Books 2009

Books 2009: Books released January 2009

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New books published by Penguin in January 2009.

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories by John Buchan
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra
Fat Bloke Slims by Bruce Byron
Luck of the Devil by Ian Kershaw
How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved by Shane Watson
Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr
Airman by Eoin Colfer
The Lost Island of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar
The Rough Guide to Evolution by Mark Pallen
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
The Dark Volume by G. W. Dahlquist
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
Dogstar by Philip Dalkin
Peter Rabbit Naturally Better Peekaboo Peter Beatrix Potter Children’s Books
Baby Touch: Peekaboo
Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together by Clay Shirky
Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by Adrian Desmond
God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick
The Penguin Dictionary of Marketing by Phil Harris
The Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
How NOT to Write a Novel: 200 Mistakes to avoid at All Costs if You Ever Want to Get Published by Howard Mittelmark & Sandra Newman
The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming America From The Right by Paul Krugman
What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith
Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor by Neil Shubin
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton by Catherine Alliott

Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun

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Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can’t enter a country without a passport or visa. And she knows that she and her parents can’t go back to Germany again – her father’s books are banned there. But there are also things she doesn’t understand, like why there might be a war in Europe – just that there are men named Hitler, Mussolini and Chamberlain involved. Little Kully is far more interested where their next meal will come from and the ladies who seem to buzz around her father.

Meanwhile she and her parents roam through Europe. Her mother would just like to settle down, but as her restless father struggles to find a new publisher, the three must escape from country to country as their visas expire, money runs out and hotel bills mount up.

The Strange Adventures of Mr Andrew Hawthorn & Other Stories

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A selection of short stories by John Buchan.

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra

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Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra is the basic text of one of the nine canonical schools of Indian philosophy. In it the legendary author lays down the blueprint for success in yoga, now practised the world over. Patañjali draws upon many ideas of his time, and the result is a unique work of Indian moral philosophy that has been the foundational text for the practice of yoga since.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney

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With some fantastic sales of the first Wimpy Kid book, a film in the making, readers clamouring for the sequel, and equally side-splittingly hilarious experiences from Greg Heffley in Rodrick Rules, this book and the Diary of a Wimpy series looks set to go stellar for 2009. You heard it here first!

Lindsey Heaven
Senior Fiction Editor, Puffin

Dark Mountain by Richard Laymon

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2009 sees the release of Dark Mountain by Richard Laymon.

Reissue.

Books 2009: Top Ten Authors 2009

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A list of the top ten authors to watch out for in 2009.

Lee Child
Peter Robinson
Jeffery Deaver
Kathy Reichs
Dean Koontz
Bernard Cornwall
Martin Amis
Ian Rankin
Val McDermid
Peter James