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About Anthony Forbes Watson
Anthony Forbes Watson became MD of Pan Macmillan in May 2008 after three years as a publishing consultant, when he worked on strategy projects for Hachette UK, Bloomsbury and Simon & Schuster in New York. Before consulting, Anthony was CEO of Penguin UK which he ran for nine years, and in 2002-3 served as President of the UK Publishers Association. As an Executive Director of the Longman Group he spent six years as MD of Ladybird Books and another as MD of Pitman Publishing, having previously started out in publishing at the Oxford University Press before moving on to spend ten years in a series of domestic and international sales and marketing roles at HarperCollins. He has a BA in English and Related Literature from York University.
Read Anthony Forbes Watson's letter to Amazon customers. About Pan Macmillan
Pan Macmillan is a publisher of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction, soft education and children's picture books. Their imprints include Macmillan, Pan, Picador, Boxtree, Sidgwick & Jackson, Tor, Macmillan Children's Books, Kingfisher and Campbell Books. Particular areas of strength are in branded fiction, literary publishing, humour and history. They pride themselves on close relationships with authors, an ability to move fast and do things differently in an otherwise corporatised publishing world, innovative marketing and digital flair. Pan Macmillan is part of the privately-owned Macmillan group, one of the oldest publishing companies in the world, with a rich literary and educational publishing heritage, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide.
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003) was born in Santiago, Chile. Arrested and briefly jailed by the Pinochet regime in 1973, he spent nomadic years in El Salvador, Mexico, France, and finally Spain. The Savage Detectives received the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, winning Bolaño international recognition as the leading Latin American author of his generation and one of the most important and original literary voices of the late twentieth century. 2666 was his last novel and has been a literary sensation in the UK this year.
The Flying Carpet to Baghdad
Zahra, aged 3, and Hawra, just a few months old were the only survivors of a missile strike in Baghdad in 2003. Their parents and their five siblings all died. Unable to have children herself, Hala Jaber, an award-winning foreign correspondent, was determined to do all she could to help them. Sent to Iraq by the Sunday Times to cover the war, the last thing she expected was to find herself trying to save two little girls who had lost everything. But what happened next tells us far more about that conflict than any news bulletin ever could. Moreover, as a Lebanese and a Muslim, but the employee of a London paper, Hala is in the privileged position of being able to straddle two very different worlds and explain one to the other. Beautifully written, compelling and deeply moving, The Flying Carpet to Baghdad affords a genuinely fresh insight into the Iraq war and its terrible human cost.
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War Crimes, Hollywood Heart-throbs and Other Abominations
Sick of reality TV, scriptwriter Jane Bussmann ("South Park", "The Fast Show", "Brass Eye" and "Smack the Pony") moved to Hollywood to do something better. But stranded outside the system, her nightmare day job was interviewing Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Co. Jane was trapped in the Golden Age of Stupid. Then she saw a photograph of a man in "Vanity Fair". John Prendergast's day job was ending war. He was also extremely attractive. Jane 'may have inferred she was a Foreign Correspondent', because suddenly she was in Washington, New York and finally equatorial Africa on the trail of this modern-day Indiana Jones. But in cruel twist, when Jane arrived in Uganda John had left. Alone in a war-torn country, appalled by 25,000 child abductions, Jane knew she must investigate the war crime of the century - to make John fancy her. With a maverick heroine, an idealist hero, laugh-out-loud comic disasters and moving tragedy, The Worst Date Ever is brilliant storytelling by a hugely talented writer.
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Even by Andrew GrantDavid Trevellyan takes a lonely late-night walk between a restaurant and his New York City hotel. A familiar huddled shape in the mouth of an alley catches his eye. A homeless man has been shot dead. As David steps forward, a police car arrives. And a second too late he realizes he's been set up. Trevellyan isn't worried. He's a survivor from the shadowy world of Royal Navy Intelligence. He's been in and out of trouble a thousand times before. But when the police hand the case to the FBI, he's sucked deeper into the system. With no idea who is friend and who is foe, he penetrates deep into a huge international conspiracy, which spans from war-torn Iraq to the very heart of the USA. He knows that the price of failure will be death, but the reward for success will be redemption - for himself as well as for the huddled corpse from the alley. His motivation is his cherished life-long belief: you don't get mad - you get even.
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