PENGUIN RIGHTS GUIDE
PENGUIN RIGHTS GUIDE
LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015
CONTENTS
FICTION
3
GENERAL NON-FICTION
11
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
19
HISTORY
21
PEOPLE & PLACES
29
SCIENCE
33
BUSINESS & SELF HELP
35
ART & CULTURE
39
FOOD & WINE
43
HIGHLIGHTS
51
Fiction
BITTER FRUITS
Alice Clark-Platts
A campus mystery crossed with a
psychological thriller from a powerful and
distinctive new voice
Detective Inspector Erica Martin's first case in
the university city of Durham is Emily Brabents, a
first-year student who is found dead in the river.
With an investigation which, in its very first
interview, yields an instant confession, our
heroine DI Erica Martin must get under the skin of student life at Joyce College
- a cradle for the county’s future elite and a close-knit community fuelled by
secrets, jealousy and obsession.
The picture that begins to emerge of the victim is not of someone from the
privileged and popular set, but of an abandoned and helpless figure. A young
woman wanted by everyone, but known by no-one. No-one that is, except
Daniel Shepherd, Emily’s fellow fresher, ever-faithful friend and the only one
who understood her. And the only one who is nowhere to be found…
This is an emotional, suspenseful, intelligent debut about sex, class, feminism
and the insidiousness of the internet – the power it can both give and take
away.
Alice Clark-Platts is a former human rights lawyer who has worked at the UN
International Criminal Tribunal in connection with the Rwandan genocide, and
on cases involving Winnie Mandela and the rapper Snoop Dogg. She is a
graduate of the Curtis Brown creative writing course. Her first novel Warchild
(Impress Books) was shortlisted for the Impress Prize 2013 and Bitter Fruits
won the Furniss Lawton Crime and Thriller Prize for unpublished crime
writers.
02 July 2015 | Editor: Emad Akhtar for Michael Joseph | 432 pages | Material Available: Proofs
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
3
Fiction
LIAR LIAR
A DI Helen Grace Thriller
M. J. Arlidge
A tantalizing follow-up to Eeny Meeny, Pop
Goes the Weasel and The Doll's House
Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo and Mo Hayder, Liar
Liar has all the hallmarks of Arlidge's taut and
rapid-fire writing, including his protagonist DI
Helen Grace and the Southampton-based team.
Faced with yet another ruthless serial killer, one
with a penchant for pyromania, DI Helen Grace is an unwilling participant in a
race against this new sadistic combatant.
M. J. Arlidge is one of Penguin’s most successful crime writers, delivering a
book every six months. He has worked in television for the last fifteen years
and has produced a number of prime-time crime serials for ITV. Currently
writing for Silent Witness, Arlidge is also piloting original crime series for both
UK and US networks.
Eeny Meeny has sold over
200,000 copies for Penguin
UK and has sold
internationally to over 25
publishers:
US (New American Library),
Germany (Rowohlt), France
(Editions First), Spain (Suma de
Letras), Brazil (Record), Italy
(Corbaccio), The Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Portugal (Topseller), Sweden (Lind), Norway
(Vigmostad & Bjorke), Hungary (Gabo Kiado), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Estonia (AS
Sinisukk), Czech Republic (Beta), Bosnia (BTC Sahinpasic), Greece (Dioptra), China (Doing),
Romania (Trei), Serbia (Evro Giunti), Bulgaria (Hermes), Slovakia (Ikar), Croatia (Mozaik
Knjiga), Turkey (Pegasus), Russia (Sindbad), Poland (Poznanskie)
10 September 2015 | Editor: Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 314 pages
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin US | Rights sold: Germany (Rowohlt)
4
Fiction
MEMOIRS OF A DIPPER
Nell Leyshon
From the author of the acclaimed The
Colour of Milk, a startling novel that takes
you inside a life of crime
Gary is a dipper, a burglar, a thief - and this is his
story: fierce, unflinching and at times unexpectedly
tender; told in a voice that you will find hard to
forget.
Gary is still at junior school when his father first takes him out on the rob. He
proves a fast learner; still not much more than a child the first time he gets
caught, and a career criminal as soon as he is out again. But Gary is also
fiercely intelligent - he often knows more about the antique furniture he is
stealing than the people who owned it, and is confident in his ability to trick his
way out of any situation, always one step ahead. But all that changes when he
meets Mandy.
Nell Leyshon is a novelist and playwright. Her first novel, Black Dirt, was
longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.
Her second novel, The Colour of Milk, published in 2012 and sold in 8 languages.
It was awarded the Premio Libro del Año 2014 in Spain and was shortlisted for
the Prix Femina 2014 in France.
Praise for The Colour of Milk:
‘A wonderfully convincing voice, and a devastating story told
with great skill and economy’ Penelope Lively
‘Haunting, distinctive voices… Mary’s spare simple words
paint brilliant pictures in the reader’s mind . . . Nell
Leyshon’s imaginative powers are considerable’ Independent
04 June 2015 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 320 pages | Material Available: Proofs
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK | Rights sold: Brazil (Bertrand),
Spain (Sexto Piso)
5
Fiction
HOT LITTLE HANDS
Abigail Ulman
When the line between adolescence and
adulthood is blurry, and every night feels
new, life starts to get messy
Hot Little Hands contains nine funny, brilliantly
observed and pitch-perfect stories about
stumbling on the fringes of innocence, and the
marks desire can leave. Anya, in her fake-leather
sneakers and second-hand clothes, just wants to
fit in at school. Ramona, with her suburban family and clique of friends, is just
starting to stand out. Sascha is on the brink of discovery; Elise and Jenni are
well beyond it. Amelia will do absolutely anything to avoid writing her book.
And Kira wants to capture the world, exactly as she sees it, with her brandnew camera.
Hot Little Hands gives us tales about first encounters with lasting impressions,
and break-ups that last longer than the relationships; about a time when latenight text messages are considered a courtship and the most personal secrets
get casually revealed online. For fans of Lena Dunham, Caitlin Moran and Julie
Orringer, Hot Little Hands is a striking début told in a wry and utterly fresh new
voice.
Abigail Ulman was born and raised in Melbourne. She has a Bachelor of
Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne/VCA and was a recent
Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. This is her first book.
02 June 2016 | Editor: Mary Mount for Viking | 251 pages | Material Available: MS
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Fiction
THE ANGEL ROOF
Elizabeth Wilhide
A deeply moving and unputdownable
novel about the way that the Second
World War changed women's lives, both
for better and for worse
Suffolk, 1939: Julia is a bored young wife and
mother, whose husband Richard's good looks
mask his crashing conventionality. When she
falls for the dashing but unreliable documentary
filmmaker Dougie, she recklessly gives up her staid Suffolk life and moves to
London to live a bohemian life with him, unwittingly and agonisingly losing the
right to see her son along the way. In London she quickly realises how useless
and unskilled she is at anything, and her great romance begins to grow cold,
but then the war intervenes and a new purpose comes along...
Elizabeth Wilhide is the author of Ashenden, and over 20 books on interior
design, decoration and architecture. She is a co-author and contributing editor
to some 30 other titles, collaborating with authors such as David Linley,
Terence Conran and Tricia Guild.
Praise for Ashenden:
‘An engrossing début . . . a sparkling jewel: full of
fascinating detail, high drama and sly wit’
Amanda Foreman
‘Lively interlinked historical vignettes display distinct postDownton commercial savvy . . . a pleasurably subtle web
of connections . . . a beguilingly effortless read’
Daily Mail
04 February 2016 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 280 pages | Material Available: MS
Translation Rights: David Higham | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Fiction
BOYFRIEND FOR CHRISTMAS
Jenny Stallard
A hilarious and romantic novel about bad
dates, perpetual optimism and what it's
really like to be a single girl in the big city
It's bad enough to be perpetually single, without
also being the dating journalist for a major
lifestyle website. And Genie Havisham has just
been set her toughest deadline yet: find a
boyfriend by Christmas or find a new job.
Determined not to end the year alone and jobless, Genie sets out to find
where all the eligible bachelors in London have been hiding, using whatever
means possible.
But among the terrible dates, one night stands and the unexpected return of
her 'supposedly reformed' ex-boyfriend, could Genie have overlooked what's
been right under her nose all along?
Jenny Stallard is an experienced journalist who has written for a wide range of
women's magazines, national newspapers and Sunday supplements. She is
currently the Commissioning Editor of Features at Metro UK. Boyfriend for
Christmas is her first novel.
19 November 2015 | Editor: Maxine Hitchcock for Michael Joseph | 400 pages
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Fiction
THE FOX AND THE STAR
Coralie Bickford-Smith
From an award-winning designer comes
an original fable about need and loss
Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep,
dense forest. For as long as Fox could
remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit
the forest paths every night. But then one night
Star isn't there, and Fox has to face the forest all
alone.
The Fox and the Star is a beautiful work of prose and design, each page
thoughtfully created by Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Coralie Bickford-Smith is a designer at Penguin Books. Her book covers have
been recognized by the AIGA in the United States and D&AD in the UK, and
have featured in numerous international magazines and newspapers including
The New York Times, Vogue and the Guardian. Her work on the clothbound
series with Penguin Classics attracted worldwide attention and harks back to
the world of Victorian book bindings. She has been asked to exhibit and speak
about her work in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Portugal and the US. The Fox
and the Star is her first book, inspired by William Blake's Eternity and the
graphic work of William Morris.
27 August 2015 | Editor: Cecilia Stein for Particular Books | 64 pages
Material Available: Final spreads | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin US
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General Non-Fiction
THE PENGUIN LESSONS
Tom Michell
A Disney tale come true, for all who
dreamed as a child they might one day talk
to the animals…
When schoolteacher Tom Michell pulls a penguin
from an oil slick off the coast of Uruguay he has
no idea what to do.
Back at his apartment Tom cleans him, but upon
returning to the beach the penguin refuses to return to the ocean. Tom has
one option: to smuggle the penguin over the Argentinian border to the
prestigious boarding school Tom calls home.
There follows a heartwarming story of one remarkable penguin, who adapts to
boarding school life. Whether it's as team mascot or swimming coach
extraordinaire - Juan Salvador the penguin transforms the lives of all he meets.
Written in the author’s funny and affectionate voice, full of an awareness of
both the absurdity and wonder of his situation, the personality of Juan Salvador
the penguin leaps from the page. A Streetcat Named Bob meets Marley and Me,
this gifty illustrated hardback for adult fans of Oliver Jeffers will chime with
readers across the globe.
Tom Michell lives in Cornwall and is now in his sixties. He likes to draw, sail
dinghies, fish, and tend a bit of what he calls 'good Cornish soil'. He is prepared
to promote the book and do what he can to help Juan Salvador take flight
around the world.
05 November 2015 | Editor: Jessica Leeke for Michael Joseph | 304 pages
Material Available: MS | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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General Non-Fiction
THE GOODNESS OF DOGS
India Knight
A celebration of the joys of owning dogs
and a practical guide to their care, full of
India Knight's trademark wit and wisdom
With dogs more popular than ever, The
Goodness of Dogs presents every facet of dog
ownership in manageable and comprehensive
sections. With chapters ranging from how to
choose a breed (and where to get it from), to
feeding and training your dog, to choosing a vet and how to cope with illnesses
and death. At once a companion, a manual and a repository of useful
information, this book also contains autobiographical asides about the
goodness of dogs and their life-enhancing qualities. Full of India Knight's
inimitable wit and the sound advice for which she is famous, and beautifully
illustrated by Sally Muir, this book would make the perfect gift for any doglover.
India Knight is the author of four novels and five previous non-fiction books: In
Your Prime, the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the
accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook,
The Thrift Book and The Shops. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives
in London with her partner and three children.
Sally Muir is a talented artist with a real eye for line and a love of glorious
colour. Her seemingly simple creations capture those enchanting nuances of
movement and doggy behaviour most perfectly and her paintings are full of life
and character. Her art has won a number of awards over the years, most
recently the Holborne Portrait Prize in 2010.
29 October 2015 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 300 pages
Material Available: Sample chapters | Illustrations: b&w throughout, colour chapter openers
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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General Non-Fiction
SUPERSONIC
Bloodhound and the Race for the Land
Speed Record
Richard Noble and Andy Green
A thrilling account of 2015's World Land
Speed Record attempt, as told by the
Bloodhound SSC crew themselves
In July 2015, the Bloodhound SSC team will
drive a supersonic rocket-jet vehicle across a
South African salt lake in an attempt to raise the
Land Speed Record to over 800mph, and then in 2016 they will attempt to
break the unthinkable 1000mph mark.
A challenge said to be more dangerous than the skydives of the Austrian Felix
Baumgartner, with sponsors including Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Rolex and Castrol,
this hugely exciting and iconic project will be followed by millions across the
world. For fans, enthusiasts and anyone inspired by the Bloodhound team's
amazing feat, this book will provide behind the scenes insight into the extensive
preparations for a record-breaking attempt, as well as a potted history of
previous land speed records.
Richard Noble is the Project Director of the Bloodhound Project. Against a
background of today's low risk culture, Richard specializes in developing high
risk ventures including the Thrust2 Programme and Thrust SSC.
Andy Green, driver of Bloodhound SSC, says he has ‘the World's Best day job’
as a Fighter Pilot in the Royal Air Force. Andy currently works in the Royal Air
Force Headquarters, supporting operations around the globe. He drove Thrust
SSC to the current World Record of 763mph.
10 September 2015 | Editor: Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pages
Illustrations: 16pp colour inset | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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General Non-Fiction
THE MAN WHO MADE THINGS OUT OF
TREES
Robert Penn
From the author of the bestselling It's All
About the Bike, another exuberant tale of
craftsmanship and human history
Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how
many things could be made from it. After all, ash is
the tree of which we have made the greatest and
most varied use over the course of human history.
Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Robert finds
that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over
millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats, are far from
dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees
still runs through us all like grain through wood.
Robert Penn is an author, journalist and TV presenter. His last book It's All
About the Bike was a Sunday Times bestseller in the UK and has been translated
into 11 languages.
Praise for It's All About the Bike:
‘[Penn] writes with authority, humour and refreshing
candour ...’
Sunday Telegraph
‘[Penn] writes with a Bill-Brysonesque facility for
concentrating a lot of information and research into an
easy-to-read and surprisingly compelling tale’
Sunday Times
29 October 2015 | Editor: Cecilia Stein for Particular Books | 256 pages
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General Non-Fiction
EVERY THING WE TOUCH
A 24-Hour Inventory of Our Lives
Paula Zuccotti
The Sartorialist meets Information is
Beautiful - a unique visual diary of the
objects we touch in a day
An incredibly stylish and beautifully designed
book, it combines the fields of anthropology,
design and fashion in a highly original way,
appealing to the inner voyeur in all of us.
Why are smartphones the first things we touch each day? Why do so many of
us drink and smoke before bed? What does our underwear say about our sex
lives? What does our food say about our society?
Paula Zuccotti chose 50 people from around the world, of every age,
profession and background, and photographed every object they touched in a
day, in one shot. From a mum in London to a Bonsai gardner in Tokyo, a cattle
herder in Texas to a homeless man in Miami, the result is a fascinating,
surprising, often poignant account of modern life.
Paula Zuccotti is the founder of TheOverworld, a leading design strategy,
innovation and foresight consultancy based in London. She helps clients from
Google to Dior to develop the products of the future. During her fifteen years
in the field, she has studied the relationship between people and objects all
around the world. Born in Buenos Aires, she has lived and studied in
Argentina, Italy and the US. She is fluent in Spanish and English, and speaks
conversational Portuguese and Italian.
01 October 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Viking | 176 pages
Material Available: Sample spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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General Non-Fiction
THE SARTORIALIST: X
(THE SARTORIALIST VOLUME 3)
Scott Schuman
The final instalment from the original
street-style fashion blog
Scott Schuman is back to complete his trilogy of
street-style bibles. With a vibrant collection of
beautiful images of the men and women who
have caught his attention around the world,
Schuman remains a thrilling source of urban and
high-end style. From its origins on the streets of New York, his much-loved
blog, thesartorialist.com is a vivid and growing hub of inspiration for fashion
lovers everywhere. Displaying the very best from the last three years of the
blog, The Sartorialist: X is full of beauty, mystery and humanity.
Scott Schuman started The Sartorialist simply to share photos of people on the
street that he thought looked great. The blog has received over 14 million page
views per month. His work resides in the permanent collections of the Victoria
& Albert Museum and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and
has been featured in GQ, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, and Interview. He lives in
New York and takes pictures all over the world.
Territories sold for The Sartorialist
(Volume 1): China (Shanghai
Translation Publishing House), Korea
(Will Book Publishing)
The Sartorialist: Closer (Volume 2): US
(Plume), Japan (Graphic-Sha), China
(Shanghai Translation Publishing
House) and Korea (Will Book
Publishing).
03 September 2015 | Editor: Cecilia Stein for Particular Books | 512 pages
Material Available: Sample spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin US
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General Non-Fiction
LIVE THIS BOOK
Tom Chatfield
An interactive journal packed with
inspirational quotes, challenges and
questions
In an age when we struggle to switch off, Live This
Book helps you to create time and thinking space
for yourself.
Based around a series of prompts, including famous quotes, challenges and
questions, the reader is taken on a journey of self-discovery. Rather than
Wreck This Journal, the reader will cherish this journal and come back to it again
and again as a way to reflect. Beautifully designed, it is both a thoughtprovoking and fun way to reconnect with what really matters to each individual
reader.
Tom Chatfield is a writer, technology theorist and commentator. He is the
author of five books exploring digital culture - most recently How to Thrive in
the Digital Age (Pan Macmillan) and Netymology (Quercus), which have been
translated into over 20 languages. He has appeared at TED Global, the Cannes
Lions Festival and the World Congress on Information Technology amongst
others. A launch columnist for the BBC’s worldwide technology site, BBC
Future, he writes and commentates widely in the international media, as well
as guest lecturing at universities in the UK and Europe.
27 August 2015 | Editor: Daniel Bunyard for Michael Joseph | 256 pages
Material Available: Sample spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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General Non-Fiction
CALM
Calm the mind. Change the world
Michael Acton Smith
Join the calm revolution: inspiration and
activities showing how absolutely everyone
can achieve calm in everyday life
Trains delayed, kids squabbling before bedtime,
endless emails filling the inbox: everyone needs
more calm in their life.
The evidence in favour of calmness is huge. Practices like meditation and
mindfulness improve life expectancy, productivity at work, health and even
personal happiness. And you can reach Calm any way you like: take a walk with
nowhere to go, savour a chocolate on the tip of your tongue, plant a seed,
doodle pointlessly, notice the world around you. Smile, breathe and go slowly.
This unique handbook is filled with activities, inspiration and clearly explained
research. It can be read in any order you like, encouraging every reader to find
their own path to calmness. Working with mindfulness gurus and neurological
experts alike, Michael Acton Smith has created a project that will finally bring
Calm into the mainstream.
Michael Acton Smith, OBE, is the founder of Mind Candy and creator of Moshi
Monsters, the BAFTA award-winning children's brand. He is the co-founder of
Calm and has launched many other entrepreneurial ventures from online
retailer Firebox.com to tech networking event Silicon Roundabout. In 2014 he
was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to
the creative industries. He is frequently listed among the most influential
people in the digital industry - Guardian '100 Most Powerful People in Media',
Wired 'Top 100 of Britain's Digital Power', and The Times '100 to Watch list.’
He lives in London and can be found on Twitter @acton.
26 March 2015 | Editor: Venetia Butterfield for Michael Joseph | 224 pages
Material Available: Finished copies | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Autobiography
IN ORDER TO LIVE
A North Korean Girl's Journey to
Freedom
Yeonmi Park
The incredible autobiography of Yeonmi
Park: a North Korean defector who
escaped across the Gobi desert and is now
a leading spokesperson for human rights at
just 21 years old
Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when
she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be
free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her
family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even
execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest,
most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape to South Korea
through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and her
emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.
Yeonmi Park was born in North Korea in 1993 and currently lives in New
York, where she is studying and interning at the UN. Her incredible story has
already been documented in all of the major UK newspapers, including the
Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Independent. She has emerged as a leading
spokesperson for North Korean human rights, speaking at events such as
TEDx in Bath, TEDxHangang in Seoul, the One Young World summit in Dublin
and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
Ghost-written by Maryanne Vollers, the bestselling US writer and ghost-writer
to Hillary Clinton, the book has already sold in 7 languages.
29 September 2015 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 288 pages | Material Available: Proposal
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin Press | Rights sold: Italy (Bompiani),
Korea (Book 21), Brazil (Companhia), Germany (Goldmann), France (Kero), Sweden (Massolit)
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Autobiography
MEMOIR
Sir Tom Jones
The first full memoir from one of the
world's most famous singers
In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom
Jones has performed with almost every major
recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and
Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and
Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock
and pop to country, blues and soul. The one
constant throughout has been his unique musical gift and unmistakable voice.
In this, his first ever autobiography, Tom will revisit his past, both personal and
professional, exploring the twists of fate that took a boy from a poor Welsh
coal-mining family to global celebrity status. He will chart the stories behind
the hits as well as the ups and downs of his professional life - from the heyday
in Las Vegas and subsequent fallow years in the 1980s to his renaissance and
comeback - as well as shedding a light on the life he has led behind the cameras
and the stage. Tom releases a new studio album later this year, which he will
be promoting globally, and shows no signs of slowing down - if anything, Tom
is pushing himself harder than ever before to explore the limits of his talent.
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE, known by his stage name Tom Jones, has
sold over 100 million records. Sir Tom has had 36 top 40 hits in the UK and 19
in the US, including It's Not Unusual, Delilah, Kiss and Sex Bomb. He has won
numerous awards over the course of his career including a Grammy, an MTV
Video Music award, two Brit awards and a Knighthood.
08 October 2015 | Editor: Daniel Bunyard for Michael Joseph | 400 pages
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin US (Blue Rider)
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History
EMPIRE OF THINGS
How We Became a World of Consumers,
From the Fifteenth Century to the
Twenty-First
Frank Trentmann
Our identity as consumers has profoundly
changed society, politics and the way we
live. This is its remarkable history
What we consume has become a central perhaps the central - element of personal
identity, public life, and political debate. The world is overflowing with things,
and people are spending more and more time and money consuming them.
This book unfolds the history that has shaped the modern and material world,
from the take-off of consumption in the 15th century to the present, and
engages fully with contemporary concerns about consumerism and consumer
society.
Truly global and all-encompassing in its perspective, Empire of Things addresses
all kinds of commodities, from cars to energy to oil to shopping habits, over
the last six centuries. Sumptuously designed to incorporate illustrated graphs
and maps, Trentmann uniquely articulates how material consumption has
become the defining feature of our lives.
Frank Trentmann has been Assistant Professor at Princeton University and,
since 2007, Professor of History at Birkbeck. From 2002 to 2007 he was the
director of the £5 million Cultures of Consumption research programme. His
edited volumes include Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (with John
Brewer) and The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption. His last book,
Free Trade Nation: Consumption, Civil Society and Commerce in Modern Britain, won
the Whitfield Prize for outstanding historical scholarship and achievement.
28 January 2016 | Editor: Laura Stickney for Allen Lane | 624 pages | Material Available: MS
Illustrations: 32pp colour inset | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
Rights sold: Germany (DVA)
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History
TO HELL AND BACK
Europe, 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw's brilliant account of Europe's
darkest hour
In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged
into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the
continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took
generations to recover from. The disaster
terrified its survivors, shocked that a civilization
that had blandly assumed itself to be a model for the rest of the world, had
collapsed into a chaotic savagery beyond any comparison. In 1939 Europeans
would initiate a second conflict that managed to be even worse - a war in
which the killing of civilians was central and which culminated in the Holocaust.
Ian Kershaw is the author of Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. Until his
retirement in 2008, he was Professor of Modern History at the University of
Sheffield. For services to history he was given the German award of the
Federal Cross of Merit in 1994. He was also knighted in 2002 and awarded the
Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. His second
volume Fractured Continent: Europe, 1950-The Present will be published in 2018.
24 September 2015 | Editor: Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 400 pages | Material Available: MS
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Viking US | Subrights sold: Israel (Am Oved),
Brazil (Companhia), Germany (DVA), France (Du Seuil), Portugal (Dom Quixote),
Italy (Gius. Laterza & Figli), The Netherlands (Unieboek | Het Spectrum)
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History
THE RISE OF THE THIRD REICH
Stephan Malinowski
A superb new Pelican introduction to the
single most important and controversial
subject in modern European history
Bringing together the latest research and
arguments in a readily accessible form, The Rise
of the Third Reich is designed both to be
fascinating for the general reader and essential
for students. It describes and analyses the major
political events in the creation of the Third Reich from 1919-1933 and the key
questions around ideology, including vivid portraits of some of the major and
less important actors in the terrible drama, to show how varied the response
to the Third Reich was – from fervent enthusiasm to outright hostility.
Stephan Malinowski is a German historian, raised in Berlin. He studied history
and political science at the Free University of Berlin, the Technical University
Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Université Paul Valéry in
France. His PhD thesis on the German aristocracy and the Nazi movement was
awarded the Hans Rosenberg prize. He has taught at universities in Germany,
the USA, Ireland and Britain, and he currently lectures at the University of
Edinburgh in Modern European History.
01 September 2016 | Editor: Simon Winder for Pelican | 320 pages | Material Available: Proposal
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK | Rights sold: Brazil (Objetiva),
Germany (C.H. Beck)
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History
HOW TO PLAN A CRUSADE
Reason and Religious War in the Middle
Ages
Christopher Tyerman
A lively, compelling account of the
planning and logistics of going on crusade
The seismic changes in European and MiddleEastern civilizations initiated by the First Crusade
and its successors are themselves so compelling
that most writers move quickly from describing
the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this original and enjoyable new
book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked:
the business of going on crusade. The sheer novelty of thousands of armoured
men leaving their lands and families in Western Europe and marching off to a
highly uncertain future in the Holy Land is as dramatic a story as the sieges and
battles themselves. How to Plan a Crusade uses this idea as a framework to tell
the reader why the Middle Ages were so interesting, and touches upon the
imagery of the Bayeux Tapestry to bring to life an extraordinary era in a novel
and surprising way.
Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College,
Oxford and Lecturer in Medieval History at New College, Oxford. He has
written extensively on the crusades, most recently God's War: A New History of
the Crusades (2006) and The Debate on the Crusades
(2011).
Territories sold for God’s War:
US (Harvard University Press), Brazil (Imago Editora),
Croatia (TIM Press),Czech Republic (Lidove Noviny),
Estonia (Varrak), Italy (Einaudi), Portugal (Aletheia),
Spain (Critica), Turkey (Alfa),
03 September 2015 | Editor: Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 384 pages | Material Available: MS
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History
CHRISTENDOM
Peter Heather
A major new reinterpretation of the
religious superstate that defined both
Europe and Christianity, by one of our
foremost medieval historians
In the 4th century AD, a new faith exploded out
of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of
Rome, it resoundingly defeated a host of other
rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of
Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion, ingrained within
culture and society, exercised a hold over its population. This was medieval
Christendom: a springboard for the great eras of European colonisation and
imperialism that followed.
In this ground-breaking new history, Peter Heather explores how the Christian
religion became such a defining feature of the European landscape, and how a
small sect of isolated and intensely committed congregations was transformed
into a mass movement centrally directed from Rome. From the crisis that
followed the collapse of the Roman Empire, which left the religion teetering on
the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution of the eleventh century
onwards in which the Papacy emerged as the head of a vast international
corporation, Heather traces Christendom's chameleon-like capacity for selfreinvention.
Peter Heather is Chair of Medieval History at King's College, London. His
many books include The Fall of the Roman Empire, Empires and Barbarians:
Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe and, most recently, The
Restoration of Rome.
06 September 2018 | Editor: Thomas Penn for Allen Lane | 360 pages
Material Available: Proposal | Translation Rights: Felicity Bryan | US Rights: Penguin UK
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History
THE HEART OF EUROPE
A History of the Holy Roman Empire
Peter H. Wilson
The first comprehensive history of
Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman
Empire - spanning ten centuries
The Holy Roman Empire, a sprawling, ancient
and unique entity from its founding by
Charlemagne to its destruction by Napoleon a
millennium later, formed the heart of Europe. It
was a great engine for inventions and ideas, it was the origin of many modern
European states - from Germany to the Czech Republic - its relations with
Italy, France and Poland dictated the course of countless wars. Indeed,
European history as a whole makes no sense without it.
In this strikingly ambitious book, Peter H. Wilson explains how the Empire
worked. It is not a chronological history, but conveys to readers why it was so
important and how it changed over its existence. The result is a tour de force a book that raises countless questions about the nature of political and military
power, about diplomacy and the nature of European civilization and about the
legacy of the Empire, which has continued to haunt its offspring, from Imperial
and Nazi Germany to the European Union.
Peter H. Wilson is the author of the highly acclaimed
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War
(2009) which has sold in the US (Harvard University
Press), China (Ginkgo), Macedonia (ARS Studio) and
Poland (NapoleonV). He is currently G.F. Grant
Professor of History at the University of Hull.
05 November 2015 | Editor: Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 1008 pages | Material Available: MS
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History
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
How the Allies Won the War
Jonathan Dimbleby
The gripping tale of the campaign that
ultimately determined the outcome of the
Second World War
The Battle of the Atlantic was crucial to the
Allied victory. If the German U-boats had
prevailed, the maritime artery across the Atlantic
would have been severed. Mass hunger would
have consumed Britain, and the Allied armies would have been prevented from
joining in the invasion of Europe. There would have been no D-Day.
The Battle of the Atlantic interweaves fascinating contemporary diaries and
letters with a thrilling narrative and, uniquely, the overall picture of the Second
World War. From senior members of the competing High Commands in
London, Washington, Berlin and Moscow down to the humblest sailor,
Jonathan Dimbleby tells the epic story of the decisions that led to victory, and
the horror and humanity endured in those perilous seas.
Jonathan Dimbleby is a writer, broadcaster and film-maker. His previous books
include Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People (2008) and the
highly-acclaimed Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein (2012).
29 October 2015 | Editor: Daniel Crewe for Viking | 512 pages | Material Available: MS
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People & Places
INCARNATIONS
India in 50 Lives
Sunil Khilnani
A history of India seen through the
extraordinary lives of 50 Indians
One of the world's most ancient cultures, India
can be understood and explained in as many
ways as humans can possibly devise. To make
sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil
Khilnani has created a remarkably simple and
attractive solution.
In this book he takes the lives of 50 Indians, beginning with the original global
Indian, The Buddha, and ending with the controversial contemporary artist MF
Husain - figures who, sometimes unwittingly, have shaped the arc of Indian
history. Some very famous, some more obscure, from the earliest records to
the present day, Khilnani describes in a series of short chapters what makes
them so surprising, curious or important. These are not simply history lessons,
but stories rooted in today's India, as Khilnani goes on a quest across
contemporary India to find the living traces of these extraordinary individuals.
Sunil Khilnani is the author of the acclaimed and influential The Idea of India
(Penguin) and is writing a biography of Nehru. He is Professor of Politics and
Director of the King's College London India Institute. Incarnations is also a
major Radio 4 series, similar to that of Neil Macgregor’s History of the World in
100 Objects, which has sold over 460,000 copies in the UK edition, with rights
sold in 13 territories worldwide.
01October 2015 | Editor: Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 352 pages
Material Available: Proposal | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
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People & Places
UKRAINE
Tim Judah
In this compelling book of reportage,
Economist correspondent Tim Judah
examines the unfolding situation in
Ukraine
'Every now and then I can hear distant
explosions and bursts of gunfire. But most of the
time here in the centre of Sloviansk, eastern
Ukraine's separatist stronghold, everything is
quiet. Since the small town is chopped up by
barricades and many businesses and factories have closed down, there is not
much going on, so that when the wind blows you can hear it shimmer the
leaves of the silver birches that line the streets. If you were looking for war
here, it would be hard to find.'
Tim Judah writes for the New York Review of Books and the Economist, most
recently on the situation in Ukraine. In his career he has covered the
aftermath of communism in Romania and Bulgaria and the war in Yugoslavia for
The Times and the Economist. His most recent books are Kosovo: What Everyone
Needs to Know and The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia.
01 October 2015 | Editor: Stefan McGrath for Allen Lane | 260 pages
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People & Places
VIETNAM
A History
Christopher Goscha
The first comprehensive history for a
general audience of one of Asia’s most
fascinating and complex countries
During the second half of the 20th century,
Vietnam was at the centre of major wars
involving the French, the Americans, and the
Chinese among others. Together, these wars
probably constituted the single most violent conflict of the Cold War, costing
the lives of over a million civilians and soldiers in Vietnam alone and inflicting
tragic defeats upon the French and the Americans. And yet there is no
complete history of modern Vietnam. This is why, some two decades after the
end of the Cold War, it is time to offer a fresh, wider account of modern
Vietnam running from the French conquest in the mid 19th century to the
global changes occurring today.
In Vietnam, Goscha demonstrates the resilience of the Vietnamese people,
addressing how they continually shapeshifted as the frontiers of their homeland
were in flux. This book moves beyond war and embraces the history of this
culturally rich country in all its diversity and complexity.
Christopher Goscha was educated at Georgetown University, the Australian
National University, the University of Paris VII and the Sorbonne, where he
received his doctorate, a study of the Franco-Vietnamese War. He speaks
fluent Vietnamese, Thai and French. He has taught at the University of Lyon
and the Institut d'Asie Orientale and since 2005 has been Associate Professor
of History at the University of Quebec. He has written and researched widely
on Indochina, publishing partly in English and partly in French.
26 May 2016 | Editor: Simon Winder for Allen Lane | 400 pages | Material Available: MS
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Science
SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS
Carlo Rovelli
Everything you need to know about modern
physics in seven lessons
These seven "short lessons" guide us, with
admirable clarity, through the scientific revolution
that shook physics in the twentieth century and still
continues to shake us today. In this short, playful,
entertaining and mind-bending introduction to
modern physics, Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of
general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of
the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under
a hundred pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific
discoveries of the twentieth century. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated
best-seller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly and intelligently revealed.
Carlo Rovelli is an eminent physicist with an extraordinary ability to write
about complex topics in a lucid, clear prose. He is the head of the Équipe de
Gravité Quantique at the Theoretical Physics Department of Aix-Marseille
University. His book was top of the bestseller charts in Italy for months and
has sold over 140,000 copies since publication in November, as well as being
translated into over a dozen languages.
Praise for Carlo Rovelli:
‘Seven Brief Lessons on Physics has turned relativity and quantum physics into
best-selling material’
La Repubblica
‘[…] his prose stands out as pristine and seductive at the same time, with all
the substance that arouses a real interest in his readers’
Corriere della Sera
24 September 2015 | Editor: Alexis Kirschbaum for Allen Lane | 96 pages
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Science
THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
David Wootton
The first major history of the Scientific
Revolution in more than a generation, by
one of the UK's leading intellectual
historians
The Scientific Revolution is one of the defining
events in modern history - perhaps more than
any other - explaining the series of events and
discoveries which have shaped the modern world. How did Europe, and then the
rest of the world, separate empirical knowledge from supposition and
superstition, and what extraordinary transformations did this bring about?
This landmark book is a new account of the Scientific Revolution which will
replace all other existing accounts, by the breadth of its thinking, the colour of
its portraiture, and the originality of its vision.
David Wootton is one of the UK's foremost intellectual historians. He is
Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York, and the Carlyle
Lecturer for 2014 at the University of Oxford. His biography of Galileo was
published in 2010 by Yale University Press.
03 September 2015 | Editor: Stuart Proffitt for Allen Lane | 752 pages | Material Available: MS
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Business and Self Help
BUSINESS FOR PUNKS
Post-Modern Disruptive
Entrepreneurialism (The BrewDog Way)
James Watt
Anarchic. Irreverent. Passionate. The
business bible for a new generation
Go fast or go home. Forget sales. Be a selfish
bastard and ignore advice.
These are the mantras that have fuelled
BrewDog, the fastest-growing UK food and drinks company for three years
running. Created by a pair of young Glaswegians with a passion for beer,
Brewdog has catalysed a craft ale revolution, gone global, and inadvertently
created a whole new approach to business.
In Business for Punks, BrewDog co-founder (and Great British Entrepreneur
2014) James Watt bottles the essence of their success. From finances ('cash is
motherfucking king') to marketing ('lead with the crusade, not the product')
this is an anarchic, indispensable guide to thriving on your own terms.
James Watt co-founded BrewDog in 2007 with Martin Dickie. He was named
Scotland's youngest ever Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010 and won Food and
Drink Entrepreneur of the Year, Retail Entrepreneur of the Year and Great
British Entrepreneur of the Year 2014.
05 November 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Portfolio Penguin | 208 pages
Material Available: MS & Sample spreads | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Portfolio US
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Business and Self Help
THE IDEA IN YOU
How to Find It, Build It, and Change Your
Life
Martin Amor and Alex Pellew
Take your passion and make it happen
We all have an idea in us: a passion, a project, a
product. We dream of using that idea to change
our lives and more of us every year are trying to
make that dream a reality.
The Idea in You is a bulletproof system from two world experts in innovation
for finding the right idea for you and shaping it into a success. This system has
powered global megabrands including Nike, Unilever and Samsung; now Martin
Amor and Alex Pellew are bringing it to all of us.
Martin Amor led new product development programs and creative training
programs for Mars, Telefonica, Unilever, Samsung, Shell and Kraft in his role as
Inventing Director at leading global innovation consultancy ?What If!. Now he
helps businesses get better at innovation, and develops his own ideas as an
entrepreneur.
Alex Pellew is a former marketing head at Nike. He leads projects for ?What
If!, and coaches and launches digital start-ups.
03 September 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Portfolio Penguin | 345 pages
Material Available: MS | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
Rights sold: Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), China (Hachette-Phoenix Cultural Development),
Thailand (Superposition)
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Business and Self Help
DO LESS, GET MORE
How to Work Smart and Live Life Your
Way
Shaa Wasmund
Learn to do less and achieve more from the
bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start
Doing
Is your life how you imagined it would be, or is
the reality more stressful than you planned? Do
you put yourself under too much pressure to
succeed? Are you struggling to find time for the things, and people, you love?
It doesn't have to be this way. Anything is possible when you stop trying to do
everything at the same time. This life-changing book gives you the tools to
ditch your to-do list and follow your dreams. It will be your essential guide to
doing what you love - and letting go of the rest.
Shaa Wasmund MBE, the bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing, is one
of the UK's most prominent female entrepreneurs and a passionate champion
of small businesses. Wasmund was the driving force behind Smarta, the UK's
leading support platform for small business owners and entrepreneurs. She is a
prolific speaker, digital native and has been featured in the Guardian, Daily Mail,
Sunday Times and the BBC.
04 June 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Portfolio Penguin | 224 pages | Material Available: MS
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Business and Self Help
MISSION
How the Best in Business Break Through
Michael Hayman and Nick Giles
The new Saatchis explain why top
businesses are world-changers as well as
world-beaters
Today's winners have shifted their focus from
profits to purpose. Their businesses are defined
by a mission that provides the clarity necessary
to lead markets - and define them. But mission
alone isn't enough. To thrive, you must turn your mission into a market reality
that changes people's lives. You must become a business campaigner.
Drawing on the experiences of tech innovators including Google and Airbnb,
retail giant Whole Foods, and fast-growing businesses Ella's Kitchen, Unruly
and Decoded, Mission reveals the power of purpose, culture and campaigning in
the businesses that are changing people's lives. It provides a roadmap for
finding your defining purpose, honing it into a story that transforms your
customers into advocates and becoming an unstoppable force with the power
to change the world.
Michael Hayman and Nick Giles are the co-founders of Seven Hills, the highly
acclaimed campaigns firm founded to generate momentum for Britain's fast
growing companies and most exciting entrepreneurs. Seven Hills was named
the Best Corporate Consultancy in the world by the Holmes Report and is a
Santander Breakthrough 50 winner. Michael is a co-founder of StartUp Britain,
the national initiative for early-stage enterprise. He was awarded an MBE for
services to enterprise promotion in 2014. Nick is an ambassador for the Hong
Kong government's venture programme and an advisory board member of
Tech London Advocates and the global youth movement One Young World.
2 July 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Viking | 256 pages | Material Available: MS
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Art & Culture
WRITINGS
Pablo Picasso
Edited by Marilyn McCully and Michael
Raeburn
Beautifully illustrated and authoritatively
translated, this is the first collection in
English of all of Picasso's major writings
Pablo Picasso is the 20th century's most
important artist. His writings give an insight into
the man and the artist in his own words that is
unrivalled, yet most of it has never before appeared in English. In 2015, the
public will be given access to his journals, letters, interviews, statements and
creative writing in English for the first time. The documentation available is
extraordinary, and visually Picasso's writings are as striking as they are richly
illustrated.
Writings contains some 350 letters from around 1900 to the early 1920s,
including extensive correspondences with Guillaume Apollinaire and with Leo
and Gertrude. Excerpts from letters to Georges Braque and Daniel-Henry
Kahnweiler are arguably the most significant of this period. Their subject
matter ranges from love, to his work, to his business affairs. In 1935 Picasso
gave up painting for a time and began to write surrealist poems. There are
around 185 texts written before 1940, and a further 35, including 3 plays,
written afterwards. The book also includes an array of interview material
highlighting his opinions on art and politics.
Marilyn McCully is an internationally recognized Picasso expert. She has
organized numerous exhibitions and written widely about Picasso and his
work. Michael Raeburn is a writer, editor, designer and producer of illustrated
books and catalogues, including publications devoted to Picasso, Magritte and
Van Gogh.
29 October 2015 | Editor: Alexis Kirschbaum for Penguin Classics | 300 pages
Material Available: MS | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Art & Culture
THINK LIKE AN ARTIST
How to Live a Happier, Smarter, More
Creative Life
Will Gompertz
A lively, fascinating guide to selfimprovement, drawing on wisdom from
art's greatest figures
For readers of Paul Arden's It's Not How Good You
are, it's How Good You Want to be and Alain de
Botton's How Proust can Change Your Life and My
Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic, this witty and inspiring book
identifies ten lessons we can learn from the greatest artists across history,
interviewing leading contemporary artists who are putting these skills into use
today.
Will Gompertz is a journalist, author and broadcaster. As the BBC's Arts
Editor he has interviewed and observed many of the world's leading artists,
directors, novelists, musicians, actors and designers. Creativity Magazine in New
York ranked him as one of the 50 most original thinkers in the world,
alongside Steve Jobs and the Coen Brothers. His first book What Are You
Looking At?, has so far been sold in 16 territories.
Territories sold for What Are You Looking At?:
US (Dutton), Brazil (Zahar), China (Beijing Book
Paradise), Czech Republic (Lidove Noviny), Germany
(Dumont), Italy (Mondadori), Korea (Random House),
Lithuania (Modern Art Center), The Netherlands
(Meulenhoff), Portugal (Bizancio), Romanian (Polirom),
Russia (Sindbad), Serbia (Dereta), Spain (Taurus), Taiwan
(Domain Press), Turkey (Yapi Kredi)
30 July 2015 | Editor: Joel Rickett for Viking | 200 pages | Material Available: MS
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Art & Culture
POP ART
A Brief History
Alastair Sooke
Short, stylish and pocket-sized - an
essential new guide to Pop Art
Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art
movement. It brought Modernism to the masses,
making art sexy and fun with coke cans and
comics. Today, in our age of selfies and social
networking, we are still living in a world defined
by Pop. Full of brand new interviews and research, Sooke describes the great
works by Warhol, Lichtenstein and other key figures, but also re-examines the
movement for the 21st century and asks if it is still art? He reveals a global
story, tracing Pop Art's surprising origins in 19th-century Paris to uncovering
the forgotten female artists of the 1960s.
Alastair Sooke is the author of the biographies Henri Matisse: A Second Life and
Roy Lichtenstein: How Modern Art was Saved by Donald Duck, both published by
Penguin. He is art critic for the Daily Telegraph and is a popular BBC
broadcaster. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford,
and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Praise for Henri Matisse: A Second Life:
‘A brilliant account…So poetically precise in its
evocations of the cutouts… so tender in its sympathy’
Peter Conrad
03 September 2015 | Editor: Daniel Crewe for Viking | 160 pages
Material Available: Sample chapters | Illustrations: 8pp colour inset
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Art & Culture
HORRIBLE WORDS
A Guide to the Misuse of English
Rebecca Gowers
A brilliant history and witty guide to the
English language, masquerading as
mischievous advice on its misuse and
abuse
Nothing rouses the wrath of pedants more than
coinages such as 'operationalisation', slipslops
like 'a steep learning kerb', or - most heinous of
all - the widespread confusion over 'disinterested' and 'uninterested'. For
pedants, these horrible words must be kept out of the English language at all
costs. But are they right?
In this provocative and hugely entertaining book, Rebecca Gowers shows that
linguistic pedantry is often based on misinformation, illogical reasoning and
straight-up snobbery. A tongue-in-cheek call to arms to the abusers and
misusers of the language, her book is also a fascinating history of English, an
accessible guide to linguistics and above all, a bold manifesto about what
language is and how it should be used.
Rebecca Gowers is the author of The Swamp of Death, shortlisted for the
CWA non-fiction Golden Dagger Award, and of two novels, When to Walk and
The Twisted Heart, both longlisted for the Orange Prize. She has also revised
and updated Plain Words, the classic guide to the use of English, written by her
great-grandfather, Sir Ernest Gowers.
31 March 2016 | Editor: Jessica Harrison for Particular Books | 244 pages
Material Available: MS | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
THE 24-HOUR WINE EXPERT
Jancis Robinson
From the world's most respected wine
critic, the essential guide to wine in 64
pages
Wine is one of the most popular drinks in the
world. Many wine drinkers wish they knew
more about it without having to understand
every detail or go on a wine course.
In The 24-Hour Wine Expert, Jancis Robinson shares her expertise with
authority, wit and approachability. From what the difference is between red
and white, to the shape of bottles and their labels, descriptions of taste, colour
and smell, to pairing wine with food and the price-quality correlation, Robinson
helps us make the most of this mysteriously delicious drink.
Jancis Robinson has been called 'the most respected wine critic and journalist
in the world' by Decanter magazine. In 1984 she was the first person outside
the wine trade to qualify as a Master of Wine. The Financial Times wine writer,
she is the author/editor of dozens of wine books, including Wine Grapes (Allen
Lane), The Oxford Companion to Wine (OUP) and The World Atlas of Wine
(Mitchell Beazley). Her award-winning website, www.JancisRobinson.com, has
subscribers in 100 countries.
08 October 2015 | Editor: Cecilia Stein for Allen Lane | 80 pages | Material Available: Proposal
Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
THE FOODIE TEEN
Alessandra Peters
A healthy-eating cookbook for teenagers
by an award-winning teenage food blogger
This is a cookbook for young people who want
to take up a healthier lifestyle, demonstrating
how to cook whole, unprocessed foods in an
engaging and fresh way, without compromising
on flavour or fun.
Alessandra Peters is the 16-year-old blogger, photographer and health
enthusiast behind the award-winning blog The Foodie Teen. With her first
book she hopes to empower, educate and inspire her peers to get in the
kitchen and start cooking wholesome, nutritious and delicious meals.
The Foodie Teen will include over 100 interesting and accessible recipes, full of
personality that will appeal to the younger generation with chapters such as
“things to get out of bed for” and “seriously decadent desserts”. Alessandra
will also provide tips and guidance on surrounding issues such as body image,
stress management and sleep.
From oven-baked meatballs with courgette noodles to a salted-caramel
brownie stack, as well as yoga sequences and 5-minute meditations, this book
will include everything that teenagers will find helpful as they embark on a
healthier lifestyle.
14 April 2016 | Editor: Lindsey Evans for Michael Joseph | 336 pages
Material Available: Outline | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
FRESH INDIA
Meera Sodha
From the author of top ten bestseller
Made in India, a vegetarian Indian
cookbook
With over 500 million non-meat eaters, India is
the best place for vegetarian food on earth and
previous cookbooks have barely scratched the
surface. All the food in Fresh India is fresh, quick
to cook and flavour-packed, with ingredients
available from your local supermarket. Recipes include sweet potato kebabs,
pomegranate and onion seed parathas, beetroot pachadi, cashew and lemon
rice, fresh coconut chutney and so much more. People know they ought to be
eating more vegetables, and love Indian food, but have historically been a bit
scared of cooking both. This book shows how easy and exciting vegetarian
Indian food can be.
Meera Sodha is the author of Made in India, which was a top ten bestseller and
shortlisted for the 2014 André Simon Awards. It has been sold in the US
(Macmillan), Germany (Dorling Kindersley) and The Netherlands (Fontaine).
When not travelling around India collecting recipes, Meera Sodha chefs, writes
and lives in London.
Praise for Made in India:
‘Wonderful, vibrant...deeply personal food, alive and
authentic - the best sort - and, frankly, I want to cook
everything in this book’
Nigella Lawson
01 July 2016 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 320 pages | Material Available: Outline
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Food & Wine
THE DIY COOK
Tim Hayward
Food DIY's author brings you more
cooking adventures, this time
deconstructing classic recipes from
around the world
Tim Hayward is back with more recipes that
prove how much more delicious and satisfying
it is to do it yourself.
Here you will find recipes from whole roast suckling pig to crackling and
porchetta - and sandwiches from Vietnamese banh-mi to Philly cheesesteak.
There are stews such as Brazilian feijoada and cajun gumbo, and seafood
recipes from authentic bouillabaisse to the less orthodox but equally sublime
creation that is lobster mac and cheese.
The DIY Cook is essential reading for anyone either starting to suspect, or
having long known, that making it yourself is cheaper, tastier and so much
more fun.
Tim Hayward is a food writer and broadcaster. He is the proprietor of the
Fitzbillies bakery and restaurant in Cambridge and the author of Food DIY,
which has been sold in Germany (Dorling Kindersley)
and The Netherlands (Karakter).
Praise for Food DIY:
'If you fantasise over the perfect pork pie with a proper
jelly layer and cut into each deli-bought version only to
be disappointed, here is the answer’
Independent
06 August 2015 | Editor: Juliet Annan for Fig Tree | 352 pages | Material Available: Final spreads
Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK | US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
THE GROUNDNUT COOKBOOK
Duval Timothy, Jacob Fodio Todd and
Folayemi Brown
A contemporary African cookbook from
the foodie trio behind the current popup supper-club craze
Meet the Groundnut boys (Duval Timothy,
Jacob Fodio Todd and Folayemi Brown), three
energetic, imaginative Londoners of African
heritage, who are ready to bring African food onto your culinary radar! After
setting up a pop-up African restaurant in London, they now have thousands of
customers clamouring to get tickets for their next foodie event, all of which
are consistently sold out.
African food is some of the best on the planet – it is easily shopped for and
cooked, hugely varied, healthy and (most importantly) delicious! Duval, Jacob
and Folayemi offer us a social, accessible introduction to this, as yet largely
unexplored, cuisine, with gorgeous photography and easy-to-follow recipes
such as groundnut stew, baked broccoli falafels and spinach, green bean and
pistachio salad.
The Groundnut boys offer us new and exciting ways to transform everyday
ingredients into interesting, diverse dishes. Their cooking style is communal,
prepared with sharing in mind, and the various dishes are presented in menus,
according to how they best interact with each other in terms of season,
flavours or any other unifying points of inspiration.
The authors are full of charisma, energy and adventure, with a drive for new
culinary challenges as well as to share their passion for African food.
02 July 2015 | Editor: Lindsey Evans for Michael Joseph | 336 pages
Material Available: Final spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
PEACE AND PARSNIPS
Vegan Cooking for Everyone
Lee Watson
Happy, healthy and hearty - it's time to
cook vegan...
Reducing meat and dairy is the way forward:
eating tasty food which is good for you, good
for your pocket, good for animals and good for
the planet. What's not to love?
With nutritious, cheap, easy, diverse and mouth-wateringly delicious recipes,
Peace and Parsnips is set to reinvent the way we think about vegan cookery!
From wholesome quick treats to special occasion show-stoppers, Lee
introduces us to meat- and dairy- free recipes bursting with vitality and taste.
Dishes include a filling chickpea, squash and apricot burger, a roasted chestnut
casserole and tagliatelle with artichoke and almond sauce.
This vegan tome carries its ethical message lightly and, importantly, the recipes
are extremely appealing, covering an incredible range of styles and flavours.
This is a bible for novices and aficionados alike.
Lee Watson, one half of the presenting duo for Fox Network’s Meat vs Veg, is
dynamic without being preachy. He began his career managing fine dining
places and working in hotels. He later moved to London where he worked for
Leon, set up a food company called Raw and then opened a Spanish beach
restaurant in one of his favourite spots in the world for a Gin and Tonic at
sunset. He’s charming and energetic with an infectious enthusiasm for fresh
food that is good for your health, pocket and planet.
07 May 2015 | Editor: Lindsey Evans for Michael Joseph | 352 pages
Material Available: Final spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Food & Wine
JAMIE’S FOOD TUBE: THE PASTA
BOOK
Gennaro Contaldo
Master the basics with 50 simple pasta
recipes from Jamie Oliver's Food Tube
The fourth book in the Food Tube collection is a
brilliant set of essential pasta recipes, covering
ten basics, from classic spaghetti carbonara to
ragù bolognese, as well as forty beautiful dishes
embracing each season, including seafood
linguine, summer vegetable ravioli and pumpkin lasagne. Authored by Jamie
Oliver's Italian mentor, Gennaro Contaldo, expect simple, easy-to-follow
recipes, beautiful photography and plenty of handy tips to help you cook pasta
to perfection.
Branded the man who taught Jamie Oliver everything he knows about Italian
food, Gennaro Contaldo, has been making and cooking pasta for more than 50
years. He has made a huge number of television appearances, including the
series 'Two Greedy Italians' with his friend Antonio Carluccio. Gennaro's
larger-than-life personality and simple recipes have made him a YouTube
success, with over 100,000 subscribers and more than a million views across
his online content.
Territoires sold for the
Food Tube series:
Czech Republic (MLD),
Finland (Readme.fi), The
Netherlands (Kosmos),
Portugal (Porto Editora)
02 July 2015 | Editor: Louise Moore for Michael Joseph | 128 pages
Material Available: Draft spreads | Illustrations: Full colour | Translation Rights: Penguin UK
US Rights: Penguin UK
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Patricia Ferguson
Norah Thornby can no longer afford to live in her grand
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Aren’t We Sisters was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s
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Andrew Fox
A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex, knowing the
baby she's having is not his own. Travelling colleagues
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Penguin Ireland | 5 February 2015 | 224 pp
LOVE, TANYA
Tanya Burr
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with Love, Tanya.
Michael Joseph | 29 January 2015 | 304 pp
THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES
Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich
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time - doesn't look or feel the way it used to. Why? Because
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world, a portrait of our digital era in a relentlessly paper form.
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Allen Lane | 5 March 2015 | 256 pp
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SENECA
Emily Wilson
This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman
philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first
century CE, who rose to dizzying heights of wealth, power
and social influence under Nero, before falling from favour
and being forced to kill himself.
It analyzes the relationship of Seneca's life story to his
literary self-fashioning, and the tensions between the
external worlds of politics, consumerism, and social success,
with the Stoic ideals of asceticism, virtue and self-control.
Allen Lane | 5 March 2015 | 272 pp
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WHY YOU?
James Reed
Why You? is based on direct input from hundreds of top
interviewers in REED's unrivalled recruitment network. It
offers powerful preparation techniques, the lowdown on
how to answer the most common questions and - above all
- how to adopt a winning mindset that will help you succeed
on the day.
Portfolio Penguin | I January 2015 | 288 pp
Rights sold: US (Plume), Greece (Dioptra), Indonesia (Gramedia
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(The Post Publishing)
RACHEL KHOO'S KITCHEN NOTEBOOK
Rachel Khoo
Bestselling author Rachel Khoo is on the go once again with
her latest cookbook. Packed to the brim with 100 standout
recipes, full-colour photography and Rachel's very own
sketches of the food and places she encounters. From a ham
hock tiffin box to slow roasted pork belly with sloe gin, and
rhubarb and custard millefeuille, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen
Notebook will inspire even the most jaded cook to try
something new.
Michael Joseph | 12 February 2015 | 272 pp
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