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*ADORKABLE by Sarra Manning Young Adult | Atom | March 2012 A fun, funky new story from the queen of teen fiction Jeane Smith is seventeen and has turned her self-styled dorkiness into an art form, a lifestyle choice and a profitable website and consultancy business. She writes a style column for a Japanese teen magazine and came number seven in The Guardian's 30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World. And yet, in spite of the accolades, hundreds of Internet friendships and a cool boyfriend, she feels inexplicably lonely, a situation made infinitely worse when Michael Lee, the most mass-market, popular and predictably all-rounded boy at school tells Jeane of his suspicion that Jeane’s boyfriend is secretly seeing his girlfriend. Michael and Jeane have NOTHING in common - she is cool and individual; he is the golden boy in an Abercrombie & Fitch T-shirt. So why can't she stop talking to him? Sarra Manning is a journalist and an author. She began her writing career in teen magazines and was Entertainment Editor of Just Seventeen before becoming the editor of Elle Girl. GENERAL NON-FICTION THE MEERKATS OF SUMMER FARM by Jayne Collier Non fiction | 288pp | 8 pages b+w photos | Sphere | March 2011 The true story of two orphaned meerkats and the family who saved them T  he Colliers are a pretty normal family: mum, dad, two kids, two dogs and a cat … Oh, and a few wallabies, two lemurs, a bad-tempered crane called Ringo, several owls, RJ the Racoon and two cheeky baby meerkats who seem to think they’re part of the family. It was on a cold February morning, during her morning rounds, that Jayne discovered a litter of newborn meerkats, apparently abandoned by their mother. The tiny kits were dangerously cold, so Jayne took the babies inside the farmhouse and placed them on top of the Aga, swaddled inside an old glove. With plenty of TLC (not to mention feeds every two hours), the young meerkats – christened Wren and Rascal – soon flourished. And before too long, the rambunctious kits were making their presence felt, playing football on the lawn, sunbathing on the terrace, digging up the kitchen floor tiles and even making occasional (subterranean) breaks for freedom. THE MEERKATS OF SUMMER FARM is the remarkable story of a year at Axe Valley. Jayne Collier describes, in this charming and often hilarious memoir, how these two playful and ever-curious young kits became the park’s star attraction and found a place in her heart. It will be the perfect read for fans of pet-related tales, from MARLEY & ME to DEWEY, ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL and MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS.
*BILLY CONNOLLY’S ROUTE 66 by Billy Connolly Non Fiction | 320 pp| 32 pages colour photos | Sphere | September 2011 A classic combination of travel, humour, music, and modern American history. The best-loved comedian in Britain heads off on the most famous highway in the world on an unforgettable journey. Having always dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66, Billy Connolly is finally heading off on the ride of a lifetime. Travelling all 2,488 miles of this epic road, known as ‘The Main Street of America’, the Big Yin shares the experiences of the countless travellers who have taken the journey before him. The tales he gathers on the way, from the skyscrapers of Chicago through the Wild West badlands of Oklahoma and Texas, and on to the beaches of the Pacific coast, tell the story of modern America. And they might just inspire a few readers to get on their bikes as well. With his unrivalled instinct for a good story, and the affability that has endeared him to millions of fans, Billy is the ultimate companion for the ultimate road trip. Billy Connolly is a world-renowned, award-winning comedian, musician, presenter, author and actor. SUB by Danny Danziger Non Fiction | 304pp | Sphere | August 2011 Life on board with the hidden heroes of Britain's deadliest force A Trafalgar class nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine can move swiftly, undetected beneath the waves for months at a time. Ready to strike at any moment, they are part of the fleet that forms the last line of defence against devastating military aggression – it is a measure of the importance of the Submarine Service that if there is no life left in government they can be relied upon to act in the nation’s interest. Danny Danziger is the first person to have been allowed on a submarine for more than a day. He has spent a number of weeks on exercise onboard HMS Torbay, during which time he has conducted the probing interviews for which he is well known. He brings the submariners vividly to life: who they are, why they have chosen such a career and what they do, and also illustrates how these most awesome and unique vessels live and operate in the most difficult and dangerous of environments, and why submariners are regarded as the elite within the Royal Navy. Danny Danziger has written eleven books on a range of diverse subjects. His last title for Little, Brown -THE YEAR 1000 - went to number one and stayed on the bestseller list for seven months. He has a weekly interview column in the Sunday Times, Best of Times, Worst of Times, which over twelve years has won many accolades and awards. FIDELITY: Why People Lie About Sex by Kate Figes Popular Psychology | 288pp | Virago | June 2013 We no longer know what to do about infidelity. Gone are the days when, in the upper classes at least, once an heir and a spare were produced, behind the solid front of marriage, much went on, quietly. And the middle and lower classes behaved not so differently. But now we are devoted to an ideal of fidelity – perhaps an impossible one. But is infidelity the worst thing that can happen to a relationship? And is splitting up the only answer? Is fidelity a reasonable goal for most people? Our lifestyles and social mores seem to be out of synch. The personal and the political and the private and the public are at odds. Kate Figes is the author of COUPLES (Virago 2010) and LIFE AFTER BIRTH (Virago 2008). GROWING YOUR FAMILY TREE by Cherry Gilchrist General Non Fiction | 256pp | Piatkus | September 2011 Tracing your roots and discovering who you are In this highly practical and inspiring book, experience writer and family history researcher Cherry Gilchrist takes us on a fascinating journey to the hear of who we really are and demonstrates how exploring the past can change the present. Featuring tips and guideance from other family historians, who contributed their experience and wisdom especially for this book, as well as all the practical information you need to get started on your search, this book will be a treasure trove both for the complete novice, and a source of fresh ideas and inspiration for those already growing their family tree. Cherry Gilchrist has written nearly thirty books for adults and children, including YOUR LIFE, YOUR STORY (Piatkus 2010). *A SHEPHERDESS STARTS OVER: Life, Love and Lambing in the Middle of Nowhere by Emma Gray Non Fiction | 288pp | Sphere | April 2012 A wonderfully romantic memoir from Britain's youngest shepherdess Emma Gray is a modern-day shepherdess. She lives deep in the countryside, four miles up a treacherous track that is all but impassable for anything but a 4x4. With auburn curls and striking blue eyes she cuts a feminine figure working in a man’s world. The land she farms is owned by the National Trust and they were very particular about who they wanted to look after it. Emma helped on her parents’ farm from a young age, and had completed a sheep management course in Northumberland, but she was the youngest person to apply to rent the land, and the only woman, so it seemed unlikely she would be successful. Happily Emma’s enthusiasm helped her to become custodian of the farm and she took out a bank loan to find her start-up costs. Formerly a freelance shepherdess, there are now two arms to her business; breeding lambs and training and breeding sheepdogs. SHEPHERDESS tells the extraordinary story of how 24 year old Emma came to live her life-long dream tending her sheep and raising and training her dogs. WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED by Mark McCrum Adventure | 304pp | 16 pages colour pictures | Sphere | September 2011 The story of an awe-inspiring expedition to the North Pole by a group of amputee soldiers W  ALKING WITH THE WOUNDED is the story of an extraordinary charity expedition to the North Pole by a group of amputee servicemen. The four-week trek will see the adventurers – each a hero of recent conflicts who has suffered devastating injuries – cover 300 miles of frozen Arctic Ocean unaided. On the way, they will navigate vast swathes of ice rubble and pressure ridges as well as dangerous open water ‘leads’, while keeping their eyes peeled for the notoriously aggressive polar bears that roam the la ndscape. Pulling over 100kg each, and with every step fraught with risk, the expedition will test its participants’ resilience to the limit. WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED is an inspirational adventure story that will perfectly illustrate just how remarkable our Armed Forces are. Mark McCrum is an experienced ghost writer having worked on CAST AWAY (Ebury 2000) and SOMEBODY, SOMEDAY with Robbie Williams (Ebury 2001).
THE JOY OF SCIENCE by Ben Miller Science | 320pp |Sphere | March 2012 Discover THE JOY OF SCIENCE. It will blow your mind… 
An engaging and fascinating look at science's 'best bits' by popular comedian and particle physicist Ben Miller: 'In THE JOY OF SCIENCE, my goal is to share some of the tastiest sweetmeats science can offer with a public that is, I believe, hungry for insight but uncatered for by the level of information available in newspaper and magazine articles. I want to make the hot topics of contemporary science such as Global Warming and the Large Hadron Collider accessible to a general reader; I want them to be informed, entertained, and above all, amazed. This is not a dumbing down of science - but a celebration of the big ideas that I love, and a crusade to infect readers with the curiosity for science and new discoveries they may have lost.' Ben Miller studied physics at Cambridge and was working on his PhD when he left to pursue a career in comedy. He is now half of Britain's most popular TV comedy duo, Armstrong & Miller, and a successful actor, but has always maintained a passionate interest in science. Chinese rights (simplified characters) Beijing Zito Books *TRUST ME, I’M DR OZZY by Ozzy Osbourne Non Fiction | Sphere |October 2011 Dr Ozzy's hilarious and surprisingly useful book of advice on health and happiness B  y rights, Ozzy Osbourne should not be alive. He spent forty years on a hell-raising, bat-biting, ant-snorting*, drink and drug-fuelled bender. He broke his neck going two miles an hour on a quad bike and died twice in a chemically induced coma. And yet - at 62 years old - he is healthier and happier than ever. He is a walking medical miracle. So who better to offer the public medical advice and support? In May 2010 the Sunday Times invited 'Dr' Ozzy to be their new Agony Uncle. Since then he has answered questions ranging from dog depression to snoring to third nipples and has also tac kled more serious questions with his trademark humour and hard-won wisdom. The column has become such a phenomenon that Dr Ozzy has now decided to gather together all his advice into one handy guide. Ozzy's motto is that if he can survive and enjoy a happy and healthy life - then *anyone* can. And enjoy a very good laugh along the way. * Yes. You read that right. Ant-snorting. Born John Michael Osbourne in Birmingham, 1948, Ozzy Osbourne is one of rock music's most enduring figures. He has five children and lives in Hidden Hills, California, with his wife Sharon.
Finnish rights Like Kustannus German rights Heyne Italian rights Arcana-Eliot Portuguese rights (Brazil only) Editora Saraiva US rights Grand Central SACRED LAND by Martin Palmer General Non Fiction | 288pp | Piatkus | March 2012 SACRED LAND will enable you to discover the hidden secrets and meaning of the landscape, town or country, modern or old, of Britain. There has been a dramatic growth in interest in British history, buildings, landscape, sacred places, beliefs and culture over the last few years and this book will equip you with the tools to unlock the meaning, stories and history that are literally embedded into the landscape. It takes us from street names to churches; from hill forts to burial mounds; from the way a road bends to the shapes of fields in order to understand better the land that lies beneath our feet. In the literal shape of the British countryside can be detected the eddies of time, politics, belief, warfare, passion and the durability of the human existence. SACRED LAND is a fascinating, accessible read and the perfect reference guide to have in your home or in your car. It will be of interest to all those people who love history, sacred places and sacred history, and people who like to explore their ancestry and roots. Martin Palmer is a broadcaster, writer and secretary general of ARC, the Alliance of Religions and Conservation. He is a special advisor to the UN on climate change. CANCEL THE APOCALYPSE: The Great Transition and the New Art of Living by Andrew Simms General Non-Fiction | 352pp | Little, Brown | June 2012 “If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst’ Thomas Hardy The horsemen are galloping, and there’s more than four of them. Climate change, financial meltdown, the global peak and decline of oil production, a mass extinction event of plant and animal species, over-use of fresh water supplies, soil loss, economic infrastructure increasingly vulnerable to external shocks – it’s the age of the complex super disaster. An apocalypse seems almost inevitable. Can it be cancelled? This is a book about how modern life floated away from reality and needs to get back down to earth. It looks at how we tried to escape the forces of the economic, environmental and human reality, and why we could have better lives if we went with the world, rather than against it. The book asks why it is, in a world that can easily feed and shelter everyone alive today, and even a much larger population, that this proves so difficult. It looks at how people around the world today are already overcoming dogma to begin a great transition, and learn a new art of living. Andrew Simms is Policy Director of nef (the new economics foundation), an award winning UK think-and-do tank, and is on the board of Greenpeace UK. THE RETURN OF THE NAKED SCIENTIST by Chris Smith Popular Science | 304pp | Little, Brown | October 2011 The scientific secrets of everyday life laid bare brought together in this brilliant compendium Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to blame for your children’s plummeting IQ? Science does not sit still and, continuing with the success of Chris Smith’s first book, THE NAKED SCIENTIST (rights with Random House Australia), this is the equally compelling and curious follow-up. In THE RETURN OF THE NAKED SCIENTIST you will discover a treasure trove of cutting-edge research and far-flung facts as you look into our scientific future. Chris Smith once again answers the questions you didn’t know to ask. Dr. Chris Smith is a medical doctor and scientist, employed as a special registrar and clinical lecturer at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He is also the founder and driving force behind The Naked Scientist, a lively weekly science radio talkback show aired by the BBC. He has appeared regularly on ABC Radio National Breakfast and The Science Show in Australia. He is also well known for his hugely popular website www.thenakedscientist.com . He is the author of THE NAKED SCIENTIST (Little, Brown and Random House Australia) and the co-writer of Mythconceptions in the Good Weekend. *THE STORY OF NAXOS by Nicolas Soames Business | 336pp | Piatkus | February 2012 The fascinating story of how a budget classical record label became the leading provider of classical music and the man behind its success. In 1987, a budget classical record label was started in Hong Kong by Klaus Heymann, a German businessman who loved classical music. Swiftly, it gained a world wide reputation for reliable new digital recordings of the classics at a remarkably low price. Despite opposition from the classical record establishment, it grew at a remarkable pace, and soon expanded into opera, early music, contemporary music and specialist repertoire so that it became appreciated by specialist collectors as well as the general music lover. It is now the leading provider of classical music and as an innovator in digital delivery. At the heart of Naxos is one man: Klaus Heymann. The combination of his broad knowledge of classical music and his acute business acumen has enabled him to build the most varied classical music label in the world, but also the most effective distribution network to ensure that his recordings are available everywhere. This fascinating story explains how it happened, how a one-time tennis coach in Frankfurt became a classical recording mogul in Hong Kong and how, at the age of 75, he still holds the reins as firmly as ever. Nicolas Soames is a former classical music and judo journalist. For the past 18 years, he has run Naxos AudioBooks, the award-winning label with a particular reputation for its spoken word recordings of literary classics from Homer and Dante to James Joyce and Haruki Murakami. HISTORY *MERRIE ENGLAND by Juliet Barker History | 384 pp | 16 pages b+w picture section | Little, Brown | October 2014 MERRIE ENGLAND concentrates on the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. The book is a forensic examination of the essentials of daily life: what people ate and drank, how they plied their trades, worshipped, amused themselves and observed the traditional rituals of the seasons. The dramatic and shocking events of this crisis provide a compelling narrative of the individual participants and the wide society they represented. The result is an important assessment of the revolt itself and an illuminating and original study of English medieval life at the time. Juliet Barker is the author of AGINCOURT (Little, Brown 2005) and CONQUEST (Little, Brown 2009). THE BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND by Nigel Cawthorne History | 288pp | 20 b+w line drawings | Piatkus |October 2011 The misguided manoeuvres of the British at war Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. In THE BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND Nigel Cawthorne takes us on a darkly humorous journey through some of our ill-advised military actions. From the war over a severed ear to a General seeking out his rival’s mistress to even the score, it is a miscellany of insufferable arrogance, reckless gallantry, stunning stupidity, massive misjudgements and general beastliness. Nigel Cawthorne is the author of THE SEX SECRETS OF OLD ENGLAND (Piatkus 2006), THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND (Piatkus 2004) and THE CURIOUS CURES OF OLD ENGLAND (Piatkus 2005). THE GOLDFISH CLUB by Danny Danziger Non fiction |304 pp | Sphere | April 2012 The Goldfish Club is the name given to a worldwide association of airmen who have survived a ditching at sea. It was formed during WW2 but its membership includes airmen who qualified in WW1 so there’s a long history and a large volume of experience to draw from (membership currently stands at around 500 people). THE GOLDFISH CLUB is packed full of amazing stories, from survival at sea to experiencing POW conditions and much more. Danny Danziger has written eleven books on a range of diverse subjects. His book THE YEAR 1000 (Little, Brown 1999) went to number one and stayed on the bestseller list for seven months. He has a weekly interview column in the Sunday Times, Best of Times, Worst of Times, which over twelve years has won many accolades and awards. *NIGHT RAID by Taylor Downing History | Little, Brown Radar was one of the greatest inventions of the twentieth century. It was a British invention headed by Robert Watson-Watt and his team in the 1930s and was central to Britain’s survival of the Nazi threat of invasion and conquest in 1940. However, had the Germans also separately invented radar? In 1941, when the loss of British bombers flying over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels, an eagle eyed boffin in photo intelligence spotted an unusual radio transmitter along the north French coast. Dr R.V. Jones, a scientist at the Air Ministry decided, with the keen support of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to launch a daring raid on the site and to try to bring back the technology for examination. The night of 27th February 1942 was to prove the turning point in the science in the progress of World War Two. The Parachute Regiment landed on the French coast and managed to dismantle the equipment, drag it down to the beach and get away on Royal Navy motor torpedo boats. Capturing a piece of top German radar technology enabled the British scientists to understand it, work out how to jam it, and to clear the skies for the start of the bombing offensive of Germany in earnest. NIGHT RAID is full of powerful characters, whacky boffins, courageous commanders and very brave men. Downing was educated at Cambridge and went on to become Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television. He is the author of SPIES IN THE SKY (Little, Brown 2011) and CHURCHIILL’S WAR LAB (Little, Brown 2010). SPIES IN THE SKY by Taylor Downing History | 384pp | 16 pages b+w photos | Little, Brown | September 2011 The secret battle for aerial intelligence during World War II 
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of the photo interpreters who invented a completely new science to analyse the photographs. Theirs was a job that was arguably even more important than that of the code breakers at Bletchley Park, providing vital intelligence to British forces, such as helping to track down Hitler’s V bombs in 1994. Set in Medmenham, the country house where they were based, SPIES IN THE SKY reveals the remarkable group of boffins and academics who worked there, and the flyers who made it possible. Taylor Downing was educated at Cambridge and went on to become Managing Director and Head of History at Flashback Television. METROPOLIS: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution by Mike Rapport History | 352pp | 16 pages b+w photos | Little, Brown | February 2014 The city in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to a stormy debate about its nature: was it a place of Enlightenment, a sparkling well of progress and civilisation, or was it a den of vice, degeneracy and disorder? This issue was particularly searing at this time for this was the age of the American and French Revolutions, events which at one and the same time appeared to vindicate the city as the spearhead of progress and to reveal it as the dark sink-hole of humanity’s destructive impulses. METROPOLIS explores the ways in which the lives of the three cities converged and diverged. Packed full of well-known characters; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Rousseau, John Wilkes, Mary Wollstonecraft to name a few, the book also draws on the writings, lives and experiences of ordinary people. The story of the three cities in this revolutionary age represented a broader ideological and cultural rupture between the three nations, their different routes towards democracy, a hardening of national identities and the transition from the cosmopolitan world of the eighteenth century Enlightenment to the more starkly defined nationalisms of the nineteenth. But the main characters in the book are the cities themselves, their streets, their buildings, their neighbourhoods and, above all, the life which teemed within them. Mike Rapport was born in New York and educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Bristol. He is currently Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He is the author of 1848: THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION. US rights Perseus BLACK WATCH by Tom Renouf Memoir | 320pp | 16 pages b+w photos | Little, Brown | April 2011 A personal story of the Second World War brought to life against the backdrop of the Black Watch - Scotland's best-known regiment 
As a nineteen-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf’s war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler’s fanatical ‘Hitler Youth’ SS Division. It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Renouf’s taking a trophy he still treasures - the Gestapo commander’s watch. Seriously wounded and later decorated with a Military Medal for gallantry, Renouf witnessed the death and maiming of countless of his teenage comrades and saw the survivors transformed into grizzled veterans. Renouf draws on his own personal experiences - as well as his unique archive of interviews with veterans amassed over twenty years as secretary of the 51st Highland Division Veterans’ Association - to paint a vivid picture of the Battle of Normandy, the liberation of Holland, the Battle of the Bulge and many more memorable WW2 events. After the war, Dr Renouf lectured at military college for ten years. He is now a physics lecturer at Edinburgh University. Dutch rights BBNC NATIONAL SERVICE by Colin Shindler History | 288pp | 8 pages b+w photos | Sohere | May 2012 A groundbreaking look at life as a conscript during Britain's post-war National Service, as told by the men who served. A fascinating account of life as a national serviceman between 1950 and 1963, based on the author's interviews with around thirty servicemen. Each chapter focuses on just one or two interviewees who were called up in a specific year, covering people from a broad range of backgrounds and regions who all came through one base. Through these voices, we find out what life as a conscript was like, and how soldiers' attitudes changed as the war became more of a distant memory. Colin Shindler is an historian specialising in the 1950s, and author of several books, including MANCHESTER UNITED RUINED MY LIFE (Headline). MEMOIRS/ BIOGRAPHYDirectory: mediafiles mediafiles -> Department of Transport Annual Report 2013-14 mediafiles -> Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine mediafiles -> Valerii Hryhorovych asapov mediafiles -> Intentionally blank mediafiles -> Uncontrolled when printed mediafiles -> President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen mediafiles -> Display Pilot Flight Lieutenant Jamie Norris Download 1.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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