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autumn 2009

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CONTENTS

3 July 4 August

8 October 9 October 10 October

13 Recently Published

14 Backlist

15 Contact Details

‘Where the hell have you been?’ demanded a characteristically gruff Field Marshall Montgomery on seeing his stepson walk into Allied HQ, gaunt and exhausted, in November 1943 – a year after he had been captured by the Germans at El Alamein.

Captain Dick Carver, having escaped from a POW camp and survived a gruelling 500-mile journey through Nazi-occupied Italy, knew better than to expect a visible display of emotion from Monty.

The remarkable story of how Britain’s favourite wartime hero came to be reunited with his beloved stepson is at the heart of The English Officer. Our lead title for this autumn, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of World War II, not only describes escape and derring-do but gives voice to a set of values now all but gone. It is a reminder of a lost age, when duty was all and when, in the face of terrifying challenges, a generation rose to extraordinary feats of valour in the service of a cause greater than themselves.

The spirit of this compelling book chimes with the mood of these turbulent times, when people, confronting an uncertain future, are once more looking towards their fathers and grandfathers for inspiration.

Aurea Carpenter and Rebecca NicolsonPublishers

INTrOduCTION

11 October 12 November

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CharlOTTE hIggINS It’s All Greek to MeFrom achilles’ heel to Pythagoras’ theorem: how ancient greece has shaped our world

With everything from Achilles’ heel to Pythagoras’ theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own.

Consider the way we think: about right and wrong, about the nature of beauty, goodness, and truth. What, in the end, it is to be a human being amid the immensity of the universe.

All this, and more, we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They moulded the basic disciplines and genres in which we still organise thought: from poetry to drama, from politics to philosophy, from history to medicine.

Packed with useful cribs – history timelines; a who’s who; a guide to the Greek gods; a map for those who struggle to know their Lemnos from their Lesbos – It’s All Greek To Me is a bluffer’s guide in one sense, that will give you a helping hand around Greek democracy, the Persian Wars, or the Parthenon. But it is much more than that; it is a book which aims to bring ancient Greece back into the mainstream of life – where it belongs.

Charlotte Higgins has worked for the Guardian in various guises for over a decade, latterly as chief arts writer. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent and studied classics at Balliol College, Oxford. She is also the author of Latin Love Lessons: Put a Little Ovid in Your Life (Short Books).

Non FictionHistory/Travel2nd July320pp £8.99B format paperback978-1-906021-59-7World Rights: Short BooksRights sold: Harpercollins, USA

‘A highly entertaining bluffer’s guide to Greek culture, philosophy and politics.’ The Sunday Times

‘It’s All Greek to Me is so readable, with a directness and clarity that’s enormously engaging. Every generation needs to rediscover the Greeks... What an excellent book.’ Phillip Pullman

‘Higgins delivers digestible précis and peppy plot summaries... the appendices would make fine stocking-fillers in their own right… A love letter to ancient Greece.’ The Telegraph

‘Higgins shows just precisely why the Greeks matter.’The Guardian

‘It’s All Greek to Me is so readable, with a directness and clarity that’s enormously engaging. Every generation needs to rediscover the Greeks...’

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gavIN mOrTImEr the GreAt swIMThe epic tale of the race to conquer the Channel

With the rain driving against her goggles, Gertrude stole one or two glances toward the English coast, but it seemed if anything to be receding. “After that, I felt I had better not look any more,” she said later, “but just go on swimming as long as I could keep alive.”’

In the aftermath of the Great War when the world was still trying to bury its wounds, one story captivated Europe and America – the battle between four young women to be the first to conquer the formidable waters of the English Channel.

Newspapers from Paris to New York engaged in rivalries nearly as competitive as the swimmers themselves, each backing a favourite which only fuelled the frenzy – Gertrude Ederle and Lilian Cannon, the two frontrunners, were sponsored by tabloid barons who used increasingly titillating photographs of them in their respective papers to drive circulation.

But ultimately it was the sheer physical determination and courage of the women themselves, as they battled the weather, the odds and each other, that made this swim one of history’s greatest sporting moments.

Gavin Mortimer was born in London and now lives in Montpellier in the south of France. He began writing full-time in 1996 and has contributed to a broad cross-section of publications, from Esquire to the BBC History Magazine and the Observer.

Non FictionSport/Biography2nd July304pp £8.99B format paperback978-1-906021-38-2UK and Com. ex. Canada: Short BooksForeign rights: Walker/Bloomsbury US

‘Gavin Mortimer’s story of the grit of these women cracks along like a Channel tide…’ Daily Telegraph

‘Mortimer’s tale, narrated with pacy enthusiasm, is a fascinating and irresistible slice of sporting history.’ The Daily Mail

‘The long-forgotten battles against cold, adverse tides, jellyfish and each other are marvellously brought back to life…’Sunday Times

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max vElOdy cAn we plAy you every week?a journey to the heart of all 92 football league clubs

Can We Play You Every Week? has something to please every fan...Velody really knows his stuff, and every pen-portrait is lavish with anecdote, trivia and opinion.’The Telegraph

Can We Play You Every Week? gets right under the skin of every football league club and captures the great moments all fans cherish. Packed with anecdotes, quotes, tall tales, small players, crooks, corruption and crackpots, worst signings and bizarre injuries, this book is essential reading for anyone with the love of our national sport running through their veins.

Get the low-down on the chasm between rich teams and poor, find out which club was elected to the league without kicking a ball and which goalie took a bung because he couldn’t sell his bungalow. Be amazed at the club owner who believed in aliens and the player whose career was ended by an ironing board. But, most of all, read about the heroism, love and loyalty of ordinary fans, the thousands who have kept their clubs going when the chips were really down...

Max Velody is not that old but his match day ticket costs precisely 432 times more than it did when he saw his first game. Bovril is Max’s half-time drink of choice, and he worries that it is going out of fashion. His team has won just one trophy in the last 70 years. Max is very confident this will be their year.

Non FictionSport6th August336pp £8.99B format paperback978-1-906021-74-0World rights: Short Books

‘Velody’s prose brims with the sort of humour that keeps the reader turning the page to mine more gems from the rich seam of fact, trivia and anecdote he’s skilfully assembled. This is the sort of writing that underpinned the rise of the fanzine movement in the Nineties, but which is now in as short supply as home-born players in the premiership.’ The Sunday Times

‘An irreverent study of all 92 league football clubs, this gem of a book contains a host of facts that will not be found in more solemn works of reference.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A guide with attitude. It’s funny, irreverent and bound to cause controversy.’ Manchester Evening News

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updated for the new season

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aNdrEw marTIN how to Get thInGs reAlly flAta man’s guide to ironing, dusting and other household arts

How to Get Things Really Flat will amuse and instruct any slobbish man, forced at gunpoint to read it...

Martin is surprisingly well qualified to write a guide to housework for men. Not only is he a man himself, but he does a lot about the house. On purely humanitarian grounds he recently took over some of the ironing from his wife; he then branched out into bath-cleaning, fairly regular vacuuming, and washing up after dinner (when he wasn’t going out).

For the purposes of this book, Martin has interviewed many experts, and can thus provide answers to such burning questions as: ‘Do I Need to Bother about the Controls on the Iron?’ and ‘Is Dust Actually Dangerous?’

The result is a genuinely enlightening read, combining practical housework advice with touching recollections from the author’s Yorkshire childhood and hilarious scenes from the daily sit-com of family life.

Andrew Martin trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and novelist. He has contributed to most national newspapers. His seven novels include five titles – beginning with The Necropolis Railway – featuring the young Edwardian detective, Jim Stringer. He has also written short stories and radio plays. He is married with two children.

Non FictionHumour6th August224pp £7.99B format paperback978-1-906021-71-9World rights:Short BooksRights sold: USA

‘You might not think that a book about cleaning could be funny but this made me laugh out loud. In the office. During a quiet lunch hour.’ Financial Times

‘Obviously my husband will be getting a pristine copy of How to Get Things Really Flat. The author takes his task seriously, but he’s also a funny and fluent writer and this one just might hang around to become an essential reference book as our two young boys grow up.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Andrew Martin has launched himself as an unlikely domestic god. This bloke’s guide is hilarious.’ Jan Moir, Daily Mail

6 SePTeMber NeW TITLe

STEPhEN FOSTEr ...And she lAuGhed no MoreStoke City’s Premiership adventure

The Premiership is not all glamour now that Stoke City’s ugly duckling wings are flapping in the Big Boys’ faces.

In 2008, unfashionable Stoke City managed to grind their way into the Promised Land of the Premiership. Under the dour, pragmatic guidance of manager Tony Pulis, they were never going to be pretty to watch.

Lifetime Stoke supporter Stephen Foster describes a club with a chip on its brawny shoulders, whose tactics were built around heroic defiance of superstars earning 150 grand a week – and, of course, Rory Delap’s long throw.

And She Laughed No More, the sequel to Foster’s bestselling She Stood There Laughing, chronicles the blood, sweat and tears of an unlikely season when the Potters were rescued from their lower league nightmare and transported to the Theatre of Dreams at Old Trafford (they lost 5-0).

Stephen Foster is the author of the top ten bestselling Walking Ollie and Along Came Dylan, which have sold more than 150,000 copies, and From Working Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace. She Stood There Laughing, his account of a season following Stoke City, was one of the bestselling sports books of 2004. He lives in Norwich with his partner and Dylan.

Non FictionSport/Memoir3rd September288pp £8.99B format paperback978-1-906021-62-7World rights:Short books

Praise for She Stood There Laughing:

‘A marvellously mordant account of one football supporter’s helpless obsession with a team who usually manage to let him down… It is amusing and effortlessly easy to read.’Scotland on Sunday

‘Buy it. Just go out and buy it. It doesn’t matter who you are or what football team you support. This is laugh-out-loud funny. I read it out to colleagues in the office who couldn’t care less about football, and we all roared with laughter.’ BBC Radio Stoke

‘I actually laughed until I ached.’The Times Books of the Year, Delia Smith

7 SePTeMber NeW TITLe

FraNCIS gIlbErT

workInG the systeMan insider’s guide to state education

A must-read for all parents of school age children

Working the System provides invaluable answers to all your questions as a concerned parent – with tips and advice about everything from choosing and getting your child into a good primary school, through to how to keep your teenagers motivated.

Via entertaining case studies – such as What could I have done to get more support for my son’s dyspraxia? and Can I ‘do a Tony Blair’ and avoid sending my child to the local sink school? – and using charts and diagrams to make complex issues comprehensible in a trice, this is the survival guide that every parent needs.

Working the System is the warts-and-all truth, told by an experienced teacher who has taught in the state sector for nearly twenty years and who has established a reputation for himself as a voice of candour and clarity in the world of modern educational doublespeak.

Francis Gilbert has taught in a variety of comprehensives in London, and currently teaches English part-time. His previous books have included bestselling I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Teacher On The Run (2005), Yob Nation (2006), and Parent Power (2008). He lives in east London with his wife and son. All his pupils think his coolest appearance was on the Russell Brand show.

Non FictionReference 3rd September256pp £12.99Demy trade paperback978-1-906021-75-7World rights: Short Books

Praise for Francis Gilbert’s bestselling I’m a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here!:

‘A fantastic book, a cheeringly horrifying and right on the nail description of the sheer terror of being deep ended into teaching.’ The Independent

‘It should be compulsory reading for successive secretaries of state…’ Clare Short, New Statesman

‘Gilbert is a natural storyteller. I read this in one jaw-dropping gulp.’ Tim Brighouse, Commissioner for London Schools

8 OcTOber NeW TITLe

dErEk wIlSON

BrItAIn’s reAlly rottenest yeArsThe black death, the Civil war, the roman Invasion... why this year might not be such a rotten one after all!

So you think we’ve got it bad this year...

As this horrible history of Britain shows, whatever life is throwing at us in the 21st century, our ancestors had it a whole lot worse. Try 1349 (the black death), or 1536 (the year the king went mad...), or 1720 (when a biblical fog descended on England for months and literally laid waste to the nation). The fact is that rat for rat, recession for recession, gory death for gory death, the ten really worstest years featured in this book are a reminder of just how bad things can get. War, terror, economic collapse... Britain has been there before. And for the likes of the Celts, or the Tudors, or the Georgians, these catastrophes were much harder to bear.

But Derek Wilson’s Britain’s Really Rottenest Years is not just a bad news story. It is a fantastically readable leapfrog through British history which takes us, via the interesting bits, from the misery of the Roman invasion of AD60 (when 50,000 Roman thugs invaded) to the Thatcherite year of discontent of 1981 – and the ideal gift for anyone who needs cheering up...

Derek Wilson is firmly established as one of Britain’s leading popular historians. Since leaving Cambridge, where he took the Archbishop Cranmer Prize for post-graduate research, he has written over 50 books including Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power and Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man, as well as making numerous radio and TV appearances.

Non FictionHomour/History1st October224pp £12.99B format hardback978-1-906021-58-0World rights: Short Books

9 OcTOber NeW TITLe

aNdrEw marTIN

Ghoul BrItAnnIAan anatomy of british ghostliness

Everyone knows someone who has seen a ghost. None of us can resist the topic. We all want to know more…

Britain is a nation filled with cynics and the secular. Yet it is haunted by history, by the trials and torments of generations past. Who among us, lying in bed at night, listening to the noises of the house – that creak in the stairs, the clock ticking away emptily in the hall – has not experienced a momentary chill, and then that first tremor of fear? Our very landscape and our gloomy climate are inherently eerie, a fitting playground for the supernatural.

In Ghoul Britannia, Andrew Martin takes us on a journey through our country and the darkest corners of the sub-conscious. He visits haunted homes, talks to sceptics and believers, attends an exor-cism, and asks what meaning lies buried deep within the most famous ghost stories.

This rich, absorbing, often very funny, book is a study not just of ghostliness but of Britishness, an exploration of why, now perhaps more than ever, we need the unexplainable – a sense of the un-known.

Andrew Martin trained as a barrister before becoming a journalist and novelist. He has contributed to most national newspapers. His seven novels include five titles – beginning with The Necropolis Railway – featuring the young Edwardian detective, Jim Stringer and he is the author of How to Get Things Really Flat (Short Books). He has also written short stories and radio plays. He is married with two children.

Non FictionMind Body Spirit1st October256pp £12.99B format hardback978-1-906021-85-6World Rights: Short Books

Roger Lewis is the author of books about Laurence Olivier, Charles Hawtrey and Anthony Burgess. His international bestselling biography The Life and Death of Peter Sellers was adapted into a multi-award-winning film. Married to an educational psychologist and with three sons, Lewis divides his time between Herefordshire and Austria.

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rOgEr lEwIS seAsonAl suIcIde notesmy life as it is lived

Seasonal Suicide Notes is about one man’s heroic daily battles against indignity, untidiness and rush.

For some years, the biographer Roger Lewis has been entertaining his friends with a letter at Christmas, in which he records details of the joys and frustrations of his life as it is actually lived.

Here for the first time is a book-length version of this ‘cult classic’, a hilarious collection of diaries and memoirs – highlights of which include a trip up the Amazon River with countless ants and Maureen Lipman; his eldest son Tristan training to be a juggler at Zippos Circus (‘Frankly, where did Magdalen College, Oxford, ever get me, eh?’); the mystery of the stolen kettle at Age Concern; the humiliation of not being invited to the premiere of his very own movie at Cannes; and the way the Dell call-centre people in Bombay keep thinking he’s a woman....

With his sharp eye for folly, his malice – and the unexpected shafts of humanity in spite of his chronic ill temper – Roger Lewis is the Evelyn Waugh of the 21st century. These addictive and paradoxically life-enhancing Seasonal Suicide Notes have the makings of a lasting comic masterpiece.

Non FictionHumour1st October192pp £12.99B format hardback978-1-906021-76-4World rights: Short Books

‘He makes me cry with laughter – I really cried, blubbering and sniffling and gasping. Roger Lewis is a magnificently bilious comic genius.’ Francis Wheen

‘Roger Lewis is a genius writer, and he knows it.’ Lynn Barber

‘So funny – so wicked – so brilliantly observed. I salute him.’ Gyles Brandreth

11 OcTOber NeW TITLe

TOm CarvEr

where the hell hAve you Been?El alamein, 1942: monty’s stepson is captured by the Nazis. a year later he walks back into allied hQ in southern Italy. This is his incredible story

In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured by German forces. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him and his peers, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone else, he was the stepson of Lt-Gen Bernard Montgomery, who had just inflicted the first serious land defeat on the Third Reich...

This enthralling wartime story tells of Richard’s internment in a POW camp in northern Italy – the same made famous by Eric Newby and his subsequent escape, when he decided to try and make his way back to Allied HQ in the south. During his gruelling 500-mile journey through German-occupied territory, he evaded capture again and again, and was finally saved by a family of brave Italian peasants who jeopardised not just their own lives but those of an entire village to take him in.

In 1943, a year after he had disappeared, gaunt and exhausted, Carver staggered back into army HQ to be greeted by a delighted but characteristically gruff Monty with the now infamous words: Where the hell have you been? This is a tale of great adventure and derring-do, 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 longtime foreign correspondent with the BBC. He lived with the mujihadeen during the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, walked with the Kurds over the mountains of Iraq and reported on the Rwandan genocide and the Bosnian war. 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.

Non FictionHistory/Memoir1st October356pp £16.99Royal hardback978-1-906021-53-5World Rights: Short Books

November, 1942: About 7am we came to a flooded river bed. As we dipped down into it, I saw a truck drawn up on the left of the road with Germans in it. At first I thought they were our prisoners; but they shouted at us to stop and turned their guns on us and then I realised that we were caught. It was a terrible moment, possibly the worst in my life – that awful sinking feeling as one realised that one had been captured and there was nothing one could do about it. In a couple of seconds some Germans had jumped out of their truck and were waving pistols in our faces and shouting at us to get out. There was nothing for it but to comply.’

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aNdrEw bIllEN

the MAn who Invented chrIstMAsThe story of Charles dickens

A real children’s classic – a rich slice of history, with Christmas at its heart

Like all children, the young Charles Dickens loved Christmas, and his parents made sure it was extra special – with dances, games, laughter and plum pudding. But when he was ten, his life changed drastically – his father was thrown into the debtor’s prison and Charles’s magical childhood came to an abrupt end.

In The Man Who Invented Christmas, Andrew Billen tells the story of how Dickens became England’s most famous writer – and chased the dream of a perfect Christmas for the rest of his life.

He never forgot his days among the poor and abandoned, and as he rose to fame, he believed more and more in the importance of doing good to others. This became Dickens’s Christmas message – and the inspiration for his book, A Christmas Carol, one of the most enduring stories ever told.

Andrew Billen is a feature writer on, and currently television critic of, The Times. He has worked on the Observer, the Standard and the New Statesman. His previous books include Sam Johnson, The Wonderful Word Doctor also for Short Books. He lives in Oxford, where he went to university, with his wife and young daughter.

Non FictionChildren’s Biography5th November112pp £8.99B format hardback978-1-906021-82-5World rights: Short Books

“I don’t know what to do!” cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings. “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!’ A Christmas Carol

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A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE Charles ChadwickB format hardback 978-1-906021-40-5

ICE LAND Betsy TobinB format paperback978-1-906021-34-4

FROM WORKING CLASS HERO TO ABSOLUTE DISGRACE Stephen FosterDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-21-4

BENNY & SHRIMP Katarina MazettiB format paperback 978-1-906021-36-8

THE WISDOM OF DONKEYS Andy MerrifieldB format paperback 978-1-906021-37-5

KEEPER Andrea GilliesDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-65-8

THE OLD BOYS’ NETWORK John RaeRoyal hardback 978-1-906021-63-4

HAVE A NICE DAY Justin WebbB format paperback 978-1-906021-70-2

ASK YOUR FATHER Emma CookB format trade paperback 978-1-906021-61-0

McNAUGHTEN Siân BusbyRoyal hardback 978-1-906021-05-4

THE RELUCTANT FATHER’S CLUB Nick DuerdenDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-50-4

THE DAYS OF JUDY B Rose HeineyB format paperback 978-1-906021-35-1

baCklISTFICTIONA CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE Charles ChadwickB format hardback 978-1-906021-40-5

BENNY & SHRIMP Katarina MazettiB format paperback 978-1-906021-36-8

ICE LAND Betsy TobinB format paperback 978-1-906021-34-4

McNAUGHTEN Siân BusbyRoyal hardback 978-1-906021-05-4

THE DAYS OF JUDY B Rose HeineyB format paperback 978-1-906021-35-1

NON-FICTIONA BAD BIRDWATCHER’S COMPANION Simon Barnes B format hardback 978-1-904977-37-7

AMO, AMAS, AMAT...and all that Harry MountB format paperback 978-1-906021-15-3

A Rage for Rock Gardening Nicola ShulmanB format paperback 978-1-904095-47-7

A ROMANOV FANTASY Frances WelchDemy hdbk 978-1-904977-71-1

A SEASIDE PRACTICE Dr Tom SmithB format paperback 978-1-906021-23-8

ASK THE FRUITCAKE LADY Marie Rudisill165 x 129mm hdbk 978-1-904977-90-2

ASK YOUR FATHER Emma CookB format trade paperback 978-1-906021-61-0

A WONDERFUL LITTLE GIRL Siân BusbyB format ppbk 978-1-904095-70-5

BROWN’S BRITAIN Robert PestonRoyal paperback 978-1-904977-36-0

CAMILLA Rebecca TyrrelA format ppbk 978-1-904095-73-6

CHAMFORT Edited by Douglas ParméeB format hdbk 978-1-904095-62-0

CHANGE THE WORLD FOR A FIVER 210mm x 196mm paperback 978-1-904095-96-5

CHANGE THE WORLD 9-5 210mm x 196mm paperback 978-1-904977-48-3

COOKING FOR KINGS Ian KellyDemy paperback 978-1-904095-93-4

DEAR BLUE PETER Biddy Baxter 198x152mm paperback 978-1-906021-49-8

DON’T SWEAT THE AUBERGINE Nicholas CleeDemy paperback 978-1-904977-78-0

DUCKS IN A ROW Carl NewbrookB format paperback 978-1-904977-68-1

EVER DATED A PSYCHO? Paul DuddridgeB format hardback 978-1-904977-80-3

FROM WORKING CLASS HERO TO ABSOLUTE DISGRACE Stephen FosterDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-21-4

GOING BUDDHIST Peter J. ConradiB format paperback 978-1-904977-01-8

GOING LOCO Dr Tom SmithB format hardback 978-1-906021-68-9

HAVE A NICE DAY Justin WebbB format paperback 978-1-906021-70-2

HAZLITT IN LOVE Jon CookB format hdbk 978-1-904977-40-7

HOW TO BE A BAD BIRDWATCHER Simon BarnesB format paperback 978-1-904977-05-6

HOW TO BE WILD Simon BarnesB format paperback 978-1-904977-97-1

I’M A TEACHER GET ME OUT OF HERE! Francis Gilbert B format paperback 978-1-904977-02-5

I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL John O’ConnellB format paperback 978-1-904977-44-5

KEEPER Andrea GilliesDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-65-8

LATIN LOVE LESSONS Charlotte HigginsB format hardback 978-1-906021-13-9

MADCAP Tim Willis B format pbck 978-1-904095-50-7

MEMORIES OF SHOSTAKOVICHTransl by Rosanna Kelly and Michael MeylacB format hardback 978-1-904095-64-4

MIND THE GAP Ferdinand MountB format paperback 978-1-904977-32-2

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING Rupert ChristiansenB format hardback 978-1-906021-16-0

ONE TO NINE Andrew HodgesB format paperback 978-1-906021-26-9

OUT OF THE WOODS Will CohuB format hardback 978-1-904977-83-4

TEACHER ON THE RUN Francis GilbertB format paperback 978-1-904977-55-1

TEACH YOUR GRANNY TO TEXT 280 x 214 mm paperback 978-1-406320-71-8

THE BIG BOOK OF ME Nina GrunfeldCrown Quarto ppbk 978-1-904977-49-0

THE BIG BOOK OF US Nina GrunfeldCrown Quarto ppbk 978-1-904977-87-2

THE CRUEL MOTHER Siân Busby B format paperback 978-1-904977-06-3

THE FATHER’S BOOK Elma Van Vliet232 x 170mm hardback 978-1-906021-69-6

THE GIRLS’ EMPIRE 198x152mm hdbck 978-1-906021-17-7

THE GOOD GRANNY COMPANIONJane Fearnley-Whittingstall198 x 152mm paperback 978-1-906021-66-5

THE GOOD GRANNY COOKBOOKJane Fearnley-Whittingstall164 x 256mm paperback 978-1-906021-44-3

THE GOOD GRANNY GUIDE Jane Fearnley-WhittingstallB format paperback 978-1-904977-70-4

THE HOUSE THAT TOM BUILT Tom Don235 x 170mm hardback 978-1-904095-91-0

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ETON Nick FraserB format paperback 978-1-906021-27-6

THE LOW CARBON DIET Polly Ghazi & Rachel Lewis205x190mm 978-1-904977-98-8

THE MEANING OF SPORT Simon BarnesB format paperback 978-1-904977-85-8 THE MOTHER’S BOOK Elma Van Vliet232x170mm hardback 978-1-906021-09-2

THE OLD BOYS’ NETWORK John RaeRoyal hardback 978-1-906021-63-4

THE RELUCTANT FATHER’S CLUB Nick DuerdenDemy trade paperback 978-1-906021-50-4

THE WISDOM OF DONKEYS Andy MerrifieldB format paperback 978-1-906021-37-5

WALKING OLLIE Stephen FosterB format paperback 978-1-904977-88-9

WENGER Jasper Rees A format pbck 978-1-904095-72-9

WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP? Deborah Hutton130mm x 175mm paperback 978-1-904977-39-1

WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? Yvonne RobertsDemy hardback 978-1-904977-42-1

ChIldrEN’S FICTIONB format ppbks

THE AWFUL TALE OF AGATHA BILKESiân Pattenden 978-1-904977-51-3

OPERATION WARD 10 Siân Pattenden 978-1-904977-89-6

PARIS MATCH Siân Pattenden 978-1-906021-30-6

RUBIES IN THE SNOW Kate Hubbard 978-1-906021-64-1

ChIldrEN’S NON-FICTIONTHE WHO WAS... SERIES – B format ppbks

ADA LOVELACE Lucy Lethbridge 978-1-904095-76-7

ADMIRAL NELSON Sam Llewellyn 978-1-904095-65-1

ALEXANDER SELKIRK Amanda Mitchison 978-1-904095-79-8

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