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Dear Bookseller,
I hope the beginning of 2013 has been strong, and that our fall Penguin list has something to offer all of
your customers.
On the fiction reprint front, we’ll publish Jojo Moyes’s Me Before You in August, to tie in with the new
Viking hardcover The Girl You Left Behind; Zadie Smith’s remarkable NW; Scott Hutchins’s smart and
widely reviewed debut A Working Theory of Love; Joanne Harris’s delightful sequel to Chocolat, Peaches
for Monsieur le Curé; and T.C. Boyle’s absorbing historical novel San Miguel. We’ll also bring out a fiftiethanniversary
edition of John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with a new introduction by
the author.
We have a number of terrific fiction originals this season, including In Falling Snow, Mary-Rose MacColl’s
powerful novel set in 1970s Australia and WWI France; Treasure Hunt, the sixteenth installment in
Andrea Camilleri’s bestselling Inspector Montalbano series; Sun-mi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed
She Could Fly, the two-million-copy-bestselling modern fable from Korea; The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles,
Katherine Pancol’s slyly funny French mega-bestseller; xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, a new collection by
Kate Bernheimer, editor of the bestselling My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me; and Magnus
Flyte’s City of Lost Dreams, the sequel to City of Dark Magic.
Turning to nonfiction, we have a stellar lineup: Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, Chrystia Freeland’s
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else; David Nasaw’s The
Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy; Kevin Phillips’s 1775: A Good
Year for Revolution; Neil MacGregor’s A History of the World in 100 Objects; Mastery, Robert Greene’s
sequel to The 48 Laws of Power; Thomas Ricks’s The Generals: American Military Command from World
War II to Today; and Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, illustrated by Maira Kalman.
In addition we’ll be publishing two hardcover nonfiction Penguin Originals in November: It by Alexa
Chung, the international style icon; and Cathy Scott-Clark’s and Adrian Levy’s The Seige, a real-life thriller
about the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
For soccer fans we’ll have Chris Anderson and David Sally’s The Numbers Game: Why Everything You
Know About Soccer Is Wrong, and for millenials, we’ll have the illustrated humor book Alice in Tumblrland
by Tim Manley.
Particularly appealing for the holidays are two wonderful poetry titles: Mary Oliver’s A Thousand
Mornings and Rita Dove’s The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. The Penguin
Drop Caps and our Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions also make perfect gifts.
With all good wishes, as always,
Kathryn Court, President and Publisher of Penguin Books
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