1. FICTION
THE LITTLE PRINCE
(ILLUSTRATED)
ANTOINE DE SAINT
EXUPERY
This edition of a favourite and
much-loved title, previously
illustrated in black and white,
presents the illustrations in
full colour throughout.
Original illustrations are
faithfully reproduced, and
have been sensitively coloured
by Barbara Frith, one of
Britain's most accomplished
colourists. The Little Prince is
a wonderful and remarkable
book which will enchant both
children and adults alike. It is a strange and
wonderful parable for all ages, championing the
beauty and wisdom of childhood which fades when
one becomes 'a grown up'. This is a specially
commissioned new translation by Ros and Chloe
Schwarz.
9781907360374 12,50€ Hardback
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THE GOOD SOLDIER
FORD MADOX FORD
The Good Soldier is a
masterpiece of
twentieth-century fiction, an
inspiration for many later,
distinguished writers,
including Graham Greene. Set
before the First World War, it
tells the tale of two wealthy
and sophisticated couples,
one English, one American, as
they travel, socialise, and take
the waters in the spa towns of
Europe. They are 'playing the
game', in style. That game has
begun to unravel, however, and with compelling
attention to the comic, as well as the tragic, results
the American narrator reveals his growing
awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional
betrayals that lie behind its facade.
9781909621022 10,75€ Hardback
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THE SIGNATURE
OF ALL THINGS
ELIZABETH GILBERT
In The Signature of All
Things, Elizabeth Gilbert
returns to fiction, inserting
her inimitable voice into an
enthralling story of love,
adventure and discovery.
Spanning much of the
eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, the novel follows
the fortunes of the
extraordinary Whittaker
family as led by the
enterprising Henry Whittaker-a poor-born
Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South
American quinine trade, eventually becoming the
richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's
brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her
father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a
botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's
research takes her deeper into the mysteries of
evolution, she falls in love with a man named
Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings
of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite
direction-into the realm of the spiritual,
the divine, and the magical. Alma is
a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian
artist-but what unites this unlikely couple
is a desperate need to understand the
workings of this world and the mechanisms
behind all life. A glorious, sweeping novel
of desire, ambition, and the thirst for
knowledge, from the Number 1 New
York Times bestselling author of Eat,
Pray, Love and Committed.
9780670015856 15,00€
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NON FICTION
WARS OF THE ROSES:
STORMBIRD
CONN IGGULDEN
King Henry V - the great Lion of
England - is long dead. In 1437,
the pious and gentle Henry VI,
the Lamb, comes of age and
accedes to the English throne.
His poor health and frailty of
mind render him a weakling
king, dependent on his closest
men to run his kingdom. Yet
there are those who believe
England must be led by a strong
king if she is to survive. With
England's territories in France
under threat, and rumours of revolt at home, fears
grow that Henry and his advisers will see the country
slide into ruin. With a secret deal struck for Henry to
marry a young French noblewoman, Margaret of
Anjou, those fears become all too real. As storm
clouds gather over England, King Henry and his
supporters find themselves besieged abroad and at
home. Who, or what can save the kingdom before it is
too late?
9780718159849 15,50€ Paperback (C Format)
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PERFECT
RACHEL JOYCE
From the author of The Unlikely
Pilgrimage of Harold Fry a very
different but equally unlikely
and heartrending hero, and a
story - set in the foothills of a
fictitious English
moor-landscape in 1972 and the
present - of secrets, a terrible
mistake, and the destructive
nature of perfection. The
author's first novel The Unlikely
Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
enjoyed huge success.
9780857520678 15,50€
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UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE
OF HAROLD FRY
RACHEL JOYCE
An incredibly exciting debut
from a wonderful new fiction
voice: this is the tender, comic,
and utterly captivating story of
Harold Fry who takes a walk to
save a life and whose journey
will prove life-changing for him,
the wife he leaves behind, and
the people he meets along the
way.
9780552779043 8,25€
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THE LOWLAND
JHUMPA LAHIRI
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN
BOOKER PRIZE 2013 and the
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
2013. Epic in its canvas and
intimate in its portrayal of lives
undone and forged anew,
The Lowland is a deeply felt
novel of family ties that
entangle and fray in
ways unforeseen and
unrevealed, of ties that
ineluctably define
who we are. With
all the hallmarks
of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant,
exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this
is her most devastating work of fiction
to date.
9781408844557 16,00€ Paperback (C Format)
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MONUMENTS MEN
(FILM)
ROBERT M EDSEL
From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so
men and women from
thirteen Allied nations served
as the men and women of the
Monuments, Fine Arts &
Archives section (MFAA) of
the Allied armed forces, the
eyes, ears and hands of the
first and most ambitious
effort in history to preserve
the world's cultural heritage
in times of war. They were
known simply as Monuments
Men. But during the thick of
the fighting in Europe, from D-Day to V-E Day,
when Germany surrendered, there were only 65
Monuments Men in the forward operating area.
Sixty-five men to cover thousands of square miles,
save hundreds of damaged buildings and find
millions of cultural items before the Nazis could
destroy them forever.
9780099567943 10,25€ Paperback (B Format)
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TUNE IN: THE BEATLES
ALL THESE YEARS
MARK LEWISOHN
Tune In is the first volume of
All These Years-a
highly-anticipated,
groundbreaking biographical
trilogy by the world's leading
Beatles historian. Mark
Lewisohn uses his
unprecedented archival
access and hundreds of new
interviews to construct the
full story of the lives and work
of John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison,
and Ringo Starr. Ten years in
the making, Tune In takes the Beatles from before
their childhoods through the final hour of
1962-when, with breakthrough success just days
away, they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of
fame and celebrity. They have one hit record ("Love
Me Do") behind them and the next ("Please Please
Me") primed for release, their first album session is
booked, and America is clear on the horizon. This is
the lesser-known Beatles story-the pre-Fab years of
Liverpool and Hamburg-and in many respects the
most absorbing and incredible period of them all.
Here is the complete and true account of their
family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their
infatuation with American music, here is the
riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and
nights in the Cavern Club, their laughs, larks and
adventures when they could move about freely,
before fame closed in.
9781400083053 39,75€ Hardback
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PETIT MAL
D B C PIERRE
If you are familiar with
the explosive End Times
Trilogy ( Vernon God
Little, Ludmila's Broken
English, Lights Out in
Wonderland ) by DBC
Pierre, you will be
well-acclimatised to the
heady heights traversed
in this collection.
Drawing on memoir and
a life lived in pursuit of
sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction,
Petit Mal takes us further into the imagination of one
of the most radically original prose stylists of the past
decade. Accompanied by dozens of illustrations and
photographic 'evidence', the stories here inhabit
worlds defined by appetite, excess and
transcendence. Whether through food, drink, sex,
drugs, or a fantastic cocktail of all four, the impulse in
this book is towards epiphany. And the inevitable
hangover that follows. But even that (or those) in the
world of DBC Pierre can be nourishing.
9780571298389 18,00€ Hardback
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REPORT
FROM THE INTERIOR
PAUL AUSTER
Having recalled his life through
the story of his physical self in
Winter Journal, internationally
acclaimed novelist Paul Auster
now remembers the experience
of his development from
within, through the encounters
of his interior self with the
outer world. From his
baby's-eye view of the man in
the moon to his childhood
worship of the movie cowboy
Buster Crabbe to the
composition of his first poem at
the age of nine to his dawning
awareness of the injustices of American life, Report
from the Interior charts Auster's moral, political and
intellectual journey as he inches his way toward
adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the
turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells,
and tactile sensations that marked his early life - and
the many images that came at him, including moving
images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with
films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks
away from prose into pure imagery: The final section
of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first
three parts, told in an album of pictures.
9780571303687 15,50€ Hardback
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
MORRISSEY
MORRISSEY
Steven Patrick Morrissey was
born in Manchester on May
22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter
and co-founder of the Smiths
(1982-1987), Morrissey has
been a solo artist for twenty-six
years, during which time he has
had three number 1 albums in
England in three different
decades. Achieving eleven Top
10 albums (plus nine with the
Smiths), his songs have been
recorded by David Bowie,
Nancy Sinatra, Marianne
Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde,
Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy
Moore, amongst others.
9780141394817 13,75€ Paperback (B Format)
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December 2013
Dear Reader:
Welcome to the Christmas 2013 edition of the Review. We have included both recent titles and old favourites, all
of which would make perfect gifts. They are also ideal for reading and enjoying over the festive period. The stand
out title is The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt's new novel which has taken her ten years to write and is her best yet. While
it is set in present times, many of the books included here have a nostalgic flavour. Jonathan Coe's new novel Expo
58 takes us back in time to 1958 and the unexpected turn of events in a civil servant's life; Ken Follett's Winter of
the World takes us on a whirlwind tour through the early twentieth century, while Conn Iggulden transports us
back to England in 1437 in Wars of the Roses: Stormbird. With the 100th anniversary of the First World War
coming up in 2014, we have included some related titles which we hope will whet your appetite for the many
publications to come next year. We hope you enjoy reading about these books and wish you a peaceful and restful
Christmas.
FICTION
THE GOLDFINCH
DONNA TARTT
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker,
son of a devoted mother and
a reckless, largely absent
father, survives an accident
that otherwise tears his life
apart. Alone and rudderless
in New York, he is taken in
by the family of a wealthy
friend. He is tormented by an
unbearable longing for his
mother, and down the years
clings to one thing that
reminds him of her: a small,
strangely captivating
painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal
underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to
glide between the drawing rooms of the rich
and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is
alienated and in love - and his talisman, the
painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing,
ever more dangerous circle.
9781408704950 21,25€ Paperback (C Format)
LITTLE BROWN
EXPO 58
JONATHAN COE
London, 1958: minor civil
servant Thomas Foley is
plucked out of his desk job at
the Central Office of
Information to help man the
British stand at the fabulous
new International Exhibition
in Brussels. His job
specifically is to keep an eye
on The Brittania, the typical
British pub which is being
built to form the heart of the
exhibit - a job for which he's
been chosen because his
father was a publican and his mother came from
Belgium. Leaving his wife and baby, and his
widowed mother, behind in dreary south London,
Thomas finds Expo 58 an eye-opener: good-looking
girls, European sophistication, American
enthusiasm, and some seriously interesting cultural
events. Expo seems to represent the future, for the
new post-War world and perhaps for Thomas
himself - until events take a distinctly odd turn
when he's asked to take on an odd, secret task which
quickly gets out of hand and turns his life upside
down. Returning to the comedy of What a Carve Up!
and The Rotters' Club, Jonathan Coe's new novel
offers a fresh and invigorating portrait of Britain and Europe - after the war.
9780670923724 15,50€ Paperback (C Format)
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INFERNO
DAN BROWN
In his international
blockbusters The Da Vinci Code,
Angels & Demons, and The Lost
Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully
fused history, art, codes, and
symbols. In this riveting new
thriller, Brown returns to his
element and has crafted his
highest-stakes novel to date. In
the heart of Italy, Harvard
professor of symbology Robert
Langdon is drawn into a
harrowing world centered on
one of history's most enduring
and mysterious literary masterpieces… Dante's
Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a
chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious
riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art,
secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing
from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find
answers and decide whom to trust… before the world
is irrevocably altered.
9780385537858 24,95€ Hardback
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THIS IS
HOW YOU LOSE HER
JUNOT DIAZ
Junot Díaz burst onto the
literary world with Drown, a
collection of indelible stories
that revealed a major new writer
with the "eye of a journalist and
the tongue of a poet"
(Newsweek). His eagerly
awaited first novel, The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,
arrived like a thunderclap,
topping best-of-the-year lists
and winning a host of major
awards, including the Pulitzer
Prize. Now Díaz turns his prodigious talent to the
haunting, impossible power of love. The stories in
This Is How You Lose Her, by turns hilarious and
devastating, raucous and tender, lay bare the infinite
longing and inevitable weaknesses of our
all-too-human hearts. They capture the heat of new
passion, the recklessness with which we betray what
we most treasure, and the torture we go through - to
try to mend what we've broken beyond repair.
9781594631788 8,50€
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2. FICTION
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A
SMILING WOMAN
MARGARET DRABBLE
Margaret Drabble is one of
the major literary figures of
her generation. In this
collection of her complete
short fiction from across four
decades, she examines the
intense private worlds and
passions of everyday people.
From one man's
honeymooning epiphany in
'Hassan's Tower' to the
journeying fantasies of 'A
Voyage to Cythera', and from
the sharp joy of 'The Merry Widow' to the bloody
reality of the collection's title story, these are
moving, witty and provocative tales, exploring cruel
and loving relationships, social change and personal
obsessions, and confirming her status as a leading
practitioner of the art of the short story.
9780141196435 14,25€ Paperback
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THE SEAMSTRESS
MARIA DUEÑAS
Spain, 1936 and the brink of
civil war. Young, poor Sara
Quiroga is swept up in a
whirlwind romance with her
wily love Ramiro. Fleeing
Madrid together for Morocco,
her love blinds her to failings.
Soon abandoned, left
penniless and in debt to the
authorities, she has to rely on
the one skill she still
possesses: sewing. Taken
under the wing of the bullish
but caring housekeeper
Candelaria, Sara is able to sew for the glamorous
foreign English and German women in Tetouan.
Privy to their unbridled gossip, Sara becomes
invaluable to the British secret service, a position
that is filled with untold risk. A tale of danger,
espionage, love and war, The Seamstress is a WWII
tale like no other.
9780670920037 12,25€ Paperback (B Format)
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THE CIRCLE
DAVE EGGERS
When Mae Holland is hired to
work for the Circle, the
world's most powerful
internet company, she feels
she's been given the
opportunity of a lifetime. The
Circle, run out of a sprawling
California campus, links
users' personal emails, social
media, banking, and
purchasing with their
universal operating system,
resulting in one online
identity and a new age of
civility and transparency. Mae can't believe her
luck, her great fortune to work for the most
influential company in the world-even as life beyond
the campus grows distant, even as a strange
encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even
as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.
What begins as the captivating story of one woman's
ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing
novel of suspense, raising questions about memory,
history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human
knowledge.
9780241146491 14,75€ Paperback (C Format)
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FICTION
THE HUSBAND LIST
JANET EVANOVICH
So many men, so little time…
New York City, 1894. Heiress
Caroline Maxwell would like
nothing more than to join her
brother and his friend, Jack
Culhane, on their adventures.
While they are off seeing the
world, she's stuck at home,
frightening off the list of men
her mother hopes will ask for
her hand in marriage. Caroline
longs for adventure, passion,
love, and most of all…Jack
Culhane, an unconventional
Irish-American bachelor with new money and no
title-a completely unacceptable suitor, in the eyes of
Caroline's mother. Can Jack and Caroline find love,
against all odds, with danger looming and despite the
forces pulling them apart?
9780312651343 9,00€ Paperback (A Format)
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MINDING FRANKIE
MAEVE BINCHY
Maeve Binchy is back with a tale
of joy, heartbreak and hope in a
close-knit Dublin community.
When Noel learns that his
former flame is terminally ill
and pregnant with a child she
claims is his, he agrees to take
care of the baby girl once she's
born. But as a recovering
alcoholic whose demons are
barely under control, he can't do
it alone. Luckily, he has an
amazing network of family and
friends who are ready to help:
love-starved Lisa, who becomes
his round-the-clock partner in little Frankie's care;
his American cousin and pep-talker Emily; and the
many eager babysitters from the neighborhood,
including old friends like Signora and Aidan, Dr.
Declan and his parents. The unconventional
arrangement works out beautifully-until a nosy social
worker becomes convinced that Frankie would be
better off in a foster home. Now it's up to everyone in
town to persuade her that each of them has
something special to offer when it comes to minding
Frankie.
9780307742896 8,00€ Paperback (A Format)
RANDOM HOUSE USA
GONE GIRL
GILLIAN FLYNN
Marriage can be a real killer.
One of the most critically
acclaimed suspense writers of
our time, New York Times
bestseller Gillian Flynn takes
that statement to its darkest
place in this unputdownable
masterpiece about a marriage
gone terribly, terribly wrong.
The Chicago Tribune
proclaimed that her work
“draws you in and keeps you
reading with the force of a pure
but nasty addiction.” Gone
Girl's toxic mix of sharp-edged
wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a
nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every
turn.
9780385347778 8,00€ Paperback (A Format)
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WINTER OF THE WORLD
KEN FOLLETT
Winter of the World picks up
right where the first book left
off, as its five interrelated
families-American, German,
Russian, English, Welsh-enter a
time of enormous social,
political, and economic turmoil,
beginning with the rise of the
Third Reich, through the
Spanish Civil War and the great
dramas of World War II, up to
the explosions of the American
and Soviet atomic bombs.
9780451419569 9,00€
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THE COUNSELOR
(FILM)
CORMAC MCCARTHY
From Pultizer Prize winner
Cormac McCarthy: The
Counselor, dark and full of
suspense-and soon to be a
major motion picture starring
Brad Pitt and Michael
Fassbender-follows a
respected lawyer who, on the
eve of becoming a married
man, makes a risky entrée
into the drug trade and
quickly gets in over his head.
The unforgiving terrain of the
Texas-Mexico border has lent itself to McCarthy's
grittiest works in the past, and in The Counselor, it
delivers once again. In these pages, a respected and
recently-engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a
cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will
be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle
into life with his beloved fiancée.
9780345803597 15,00€ Paperback
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
ALEX CROSS
JAMES PATTERSON
It's Christmas Eve in
Washington DC, Detective
Alex Cross is at home with his
family decorating the tree and
enjoying a Cross family
tradition, a big bowl of egg
nog, when he receives a phone
call that causes the festivities
to be put on hold. Across town
in a mansion house, Henry
Fowler, a hard-nosed
corporate lawyer turned
small-time drug hustler, is
holding his children, his ex-wife, her new husband
and a neighbour at gun point. High on crystal meth
and heavily armed, Fowler is refusing to speak with
the negotiator. As an expert in hostage situations,
Alex has been called in to try and save a potential
massacre. But with Fowler crazed and irrational,
will Alex be able to save the lives of these hostages,
as well as coming out alive himself?
9780099576457 9,25€ Paperback (A Format)
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THE BLINK
OF THE SCREEN
TERRY PRATCHETT
In the four decades since his
first book appeared in print,
Terry Pratchett has become
one of the world's best-selling
and best-loved authors. Here
for the first time are his short
stories and other short form
fiction collected into one
volume. A Blink of the
Screen charts the course
of Pratchett's long
writing career: from
his schooldays through
to his first writing job on the Bucks Free
Press,; to the origins of his debut
novel, The Carpet People; and on
again to the dizzy mastery of the
phenomenally successful Discworld
series. Here are characters both
familiar and yet to be discovered;
abandoned worlds and others still
expanding; adventure, chickens,
death, disco and, actually, some
quite disturbing ideas about
Christmas, all of it shot through with
his inimitable brand of humour.
9780552167734 12,25€
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FIRST WORLD WAR TITLES
BLEEDING EDGE
THOMAS PYNCHON
It is 2001 in New York City, in
the lull between the collapse of
the dot-com boom and the
terrible events of September
11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost
town, Web 1.0 is having
adolescent angst, Google has yet
to IPO, Microsoft is still
considered the Evil Empire.
There may not be quite as much
money around as there was at
the height of the tech bubble,
but there's no shortage of
swindlers looking to grab a
piece of what's left.
9780224099028 21,50€ Hardback
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THE TESTAMENT
OF MARY
COLM TOIBIN
In a voice that is both
tender and filled with
rage, The Testament
of Mary tells
the story of a
cataclysmic event
which led to an
overpowering
grief. For Mary,
her son has been
lost to the world,
and now, living
in exile and in
fear, she tries to piece together the
memories of the events that led to her
son's brutal death. To her he was
a vulnerable figure, surrounded by
men who could not be trusted, living
in a time of turmoil and change.
9780241962978 12,25€
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BIRDSONG
SEBASTIAN FAULKS
Set before and during the
great war, Birdsong captures
the drama of that era on both
a national and a personal
scale. It is the story of
Stephen, a young Englishman,
who arrives in Amiens in
1910. Over the course of the
novel he suffers a series of
traumatic experiences, from
the clandestine love affair that
tears apart the family with
whom he lives, to the
unprecedented experiences of
the war itself.
9781909621015 14,25€
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THE GREAT WAR
JOE SACCO
From 'the heir to R.
Crumb and Art
Spiegelman' (The
Economist) comes a
monumental,
wordless panorama
capturing the horror
of World War I. An
extraordinary piece
of book production akin to Chris Ware's
Building Stories as a celebration of paper and print in
a digital age. Of all the books published to
commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World
War I this will be the most original and striking. Joe
Sacco is universally acclaimed as the inventor and
best exponent of 'comics journalism'.
9780224097710 24,00€ Hardback
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THE SLEEPWALKERS
CHRISTOPHER CLARK
In The Sleepwalkers
acclaimed historian and
author of Iron Kingdom,
Christopher Clark, examines
the causes of the First World
War. The moments that it
took Gavrilo Princip to step
forward to the stalled car and
shoot dead Franz Ferdinand
and his wife were perhaps the
most fateful of the modern
era. An act of terrorism of
staggering efficiency, it
fulfilled its every aim: it would
liberate Bosnia from
Habsburg rule and it created a
powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four
great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed
a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous
and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact
of this assassination?
9780141027821 16,75€ Paperback (A Format)
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
THE GREAT WAR
IMPERIAL WAR
MUSEUM
The opening photograph
is of the gun that fired
the first shot of the war.
The final photograph is
of an audio recording
showing the arrival of
silence on the eleventh
hour of the eleventh day
of the eleventh month of
1918. The advent of
popular photography
meant that the Great
War was the first conflict to be documented in
photographs, from the deserts of the Middle East to
the mud of Western Front. Now the digital age has
made it possible to construct a single photographic
narrative that follows the war on multiple fronts,
covering the conflict on land, sea and air. The
Imperial War Museum in London houses one of the
greatest photographic archives of conflict in the
world, collecting hundreds of thousands of pictures
of the First World War from all the combat nations.
This unique book is divided into five sections, each
prefaced with a detailed chronology of events and a
historical summary, together with detailed captions
for every picture.
9780224096553 47,50€ Hardback
RANDOM HOUSE UK
NON FICTION
BLACK CHALK
CHRISTOPHER
YATES
A compulsively
readable
psychological
thriller set
in New York and
at Oxford University,
in which a group
of six students play
an elaborate game
of dares and
consequences
- with tragic results.
A gripping psychological
thriller - partly inspired by the author's own time at
Oxford University - this is perfect for fans of The
Secret History, The Bellwether Revivals and
The Lessons. Clever, dark and compulsively readable,
this is an ideal book group title: who knows better
than your best friends, what would break you?
9781846557286 15,50€ Paperback (C Format)
RANDOM HOUSE UK
SALINGER
DAVID SHIELDS AND
SHANE SALERNO
Based on eight years of secret
research and exclusive
interviews with 150 friends,
intimates, family members,
and others who have never
spoken on the record, Salinger
is a global cultural event: the
first definitive biography of
one of the most beloved and
mysterious figures of the
twentieth century.
9781476747033 16,25€
Paperback (C Format)
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
USA
WINTER JOURNAL
PAUL AUSTER
In Winter Journal, Auster
presents the abandonment of
the family by his father from
his mother's point of view: her
struggle as a single mother;
love found again late in life, a
love that was short-lived; her
troubled later years and,
finally, her death - and the
subsequent anxiety attacks
Auster suffered in the face of
her death.
9780571283231 8,25€
Paperback (A Format)
FABER AND FABER LTD
LEVELS OF LIFE
JULIAN BARNES
Julian Barnes is the author of
eleven previous novels,
including Metroland, Flaubert's
Parrot, A History of the World
in 10_ Chapters, Arthur &
George, and The Sense of an
Ending. “You put together two
things that have not been put
together before. And the world
is changed...' Julian Barnes's
new book is about ballooning,
photography, love and grief;
about putting two things, and
two people, together, and about
tearing them apart. One of the
judges who awarded him the
2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an
unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms
that opinion. Levels of Life is an extraordinary
hybrid, part history, part fiction, part memoir. It is
without question the book by Julian Barnes that will
touch readers the most.
9780224098151 13,75€ Hardback
RANDOM HOUSE UK
TOLKIEN:
THE ILLUSTRATED
ENCYCLOPAEDIA
DAVID DAY
The first encyclopedic
illustrated guide to the world of
Middle Earth and the Undying
Lands, this book brings
together every important aspect
of Tolkien's vast cosmology.
More than five hundred
alphabetical entries cover five
major subject areas: history,
geography, sociology, natural
history and biography. The
maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the
illustrations of characters, places adn events, reveal
to the reader the full dramatic sweep and splendour
of Tolkien's world.
9780684839790 24,75€ Paperback (B Format)
SIMON AND SCHUSTER USA