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Michael Joseph Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Jamie's Ministry of Food Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours Jamie Oliver Anyone can learn to cook from scratch with Jamie in as little as twenty-four hours! 'The aim of this book is to completely inspire people who have no interest in food to have a go' Jamie Oliver Sixty years ago, in war­torn Europe, food was in short supply and malnutrition rates were high. The public were taught how to make the best use of the food available to them. Fast­forward to the present day, where we have unlimited choices and plenty of food, yet we're living in a world of junk food, additives and preservatives. Our war is now against obesity, as most people have little or no idea about how to cook and what makes a balanced diet. We need to learn from the past. We need to look back at the way our grandmothers and great­grandmothers cooked – wholesome, tasty food that was simple and quick to prepare. If you're a complete beginner in the kitchen, Jamie's promise to you is that you'll be making some great dinners within hours of reading his book. A little knowledge and a few basic tools can go a long way, and this book is your first step . . . Jamie Oliver started cooking at his parents' pub, The Cricketers, in Clavering, Essex, at the age of eight, and has worked with some of the world's top chefs. He set up Fifteen, one of the best restaurants in London, and continues to be heavily involved with the Fifteen Foundation, which provides training and mentoring for disadvantaged young people. In 2005 Jamie led a campaign to improve the quality of school dinners in the UK, and through the Feed Me Better movement caused the government to change its policy substantially.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780718148621 Price £25.00 Format 246 x 189 mm hb Extent 360pp Illustrations Fully integrated colour photographs Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Fresh One Productions Serial Rights Penguin UK © David Loftus Michael Joseph Non-Fiction A Guide to Looking and Feeling Fabulous over Forty Twiggy Lawson An essential and indispensable style companion from a fashion icon When we reach our forties, something changes. Suddenly nothing – hair, skin, body shape – looks quite the way it used to. And it's a myth to think that by using Botox, working out religiously and wearing skinny jeans you're going to fool people into thinking you're thirty. Nothing can stop the ageing process. But that doesn't mean that you have to start wearing a twin set, cutting your hair and donning sensible shoes. You can find a new kind of beauty and a new way of being confident – why shouldn't forty, fifty or sixty be as beautiful as twenty or thirty in a different way? Twiggy is as beautiful in her fifties as she was in her twenties, and has maintained her style and fabulousness without the aid of any plastic surgery. Women everywhere look at her as a role model and think 'Maybe I can look like that'. And now, with this practical guide containing hundreds of tips, you can! As the world's first teenage supermodel, Twiggy changed the face of modelling. Now aged fifty­nine, she still graces the covers of international magazines. As well as being a model, Twiggy is also a successful actress, singer, television presenter and fashion designer.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780718154042 Price £20.00 Format 246 x 189 mm hb Extent 288pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin Books UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights William Morris Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Stars Gervase Phinn A second delightful collection of stories and poems from the Sunday Times bestselling author Following on from the terrific success of A Wayne in a Manger, Gervase Phinn has collected together from his bestselling Dales books his favourite stories about children, and included some poems from his popular Puffin poetry books. In this humorously illustrated book, the stories have one thing in common – the wonderfully funny (and usually innocent) things children say. Whether they are stories about children who cannot read very well but know the names of sheep or children who are more privileged (coming to school in a Wolls­Woyce), they are simply delightful. This heart­warming book will not only enchant you, it will make you look at life through a child's eyes – and that's quite a special thing. Gervase Phinn is a teacher, freelance lecturer, author, poet, schools inspector, educational consultant and visiting professor of education – but none of these is as important to him as his family. Gervase taught in a range of schools before moving to North Yorkshire where he spent ten years as a schools inspector. As well as writing for adults, Gervase is a successful children's author published by Puffin. He lives with his family near Doncaster.   Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780718154172 Price £10.00 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 112pp Illustrations Fully integrated black and white illustrations Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK © Paul Cliff  Michael Joseph Non-Fiction For Crying Out Loud The World According to Clarkson Volume 3 Jeremy Clarkson Volume 3 of the bestselling World According to Clarkson series The publication of The World According to Clarkson launched a publishing phenomenon. Now, with combined sales of nearly 2.5 million copies, that book and its bestselling successor, And Another Thing, are joined by a third title that brings the Clarkson story up to date. Exasperated, amused, baffled and enthusiastic, Clarkson's reflections on the way of the world have become indispensable reading to his growing legion of fans. Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, all the associated Kent Newspapers and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British television.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780718154400 Price £20.00 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 304pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Jeremy Clarkson Serial Rights Penguin UK © John Rogers/Stay Still Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Gary Rhodes 365 One year. One book. One simple recipe for every day Gary Rhodes It's the only cookbook you need to see you through a whole year . . . Rhodes 365 is the only cookbook you will need to refer to for the whole year. Whatever the type of occasion you need to cook for, you will find something in here that will fit the bill. With chapters ranging from breakfast to Saturday evening dinner, you will find a recipe suitable for every day of the year; and special occasions haven't been left out. So if you have to cater for a child's birthday party or the family are coming round for lunch on Easter Sunday, simply look out for Gary's recommended picks. This is one collection of recipes to treasure for ever, and to use year after year. Gary Rhodes is one of Britain's best­loved Michelin­starred chefs. He appears regularly on television, most recently in Hell's Kitchen and Local Food Heroes, and is the author of seventeen cookery books, including the highly acclaimed Great British Classics and the recent bestsellers Keeping it Simple and Time to Eat. He has restaurants in London, Dublin and Grenada as well as on board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean sea.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780718153151 Price £25.00 Format 246 x 189 mm hb Extent 480pp Illustrations Fully integrated colour photography Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Gary Rhodes Serial Rights Penguin UK © Colin Bell Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Gangs II More encounters with the world's most dangerous gangsters Ross Kemp The former EastEnders hard man journeys once again into the dark heart of some of the most notorious gangs on earth In this sequel to the bestselling Gangs, Ross Kemp once again infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far­reaching as Argentina, Thailand and Kenya. In Poland, while investigating Neo­Nazi football hooligans, Ross is tear­gassed at a football match as he shadows an elite police riot squad. In Colombia he finds the Sicarios, the most secretive of all the gangs he's met, who operate as hit squads and kill whoever is considered a threat. And in East Timor he comes face to face with the local crude street weapons and their illegal manufacturing process. Risking his life, Ross goes deep into the realms of gangland culture and comes eyeball to eyeball with some of the world's most unpleasant characters. A nail­biting read. Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is best known for his portrayal of Grant Mitchell in EastEnders. His father was a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police, and as a result crime has always fascinated Kemp. Ross Kemp on Gangs is an award­winning series on Sky One.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780718154417 Price £16.99 Format 235 x 135 mm hb Extent 240pp Territory 1BCKZE US Rights ARG Ltd Translation Rights ARG Ltd Film Rights ARG Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Amazon Bruce Parry Bruce Parry explores the greatest river on earth. To accompany a major BBC TV series Explorer Bruce Parry embarks on an epic journey down the Amazon – the world's greatest river, its largest forest, the most bio­diverse habitat on the planet and home to some of the last uncontacted tribes left on Earth. This book, which will accompany a landmark TV series, charts Bruce's breathtaking journey from the Amazon's vast mouth on Brazil's Atlantic coast to its source on a slope of Nevado Mismi, an 18,000­foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes. He travels over 10,000 miles, on foot, by light aircraft and boat to stay with the tribes that live silently beneath the rainforest canopy. He explores eight countries, high mountains, wide savannahs, deep jungles and the most powerful river in the world. And he tells the stories of the people that inhabit the greatest forest on Earth. The book shows the Amazon as it is now, at the beginning of the twenty­first century: a complex, shifting environment; home to millions of people; the front line in an environmental war; the lungs of our planet. It combines adventure, exploration and immersive anthropology. Bruce Parry started his adult life as a Royal Marine officer at the age of eighteen. He then worked as an expedition leader, and now combines his love of the outdoors and film into his award­winning documentaries.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780718154349 Price £20.00 Format 246 x 189 mm hb Extent 256pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Endeavour Productions Translation Rights Endeavour Productions Film Rights Endeavour Productions Serial Rights Penguin UK Courtesy of the BBC Michael Joseph Non-Fiction The Best XI Geoffrey Boycott Cricket's most outspoken character picks the world's best test teams in history Who'd make it into the best England team ever? You can chose anyone, regardless of when they might have played. Would W. G. Grace be playing alongside Denis Compton and David Gower? Or Kevin Pietersen? The debate could be endless, so who better to make the selection than Geoffrey Boycott, himself one of England's all­time highest­scoring Test batsmen and now the game's most forthright, shrewd and iconoclastic commentator. Based on his own fresh analysis and interpretation of the statistics, Boycs has come up with his own, sometimes surprising Best 11 of all time. And he's not just cast a critical eye over England's finest either. Every other test­playing nation comes under the spotlight. You may not agree – in fact, you're almost certain not to – but each player has been carefully chosen and the case for his inclusion forcefully argued in what is sure to be the most entertaining, thought­provoking and memorable cricket book of the year from one of the game's most outspoken and enduring characters. Geoffrey Boycott first played for Yorkshire in 1962. He played his first Test match for England just two years later and went on to become the first England cricketer to pass 8,000 runs. In an eighteen­year career he played in 108 Test matches, scored twenty­two Test centuries, including a highest score of 246 and ended with a Test average of 47.73. Since retiring as a player, he has enjoyed a hugely successful career as a commentator. He lives in Jersey and South Africa.   Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780718154363 Price £20.00 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 368pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses Stephen Davis An epic story of excess, debauchery, addiction, paranoia, mania and great music In the late eighties, Guns n' Roses were the biggest, baddest band on the planet, a rock 'n' roll juggernaut that played era­defining songs like 'Sweet Child O'Mine' and 'Welcome to the Jungle' to packed stadiums around the globe. They were a band so utterly convinced of their own greatness that they released not one, but two double albums on a single morning. But their excess was not just a feature of their recording career. Their offstage antics were legendary. Spleen­bursting quantities of drugs and booze fuelled a rapacious appetite for groupies and bad behaviour. They learnt from the debauchery of the seventies and they topped it; and in the end, it all crashed down in flames. Now Stephen Davis, author of the classic rock bestseller Hammer of the Gods, is telling the whole story for the first time. Years of research and exclusive interviews make this the definitive story of one of the greatest rock bands the world has ever seen. Stephen Davis's many acclaimed books include Jim Morrison: Life Love Legend, the Rolling Stones' history Old Gods Almost Dead, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Walk This Way (with Aerosmith), Fleetwood (with Mick Fleetwood) and the Led Zeppelin history Hammer of the Gods.   Praise for Stephen Davis: 'A riveting account . . . with extraordinary new insights' Mojo Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780718149581 Price £18.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 448pp Illustrations 16pp black and white inset Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Penguin US Translation Rights Vigliano Associates Film Rights Vigliano Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction The Art of Simple Food Alice Waters Learn to cook with the woman who has been voted the most influential figure in the American kitchen of the last thirty years . . . 'This book is for everyone who wants to learn to cook, or to become a better cook. I'm convinced that the underlying principles of good cooking are the same everywhere. These principles have less to do with recipes and techniques than they do with gathering good ingredients, which for me is the essence of cooking' Alice Waters With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients, The Art of Simple Food is a must­have book for home cooks. Here you will find Alice's philosophy on everything from stocking your kitchen, to mastering the fundamentals of basic cooking techniques, to preparing delicious, seasonally inspired meals all year long. Always true to her belief that a perfect meal is one that is balanced in texture, colour and flavour, Waters helps us embrace seasonal produce and make the best choices when selecting ingredients. Embark on a voyage of culinary discovery with her as she takes you by the hand and teaches you how to get the most out of your home cooking. Alice Waters was born on 28 April 1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967 with a degree in French cultural studies before training at the International Montessori School in London. Her daughter, Fanny, was born in 1983.   'She continues to prove herself one of our best modern­day food writers' Publishers Weekly Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780718154387 Price £25.00 Format 0 x 0 mm pb Extent 416pp Illustrations Black and white line drawings Territory 1B4KZ US Rights Abner Stein Translation Rights Abner Stein Film Rights Abner Stein Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Joint Force Harrier Commander Adrian Orchard with James Barrington The gripping first-hand account of a British fighter squadron at war Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger­close attack missions in defence of troops engaged in the most intense battles seen by British forces since the Korean War. While facing the constant threat of surface­to­air missiles, the British Top Guns knew that any mistake would have fatal consequences for the soldiers who depended on their skill and determination. Written by the commanding officer of the first Royal Navy squadron to deploy to Afghanistan, Joint Force Harrier is a compelling insight into the exciting world of modern air warfare. Commander Adrian Orchard RN is deputy commander of Britain's Harrier force based at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland. He joined the Royal Navy in 1986 and, as well as flying operations during the Balkan wars and the second Gulf War, has served on exchange with the US Marine Corps at China Lake in California. He is also a display pilot for the Royal Navy Historic Flight.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780718153991 Price £16.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 320pp Illustrations 16pp colour inset Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction Extra Confessions of a Working Girl Miss S Smart, sexy and sassy – Miss S is back! Having left behind the sauna where she was top girl, Miss S moves to London to work as a stripper. But after one of the other dancers burns her back with a cigarette, she decides to try her hand at something new. It's in an escort agency that Miss S finds her true vocation, and where she encounters a whole host of weird and wonderful characters, such as the permanently sozzled Mrs Lush, her new employer, and a colourful cavalcade of clients, including Mr Fingers and Mr Slimeball, to name just two. Miss S is a highly successful London­based paid companion. She began her career as a part­time working girl in a brothel whilst she was a student, before moving on to agency work as an escort. She is now fully independent. Miss S is intelligent, articulate, hard­working and ambitious. Above all, she loves what she does.   Praise for Confessions of a Working Girl: 'A sexy account of life as a prostitute, with a large dollop of gritty reality' Company Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780718154103 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 284pp US Rights Diane Banks Associates Translation Rights Diane Banks Associates Film Rights Diane Banks Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction My Psychic Life Sally Morgan The amazing story of the nation's favourite medium, as seen on Star Psychic Sally Morgan is an ordinary woman with an extraordinary gift: she can communicate with the dead. Her first psychic experience was when she heard voices when she was just nine months old. She saw her first ghost when she was five. Since then she has been speaking to spirits and passing on their messages, hopes and fears to the living with astonishing accuracy. It took a personal disaster in her life for Sally to understand how to take control of the mysteries of the spirit world and become a professional medium. She has now done thousands of readings for people who have experienced a personal tragedy and suffered a great loss. Packed with amazing anecdotes that will send a shiver down the spine, this is Sally’s remarkable story. Sally Morgan is the star of the popular ITV series Star Psychic. The showbiz medium du jour, she has read for, among others, the DeNiros, George Michael, Bob Geldof, Uma Thurman and perhaps most notably the late Princess Diana.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141038490 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights RDF Media Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights RDF Media Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Non-Fiction What the Customer Wants You to Know How Everybody Needs to Think Differently About Sales Ram Charan From the bestselling author of What the CEO Wants You to Know – how to rethink sales from the outside in According to business guru Ram Charan, the process of selling is broken. Demand for competitive pricing is ever on the increase, and customers want more than great products at great prices; they want you to know how their business works, so that you can make it work better. It is time for companies to re­think their selling processes, and that's where Charan's concept of Value Creation Selling fits in. It is a new approach that while radical is nonetheless practical and produces stronger customer relationships and long­term rewards. VCS will enable you t ­ Gain a deeper knowledge of your customer's business ­ Use this knowledge to improve your customer's margins ­ Show how your product and expertise are a winning combination. Someday, every company will listen more closely to the customer. In the meantime, this eye­opening book shows you how to get ahead of the competition. Ram Charan is a highly acclaimed business adviser, speaker, teacher and the author or co­author of many bestselling business books, including What the CEO Wants You to Know and Execution. He has worked behind the scenes at Fortune 100 companies such as GE, Bank of America, DuPont, Thomson Financial, Honeywell, Home Depot and Verizon to help senior executives develop and implement strategic plans. Visit www.Ram­Charan.com   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780718154219 Price £12.99 Format 198 x 129 mm hb Extent 192pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin USA Translation Rights Penguin USA Film Rights Penguin USA Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Silks Dick Francis and Felix Francis The brand-new bestseller from writing partnership Dick Francis and Felix Francis 'Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.' When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge's verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent receives only eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he'll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than he'd ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister's wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. He is an amateur jockey whose true passion is to be in the saddle on a Thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered – a pitchfork driven through his chest – Mason's racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell; the evidence is overwhelming. Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell's pleas for legal advice – but soon he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death . . . his own. Dick Francis has written forty­one novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), his autobiography (The Sport of Queens) and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world. Felix Francis is the younger of Dick’s two sons. Over the last forty years Felix has assisted with the research of many of the Dick Francis novels, not least Twice Shy, Shattered, and Under Orders. With the publication of Dead Heat Felix took on a more significant role in the writing – Silks is the second novel of this father and son collaboration.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780718154578 Price £18.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 400pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights Penguin US Translation Rights Johnson and Alcock Film Rights Johnson and Alcock Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Arctic Drift Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler Dirk Pitt returns in a blockbusting, action-packed thriller – this is Cussler writing at the top of his game A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk Jr and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long­ago expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man – and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren't careful, the very same fate may await them. Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force, further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler. Clive Cussler is the author or co­author of thirty­five previous books, including nineteen Dirk Pitt novels, seven NUMA Files adventures, five Oregon Files books, three works of non­fiction and his historical adventure, The Chase. He lives in Arizona. Dirk Cussler, an MBA from Berkeley, worked for many years in the financial arena, and now devotes himself full­time to writing. He is the co­author with Clive Cussler of Black Wind and Treasure of Khan. He has been an active participant and partner in his father's NUMA expeditions and served as president of the NUMA advisory board of trustees.   Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780718154592 Price £18.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 576pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin US Translation Rights Lampack Agency Film Rights Lampack Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK © John DeBry Michael Joseph Fiction Gypsy Lesley Pearse Another surefire Top Five bestseller from Lesley Pearse, one of our best loved novelists When teenagers Beth and Sam Bolton are orphaned, their baby sister is taken into a new home and they decide to set sail for a new life too . . . in America. On board the steamer to New York, they meet charismatic gambler Theo and quick­witted Londoner Jack, and the four band together to seek their fortunes. Beth has always dreamed of playing her fiddle to large audiences and finds herself doing so in the saloons, where she is a huge success and lovingly nicknamed Gypsy by her fans. But the foursome fall foul of local gangsters and flee to Canada, as word gets out that gold has been found in the Klondike. They embark on a dangerous and epic journey to reach the Yukon valley, trailing across snowy mountains and treacherous rapids. Who will break first? Theo, the handsome yet greedy bounder? Dreamy Sam, so easily influenced by money? Practical Jack, a man devoted to his friends? Or Beth, the woman with the gypsy in her soul, who cares more for music than gold? Lesley Pearse is greatly loved across the world and her novels have sold over three million copies in the UK alone. Her most recent books, including Faith, Hope, A Lesser Evil, Remember Me and Never Look Back were huge bestsellers and are all published by Penguin. Lesley lives near Bristol, has three daughters and one grandson.   'Storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780718152833 Price £16.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 544pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Darley Anderson Agency Translation Rights Darley Anderson Agency Film Rights Darley Anderson Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Moscow Rules Daniel Silva A blockbusting new thriller from the US bestselling phenomenon The violent death of a journalist leads agent­turned ­art­restorer Gabriel Allon to Russia. Here he finds that in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. It is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and bulletproof Bentleys. A Moscow where a new generation of Stalinists is plotting to reclaim an empire lost and to challenge the global dominance of the old enemy, the United States. One such man is Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union. Hidden within that empire is a lucrative and deadly business. Kharkov is an arms dealer – and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al­Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 – and the clock is ticking fast. Daniel Silva is a New York Times top­five bestseller and the author of eight bestselling novels, most recently The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, The English Assassin, Prince of Fire, The Messenger and The Secret Servant. He lives in Washington DC, with his wife, NBC Today correspondent Jamie Gangel, and their two children, Lily and Nicholas. www.danielsilvabooks.com   'In true Bauer fashion, shootouts, kidnappings and international terror plots follow him wherever he goes' USA Today 'It is an exciting, entertaining novel with a terrifying message' Literary Review on The Secret Servant 'Nerve­searing and painfully brilliant' Patricia Cornwell on Death in Vienna Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780718153557 Price £12.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 448pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin US Translation Rights ICM Film Rights ICM Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction The Model Wife Julia Llewellyn The new novel from Penguin's answer to Sophie Kinsella Poppy had the misfortune to marry the man she loved . . . and to see her every move and bad fashion decision recorded in a hugely popular newspaper column. How unfair of your husband’s ex­wife to trash you as the gold­digging trophy wife once a week, in black and white! Evil first wives apart, Poppy and Luke’s marriage is suddenly feeling the strain . . . with three wicked step­children and a new baby of her own, Poppy is crying out for sympathy from a man who’s seen it all before. But when Luke’s career hits the skids, it’s time for the so­called bimbo to bite back. Can Poppy prove she’s more than a pretty face and bury the gold­digging tag for ever? There’s more than meets the eye to this trophy wife, she might just be crafted of steel . . . Julia Llewellyn is the author of The Love Trainer, If I Were You and Amy's Honeymoon. She writes regularly for many publications, including the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times. She lives in London.   'A splendid romp . . . pack this one for the beach' She Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141033648 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 496pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights David Higham Associates Translation Rights David Higham Associates Film Rights David Higham Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Got You Back Jane Fallon The bestelling Jane Fallon returns with a hilarious, honest and compelling novel about getting your own back on a cheater Hell hath no fury like two women scorned . . . Stephanie is his wife, Katie is his mistress. But they're in love with the same man – James Mortimer. And James is the cheating husband who's enjoying the best of both worlds. When Stephanie discovers that James is having an affair, she decides to track Katie down and together they hatch the perfect plan. But is revenge really sweet? Does an affair necessarily mean the end of a marriage? And can your husband's mistress ever be your friend? Jane Fallon is the multi­award­winning television producer behind shows such as This Life, Teachers and 20 Things to Do before You're 30. This is her second novel.   'Jane Fallon injects a smart edge into the chick­lit genre' In Style Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141034409 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 416pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Hyperion Translation Rights Curtis Brown UK Film Rights Curtis Brown UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Lost and Found Lucy Cavendish A hilarious and poignant account of modern family life Women with small children should just hang up a sign saying, 'Hello, I am a formerly interesting lively person who has been subsumed by my children. See you in ten years!' Samantha Smythe has her hands full with three active young sons, an au­pair who eats all the food in the fridge and an absent husband who's drinking champagne for breakfast in London. And she's tying herself in knots trying for a longed­for baby girl . . . And then out of the blue, Samantha's old friend Naomi turns up and deposits her daughter with her. Samantha finds she just can't say no, either to Naomi, or to the glamorous but rackety former footballer who runs over her dog. Can Samantha continue to be everything to everyone or is she finally going to have to put her foot down and just say no for once? Lucy Cavendish has spent most of her life working in journalism for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and the Guardian. She lives in Oxfordshire with her husband Michael and their four children. This is her second novel.   'Fast paced . . . with a plot abundant in twists and turns' Daily Telegraph Pub Date March 2009 ISBN 9780141030197 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 416pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights ICM Translation Rights ICM Film Rights ICM Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Life Begins Amanda Brookfield It's never too late to start your life again . . . If Life Begins at Forty, then Charlotte Turner's not off to the best of starts. On top of a recent divorce and trouble with her twelve­year­old son, the husband of her closest friend has just started to show a bit too much interest in her as a newly single woman. But only when Charlotte has faced up to some uncomfortable truths about her past can she finally shed the unhappy skin she's become so used to, and open up her life – and her heart – to all the promise and possibility that her future holds. Is life, for Charlotte, about to begin at last? Amanda Brookfield was born in 1960 and educated at Oxford University. She began her career working in advertising and then as a freelance journalist in Argentina. Her twelve previous novels include Marriage Games, Relative Love and The Simple Rules of Love. She is married with two sons and lives in London.   'Few contemporary novelists writing today explore the messy tangles of human relationships with quite such warm perceptiveness as Amanda Brookfield' Daily Mirror Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141021836 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 416pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights William Morris Agency UK Translation Rights William Morris Agency UK Film Rights William Morris Agency UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction The Blood Detective Dan Waddell From the author of Who Do You Think You Are? comes the first-ever genealogical crime novel As dawn breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a windswept Notting Hill churchyard. The killer has left Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his team a grisly, cryptic clue . . . However it’s not until the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine­chillingly clear. For it leads Barnes back more than one hundred years – to the victim of a demented Victorian serial killer . . . When a second body is discovered, Foster needs Barnes’s skills more than ever. Because the murderer’s clues appear to run along the tangled bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right about his blood­history, the killing spree has only just begun . . . From the author of the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are? comes a haunting crime novel of blood­stained family histories and gruesome secrets . . . Dan Waddell is a journalist and author who lives in west London. He has published ten non­fiction books, including the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are?, which tied in with the BBC TV series. This is his first novel.   'There's panache aplenty in this intriguing tale. Sharp plotting, elegant writing, engaging characters, a cracking climax. A series is promised. Bring it on!' Reginald Hill Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141025650 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 416pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights St Martin's Press Translation Rights Lucas, Alexander, Whitley Film Rights Lucas, Alexander, Whitley Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction The Lost Throne Chris Kuzneski The latest blockbusting thriller from Top Ten bestseller Chris Kuzneski Hewn into desolate outcrops in the Pindus Mountains, the Metoera monasteries are all but inaccessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long­forgotten secret. In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff­top – the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway round the world, a terrified academic fears for his life. Nelson Woods's, research has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders – the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Woods’s search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda . . . Chris Kuzneski is the international bestselling author of Sign of the Cross and Sword of God. His first novel, The Plantation, introduced the characters of Payne and Jones, and received rave reviews. Although he grew up in Indiana, PA, he currently lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida. To learn more, please visit his website: www.chriskuzneski.com.   'Kuzneski's writing has raw power' James Patterson 'Chris Kuzneski writes as forcefully as his tough characters act' Clive Cussler 'Excellent! High stakes, fast action, vibrant characters . . . Not to be missed!' Lee Child Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141037073 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 608pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin US Translation Rights Trident Media Group Film Rights Trident Media Group Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Members Only Leonie Fox 'An X-rated St Trinian's ' Daily Mirror Remember the sexy shenanigans at St Benedict's, the exclusive country club and spa with more millionaires per square foot than the Hamptons in midsummer? Well, the four gorgeous golfers' girls are back! Let Cindy, Laura, Keeley and Marianne suck you into their naughty world where intrigue, blackmail and depravity bubble beneath the steamy waters of the jacuzzi. The girls go gossip crazy when fading soap actress Amber Solomon catches her billionaire hotelier husband in flagrante with the housekeeper and messy divorce proceedings ensue. He won't part with a penny and she's damned if she's going to join the next series of Hell's Kitchen to keep herself in Krug. Meanwhile, an oversexed American teenager is prowling the spa and swinging is having a revival among the WAGs and their footballers. But will the Solomons' battle royal disrupt the delicious decadence of Delchester's favourite spa resort and end in disaster? Of course it will! Leonie Fox is a former magazine journalist. She lives in Kent.   'A romp of naughtiness to be devoured and delighted in' Sun Pub Date January 2009 ISBN 9780141028088 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Claudia Pattison Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction The Minutes of the Lazarus Club Tony Pollard The British historical thriller of the year London 1858: the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, most unconventional minds in Victorian Britain – including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel – are members of this illustrious brotherhood. Their meetings take place in secret, their discussions are revolutionary and their conclusions sometimes sinister . . . Knowing nothing of this furtive society, Dr George Phillips, a young surgeon, is mystified to see Brunel at his lecture on the workings of the heart. Their acquaintance is made over a well­used cadaver in the gory pit of the dissection theatre, and it soon becomes apparent that the great engineer has mysterious plans for the good doctor. And so Phillips becomes embroiled in the machinations of the Lazarus Club, unaware that in the midst of their unorthodox ideas, a black conspiracy lurks. Not only is his own life in jeopardy, but as the first mutilated body is washed up on the banks of the Thames, the very foundations of Victorian society will be rocked to their core . . . Dr Anthony Pollard is a senior academic at Glasgow University, where he is the director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the Archaeological Research Department. He has carried out pioneering work on battlefields in Zululand and North Africa, and as a forensic archaeologist has worked with police forces throughout Britain. He has written numerous papers and articles on archaeology and military history. He was the co­presenter of two series of BBC2's Two Men in a Trench. The Minutes of the Lazarus Club is his first novel.   Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780718154035 Price £12.99 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 448pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights PFD Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Circle of the Dead Ingrid Black A dark, inventive crime novel blending the slick thriller with Dublin noir It takes a lot to spook ex­FBI agent Saxon, but with a serial killer on the loose in Dublin, this is going to be a Halloween night unlike any other . . . The beaten body of wealthy businessman Daniel Erskine has been discovered – literally frozen – in the basement of his home. And across town the house of his friend Oliver Niland has been burned to the ground – with Oliver inside it. As special adviser to the Dublin murder squad, Saxon teams up once again with Chief Superintendent Grace Fitzgerald to track down a killer who has his own inventive night of horror planned. But why has he eliminated Daniel and his surviving associates, who are now running scared? What is the significance of the group known as the Second Circle? And who is the enigmatic Dr M. Nott whom no one has seen but who links them all? Ingrid Black is a journalist and lives in Dublin. This is her fourth novel, following The Dead, The Dark Eye and The Judas Heart.   'Black invades Val McDermid territory and comes out a winner' Publishers Weekly 'Atmosphere, pace and tension superbly controlled' Sunday Times Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141025315 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 512pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights The Marsh Agency Translation Rights The Marsh Agency Film Rights The Marsh Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK © Pacemaker Press International Michael Joseph Fiction Death Wore White Jim Kelly Introducing a police duo as memorable as Morse and Lewis, and as perfectly mismatched as Hunt and Tyler from Life on Mars In the middle of a heavy snowstorm, eight cars stand on a lonely Norfolk coast road, as night draws in. A fallen tree stops them from going forward, the snowbound road prevents them going back. Two hours later no car has moved – but one driver has met a violent end. Except no one has had the opportunity to commit the murder, and there are no incriminating footprints in the snow. For Detective Inspector Peter Shaw and Detective Sergeant George Valentine it is an extremely puzzling case – made all the more disturbing by the corpse washed up on the beach only hours earlier. A man who appears to have died from a human bite on his arm . . . Jim Kelly is the author of The Fire Baby, The Moon Tunnel, The Coldest Blood, The Skeleton Man and The Water Clock, which was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award. He was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2006 for the series 'which gives greatest enjoyment to crime readers'. He lives in Ely.   'Kelly is fast gaining a reputation for his literate, atmospheric novels' Daily Mail 'A rare combination of poetic writing and a gripping plot' Sunday Telegraph Pub Date December 2015 ISBN 9780718149505 Price £12.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 464pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights St Martin's Press Translation Rights Faith Evans Film Rights Faith Evans Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Fallen Angel Kevin Lewis A gripping, fast-paced thriller, for fans of Martina Cole and Lynda La Plante DI Stacey Collins has seen the darker side of humanity all too often. A single mum and former child from the grim Blenheim estate, she knows only too well what terrors the world can hold. But even her jaded eyes have never witnessed a crime of such unspeakable horror. A body, broken and lifeless, is found in the gloom of a London church. Kidnapped and horrifically murdered, young Daniel Wright never knew his tormentor. And it is only the beginning. Soon Collins finds herself both haunted by the demons of her past and battling in the name of innocence itself. Some angels never find their path to heaven . . . Kevin Lewis is thirty­two. He is married with two children and lives in Surrey.   'Fans of Martina Cole will love this impressive offering from a potential King of Crime' Heat 'Harrowing, chilling . . . with passages of heartbreaking frankness. By the end, your heart is overwhelmed' Daily Telegraph Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141030104 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 384pp Territory 1W US Rights Barbara Levy Literary Agency Translation Rights Barbara Levy Literary Agency Film Rights Barbara Levy Literary Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction The Secret Friend Chris Mooney 'Chris Mooney is a wonderful writer' Michael Connelly When Harvard student Emma Hale disappears, her father – one of Boston's most powerful men – believes she has been kidnapped. Months pass and the trail goes cold but then her body is found floating in Boston Harbour . . . A year later, Judith Chen, another student, disappears. Like Emma, she is soon found in the river. Dead. CSI Darby McCormick is assigned to the case and uncovers a key piece of overlooked evidence, one that brings her into contact with Malcolm Fletcher . . . a former profiler with strange black eyes who is now on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Is Fletcher working for Emma's father? And what connects the two dead girls? Fletcher, it seems, not only knows the answers but also the identity of the killer. When a third student goes missing, Darby is led into a dangerous game of cat­and­mouse with the former profiler and stumbles across deadly secrets that need to stay buried . . . for ever. Chris Mooney is the author of four previous thrillers. Remembering Sarah was nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel, and his most recent bestseller, The Missing, was the first to feature CSI Darby McCormick. He lives in Boston with his wife and son.   'A scary breakneck ride' Tess Gerritsen Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141030876 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 448pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Atria Translation Rights William Morris Agency (UK) Film Rights William Morris Agency (UK) Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Who Gets Fluffy? Judith Summers A couple's divorce gets ugly over custody of their adored dog, Fluffy For four years investment analyst Anna has been married to would­be novelist Mark Curtis. One Christmas Day the Curtises realize they have drifted apart and decide to end their marriage. But when Mark claims sole custody of Fluffy, their adored dog, Anna is outraged. Just as the fur begins to fly in court, a long­held secret is outed and a surprise witness is produced: whose dog is Fluffy, and how did Anna acquire him? Judith Summers is the author of four novels, a prize­winning history of Soho and two biographies. A freelance journalist, she has also written widely on the eighteenth century and the history of London, where she lives with her son.   Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141036274 Price £6.99 Format 198 x 129 mm hb Extent 288pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights Gillon Aitken Associates Translation Rights Gillon Aitken Associates Film Rights Gillon Aitken Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK © Diana Miller Michael Joseph Fiction Compulsion Jonathan Kellerman The chilling new thriller from the New York Times No.1 bestselling author A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night . . . A retired schoolteacher stabbed to death in broad daylight . . . Two women butchered in a small­town beauty parlour . . . Three baffling murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive . . . Until LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished – except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This minuscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer. However this killer proves to be a fleeting shape­shifter, defying identification – and to unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to confront the true face of murderous compulsion . . . Jonathan Kellerman is the international bestselling thriller writer best known for his series featuring psychologist Alex Delaware. He has won many awards for his novels, including the prestigious Edgar. He lives in Los Angeles. www.jonathankellerman.com   'Jonathan Kellerman has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form' Los Angeles Times Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780718148256 Price £14.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 352pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Ballantine Translation Rights Barney Karpfinger Film Rights Barney Karpfinger Serial Rights Penguin UK Michael Joseph Fiction Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East Harry Sidebottom A story of empire, of heroes, of treachery, of courage and, most of all, a story of brutal bloody warfare AD 255 – the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far­flung and isolated citadel of Arête faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city, one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power – a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium. In the bestselling tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden comes a blockbusting voice in historical adventure fiction. Dr. Harry Sidebottom is Fellow of St Benets Hall and lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford – where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art.   Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780718153298 Price £12.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 432pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights United Agents Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights United Agents Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Viking Non-Fiction Remember, Remember Learn the Stuff You Thought You Never Could Ed Cooke Fresh, entertaining and informative – the perfect gift book for Christmas Kings and Queens; British Prime Ministers; American Presidents; Countries of Europe . . . You should know these things – but you are probably resigned to being the kind of person who just can't remember them. And wouldn't you be surprised and awed if somebody could recite them all? Wouldn't it feel good to be that person, rattling off the Prime Ministers and adding, in a knowing tone, 'ah yes, Marquess of Rockingham, Whig I believe'? Now's your chance to be that person. Grandmaster of Memory Ed Cooke offers up his memory secrets with a fun, quick and completely unforgettable way to remember the things you thought you never could. Abraham Lincoln may become a circle of bra­wearing hams linking arms in your mind; you may well encounter a fridge wearing Calvin Klein underpants; the illustrations will certainly put a smile on your face and you'll soon be the person impressing your friends. Ed Cooke graduated with a First from Oxford in Psychology and Philosophy in 2004. In order to become a Grandmaster of Memory, he had to memorize 1,000 numbers in an hour, ten decks of cards in an hour (520 cards) and one deck in under two minutes. He was ranked seventh overall in the 2007 World Memory Championships, in which he has competed since 2003, and coached US Josh Foer from novice to US Memory Champion in one year. He now spends his time teaching memory techniques in schools across the UK, among other things.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780670917853 Price £12.99 Format 198 x 129 mm hb Extent 240pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Ed Cooke Serial Rights Penguin UK © Dan James Viking Non-Fiction Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate From one of England's liveliest biographers comes the rich and compelling story of Shakespeare and his times A wonderfully compelling biography of Shakespeare combined with an exhilarating guide to the intellectual and cultural life of the Elizabethan age, Bate's definitive new work shows how the poet who speaks for all times was also a key figure in the shaping of his own. He relates the Histories to turbulent national politics, the Tragedies to the great Elizabethan taboos, the Comedies to contemporary sex and sexuality. With marvellously lively and illuminating detail throughout, this is the first book to bring to vivid life not just the man and his work, but the entire age in which he lived. Jonathan Bate is well known as a biographer, critic and broadcaster. Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick, he is chief editor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works and the author of many books, including most recently John Clare: A Biography, which won Britain's two oldest literary awards, the Hawthornden Prize for Literature and the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. A fellow of the British Academy, he was awared a CBE in 2006.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780670914821 Price £25.00 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 512pp Illustrations 24 text illustrations Territory 1BKZ US Rights Random House US Translation Rights Andrew Wylie Film Rights Andrew Wylie Serial Rights Penguin UK © Pauline Neild Viking Non-Fiction Florence Nightingale The Woman and Her Legend Mark Bostridge A major biography that overturns our misconceptions about one of the greatest figures of the Victorian Age The soldier's saviour, the standard­bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer and much else besides, Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. As the 'Lady with the Lamp', she has been honoured and admired, criticized and ridiculed. More often than not, she has been misrepresented and misunderstood. Incorporating a vast wealth of previously unpublished material, this remarkable biography disentangles myth from reality, providing a vivid and immensely readable account of one of the most iconic figures in modern British history. Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His books include Vera Brittain: A Life, shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award; the bestselling Letters from a Lost Generation, adapted for a BBC Radio Four series; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales that was a Radio Four 'Book of the Week'; and Because You Died, a recent selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780670874118 Price £25.00 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 672pp Illustrations 24pp black and white inset Territory 1BCKZE US Rights Farrar, Straus and Giroux Translation Rights United Agents Film Rights United Agents Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Non-Fiction Masters of Battle Monty, Patton and Rommel at War Terry Brighton 'They should put Montgomery and Patton and Rommel in the same ring and take off the gloves and let 'em go at it' Bill Mauldin, American GI In the Second World War, Great Britain, the United States and Germany each produced one land­force commander who stood out from the rest: Bernard Montgomery, George Patton and Erwin Rommel. These three armour­plated egos were the greatest generals of the war: arrogant and flawed, yet with a genius for the command of men and an unrivalled enthusiasm for combat. Only their explosive relationships – with each other and their political masters – rivalled the pyrotechnics of their tank battles in determining the conduct and outcome of the war. Masters of Battle presents the Second World War as it was experienced by its three most flamboyant, controversial and influential commanders. Terry Brighton is the author of Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade and has worked on the curatorial staff of the Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum for many years. He lives in Lincoln.   Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780670916917 Price £25.00 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 464pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Luigi Bonomi Associates Translation Rights Luigi Bonomi Associates Film Rights Luigi Bonomi Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Non-Fiction Bomb, Book and Compass Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China Simon Winchester The extraordinary story of the discovery, by an unforgettably magnificent Englishman, of just what makes China, China Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei­Djen, and from that moment sprang the two greatest love affairs of his life – with Miss Lu and with China. Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat. He established himself as the pre­eminent China scholar of the time, firm in his belief that China would one day achieve world prominence. By the end of his life, Needham had become a truly global figure, travelling endlessly and honoured by all – though banned from America because of his politics. And in 1989, after a fifty­two­year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion. Bomb, Book and Compass is Simon Winchester at his best – at once a magnificent portrait of one man's remarkable life and a riveting exploration of the country that so engaged him. A bestselling author in both Britain and America, Simon Winchester was born and educated in England and now lives in New York and Massachusetts.   Praise for Simon Winchester: 'Elegant, affectionately told. A delightful book' Sunday Times on The Map that Changed the World 'Absolutely riveting – a tour de force' Will Self, The Times on The Surgeon of Crowthorne Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780670913787 Price £20.00 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 336pp Illustrations 2 end papers + 20 black and white integrated Territory 1BKZE US Rights HarperCollins US Translation Rights A M Heath & Co Ltd Film Rights A M Heath & Co Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Non-Fiction Wife in the North Judith O'Reilly One wife, mother and blogger's determined attempts to make some friends, find a decent cup of coffee and build a new life in the North Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else would Judith's husband have prised her away from London to the depths of Northumberland? Pregnant with number three and a long way from home, Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in Northumberland he never mentioned – the fact that the nearest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead, that running out of petrol in a snowstorm was a really bad idea and that she'd be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North . . . Judith O'Reilly, a journalist and the mother of three young children, was persuaded to move from London to Northumberland by her husband in August 2005. She started a blog, wifeinthenorth.com, in November 2006, which quickly picked up fans around the world with its witty tales of family and country life.   Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141033433 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1W US Rights Public Affairs Books Translation Rights Conville and Walsh Film Rights Conville and Walsh Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Non-Fiction We Need to Talk About Kevin Keegan A Bumper Book of Football Writing by Giles Smith Giles Smith is the kind of football columnist who reads referees' autobiographies so that you don't have to Gary Neville's choice of wedding venue, the use of underpants in goal celebrations, whether Lee Sharpe has it in him to go all the way on Celebrity Love Island – Giles Smith has never fought shy of hitting the big issues head on. Now, in this compilation of his most fearless and forthright public declarations, the award­winning Times sports columnist invites you to chew with him on football's biggest bullets. Meet the WAG who claims to have 'heard of' Kent. Calculate the amount of money you could have saved in a lifetime of not following football. Get a tutorial from Craig Bellamy on how to hit someone with a golf club so that they stay hit. Contemplate Peter Crouch's future with the Harlem Globetrotters. And ask yourself where David Beckham is these days – how he's getting on, and why do we never hear about him? Giles Smith was born in Colchester in 1962. He was the keyboard player in a pop group called The Cleaners From Venus but reluctantly resigned himself to working as a journalist when the Cleaners didn't go global. His failure to make it as a musician was the topic of his first book, Lost in Music (1995), and has been the subtext of anything he has said or done since. Smith was named Sports Columnist of the Year in 1998. A collection of his sports writing, Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel, was published in November 2000.   Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141037790 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights AP Watt Translation Rights AP Watt Film Rights AP Watt Serial Rights AP Watt Viking Non-Fiction What They Teach You at Harvard Business School My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism Philip Delves Broughton An informative and witty insight into exactly what it's like, who you meet and what you learn at Harvard Business School, published in the school's centenary year When Philip Delves Broughton abandoned his career as a successful journalist and joined Harvard Business School's prestigious MBA course with 900 other would­be tycoons for two years of taxing case studies and excel shortcuts, he couldn't have told you what OCRA was, other than a vegetable, or whether discount department stores make more money than airlines. Two years and 500 case studies later, he had met the world's most influential entrepreneurs and analysed the biggest business conundrums. But he and his fellow students faced a bigger question still – how would they juggle their lives, their jobs and their bank balances? Philip Delves Broughton's witty and informative memoir is a revelatory account of what the financial elite learn within the hallowed walls of the exclusive Harvard Business School. Philip Delves Broughton was born in Bangladesh and grew up in England. From 1998 to 2004, he served successively as the New York and Paris bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph and reported widely from North and South America, Europe and Africa. He led the Daily Telegraph's coverage of the 9/11 attacks on New York and his work has also appeared in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Times and Spectator. In 2006, he received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently lives in New York with his wife and two sons.   Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780670917761 Price £12.99 Format 0 x 0 mm pb Extent 304pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin Press Translation Rights Janklow & Nesbit Film Rights Janklow & Nesbit Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Non-Fiction In Other Words John Mortimer A selection of verse, memories and anecdotes from Britain's best-loved racounteur, based on his long-running hit show, Mortimer's Miscellany Collected and published for the first time, these are the famous anecdotes with which John Mortimer has been entertaining the nation for years: of seedy criminals and the even seedier criminal justice system, of boyhood and his remarkable father, of passion and politics, and most of all of English eccentrics. Along the way, we meet a motley crew of failed murderers, remorseful drunkards, unrepentant adulterers and cantankerous judges. Interspersed among these humorous vignettes is a wonderful selection of English (and some American) poetry which beautifully complements the prose . . . John Mortimer is a novelist, playwright and former practising barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole stories and a trilogy of political novels (Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The Sound of Trumpets) featuring Leslie Titmuss. Sir John received a knighthood for his services to the arts in 1998.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780670917877 Price £14.99 Format B format hb Extent 128pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights PFD Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights PFD © Eamon McCabe Viking Non-Fiction Glorious Things to Do Rosemary Davidson An exquisitely illustrated and deliciously packaged follow-up to Number 1 bestselling The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls Impossible pies, homemade kites, shortbread hearts and colourful crystals . . . Following on from the success of the Number 1 bestselling The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls, Rosemary Davidson provides an all new compendium of glorious things to do, packed with fun and exciting things to keep girls of all ages entertained through the summer holidays and beyond. Rosemary Davidson was brought up in County Down, Northern Ireland, along with her three sisters. She now lives in London with her daughter Florence, twelve, and son Spike, nine, and works as an editor of books. She co­wrote the bestseller, The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls.   Praise for The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls: 'This summer's must­have book' Daily Telegraph 'I'm in love with the world that the Glorious Book evokes' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times 'Packed with infinite ways of passing time, it's designed to appeal to the girl in every one of us' Woman & Home Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780670917686 Price £10.00 Format 178 x 129 mm hb Extent 176pp Illustrations Integrated black and white Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Janklow & Nesbit Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Janklow & Nesbit Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Fiction A Guide to the Birds of East Africa Nicholas Drayson A wonderfully warm love story set in contemporary Kenya – timeless, funny, clever and utterly charming In the suburbs of Nairobi, quiet Mr Malik has a secret in his heart. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but he is head­over­heels in love with the leader of the Tuesday­ morning bird walk of the East African Ornithological Society, Rose Mbikwa. If only the path of true love ran smooth. While Mr Malik hesitantly plans how he will ask Rose to the annual Hunt Ball, Harry Kahn, the old school bully, turns up in town and makes it clear that he has Rose in his sights. When Mr Malik blurts out his feelings at the Club a wager is set – whoever sees the most birds in a week will ask Rose to the ball. But filthy rich Harry is everything that Mr Malik is not. With boats, planes and guides to get him to the choicest bird­watching spots in Kenya, how will Mr Malik stand a chance? Nicholas Drayson was born in England and has lived in Australia since 1982, where he studied Zoology and obtained a PhD in 19th century Australian natural history writing. He has worked as a journalist in the UK, Kenya and Australia, writing for publications such as the Daily Telegraph and Australian Geographic. From 1998 to 2001 he wrote for the National Museum of Australia. His first novel, Confessing a Murder, was published in 2002. He was recently the winner of the inaugural WILDCARE Tasmania Nature Writing Prize.   Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780670917570 Price £12.99 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 208pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Horton Mifflin Translation Rights Robinson Literary Agency Ltd Film Rights Robinson Literary Agency Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Fiction The Birthday Present Barbara Vine One of Barbara Vine's best novels to date – a masterpiece in the style of The Chimney Sweeper's Boy and Asta's Book Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was . . .? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a 33­year­old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well­bred and intensely attractive Tesham – an ardent womanizer and ambitious politician. Set in an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War and sleazy politics, The Birthday Present is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self­obsession of a troubled era. Barbara Vine is the pen­name of Ruth Rendell. Viking have published her twelve previous novels, including A Dark Adapted Eye, which won the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award, and more recently Grasshopper, The Blood Doctor and The Minotaur. Barbara Vine is widely regarded as the pre­eminent crime novelist of her generation. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.   'A superb and original writer' Amanda Craig, Express 'The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin 'Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell letting rip' Ruth Dadel, Daily Telegraph Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780670917617 Price £18.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 288pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights PFD Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights PFD Viking Fiction Liver A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes Will Self A breathtaking and unsettling collection of shorter fiction from the 'English prose laureate of dispute and disorientation' (London Review of Books) These remarkable new pieces from Will Self feature the largest of our internal organs, the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In 'Foie Humane' we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylized yet emotionally dead state of excess. 'Prometheus' tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time. But things go wrong when he meets Zeus, a big­shot entrepreneur with a beautiful and manipulative wife. Tony Phillips's subterranean Kensington flat is the setting for 'Birdy Num Num', where obsessives spend their days in a crepuscular realm of cocaine and heroin. Finally, in 'Leberknodel', a terminal liver cancer patient travels to Zurich to commit assisted suicide. When she arrives, however, the cancer mysteriously goes into remission. Will Self has earned his reputation through a body of innovative work: there's nobody quite like him writing today. He is the author of five novels, four previous collections of short stories, three novellas and four non­fiction works. As a journalist he has contributed to a plethora of publications over the years; he is also a regular broadcaster on television and radio. He lives in London with his wife and four children.   Praise for The Book of Dave (2006): 'Self is . . . a master of demotic speech and – rare breed this side of the Channel – a novelist of ideas' Sunday Telegraph 'Epic and bitterly funny, this new stew of satire and linguistic wizardry is everything you'd expect from Britain's master of misanthropy' Arena 'Self has upped his ante from Monty Python to Jonathan Swift, and gone straight to brilliant hell' Harper's Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780670889976 Price £18.99 Format 198 x 129 mm hb Extent 288pp Territory 1BKZE US Rights Wylie Agency Translation Rights Wylie Agency Film Rights Wylie Agency Serial Rights Wylie Agency © Jerry Bauer Viking Fiction The Case of the Imaginary Detective Karen Joy Fowler A wonderfully touching and funny novel from the author of The Jane Austen Book Club Rima Lanisell has a habit of losing things – car keys, sunglasses, lovers, family members. Following the death of Rima's father, she goes to stay with her godmother Addison, a wildly successful, albeit eccentric, mystery writer. Addison's beach house seems the place to make sense of Rima's loss, yet she is soon caught up in a mystery of her own. Who stole a small and highly valuable object from Addison's kitchen? Why is Rima corresponding with an obsessive fan, using someone else's family name? Most importantly: what exactly was the relationship between Addison and Rima's father, and why did Addison name a murderer after him in one of her novels? Karen Joy Fowler is the author of Sister Noon, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner prize, Sarah Canary, The Sweetheart Season, The Jane Austen Book Club and the story collection Black Glass. She lives in Davis, California.   'Fowler's light touch and sly wit are a delight' Sunday Times 'Very funny' Daily Telegraph 'We defy you not to fall head over heels for this lovely novel' Mail on Sunday 'Stylish, homely and deeply comforting' The Times 'This wonderful novel shows how some books enter our bloodstream' Independent Pub Date December 2015 ISBN 9780670915972 Price £16.99 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 336pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights David Higham Associates Translation Rights David Higham Associates Film Rights David Higham Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Viking Fiction Breakdowns Art Spiegelman Art Spiegelman's legendary first book, expanded, revised and published for the first time outside the United States Breakdowns – A Portrait of the Artist as Young %@&*! – was Art Spiegelman's first book, and has been described by the author as 'a comix format memoir about becoming a comix memorist'. It chronicles with heartbreaking detail Spiegelman's own nervous breakdown, his experiments with psychedelic drugs, his mother's suicide and his incarceration in a mental hospital. It also includes vivid portraits of his artistic friends, mentors, girlfriends and more generally the birth of underground comix in the 1960s. No one with an interest in American counterculture, or the development of graphic art, should miss this. Art Spiegelman is co­founder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant­garde comics and graphics. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world. He is the author of Maus, for which he was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and In the Shadow of No Towers. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780670916825 Price £20.00 Format 254 x 355 mm hb Extent 72pp Illustrations Graphic novel illustrations throughout Territory 1BKZ US Rights Pantheon Translation Rights Wylie Agency Film Rights Wylie Agency Serial Rights Wylie Agency Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction Ghost Train to the Eastern Star On the tracks of 'The Great Railway Bazaar' Paul Theroux Paul Theroux revisits the route of his classic and bestselling The Great Railway Bazaar thirty years on Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is an absorbing and beautifully written follow­up to The Great Railway Bazaar. Full of life and impeccably evoked, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Paul Theroux at his very best. Paul Theroux's highly acclaimed books include Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, Fresh Air Fiend and The Elephanta Suite. The Mosquito Coast and Dr Slaughter have both been made into successful films. Paul Theroux is also a frequent contributor to magazines, and divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.   'The most gifted, most prodigal writer of his generation' Jonathan Raban 'Theroux's prose leaps to life like a mosaic splashed with water' Spectator Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780241142530 Price £20.00 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 496pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Houghton Mifflin Translation Rights The Wylie Agency Film Rights The Wylie Agency Serial Rights The Wylie Agency Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction Reborn Early Diaries, 1947-1964 Susan Sontag Edited by David Rieff The passionate, intimate and compelling diaries of one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century 'I intend to do everything . . . I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly . . . everything matters!' So wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen, in the early pages of this selection from her private diaries written in her youth and early adulthood. Reborn is a kaleidoscopic self­portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self­awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself – all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday life. One of America's best­known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture. Her books include four novels and several works of non­fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor and At the Same Time, all of which are published by Penguin. Susan Sontag died in December 2004.   'One of the most brilliant minds and sharpest pairs of eyes of her generation' Observer 'I know of no other intellectual who is so clear­minded, with a capacity to link, to connect, to relate' Carlos Fuentes, The Times Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780241144312 Price £16.99 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 336pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights The Wylie Agency Translation Rights The Wylie Agency Film Rights The Wylie Agency Serial Rights The Wylie Agency © Peter Hujar Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction Notes from Walnut Tree Farm Roger Deakin The best of Roger Deakin's unpublished writing on nature and life and a perfect companion to Wildwood and Waterlog For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in his fields, on Mellis Common or on his travels at home, or contemplating his past and his present life. Notes from Walnut Tree Farm collects the very best of these writings, capturing Roger's extraordinary, restless curiosity about the natural and human worlds, his love of literature and music, his knack for making unusual and apposite connections, and of course his distinct and subversive charm and humour. Together they cohere to present a passionate, engaged and – in spite of the worst pressures of contemporary life – optimistic view of our changing world. A film­maker and writer with a particular interest in nature and the environment, Roger Deakin was the author of the highly acclaimed Waterlog and Wildwood. He lived in Suffolk, and died there in August 2006, aged sixty­three.   Praise for Wildwood: 'Naturalist writing at its finest. Fascinating, eloquent and elegiac' Scotsman 'A masterpiece which deserves to be read and reread' Guardian 'One of my favourite kind of books. Few books make you change your habits; this one changed mine' Will Self, New Statesman Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780241144206 Price £20.00 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 224pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Capel and Land Translation Rights Capel and Land Film Rights Capel and Land Serial Rights Penguin UK Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction Out of the Blue On Fishing at Sea Chris Yates The acclaimed author of How to Fish steers the reader through new and more mysterious waters Though an enthusiastic sea­fisher as a child, Chris Yates has concentrated on freshwater throughout his fishing life. In Out of the Blue he describes his return to the sea after half a lifetime and his increasing passion for its changeable moods and habits. Remaining faithful to his fundamental angling ethic – fishing simply with the minimum of tackle and always using his old split cane carp rod – he nets a mass of singular experiences, from the quiet magic of a Dorset tide­pool to the strange delight of casting into the midnight sun off the Norwegian island of Senja. Chris Yates is a photographer and author, but first and foremost he is a fisherman. When he was five, he was inspired by the discovery of a monster carp in his village pond. Thirty years later, he caught what was then the biggest fish in England. He went on to talk about his experiences in books, magazines and in the BBC2 series A Passion for Angling. His previous book is How to Fish.   'Yates is the best writer on fishing today' Financial Times Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780241143629 Price £14.99 Format 135 x 216 mm hb Extent 224pp Illustrations Integrated black and white Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Mayer Benham Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK © Andrew Van Hoffelin  Hamish Hamilton Fiction Blonde Roots Bernardine Evaristo A dazzlingly imaginative reversal of the slave trade in which the Africans are the masters and the Europeans their slaves Welcome to a world turned upside down. One minute, Doris is playing hide­and­seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next, someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. When she finally arrives on a strange tropical island, Doris discovers that she is, in fact, a pig­ugly savage with a brain the size of a pea, whose only purpose in life is to please her mistress. While experiencing the hardships of life in the sugarcane fields, she dreams of escape, of finding those she has loved and lost, and of returning home to her motherland, England . . . Bernardine Evaristo is the author of three novels, Lara, The Emperor's Babe and Soul Tourists, all of which fuse fiction with poetry. Blonde Roots is her first prose novel. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 and the Royal Society of Arts in 2006. She lives in London.   'Evaristo remains an undeniably bold and energetic writer, whose world­view is anything but one­dimensional' Sunday Times 'One of Britain's most innovative authors . . . Bernardine Evaristo always dares to be different' New Nation Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780241143858 Price £17.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 272pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights ICM Books Translation Rights ICM Books Film Rights ICM Books Serial Rights Penguin UK Hamish Hamilton Fiction The Widows of Eastwick John Updike The delightfully wicked sequel to John Updike's much-loved The Witches of Eastwick More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcées – Alexandra, Jane and Sukie – have left town, remarried and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do. They travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to go back to Eastwick. The old Rhode Island seaside town where they once indulged in sensuous mischief still holds enchantment for the three, but also holds memories, and there are those who remember them and wish them ill . . . John Updike was born in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker and since 1957 he has lived in Massachusetts. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Award and the Howells Medal.   Praise for The Witches of Eastwick: 'Witty, ironic, engrossing and punctuated by transports of spectacular prose' Time 'A strange and marvellous organism' The New York Times Book Review Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780241144275 Price £18.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 320pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Alfred A. Knopf Translation Rights Alfred A. Knopf Film Rights Alfred A. Knopf Serial Rights Penguin UK © Martha Updike Hamish Hamilton Fiction The First Person and Other Stories Ali Smith A dazzling new collection of stories from one of the most talented writers of fiction in Britain today The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones. Always intellectually playful, but also very moving and funny, Smith explores the ways and whys of storytelling. In one, a middle­aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen­year­old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul­mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, a third presents its narrator, 'Ali', as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and – a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, the stories in The First Person and Other Stories are packed full of ideas, jokes, nuance and compassion. Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of Free Love, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental and Girl Meets Boy.   'She's a genius, genuinely modern in the heroic, glorious sense' Alain de Botton 'One of the most gifted writers of her generation' Scotsman Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780241144268 Price £16.99 Format 216 x 135 mm hb Extent 224pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights The Wylie Agency Translation Rights The Wylie Agency Film Rights The Wylie Agency Serial Rights The Wylie Agency Hamish Hamilton Fiction McSweeney's Issue 27 Dave Eggers More writings, drawings and other unexpected treats brought to you by McSweeney's McSweeney's 27 comes to you as three separate books in a windowed slipcase, presenting six possible faces to the world in order to best match your home decor. Book One plunges into the greyish, faintly understood area of the art world, involving oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly spelled text. Book Two is a never­before­seen seventy­two­page sketchbook by the legendary Art Spiegelman. Book Three collects new stories by Stephen King, Jim Shepard and others. Originally a small journal begun by Dave Eggers to publish work rejected by other publications, McSweeney's is today one of America's best and most widely circulated literary magazines. Its compilers are committed to finding new voices, publishing the work of gifted but under­appreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. Published on a roughly quarterly schedule, each issue of McSweeney's is unique in both design and content. Dave Eggers is also the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry and What is the What.   'Groundbreaking . . . a forum for innovation as well as established talent' Observer Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780241144237 Price £20.00 Format 130 x 206 mm pb Extent 0 Territory 1BKZ US Rights McSweeney's Translation Rights McSweeney's Film Rights McSweeney's Serial Rights McSweeney's/Penguin UK Hamish Hamilton Fiction McSweeney's Issue 28 Dave Eggers Once again, McSweeney's brings you many nights of fine reading . . . In eight illustrated books, elegantly held together in a single beribboned case and featuring work by Daniel Alarcon, Sheila Heti and Nathan Englander, McSweeney's 28 explores the state of the fable – those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn't see so much any more in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can't find time for anything else. Originally a small journal begun by Dave Eggers to publish work rejected by other publications, McSweeney's is today one of America's best and most widely circulated literary magazines. Its compilers are committed to finding new voices, publishing the work of gifted but under­appreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. Published on a roughly quarterly schedule, each issue of McSweeney's is unique in both design and content. Dave Eggers is also the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry and What is the What.   'Contains wonderful stuff from writers you've heard of and equally wonderful stuff from writers you haven't heard of. It is also a thing of beauty . . . The whole thing is driven by a slightly crazed exuberance which makes other literary magazines look like phone directories' Mark Haddon, Big Issue Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780241144244 Price £20.00 Format 203 x 254 mm hb Extent 0 Illustrations Colour illustrations throughout Territory 1BKZ US Rights McSweeney's Translation Rights McSweeney's Film Rights McSweeney's Serial Rights McSweeney's Fig Tree Fig Tree Fiction The Believers Zoë Heller A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff falls gravely ill, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a terrible secret about him. So begins a year filled with revelations, in the course of which Audrey, her two daughters, Karla and Rosa, and adopted son, Lenny, will be forced to examine the limits of their faith in other people, in political ideas and in God. A serious, moving and often very funny family novel, The Believers will surprise and delight. Zoë Heller is the author of two previous novels, Everything You Know and Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003. She lives in New York.   Praise for Notes on a Scandal: 'Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive' Guardian 'Deliciously sinister' Daily Mail 'Brilliant, nasty, gripping' Zadie Smith, Observer Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780670916122 Price £16.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 320pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Fig Tree Fiction The Idea of Love Louise Dean The powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Becoming Strangers When foreign families converge on Provence for a better life, it seems as if sunshine, drinking and partying will create an idyllic little community of like­minded sorts. But compelled to venture far from this Eden to Africa, the lives of two of the couples are changed irrevocably when each begins to doubt themselves, who they are and why they're there. For Richard, life unravels alarmingly quickly when he loses his marriage, his home, his job in pharmaceutical sales and finally maybe even his mind; for his wife Valerie and for their friends Jeff and Rachel it's the pursuit of the idea of love that salvages what they hold dear and only love itself that grants any enlightenment. But for the children in the story, the awkward unsettling Maxence and angelic little Maud, The Idea of Love is much simpler. Louise Dean is the author of two previous novels: Becoming Strangers, which was awarded the Betty Trask Prize in 2004 and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and This Human Season. She lives in Kent and has three children.   Praise for Becoming Strangers: 'Dean has [Alan Bennett's] almost supernatural talent for observing and measuring the comedy and tragedy of ordinary, heartfelt lives' Guardian 'I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In the end, I was so uplifted, I did both' Julie Myerson 'Dean has a deliciously lucid and seemingly effortless style . . . An exceptionally enjoyable book' Daily Mail Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9781905490165 Price £16.99 Format 234 x 153 mm hb Extent 288pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Fig Tree Non-Fiction The Thrift Book Live well and spend less India Knight How living glamorously needn't cost the earth Feeling poor because of recession? Feeling guilty because of global warming? Feeling as if you'd quite like to tighten your belt, but aren't quite ready to embrace DIY macramé handbags? No need to panic. Put down the economy mince and buy this book instead – it's a blueprint for living beautifully while saving money and easing your conscience. India Knight (no slouch when it comes to extravagance) shows you how even a dedicated consumer and child of the more­is­more 1980s can mend her ways, embrace the New Thrift and find her life – and bank balance – dramatically improved in the process. Above all, India Knight will show you that saving money and tightening your belt doesn't have to feel like a penance – it can be both fun and glamorous (and a great deal more satisfying than buying the latest It­bag). Try it – you have nothing to lose but your overdraft. India Knight is the author of My Life on a Plate, Don't You Want Me, The Shops and Neris and India's Idiot­Proof Diet. She is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in London with her three children.   Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9781905490370 Price £14.99 Format 220 x 160 mm hb Extent 256pp Illustrations Integrated black & white Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights AP Watt Film Rights AP Watt Serial Rights Penguin UK © Shaun Webb Penguin Ireland Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction The Builders Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan How a small group of men created the building boom that has transformed Ireland In the past fifteen years, Ireland has gone from being one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest in the world. Of all the factors in this extraordinary transformation, none has been more prominent than the astonishing boom in construction. The transformation was created by a relatively small number of men, mostly from humble rural backgrounds. In The Builders, Frank McDonald and Kathy Sheridan tell the stories of these men, of the local and national governments that have helped them and of the changes – physical and psychological – they have brought about. They also go behind the façades of these secretive men, explaining what drives them and what they do with their vast wealth. The story of Ireland's property developers has been the great untold story of growth – until now. Frank McDonald is Environment Editor of the Irish Times and author of books including The Destruction of Dublin and The Construction of Dublin. Kathy Sheridan is an Irish Times staff journalist.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9781844881840 Price £14.99 Format 235 x 153 mm pb Extent 304pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction Would The Real Gerry Ryan Please Stand Up Gerry Ryan A manifesto of sorts from Gerry Ryan – one of Ireland's best, best-known and most popular broadcasters Gerry Ryan on life, the world, the universe – and a few things besides. Here are his experiences, stories and opinions drawn from nearly thirty years of talking to the nation. It's a sharp, punchy read told in his no­nonsense, irreverent, straight­to­the­bone style. It's the best, the worst, the funniest, the most outrageous. And threaded through it is the story of coming of age as a broadcaster at the same time as Ireland became a truly modern country. A smart, sassy and wildly entertaining read. Ryan is the broadcaster of choice for people going through life­defining traumas who know they will get a sympathetic, sensitive and intelligent hearing. With nearly 400,000 listeners, Gerry Ryan is Ireland's favourite radio presenter.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9781844881871 Price £14.99 Format 0 x 0 mm pb Extent 320pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK © RTE Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction Sonia My Story Sonia O'Sullivan The life story of Ireland's most compelling athlete – in her own words Sonia O'Sullivan is one of the greatest sporting figures Ireland has ever produced. In a career which saw her competing at the highest international level for over a decade, she turned in world­class times in events ranging from the 1,500 metres to the marathon, capped by World Championship gold in the 5,000 metres in 1995 and Olympic silver in the same event in 2000. But her performances on the track are only part of the story of this passionate, sometimes fragile, and always compelling athlete. Now, Sonia tells the full story of her life for the first time – from her childhood in Cobh, Co. Cork, through her early successes on the track, to the highs of 1995 and 2000 and the low of the 1996 Olympics. Whether in triumph or in tears, Sonia has always been a uniquely fascinating – and mysterious – figure. This frank autobiography takes us behind the scenes of international athletics and behind the mask of a brilliant, vulnerable sportswoman. Sonia O'Sullivan was born in Cobh, Co. Cork, in 1969. She won one World Championship gold medal and three European Championship gold medals on the track, as well as two World Cross­Country Championship golds. At the 2000 Olympics she took silver in the 5,000 metres.   Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9781844881635 Price £14.99 Format 235 x 153 mm pb Extent 240pp Illustrations 24 colour Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Fiction Whose Life is it Anyway? Sinéad Moriarty A warm-hearted and thought-provoking story about culture clash within a family It's tricky for Niamh O'Flaherty, growing up in a North London home that's a shrine to all things Irish. But it's even trickier being an adult and realizing that her family expect her to settle down with a nice Irish lad, especially now that she's living in Dublin. When Niamh finally meets the love of her life he is the last person she would expect to fall for her. Pierre is older and an intellectual, but she loves his ability to laugh at himself, his calmness and strength of character, and, of course, his stunning looks. There's just one problem: if Pierre's parents – Jean and Fleur – are sniffy about their pride and joy hooking up with a girl who writes a fluffy newspaper column, her parents, Mick and Annie, are going to go ballistic when they hear that their daughter intends to marry someone who couldn't be less Irish if he tried . . . Sinéad Moriarty is the bestselling author of four previous novels. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two sons.   Praise for In My Sister's Shoes: 'Marian Keyes has for years been the undisputed queen . . . Sinéad Moriarty is now a worthy competitor . . . In My Sister's Shoes bounces with love, life and fun' Sunday Independent Praise for Sinéad Moriarty: 'Sinéad Moriarty has a gift at unwrapping a good, plausible tale and creating likeable characters that you care about' Irish Independent Pub Date June 2008 ISBN 9781844881499 Price £11.99 Format 235 x 153 mm pb Extent 368pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights Aitken Alexander Associates Translation Rights Aitken Alexander Associates Film Rights Aitken Alexander Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Fiction Mr S and the Secrets of Andorra's Box Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Another novel about the life and loves of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll­Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with a particular skill for handling phallic ingredients; and his father continues to languish in Mountjoy Jail. To cap it all, Immaculata, a Nigerian girl whom his wife, Sorcha, has been sponsoring by direct debit for fifteen years, has turned up on his doorstep. Things couldn't get worse. But the long road back begins high in the Pyrenees, in the tax haven of Andorra, where Ross must spread the gospel of rugby to the strange, primitive natives who have only ever heard of soccer, skiing and duty free shopping. There he meets Conchita, a beautiful, sultry psychoanalyst, who persuades him to look inwards and find out what it is that makes him tick. Sorry, thick. Ross O'Carroll­Kelly is the bestselling and acclaimed (in and out of the bedroom) king of dick­lit. He has seven previous novels, a guide to South Dublin and a sell­out play to his name.   Praise for Ross O'Carroll­Kelly: 'Gloriously, uproariously funny' Irish Times 'Consistently laugh­out­loud funny' Irish Independent 'Moments of brilliance . . . essential reading' Irish Daily Mail 'Women of Ireland rejoice – Ross O'Carroll­Kelly is back' U Magazine Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9781844881260 Price £12.99 Format 235 x 153 mm pb Extent 352pp Territory 1W US Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Translation Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Film Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Fiction Pack Up The Moon Anna McPartlin A heart-breaking, warm and funny story about love, loss and starting again For Emma and her friends the future is alive with possibility and life is for the taking. But when a night of joy and celebration ends in tragedy, Emma's world is turned upside down and she plunges into despair. Her loyal friends rally round – her best mate, the sexy and streetwise Clodagh; her kind and steady brother, Noel; Seán of the thousand one­night stands, and the newly married newly moneyed Anne and Richard. But though they are all there for Emma, they also struggle with memories of that fateful night – and with secrets of their own. In time, Emma learns that she can live – and even laugh – again. But will she ever recover that sense of joyous possibility, or feel the exquisite pleasure of loving and being loved – or trust her heart? Well, to find that kind of courage, Emma needs a miracle . . . Anna McPartlin grew up in Kerry and Dublin, where she now lives with her husband, a musician. Before becoming a full­time writer she worked in insurance – and as a stand­up comic. Because You Are with Me is her first novel.   'Captures the pain of loss and longing . . . but her background in stand­up comedy spills onto every page, making this touching novel so funny' Irish Independent 'Insightful and moving . . . defiantly irreverent' Sunday Independent Pub Date May 2009 ISBN 9781844881703 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 384pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Translation Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Film Rights The Lisa Richards Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Fiction Open-handed Chris Binchy The first major novel to capture the flavour and the dark realities of affluent, multicultural Ireland The place is Dublin. The time is the present. Five characters – two Irish, three from eastern Europe, all seeking success from wildly different starting points – become entangled with one another in a web of politics, property, sex and violence. Chris Binchy's breakthrough novel is a beautifully observed portrait of a time and place, and a thrillingly paced story of characters brought together by circumstance, ambition and need. Chris Binchy was born in 1970. He worked as an embassy researcher, painter, hotel manager and sushi chef before becoming a full­time writer. His first novel, The Very Man, was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. He lives in Dublin.   Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9781844881727 Price £12.99 Format 216 x 135 mm pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BCKZ US Rights Marianne Gunn O'Connor Literary Agency Translation Rights Marianne Gunn O'Connor Literary Agency Film Rights Marianne Gunn O'Connor Literary Agency Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Ireland Fiction A Dance in Time Orna Ross A gripping story of how a woman – accused of killing her father – tries to make sense of a complicated past Iseult 'Izzy' Mulcahy is a mother and a woman in love, a writer and a thinker – and the last person anyone would expect to commit murder . . . After being charged with killing her father, rather than fight for her freedom, Izzy escapes into the past – her own past and that of the famous Iseult Gonne, after whom she was named. Izzy has spent her adult life in America and it has given her independence, a dream to follow and the loves of her life – her daughter, Star, and her soulmate, Zach. But the burden of illegitimacy, and a readiness to sacrifice ambition for love, inhibited Izzy, as they did the other Iseult. As Izzy sets down Iseult's story and unravels her own past, she comes to understand why she returned to Ireland and the father she hated. But to her dismay, she also realizes that when she stands up in court her testimony will have a devastating effect on the two people who mean the most to her . . . Among other things Orna Ross has worked as a teacher, a saleswoman, an aerobics instructor, a waitress and a freelance journalist in Dublin and London. She lives in Dublin with her husband and two teenage children, where she combines a career as a novelist with giving classes in creativity and creative writing. Her first novel was Lovers' Hollow.   Praise for Lovers' Hollow: 'Magnificent . . . a hauntingly captivating read' Sunday Independent 'The sort of book you could happily curl up with . . . a captivating read' Irish Independent 'Ambitious scope . . . but Lovers' Hollow is intelligent enough to carry it off' Sunday Tribune Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9781844880539 Price £12.99 Format 234 x 153 mm pb Extent 624pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Áine McCarthy Film Rights Áine McCarthy Serial Rights Penguin Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction Connemara The Last Pool of Darkness Tim Robinson The second volume of Tim Robinson's astonishing Connemara trilogy The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north­west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic. A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied maths at Cambridge and then worked for many years as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, among other places. In 1972 he moved to the Aran Islands. In 1986 his first book, Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, was published to great acclaim. The second volume of Stones of Aran, subtitled Labyrinth, appeared in 1995. He has also published collections of essays, and maps of the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara. Connemara: Listening to the Wind won the Irish Book Award for Non­fiction.   Praise for Listening to the Wind: 'Exceptional . . . A book about one place that is also about the whole world' Robert Macfarlane, Guardian 'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9781844881550 Price £20.00 Format 235 x 153 mm hb Extent 384pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Tim Robinson Serial Rights Penguin UK Penguin Paperbacks Penguin Paperbacks July Fiction July Fiction Spook Country William Gibson What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? 'Superb, brilliant. A compulsive and deeply intelligent literary thriller' New Statesman The Stone Gods Jeanette Winterson An interplanetary love story, a traveller's tale and a hymn to the beauty of the earth 'The Stone Gods is as full of ideas as a catherine wheel is of sparks, emitting notions, quibbles, quirks, fantasies, glittering fragments of invention that fizz and pop as they fly into the darkness' Sunday Telegraph Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141016719 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 384pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141032603 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 256pp Territory 1BKZ July Fiction July Fiction What is the What Dave Eggers ‘Read Dave Eggers’ What is the What – it's the best book of the year’ Guardian 'I cannot recall the last time I was this moved by a novel. It is impossible to read this book and not be humbled, enlightened, transformed' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Obsession Jonathan Kellerman The heart-thumping new bestseller from the 'master of the psychological thriller' Just before she died, Patty Bigelow confessed to having killed a man. Now her niece Tanya is obsessed with finding out the truth about her aunt's crime – and she needs Alex Delaware's help . . . Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141015743 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 560pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141021966 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 528pp Territory 1BKZ July Fiction July Fiction The Secret Servant Daniel Silva The breathtaking new thriller from the international bestselling phenomenon The next gripping instalment in the internationally bestselling series featuring art­restorer, assassin and spy Gabriel Allon. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141031385 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 464pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141030647 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BCEKZ The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole John Mortimer 'Another immensely likeable outing for literature's favourite lion of justice' Daily Mail John Mortimer's delightful new Rumpole novel sees the magician of the Old Bailey at his implacable best as he takes on an apparently hopeless murder case, and defends our ancient freedoms when threatened with a personal ASBO . . . Penguin Paperbacks July Non-Fiction July Non-Fiction The Invisible Cure Africa, the West and the Fight Against AIDS Helen Epstein A compelling and shocking work of reportage on the African AIDS crisis Impassioned, lively and beautifully written, Helen Epstein's provocative investigation reveals the truth behind why AIDS has such a stranglehold on Africa, and what can be done to fight it. A Voyage Round John Mortimer Valerie Grove 'A perceptive and affectionate biography of a national monument and treasure' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times For the first time, a biographer has had full access to Mortimer, his circle of friends, and their diaries and letters. The result is a riveting account of one of England's great cultural figures. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141011059 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 352pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141019543 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 560pp Territory 1BEKZ2AC July Non-Fiction July Non-Fiction Tribe Adventures in a Changing World Bruce Parry The paperback edition of the bestselling tie-in to the hugely popular BBC2 series Over several years, Parry spent one month living with fifteen different tribes. The result Pub Date July 2008 is an insight into wildly differing cultures that are vibrant, hospitable and full of spirit. ISBN 9780141032252 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Illustrations 50 colour inset Territory 1BCKZ Gangs Ross Kemp Ross Kemp squares up to the world's most dangerous gangsters Across the world, millions of people are members of gangs. And when rival gangs meet, it's war. Ross Kemp infiltrates these terrifying street gangs to discover what makes them tick, and what the law is doing to curb their criminal activity. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141026831 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 384pp Illustrations 4 x 8pp colour insets Territory 1BEKZ July Non-Fiction August Fiction Rudolf Nureyev The Life Julie Kavanagh The authorized biography of the superstar of twentieth-century ballet 'Magnificent . . . comprehensive and compulsively readable' Simon Callow, Guardian Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141029696 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 800pp Illustrations 3 x 16pp black and white insets Territory 1BKZ Life Class Pat Barker The breathtaking new paperback from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy Beginning at the Slade School of Art in the spring of 1914, and taking us to the field hospitals of Ypres, Life Class shows just how deeply the effects of war can run, as student Paul Tarrant's perceptions of life, love and art are changed for ever. 'Undoubtedly the definitive biography. Rudolf Nureyev, superstar, emerges in all his terribly flawed glory' Sunday Telegraph Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141019475 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 256pp Territory 1BCEKZ Penguin Paperbacks August Fiction August Fiction The Book of Other People Zadie Smith A weird and wonderful collection of short stories from over twenty of today's best writers from both sides of the Atlantic Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith, The Book of Other People is as dazzling and inventive as its authors, and as vivid and wide­ranging as its characters. King of Swords Nick Stone The blistering follow-up to the bestselling Mr Clarinet Miami, 1981. Against a backdrop of black magic and police corruption, Detectives Max Mingus and Joe Liston are on the trail of a terrifying killer. Few have met the most feared man in Miami, but rumours abound of a forked tongue and blood­chilling voodoo ceremonies . . . Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141029320 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Illustrations Full colour interleaved Territory 1BEKZ Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141021072 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 576pp Territory 1BEKZ August Non-Fiction August Fiction The Few July–October 1940 Alex Kershaw Movie rights bought by Tom Cruise – who flies his own old WWII fighter for fun – and Michael Mann In the dark early days of the Second World War, Britain's defence was in the hands of the men flying the Spitfires and Hurricanes of Royal Air Force Fighter Command. They were Churchill's Few. This is their story. What I Was Meg Rosoff Packaged specifically for the adult market in tandem with Puffin's own paperback edition, Meg Rosoff's haunting story of first love, friendship and betrayal The stunning new Costa Book Award­nominated novel from the author of How I Live Now and Just in Case. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141018508 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 336pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141038315 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BEKZ August Non-Fiction August Non-Fiction Who Writes This Crap? Joel Stickley and Luke Wright All the rubbish you read in a day re-written From junk mail, packaging and advertising, to magazines, e­mails and text messages, Stickley and Wright reinvent the run­of­the­mill like never before. Whether it's a smoothie label, a newspaper headline or an unsolicited e­mail from a Nigerian prince, this book will change the way you read for ever. My Life with George The Inspirational Story of How a Wilful Dog Brought Joy to a Bereaved Family Judith Summers The inspirational story of how a wilful dog brought joy to a bereaved family Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141032238 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BEKZ Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141030548 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 256pp Territory 1W My Life with George is the hilarious and moving story of the impossible but adorable George – recounting how he filled a huge void after the death of Judith Summers's husband, while driving her absolutely barking mad along the way. Penguin Paperbacks August Non-Fiction August Fiction Interventions Noam Chomsky A powerful and timely collection of articles from the world's leading political intellectual and dissident A cogent discussion of the burning issues of our post 9/11 world from a vital and authoritative perspective. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141031804 Price £8.99 Format 129 x 178 mm pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141029580 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BKZ The Elephanta Suite Paul Theroux We think we know India. But as Paul Theroux reveals, we need to think again . . . 'Theroux has a sharp eye . . . reworking the old colonial themes in light of the country's rapid but uneven development. Theroux hasn't lost any of his insight or power to enthrall' Sunday Telegraph September Fiction September Fiction Monster Love Carol Topolski A dark and deathly literary thriller for fans of Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin 'Striking . . . [Topolski's] sharp­eyed writing talent holds the promise of more exciting work ahead' Independent on Sunday Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141033389 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 272pp Territory 1BEKZ A French Life Jean-Paul Dubois The runaway French bestseller – a comic, tragic, epic novel that brilliantly blends the personal and the political Meet Paul Blick, fifty­something. As Blick moves from childhood to adulthood, so the political scenery behind him shifts, reflecting both a nation in flux and a man desperate to make sense of the forces that have shaped him. 'A chilling, darkly compelling portrait of an unimaginable crime' Psychologies Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141024820 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BEKZ August Non-Fiction August Non-Fiction Rock Star Babylon Jon Holmes The myths and rumours that make rock'n'roll, rock'n'roll Crafted with all the loving detail that you'd expect from a man who received the largest ever broadcasting fine for breaching decency rules, Rock Star Babylon opens up a Pandora's musical box of bad behaviour and jumps head first into Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780140254105 the mess. Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 400pp Illustrations Integrated black and white illustrations Territory 1BCKZE Mrs Woolf and the Servants Alison Light 'An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery' Independent Examining Virginia Woolf and four of her servants, Alison Light explores the extraordinary world of the domestic servant in the first half of the twentieth century. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141028446 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Illustrations Integrated black and white illustrations Territory 1BEKZ August Non-Fiction On Brick Lane Rachel Lichtenstein The true story of one of the most famous, fashionable and fascinating streets in London Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these with maps and photography, On Brick Lane is a one­of­a­kind chronicle of one of London's most remarkable streets. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141018515 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 368pp Illustrations Black and white photographs throughout Territory 1BCEKZ Penguin Paperbacks September Fiction September Fiction The Skeleton Man Jim Kelly A classic murder mystery of the highest order and the latest addition to Jim Kelly's award-winning series For seventeen years, the hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the army on exercise in the empty village, a shocking discovery is made: a human skeleton, a noose around its neck . . . Things I Want My Daughters to Know Elizabeth Noble A tale of families, friends and the glorious, endless possibilities of life When Barbara realizes her life is close to the end, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware they'll be facing life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when they still have so much growing up to do? Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141027494 Price £7.99 Format A format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1BCEKZ Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141030012 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 448pp Territory 1BEKZ September Fiction September Non-Fiction Desperately Seeking... Evelyn Cosgrave A story about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. Or is it the right thing for the wrong reasons? Kate never intended the get­over guy to fall in love with her – but he did and she's not only agreed to marry him, but decided that it's a really good idea. Only thing is, her Pub Date September heart is pushing her towards the most 2008 surprising – and unsuitable – man she ISBN 9780141023250 could possibly fall for . . . Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 464pp Illustrations 40 black and white photographs Territory 1W Young Voices British Children Remember the Second World War Lyn Smith 'What makes these accounts so compelling is that children's experiences have in their telling a particular immediacy . . . a vivid and moving collection' New Statesman Through the richly diverse voices and writings of over one hundred contributors, Lyn Smith has written a powerful oral history of the war as seen from a child's perspective. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9781844881468 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BCEKZ September Non-Fiction Force of Nature Robin Knox-Johnston A story of courage and astonishing resilience played out against thousands of miles of awesome ocean The gripping story of Sir Robin Knox­Johnston's last solo sail around the globe – an extraordinary return to the ultra­competitive, punishing world of single­handed round­the­world racing. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141032191 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Illustrations 16pp colour illustrations Territory 1W Penguin Paperbacks October Fiction November Non-Fiction The Chase Clive Cussler The Grand Master of Adventure fiction is back, with one of his wildest thrillers yet For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most Pub Date October 2008 entertaining historical thrillers in years. ISBN 9780141033112 Price £14.99 Format B format pb Extent 736pp Territory 1BKZ Due Considerations John Updike A brilliant collection of non-fiction pieces from the insightful, versatile and ever-curious John Updike A cruise through the cultural waters of the past decade, with as delightful, witty and sensitive a guide as you could hope for, Due Considerations is a voyage not to be missed. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141030319 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 496pp Territory 1BKZ November Non-Fiction October Fiction The Boy in the Cupboard Shane Dunphy The bestselling child protection worker tells further startling true stories from the coal-face of despair Four heart­stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9781844881604 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1W Pub Date February 2009 ISBN 9780141031910 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 576pp Territory 1BEKZ Company of Liars Karen Maitland The highly acclaimed and successful hardback will be the must-have paperback of the autumn 'A richly evocative page­turner with a disturbing final twist worthy of a master of the spine­tingler, such as Henry James' Daily Express October Fiction October Non-Fiction Submarine Joe Dunthorne Now in paperback the freshest, funniest, and best reviewed debut novel of spring 2008 'This first novel by a young Welsh poet is the sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a periodically troubled teenager's coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye . . . this brilliant novel is laugh­out­loud enjoyable' Independent Confessions of a Demented Housewife The Celebrity Year Niamh Greene Niamh Greene's debut, Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife, sold over 100,000 copies Bestselling diarist and housewife extraordinaire Susie Hunt returns with another scintillating instalment from the coal­face of modern motherhood . . . this time as an accidental (yeah, right) celebrity. Pub Date February 2009 ISBN 9780141032757 Price £7.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1BKZ Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9781844881383 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 336pp Territory 1BCKZ December Fiction Final Impact World War 2.3 John Birmingham The climactic final episode of the critically acclaimed Axis of Time trilogy In the third and final gripping instalment of the Axis of Time trilogy, the revised history of the war is more alarming than ever. Hitler and the Japanese race towards atomic capability; Stalin plots to tear down the future and rebuild it in his own image; and the Allies begin their Great Crusade, with the weapons and know­how of the twenty­first century. © Vincent Long Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780141029139 Price £6.99 Format A format pb Extent 464pp Territory 1B Penguin Audio Penguin Audio Fiction The Believers Zoë Heller A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining audiobook about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt . . . When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff falls gravely ill, his wife, Audrey, uncovers a terrible secret about him. So begins a year filled with revelations, in the course of which Audrey, her two daughters, Karla and Rosa, and adopted son, Lenny, will be forced to examine the limits of their faith in other people, in political ideas and in God. A serious, moving and often very funny family novel, The Believers will surprise and delight. Pub Date December 2015 ISBN 9780141808383 Price £11.06 Format Audio CD Territory 1BEKZ Non-Fiction Bomb, Book and Compass Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China Simon Winchester The extraordinary story of the discovery, by an unforgettably magnificent Englishman, of just what makes China, China Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei­Djen, and from that moment sprang the two greatest love affairs of his life – with Miss Lu and with China. Pub Date December 2015 ISBN 9780141808376 Price £12.99 Format Audio CD Territory 1BEKZ Non-Fiction Young Voices British Children Remember the Second World War Lyn Smith Adapted for 5CD audio An anthology of the experiences of children in Britain during the Second World War, taken from tapes and original letters and documents now with the Imperial War Museum. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141806129 Price £18.99 Format Audio CD Extent 6pp Territory 1W