Bloomsbury Publishing Adult Rights Guide London 2016

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The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest

Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multi-generational tale of drugs, desire and belonging. It gets into your bones. You don’t even realise it, until you’re driving through it, watching all the things you’ve always known and leaving them behind. Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers, in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London – the place they have always called home.

Bloomsbury Circus PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16 EXTENT: 416 Rights sold: Casa da Palavra (Portuguese – Brazil), Meulenhof (Dutch), Payot and Rivages (French), Rowohlt (German), Frassinelli (Italian), Brombergs (Swedish)

As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done. In The Bricks that Built The Houses Kate Tempest explores contemporary city life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us irresistible stories of hidden lives, and showing us how the best intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest is from south London. Her epic poem Brand New Ancients won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry in 2013. The following year she was named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet. In the same week her debut solo album, Everybody Down, a narrative driven hip hop record involving the same characters as the novel, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. Her most recent poetry collection is the acclaimed Hold Your Own. The Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel. ‘Powerful and merciful’ Ali Smith ‘A talent that knows no bounds’ Independent ‘A powerful mix of innocence and experience’ New York Times

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The Memory Stones Caroline Brothers

A compelling tale of a young woman’s disappearance in 1970s Argentina, The Memory Stones is a sweeping, epic story of a family tragedy whose consequences echo throughout generations Buenos Aires, 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives in Miami, and wilful Graciela – nineteen, radiant and madly in love with her fiancé, José. They will be the last days the family ever spends together.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 14/07/16 EXTENT: 480

On their return, the Argentine military stages a coup, and Osvaldo is forced to flee to Europe as friends and colleagues disappear overnight. When José is abducted, Graciela goes into hiding. Osvaldo can only witness the disintegration of his family from afar, while Yolanda fights on the ground to find their beloved daughter – rumours of the Junta’s brutality darkening her fears. Soon, she realises they may be fighting for an unknown grandchild as well. Heartbreaking and beautiful, The Memory Stones tells the story of the Disappeared, thousands of Argentinians who fell victim to the violence of the period. Depicting the despair and hope of one family seeking to rebuild itself after unimaginable loss, it is a lyrical, devastating portrait of a country that has come face to face with terror and the long, dark shadow it leaves behind. Caroline Brothers was born in Australia. She has a PhD in history from University College London and has worked as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Latin America, and as a journalist at the International New York Times. She is the author of War and Photography, and the novel Hinterland. She divides her time between London and Paris. carolinebrothers.com @CaroBrothers

Praise for Hinterland: 'A heart-wrenching story of two young brothers on a long, hard road; a story that all of us should read' Daily Mail ‘An illuminating and timely story … a book that haunts and shames in equal measure’ Guardian Rights sold: Newton Compton (Italian), Berlin Verlag (German), Signatuur (Dutch), Mlada Fronta (Czech)

‘A moving account … Brothers’ elegant prose holds sentimentality at bay, complementing some impressive reportage’ Financial Times

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Fiction

Confidence

Rowland Manthorpe and Kirstin Smith Starter for Ten meets Essays in Love in a funny, thought-provoking philosophical novel about the power – and the dangers – of confidence God may be dead, but getting through Finals will take a miracle The nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said that whatever does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche was obviously never forced to down an entire jar of stilton by a sixfoot, fifteen-stone rugby player...

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 25/08/16 EXTENT: 320

Ellie Taber’s final year at university is hurtling to a close at alarming speed. Defeated by her philosophy dissertation and uncertain as to why she can’t quite commit to her faultlessly supportive boyfriend, she is disenchanted with university life. Charlie, on the other hand, is determined to use his final year to become the man he was always meant to be. He plans to play the field, do just enough work to secure his degree, finally develop his brilliant business idea and basically have an awesome time. They are both in for a surprise. Rowland Manthorpe is an editor at Wired magazine. His writing has been published in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic and Spectator. Rowland studied History at Cambridge and Political Theory at the London School of Economics, and has been awarded the Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing by the Guardian and The Fabian Society. Kirstin Smith was born in Edinburgh and studied English at Cambridge. Having worked extensively as an actor in film, television and theatre, Kirstin completed a PhD in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. Her prize-winning research on the history of stunts has appeared in The Drama Review.

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The Gun Room Georgina Harding

A beautiful, powerful and utterly devastating new novel from Orange Prize-shortlisted author Georgina Harding The memory of war will stay with a man longer than anything else. Dawn, mist clearing over the rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village, and a young war photographer gets the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what he has seen in that village is more than he can bear, and he flees. Jonathan drifts on to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo, where there are different kinds of pictures to be taken: peacetime pictures of crowds and subways and cherry blossom. And pictures of a girl with whom he is no longer lost: innumerable pictures of Kumiko, on the streets and in the rain and in the heat of the summer. Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 21/04/16 EXTENT: 224

Yet even here in this alien city, his history will catch up with him: that photograph and his responsibility in taking it; his responsibility as a witness to war, and as a witness to other events buried far deeper in his past. The Gun Room is a powerful exploration of image and memory, and of the moral complexity and emotional consequences of the experience of war.

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Painter of Silence Shortlisted for the Orange Prize

The Solitude of Thomas Cave

Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. She lives on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.

Praise for Painter of Silence: ‘Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Ondaatje … At once delicate and sweeping … A novel about that passage of time, the senselessness of war, and the need to find and preserve meaning. This is a satisfying read’ Daily Mail ‘This is fiction of the most graceful kind … a quiet storm of imagery and emotions’ Independent on Sunday

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Fiction

The Photographer’s Wife Suzanne Joinson

By the author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar, an LA Times bestseller: a beautiful and gripping story of love and betrayal, set in 1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious – and wildly eccentric – plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the ‘little witness’, eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city's elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 05/05/16 EXTENT: 352

When Prue’s father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. And, after Harrington learns that Eleanora’s husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British, those sparks fan dangerously into a flame. Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her young son, when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels her world, and she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets longago buried in Jerusalem. The Photographer’s Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex period between the two world wars. Suzanne Joinson is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work has appeared in, among other places, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon, Lonely Planet travel writing anthologies and the Independent on Sunday. Her first novel, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (2012), was translated into sixteen languages and was a national bestseller. She lives in Sussex. suzannejoinson.com @suzyjoinson

Rights sold: Presses de la Citie (French), Shanghai Century Literature Company (Chinese simplified), Berlin (German), Intrinseca (Portuguese – Brazil), Elliot (Italian), Turbluenz (Danish), Laguna (Serbian), Nishimura Shoten (Japanese), Roca (Spanish), The House of Books (Dutch), Vigmostad and Bjorke (Norwegian) 6

Praise for A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar: ‘An impressive debut, its prose is lucid and deep as a mountain lake’ New York Times ‘An ambitious, accomplished debut’ Daily Mail

Fiction

Everything Love Is Claire King

From the author of The Night Rainbow: a poignant, mysterious and unforgettable story of love, and of the happy endings we conceive for ourselves. Baptiste Molino has devoted his life to other people’s happiness. Moored on his beloved houseboat on the edge of Toulouse, he helps his clients navigate the waters of contentment, yet remains careful never to make waves of his own. Baptiste is more concerned with his past than his future: particularly the mysterious circumstances of his birth and the identity of his birth mother. But Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar, believes it is time for Baptiste to raise his aspirations and rediscover passion and leads him into the world on his doorstep he has long tried to avoid.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 28/07/16 EXTENT: 384

However it is Baptiste’s new client who may end up being the one to change his perspective. Elegant and enigmatic, Amandine Rousseau is fast becoming a puzzle he longs to solve. As winter approaches and tensions rise on the streets of the city, Baptiste’s determination to avoid both the highs and lows of love begins to waver. And when his mother’s legacy finally reveals itself he finds himself torn between pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves. Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013. She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. After fourteen years in southern France, Claire has recently returned to the UK and now lives with her family by a canal in Gloucestershire. claireking.com @ckingwriter

Praise for The Night Rainbow: ‘Quirky, elegant and sweet: I loved it!’ Joanne Harris ‘At once moving and gripping, elegant and spare, The Night Rainbow is a daring novel about a child faced with the baffling world of adult grief. Claire King nails the voice of the child narrator from the first page; Pea is a heroine you won’t forget’ Maggie O’Farrell ‘Emotional and beautifully written, you’ll be on tenterhooks throughout’ Stylist RIGHTS SOLD: Orlando (Dutch), Berlin Verlag (German), Piemme (Italian), Pegasus (Turkish), Pascal (Polish)

‘An original, beguiling debut about the consequences of an imaginatively lived life’ Marie Claire

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Fiction

Show Me A Mountain Kerry Young

From the Costa and Commonwealth-shortlisted author of Pao, set against the backdrop of Jamaican independence, a story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal. Fay Wong is a woman caught between worlds. Her father is a Chinese immigrant who conjured a fortune out of nothing; her African heritage mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over their mansion in Lady Musgrave Road. But the Chinatown haunts where her father spends his time are out of bounds to Fay, and the airy rooms of Lady Musgrave Road are filled with her mother’s long kept secrets and uncontrollable rages – rages against which Fay rebels as she grows from a girl into a beautiful, headstrong woman. For hers is a country where even the smallest difference in skin colour can mark the boundary between the promise of a future and the burden of the past, where the struggle for power is played out not only in government buildings, but also on the manicured lawns of the schools for Kingston’s elite.

Bloomsbury Circus PUBLICATION DATE: 30/06/16 EXTENT: 400

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Pao

As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, striving for independence in a homeland that is trying to do the same, Fay’s eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when her mother decides that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that leads to sacrifice and profound betrayals. Kerry Young was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to a Chinese father and a mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage. She moved to England in 1965 and lives in Leicestershire. Kerry is a reader and mentor for The Literary Consultancy, and a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at The University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester. She was writer-in-residence at The University of Sheffield (2014-2016) as a part of the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Programme. kerryyoung.co.uk Praise for Pao: ‘A blindingly good read’ Observer ‘Captivating’ Daily Mail

Gloria

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‘Heart-felt, sparky and absorbing’ Guardian

Fiction

Please Do Not Disturb Robert Glancy

A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and innocence, Please Do Not Disturb is the funny, disturbing and deeply affecting new book by the author of Terms & Conditions Charlie, a curious boy with a dangerous dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for the annual appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo. Sean, an Irishman who’s given his heart (and the best part of his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African novel – if only his crazed fiancée and fierce thirst would stop distracting him. Josef, mythmaker and kingmaker, who paved the way for Tafumo’s rise to power, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet. Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 16/06/16 EXTENT: 304 RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur (German)

Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive, maintaining the façade of the powerful ruler, as she mourns her own broken dreams. And in the countdown to the Big Day, storm clouds are gathering as petty criminal, Jack, smuggles something into Bwalo – to the Mirage Hotel – that will change the lives of all of them for ever… Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in New Zealand, where he currently lives with his wife and children.

Praise for Terms & Conditions: ‘Every book seems to have “funny and life-affirming” written on it but this one actually is’ Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive ‘It’s wonderful. Funny, poignant, simple and profound’ Gavin Extence, author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods

Terms & Conditions Robert Glancy

RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur (German), Host (Czech), Sindbad (Russsian) 9

Fiction

Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation James Runcie

The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, now a major ITV drama Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is beginning to think that the life of a full-time priest (and part-time detective) is not easy. So when a bewitching divorcee in a mink coat interrupts Sidney’s family lunch asking him to help locate her missing son, he hopes it will be an open and shut case. The last thing he expects is to be dragged into the mysterious workings of a sinister cult, or to find himself tangled up in another murder investigation. But, as always, the village of Grantchester is not as peaceful as it seems …

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 02/06/2016 EXTENT: 336 RIGHTS SOLD: AST (Russia); Hoffman und Campe (German); Actes Sud (French), Duomo Ediciones (Spanish), Vallardi (Italian), Massolit (Sweden)

From the theft of an heirloom to an ominous case of blackmail, Sidney is once again rushed off his feet in this eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in the Grantchester Mysteries series. James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of eight novels. Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil and Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time, six-part series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers. James Runcie lives in Edinburgh. ‘Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ The Times ‘Runcie works his magic using simple sentences, archetypal characters and a sense of suspense that creates an atmosphere of delicious anticipation’ Independent

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Fiction

Mr Iyer Goes to War Ryan Lobo

An inventive, ambitious interpretation of Don Quixote for our times, Mr Iyer Goes To War is a playful, profound adventure heralding a bold new voice in Indian fiction The worst effect of the accident was that Iyer became very prone to losing his temper with mere humanity and became, as Mr Khanolkar often called him, completely mad.

Bloomsbury India PUBLICATION DATE: 3/11/16 EXTENT: 352

Dispatched to a hospice in the sacred city of Varanasi, seventy-something Lalgudi Iyer spends his days immersed in scripture and awaiting spiritual transcendence. When an accident leaves him with a concussion, he sees a vision of his past incarnation – he is the reincarnation of the mythological warrior Bhima sent from the heavens to destroy evil. Convinced of his need to continue his mission and revive the noble principles of Hindu mythology, Iyer embarks on an epic adventure across India with the help of his trusted companion Bencho the undertaker. His attempts at restoring order to the world, and in the process, winning over the heart of the deeply disinterested maiden Damyanti, are hampered only by his complete detachment from sanity and the reality of contemporary India. Ryan Lobo is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Bangalore. Publications in which his writing has featured include the Boston Review, National Geographic, Caravan, Bidoun Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.

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Fiction

Tanya Tania Antara Ganguli

A book about being a teenager in Pakistan and India. Through letters we follow the lives of four girls, two wealthy and two poor, two Pakistani and two Indian. Two who know exactly what their future holds and two who are convinced that they will never measure up. Last night there was a snowstorm that made my window disappear. I woke up gasping at the heater. This is my first letter in three years. First letter since I left Pakistan. First letter since Nusrat.

Bloomsbury India PUBLICATION DATE: 22/06/16 EXTENT: 224

The first letter in Tanya Tania, a novel in letters, is from Tanya Tilati, a Pakistani student at an American university, in the winter of 1996. The letter is to Tania Ghosh, her mother’s best friend’s daughter in Bombay, India. Except this is not her first letter. Tanya and Tania wrote thirty-eight letters to each other between the summer of 1991 and January 8, 1992 when they abruptly stopped. Until now. It is 1991. Mangoes, biker shorts and liberalisation are in. Hips, boom boxes and Whitney Houston are out. Boyfriends are hurtful but necessary, school politics draw fragile lines of power. The letters reveal mysteries at home and hazards at school. In Tanya’s house, her American mother has gone from quiet to silent, turning from the house to her garden where she obsesses like a new mother over her roses and orchids. Tania is terrified her father is having an affair. She oscillates between blaming and admiring her mother who used to be a part-time employee at a small family-run firm and is now a workaholic partner in a brash multinational. But then something happens that makes these heartaches pale. In Karachi, Tanya’s brother receives a kidnapping threat. And in Bombay, the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya is attacked. Through an unlikely friendship between two girls coming of age in two countries that are coming of age, Tanya Tania makes us question identity: Indian and Pakistani, Hindu and Muslim, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. And, in the end, it makes us confront the truth of what makes us human. Antara Ganguly works in international development and is a frequent contributor to Indian and international publications on gender and education policy. She was selected to be an Asia Society Young Leader for India and Pakistani in 2014. Her first novel, The Buggles, was published in 2001. She lives in New York.

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fiction highlights: Original Fiction

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke

RIGHTS SOLD: Agave Kiado (Hungarian), Hunan Literature and Arts Publishing (Simplified Chinese), Salamandra (World Spanish), Casa da Palavra (Portuguese), Robbert Laffont (French), Dobrovsky (Czech), Slovart (Slovak), Mag Jacek Rodek (Polish), Berlin Verlag (German), Zalozba Sanje (Slovenian), Companhia das Letras (Brazilian Portuguese), Atticus Azbooka (Russian), Alfa Yayinlari (Turkish), Casa das Letras (Portuguese)

Life! Death! Prizes! Stephen May

‘Written with a wry wit’ The Times RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag (German)

When Mr Dog Bites

Pig’s Foot

‘I loved Dylan Mint. He made me laugh out loud and his tenacity had me rooting for him from the first page’ Stephen Kelman

‘Spellbinding’ Independent on Sunday

Brian Conaghan

Carlos Acosta

RIGHTS SOLD: Kero (French)

RIGHTS SOLD: Arche Verlag (German), Argo Nakladatelsvi (Czech), Pegasus Yayinlari (Turkish), Rocco (Brazilian Portuguese), Rosinante (Danish)

Wake Up Happy Every Day Stephen May

‘Razor-sharp wit’ Guardian

We Are Pirates Daniel Handler

RIGHTS SOLD: Record (Brazilian Portuguese), Pegasus (Turkish), Baldini Castoldi (Italian), Siruela (Spanish) 13

fiction highlights: Original Fiction

Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) C. Joseph Greaves

Mimi

The Gamal

‘A wildly hilarious, modern film noir in fiction form’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A gritty, modern Romeo and Juliet… compelling’ Independent

Lucy Ellmann

Ciarán Collins

RIGHTS SOLD: Editions Joelle Losfeld (French), Berlin Verlag (German)

Wilderness

The Hollow of the Hand

Lance Weller

PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy

‘Epic … big, bold debut’ Financial Times

RIGHTS SOLD: Samlaget (Norwegian), Sexto piso (Spanish – World)

RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin Verlag (German), Editions Gallmeister (French), Keller Editore (Italian)

The Private Life of Mrs Sharma Ratika Kapur

‘Kapur hits the nail on the head in this portrayal of the conflicting demands of motherhood and selfhood’ Independent ‘Frighteningly good’ Mohammed Hanif

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fiction highlights: Literary Fiction

Clay

Don’t Let Him Know

‘Instantly beautiful in its calm and wise tone’ Robert Macfarlane

‘This artful novel is a true delight’ Daily Mail

‘Heartlfelt, elegiac ... Lovingly observed’ Sunday Times

‘A believable and wonderfully written story of secrets between the generations’ The Times

Melissa Harrison

Sandip Roy

A Slant of Light Jeffrey Lent

RIGHTS SOLD: Les Escales (French)

The Hired Man

Helium

The Memory of Love

‘Supremely masterful’ Independent

‘A wonderfully well-woven tale that shines a light on fascinating and appalling events’ Michael Palin, Observer, Books of the Year

RIGHTS SOLD: Ailantus/Boom(Dutch), Albatros (Poland), Alfaguara (Spanish), Antalog (Macedonian), Beijing Heping Yahua Cultural Communications(Simplified Chinese), Cavallo di Ferro (Italian), DVA (German), Euromedia (Czech), Grupo Editorial Paz e Terra (Brazilian Portuguese), Gyldendal Norsk (Norwegian), Ikar (Slovak), Into Publishing (Finnish), Tideme Skifter(Danish)

Aminatta Forna

RIGHTS SOLD: Nieuw Amsterdam (Dutch), Santillana (Spanish), Tiderne Skifter (Danish), Zala Publishing House (Slovenian)

Jaspreet Singh

Aminatta Forna

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fiction highlights: highlights Women’s Fiction

From a Distance Raffaella Barker

‘Wonderful writer ... Incredible books’ David Baldacci, New York Times ‘One of the cleverest and freshest of British novelists’ Daily Mail

The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel Maureen Lindley

RIGHTS SOLD: Agam (Hebrew), Alma Littera (Lithuanian), Berlin Verlag (German), Mehta Publishing House (Marathi), Neri Pozza (Italian), Oceanida (Greek), Polirom (Romanian), Profil International Limited (Croatian), Proszynski (Polish), Prozoretz (Bulgarian), Ripol (Russian), Sanskrit (Thai), Tericum (Hungarian)

A Girl Like You

Miss Carter’s War

‘A sweeping coming-ofage novel’ Western Mail

‘A rich and absorbing story you won’t want to put down’ Daily Express

Maureen Lindley

RIGHTS SOLD: Proszynski (Polish)

Sheila Hancock

fiction highlights: CRIME Fiction

Sleeping Dogs Thomas Mogford

‘Superb series … moves Mogford’s shrewd and atmospheric Mediterranean noir into the newest and darkest of territories’ Guardian Summer Reading 16

Shadow of the Rock Thomas Mogford

‘Very original … A rare and enviable talent’ William Boyd

Sign of the Cross

Hollow Mountain

‘Will leave the reader eagerly anticipating the next instalment’ Irish Times

‘Exciting and assured … Popular fiction at its best’ Susan Hill, Spectator, Books of the Year

Thomas Mogford

Thomas Mogford

fiction highlights

One Thousand and One Nights Hanan al-Shaykh

‘Magical’ Donna Tartt, The Times RIGHTS SOLD: Actes Sud (French), Sindbad (Russian), Vulkan (Serbian)

Graphic Novels

The Inflatable Woman Rachael Ball

The Odyssey Seymour Chwast

The Canterbury Tales Seymour Chwast

Dante’s Divine Comedy Seymour Chwast

RIGHTS SOLD: Companhia das Letras (Brazil), Knesebeck (German), Kronos Yayincilik (Turkish) 17

GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Gangster Warlords Ioan Grillo

From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men at the heads of cartels throughout Latin America: what drives them, what sustains their power, and how they might be brought down. In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil’s biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies.

Bloomsbury Press PUBLICATION DATE: 19/01/16 EXTENT: 384 RIGHTS SOLD: Penguin Random House Mexico (Spanish – World)

A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over much of the world’s trade in narcotics, guns, and humans. What they do affects you now – from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U.S. Gangster Warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U.S. after the Cold War. Author of the critically acclaimed El Narco, Ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of control – one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now. Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England, Grillo lives in Mexico City.

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El Narco Ioan Grillo

RIGHTS SOLD: De Agostini (Italian), Modernista (Swedish), Remi (Polish), Urano (Spanish), Meta (French), Gendaikika (Japanese), Corint (Romanian)

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The Fate of Gender Frank Browning

A deeply reported, provocative, and path-breaking look at the fastchanging global landscape of gender today, from the bestselling author of The Culture of Desire.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 07/06/16 EXTENT: 304

Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. Along the way he elucidates the neuroscience that distinguishes male and female biology, shows us how all parents' brains change during the first weeks of parenthood, and finally how men's and women's responses to age differ worldwide based not on biology but on their earlier life habits. Starting with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous observation that one is not born a woman but instead becomes a woman, Browning goes on to show equally that no one is born a man but learns how to perform as a man, and that there is no fixed way of being masculine or feminine. Increasingly, the categories of “male” and “female” and even “gay” and “straight” seem old-fashioned and reductive. Just visible on the horizon is a world of gender and sexual fluidity that will remake our world in fundamental ways. Linking science to culture and behavior, he challenges the traditional division of Nature vs. Nurture in everything from plant science to sexual expression, arguing in the end that life consists of an endless waltz between these two ancient notions. Former NPR science reporter Frank Browning grew up on an apple farm in Kentucky and now lives in Paris. His books include The American Way of Crime (with John Gerassi), The Culture of Desire, A Queer Geography, Apples: The Story of the Fruit of Temptation, and The Monk & the Skeptic. He writes on art and culture for the Huffington Post and has contributed to the Washington Post Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Salon, and other publications.

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Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were Phiip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott

A tour of some of the world’s most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them Most of us are aware that many animals are threatened by extinction – the plight of iconic creatures such as polar bears, tigers and whales has been well publicised. While typically attributed to climate change and habitat destruction, few people realise that there is a direct link with consumer demand for cheap meat.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 12/01/17 EXTENT: 320

Some may see intensive farming as a necessary evil. After all, we need to produce more food for a growing global population and are led to believe that squeezing animals into factory farms and growing crops in vast, chemicalsoaked prairies, is efficient and leaves land free for wildlife – but this is far from the truth. With the limits of the planet’s resources now seemingly within touching distance, awareness is growing about how the wellbeing of society depends on a thriving natural world. Through the lens of a dozen iconic and endangered species, Dead Zone examines the role of industrial farming in their plight and meets the people doing something about it. By the authors of the internationally successful Farmageddon, Dead Zone takes the reader on a global safari involving some of the world’s most iconic and endangered species. The focus shifts from the plight of farm animals to the impact of industrial farming on specific endangered species, as the book lays bare the myths that prop up factory farming and shows what we can do to save the planet with healthy food. Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.

Farmageddon

Philip Lymbery with Isabel Oakeshott ‘A wake-up call to the perils of industrial agriculture’ Observer RIGHTS SOLD: Nikkei BP (Japanese) AND Publishing (Complex Chinese) Illumatio Lukasz (Polish), Nutrimenti (Italian)

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Churchill’s Legacy: Two Speeches to Save the World Alan Watson

‘Although they were attacked and denounced at the time, Winston Churchill’s two great speeches of 1946 – delivered 4,700 miles away from each other – created the political architecture for the whole postwar period. To a very great degree, the geostrategic world we inhabit today sprung from the words Churchill spoke at Fulton, Missouri and Zurich, Switzerland. Alan Watson’s scholarly, well-written and penetrating analysis shows how that came about.’ Andrew Roberts Churchill’s role in restoring European unity from the perspective of his two key speeches in 1946 at Fulton and Zurich

Bloomsbury UK Publication date: 08/09/2016 Extent: 224

Churchill’s Legacy describes how Churchill wielded his influence in post-war politics to enable the restoration of Europe through two key speeches in 1946. Having first helped bring victory to the Allies in 1945, Churchill went on to preserve the freedom of the world by gaining the support of the United States in the restoration of Europe. In Fulton Missouri, Churchill alerted America to the reality of ‘Uncle Joe’ — a tyrant determined to dominate Europe at any cost. Churchill called for an Anglo-American alliance based on their shared values and the deterrent of America’s possession of the atomic bomb. Churchill also urged the Americans to recognise the debt they owed Britain for opposing Hitler in 1940. In doing so, he contributed to the US thinking behind the need for the Marshall Plan. In Zurich, Churchill boldly proposed a partnership between France and Germany: a United States of Europe. The hatred stirred up by the war had to be replaced by partnership for Europe to recover its economic vitality and regain its moral stature. Together, the Anglo-American Alliance and a United States of Europe led by France and Germany would have the power to ‘smite the crocodile’ of Soviet ambition. To understand what Churchill intended with these two speeches requires perspective. The daring of his imagination and the scale of his architecture for a new Western Alliance was extraordinary. At the time, not many recognized the symmetry of what was proposed. At Churchill’s funeral in 1965, commentators bemoaned the end of an era. In truth, Churchill was the catalyst of a new era— one built upon effective defence, economic revival, and European unity. His speeches have been awarded UNESCO heritage status. Alan Watson is a broadcaster, author, High Steward of Cambridge University, former President of the Liberal Party, public relations consultant and Peer. An accomplished public speaker, presenter, campaigner and consultant, his fascination with Churchill has been lifelong. His enthusiasm for Britain at the interface of Churchill’s three circles – Europe, America, and the English-speaking world – remains unmatched.

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You Could Look It Up Jack Lynch

An illuminating exploration of reference books through time and across cultures, from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi to Wikipedia. “Knowledge is of two kinds,” said Samuel Johnson in 1775. “We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge – reference works that have shaped the way we’ve seen the world for centuries.

Bloomsbury Press PUBLICATION DATE: 23/02/16 EXTENT: 464

You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny’s Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius’s first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge. Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English language. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park and Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey. “Lively and erudite . . . Lynch offers a reference book of reference books, a magical volume of infinite regress . . .You Could Look It Up can serve as a reminder of our enduring and impudent desire to keep the chaotic universe in some kind of neat and serviceable order.” New York Times Book Review, Alberto Manguel (Editor’s Choice) “[A] wholly absorbing chronicle of the reference book.” The Wall Street Journal “A casual but fascinating read that feels like sneaking into a library after hours, it offers an absorbing glimpse into the world-changing and frequently turbulent history of the reference shelf.” NPR.org

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The Doomsday Machine Daniel Ellsberg

From the legendary whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the horrific dangers of America’s hidden fiftyyear-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top secret documents related to America's nuclear buildup in the 1960s. Here for the first time he reveals the contents of those documents, and makes clear their shocking relevance for today.

Bloomsbury Press PUBLICATION DATE: 07/03/17 EXTENT: 384 Rights Sold: Xinhua (Simplified Chinese)

The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy--and renewal under the Obama administration – threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years when Ellsberg had high-level access to them. No other insider has written so candidly of that long-classified history, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Ellsberg’s analysis of recent research on nuclear winter shows that even a “small” nuclear exchange would cause billions of deaths by global nuclear famine. Ellsberg, in the end, offers steps we can take in this election year to avoid nuclear catastrophe. Framed as a memoir, this gripping exposé reads like a thriller, with cloak-and-dagger intrigue, placing Ellsberg back in his natural role as whistleblower. It is a real-life Dr. Strangelove story, but an ultimately hopeful-and necessary – book. In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg, a consultant to the Department of Defense and the White House, drafted Secretary Robert McNamara's plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Senate and the press. He lectures and writes on the dangers of the nuclear era and the need for whistleblowing. A Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is the author of Secrets and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He lives in Kensington, California.

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Tips from Widowers Jan Robinson

A unique, practical and thoughtful manual of tips, anecdotes and practical advice from men who have lived through the loss of a wife or partner, with a foreword from acclaimed journalist Robert Peston When Jan Robinson's husband died suddenly and unexpectedly, she had the idea of asking any other widows, whenever and wherever she met them, for two tips about how to deal with widowhood. From this advice, she constructed her beautiful first volume, Tips from Widows. To Robinson’s surprise, the book generated an overwhelming response not only from widows, but also from widowers. From these outpourings it became evident that a second book, this time for widowers, was inevitable.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 10/03/16 EXTENT: 112

Grief is an unmanageable emotion and the form it takes is unique to every man whose wife or partner has died. There are no set rules about coping with loss. Some people struggle with it for years and maybe never get over it. Others manage to move on. This book makes no claim to be an authority on how to cope as a widower; it is, quite simply, tips from widowers. You may be alone in your boat on the ocean, but Tips from Widowers will help you to recognise that other boats are out there too. Jan Robinson began collecting advice from widows after her husband died. Six months later, she decided to turn this into a book and sell it through her website. Tips From Widows was picked up by Bloomsbury and published in 2015; Tips from Widowers is the companion volume. She has four children, seven grandchildren and lives in London. tipsfromwidows.co.uk

Tips from Widows Jan Robinson

‘A wonderful, beautiful little book’ Joanna Lumley

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The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat Louise Gray

What would happen if you could only eat animals you killed yourself? This is the story of how one woman took an extreme dinner party challenge seriously, and what she learned about herself and the animals we eat along the way. Louise Gray's first kill is a disaster. She injures a rabbit and thinks it has died in agony. But the experience teaches her a lesson and, when she subsequently finds the extraordinary ‘rabbit with a white blaze’, she vows to do its death justice and continue her quest to find out what it really means to kill and eat animals.

BLOOMSBURY NATURAL HISTORY PUBLICATION DATE: 08/09/16 EXTENT: 288

Inspired by the hand-wringing at middle class dinner parties, where everyone claims to care about animal welfare, Louise Gray sets out to find exactly where our meat comes from. The Ethical Carnivore takes the reader on the entire journey from field to fork, including the moment of death. At times shocking and always enlightening, the story promises to make us fully appreciate not only the farmers and fishermen behind our meals, but most of all the animals themselves. Starting small, Louise shoots and traps game such as pigeon and squirrels, and learns how to skin and cook them in the traditional way. Louise infiltrates elite shoots and considers whether killing game birds can ever be justified. She bravely visits halal and non-halal slaughterhouses and finds out how animals are killed and processed, and the effect it has on the men and women who do it on our behalf. The biggest animal Louise kills is a stag, in a chapter about blood lust, the question of masculinity and whether we are really meant to hunt and kill. At the end of the year, Louise goes wild fowling on the Isle of Lewis to shoot a goose for Christmas and reflects on how she has become more connected to nature and as a result a more compassionate person. Confronting current anxiety about the modern food system, Louise Gray’s frank and funny writing encourages us all to reconnect with the countryside and take responsibility for the animals on our plates. Louise Gray is former Environment Correspondent at The Daily Telegraph, where she covered annual UN talks on climate change, travelled to Paraguay to investigate GM crops and got more than one scoop on recycling. Since leaving the newspaper at the end of 2013 she has written freelance for The Sunday Times, Guardian, Country Life and Spectator, and has also appeared on BBC Radio 4 and LBC. Through her blog she has built up a sizeable readership worldwide, and is fast becoming the go-to person for environmental matters, a subject that grows and grows. www.louisebgray.com / @loubgray

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non-fiction and current affairs highlights

In Manchuria

A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China Michael Meyer RIGHTS SOLD: Gusa Press (Complex Chinese), Shanghai Translation Publishing House (Chinese Simplified)

The Kennedy Half-Century Larry J. Sabato

‘In The Kennedy Half-Century, Larry Sabato not only sheds new light on the assassination, but, and more importantly, masterfully explains the enduring legacy of Kennedy and his 1,000 days in office’ John Grisham 26

Mecca

Ziauddin Sardar ‘A major achievement ... Hugely enjoyable’ William Dalrymple RIGHTS SOLD: Payot et Rivages (French), Czarne (Polish); Arab Network for Research & Publishing (Arab); Nesil Publishing (Turkish), Linkius Publishing (Complex CHinese), PT Zaytuna Ufuk Abadi (Indonesian)

On the Trail of Genghis Khan Tim Cope

‘Weaving acute observation, honest introspection, and a sense of history, Cope crafts a marvelously perceptive travelogue of an audacious odyssey’ Booklist RIGHTS SOLD: Piper/Malik (German); Jagiellonian University Press (Polish)

Owning the Earth

The Searchers

‘An extremely important book’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A gracefully presented narrative … A thoroughly researched, clearly written account of an obsessive search through the tangled borderland of fact and fiction, legend and myth’ Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Andro Linklater

RIGHTS SOLD: Wuhan Enlightenment Compilation and Translation Company (Simplified Chinese)

Glenn Frankel

RIGHTS SOLD: Shinchosha (Japanese)

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Return of a King William Dalrymple

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2013 RIGHTS SOLD: Adelphi (Italian),Buchet-Chastel (French), Wydawnictwo(Polish), Social Sciences Academics Press (Simplified Chinese), Menla Publishing House (Marathian)

Story of a Death Foretold

Pinochet, the CIA and the Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin Lesley Woodhead

RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Fine Arts Publishing (Chinese)

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ‘Fascinating … Commendable for [its] originality and research’ Washington Post

Meeting the Enemy

Furies

What?

RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffmann und Campe (German)

RIGHTS SOLD: Critica (Spanish), WBG Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (German)

RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffman und Campe (German), Butik Yayincilik (Turkish), Exmo (Russian), Random House Korea (Korean)

Richard van Emden

Lauro Matines

Mark Kurlansky

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Glorious Misadventures Owen Matthews

‘A thrilling story of swashbuckling adventure’ Simon Sebag Montefiore

Gallipoli

Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers

Tommy’s War

Richard van Emden ‘Riveting ... Pictures like these offer an intimate understanding’ Daily Telegraph

RIGHTS SOLD: Les Editions Noir Sur Blanc (French), EXMO Publishers (Russian)

Dreamland

Kidnap in Crete

National Book Critics Circle Finalist

‘Rollicking ... The fullest, most fluent record of the kidnap yet’ William Dalrymple

Sam Quinones

Rick Stroud

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The Kaiser's Army David Stone

non-fiction and current affairs highlights

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot

RIGHTS SOLD: Dong Nyok (Korean), Il Pensiero Scientifico (Italian)

Blood Ransom

Stories from the front line in the war against Somali piracy John Boyle RIGHTS SOLD: Medium Media (Polish)

The God Argument

Unspeakable Things

RIGHTS SOLD: madibooks (Korean), Loxodonta (Danish), McMillan d.o.o. (Serbian)

Laurie Penny

The Emperor Far Away

The Impulse Society

A. C. Grayling

Travels at the Edge of China David Eimer

‘Fascinating ... A side of China that’s rarely examined’ Daily Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD: Hakusisha (Japanese), Gusa Press (Complex Chinese), Uniwesytet Jagiellonski (Polish)

Sex, Lies and Revolution

RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German) Ordfront (Swedish)

America in the Age of Instant Gratification Paul Roberts RIGHTS SOLD: China Citic Press (Simplified Chinese), Minumsa (Korean), Diamond Inc (Japanese), Commonwealth Publishing Co (Complex Chinese)

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Jihad Academy Nicolas Hénin

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Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies Ross King

Claude Monet is perhaps the world’s most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet’s brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide “an asylum of peaceful meditation.” Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced at the difficulties of capturing the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life. Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 06/09/16 EXTENT: 416 54 b&w images throughout and a 16 page color insert RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij (Dutch), Record (Brazilian Portuguese), Rizzoli (Italian), Random House (Canadian), Atticus Azbboka (Russian), Park Kiado (Hungarian)

Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny, and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then 73 and one of the world’s wealthiest, most celebrated painters, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of painting"--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture--from his lavish lifestyle and tempestuous personality to his close friendship with the fiery war leader Georges Clemenceau, who regarded the Water Lilies as one of the highest expressions of the human spirit. Ross King is the bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, Leonardo and the Last Supper and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives just outside Oxford.

Leonardo and the Last Supper

RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij (Dutch), Record (Brazilian Portuguese), Random House (German), Rizzoli (Italian), Semicolon (Korean), Park (Hungarian), Kinneret (Hebrew), Dogan Kitap (Turkish), Noirsur Blanc (Polish), Atticus Azbooka (Russia)

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Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the Imagination Ghislaine Kenyon

A visual biography and intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the muchloved illustrator and artistic genius of our age. Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century. Best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl on books such as The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Twits, and Matilda, he is cherished by young and old alike. Still, his work has not attained “fine art” status. How does Blake’s background in education inform his work? And what is the relationship between the work he makes and the life he leads? Distinguished curator Ghislaine Kenyon spent a great deal of time with Blake and in this biography, she provides profound insight into an extraordinary man and his remarkable body of work. Bloomsbury Continuum PUBLICATION DATE: 10/05/16 EXTENT: 256

A shared enthusiasm for education brought Kenyon and Blake together. Kenyon staged a jointly curated exhibition, Tell Me A Picture, during Blake’s tenure as Children’s Laureate (1999–2001). She followed Blake during the years he continued to work “off the page,” producing work for hospitals in Angers and Paris and staging major exhibitions around the world. Kenyon shows that Blake’s life informs his illustrations and his artwork, in turn, informs his life—a life which is extremely private, mysterious, and full of complexities and ambiguities. Kenyon has produced not merely a biography but a critical view of the artist’s work. This book is a fitting tribute to Quentin Blake’s journey and to his great artistic legacy. Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several exhibitions, including Tell Me a Picture in 2000 with Quentin Blake.

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The Fall of the House of Wilde Emer O'Sullivan

A fascinating insight into the Wilde family’s double fall from grace Oscar Wilde owed his most outstanding characteristics – his precocious intellectualism, his flamboyance, his hedonism, his recklessness, his pride, his sense of superiority, his liberal sexual values – to his parents. Oscar’s mother, Lady Jane Wilde, rose to prominence as a political journalist, advocating in 1848 a rebellion against colonialism. Proud, involved and challenging, she became a salon hostess and opened the Wilde’s Dublin home at No. 1 Merrion Square to the public. Known as the most scintillating and stirring hostess of her day, she passed on her infectious delight in the art of living to Oscar, who imbibed it greedily.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 02/06/16 EXTENT: 512

His father was Sir William Wilde, one of the most eminent men of his generation. Acutely conscious of injustices in the social order, Sir William laid the foundations for the Celtic renaissance in the belief that culture would establish a common ground between the privileged and the poor, Protestant and Catholic. But Sir William was also a philanderer, and when he stood accused of sexually assaulting a young female patient, the scandal and trial sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death the Wildes moved to London where Oscar burst irrepressibly upon the scene. The one role that didn’t suit him was that of the Victorian husband, as his wife, Constance, was to discover. For beneath the swelling forehead was a self-destructive itch: a lifelong devourer of attention, Oscar was unable to recognise when the party was over. The Fall of the House of Wilde for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times, and also in the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive account, this is a major repositioning of our first modern celebrity, a man whose own fall from grace in a trial as public as his father’s marked the end of fin de siècle decadence.. Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf’s literature at UEA, where she also lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London. “Emer O’Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature…Not since Ellmann’s masterly 1988 biography has a book been published that will be so warmly welcomed by those still held in thrill by the myth and reality of Oscar Wilde, that miracle of mind and personality. Perhaps even more importantly, this is a book that reminds us how very unlikely it is that a genius is likely to born in a vacuum: Oscar was, O’Sullivan demonstrates, every inch his parents’ child. I feel perhaps most moved and surprised by the potential of their other son, the largely forgotten Willie. How easily he could have been the Wilde we would have remembered.” Stephen Fry

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Daddykins

Kalpana Mohan After spending most of her life in California, Mohan flew down when her 89 year old father took ill. Her memoir of the time she spent with him between his illness and his death is a richly humourous and moving account of her relationship with her cantankerous, stubborn father and a thoroughly recognizable account of a man holding the various indignities of old age at bay for as long as he can. Born in the 20s in the small South Indian village where people were being mowed down by the plague, Daddykins was so poor that he’d walk to school barefoot. He has since sent both of his daughters to good universities and now developers are falling over themselves to buy his land for a shopping strip. Filtering Indian history through the recollections, experiences and philosophical outlook of her father, Mohan has also provided a portrait of what India once was, from the last days of British rule, to the economic boom that defines it today and all that has been lost and gained in the process. Bloomsbury India PUBLICATION DATE: tbc EXTENT: tbc

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Kalpana Mohan is a California-based journalist whose work has appeared in publications including NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Hindu. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.

MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY coming soon Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

The Life of Lucian Freud William Feaver

Gerald Martin

RIGHTS SOLD: Random House Penguin (Spanish World), Suhrkamp (German)

RIGHTS SOLD: Albatros (Polish), Atlas Contact (Dutch)

The Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man who Built the Brooklyn Bridge Erica Wagner

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The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett Nathan Ward

No Way But Gentlenesse Richard Hines

A Guest at the Shooters’ Banquet Rita Gabis

‘This is a work of enchanting honesty and tenderness; it is as gentle and inspiring to the reader as a falconer is with his hawks. Hines has a deep and lifelong passion for birds of prey, creatures of implacable wildness which have nevertheless lived and hunted with humans for millennia. It speaks of love, family, history, and education, and illuminates how an obsession can enrich and shape one’s life. Reading it was a true pleasure.’ – Helen Macdonald

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The Disinherited

MOB Rule

Claude Lévi-Strauss

‘Immaculately written ... A fascinating picture of a forgotten underside of English aristocratic and public life’ Lucy Lethbridge, Observer

‘Gives an insight into the challenges, drama and fun of raising boys’ Mother & Baby RIGHTS SOLD: Sindbad (Russian), Beijinh Taofen Book (Simplified Chinese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Acropolis (Complex Chinese), Atlas Contact (Dutch), Beijing Guangban New Century Culture (Simplified Chinese), Everrich Holdings (Korean),Grupo Saggiatore (Italian), Objetiva (Brazilian Portuguese)

Pope Francis

Margaret Thatcher

Ansel Adams

RIGHTS SOLD: ShunjuSha (Japanese), Larousse (French), WBG (German), Wydawnictwom (Polish)

RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Alpha/Books Co (Simplified Chinese)

Mary Street Alinder

Robert Sackville-West

Paul Vallely

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Hannah Evans

Jonathan Aitken

Patrick Wilcken

A Biography

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Cairo

Ahdaf Soueif ‘Soueif is a political analyst and commentator of the best kind’ London Review of Books RIGHTS SOLD: Alhambra Forlag (Swedish), Donzelli (Italian) , Knopf (US), Metaixmio (Greek)

Genius At Play

The Curious Mathematical Mind of John Horton Conway Siobhan Roberts

Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood Renata Calverley

RIGHTS SOLD: Ediciones Rialp (Spanish), Gummerus (Finnish), Weltbild Polska (Polish)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gerald Martin

Revised postscript now available RIGHTS SOLD: Am Oved (Hebrew), Arab Scientific Publishers (Lebanon Arabic), Bertelsmann Media (Polish), Dom Quixote (Portuguese), Ediouro (Brazilian Portuguese), Editura Litera International (Romanian), Euromedia (Czech), Grasset (French), Iwanami Shoten (Japanese), Kultur Yayinari is Turk (Turkish), Linking (Complex Chinese), Magveto (Hungarian), Meulenhoff (Dutch), Mikri Arktos Publishing House (Greek), Mondadori (Italian), Penguin Random House (Spain), Sandorf (Croatian), China Citic Press (Simplified Chinese), Slovo (Russian), TIMY Partners (Slovak), Uniscorp (Bulgarian)

Philip Larkin

Life, Art and Love James Booth ‘Superb ... A satisfying and believably complex picture’ Spectator

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Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison Dylan Jones

Empire of Imagination Michael Witwer

RIGHTS SOLD: Casa da Palavra (Portuguese – Brazil), Born Digital (Japanese)

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A Prince Among Stones

Respect Yourself

‘This book is far more than a footnote to the Rolling Stones; it is an elegantly written account of how two cultures came together’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

‘A masterful storyteller, music historian Gordon artfully chronicles the rise and fall of one of America’s greatest music studios, situating the story of Stax within the cultural history of the 1960s in the South ... Gordon deftly narrates the stories of the many musicians who called Stax home’ Publishers Weekly

Prince Rupert Lowerstein

Robert Gordon

TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING

Havana

Mark Kurlansky A city of tropical heat, sweat, African music and religion, a city that always surprises, newly in the public eye–Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky. On the heels of restored diplomatic relations with the United States, awardwinning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider’s view of Havana: the elegant and tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes throughout, Havana celebrates the city’s exceptional music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 17/01/17 EXTENT: 224 The book will include recipes, with the author’s sketches, etchings and photographs through-out

Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today–from the native Taino to Columbus’s landing, from Cuba’s status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista’s dictatorship and Castro’s revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes; a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since the revolution. Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to the Cuban baseball league’s two dominant teams and their highly opinionated fans; the city’s music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; and its culinary legacy, which incorporates everything from home cooking to state-run restaurants. Once the only country Americans couldn’t visit, Cuba is now opening to us, and so is Havana, not only by plane or boat but also through Kurlansky’s multilayered portrait as it brings the long-elusive city to electrifying life. Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, and International Night, among many others. He received the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award in 2006, the 1999 James Beard Award and the 1999 Glenfiddich Award, both for Cod. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com

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When the Last Lion Roars: How the King of the Beasts was Brought to the Brink Sara Evans

The story of a continent losing its most charismatic predator at unprecedented speed. There are no lions left north of the Sahara and their range in southern Africa has shrunk considerably. Two sub species have already gone. With numbers down to just 20,000, many experts believe, that without effective conservation plans in place, Africa’s remaining lions will be wiped out by the mid half of this century.

Bloomsbury Natural History Publication date: 20/10/16 Extent: 320

Sara Evans considers the cultural significance of the Lion over thousands of years as well as its historic rise and fall as a global species. She also explores the many, and often complex, reasons that explain why numbers have plummeted so catastrophically in recent decades. As humans are the lion’s only predator, she asks what is being done to reverse, or at least stem this haemorrhage? By interweaving vivid personal encounters with Africa’s last lions – from Kenya in the northeast to Botswana in the south – visits to breeding projects in the west and their protectors all over the continent, she hopes to answer this question as well as turn the spotlight on the plight of Africa’s most iconic and mesmerising animals. The narrative also includes photographs, illustrations and maps as well as insights from experts in the field. Sara Evans is an award-winning writer and photojournalist, specialising in travel and wildlife. Newspapers and magazines that have featured her work include: Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday, The Australian Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Boston Globe, Lonely Planet Travel Magazine, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Africa Geographic Countryside, and Wildlife magazine. She won the 2005 Independent on Sunday and Bradt Travel Writing competition and has been shortlisted in a number of BBC writing competitions and been a panelist at Bradt travel-writing seminars.

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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg Tim Birkhead

From the author of Bird Sense and The Wisdom of Birds, a revealing and enthralling book about the extraordinary creation that is a bird’s egg ‘I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird’s egg’ Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of an eggshell created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first – the blunt end or the pointy end? Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16 EXTENT: 288 RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij (Dutch)

The Red Canary

Tim Birkhead

Bird Sense Tim Birkhead

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These are just some of the questions The Most Perfect Thing answers, as the journey of a bird’s egg from creation and fertilisation to its eventual hatching is examined, with current scientific knowledge placed within an historical context. Beginning with an examination of the stunning eggs of the guillemot, each of which is so variable in pattern and colour that no two are ever the same, acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead then looks at the eggs of hens, cuckoos and many other birds, revealing weird and wonderful facts about these miracles of nature. Woven around and supporting these facts are extraordinary stories of the individuals who from as far back as Ancient Egypt have been fixated on the study and collection of eggs, not always to the benefit of their conservation. Firmly grounded in science and enriched by a wealth of observation drawn from a lifetime spent studying birds, The Most Perfect Thing is an illuminating and engaging exploration of the science behind eggs and the history of man’s obsession with them. Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in the quest to understand the lives of birds. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife. Among his other books are Promiscuity, Great Auk Islands, The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds which won the McColvin medal, The Red Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize, The Wisdom of Birds and Bird Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.

The Wisdom of Birds Tim Birkhead

RIGHTS SOLD: Bezige Bij (Dutch), Forest of Imagination (Korean), Readme.fi (Finnish), Greystone/ Douglas (Canada), The Commercial Press (Simplified Chinese), Libros del Jata (Spanish – Spain only)

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Darjeeling

The Colourful History and Precarious Fate of the World’s Greatest Tea Jeff Koehler Finalist for the IACP Award and Winner of the 2015 Gourmand Award for ‘Best Tea Book’

Cuckoo

Kaleidoscope City

Cheating by Nature

A Year in Varanasi

Nick Davies

Piers Moore Ede

Winner of British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology Best Bird Book of the Year 2015

‘Affectionate and inquiring at the same time’ Daily Telegraph

‘Amazing detective story by one of the country’s greatest field naturalists’ Sir David Attenborough RIGHTS SOLD: Chijin Shokan (Japanese), Atlas Contact (Dutch)

The Naked Shore

Herring Tales

‘Tom Blass ... Has undertaken in this remarkable book to portray it in the round, winds and all, and thus makes a reassuring whole of it ... The sunless subject of the narrative, which threatens to be monotonous, turns out of be almost kaleidoscopically varied ... Terrifically enjoyable’ Literary Review

‘Murray mixes folklore, personal reminiscence, cookery... and intertwines herring culture with political history.’ Times Literary Supplement

Tom Blass

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Donald S. Murray

‘Mr Murray is a gregarious and engaging raconteur as he flips between the diverse aspects of this versatile little creature.’ Economist

Smart Thinking

Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures In the Beautiful Game David Sumpter

Football – the most mathematical of sports. From shot statistics and league tables to the geometry of passing and managerial strategy, the modern game is filled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How do we make sense of these? The answer lies in the mathematical models applied in biology, physics and economics. Soccermatics brings football and mathematics together in a mind-bending synthesis, using numbers to help reveal the inner workings of the beautiful game. How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style? What can defenders learn from lionesses? Bloomsbury Sigma

How much of a scoreline is pure randomness and how much is skill?

PUBLICATON DATE: 05/05/16

How can probability theory make you money at the bookies?

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Welcome to the world of mathematical modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football. No matter who you follow – be it Bristol City, Burton Albion, Barnet or Barrow, or one of the Premier League big boys – you’ll be amazed at what mathematics has to teach us about the world’s favourite sport.

RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish – World), Benevento (German), Volante (Sweden)

David Sumpter is professor of applied mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading to Sweden.

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Buddhist Economics Clair Brown

An economist at the University of California at Berkeley, and a practicing Buddhist, Clair Brown saw something very wrong with the GDP. She felt stifled by the classical economic model she was required to teach in her Econ 1 course, a model which made no room for some of our world’s most pressing concerns: climate change, environmental degradation, and wealth inequality. Classical economics, which holds that more is always better, has led us to focus on the wrong values and to pay attention to the wrong measurements. It gauges performance by national output; quality of life by average income; and the health of the market by how much people are shopping.

Bloomsbury Press PUBLICATION DATE: 21/02/17 EXTENT: 224

Drawing upon the work of E.F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, as well as capability and ecological economists, Brown went in search of a different kind of economic system based not on the values of individualism and materialism, but rather on interconnectedness and compassion. The science of economics—in curricula, in theory, and in practice—can and should be a force for good. Buddhist Economics issues a powerful challenge to the prevailing economic system, and makes a heartening and truly groundbreaking case for bringing humanity back into “the dismal science.” Dr. Clair Brown is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Prof Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR, now IRLE) at UCB, and Chair of the Committee on Education Policy of the Academic Senate. Clair has published research on many aspects of the labor market, including high-tech workers, labor market institutions, firm employment systems and performance, the standard of living, wage determination, and unemployment.

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The Great Acceleration Robert Colvile

A revelatory account of how our society is speeding up, The Great Acceleration is a fascinating insight into the science and promise of the modern world from a brilliant new writer Flash crashes. Speed dating. Instant messaging. From the devices we carry to the lives we lead, everything is getting faster, faster. But where did this great acceleration come from? And where will it lead? In this vitally important new book, Robert Colvile explains how the cult of disruption in Silicon Valley, the ceaseless advance of technology and our own fundamental appetite for novelty and convenience have combined to speed up every aspect of daily life.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16 EXTENT: 320

Drawing on the latest research, this book traces the path of this acceleration through our working and social lives, the food we buy and the music to which we listen. It explains how it’s transforming the media, politics and the financial markets – and asks whether our bodies, and the natural environment, can cope. As we race towards the future – into a world packed with new technologies, new ideas and new discoveries – this scintillating and engrossing book is an invaluable, must-read guide to the wonders and dangers that await us. Robert Colvile has been a columnist, leader writer and comment editor with the Daily Telegraph. Among his many duties, he was supervising the paper’s Science and Digital Life pages, serving as comment editor of the Sunday Telegraph while still in his twenties, and producing a host of editorials, features, reviews and opinion pieces. He went on to be news director at BuzzFeed UK. He has a Masters degree from Cambridge in International Relations, is a regular pundit on Sky News, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies (a leading British think-tank) and author of an influential report on how the internet is transforming British politics, which was praised by Chancellor George Osborne among others. @rcolvile ‘In a run, run, runaway world, Colvile’s The Great Acceleration is an indispensable guide to keeping up. A book that raises eyebrows and questions in equal measure. A meticulous, thoughtful, candid, sometimes stark and yet ultimately optimistic study of humanity, and our breath-taking desire for change’ – Boris Johnson ‘It’s true - life is speeding up. But don’t despair, overall that’s a good thing for prosperity and quality of life, though it may not feel so as the emails pile up… This book is as fast-paced as its subject matter, and well worth making time for’ – Mark Lynas, author of ‘The God Species’

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A More Beautiful Question Warren Berger

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Finding the Space to Lead Janice Marturano

RIGHTS SOLD: Arbor Verlag (German), Bulkwang Publishing Co. (Korean), Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information (Simplified Chinese), De Boeck Supérieur (French); Martin Fontes (Brazilian Portuguese); Øivind Arneberg (Norwegian), Amber (Polish)

sigma Sigma is Bloomsbury’s new science imprint which launched in 2014. Targeted squarely at the popular science market, it represents a series of brilliantly written ‘good reads’, backed up by serious science, with readability being key. The broad subject area is the natural sciences, from evolution, psychology and paleontology to astronomy, toxicology, medicine and weather sciences, with plenty of technology and a serious spoonful of the history of science for good measure. Sigma authors include some of the best and brightest talents in science communication today, including marine biologist Helen Scales, conspiracy psychologist Rob Brotherton, stem-cell researcher Helen Pilcher, astrophysicist Elizabeth Tasker and dinosaur expert David Hone.

Big Data

Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? This book tells you everything you need to know (and plenty of stuff you don't) From the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over 30,000 years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider, which produces 40 million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger. It can help us do things faster and more efficiently than ever before. It has made possible scientific and social achievements that would have been impossible just a few years ago. But being too dazzled by the scale, the speed and the geeky jargon can lead us astray. It’s big, but it’s not always clever.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 02/06/16 EXTENT: 288

Timandra Harkness cuts through the hype to put data science into its reallife context. Stories, locations and people, plenty of jokes and personal asides bring to life what is essentially a human science, demystifying Big Data, telling us where it comes from and what it can do for us. The book then asks the awkward questions – what can't it do? What are the unspoken assumptions underlying its methods? Are we being bamboozled by its size, its speed and its shiny technology? Nobody needs a degree in computer science to grasp what Big Data is all about, what it can do for us – and what it can't. This book asks you to decide – are you a data point, or a human being? Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who has been performing on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days of the 20th Century. In 2010 she co-wrote and performed the hit Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death, with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, which was a smash hit at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring the rest of the UK and Australia. Science comedy since then includes her current solo show, Brainsex. She is a regular on BBC Radio, often presenting science documentaries, and she has been the presenter of four series of The Human Zoo on BBC Radio 4. Timandra is the only comedian to have had articles published in both Men's Health and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. timandraharkness.com / @TimandraHarknes

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Sorting the Beef from the Bull Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple The story of food fraud forensics. Horsemeat in our burgers, melamine in our infant’s milk, artificial colours in our fish and fruit … as our urban lifestyle takes us further and further away from our food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonesty, duplicity and profit-making short-cuts. Food adulteration, motivated by money, is an issue that has spanned the globe throughout human history. Whether it’s a matter of making a good quality oil stretch a bit further by adding a little extra ‘something’ or labelling a food falsely to appeal to current consumer trends – it’s all food fraud, and it costs the food industry billions of dollars each year. The price to consumers may be even higher, with some paying for these crimes with their health and, in some cases, their lives. So how do we sort the beef from the bull (or horse, as the case may be)?

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 25/02/16 EXTENT: 288 Rights Sold: Alpina O O (Russian), Nikkei BP (Japanese)

This book explains the scientific tools and techniques that revealed the century’s biggest food fraud scams. It looks in detail at the biggest scams in recent times; drawing on the lead author’s extensive experience at the forefront of the fight against these fraudsters, it goes on to explore the arms-race between scientists and adulterers as better techniques for detection spur more creative and sophisticated means of adulteration. Finally, it looks at the up-and-coming techniques and devices that will help the industry and consumers fight food fraud in the future. Engagingly written by Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple, this book lifts the lid on the forensics involved, and brings the full story of a fascinating and underreported applied science to light. Richard Evershed FRS is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol. His thirty-year career has seen tremendous changes in the world of analytical chemistry. Initially, Evershed’s work focused on chromatographic and mass spectrometry studies, especially in archaeology, an area he continues to research; the methodologies he pioneered have been used in several other areas, notably in detecting food fraud, where his team developed methods for detecting the highly lucrative but dangerous and illegal adulteration of vegetable oil. His methods have even been used in tandem with the Metropolitan Police to help in murder investigations. Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer. Her writing has taken her from the precipices of volcanoes in Ethiopia to the banks of salmon streams in Canada's temperate rainforest. Based in Bristol, Nicola works with universities, research councils and individuals to develop engaging science stories on how research has an impact beyond the closeted world of academia. nicolatemple.com / @nicolatemple

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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles David Hone

The tyrannosaurs - how they lived, bred, fed and died. Tyrannosaurus is by some margin the most famous dinosaur in the world, adored by children and adults alike, and it is often the only one that many people can name. An impressive beast, it topped 10 tons, was more than 15m long, and had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal, ever. Despite the hype, Tyrannosaurus and its relatives (the tyrannosaurs) are fascinating animals, and perhaps the best-studied of all dinosaur groups. They started small, just a couple of metres long, and over the course of 70 million years evolved into the giant meat-slicing bone-crushers that the world is now familiar with.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16 EXTENT: 288

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs, and presents the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive statistics – tyrannosaurs had feathers, may have hunted in groups, and fought and even ate each other. This entertaining book presents the science behind this research, and tells the evolutionary story of the group though their anatomy, ecology and behaviour, exploring how they came to be the dominant terrestrial predators of the Mesozoic and, in more recent times, one of the great icons of biology. David Hone is rapidly becoming the ‘face’ of dinosaur research. Based at QMW in London, where he is Lecturer in Ecology, he has published more than 50 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in the tyrannosaurs, while his fieldwork has included a spell working on the famous feathered dinosaur deposits of China. He writes a regular blog for the Guardian, Lost Worlds (http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds), a major source of dino-info for the general public. David includes among his writing credits the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 5Live and RTE, acted as consultant for National Geographic documentaries, and written articles for New Scientist, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, and many others.

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Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-Extinction Helen Pilcher

A unique blend of the science of de-extinction, cloning and comedy If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher has thought about this problem, a lot. In Bring back the King, Helen explains the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, and highlights her choices from eras gone by, from the King of the Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, to the King of Rock ’n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, From dinosaurs to Dodos, Neanderthals to rock legends, Bring Back the King explains how the burgeoning field of DNA science is being used to help resurrect not just individual animals but entire species from their stony graves. Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 3/11/2016 EXTENT: 288

Funny, intriguing and informative, Bring Back the King describes current initiatives and future plans to restore deceased animals, and uses both science and willful irreverence to assess how these genetic Lazarus’s might fare in their brave new world. Could a pet dinosaur be trained to roll over? Would Neanderthals enjoy opera? Could a returning Dodo seek vengeance upon humanity? Blending the very latest de-extinction technology with cloning, dinosaurs with rock legends, and hard-core popular science with plenty of gags, Bring Back the King is a book that you will simply have to read. Helen Pilcher was a stand-up comedian for more than ten years, she performed at the Edinburgh comedy festival, at London’s Comedy Store, and at various smoky pubs and clubs across Britain. Helen is also a professional science writer, with a PhD in stem-cell biology. She was formerly a journalist for Nature online, specialising in genetics; before that, she ran the Science in Society programme at the Royal Society, and before that, she worked as a senior scientist for a biotechnology company, engineering a series of human stem cell lines for transplantation into damaged human brains, this following on from her doctoral research into stem-cell therapy for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: the Search for Life in the Universe Louisa Preston

Across a Universe of at least 100 billion habitable, earth-like worlds, life cannot be restricted solely to the Earth. Or can it? Read this book to find out the hows and whys of astrobiology – the study of extraterrestrial life. All life as we know it is carbon-based, and reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet, the Earth – a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion habitable, earth-like worlds, life cannot be restricted to just this one place? Or can it?

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 16/06/2016 EXTENT: 288

The Earth is just the right distance from the Sun – within the so-called ‘Goldilocks zone’ – and has a protective shielding atmosphere to allow for life to thrive. Life’s journey in four billion years from single-celled organism to upright humanoids with the capacity to undertake missions to other planets is remarkable. But there is a chance that life exists (or existed) elsewhere in the Solar System, and recent discoveries of just how common planets are in other systems means it is highly likely that there is life does indeed occur on other planets. How might life appear on these other worlds? It is possible to make bestguesses using facts rooted in physics, chemistry and biology, and by studying ‘extremophiles’, organisms such as nematodes and water bears that can survive in the harshest conditions that Earth can offer. Ultimately, we need to figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the confines of the Earth and colonise another body in the Solar System, such as the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction? These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology – the study of the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere in the universe, and the search for it. This book is an accessible introduction to this most fascinating of all the astro-sciences – are we alone in the Universe? Goldilocks and the Water Bears looks at this and many other questions as the search for life elsewhere in the Universe goes on. Louisa Preston is an astrobiologist and planetary geologist, whose research has focused on Mars-like environments on Earth and the use of infrared spectroscopy to identify biosignatures of life. After her PhD in Astrobiology at Imperial, Louisa completed her first postdoc at Western University in Ontario, working on lunar space mission simulations; she then moved to The Open University to work on the creation of a global database of martian and lunar analogue environments for the European Space Agency. Louisa is a TED Fellow and gave a TED talk on the search for life on Mars in March of last year, and is a STEM-NET Ambassador, and has given dozens of lectures and talks on the search for extraterrestrial life. She is also a scientific advisor for the BBC’s Horizon, Stargazing Live, and Dara O’ Briain’s Science Club, and has appeared on the BBC’s The Sky at Night. Her writing credits include pieces for the The Times and New Scientist, and a regular blog for Nature’s Soapbox Science. http://louisajpreston.com / @LouisaJPreston

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Science and the City: the Mechanics behind the Metropolis Laurie Winkless

The science of the city, now and in the future. There is an incredible amount of hidden science behind urban life, secretly working to keep things moving. Science and the City looks at this in detail, on a journey of discovery around the great cities of the world, both now and into the future. Technological advances in fields as diverse as quantum mechanics, ergonomics and thermodynamics are proving increasingly important in city life, and the urban world will turn to science to deliver solutions to the problems of the future – 50% of the world’s population now lives in cities, and that proportion is growing fast. Can technology provide the answer to a viable megacity future? Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 11/08/2016 EXTENT: 288

Science and the City starts at your front door, and guides you through the technology of everyday city life – how new approaches to materials help to build the tallest skyscrapers in Dubai, how New Yorkers use light to treat their drinking water, how Tokyo commuters’ footsteps power gates in train stations – and looks at the technology that will help us solve future problems as the world's population soars to eight billion, ten billion, twenty billion – the need for ever-higher skyscrapers, or the demand for power, water and internet access, or indeed how to simply get about in a megacity of tens of millions of people. Written in an enjoyable and informal style, Science and the City is built on solid foundations of science fact, with a decent sprinkling of speculation on top. Laurie Winkless is a physicist based in London. Following a degree at Trinity College, Dublin, during which time she enjoyed a placement at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, and a masters in Space Science at UCL, Laurie worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), specialising in Functional Materials – carbon nanotubes, water-repellent surfaces, organic electronics and spacecraft materials were her bag. She was also involved in a major EU project exploring a potentially world-changing technology, thermoelectric energy harvesting, which involves the capture and conversion of waste heat into electricity. Laurie is an experienced science communicator and blogger, who has given TEDx talks, worked as a reporter for the Naked Scientists, appeared in The Times magazine, and exhibited at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. @laurie_winkless

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The Brightness of Things: An Adventure in light and Time Kate Devlin

We are surrounded by the material culture of the people who lived before us: architecture, artworks and artefacts. But can we be certain that, even when allowing for the ravages of time, what we observe is the same as what the original creators of these items would have seen? Light can’t be captured in the archaeological record, of course, yet lighting conditions can completely alter our perception, leading to dramatic changes in interpretation for archaeologists, art historians and psychologists. The Colourful Past examines the way that our understanding of archaeological sites and objects has often been surprisingly inaccurate, and how the latest image sampling and virtual-reality techniques are providing startling insights in archaeological places, objects and peoples. Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 08/09/16 EXTENT: 272

Focusing on light, colour and perception, the book shows how computer graphics technology is quietly revolutionising archaeology. It outlines the need for perceptual realism in virtual heritage, and explores case studies where the application of perceptual knowledge can enhance archaeological understanding. After an introduction to the subject, The Colourful Past takes a chronological narrative, beginning with stone-age rock art and working through examples from the Classical period into medieval times, before finishing with the present and ideas on the future direction of research. The narrative spans the globe, from European and African rock art and Mayan frescoes to Egyptian temples and medieval religious paintings, to name a few. Why did medieval artists use so much gold leaf? Were palaeolithic artists in prehistoric France making animations on cave walls? What effect does sunshine have on the layout of an Egyptian temple? How can we tell how things would have looked to people in the past? All these questions and many more are answered in Kate Devlin’s brilliant book. The story of a new branch of historical research that is revolutionising our interpretation of the past, incorporating art, archaeology, virtual reality, the psychology of perception and computer sciences. Kate Devlin is a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. While completing her PhD in computer graphics and visual perception, Kate began to question the validity of the images that were created as archaeological reconstructions, and she started exploring the psychology and visual perception behind realistic image generation. Since publishing one of the first papers in the field in 2001, Kate has become a leading expert in archaeology and visual perception.

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Furry Logic: the Physics of Animal Life Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher

How animals use cool physics as part of their daily battle to survive Furry Logic looks in detail at the animals that use cool physics in weird and intriguing ways as part of their daily battle to survive. It details the role of physics in the lives of a number of animals, as uncovered by scientists researching the field of biomechanics. The book is divided into seven chapters, each representing a separate arm of physics. Each chapter examines the animals’ key features before describing the ways they use physics, how this was discovered, and what remains to be found out. We learn:

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 6/10/2016 EXTENT: 288

• how pistol shrimps can generate a force strong enough to destroy aquarium glass using their claws • how whales hear using fat • how cats and dogs lap up milk thanks to the laws of surface tension • why reindeer use ultraviolet light for foraging • how a male peacock’s train generates infrasound’ to attract a mate • how ants navigate thanks to magnetic fields • how mosquitoes survive collisions with raindrops. Furry Logic makes the incredible interdisciplinary world of animal biomechanics accessible to all, in an enthralling and entertaining read. Matin Durrani is the Editor of the international magazine Physics World. After his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (on polymers), Matin did a postdoc before moving into publishing in the late nineties. He has been editor of Physics World since 2006. Liz Kalaugher also has a PhD in physics, along with qualifications in Biological Sciences. She is the editor of environmentalresearchweb.org, a leading news resource on environmental issues.

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Chilled

Spirals in Time

A is for Arsenic

Rights sold: MID (Korean)

RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Normal University Press (Simplified Chinese), Tsukiji Shokan (Japanese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Iwanami Shoten (Japanese), J. C. Lattes (French), RAO Editura (Romanian), Lijang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese)

Breaking the Chains of Gravity

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Atoms Under the Floorboards

Tom Jackson

Amy Shira Teitel

Lijang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese)

Helen Scales

Sue Armstrong RIGHTS SOLD: Chongqing Publishing House (Simplified Chinese); Cheomnetworks (Korean), Cite Publishing Ltd (Complex Chinese)

Kathryn Harkup

Chris Woodford

RIGHTS SOLD: Mann – Ivanov – Ferber (Russian), Hoffmann und Campe (German), Publicat (Polish), Cite Publishing (Complex Chinese), Chemical Industry Press (Simplified Chinese), Bookie Publishing ( Korean)

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Suspicious Minds

Sex on Earth

RIGHTS SOLD: Faces Publications Taiwan (Complex Chinese), Diamond Inc. ( Japanese), Grand China Publishing (Simplified Chinese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Blackie Books (Spanish); The Commercial Press (Simplified Chinese); Kadakawa Corporation (Japanese); Puriwa Ipari (Korean)

Rob Brotherton

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Herding Hemingway’s Cats: Understanding how our genes work Kat Arney

RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Paper Jump Cultural Development (Simplified Chinese)

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Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists Lawrence Weschler

From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of a film legend and amateur scientist whose theory could reshape our understanding of the universe.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 31/01/17 EXTENT: 176

For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary–arguably the most admired film and sound editor in the world from his work on Apocalypse Now, The Godfather trilogy, and so many others. Outside of the studio, his mind is as wide-ranging as the universe–indeed, his passion, which he has pursued for several decades, is astrophysics, and in particular a long-dismissed theory of how the planets in our universe are arranged, known as the Titius-Bode Theory. Rejected by the scientific community, he has nonetheless made advances even scientists are intrigued by–including a connection between Titius-Bode and Johannes Kepler’s theory of musical harmony in the heavens—and Murch soldiers on in the best tradition of the outsider scientist. Long-fascinated by Murch’s wide-ranging intellect, acclaimed writer Lawrence Weschler brings his quest alive in its seemingly quixotic, yet still plausible, splendor. "The wholesale rejection of alternative theories has repeatedly held back the progress of vital science," Weschler observes, citing for example German researcher Alfred Wegener, whose early theories about continental drift were ridiculed, only to be accepted fact years later. Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin says "It is controversy that brings science alive,"–and Murch’s quest does that in spades. His fascination with the way the planets are arranged– which Weschler captures in pithy, elegant prose–opens up the whole field of celestial mechanics for general readers, making us ever more aware of the giant and (to us) invisible forces constantly at work in the universe. Lawrence Weschler is a cultural and art critic, journalist, and author who was a staff writer at the New Yorker for over twenty years. His many books include Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about the artist Robert Irwin), Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, for which he was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Everything That Rises, which received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award. A contributing editor to McSweeney's, the Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Believer, the Nation, Salon, Truthdig, and Harper's, among others.

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The Universal Sense

Beasts

RIGHTS SOLD: Kashiwashobo (Japanese), HGV (Hungarian)

RIGHTS SOLD: Baronet (Czech); Sondo (Italian)

The Great Disruption

The Fate of the Species

Survival of the Beautiful

RIGHTS SOLD: Apicuri (Brazilian Portuguese), Mauritsgroen (Dutch)

RIGHTS SOLD: Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Kungree Press Co. (Korean)

Seth S. Horowitz

Paul Gilding

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Fred Guterl

Storms of My Grandchildren James Hansen

RIGHTS SOLD: Nikkei BP(Japanese), Editora Senac (Portuguese – Brazil), Aulbiente (Italian), Post Six Telecommunications (Chinese Simplified), PTS Publications (Malaysian)

David Rothenberg

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Don’t Even Think About It

The Attacking Ocean

Last Ape Standing

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RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish), Emamama (Korean), Seidosha (Japanese)

Spectrums

The Intimate Bond

A New History of Life

RIGHTS SOLD: Bloomsbury Germany (German), Foksal (Polish), Kinokuniya (Japanese)

Brian Fagan

Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

Brian Fagan

George Marshall

David Blatner

How Animals Shaped Human History RIGHTS SOLD: Kawadeshobo-Shinsha Publishing (Japanese)

Chip Walter

The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink RIGHTS SOLD: DVA (German), Kachi (Korean), Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese), The Commercial Press (Simplified Chinese) 59

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Light

Bruce Watson rights sold: (Chinese simplified)

‘An ingenious combination of science and art history.’ Kirkus starred review ‘This is a story and a book chock-full of great and fascinating figures, each of whose personality and doings Watson deftly presents without detracting from the impetus of his millennia-spanning narrative. A dazzling book, as seems completely appropriate.’ Booklist starred review

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Farmageddon in Pictures

The True Cost of Cheap Meat – in bite-sized pieces Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott Farmageddon: the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 12/01/17 EXTENT: 192 RIGHTS SOLD: Anaya (Spanish – world) OPTION PUBLISHERS: Nikkei BP (Japanese), AND Publishing (Complexx Chinese), Illuminatio lUkasz (Polish), Nutrimenti (Italian)

Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating – as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our countryside, health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world. Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world – from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future. Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organization, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming. Isabel Oakeshott is Political Editor at the Sunday Times and commentator on BBC One’s Sunday Politics show.

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Maps of War: Mapping Conflict Through the Centuries Jeremy Black

A magnificent visual survey of how conflict was recorded and planned, using maps produced at the time to reveal how warfare and its documentation has changed through the centuries.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 16/10/2016 EXTENT: 224

There is little documented mapping of conflict prior to the Renaissance period, but, from the 17th century onwards, military commanders and strategists began to document the wars in which they were involved and later, to use mapping to actually plan the progress of a conflict. Using contemporary maps, this sumptuous new volume covers the history of the mapping of war on land and shows the way in which maps provide a guide to the history of war. Content includes: The beginnings of military mapping up to 1600 including the impact of printing and the introduction of gunpowder The seventeenth century: The focus is on maps to illustrate war, rather than as a planning tool and the chapter considers the particular significance of maps of fortifications.

Metropolis: Mapping The City Jeremy Black,

RIGHTS SOLD: WBG (German), Beijing Han Tang Yang (Simplified Chinese)

The eighteenth century: The growing need for maps on a world scale reflects the spread of European power and of transoceanic conflict between Europeans. This chapter focuses in particular on the American War of Independence. The nineteenth century: Key developments included contouring and the creation of military surveying. Subjects include the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War The twentieth century including extended features on the First and Second World Wars including maps showing trench warfare and aerial reconnaissance. Much of the chapter focuses on the period from 1945 to the present day including special sections on the Vietnam War and the Gulf Wars. Jeremy Black is Professor of History at Exeter University and the prolific author of more than 100 books including Metropolis (Bloomsbury 2015). He is an acknowledged expert on the history of mapping. He teaches and lectures regularly in the US and has been visiting chair at several American universities. He is a winner of the Morrison Prize at the Society of Military History.

MAPS: Their Untold Stories Rose Mitchell and Andrew Jones

Rights sold: Sinomaps (Simplified Chinese)

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A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens; Alex Goodwin and Tess Gammell Fur and fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens’s most famous novel, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 22/09/16 EXTENT: 64

In the misery of a workhouse, a poor, fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air and even thinner gruel. By squeaking a fateful question – ‘Please, sir, I want some more’ – he unwittingly sparks a series of events that lead him to the smoke and grime of the big city, where he encounters a host of four-legged friends and foes such as the crafty Fagin, mischievous Artful Dodger, faithful Nancy and treacherous Bill Sikes, who sweep young Oliver off of his paws and into the underworld of Victorian London.

A Guinea Pig Nativity RIGHTS SOLD: Fisher (German)

A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

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Knives & Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton Chefs and tattoos are inextricably linked. From New York Times bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and BuzzFeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald comes this stunning four-color illustrated book of stories behind the tattoos that chefs – celebrity and otherwise – proudly wear, featuring their signature recipes throughout.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 18/10/2016 EXTENT: 208

Chefs take tattoos as seriously as they do their knives. From gritty grill cooks in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world’s most popular restaurants, it’s hard to find a cook who doesn’t sport some ink. From the hilarious (chef John Gorham of Portland’s Toro Bravo has his sous chef’s name tattooed on his backside) to the very serious (sushi chef Johny Daley has “rice” and “fish” tattooed on his knuckles), chefs’ tattoos are as numerous and colorful as the food artists who wear them. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more than 60 chefs, both behind-the-scene line cooks and such rockstars in the kitchen as Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese in New York, who remembers his mother with fiery angel wing tattoos on his forearms, and Dominique Crenn of San Francisco’s Atelier, whose ink is about “doing anything in life that you put your heart into.” Like the dishes they thoughtfully create, every tattoo has a rich, personal story behind it. Knives & Ink portrays these tattoos as the beautiful works of art they are, and shares the fascinating stories behind them, along with special chef recipes throughout. Isaac Fitzgerald has written for McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the editor of BuzzFeed Books. Visit him at isaacfitzgerald.net and follow him @isaacfitzgerald. He lives in New York City.

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Pen & Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton RIGHTS SOLD: Letterpress (Korean)

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Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology and The Essential Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert. Her work has appeared in places like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Lucky Peach, and Print Magazine. Visit her at wendymacnaughton.com and follow her @wendymac. She lives in San Francisco.

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Gardens of Awe and Folly Vivian Swift

An illustrated, round-the-world tour of idiosyncratic gardens from beloved traveler/writer/watercolorist Vivian Swift. Nine masterpiece gardens. Nine stories of grandeur, sorrow, disaster, triumph, discovery, and joy. From Scotland to Key West, from Brazil to Paris--even right next door--there is always something to learn about being human from a great garden. Bloomsbury US Publication date: 1/03/2016

Vivian Swift is the author of When Wanderers Cease to Roam: A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put and Le Road Trip: A Traveler’s Journal of Love and France. When not traveling, she lives on Long Island Sound with her husband.

Extent: 176, four colour watercolours throughout

Le Road Trip: A Traveller’s Journal of Love and France Vivian Swift

RIGHTS SOLD: Astrel (Russian), China CITIC Press (Simplified Chinese), Common Master Press (Complex Chinese), Kidary (Korean)

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The Gutsy Girl

Caroline Paul Illustrated by Wendy McNaughton New York Times Bestseller! From a real-life derring-do woman, exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement. Why should girls miss out on the joy of adventure? They can jump off rocks, swing on ropes, and climb trees just as well as boys can. But girls often allow fear to stand in their way.

Bloomsbury USA Publication date: 1/03/16 Extent: 160 RIGHTS SOLD: Black button Books (Romanian)

In The Gutsy Girl, author Caroline Paul emboldens girls to seek out a life of exhilaration. Once a young scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear got in the way of the life she wanted–of excitement, confidence, self-reliance, friendship, and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers, climbed tall mountains, and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San Francisco. In The Gutsy Girl, she shares her greatest escapades as well as those of other girls and women from throughout history, and offers engaging activities such as confidence-building stances, creating a compass, positive self-talk, and using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Each section includes a place for girls to “journal” their adventures, thus encouraging a new generation to develop a zest for challenges and a healthy relationship to risk. The Gutsy Girl is Lean In for young girls, a book about the glorious things that happen when you unshackle from fear and open up to exhilaration. Fully illustrated and enlivened throughout by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton’s whimsical pen-andink drawings. ‘Caroline Paul’s inspiring and sometimes astonishing stories of the adventures that she and other great women have undertaken, alongside Wendy MacNaughton’s beautiful illustrations, make The Gutsy Girl the book of the year for daredevils, doers, and dreamers of all ages.’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ‘Delightful . . . There’s a lot here that will thrill any girl--or boy--of any age.’ San Francisco Chronicle ‘The perfect book for young feminists, or really any woman who needs a dose of inspiration in her life . . . Viva la Gutsy Girl!’ Buzzfeed Caroline Paul is the author of the memoir Fighting Fire and the novel East Wind, Rain. Most recently she published Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology. She is a longtime member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Lost Cat, Pen & Ink, and Meanwhile in San Francisco. They live in San Francisco.

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Abbey Road

Alastair Lawrence

Heirloom Harvest Amy Goldman

RIGHTS SOLD: Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese)

Dogs Make Us Human

Art Wolfe and Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson RIGHTS SOLD: Rizzoli (Italian)

Lost Cat

Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton RIGHTS SOLD: Global Group Holdings (Complex Chinese), Heyne (German), Jilin (Simplified Chinese), Salani Editore (Italian), Will Book (Korean), Versus Yayinlard (Turkish), Ariel (Spanish), Forgalet Press (Norwegian), Kodansha (Japanese), Vellant Publishing (Romanian)

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Unbored Adventure

UNBORED

Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen RIGHTS SOLD: O’Reilly (Japanese)

Patternalia

Roy G. Biv

Rights Sold: Film Art Sha (Japanese

RIGHTS SOLD: Foksal (Polish), Artbooks (Korean), China CITIC Press (Simp. Chinese), Cube Press (Comp. Chinese), Exmo (Russian), Filmart-sha (Japanese)

Jude Stewart

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UNBORED Games Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen

sport

Golden Kicks: The Sneakers that Changed Sport Jason Coles

Golden Kicks reveals the fascinating histories behind the most significant sports shoes ever made and the role they played in some of sport’s greatest moments. Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 22/09/16 EXTENT: 224 photography throughout

Sports shoes are now a part of mainstream fashion and have been widely adopted as streetwear. The Converse All Star, Adidas Stan Smith, Reebok Classic or Nike Air Jordan are nowadays considered everyday footwear and have lost much of their sporting connection. Lost in the transition from sports shoe to fashion are the fascinating histories and sporting origins of our shoes and the way they played a significant role in some of the most important events in the development of sport. Golden Kicks will reveal these extraordinary stories, many of which have never been told before. Join us on a global journey that begins in the early 1900s and ends in the present day, charting the development of sports shoes and sport itself through the ages. Through lavish photography and archive images we travel from the spikes made by Adidas founder Adi Dassler in which Jessie Owens destroyed Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy, to the gold Puma Complete Theseus shoes in which Usain Bolt destroyed world records. Both sports fans and sneakerheads will discover the amazing stories behind the shoes, the people who made them and the athletes who wore them. Jason Coles is a self-confessed sneaker-head and is rarely seen out of his Adidas Superstars. What he doesn’t know about the history of sports shoes just isn’t worth knowing.

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The Billionaire’s Club James Montague

A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game?

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 18/05/17 EXTENT: 320

In The Billionaires’ Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time. It is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the globe, and part travel book as he crosses national boundaries in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football. Whilst almost always cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership – a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits for journalists and outsiders. And so Montague criss-crosses the world – from Texas to North Shields, from Malaysia to Montevideo, from Russia to Rajasthan – to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries. At its heart The Billionaires’ Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become an essential cog in this machine. An extraordinary, ground-breaking investigation into the international money network behind the world’s biggest sport. James Montague is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes primarily about money, politics and corruption in football. His work has appeared in the likes of the New York Times, CNN, World Soccer and the Guardian. He also features regularly on the BBC World Service’s World Football podcast. His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and ThirtyOne Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders. Sports Illustrated described him as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’. @JamesPiotr

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The Wenger Revolution

Twenty Years of Arsenal Amy Lawrence and Stuart MacFarlane A stunning photographic celebration of Arsene Wenger's twenty years at Arsenal. In September 1996 a Frenchman, so little known in English football the newspaper headline ran “Arsene Who?”, walked into Arsenal. In the subsequent twenty years as manager he has transformed the club. English football’s longest serving manager has overseen a period of radical change. His experience spans across the spectrum from complex challenges to historic success. Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 09/09/16 EXTENT: 192 with photography from official Arsenal club photographer Stuart MacFarlane

The Wenger Revolution chronicles this fascinating era through the combination of distinctive photographs taken from the inner sanctum, and words from Amy Lawrence. This is a stunning photographic journey, based on the images captured by official club photographer Stuart MacFarlane, who has had exclusive access for many years. Publication coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Wenger’s arrival in England. The Arsenal he joined bears little resemblance to what the club looks like as we approach 2016. A total renovation in terms of training, stadium, style, economics and a global audience has taken place under Wenger’s instruction. His successes illustrate what a sensation he created in English football. He is regarded as a guru of new football methods, getting a club with a traditional English culture to give up drinking, modernize diet, embrace new training methods, and play with a panache that ripped up the stereotype of Boring Arsenal. The Wenger Revolution is worth commemorating, and this book will do so in style. Amy Lawrence has watched football avidly since her first trip to Highbury at the age of six. She has written about the game, mostly for the Guardian and the Observer, for over 20 years, and broadcasts, mostly for BBC 5 Live, on radio and television. She was the FSF Football Writer of the Year in 2014. She has written two acclaimed books about Arsenal, Proud to Say That Name and Invincible. Stuart MacFarlane has been a sports photographer for over 25 years. Stuart’s first commissioned shoot for Arsenal was in 1990 and in January 2001 he joined the Club as their Staff Photographer. Most of Stuart’s time is spent around the 1st team squad covering matches, training sessions, player features and exclusive behind the scenes images of the players and staff. Stuart has won a number of awards but the most notable is Life magazine’s “Best image covering the world of sports” in 1999.

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The Ageless Body: How to Hold Back the Years To Achieve a Better Body Peta Bee and Sarah Schenker

From the co-author of the bestseller Fast Exercise, and the nutritional adviser for the bestselling The Fast Diet Recipe Book, the truth about how to hold back the years, what exercise will keep you looking young and how to avoid gym-face. Discover the new goals and new rules that are the route to a healthier, better looking and better functioning body. For life.

Bloomsbury Sport EXTENT: 256 RIGHTS SOLD: Kosmos (Dutch), Random House (German)

From Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Aniston and Naomi Watts, a new breed of 40 and 50 plus women are redefining not just what an ageless body looks like, but what’s entailed in achieving it. A dramatic shift in body expectations in the last few years means that, despite being plagued by a slowing metabolism and a naturally-occurring loss of muscle mass, pre- and post-menopausal women can realistically aim for the healthy, well-functioning body they crave as well as a physique that looks good with a flat stomach and sculpted arms. Peta Bee and Dr Sarah Schenker are the living embodiment of this new breed of woman: both in their forties with children, both with hectic careers and social lives. And both with the same bodies they had in their 30s. What matters, they have discovered through self-experimentation and trawling the scientific literature, is how you go about holding back the years. And the rules - for both exercise and diet - have changed. Peta Bee is a health and fitness journalist who writes for The Times, Sunday Times and Irish Examiner as well as numerous other publications. With degrees in Sports Science and Nutrition, her work has won her numerous awards including the Medical Journalists Association’s Freelance of the Year (twice). She has appeared widely on television and radio and is the author/co-author of seven books, including Fast Exercise, the 2014 bestseller co-written with Dr Michael Mosley, and The Ice Diet. Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist with a PhD in Nutrition and an Accreditation in Sports Dietetics. She is a member of the British Dietetic Association, The Nutrition Society and The Association for Nutrition. Sarah is the nutritional adviser for the bestselling The Fast Diet Recipe Book and regularly contributes to newspapers and magazines including the Daily Mail, Top Sante, Reveal and Glamour as well as shows including This Morning, Watchdog and on BBC Radio. Sarah has also worked as a nutrition adviser to several Premiership football clubs.

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Re:cyclists: 200 Years on Two Wheels Michael Hutchinson

A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling Somewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less instant.

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 23/03/17 EXTENT: 304

Re:cyclists is the tale of what happened next, of how we have spent two centuries wheeling our way about town and country on bikes – or on two-wheeled things that vaguely resembled what we now call bikes. Michael Hutchinson picks his way through those 200 years, discovering how cycling became a kinky vaudeville act for Parisians, how it became an American business empire, and how it went on to find a unique home in the British Isles. He considers the penny-farthing riders exploring the abandoned and lonely coaching roads during the railway era, and the Victorian high-society cyclists of the 1890s bicycle craze – a time when no aristocratic house party was without bicycles and when the Prince of Wales used to give himself an illicit thrill on a weekday afternoon by watching the women’s riding-school in the Royal Albert Hall. Re:cyclists looks at how cycling became the sport, the pastime and the social life of millions of ordinary people, how it grew and how it suffered through the 1960s and ’70s, and how at the dawn of the twenty-first century it rose again, much changed but still ultimately just someone careering along on two wheels. Michael Hutchinson is a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national titles in both Britain and Ireland, and represented both countries internationally, as well as Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games of 2002, 2006 and 2010. He is the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly and a regular broadcaster on the sport. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up to his previous critically acclaimed book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way. A professional cyclist himself and a well-known personality in the cycling world, Michael Hutchinson is also the star columnist for the UK’s biggest cycling magazine, Cycling Weekly (ABC figures of 27.5k). Praise for Faster: ‘If you want to know how to turn yourself into a Merckx or a Froome, read Faster’ – Guardian ‘Fascinating, convincing and witty’ – Outdoor Fitness ‘A revelatory examination of what makes athletes tick’ – Independent ‘It’s an amusing, informative and hugely satisfying read that’s genuinely difficult to tear yourself away from.’ – Cycling Weekly ‘Well researched and delivered perfectly; definitely one for the permanent collection.’ – Road.cc ‘For anyone with a keen interest in time trialling or an obsession with speed this book is a must-read.’ – Wheelsuckers.co.uk

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I’ll See you Out There: Arsenal, Manchester United and the Premier League’s Greatest Rivalry Rob Smyth

The full story of the furious and sensational rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United from 1996 to 2005 The rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United in the late 1990s and early 2000s was the greatest in English football history. It is the only time two teams have completely dominated the league for a decade. It was a mixture of the epic and the pathetic, with glorious football, hateful confrontations and even a pizza fight.

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 09/02/17 EXTENT: 304

Like all great rivalries, this was a study in contrasts: north versus south, British and Irish versus French. Both regularly tried to claim the moral high ground, often at the same time. The rivalry centred on four people: the managers, Arsène Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson, and the hard men, Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane, who regularly came together like nitroglycerin and gunpowder. Over time those involved have developed the mutual respect of boxers embracing after the final bell. They played when football was a mixture of silk and steel, artistry and aggro, and know such a feud could no longer happen because of the sanitisation of the game. Their rivalry was not just the greatest of its kind in English football; it was also the last. Rob Smyth is a specialist in modern sport history who has written about football for the Guardian, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, FourFourTwo, Yahoo, Manchester United, ITV, Intelligent Life, GQ and Virgin Media. He is co-author of Danish Dynamite, one of the Observer’s Sports Books of the Year 2014, and was highly commended at the 2010 Sports Journalists’ Association awards.

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The Captain Myth: The Ryder Cup and Sport’s Great Leadership Delusion Richard Gillis

A fresh look at one of international sport’s highest-profile tournaments – and what role the captains really play in Ryder Cup success The War on the Shore, the Battle of Brookline, the Miracle of Medinah: the Ryder Cup is golf’s – and arguably one of international sport’s – most intense, highprofile tournaments. Two teams tussle through 28 matches over three days for no prize money but enormous national pride. And purportedly in charge of those two teams are the captains, whose reputations are shaped forever by their players’ results out on the course. Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 25/08/16 EXTENT: 320

Justin Rose’s unlikely 35-foot on the 17th green at Medinah Country Club set up Europe’s triumph – and one of modern sport’s most remarkable turnarounds – in the 2012 Ryder Cup. It also established Davis Love II as ‘a bad captain’ and saw José María Olazábal feted for a series of leadership masterstrokes. In reality, neither captain had much to do with that putt being sunk. Yet the pressure remains on the captains to lead their team to victory. As each Cup passes, more theories are put forward about how to win. Some of these combine traditional golfing nous with cutting-edge sports psychology. Others are red herrings that have led captains down any number of blind alleys. So what can a captain do to win the Ryder Cup? Using exclusive interviews and saturation reporting, Gillis shows how strategy has evolved since the very first match in 1927, exploring the enduring and often surprising role played by some of the game’s greatest stars including Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tony Jacklin, Seve Ballesteros and Paul Azinger. The Captain Myth uses golf’s greatest event to examine some fundamental questions about leadership, teams and motivation. Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and communications consultancy work.

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The End of the Road: Festina and the Tour that Almost Killed Cycling Alasdair Fotheringham

The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the 1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 05/05/16 EXTENT: 320

The Tour de France is always one of the sporting calendar’s most spectacular and dramatic events. But the 1998 Tour provided drama like no other. As the opening stages in Ireland unfolded, the Festina team’s soigneur Willy Voet was arrested on the French–Belgian border with a car-load of drugs. Raid after police raid followed, with arrest after arrest hammering the Tour. In protest, there were riders’ strikes and go-slows, with several squads withdrawing en masse andone expelled. By the time the Tour reached Paris, just 96 of the 189 starters remained. And of those 189 starters, more than a quarter were later reported to have doped. The 1998 ‘Tour de Farce’s’ status as one of the most scandalstruck sporting events in history was confirmed. Voet’s arrest was just the beginning of sport’s biggest mass doping controversy – what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional cycling as the credibility of the entire sport was called into question and the cycling family began to split apart. And yet, ironically, the 1998 Tour was also one of the best races in years. The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis and a colourful evocation of the tumultuous events during the 1998 Tour. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world’s biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees. He explores its long-term consequences – and what, if any, lessons were learned. Alasdair Fotheringham is a freelance journalist based in Spain. He has covered 22 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain, as well as numerous other major races. The Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s correspondent on Spain and cycling, he is also a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling magazines and websites. The Eagle of Toledo, his biography of Spain’s first Tour de France winner, Federico Martin Bahamontes, was published in 2012, and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocaña was published in 2014.

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The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess Stephen Moss

A doomed-to-fail attempt to become a grandmaster offers a wry take on both chess and midlife identity Chess has been played for more than 1,500 years; it is played in every country and by an estimated 10% of the world’s population. Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of its enduring appeal. What, he asks, is the essence of chess? And what will it reveal about his own character along the way?

Wisden PUBLICATION DATE: 22/09/16 EXTENT: 400

In a witty, accessible style that will delight newcomers and irritate purists, Moss imagines the world as a board and marches across it, offering a mordant report on the world of chess in 64 chapters – 64 of course being the number of squares on the chessboard. He alternates between “black” chapters – where he plays, largely uncomprehendingly, in tournaments – and “white” chapters, where he seeks advice from the current crop of grandmasters and delves into the lives of great players of the past. It is both a history of the game and a kind of “Zen and the Art of Chess”; a practical guide and a self-help book: Moss’s quest to understand chess and become a better player is really an attempt to escape a lifetime of dilettantism. He wants to become an expert at one thing. What will be the consequences when he realises he is doomed to fail? Moss travels to Russia and the US – hotbeds of chess throughout the 20th century; meets people who knew Bobby Fischer when he was growing up and tries to unravel the enigma of that tortured genius who died in 2008 at the inevitable age of 64; meets Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen, world champions past and present; and keeps bumping into Armenian superstar Levon Aronian in the gents at tournaments. He becomes champion of Surrey, wins tournaments in Chester and Bury St Edmunds, and holds his own at the famous event in the Dutch seaside resort of Wijk aan Zee (until a last-round meltdown), but too often he is beaten by precocious 10-year-olds and finds it hard to resist the urge to punch them. He looks for spiritual fulfilment in the game, but mostly finds mental torture. Stephen Moss has worked for the Guardian as an editor and writer since 1989. He was the paper’s literary editor, has written widely on sport and culture, and in 2006 edited Cricket’s Age of Revolution, a history of the game since the Kerry Packer coup, for Wisden. He won the Surrey Chess Championship in 2014, though if pressed will admit his success came in the section for players graded below 140 – a level grandmasters consider to be mentally challenged and which many precocious 10-year-olds eschew, boldly preferring to play in the division above.

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Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek Rick Broadbent

The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of running, redemption and political exile Voted the ‘greatest runner of all time’ by Runner’s World in 2013, Emil Zátopek redefined modern running training techniques – with remarkable results. He is famed for setting a raft of world records, and winning the Olympic 10,000 metres in London in 1948, followed by the remarkable and unprecedented treble of the 5,000, 10,000 and marathon four years later in Helsinki. However, his story goes way beyond races and results.

Wisden PUBLICATION DATE: 21/04/16 EXTENT: 304

From a lowly factory worker, ‘the Czech Locomotive’ became a global hero due to his success on the track but – at a time of political instability – Zátopek risked everything for the love of his friends and country, and soon found himself cast adrift into political exile. At its heart, this is a love story as Emil courts and marries Dana, a promising javelin thrower. Born on the same day, they end up winning Olympic gold medals within the space of half an hour. Due to the unprecedented involvement of Dana, award-winning Times author Rick Broadbent has gained unique access to a dramatic past involving blood and guns and the love that sustained the cruellest twists of fate and beatings by Soviet henchmen. With traces of Chariots of Fire and Laura Hillenbrand’s New York Times bestseller/film Unbroken, this is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale of hope and strength in the face of crushing injustices. Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff writer at The Times for 10 years and spent 2007–13 as the paper’s athletics correspondent. He has written eight books. These include That Near-Death Thing, winner at the British Sports Book Awards 2013 and shortlisted for the William Hill prize, and Ring of Fire, also shortlisted for the William Hill Prize. He was also the ghost-writer of Jessica Ennis’s Sunday Times top-10 bestselling autobiography. He lives in Bournemouth. @ricktimes

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Hope: My Life in Football Hope Powell

The story of the pioneering England women’s football manager Hope Powell was a skinny little black girl from South London who only ever wanted to play football. Brought up in a violent home, she was actively discouraged from playing. The original Bend It Like Beckham girl, this is the amazing story of how a kid from a Greenwich housing estate became one of the most influential women in world football. A revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of England, Hope Powell will forever be the face of English women’s football. She took the national game from amateurism to top-flight performance – and dedicated herself to opening up the sport to hundreds of thousands of girls and young women at the grassroots level. Bloomsbury Sports Publication date: 25/08/2016 Extent: 304

A black, gay woman who’s been a relentless pioneer for equal rights, the story of her battles against authority are an object lesson in how determination and bravery can make a lasting change. Hope Powell was a revered international footballer and then, for fifteen years, manager of the England women’s football team. She now works as an elite coach and technical advisor around the world for FIFA and UEFA, and as an advocate for change and development in women’s football. She has been coaching QPR’s male Academy players, and working with women prisoners in Peterborough Jail. She lives in London.

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The Manager

Podium

Mike Carson

The Monuments

Ben Oakley

Peter Cossins

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The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby Tony Collins

Faster

Michael Hutchinson

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Reckless

Alasdair Fotheringham

Floodlights and Touchlines: A History of Spectator Sport Rob Steen

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This Love Is Not for Cowards

Futebol

Robert Andrew Powell

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Danish Dynamite

Foul Play

Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen & Mike Gibbons RIGHTS SOLD: Art People (Danish), Pintxo Forlag (Swedish)

Alex Bellos

Mike Rowbottom RIGHTS SOLD: X-knowledge (Japanese)

Thirty-One Nil James Montague

Game, Set and Match Mark Hodgkinson

The Dirtiest Race in History

Sod Seventy Sir Muir Gray

Richard Moore

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The Saffron Tales

Recipes from the Persian Kitchen Yasmin Khan A glorious celebration of the food and people of Iran: stories from home kitchens and more than 80 delicious modern recipes Armed with little more than a notebook and a bottle of pomegranate molasses, British-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan traversed Iran in search of the country’s most delicious recipes.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 14/07/16 EXTENT: 240 RIGHTS SOLD: Fontaine (Dutch), DK Verlag (German)

Her quest took her from the snowy mountains of Tabriz and the paddyfields of Gilan to the cosmopolitan cafés of Tehran and the pomegranate orchards of Isfahan, where she was welcomed into the homes of artists, farmers, electricians and teachers. Through her travels, she gained a unique insight into the culinary secrets of the Persian kitchen and the lives of ordinary Iranians today. In The Saffron Tales, Yasmin weaves together a tapestry of stories from Iranian home kitchens with exclusive photography and fragrant, modern recipes that are rooted in the rich tradition of Persian cooking. All fully accessible for the home cook, Yasmin’s recipes range from the inimitable fesenjoon (chicken with walnuts and pomegranates) to kofte berenji (lamb meatballs stuffed with prunes and barberries) and ghalyieh maygoo (prawn, coriander and tamarind stew). She also offers a wealth of vegetarian dishes, including tahcheen (baked saffron and aubergine rice) and domaj (mixed herb, flatbread and feta salad), as well as sumptuous desserts such as rose and almond cake, and sour cherry and dark chocolate cookies. With stunning photography from all corners of Iran and gorgeous recipe images, this lavish cookbook rejoices in the land, life, flavours and food of an enigmatic and beautiful country. Yasmin Khan is a writer and cook from London who loves to share people’s stories through food. An avid traveller whose passport is never too far from her pocket, she runs cooking classes, pop-up supper clubs and writing retreats around the world. Prior to immersing herself in the fragrances and flavours of the Persian kitchen, Yasmin worked as a human rights campaigner, running national and international campaigns for NGOs and grassroots groups, with a special focus on the Middle East. thesaffrontales.com / @yasmin_khan ‘Barberries, fresh herbs, date molasses, dried limes, saffron; Yasmin’s Persian pantry staples are a roll call of my favourite ingredients. Her recipes are a mouthwatering showcase of a beautiful country’ – Yotam Ottolenghi ‘Not just a great cookbook but a book full of stories – a love letter to Iran and its people’ – Diana Henry

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On the Side Ed Smith

An inspiring selection of superlative side dishes On the Side is a rare recipe book in that it brings the oft-neglected supporting acts to centre stage. Instead of leaving what often makes up the majority of a meal to an over-boiled afterthought or throwaway “serve with seasonal greens” line, in On the Side it’s the accompaniments that get the star billing.

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 04/05/2017 EXTENT: 192

The book is a collection of inspiring side dishes to complement all styles of food, ranging from ones that will spark a whole meal (PX braised radicchio, salt and thyme baked celeriac, scorched sweet potato with sobrasada butter), through the classics (mac ’n’ cheese, caponata, boulangère potatoes), to simple ways with less familiar ingredients (agretti, turnip tops, cauliflower greens). The central premise of the book is that not only can sides really elevate a meal – they can become its focus, the dishes you go back to for seconds and thirds. Inventive, playful, and yet hardworking, this book establishes Ed Smith as a major new name in British food writing. On the Side is the kitchen companion that everyone has been missing. Ed Smith is a former lawyer who left his job in 2012 in pursuit of a career in food. He retrained as a chef and is now a freelance food writer, and Creative Director of British cured meat wholesalers and retailers, Cannon & Cannon, based at London’s Borough Market. The author of the website www.rocketandsquash. com, a food journal regularly updated with restaurant reviews, recipes, news round-ups and short films, Ed has featured as a resident chef for The Guardian’s Cook supplement, and guest cookery writer at The Independent on Sunday. At the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2015, he won the award for Best Online Restaurant Writer and was shortlisted alongside Diana Henry and Yotam Ottolenghi for Best Cookery Writer. On the Side was shortlisted for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award, presented to a first-time writer of a book on food to be published in 2017.

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Land of Fish and Rice

Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China Fuchsia Dunlop Exquisite recipes from Shanghai and the southern Yangtze region, by internationally renowned Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop The lower Yangtze region, with its modern capital Shanghai, has been known since ancient times as the ‘Land of Fish and Rice’. For centuries, local cooks have been using the plentiful produce of its lakes, rivers, fields and mountains, combined with delicious seasonings and flavours such as rice vinegar, rich soy sauce, spring onion and ginger, to create a cuisine that is renowned in China for its delicacy and beauty. Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 28/07/16 EXTENT: 368 RIGHTS SOLD: Norton (US), Karakter (Dutch)

Drawing on years of study and exploration, Fuchsia Dunlop explains basic cooking techniques, typical cooking methods and the principal ingredients of the southern Yangtze larder. Her recipes are a mixture of simple peasant cooking and rich delicacies – some are famous, some unsung. You’ll be inspired to try classic dishes such as Beggar’s chicken and sumptuous Dongpo pork. All the recipes contain readily available ingredients and, with Fuchsia’s clear guidance, you will soon see how simple it is to create some of the most beautiful and delicious dishes you’ll ever taste. With evocative writing, stunning location photography and mouth-watering recipe pictures, this is an important new work about one of China’s most fascinating regions. Fuchsia Dunlop was the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine, and has been travelling around China and collecting recipes for more than two decades. She has written for publications including the Financial Times, Saveur, the New Yorker and the Observer, and has appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s The F-Word and The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4. Her previous books include the award-winning Sichuan Cookery, Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking and Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China. She speaks, reads and writes Chinese, and she lives in East London. fuchsiadunlop.com / @fuchsiadunlop

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Good Good Food

Recipes to Help You ook, Feel and live Well Sarah Raven 250 gorgeous, colourful, healthy recipes from award-winning food writer and qualified doctor Sarah Raven Not only is Sarah Raven an inspirational cook, but she was also once a doctor and so has a wealth of medical training and knowledge behind her. Here she brings together her unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes, sharing her medical knowledge to explain exactly how and why certain foods help protect your body and give you the best possible chance of a longer, healthier life. Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 19/05/16 EXTENT: 376

The 250 sumptuous and colourful recipes include Coconut sugar marmalade, Spiced aubergine salad with pomegranate raita, Lemon chicken and summer herb salad, Cashew hummus, Black bean burritos, Blood orange sorbet and Basil yoghurt ice cream. Woven through the book are 100 mini ‘superfood’ biographies, where Sarah draws on her expertise and experience to explain the science behind good-for-you ingredients such as kale, broccoli, salmon, red wine, blueberries, apples and seeds. With luminous photography by Jonathan Buckley, this generous and stylish book offers recipes to make you feel well, look well and live longer – by using the most beneficial ingredients and without ever compromising on sheer deliciousness. Sarah Raven worked as a doctor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has cooked all her life for family and friends with an emphasis on goodness, healthiness and general wellbeing. Sarah runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex, and has established a mail order gardening company with 80,000 active customers. She has made regular appearances on the BBC’s Great British Garden Revival and Gardeners’ World; and she is the author of Sarah Raven’s Food for Friends and Family, Sarah Raven’s Complete Christmas, Sarah Raven’s Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers’ Cookery Book of the Year 2008) and The Cutting Garden. sarahraven.com / @srkitchengarden

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Mammissima

Family Cooking from a Modern Italian Mamma Elisabetta Minervini The cookbook that reveals how to be the ultimate Italian mamma – with simple and delicious Puglian recipes Puglia is the ‘heel’ of Italy. Bordering the iridescent Adriatic Sea, this is a region where the olive oil is like liquid gold, where the fish is cooked up fresh from the sea, and where sun-dried tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are at the heart of the cuisine. The food here is light, nutritious and rustic, and firmly centred around family life.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 05/05/16 EXTENT: 208

Born in this charming region, vivacious and modern mother-of-two Elisabetta Minervini has brought the vitality of Puglian cooking to her home in London, and in Mammissima she shares the traditional recipes that her children (and their friends) have come to adore. These include orecchiette (‘little-ear’ pasta), focaccia, pasta al forno (oven-baked pasta), Salento rustic pie, and the ultimate pizza that will get everyone involved. This kind of cooking suits a hectic lifestyle and can be prepared quickly and easily, using inexpensive ingredients. With enchanting food photography, illustrations and plenty of personality, this glorious book will allow you to add Italian panache and bring la dolce vita to your own everyday cooking. Elisabetta Minervini was born in Molfetta near Bari, a medieval port in the beautiful region of Puglia in southern Italy, and she moved to England in 1997. She is the founder of award-winning publishing company Alma Books. She lives in Richmond, London, with her husband Alessandro and their two children, aged twelve and nine. Mammissima is her first book.

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River Cottage Ingredients: An A-Z of our favourite things (and how to cook them) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

An authoritative and glorious A–Z of more than 300 ingredients and 300 recipes, set to become an essential tome in the River Cottage library This huge and beautiful book is a River Cottage ‘Larousse’ of ingredients. With entries on vegetables, fruits, herbs, spices, meat, fish, fungi, foraged foods, dairy, oils, vinegar and much more, it celebrates more than 300 ingredients that the modern cook might come across.

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 08/09/16 EXTENT: 672

Each ingredient is described by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall or an expert contributor from his River Cottage team – for example Nick Fisher covers seafood and John Wright writes on mushrooms. They explain which varieties to look for and how best to prepare them, and provide detailed information on seasonality, habitat, alternative names, Latin names, landing sizes (for fish), and easy growing instructions (for vegetables and herbs). There is also a delicious recipe for every entry. With stunning photography by Simon Wheeler and evocative illustrations, this is an ambitious work that will become an indispensable guide for every kitchen. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy and the André Simon Food Book of the Year. Joining him for this book are the team from River Cottage, including Gill Meller, Nikki Duffy, Mark Diacono, Pam Corbin, John Wright, Nick Fisher, Steven Lamb and Tim Maddams, all experts in their fields. rivercottage.net / @rivercottage

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River Cottage Gluten Free Naomi Devlin

More than 120 inspiring recipes for those who want to cut out gluten without compromising on taste – perfect for anyone with coeliac disease or gluten intolerance Gluten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for so many of us. Whether you need to cut gluten out of your diet or you’re cooking for friends and family with gluten intolerance, River Cottage Gluten Free will provide the tools you need to gain inspiration and navigate mealtimes. Expert nutritionist Naomi Devlin gives clear advice for gluten-free eating – including detailed guidance on alternative flours, methods of fermentation and delicious baking ideas. Bloomsbury Publishing EXTENT: 272

She offers ingenious recipes for breakfasts, bread, pastry, soups, salads, snacks, main meals and puddings, including Prosciutto and egg muffins, Blinis with crème fraîche and smoked salmon, Leek and bacon quiche, Courgette hummus, Blackberry bakewell tart, Luscious lemon cake and Chocolate fondants. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and helpful tips from Naomi throughout, this is the definitive gluten-free cookbook – it will add fresh vitality to your cooking and eating, and a host of recipes to make you feel great. Once dubbed ‘the Nigella of gluten-free’, nutrition expert Naomi Devlin is an unashamed foodie who was blessed with a coeliac diagnosis. After studying native diets around the world, she now believes that the key to health and happiness is to cook from scratch wherever possible. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it should be tasty and satisfying. Using gluten-free wholegrains and sourdough cultures, she teaches people about the endless possibilities and rich flavours of gluten-free grains at River Cottage and Ashburton Cookery School, and at bespoke cookery days in her own steamy kitchen. Naomi lives in West Dorset with her husband, son and ginger cat in a sustainable house they built themselves. rivercottage.net / @naomidevlin

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Risotto! Risotto! Valentina Harris

A fully updated edition of Valentina Harris' seminal work on this iconic Italian dish. Prized for its texture, flavour and versatility, risotto has been part of the Italian diet since the eighth century and is one of its most famous dishes. This revised and updated edition of Valentina Harris’ seminal work shows you how to prepare, cook and serve this iconic Italian dish using any ingredient from the humble tomato to the much sought-after truffle.

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 09/02/17 EXTENT: 192

With a fully updated introduction and some brand new recipes, as well as background information on the history of this famous dish, Valentina provides essential information on the variety of rice that can be used for risotto and how to make the all-important stock. Recipes are supplemented by beautiful photography of the dishes by Ian Garlick and a step-by-step guide to the perfect risotto. This is the perfect book for any risotto lover. Educated in Italy, renowned cookery writer Valentina Harris is the youngest member of a large Anglo-Italian family full of colourful gourmets. In 1976 she brought her qualifications for teaching and cooking from Rome to London and quickly build up her reputation, going on to publish more than 30 awardwinning cookery books and becoming an authority on Italian cuisine. She regularly appears on TV, following the success of her first BBC series, Italian Regional Cooking. She now offers culinary adventures across Europe, sharing her passion for food hosting bespoke cookery courses and private catering commissions, and is often found at food festivals in the UK. valentinaharris.com / @ChefValentina

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Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons Raymond Blanc

A stunningly illustrated journey through the year at Raymond Blanc’s legendary Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons is one of the finest hotel-restaurants in the world. This is a chance to step behind the walls for Raymond’s personal tour, season by season. He reveals how every element of the place – from the Japanese garden to the Citronelle bedroom – came into being, and leads you into the kitchen to show you the culinary secrets of this two-Michelin-starred restaurant. The book features recipes for 120 of Le Manoir’s most celebrated dishes, including ricotta agnolotti, venison grand veneur, blood orange carpaccio, and apple tart Maman Blanc. With spectacular photography and elegant illustrations, this book will allow you to bring a taste of Le Manoir into your own home. Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 06/10/16 EXTENT: 544

Totally self-taught, Raymond Blanc is one of Britain’s most respected chefs. His hotel-restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Oxford has been awarded two Michelin stars for the past 26 years, and in 2007 he was awarded an OBE for services to culinary excellence. He is the bestselling author of several books, including Kitchen Secrets. belmond.com/lemanoir / @lemanoir

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SPUNTINO

Comfort Food (New York Style) Russell Norman A sizzling New York cookbook from the bestselling author of POLPO Hidden behind a rust-coloured frontage in the bustling heart of London’s Soho, Spuntino is the epitome of New York’s vibrant restaurant scene. After bringing the bàcari of Venice to the backstreets of the British capital at his critically acclaimed restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the scruffiest and quirkiest boroughs of the Big Apple to find authentic inspiration for an urban, machine-age diner. Since its smash-hit opening in 2011, the restaurant has delivered big bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the crowds who flock to its pewter-topped bar. Bloomsbury Publishing EXTENT: 304 RIGHTS SOLD: Karakter (Dutch)

Spuntino will take you on a culinary adventure from London to New York and back, bringing the best of American cuisine to your kitchen. The 120 recipes include zingy salads, juicy sliders, oozing pizzette, boozy desserts and prohibition-era cocktails. You’ll also get a glimpse of New York foodie heaven as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s cultural hubs and quirky neighbourhoods such as East Village and Williamsburg, discovering family-run delis, brasseries, street traders, sweet shops and liquor bars. With radiant photography by Jenny Zarins capturing New York’s visceral grittiness, Spuntino pays homage to the energy, dynamism and extraordinary cuisine that the world’s greatest melting pot has inspired. Russell Norman is a restaurateur. Over the last 20 years he has worked in many of London’s landmark restaurants as a waiter, bartender, maître d’, general manager and operations director. In 2009 he founded an independent restaurant company with his best friend and has since opened eight restaurants in central London including Polpo, Spuntino and Mishkin’s. His book POLPO: A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) was voted Waterstones Book of the Year 2012, and in 2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary for BBC2. russellnorman.co / @russellnorman_ spuntino.co.uk / @Spuntino

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Junk Food Japan Scott Hallsworth

In Junk Food Japan ex-Nobu Head Chef Scott Hallsworth showcases the incredible food that is making his Kurobuta restaurants some of the most talked-about places to eat in London.

Absolute Press PUBLICATION DATE: 07/04/16 EXTENT: 304

Packing a heavy punch and offering a fresh new look at Japanese food, Junk Food Japan showcases Kurobuta's ‘insanely delicious delicacies’ (Jay Rayner, The Observer). It is food that is both incredibly inventive yet comfortingly familiar. Signature dishes featured in this exciting new cookbook include Barbecued Pork Belly in Steamed Buns, with a Spicy Peanut Soy Sauce, Tea Smoked Lamb, and Kombu, Roasted Chilean seabass. It is food full of flavour, achievable to create at home and guaranteed to wow friends, family and hungry gatecrashers. Chapters with titles such as Snack, Junk Food Japan, Significant Others, Something Crunchy and On the Side give an idea of the gastronomic fun that is to be found within. Featuring approximately 100 recipes brilliantly showcasing Scott’s wild and inventive style, Junk Food Japan presents Japanese classics with twists and turns alongside a selection of new, stunning Scott-conceived dishes, including Tuna Sashimi Pizza and Wagyu Beef Sliders. Superb photography from legendary photographer David Loftus features throughout. Scott Hallsworth has been forging a mighty path in Japanese cuisine for nearly two decades, having worked for many years as Head Chef at the legendary Nobu in London and then later opening Nobu in Melbourne in his native Australia. He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen with more television and press profile planned. kurobuta-london.com / @KurobutaLondon / @scotthallsworth

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sketch

Mourad Mazouz, Pierre Gagnaire A dreamscape book about one of London's most fascinating restaurants: sketch.

Absolute Press PUBLICATION DATE: 22/09/16 EXTENT: 320

sketch is a unique meeting place in the centre of London created by Mourad Mazouz and Pierre Gagnaire. The converted 18th-century building in Mayfair is an opulent, zany maze with treasures to be discovered in every room. A mad hatter’s fantasy comes alive in the enchanted woodland Glade tearoom. Eccentric tasty tricks abound in the Parlour patisserie. Eat your fill of gorgeous flavours in the Gallery bistro art installation. Chic pre-dinner cocktails in the urbane East Bar prepare you for the Michelin magic unleashed in the vibrant Lecture Room & Library. Whether you want a tearoom, bistro, restaurant, bar or nightclub, sketch has the best to offer. Now these myriad food, drink and entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things sketch. Unique cuisine is at its heart, world-renowned three-Michelin-star chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus. Interlaced throughout are artistic interpretations of the recipes, contributed by an array of people involved in all elements of sketch, ultimately creating a sensual feast in a book. Photography by Jean Cazals. Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have created unique experiences in Paris, London, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Beirut. Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French fare and mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants in Paris, Berlin, London, Moscow, Las Vegas, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Dubai. sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon

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Indian Harvest Vikas Khanna

A vibrant vegetarian cookbook from New York’s hottest Indian chef. One of Vikas Khanna’s favorite places in the world growing up was the garden he and his grandmother planted at their home in Amritsar, India. He would rush home from school to tend to the aromatic basil and cardamom, tomatoes, peas, and squash. His intimate knowledge of spices and produce would guide him on his journey to become the Michelin-starred chef at one of New York’s most highly regarded Indian restaurants, Junoon. And this knowledge of nature’s bounty and its seasons informs his inspiring and beautiful cookbook, in which vegetables are the star ingredients. Vegetables have always been integral to Indian cuisine, and Khanna’s dishes expertly showcase their natural goodness, their flavor and color and hidden nuances. Bloomsbury USA EXTENT: 416

Khanna brings together traditional recipes, handed down over generations, alongside exciting new ones–for soups, salads, and starters; main courses; rice dishes and lentil dishes; breads; condiments; desserts; and drinks. Though the flavors are complex, the recipes are written to be simple and inviting, to encourage seasonal substitutions and experimentation. Vikas Khanna’s love of food and culture, his enthusiasm and warm hospitality shines on every page. Bursting with 125 recipes and more than 200 color photographs from Michael Swamy and Khanna himself, Indian Harvest opens a new world of inspiration to vegetarians and omnivores alike. Vikas Khanna was born and raised in Amritsar, India, and studied at the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu. He is the host of MasterChef India and has been a guest chef on The Martha Stewart Show, a consultant chef on Kitchen Nightmares, and a judge on Throwdown! with Bobby Flay and Hell’s Kitchen. He was a 2014 finalist for the James Beard Book Award for his book Return to the Rivers, and his Flatiron restaurant, Junoon, has been awarded a Michelin star. Khanna lives in New York.

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