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January – June 2015
2 Original Fiction
17 Original Non-fiction
33 Nature & Outdoors
36 Food
41 Business
43 Sport & Sailing
52 Religion
54 Paperback Fiction
65 Paperback Non-fiction
80 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales
82 Index
86 Social Media Contacts
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OME open market edition, A format (dimensions 178 mm x 111 mm)
PB B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm)
TPB trade paperback, original titles only
HB hardback
published under the Bloomsbury Circus imprint
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wallflowers
Eliza Robertson
January – June 2015
A delicate and startling debut collection from the winner of the 2013
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
A small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her back yard;
a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory
2 Original Fiction
birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen
pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting
17 Original Non-fiction revelations. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty
survivors; they teach us how to trap hummingbirds, relinquish dreams gracefully
and feed raccoons without getting bitten. These are tales of wildness and wonder,
33 Nature & Outdoors
of animals in search of an escape and outsiders looking for a way back in.
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36 Food HARDbACk / 9781408856796 / £14.99 Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada. While studying at the University
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of East Anglia, doing an MA in Prose Fiction, she received the Man Booker
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and the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
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52 Religion
54 Paperback Fiction
weathering
65 Paperback Non-fiction
Lucy wood
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From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Diving Belles comes
a beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, daughters and ghosts
82 Index
Pearl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river, or why, for that matter, she’d
86 Social Media Contacts been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs. Ada, Pearl’s daughter,
doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house in the rain-soaked valley she
left thirteen years ago. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl’s
things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. As the first frosts
of autumn herald the coming of a long winter, Pepper and Ada discover the ways
that places can take root inside us and bind us together.
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TPB trade paperback, original titles only TERRITORy: COMM/Eu, OM has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.
HB hardback TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CuRTIS bROwN Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She
grew up in Cornwall and lives in Devon.
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published under the Bloomsbury Circus imprint
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The Mime Order
Samantha Shannon
The hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, The Bone Season
Paige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have
only just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person
in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-
queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly.
Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter
fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around
every corner. Then the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where
is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret
catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.
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has been translated into twenty-eight languages
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Chaos of the Senses
Ahlem Mosteghanemi
The second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary
phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi
Picking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel
begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high-
ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an
unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the
story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out
in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those
we find when we’re looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author
weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could.
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and adapted into a television series.
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The Mime Order Don’t Let Him know
Samantha Shannon Sandip Roy
The hotly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller, The Bone Season A tender, powerful and beautifully told story of displacement, Don’t Let Him
Know marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature
Paige Mahoney has escaped the penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have
only just begun: many survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person In a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra,
in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime- a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she
queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. accidentally opens the wrong one, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit
Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter finds the letter and thinks he has discovered his mother’s secret. But secrets have
fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers.
every corner. Then the Rephaim start crawling out from the shadows. But where
is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair
catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. saloons in Calcutta to McDonald’s drive-thrus in California, Don’t Let Him Know
27 JANuARy 2015 29 JANuARy 2015 is an unforgettable story about family, the struggle between having what we want
Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of fifeen. In 2013 The HARDbACk / 9781408857397 / £12.99 HARDbACk / 9781408856635 / £16.99 and doing what we feel we must, and the sacrifices we make for those we love.
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Bone Season hit the bestseller lists across three continents in the first week of
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publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: wO Sandip Roy is Senior Editor at the popular news portal Firstpost.com and writes
Huffington Post and was named one of Amazon’s 2013 Best Books of the Year. It TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAvID GODwIN TRANSLATION RIGHTS: bLOOMSbuRy for the Huffington Post. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio’s
has been translated into twenty-eight languages Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US. He is also
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an editor with New America Media and has won several awards for journalism.
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Chaos of the Senses vanessa and Her Sister
Ahlem Mosteghanemi Priya Parmar
The second novel in the international bestselling trilogy from ‘the literary The bewitching story of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. A novel of art, love
phenomenon’ (Elle), Ahlem Mosteghanemi and betrayal. ‘Prepare to be dazzled’ Paula McLain
Picking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel London, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the
begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a high- forefront as they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends
ranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. At the centre
unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter, and
story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out Virginia, the writer. But the landscape shifts unexpectedly when Vanessa falls
in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those in love and Virginia – eerily possessive and unpredictable – careens towards
we find when we’re looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author self-destruction. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa
weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could. must choose whether to protect Virginia’s happiness or her own.
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Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author HARDbACk / 9781408857281 / £18.99 HARDbACk / 9781408850206 / £12.99 Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She lives in
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in the Arab world. She has 4 million followers on Facebook and was ranked in London and Hawaii.
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the top ten most influential women in the Middle East by Forbes in 2006. The TRANSLATION RIGHTS: wITH AuTHOR TERRITORy: COMM/ukEXCAN, OM
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published by Bloomsbury in 2013, and has been translated into several languages ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015
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and adapted into a television series.
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ORIGINAL FICTION 3 4 ORIGINAL FICTION
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we Are Pirates
Daniel Handler
A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author
otherwise known as Lemony Snicket
A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water.
Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a
struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d
like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter.
Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend.
But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.
This is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying 12 FEbRuARy 2015
to get his daughter home. HARDbACk / 9781408858356 / £16.99
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Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled
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A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.
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@DanielHandler
The burning Gates
A Makana Mystery
Parker bilal
Many miles from Iraq, many months after the invasion, the dust of war lands
on the streets of Cairo
Private Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram
Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went
missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is
that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want
to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a
trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he
has built for himself up in flames. 12 FEbRuARy 2015
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Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically
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his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times
in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015
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ORIGINAL FICTION 5
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we Are Pirates Alsanousi The bamboo Stalk
Daniel Handler Saud Saud Alsanousi
©
A dark, rollicking pirate story for grown-ups, from the mega-bestselling author Translated by Jonathan wright
otherwise known as Lemony Snicket
Winner of the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water.
Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a Josephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. In the house
struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d where she works, she meets Rashid, a spoiled only son. Josephine, with all the
like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes
14 FEbRuARy 2015 pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid sends her back
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Gwen is his daughter. She’s fourteen. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend. to the Philippines with her baby son, José.
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This is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying 12 FEbRuARy 2015 eighteen. But will Kuwait be any more welcoming to him than the Philippines was?
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Daring and bold, The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the phenomenon
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Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled
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A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco. Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has
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appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and
@DanielHandler Al-Arabi and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper.
The burning Gates She will build Him a City
A Makana Mystery Raj kamal Jha
Parker bilal
Violence, sex, poverty, love, longing, new money and new cities all come together
in this breathtaking, magical novel by the Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted
Many miles from Iraq, many months after the invasion, the dust of war lands author of The Blue Bedspread
on the streets of Cairo
As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales for her sleeping daughter. A young
Private Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram man rides the metro and dreams of murder. A newborn wrapped in a blood-
Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.
missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is
that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are
to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a only three. But their stories – of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of
trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul and of an orphaned boy who maps
has built for himself up in flames. 12 FEbRuARy 2015 26 FEbRuARy 2015 out his own destiny – weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form
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Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically
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acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. The Burning Gates is TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AM HEATH TERRITORy: wE Raj Kamal Jha is a journalist and a novelist, and works in New Delhi as Chief
his fourth Makana Mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times TRANSLATION RIGHTS: AITkEN ALEXANDER Editor of The Indian Express. Jha’s first novel, The Blue Bedspread, won the 2000
in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona. ANZ Pub DATE: 01 MARCH 2015 ASSOCIATES Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and was a New York
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Times Notable Book of the Year. His novels have been published in over a dozen
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ORIGINAL FICTION 5 6 ORIGINAL FICTION
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Not Quite Nice
Celia Imrie
A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates
on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting
her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a
picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the
odd movie star, and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling
to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships
and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from
several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as 26 FEbRuARy 2015
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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in
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2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James Theatre.
www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie
The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Mitchell
Celeste David
©
Malcolm Pryce
From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do
adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective
Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway
detectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and
ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of
the railways, Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted
great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous.
Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged
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travelling abroad. He has been a BMW assembly-line worker, a hotel washer-up, TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE SAyLE AGENCy
a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the
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world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth
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novels. He lives in Oxford.
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ORIGINAL FICTION 7
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Not Quite Nice weightless
Celia Imrie Sarah bannan
A gloriously charming and funny debut about an eccentric group of expatriates ‘Sarah Bannan brings us right into the middle of bullying twenty-first-
on the French Riviera, from one of the nation’s best-loved actresses century-style, in a novel that is chilling, engrossing and very, very impressive’
Roddy Doyle
Theresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting
her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a Before Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville,
picture-perfect town, just outside Nice. Alabama. Then the new girl came. All Carolyn’s social media could reveal was
that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1075 friends – and she didn’t have a
Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the relationship status. In beach photos she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was
odd movie star, and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling so much more. She was perfect.
to the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships
and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from This was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see
several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as 26 FEbRuARy 2015 12 MARCH 2015 where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon
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arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth ...
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Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in films Calendar Girls, TERRITORy: wE TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM
Nanny McPhee and The Love Punch and on television in After You’ve Gone, A Dark TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PFD TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ED vICTOR Sarah Bannan was born in 1978 in upstate New York. She graduated from
Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returns for the sequel to The Georgetown University in 2000 and then moved to Ireland, where she has lived
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Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in ever since. She is the Head of Literature at the Irish Arts Council and lives in Dublin
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2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James Theatre. with her husband and daughter.
www.celiaimrie.info / @CeliaImrie @sarahkeegs
The Case of the ‘Hail Mary’ Mitchell The kindness
Celeste David Polly Samson
©
Malcolm Pryce
A heartbreakingly beautiful novel from one of Britain’s finest and most acclaimed
talents
From the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth novels: a Boy’s Own derring-do
adventure of disappearing nuns, trainspotting and an unforgettable new detective Julian’s fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia. Julia is married and eight
years Julian’s senior. Ignoring warnings from family and friends they give up all
Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway they have to be together and their new life offers immense happiness, especially
detectives created to keep the trains free of fare dodgers, German spies and after the birth of their daughter Mira. But when Mira becomes terrifyingly ill, it
ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of is impossible for Julia to conceal the explosive secret that she has been keeping.
the railways, Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted An exploration of deception wrapped as a gift, The Kindness asks if we can ever
great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. truly trust another. This is an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and
Shady government agents, missing nuns, drunken riverboat captains, a bandaged reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told.
bookseller, a missing manuscript, a melancholic gorilla and engine number 4070 12 MARCH 2015 12 MARCH 2015
Godstow Castle all collide on a journey that will take your breath away. HARDbACk / 9781408858929 / £12.99 HARDbACk / 9781408861875 / £16.99 Polly Samson is the author of Out of the Picture, which was shortlisted for the
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Authors’ Club First Novel Award. Her most recent story collection, Perfect Lives,
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Malcolm Pryce was born in the UK and has spent much of his life working and TERRITORy: COMM/EuEXCAN,OM TERRITORy: wE was a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year and was read on BBC Radio 4. She
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a deck hand on a yacht sailing the South Seas, an advertising copywriter and the Samson lives in Brighton.
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world’s worst aluminium salesman. He is the author of the bestselling Aberystwyth
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novels. He lives in Oxford. www.pollysamson.com / @PollySamson
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Rise
karen Campbell
By the author of This Is Where I Am: an exhilarating, luminous novel about
freedom, forgiveness and finding your place in the world
Justine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them
have almost broken her she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the
Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their
tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra.
In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine.
Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a
referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where
they truly belong and each must find a way to face their ghosts. 26 MARCH 2015
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Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.
www.karencampbell.co.uk
Reckless
Hasan Ali Toptas
Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
The ‘Turkish Kafka’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and
friendship, guilt and secrets
Years after completing his military service Ziya flees the perplexing chaos of the
city to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike
tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and
memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border flood
his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his ambivalence about village life
provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers. Toptaş plays
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Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the acclaimed translator of Orhan HARDbACk / AuS $35.00 / NZ $39.99
Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural TPb / AuS $29.99 / NZ $36.99
British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012.
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