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The Clerkenwell Press launches with a South African debut, a German bestseller and a masterly evocation of Arthur Rimbaud25 Jan 2011

Geoff Mulligan’s new Clerkenwell Press imprint launches in Autumn 2011 with three outstanding international authors. Alastair Bruce’s debut, Wall of Days and Judith Hermann’s Alice will be published in August. American author Bruce Duffy’s Disaster Was My God will follow in November.
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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How One Family Pulled the Plug on their Technology and Lived to Tell/Text/Tweet the Tale
Susan Maushart
They did it. Could you? For any parent who has ever texted their child to the dinner table – or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage – this account of one family’s self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections, to create a media ecology that encourages kids – and parents – to thrive.
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In the Place of Justice Wilbert Rideau In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession. MORE

	An Optimist’s Tour of the Future Mark Stevenson ‘Cheer up – it might just happen!’ MORE

Driving With Plato: The Meaning of Life’s Milestones Robert Rowland Smith The follow-up to international phenomenon Breakfast with Socrates. Everything you’ll need to know about history’s greatest thinkers on life’s big moments MORE

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The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler
A smart, fun, bestselling guide to making the right choices. Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live more happily and work more efficiently?
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The Fourth Part of the World: The epic story of history’s greatest map
Toby Lester
The Waldseemüller Map of 1507 introduced an astonishing collection of cartological firsts. It was the first map to show the New World as a separate continent, alongside Europe, Africa and Asia – and the first on which the word ‘America’ appears. It was the first map to suggest the existence of the Pacific. It was, in short, the first map to depict the whole world as we know it today.
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Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Ordinary Things Steven Connor A unique and quirky exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives. From combs and keys to sweets and handkerchiefs, certain objects, though seemingly mundane, can have a magical quality, and an often surprising power to arouse, absorb, disturb, or soothe. MORE

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Memoirs of a Dervish
Robert Irwin
For many children of the sixties a ‘journey to the East' was a necessary rite of passage. In an extraordinary memoir Robert Irwin contrasts the contexts of England – the new culture and the hippy trail – with those of Algeria – bombs and guns and mysticism.
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	Saving the World’s Wildlife: WWF – the first 50 years Alexis Schwarzenbach The lavishly illustrated story of WWF and its battle to save the world's wildlife. MORE

Daily Mail Tax Guide 2011/2012 Jane Vass The BEST tax guide on the market and the FIRST published after the budget. MORE

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Westminster Abbey: A thousand years of national pageantry
Richard Jenkyns
Nine royal weddings and thirty-eight coronations – Westminster Abbey will be the venue for a tenth royal wedding, that of Kate Middleton and Prince William. In this superb book, Jenkyns weaves together with wit and charm the significance of this iconic building and its history.
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