southwater
Publications for Autumn 2005
October 4 2005
Thanks as ever for your fantastic support in 2004, which was another record year for our company. And a warm welcome to our autumn list for 2005, with 60 great new books to present to you. 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:
FOOD & DRINK
As usual we present both classic kitchen reference and practical cookbooks with an original twist. This season's main paperback launches are of the mouth-watering Farmhouse Cooking, and the bestselling reference on sauces which sold 170,000 copies in hardback format. The Slow Cooker Recipe Book is the perfect collection of easy and tasty dishes, but if you want to keep things really simple, Three Ingredient Entertaining offers irresistible dishes using the minimum of foodstuffs. To tempt those with a sweet tooth there are the fabulous Big Book of Cookies and Teatime Cakes, Bakes & Preserves. The Spanish Kitchen and South American Food & Cooking combine reference information about the special ingredients and cooking techniques with enticing recipes from these popular cuisines. Every vegetarian will appreciate having 500 recipes in one bumper volume, and there is also the release in a specially sized popular edition of Jenni Fleetwood's The Chili-Lover's Cookbook, which in large format has recorded sales to date of over 70,000 copies.
GARDENING
In this ever-popular category we have a glorious new book on rock and water gardening by expert Peter Robinson, revealing everything you need to know to design and construct beautiful garden features. There is a 320-page handbook on gardening techniques, from planning to planting; a succinct guide to choosing key flowering plants; and a practical project book on creating beautiful handmade decorations for the garden.
NEW AGE & HEALTH
Natural and alternative approaches to health are made accessible in Pregnancy the Natural Way; a fantastic and
fun guide to yoga for children; and a guide to using meditation in everyday life by the highly respected yoga
teacher Doriel Hall. In the more mystical category we have unique new titles on space cleansing your home; creating home shrines for personal focus and spirituality; and white witching with the power of nature in Making Spells for Good Magic.
HOME IMPROVEMENT & CRAFTS
Learn how to paint with watercolours or oils, acrylics and gouache through step-by-step photographs and projects. Practical books give the low-down on DIY and on decorating your home with paint, stamps and mosaics; and furniture expert Billy Cook reveals how to give surfaces and old chests and cabinets a complete new lease of life.
REFERENCE & PASTIMES
Our incredible range of highly-illustrated books on a wide variety of topics includes titles on small pets and pet care; practical campcraft and wilderness skills; magic tricks; fire engines; World War bomber aircraft; the ancient Rvoman army; the lost empires of the Aztec and Maya; the history of tartan; movie stars; and the glorious country of South Africa. In the Giftbook category there are charming little illustrated anthologies on the Madonna in fine art, and on the language of flowers.
CHILDREN'S
We continue to produce fun educational titles for children to the highest possible standard, perfect for home and school study. This season includes fascinating books on the way people lived in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and in the ancient Americas, as well as a look at the social behaviour of wild animals.
These books have been developed by our hardworking in-house creative team editors, managers, designers and picture researchers creating 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, will always 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 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