-65540-2
$16.00 • $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 352 pp
Hardcover
978-0-8050-6618-0
—Elle
“Written with a fine passion, The Price of Motherhood
challenges the received ideas of economists, feminists
and conservatives alike and ought to be read by all of
them.”
“Fascinating . . . shows how women have been consistently denied social and, more importantly, monetary
equality for raising their families.”
—Los Angeles Times
• New Introduction by Author
• National Public Radio Campaign
ANN CRITTENDEN, a former reporter for The New
30 December
York Times and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, has also been
a financial writer for Newsweek, a visiting lecturer at
M.I.T. and Yale, and an economics commentator on
CBS News. She lives in Washington, D.C.
PAPERBACK
December
JOHN CASSIDY
How Markets Fail
The Logic of Economic Calamities
An Economist Book of the Year
“A fine work . . . offers a brilliant intellectual
framework for the story of our economic
collapse.” —The New York Times Book Review
For fifty years, economists have been developing
elegant theories of how markets facilitate innovation,
create wealth, and allocate society’s resources efficiently. But what about when they fail, when they
lead us to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality,
polluted rivers, and credit crunches? In How Markets
Fail John Cassidy describes the rising influence of
“utopian economics”—thinking that is blind to how
real people act and that denies the many ways an
unregulated free market can bring on disaster. Combining on-the-ground reporting and clear explanations of economic theories, Cassidy warns that in
today’s economic crisis, following old orthodoxies
isn’t just misguided—it’s downright dangerous.
Economics/Finance
978-0-312-43004-7
$16.00 • NCR
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 400 pp
Hardcover
978-0-374-17320-3
“Fascinating and important.”
—Slate
“Highly readable . . . Cassidy offers a clear and occasionally colorful exposition of the evolution of relevant economic thought in a way that is accessible to
non-economists.”
—Foreign Affairs
“Cassidy brings ideas alive.”
—BusinessWeek
• New Introduction by Author
Outreach to Business and Financial Industry Blogs
JOHN CASSIDY is a journalist at The New Yorker
and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of
Books. He lives in New York City.
December 31
PAPERBACK
December
MICHAEL D. GORDIN
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Editors’ Choice
“Thoroughly researched . . . full of great details . . .
Gordin’s main argument is that . . . if not so
fixated on espionage and secrecy, maybe the two
antagonists could have figured out a way to forestall the arms race.”
—Nicholas Thompson, The New York Times
History/Science
978-0-312-65542-6
$17.00 • $20.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 416 pp
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb,
dubbed “First Lightning,” exploded in the deserts of
Kazakhstan. This surprising international event
marked the beginning of an arms race that would
ultimately lead to nuclear proliferation beyond the
two superpowers.
With the use of newly opened archives, Michael D.
Gordin follows a trail of espionage, secrecy, deception, political brinksmanship, and technical innovation to provide a fresh understanding of the nuclear
arms race.
“A taut narrative . . . a perceptive study rich with
implications for a twenty-first-century world still
fraught with nuclear tensions.”
—Booklist
Includes 7 maps
Hardcover
978-0-374-25682-1
“A quite wonderful book that . . . greatly expands what
we should know about the contest for nuclear
supremacy in the early Cold War. Heartily Recommended.”
—Library Journal
MICHAEL D. GORDIN is a professor of the history
32 December
of science at Princeton University. He is the author of
Five Days in August: How World War II Became a
Nuclear War.
PAPERBACK
December
JIM KRANE
City of Gold
Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism
With a New Epilogue by the Author
“Ctiy of Gold offers a vivid guide to how a Bedouin
tribe turned a mud village on a scrap of desert
into a glittering city state.”
—James Pressley, Bloomberg News
Just a dusty fishing village in the 1950s, Dubai has
grown faster than any city in the world to become a
glittering Mecca for investors and pleasure-seekers,
the repository of vast foreign investments, and a bellwether for the entire economy. In this compelling
new book, Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from
its earliest days, considers the influence of the family
that has ruled since the early nineteenth century, and
looks at the effect the global economic downturn has
had on a place that many tout as a blueprint for a
more stable Middle East.
Current Affairs
978-0-312-65543-3
$16.00 • $19.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 384 pp
“Examines this small emirate with admirable evenhandedness and good humour . . . Krane also writes
movingly of the conditions of the Indian, Pakistani
and Bangladeshi workers who have built Dubai.”
—The Financial Times
Includes 2 maps plus one 8-page
b&w photo section
Hardcover
978-0-312-53574-2
“A fascinating study of a small nation that has taken
the ideas of modernization and capitalism to their
outer limits.”
• National Radio Publicity
• Internet Marketing:
Outreach to Business International Affairs
and Financial News Sites
JIM KRANE was the Associated Press’s Persian Gulf
correspondent, responsible for coverage in all six Gulf
Arab countries. He lives in Cambridge, England, with
his wife and son.
December 33
PAPERBACK
December
CAROLINE FRASER
Rewilding the World
Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
Library Journal Best Sci-Tech
Books of the Year
“Fascinating and lyrical . . . It shows how scientists and activists are using imagination and
research to build a realistic strategy for securing
our green and noble heritage for the future.”
—Bill McKibben
Nature
978-0-312-65541-9
$17.00 • $20.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 416 pp
Includes 13 maps
Hardcover
978-0-8050-7826-8
If environmental destruction continues at its current
rate, a third of all plants and animals could disappear
by 2050—along with earth’s life-support ecosystems
that provide food, water, medicine, and natural
defenses against climate change.
Caroline Fraser offers the first definitive account
of a visionary crusade to confront this crisis: rewilding. Breathtaking in scope and ambition, rewilding
aims to save species by restoring habitats, reviving
migration corridors, and brokering peace between
people and predators. An inspiring story of scientific
discovery and grassroots action, Rewilding the World
offers hope for a richer, wilder future.
“An important book. . . . Thoughtful. . . a continenthopping examination of the rewilding movement in
action.”
—The New York Times
“Readers will come away better informed. . . . This
truly is an essential read. . . . Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal, starred review
Outreach to Environmental Sites
CAROLINE FRASER’s work has appeared in
Also available
God’s Perfect Child
978-0-8050-4431-7 $16.00
34 December
publications such as The New Yorker and The New York
Review of Books. Her first book, God’s Perfect Child was
a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Los
Angeles Times Book Review Best Book.
PAPERBACK
December
INDIA EDGHILL
Delilah
A Novel
“A compelling plot and rich detail . . . deserves a
place on bookshelves with Edghill’s first novel,
Queenmaker, and Anita Diamant’s trendsetting
The Red Tent.”
—Associated Press
Given to the temple of Atargatis as a child, Delilah is
raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities that rule
Canaan. She grows up under the watchful eyes of
high priestess Derceto, who sees her as a valuable
pawn in her political agenda.
In the hills of Canaan, the Israelites choose Samson to lead their fight against the Five Cities. When
Samson catches a glimpse of Delilah, he is ready to
risk his freedom to marry her, and Derceto seizes the
chance to have Samson at her mercy. Caught between
the two, Delilah is forced to question her own heart.
An inventive retelling of an ancient story, Delilah is
a tale of political turmoil, searing betrayal, passionate
friendship, and forbidden love.
Fiction
978-0-312-65535-8
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 368 pp
Hardcover
978-0-312-33891-6
“Edghill has crafted a powerful, lyrical novel and
created two unforgettable characters.”
—Library Journal
“Focusing on the turbulent political atmosphere,
betrayal and a searing passion, Edghill allows the
reader to see a man and woman caught up in a
doomed love. Four stars.”
—RT Book Reviews
• Reading Group Guide Bound in Book
Also available
Queenmaker
978-0-312-28919-5 $16.00
Wisdom’s Daughter
978-0-312-28940-9 $14.00
INDIA EDGHILL is a librarian living in the
mid-Hudson Valley in New York.
December 35
PAPERBACK
Early Release; On Sale 3/05/10
VICTOR LODATO
Mathilda Savitch
A Novel
A Christian Science Monitor
Best Book of 2009
A Barnes & Noble Discover
Award Winner
“Part offbeat coming-of-age story and part suspense novel, leavened by the wry, irreverent tone
of an adolescent straining to find her place in the
world . . . Mathilda Savitch is dark and sad, funny
and provocative.”
—The Boston Globe
Fiction
978-0-312-43003-0
$14.00 • NCR
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 304 pp
Hardcover
978-0-374-20400-6
• Regional Author Events
Upon Request
Fear doesn’t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She
prefers to look right at the things nobody else can
bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact
that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front
of a train by a man still on the loose. Her griefstricken parents have basically been sleepwalking
ever since, and it is Mathilda’s sworn mission to shock
them back to life. Her strategy? Being bad. Startling,
funny, touching, odd, truthful, page-turning, and, in
the end, heartbreaking, Mathilda Savitch is an extraordinary novel.
“A fierce and funny debut novel. . . . What makes this
coming-of-age story so compelling is the tough,
furtively loving voice of its narrator.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“This is a delight and a devil of a book, a tale that fills
you with despair and pleasure, often at the same
time.”
—Time Out New York
Website Feature
• Author Website:
VictorLodato.com
36 March
VICTOR LODATO is the recipient of Guggenheim
and NEA fellowships, and has won numerous awards
for his plays, including one from the Kennedy Center
Fund for New American Plays.
MEDIA TIE-IN Early Release,
On Sale 5/11/10
PETER CAMERON
The City of Your Final
Destination
SOON TO
BE A MAJOR
MOTION
PICTURE
“Delightful, unexpected, magical, romantic, and
fraught with adorable entanglements.”
—Ann Pritchard, USA Today
Fiction
978-0-312-65654-6
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 320 pp
Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995,
that will change the course of his life forever. A PhD
student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the
estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund,
requesting permission to write Gund’s authorized
biography. When his request is refused, Omar goes to
Uruguay to petition to Gund’s executors—among
them his wife, his mistress and his brother. Omar’s
unexpected arrival in Uruguay shakes up this odd
and isolated little family group, and his stay in the
languid, dreamy Ochos Rios makes him question
his former life in Kansas, and his ability—even his
desire—to write an “authorized” life.
“Pungent, airy, grave, and transporting commedia
dell’arte [that] subtly, affectingly, erotically traces the
beginnings, the hesitations, the advances of a love
affair.”
—Richard Eder, The New York Times
• Movie Tie-in Art
• Co-Promotion with Screen Media Films
• National Broadcast and Print Media Campaign
Also available
Andorra
978-0-312-42871-6 $15.00
Someday This Pain Will Be
Useful to You
Targeted Entertainment and Literary Blog
Outreach; e-Cards
978-0-312-42816-7 $13.00
The Weekend
978-0-312-42870-9 $14.00
PETER CAMERON is the author of several previous
novels. He lives in New York City.
May 37
PAPERBACK REISSUE
October
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
SELLEVISION
A Novel
“Savvy, very entertaining. Is there a funnier combination than fast-moving soap-opera and tawdry
comedy?”
—Bret Easton Ellis
The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author
of Running with Scissors, Dry, and A Wolf at the Table,
Sellevision is Augusten Burroughs’s darkly funny and
vastly entertaining skewering of a very troubled
home-shopping channel.
Fiction
978-0-312-43007-8
$14.00 • $17.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp
Welcome to the world of Sellevision, America’s
premier retail broadcasting network. When Max
Andrews, the much loved and handsome (that is,
lonely and gay) host of a “Toys for Tots” segment
accidentally exposes himself in front of millions of
kids, Sellevision faces its first big scandal. As Max
struggles to find a new job in television, the popular
and perky host Peggy Jean Smythe is receiving
sinister emails from a stalker. Popping pills and
drinking heavily, she fails to notice that her husband
is spending a lot of time with the young babysitter
who lives next door. Then there’s Leigh, whose affair
with married Sellevision boss Howard Toast is going
nowhere until she announces their relationship on
air. A blistering satire of our overcharged and scandalobsessed world, Sellevision is an “an absolute howl . . .
wicked fun” (NY Daily News).
“Acidic entertainment.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“An over-the-top novel that never goes too far, Sellevision is hysterically funny.”
—Rocky Mountain News
“Sellevision is good company for the beach or the
plane. . . . The material sparkles.”
—Booklist
• Picador Reissue
• Simultaneous Publication with the Trade Paperback
of You Better Not Cry (see page 12)
38 October
PAPERBACK REISSUES
September
HILARY MANTEL
CREDIT: JANE BOWN
Every Day Is Mother’s Day
FICTION
Every Day Is
Mother’s Day
978-0-312-66803-7
$14.00 • NCR
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 224 pp
A psychic medium and her deeply disturbed daughter must
fend off forces determined to separate them in this twisted
tale of maternal love
Evelyn Axon is a medium by trade; her daughter, Muriel, is a
half-wit by nature. Barricaded in their crumbling house, they
defy the curiosity of their neighbors and their social worker,
Isabel Field. As Isabel wrestles with her own problems, a horrible secret grows in the darkness of the Axon household. When
at last it comes to light, the result is by turns hilarious and terrifying.
“A giddy cocktail of horror and gleeful anticipation.”
—Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times
“Mantel is a novelist without peer in her generation.”
HILARY MANTEL
FICTION
Vacant Possession
978-0-312-66804-4
$14.00 • NCR
Vacant Possession
Muriel Axon returns in this brilliant, mordantly funny
sequel to Every Day Is Mother’s Day
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 240 pp
• Picador Reissues
• Simultaneous
Publication with the
Trade Paperback
of Wolf Hall (see
page 4 of this
catalog)
It’s been ten years since Muriel Axon was locked up. At last
free, she is determined to exact vengeance on those who had
her put away. Her former social worker and her old neighbors
have moved on, but Muriel, with her talent for disguise, will
infiltrate their homes and manipulate their lives, until at last all
her enemies are brought together for a gruesome finale. Hilary
Mantel’s razor-sharp wit animates every page of this darkly
comic tale of retribution.
“Wonderfully and startlingly nasty.” —Sunday Times (London)
“Mantel is a master storyteller, and here she’s just having a
wickedly good time.”
September 39
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
Sarah Blake, author of the top ten
New York Times bestseller The Postmistress
(Amy Einhorn/Putnam)
.
.
.
.
GRANGE HOUSE / 978-0-312-28004-8 / $14.00
DISPLAY GRANGE HOUSE, HER ENCHANTING BACKLIST
TITLE FROM PICADOR, WITH THE POSTMISTRESS
Per Petterson
OUT STEALING HORSES
978-0-312-42708-5
$14.00
IN THE WAKE
978-0-312-42704-7
$14.00
.
.
.
.
TO SIBERIA
978-0-312-42899-0
$14.00
PER PETTERSON’S NEW NOVEL, I CURSE THE RIVER OF TIME,
WILL BE PUBLISHED BY GRAYWOLF IN AUGUST 2010
BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS
CREDIT: JAMES HIGGINS
Picador congratulates
Colum McCann for his
National Book Award win
with new packages for his
backlist titles!
DANCER
978-0-312-42902-7 / $15.00
“A beautiful, floating novel about Nureyev’s life and art.”
EVERYTHING IN THIS
COUNTRY MUST
978-0-312-27318-7 / $13.00
“On every page, McCann’s prose flows with a lean,
austere majesty. . . . The result is a shivery, hard-earned,
unforgettable beauty.” —Dan Cryer, Newsday
THIS SIDE OF BRIGHTNESS
978-0-312-42197-7 / $15.00
SONGDOGS
978-0-312-14741-9 / $13.00
“Luminescent. McCann has taken the monumental
force of the past and created from it a novel of
wrenching emotional dimension, a novel resplendent
with dignity.” —The Boston Globe
“Eloquent intensity . . . passionate image-making . . .
magical feeling for space and place and time . . .
Songdogs reads like a celebration.”
—Hermione Lee, The New Yorker
Here at Macmillan,
we decided it would be CRIMINAL
if we didn’t join forces to bring you
the best in crime fiction that our
imprints have to offer.
Starting Summer 2010,
we’re launching a brand new,
Macmillan-wide consumer e-newsletter,
filled with exclusive content,
author Q&As, sweepstakes, and excerpts.
Our goal: to be the preeminent source
for mystery news.
We’d tell you more,
but we like an ELEMENT of surprise.
This is mystery, after all….
SIGN UP NOW:
CriminalElement.com
ARCTIC CHILL
Arnaldur Indrid-ason
978-0-312-65530-3
$15.00
BOX 21
Anders Roslund and
Börge Hellström
978-0-312-65534-1
$15.00
THE DRAINING
LAKE
978-0-312-42858-7
$14.00
NOBODY MOVE
Denis Johnson
978-0-312-42961-4
$14.00
VOICES
978-0-312-42806-8
$14.00
THE FRIENDS OF
EDDIE COYLE
George V. Higgins
978-0-312-42969-0
$14.00
SILENCE OF
THE GRAVE
978-0-312-42732-0
$14.00
CHRISTINE FALLS
Benjamin Black
978-0-312-42632-3
$14.00
JAR CITY
978-0-312-42638-5
$14.00
THE BEEKEEPER’S
APPRENTICE
Laurie R. King
978-0-312-42736-8
$14.00
THE VALUE OF
NOTHING
Raj Patel
NO LOGO—10TH
ANNIVERSARY
Naomi Klein
A WALL IN
PALESTINE
Rene Backmann
HOT, FLAT, AND
CROWDED 2.0
Thomas L. Friedman
978-0-312-42924-9
$14.00
978-0-312-42927-0
$16.00
978-0-312-42781-8
$17.00
978-0-312-42892-1
$16.00
LOWBOY
John Wray
EVERYTHING
RAVAGED,
EVERYTHING BURNED
Wells Tower
THE SPARE ROOM
Helen Garner
2666
Roberto Bolaño
978-0-312-42817-4
$14.00
978-0-312-42921-8
$18.00
TIME
Eva Hoffman
OUT OF SHEER RAGE
Geoff Dyer
978-0-312-42727-6
$14.00
978-0-312-42946-1
$15.00
978-0-312-42933-1
$14.00
978-0-312-42929-4
$14.00
CHARMING BILLY
Alice McDermott
978-0-312-42942-3
$14.00
44 Picador
AT WEDDINGS AND
WAKES
Alice McDermott
978-0-312-42943-0
$14.00
TEARS IN
THE DARKNESS
Michael Norman and
Elizabeth M. Norman
SMALL ISLAND
Andrea Levy
978-0-312-42952-2
$15.00
THE COLLECTED
STORIES OF DEBORAH
EISENBERG
Deborah Eisenberg
978-0-312-42989-8
$22.00
978-0-312-42970-6
$18.00
MOLLY FOX’S
BIRTHDAY
Deirdre Madden
978-0-312-42954-6
$14.00
HOTEL IRIS
Yoko Ogawa
FORDLANDIA
Greg Grandin
SEEDS OF TERROR
Gretchen Peters
NOBODY MOVE
Denis Johnson
978-0-312-42524-1
$14.00
978-0-312-42962-1
$16.00
978-0-312-42963-8
$16.00
978-0-312-42961-4
$14.00
YES, MY DARLING
DAUGHTER
Margaret Leroy
THE TRICKING OF
FREYA
Christina Sunley
SHADOW AND LIGHT
Jonathan Rabb
AMONG THE MAD
Jacqueline Winspear
978-0-312-42934-8
$15.00
978-0-312-42938-6
$15.00
978-0-312-42941-6
$15.00
978-0-312-42925-6
$14.00
Picador 45
MIDDLESEX
Jeffrey Eugenides
OUT STEALING
HORSES
Per Petterson
THE RED TENT—
10TH ANNIVERSARY
Anita Diamant
978-0-312-42708-5
$14.00
978-0-312-42729-0
$15.00
TREE OF SMOKE
Denis Johnson
LUSH LIFE
Richard Price
HOUSEKEEPING
Marilynne Robinson
978-0-312-42774-0
$16.00
978-0-312-42822-8
$15.00
978-0-312-42409-1
$14.00
THE UNCOMMON
READER
Alan Bennett
THE HOUSEKEEPER
AND THE PROFESSOR
Yoko Ogawa
THE SAVAGE
DETECTIVES
Roberto Bolaño
HOME
Marilynne Robinson
978-0-312-42764-1
$12.00
978-0-312-42780-1
$14.00
978-0-312-42748-1
$15.00
978-0-312-42215-8
$15.00
THE AMAZING
ADVENTURES OF
KAVALIER & CLAY
Michael Chabon
GILEAD
Marilynne Robinson
978-0-312-42440-4
$14.00
978-0-312-28299-8
$16.00
46 Picador
978-0-312-42854-9
$14.00
THE SHOCK
DOCTRINE
Naomi Klein
COMPLICATIONS
Atul Gawande
BETTER
Atul Gawande
THE WORLD IS FLAT
Thomas L. Friedman
978-0-312-42170-0
$14.00
978-0-312-42765-8
$14.00
978-0-312-42507-4
$16.00
DRY
Augusten Burroughs
A WOLF AT THE TABLE
978-0-312-42379-7
$14.00
978-0-312-42827-3
$14.00
POSSIBLE SIDE
EFFECTS
Augusten Burroughs
THE WORLD
WITHOUT US
Alan Weisman
A VOYAGE LONG
AND STRANGE
Tony Horwitz
GOMORRAH
Roberto Saviano
978-0-312-42790-0
$15.00
978-0-312-42832-7
$18.00
978-0-312-42799-3
$16.00
RUNNING WITH
SCISSORS
Augusten Burroughs
978-0-312-42227-1
$14.00
Augusten Burroughs
978-0-312-42779-5
$15.00
978-0-312-42681-1
$14.00
THE ELECTRIC
KOOL-AID ACID
TEST
Tom Wolfe
978-0-312-42759-7
$16.00
Picador 47
Available at www.picadorusa.com
ACCEPTANCE, Susan Coll
THE GARDEN ANGEL, Mindy Friddle
ALL THE LIVING, C. E. Morgan
GILEAD, Marilynne Robinson
THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF
THE GREAT FIRE, Shirley Hazzard
KAVALIER AND CLAY,
Michael Chabon
HOME, Marilynne Robinson
AMONG THE MAD,
Jacqueline Winspear
APPLES AND ORANGES,
Marie Brenner
HOTEL IRIS, Yoko Ogawa
HOUSEKEEPING,
Marilynne Robinson
THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE
ARLINGTON PARK,
Rachel Cusk
PROFESSOR, Yoko Ogawa
AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES,
Alice McDermott
I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS,
Tom Wolfe
ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES,
Rivka Galchen
AN INCOMPLETE REVENGE,
Jacqueline Winspear
THE BEEKEEPER’S APPRENTICE,
Laurie R. King
THE INTERPRETER, Suki Kim
BEEN HERE A THOUSAND YEARS,
Mariolina Venezia
THE HOURS, Michael Cunningham
INVISIBLE, Paul Auster
THE JANISSARY TREE,
Jason Goodwin
BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE
MUSEUM, Kate Atkinson
JAR CITY, Arnaldur Indrid-ason
THE BELLINI MADONNA,
Elizabeth Lowry
LAST LAST CHANCE, Fiona Maazel
THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE,
Rebecca Miller
QUEENMAKER, India Edghill
THE RED TENT, Anita Diamant
RISK, Colin Harrison
THE ROMANTICS, Galt Neiderhoffer
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS,
Augusten Burroughs
SAINTS AT THE RIVER, Ron Rash
SEA OF POPPIES, Amitav Ghosh
SECRET KEEPERS, Mindy Friddle
THE SILVER SWAN, Benjamin Black
SMALL ISLAND, Andrea Levy
THE SNAKE STONE, Jason Goodwin
SNOW ANGELS, Stewart O’Nan
SOLDIER’S HEART,
Elizabeth D. Samet
SOMEDAY THIS PAIN WILL BE
USEFUL TO YOU, Peter Cameron
THE SORROWS OF AN AMERICAN,
Siri Hustvedt
BEYOND BLACK, Hilary Mantel
THE LAST OF HER KIND,
Sigrid Nunez
THE BIRD CATCHER, Laura Jacobs
A LETTER OF MARY, Laurie R. King
BITTER GROUNDS, Sandra Benitez
LIMITATIONS, Scott Turow
BLAME, Michelle Huneven
LOWBOY, John Wray
THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS,
Paul Auster
MAGICAL THINKING,
Augusten Burroughs
BREATH, Tim Winton
MAN IN THE DARK, Paul Auster
A TAXONOMY OF BARNACLES,
Gail Niederhoffer
THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES, Paul Auster
MASON & DIXON, Thomas Pynchon
TO SIBERIA, Per Petterson
BURNT SHADOWS, Kamila Shamsie
MESSENGER OF TRUTH,
Jacqueline Winspear
THE TRICKING OF FREYA,
Christine Sunley
MIDDLESEX, Jeffrey Eugenides
THE UNCOMMON READER,
Alan Bennett
VOICES, Arnaldur Indrid-ason
CHARMING BILLY, Alice McDermott
CHILD OF MY HEART,
Alice McDermott
MISSY, Chris Hannan
CHRISTINE FALLS, Benjamin Black
MISSISSIPPI SISSY, Kevin Sessums
COME SUNDAY, Isla Morley
MOLLY FOX’S BIRTHDAY,
Deirdre Madden
THE CORRECTIONS,
Jonathan Franzen
A MONSTROUS REGIMENT
COST, Roxana Robinson
OF WOMEN, Laurie R. King
DANCER, Colum McCann
MR. WHITE’S CONFESSION,
Robert Clark
THE DIVING POOL, Yoko Ogawa
THE DRAINING LAKE,
DRY, Augusten Burroughs
WHAT I LOVED, Siri Hustvedt
WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?,
Zoë Heller
WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST
NIGHT?, Danzy Senna
THE WHITE MARY, Kira Salak
AWARD, Jincy Willett
THE PIANIST, Wladyslaw Szpilman
FIELDWORK, Mischa Berlinski
POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS,
Augusten Burroughs
48 Picador
STORY OF A MARRIAGE,
Andrew Sean Greer
OUT STEALING HORSES,
Per Petterson
THE EMBERS, Hyatt Bass
FRUIT OF THE LEMON, Andrea Levy
Michael Cunningham
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK
PARDONABLE LIES,
Jacqueline Winspear
FLYING, Eric Kraft
SPECIMEN DAYS,
ONE FOOT IN EDEN, Ron Rash
THE ECHO MAKER, Richard Powers
THE FINDER, Colin Harrison
THE SPARE ROOM, Helen Garner
A PRAYER FOR THE DYING,
Stewart O’Nan
A WOLF AT THE TABLE,
Augusten Burroughs
THE WRITING CLASS, Jincy Willett
THE WORLD IS FLAT,
Thomas L. Friedman
YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER,
Margaret Leroy
COMING FALL 2010
ONLINE
MATHILDA SAVITCH, Victor Lodato
A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, Martin Booth
WOLF HALL, Hilary Mantel
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Harriet Reisen
CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION, Peter Cameron
BOUND IN BOOK
BUT NOT FOR LONG, Michelle Wildgen
DELILAH, India Edghill
For more information please call (646) 307-5629, fax (212) 253-9627
or e-mail readinggroupguides@picadorusa.com.
Picador 49
SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS
Aesop’s Mirror by Maryalice Huggins
Cowboys Full by James McManus
U.K. rights: Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc.
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Sterling Lord
Literistic, Inc.
Selling territory: World English
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: ICM
Selling territory: USCOM
The Appointment by Herta Müller
U.K. rights: Portobello Books Ltd
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Rowohlt Verlag
c/o Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.
Selling territory: Wold English
Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indrid-ason
U.K. rights: Harvill/Random House UK
Translation rights and : Forlagid Publishing
Drramatic Rights: Arnaldur Indrid-ason
Selling territory: USPOM
Beyond America’s Grasp by Stephen P. Cohen
U.K. rights: FSG
Translation rights and dramatic rights: FSG
Box 21 by Roslund-Helström
U.K. rights: Little, Brown U.K.
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Salomonsson
Agency
Selling territory: US & C
Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Kris Dahl, ICM
Selling territory: USPC
Delilah by India Edghill
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Scovil Chichak
Galen Lit. Agency
Selling territory: USPCOM
Everyday Is Mother’s Day by Hilary Mantel
U.K. rights: HarperPerennial
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Bill Hamilton,
A.M. Heath
Selling territory: USP
Fame by Tom Payne
U.K. rights: Vintage UK
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Kristine Dahl,
ICM
Selling territory: USCP
Fly By Wire by William Langewiesche
U.K. rights: FSG
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Darhansoff,
Verill & Feldman Literary Agents
Selling territory: World ex C
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Melanie Jackson
Agency
Selling territory: USOM
The Hawk and the Dove by Nicholas Thompson
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Rafe Sagalyn
But Not For Long by Michelle Wildgen
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Emilie Steward
Lit. Agency
Selling territory: USC
The City of Gold by Jim Krane
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Alice Martell,
The Martell Lit. Agency
Selling territory: US & C
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter
Cameron
U.K. rights: Fourth Estate
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Irene Skolnick
Agency
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
U.K. rights: Hamish Hamilton
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Denise Shannon
Agency
50 Picador
How Markets Fail by John Cassidy
U.K. rights: Penguin UK
Translation rights and dramatic rights: The Wylie
Agency
Selling territory: USOM
The Land of Green Plums by Herta Müller
U.K. rights: Granta Books
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Rowohlt Verlag
c/o Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.
Selling territory: USPC
Louisa May Alcott by Harriet Reisen
U.K. rights: Holt
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Jennifer
Joel, ICM
SUBSIDIARY RIGHTS
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato
Translation rights and dramatic rights: McCormick &
Williams
Selling territory: USPOM
The Price of Motherhood by Ann Crittenden
U.K. rights: Holt McDougal
Translation rights and dramatic rights: Katinka
Matson, Brockman Inc
A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth
U.K. translation and dramatic rights: Gillon Aitken
Associates, Ltd.
Selling territory: USC
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A.M. Heath
Selling territory: USP
Red Cloud at Dawn by Michael D. Gordin
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: FSG
Selling territory: World
Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: Cynthia Holt
The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis
U.K., translation and dramatic rights: David Marshall
Marshall Rights
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
by Veronica Buckley
U.K. rights: Bloomsbury UK
Translation rights and dramatic rights: InkWell
Management
Sellevision by Augusten Burroughs
U.K. rights: St. Martin’s Press
Translation rights: St. Martin’s Press
Dramatic rights: Ralph Vicinanza Ltd.
There Is No Freedom Without Bread!
by Constantine Pleshakov
U.K. and translation rights: FSG
Dramatic rights: Susan Rabiner Literary Agency
You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs
U.K. rights: St. Martin’s Press
Translation rights: St. Martin’s Press
Dramatic rights: Ralph Vicinanza Ltd.
Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
U.K. rights: HarperPerennial
A.M. Heath
Selling territory: : USP
Picador 51
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Address for Orders
UK and Ireland:
MPS Distribution Center
16365 James Madison Highway
Gordonsville, VA 22942-8501
Tel: (888) 330-8477 Fax: (800) 672-2054
Melia Publishing Services
The White House
2 Meadrow, Godalming
Surrey GU7 3HN
Tel: 01483 869839 Fax: 01483 869845
Telephone Ordering
We employ an automated telephone system.
Follow instructions when phone is answered.
To place an order call: (888) 330-8477
Fax: (800) 672-2054
To speak with a Customer Service Representative:
Call: (888) 330-8477 and please follow instructions
Fax: (540) 672-7703
For Credit Department information, please call our
Director of Credit Management at (888) 330-8477 ext. 7680
To reach a specific division contact:
Advertising Director, (646) 307-5543
Author Events Coordinator, (646) 307-5567
Co-Op Advertising Manager, (646) 307-5377
Marketing Director, (646) 307-5630
Publicity/Review Copies, (646) 307-5629
Sales Manager, (646) 307-5361
For more information on mail order catalogs,
premiums, and special sales, contact:
Special Markets Department
Macmillan
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (800) 221-7945 ext. 5438
Fax: (212) 598-9173
Africa/Europe/Middle East/India:
Macmillan General Books
Attn. Export Department
20 New Wharf Road
London N1 9RR
United Kingdom
Tel: 020 7014 6221 Fax: 020 7014 6217
Australia:
Pan Macmillan Australia
15-19 Claremont Street, Level: 1
South Yarra ,Victoria
Australia 3141
Tel: (03) 9825-1000 Fax: (03) 9825-1015
New Zealand:
Macmillan Publishers
6 Ride Way, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand
Tel: (64-9) 414-0357 Fax: (64-9) 414-0352
Republic of South Africa:
Pan Macmillan South Africa
34 Whiteley Road
2nd Floor Melrose Arch Piazza, Melrose Boulevard
Melrose North 2076
Tel: 27-11-731 3440 Fax: 27-11-731 3540
Hours
Asia:
The Order Department is open between 8:00 AM
and 5:00 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.
Pan Macmillan Asia
Unit 1812, 18th Floor Paul Y Centre
51 Hung To Rd, Kwun Tong
Kowloon Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2811-8781 Fax: (852) 2811-0743
MPS accepts orders on Pubnet and other methods
through St. Martin’s Press.
SAN Number 6315011
For all types of EDI orders please call 540-672-7675
Shipping Points
Qualifying orders of titles in this catalog shipped to
destinations within the United States under Macmillan’s
regular shipping cycles will be shipped free freight.
All prices listed in this catalog are the Publisher’s suggested
retail price; retailers may charge whatever price they find
appropriate. All prices are subject to change without notice.
Returns Policy for Trade Books
We accept returns for credit of books purchased on a
returnable basis directly from us. We reserve the right not
to accept returns that are marked and/or are not in saleable
condition. Returns must be shipped prepaid to the following address for returns:
MPS Returns Center
14301 Litchfield Drive
Orange, VA 22960
Our full returns policy is available upon request.
52 Picador
Latin America and Caribbean:
Macmillan General Books
Attn. Export Department
Mr. Jim Papworth
Houndsmills, Basingstoke
Hampshire, England, RG21 6XS
Tel: 44 1256 302716 Fax: 44 1256 460675
Email: J.papworth@macmillan.co.uk
All Other Inquiries:
Macmillan Publishers
International Sales Department
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, USA
Tel: (646) 307-5421 Fax: (212) 388-9065
For Orders in Canada:
H. B. Fenn and Company, Ltd.
34 Nixon Road, Bolton, Ontario L7E 1W2
Tel: (905) 951-6600, (800) 267-3366
Fax: (905) 951-6601, (800) 456-3422
www.hbfenn.com
NOTES
NOTES
INDEX
AESOP’S MIRROR; Maryalice Huggins
15
APPOINTMENT, THE; Herta Müller;
Finkel, David; GOOD SOLDIERS, THE
2
25
FLY BY WIRE; William Langewiesche
Translated by Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm
20
Fraser, Caroline; REWILDING THE WORLD 34
ARCTIC CHILL; Arnaldur Indrid-ason
10
GOOD SOLDIERS, THE; David Finkel
BEYOND AMERICA’S GRASP;
24
Stephen P. Cohen
VERY PRIVATE
GENTLEMAN,A
Booth, Martin;
7
BOX 21; Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström 28
8
BRIGHT-SIDED; Barbara Ehrenreich
Buckley, Veronica;
Gordin, Michael D.; RED CLOUD AT DAWN 32
HAWK AND THE DOVE, THE;
17
Nicholas Thompson
Hellström, Börge and Roslund, Anders;
BOX 21
Hollis, Edward;
SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS
2
28
SECRET LIVES OF
BUILDINGS, THE
26
HOW MARKETS FAIL; John Cassidy
31
12
Huggins, Maryalice; AESOP’S MIRROR
15
Burroughs, Augusten; SELLEVISION
38
Indrid-ason, Arnaldur; ARCTIC CHILL
10
BUT NOT FOR LONG; Michelle Wildgen
14
Krane, Jim; CITY OF GOLD
33
XIV, THE
6
Burroughs, Augusten; YOU BETTER
NOT CRY
Cameron, Peter; CITY OF YOUR FINAL
LAND OF GREEN PLUMS, THE; Herta Müller;
DESTINATION, THE
37
Translated by Michael Hofmann
21
Cassidy, John; HOW
31
Langewiesche, William; FLY BY WIRE
25
CITY OF GOLD; Jim Krane
MARKETS FAIL
33
Lodato, Victor; MATHILDA SAVITCH
36
CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION,
THE; Peter Cameron
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT; Harriet Reisen
27
37
Cohen, Stephen P.; BEYOND AMERICA’S
GRASP
24
COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA DAVIS,
THE; Lydia Davis
22
COWBOYS FULL; James McManus
18
30
Davis, Lydia; COLLECTED STORIES OF LYDIA
4
Mantel, Hilary; EVERY DAY IS
MOTHER’S DAY
39
Mantel, Hilary; VACANT POSSESSION
39
MATHILDA SAVITCH; Victor Lodato
36
McManus, James;
Crittenden, Ann; PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD,
THE
Mantel, Hilary; WOLF HALL
COWBOYS FULL
Müller, Herta; APPOINTMENT, THE
18
20
Müller, Herta; LAND OF GREEN
DAVIS, THE
22
PLUMS, THE
21
DELILAH; India Edghill
35
Payne, Tom; FAME
23
35
Pleshakov, Constantine; THERE IS NO
Edghill, India; DELILAH
Ehrenreich, Barbara; BRIGHT-SIDED
8
FAME; Tom Payne
16
PRICE OF MOTHERHOOD, THE;
EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY;
Hilary Mantel
FREEDOM WITHOUT BREAD!
30
39
Ann Crittenden
23
RED CLOUD AT DAWN; Michael D. Gordin 32
Picador 55
INDEX
Reisen, Harriet; LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
27
REWILDING THE WORLD; Caroline Fraser 34
Roslund, Anders and Hellström, Börge;
BOX 21
28
SECRET LIVES OF BUILDINGS, THE;
26
Edward Hollis
SECRET WIFE OF LOUIS XIV, THE;
6
Veronica Buckley
SELLEVISION; Augusten Burroughs
38
THERE IS NO FREEDOM WITHOUT
BREAD!; Constantine Pleshakov
16
Thompson, Nicholas; HAWK AND THE DOVE,
THE
17
VACANT POSSESSION; Hilary Mantel
39
VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, A;
7
Martin Booth
Wildgen, Michelle;
BUT NOT FOR LONG
Wolf Hall; HILARY MANTEL
14
4
YOU BETTER NOT CRY;
Augusten Burroughs
56 Picador
12

picador paperback

Transcription

Similar documents

good book guide

AMACOM Books Spring

“[Hagy] provides an unsentimental portrait of modern

nonfiction - Western Writers of America

Nonfiction - Baker Publishing Group

Forthcoming (Fall 2016) - Princeton Architectural Press

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY CELEBRA - Booksellers

Anansi Fall/Winter 2012 - About Us

instant help books | context press boaz publishing

pdf - Random House Academic

36 YEARS

Detailed Reading List - Childbirth International

Colin Buchanan

Children`s Books Catalogue

Program Book advertisements - American Musicological Society

Board Book Favorites

Sarah Susanka - The Taunton Press

www.LTP.org

Spring 2016 - Sky Pony Press

257142894-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt-2014-2015-Culinary

kensington backlist

Winter 2012 - InterVarsity Press