Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

Dear Booksellers,
Thank you so much for all you do for Penguin Books. I want to take this opportunity to point out just
a few of the many titles in our Winter 2013 season that I hope will tempt your customers and get the
year off to a very strong start.
First, I want to mention an original novel, City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte. We’ve decided to
publish at the end of November given the enormous amount of enthusiasm in house! Perfect for fans
of A Discovery of Witches, this “rom-com” paranormal suspense novel set in Prague is destined to
entertain many readers and will be a great holiday gift!
Other December titles include Daniel Klein’s Travels with Epicurus, a witty and accessible meditation
on old age that will be published in a delightful small hardcover format, and Daniel Ladinsky’s The
Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi, a deluxe trade paperback original—both perfect for gift-giving.
January highlights include reprints of Dave Isay’s All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps (in time
for Valentine’s Day), Cristina Alger’s The Darlings, and Gary Marcus’s Guitar Zero.
February brings a second Penguin Original in translation from the New York Times bestseller
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged
Himself—a superb anti–Valentine’s Day book!—and the reprint of the hugely successful Bringing Up
Bébé by Pamela Druckerman.
In March we are excited about two international fiction Originals. Linda Olsson, the author of the
bestselling Astrid & Veronika, will publish her third novel, The Memory of Love, and Gerbrand
Bakker, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, will be published by Penguin
for the first time with Ten White Geese. Big leads in nonfiction include Elaine Pagels’s bestselling
Revelations and Jon Gertner’s The Idea Factory.
April will see the publication of Benjamin Lytal’s stunning debut novel, A Map of Tulsa, and in
nonfiction, the reprint of Blaine Harden’s extraordinary bestseller about North Korea, Escape from
Camp 14.
Penguin has always loved mysteries, and I am happy to have new novels from bestselling authors
Andrea Camilleri (his fifteenth Inspector Montalbano mystery, The Dance of the Seagull) and Philip
Kerr (his eighth Bernie Gunther novel, Prague Fatale). Also on the list are four reprints that are each
the first outing in a series: Thomas Caplan’s The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen, Chris Morgan Jones’s
The Silent Oligarch, Keith McCafferty’s The Royal Wulff Murders, and Nicci French’s Blue Monday.
I hope you will get a chance to read some of these marvelous books.
With all good wishes,
Kathryn Court, President and Publisher of Penguin Books
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