press catalogue january - june 2013

Fourth Estate, HarperPress & The Friday Project

January – June 2013 Catalogue

Contents: Fourth Estate Fiction.................................pp4 - 20 Fourth Estate Non Fiction..........................pp21 - 31 HarperPress Non Fiction............................pp32 - 44 The Friday Project.....................................pp45 - 52

Gavin Corbett

THIS IS THE WAY A novel about storytelling delivered with mesmerising swagger. No one is sure how the blood feud between the Sonaghans and Gillaroos began – its origins are entwined in the very creation myth of the families. Anthony , the son of a Sonaghan father and Gillaroo mother, has grown up far from his people, only dimly aware of their stories. But when the feud flares up again, he finds himself hiding in an old tenement house in Dublin, and having to face the question of who he really is. 'A troubling, mysterious, demanding and beautiful book, narrated in a voice unlike any I have encountered in fiction. Corbett knows what he's doing: every sentence throbs with power’ Emma Donoghue, author of Room ‘A writer with the rigorous introspection of James Kelman, mediated by the compassion of Raymond Carver and the visceral imagination of Alan Warner. Yes, and a hearty measure of Flann O'Brien besides. But the hell with the antecedents: the man is an original, with a bridge to the world of first things he's fashioned for himself’ James Meek ‘A wonderful new voice’ Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland •Part of Fourth Estate’s mammoth Spring fiction list, this is the most original book you’ll read this year. Hundreds of proofs have already gone out. •Widespread publicity campaign with widespread review coverage in the UK and Irish press: this is a book that demands to be noticed. •Author tour and events planned for Autumn/Winter 2012. •Pitching for high-profile debut retailer promotions – Waterstones 11 and Amazon’s Rising Stars.

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and raised in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College.

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Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747667-1 Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747596-4 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback (Demy) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £14.99

Mudwoman (PB)

978-0-00-748181-1

£8.99

Mudwoman (HB)

978-0-00-746765-5

£16.99

A Widow’s Story (PB)

978-0-00-738817-2

£8.99

Little Bird of Heaven (PB)

978-0-00-734254-9

£8.99

Joyce Carol Oates

THE ACCURSED In Princeton, New Jersey, the patrician families eagerly await the wedding of Annabel Slade, a beautiful daughter of privilege. The small town is home to an intellectual elite that includes future US President and overseer of the University Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair, the Socialist author of The Jungle. But all is not as it seems in this placid community. A savage lynching is hushed up and the entire town falls under the influence of an unspeakable power, as bloodthirsty as it is seductive. In this macabre and fantastical tale, a sheltered generation is brought face to face with a festering hell on earth. The devil has come to Princeton and not a soul will be spared. An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer – narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling fantastical elements to stunning effect. • This title will appeal to traditional Joyce Carol Oates fans, as well as fans of horror fiction. • Our marketing campaign will include a rich, interactive Facebook page, drawing on the content of the book. There are over 20k Joyce Carol Oates fans on Facebook. • We will create a consumer-facing promotional video, helping to appeal to a non-traditional Joyce Carol Oates audience. • This will be accompanied by a full publicity campaign.

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and is one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She currently holds the post of Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-749419-4 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 05 March 2013 UK Price: £18.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-749421-7 Published: 05 March 2013 UK Price: £9.99

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The Thing Around Your

Neck (PB)

978-0-00-730621-3

£7.99

Half of a Yellow Sun

(PB)

978-0-00-720028-3

£8.99

Purple Hibiscus (PB)

978-0-00-718988-5

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-730622-0 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 11 April 2013 UK Price: £20.00

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735649-2 Published: 11 April 2013

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

AMERICANAH As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu—beautiful, self-assured—departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze—the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor—had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion—for their homeland and for each other—they will face the toughest decisions of their lives. Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world. •Half of Yellow Sun won the Orange Prize, has now sold in excess of 650k copies (TCM 530k) and will be made into a major movie for release in Spring 2013. •Chimamanda won a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship in 2009, and was on the New Yorker’s 2010 list of 20 writers under 40. •Guaranteed blanket review and feature coverage and the author will be in the UK for publication.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel Purple Hibiscus was published in 2003 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work has been selected by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and the BBC Short Story Awards and has appeared in various literary publications, including Zoetrope and The Iowa Review.

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-741208-2 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £16.99


Sam Byers was born in 1979. Idiopathy is his first novel.

Sam Byers

IDIOPATHY A novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Thirty, stuck in a job and a town she hates, her mounting cynicism and vicious wit repel the people she wants to attract, and attract the people she knows she should repel. Daniel, meanwhile, isn’t sure that he loves his new girlfriend Angelica. But somehow not telling her he loves her has become synonymous with telling her that he doesn’t love her, meaning that he has to tell her he loves her just to maintain the status quo. When their former friend Nathan returns from a stint in a psychiatric ward to find that his mother has transformed herself into bestselling author and Twitter superstar ‘Mother Courage’, Katherine, Daniel and Nathan decide to meet to heal old wounds and reaffirm their friendship. But is a reunion a good idea? Almost certainly not. Written with dazzling flair and deep insight; veering from scathing satire to a moving account of love and loneliness, Idiopathy neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation. Taking aim at militant environmentalists, money-grabbing misery memoirs, self-help quackery and an increasingly bizarre cattle epidemic, it announces the arrival of a formidable, savagely funny talent.

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Ian Sansom

THE NORFOLK MYSTERIES The first book in The County Guides to Murder. A new series of detective novels set in 1930s England. The books are an odyssey through England and its history. In each county, the protagonists – Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley – solve a murder. Praise for Ian Sansom: ‘The Bad Book Affair is, like its predecessors, less a detective novel than a work of humorous social observation, by turns astute, hilarious, wry and rueful’ Patricia Craig, Independent •A detective series for fans of Malcolm Pryce’s Aberystwyth Mon Amour. •Sansom’s Paper: An Elegy is published for Christmas 2012.

Stocklist: Crime ISBN: 978-0-00-736047-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Paperback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-736049-9 Published: 06 June 2013

Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. His first book, The Truth About Babies, was published by Granta in 2002.

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Frédéric Beigbeder

A FRENCH NOVEL In his most autobiographical text to date, Beigbeder recounts his stay in a French police cell in January 2008, after he was arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet outside a nightclub in the super-chic 8th arrondissement of Paris. As he lies in the cell, he revisits his childhood, from the carefree days when his grandfather taught him to skim pebbles at the beach in Cénitz, to his parents’ divorce, the conflicting influences of his hedonistic father and studious, seemingly conventional brother who ‘has it all’, and his own first, unrequited loves. This patchwork of memories is as much a portrait of the era as it is the story of a fragile, self-critical man who has finally dropped the mask. Sharp, witty – with a particularly pitiless irony directed at himself – and yet tender, A French Novel is a gem. Beigbeder’s reminiscences, his search for answers in the lost country of his childhood will speak to a whole generation searching for its soul.

ISBN: 978-0-00-737136-5 Size: 135x216mm Format: Paperback (Demy) with flaps Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 20 June 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Format: Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746885-0 Published: 20 June 2013

Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. He is the author of Windows on the World which won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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Nicci Cloke

SOMEDAY FIND ME In this beautiful debut novel from stunning new voice Nicci Cloke, one girl goes missing, but another is entirely lost. It’s a hot summer in the city and the nation is gripped by the disappearance of London student Fate Jones. But 25-year-old Fitz has a different blonde girl on his mind: his beloved girlfriend Saffy is slipping slowly back into the grasp of an eating disorder. Struggling under the weight of her self-doubt and self-hatred, Saffy becomes increasingly lost and Fitz finds himself unable to help. As Saffy’s behaviour grows more dangerous, he does the only thing he can think of – he calls for help and she is taken away. From the Amazon 5* reviews: ‘This book had me enchanted from the start’ •The funny, tender, yet charmingly awkward voices of young lovers Saffy and Fitz have found many fans in the online review and blogging communities. •Nicci is a regular blogger (niccicloke.blogspot.co.uk) and is establishing herself as a contributor to the mainstream press - see her Five-minute Memoir in the Independent.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745042-8 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 17 January 2013 UK Price: £7.99

Someday Find Me (PB) 978-0-00-744761-9 £12.99

Nicci Cloke was born in Cambridgeshire in 1986. She graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2008 and currently lives in Brixton, where she spends her time reading, writing, dreaming about travelling and watching really awful television. Someday Find Me is her first novel; she is currently working on her second.

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Sam Thompson

COMMUNION TOWN The Man Booker-longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice. On crowded streets, in the town squares and half-empty tower blocks, the lonely and lost try to make a connection. A weary gumshoe pounds the reeking sidewalks, seeking someone he knows he will never find. Violence loiters in blind alleys, eager to embrace the unsuspecting and the reckless. Lovers are doomed to follow treacherous paths that were laid long before they first met. This city is no ordinary place. Here, the underworld has surfaced; dreams melt into reality and memories are imagined before they are lived. Ghosts and monsters, refugees and travellers – the voices of Communion Town clamour to tell the stories of the city, stories that must be heard to be believed. ‘Turning the pages of Communion Town you become aware that here is a new writer working out what he can do, and realising that he can do anything’ Telegraph ‘Ambitious, haunting and beautifully written … Thompson succeeds in making the familiar seem strange and wonderful’ Daily Mail • Chosen as one of Amazon’s ‘Rising Stars’ and longlisted for The Man Booker Prize.


Communion Town (HB) 978-0-00-745476-1 £14.99

Sam Thompson was born in London in 1978, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He writes for the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son. Communion Town is his first novel.

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Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of three previous novels as well as a collection of stories, Limbo. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New York City.

Lily Tuck

I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS

The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina, numb with grief, sits at the bedside of her husband Philip. There she recalls the defining moments of their long marriage, the intimacies, dark secrets and overwhelming joys that shaped their lives. Moving, powerful, and utterly engaging, I Married You for Happiness is a riveting portrait of a forty-three-year-old marriage and a meditation on how chance can affect both a life and love. ‘This novel is an elegant vigil … a poised, readable, immediate novel’ Kate Kellaway, Observer • Tuck’s previous novel, The News From Paraguay, won the National Book Award • Like Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Joyce Carol Oates’s The Widow’s Story, I Married You for Happiness is a deeply affecting study of grief, yet as a piece of fiction offers the reader a gripping story composed with lyrical prose.


I Married You For Happiness (HB) 978-0-00-744914-9 £12.99

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Philip Hensher

SCENES FROM EARLY LIFE The startling new novel from the author of King of the Badgers and the Man Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency. ‘At that time, there were children you weren't supposed to play with. You knew why. Their parents had been informers during the war. And it hadn't been long since you could have got into trouble for singing a song. My grandfather hid all his Bengali poetry in the cellar.’ One family’s life, and a nation – Bangladesh – are uniquely created through conversation, sacrifice, songs, bonds, blood, bravery and jokes. Narrated by a young boy born into a savage civil war, Scenes from Early Life is a heartbreaking, funny and gripping novel by one of our finest writers. ‘Beautifully packed with detail … does for Bangladesh what Salman Rushdie did for India with Midnight’s Children’ The Sunday Times ‘This is his most purely pleasurable novel to date’ Daily Mail • Philip Hensher is the bestselling author of The Mulberry Empire (40,000 copies sold) and The Northern Clemency (over 30,000 copies sold). • With his trademark wit and remarkable eye-for-detail, Hensher brings to life an unusual childhood in Bangladesh, in this sweeping semi-biographical novel.


Scenes from Early Life (HB) 978-0-00-743370-4 £18.99

The Mulberry Empire (PB) 978-0-00-711227-2 £9.99

King of the Badgers (PB) 978-0-00-730134-8 £8.99

Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, arts critic for the Spectator and was chosen as one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists. He has written seven novels, including The Mulberry Empire, King of the Badgers and the Booker-shortlisted The Northern Clemency, and one collection of short stories. He lives in South London and Geneva.

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Anjali Joseph

ANOTHER COUNTRY Twenty-something Leela is trying to figure out what to do next, who to fall in love with and where she belongs in the world. The problem is that no matter where she goes – Paris, London, Bombay – or what she does – teaching or temping, dating or committing – life doesn’t appear to offer any straightforward answers. A poignant, evocative journey over two continents and through the adult spheres of work, sex and convenient friendships, Another Country is about growing up, moving on and discovering that what you really want is very different from what you thought it would be. ‘Beautifully delineated … the novel is hauntingly melancholic, and distinguished by a refreshingly abrasive wit’ Peter Parker, The Sunday Times ‘Joseph has an unerring instinct for detail that brings a scene to life . . . Gorgeously vivid’ Sunday Telegraph •Anjali Joseph was chosen as one of the Telegraph’s ‘20 under 40’ best UK writers. •She was nominated as one of The Times’ ‘5 Rising Stars of Asian Writing.’ •Her first novel, Saraswati Park, won two of the UK’s most prestigious first novel prizes (the Desmond Elliott and the Betty Trask) and India’s foremost literary prize.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-746279-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Another Country (HB) 978-0-00-746277-3 £12.99

Saraswati Park (PB) 978-0-00-736078-9 £7.99

Anjali Joseph was born in Bombay in 1978. She read English at Trinity College, Cambridge, has taught English at the Sorbonne, written for The Times of India in Bombay and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel, Saraswati Park (2010), won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and India’s Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. Another Country is her second novel.

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Vincent Lam

THE HEADMASTER’S WAGER Vietnam, 1966 – Headmaster Percival Chen presides over the English Academy in Saigon, where his weaknesses for women and the casino are well known to his colleagues, neighbours and even his son, Dai Jai. When a political protest led by Dai Jai catches the attention of the secret police Percival must pay to keep his son from further harm; but as the threat to Dai Jai grows, the headmaster resorts to drastic measures. While Dai Jai is spirited away, Percival hedges his bets and remains in Vietnam. Left behind in the deepening turmoil, Percival finds solace with Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage. But as the conflict intensifies, the time will come when the headmaster must confront truths he once refused to see, and choose between his son and his lover. Praise for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: 'Direct in style, unsparing though compassionate in observation, subtle in emotion, and occasionally gruesome in humour … this book marks a stunning debut' Margaret Atwood Praise for The Headmaster’s Wager: ‘A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon ... This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it’ Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher • Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures won the Giller Prize, a prestigious Canadian prize for fiction, remained at No. 1 on the Canadian bestseller list for several months and sold over 200,000 copies. • Vincent Lam’s first advocate was Margaret Atwood, who was immediately impressed by his stories.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-726383-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £7.99

The Headmaster’s Wager (HB) 978-0-00-726382-0 £16.99

Dr Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He studied medicine in Toronto and is an emergency physician. He lives in Toronto with his wife and son. www.vincentlam.ca

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Darran McCann

AFTER THE LOCKOUT November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile. Radicalised by his experiences in the Dublin Lockout and Easter Rising, Victor is a hero to many but a danger to some. Those closest to Victor know his true nature: his father, Pius, now drinking himself to death; his oldest friend, Charlie, wounded in the trenches; and the love of his life, Maggie, who he left behind years before. But soon Victor and the fearsome parish priest, Stanislaus Benedict, are on a collision course, with the very souls of the people caught between religion and socialism. Told from the perspectives of these two equally strong-willed characters, After the Lockout is a first novel of tremendous ambition and achievement. ‘A wonderful novel about what history has done to Ireland, and what Ireland has done to history. The triumph is that it is not only deeply intelligent and self-aware, but also entertaining from the first page to the last’ Hilary Mantel ‘With this one novel Darran McCann succeeds where many writers over an entire career fail, laying claim to a terrain entirely his own. Spread the word, Darran McCann has arrived’ Glenn Patterson ‘Darran McCann drags Irish history out of the door by the hair ... a compelling story of a people attempting to liberate themselves from authority’ Hugo Hamilton

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-742949-3 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 March 2013 UK Price: £7.99

After the Lockout (PB) 978-0-00-742947-9 £12.99

Darran McCann was born in Co. Armagh in 1979. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University before becoming a journalist with Belfast’s Irish News. He went on to write, teach and study at Queen’s University Belfast. His play, Confession, was produced at the Brian Friel Theatre in Belfast in 2008. He lives in Ireland with his family.

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Michael Chabon

TELEGRAPH AVENUE One street, two families. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there, longtime friends, bandmates and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the sketchy yet freewheeling borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland, on the quintessential East Bay avenue that gives the book its title. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary nurse midwives who have welcomed, between them, more than a thousand little citizens into the world. Archy and Gwen are expecting their first baby; Nat and Aviva have a teenaged son, Julius. An intimate epic, a NorCal Middlemarch set to the funky beat of classic vinyl soul-jazz and pulsing with a virtuosic, pyrotechnical style all its own. Generous, imaginative, funny, moving, thrilling, humane, triumphant, it is Michael Chabon's most dazzling book yet. ‘Telegraph Avenue is a wonderful novel … Wonderfully engaging, exuberantly written … the world constructed here is one to lose yourself in … This is a novel that I found myself slowing down while reading, out of sheer pleasure. I put it off, and rationed it out, and just didn’t want it to end’ Philip Hensher, Spectator ‘Deeply wise and soulful … What you get is a big, serious, probing American novel, a page-turner that, like Chabon himself, seems to walk the line between high and low culture’ Attica Locke, Guardian

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-728876-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £8.99

£18.99 978-0-00-728875-5 Telegraph Avenue (PB)

£7.99 978-1-85702-405-0 Wonder Boys (PB)

£8.99

978-1-84115-493-0 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (PB)

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels – including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – two collections of short stories, and one other work of non-fiction. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and children.

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-732163-6 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 March 2013 UK Price: £7.99

Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. Eve Green was her first novel which went on to be a best-selling success; her second novel was Oystercatchers and her latest novel is The Silver Dark Sea.

Susan Fletcher

THE SILVER DARK SEA The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of bestseller Eve Green and Oystercatchers is a profound tale of love, loss and the lore of the sea. Off the coast of Scotland, the islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man – un-named, unclothed – is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea – potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the bereft Maggie, this stranger brings love back to the isle. But as the days pass he changes every one of them – and the time comes for his story to be told … Tender, lyrical and redemptive, The Silver Dark Sea is the dazzling new novel from the author of Eve Green (winner of Whitbread First Novel award) and Witch Light. It is a story about what life can give and take from us, when we least expect it, and how love, in all its forms, is the greatest gift of all. Praise for The Silver Dark Sea: ‘Quietly beautiful … poetic, dreamlike prose’ Sunday Times

The Silver Dark Sea (HB) 978-0-00-732162-9 £16.99

Witch Light (PB) 978-0-00-732160-5 £7.99

Oystercatchers (PB) 978-0-00-719026-3 £7.99

Eve Green (PB) 978-0-00-719040-9 £7.99

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The Knot (HB)

978-0-00-731332-7

£14.99

The Book of Fires (PB)

978-0-00-730573-5

£7.99

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Jane Borodale

THE KNOT From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted The Book of Fires. An extraordinarily evocative story of obsession, love and secrets, The Knot holds at its heart the struggle of one man: Henry Lyte. Spanning twelve years, 1565-1578, Henry struggles with his life’s work, the translation of a Herbal which lists, for the first time, every herb, against the backdrop of his heart’s desire, the creation of a perfect, beautiful garden at the heart of which lies the Knot. After the tragic death of his much-loved first wife Anys, Henry falls in love again and brings Frances home to Lytes Cary. She struggles to come to terms with life in the remote rural setting of the Levels in Somerset, and feels the threat of the watery landscape despite Henry’s efforts to show her how the landscape he loves can bring her happiness. Henry’s father is not happy about his second marriage however, and the tensions within the family grow. Just as Henry finds a precarious equilibrium, in his intellectual and emotional lives, this sense of balance is shattered by his father’s unexpected death and the unleashed malevolence of Henry’s step-mother, Joan Young, begins. 'Jane Borodale displays a deft touch in this very pleasing story' Maureen Waller, Daily Telegraph

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-731333-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £7.99

Jane Borodale studied site-specific sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art. She was recently Leverhulme writer-in-residence at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex. Her first novel The Book of Fires was shortlisted for the Orange New Writers Prize, and she lives in the West Country with her husband and two children.

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Bring up the Bodies

(CD)

978-0-00-743085-7

£19.99

Bring up the Bodies

(HB)

978-0-00-731509-3

£20.00

A Place of Greater

Safety (PB)

978-0-00-725055-4

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Wolf Hall (HB)

978-0-00-750977-5

£20

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-731510-9 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 23 May 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of twelve books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize. Her two most recent novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize – an unprecedented achievement.

Hilary Mantel

BRING UP THE BODIES Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. In Bring up the Bodies, sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. The novel is a speaking picture, an audacious vision of Tudor England that sheds its light on the modern world. It is the work of one of our great writers at the height of her powers. ‘In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII’s right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read. A staggering achievement’ Sunday Telegraph ‘An imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives’ Spectator •Bring Up the Bodies is the sequel to the Man Booker winning Wolf Hall. Both are Number 1 bestsellers. •Wolf Hall is the most successful Booker winner since records began, selling over 200,000 copies in hardback and 300,000 copies in paperback in the UK alone.

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a cultural historian and critic. She is the author of Cleopatra, Queen, Lover, Legend and of Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. She reviews regularly for the Sunday Times Books Section.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

THE PIKE: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

In September 1919 Gabriele D’Annunzio, successful poet, dramatist and occasional politician with an innate flair for the melodramatic, declared himself the Commandante of the city of Fiume in modern-day Croatia. He intended to establish a utopian state upon his muddled fascist and artistic ideals and create a social paradigm for the rest of the world. It was a fittingly dramatic pinnacle to a career that had been essentially theatrical. In her new book Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the enthralling but controversial life of D’Annunzio – acclaimed poet and author, legendary seducer and charmer – who lived an extravagant and debt-ridden life, and became a military and national hero. He evolved from an idealistic poet, who allied himself with the Romantic aesthetic, to an instigator of radical right-wing revolt against democratic authority. D’Annunzio’s colourful story is also a political parable: through his apparently contradictory nature and the eventual failure of the Fiume endeavour, a picture is created of the politically turbulent Europe of the early 20th century and of the poison of emergent fascism. As in the successful Heroes, Hughes-Hallett takes the story of a memorable character’s life to explore the society and politics of the times in which he lived. She raises questions concerning the figure of the ‘superman’, the cult of nationalism and the origins of political extremism and war. At the centre however stands the flamboyant and charismatic D’Annunzio: a figure as deplorable as he is fascinating.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-721395-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 17 January 2013 UK Price: £25.00

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735651-5 Published: 17 January 2013

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Phyllida Law

HOW MANY CAMELS ARE THERE IN HOLLAND?: Dementia, Ma and Me The charming successor to the hugely popular Notes to my Mother-in-Law, from Phyllida Law. When her Uncle Arthur dies, actress Phyllida Law returns to the tiny Scottish village of Ardentinny to look after her ma, Mego. Mego’s always been dotty. Deliciously dotty. She once put a new packet of tights in the fridge (and the bacon in her sock drawer). But Mego’s older now and becoming ever more muddled. So Phyllida devotes herself to looking after Mego, but not without the help of friends, local villagers, and her two daughters, Emma and Sophie Thompson: pulling together, they maintain order in the cottage, find Delia on the telly and keep Mego’s spirits up-with a G&T if all else fails. Somehow, Phyllida even manages to slip away on acting jaunts in Glasgow and Italy. Running through Phyllida’s account of Mego’s final months are the anecdotes, memories and legends that form the fabric of every family. Phyllida’s account captures the warmth and tenderness of a family brought together to care for their much-loved mother and grandmother. ‘Something quite splendid, new and unforgettable. Charms, compels and astonishes’ Stephen Fry on Notes to my Mother-in-Law • Notes to my Mother-in-Law was extremely successful, selling 15,000 HB and 3,000 PB (TCM). • Phyllida Law is a potential candidate for national treasurehood, and is the mother of Emma and Sophie Thompson – established treasures – who are committed to supporting their mother’s book.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-748586-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Hardback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751380-2 Published: 28 February2013 UK Price: £7.99

Phyllida Law has appeared in numerous plays, television series and films, including Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, Foyle's War and Kingdom. She was married to Eric Thompson, the writer and narrator of the English version of The Magic Roundabout, until his death in 1982. She has two daughters, Emma and Sophie.

Notes to my Mother-in-Law (PB) 978-0-00-733842-9 £7.99

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Farther Away (HB)

978-0-00-745951-3

£16.99

Farther Away (CD)

978-0-00-746665-8

£19.99

Freedom (PB)

978-0-00-726976-1

£8.99

How to be Alone (PB)

978-0-00-715358-9

£8.99

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The Corrections (PB)

978-0-00-723244-4

£8.99

Jonathan Franzen

FARTHER AWAY The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. The editor of the New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus, proclaimed it ‘a masterpiece of American fiction’ and lauded its illumination, ‘through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.’ Now, a new collection of Franzen’s non-fiction brings fresh evidence of that moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator. In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader. Farther Away is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

Stocklist: Letters, essays, fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745953-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), The Corrections (2001) and Freedom (2010); a collection of nonfiction, How to Be Alone (2002); and The Discomfort Zone (2006), a memoir.

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Rory O'Connell

MASTER IT The antidote to ‘just chuck it in’ cookery, Master It is a personal lesson from one of our finest cookery teachers. Nowadays we seem to know a lot about food, but much less about actual cooking. In Master It, Rory O’Connell will teach you simple but essential skills to make you a truly good cook. At the heart of his approach are the best ingredients, carefully prepared, and used in recipes that are tried, tested, carefully measured and full of the essential tips and details that will make your dishes a success. Each chapter will teach you a particular technique – preparing a soup, roasting meat, making biscuits – and include a collection of fresh, seasonal recipes to put it into practice, from wild garlic soup, to roast pork with fennel seeds, chilli and garlic, to caramel and almond thins. • Rory O’Connell is the co-founder of The Ballymaloe Cookery School and one of its main teachers. For many years he worked with Myrtle Allen as chef at The Ballymaloe House Hotel in Cork, as well as with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in California. •In his thirty years of teaching, Rory has taught many of the current stars of the British and Irish cooking scene: Thomasina Miers, Rachel Allen and Stevie Parle.

Stocklist: Cookery ISBN: 978-0-00-744728-2 Size: 190x220mm Format: Hardback Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 23 May 2013 UK Price: £20.00

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746879-9 Published: 23 May 2013

Rory O’Connell is Darina Allen’s brother, co-founder of The Ballymaloe Cookery School and one of its main teachers. He worked for many years with Myrtle Allen as chef at The Ballymaloe House Hotel in Cork, as well as with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse in California. In his thirty years of teaching he has taught many of the current stars of the British and Irish cooking scene: Thomasina Miers, Rachel Allen and Stevie Parle.

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Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746880-5 Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £9.99

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-746152-3 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback (Demy) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £16.99

Andrew Martin grew up in Yorkshire. After qualifying as a barrister, he won The Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award, 1988. Since, he has written for the Guardian, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Independent and Granta, among many other publications. His columns have appeared in the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman. His Jim Stringer novels - railway thrillers - have been published by Faber and Faber since 2002.

Andrew Martin

FLIGHT BY ELEPHANT: The Untold Story of World War II’s Most Daring Jungle Mission In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell, together with twenty elephants, and a team of mahuts (elephant riders) performed heroic rescue-missions in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma. At the age of 53, Mackrell – a decorated First World War pilot, then tea plantations overseer– went into the ‘green hell’ of the Chaukan Pass on the border of North Burma and Assam. Here, in what became a three-phase mission, he rescued Indian army soldiers, together with British civilians and their Indian servants, from the pursuing Japanese, directing his elephants through jungle passes and over raging rivers, through territory infested with sand flies, horse-flies, mosquitoes and innumerable leeches. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever: the whole of that summer was spent in a fight against time. The most astonishing aspect of Gyles Mackrell’s heroics is that they have yet to be fully dramatised. Now in Andrew Martin’s hands they are given the shape of a suspenseful adventure, a wartime rescue whose facts are the stuff of Commando Comic-fiction. But he has also made a classic in the kingdom of animal fiction, with a starring species as awesome as literature’s most powerful horse, as exotic as its most elusive whale, as loveable as its most faithful dog. And finally Martin has painted a portrait of war and of jungle-survival from a historically under-nourished point of view; a picture of fading British imperial virtues at their most dignified and robust. This book will embrace together for the first time those happy disciples of adventure, history and the elephant.

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Escape the Diet Trap

(TPB)

978-0-00-744243-0

£14.99

Dr. John Briffa

ESCAPE THE DIET TRAP Award-winning authority on diet Dr John Briffa offers a scientific and sustainable approach to weight loss that works with the body, not against it. Escape the Diet Trap reveals: why eating a low-fat, calorie-controlled diet makes weight loss virtually impossible why the less hungry you are, the more weight you’ll lose why you should ignore foods labelled ‘low fat’ or ‘light’ why aerobic exercise has little impact on weight, and the type of exercise that does the simple mental tricks and techniques that ensure success ‘Briffa’s tips will leave you trim, toned and pleasantly hunger-free’ Woman ‘I was really impressed, mainly because the weight loss was so quick’ Woman and Home

Stocklist: Diet and slimming ISBN: 978-0-00-744776-3 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 03 January 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Dr John Briffa is a practising doctor and award-winning health writer who has contributed to a wide variety of newspaper and magazines both in the UK and abroad. He was formerly the natural health columnist for the Daily Mail, and has been the Observer’s nutritionist since 2002. He is the author of several books on the subject of health, nutrition and natural health. He works in private practice in London.

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Alec Wilkinson

THE ICE BALLOON In August 1930, a Norwegian sloop, sailing in the Arctic Ocean, stopped at a remote island, where its crew members found a book, together with a boathook stamped ‘Andree’s Pol. Exp 1896’. Not far from the boat was a body leaning against a rock, with its frozen legs extended. They carefully opened the jacket the corpse was wearing. When they saw a large monogram ‘A’, they knew who they were looking at: S. A. Andrée, the Swede who, in 1897, set off to discover the North Pole, one of the last unmapped places on earth. The Ice Balloon is the story of the heroic age of polar exploration, and the dream of conquering one of the most inhumane landscapes on earth. In this golden age of discovery, Andrée’s ambition was the most original and remarkable, with many comparing him to Columbus for novelty and daring. For, of the thousand or so people who had gone looking for the Pole, at least seven hundred and fifty of whom had died, only Andrée used a balloon.

Alec Wilkinson began writing for The New Yorker in 1980. Before that, he was a policeman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and before that he was a rock-and-roll musician. He has published nine books, including The Happiest Man in the World and The Protest Singer. His honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Prize and a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

Stocklist: History ISBN: 978-0-00-746003-8 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 17 January 2013 UK Price: £8.99

The Ice Balloon (HB) 978-0-00-744588-2 £14.99

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The Hour Between Dog

and Wolf (HB)

978-0-00-741351-5

£20.00

Stocklist: Business ISBN: 978-0-00-741352-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £9.99

John Coates is a senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked on Wall Street for Goldman Sachs, and ran a trading desk for Deutsche Bank. In 2004 he returned to Cambridge to research the biology of financial risk-taking. His work has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Financial Times and been cited in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, New Scientist, Wired and Time.

John Coates

THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: Risk Taking, Good Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust ‘Should be top of the reading list for anyone wondering why traders so often get banks into trouble’ Financial Times ‘This stunning book… should be compulsory reading for anyone concerned about the behaviour of those involved in the lying and manipulation of successive banking scandals’ Mail on Sunday In this startling and unconventional book, neuroscientist and former Wall Street trader John Coates explains something we have long suspected: that we think with our body as well as our brain. This is true when we take risks at work, in sport, on the battlefield, and especially in the financial markets. Making and losing money provokes an overwhelming biological response, and this can alter the way we behave. Could this bodily turmoil lead to the kind of irrational exuberance and pessimism that so regularly destabilises the global economy? In a series of groundbreaking experiments, Coates has shown that under the pressure of risk our biology transforms us into different people, a transformation he refers to as the hour between dog and wolf. Traders and investors are especially prone, becoming revved-up and testosterone-driven when on a winning streak, and tentative and risk-averse when cowering from losses. The Hour Between Dog and Wolf reveals the biology of bubbles and crashes; and how the presence of more women on the trading floors could help stabilise the markets.

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Stocklist: Politics ISBN: 978-0-00-741682-0 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Eliane Glaser, author of Get Real, is also a radio producer, and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her articles have appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.

Eliane Glaser

GET REAL: How to See Through the Hype, Spin and Lies of Modern Life It’s time to radically alter the way we perceive the world. It’s time to get real. Oil companies advertise their green credentials. Billionaires organise 'grassroots' political movements. Cuts that target the poor are billed as progressive. To Eliane Glaser, these are all signs of the maddeningly surreal gap between appearance and reality in modern life. With the melting away of conflicts between East and West and Right and Left in our politics, the big ideologies were consigned to history. But Get Real argues that agendas never really disappeared. They just went undercover, creating a looking-glass world in which vested interests appear in disguise. Busting the jargon and unravelling the spin, Get Real reveals the secrets about modern life that we were never supposed to know. It puts the truth and the power to choose firmly in our hands, because only by telling it like it is can we improve – and maybe even save – our world for real. ‘A quite brilliant reality check. Angry, erudite and accessible. I loved it.’ Dame Jenni Murray ‘A sharp, lively wake-up call to free ourselves from the illusions that we live by. Crystal clear, elegantly written and inspiring, it is all the more necessary to read Glaser’s book at a time when we are increasingly pressured to imbibe phony ideology, phony science and phony ethics. Being disabused by Glaser is a great pleasure.’ Darian Leader

Get Real (HB) 978-0-00-741681-3 £14.99

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Maggie Fergusson

MICHAEL MORPURGO: War Child to War Horse A biography interspersed with autobiographical stories written by Michael Morpurgo himself. Michael Morpurgo is a national treasure. With books such as Private Peaceful, Kensuke’s Kingdom and The Wreck of the Zanzibar he has enchanted a whole generation of children, weaving stories for them in a way that is neither contrived nor condescending. His is a rare gift. Michael’s own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. How did this supremely unbookish boy who dreamed of becoming an army officer become a bestselling author and Children’s Laureate instead? What personal price has he paid for success? And why, amidst his triumphs, is he haunted by regret? ‘Fergusson has done her subject proud, skillfully evoking both the high and low points of a busy and productive life … an original idea, and the stories nicely complement the unfolding life ’ Penelope Lively, Spectator ‘A joy to read’ Sunday Telegraph •War Horse was a phenomenally successful theatre adaptation, and a major Steven Spielberg movie. •War Horse has sold over 500,000 copies and Private Peaceful over 200,000 copies. Private Peaceful will be released as a film this autumn.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-738727-4 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Michael Morpurgo (HB) 978-0-00-738726-7 £18.99

Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: The Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award.

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Stocklist: Travel Writing ISBN: 978-0-00-742866-3 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: Fourth Estate Published: 28 March 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Sinclair McKay is a features writer for the Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday. He is also the acclaimed author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park.

Sinclair McKay

RAMBLE ON A history of walking and our relationship with the British countryside. Ramble On tells the story of how country walks and rambling were transformed from a small and often illegal pastime to the most popular recreational activity in the country. Despite the peaceful, even meditative nature of the pursuit, the story of rambling is actually a story of constant, bitter conflict: one of grand country aristocrats pitted against town-dwelling working class men and women; of farmers with spring-guns and bone-shattering man-traps; of municipal Water-Boards convinced that walkers could infect reservoirs with TB; of gamekeepers certain that the slightest suggestion of footsteps on the moor would disturb the partridges and plovers. The story of rambling is a prism through which we can view the ebbs and flows of social conflict in Britain, from the Reformation to the present day. Above all, though, this book is about the exhilaration of a gusty hill-top path; the curious unease that a labyrinthine forest floor can induce; the feel of different soil, peat and rock; the sight of alternating sunlight and shadow sweeping across vast valleys. Both a biography of Britain's favourite outdoor pursuit and a celebration of our wonderful countryside, Ramble On is for anyone who has ever pulled on a pair of walking boots or is partial to the taste of Kendal Mint Cake. ‘McKay makes an agreeable tramping companion. For McKay walking is a serious pleasure, which is as it should be’ Tom Fort, Sunday Telegraph

Ramble On (HB) 978-0-00-742864-9 £14.99

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Titanic Lives (PB)

978-0-00-732166-7

£9.99

Titanic Lives (HB)

978-0-00-732164-3

£20.00

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Richard Davenport-Hines

AN ENGLISH AFFAIR: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Early 1960s Britain was dominated by the legacy of two world wars. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan led a Conservative government dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and old-fashioned morality. But, a breakdown of social boundaries saw nightclub hostesses mix with aristocrats, and middle-class professionals dabble in criminality. Meanwhile, Cold War paranoia gripped the public imagination. The Profumo Affair was a perfect storm – a catastrophe for the Establishment. Sex, drugs, class, race, chequebook journalism and the criminal underworld – the Profumo Affair had it all. This is the story of how Sixties England cast off respectability and fell in love with scandal. ‘An astonishing work, of meticulous research, which allows us to know, in painful detail, the men and women on that fateful voyage. Even now, a hundred years later, Mr Davenport-Hines finds a new, and heart-breaking, story to tell’ Julian Fellowes on Titanic Lives • An English Affair is the definitive account of the Profumo Affair – the greatest political scandal of modern times. • An English Affair provides a racy, irreverent twist to the post-war social histories of David Kynaston and Dominic Sandbrook.

Richard Davenport-Hines is a historian and biographer. Among his many books are biographies of W. H. Auden and Marcel Proust, and the recent, highly acclaimed, Titanic Lives. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews regularly for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

Stocklist: True stories and narrative history ISBN: 978-0-00-743584-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 3 January 2013 UK Price: £20.00

Format: Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-743586-9 Published: 3 January 2013

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Perdita (PB)

978-0-00-716459-2

£12.99

Mad World (PB)

978-0-00-724377-8

£9.99

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Paula Byrne

THE REAL JANE AUSTEN: A Life in Small Things Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne’s landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this new biography, bestselling author Paula Byrne (bestselling author of Perdita, Mad World) explores the forces that shaped the interior life of Britain’s most beloved novelist: her father’s religious faith, her mother’s aristocratic pedigree, her eldest brother’s adoption, her other brothers’ naval and military experiences, her relatives in the East and West Indies, her cousin who lived through the trauma of the French Revolution, the family’s amateur theatricals, the female novelists she admired, her residence in Bath, her love of the seaside, her travels around England and her long struggle to become a published author. Byrne uses a highly innovative technique whereby each chapter begins from an object that conjures up a key moment or theme in Austen’s life and work—a silhouette, a vellum notebook, a topaz cross, a laptop writing box, a royalty cheque, a bathing machine, and many more. The woman who emerges in this biography is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern than the conventional picture of ‘dear Aunt Jane’ would allow. Published to coincide with the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice, this lively and scholarly biography brings Austen dazzlingly into the twenty-first century. • Paula made a film for BBC2 which was watched by over 2m people. This film revealed to the world a newly discovered portrait of Jane Austen, the only portrait of her face painted from life.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-735832-8 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 17 January 2013 UK Price: £25.00

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735833-5 Published: 17 January 2013

Born in Birkenhead, Paula Byrne has a PhD from the University of Liverpool where she is a Fellow in English Literature. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Theatre, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize. Her second book, Perdita, was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick. Her Mad World was a Sunday Times bestseller. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, she lives in Warwickshire with her two children and husband, critic and biographer Jonathan Bate.

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Calder Walton

EMPIRE OF SECRETS Empire of Secrets is the gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire. Against the background of the Cold War, and the looming spectre of Soviet-sponsored subversion in Britain’s dwindling colonial possessions, the imperial intelligence service MI5 played a crucial but top secret role in passing power to newly independent national states across the globe. Mining recently declassified intelligence records, Calder Walton reveals this ‘missing link’ in Britain’s post-war history. He sheds new light on everything from violent counter-insurgencies fought by British forces in the jungles of Malaya and Kenya, to urban warfare campaigns conducted in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified documents, as well as hitherto overlooked personal papers, this is also the first book to draw on records from the Foreign Office’s secret archive at Hanslope Park, which contains some of the darkest and most shameful secrets from the last days of Britain’s empire. Packed with incidents straight out of a John le Carré novel, Empire of Secrets is an exhilarating read by an exciting new voice in intelligence history. • The book is based on recently declassified intelligence records, some as recently as 2011. This book could not have been written only a few years ago. • It is the missing link in our understanding of early Cold War history. • Calder Walton is a leading member of the next generation of intelligence historians, and we can expect an endorsement from his mentor, and the current doyen of intelligence history, Christopher Andrew.

Stocklist: Politics ISBN: 978-0-00-745796-0 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £25.00

Format: Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746842-3 Published: 31 January 2013

Calder Walton is a leading expert among a new generation of intelligence historians. He has published widely on intelligence history, reviewing books for the Times Literary Supplement, and contributing to a number of books on British foreign policy and international relations. For six years, between 2003 and 2009, he was one of the principal researchers on Christopher Andrew’s unprecedented authorised history of MI5. This is his first book.

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Elizabeth and Mary

(PB)

978-0-00-653192-0

£8.99

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Jane Dunn

PIFFY, BIRD & BING: The Hidden Lives of Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters The story of celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her beautiful and unconventional sisters; writer Angela and artist Jeanne, now revealed in this riveting biography. The middle sister in a celebrated artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel. Her success and fame were enhanced by films of her novels and horrifying short stories, Don’t Look Now and the unforgettable The Birds among them. But this fame overshadowed her sisters Angela and Jeanne, a writer and an artist of talent, living quiet lives even more unconventional than Daphne’s own. In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters brought up in the hothouse of a theatrical family with a peculiar and powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing, full of social non-conformity, creative energy and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier plotline. ‘Dunn writes with captivating elegance and piercing intelligence, is tender, scrupulous, ironic and worldly’ Richard Davenport-Hines, Independent • 15,000 people a year visit the Daphne du Maurier Literary Festival.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-734708-7 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £20.00

Format: Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-734711-7 Published: 28 February 2013

Described by the Sunday Times as ‘one of our best biographers’, Jane Dunn writes about women and their relationships, and sisters in particular. Her books include a biography of the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the bestseller Elizabeth & Mary, which looks at the lives of the cousin queens Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath with her husband, the writer and linguist, Nicholas Ostler.

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David Scott

LEVIATHAN: Britain from the Tudors to American Independence David Scott's Leviathan is the first fully comprehensive study covering this significant period in British history that challenges many of the long-held beliefs and ideas about our ancestry, and appeals to the scholarly and general audience alike. The 350 years between the accession of the Tudors and the beginning of the Victorian age witnessed one of the great transformations of any nation in history: ‘Britain’ emerged from being a second rate European power to the world's only maritime superpower. In this panoramic, succinct retelling, David Scott radically reconsiders our history, encompassing a broad spectrum and tracing the connections made across time as never before. Going beyond the explanations of ‘patriotism’ and constitutional principle for Britain’s formative developments, it will revisit the fear, political hatred, profiteering and hunger for power that by necessity take their place in any national history. Leviathan is the brutal and unlikely story of how Britain was really made. Praise for Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: 'Scott compresses into his short space the conclusions not only of his own state-of-the-art research but of a wealth of recent dissertations and articles with which only a specialist could keep pace' Blair Worden, Guardian

David Scott is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust and has formerly taught at both York and Yale Universities. His previous book (for Palgrave) Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms 1637-49 was chosen by the Sunday Telegraph as one of its Books of the Year in 2004. Stocklist: History and Non-Fiction

ISBN: 978-0-00-724080-7 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 February 2013 UK Price: £25.00

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Americans in Paris (PB)

978-0-00-722852-2

£10.99

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Tribes with Flags (EB)

978-0-00-750018-5

£5.99

Charles Glass

DESERTER The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee? During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 40,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain's colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands. The overwhelming majority of deserters from all armies were front-line infantry troops; without them, the war was harder to win. Many of these men were captured and court marshalled, while others were never apprehended. Some remain wanted to this day. Why did these men decide to flee their ranks? In Deserter, veteran reporter and historian Charles Glass follows a group of British and American deserters into the heat of battle and explores what motivated them to take their fateful decision to run away. The result is a highly emotional and engaging study of an under-explored area of Second World War history. ‘A fascinating treat … rich in intrigue and heroism’ Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph • This is one of the last great untold stories of the Second World War. • The book is based on a broad range of source materials: military records, court martial transcripts, letters, diaries, memoirs, police files in the US and Europe, and press reports.

Stocklist: Military history ISBN: 978-0-00-734592-2 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 March 2013 UK Price: £25.00

Format: Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747650-3 Published: 28 March 2013

Charles Glass is the author of Americans in Paris, Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope and The Northern Front: An Iraq War Diary. A world-famous journalist and broadcaster, he was Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993, and has covered wars and political upheaval throughout the world. His writing appears in the Independent and the Spectator. He divides his time between Paris, Tuscany and London

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The Age of Wonder

(PB)

978-0-00-744135-8

£14.99

The Age of Wonder

(PB)

978-0-00-714953-7

£9.99

Shelley (PB)

978-0-00-720458-8

£9.99

Footsteps (PB)

978-0-00-720453-3

£8.99

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Richard Holmes is Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has honorary doctorates from UEA and the Tavistock Institute, and was awarded an OBE in 1992. He is the author of the prize-winning and bestselling The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009 and won the Royal Society Prize for Science writing. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize.

Richard Holmes

FALLING UPWARDS: How the Romantics Took to the Air Lose yourself in the clouds with bestselling and prize-winning biographer and science writer Richard Holmes. A glorious exploration of how hot-air ballooning changed the world. A book for anyone who has looked up at a hot-air balloon on a summer’s afternoon and wished to be in it! Dr Charles understood the perils of flight. Following his landmark ascent to 10,000 feet above Paris in 1783, he observed: ‘Never has a man felt so solitary, so sublime – and so utterly terrified.’ He never flew again. Not so Richard Holmes. Balloons, those ineffably romantic floating machines have drifted through his work for many years, and here, in this heart-lifting book he tells a cracking international story of drama, adventure and danger – with a serious underlying scientific intent. His subject is flight itself; the aerial dimension explored with such courage by early 18th and 19th century balloonists; the heights of their glory and the fiery, appalling consequences that befell many. Those in previous centuries who had dreamed of flight believed this new mode of transport would open up the secrets of heaven. In fact, as Richard Holmes shows, it revealed the secrets of the world beneath. ‘Thrilling: a portrait of bold adventure among the stars, across the oceans, deep into matter, poetry and the human psyche’ Peter Forbes, Independent ‘A glorious blend of the scientific and the literary that deserves to carry off armfuls of awards and confirms Holmes's reputation as one on the stellar biographers of the age’ Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

Stocklist: Popular science ISBN: 978-0-00-738692-5 Size: 153x234mm Format: Hardback Imprint: HarperPress Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £20.00


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Matt Rudd

THE ENGLISH: A Field Guide In The English: A Field Guide, Sunday Times journalist Matt Rudd, sets out to uncover what makes the English tick. He examines us in our natural habitats; the house, the garden, the commuter train, the office, the motorway, the high street, the pub, the balti house, the beach – ending up in the bedroom. Hilarious and surprisingly enlightening, this book puts an entire nation under the microscope. Praise for William Walker’s First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story: ‘Matt Rudd’s sparklingly energetic, sometimes laugh-aloud, sometimes touching novel . . . William turns out to be an innocent searching for the right path . . . getting to know him is to enter into the blundering, puzzled hell of the male up against the eternal feminine enigma’ The Sunday Times • Matt is a rising star on The Sunday Times, who now has his own column in the magazine. • We anticipate strong support for the book from The Sunday Times. • There are plenty of digital opportunities, and Matt is shooting short films in all the habitats he is visiting.

Stocklist: Social and cultural studies ISBN: 978-0-00-749045-5 Size: 135x216mm Format: Paperback Original (Demy) Imprint: HarperPress Published: 25 April 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Matt is a writer and editor on The Sunday Times, where he has worked for seven years. In the name of journalism, he has fought three Mexican wrestlers single-handed, had an affair on ‘SecondLife’, binge-drunk at Wetherspoons, bruised himself on a Japanese toilet and spied on his wife using the very latest GPS technology. He lives in Kent with his wife and children.

William Walker’s First Year of Marriage(PB) 978-0-00-730897-2 £6.99

William’s Progress (PB) 978-0-00-741915-9 £7.99

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Stocklist: History and Biography ISBN: 978-0-00-748962-6 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback (Demy) Imprint: HarperPress Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £16.99

Jesse Norman

EDMUND BURKE: A HERO OF OUR TIME Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and most under-rated political thinker of the past three hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729, and greatly affected by its bigotry and extremes, his career constituted a lifelong struggle against the abuse of power. In A Hero of Our Time Conservative MP Jesse Norman gives us Burke anew, vividly depicting his dazzling intellect, imagination and empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th-century Europe. Burke’s wisdom, Norman shows, applies well beyond the times of empire to the conventional democratic politics practised in Britain and America today. We cannot understand the defects of the modern world, or modern politics, without him. • Jesse Norman is Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. He is one of the leading thinkers in the party and is the ideal author to show how Burke’s ideology is relevant to politics today. • Norman writes regularly for the national press and the book is guaranteed to receive widespread coverage and PR. Jesse Norman is Conservative

parliamentary candidate for Hereford and South Herefordshire, and a Senior Fellow of Policy Exchange. His books include Compassionate Conservatism and The Big Society, and he has written widely in the national press. He is also a main board director of The Roundhouse in London.

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Sarah Fraser

THE LAST HIGHLANDER: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent For fans of C.J. Sansom, a great non-fiction historical adventure about the life of Scotland’s most remarkable clan chief. Lord Simon Lovat was a spy, clan-chief, traitor, polyglot, conspirator and University-trained philosopher – and the most notorious scoundrel of his age. Earning his celebrity with wit, brazen ambition and flexible morals, he was always to be found at in the thick of a political intrigue. He played spy for the Stuarts yet also the Hanoverian Georges; a feudal Highland warrior yet also a benevolent leader; a notorious supporter of Bonnie Prince Charlie and yet eventually a deserter of the cause. A thrilling portrait of ambition and treachery, The Last Highlander marks the twilight of this great Gaelic civilization. ‘Sarah Fraser, who married into the modern Lovat tribe, tells the story of the “Old Fox” with notable panache…There was nothing in his character or history to admire, but there was still a grandeur to his villainy, one that makes delightful bedside reading for a posterity spared from having to live with him’ Max Hastings, Sunday Times •Brilliant debut. Will appeal to readers of Ben MacIntyre or CJ Sansom – highly readable and accessible history. •Book draws on family papers not before seen by historians. •Author PR – given her connections in Scotland and connections to the Fraser family. •Selected as Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Month on publication. Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-722950-5 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: HarperPress Published: 17 January 2013 UK Price: £8.99

Sarah Fraser is married to a Lovat Fraser, the son of heroic World War II Commando Shimi, Lord Lovat. She undertook a doctoral thesis on obscene Gaelic poetry, and has since contributed to TV and radio programmes on Gaelic issues, the clans and British history. Sarah has four children and she and her husband live both in the Highlands and London.

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Paul Preston

THE SPANISH HOLOCAUST: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 In a work of meticulous scholarship and research, Paul Preston, the world’s foremost historian of 20th-century Spain, charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 innocent men, women and children across Spain. The remains of General Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of 20,000 slave labourers. His enemies, however, met less exalted fates. In addition to those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands of Spaniards were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became ‘non-persons’, their fates as obscure as the nation’s collective memory of this terrible period. Based on more than a decade of research, The Spanish Holocaust illuminates one of the darkest, lesser-known eras of modern European history. It recounts the horrors provoked on 17 July 1936, the consequences of which still reverberate bitterly in Spain today. ‘The Spanish civil war is, of course, one of the best-chronicled events in modern European history. But Preston goes well beyond previous historians in his magisterial but chillingly meticulous record of slaughter…Exhaustively researched and masterfully written…the result is a book of extraordinary moral and emotional power, a classic of historical scholarship and a deeply affecting record of man’s inhumanity to man’ Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times

The Spanish Holocaust

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Franco (PB)

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Doves of War (PB)

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Juan Carlos (PB)

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Stocklist: History ISBN: 978-0-00-638695-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: HarperPress Published: 31 January 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Paul Preston is Principe de Asturias Professor of Iberian History at the LSE, and was head of the International History Department there for several years. He is regarded as the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain.

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Sarah Gristwood

BLOOD SISTERS: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses From bestselling historian Sarah Gristwood comes the true story behind Philippa Gregory’s recent novels – the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty. A fiery history of Queens, the perils of power and of how the Wars of the Roses were ended – not by knights in battle, but by the political and dynastic skills of women. • Sarah Gristwood is the author of Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, a Sunday Times bestseller, and Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic, a Radio 4 Book of the Week. • Blood Sisters explores an area of English history that has previously been neglected. It is an original and important analysis. • The author will use a range of source material including letters from the women to their husbands and sons and an account book left by Elizabeth York as queen. • A 10-part BBC1 adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen (TCM 305k PB/78K HB) inspired by this historical period will be aired in 2013.

Stocklist: Biography and autobiography ISBN: 978-0-00-730930-6 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: HarperPress Published: 28 March 2013 UK Price: £9.99

Blood Sisters (HB)

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The Girl in the Mirror (TPB)

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The Girl in the Mirror

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Sarah Gristwood is the author of a number of books including the Sunday Times best-seller Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, Elizabeth and Leicester and the novel The Girl in the Mirror. She was born in Kent and read English at St Anne’s College, Oxford University. She is married to film critic Derek Malcolm and lives in London and Kent.

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-744140-2 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback (Demy) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 03 January 2013 UK Price: £12.99

Andrew Kaufman was born in Wingham, Ontario. His first novel, All My Friends Are Superheroes, was a cult hit. He is also the author of The Waterproof Bible, The Tiny Wife and the short story collection Selected Business Correspondence. Kaufman is also a filmmaker and radio producer. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids, Phoenix and Frida.

Andrew Kaufman

BORN WEIRD

A family drama unlike any other from the internationally acclaimed author of All My Friends are Superheroes. The Weirds have always been a little peculiar, but not one of them suspected that they’d been cursed by their grandmother. At the moment of their birth Annie Weird gave each of her five grandchildren a special power that she thought was a blessing. Richard, the oldest, always keeps safe; Abba always has hope; Lucy is never lost and Kent can beat anyone in a fight. As for Angie, she always forgives, instantly. But over the years these blessings have proved to be curses and ruined their lives. Now Annie is dying and she has one last task for Angie, her favourite grandchild. Angie has to gather her far-flung brothers and sisters and assemble them in her Grandmother’s hospital room so that at the moment of her death, she can lift these blessings turned curses. • Published the same month as The Tiny Wife paperback. His first full-length novel for three years and very much in the vein of All My Friends are Superheroes which has now sold over 25,000 copies in the UK. Andrew will be over from Canada to promote the book. Andrew owes a great deal of his success to handselling of his books by booksellers and is keen to do as many events as possible.

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Brian Aldiss

FINCHES OF MARS ‘My final Science Fiction novel’ Brian Aldiss Brian Aldiss has announced that this book, Finches of Mars, will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious careers in the genre. Set on the Red Planet, it follows the stories of a group of colonists and the problems they encounter setting up a new society. Life can be sustained by technology but new life will not prosper – the women on the planet only ever give birth to stillborn children. This thought-provoking book explores many of the author’s classic themes and is a landmark novel in any genre. • The final novel from the multi-award winning science fiction writer, Brian Aldiss. • Aldiss’s most famous work was adapted into the film ‘A.I: Artificial Intelligence’ directed by Steven Spielberg. • The first of several brand new Aldiss novels to be published by The Friday Project.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747892-7 Size: 135x216mm Format: Hardback (Demy) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £14.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747893-4 Published: 06 June 2013 UK Price: £7.99

The Zodiac Planet Galaxy: A Story Collection (PB) 978-0-00-747890-3 £9.99

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story Criminal Record, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-743923-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 03 January 2013 UK Price: £6.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-743922-5 Published: 01 September 2011 UK Price: £4.99

Andrew Kaufman was born in Wingham, Ontario. His first novel, All My Friends Are Superheroes, was a cult hit. He is also the author of The Waterproof Bible, The Tiny Wife and the short story collection Selected Business Correspondence. Kaufman is also a filmmaker and radio producer. He lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids, Phoenix and Frida.

Andrew Kaufman

THE TINY WIFE

A magical short novel from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes. A robber charges into a bank with a loaded gun, but instead of taking any money he steals an item of sentimental value from each person. Once he has made his escape, strange things start to happen to the victims. A tattoo comes to life, a husband turns into a snowman, a baby starts to shit money. And Stacey Hinterland discovers that she’s shrinking, a little every day, and there is seemingly nothing that she or her husband can do to reverse the process. The Tiny Wife is a weird and wonderful modern fable. Small, but perfectly formed, it will charm, delight and unnerve in equal measure. ‘It blew me away’ Marie Phillips • A big favourite with booksellers, many of whom have been handselling the hardback edition for the past year. • Andrew will be over to promote this paperback release and his new novel, Born Weird.

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William Wharton

Shrapnel One of the most acclaimed American writers of his generation, and author of classic novels such as Birdy, A Midnight Clear and Dad, William Wharton was a very private man. Writing under a pseudonym, he rarely gave interviews, so fans and critics could only guess how much of his work was autobiographical and how much was fiction. Now, for the first time, we are able to read the author’s own account of his experiences during the Second World War, events that went on to influence some of his greatest novels. These are the tales that Wharton never wanted to tell his children. Shrapnel is an unforgettable true story from one of America’s greatest writers. ‘A brave, unsettlingly frank memoir, that engages from start to finish’ Evening Standard ‘A remarkable book’ Vanessa Gebbie, author of The Coward’s Tale ‘Harrowing yet gripping’ The Lady ‘Simply astonishing’ The Australian

ISBN: 978-0-00-751301-7 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 04 February 2013 UK Price: £7.99

William Wharton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1925. During the Second World War, Wharton served in the US army, until an injury led to his discharge. In 1978, Wharton’s first novel, Birdy, was published to critical acclaim. Before his death in 2008, Wharton penned 8 further novels, and 3 memoirs.

Shrapnel (HB) 978-0-00-745807-3 £12.99

Birdy (PB) 978-0-00-745798-4 £7.99

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John Lenahan

Shadowmagic — THE SONS OF MACHA The thrilling final part of the Shadowmagic trilogy. When Conor returns to the Real World with Brendan and Ruby he tries to settle back into a normal life, but shortly after he arrives he is arrested for kidnapping a police officer. That police officer being Brendan. Accused by the FBI of being a terrorist, Conor tells his interrogator the truth: how he is really the heir to the throne of Tir Na Nog, a place where the trees can talk; that he has fought alongside imps and banshees against leprechauns and brownies; and that he is in love with a feisty young princess. Naturally, no one believes him, until that princess turns up to rescue him and take him back to Tir Na Nog. And when he gets there he finds he needs to team up with Essa, Araf and Taun for one final quest, a quest which will decide his ultimate destiny.

Thrills and wisecracks abound in this fitting finale to the Shadowmagic series.

Stocklist: Children’s Fiction Readership: Teenage / young adult ISBN: 978-0-00-745674-1 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 14 March 2013 UK Price: £6.99

John Lenahan is a popular magician on the live circuit and has appeared numerous times on radio and television. He is a regular at Sci-Fi and Fantasy conventions both in is role as a writer of fantasy fiction and as the voice of the toaster in Red Dwarf!

Shadowmagic (PB) 978-1-905548-92-7 £6.99

Prince of Hazel and Oak (PB) 978-0-00-742559-4 £6.99

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Caroline Smailes was born in Newcastle in 1973 and now lives in the North West of England with her husband and three children.

Caroline Smailes

THE DROWNING OF ARTHUR BRAXTON An urban fairy tale from the acclaimed author of 99 Reasons Why. Urban magic, a sacred pagan pool, a dysfunctional bullied boy, a beautiful water nymph, sexual awakening and a very dark secret are just some of the ingredients of this adult fairy tale in which Arthur Braxton finds a mystical world below a derelict swimming baths. Finding a beautiful girl who seems to spend all her time swimming in the pool of a disused public baths, Arthur falls in love. But the mystical pool in which their relationship develops is threatened with destruction, and of course the beautiful girl is not at all what she seems. Can love cross the divide of separate worlds? Can Arthur save his lover, and can he discover his lover’s secret before it is too late? • Caroline’s last book was 99 Reason Why, a digital original with eleven different endings. Publication caused a bit of a stir with two appearances on BBC Breakfast, an interview on Radio 4’s Today, 5Live Drive and reviews and features in the Independent, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Times and Guardian. Unprecedented coverage for an ebook. • This is Caroline’s first traditional print book since then. Her last, Like Bees to Honey was described as ‘haunting, heartfelt and beautiful’ by Chris Cleave.

Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747909-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 11 April 2013 UK Price: £7.99

Freaks (PB) 978-0-00-744289-8 £6.99

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Stocklist: Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-746005-2 Size: 130x197mm Format: Paperback (B Format) Imprint: The Friday Project Published: 02 May 2013 UK Price: £7.99

Harry Karlinsky obtained his MD from the University of Manitoba, his specialty degree in Geriatric Psychiatry from the University of Toronto and his Masters in Neuroscience from the University of London, England. He currently works as a Clinical Professor within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Harry Karlinsky

THE EVOLUTION OF INANIMATE OBJECTS: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879) LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2012: CELEBRATING MEDICINE IN LITERATURE While carrying out historical research at an Ontario asylum, psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky comes across a familiar surname in the register. Could the “Thomas Darwin of Down, England” be a relative of the famous Charles Darwin? In a narrative woven from letters, photographs, historical documents and illustrations, what emerges is a sketch of Thomas’s life — the last of eleven children born to Charles Darwin. It tells of his obsession with extending his father’s studies into the realm of inanimate objects – kitchen utensils, to be precise. Can the theory of evolution be applied to knives, forks and spoons? In this stunning factitious biography, Karlinsky presents us with the tragically short life of Thomas Darwin, leaving the reader to decide how much is fact and how much is fiction. ‘This may be a bagatelle of a novel, but it is one with so much charm and erudition it is more memorable than any door-stopping wodge of prose presenting itself as a diagnosis of the state of the nation’ Scotsman ‘Karlinsky’s retelling of Darwinian family history is ingeniously wry and original’ Essie Fox, author of The Somnambulist

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