Limehouse Books Catalogue 2013

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IntroductionLimehouse Books is an independent publisher of quality fiction and non-fiction. Founded in October 2009 – originally under the name Glasshouse Books – we have grown to publish ten print titles, with two more to come in 2013.

Uniquely we commission every title we publish and obtain World English Language rights in both print and digital. Our aim is to be a small, focussed publishing house with a global reach.

Over the next few pages you will see an eclectic list of titles, all of them with one unifying characteristic:

Books that are beautifully designed and produced for me, you, everyone.

Bobby NayyarManaging Director and CEO, Limehouse Books

T: +44 20 7001 1177M: +44 789 11 69 286bobby.nayyar@limehousebooks.co.uk

Briony Hatch by Ginny & Penelope Skinner

Briony Hatch hates reality. She prefers the fantasy world of her favourite novels: The Starling Black Adventures, in which ghosts are real and you can cast magic spells to defeat your enemies.

In her real life, Briony’s parents are getting divorced and her friends are preoccupied by losing weight and shagging boys. Briony has tried all Starling Black’s magic spells in her bedroom but they don’t seem to be working. Her mother wants her to grow up, get her head out of those books and pack – they’re leaving Dad and moving into a bungalow the other side of town. Worst of all, Briony has almost finished the last ever Starling Black novel; life will soon have no meaning at all.

But Briony is about to learn that fantasy and reality aren’t always so easy to distinguish, and life doesn’t have to be dull just because you’re getting older.

12 September 2013 / 242 x 166mm / £12.99 / 128pp 9781907536144 / Paperback & Ebook / Graphic Novel / World

Ginny and Penelope Skinner are sisters who work together on graphic novels, as well as developing work for television. Their original series Golden Hill is currently in development at Channel 4 with Objective Productions. Penelope is an award-winning playwright, whose plays have been produced by (among others) The Royal Court and The National Theatre, as well as writing for the Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat. Ginny is writing her own graphic novel White Stag. The sisters’ first book The Art Room, was self-published in 2010. They are also four times annual losers of the Observer Graphic Novel Short Story Competition.

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Japan. Land of the rising sun, technical excellence, big boobs.

When Chester La Rochelle arrived in Japan with a TEFL book in hand and a dream in his heart, he had no idea he would end up in a hick town without a Starbucks. The school he has been assigned to is dark and decrepit, his co-workers borderline sociopaths, and the company he’s working for a cruel money-making monolith. Yet Chester finds happiness and falls for a Filipino hostess called Maria.

His idyll does not last for long after a run-in with his arch nemesis: Genjo, a three-year-old with a penchant for ankle biting. Chester soon finds himself trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare where he must make the right kind of apology to Genjo’s parents. Saying sorry really is the hardest word.

The No Salaryman is a comedy for anyone who has travelled to a far-flung place and discovered that the best way to learn is to teach.

The No Salaryman by Bobby Nayyar

18 April 2013 / £0.99 / 160pp / 9781907536021 Ebook / Fiction / World

The Rules of PokerThe authoritative and definitive new rule book from the International Federation of Poker.

The Rules of Poker is the long-awaited, unifying international rule book for tournament poker and procedural variants from Texas Hold Em to Seven-Card Stud, draw and cash games. The book also features instructions on how to play an exciting new version of the world s most popular card game: Match Poker. For those looking to improve their skill, it includes a question-and-answer section, which covers a wide range of situations from speech play to a fouled deck, and an in-depth glossary.

Edited by David Flusfeder, Chairman of the International Federation of Poker’s Rules Committee, The Rules of Poker is the definitive rule book for every poker player from novice to seasoned professional.

August 2012 / B format / £12.99 / 144pp 9781908781000 / Hardback & Ebook / Non Fiction / World

‘As an exercise in turning the complex into something simple, the IFP’s initiative is a success’Nic Szeremeta, Independent

The course of true love never did run straight . . .

Evie Day has never wanted a boyfriend – she’s gay, out and proud, and as far as she’s concerned, her life is perfect that way. But when her girlfriend leaves her for a leggy blonde, everything changes – her flat, her friends, her future – and she finds herself having feelings for an old friend, who just happens to be a man. To say that things aren’t turning out the way she planned is an understatement. With her best friend Jamie’s Big Fat Gay Wedding looming on the horizon, Evie struggles to choose between her ex, her old friend, a new best friend in the form of a beautiful, chaotic burlesque artist, and a grumpy but distracting new flatmate.

All she wants to do is find the One, but for Evie, thinking straight never did come naturally . . .

8 March 2012 / 180 x 129mm / £7.99 / 336pp 9781907536298 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

After My Own Heart by Sophia Blackwell

‘A vivid colour scheme... Sophia Blackwell paints a great picture of what it is like to be young in the city’For Books’ Sake

Maine Hudson has a high tolerance for pharmaceuticals and a low tolerance for everything and everyone else. This includes his Greek parents, who bankroll his glorious isolation in London. This includes his career as a consultant, his clients, his boss, the majority of his colleagues and people he sees on the way to work.This includes the dumb model boyfriend of the American girl that he has decided to fall in love with.

This includes her also.

When Maine fails to obliterate himself through drug overdoses, the obsessive changing of his legal name and half-hearted thoughts of suicide, it falls to his central nervous system to pick up the challenge of trying to kill him off.

Can Maine survive with his lack of values intact?

8 September 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £7.99 / 272pp 9781907536076 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

Exit Through the Wound by North Morgan

‘A superb debut novel ... hopefully the first of many more to come’So So Gay

While researching a photoessay on the first decade of the 21st century, Tarsem discovers a photograph of Rubina, a former university friend now working as a campaigner. Unable to comfort his wife who has just recovered from her second miscarriage, and cope with the spectre of restructure and redundancy at his office, he contacts her.

In reconnecting he faces the prejudices of his youth. Tarsem is Sikh, Rubina is Muslim. And the last ten years have seen them follow opposing paths shaded by events beyond their control. Encouraged by her, Tarsem travels to India with his parents unaware of the impact it will have on all their lives.

24 May 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £7.99 / 160pp9781907536328 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

West of No East by Bobby Nayyar

‘A great new voice to the world of fiction’Words of Colour

Men & Women Boys & Girls

14 July 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 192pp 9781907536113 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

15 July 2010 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 180pp9781907536090 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

Ten unique stories about the trials and tribulations of middle-aged relationships. From the difficulties of a father-son relationship, a newly wed Gay couple on their honeymoon, to a retrospective of an elderly man of his youth.

Stories of young love featuring writing from new and established Gay and Lesbian authors. Includes writing by Paul Burston, Stella Duffy, VG Lee and David Llewellyn.

33 West 33 East

15 July 2010 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 272pp9781907536359 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

15 July 2010 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 256pp 9781907536335 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

‘These stories are a fascinating insight into

the lives, behaviour and experiences of ordinary people, set against the

backdrop of an amazing, mutlti-dimensional,

innovative and world class

city – London’Boris Johnson

From Westminster to Croydon, 17 London short stories to complete the anthology. There is a hunt for an urban fox in Lambeth, a marriage ceremony in jeopardy in Merton, the perfect samosa in Brent, and a game of chess all across Harrow.

From Havering to Bromley, 16 London short stories. There are acts of heroism in Hackney and Havering, a case of adultery in Lewisham, a surprise visit from a well known London character in the City, and even a haunted house in Tower Hamlets.

Bloody Vampires 100

28 April 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 160pp 9781907536663 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

28 April 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 232pp9781907536007 / Paperback & Ebook / World

Ten genre-busting vampire short stories, and not a soppy teenager in sight.

100 people, 100 words of wisdom each to inspire, educate and entertain young people.

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