Spring 2010 - Short Books

SHORT BOOKS
Spring 2010
CONTENTS
1 Publisher’s Introduction
2 January
4 January
10 February
12 March
28 April
20 April
6 February
14 March 22 May
8 February
There are several excellent books to highlight in our list for Spring
2010... The extraordinary photograph on the front of this catalogue is
taken from the jacket of Emma Craigie’s debut novel, Chocolate Cake
with Hitler, a harrowing tale based on the short life of Helga Goebbels,
daughter of Nazi Germany’s First Family who ended up in Hitler’s
bunker in Berlin – a crossover book with echoes of The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas. Then in May we are publishing the paperback edition
of Siân Busby’s brilliantly received historical novel, McNaughten,
(‘intricacy and sentimentality worthy of Dickens and a satirical eye as
sharp as Thackeray’s...’).
16 April
24 May Among our non-fiction titles, we are delighted to be publishing a new
book by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall, For Better For Worse – the perfect
gift for every married couple whether they are celebrating their first
or their fiftieth anniversary. Simon Barnes’s new cracker, My Natural
History, is the book of his life: a wonderfully unusual autobiography,
fizzing with Barnes’s infectious enthusiasm for the animal kingdom.
And Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort is a gripping, eye-opening and
disarmingly funny book about his parents’ struggle to keep life going on
their backpackers’ ranch in war-torn Zimbabwe – part travelogue, part
adventure yarn, part political intrigue and tragedy. You will not be able to
put this down.
Aurea Carpenter and Rebecca Nicolson
Publishers
26 Backlist
28 Contact Details
EMMA CRAIGIE
CHOCOLATE CAKE
WITH HITLER
‘
“My turn!” says Uncle Fuhrer, who has been watching us. He wants his
photograph taken with me too. I know he wants to put his arm round me,
like Papa, and I’m going to have to ignore him really hard to stop him.
“You, Helga Goebbels, are my favourite girl in the whole world,” he says.
“If only you were 20 years older!” He leans over me, his smell like the furniture
in the servants’ quarters. The photographer is laughing. Papa is laughing.
But I don’t take any notice. I turn right away and stare at the camera.
’
Chocolate Cake with Hitler tells the remarkable story of Helga Goebbels,
daughter of the Nazi Party’s head of propaganda, who spent the last ten days
of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler.
As defeat closes in on the Germans, life in the bunker becomes increasingly
fraught. There’s chocolate cake every day for tea with Uncle Fuhrer, but Helga
cannot help noticing that all is not well among the grown-ups. Her parents grow
more and more tense, the bunker grows daily more empty and, as even the
soldiers who have been guarding them take their leave, Helga is faced with a
terrible truth. Perhaps her perfect childhood has not been all that it seemed...
Emma Craigie is a writer and
teacher. She is also author of
Who Was… King Henry VIII
(Short Books, 2006). She lives
in Somerset with her husband
and four children.
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Praise for Emma Craigie’s
Who Was… Henry VIII
‘An illuminating insight,
creatively written. Its strength
lies in the writing, which will
captivate children…’
Junior Education
‘A tremendously well-paced read’
Times Educational Supplement
‘Emma Craigie stuffs this
short book full of information...
bringing the past vividly to life.’
Guardian
Fiction – Young Adult
7th January
192pp
£6.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-89-4
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JANUARY 3
Edited and Introduced by
PETER J CONRADI
A WRITER AT WAR
Letters and Diaries of Iris Murdoch,
1939-1945
These collected writings, never published before, comprise
a diary which Iris Murdoch kept in her first summer at Oxford,
immediately before the outbreak of the Second World War, and
her wartime correspondence with two men: the poet Frank
Thompson, murdered in Bulgaria in 1944, and teacher for the
British Council David Hicks. They reveal the young writer at her
sprightly, original best – as gripped by her own affairs, and those
of her friends and peers, as by the great affairs of the world;
exuberant when in love, and yet remarkably philosophical even
when love goes painfully wrong.
A Writer at War is a treasury of unpublished writings by one
of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century – a
fascinating private memoir, which sheds new light on a brilliant
mind in development, but is also a remarkable historical document
of life behind the scenes during the Second World War.
Peter J Conradi is the author, among other books of Iris
Murdoch: A Life, the critically lauded biography of Iris Murdoch
and more recently of Going Buddhist and At the Bright Hem of
God: Radnorshire Pastoral.
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Praise for
Peter J Conradi’s
Iris Murdoch: A Life
‘One of the literary
biographies of the year.’
Scotsman
‘...moved me as biographies
rarely do.’
TLS
‘Full of deliriously eccentric
characters who might have
stepped through the exit door
of one of her novels.’
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
‘The book held me enthralled.
The story is told so compellingly
and with such sympathy and
understanding... Conradi
really gets to grips with
Murdoch’s multiple selves in
all their contradictions.’
Independent on Sunday
Non-fiction
7th January
256pp
£16.99
Royal hardback
978-1-906021-22-1
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FEBRUARY 5
JANE FEARNLEY–WHITTINGSTALL
FOR BETTER FOR WORSE
A marriage companion for life
Does he habitually leave his socks on the bathroom floor?
Does she insist on interrupting your favourite programme to
make you explain the plot (when she’s clearly not interested in
it anyway)?
Never fear. For, as Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall shows in
For Better, For Worse, a good marriage is all in the detail. This
charming, perceptive book takes a light-hearted look at marriage
from all angles – in the kitchen, in the garden, on holiday. Jane
combines stories and tips collected from couples of all ages with
quotes and extracts on the joys (and occasional pains) of married
life from voices as diverse as George Bernard Shaw and Jane
Austen, Winston Churchill and Nancy Mitford.
For Better, For Worse is a celebration of marriage in all
its comic frustration and gloriousness. Whether you are about
to be married, or you are on your paper, your brass or your
diamond wedding anniversary, it will keep you and your
other half entertained till death do you part.
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall,
bestselling author of the Good
Granny Guide, The Good Granny
Cookbook and The Good Granny
Companion has written many other
books on plants and gardening,
including Gardening Made Easy and
The Imperial Flower. A grandmother
of five, and the mother of TV chef
Hugh, she lives with her husband
in Gloucestershire.
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‘
Actually being married
seemed so crowded with
unspoken rules and odd
secrets and unfathomable
responsibilities that it had
no more occurred to her
to imagine being married
herself than it had to imagine
driving a motorcycle or
having a job. She had,
however, thought about
being a bride, which had
more to do with being the
centre of attention and
looking inexplicably,
temporarily beautiful than
it did with sharing a double
bed with someone with hairy
legs and a drawer full of
boxer shorts.
Object Lessons
Anna Quindlen (1991)
’
Non-fiction
4th February
356pp
£20
Royal hardback
978-1-904977-76-6
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Greene & Heaton
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
OF THE GOOD GRANNY GUIDE
FEBRUARY 7
Edited by
GENEVIEVE HILL
THE DIARY OF
MISS IDILIA
A tragic tale of young love lost
One summer’s day in 1851, a seventeen-year-old Scottish
girl, on holiday with her family in the German Rhineland, set
off with her sketchbook, and disappeared – never to be
seen again.
Eleven years later, a ruined turret near to the inn where
the girl, Idilia, and her parents had been staying was
dismantled by local builders. Among the rubble, they came
across the bones of a young girl and then, when the coping
of the tower wall was removed, a small, gilt-edged diary,
wedged into a gap in the mortar. Its tattered pages finally
unravelled the mystery of Idilia’s disappearance – the story
of an illicit love affair which, through a cruel twist of fate,
had ended in tragedy.
Poignant and enchanting, The Diary of Miss Idilia is an
extraordinary true story which, published for the first time
here in its original form, is destined to become a classic.
The Diary of Miss Idilia was edited by Genevieve Hill,
a friend of Idilia Dubb’s, and was passed down through
her estate to an anonymous foundation in Scotland. This
is the first time the book has been published in the
English language.
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‘
Yesterday two swifts flew
up and came to rest on
the edge of the parapet.
It was the final piece of
happiness to be granted
me, a greeting from the
world, from life. When they
flew off I watched them as
long as I could, and thought
that they must surely fly
straight to my loved-ones
to bring them news of my
distress.
Am I really to be lost?
My parents, brother and
sister, friend, lover, can it
be that no intuitive idea
leads you to this spot? If one
of you were to come to this
place you would find me.
My heart would guide you
– my poor heart which is
choking with fear and pain,
hunger, thirst and my
own tears.
’
Non-fiction
4th February
240pp
£12.99
B format hardback
978-1-906021-81-8
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FEBRUARY 9
FERDINAND MOUNT
MIND THE GAP
The New Class Divide in Britain
In this updated edition to his provocative and ruthlessly
frank book, Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new
class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to
get rid of as the old one.
Through acute observation and vivid illustration –
drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech
patterns and gardening to education and the distribution
of wealth – he demolishes the illusion that we live in a
classless society and shows how the worst-off in Britain
today are more culturally deprived than their parents or
grandparents.
The author’s solutions, like his explanations of what
has gone wrong, are original, surprising and unsparing
to intellectuals and politicians of all parties.
‘Beautifully written,
deftly argued –
and true.’
Matthew Paris
‘A brilliant book which
analyses the ways the
working class has been
consistently denigrated
and disempowered.’
London Review of Books
‘A book which offers the
first real breath of fresh air
in Conservative thinking
since the Thatcher
revolutionaries imposed
their own intellectual
orthodoxy.’
Polly Toynbee
Ferdinand Mount is a former
editor of the TLS and currently a
columnist for the Sunday Times.
He was head of the Number Ten
Policy Unit and director of the
Centre for Policy Studies. He
is the author of several books
including most recently his
memoir, Cold Cream.
10 PAPERBACK
Non-fiction
4th February
320pp
£8.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-95-5
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FEBRUARY 11
DOUGLAS ROGERS
THE LAST RESORT
A memoir of Zimbabwe
In The Last Resort, journalist Douglas Rogers tells the eye-opening, harrowing
and, at times, surprisingly funny story of his parents’ struggle for survival in
war-torn Zimbabwe. For many years, Lyn and Ros Rogers were the owners of
Drifters, a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the eastern mountains.
When President Robert Mugabe launched his violent land reclamation
programme, everything changed. The Rogers found their home under siege,
their friends and neighbours expelled, and their lives in danger. But instead of
leaving, as their son pleaded with them to do, they hauled out a shotgun
and stayed.
Soon afterwards, Douglas returns to find the country of his birth in chaos,
and his old home transformed into something between a Marx Brothers romp
and the Heart of Darkness: marijuana has supplanted maize in the fields;
hookers have replaced gap-year kids as guests; soldiers, spies and teenage
diamond dealers down beers at the bar. Beyond the farm gates, armed war
veterans loyal to Mugabe circle like hungry lions.
And yet, in spite of it all, the Rogers – with the help of friends and locals,
black political dissidents among them – hold on. And Douglas begins to see his
parents in a new light: unbowed, even heroic. In the process he learns that the
“big story” he had pursued throughout his adult life was actually happening in
his own backyard.
‘Pitch-perfect,
undeniably real,
and, most importantly,
achingly funny, Rogers
deftly reminds us that,
after wiping away tears
and even burying the
dead, a good antidote to
the violent, poignant and
completely absurd place
that Zimbabwe
has become is to
throw arms wide to the
undaunted African sky
and simply laugh.’
Wendy Kann,
author of Casting
with a Fragile Thread
The Last Resort is an inspiring, edgy roller-coaster adventure, but also
a deeply moving testament to the love and loyalty inspired by Zimbabwe
and her people.
Douglas Rogers is an award-winning
journalist and travel writer. He was born
and raised in Zimbabwe and now lives
in Brooklyn, New York.
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Memoir
4th March
288pp
£9.99
Demy paperback
978-1-906021-91-7
UK: Short Books
Foreign rights:
Curtis Brown
FOLLOW DOUGLAS ROGERS
www.douglasrogers.org
http://twitter.com/douglasprogers
www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-rogers/4/74/953
MARCH 13
SIMON BARNES
MY NATURAL HISTORY
The animal kingdom & how it shaped me
‘The animal kingdom came to my rescue. It always has
done. I suspect it always will. It rescued me at Sunnyhill
Primary School, it rescued me in my adolescence, it
has rescued me over and over again throughout my
adult life.’
In My Natural History Simon Barnes, like a modern-day Gerald
Durrell, weaves together the story of his life via the animals
and the natural encounters that have shaped it. From the
greater horseshoe bat that transported Barnes from the dull
classrooms of his youth, to the great whale which marked the
moment he knew he was going to be a writer, from Himalayan
kingfishers in India, to majestic lions in the Luangwa valley,
each animal represents a piece in the puzzle of Barnes’s life.
With its humour and poetry, every page fizzing with
Barnes’s infectious enthusiasm, My Natural History cannot fail
to delight and enthrall any lover of the wild world.
Simon Barnes is the multi-awardwinning chief sportswriter for The
Times. He is also a novelist, nature
writer and horseman, and the author
of a dozen books, including the
bestselling How to be a Bad
Birdwatcher and The Meaning of
Sport (Short Books). He lives in
Suffolk with his family.
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Praise for
Simon Barnes
‘Barnes is a poet
of the unexpected
lifting of the heart.’
PJ Kavanagh
‘Barnes is a unique
voice, always willing to
challenge conventional
wisdom and look for
deeper meanings...’
Sunday
Telegraph
Non-fiction
4th March
304pp
£12.99
B format hardback
978-1-906021-77-1
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
HOW TO BE A BAD BIRWATCHER
MARCH 15
DEBORAH FALLOWS
ANYONE FOR CHINESE?
An insider’s guide to what makes a billion people tick
China is emerging as the next superpower and increasingly
dominates the world stage, but the country and its people
remain a mystery to us in the West. In Ni Hao China!, Harvard
linguist and Shanghai resident Deborah Fallows offers a
brilliant introduction to China’s culture and landscape.
Each of the book’s 15 chapters takes a linguistic or cultural
conundrum and uses it as a clue to unlock aspects of Chinese
life that might to outsiders seem bizarre. Incorporating many
of the author’s own experiences – from the mundane, like
riding city buses, to the positively infuriating, such as trying
to order a take-away without a decent working knowledge of
Mandarin’s “tone-system” – this is a book to appeal to just
about anyone who has China on their mind, be they first-time
tourists, seasoned business people, or even the idly curious.
Accessible, original and often very funny, Anyone for Chinese?
will help you discover this extraordinary nation for
yourself.
Deborah Fallows has lived
and travelled in China for four
years, studying the language
and applying it to survive in
daily life. She has a PhD in
Linguistics from Harvard, and
is author of A Mother’s Work
(Houghton Mifflin). She and
her husband, writer James
Fallows, have two sons.
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For Chinese parents, there
‘ are
many things to worry about
when choosing a baby’s first
name: the look of the characters,
the sound of the name beside the
family name, the meaning and
implications of the words.
Chinese names don’t come from
a strict set of names per se.
There are no Susans, Davids
and Jennifers. If American
babies are sometimes named
after politicians or celebrities,
Chinese babies are named after
concepts or timely events.
During the year of China’s first
space launch, a lot of kids were
named “satellite”. After the 2008
earthquake zhen sheng, meaning
“born during the earthquake”,
became popular. You have to
wonder what it is like to go
through life named she bao
(“social security”), or min yi,
(“public opinion”).
’
Non-fiction
1st April
256pp
£12.99
B format hardback
978-1-906021-55-9
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APRIL 17
JOHN RAE
THE OLD BOYS’
NETWORK
A Headmaster’s Diaries
John Rae was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures in
British education. His reputation as a great reformer was forged during
his 16 years as headmaster of Westminster School in the 1970s and early
1980s. And his candid account of that turbulent period – recorded at the
time in handwritten diaries – seems as fresh and relevant today as it
was back then.
The diaries, which he finished editing just before he died aged 75
in 2006, chart his struggle to keep out illegal drugs and the impact of
family breakdown on pupils. Devious, rank-pulling parents are humorously
dispatched. Dirty tricks by other schools are exposed – although Rae was
not above wheeler-dealering himself to preserve Westminster’s ranking
in the educational elite.
Outspoken and humane, Rae believed in the right of parents to educate
their children privately, but he was also a sharp critic of the public school
establishment. “Say what you believe and head up high” was his life-long
personal code – the spirit of which is captured in this often shocking and
unputdownable book.
John Malcolm Rae was headmaster
of Westminster School between 1970
and 1986. He was author of The
Custard Boys (1960). He also wrote
books on education, including the
best-selling Letters from School (1987)
and five books for children. He died
in December 2006.
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‘Westminster’s boys and girls were
no angels,’ as John Rae puts it, ‘but
they were always good company.’
As we follow his campaign to turn a
single-sex establishment with a
reputation for arrogance, slackness
and drug-taking into the best school
in the country, the same holds true
of the author.’ The Telegraph
‘These diaries reveal beneath the
serious public persona of John Rae
a schoolmaster who got a lot of fun
from the antics and the wit of his
boys... this is an enjoyable read.’
The Spectator
‘Rae’s revelations have the fascination
to be found in an insider’s account of
the workings of an ancient and
peculiar institution.” Sunday Times
‘A remarkable expose of the dirty
dealings that have given public
school pupils an unfair advantage
in winning Oxbridge places is
mischievously offered from the
grave.’ Oxford Times
Non-fiction
1st April
352pp
£9.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-93-1
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AS READ ON
RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
APRIL 19
TOM CARVER
WHERE THE HELL
HAVE YOU BEEN?
Monty, Italy and one man’s incredible escape
In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British
army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with
him, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone,
he was the stepson of Field Marshal Montgomery, the Allied Commander
who had just inflicted the first serious defeat on the Third Reich...
This gripping story tells of Richard’s internment in a POW camp in northern Italy
and of his subsequent escape. Having decided to risk making his way back to
Allied HQ in the south, he embarked on a gruelling 500-mile journey through
German-occupied territory, evading capture again and again and ultimately being
saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own
lives but those of an entire village to hide him.
In the winter of 1943, a year after he disappeared, he staggered back into
Army HQ, to be greeted by his now famous stepfather with the words, ‘Where the
hell have you been?’
This is a great adventure story – a reminder of a lost age when, in the face
of terrifying challenges, a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the
service of a cause greater than themselves.
Tom Carver was a long-time
foreign correspondent with the
BBC. He was latterly the BBC’s
Washington Correspondent and
continues to live in Washington
working as a writer and consultant.
He is the step-grandson of Field
Marshal Montgomery.
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‘An utterly compelling account of
how one POW kept his identity secret
from the Nazis and evaded capture,
relying on the bravery and kindness
of strangers. A terrific read.’
Andy McNab
‘One man’s extraordinary odyssey
of escape through wartime Italy:
riveting and remarkable.’
Ben Macintyre
Tom Carver’s excellent book gives us
a better understanding why our most
well known World War II General was
the complex man he was.”
General the Lord Guthrie
‘An escape story in the finest
English tradition. Beautifully written
and poignant to the end – deserves
to become an instant classic.’
David Loyn
‘This account is a gem. It reminds one
of the gallantry and devotion to duty
of a generation that has nearly left us.’
Patrick Cordingley, Commander
of the Desert Rats, Iraq, 1991
Non-fiction
1st April
256pp
£9.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-92-4
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APRIL 21
SIMON BARNES
THE HORSEY LIFE
A journey of discovery
with a rather remarkable mare
‘All I can say is that there was something – right from the
first. A stubby little mare, bright bay with remarkably large
ears. A white star on her forehead shaped like Madagascar,
and a huge arse...’
This is the story of an extraordinary relationship – and an extraordinary
horse. When Barnes buys Dolly Dolores VII, he knows he has got
something special. She is feisty, restless, mysterious – sometimes
crazily unpredictable. But she is also, to her owner’s delight, a jumper
of mesmerising poise and skill; she canters like a ballerina, gallops like
a wild thing.
Then, one day, Dolly does something so startling, so inexplicable
that she brings her owner to breaking point. Barnes is faced with
a terrible decision...
The Horsey Life is about a friendship pushed to its limits; but it
is also filled with larks and joy – a book which takes you right to the
heart of the world of horses and those that love them.
Simon Barnes is the multi-awardwinning chief sportswriter for the
Times. He is also a novelist, nature
writer and horseman, and the author
of a dozen books, including the
bestselling How to be a Bad
Birdwatcher and The Meaning of
Sport (Short Books). He lives in
Suffolk with his family.
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‘Truly illuminating...
Simon Barnes
understands what
the horsey life
is all about.’
Monty Roberts
‘The Horsey Life is humorous,
life-affirming, touching and
enlightening. One for lovers
of horses and happy endings.’
Manchester Evening News
‘Barnes evokes the
roller-coaster emotions of
riding, the cocktail of fear
and exhilaration, with poetic
precision. The realisation that
the partnership with the horse
is not about domination or
power but about trust has
never been better described.’
The Spectator
Non-fiction
6th May
256pp
£8.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-94-8
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF
HOW TO BE A BAD BIRDWATCHER
MAY 23
SIÂN BUSBY
McNAUGHTEN
The winter of 1843 is one of bitter strife for England. The nation is on the
brink of ruin and revolution, the government struggling to stand firm against
the rising chaos.
Out of this apocalyptic landscape emerges a young Scotsman, Daniel
McNaughten. He has been on a journey, a descent into his own despair,
mirroring the tribulations of society at large. His journey will end in London,
with the death of an apparently innocent man. One freezing day in January,
he takes a shot at the Prime Minister’s Private Secretary, Edward Drummond,
as he makes his way to Downing Street. The incident rocks the nation.
Has the assassin perhaps mistaken Mr. Drummond for the Prime Minister,
Sir Robert Peel? And who is this McNaughten? A dangerous political
radical – possibly the agent of an entire network of revolutionaries – or a
religious fanatic? Is he a lunatic, or merely a victim of the collective madness
that surrounds him?
Sian Busby’s debut novel is a breathtaking feat of historical scholarship,
which takes you to the heart of the Victorian soul. As Daniel McNaughten
goes on trial, the dark forces lying beneath the surface of society threaten
to break loose and overturn the very order of things. Suddenly, the nation’s
sanity seems to be hanging on the destiny of one hapless individual.
The verdict against him will change English law forever.
SIån Busby is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and
film maker. She is married to the BBC Business Editor,
Robert Peston, and has two children. She lives in
North London.
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‘McNaughten has an
intricacy and sentimentality
worthy of Dickens and a
satirical eye as sharp as
Thackeray’s...
A gripping thriller,
rich, clever, absorbing and
extremely hard to fault...
with a plot that shocks with
an extraordinary twist.’
The Times
‘Written with verve, Sian Busby
infiltrates the heart and soul of
the Victorian world, which
uncannily parallels our own.’
Daily Telegraph
‘This ingenious fact-into-fiction
novel makes a fine, marvellously
readable, melodramatic meal of
the case that established the
“McNaughten Rules”.’
Saga Magazine
Fiction
6th May
448pp
£7.99
B format paperback
978-1-906021-88-7
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MAY 25
BACKLIST
DOCTOR, HAVE YOU GOT A MINUTE?
Dr Tom Smith B format hardback 978-1-904977-79-7
TEACH YOUR GRANNY TO TEXT
280 x 214 mm paperback 978-1-406320-71-8
CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION
FICTION
DON’T SWEAT THE AUBERGINE Nicholas Clee
Demy paperback 978-1-904977-78-0
THE CRUEL MOTHER Siân Busby
B format paperback 978-1-904977-06-3
B format hardback 978-1-906021-82-5
DUCKS IN A ROW Carl Newbrook
B format paperback 978-1-904977-68-1
THE FATHER’S BOOK Elma Van Vliet
232 x 170mm hardback 978-1-906021-69-6
FROM WORKING CLASS HERO TO ABSOLUTE
DISGRACE Stephen Foster
Demy trade paperback 978-1-906021-21-4
THE GIRLS’ EMPIRE 198x152mm
hdbck 978-1-906021-17-7
A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE Charles Chadwick
B format hardback 978-1-906021-40-5
BENNY & SHRIMP Katarina Mazetti
B format paperback 978-1-906021-36-8
ICE LAND Betsy Tobin
B format paperback 978-1-906021-34-4
THE DAYS OF JUDY B Rose Heiney
B format paperback 978-1-906021-35-1
NON-FICTION
AMO, AMAS, AMAT...and all that Harry Mount
B format paperback 978-1-906021-15-3
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ONE TO NINE Andrew Hodges
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TEACHER ON THE RUN Francis Gilbert
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