Lorenz Books
Publications for Spring 2006
October 4 2005
A warm welcome to our beautiful new list for the first 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 The Food and Cooking of Malaysia & Singapore, a wonderful and also accessible guide to one of the most delicious and tempting of world cuisines. This is followed by an exquisitely photographed and authoritative volume on Japanese Gardening, which offers both inspiration and insight. There is also a paperback edition of Incense and Scent in the Home, a unique and stylish guide to exploring the many ways of using the different forms of incense in contemporary living.
COOKING
Among the big books of the season are new titles on popular subjects and cuisines. Wok Works is a show-stopping collection of ideas for using this simple piece of equipment in a myriad of delicious ways. The beautiful Food and Cooking of Vietnam & Cambodia combines a history of the region and its culinary traditions with a guide to ingredients and fabulous recipes. For those pushed for time, The 20-Minute Cookbook shows how to rustle up delicious yet speedy dishes that can take just an instant - with a whole meal produced in under half an hour. For those with a sweet tooth, Ice Cream Machine offers all kinds of iced delights and 300 Teatime Treats offers an irresistible collection of scrumptious home-baked delights.
We continue the popular range of fully illustrated 500-recipe cookbooks with 500 Cakes and Bakes - a one-stop recipe resource for a classic subject. There are cookbooks for everyday healthy eating, with Fat Free Low Fat Cooking and Low-Fat No-Fat Chinese Cooking, and reference books such as the updated classic The New Encyclopedia of Wine.
The impressive 500-page cooking bibles include the definitive book on one of the world's most influential culinary heritages, the Jewish Traditions Cookbook, and a volume on the vibrant food of Spain, Africa and the Middle East - presenting a fascinating overview of the cuisines and cultures, how to use the ingredients, as well as over 300 regional recipes to try. The range of compact kitchen handbooks continues with 400-recipe collections on the ever-popular subjects of soups and chicken, and an irresistible collection of cakes and cake decorating projects. Finally, useful kitchen handbooks are published on making the most of key everyday ingredients: meat, poultry and onions.
GARDENING
This season sees the publication of new illustrated references sure to become gardening classics: Ken Norman's impressive new practical encyclopedia of bonsai, and Jonathan Edward's volume on shrubs and climbers. We also present a stunning 500-page guides to flower planting - annuals, bulbs and perennials - and on garden planning and design. With over 1500 specially commissioned colour photographs and artworks these are definitive encyclopedias for all gardeners.
NEW AGE & HEALTH
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 & TRANSPORT
As in previous seasons, this category is becoming one of our most important with a truly impressive new range of quality family reference - all with an unsurpassed level of design and visual content. You will find natural history bookshelf classics such as the rocks and minerals of the world, and the trees of Britain and Europe, as well as the illustrated encyclopedia of universal signs and symbols.
We are especially excited about the new Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, with its unsurpassed coverage and range - nothing has ever been published on this scale before on this hugely popular subject. In history, there is a fantastic new volume exploring the kings and queens of Britain - exhaustive, expert and lavishly illustrated, as is the sumptuous new book on the ancient Aztecs and Maya, and the 500-page volume on ancient Rome. And in addition, a fascinating and accessible guide to Freemasonry explores the signs, symbols and mysteries of this secretive movement.
Our authoritative illustrated references on military transport continue to develop, with the world encyclopedias of Armored Fighting Vehicles, Aircraft Carriers, and Fighters & Bombers - plus a classic book on locomotives.
SPORTS & PASTIMES
Two expert new books on art skills are presented: a guide to calligraphy which covers techniques, alphabets and projects in one instructional course, and how to draw with pencil, pen and pastel. The new edition of the exciting guide to Formula One is specially updated with the latest facts and figures for 2006, and there is also a definitive illustrated guide to practical pet care.
CRAFTS
This spring the highlights are a beautiful guide to creative beads and beadwork, a practical guide to sewing techniques, an irresistible collection of papercraft projects and two 500-page craft books - a complete illustrated encyclopedia of decorative paint effects, and the ultimate practical crafter's project book. All offer an expert combination of step-by-step technique and teaching projects.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
This category includes fabulous visual bumper encyclopedias on bugs and minibeasts, fascinating animal facts, and what life was like in ancient times, plus a series of lively home-learning books that teach counting through targeted activity with special reward stickers. A range of great-value colourful board books for pre-schoolers offer educational stimulation along with entertainment and enjoyment.
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