profile books - autumn 2011 catalogue

WE LIVE IN challenging and uncertain times.

Some people even doubt whether books will survive.

We, as you might expect, disagree. If the writing is strong

and the ideas are exciting, there is an extremely healthy

future for books – in any format, print or digital.

We believe these titles are once again proof of the richness

books bring to our lives. They can show where we are

headed, as in Ten Ideas to Change the World, based

on the RSA’s online sensation, RSAnimates. Just as

importantly they explain where we’ve come from: check out

Simon Jenkins’ Short History of England. Above all they

are an endless source of pleasure, as we can guarantee

from two new (unseemly) stories from Alan Bennett, and

from the twenty-two other titles you’ll find here.

Happy reading.

Andrew Franklin

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S I M O N J E N K I N S

A Short History of EnglandThe definitive concise account of our remarkable past

From the Battle of Catterick (AD 598) to the premiership of Tony Blair, one of Britain’sbestselling authors, Simon Jenkins, weavestogether a strong narrative with all the mostimportant and interesting dates in our history in a book that is as characteristically stylish as it isauthoritative. There have been long synoptichistories of England but until now there has beenno standard short work covering all significantevents, themes and individuals.

Published with the support of the National Trust,and beautifully illustrated, this magisterial historyis a tour de force.

Simon Jenkins is the author of the bestsellingEngland’s Thousand Best Churches and England’sThousand Best Houses, the former editor of The Timesand Evening Standard and a columnist for theGuardian. He is chairman of the National Trust.

£25.00320pp with colour

illustrations throughoutPinched Crown Quarto

hardbackISBN: 978 1 84668 461 6

e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 756 5History

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T H E R S A

Ten Ideas to Change the WorldToday’s greatest thinkers on the burning issues of our time

Viral sensation – now available as a graphic book

Today’s brightest minds present ten bold new ideasto change the world, brought to life throughAndrew Park’s dynamic, thought-provokingillustrations: Slavoj Zizek exposes the surprisingethical implications of charity; David Harvey looksbeyond capitalism towards a new social order;Barbara Ehrenreich sheds light on the dark side ofpositive thinking and Dan Pink finds out what reallymotivates us at home and in the office.

Based on the internet sensation RSA Animatesseries, and challenging the status quo on everythingfrom the economy and education to how we workand think, Ten Ideas to Change the World is aninnovative take on life in the twenty-first century.

Watch the animations athttp://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

The RSA Royal Society for the Encouragement ofArts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force forsocial progress for over 250 years.

£12.99192pp with colourillustrations throughout230 x 160mm paperbackISBN: 978 1 84668 506 4Current Affairs/PhilosophySeptember 2011WorldTr US

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A L A N B E N N E T T

SmutTwo Unseemly Stories

Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction

The Greening of Mrs DonaldsonMrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-classwoman beached on the shores of widowhoodafter a marriage that had been much like manyothers: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take intwo lodgers (a young, penniless couple) passionsthat she never knew existed are aroused, and hermundane life becomes much more stimulating …

The Shielding of Mrs ForbesGraham Forbes is a disappointment to his motherwho thinks that if he must have a wife, he shouldhave done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than livingwith him. But this is Alan Bennett, so no matterthe importance of keeping up appearances, what happens in the bedroom (and in lots ofother places too) is altogether more startling,perhaps shocking, and ultimately much more trueto people’s predilections.

Alan Bennett is one of the UK’s most celebratedfigures. He is the author of Untold Stories, andnumerous works of fiction including The UncommonReader. His celebrated play The History Boys was theNational Theatre’s most successful production ever.

£12.00160pp

168 x 129mm hardbackISBN: 978 1 84668 525 5

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C H R I S M U L L I N

A Walk-On Part Diaries 1994–99

More from the bestselling master diarist

The third and final volume of Chris Mullin’sacclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smithdied in May 1994, and continues until the momentof Mullin’s assumption into government in July1999. Together with the brilliant A View From theFoothills and Decline and Fall, the complete trilogy covers the rise and fall of New Labour from start to finish.

Witty, elegant and wickedly indiscreet, the Mullindiaries are widely reckoned to be the best accountof the New Labour era. ‘Every once in a while,’wrote David Cameron, ‘political diaries emergethat are so irreverent and insightful that they aredestined to be handed out as leaving presentsacross Whitehall for years to come.’

Chris Mullin was elected Labour MP for SunderlandSouth in 1987. He chaired the Home Affairs SelectCommittee and was a minister in three departments.He is the author of the bestselling A View From theFoothills and Decline and Fall (Profile) and the novel A Very British Coup (Serpent’s Tail).

£20.00416pp with illustrationsRoyal hardbackISBN: 978 1 84668 523 1e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 753 4Biography/MemoirAugust 2011World


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The Sleeping ArmyThe Norse myths as never, ever before

One of the bestselling children’s authors in theworld launches an exciting new novel for childrenaged 8+.

Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods.She’s caught in her parents’ divorce, and shuttlingbetween bickering adults is no fun. One evening,stuck with her dad on his night shift at the BritishMuseum, she is drawn to the Lewis Chessmen and Heimdall’s Horn. Unable to resist, she blows the horn, waking three chess pieces from theirenchantment; the slaves Roskva, Alfi and Snot the Berserk. They are all summoned to Asgard, land of the Viking gods, and told they must go on a perilous journey to restore the gods to youth.

If Freya refuses she will be turned into an ivory chess piece but, if she accepts her destiny and fails,the same terrible fate awaits her.

Brilliantly funny, original and a wholly new take onthe Norse myths – and the travails of contemporaryfamily life.

Published in conjunction with Faber & Faber.

Francesca Simon is universally known for thestaggeringly popular Horrid Henry series. These booksand audio have sold over 15 million copies in the UKalone and CITV have made a hugely popular cartoonseries based on the nation’s favourite naughty boy.

£9.99256pp with illustrations

Demy paperbackISBN: 978 1 84668 278 0

e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 418 2Children’s Fiction

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E L I Z A B E T H C O O K E

The Damnation of John Donellan A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England

The dark side of the eighteenth century

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, Baronet, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty–year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsionsafter taking his medicine. The following year after aninquest and trial which became a cause célèbre hisbrother-in-law, Captain John ‘Diamond’ Donellan,Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was hanged for his murder. The trial was a shambles.

Was Donellan guilty?

Based on extensive research and the engrossing trialtranscripts Elizabeth Cooke’s book shows the dark and violent underside of the society of Mansfield Park.

Elizabeth Cooke has been writing for over twentyyears under the name Elizabeth McGregor and haspublished ten novels: Little White Lies was televised bythe BBC; in The Ice Child she turned to a historicaltheme for the first time with the story of the Franklinexpedition. She lives in Dorset.

£14.99320pp with illustrationsDemy hardbackISBN: 978 1 84668 482 1e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 752 7History/True CrimeAugust 2011World ex USA/Can


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J O H N S U T H E R L A N D

Lives Of The NovelistsA History of Fiction in 282 Lives

Ideal seasonal gift for bookworms

This is the most complete history of fiction inEnglish ever published. The world’s greatestauthority – arguably the only person who couldhave written it – provides the lives of some 282novelists writing in English, from the genre’sseventeenth-century origins to the present.Arranged in chronological order the lives areopinionated, informative, frequently funny andoften shocking. Sutherland’s authors come fromall over the world; their writings illustrate everykind of fiction from gothic, penny dreadfuls and pornography to fantasy, romance and high literature.

The book shows the changing forms of the genre,and how the aspirations of authors to divert andsometimes to educate their readers has in somerespects radically changed over the centuries, and in others – such as their interest in sex andrelationships – remained remarkably constant.

John Sutherland is emeritus Lord Northcliffeprofessor of English literature at University CollegeLondon. Twice on the Booker committee, in 2005 aschairman, he is a regular columnist and critic on radioand television. His books include the moving chronicleLast Drink to LA.

£25.00704pp

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S A M L E I T H

Rhetoric The Art of Persuasion from Aristotle to Obama

A witty, elegant enquiry into the power of oratory

Rhetoric is what gives words power. It’s nothing to be afraid of. It isn’t the exclusive preserve of politicians: it’s everywhere, from your argumentwith the insurance company to your plea to thewaitress for a table near the window. It convictscriminals (and then frees them on appeal). It causes governments to rise and fall, best men to be shunned by brides, and people to marchwith steady purpose towards machine guns.

In this highly entertaining (and persuasive) book,Sam Leith examines how people have taught,practised and thought about rhetoric from itsAttic origins to its twenty-first century apotheosis.Along the way, he tells the stories of its heroesand villains, from Cicero and Erasmus, to Hitler,Obama – and Gyles Brandreth.

Sam Leith is the former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, and he contributes regularly to theEvening Standard, Guardian, Wall Street Journal,Spectator and Prospect. He is the author of two non-fiction books, Dead Pets and Sod’s Law, and a novel,The Coincidence Engine.

£12.99256pp

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In this unique new history of the world’s mostubiquitous language, the foremost expert onlinguistics David Crystal draws on the onehundred words that best illustrate the huge varietyof developments and events that have shaped our vernacular since the first definitively Englishword was written down in the fifth century (‘roe’, in case you are wondering).

Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel wordsand nonce-words, ancient words (‘loaf’) and thecutting-edge (‘twittersphere’) and spanning theindispensable (‘and’, ‘what’) and the more fanciful(‘fopdoodle’), Crystal takes us along the windingbyways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

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The Story of English in 100 WordsAn eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages

David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics atthe University of Wales, Bangor. He has written manybooks and articles in fields ranging from forensiclinguistics and ELT to the liturgy and Shakespeare.

£12.99320pp

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J A S P E R R E E S

Bred of Heaven One man’s quest to reclaim his Welsh roots

A delightfully off-beat ode to Wales

Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welshsurname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringingand temperament.

In this hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achievehis goal of becoming a Welshman by learning to sing, play, work, think and above all, speak like one. On the way he meets monks, tenors andpoliticians, and tries his hand at rugby and lambing– all the while weaving together his personal storywith Wales’ rich history. This exuberant journey of self discovery celebrates the importance ofnational identity, and the joy of belonging.

Jasper Rees is an arts journalist and the author of I Found My Horn, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book ofthe Week.

£12.99256pp with illustrationsDemy paperbackISBN: 978 1 84668 299 5e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 422 9Biography/HumourAugust 2011WorldTr US


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How to Watch the OlympicsAnd become deeply passionate about handball, Greco-Roman wrestling and synchronised swimming

The only book you have to read for London 2012

The Olympics is the world’s biggest sporting event– and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the games the world is familiar with – football,cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports – are eithermissing or have a token presence. In their placeare games that most of us have not a clue how to play or to watch. Which is where this witty,insightful book comes into play, offering the backstory behind each Olympic sport and, by meansof fiendishly clever diagrams and prose, explainingthe rules and finer points. Once you’ve read David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton’s accounts,you’ll be on tenterhooks to see whether theDanish or the Koreans triumph at handball, justwhat the Italian fencers are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a game of chess.

£10.99320pp with 60 photos

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ISBN: 978 1 84668 475 3e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 758 9

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David Goldblatt is the authorof the World Football Yearbook andThe Ball is Round: A Global Historyof Football. Johnny Acton haswritten books on everything frompickling food (Preserved with HughFearnley-Whittingstall) to thehistory of balloons (The Man WhoTouched the Sky).


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Q: One of my colleaguestook this photo of ice bubblesin Cranberry Lake in Ontario. How did the bubbles form in this amazing fashion?

A:Microbes from the sediment on the lake floor produce gases, which rise to the frozen surface of the lake and become trapped there.Another layer of ice forms below the ice bubbles, flattening them.


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Why are Orangutans Orange?Science puzzles in pictures – with fascinating answers

The classic New Scientist formula – now with pictures

Illustrated for the first time, with eighty colourphotographs showing the beauty, complexity andmystery of the world around us, here is the nexteagerly awaited science miscellany from NewScientist magazine.

Six years on from Does Anything Eat Wasps?(2005), the New Scientist series still rides high inthe bestseller lists, with well over two millioncopies sold. Popular science has never been moreabsorbing or more enjoyable. Like Why Don’tPenguins’ Feet Freeze? (2006), Do Polar Bears GetLonely? (2008) and Why Can’t Elephants Jump?(2010), this collection of wry and well-informedanswers to a remarkable range of bafflingquestions is guaranteed to delight – and with itsstunning illustrations will dazzle too.

Over fifty years old, New Scientist is the bestselling andfastest growing science magazine in the world. Why areOrangutans Orange? is again compiled and edited byMick O’Hare, production editor of New Scientist, whois frequently interviewed on TV and radio.

£8.99240pp with full colour

illustrations throughoutB format paperback

ISBN: 978 1 84668 507 1e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 755 8Popular Science/Humour

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‘If you have the slightest curiosity about the world beyondyour living room, then this is a collection to die for. What could be a better way to raise funds for Oxfam than to collect these nuggets of worldly wisdom from a galaxy ofthe very best travel writers? It’s impossible to read theircontributions without wanting to go and get the rucksack out.’

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OxTravels Meetings with remarkable travel writers

The best travel collection in twenty-five years

‘These are adventures full of wonders conjured by the finest possible travelling companions.’ Peter Florence, director Hay Festival

You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta’sbestselling travel issue to find a book that comparesto OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin,OxTravels features original stories from twenty-fivetop travel writers, including Colin Thubron, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Tim Butcher, SaraWheeler, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Janine di Giovanni,Chris Stewart and William Dalrymple. Each of thestories takes as its theme a meeting – life-changing,affecting, amusing by turn – and together theytransport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas ofencounters.

This extraordinary collection is published in aid ofOxfam and all royalties from the book will supportOxfam’s work.

£8.99320pp with 20 photos

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Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers And other odd events on the way to scientific discovery

The all-but-forgotten heroes and highlights of everyday science

In August 1931, New Zealand farmer RichardBuckley hit the local headlines – or rather histrousers did. One minute they were drying in frontof the fire, the next there was a huge blast and aball of flames. Farmer Buckley’s trousers hadexploded. The culprit? A popular pesticide of the day, which when combined with clothing fibresunexpectedly formed a highly combustiblecompound.

Contrary to the widespread belief that science andtechnology move steadily from one discovery tothe next, the stories in this entertaining collectionpresent some of the unfamiliar characters andevents that litter the path of scientific progress,where setbacks and mishaps are the norm, andbreakthroughs are the exception.

Farmer Buckley’s Exploding Trousers is compiled and edited by Stephanie Pain, a consultant for New Scientist with a PhD in deep-ocean biology. She created and for ten years edited New Scientist’spopular ‘Histories’ column, where the stories in thisbook started out.

£10.99240ppDemy trade paperbackISBN: 978 1 84668 508 8e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 749 7Popular ScienceMay 2011World ex USA/CanTr US


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Deadly WatersInside the hidden world of Somalia’s pirates

A gripping exploration of the lives of modern-day buccaneers

What are the daily lives of modern day pirates likeoutside of the attack skiffs? How do they spendtheir money? What clothes do they wear, andwhat is their drug of choice?

Jay Bahadur has ventured where all except thebravest fear to tread: to the heart of Somalia.Having fast become the ‘go to’ journalist for themedia, and with unparalleled access to all themajor players, from government officials to localresidents – and of course the pirates themselves –the intrepid young author paints a revealing new picture of the masked menaces who nowregularly appear on the news.

Evocative and incisive, Deadly Waters is his highlyoriginal narrative, based on a wealth of first-handaccounts, and sheds fascinating new light on theinternational pirate crisis.

Jay Bahadur is a journalist specialising in Somalipiracy. He has featured as an expert on the BBC’sToday programme and CBS News, and his articles havebeen published in The Times and Globe and Mail. This is his first book.

£12.99288pp with illustrationsDemy trade paperback

ISBN: 978 1 84668 363 3e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 436 6

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Machu PicchuVoted one of the new seven wonders of the world in 2007

In July 1911 Hiram Bingham discovered, or morecorrectly, came across, the iconic ‘lost city of the Incas’ in the Peruvian Andes. Published for the centenary, Machu Picchu tells the story of thismagical place, and examines how interpretations of this historic site have been transformed overthe last twenty years, through the evidence of earlySpanish documents, new archaeology and,significantly, a new look at material that Binghamcontroversially removed from Peru.

Also available in the Wonders of the World series:The Alhambra 978 1 86197 487 7 £8.99The Colosseum 978 1 84668 470 8 £8.99The Forbidden City 978 1 84668 026 7 £8.99The Memorial To The 978 1 86197 896 7 £8.99

Missing Of The SommeThe Parthenon 978 1 84668 349 7 £8.99Piazza San Marco 978 1 86197 885 1 £8.99The Roman Forum 978 1 86197 805 9 £8.99The Rosetta Stone 978 1 86197 339 9 £8.99Stonehenge 978 1 86197 880 6 £8.99St Pancras Station 978 1 84668 460 9 £8.99St Peter’s 978 1 86197 908 7 £8.99Taj Mahal 978 1 86197 875 2 £8.99

David Drew has worked as an archaeologist in Peru and as a producer of archaeological andhistorical films for television. His books include Lost Cities of the Mayan Kings (1999).

£15.99224pp with illustrationsthroughout200 x 135mm hardbackISBN: 978 1 84668 420 3e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 456 4History/TravelJuly 2011World ex USA/CanTr


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L U C A T U R I N A N D TA N I A S A N C H E Z

A Little Book of PerfumesThe 100 Greatest Scents

Delightful handbag/man–bag sized guide to the best – and the worst

This marvellous little book is a distillation of the essence of Turin and Sanchez’ acclaimedmasterwork Perfumes: The A–Z Guide. Throughthe brilliance of its insights and the seduction ofits language it found a huge and passionateaudience all around the world.

Here is the authors’ choice of the 100 greatestfragrances, some very famous, some little known,for women and men, from the last 130 years: like Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiffel Towerand ‘a towering masterpiece’; Chanel’s No. 5(1921), perhaps the world’s most famous perfume,‘stretching deliciously like a sleepy panther’; Knize Ten, which ‘everyone should own becausethere is only one like it’; and White Linen (1978),‘a canonical expression of the American ideal of sex appeal’.

A perfect gift, a perfect browse.

Luca Turin is the man whom perfume-lovers openlyadore and the author of The Secret of Scent (Faber,2006). His top-rated perfume is Guerlain’s Mitsouko.Tania Sanchez is a journalist and perfume expertfrom New York. Her personal perfume collectionnumbers almost 2000 bottles. They are married anddivide their time between Boston and London.

£9.99160pp

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Vincent van Gogh lived life at the extremes – whether as a painter, a preacher, a lover, or a letter-writer. When he lefthis bourgeois Dutch family to preach the Gospels, he went asfar as he could go – to the bottoms of the deepest coalminesin the world. He gave away all his worldly possessions,including the clothes off his back. He did all this, he said, ‘to bring consolation to the heartbroken’. Late in his life, he accomplished that same mission through art.


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Vincent van GoghThe Life

The definitive biography

Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved– and most expensive – works of art ever made,from the early The Potato Eaters to his latemasterpieces Sunflowers and The Starry Night. He had worked as an art dealer, a missionary and in England as a teacher, and only in his latetwenties did he begin a life that would befundamental in shaping modern art. But when he died in Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890 at the age ofthirty-seven he was largely unknown.

Written with the cooperation of the Van GoghMuseum, Pulitzer-winning authors Steven Naifehand Gregory White Smith recreate hisextraordinary life – and the inside of his troubledmind – like never before. Drawing on all of his(and his family’s) extensive letters, which offerexquisitely-written glimpses into his thoughts and feelings, this is the definitive portrait of oneof the world’s cultural giants.

£30.00768pp with colour

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Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smithare the authors of the Pulitzer Prize winning biographyof Jackson Pollock (the basis for the film Pollock),which was also a finalist for the National Book Awardand a NYT bestseller.


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J O LYO N F E N W I C K A N D M A R C U S H U S S E L B Y

It Could Have Been YoursThe enlightened person’s guide to the year’s most desirable things

Things you never knew you wanted

From Silvio Berlusconi’s bed to Casanova’s memoirs(the most expensive manuscript in history), via the Statue of Liberty’s nose and an X-ray of MarilynMonroe’s chest, here is a remarkable record ofsome of the most unexpected and bizarrepossessions that have changed hands in the lastyear – some costing millions, some only pennies (or even nothing at all).

Ranging from rare historical artefacts (such asMarie Antoinette’s pearls) to the weirdly iconic(Elvis’s medicine cabinet, anyone?), this is a brilliantinsight into the culture of our time, packed withextraordinary things to amuse or amaze.

Jolyon Fenwick and Marcus Husselby are the founders of 20ltd.com, a curator and e-tailer ofcontemporary design.

£9.99128pp with colourillustrations throughoutA format hardback ISBN: 978 1 84668 490 6e-ISBN : 978 1 84765 757 1Gift/HumourOctober 2011WorldTr US


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The Beauty and the SorrowA intimate history of the First World War

A stunning and highly original Eurpoean bestseller

There are many books on the First World War.But award-winning and bestselling historian Peter Englund takes a daring new approach.Describing the experiences of twenty ordinarypeople from around the world, all now unknown,he explores the everyday aspects of war: not onlythe tragedy and horror, but also the absurdity,monotony and even beauty.

Following soldiers and sailors, nurses andgovernment workers from Britain, Russia andGermany, and from Australia and South America– and in theatres of war often neglected by majorhistories on the period – Englund reconstructstheir feelings, impressions, experiences andmoods. This is a piece of anti-history: it brings this epoch-making event back to its smallestcomponent, the individual.

Peter Englund was a professor at Uppsala University,and is now permanent secretary of the SwedishAcademy (which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature).His breakthrough book on the Battle of Poltava waspublished to universal critical acclaim.

£25.00448pp with illustrations

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M A R I A E D G E W O R T HIntroduced by John Mullan

PatronageRegency family values by Jane Austen’s greatest rival

Meet the Percys and Falconers, neighbouringfamilies, each with three sons and two daughtersto launch into Regency society. The hardworking,independently minded and dutiful Percys arehappy to work their way up in the world but areundermined by their scheming rivals who usepatronage to grab at instant fame and fortune.With their sons eased into lucrative but ill-suiteddiplomatic and clerical jobs, and their daughtersbankrupting themselves to scale the heights offashion, the Falconers are heading for a tumble;while the moral steadiness and strong family tiesof the Percys allow them to attain both the heightsof their chosen professions and a glittering match.

A Regency bestseller with a clear message for our times.

Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) was one of the mostsuccessful authors of Regency England. She was readand admired by Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Byron,Turgenev and Ruskin – who declared her books ‘the mostre-readable in existence’. John Mullan is Professor ofEnglish at UCL and contributes regularly to NewsnightReview, LRB, the Guardian and New Statesman.

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TelescopeTruth, imagination and the consolations of gossip

Daniel Brennan, afflicted by a rare disease, retreatsto a room in his brother’s house. To divert himselfand entertain Ellen, his carer, he writes vignettes of his life and of those close to him. A wry andcompassionate observer, he creates a vividkaleidoscope of truth and fiction: the journal thatforms Telescope. In this, an engaging cast ofcharacters move in and out of focus: among themCelia, his beloved sister, stranded in casual affairs,teaching abroad; Charlie, his kindly entrepreneurialbrother; and his punk-musician friend Zoë, withwhom he shares the pleasures of tattoos andItalian horror movies.

Startlingly original, Telescope is a moving but oftenfunny exploration of the power of imagination, the experience of isolation and the consolations of gossip.

Jonathan Buckley is the highly-praised author ofContact and So He Takes the Dog. He lives in Hove.

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The Small Hand

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Why The West Rules – For NowThe patterns of history and what they reveal about the future

‘No one chills the heart like Susan Hill’ Daily Telegraph

‘Beautifully evoked … what’s most impressive is what hangsbetween the spare lines of Hill’s precise prose … this is awonderful piece of storytelling that does what a good storyought to do: it keeps you guessing, pulls you in’ Guardian

‘She builds suspense through easy, elegant prose … if the proofof a good ghost story is a bad dream, this one worked for me’Intelligent Life

‘A great work of synthesis and argument, drawing together anawesome range of materials and authorities to bring us a fresh,sharp reading of East–West relationships. As China rises and the world’s population spikes, Morris weaves lessons fromthousands of years of world history towards a startling and scary conclusion.’ Andrew Marr

‘The nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we areever likely to get. I loved it.’ Niall Ferguson

‘A true banquet of ideas’ Independent

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Decline and FallDiaries 2005–2010

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‘I normally hate political diaries, but I make an exception forDecline & Fall ’ Roy Hattersley

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‘A quirky introduction to fonts … Simon Garfield is careful totickle as much as he teaches … if you have ever looked at thedrop-down menu in Word and wondered what Garamond is, or what’s meant to be new about Times New Roman, Garfieldwill be just your type’ Daily Telegraph

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TolstoyA Russian Life

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Time

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‘A great pleasure … an accessible and scholarly biography of the troubled master of realist fiction which conjures the splendid image of him wobbling around on a bicycle.’ Richard Godwin, Books of the Year, Evening Standard

‘Conveys Tolstoy to me more vividly than any biography I have read’ Financial Times

‘Beautifully written and eloquent’ Financial Times

‘A topical study that should elicit a moment of pause amongthose of us in a real hurry’ Sunday Business Post

‘One of our most lucid thinkers … what makes this book sooriginal is the way Hoffman uses the tools of contemporaryscience … intriguing and highly readable’ Independent

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Guide to Managing Growth Strategies for turning success into even bigger success

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Successful and ambitious organisations recognisethe ‘growth imperative’ but are often insufficientlyaware of what might threaten continued success.Growth means change. What worked last yearwon’t necessarily work next year. An organisationthat wants to manage growth successfully will needto fix things that aren’t yet broken.

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