Happy Valentine’s Day! We
do have a love poem for you – taken from Carcanet’s new collection by Peter Gizi which
the Guardian said was ‘a new love song … a remarkable fusion of sound
and vision, realism and fanciful flight.’ Read on to find out more!
Compass are
very pleased to welcome CAMRA to our ever-growing list of client
publishers! The Good Beer Guide 2020 (£15.99, pb, 978 1852493585), now in its 47th edition
is fully revised and updated, with detailed entries recommending 4,500 of the
UK’s best real-ale pubs in rural and urban areas. All entries are selected by CAMRA
members and it includes a unique breweries section along with hundreds of CAMRA
tasting notes. The full-colour introduction includes a foreword by eminent
physicist Professor Brian Cox, who fresh from working alongside Manchester
brewers J.W.Lees to brew a beer aptly named Cosmic Brew, gives us his personal
story of the importance of beer and brewing. British Guild of Beer Writers’
Beer Writer of the year Emma Inch writes about how diversity enriches the beer
world while licensee and former model Jodie Kidd writes about the importance of
preserving the local, drawing upon her experiences as the licensee of the Half
Moon in Kirdford. As well as the Guide, CAMRA have loads of other delectable
titles – have a look here for more
information!
Do judges use the power of the state
for the good of the nation? Or do they create new laws in line with their
personal views? When newspapers reported a court ruling on Brexit, senior
judges were shocked to see themselves condemned as enemies of the people. But
that did not stop them ruling that an order made by the Queen on the advice of
her prime minister was just a blank piece of paper. Enemies
of the People? How Judges Shape Society (£14.99, pb, 978 1529204506)
by Joshua Rozenberg, asks how the judges
can maintain public confidence while making hard choices. Joshua Rozenberg is
Britain’s best-known commentator on the law and the only journalist to be made an
honorary QC. There have already been high-profile testimonials for this title from
professionals and lawyers including Lord Pannick, Dinah Rose QC, Baroness Ruth
Deech and Lord Dyson, calling it ‘informed and entertaining’ and ‘clear
and entertaining’. The author will be heavily promoting the book via his
own Twitter (@JoshuaRozenburg, 82.1K followers) and Facebook pages and there are
a whole array of promotional events including:
- · 8th March Jewish Book Week event with Blackwell’s
- ·
High
profile panel launch event at Gray’s Inn 21st April. Confirmed speakers:
Dominic Grieve QC, Lord Pannick, Professor Alison Young
- ·
Blackwell’s
High Holborn launch 29 April
- ·
Bristol
Festival of Ideas at We the Curious in Bristol 5th May
- ·
Hay
Festival 25 May
- ·
Blairgowrie
Literary Festival 14 June
- ·
Mishcon
de Reya client evening 23 June
- ·
Edinburgh
Book Festival August
- ·
Society
of Legal Scholars conference September (TBC)
- ·
Bar
Conference November (TBC)
There will be lots of media coverage including
a Law Society Gazette article which you can read here, a feature in the Jewish Chronicle,
a slot on the Better Human podcast: in April and an extract in Booklaunch
magazine. We also expect plenty of reviews in the broadsheets and tabloids, on
the regional news stations and the BBC. Enemies of
the People is published on 21 April by
Bristol University Press.
We’re so impressed by these before and
after pictures from The Bookcase in Hebden this week. Great to hear that
their flood resilience methods have made such a difference to their ability to
recover. Fingers crossed that storm Dennis doesn’t cause any damage this
weekend. If it’s not too close to the bone, you may enjoy this little five minute film from Inside
Cinema of storms in movies!
The poem of the Week in the Guardian
this week is Song (£14.99, 978 1784108229, pb) by Peter Gizzi taken
from Sky Burial: New and Selected Poems which is out from Carcanet this month. Gathered from
over thirty years of work, the poems in this generous selection strike a
dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth and otherworldly
resonance. Haunted, vibrant and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi enlists
the American vernacular in a magical and complex music. The Guardian
said Song was ‘alive with thought-in-action’, and you can read it
here
‘Shame is how they get away with it.
Shame is the weapon they use. Shame is the weapon you use on yourself that
makes you feel so useless. And those who are shamed most often and most deeply,
made to feel ashamed for so much of their life, are the poorest among us. Shame
beats you down. Shame is an ancient form of control. Shame is the mechanism
used to control behaviour.’ You can read more of Danny Dorling's
powerful foreword to The Shame Game (pb, £12.99, 978 1447349266) here. In this book, Mary O’Hara shows
why the ‘shame game’ being played out against poorer people in the US and the
UK is so destructive and effective and dissects how it works to help keep the
poor, poor. It’s published by Policy Press this month.
How To Explain Absolutely
Anything to Absolutely Anyone: The Art and Science of Teacher Explanation
has just had a great review on UK Ed Chat saying ‘In just seven
chapters Andy Tharby has written a stunningly helpful and clear guide to
explanation. I suppose given the title of the book it would be horribly
ironic if he was not able to explain things clearly – but this is clearly a man
who can put his theory into practice.’ This is a book packed with helpful
ideas, some to challenge the reader to think, some to inspire the reader to
improve their practice and some to help remind us about our core beliefs about
teaching.’ This wise and compelling exploration of curriculum, knowledge,
memory, human psychology, is new from Crown House.
You can hear Resist (£12.99, pb, 978 1912697311) editor Ra Page on the Versus
History podcast this week discussing the anthology, that’s here.
The paperback is out from Comma on 21 May.
We’re very much looking forward to the autobiography
of Olympic gold and silver medallist Darren Campbell – the popular athlete now turned coach and pundit, written
with
Trystan Bevan which is coming from St
David’s Press in May 2020. Watch this space for more details! Here he is in action!
Isabel Galleymore has been shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize
for Significant Other (pb, £9.99, 978 1784107116). This debut collection exploring
ecology, extinction and climate change was a Telegraph
Book of the Year for 2019, and
has already been shortlisted for the Forward Prize.
The John Pollard Poetry Prize is awarded
annually for an outstanding debut English language poetry collection. It is an
international award which places no restriction on place of publication and is
distinguished by its global reach. You can find out more and see who else is
shortlisted on the Carcanet website here.
Lucy Werner was announced a Top 100 Female
Entrepreneur by the F:Entrepreneur campaign this week, that story is
here and Hype
Yourself (£14.99, pb, 978 1788601238)is selling really well!
Other recent coverage includes Just Entrepreneurs Top
4 Reads for Startups,
a review in The Homeworker, a double page feature and cover in Startups
Magazine, a review in GoWrite magazine a piece in Support
Local magazine and
a guest slot on The
Future is Female
podcast. It’s published by Practical Inspiration.
Super little piece on It’s Nice That
– a website championing creativity – on Seats of
London (£12.99, 978 1916045316),
entitled What’s Under Your Bum? The Importance of Moquette Design on the
London Underground. You can read that one here. It’s published by Safe Haven.
A recent feature in the Guardian entitled ‘Forget
wellness. Marmalade is the key to a long, healthy life’, noted how much correspondence
they’d had recently on their readers’ marmalade-making habits with reflections
on its powers for longevity. Marmalade by
Maggie Mayhew (978
0754830450, £4.99, hb) is a great little hardback, and a fab introduction to
this classic preserve. There are recipes such such as Oxford Marmalade, St
Clement's Marmalade and Lemon and Ginger Marmalade, as well as more unusual
combinations like tangerine and lemongrass and peach and kumquat. It also
features lots of recipes that include marmalade and the beautiful photographs
are sure to inspire and the easy-to-follow instructions guarantee successful
results every time. It’s published by Lorenz.
And in this week’s Hot Topics, here's the verdict on the new James Bond
theme from Billie Eilish with a fascinating piece here in the Guardian about whether these
sultry anthems, usually sung by women, are actually subverting 007. Here's the man that got himself a Valentine’s
date by putting up a billboard and in case you need something to pep you up here's Shakira and J. Lo's Super Bowl show
from missed it last week! And OMG, a trailer for Stranger Things 4 was just released!
That’s all folks, more next
week!
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