catalogue 2011

contents

Introduction 4

EdwardWilson 10

PeterMillar 12

MichaelArditti 14

MiklósBánffy 16

TaharBenJelloun 18

OliviaFane 19

RupertSmith 20

PeterBurton 21

AlanClark 22

AlexWheatle 23

GerdaPearce 24

PeterLantos 25

TessaCodrington 26

BlackAmberInspirations 30

BackinPrint 36

EuroCrime 37

ArcadiaFavourites 38

Distributors 40

‘Anothersmallpressthat’senjoyingaChristmaswindfallfromanunlikelysourceisGaryPulsifer’sArcadiaBooks,knowntoliteraryLondonasthepublishersofShereHite,FrancisKingandLisaAppignanesi.WhenWoodyAllendecidedtolocatehismostrecentnewfilm,You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,starringAnthonyHopkins,AntonioBanderas,andNaomiWatts,inLondon,thelocationscoutsforhisscriptsetaboutfindinganappropriate

“smallpublisher”.AllenfinallysettledonArcadiainNassauStreet,W1.Pulsiferdidnotexpecthisofficetosurvivethecuttingroom,ortobeexposedtotherealworldwithout

fictionaldisguise,butArcadia’sappealprovedstrongerthantheeditor’sscissors’RobeRt MccRuM,Observer

‘Alwaysintriguing,alwaysadventurous’boyd tonkin,Independent

‘Britain’sforemostpublisheroftranslatedworks’SebaStian ShakeSpeaRe,Evening Standard

‘ResponsibleforbringingexcellenttranslatedfictiontoBritaininthelastfewyears’Julian evanS,Guardian

‘Anexcellentlist!’hanif kuReiShi

‘The SeducerisanenormouslyaccomplishedandcompellingnovelbyoneofScandinavia’soutstandingcontemporarywriters.BarbaraJ.HavelandandArcadiaBookshaveperformed

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‘Ihavebecomeaddictedtoyourtranslatedcrimeimprint.Itissofantastic’helena kennedy Qc

‘Arcadiahasshownapassionatecommitmenttodiversityforalongtime,anditssupportofworkintranslationisoutstanding.Theyknowhowtoughthemarketis,yethavestill

managedtomaketheirlistworkcommercially’IPGDiversityAwardJudges(ArcadiawontheIPGawardinboth2008and2009)

‘And,yet,noteverythingintheliterarygardenisblightedrubbish.Curiouslyenoughliterarycultureisflourishinginthiscountry.Increasingly,though,itdoessobeyondthestandard

literarycircuit,keptalivebyenthusiasticpublishers[suchas]Arcadia’Private Eye

‘AlookattheArcadiacatalogueisgoodevidenceofthevarietyoftranslatedmaterialpublishedbyDanieladeGrooteandGaryPulsifer’Buenos Aires Herald

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FrontcoverillustrationfromThe Midnight SwimmerbyEdwardWilson,designedbyJamesNunn.BackcoverphotographfromSpirits of TangierbyTessaCodrington.Thephotographonp.29isoftheAmericanartistMargueriteMcBeyinherTangierstudio,takenfromSpirits of TangierbyTessaCodrington.CataloguedesignandillustrationbyJamesNunn,www.jamesnunn.co.uk.

15 years

2000.The Deposition of Father McGreevy,asecondnovelbytheIrishartistandwriterBrianO’Doherty,isshortlistedfortheManBookerPrize(‘Itshouldhavewonalltheprizes,butitistoorawandpainfulforthat . . .suchapowerfulbook,sotruthful’–DorisLessing.)FrancisKing,aPresident Emeritus of International PEN and a Vice President of English PEN, is awarded theGoldenPENAwardforaLifetime’sDistinguishedServicetoLiterature.EasterbyMichaelArditticreates a certain stir in someAnglican circles becauseof its candiddepictionof gayChurchofEnglandpriests.ItislonglistedfortheWhitbread,shortlistedfortheCreativeFreedomAwardandwinstheinauguralMardiGras&Waterstone’sAward,sellingsome30,000copies.TessadeLoo’snovelThe Twins(translatedfromtheDutchbyRuthLevitt)sellsover75,000copiesandisfilmedasTwin Sisters.ItisnamedasoneoftheSunday Times‘100BestBooksoftheYear’andisNo.1intheIndependent’s‘50BestBooksoftheSummer’.TheinternationallyrenownedShereHitepublishesherautobiographyThe Hite Report on Shere Hite: The Voice of a Daughter in Exile.Itcausessomethingofasensation.WegoontopublishtwootherReports,The Hite Report on Women Loving WomenandOedipus Revisited.WealsobeginapublishingfriendshipwithcrimewriterNicolasFreeling,re-issuingBecause of the Cats(‘Oneofmyfavourites’–PDJames)beforegoingontobringoutthreeotherofhisbooks.ArcadiaishailedasaHerooftheBookTradebytheIndependent.

2001. They Were Divided (translated from the Hungarian by Countess Bánffy and PatrickThursfield,withaforewordbyPatrickLeighFermor),volumethreeofMiklósBánffy’smasterfulTransylvanian Trilogy, is awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, at a ceremonypresidedoverbyUmbertoEco.LatertheGuardiannamesThey Were Counted,volumeone,as‘Oneofthe1000BooksYouMustRead’.The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesstarringRichardDreyfuss,TimothySpallandHugoWeaving,modelledonthenovelofthesamenamebyChileanwriterLuis Sepúlveda, is released– although curiouslynot in theUK.Dinner of Herbs, travelwritingaboutCarlaGrissmann’sexperiences inremoteAnatolia inthe1960s, livingwitha localpeasantfamily,becomesabenchmarkof itskind,writtenwithanoutsider’seyeandan insider’sempathy.

1996. Ourveryfirst title is thepoetry collectionDouble Act byFionaPitt-Kethley, followedbyadebutnovel,When Memory Dies, byRace & Class foundingeditorA. Sivanandan.When Memory Dies is shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and wins the SagittariusPrize,goingontosellover30,000copies.1997. Ourfirstshortstorycollection,Present FearsbyElisabethRussellTaylor,iswidelyreviewed,andreprints.Laterwere-issueRussellTaylor’shauntingnovelTomorrow andpublisha furthercollection,Will Dolores Come to Tea?,shortlistedfortheWingateJewish QuarterlyAwardin2001.

1998. Richard Zimler’s historical crime novel The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon is published,selling some 85,000 copies over time. Isabelle: A Story in Shots by John Berger and NellaBielski, a film script about the life of Isabelle Eberhardt, receives its first publication. Night Letters by Australian novelist Robert Dessaix wins praise from Edmund White, Paul Bailey,John Banville and Alberto Manguel, and a special commendation from the judges of theDavid Higham Prize for Fiction. Tariq Ali’s novel Fear of Mirrors provides a look atespionage in the East German state and how it tore families apart – and was based onreal events. Eurydice in the Underworld, Kathy Acker’s last book, is admired by JeanetteWintersonandPeterAckroyd.

1999.ClareColvin’s imaginativenovelMasque of the Gonzagas transportedus toMantua atthe time whenMonteverdi was composer at the court of the Gonzagas. Kyra Vayne, the ‘lostsoprano’,toldallandmoreinA Voice Reborn(withaforewordbySueLawley)and,attheageof82,welcomedinthenewmillenniumfromthestageoftheBolshoi,filmedbyBBCTV.PeggybyPaulineNevilleisshortlistedforthePEN/J.R.AckerleyPrize.

IntroductIon15th annIversary: some hIghlIghts

‘BrixtonBard’AlexWheatleandwinstheLondonNewWritersAward.CanadiannovelistLewisDeSoto’sA Blade of GrassislonglistedfortheBookerandthenshortlistedfortheOndaatjePrizeayearlater.

2005.LadyColinCampbellmakesasplashwiththepublicationofThe Real Dianaanditscandidrevelations about Diana, Princess ofWales. Later that year billionaire philanthropist Lily SafrathreatenslegalactionagainstArcadiaonpublicationofLadyColin’sdebutnovelEmpress Biancaandcopiesarewithdrawnfrombookshopsandpulped.DominickDunnechampionsthenovelinthepagesofVanity Fairandanewpublisher,DynastyPress,publishesarevisededitionseveralyearsdowntheroad.Arcadia’sBlissBooksimprintpublishesThe White MasaibySwissauthorCorinneHofmann,followedbytwosequels,Reunion in BarsaloiandBack from Africa (all translatedfromtheGermanbyPeterMillar).Thethreebookssellover150,000copiesforusfollowingthereleaseofthefilmThe White Masai,whichisviewedbyoverfivemillionpeople.(Wearedelightedtoannounceherethatafourthbookintheseriesisnowinthepipeline.)UnitybyMichaelArdittiisshortlistedfortheWingateJewish QuarterlyAward.Oceans of TimebyNorwegiannovelistandpublisherMereteMorgenAndersen is longlistedfortheIndependentForeignFictionPrize,whilehertranslatorBarbaraJ.HavelandisshortlistedfortheOxfordWeidenfeldTranslationPrize.DredaSayMitchellwinstheCWAJohnCreaseyMemorialDaggerwithherdebutnovelRunning Hot-thefirstblackBritishwritertodoso.ArcadiaacquiresBlackAmberBookswithArtsCouncilEnglandfunding.

2006.Justice Under Siege: One Woman’s Battle Against an European Oil GiantbyEvaJolyispublishedinassociationwithCitizenPress.L’Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a TheftbyMonicaWaitzfelderandtranslatedfromtheFrenchbyPeterBush,withaprefacebyNazi-hunterSergeKlarsfeld,attractspraiseandsupportfromawidevarietyofpublicfigures,includingBaronessWarnock, Hugo Vickers, Lord Lester QC, Michael Mansfield QC and Rabbi Julia Neuberger.HermanbyLarsSaabyeChristensen(translatedfromtheNorwegianbyStevenMichaelNordby)isshortlistedfortheYoungMindsBookAward.ArcadiaisagainsingledoutasaHerooftheBookTradebytheIndependent.

2002.The DaughterbyPavlosMatesis,aEuropeanbestseller(translatedfromtheGreekbyFredA.Reed)ispublished.TheGuardianwilllaterlistitas‘Oneof1000BooksYouMustRead’.Bitter EdenbySouthAfricanpoetandANCheroTatamkhuluAfrikais,inthewordsoftheIndependent,‘Anastonishingstoryaboutmeninclosequartersforgingrelationshipsthatborderontrustandbetrayal–andhowlove,inwar,isanambivalentbond’.EdwardWilson’sVietnamWarnovelA River in MaymeritspraisefromWGSebaldandAlanSillitoe,andisshortlistedfortheCommonwealthWritersPrize.QaisraShahraz’sgrippingnovelThe Holy Woman(anditssequelTyphoon),aboutthepositionofwomeninruralPakistan,provesapopularsuccessinanumberofcountries,winstheGoldenJubileeAwardanditsauthorisshortlistedfortheAsianWomenofAchievementAwards.ArcadiaisnamedSunday TimesSmallPublisheroftheYear,havingbeenrunner-upin2001andshortlistedtwicebeforethat.

2003.ArcadiapublishestheinternationalbestsellerThe Half BrotherbycelebratedNorwegianwriterLarsSaabyeChristensen(translatedbyKennethSteven),whichwillgoontobeshortlistedfortheInternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAward,longlistedfortheIndependentForeignFictionPrizeandnamedasoneof25notable titlesby theAmericanLibraryAssociation.WealsobringoutThe Seducer,bookoneofJanKjærstad’smagicalJonasWergelandtrilogy,translatedfromtheNorwegianbyBarbaraJ.Haveland(followedovertimebyThe ConquerorandThe Discoverer).BothNorwegianscouldandshouldbefutureNobelcontenders.QaisraShahrazisshortlistedfortheMuslim NewsAwardsforExcellence.The Nick of TimebyFrancisKingislonglistedfortheBookerandiscommendedbyHaroldPinter,AntoniaFraser,BerylBainbridge,PenelopeLivelyandMargaretDrabble.ArcadiabecomesaRegularlyFundedOrganisationofArtsCouncilEngland.

2004.LisaAppignanesi’sThe Memory ManwinstheHolocaustLiteratureAwardandisshortlistedfortheCommonwealthWritersPrize,goingthroughseveralimpressions.FansnumberJohnBerger,EdmundWhite,GillianSlovoandHelenaKennedyQC.EricaJong’sSappho’s Leap,anovelabouttheGreekpoetess,becomes somethingofa talkingpoint that summer. In My Father’s Shadeis poet RachelManley’s reflections on her relationship with her father,MichaelManley, twiceprimeministerof Jamaica.YvonneBrewster,oneof the leading lightsofBritain’sBlackTheatremovement,explainedwhyinThe Undertaker’s Daughter.Brixton Rockkicksoffthecareerof

plottwistslikeanAK-47andracesalongtoanexplosivefinale’.ArcadiawinstheIPGDiversityAwardforthesecondyearrunningandacquiresTheMaiaPress.

2010.Man’s World byRupertSmith is shortlisted for the inauguralGreenCarnation Prize and its author is named StonewallWriter of the Year. ThenovelbecomesaNo.1Amazongayfictionbestseller. A Kind of Intimacy,a debut novel by Jenn Ashworth, wins the Betty Trask Award, is runner-upfor the Guardian’s Not the Booker and is a finalist forWaterstone’s NewVoices.Cold Snap,FrancisKing’sfiftieth title, ispublishedandcriticsnotethatthe87-year-oldauthoriswritingattheheightofhispowers.WepublishDaciaMaraini’s latestnovelTrain to Budapest (translatedfromtheItalianby Silvester Mazzarella) and re-issue her internationally bestselling novelThe Silent Duchess (translated by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood),previously shortlisted for the Independent ForeignFictionPrizeandoneofthe Guardian’s‘1000BooksyouMustRead’.To Music,aMaiaPresstitlebytheNorwegiannovelistandcomposerKetilBjørnstad(translatedbyDeborahDawkinandEricSkuggevik)islonglistedfortheIndependent ForeignFictionPrize.MichaelArditti’sThe Enemy of the GoodislonglistedforthePrinceMauricePrizeandSaumyaBalsari’sdebutnovelThe Cambridge Curry ClubwinstheinauguralCambridgeshireBookoftheDecade,havingpreviouslybeenlonglistedfortheVodafoneCrosswordBookAwards.DrDennisFriedman’sAn Unsolicited Gift: Why We Do What We Doachievespresscoveragein some 30 countries and ‘kicked up a bit of a ruckus’ according toTimemagazine.BonnieGreerisawardedtheOBEintheQueen’sBirthdayHonourslistforhercontributiontotheArts.

2011.MichaelArdittiisinthenewsagain,withpublicationofJubilate,thefirstliterarynovelsetinLourdessinceZola’sin1894.JennAshworthisnamedasoneoftwelvebestnewnovelistsbyBBC2’sThe Culture ShowforA Kind of Intimacy.(‘Laugh-out-loudfunnyandcompletelycompelling...adark,darktale,butatalefortoday.’)ArcadiaisshortlistedfortheIPGDiversityAwardforthefourthtimeintheprize’sfiveyearhistory,havingwonittwicepreviously.The Discoverer,bookthreeofJanKjærstad’smillion-copybestsellingtrilogy,translatedfromtheNorwegianbyBarbaraJ.Haveland,islonglistedfortheBestTranslatedBookAwardintheUS.AmericanlyricistLoisWalden’sOne More StopisshortlistedforaLambdaLiteraryAwardinthecategoryLesbianDebutFiction,havingbeenshortlistedforWaterstone’sNewVoicespreviously.ShereHite isacclaimedasoneof the ‘100TopWomen’by theGuardian.WoodyAllen’s latestfilmYou Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger featuresArcadiaBooksasthepublishinghouseinit.Andthanks,asalways,toAndrewGiffordandPiersRussell-Cobb.

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ShereHite,oneoftheGuardian’s‘100TopWomen’

2007.What Will SurvivebyJoanSmith looksat thehothouseofWestminsterpolitics,howweviewcelebrityandgeopoliticsintheMiddleEast,inthiscaseLebanon.ItattractsplauditsfromPDJames,KathyLette,SaraParetskyandAndrewMarronStart the Week.InEmmaTennant’sThe Autobiography of the Queen,HerMajestygoesAWOLtoStLucia–notallRoyalistswereamused.VijayMedtia,authoroftheBlackAmberdebutnovelThe House of Subadar,isshortlistedfortheGlenDimplexNewWritersAward. SwissEuroCrimewriterMartin Suter’s novelA Deal with the Devil (translatedfromtheGermanbyPeterMillar) isshortlistedfortheCWAInternationalDagger.The Book of ChameleonsbyAngolannovelistJoséEduardoAgualusaandtranslatedfromthePortuguesebyDanielHahnwinstheIndependentForeignFictionPrize–AgualusaisthefirstAfricanwritertodoso.

2008,abumperyearforprizenominations.Ken,theunauthorisedbiographyofKenLivingstonebyToday programme senior reporterAndrewHosken, is releasedduring theLondonmayoralcampaign. It receiveswidespread press attentionwhenHosken reveals thatKen has a ‘hidden’familyandtwodaughtershithertounknowntojournalistsandtheworldatlarge.Blind Sunflowers,acontemporaryclassicabouttheSpanishcivilwarbythelateSpanishpublisherAlbertoMéndez(translated byNick Caistor) is serialised inThe New Yorker and a film follows.We publishourfirstphotographybook,TessaCodrington’sSpirits of Tangier, re-issuednow.Far North,basedonthetitlestoryofSaraMaitland’scollectionofthesamename,goesongeneralrelease.Dominique Manotti’s EuroCrime novel Lorraine Connection (translated from the French byAmanda Hopkinson and Ros Schwartz) wins the CWA International Dagger (after her novelDead Horsemeatwasshortlistedin2007)andisnominatedfortheITV3CrimeThrillerAwardsin thecategoriesofAuthorof theYearandBreakthroughAuthor.Alsonominated for the sameITV3awardsareBlood of the AngelsbyEugenioFuentes(translatedfromtheSpanishbyMartinSchifinoandSelinaPackard)andDomingoVillar’sWater-blue Eyes(translatedfromtheSpanishbyMartinSchifino).The ModelbyLarsSaabyeChristensen(translatedfromtheNorwegianbyDonBartlett) isshortlistedfortheIndependentForeignFictionPrize,whileYasminaTraboulsi’sBahia Blues(translatedfromtheFrenchbyPollyMcLean)islonglistedforthesameaward.AnitaNair’snovelMistress is longlistedfortheOrangePrizeforFiction.AlexWheatleisawardedtheMBEforservicestoliteratureintheQueen’sBirthdayHonourslist.ArcadiawinstheIPGDiversityAward, after having been shortlisted the previous year.We are shortlisted for theUKTrade&InvestmentInternationalAchievementoftheYearAward,fortheBakerTillyImprint&EditoroftheYearAwardandfortheDecibelCulturalDiversityAward.

2009.WearedelightedtowelcomePetrosMarkaristoourlist,withpublicationofChe Committed Suicide,translatedfromtheGreekbyDavidConnolly.HejoinsaEuroCrimelistwhichfeaturestheworkofGunnarStaalesen(Norway),LeifDavidsen(Denmark),MattiJoensuu(Finland)andBarryMaitland (Australia), amongstothers.AnthonyPainter’sBarack Obama: The Movement for ChangelaunchesBlackAmberInspirationsandisfollowedbybiographiesofUsainBolt,SpikeLee,CarlosAcosta,BillMorris,NaviPillayandLangstonHughes.WepublishMaureenDuffy’slatestnovel,The Orpheus Trail,achillingstoryaboutchildtraffickingandmurder.JosephOlshan’sThe ConversionisshortlistedforaLambdaLiteraryAwardinthecategoryGayFictionandisnamedanHonorBookbytheAmericanLibraryAssociation.A Casualty of WareditedbyPeterBurtonisalsoshortlistedforaLambda,thistimeinthecategoryLGBTAnthologies.My Father’s WivesbyJoséEduardoAgualusa(translatedfromthePortuguesebyDanielHahn) is longlistedfortheIndependentForeignFictionPrize.Affairs of State,afilmbasedontheEuroCrimenovelofthesamenamebyDominiqueManotti,is,inthewordsofVariety,‘Catchy,edgy,rattlesoffmultiple

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the darkling spyEdwardWilson

Catesby could almost see the face in its entirety – an angel face from hell. The same face that had seduced Henry had also tricked the Soviet general staff. ‘Why have you never done anything about him?’ ‘Never?’ Petra was wearing the twisted smile that Catesby had seen only once before. ‘Never hasn’t come yet.’

London, 1956. A generation of British spies arehaunted by the ghosts of friends turned traitor.Henry Bone, a Whitehall intelligence mandarin,learns that Butterfly is about to defect to theAmericans. Butterfly’s brain is an archive ofsecrets that can wreak havoc and destroy livesand reputations. Bone has been plagued byButterfly for 20 years. He knows that Butterfly’sbeauty and aristocratic charm hide a pathologicaldepravity that seeks satisfaction from inflictingpain and humiliation.Henry Bone knows hemustgettoButterflybeforetheAmericans. Catesby, a spy with his reputation in tatters,is pressured to become a fake defector in orderto track down Butterfly. Catesby’s quest leadshim from Berlin, through a shower of Molotovcocktails in Budapest and finally to dinner alonewith the East German espionage legend, MischaWolf. The novel’s shocking conclusion will changethereader’sviewoftheColdWarforever.

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‘Theprofessionalismofthenovel,sorichindetailedperspectives,itscharacterssosturdilygrounded,enablesittooutgrowthespy-thriller’smorewearisomeconventions,whiledeliveringastrongemotionalcharge’TLS

‘OnparwithJohnLeCarré’sThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold.It’sthatgood’Tribune

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the midnight swimmer

EdwardWilson

October,1962.IftheCubangamblegoeswrongandwarbreaksout,Britainwillnolongerexist.

Londondispatchesasecretenvoytodefusetheconfrontation.

Spawned in the bleak poverty of an East Anglianfishing port, Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves hiscountry,butdespises the classwho run it.Loathedby the Americans and trusted by the Russians,Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington tomake clandestine contacts. London has authorisedCatesby to offer Moscow a secret deal to breaktheCubanMissileCrisis deadlock.But before thatcanhappen,Catesbymeets theMidnightSwimmerwhohasachillingmessageforWashington. Once again, Wilson poses the fundamentalquestion that few spy novelists answer: Whatis the greater crime? Betraying your country orbetrayingthepersonyoulove? AtriangleofloveanddeaththatbeganinBerlinendsinCuba.OnonecornerisawardisabledKGBgeneral,onanothercornerishisunfulfilledwife... This sophisticated novel is full of twists andturns that merge historical fact with fiction. Sleazeand high politics literally share the same beds. Awhite knuckle superpower standoff is played outagainst a backdrop of honey trap blackmail,Mafiacontracts, assassination and Vatican scandal. Thereal blurs into the surreal as Che car surfs onthe Havana seafront and Fidel takes the pitcher’smound against a professional baseball team. It’stheCubanMissileCrisisasnevertoldbefore.

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edwaRd wilSon is a native of Baltimore.He studied International Relations on aUSArmyscholarship.HelaterservedasaSpecialForcesofficer inVietnam.HewasdecoratedforhispartinrescuingwoundedVietnamese soldiers from aminefield. Af-ter leaving the Army, Wilson became anexpatriate and gave up US nationality tobecomeaBritishcitizen.Hehasalsolivedandworked inGermanyandFrance.TheauthornowlivesinSuffolkwherehetaughtEnglish and Modern Languages for 30years.The Midnight Swimmeristhethirdpartof thespy trilogywhichalso includesThe EnvoyandThe Darkling Spy.

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the Black madonnaPeterMillar

‘Draws on Millar’s reporter’s feel for today’s news – from Gaza to the Islamist threat in Brit-ain and the election of a German pope – and his knowledge of Europe to brew up an excit-ing chase. Events move swiftly, from Brick Lane to Bavaria and Madrid before culminating in a shoot-out in the Great Court of the British Mu-seum that should look pretty spectacular if they ever make a film version. Under the cover of an Israeli airstrike, an important archaeological find is stolen from a museum in Gaza and its curator, Nazreem Hashrawi, is brutally assaulted. The missing statue is a Black Madonna, perhaps the earliest known likeness of the Mother of Christ. Nazreem turns for help to her former lover, Marcus Frey, a rather more dynamic Fellow of All Souls than one might usually come across, and when parts of a mutilated body are sent to a nun at a shrine in Germany, the couple find their lives in danger. On their trail are an Islamist terrorist group led by a killer with ambitions to replace Osama bin Laden, fundamentalist Christians from the American Bible Belt, the British Secret Service and others even more shadowy. But why do they all want the Madonna de-stroyed? The answer hinges in what Millar, tongue only partially in cheek, calls a pagan con-spiracy at the heart of the Church for 2000 years. If that sounds a bit Dan Brown, it’s deliberate – Millar bows to no one in his scorn for TheDaVinciCode – “shoddily written, cloth-eared and underwhelming” – and he has surely taken great pleasure in producing a biblical-themed thriller that beats it hands down for plausibility and his-torical accuracy’ TheTimes

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‘Atrulycompelling,globetrotterthriller...Lookout,DanBrown,makewayforMillar’JeffeRy deaveR

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the shameful suicide of Winston

churchillPeterMillar

The novel begins inDowning Street but not asweknowit:theyearis1949,theAlliedPowers’advanceonMoscow in the wake ofNazi defeat has failed.Stalin’s tanks are rumbling through London andWinstonChurchillemergesfromhisbunker,drawsarevolveranddecidesupontheonlycourseofactionlefttohim. We switch to 1989. England is divided alongnorth-south lines between Soviet and Americansectors, with London split in two. MetropolitanPeople’s Police detective Harry Stark works inScotland Yard with a view of Victory Embank-ment and the charred stump of Big Ben on theothersideoftheLondonWall. Under Blackfriars Bridge a river border patrolfinds a hanging corpse. Stark is called to investi-gate. A hard-working honest cop whose chief de-light is a pint in The Rose (formerly ‘and Crown’)he has no truck with the sinister Department ofSocialSecuritypoliticalpolice. An American infiltrator tells him the bodyis linked to a dissident plot involving his way-ward little sister, his socialist hero father’s secretpast and the notorious suicide of the ‘villainous’Churchill himself. But should he believe him orthe slimy DoSS major who feeds him an alto-getherdifferentversionofhistory? A gripping murder mystery mixed with per-sonal and political upheaval set in an alternativeBritain that is the front line of the Cold War,written by the award-winning British journalistwhocoveredthefalloftheBerlinWall.

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peteR MillaR isajournalist,criticandau-thor,namedForeignCorrespondentoftheYear1989forhisreportingofthelaterdaysoftheColdWarandthefalloftheBerlinWallforThe Sunday Times.Heistheau-thorofAll Gone to Look for America, 1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall,andthenovelThe Black Ma-donna,aswellasthetranslatorofseveralGerman-language books into English in-cludingthebestsellingTheWhite MasaibyCorinneHofmann, andADeal with the DevilbyMartinSuter.

‘Anintelligentthriller,anexpertblendofnuclearhistoryandinternational

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Pagan and her ParentsMichaelArdittiStonewallBookoftheMonthShortlistedforaLambdaLiteraryAward

Candida Mulliner and Leo Young have been theclosest of friends since university, living togetherbut loving separately. When Candida dies after along illness, she leaves her five-year-old daughter,Pagan, in Leo’s care. Candida’s adoptive parentsarehorrified.Refusingtoacceptthatagaymanisasuitable person to bring up a child, they challengeLeo’sguardianshipinthecourts.AsLeofightsforhisandPagan’srights,hefindshimself isolated,vilifiedand,ultimately,arrested.Meanwhile,he setsout todiscover the truth aboutCandida, the cause of herestrangementfromheradoptiveparents,theidentityofhernaturalmotherandthereasonsforherrefusaltonamePagan’sfather.

Michael Arditti’s moving, passionate andprovocative novelwas hugely acclaimed on its firstappearance in 1996. Its timely reissue brings itspowerful exploration of the nature of parenthoodand meaning of family life to a new generationofreaders.

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‘Itshouldberequiredreadingwhereverthenuclearfamilyissmallmindedlylaudedastheonetrueideal.Unputdownable’The Times

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JubilateMichaelArditti

A woman wakes in a Lourdes hotel room besideher lover of just two days. She has broughther brain-damaged husband on a pilgrimageto seek a miracle cure; her lover is making aTV documentary to mark the shrine’s 150thanniversary year. Setting aside personal doubts,family ties and spiritual differences, they embarkon a turbulent affair from which neither they northosearoundthemwillemergeunchanged.

Jubilate is a love story unlike any other. MichaelArditti’s passionate and provocative new novelcombines tender romance with a unique andrichly observed setting. Packed with eccentric andengaging characters, it challenges acceptednotionsof sickness and health, duty and sacrifice, thenatureofmiraclesandtheworkingsofgrace.

‘JubilatedemonstratesonceagainArditti’scon-siderablestrengths...[It]carriesyouthroughwithhumour,warmthand,aboveall,theurgencyofagreatromance’peteR StanfoRd,Guardian

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Michael aRditti was born in Cheshireand lives in London. He is the authorof six acclaimed novels, The Celibate,Pagan and Her Parents,Easter,Unity,A Sea Change andThe Enemy of the Good, and a collection of short stories,Good Clean Fun.

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‘Ofthemanyjoysofreading,thegreatestissurelyfindinganauthorofwhomyouhadneverheardandyetwhospeakstoyouasifaddressing

afriend.Twoyearsago,flickingthroughthebookspagesoftheSpectator,Icameacrossanunfamiliarname,MiklósBánffy.Iamwisernow,andmylifeissignificantlyricherforhisacquaintance.HeisbestrememberedinhishomelandforhisTransylvanian Trilogy...pleasegivethiscivilisedHungarianago.Ignorethetyrannyofapprovedlists,andthosebreathlessclaimsmadeonbehalfofnovelistssaidtobe“attheheightoftheirpowers”.Plungeinsteadintothecleansingwatersofarediscoveredmasterpiece,becauseThe Transylvanian Trilogyis

certainlyamasterpiece,inanylanguage.Andif,havingreadit,youfeelletdown,Ishallprovidereimbursement.’

Michael hendeRSon,Daily Telegraph

the transylvanian trilogy the Phoenix land:

the memoirs of count miklós

BánffyMiklósBánffy

Translated from the Hungarian by KatalinBánffy-JelenandPatrickThursfield,

winners of the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Foreword by PatrickLeighFermor

The thousand year-old year-old kingdom ofHungary,whichformedthemajorpartoftheAustro-Hungarian Empire until the last Habsburg fled in1918,wasfinallydismemberedbytheWesternAlliesbythetermsofthepeacetreatieswhichfollowedtheFirstWorldWar.Phoenix-liketheHungarianpeoplesurvived the horrors of war, the disappointmentof the first socialist republic, the disillusion of thebrief but terrifying communist rule of Béla Kun,and the bitterness of seeing their beloved countrydismembered by theTreaty ofTrianon.This is theworldthatMiklósBánffydescribesinThe Phoenix Land.

‘IfMiklósBánffyhadnotcreatedhimself,Chekovcouldhavedoneitforhim:aristocrat,bon viveur,portraitpainter,novelist,Hungarianforeignsecretary’clive SinclaiR,Independent

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count MiklóS bánffy (1873-1950) wasvariously a diplomat, MP and foreignminister in 1921/22 when he signedthe peace treaty with the United Statesand obtained Hungary’s admission tothe League of Nations. He was alsoresponsible for organising the lastHabsburgcoronation,thatofKingKarlin1916.HisTransylvanian Trilogy (They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided)waspublished before the outbreak of theSecondWorldWar. Itwas ignoredunderthe communists, and has recently beenrepublished togreatacclaim inhisnativecountryandthroughoutEurope.

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on loving JosiahOliviaFaneA Maggie Hamand Book

Josiah Horatio Nelson is born to unusual parentswhomet in a psychiatric hospital.Hismother EvewantstobringhersonupwithouttheconstraintsofconventionalsocietyandhisfatherGibsonisrecover-ingfromdepressionandcanonlyleadasimplelife.Josiahsleepsonthecompostheap,learnsLatinfromhismotherandplantlorefromhisfather,anddoesn’tattendschool.Thefamily’sbackgroundandoddbe-haviourprovokethecontinuedattentionofthesocialserviceswhoatfirstareunabletointervene,butwhenJosiahisfinallyremovedfromhisidyllichomebothparentshavebreakdownsandJosiahissenttoaseriesoffosterfamiliesbeforeeventuallybeingclassifiedasanemergencyandsenttoahome.

Josiah isnow friendless,ostracisedandbullied.HeissavedfromdespairbymeetingLatintutorThomasMariuswho forms an intense relationshipwith theboy.MariustakeshimtoItalyonaneducationalvisitbutreturnstofindheissuspectedofchildabusebythechildren’sservices.Josiahlooksasifhemaylosetheonlypersonhefeelsnowreallyloveshim.

Olivia Fane’s novel is by turns witty, angry, eruditeandtouching,andexploresmodernattitudestoloveinallitsformsandthedarksideofitsobsessionwithpaedophiliaandchildabuse.

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olivia fane studied Classics at TrinityHall, Cambridge, and trained as a pro-bation officer. Her first novel, Landing on Clouds, was received with criticalacclaim, winning a Betty Trask Award,and her second and third novels, The Glorious Flight of Perdita Tree, andGod’s Apology were published to ex-cellentreviews.

‘BringstomindcomparisonswithShenaMackay,and,inherhero’sphilosophicalquestwithearlyIrisMurdoch’The TimesonThe Glorious Flight of Perdita Tree

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a Palace in the old village

TaharBenJellounTranslated from the French by LindaCoverdale

FromthebestsellingauthorofThis Blinding Absence of Lightcomesanewnovelaboutthepowerfulpullofhomeandtheyearningfortraditionandfamily.

MohammedhasspentthepastfortyyearsworkinginFrance.Asheapproachesretirement,hetakesstockofhislife–hisdevotiontoIslamandtohisassimilatedchildren–anddecidestoreturntoMorocco,wherehe spends the rest of his life’s savings building thebiggest house in the village and waiting for hischildrenandgrandchildrentocometobewithhim.

PraiseforLeaving Tangier,InternationalIMPACDublinLiteraryAwardnominee:

‘StuffedwithstoriesandstructuralsomersaultsnaturaltoArabstorytelling–hemoveseasilythroughtimeandbetweenrealityandreverie–itislessmagicalrealistthandualist-realist:atextinwhichworldanddreamcoexist’Julian evanS,Guardian

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tahaR ben Jellounwasborn in1944 inFez,Morocco,andemigratedtoFrancein1961.Anovelist,essayist,critic,andpoet,heisaregularcontributortoLe Monde,La Repubblica,El PaísandPanorama.HisnovelsincludeThe Sacred Night(winnerof the1987PrixGoncourt),Corruption, The Last Friend andLeaving Tangier.Ben Jellounwon the1994PrixMaghreb,and in 2004 he won the InternationalIMPAC Dublin Literary Award for This Blinding Absence of Light.

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What love IsEdited byPeterBurton

Including stories byRonaldFrame,PatrickGale,FrancisKing,JosephOlshan,AidenShaw,Royston

Ellisand many more

What Love Isisanewcollectionofshortstoriesbywritersthatshowtherichdiversityofcontemporarygayfiction. With contributors from America, Australia,BritainandCanadaandcontributionsfromRoystonElliswhoisbasedinSriLanka,NewYorkerLawrenceSchimel, who lives in Madrid, and the late JohnHaylock,whospentmuchofhistimeintheFarEast,What Love Iscouldbedescribedasaninternationalcollection. Scott Brown’s title story is a disturbing interiormonologuebyadistressedyoungman returning tohishomesomewhereintheMiddleEastandsetsthetoneforacollectionwhichincludesnewstoriesfromveteran Francis King, multi-award winning RonaldFrame and HarperCollins’ bestseller Patrick Gale.Food writer and television chef Richard Cawleyhas penned a new story, as has Royston Ellis, aninfluenceonJohnLennon,makingareturntofictionafter a long absence. Neal Drinnan contributesan uncharacteristically humorous story. AmericannovelistJosephOlshanprovidesanevocativetaleoffervidyouthandIanYounghassuppliedanotherofhistalesoflifeinNorthLondonintheseventies. What Love Isincludesstoriesthataredisturbinganddistressing,sinisterandsweet,humorousandex-citingandsometimes,perhaps,evenautobiographi-cal.Itisacollectionthatdivertsandentertainswhilstalsoprovokingthought.

‘Acornucopiaofinternationalwriters...thestoriesareequallydiverse–someharrowing,some

amusing.Anengagingcollection’Gay Times on A Casualty of War

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peteR buRton has edited seven previousanthologies of gay short stories, fourof which were Lambda Literary Awardfinalists. His other books include abiographyofRodStewart, Parallel Lives(amemoir),Talking to . . .(acollectionof interviews) andAmongst the Aliens(a collectionofessays).He is the formerliterary editor of Gay News and Gay Times, regularly reviews for the Daily Expressandistheliterarycoordinatorofthe Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival inBrighton,wherehelives.

man’s WorldRupertSmith

StonewallWriteroftheYearShortlistedfortheGreenCarnationPrize

LambdaLiteraryAwardNomineeNo.1AmazonGayBestseller

Ahistoricalromance–withadifference.

LONDONTODAY: a world of sex and drugs anddesignerclothes,whereRobertsearchesforfulfilmentingayclubsandchatrooms.LONDON50 YEARSAGO: fresh out ofNationalService,Michael enters a secret queer underworld,negotiating the dangers of the law and the closet,longingforliberationandlove.

Past and present collide when Robert moves intoa new flat, and discovers that history is alive andkickingonhisdoorstep.Man’s World is the storyof two gaymen, two gay generations, and aworldin which history goes unwritten and forgotten.Robert’sblogchronicles freedoms thatwouldhavebeenunthinkable50yearsago–jugglingdayjobsandnightlife, looking for sexonline, taking legality andequality for granted.Michael’s secret diary recordstheundergroundpubs,clubsandpartiesofLondon’sillegalgayscene,andnarratesalovestorythatcouldhavelandedhimandhisfriendsinprison. Two worlds that barely recognise each other.ButdoRobertandMichaelhavemore incommonthantheythink?Man’s Worldisasexy,movingstoryabout friendshipanddesire–abouthowmuch theworldhaschanged–andhowlittle.

‘Afunny,poignantandlife-affirmingnovel’ SaRah wateRS

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RupeRt SMith istheauthoroftennovels,in his own name and as James Lear andRupert James, andof severalbiographiesandbooksabouttelevision.HewasborninWashingtonDC,grewupinSurreyandhaslivedinLondonsince1978.Aswellaswriting fiction, Rupert has a long careeras a journalist, contributing to dailies,weekliesandmonthliesinBritain,AmericaandEurope.www.rupertsmith.org.uk

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Brenton BrownAlexWheatle

Thelong-awaitedsequeltoBrixton Rock.

Brenton Brownisafatallovestoryaboutamanwhonevergotoverhisfirstloveandwhohasbeenunabletoformanyrealrelationshipssince.Thatfirstperfectlovewaswithhishalf-sisterandcannotbe. Juliet isconsumedwithguiltbecausesheknowsthatherhalf-brother,Brenton,grewupinchildren’shomeswithnofamilyaroundwhileshereceivedtheirmother’sloveandhaditeasy.ShemarriedClayton,asuccessfulbanker,topleasehermother.Sherespectshim even if she doesn’t love him and he treats herdaughter Breanna as his own, even if Clayton hasalwayssuspectedsomethingwentonandisstillgoingonwiththetwohalf-siblings. Both Juliet and Brenton cannot let each othergo. Brenton’s long-time friend Floyd realises thisandpersuadeshimtostartanewlifeintheUS–andJuliet’s best friend also cautions her to keep awayfromBrenton.Theirgoodintentionsfailand,whileBreannabattleswithherowninsecuritiesandtragedy,JulietandBrentonseemdestinedtopaytheultimateprice. This long-awaited follow-up to Brixton Rock hasallthehallmarksthathavemadeAlexWheatle’snovels such a success – featuring family ties, love,tragedyandhumour,aswellasbringingthestreetsofLondonanditscharactersalive likenootherwriteraround.

‘Thestorytrundlesalongenergeticallybutthenovel’srealstrengthliesinthedialogue.

WheatlegivesusafascinatingsnapshotofblackEnglishintheearlyeighties’

Daily Telegraph on Brixton Rock.

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Bornin1963toJamaicanparentslivinginBrixton,alex wheatlespentmostofhischildhoodinaSurreychildren’shome.Hisfirstnovel,Brixton Rock,waspublishedto critical acclaim in 1999 and won theNewLondonWriter’s Award. Fivemorenovels,East of Acre Lane, The Seven Sisters, Island Songs, CheckersandThe Dirty South followed,allhighlypraised.In 2008 hewas awarded anMBE in theQueen’sBirthdayHonourslistforservicesto literature. He lives with his family inSouthLondon.

rory’s BoysAlanClark

When Rory Blaine inherits his grandmother’scrumbling London mansion, he’s persuaded tocreate Britain’s first retirement home for gaymen.Thirty years earlier, the teenage Rory had beenexiled from the house, the only home he’d everknown, when his sexuality was discovered. Nowmiddle-aged, he appears to be a tough, carefreehedonist but in reality is rootless, damaged andlonely. The prospective residents, Rory’s ‘boys’, are aneclecticbunch,unitedonlybyhealthybankbalancesandalongingtogrowoldinasympathetichaven.Buttheprojectbecomesthreatened,notonlywhenthehouseis‘outed’bythetabloidsbutbyRory’scomplexandshiftingrelationshipswithhisnewyoungpartnerFaisal,withVicd’Orsay,anelderlysingingstarwhohas funded the restoration for mysterious reasonsand,aboveall,withthecarefullyconstructedcharac-terhehasbuiltaroundhimself.Andthen,suddenly,thereisawomaninhislife... Funny,sharpandmoving,Rory’s Boys isaboutoneman’sstruggletoacceptwhoheisandabouttheneedmostofushavetofindsomesortoffamily.

‘Averygoodwriter.AlanClarkwriteswithintelligence,warmth,braveryandwitaboutthebigsubjectsthataretodowithhowwechoosetoliveourlives’ Sue townSend

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alan claRk was educated in Scotland,where he wrote his first children’s novelat the age of twelve. He dropped outof King’s College London and landedin the advertising business in which, asa copywriter and creative director, hehas won several international awards. Inrecent times he has digressed into traveljournalism, specialising in the westernMediterranean, and has also compileda quiverful of celebrity profiles, rangingfrom film stars and theatrical knights tobishopsandduchesses.

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closed horizonPeterLantos

The year is 2032. Mark Chadwick is a brilliantpsychiatristwhoisonthevergeofamajorscientificbreakthrough. By combining functional imaging ofthebrainwithcomputertechnology,hecannotonlypredict intentions but also decode human thoughtprocesses. It is this discovery which immediatelyattracts the attention of RobertDufresne, a seniorofficer inHomeSecuritywho isdetermined tousethisnoveltechniqueinthefightagainsttheenemiesof the Surveillance State. As Mark is relentlesslypursued by Dufresne, the changing relationshipswithhisfamily,friendsandcolleaguescomesharplyinto focus. Tragedies of the past cast shadowsoverMark’s present conundrum.This is a story ofloyaltyandbetrayal,guiltandforgiveness,blackmailand courage. And the impossibility to reach anunequivocal moral judgement against the shiftingvaluesofmodernsociety.

‘Somethingofagenius...withthereadabilityofaclassic’alan Sillitoe onParallel Lines

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peteR lantoS isaFellowoftheAcademyof Medical Sciences. In his previous lifehe was an internationally-known clinicalneuroscientistwhohasnowretiredfromaChairattheInstituteofPsychiatry,King’sCollege London. His previous book,Parallel Lines, is the storyofaboyhoodjourney from a sleepy provincial town inHungary during the Second World WartotheBergen-Belsenconcentrationcamp.He has been living in London for morethanfourdecadesandClosed Horizonishisfirstnovel.

long lies the shadow

GerdaPearceA Maggie Hamand Book

In Cape Town, Gin survives a car crash that killsher lover Simon. Detective Nick Retief suspectsit is not an accident. Gin returns to London todiscover she is pregnant with Simon’s child. Heremotional recovery is hamperedbypartial amnesiaabout the crash, and she turns to a childhoodfriendforhelp.Ginmustcopealonewiththebirthof her baby, and she is forced to face the ghoststhat haunt her, and deal with the consequencesof lies told and secrets kept. The truth behindher brother Gabe’s death is gradually revealed, asevents lead towards a final confrontation and ashockingconclusion.

‘SouthAfrica’sfinestlovestory’ RoSeMaRy fuRbeR

‘Amasterfulrenderingofthecomplexityofinterwovenloveaffairs.ItcouldcomfortablysitonthesameshelfasLawrenceDurrell’sAlexandria QuartetandDorisLessing’s The Golden Notebook’LewisDeSoto,authorofA Blade of Grass

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GeRda peaRce wasborninMthatha,SouthAfrica, at the edge of the Drakensbergmountains. Much of her childhood wasspent on the Transkei’sWild Coast. Shewas educated in the Eastern Cape, andat Rhodes University, Grahamstown,graduating in Pharmacy. Work at achildren’s hospital in Cape Town wasfollowed by time at mission hospitals inRundu and elsewhere along the Capriviin the Okavango, Namibia. Not wishingto live under the apartheid regime, sheemigrated to Britain. She studied andthenpractisedasanosteopathinLondonbeforebecomingawriterandeditor.Shelives inNottingHillwith an Englishmanand twocats.Long Lies the Shadow isherfirstnovel.

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photography

spirits of tangierTessaCodrington

As a child, Tessa Codrington was a witness to thelast days of the International Zonewhen shewenttoTangieren famille to staywithher grandfather.Asayoungadultshewitnessedthestartofthehippyculture in the sixties andwas friendswithmany ofthewriters,artistsandeccentricswhochoseTangieras their home, including the Hon. David Herbert,PaulBowles,MargueriteMcBeyandClaudioBravo.Tangier is now in a period of development andchange, and this portrait brings the city up to datewith quotes and portraits of today’s generation ofresidents,bothMoroccanandinternational.

‘IfyouhaveneverbeentoTangier,go.Ifyoucan’tgo,readTessaCodrington’sbook’Tatler

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teSSa codRinGton began her career asan assistant to Madame Yevonde in thesixties. She then worked for many yearsas a mail order catalogue photographer,interspersed with periods in Tangierwhenever possible. After marrying thespread-betting tycoon Stuart Wheeler in1979 and bringing up three daughters– supermodel Jacquetta Wheeler amongthem – she continued her career as afreelance photographer specialisingin portraiture and editorial work. Shewas the first woman chairman of theAssociation of Photographers. She stillundertakes photographic assignments aswellasrunninganequestriancentreattheWheelerhome,ChilhamCastleinKent.

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langston hughes: the value of contradictionBonnieGreerToooftenwearetoldtogetridofcontradictions,told that they threatenus, ormakeus a threat toothers.InthisnewbiographyBonnieGreergivesusaninsightintothecontroversialAfrican-Americanwriter and campaigner Langston Hughes, ajazzman,amanyoucouldnotpredictordefine,amanofcontradictionwhorefusedclassification. Langstoncampaignedtirelesslyforcivilrights,buttestifiedbeforeHouseUn-AmericanActivitiesCommittee – seen by many as a witch-hunt.Bonnie Greer refuses to ignore or excuse thesecontradictions but asks how they formed him.Findingthattooverlook,toexcuse,istodismissanessentialelementofhisgeniusandhispassion. LangstonHugheswas aman far ahead of histime, writing, during the Harlem Renaissance,about the African-American reaction to a blackpresidentof theUnited States.Withhonesty andwitGreer confronts the contradictionsofhisdayandoursandallowsustodrawstrengthfromtheunsolvableworldwhichhe foundhimself in, andinwhichwestillfindourselvesinthesestrangeandcomplicatedtimes.

‘Alwaysfresh,honestandoftenveryfunny’Time Out

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bonnie GReeR isanaward-winningauthorandplaywright,born inChicago.Sheap-pears regularlyontelevisionprogrammessuchasNewsnight ReviewandQuestion Time, and is a contributor to nationalnewspapers, as well as politics, arts andwomen’s magazines. She is a trustee ofthe SerpentineGallery, amember of theCouncilandArtisticAdvisoryCommitteesof the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art(RADA),amemberof theFrancoBritishCouncilandDeputyChairoftheBoardofTrusteesoftheBritishMuseum.

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BlackAmberInspirationswasthebrainchildofpublisherSonnyLeong,pastchairofArcadia,andtheserieshasbeencommissionedbyRosemarieHudson,foundingpublisherofBlackAmber.TheseriesaimstofillagapinthemarketbypublishingbooksaboutBMEheroessuitableforstudentsofallages.

‘Anewseriesofcompactbiographiesofhighachieversfromblackandotherminoritycommunities.Theresultssofarimpress,withsuccinct,scrupulouslivesofunionleaderBillMorris,sprinterUsainBoltandCubanmaster-dancerCarlosAcosta.Eventhosereaderswhobridleatthe“rolemodel”approachwillseethevalueofthiswelcomeseries’boyd tonkin,Independent

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usain Bolt: Fast as lightningMikeRowbottomForeword by DameKellyHolmes, Double Olympic Champion

Usain Bolt is the fastest man on the planet – andoneofthemostpopularathletesofalltime.

Hisdramaticworldrecord-breakingfeatsinthe100and200metreshaveearnedhimOlympicandworldgoldmedalsinthelastcoupleofyears.Butwhathasendeared this young Jamaican above all else is hisplayfulattitudeandwinningpersonality. In the first biography about this phenomenalsprinter,Mike Rowbottom looks at the way Bolt’sprodigious talenthasbeen shaped fromhisearliestyearsbyacompetitive system inhisnative Jamaica,which has produced generations of world-classsprinters. At the age of 15, Bolt was 6ft 5in tall, and theyoungesteverworld juniorchampion,having takenthe200metres titleonhome territory inKingston.Hiscoursetothetopwasset–butitwasnottobeasmoothride.Thisbookdetailshowinjuriesandalackofmental focushinderedhisprogressoverthenextfewyearsuntilin2005BoltturnedtoGlenMills,themanwhohadcoachedhisidol,DonQuarrie,toOlympicgold.

‘Sport’smostsought-aftericon’Daily Telegraph

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Mike RowbottoM isafreelancejournalistwho writes widely on sport, and whosecurrent job titles include chief featureswriter on www.insidethegames.biz. Healso writes regularly for Rowing & Regatta, the British rowing magazine,and covers athletics for the InternationalAssociationofAthleticsFederations,andthe Samsung Diamond League website.Mike has covered the last five summerOlympics and four Winter Olympics forthe Independent, for which he wrote aweeklyhumorouscolumnforsevenyears.Hehas alsoworked for theDaily Mail,theObserver, The Times,theGuardianand theSunday Correspondent.He co-authored the autobiography of Olympic400 metres silver medallist Roger Black,entitledHow Long’s The Course?

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spike lee: the eternal maverick

RayShell

Spike Lee’s first film, which he funded on a creditcard, won a slew of awards and most importantlyusheredinthereignofoneofthemostsignificantandinfluential filmmakers America has ever produced.Lee is obviously a huge name in the film industryyet after almost 30 years in the game he is stillperceived as aHollywood outsider, a lone fired-uploosecannonchallengingandcriticisingmainstreamdepictions of African-American society; his feudswith fellow directors Quentin Tarantino and ClintEastwood are international news. Lee’s films arelike sermons, parables, the real sociological deal inall its dirty-laundry scariness. Along with the usualsuspects,whosecareershestarted(SamuelJackson,Laurence Fishburne, Denzel Washington, HalleBerry,WesleySnipes)he’salsoworkedwithMichaelJackson,MichaelJordonandPavarotti.Hisvisionishonest,unsparing,brave,raw,painful,joyful,playful,humananduniversal.Hehas inspiredsomanyandEternal Maverick examines the ‘Spikes’ that haveinspiredSheltonJacksonLeeandfashionedhimintotheawardwinningfilmdirectorSpikeLee.

‘Apowerhouse’Maya anGelou

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Born in New York, Ray Shell’s actingcareerbroughthimtoBritainwherehehasbeenafixtureoftheWestEndstageforthelast20years.HeisalsotheinternationallybestsellingauthorofIced,andiscurrentlyworkingonhissecondnovel.

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navi Pillay: realising human rights for allSamNaidu

NaviPillay,theUNCommissionerforHumanRightswhowasappointedin2008,ismuchinthenewsatthemoment,speakingonbehalfoftheUNaseventsunfoldinTunisia,Egypt,Libyaandelsewhere. Pillay,atrailblazerinHumanRightslaw,wasbornin1941toahumbleIndianfamilyinapartheidSouthAfrica.She facedenormousobstacles toheraspira-tionsforfurthereducationandameaningfulcareer.However, in1967shewas thefirstblackwoman inSouthAfricatosetupalawpractice,whichsheusedtodefendmanyanti-apartheidactivists.Shealsousedher skills toprotect the rightsofpoliticalprisonersand remarkably, in 1973, she succeeded in obtain-ing legal representationandbasicamenities for theinmates of Robben Island. In 1995 when the firstdemocraticgovernmentwasformedinSouthAfrica,NelsonMandelanominatedPillay as thefirstblackfemale judge in the Supreme Court. In the sameyear she joined the InternationalCriminalTribunalfor Rwanda. Since then Pillay has become one oftheworld’sleadingadvocatesinthefieldofHumanRights.Forbesmagazine recently rankedher as the64thmostpowerfulwomanintheworld. ThisisthefirstbiographyofNaviPillayandwaswrittenwithhercooperation.

‘Aseasonedadvocate,atrailblazerandaskilleddiplomat’Harvard Law Bulletin

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SaM naidu was born in Durban, SouthAfrica. Currently, she is a ResearchAssociatewiththeDepartmentofEnglish,Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SouthAfrica. A former Commonwealth andMellon Scholar, her research interestsare postcolonial feminist aesthetics andliterature of migration and diaspora. DrNaidu has published extensively in herfieldandlivesinLondonwithherhusband,Adam,andborderterrier,Leroy.

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carlos acosta: the reluctant dancer

MargaretWillis

Carlos Acosta grew up in a cramped apartmentin Cuba, knowing poverty, hardship and familytragedies. He roamed the streets barefoot whenhe should have been in school, stole fruit fromneighbours’ orchards, and wanted nothing morethan to be a footballer like any other youngerboy. His father, however, fearing for his future,enrolled him in ballet school where he would bedisciplined, trained for a career, and fed. It wasmany years before the young Carlos would acceptthestrictdemandsofapursuithesawas‘sissy’. TodayCarlosAcosta isoneof theworld’smoststunning classical ballet dancers, admired for hisfirecracker, yet refined technique, for his rivetingactingandforhismagneticpresenceonstage.Heisconsideredanationaltreasureinhisowncountry,andamatineeidoltoglobaldancegoers.The Reluctant Dancerchartsthetrajectoryofthisexceptionalballetmaverickwhohascaptured theheartsofaudiencesworldwide.

‘One of the most brilliant ballet dancers in theworldtoday’Sunday Times

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MaRGaRet williS’ interestinballetstemsfromafive-yearstayintheformerSovietUnion,whereshestudiedclassicalballetand began writing on dance. VisitingCubain1990,shefirstsawCarlosAcostaand has continued to follow his stellarcareer. She was a member of LondonCity Ballet from 1990-93, performingprincipal character roles, is the authorof The Russian Ballet on Tour andhas contributed several articles for theInternational Dictionary of Ballet.She writes regularly for the Dancing Times, Dance Magazine and otherinternational publications. In 1986,she was the researcher for a BBC TVdocumentaryontheBolshoiBallet.

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