Limehouse 2012 catalogue

L I M E H O U S E B O O K S C A T A L O G U E

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INTRODUCTION

Limehouse 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 eight print titles, with two more to come in 2012, as well as one iPhone app and one digital-only project.

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. To this end we are seeking distribution in new territories to ensure that we have availability of stock through various channels in this ever changing landscape.

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, printed to respect the environment and intended for me, you, everyone.

Kind regards,

Bobby Nayyar

Managing Director and CEO

Limehouse BooksT: +44 20 7001 1177M: +44 789 11 69 [email protected]/in/bobbynayyar

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A f te r My Own Hea r tT he Ru le s o f Po ke r

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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

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SOPHIA BLACKWELLSophia Blackwell was born in 1982 in Newcastle and educated at Oxford, where she started performing poetry. Since then, she has appeared at some of the UKʼs biggest festivals and venues. Her first collection of poetry, Into Temptation, was published in 2009 by Tollington Press. Her other writings have been published in Diva, Trespass, Fuselit, Rising and Pen Pusher, and her short stories included in the anthologies Boys & Girls and Men & Women. This is her first novel.

Photo by Naomi Woddis

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

The definitive guide to the full spectrum of poker games from Texas Hold’em to Omaha, including duplicate poker – a new version of the world’s greatest card game.

Edited by the poker-playing novelist David Flusfeder, The Rules of Poker includes an introduction by the International Federation of Poker’s President, renowned biographer and author of the seminal poker memoir Big Deal, Anthony Holden.

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Founded on April 29, 2009 as a global governing body for poker – a non-profit federation based on the same legal criteria and principles as those of other mainstream sports – the International Federation of Poker (IFP) was established in Lausanne, Switzerland, a venue symbolising international sports cooperation.

The IFP serves as the governing body to which National Poker Federations can affiliate. Its goal is the promotion of poker as a Mind Sport played without any discrimination as to race, sex or creed.

As well as organising major international tournaments, both team and individual, the IFP will be working to standardise tournament rules, as well as compiling international rankings alongside each member-nation’s own national rankings. The IFP will also draw together all the arguments, evidence and testimony gathered around the world by national federations or their equivalents which have been called upon to contest restrictive laws or punitive taxation. A series of academic and legal studies can be found in the IFP Library.

http://int.pokerfed.org/

THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF POKER

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Ex i t T h rough The Wound Men & Women

Wes t o f No Eas t

EXIT THROUGH THE WOUND

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?

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

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North Morgan was born in 1980.

In 2007, he created the fictional blog London Preppy, which has been featured in Dazed & Confused, Time Out and Attitude. London Preppy has been an international success, attracting over 1.5 million hits. He currently lives in central London.

Exit Through The Wound is his first novel.

NORTH MORGAN

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Nor th Morgan featu red in at t i tude and Time Out , October 2011

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MEN & WOMEN

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After the hugely popular Boys & Girls, Paul Burston, acclaimed author of Shameless and The Gay Divorcee, returns with Men & Women, a new anthology of stories about Gay and Lesbian love. From the vantage point of middle age there are 10 unique stories about the trials and tribulations of 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. Sometimes funny, occasionally heartbreaking, these are stories for all men and women from some of the UK’s best known Gay and Lesbian writers.

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

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PAUL BURSTON

Paul Burston’s books include the critically acclaimed novels Shameless, Star People and Lovers & Losers. His latest novel is The Gay Divorcee. He also hosts ‘London’s peerless gay literary salon’ Polari and is a curator at the London Literature Festival.

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WEST OF NO EAST

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.

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24 May 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £7.99 / 160pp / 9781907536328 / Paperback & Ebook / Fiction / World

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BOBBY NAYYARBobby Nayyar was born in Handsworth, Birmingham in 1979. In 2006, he was published in the anthology Mango Shake (Tindal Street Press) as well as in journals such as Wasafiri and Aesthetica. He’s been based in London since 2005. In October 2009 he founded Glasshouse Books.

West of No East is his debut novel.

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33 Eas t / 33 Wes tBoy s & G i r l s

B loody Vamp i re s100

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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.

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.



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BOYS & GIRLS

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New Gay and Le sb ian w r i t i ng

Stories of young love featuring writing from new and established Gay and Lesbian authors. The book also tells the heart-rending and heart-warming true stories of young men and women helped by the Albert Kennedy Trust, and is published with a unique double cover.

Includes writing by Paul Burston, Stella Duffy, VG Lee and David Llewellyn.

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28 April 2011 / 180 x 130mm / £10 / 232pp / 9781907536007 / Paperback & Ebook / World

BLOODY VAMPIRES 100

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

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Limehouse 2012 catalogue