Lorenz Books
Publications for Autumn 2006
March 07 2006
A warm welcome to our beautiful new list for the second half of 2006. This season's many highlights include:
Please use the links to the left to browse through the list category by category.
This season's highlights include:
AQUAMARINE
Published in the prestigious Aquamarine range is Anna Mosesson's Swedish Food & Cooking a wonderful inspiring guide to one of the most delicious world cuisines. This is followed by new volumes on the delights of two other vibrant and varied culinary traditions, Korean Cooking and Turkish Cooking. There is also a paperback edition of Michele Osborne's well-reviewed Gardening for Roof Terraces and Balconies, a unique and stylish guide to exploring the many ways of working with your rooftop garden, whatever its size.
COOKING
A show-stopping collection of new titles includes up-to-the-minute culinary subjects and cuisines. A fantastic volume on beans, grains and pulses shows how to make the most of these healthy ingredients in a myriad of delicious ways, and the Kitchen Doctor Cookbook outlines how eating the right food can change your health for the better. A comprehensive guide to successful (and enjoyable) detox dieting continues the healthy theme, along with the expansion of our popular low-fat no-fat range with titles on vegetarian cooking and, for those wanting something unusual, Low-Fat No-Fat Thai.
Anyone who has to cook for a family will welcome The Clever Cook, which presents great-value dishes all carefully calculated so that a two-course meal for four costs less than the price of a shop-bought sandwich. We continue the popular range of fully illustrated 500-recipe cookbooks with 500 Best-Ever Recipes and 500 Italian Recipes one-stop recipe resources for every cook. A sizzling collection of barbecue and grilling recipes is followed by a special new volume on the unsung delights of Welsh traditional cuisine.
The fantastic 500-page cooking bibles offer a wide selection of kitchen-shelf classics - the exciting diversity of America's culinary heritage is presented in over 800 recipes; there is a complete party planner and recipe collection; and a bumper-sized volume for Christmas entertaining. Grow Organic Cook Organic is a fabulous cookbook and gardening book in one, making the most of home-grown or farmer's market produce. There is a comprehensive and updated reference guide to wine, beer and spirits; an encyclopedia of sauces, pickles and preserves; and, for those with a sweet tooth, A Year of Desserts, which offers an irresistible collection of scrumptious recipes
Finally, delightful gift-size volumes are offered on fashionable and popular subjects - slow cooking, cooking with olive oil, tarts and pies, pancakes and crepes, and wonderful ideas for gingerbread.
GARDENING
This season sees the publication of a new illustrated reference book sure to become a gardening classic: Mike Buffin's truly impressive practical guide to choosing and growing trees for the garden. Joan Clifton's distinctive and contemporary approach is celebrated in her beautiful Garden Design, a stylish yet practical guide to designing and customizing your outside space. We also present a stunning 500-page guide to planting, growing and using herbs. With over 1500 specially commissioned colour photographs and artworks, this is a definitive encyclopedia for all gardeners and cooks.
CHILDCARE
In autumn we will publish a comprehensive practical book on baby and childcare the natural way, from birth to age five aimed at parents and carers. It presents all you need to now about raising a healthy and happy infant using non-invasive therapies and additive-free options. Packed with step-by-step colour sequences it offers both inspiration and fail-safe guidance.
LIFESTYLE, CRAFTS & DECORATING
In spring we publish a comprehensive practical book on the popular subjects of astanga yoga and meditation, and an expert guide to the art of healing by touch with shiatsu. Each title is packed with step-by-step colour sequences with photographs providing inspiration, teaching and fail-safe guidance. A unique guide to using crystals, colour and chakra healing energy therapies is followed by an essential for every home, the illustrated step-by-step guide to First Aid and Family Health.
REFERENCE, NATURAL HISTORY & HISTORY
As in previous seasons, this category is becoming one of our most important, with a truly impressive new range of quality family reference guides - all with an unsurpassed level of design and visual content. You will find natural history bookshelf classics such as the 500-page illustrated encyclopedias on the fossils, and the wild flowers and flora of the world, and on the amazing animals to be found in the Americas. In history, there is the incredible new book on the history, mythology and culture of the ancient Incas, and the exhaustive, expert and lavishly illustrated volume on the military uniforms of the Napoleonic Wars, a must-have for all military historians, costume designers and model-makers. Finally, a fascinating and accessible guide to natural witchcraft and magic explores its history and mysteries from ancient times to those practising today.
SPORTS & PASTIMES
A new illustrated guide to coins and coin collecting presents over 3000 life-size colour images of coins throughout history and around the world, and expert advice is given on identifying and collecting. An expert how-to guide to the martial art of Aikido is published, and last but not least is the ultimate survival manual the all-climate, all-terrain guide to coping in the wilderness, with unique real-life step-by-step photographic instruction that ranges from snowy wastes and arid deserts to temperate forests and the urban jungle.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
This season features a special handbook-size edition of the classic Bible Stories for Children, with charming illustrations and expert retellings, plus context information, of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Also published are the next titles in our lively home-learning books that teach alphabet and first word spellings through targeted activity, with special reward stickers.
These frontlist books have been brought together by our hardworking in-house creative team - editors, managers, designers and picture researchers collectively making the most beautiful and informative illustrated books available. Our books are justifiably considered to be among the best you can buy. They are developed step-by-step, and painstakingly checked and rechecked at every stage. The authors are experts in their respective fields, and there is a whole battalion of consultants and specialist contributors going through the work in fine detail. No restrictions are placed on the number of photographs and illustrations, and production values are of key importance. The highly talented photographers, stylists, home economists and designers are among the finest in the industry. Yet our price-points, of course, continue to offer incredible value to the buyer.
We wish you great sales and great success with these highly competitive and very commercial books. Addresses and contact details for our global sales teams are included right here - please contact them, or me personally, or Paul Anness on panness@anness.com if you have ideas, suggestions, questions or if there is anything at all we can do to help you.
Joanna Lorenz
Publisher