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FICTION A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION Elizabeth Mac Donald It’s thirteenth-century Europe and young monk, Michael Scot, has been asked by the Holy Roman Emperor to FAIRLIGHT BOOKS translate the works of Aristotle and Seriously Good Storytelling recover his ‘lost’ knowledge. The Scot sets to his task, travelling from the Emperor’s Italian court to the translation schools of Toledo and from there to the Moorish library of Córdoba. But when the Pope deems the Fairlight Books is a new publisher, launched to celebrate translations heretical, the Scot refuses to desist. So begins a battle for power quality writing and promote the best of new and between Church and State – one that contemporary literary fiction. shaped how we view the world today. We are passionate about making literary fiction more ‘In lush historic prose, accessible to readers, through attractive books with Elizabeth Mac Donald leads the illustration-led covers, and by doing all we can to reader on a complex journey, where all support UK bookshops. interactions are tinged with superstition and suspicion.’ — Nuala O’Connor, author of Becoming Belle Elizabeth Mac Donald – born in ‘A powerful blending of fact and fiction.’ Dublin, Ireland, Elizabeth is a widely published writer of short stories, — The Irish Examiner essays and translations. She lives in Italy where she teaches English at the ‘Elizabeth Mac Donald knows how to University of Pisa. grip the reader.’ — The Tablet MARCH ISBN: 9781912054725 B Format PAPERBACK 2020 £8.99 | 400pp 26 Mar ‘20 #MatterOfInterpretation 3
FICTION FICTION A SAINT IN CONCEPTION SWINDON Özgür Uyanık Alice Jolly Enter Anonymous, a middle-ranking When a stranger arrives in town, with artist rolling between minor shows in a bulging blue bag and a whiff of New York, London and İstanbul. With his adventure, the neighbourhood takes career sliding into obscurity, shamefully notice. When he asks for his meals to be forced to consider advertising work to sent to his room and peace and quiet make ends meet, he knows he must for reading, curiosity turns to obsession. break new ground if he is to survive. Each day he stays there, locked in his room, demanding books: Plath, Kafka, With his mother’s encouragement, he Orwell, Lawrence, Fitzgerald, James, decides upon his next work of art: an Brontë (the eldest), Dickens, Dumas, act of self-violation so outrageous, so Kesey – on and on, the stranger never horrific, the art world will be forced to leaving his room. take notice. But will it be enough to raise him to the ranks of the elite? Who exactly is he? Conception is the journey of a What is he reading? sociopath who will do whatever it takes to get ahead; a dark comedy And will it be able to save us from the exploring who and what determines Written by award-winning terrible state of the world? the value of art. ‘Özgür Uyanık’s debut author Alice Jolly, and based novel sizzles with on an idea by the book lovers subversive humour and of Swindon town, this funny macabre energy.’ and, ultimately, dystopian ‘An insight into a fascinating Özgür Uyanık – born in Turkey, Özgür is a — Richard Gwyn, tale, reminds us of the writer and film-maker. His debut feature poet and novelist and inspiring world of reading! ’ importance of literature in an film premiered at the 17th Raindance Film — Debbie Hicks MBE Creative Director, Festival. He is currently a PhD candidate increasingly dark world. The Reading Agency in Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Conception is his debut novel. MAY ISBN: 9781912054206 MAY ISBN: 9781912054879 A Format PAPERBACK B Format PAPERBACK 2020 £8.99 | TBCpp 2020 £8.99 | 272pp 4 May ‘20 7 May ‘20 4 #SaintInSwindon #ConceptionNovel 5
FICTION FICTION BROADWATER DAVID AND AMEENA Jac Shreeves-Lee Ami Rao Welcome to Broadwater Farm, one of Modern-day New York, a subway the most notorious housing estates in train. David, an American-Jewish jazz Britain. A place where post-war dreams musician, torn between his dreams and of concrete utopia ended in riots, his parents’ expectations, sees a woman violence and sub-standard housing. across the carriage. Ameena, a British- Pakistani artist, who left Manchester In this collection of short stories, to escape the pressure from her Tottenham-born Jac Shreeves-Lee conservative family, sees David. gives voice to the people of Broadwater Farm. With evocative language and When a moment of sublime beauty raw storytelling, she compassionately occurs unexpectedly, the two connect, portrays their shared sense of moved by their shared experience. community. A community with a rich From this flows a love that appears will cultural heritage, comprising over forty triumph above all. But as David and nationalities, generations old. Ameena navigate their relationship, their ambitions and the city they love, they discover the external world is not ‘Startlingly alive and sometimes almost so easy to keep at bay. unbearably dark, the truth and humour in ‘I’ve never read such an accurate and this intensely fine and lyrical novel shines telling evocation of the additional a light that is ultimately uplifting.’ complications of personal creative — Martina Evans, poet and novelist Ami Rao – a British-American writer expression.’ who was born in Calcutta, India and — Tim Hayward, writer, broadcaster and ‘A voyage both unforgettable and holds an MBA from Harvard Business columnist Jac Shreeves-lee – born in searing.’ School. She has mentored girls of Tottenham, England, Jacquelyn — Onjali Q. Raúf, activist and author of colour for the past twelve years. ‘A touching story of multicultural Shreeves-Lee is a widely published The Boy at the Back of the Class Ami co-wrote a memoir, Centaur, love, desire and achievement with writer of short stories. She currently which was published in 2017 and which “soul” at its heart.’ lives in Hackney as a clinical won the General Outstanding Sports Book of the Year Award 2018. — Geoffrey Horton, musician and psychologist and magistrate. vocalist Broadwater is her debut novel. JULY ISBN: 9781912054572 SEPTEMBER ISBN: 9781912054275 B Format PAPERBACK B Format PAPERBACK 2020 £8.99 | 240pp 2020 £8.99 | TBCpp 2 Jul ‘20 Feb ‘21 6 #BroadwaterBook #DavidAndAmeena 7
FICTION FICTION VALHALLA THE FAIRLIGHT Alan Robert Clark BOOK OF SHORT Author of Academy Recommended STORIES (VOLUME 1) Walter Scott Prize 2019, The Prince of Mirrors Various Authors The Best of Modern-Day May of Teck, only daughter of a noble Short Story Writing family fallen from grace, has been selected to marry the troublesome From flash fiction to mini-novelette, Prince Eddy, heir to the British throne. Fairlight presents twenty-four of Submitting to the wishes of Queen its best short stories from some of Victoria and under pressure from her the world’s most talented new and family, young May agrees. But just emerging English language writers. as a spark of love and devotion arises between the young couple, Prince Eddy Chosen from work sent to Fairlight over dies of influenza. several years by writers around the globe, this anthology celebrates the art To her horror, May discovers she is to of the short story form: a vehicle with be married to the brother, Georgie, the power to delight, entertain or to instead, a cold and domineering man. transport the reader to another state, ‘Clark takes an iconic and forbidding But what can she do? another world, another emotion. figure and transforms her into a passionate, loving and damaged From the author of The Prince of Mirrors woman.’ comes this gripping account of the — Simon Russell Beale life of Queen Mary, one of the most formidable queens of Britain Twenty-four stories by ‘Clark writes with intelligence, warmth, twenty-four writers, bravery and wit about big subjects to do Alan Robert Clark – previously a including various award- with how we choose to live our lives.’ copywriter and creative director for winning short story — Sue Townsend several leading London advertising authors and Women’s agencies, Alan has ghostwritten Prize-longlisted author and co-authored a number of biographies. Sophie van Llewyn. SEPTEMBER ISBN: 9781912054169 OCTOBER ISBN: 9781912054688 Demy Format HARDBACK B Format PAPERBACK 2020 £14.99 | TBCpp 2020 £8.99 | TBCpp 24 Sept ‘20 01 Oct ‘20 8 #ValhallaNovel #FairlightShortStories 9
FAIRLIGHT FICTION BEYOND KIDDING MODERNS Lynda Clark Shortlisted author of BBC National Short Story Award 2019 A collection of short modern fiction books set in When Robert (or Kidder, as his best different locations around the world. friend calls him) decides to impress at a job interview by making up a son, he discovers that maintaining the lie is far harder than he thought – so he invents a story that ‘Brodie’ has been kidnapped. After all, it’s not like they’re going to find the fake boy. But a few weeks later, Kidder receives a call to collect his non-existent son from the police station – a boy who looks exactly like the picture he photoshopped… ‘This is a remarkable debut, written Lynda Clark – an accomplished with great warmth and wit. By turns writer whose stories have devastating and hilarious, Lynda Clark’s been published in a number Beyond Kidding had me from the very of anthologies. She won the start, and it didn’t let me go.’ Commonwealth Short Story Prize — Sarah Jackson, author of Pelt and for Europe and Canada. Lynda is winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize 2013 currently at the University of Dundee as a Research Fellow in Narrative ‘A dark and quirky debut – funny, sad, and Play. Beyond Kidding is her debut thought-provoking and unexpected.’ These beautifully designed novellas are perfect novel. — Emma D’Costa, Commonwealth Writers for book club reads and come with reading notes available from our website at www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/fairlight-moderns/ OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054848 B Format PAPERBACK £8.99 | 336 pp #FAIRLIGHTMODERNS 31 Oct ‘19 10 #BeyondKidding
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FICTION FICTION BOTTLED GOODS ATLANTIC WINDS Sophie van Llewyn William Prendiville Longlisted for The Women’s Prize ‘There was no proof, but there was small for Fiction 2019, The Republic of town certainty, which is stronger than proof.’ Consciousness Prize 2019 and The People’s Book Prize 2018 It’s 1970s Canada. The small island When Alina’s brother-in-law defects to community of Bear Lake is awash with the West, she and her husband become rumours of lay-offs and wildcat strikes persons of interest to the secret services at the mill. But for young Tom, nothing and both of their careers come grinding is more important than hanging out to a halt. with his best friend, Cormic, except perhaps catching a glimpse of Sasha As the strain takes its toll on their Dovonovitch, the foreman’s daughter. marriage, Alina turns to her aunt for help – the wife of a communist leader and a When a tragic accident occurs at the mill, secret practitioner of the old folk ways. the whole community unites – but in a small town, pointed fingers and hushed Set in 1970s communist Romania, this gossip can only stir further trouble… novella-in-flash draws upon magic ‘This stunning debut novella shows realism to weave a captivating tale of ‘I read it at a sitting, and then again us there is no dystopian fiction as everyday troubles. to savour its rich characterisation and frightening as that which draws on powerful story.’ history.’ — Allan Massie, novelist and journalist Sophie van Llewyn was born in — Christina Dalcher, author of VOX south-eastern Romania. She has William Prendiville is a journalist published and won awards for her flash with a background in copywriting. ‘Prendiville’s writing lifts the curtain on ‘A lovely, funny, sad and informative fiction and short stories across the UK, Born in Ireland, he grew up in the contradictions of the human soul.’ book…It almost reads like a Wes Europe and the States. Bottled Goods Newfoundland and Ontario, Canada. — Benoît Breville, journalist, Anderson film.’ is Sophie’s debut long fiction work. He now lives and works in Paris. Le Monde Diplomatique — Dolly Alderton, author of international bestseller Everything I Know About Love Now avaliable on Audible OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054305 OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054787 A Format PAPERBACK A Format PAPERBACK £7.99 | 192pp £7.99 | 144pp 11 Jul ‘18 11 Jul ‘19 14 #BottledGoods #AtlanticWinds 15
FICTION FICTION MILTON IN PURGATORY THE THERAPIST Edward Vass Nial Giacomelli ‘I’ve seen love and loss so many times. ‘I am levitating above the curvature of the First cuts into the fresh flesh always scar earth. Weightless, unencumbered. Flung the deepest.’ like a comet out of the atmosphere to drift eternally along the firmament.’ Milton Pitt leads an uneventful life, with a dull job and a secret longing for In this bittersweet and hauntingly surreal adventure. One morning, after he is hit tale, a couple finds the distance between by a speeding car, he suffers an out-of- them mirrored in a strange epidemic body experience and awakens back in sweeping the globe. Little by little, each his bedroom. Everything is just the same victim becomes transparent, their heart – that is, except for the bloody footprints beating behind a visible rib cage, an leading to the chimney… intricate network of nerves left hanging in mid-air. Finally, the victims disappear Is this his chance to lead a better life? entirely, never to be seen again. Was it just a dream? Or is he simply dead? ‘I dreamt we were at sea,’ she says. In this richly inventive and humorous ‘A weird and wonderful tale, full of novella, Edward Vass brings the themes ‘If the population of the world had violent twists and turns. This surprising of Dante’s Divine Comedy 700 years vanished while I was reading Nial debut novella punches above its weight into the future. Giacomelli’s beautifully observed and pulls no punches.’ novella, I’m not sure I would have — Jennifer Rushworth, author of Discourses Edward Vass is a marketing and Nial Giacomelli was born in noticed. It’s that good.’ of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust advertising specialist. He began to England. After living in the States for — Christopher Stanley, author of experiment with writing and coming a number of years, Nial is now back in The Forest is Hungry ‘Smart, funny and an excellent writer, up with ideas for stories while teaching the United Kingdom where he works Edward Vass is the ideal guide for a English in South Korea. Edward as a software developer. ‘ Fearlessly confronting journey into the beyond.’ currently lives just outside Brighton The Therapist is his debut novella. and challenging us.’ with his family. — Dr Owen Clayton, Senior Lecturer in — Dr Meredith Miller, literary critic and English Literature, University of Lincoln author of Little Wrecks OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054367 OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054909 A Format PAPERBACK A Format PAPERBACK £7.99 | 192pp £7.99 | 176pp 1 Aug ‘19 1 Aug ‘19 16 #MiltonInPurgatory #TherapistNovella 17
FICTION FICTION MINUTES FROM THE MIRACLE CITY THE DRIVEWAY HAS TWO SIDES Omar Sabbagh Sara Marchant On an East Coast island, full of tall pine moaning with sea gusts, Delilah Hakim, a Pakistani taxi driver whizzing through the streets. Patrick, moves into a cottage by the shore.The locals gossip as they watch her a Ugandan security guard with aspirations of becoming a writer. clean, black hair tied back in a white rubber band. They don’t like it Farida, a Moroccan beautician hoping for a fresh start. Saeed, a when she plants a garden out front – orange-red Carpinus caroliniana respected Emirati journalist just back from London. Taking place and silvery-blue hosta… Across the driveway lives a man who never across the last few days of Ramadan, Minutes from the Miracle City is goes out. Delilah knows he’s watching her and she likes the look of him, a unique retelling of the virtuoso project that is Dubai. but perhaps life is too complicated already… THE NAIL HOUSE TRAVELLING IN THE DARK Gregory Baines Emma Timpany Lindon, an Australian project manager with a failed marriage behind Winner of The Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize 2019 him, is lured to China with the promise of a lucrative salary. His Sarah is travelling with her young son back to her home town in task: to solve the problem of a ‘nail house’, the home of a stubborn the South of New Zealand. But when debris from an earthquake old man who refuses to relocate, even as the bulldozers move in closes the road before her, she is forced to extend her journey, and and the skyscrapers grow around him. But as Lindon negotiates divert through the places from her youth that she had hoped never with the old man’s family, he finds sense where there is none, and to return to. As the memories of her childhood resurface, Sarah love where there is war. knows that for the sake of her son, she must face up to them now or be lost forever. INSIDE THE BONE BOX THERE ARE THINGS I KNOW Anthony Ferner Karen B. Golightly Top neurosurgeon Nicholas Anderton is morbidly obese. He Eight-year-old Pepper sees the world a little differently from most doesn't mind the sweats, the sleep apnoea, or that he can no people. One day, during a school field trip, Pepper is kidnapped by longer see certain parts of his anatomy. Even the sniggers from his a stranger and driven to rural Arkansas. The man, who calls himself registrars won't make him change. But when mistakes are made and ‘Uncle Dan’, claims that Pepper’s mother has died and they are to the clinical director starts asking questions, Nicholas knows that live together from now on – but the boy isn’t convinced. Pepper things are coming to a head… always found it hard to figure out when people are lying, but he’s absolutely certain his mother is alive, and he’s going to find her… OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054664 A Format PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781912054961 A Format PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781912054541 A Format PAPERBACK OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054428 A Format PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781912054480 A Format PAPERBACK ISBN: 9781912054602 A Format PAPERBACK £7.99 | 144 pp £7.99 | 192pp £7.99 | 176pp £7.99 | 144pp £7.99 | 192pp £7.99 | 192pp 11 Jul ‘19 1 Aug ‘19 11 Jul ‘18 11 Jul ‘18 11 Jul ‘18 11 Jul ‘18 #MinutesMiracleCity #NailHouse #InsideBoneBox #DrivewayHasTwoSides #TravellingInDark #ThereAreThingsIKnow 18 19
NON-FICTION HOW TO SLEEP Lucinda Ford Introducing eight easy-to-use techniques for falling asleep, How to Sleep: A Natural Method is an indispensable companion for those who find it difficult to fall asleep and stay asleep. When sleeplessness becomes a regular Fairlight’s How to... occurrence, it can set up a vicious cycle of fatigue, anxiety, and sleepless nights. Finding ways to turn off the racing Modern Living Series mind and negative thoughts or stress when going to sleep is an essential step, allowing you to break that vicious cycle and move towards a place of better well- A new health and lifestyle collection being. The eight simple sleep techniques are designed to calm the mind and allow sleep to come naturally. They are distilled Lucinda Ford is an author who from the best of thinking from the specialises in Health and Wellbeing. East and the West, including cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and meditation. OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054237 PAPERBACK with flaps £7.99 | 128 pp 2 Jan ‘20 #NaturalSleepMethods 21
NON-FICTION NON-FICTION HOW TO BE HOW TO MARKET PUBLISHED YOUR BOOK Lynn Morrison Lynn Morrison Over the last ten years, the publishing These days, regardless of whether a sector has changed beyond recognition. book is self-published or traditionally published, there will be an expectation With new technology allowing writers to on the author to take an active role in connect with readers like never before, marketing their book. there has theoretically never been more opportunities to become a published Based on a series of interviews with writer. But for anyone looking to venture successful authors from both sides of into today’s publishing landscape, it can the publishing divide and both sides be a daunting prospect – Should you of the pond, Lynn lays out in detail the self-publish? Look for an agent? Go direct marketing strategies that have worked to an indie publisher? And what exactly is for them, alongside an explanation of digital-first publishing? how book marketing works based on her own long-standing career as a senior For the first time ever, Lynn Morrison marketing exec. provides an un-biased guide to the Lynn Morrison is a marketing pros and cons of self-publishing versus From developing social media tactics, ‘So, you’ve written and published... veteran with a career spanning traditional publishing, along with all the arranging promotional events and blog now what? You read this manual! more than twenty years in both myriad options in between – helping an tours, to handling press and trying to start It’s a fantastic resource for anyone in-house and agency roles. She has author find the best path for themselves, viral campaigns, Lynn offers practical looking to get their writing in front held management roles in Fortune their book and their writing aspirations. advice designed to help an author find of more people. Morrison turns the 100 and FTSE 250 organisations, a book marketing strategy that best overwhelming task of marketing into worked with start-ups and even works for them, based on their personal bite-size tips and tutorials that launched a few herself. strengths and budget. anyone can implement.’ — Stephanie Jankowski, author of Schooled (Page Street Publishing, January 2020) AUGUST ISBN: 9781912054565 AUGUST ISBN: 9781912054442 PAPERBACK with flaps PAPERBACK with flaps 2020 £7.99 | TBCpp 2020 £7.99 | TBCpp Aug ‘20 Aug ‘20 22 #HowToBePublished #HowToMarketYourBook 23
NON-FICTION - COMING SOON BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS HOW TO TREAD HOW TO MEND LIGHTLY ON THE A BROKEN HEART THE PRINCE OF FIND ME FALLING EARTH MIRRORS Lucinda Ford Ziella Bryars Alan Robert Clark Fiona Vigo Marshall A guide to navigating the ethical Based on a series of conversations ‘Two men with expectations. ‘She bought a house where you choices that beset us each and every between Ziella and her neuroscientist One predicted to succeed, the can hear the sea, murmuring on day, along with practical advice on best-friend, Ziella outlines the other to fail…’ the edge of consciousness…’ coping with our modern-day angst of physical impact a relationship how best to tread lightly on the earth. break-up has on our bodies and how 'Touching and compelling.’ ‘Marshall’s evocation of understanding this can help us heal. eerie alternate realities — Gyles Brandreth, author and TV personality stays with the reader long after the last page is More How to... titles to be announced 2020/2021 turned.’ — Dr Sallie Baxendale COMING WINTER ISBN: 9781912054114 ISBN: 9781912054329 OUT NOW ISBN: 9781912054121 ISBN: 9781912054220 PAPERBACK with flaps PAPERBACK with flaps B Format PAPERBACK B Format PAPERBACK 2020/2021 £7.99 | TBCpp £7.99 | TBCpp £8.99 | 352pp £8.99 | 304pp Dec ‘20 Jan ‘21 #PrinceofMirrors #FindMeFalling 24 #TreadLightlyOnTheEarth #MendABrokenHeart 25
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