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Paperbacks Paperbacks The Lodger Shakespeare on Silver Street Charles Nicholl A dazzling new book from one of Britain's most celebrated and bestselling non-fiction authors In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage­dowry – but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life­story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating episode in Shakespeare's life. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141023748 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 400pp Illustrations 1 x 16 pp b/w inset Territory 1BKZE2AC US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights David Godwin Associates Serial Rights Penguin UK The Whisperers Private Life in Stalin's Russia Orlando Figes A gripping and emotional account of lives lived in impossible times Drawing on a huge range of sources, including letters, memoirs, and conversations, Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system could become its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it; a society in which everyone spoke in whispers, whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends, or to inform on them. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141013510 Price £10.99 Format B format pb Extent 784pp Illustrations Integrated b/w illustrations Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Henry Holt and Company Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK The Age of Turbulence Adventures in a New World Alan Greenspan The post 9/11 global economy is a new and turbulent system – vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self­directing, and fast­changing than it was even twenty years ago. The Age of Turbulence is an incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world – how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill, channelled through Greenspan's own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141029917 Price £10.99 Format B format pb Extent 576pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Penguin Group US Translation Rights Penguin Group US Film Rights Penguin Group US Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Microtrends Surprising Tales of the way We Live Today Mark J. Penn and E. Kinney Zalesne 'Fun to read ... bursting with essential information ... confounds preconceptions' Tim Lott, Sunday Telegraph Should cars now come with matching lipsticks? Why is the number of left­handers increasing? And where are all the tattoo boutiques? Welcome to the surprising world of microtrends, where Snowed­Under Slobs are increasing in number – but so are Extreme Commuters; where teenagers are becoming millionaire businessmen – even though their contemporaries are planning careers as snipers; and where older woman are bagging all the young men – whilst also bagging all the video games. Microtrends is the story of the small groups that are causing big changes in our lives today. It's about how different we are to each other, and how wrong our own expectations can be. And how the end of uniformity could actually be the answer to our problems . . . Pub Date June 2008 ISBN 9780141035383 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 448pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group USA Translation Rights Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group USA Film Rights Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group USA Serial Rights Penguin UK Napoleon's Wars An International History, 1803–1815 Charles Esdaile A definitive history of the Napoleonic wars Charles Esdaile's major new work reframes our understanding of Napoleon. Napoleon's Wars looks beyond the insatiable greed for glory to create a new, genuinely international context for Napoleon's career. The battles themselves Esdaile sees as almost side­effects, the consequences of rulers being willing to take the immense risks of fighting or supporting Napoleon – risks that could result in the extinction of entire countries and regimes. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141014203 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 656pp Territory 1BCEKZ2A US Rights A. M. Heath & Company Translation Rights A. M. Heath & Company Film Rights A. M. Heath & Company Serial Rights Penguin UK God's Architect Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain Rosemary Hill A brilliant biography of the great architect and designer Pugin's bohemian early career as an antique dealer and scenery designer at Covent Garden came to a sudden end with a series of devastating bereavements, including the loss of his first wife in childbirth. In the aftermath, he formed a vision of Gothic architecture that was both romantic and deeply religious. God's Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure, and draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780140280999 Price £10.99 Format B format pb Extent 624pp Illustrations 8pp b/w, 8pp colour inset Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights David Godwin Assoc. Film Rights David Godwin Assoc. Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Luck and the Irish A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 R. F. Foster A combative and compelling book about the radical changes that have transformed Ireland over the last thirty years From 1970, things were changing in Ireland – the Celtic Tiger had finally woken, and the rules for everything from gender roles and religion to international relations were being entirely rewritten. Luck and the Irish examines how the country has weathered these last thirty years of change, and what these changes may mean in the long run. R. F. Foster also looks at how characters as diverse as Gerry Adams, Mary Robinson, Charles Haughey and Bob Geldof have contributed to Ireland's altered psyche, and uncovers some of the scandals, corruption and marketing masterminds that have transformed Ireland – and its luck. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141017655 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 240pp Territory 1BEKZ US Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Serial Rights Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd Three Victories and a Defeat The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 Brendan Simms A rich, vivid history of the rise and fall of the first British Empire and the European alliances that supported it This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the eighteeth century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained. 'Studded with brilliant vignettes and arresting insights, Simms's marvellous narrative presents an original and provocative account not only of the rise and decline of British eighteenth­cetury imperial power, but also of the processes that formed the modern global system' Christopher Clark, author of Iron Kingdom Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780140289848 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 832pp Illustrations Integrated b/w pictures Territory 1BCKZE US Rights Basic Books Translation Rights A M Heath Film Rights A M Heath Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire The Demise of a Superpower, 1944–47 Peter Clarke 'Peter Clarke's marvellous new book tells us the story of the individuals and forces which shaped our world' Margaret MacMillan, author of Peacemakers Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyse in detail the losing hand that Britain was dealt in the last year of World War Two, and then to see how that hand was played over the next two years by Churchill's successors. It makes superb use of the copious letters and diaries now available of the major participants and many involved observers, to show how decisions were taken and received. Not least, it analyses dispassionately the role of the USA: how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustained both during the war and after, but that the British Empire must not. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141020051 Price £10.99 Format B format pb Extent 592pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Peter Clarke Translation Rights Peter Clarke Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK The Siege of Mecca The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine Yaroslav Trofimov 'A gripping and revealing account of this brutal uprising . . . The Siege of Mecca is a marvel of investigative journalism' New Statesman An astonishing work of reportage, this is the gripping story of the takeover of Islam's holiest site, written by one of the finest journalistic interpreters of the Muslim world. 'Trofimov gives a thriller­like account of an event largely hushed up' The Times Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141034065 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Doubleday Serial Rights Penguin UK The Ten Commandments for Business Failure Don Keough Learn how to avoid the pitfalls that tempt companies and individuals at every level from this indispensible how-not-to guide From football coaches to ex­CEOs to preachers, plenty of speakers and writers are happy to dispense advice on how to succeed in business. But none of them can offer any guarantees; the true path to success can't be laid out as a simple step­by­step plan. The same cannot be said of failure, however. Failure is easy. In fact, there are ten serious blunders companies and individuals make over and over again, leading to failure so consistently that the list ought to be written in stone. The Ten Commandments for Business Failure is a lighthearted cautionary bible for leaders, including such reliable bad advice as Quit Taking Risks, Be Inflexible, Put All Your Faith in Experts, and Be Afraid of the Future. Pub Date July 2008 ISBN 9780141039220 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights PGI The Wild Trees A Story of Passion and Daring with the World's Last True Explorers Richard Preston 'The most inspiring true life adventure I have read for years' David Bellamy When biology student Steve Sillett risked death to free­climb the tallest trees on earth he could never have imagined what he would find thirty storeys up from the ground. Sillett and his friends would discover an ecosystem teeming with life: mosses and lichen that had never been seen before, and branches so densely interwoven that they formed sky­high walkways. Although the young climbers formed tightly­knit groups closed to outsiders, Preston not only managed to gain access, but began to climb these hidden giants himself, putting his own life in danger to learn about the powerful connection between these massive trees and the world's last great explorers. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141031903 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Illustrations Black & white integrated Territory 1BKZ US Rights Random House Translation Rights Janklow & Nesbit Film Rights Janklow & Nesbit Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Deluxe How Luxury Lost its Lustre Dana Thomas Where can real luxury be found today – and what is it costing us? With incredible access to the glamorous world of the luxury brand, Deluxe delves deep into the workings of profit margins and market share to discover the fate of real luxury. From 'must­have' handbags to dressing stars on the red carpet, Dana Thomas shows how far illustrious fashion houses have travelled from their roots. From the handcrafting and economics of early­twentieth century designers to the violent truth behind the 'harmless' fakes, Deluxe goes deep into the world of extravagance, and asks: where can true luxury be found today? 'Thomas is fearless about digging dirt' The Times Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141019673 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 384pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Dana Thomas Translation Rights Dana Thomas Film Rights Dana Thomas Serial Rights Penguin UK Gut Feelings Short Cuts to Better Decision Making Gerd Gigerenzer 'Fascinating and provocative – Gut Feelings may well be the recipe for a simpler, less stressful life' Sunday Times In Gut Feelings, psychologist and behavioural expert Gerd Gigerenzer reveals the secrets of fast and effective decision­making. He explains that, in an uncertain world, sometimes we have to ignore too much information and rely on our brain's 'short cut'. By explaining how intuition works and analyzing the techniques that people use to make good decisions – whether it's in personnel selection or heart surgery – Gigerenzer will show you why gut thinking can change your world. Think less – and know more. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141015910 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 288pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights John Brockman Translation Rights John Brockman Film Rights John Brockman Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks The Penguin Book of Card Games David Parlett Whether you're a card sharp or online-poker wannabe, The Penguin Book of Card Games has everything you'll ever need to know about playing cards ... The Penguin Book of Card Games is the authoritative up­to­date compendium, describing an abundance of games to be played both for fun and by serious players. Auctions, trumpless hands, cross­ruffing and lurching: card players have a language all of their own. From games of high skill (Bridge) to games of high chance (Newmarket) to trick­taking (Whist) and banking (Pontoon), David Parlett, seasoned specialist in card games, takes us masterfully through the countless games to choose from. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141037875 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 688pp Illustrations integrated b/w illustrations Territory 1W US Rights David Parlett Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights David Parlett Serial Rights Penguin UK Doomsday Men The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon P. D. Smith 'The gripping, untold story of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction' The Times Literary Supplement It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War's most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity's nightmare vision of a superweapon, and shows how popular culture, from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove, has both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams. Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141019154 Price £12.99 Format A format pb Extent 576pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights St Martin's Press Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights PFD The Poincaré Conjecture In Search of the Shape of the Universe Donal O'Shea 'A truly marvellous book' Martin Gardner The Poincaré Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world's most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincaré, his Conjecture promised to describe the very shape of the universe, but remained unproven until a huge prize was offered for its solution in 2000. Six years later, an eccentric Russian mathematician had the answer. Here, O'Shea explains the maths behind the Conjecture and its proof, and illuminates the curious personalities surrounding this perplexing conundrum. An enthralling tale of human endeavour, intellectual brilliance and the thrill of discovery. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141032382 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 304pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Walker Books Inc Translation Rights Walker Books Inc Film Rights Walker Books Inc Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Phantom Hitchhikers and Decoy Ducks The strange stories behind the urban legends we can't stop telling each other Albert Jack 'The man with the answers is Albert Jack' Daily Express From Walt Disney's frozen head to the kidnap of JFK's brain, Albert Jack gathers together all the strangest, sickest, funniest and most unforgettable urban legends and recounts them with his usual deadpan humour. But this is more than just a collection of urban legends, it is also a detective story. Exploring the real events behind conspiracy theories, the exaggerations of history and the assumptions of old wives' tales, Albert Jack shows us that the truth can definitely be stranger than fiction. . . Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141038513 Price £6.99 Format 178 x 129 mm pb Extent 320pp Territory 1BCEKZ US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Crymotion Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television Steven Pinker A fascinating and funny journey through the world of profanities Why do so many swear words involve sex, bodily functions and religion? Why are some words rude and others aren't? Why can launching into expletives be so shocking – and sometimes so amusing? Steven Pinker takes us on a fascinating and funny journey through the world of profanities, taken from his bestselling The Stuff of Thought, to show us why we swear (whatever our language or culture), how taboos change and how we use obscenities in different ways. Covering everything from free speech to Tourette's, from pottymouthed celebrities to poetry, this book reveals what swearing tells us about how our minds work. (It's also a bloody good read). Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141038728 Price £3.99 Format A format pb Extent 96pp Territory 1BKZ Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved Albert Jack 'Sometimes the smarter stocking-filler may even help you think better as well as trounce the rival quiz team. From Glenn Miller and the Bermuda Triangle to the Lock Ness Monster, Albert Jack offers a crash course in sceptical thinking' Boyd Tonkin, Independent The world's strangest mysteries solved: What happened to the Mary Celeste? Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the Louvre) Will the real Paul McCartney please stand up? Who killed Marilyn Monroe? What was Agatha Christie's own mystery? Why does it rain frogs? Does Bigfoot exist? How did D. B Cooper get away with the perfect crime? And many, many more. Albert Jack's best­selling first book for Penguin, Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, will be re­jacketed to tie in with the new series style. Pub Date August 2008 ISBN 9780141037813 Price £6.99 Format 178 x 129 mm pb Extent 368pp Illustrations 40 integrated b/w Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Crymotion Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Everything Conceivable How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women and the World Liza Mundy Sixty-year-old mothers, gay fathers, sperm-donation babies, quadruplets and thirteen-year-old frozen embryos . . . welcome to the brave new world of babymaking In the last thirty years the way we have children has changed utterly. For the first time, the estimated eighty million infertile people worldwide have a chance to be parents. Humans are now effectively able to cheat evolution. But what are the wider consequences of this? In Everything Conceivable Liza Mundy is the first journalist to explore this subject in depth. She looks at the workings of the fertility drugs industry, the phenomenon of eggs for sale, the increasing number of twins and the views of the Christian right and women's groups. And, as the meanings of life, birth, parents and families change, she asks: what are the real effects of the reproductive revolution? Pub Date September 2008 ISBN 9780141022970 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 432pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Knopf - Random House Translation Rights Knopf - Random House Film Rights Knopf - Random House Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks A Life Decoded My Genome: My Life J. Craig Venter The world's most famous and controversial scientist In June 2000, for the first time in human history, scientists were able to unravel the mysteries contained within our genetic code. Craig Venter is the brilliant maverick who had made this happen. And since then, he has gone on to decode the whole of his own genome, the first complete genome of any human being. In A Life Decoded he tells his extraordinary life story: a tale that includes presidents, prime ministers and kings, princes of capitalism and science, but also a voyage of discovery through Venter's self­examination, his scientific accomplishments and his own genetic code. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141014418 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 400pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Brockman Inc Translation Rights Brockman Inc Film Rights Brockman Inc Serial Rights Penguin UK © Ian White Six Men Alistair Cooke Dazzling portraits of six key figures intimately known to the great journalist With these superbly realized portraits, Alistair Cooke brings to life six men he knew and admired during a lifetime of journalist encounter: Charlie Chaplin, Edward VIII, H. L. Mencken, Adlai Stevenson, Humphrey Bogart and Bertrand Russell. Its publication will coincide with celebrations for the centenary of the author's birth in November 2008. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141036076 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Estate of Alistair Cooke c/o Cohen & Grossberg Translation Rights Estate of Alistair Cooke c/o Cohen & Grossberg Film Rights Estate of Alistair Cooke c/o Cohen & Grossberg Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks The Marvellous Mania Alistair Cooke on Golf Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke's collected writings on the sport to which he was passionately attached for his entire life For over half a century, Alistair Cooke was the leading interpreter of America to the rest of the world. In the course of millions of printed and broadcast words he frequently brought his unique blend of curiosity, wit and perceptive analysis to bear on sporting events on both sides of the Atlantic. Cooke had a lifelong fascination with sports – but of all the sports he witnessed and covered, his first love was always golf, about which nobody has written more brilliantly and more lovingly. Here, gathered together for the first time, is a collection of Cooke's essays on his lasting passion, displaying all the mischievous charm and masterly narrative technique that made him one of the great reporters of the twentieth century. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141031019 Price £8.99 Format B format pb Extent 208pp Illustrations 8pp b/w inset Territory 1BKZ US Rights Palazzo Editions Translation Rights Palazzo Editions Film Rights Palazzo Editions Serial Rights Penguin UK Alistair Cooke's America Alistair Cooke A reissue of Alistair Cooke's celebrated personal history of America, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth in November 2008 As the United States adapts to its role as sole superpower in a world of shifting allegiances, it has never been more important to understand what has made the country work and survive throughout its history. Alistair Cooke's irresistibly readable 'personal history of the United States' tells of the famous and infamous, explorers, politicians, inventors, and the first tycoons, but mostly of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in settling and domesticating a wilderness. This reissue will coincide with celebrations to mark the centenary of his birth in November 2008. Pub Date October 2008 ISBN 9780141036083 Price £9.99 Format B format pb Extent 320pp Illustrations 16 pp colour Territory 1BKZ US Rights Palazzo Edition Translation Rights Palazzo Editions Film Rights Palazzo Editions Serial Rights Penguin UK The Disinherited The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture Henry Kamen A major cultural history of Spain over the last five hundred years, told through the eyes of its exiles 'Kamen's outstanding gifts as an historian are evident on every page. He sifts evidence with a vivid yet critical eye; his thinking is unfettered. He writes total history, mastering every kind of source material, weaving a comprehensive vision of Spanish culture that includes art, science, thought, politics and everyday experience . . . The result is an alternative history of Spain from a perspective never before attempted . . . the book is essential for anyone who wants to understand Spain.' Felipe Fernandez­Armesto, Literary Review Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141016887 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 528pp Territory 1BKZE US Rights Harper Collins Translation Rights PFD Film Rights PFD Serial Rights PFD The Good, the Bad and the Unready The remarkable truth behind history's strangest nicknames Robert Easton The Truth Behind the Names in History: From Ethelred the Unready to Wilfrid the Shaggy It may be that you still believe William the Bad to have been a thoroughly rotten fellow, that Charles the Silly was a bit simple or that Mary the Mermaid was famed for her trips to the seaside. If that's the case, this is the book for you, revealing the truth about the best, oddest, most amusing and downright insulting nicknames given to the great and the not­so­great over the centuries. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141016429 Price £7.99 Format 203 x 203 mm pb Extent 320pp Illustrations Yes Territory 1BEKZ US Rights A M Heath Ltd Translation Rights A M Heath Ltd Film Rights A M Heath Ltd Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Lion of Jordan The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace Avi Shlaim Reveals for the first time decades of secret peace negotiations in the Middle East, based on private papers accessible only to the author For most of his long reign (1953–1999) King Hussein of Jordan was one of the dominant figures in Middle Eastern politics, its most continuous presence, and one of the most consistent proponents of peace with Israel. This is the first major account of his life and reign, written with access to many of his surviving papers, with the co­operation (but not approval) of his family and staff, and extensive interviews with policy­makers of many different nationalities. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141017280 Price £12.99 Format B format pb Extent 720pp Territory 1W US Rights Knopf Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK At Large and at Small Confessions of a Literary Hedonist Anne Fadiman 'I relished At Large and At Small' Spectator, Books of the Year Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favourite genres, the familiar essay – a beloved and hallowed tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humour and erudition that have distinguished her as one of America's finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter­writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141033990 Price £8.99 Format A format pb Extent 240pp Territory 1BKZ US Rights Farrar, Straus & Giroux Translation Rights Farrar, Straus & Giroux Film Rights Farrar, Straus & Giroux Serial Rights Penguin UK Guerrilla Warfare 'Yank' Levy An incredible facsimile manual of home defence from 1914 that 'no soldier and no civilian should be without' 1941 ­ Britain is under some of the heaviest air raids of the Second World War. Concerns about Nazi paratroopers landing in Britain and invading take hold in the hearts of the British citizenry. The Home Guard has been mobilised to defend against airborne assault – and it needs training. 'Yank' Levy is brought in to Osterley Park to teach guerrilla warfare, as practised in the Spanish Civil War. 'Yank' trains soldiers of the Home Guard how to use surveillance, defend against tanks and armoured vehicles, how to fight in towns and across country and against a well­supplied highly­trained and mobile occupying force. Guerrilla Warfare is a manual packed with illustrated examples of tactics and techniques to keep Britain always prepared. Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141039275 Price £5.99 Format A format pb Extent 128pp Illustrations integrated illustrations Territory 1BCKZ Penguin Pocket Sudoku 2 David J. Bodycombe Penguin's second pocket-sized serving of sudoku Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession. Here is Penguin's latest volume of Sudoku puzzles: the logic game that has taken the world by storm. Pocket Penguin Sudoku II contains 201 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind­bogglingly difficult. It provides a daily fix for the hardened Sudoku fan and sets an addictive challenge for novices. It's more than a game. Sudoku is good for you: it builds your concentration, hones your logic and improves your deduction skills Pub Date November 2008 ISBN 9780141038186 Price £3.99 Format A format pb Extent 224pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Knight Features Serial Rights Penguin UK Paperbacks Penguin Sudoku 2009 David J. Bodycombe A bumper volume of sudoku Sudoku is a real cultural phenomenon: a French fad in the 1890s, a Japanese craze in the 1980s, it is now a peculiarly British obsession. Here is Penguin's bumper volume of Sudoku puzzles: the number game that has taken the world by storm. Penguin Sudoku 2009 contains 365 fiendish brainteasers, ranging from easy to mind­bogglingly difficult. It provides a daily fix for the hardened Sudoku fan and sets an addictive challenge for novices. It's more than a game. Sudoku is good for you: it builds your concentration, hones your logic and improves your deduction skills. Pub Date December 2008 ISBN 9780141038193 Price £6.99 Format B format pb Extent 448pp Territory 1W US Rights Penguin UK Translation Rights Penguin UK Film Rights Penguin UK Serial Rights Penguin UK