Forthcoming Titles

October 2010
A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels: and Other Subversive Spirits
Carol Mack and Dinah Mack
If you met a werewolf in a forest at night, would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive, thrilling and often highly dangerous, you may recognise these inhuman beings in books and movies – but if you came across one in real life, would you know how to escape their clutches?
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November 2010
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life
Natalie Haynes
How modern are our lives? Or are we still living the lives our ancestors lived? Whether political, cultural, or social, there are endless parallels between the ancient and modern worlds. Whether it’s the murder of Caesar or the political assassination of Thatcher; the narrative arc of the hit HBO series, The Wire, or that of Oedipus; the popular enthusiasm for the Emperor Titus or President Obama – over and over again we can be seen to be living very much like people did 2,000 or more years ago.
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November 2010
The Interrogative Mood
Padgett Powell
‘If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell’s: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can’t quite describe but don’t need to’ Richard Ford
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November 2010
Iran: the Looming Crisis: Can the West live with Iran’s nuclear threat?
Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi
In August 2002 the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran’s nuclear programme was. And in September 2009 US President Barack Obama exposed yet another clandestine nuclear site there, bringing the possibility of a nuclear arsenal ever closer.
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October 2010
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Simon Garfield
What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by IKEA’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easyJet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sans, Just My Type will have the answer. LEARN WHY USING UPPER CASE GOT A NEW ZEALAND HEALTH WORKER SACKED. Refer to Prince in the TAFKAP years as a Dingbat (that works on many levels). Spot where movies get their time periods wrong and don’t be duped by fake posters on eBay.
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October 2010
Nella Last in the 1950s: Further diaries of Housewife, 49
Robert Malcolmson and Patricia Malcolmson
‘I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.’ So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA-winning drama Housewife 49 starring Victoria Wood (with a follow-up under discussion).
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