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The Private Life of Mrs Sharma Ratika Kapur A wickedly witty portrait of the New India from the perspective of a deceptively conservative Indian woman

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enuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother and daughter-in-law holding the fort in her husband’s tiny flat in Delhi while he tries to rack up savings in Dubai.

Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multinationals, life is going as planned till she strikes up a conversation with a handsome stranger at a Metro station one day. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her and perhaps trying something new wouldn’t hurt…

Ratika Kapur is a former fiction editor at HarperCollins India and a writer living in New Delhi. Her first novel, Overwinter, was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and published to critical acclaim by Hachette India. Elle magazine’s Indian edition included Ratika in a Granta-inspired list of 20 authors under 40 to look out for from South Asia. ratikakapur.wordpress.com

Beside Myself Ann Morgan A darkly compulsive psychological thriller about what makes us who we are, and how very fragile it can be

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ometimes I think I have made it up. Days come where it feels like the whole thing is a story in my head and there was never any swap and any game’

Helen and Ellie are identical twins – like two peas in a pod, everyone says. Only the girls know this isn’t true: Helen is the leader and Ellie the follower. Until they decide to swap places: just for fun, and just for one day. But then Ellie refuses to swap back.

And so begins a nightmare from which Helen cannot wake up…

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Ann Morgan is a freelance writer and editor based in London. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Independent. She was a finalist in the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Competition in 2010. Her first book, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer, was published in February 2015. Beside Myself is her first novel.

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The World Without Us Mireille Juchau An elegiac, gripping novel of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal

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t has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to everyone, but the real mystery for Tess and her sister Meg is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home muddy and dishevelled. Their father, struggling with his own losses, tends to his apiary and his disappearing bees. After he discovers human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family.

Meanwhile Tess’s teacher stumbles upon Evangeline in the mountains. The fallout from their charged encounter will reverberate through the community, igniting a change in all their lives.

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Mireille Juchau is an award-winning Australian writer. Her first novel, Machines for Feeling, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 1999 and her second, Burning In, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2008, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008, The Age Book of the Year Award 2008 and the Nita B Kibble Award 2008.

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The Dust of Promises Ahlem Mosteghanemi Translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts The final novel in the international bestselling trilogy: a haunting story of love, memory and betrayal

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till heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring novelist Hayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises finds himself adrift in Paris.

Stumbling into an art exhibition, he is struck by the power of the paintings and feels impelled to learn more about the artist – an Algerian exile.

The artist is none other than Khaled, the man who haunted the pages of Hayat’s first novel, just as the narrator was entangled in her second. As the two men embark on a tentative friendship, a twist of fate brings Hayat to France, where their destinies will once again collide.

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Ranked among the top 10 most influential women in the Arab world by Forbes 2006, Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. The previous books in her trilogy, The Bridges of Constantine and Chaos of the Senses were published by Bloomsbury, and have been translated into several languages.

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River of Ink Paul M. M. Cooper A dazzlingly imaginative debut of language, love and revolution, set in thirteenth-century Sri Lanka

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rom his humble village beginnings, Asanka has risen to the prestigious position of court poet, delighting in a life of ease. But when the ruthless Kalinga Magha usurps the throne, Asanka’s world is changed beyond imagination. To his horror, the king tasks him with the translation of an epic Sanskrit poem designed to civilise his subjects and snuff out the fires of rebellion.

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Asanka has always believed poetry makes nothing happen, but as lines on the page become cries in the street he learns true power lies not at the point of a sword, but in the tip of a pen.

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Paul Cooper was born in South London and grew up in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at the University of Warwick and UEA, and after graduating he left for Sri Lanka to work as an English teacher. He has written for magazines and websites and has also worked as an archivist, editor and journalist. paulmmcooper.com • @PaulMMCooper

This is the Ritual Rob Doyle ‘God may be dead, but a new literary star is born’ Sunday Times The bold debut story collection from the acclaimed author of Irish Book Awardshortlisted Here Are the Young Men

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young man roams a Dublin industrial park where he meets a strange vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing the break-up of a longterm relationship finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend’s red shoes.

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Among these masterful stories lurk characters that straddle the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. What did happen to Killian Turner, Ireland’s vanished literary outlaw? And just who is Rob Doyle? Inventive, funny, and often explicit, these stories explore notions of masculinity, failed idealism and the writing life.

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Born in Dublin, Rob Doyle holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis. His widely acclaimed first novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 and chosen as a book of the year by Colm Tóibín, the Irish Times, Independent and Sunday Times. He currently lives in Paris. @RobDoyle1

A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil In the dawn of the twentieth century, Britain’s glittering Empire is full of the dangerously seductive promise of untapped riches

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oward is on an expedition to locate Tutankhamen’s tomb in Egypt. Amidst growing unrest between the tyrannical British rulers and the so-called ‘barbarians’, he meets Aisha – a bewildering mix of contradictions whose profile bears more than a passing resemblance to Nefertiti’s beautiful face depicted on the Pharaonic relics Howard loves so much. A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore is a page-turning gallop through some of the most momentous occasions in recent world history as well as an exploration of national identity and the discovery of some of the most beautiful treasures on earth today.

Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mohamed al-Mansi Qandil was born in the Nile Delta. He went to medical school and worked as a local countryside doctor before turning his hand to literature. His first novel, Breaking of the Spirit, was inspired by events surrounding workers’ unrest in the city. He has published several novels, short story collections and children’s books.

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My Own Dear Brother Holly Müller A haunting and unforgettable coming-of-age story set in Nazi-controlled Austria.

Rich in folklore and period detail, it introduces a courageous young heroine, and a thrilling new literary voice

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t is 1944, and war has taken the Austrian men to the front line. For 13-year-old Ursula Hildesheim, life in the rural village of Felddorf remains almost as it was.

She still gets caught with her fingers in the sugar jar, runs wild with her adored older brother Anton and gets bullied by her schoolmates. But when her mother starts an affair with a married man, her friend goes missing and Anton’s allegiance to Hitler Youth begins to emerge in shocking ways, Ursula finds herself alone for the first time in her life, and unsure who and what to believe in.

My Own Dear Brother shows us a world of conflict in a microcosm, expertly capturing human capacity for both cruelty and courage in breathtaking detail.

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Holly Müller is a writer and musician. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of South Wales, lives in Cardiff and sings in the band Hail! The Planes. My Own Dear Brother is her first novel.

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Jonathan Unleashed Meg Rosoff The bestselling, prize-winning author’s first adult novel: a blisteringly funny, touching story of a man whose love life is going to the dogs

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onathan Trefoil’s boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his New York apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him – only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour.

On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life – or possibly to destroy it altogether. It’s difficult to be certain, as they only speak dog.

Can Jonathan get out of advertising, meet the girl of his dreams and figure out the gender of his secret crush? Given how it’s going so far, probably not.

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Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to London in 1989. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold nearly one million copies, won the Guardian Children’s Prize, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and made into a film. She has won or been shortlisted for 20 international awards including the Carnegie and the National Book Award in America. megrosoff.co.uk • @megrosoff

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Scary Old Sex Arlene Heyman A taboo-breaking debut story collection about ageing, relationships – and sex

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woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A teenage art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with her frail, fierce mother. A boy thinks about his schoolmate’s breasts as the Twin Towers fall. And a man finds his father has died during extramarital sex and wonders what to do with the body.

In Scary Old Sex, Arlene Heyman, a practising psychiatrist, gives us what really goes on in people’s minds, relationships and beds in these raw, tender, funny and often shocking stories.

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Arlene Heyman is the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Robert Wood Johnson Fellowships. She published in the New American Review, won Epoch magazine’s novella contest, and has been listed twice in the honour rolls of The Best American Short Stories. A psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practising in New York, she is currently at work on a novel.

The Drowned Detective Neil Jordan The chilling new novel from the Oscar-winning film director and writer blends mystery and romance in a haunting love story

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onathan is a private detective in a decaying Eastern European city. He is drowning in his work, his relationship with his archaeologist wife and the corrupt landscape that surrounds him. One night, as he is contemplating his troubled marriage, he encounters a young woman crouched at the foot of a stone angel on the bridge spanning the river that divides the city, a woman who suddenly jumps into the icy water below. As Jonathan plunges after her he finds himself dragged into her ghostly world of confusion, coincidence and intrigue, and the city he thought he knew becomes strange and threatening.

Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. His first book of short stories, Night in Tunisia, won the Guardian Fiction Prize and his subsequent novels include The Past, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and Mistaken. He is also an Oscar-winning film-maker, whose films include Mona Lisa, The Crying Game and Michael Collins.

He lives in Dublin. neiljordan.com • @NeilJordanTBA

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The Vanished Lotte Hammer & Søren Hammer Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken The third in the international bestselling Konrad Simonsen series, a chilling tale from the authors of The Hanging and The Girl in the Ice

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he death of a postman, Jorgen Kramer Nielsen, looks like a straightforward accident, the perfect case for Detective Inspector Konrad Simonsen to return to after a severe heart attack. However, as new forensic evidence comes to light, the facts of Nielsen’s life unravel. The postman is linked to the disappearance of an English teenager almost 40 years previously and as Simonsen and his team try to pull all of the threads together it becomes clear that events leading to his death were more sinister than anyone imagined.

Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. To date, they have written six books in this series.

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Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of Danish literature. Recent translations include fiction by Helle Helle and Jussi Adler-Olsen.

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The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson A profoundly moving story of an unexpected heroine and an unassuming country town, swept up in an unimaginable war

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t is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season’s splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives at the coastal town of Rye, to take up a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a town that remains resistant to the idea of female teachers. But change is coming, and the limits of the old ways will be tested as this small idyllic village prepares for the devastating realities of war.

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Helen Simonson was born in Buckinghamshire and spent her teenage years in a village in East Sussex, near Rye. Her first novel, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, was an international bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, and was translated and published in 21 countries. She lives in New York City. helensimonson.co.uk • @Simonsonhelen

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The Gun Room Georgina Harding A powerful exploration of the experience of war by the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of Painter of Silence

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onathan has gone to Vietnam to be a war photographer. A chance encounter takes him into a burning village and scenes of mayhem, and he gets the shot that might make his career. Only the horror is too great. He flees to Tokyo, to lose himself and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom – and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. But even here his history catches up with him: the photograph, his responsibility as a witness to war, and to other events buried in his past.

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Georgina Harding is the author of three novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game, which was a BBC Book at Bedtime and shortlisted for an Encore Award, and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Georgina Harding lives in London and on a farm in the Stour Valley, Essex.

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Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith From celebrated travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith comes a captivating fourteenth-century thriller

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errorists are nothing new. The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter who has wives and concubines on three continents and is still searching for the right woman, and his West African slave Sinan, the one with the brawn, the brains, the looks – and demons from the past.

Granada’s labyrinthine palace-citadel, Alhambra, is nearing its triumphant completion. But Sinan and Abu Abdallah are drawn into a darker maze, where baffling mysteries threaten to ruin the balance of Muslim–Christian power in Spain. Mackintosh-Smith dazzles with his potent mix of majestic storytelling and impeccable historical research.

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith is an Arabist, traveller, award-winning writer and lecturer.

For almost 30 years, his home has been the Yemeni capital San’aa where he lives on the ruin-mound of the ancient Sabaean city, next to the donkey market. Tim presented a major BBC documentary series on his experiences walking in the footsteps of fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Batuttah.

They Are Trying to Break Your Heart David Savill A powerful, gripping debut novel that ranges across decades and continents, weaving together the 2004 tsunami with the civil war in Bosnia

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n 1994 Marko’s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a soldier in the Bosnian civil war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous lead in the hunt for a Bosnian war criminal. When Anya invites her first love Will to join her on holiday in a Thai beach resort, she hopes they might unpick the mistakes of their past. She also knows Kao Lak may be home to the man she is looking for.

But a disaster as destructive as a war is approaching: a disaster that will connect the fates of them all.

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In the last year of the Bosnian war, David lived as a teacher and a student among the refugees of Srebrenica. In an eight-year career as a BBC Current Affairs journalist, he worked on Panorama, This World, Real Story, World at One and PM. David now teaches Creative Writing at St Mary’s University, London. This is his first novel.

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The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest Award-winning poet and rapper Kate Tempest’s electrifying debut novel elevates the ordinary to the extraordinary in this multi-generational tale set in contemporary South London

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oung Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are fleeing the city in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money. Taking us back in time – and to the heart of South-east London – The Bricks that Built the Houses explores contemporary urban life with a powerful and literary moral microscope. Wise but never cynical, driven by empathy and ethics, Kate Tempest leads us into the homes and hearts of ordinary people, exposing moments of beauty, disappointment, ambition and anger, and questioning how we live with and love one another.

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Poet, rapper, playwright and novelist Kate Tempest lives in South-east London. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients, won the Ted Hughes Prize for poetry in 2013. The following year she was named by the Poetry Society as a Next Generation Poet.

In the same week her debut solo album, Everybody Down, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2014. The Bricks that Built the Houses is her first novel. katetempest.co.uk • @katetempest

Keep You Close Lucie Whitehouse A brilliantly twisting psychological thriller by the Richard & Judy bestselling author of Before We Met and The Bed I Made

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ow far would you go to protect the people you love? When young painter Marianne Glass is found dead in her snow-covered Oxford garden, Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, knows it wasn’t an accident. Marianne had paralysing vertigo: she would never have gone so close to the roof-edge.

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Rowan’s pursuit of the truth about her old friend’s death takes her into every corner of her life, from bohemian East London to the professional art world in which Marianne had made her name. Rowan is determined to find out what really happened – but some secrets are better left uncovered, and others are lethal…

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Gloucestershire in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of The House at Midnight, the TV Book Club pick The Bed I Made and Before We Met, which was a Richard & Judy pick and an ITV3 Crime Book Club selection. @LWhitehouse5

The Trees Ali Shaw A compulsive, mesmerising and wildly imaginative novel from the awardwinning author of The Girl with Glass Feet

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he trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground and transforming every street and town into shadowy forest.

When Adrien Thomas realises no help is coming, he has little choice but to venture out into this unrecognisable world. There he meets green-fingered Hannah, and Seb, her teenage son, who persuade him to join them on a journey into the depths of the forest. Their travels will take them into unimaginable territory: to a place of terrible beauty, of deadly enemies and unexpected allies, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

Ali Shaw is the author of The Girl with Glass Feet and The Man who Rained. He grew up in Dorset and graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in English Literature. He has since worked as a bookseller and at the Bodleian Library. He now lives in Oxford, with his wife and baby daughter.

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In the Hope of Virgins Jamal Naji Set in Jordan and Syria in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this is no ordinary coming-of-age novel…

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n the eyes of the West, the Arab Spring is ‘over’. For Alwaleed, struggling in a society that condemns him as an illegitimate son, the ongoing political unrest offers him a chance to prove himself.

On leaving university – vulnerable and uncertain – he is an easy target for the Recruiters, and eventually finds himself fighting the Syrian regime. But is he fighting for what he believes in?

Set in Jordan and Syria following the Arab Spring, In the Hope of Virgins is a coming-of-age story amidst the growing power of ISIS and the crumbling of the old Arab regimes.

Jamal Naji is a Jordanian novelist and short story writer who was shortlisted for the IPAF in 2010 for his novel I’ndama Thasheekh Al-Dhiaab (When the Wolves Got Old). He has written dozens of novels and short story collections and is widely published in the Arab world. He received the Prize of the Jordanian State 2014 for his narrative writing.

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Gods and Angels David Park A striking new collection of stories from the critically acclaimed, prize-winning author David Park

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17-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a university lecturer falls in with a group of older men who inhabit a very different world; a detective breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple reflect on 25 years of marriage while under the Northern Lights; and an old man volunteering in a charity shop forms a tender bond with a young single mother.

Exploring masculinity, loneliness, isolation and longing, Gods and Angels locates, with pinpoint accuracy, the quiet but deeply charged moments in life that define us.

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David Park has written nine previous books including The Truth Commissioner, The Light of Amsterdam and, most recently, The Poets’ Wives, which was selected as Belfast’s Choice for One City One Book 2014. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

The Photographer’s Wife Suzanne Joinson By the author of A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar: a powerful story of betrayal, set in 1920s Jerusalem and 1930s Sussex

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erusalem, 1920: 11-year-old Prudence feels tensions rising as her architect father launches an eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City. Prue, known as the ‘little witness’, watches everything but is rarely watched herself.

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When Prue’s father employs a British pilot to take aerial photographs of the city, she is uncomfortably aware of the attraction between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. Eleanora’s husband is a nationalist, intent on removing the British, and so begins a dangerous game. Years later, in rain-soaked Sussex, the consequences of that game will come to haunt Prue when she opens her door to an unwelcome visitor…

Suzanne Joinson is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction whose work has appeared in, among other publications, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon, Lonely Planet and the Independent on Sunday. Her first novel, A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar (2012), was translated into 16 languages and was a national bestseller.

She lives in Sussex. suzannejoinson.com • @suzyjoinson

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Our Young Man Edmund White A literary event – the most accomplished novel yet from one of the world’s finest writers

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uy takes on the fashion world in New York and becomes the darling of Fire Island’s gay community. Never ageing, at 35 he is still modelling, helplessly enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he’s far younger. Driven by the memory of his poor childhood, Guy lets them believe – until he finds his way of life is destroying the men he loves.

With the richest representations of gay male identity from the disco era to the age of AIDS, this exquisite novel explores the power of physical beauty – to fascinate, enslave and deceive – with sparkling wit and pathos.

Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and, most recently, Jack Holmes and His Friend. His non-fiction includes City Boy, Inside a Pearl, and other memoirs; The Flâneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. White lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.

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Kilimanjaro Spirit Ibrahim Nasrallah Losing another is agony. But what about when you lose yourself?

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group of disparate individuals, amongst them two Palestinian adolescents who have lost their legs in Israeli bomb strikes, are preparing to summit Mount Kilimanjaro. They have nothing – and everything – in common.

Hailing from Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and America, the characters test the limits of their physical and emotional strengths to prove to themselves that they can transcend their strife-ridden histories and accomplish the unexpected.

Nasrallah’s work is a page-turning, nail-biting tale of adventure, as well as an ode to the resilience of the human spirit.

5 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • 9789927118418 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9789927118425 • £14.99

Born in a refugee camp, Ibrahim Nasrallah is a Jordanian-Palestinian poet, novelist, painter and photographer. He has won the Jerusalem Prize for Culture and Creativity and the Sultan Bin Al Owais Prize. His 2014 trip summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the first to include an Arab author and was in support of Palestinian and Arab children in need of medical care.

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The Many Selves of Katherine North Emma Geen A dazzling work of speculative fiction, this is an extraordinary and original debut novel about identity and humanity

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or years Kit has been projecting into other species. But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn’t alone…

Since Kit was 12, she has been a phenomenaut. Her consciousness is projected into the bodies of lab-grown animals, made for the purposes of research. Kit experiences a multitude of other lives – as predator and prey – hoping her work will help humans better understand the other species living alongside them.

But after a jump as an urban fox ends in disaster Kit begins to suspect that those she has trusted for her entire working life may be out to cause her harm...

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Emma Geen is a speculative thinker and writer whose fiction draws on her background in Psychology and Philosophy. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. This is her debut novel.

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Reputations Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean The taut, powerful new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling

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s Colombia’s most famous political cartoonist strolls through downtown Bogotá in the hours before a public celebration of his career, he contemplates how forty years before he gave up painting and began drawing caricatures to earn a living.

For years his cartoons have had the power to overturn a judge’s decision, threaten the stability of a ministry or repeal a law, with the result that half the country loved him and the other half wished him dead. But as he leaves the theatre a young woman emerges from the crowd and forces Mallarino to confront an incident that took place in his home half a lifetime ago, calling into question his reputation and the value of his life’s work.

Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. The Sound of Things Falling won the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Reputations won the Premio Real Academia Española and The Informers was shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

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Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation James Runcie The eagerly anticipated fifth instalment in the Grantchester Mysteries series, now a major ITV drama

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t’s the summer of love in late-1960s England, and Sidney Chambers, now Archdeacon of Ely Cathedral, is still up to his amateur sleuthing investigations.

A bewitching divorcee enlists Sidney’s help in convincing her son to leave a hippy commune; at a May Week celebration a student is divested of a family heirloom; Amanda’s marriage runs into trouble; Sidney and Hildegard holiday behind the Iron Curtain; Mrs Maguire’s husband returns from the dead and an arson attack in Cambridge leads to a cruel case of blackmail. Charming, witty, intelligent – these six new stories are guaranteed to satisfy and delight this clerical detective’s many fans.

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James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of seven novels.

Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death was published in 2012, and soon followed by three more in the Grantchester Mysteries series. In 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton. The second series will air in spring 2016. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh.

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Please Do Not Disturb Robert Glancy A funny, disturbing and deeply affecting novel of power, corruption and innocence, by the author of Terms & Conditions

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harlie, a curious boy, eavesdrops with his dictaphone on guests of the Mirage Hotel, as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for the annual appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo. Sean, an Irishman, struggles to write the great African novel – if only his crazed fiancée would stop distracting him. Josef, mythmaker and kingmaker, is beginning to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet. Hope, the nurse caring for the King, reluctantly helps maintain Tafumo’s powerful façade.

And in the countdown to the Big Day, Jack smuggles something into Bwalo that will change the lives of all of them forever…

Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At fourteen he moved from Africa to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first novel, Terms & Conditions, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in New Zealand, where he currently lives with his wife and children.

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Bad News Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

Anjan Sundaram A compelling story of dictatorship and fallen free speech, as told by the last free journalists to remain in Rwanda

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terrifying blast, and Anjan Sundaram heads uphill towards the sound, but when he arrives, it is as though nothing has happened. A clean-up has taken place, a cloaking of the discontent in Kigali. Bad News is an intense account of the battle for free speech in modern-day Rwanda, following those journalists who stayed, despite fearing torture or death, and those reporting from exile. It is the story of papers shut down, of lies told to please foreign delegates, of corrupt elections. In the face of powerful forces, it tells of the fight to make explosions heard.

Anjan Sundaram has reported from Africa for the New York Times and the Associated Press, with writing appearing in Granta, the Observer and more. He received a 2006 Reuters journalism award for his reporting on Pygmy tribes in Congo’s rainforest, and his first book, Stringer: A Reporter’s Journey in the Congo, was published to critical acclaim. anjansundaram.com • @anjansun

The Naked Shore Of the North Sea

Tom Blass Tom Blass’s captivating memoir explores the formidable North Sea, from the fishermen trawling its depths to the battles waged above

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s playground, theatre of war and cultural crossing-point, the North Sea has shaped the world in myriad ways, forged villains and heroes, and determined the fates of nations. But it’s not all grim: the seaside holiday was born on North Sea beaches, and artists and writers have been inspired by glinting sun on the wave-tops.

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With a wry eye and a warm coat, Tom Blass travels the edges of the North Sea meeting fishermen, artists, bomb disposal experts and bürgermeisters. In doing so he attempts to piece together its manifold histories and to reveal truths, halftruths and fictions otherwise submerged.

Tom Blass studied anthropology, law and politics, and has earned his living as a journalist and editor specialising in issues relating to business, law, human rights and foreign policy. He lives with his family in Hastings.

The Bitter Taste of Victory In the Ruins of the Reich

Lara Feigel A fascinating and original cultural history of post-war occupied Germany from the critically acclaimed author of The Love-charm of Bombs

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n May 1945 Germany was a nation reduced to rubble. Yet as the Allies set about occupying the country, they were determined for reconstruction to be intellectual as well as practical. Writers, film-makers and artists were dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their governments had spent years bombing.

Among them, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, Lee Miller, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Billy Wilder attempted to redeem the soul of the nation. The Bitter Taste of Victory tells this story, offering a fresh view of the reshaping of post-war Europe.

28 JANUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408845325 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781408845318 • £21.99

Dr Lara Feigel is a Senior Lecturer in English at King’s College London, with her research focused on the 1930s and the Second World War. She is the author of Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930–1945, and has written for the Guardian, Prospect, History Today and others. Her most recent book, The Love-charm of Bombs, was published to critical acclaim.

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In Other Words Jhumpa Lahiri Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein A non-fiction debut from the Man Booker-shortlisted author Jhumpa Lahiri: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of language and belonging

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n Other Words is at heart a love story: that of a writer for another language.

For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. In 2012 she decided to move to Rome with her family, for ‘a trial by fire, a sort of baptism’ into a new language and world.

Presented in a dual-language format, In Other Words is a book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Nabokov. It is a surprising, powerful and eloquent book.

9 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408866115 • £16.99

Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and most recently, The Lowland, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Baileys Prize in 2014, and won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2012.

Ann Goldstein is an award-winning translator and an editor at the New Yorker.

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Gangster Warlords Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America

Ioan Grillo From the author of El Narco, the shocking story of the men who run the drugs cartels throughout Latin America

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new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world’s trade in narcotics, guns and humans. Who are these new masters of death? What has happened in the Americas to allow them to grow and flourish? Ioan Grillo has gained access to every level of the cartel chain-ofcommand in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. He provides a new and disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control – one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.

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Ioan Grillo has covered Mexico since 2001 for top newspapers, magazines and TV stations in the US and UK. Educated in Britain, he reports for Time magazine and regularly appears on radio and TV, commenting on Mexican crime and other issues. He lives in Mexico. ioangrillo.com • @ioangrillo

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Kiese Laymon Passionate and searing: a timely collection of essays on issues of race, culture, family and what is tearing America apart

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iese Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, in a country striving to declare itself multicultural, post-racial and mostly innocent. Drawing on his own personal experiences, in these essays Laymon attempts to deal with many issues preoccupying America today, from race, identity and writing to music, celebrity and violence. Through letters between his own disparate family members, pleas to performers whose voices will never be heard again, and detailed accounts of his clashes with a failing education system, Laymon gets closer not only to the truth behind himself, but to the promises behind the promised land.

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Kiese Laymon was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned an MFA from Indiana University and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Vassar College. He has written for Esquire, ESPN, Colorlines, NPR and Gawker and others, and is the recipient of the 2015–2016 Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Mississippi. kieselaymon.com • @KieseLaymon

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Redeemable A Memoir of Darkness and Hope

Erwin James The story of a damaged little boy turned damaging man, who embarked on a 20-year journey behind bars that would change his life

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orn in 1957 to itinerant Scottish parents, Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven, turning his father to alcohol and violence. At the age of 10 he was sleeping rough when he committed his first crime of breaking and entering. As he grew older his petty crime turned violent, ending with a life sentence in 1984 for two murders. It wasn’t until he met Joan, a prison psychologist, that Erwin began to confront his past. Her sessions would turn his life around, showing no matter how far a person falls, redemption is possible with the right kind of help.

Erwin James is a Guardian columnist and author. A trustee of the Prison Reform Trust, he has given keynote addresses to the Royal Society in Edinburgh, the Danish parliament, and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and an Honorary Master of the Open University. He lives in Wales.

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The Psychology of Conflict Mediating in a Diverse World

Paul Randolph A timely new contribution on the unique benefits of applying philosophy and psychology to mediating between people in conflict

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n The Psychology of Conflict, Paul Randolph examines the application of existential philosophy to the psychology of mediation. Through an outline of the shared human characteristics (‘existential givens’) as depicted by prominent Existentialists, he shows how conflict resolvers from a variety of professions can benefit from a deeper knowledge of human behaviour in conflict. This practical guide will assist those interested in conflict resolution to better understand the psychological processes of parties in conflict and mediation.

Paul Randolph is an experienced mediator, trainer, lecturer and author. Following 35 years at the Bar, Paul turned to mediation, and has now mediated in a wide variety of disputes, lecturing on the psychology of conflict in Europe, Asia and America. He is Course Leader on the Mediation course at Regent’s School of Psychotherapy and Psychology (RSPP), Regent’s University London.

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Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life Treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

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A beautifully illustrated and unique view of Shakespeare’s life and times, with images and objects from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

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his lavishly illustrated book brings together a selection of 50 objects from the Tudor and Stuart periods from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-uponAvon. Exploring the role and significance of notable paintings, furniture, ceramics, textiles and metal wares in the everyday experience of people living in Shakespearean England, it provides fascinating insight into religious and social change, education, birth, marriage, death, family life, and professional and community life. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, the book brings Shakespeare’s life and times engagingly to life for readers of all ages.

Delia Garratt is Head of Collections and Interpretation at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. Tara Hamling is Senior Lecturer in History and Associate Fellow of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

On Shakespeare’s Sonnets A Poets’ Celebration

Hannah Crawforth & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, 30 of the world’s foremost contemporary poets come together to write their responses to the Sonnets

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n the 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche. These new poems probe our relationship to the Sonnets’ intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival. These sonnets and longer lyrics explore what it means to write ‘on Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ in the twenty-first century.

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Published in association with the Royal Society of Literature and featuring a preface

by Colin Thubron, contributing poets include Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough and Jo Shapcott.

Hannah Crawforth is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College London and co-author of Shakespeare in London (Bloomsbury).

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at King’s College London.

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The Age of Genius The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

A. C. Grayling The bestselling author explains how the seventeenth century became the crucible of modernity

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n the seventeenth century, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mindset – Descartes’s dualism; Newton, the man who understood gravity, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy – by the end of that tumultuous century ‘the greatest ever change in the mental outlook of humanity’ had irrevocably taken place.

10 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9780747599425 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781408843291 • £17.99

A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer and Independent on Sunday, and is a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Start the Week and CNN.

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Dreams of a Refugee From the Middle East to Mount Everest

Mostafa Salameh The remarkable story of Mostafa Salameh, son of Palestinian refugees, mountaineer and advocate of progressive Islam

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rom his upbringing in Palestinian refugee camps – in both Kuwait and Jordan – to the dream that sparked a journey to Mount Everest and on to the North Pole, Mostafa Salameh’s story is inspiring, courageous and extraordinary. A passionate campaigner for moderate Islam and anti-radicalisation, in Dreams of a Refugee he gives his views on the varied meanings of Jihad, being a Jordanian and Palestinian, tolerant Islam, Sufism and religious pluralism. At a time when positive images of Islam can seem few and far between, Mostafa’s story is one of astonishing faith that will appeal to religious and non-religious readers alike.

25 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472927514 • £16.99

Mostafa Salameh is a Jordanian mountaineer who has completed the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest in 2008 and the North Pole. He is also a motivational speaker and campaigner for anti-radicalisation amongst Muslim youth.

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Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the Imagination An Artist at Work

Ghislaine Kenyon An intimate portrait of the working life of Quentin Blake, the much-loved illustrator and artistic genius of our age

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uentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century.

Internationally cherished by all generations, he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl. Ghislaine Kenyon has known Quentin Blake since 1998. She has observed how Blake’s take on life informs his memorable illustrations and how his art in turn has informed his life – a life which is extremely private and contained. With exceptional insight into Blake’s oeuvre, and with over 200 remarkable illustrations and photographs in full colour, Quentin Blake is a different kind of life-writing, starting from a critical view of the artist’s work, and forms a fitting tribute to Quentin Blake’s journey and his great legacy.

Ghislaine Kenyon worked formerly as Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery and then Head of Learning at Somerset House. She has curated several exhibitions, including ‘Tell Me a Picture’ in 2000 with Quentin Blake.

The Morning They Came for Us Dispatches from Syria

Janine di Giovanni A searing, intimate account of the conflict in Syria by one of the world’s greatest war reporters

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n May 2011, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, through its descent into bloody war. Talking to people from every sector of society – villages to cities, government officials to opposition fighters – and working as a consultant for the UN’s refugee agency, focusing on Syrian women, she was consumed by the fate of the country. Delivered with passion, fearlessness and sensitivity, The Morning They Came for Us is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration.

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Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for 25 years. She is the author of seven books including Madness Visible and Ghosts by Daylight, the Middle East Editor of Newsweek and a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. She lives in Paris.

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janinedigiovanni.com • @janinedigi

The Making of India The Untold Story of British Enterprise

Kartar Lalvani The first ever history of India to explore the benefits – institutional, political and civil – of British colonial rule on the subcontinent

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he story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one-tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, dispatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain’s remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world’s largest democracy in the twenty-first century.

10 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472924827 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472924834 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES

Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE, FRPharmS, DSc is founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, Britain’s leading vitamin company. Born in Karachi in 1931, Kartar moved to Mumbai in 1947 and to London in 1956 to study pharmacy, before undertaking his doctorate at Bonn University. An Honorary Professor at University of Franche Comté, Besançon, France, Kartar is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian.

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Spit and Polish Old-fashioned Ways to Beat Dirt, Dust and Decay

Lucy Lethbridge Essential household tips from the Victorian era to today – time-honoured, thrifty and environmentally friendly domestic solutions still useful in the modern home

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rom cobweb brushers, carpet sweepers and awkward corners to the damp cloth versus the dry duster; how to get rid of water marks or heat rings on polished wood; the antibacterial qualities of simple vinegar, and using lemon juice to clear limescale: here are the methods, techniques and essential household knowledge that generations once took for granted. Combining fascinating ‘below-stairs’ social history with startling facts and useful tips, Lucy Lethbridge here restores fastdisappearing skills to cope with laundry and to keep at bay dust, rust, limescale and mildew. Here, beautifully illustrated and entertainingly presented, are a bygone era’s keys to a clean house.

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Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children’s books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. Servants was published to critical acclaim by Bloomsbury in 2012. She lives in London.

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Thatcher Stole My Trousers Alexei Sayle Beautifully written and painfully funny, the second volume of memoirs from the acclaimed stand-up comedian, novelist and actor

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n 1971 Alexei Sayle set out for London to study at Chelsea School of Art. Less than a decade later, after spells as one of London’s bottom 10 freelance illustrators and a dinner lady, he went on to invent modern comedy as the first MC of London’s only comedy club, changing the landscape of British humour forever.

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Thatcher Stole My Trousers chronicles a time when comedy and politics came together in electrifying ways. Recounting Alexei’s friendships with the comedians who, like him, would soon become household names, this is a unique and beguiling blend of social history and memoir.

Born in Liverpool, the only child of Communist parents, Alexei moved to London in 1971 and became the first MC of the Comedy Store. After years of stand-up, television, sitcoms, films and even a hit single, he published a highly acclaimed short story collection, two novels and a novella. His first volume of memoirs, Stalin Ate My Homework, was published in 2010.

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Jacobites A New History of the ’45 Rebellion

Jacqueline Riding The extraordinary and dramatic history of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s 1745 campaign to seize the throne of Great Britain

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he 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. At its height it threatened to completely destabilise the British state, while disrupting her military capability in Europe and colonial activities in America and beyond. Yet the reality of this crucial episode continues to be obscured by fiction and myth: the heroic but doomed ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ versus the heartless ‘Butcher’ Cumberland. This magnificent, wide-ranging account draws extensively on contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts of key players and eyewitnesses as these remarkable events played out. It presents a story more complex, paradoxical and even tragic than the myth suggests.

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Dr Jacqueline Riding specialises in Georgian and early-Victorian history and art.

She worked for 14 years as a curator, including at the Guards Museum and Palace of Westminster, and was founding director of the Handel House Museum, London.

Historian and adviser on Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner (2014), she is now working on his next film project, Peterloo.

The Gutsy Girl Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure

Caroline Paul From a real-life derring-do woman, exhilarating stories, activities and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement

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uthor Caroline Paul challenges girls to seek out a life of exhilaration. Once a scaredy-cat herself, Caroline decided that fear got in the way of the life she wanted – of excitement, confidence, friendship and fun. She has since flown planes, rafted big rivers and fought fires as one of the first female firefighters in San Francisco. In The Gutsy Girl, she shares her escapades, as well as those of other girls and women throughout history, and offers engaging activities such as confidence-building stances, positive self-talk and using crickets to estimate outside temperatures. Fully illustrated throughout with Wendy MacNaughton’s charming pen-and-ink drawings.

Caroline Paul is the author of Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, the novel East Wind, Rain, and Fighting Fire, a memoir about her career as a San Francisco firefighter. Wendy MacNaughton is a New York Times bestselling illustrator whose books include Lost Cat and Pen & Ink. They live in San Francisco.

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Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Frances Wilson The life of Thomas De Quincey, the most mysterious member of the Wordsworth circle and the last of the Romantics

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homas De Quincey – opium-eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger – is embedded in our culture. Modelling his character on Coleridge and his sensibility on Wordsworth, De Quincey took over the poet’s former cottage in Grasmere and turned it into an opium den. Here, increasingly detached from the world, he nurtured his growing hatred of his former idols and his obsession with murder as one of the fine arts. In this spectacular new biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dizzying complexity and dazzling originality, whose rackety life was lived on the run.

Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and author of four former biographies: Literary Seductions, The Courtesan’s Revenge, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2009, and How to Survive the Titanic; or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2012. She lives in London.

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Existentialism and Excess The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre

Gary Cox A fast-paced biography of Jean-Paul Sartre, covering all the main events of his 75 years

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rom Sartre’s early years as a precocious brat devouring his grandfather’s library, through his time as a brilliant student in Paris, his wilderness years as a provincial teacher-writer experimenting with mescaline, his World War II adventures as a POW and member of the resistance, his immense amphetaminefuelled feats of writing productivity, his harem of women, his many travels and his final decline into blindness and old age. Packed with countless anecdotes, from his belief he was pursued by a giant lobster, to his complex relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, this is as entertaining, thought-provoking and compulsive as the man himself.

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Gary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. He is the author of How to Be an Existentialist, How to Be a Philosopher, The Existentialist’s Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness and Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes that Define Philosophy (all published by Bloomsbury).

The Last Royal Rebel The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

Anna Keay A sweeping history of late-Stuart England told through the momentous rise and fall of Charles II’s illegitimate son

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he favourite illegitimate son of Charles II, James, Duke of Monmouth, was born in exile the year the English monarchy was abolished. He emerged from the boarding houses of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of London, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders.

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His story is one of the bond between father and son, the power struggle between King and Parliament and the conflict between love and honour. Monmouth’s thrilling life, culminating in his fateful invasion, brings alive the turbulent decades following the civil war in which England as we know it was forged.

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Anna Keay read History at Magdalen College, Oxford. She has a PhD from the University of London on court ceremonial in Charles II’s reign. Historian, writer and presenter, Anna has worked as a curator for Historic Royal Palaces, Curatorial Director of English Heritage and is currently Director of the Landmark Trust. annakeay.co.uk

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How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been On the Importance of Armchair Travel

Pierre Bayard From the author of How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read comes a witty guide to the places you’ve not yet been

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riting in the same irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those far-flung destinations you’ve never been. Practical, funny and thoughtprovoking, How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jet-setters, all while never having to leave the comfort of the living room.

24 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9781620401378 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781620401385 • £10.99

Pierre Bayard is a Professor of French Literature at the University of Paris 8 and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read and Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong, among many others.

He lives in Paris.

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When We Are No More How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Abby Smith Rumsey What is the future of the 40,000-year-old project of human memory?

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bby Smith Rumsey explores human memory from pre-history to the present to shed light on the grand challenge facing our world – the abundance of information and scarcity of human attention. Tracing the story from cuneiform tablets to the birth of the Library of Congress, Rumsey weaves a compelling narrative exploring how humans have dealt with these problems throughout history, and how we might begin to solve the same for our digital future. A call to consciousness, When We Are No More explains why data storage is not memory; why forgetting is the first step towards remembering; and above all, why memory is about the future, not the past.

19 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781620408025 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781620408032 • £12.99

Abby Smith Rumsey is a historian. Trained at Harvard as a Russian scholar, she has worked in Soviet-era archives, spent a decade at the Library of Congress, and has consulted on digital collecting and curation, intellectual property issues, and the economics of digital information for a variety of universities and the National Science Foundation. She lives in San Francisco.

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Who Was Who Volume XIII (2011–2015) Who Was Who Volume XIII contains entries which were removed from Who’s Who on account of death during 2011–2015

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his volume of Who Was Who contains autobiographical entries for people in Who’s Who who died between 2011 and 2015, and includes biographies for Margaret Thatcher, Lauren Bacall, and Peter O’Toole.

Each entry is finally revised and the date of death added. The details in each entry were obtained originally from the individual concerned, and revised by them each year, making this a unique historical resource.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein An Intellectual Biography

Miles Hollingworth A pioneering insight into the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, from the author of the celebrated biography Saint Augustine of Hippo

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ittgenstein has had perhaps more influence on post-war philosophical investigation than any other figure. In Ludwig Wittgenstein, Miles Hollingworth continues to pioneer a new kind of biographical writing; here the ingredients are the hypersensitivities of Viennese society in the last part of the nineteenth century, Carnegie-like wealth, Wittgenstein’s mother’s tightrope between hysteria and sentimentality, his brothers’ suicides – all compounded with the academic disciplines of mathematical, linguistic and historical philosophy. In this compelling life, Hollingworth argues that Wittgenstein subsumed all to the nature of what he felt was his own destiny – an inborn genius whose narrative he increasingly fought to control.

Miles Hollingworth is the author of Saint Augustine of Hippo: An Intellectual Biography and a professor at the Patristic Institute, the Augustinianum, in Rome.

He is a past winner of the Jerwood Award and the Elizabeth Longford Scholarship.

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Passwords to Paradise How Languages Have Re-invented World Religions

Nicholas Ostler The fascinating chronicle of how language has influenced the world’s great religions – Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and more

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n the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God’. So opens the Gospel of John, an ancient text translated into almost every language. The words we read now would have been unknown or unrecognisable at the time of composition – it may have been originally dictated or written in Aramaic, but our only written source is in Greek. How to understand these words, when so many other translators, languages and cultures have exercised some level of influence on them? Passwords to Paradise is an original and intriguing perspective on the history of religion.

Nicholas Ostler is the author of The Last Lingua Franca: English until the Return of Babel; Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World. He is Chairman of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, a charity supporting the efforts of communities to better know and use their languages. He lives in Bath.

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You Could Look It Up The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Jack Lynch An illuminating exploration of reference books through time and across cultures, from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi to Wikipedia

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oday we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of reference works that have shaped the way we’ve seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From the earliest-known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon and The Domesday Book to Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language and Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilisation.

21 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • 9780802777522 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9780802777942 • £12.99

Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer’s Dilemma: The Evolution of ‘Proper’ English, from Shakespeare to South Park and Samuel Johnson’s Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey.

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The Wicked Boy The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

Kate Summerscale An enthralling account of a shocking murder case by the bestselling, awardwinning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

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n Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and younger brother Nattie set out from their home in East London to watch a cricket match. Over the next 10 days they spent extravagantly, visiting the theatre and eating out; their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, and nobody had seen their mother since.

When an awful smell arose from their house, police were called to investigate.

What they found sent the press into a frenzy of horror – and the boys into a highly publicised trial. The Wicked Boy is a fascinating true story of murder – but also of its astonishing aftermath.

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Kate Summerscale is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick; The Queen of Whale Cay, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; and Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, a Sunday Times bestseller. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.

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Conversations with Roger Scruton Roger Scruton & Mark Dooley Mark Dooley coaxes Roger Scruton to speak candidly about his vision of the world, early philosophical influences and those who have shaped him personally and intellectually

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his book reveals Roger Scruton’s early life and describes how he came to hold his conservative outlook. It tells of Scruton’s rise to prominence while writing for The Times and sheds light on his campaign on behalf of underground dissidents in Eastern Europe. Ranging across topics as wide as British philosophy, music and religion, Conversations with Roger Scruton is an intimate portrait of a writer who has felt philosophy to be a vocation and whose defence of unfashionable causes has brought him a wide readership in Britain and around the world.

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Professor Roger Scruton is Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC. He has published more than 50 books and writes regularly for The Times, Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Mark Dooley is a lecturer and author whose publications include Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, The Roger Scruton Reader and Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming. roger-scruton.com • @Roger_Scruton

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The Fall of the House of Wilde The Wildes of Dublin and London

Emer O’Sullivan A remarkable group portrait of one of nineteenth-century Ireland’s most prominent families and its double fall from grace

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scar Wilde’s father – scientist, surgeon, archaeologist, writer – was one of the most eminent men of his generation. His mother – poet, journalist, translator – hosted an influential salon at 1 Merrion Square. Together they were one of Victorian Ireland’s most dazzling and enlightened couples. When in 1864 Sir William Wilde was accused of sexually assaulting a female patient, it sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death, some 10 years later, Jane attempted to re-establish the family in London, where Oscar burst upon the scene and became the first modern celebrity. His own fall in a trial as public as his father’s marked the end of fin-de-siècle decadence.

Emer O’Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf ’s literature at UEA, where she also lectured in English Literature. This is her first book. She lives in London.

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Full Marks for Trying An Unlikely Journey from the Raj to the Rag Trade

Brigid Keenan Candid, wickedly funny and surprisingly touching, Full Marks for Trying is a coming-of-age memoir that will delight, entertain, and make you cry with laughter

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rom Brigid Keenan’s early beginnings – a technicolour childhood in India, to a finishing school in Paris – ordinary just wasn’t for her. Moving to swinging sixties London, Brigid fell into a career and found herself, at just 21, a fashion editor at the Sunday Times. From working with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton and chatting with Vidal Sassoon, to turning up to report on the Vietnam War dressed in a miniskirt, Brigid Keenan’s enthusiasm ­– and naivety – have led to a succession of hilarious mishaps, as well as marvellous triumphs.

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Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as an editor on Nova, the Observer and the Sunday Times. She has published two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus, the bestselling Diplomatic Baggage, and, most recently, the companion memoir Packing Up. Brigid Keenan is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She lives with her husband in Pimlico and Somerset.

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The Cultural Revolution A People’s History, 1962–1976

Frank Dikötter The final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy’, completing the unprecedented series on Maoist China, from the perspectives of ordinary people

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n 1966 an ageing Mao launched an ambitious scheme to consolidate his legacy, unleashing Red Guards against all remnants of old culture. Soon rival factions were fighting each other in the streets with semi-automatic weapons in the name of revolutionary purity. The military intervened, turning the country into a garrison state marked by bloody purges that crushed as many as one in fifty people. But after the army itself fell victim to the Cultural Revolution, ordinary villagers saw an opportunity to undermine the planned economy and resurrect the market. As fresh evidence from the archives shows, they quietly buried Maoism.

Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong.

He has published 10 books that have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China (1992) to Mao’s Great Famine (2010), winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, and The Tragedy of Liberation (2013), shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize. frankdikotter.com

The Man Who Invented Fiction Cervantes & the Modern World

William Egginton Four hundred years after the death of Cervantes, William Egginton reveals how the creator of Don Quixote invented fiction, and how fiction changed the world

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n Cervantes’s time, ‘fiction’ was synonymous with a lie. Books were either history, and true, or ‘poetry’ which might be invented, but had to conform to strict principles. Don Quixote broke the existing rules and created a new, modern hybrid form we know today as the novel. Egginton explores Cervantes’s life and the world he lived in, showing how his life and influences converged in his work, and how his work – especially Don Quixote – radically changed the nature of literature and created a new way of viewing the world. Finally, it explains how that world view went on to infiltrate art, politics and science, and how the world today would be unthinkable without it.

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William Egginton is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German and Romance Languages and Literatures at the Johns Hopkins University. Egginton is the author of six highly praised books, including How the World Became a Stage. Egginton lives in Baltimore and in Vienna, Austria.

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White Rage Carol Anderson A ground-breaking chronicle of racial politics in America from the end of the Civil War to the present day

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s Ferguson, Missouri, went up in flames, commentators in the media across America offered variations of the same story: African Americans, angered by the police killing of an unarmed black teen, were taking out their frustration in unproductive and predictable ways – rampage, burning, and looting. Dominating the discussion was an overwhelming focus on ‘black rage’. Were African Americans justified in this rage, even if it became destructive? Here, historian Carol Anderson brilliantly reframes the debate, identifying the ‘white rage’ that, over almost two centuries, has been the source of so much discrimination. It is a vitally important addition to the literature on race in America.

30 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781632864123 • £18.99

Carol Anderson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University. She is the author of many books and articles including Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955. Her article ‘White Rage’ in the Washington Post was the paper’s most widely read and commented-on article in 2014. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Sacred Combe A Search for Humanity’s Heartland

Simon Barnes Reflections on the natural world both here and in Africa from one of our finest natural history writers

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his is the story of Simon Barnes’s relationship with nature, and with the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, where he awoke on his first night in camp to find elephants munching the roof of his hut.

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It is about our longing for a wilder, less civilised life, and finding it, and living it, and our relationship with the wild world, with all non-human life. Intensely personal in places, there are flashbacks to childhood, some meetings with exceptional people – and above all the sense of being in the bush, being at peace and being prey, often at the same time. The Sacred Combe is natural history writing at its very best.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning author of 20 books or so, including three novels and the bestselling How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher. Formerly the chief sportswriter at The Times, for whom he also wrote two columns on wildlife, he lives in Norfolk with his family and four horses, beside a marsh. @simonbarneswild

Landskipping Anna Pavord Landskipping is a meditation on the iridescent British landscape that will reshape the way we think about our country

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n the late eighteenth century, landscape began to emerge as a cultural phenomenon in Britain. Tourist, theoretician and artist alike all sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell.

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In a spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the emotional and artistic resonances of nature, and the sculpting of its lines by man and economic endeavour.

An exquisite foray across mountains and rivers, valleys and pastures, Landskipping is a celebration of landscape, the stunning diversity of our scenery and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise.

Anna Pavord’s books include the bestselling The Tulip, The Naming of Names, and her most recent work, The Curious Gardener. Her column in the Independent has appeared since the newspaper’s launch. She writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for 10 years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chairman.

No Way But Gentlenesse A Memoir of How Kes, My Kestrel, Changed My Life

Richard Hines The inspiration for an older brother’s novel, A Kestrel for a Knave, which became the iconic film Kes

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arry and Richard Hines both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire mining village. But after 11-plus exams, their paths diverged. While Barry passed and went to grammar school, Richard failed and was left without hope of academic achievement.

Richard read T. H. White’s book The Goshawk. Enthralled, he sought a falconry book in the library and trained a kestrel taken from a nest in a ruined sixteenth-century hall. This obsession was to shape the course of his life. No Way But Gentlenesse is a moving tale of one boy’s attempt to find salvation in the natural world.

10 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408868010 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781408868034 • £12.99

Richard Hines was Deputy Head in a school, but has spent most of his career as a documentary film-maker, working for the BBC and Channel 4, before becoming a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in Sheffield and frequently walks on the nearby moors.

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The Most Perfect Thing Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

Tim Birkhead From the author of Bird Sense, a revealing and enthralling book about the extraordinary science and beauty of a bird’s egg

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hich end of an egg is laid first, the blunt end or the pointed end? How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shape they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? What is the purpose of the albumen – the white? These are just some of the questions Tim Birkhead answers in his fascinating new book. A Bird’s Egg places current scientific knowledge within a historical context and takes the reader on a captivating journey from the creation and fertilisation of eggs, to their development and eventual hatching, revealing many weird and wonderful facts along the way.

7 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408851258 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781408851265 • £14.99

Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He has written for the Independent, New Scientist and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Among his other books are The Red Canary which won the Consul Cremer Prize, The Wisdom of Birds and Bird Sense. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.

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Nightingales in November A Year in the Lives of Twelve British Birds

Mike Dilger The lives of 12 iconic ‘British’ birds, followed throughout the course of one year

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ave you ever wondered what our birds get up to when they’re not pinching our peanuts or nesting under the eaves of our homes? Nightingales in November tells the different stories of twelve well-known birds we call ‘British’. By using both satellite technology and millions of ringing records, this book unravels the mysteries of migration, tracking the movements of, for example, cuckoos for the eight months they’re not in the UK. Any enquiring naturalist will be able to find out facts such as where British-breeding swallows spend Christmas Day, when to look out for juvenile tawny owls, and when is the best date to listen for the nightingale’s song.

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Mike Dilger is one of wildlife TVs best-known presenters, in his role as resident wildlife reporter on BBC One’s prime-time current affairs show, The One Show, since 2007. As well as being an experienced TV presenter, Mike has travelled widely in South America and Southeast Asia on ecological expeditions, sometimes in front of the camera, sometimes behind. @DilgerTV

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Herding Hemingway’s Cats Understanding How Our Genes Work

Kat Arney How genes work in time and space – a companion to the book of life itself

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e’ve all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? The 2.2 metres of DNA inside every one of your cells encode more than 20,000 genes, tangled into a mass of molecular spaghetti. Hidden in these strands are the instructions that tell cells when and where to turn genes on or off. Researchers are discovering more about the switches that control how genes function, and what happens when they don’t. Kat Arney explores this fast-moving branch of genetics, which is allowing a four-dimensional picture of DNA to be built – a dynamic, writhing biological library, rather than static strings of genetic code.

Kat Arney is Science Communications Manager for Cancer Research UK, where she translates science into plain English to help people understand more about the disease. Her science writing has appeared in the Guardian, Science, New Scientist, BBC Online and Al-Jazeera Online. Kat is regularly on TV and radio, including Today, BBC Breakfast and Daybreak, talking about the latest in cancer research.

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@harpistkat

Electronic Dreams How Britain Learned to Love the Computer

Tom Lean Computers – how they invaded the homes and cultural life of 1980s Britain

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emember the ZX Spectrum, with its stretchy rubber keys? Or were you more of a BASIC fan, writing code on a BBC Micro? Perhaps you saw the Acorn Electron as the future? Computers invaded British homes for the first time in the early 1980s, with a wave of cheap, futuristic microcomputers that allowed millions of people to discover the world of computing. Back then, Britannia very much ruled the digital waves. Electronic Dreams looks at how Britain embraced the home computer, and at the people who drove the boom, transforming the computer into an everyday object in the home.

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Tom Lean is a historian of science based at the British Library, where he works on a major project collecting and archiving life-story interviews with 200 figures from the recent history of science and technology. His fascination with computer technology is long-standing, culminating in his doctorate at the University of Manchester on popular computing in 1980s Britain. @reggitsti

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Sorting the Beef from the Bull The Science of Food Fraud Forensics

Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple Science takes on criminals in the story of food fraud forensics

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orsemeat in burgers, melamine in infant’s milk, artificial colours in our fish and fruit… As our urban lifestyle takes us ever further from our food sources, there are increasing opportunities for dishonest, profit-making shortcuts. Food adulteration costs the food industry billions of dollars annually; the price to consumers may be even higher, with some paying for these crimes with their health and maybe even their lives.

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This book explains the tools used in the fightback against the fraudsters. Exploring the arms race between scientists and criminals, it brings the story of this fascinating and under-reported applied science to light.

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Richard Evershed FRS is Professor of Biogeochemistry at the University of Bristol.

Evershed’s research initially focused on chromatographic and mass spectrometry studies, especially in archaeology, but the methodologies he pioneered have been used in many other areas, notably in detecting food fraud. Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer.

Death on Earth Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Jules Howard A ground-breaking exploration of death and its role in evolution

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lanet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, eating, reproducing, thriving…

Yet the life of every one draws nearer and nearer to certain death. Why? Why is death such a universal companion to life on Earth? Why haven’t animals evolved to break free of its shackles?

10 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472915078 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472915108 • £14.99

In this genre-defining study of mortality and evolution, Jules Howard attempts to shed evolutionary light on one of our most unshakeable taboos. Encountering some of the world’s oldest animals and meeting the scientists attempting to unravel their mysteries, he ends his journey with our own fate: can we ever become immortal?

And even if we could, would we really want to?

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Jules Howard is an author and broadcaster who writes on a host of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation. He appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on TV and radio including on BBC’s The One Show and Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s Today programme. juleshoward.co.uk • @juleslhoward

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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

David Hone The tyrannosaurs – how they lived, bred, fed and died

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yrannosaurus is by some margin the most famous dinosaur in the world. It topped 10 tons, was more than 15m long, and had the largest head and most powerful bite of any land animal, ever.

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles tracks the rise of these dinosaurs, and presents the latest research into their biology, showing off more than just their impressive statistics – tyrannosaurs had feathers, may have hunted in packs, and fought and even ate each other. It explores how tyrannosaurs came to be the dominant terrestrial predators of the Mesozoic and, in more recent times, one of the great icons of biology.

7 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472911254 • £16.99

David Hone is Lecturer in Ecology at QMW in London. He has published more than 50 academic papers on dinosaur biology and behaviour, with a particular interest in the tyrannosaurs, while his fieldwork has included a spell working on the famous feathered dinosaur deposits of China. David’s writing credits include the BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs.

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theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds • @Dave_Hone

More than a Game Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

David Sumpter Football and mathematics – together, so much more than a game

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ootball – the most mathematical of sports – is riddled with numbers, patterns and shapes. How to make sense of them? The answer lies in mathematical modelling, an applied science with applications in a host of biological systems.

More than a Game brings the two together in a thrilling, mind-bending synthesis.

What’s the similarity between an ant colony and Total Football, Dutch style? How is the Barcelona midfield linked geometrically? And how can we relate the mechanics of a Mexican Wave to singing cicadas in an Australian valley? Welcome to the world of modelling, expressed brilliantly by David Sumpter through the prism of football.

David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Some applied mathematics research projects on which he has worked include the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; swarms of locusts travelling across the Sahara; the gaze of London commuters; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by Japanese slime moulds. David is a Liverpool supporter.

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collective-behavior.com • @djsumpter

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The Great Acceleration How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

Robert Colvile A revelatory account of how society is speeding up and why we should embrace this acceleration

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nstant messaging. Superfast broadband. High-frequency trading. ‘Move fast and break things,’ advises Mark Zuckerberg. The world is, undeniably, accelerating.

In this magisterial study of modern living, Robert Colvile examines the effect of this speed on our minds and bodies, studying the opportunities that faster communication and operation could bring not just to the universe of social media but to everything – from music, film and books, to transport, politics and the government. The Great Acceleration explains how the positives outnumber the negatives and why, if this speeding up is inevitable, we should rush to embrace it.

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Robert Colvile is one of Britain’s brightest young writers and editors. A regular commentator on politics, culture and technology, he has also been news director at BuzzFeed UK, head of comment at the Daily Telegraph and telegraph.co.uk and comment editor of the Sunday Telegraph. @rcolvile

Light A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

Bruce Watson Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting and science, Bruce Watson captures the wonder and awe of humanity’s study of light over three millennia

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ight begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. Sampling myths and early philosophers’ queries, it moves from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Battling darkness, Gothic architects crafted radiant cathedrals; later, following Leonardo’s advice, Renaissance artists learned to capture light on canvas. During the Scientific Revolution, Galileo gathered light in his telescope, Descartes measured the rainbow, and Newton used prisms to solidify the science of optics. Through the age of Edison to the age of lasers, Light reveals how this fascinating substance sparked new wonders – from relativity, to quantum electrodynamics, fibre optics and more.

Bruce Watson is a frequent contributor to Smithsonian magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other publications. Watson is the author of four books, including Bread and Roses, Sacco and Vanzetti and Freedom Summer. He lives in Massachusetts.

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Big Data Does Size Matter?

Timandra Harkness What is Big Data, and why should you care? This book tells you everything you need to know (and plenty you don’t)

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rom the first tally, scratched on a wolf bone over 30,000 years ago, to the Large Hadron Collider producing 40 million megabytes of data per second, data is big, and getting bigger – but it’s not always clever. This book cuts through the hype to put data science into real-life context. Stories, people, jokes and personal asides help demystify Big Data, telling us where it comes from, what it can do for us – and what it can’t. Are we being bamboozled by Big Data’s size, speed and shiny technology? Are you a data point, or a human being?

Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster who has been performing stand-up on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days of the twentieth century. A regular on BBC Radio, she has presented four series of The Human Zoo on Radio 4.

2 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472920058 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472920065 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 JUNE 2016

timandraharkness.com • @TimandraHarknes

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The Sweet Spot How Stress Can be Good for You

Ian Robertson A revelatory study of how and why we react to pressure in the way we do and how to find our own sweet spot

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hile some people rise to a challenge and function better in difficult situations, others have the opposite reaction and fall apart. The difference between too much pressure and too little can result in either debilitating stress or demotivation.

The right level of challenge and stress, however, can help people flourish and achieve more than they thought possible. This level varies hugely between individuals and situations, but when it is reached it is what Robertson refers to as the ‘sweet spot’. This spot can be changed, and in this book, based on his own research and clinical observations, Robertson reveals how we can use the sweet spot to control stress and boost performance.

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A neuroscientist and trained clinical psychologist, Ian Robertson is an international expert on neuropsychology. Currently Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, and formerly Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge, he holds visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, University College London and the University of Wales. He has written three books for the general reader, including The Winner Effect.

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River Cottage Gluten Free Naomi Devlin More than 120 inspiring gluten-free recipes packed with flavour – essential for anyone with gluten intolerance or coeliac disease

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luten is found in an extraordinary number of foods, yet it can be problematic for so many of us. In this book, nutrition expert Naomi Devlin provides detailed advice, including guidance on alternative flours, methods of fermentation and baking ideas. Her ingenious recipes include Prosciutto and egg muffins, Blinis with crème fraîche and smoked salmon, Leek and bacon quiche, Courgette hummus, Blackberry bakewell tart, Luscious lemon cake and Chocolate fondants. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and stunning photography from Laura Edwards, this definitive gluten-free guide will offer fresh vitality to your cooking and eating.

Once dubbed ‘the Nigella of gluten-free’, Naomi Devlin is a foodie who was blessed with a coeliac diagnosis. Using wholegrains and sourdough cultures she teaches about the endless possibilities of gluten-free food at River Cottage and Ashburton Cookery School, and she hosts bespoke cookery days in her own steamy kitchen.

Naomi lives in West Dorset. rivercottage.com • @naomidevlin

Women Chefs of New York Nadia Arumugam One hundred beloved recipes from 27 of the most successful and exciting women chefs in New York City

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omen Chefs of New York is a showcase of 27 leading female culinary talents in the restaurant capital of the world. In a fiercely competitive, male-dominated field, these women have risen to the top, and their stories – and their recipes – make it abundantly clear why. Nadia Arumugam braves the sharp knives for intimate interviews, revealing the chefs’ habits, quirks, food likes and dislikes, proudest achievements and aspirations. This gorgeous cookbook includes portraits of these inspiring women, inviting shots of their restaurants and mouth-watering pictures of the dishes, all captured by celebrated food photographer Alice Gao. Chefs include Jean Adamson, Einat Admony, Carolyn Bane, Sarah Sanneh and Erika Williams (Pies ’n’ Thighs), Rawia Bishara, April Bloomfield, Amanda Cohen, Leah Cohen, Amanda Freitag, Fany Gerson, Gabrielle Hamilton, Sara Jenkins, Sohui Kim, Sasha Miranda, Sawako Okochi, Ghaya Oliveira, Alex Raij, Ann Redding, Missy Robbins, Barbara Sibley, Ivy Stark, Zahra Tangorra, Katherine Thompson, Christina Tosi, Jody Williams and Jennifer Yee. Nadia Arumugam is a food writer, editor, and cookbook author. She writes the Chew On This column for Forbes.com and the Food Explainer column for Slate.

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Junk Food Japan Scott Hallsworth Scott Hallsworth presents the incredible food that is making Kurobuta one of the most talked-about places to eat in London

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acking a heavy punch and offering a fresh new look at Japanese food, Junk Food Japan showcases Kurobuta’s ‘insanely delicious delicacies’ (Jay Rayner, the Observer), that are incredibly inventive yet comfortingly familiar. Signature dishes featured include Barbecued pork belly in steamed buns, Tea smoked lamb, and Kombu and roasted Chilean sea bass. This is food full of flavour, guaranteed to wow friends, family and hungry gate-crashers.

Approximately 100 recipes display Scott’s wild and inventive style, with Japanese classics sitting alongside new, stunning Scott-conceived dishes, such as Tuna sashimi pizza and Wagyu beef sliders, all complemented by superb photography from the legendary David Loftus.

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Scott Hallsworth has been forging a mighty path in Japanese cuisine for nearly two decades, having worked for many years as Head Chef at the legendary Nobu in London and then later opening Nobu in Melbourne, in his native Australia. He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen.

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kurobuta-london.com • @KurobutaLondon • @scotthallsworth © Jonathan Buckley

Good Good Food Sarah Raven Two hundred and fifty gorgeous, colourful, healthy recipes from award-winning food writer and doctor Sarah Raven

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his stylish book brings together Sarah Raven’s unique talents to offer a magnificent canon of recipes; she shares her medical knowledge to explain why certain foods make you feel well, look well and live longer. Recipes include Coconut sugar marmalade, Spiced aubergine salad, Black bean burritos, Blood orange sorbet and Basil yoghurt ice cream. Sarah also draws on her expertise and experience to explain the science behind good-for-you ingredients (such as kale, broccoli, salmon and red wine) in 100 mini ‘superfood’ biographies. With luminous photography by Jonathan Buckley, Sarah shows how to benefit most from your food, without ever compromising on sheer deliciousness.

Sarah Raven worked as a doctor before becoming a broadcaster, teacher and writer.

She runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex. She has written several books, including her Garden Cookbook, which was the Guild of Food Writers’ Cookery Book of the Year 2008 and has sold more than 65,000 copies.

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sarahraven.com • @srkitchengarden

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Mammissima Family Cooking from a Modern Italian Mamma

Elisabetta Minervini The cookbook that reveals how to be the ultimate Italian mamma – with simple and delicious Puglian recipes

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ordering the iridescent Adriatic Sea, Puglia is the ‘heel’ of Italy. The olive oil here is like liquid gold, the fish is cooked up fresh from the sea, and tomatoes, peppers and aubergines are at the heart of the cuisine. Elisabetta Minervini has brought Puglian cooking to her home in London, and here she shares the nutritious and traditional recipes her children have come to adore. These include orecchiette (‘little-ear’ pasta), Salento rustic pie and the ultimate pizza. With enchanting food photography, illustrations and plenty of personality, Mammissima will inspire you to add some Italian panache to your everyday family cooking.

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Elisabetta Minervini was born in Molfetta, near Bari, a medieval port in the beautiful region of Puglia in southern Italy, and she moved to England in 1997.

She is the founder of award-winning publishing company Alma Books. She lives in Richmond, London, with her husband Alessandro and their two children, aged twelve and nine. Mammissima is her first book.

The Saffron Tales Recipes from the Persian Kitchen

Yasmin Khan A glorious celebration of the food and people of Iran: stories from home kitchens and more than 80 delicious modern recipes

B 2 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781408868737 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781408868744 • £21.99

ritish-Iranian cook Yasmin Khan traversed Iran in search of the country’s most delicious recipes. She was welcomed into homes in all corners, from the snowy mountains of Tabriz to the pomegranate orchards of Isfahan. Here she weaves together a tapestry of stories and fragrant recipes that are rooted in the rich tradition of Persian cooking. Yasmin’s modern, accessible recipes include fesenjoon (chicken with walnuts and pomegranates), tahcheen (baked saffron and aubergine rice) and rose and almond cake. With exclusive photography, this lavish cookbook rejoices in the land, life, flavours and food of an enigmatic and beautiful country.

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Yasmin Khan is a writer and cook from London. She runs Persian cookery classes, pop-up supper clubs, and consults on Iran-related artistic projects. Outside of the kitchen, Yasmin has worked as a campaigner running high-profile campaigns for NGOs and grassroots groups, with a special focus on the Middle East. thesaffrontales.com • @yasmin_khan

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Sod it! Eat Well Healthy Eating in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond

Anita Bean & Muir Gray Make those crucial diet tweaks in your 60s and 70s to have a massive impact on your health and wellbeing

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nowing what we should or shouldn’t be eating these days can feel like a bit of a minefield. Sod It! Eat Well will arm you with the knowledge to make the ‘right’ food choices – and that needn’t be dull! Based on the principles of the Mediterranean diet and backed up by the latest scientific research, this is no dieting plan. Designed to accompany Sod Seventy! and Sod Sixty! and packed with quick, healthy and easy-to-make recipes, this is a fun, accessible, tasty guide to eating right.

Anita Bean is one of the UK’s most respected nutritionists and the bestselling author of The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition.

Sir Muir Gray set up all the screening programmes from pregnancy to cancer, launched NHS Choices, and was knighted in 2005 for his work in the NHS. He is the author of Sod Seventy!

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@AnitaBean • @muirgray

Sod Sixty!

The Guide to Living Well

Claire Parker & Muir Gray The best gift for anyone turning 60 – learn how to stay fit and healthy through your 60s and beyond

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od Sixty! is a fun, friendly, hands-on guide to navigating your 60s, based on best current scientific evidence. Find out how to get fitter whatever your ‘history’, how to eat healthily, how to juggle looking after yourself with the responsibilities of family, friends and work, and how to make the most of this decade of change.

Use this as an opportunity to take stock – to look after yourself, reduce your risk of disease and make simple lifestyle and attitude changes that will have real impact later on. Straightforward, practical, non-faddy advice to help you stay active and healthy.

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Dr Claire Parker recently turned 60. She has been a GP and family doctor for over 20 years and was a medical researcher before that.

Sir Muir Gray set up all the screening programmes from pregnancy to cancer, launched NHS Choices, and was knighted in 2005 for his work in the NHS. He is the author of Sod Seventy!

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The Accumulator The Revolutionary 30-Day Fitness Plan

Paul Mumford Unique HIIT plus body weight workout plan that guarantees you’ll go from zero to hero in just one month

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he Accumulator is a brand new workout that combines body weight movements with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) along with a healthy habits plan to get you fit and fabulous in 30 days. Designed to build strength and endurance day by day, the workout steps up the pace as you increase your fitness. Day 1 starts with a single exercise that takes just 1 minute to complete. Every day a new exercise is introduced, culminating in a challenging sub-30 high-intensity workout.

Fancy a challenge? Ditch the gym. This is the workout to follow if you want to get fitter fast.

Paul Mumford is a highly experienced, qualified fitness and nutrition coach. He is the creator of The Accumulator™ fitness plan and is a specialist barefoot running and bio-mechanics coach. Paul also writes for Outdoor Fitness, Ultra Fit and FitPro magazines. teamaccumulator.com • @pauldmumford

The Ageless Body How to Hold Back the Years to Achieve a Better Body

Peta Bee & Sarah Schenker The truth about how to hold back the years, what exercise will keep you younglooking and how to avoid gym-face

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rom Gwen Stefani and Cameron Diaz to Jennifer Aniston and Naomi Watts, a new breed of women are redefining not just what an ageless body looks like, but what’s entailed in achieving it. A dramatic shift in body expectations in recent years means that pre- and post-menopausal women can realistically aim for the healthy, well-functioning body of their 20s they crave as well as a physique that looks good with a flat stomach and sculpted arms. The Ageless Body reveals how you go about holding back the years. And the rules – for both exercise and diet – have changed.

Peta Bee is a health and fitness journalist writing for The Times, Sunday Times and Irish Examiner, and co-author of the 2014 bestseller Fast Exercise.

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Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist, co-author of the Fast Diet Recipe Book, and contributor to the Daily Mail, Top Santé and Glamour, and This Morning, Watchdog and BBC Radio. @petabeeuk • sarahschenker.co.uk • @SarahSchenker

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Tendulkar in Wisden Edited by Anjali Doshi The world’s most famous sports book celebrates the exceptional 25-year career of the world’s most famous cricketer

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achin Tendulkar is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest cricketers of all time – and arguably the greatest batsman ever.

From the time Tendulkar made an appearance as a schoolboy cricketer in the 1989 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack to his retirement in 2014, Tendulkar in Wisden records the highlights of an exceptional career – handpicked from all Wisden publications over a quarter of a century and curated for a global audience, with special appeal to an Indian readership. With a foreword by Ricky Ponting.

Anjali Doshi is co-editor of Wisden’s cricket quarterly, The Nightwatchman. A cricket and features journalist, she has followed Indian cricket for nearly 15 years, and contributed pieces to Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Wisden India and Sports Illustrated. She was cricket editor at New Delhi Television. @anjaliadoshi

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Kicking Off Women in Sport

Sarah Shephard Will women in sport – underpaid, undervalued and underestimated for so long – ever compete on a level playing field?

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hy do female athletes earn less than their male counterparts? Why do so few elite sportswomen have the profile their talent deserves? Why are girls still growing up believing that sport is ‘for boys’?

There’s a battle being fought on the sports fields and behind the scenes at every major broadcaster. The warriors are women in sport. Kicking Off breaks down their battles to discover if, and how, they can ever be won and tells the stories that can no longer be ignored.

Sarah Shephard is Features Editor at Sport magazine and has interviewed cover stars including Usain Bolt, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Sir Bradley Wiggins, Serena Williams, and many more. In December 2012 she was named Writer of the Year at the UTV Media Awards. She has also contributed features to Men’s Health, Runner’s World and Men’s Fitness.

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Lost Boys Inside Football’s Slave Trade

Ed Hawkins A shocking exposé of football’s human-trafficking scandal

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rom South America and Africa, kids as young as 13 are leaving poverty-stricken families for a new life in Europe, having been sold the vision of untold riches and the trappings of professional football. This is football’s slave trade – the beautiful game turned ugly.

3 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472914934 • £18.99

The Lost Boys exposes for the first time the anatomy of football’s human-trafficking scandal, the extent of the abuse, and how it ruins lives and threatens the credibility of the sport – and gets under the fingernails of one of the most serious and heartrending issues in sport today.

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Ed Hawkins is an award-winning sports journalist. He has twice been named the Sports Journalists Association’s Sports Betting Writer of the Year. His previous book, Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and was Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2013 book of the year. He lives in London.

Don’t Stop Me Now 26.2 Tales of a Runner’s Obsession

Vassos Alexander Funny, inspiring, honest – the perfect read for anyone in love with running (or thinking about starting!)

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assos Alexander shares the highs and lows of falling in love with running, charting his journey from 20-a-day smoker to 20k-a-day runner. This isn’t a ‘how to’ book, it’s a celebration of running – and what lots of us think about when we run – part therapy, part escape, part self-discovery, part weight loss, part midlife crisis, part simple child-like joy of running when you could be walking. Separated into 26.2 chapters, each featuring people who love running – including Jenson Button, Helen Skelton, Nicky Campbell, Haile Gebrselassie and Paula Radcliffe.

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Vassos Alexander is one of the UK’s best-known sports broadcasters. Every morning he’s heard by 10 million people as an integral part of The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2. He can also be seen presenting on TV, and he commentates on everything from tennis to triathlon, diving to darts. He lives in London with his young family.

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@VassosA 48 SPORT

Following On A Memoir of Teenage Angst and Terrible Cricket

Emma John 1993 saw the start of the England cricket team’s worst ever streak and – inexplicably – the moment Emma John fell utterly in love with them

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n 1993 the England cricket team were becoming infamous for their ineptitude.

With spectacularly poor timing, 14-year-old Emma John chose that summer to fall in love with cricket and, mystifyingly, with that terrible England cricket team.

Nearly a quarter of a century on, she goes back to meet her teenage heroes and find out just what was going on in The Worst England Cricket Team of All Time. As she traipses back through her adolescence, Following On is also a personal memoir of what it was like to grow up following a team that always lost – and why on earth anyone would choose to do it.

Emma John is Deputy Editor of the Observer Magazine and writes a regular backpage column for Observer Sport and a sport-on-TV column, ‘Armchair View’. She is former Deputy Editor of Observer Sport Monthly and The Wisden Cricketer, and was named Young Sportswriter of the Year in 2008. She has also written for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Times and Independent on Sunday.

21 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472916877 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472916884 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 7 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $36.99

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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016 Edited by Lawrence Booth The 153rd edition of the world’s most famous sports book, published every year since 1864

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perennial bestseller loved by cricket fans and bibliophiles around the world and published every single year since its first edition in 1864, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, as ever, contains coverage of every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs, together with some of the finest sports writing of the year. Together with Notes by the Editor, the Cricketers of the Year awards, and the brilliant obituaries, Wisden’s trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records make it a ‘must-have’ for every cricket fan.

7 APRIL 2016

This is Lawrence Booth’s fifth year as Editor of Wisden. He is also a cricket writer for the Daily Mail and the author of several critically acclaimed cricket books.

He is one of the most respected and well-liked authorities in the modern game.

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The End of the Road Festina and the Tour that Almost Killed Cycling

Alasdair Fotheringham The first detailed account of the Festina affair, which ripped apart the 1998 Tour de France and irrevocably changed cycling

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s the opening stages of the 1998 Tour de France unfolded, the Festina team’s soigneur was arrested on the border with a car-load of drugs, triggering sport’s biggest mass doping controversy – what became known as the Festina affair. It all but destroyed professional cycling.

5 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472913029 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781472913050 • £10.99 EXPORT TPB • 9781472913036 • £12.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 JUNE 2016 TPB • AUS $29.99 • NZ $32.99

The End of the Road is the first English-language book to provide in-depth analysis and a colourful evocation of those tumultuous events. Alasdair Fotheringham uncovers, step by step, how the world’s biggest bike race sank into a nightmarish series of scandals that left the sport on its knees. He explores its long-term consequences – and what, if any, lessons were learned.

Alasdair Fotheringham has covered 22 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain. He is the Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s correspondent on Spain and cycling, and a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling magazines and websites. He has written two cycling books: The Eagle of Toledo and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocana.

Out of Time 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain

Peter Chapman A captivating portrait of the summer of 1966 – as a man, a team and a country all teetered on the cusp of momentous change

I 19 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472917157 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781472917164 • £18.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00

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n the summer of 1966 Peter Chapman was a naive 18-year-old Londoner, having recently discovered he would not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer. On the brink of adulthood, he found himself in a country also on the brink of huge change – and about to have one of the most significant sporting successes in its history. Focused around England’s one and only World Cup victory, Out of Time tells the story of that summer – both the football and the country’s broader political, social and economic picture – through his 18-year-old eyes, and offers a vivid and beautifully written portrait of what life was like in 1966.

Peter Chapman was brought up in Islington, north London. In the mid-1960s, he played in goal for Leyton Orient junior and colts teams. He was a correspondent for the BBC, Guardian and Observer in Central America and Mexico from 1981 to 1986, and covered two World Cups for ITV. He is now a reporter and feature writer at the Financial Times.

Losing It A Lifetime in Pursuit of Sporting Excellence

Simon Barnes Warm and witty reassurance that sometimes it really is the ‘taking part’ that counts

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imon Barnes has taken part in seven summer Olympic Games, five World Cups and ten Ashes series. Well, not exactly taken part, but he was there and writing hard. And behind every victory and every defeat he recorded, there was the reference of his own amateur sporting career. His adventures taught him about sport: why we do it, what is required to be very good at it; about the relationship of physical and mental skills, about fear and courage and physical pain; about the team thing, the ‘me’ thing. His sporting failure has been a joyous and profoundly informative part of his life, and here he tells the story of it.

2 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472918772 • £14.99

Simon Barnes is a multi-award-winning writer with more than 20 books to his name, including The Meaning of Sport and How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher. He was the chief sports writer of The Times until 2014, and has written sports columns for GQ, Spectator and many others.

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@simonbarneswild

Endurance The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek

Rick Broadbent The story of the greatest long-distance athlete in history – a tale of running, redemption and political exile

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oted the ‘greatest runner of all time’ by Runner’s World in 2013, the ‘Czech Locomotive’ became a global hero due to his success on the track but – at a time of political instability – Zátopek risked everything for the love of his friends and country, and soon found himself cast adrift into political exile. With traces of Chariots of Fire and Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, this is both a wonderful love story and a landmark tale of hope and strength in the face of crushing injustices – all against the backdrop of political revolution and the golden era of athletics.

16 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472920225 • £18.99

Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff writer at The Times for 10 years and spent 2007–13 as the paper’s athletics correspondent.

He has written eight books including That Near-Death Thing and Ring of Fire, both shortlisted for the William Hill Prize. He was also the ghost writer of Jessica Ennis’s Sunday Times top 10 bestselling autobiography.

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Highlands Scotland’s Wild Heart

Stephen Moss This BBC TV tie-in showcases a year in the life of the landscapes and wildlife of Europe’s greatest wilderness: the Scottish Highlands

T 25 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472919007 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472919021 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $49.99

he Scottish Highlands are filled with secret wonders, from ancient Caledonian pine forests to the vast Flow Country and the mysterious depths of Loch Ness.

Snow-capped mountains tower over ink-black lochs, golden eagles soar over heather-clad moors, and red deer stags engage in mortal combat for the right to win a mate.

Accompanying the four-part BBC series narrated by Ewan McGregor, Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart features insightful text and spectacular photography chronicling a year in the lives of a stellar cast of wild animals as they struggle to survive in a beautiful yet unforgiving landscape.

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and TV producer. He has a monthly nature column in the Guardian and also writes for the Daily Mail and BBC Wildlife Magazine. His TV credits include Springwatch. stephenmoss.tv • @StephenMoss_TV

Born To Be Wild Hundreds of Free Nature Activities for Families

Hattie Garlick It’s fun for families to spend time outdoors, it’s easy to have that fun and having fun outdoors needn’t cost the earth

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acked with photos of real families, Born to Be Wild provides simple instructions for activities requiring nothing more sophisticated than a small person’s imagination and a little outdoor space.

10 MARCH 2016 PAPERBACK • 9781472915337 • £14.99 EBOOK • 9781472915344 • £12.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 APRIL 2016

No expensive art supplies or outward-bound kit required. All you need for hundreds of activities is a ‘Toolkit’ of household essentials like recycled food containers, paper scraps, string, glue and an empty jar or two. Hattie Garlick also talks to families, organisations, cultures and communities who’ve rebuilt their relationships with nature with inspiring results, and introduces scientists, psychologists and other experts who explain why nature matters in our kids’ modern lives.

PAPERBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $32.99

Hattie Garlick is a former Times journalist who now contributes to the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Sunday Times, Stella magazine and Mother and Baby magazine, as well as to Radio 4’s Food Programme. freeourkids.co.uk • @HattieGarlick 52 OUTDOORS

Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in Britain and Europe Second Edition

Mark Carwardine The definitive resource for anyone hoping to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the wild in Britain and Europe

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his fully updated edition of a popular title is the definitive guide to watching whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and other European waters. A fascinating introduction to whales and whale watching is followed by a detailed field guide with illustrations, photographs, identification tips, dive sequences and distribution maps for all the cetaceans of Europe. The final part of the book describes Europe’s major whale-watching sites, covering 24 countries, from Greenland to Madeira. Whether you want to watch minke whales in Iceland or bottlenose dolphins in Spain, this comprehensive book is the ideal companion.

25 FEBRUARY 2016 PAPERBACK • 9781472910158 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472910165 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 18 FEBRUARY 2016 PAPERBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $39.99

Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, an outspoken conservationist, an award-winning writer, a radio and TV presenter, a wildlife photographer, and a wildlife tour operator.

The Camper Van Bible Live, Eat, Sleep (Repeat)

Martin Dorey The only book on camper vans you’ll ever need to successfully and happily live, eat, sleep and repeat the life

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he Camper Van Bible is THE definitive glovebox bible for anyone who owns or ‘would die for’ a camper van. It covers all aspects of the camper van life, including owning and living day to day with a camper van, cooking and eating in your camper, sleeping in your camper and keeping you and your van going.

Packed with stunning photography and oodles of vital, definitive and authoritative information, plus some tasty recipes too, this book will be essential for both dreamers and do-ers alike.

2 JUNE 2016 PAPERBACK • 9781472926548 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781472926562 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES

Martin Dorey is a writer, surfer and camper van aficionado. In 2011 he presented the BBC Two television programme One Man and his Camper Van. He is the author of The Camper Van Cookbook (2010) and The Camper Van Coast (2012) and he writes regularly for Coast magazine, Camping magazine and Motorhome and Motorcaravan magazine.

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martindorey.com • @campervanliving OUTDOORS 53

The Complete Ocean Skipper Tom Cunliffe The definitive handbook on offshore sailing and ocean passages

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or any sailor planning or dreaming about an ocean or offshore passage, this book with its highly practical hands-on emphasis will be a godsend. Covering all aspects of planning, preparing for and setting off on a long-distance passage, it is a thorough analysis of what to do and how to prepare for what is likely to be the longest voyage of their cruising lives for most sailors. Tom Cunliffe has been there, lived the life, made the mistakes and is able to convey the valuable lessons learned for the benefit of his many readers.

11 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472918130 • £30.00 EBOOK • 9781472918147 • £26.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 4 FEBRUARY 2016

Tom Cunliffe has been sailing for most of his life and has sailed his own yachts from the Caribbean to Russia and from Brazil to the Arctic. He has worked in all branches of the sailing profession, both sailing and cruising, instructing and examining; is a regular columnist for leading sailing magazines in the UK and USA; and is the author of the bestselling Complete Day Skipper and Complete Yachtmaster, in this series.

HARDBACK • AUS $60.00 • NZ $75.00

Captain of the Carpathia The Seafaring Life of Titanic Hero Sir Arthur Henry Rostron

Eric L. Clements The first full-length biography of the master mariner whose ship came to the rescue of Titanic’s survivors

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rthur Henry Rostron was the captain of the Carpathia, the first ship to reach the distressed Titanic, defying the ship’s limitations to rescue 706 survivors.

Following the rescue Rostron became the most celebrated master mariner of his generation, winning a Congressional Gold Medal. During the First World War, he captained the Cunard liner Mauretania as a hospital and troop ship. Using original documents, newspapers and contemporary publications, the book considers Rostron’s life and seafaring in his era. It looks too at the wider history in which he was involved, the evolution of the transatlantic passenger trade, and the celebrated ships in which he served and he commanded.

Eric L. Clements is a professor of history at Missouri State University. The Atlantic liners were his first historical interest and he also served a hitch in the US Coast Guard.

Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic Sam Jefferson The story of the first ever offshore yacht race, and the notorious New York playboy who won it

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he 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of winter in pursuit of a $90,000 prize.

Six men died in the brutal and close-fought contest, and the event changed the perception of yachting from a slightly effete gentlemen’s pursuit into something altogether more rugged and adventurous.

This book tells the exhilarating true story of the race, focusing on the victorious yacht Henrietta and her owner James Gordon Bennett, a notorious playboy. There’s ample drama, eccentric characters and plenty of scandal and adventure.

25 FEBRUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472916730 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781472916747 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES

Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail and Sea Fever. He is a former deputy editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships.

TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $32.99 • NZ $36.99

The Complete Scrimgeour Scribbling Diaries 1912–1916

Alexander Scrimgeour A unique, eloquent and highly personal account of the Great War from the viewpoint of a young naval officer

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ost published war diaries have been written by soldiers but Alexander Scrimgeour was a naval officer who was killed at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 at the age of 19. But he had already left a legacy – his diaries in which he recounted every event with sincerity, risking court martial to record several notorious incidents. He chronicled numerous love affairs and his anguish at losing close friends during the war. This new edition includes much previously unseen material, chronicling Scrimgeour’s life prior to joining the navy. It is published to coincide with the centenary of the author’s death and of the Battle of Jutland.

21 APRIL 2016 HARDBACK • 9781844863105 • £18.99 EBOOK • 9781844863129 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: SHEIL LAND ASSOCIATES

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Narrowboat Life Discover Life Afloat on the Inland Waterways

Jim Batty A fascinating and visually stunning insight into what it’s like to live on a narrowboat

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ull-time life on a narrowboat is a curiosity for so many of us, and is endlessly fascinating. How do people condense their lives and belongings in to what is essentially a tin can on water? This book answers the questions we’ve all wanted to ask, on the ins and outs of live-aboard life on the inland waterways.

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A coffee-table book for the endlessly curious, Narrowboat Life is filled with beautiful, enthralling photography, of the waterways themselves, the boats that occupy them, the owners of said boats and, most importantly, every nook and cranny of the insides of those boats.

Jim Batty is a photographer, graphic designer and writer who has lived aboard a narrowboat as a continuous cruiser for over five years. He has written for Canal Boat magazine and LeCool’s A Weird and Wonderful Guide to London, amongst other publications, and had his photography featured in numerous travel guides, magazines, books and newspapers.

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The Hurricane Pocket Manual Martin Robson Uses authentic period sources including pilot’s notes and other Air Ministry publications to provide a unique guide to this iconic aircraft

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he Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft designed by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the RAF. During the Battle of Britain the Hurricane accounted for 60 per cent of the RAF’s air victories, and served in all the major theatres of the Second World War. Hurricanes acted as interceptor-fighters, fighter-bombers (also called ‘Hurribombers’), and ground support aircraft. The Sea Hurricane had modifications that enabled operation from ships. Some were converted as catapult-launched convoy escorts, known as ‘Hurricats’. The book collates a variety of pamphlets and manuals on the plane that were produced throughout the war for pilots and others associated with the aircraft.

Dr Martin Robson is a lecturer in defence studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several works of military, aviation and naval history including the popular Pocket Manuals on the Spitfire and Lancaster Bomber for Conway as well as The D-Day Kit Bag.

5 MAY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781844863044 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781844863051 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

The Mosquito Pocket Manual Martin Robson Collates authentic period sources including pilot’s notes and other Air Ministry publications to provide a unique guide to this iconic aircraft

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he de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was a British multi-role combat aircraft with a two-man crew that served during and after the Second World War. ‘The Wooden Wonder’ or ‘Mossie’ was one of few front-line aircraft of the era constructed almost entirely of wood. Originally conceived as an unarmed fast bomber, the Mosquito was adapted to a wide range of bombing roles. It was also used by BOAC as a fast transport to carry small high-value cargoes to and from neutral countries through enemy-controlled airspace. The book uses pamphlets, manuals and other original material to construct a portrait of this famous plane.

5 MAY 2016

Dr Martin Robson is a lecturer in defence studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of several works of military, aviation and naval history including the popular Pocket Manuals on the Spitfire and Lancaster Bomber for Conway as well as The D-Day Kit Bag.

HARDBACK • 9781844863068 • £8.99 EBOOK • 9781844863075 • £8.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY

MILITARY 57

The HR Paradox A Manifesto for Change

Scott McArthur & Cary L. Cooper Reviewing current HR practices, this book offers a thought-provoking manifesto for change and improvement

F 30 JUNE 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472905024 • £25.00

or decades HR has attempted to enable the best possible work environment, whilst claiming a strategic corporate role. Despite recent financial crises, HR continues to be focused on process and the deployment of techniques that range from being effective to pseudoscientific, thus creating the HR Paradox. This book considers the impact of the HR Paradox on both the profession and its reputation. It reviews the assumed key disciplines, including employee engagement, recruitment, performance management and people development, and reflects on whether the current methods used are fit for purpose.

EBOOK • 9781472905031 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 11 AUGUST 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $60.00

Scott McArthur is an organisational development consultant, leadership trainer, facilitator and coach with 25 years’ experience in industry. Scott frequently contributes to leading magazines and newspapers. Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, and President of RELATE. @ProfCaryCooper

Creating Financial Value A Guide for Senior Executives with No Finance Background

Malcolm Allitt In straightforward terms, this book explains how a firm creates financial value for senior managers who lack formal financial training

H 28 JANUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472922717 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472922724 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 10 MARCH 2016 HARDBACK • AUS $50.00 • NZ $60.00

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ow many senior executives get to the top with little or no formal training in finance? Yet board members have a responsibility, both individually and collectively, to make informed decisions on proposed actions – decisions which inevitably affect the value of their business. Finance can be confusing and offputting to non-specialists. As a consequence, it can be difficult for them to contribute fully to important policy debates and formulate the actions the business should take as a result. This book will equip senior executives who are not financial specialists to develop sound business proposals, and to confidently cross-examine the proposals of others.

Malcolm Allitt has been an Ashridge Business School Associate since 1995 and is a part-time faculty member of Coventry University London Campus. He has an MBA from the London Business School and in 1987 he won the Sainsbury Management Fellowship. His special interest lies in exploring how value is created by organisations – a theme which spans entrepreneurship, leadership and organisational development.

21st Century Workforces and Workplaces Stephen Bevan, Ian Brinkley & Cary L. Cooper Essential reading for anyone wondering what employment and work may look like by 2025

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hat does the future of work look like? Analysing developments over the past five years, which have rewritten much of what we thought we knew about employment and how workplaces respond to pressure, the considerable expertise of Stephen Bevan, Ian Brinkley and Cary L. Cooper are combined to discuss the critical questions facing any member of any workforce, including: Does work have to be a ‘place’? What is the future for trade unions? Is this the end of retirement?

21st Century Workforces and Workplaces asks what sort of workplace and workforce we want to see by 2025 and what we can do today to help create them.

28 JULY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472904997 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472905000 • £21.99

Stephen Bevan is Director of the Centre for Workforce Effectiveness in The Work Foundation, and Honorary Professor at Lancaster University. Ian Brinkley was formerly the Chief Economist at The Work Foundation. Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology at Manchester Business School and President of RELATE.

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theworkfoundation.com • @StephenBevan • @ProfCaryCooper

How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman The Coach-Yourself Toolkit

Fiona Dent & Viki Holton This practical toolkit will help women to reflect on, analyse and plan strategies to take charge of their own career journey

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ased on new data from surveys and interviews, this book encompasses stories, strategies and practical exercises to allow you to create a fulfilling working life while offering insights from the authors’ own experience of working with many women managers who attend Ashridge Business School programmes and events.

The book focuses on key issues for development and career success and applies these to the specific challenges facing women at work, including: Starting your career; Balancing careers with motherhood; Dual-career couples; Changing career direction; Promotion to senior levels; Lack of confidence; and Developing a clear career plan.

Fiona Dent was previously Director of Executive Education at Ashridge Business School. She is now a freelance management trainer, executive coach and Ashridge Associate. Viki Holton is a Research Fellow at Ashridge with an interest in diversity and women leaders. She has been involved with many women’s initiatives, including the European Women’s Management Development Network.

21 APRIL 2016 PAPERBACK • 9781472930644 • £15.00 EBOOK • 9781472922687 • £10.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 2 JUNE 2016 PAPERBACK • AUS $26.00

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Created in China How China is Becoming a Global Innovator

Georges Haour & Max von Zedtwitz This book highlights China’s transition to a global innovator as well as offering predictions for future trends

U 14 JANUARY 2016 HARDBACK • 9781472925138 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472925145 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES

ndisputedly, China has become the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for around half of all personal computers, digital cameras and kitchen appliances.

However, China is also becoming a major source of global innovation, by creating pioneering new business models alongside technical inventions. This book documents China’s transition by highlighting the key elements, underlying trends and drivers that have contributed towards China’s relentless progress in the realm of innovation.

It explores the research and development scene in China, provides profiles of the individual entrepreneurs responsible for China’s new economy, and concludes with a look at the anticipated trends for the future.

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Georges Haour is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at IMD Business School, Switzerland. He advises organisations on value-creation through innovation and the commercialisation of technology. Max von Zedtwitz is an expert in global R&D management and managing innovation in China. Based in Shanghai, he is a visiting professor of strategy and innovation at universities in China and Europe.

Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise Peter Cook This book offers a unique synthesis of theory and practice in the art of generating ideas and converting them into great innovations

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rawing on cutting-edge academic research but expressed clearly and concisely for those seeking practical inspiration, this book features numerous examples from companies such as Virgin, Pfizer, Roche and Fuji Film.

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Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise addresses questions such as: What are the roots of creativity and imagination? What kind of leadership is required to make creativity and innovation the norm in any enterprise? What ensures that creativity turns into innovation? What stops it? This book shows you how to produce and lead creative teams, as well as build an innovative company culture.

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Peter Cook leads Human Dynamics and The Academy of Rock, offering business and organisation development, training and coaching on strategy, creativity, innovation and leadership. Peter works with some of the world’s top businesses and organisations, including Johnson & Johnson, the UN, Roche, Imperial Business School and the Metropolitan Police.

That Was The Church That Was How the Church of England Lost the English People

Andrew Brown & Linda Woodhead The unexpectedly entertaining story of how the Church of England lost its place at the centre of English public life

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he Church of England still seemed an essential part of Englishness, and even of the British state, when Mrs Thatcher was elected. More recently, it has lost more than half its members and much of its influence. Yet the English still largely believe in God and most still call themselves Christians. So what went wrong, and how? This book tells the story of the disappearance of the Church of England from the centre of public life. The authors watched this closely, one from the inside and one from the outside. Their purpose is to show what happened and explain why.

Andrew Brown is an award-winning author and journalist. He is a leader writer for the Guardian, and freelances for the BBC, the Spectator and the Oldie.

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Linda Woodhead is a professor in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. She co-founded the Westminster Faith Debates, and was Director of the Religion and Society programme. She has published widely.

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Building Jerusalem Elegies on Parish Churches

Kevin J. Gardner A new collection of poems by well-known poets echoing the love of the parish church in the British literary memory

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ostalgia and love of parish churches is deeply embedded in the British psyche.

Following the success of Poems in the Porch, a collection of hitherto unpublished poems on parish churches by Sir John Betjeman, Dr Kevin J. Gardner has now assembled a new anthology of poems on the same theme yet with a greater diversity of post-war authors – Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, U. A. Fanthorpe and many others. The collection is introduced by a fascinating critical introduction, ‘Anglican Memory and Post-war British Poetry’ and will appeal to church and poetry lovers alike in their droves.

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Dr Kevin J. Gardner is Professor of English at Baylor University, Texas. He has published numerous scholarly essays on British poetry. His books include Poems in the Porch, Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman and Betjeman and the Anglican Imagination.

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On Augustine Rowan Williams A new study of St Augustine by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams

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t Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory (City of God) and, through his Confessions, to the understanding of human psychology. Rowan Williams has an entirely fresh perspective on these matters and the chapter titles in this new book demonstrate this at a glance, ‘Language, Reality and Desire’, ‘Politics and the Soul’, ‘Paradoxes of Self Knowledge’ and ‘Insubstantial Evil’. As with his previous titles Dostoevsky, The Edge of Words and Faith in the Public Square, this new study is sure to be a major contribution on a compelling subject.

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Rowan Williams was Professor of Divinity at Oxford University before becoming Bishop of Monmouth in 1992. After 10 years as Archbishop of Canterbury, he became Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2013, and is internationally well-known as a theologian, poet and commentator on current affairs.

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The Murderous History of Bible Translations Harry Freedman Harry Freedman, author of The Talmud: A Biography, recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the translated Bible

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he history of the Bible and its translations is far more contentious, violent and extraordinary than reason would suggest.

Bible translations underlie an astonishing number of religious conflicts that have plagued the world: religious establishments through the ages have railed against them; the Cathar Bible was banned; William Tyndale was forced to flee from England on the back of his Bible translation and so the story continues to the present day. In this deeply researched narrative history, Freedman describes the passions and emotions that arise when deeply held religious convictions are threatened or undermined and tells of the struggle for authority and orthodoxy in a world where temporal power was always subjugated to the divine.

Harry Freedman is a writer and academic with a PhD in Aramaic. His publications include The Gospels’ Veiled Agenda and The Talmud: A Biography. He has written for the Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Quarterly, Judaism Today and contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Modern Jewish Culture.

The Burning Gates A Makana Investigation

Parker Bilal ‘Bilal’s Cairo is a Los Angeles of yesteryear, Makana a wonderful Marlowe …

An author who gets better and better’ Marcel Berlins, The Times

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rivate Investigator Makana has a new client, the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian. Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad during the US invasion. All the dealer can tell Makana is that the piece was smuggled into Egypt by an Iraqi war criminal who doesn’t want to be found. Soon Makana finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that leads him into the darkness of war and threatens to send the new life he has built for himself up in flames.

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym of Jamal Mahjoub. Mahjoub has published critically acclaimed literary novels, which have been widely translated. The Burning Gates is his fourth Makana mystery. Born in London, Mahjoub has lived at various times in the UK, Sudan, Cairo and Denmark. He currently lives in Barcelona.

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Chaos of the Senses Ahlem Mosteghanemi Translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ‘A novel of swirling, towering emotion … Mesmerising’ Independent on Sunday

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icking up where The Bridges of Constantine ended, Mosteghanemi’s second novel begins in war-torn Algeria in the 1990s. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a highranking military man, a novelist decides to lose herself in her writing. But in an unexpected twist, what she writes begins to take on flesh. She falls in love with the story’s male protagonist, and a love on paper becomes a forbidden love lived out in the dark corners of a battered city. After all, the best and truest loves are those we find when we’re looking for something else. With poetic finesse, the author weaves fact and fiction to convey a chapter in Algeria’s history as no one else could.

Ranked among the top 10 most influential women in the Arab world by Forbes 2006, Algerian novelist and poet Ahlem Mosteghanemi is the bestselling female author in the Arab world. The previous book in her trilogy, The Bridges of Constantine, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013, and has been translated into several languages and adapted into a television series.

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Weathering Lucy Wood ‘No bald description of Wood’s extraordinary novel can do justice to its lyrical prose and bold storytelling’ Mail on Sunday

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earl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river, or why, for that matter, she’d been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs. Ada, Pearl’s daughter, doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house in the rain-soaked valley she left thirteen years ago. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl’s things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. As the first frosts of autumn herald the coming of a long winter, Pepper and Ada discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together.

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Lucy Wood has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and was a runner-up in the BBC National Short Story Award. She has also been awarded the Holyer an Gof Award and a Somerset Maugham Award.

Lucy Wood has a Master’s degree in creative writing from Exeter University. She grew up in Cornwall.

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Vanessa and Her Sister Priya Parmar ‘One of the essential reads of the year … It’s biography as fiction, imagined with almost supernatural brilliance. Bliss’ The Times

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ondon, 1905. The city is alight with change and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront as they bring together a glittering circle of brilliant, artistic friends who will come to be known as the legendary Bloomsbury Group. And at the centre of the charmed circle are the devoted, gifted sisters: Vanessa, the painter and Virginia, the writer. But the landscape shifts unexpectedly when Vanessa falls in love and Virginia – eerily possessive and unpredictable – careens towards selfdestruction. As tragedy and betrayal threaten to destroy the family, Vanessa must choose whether to protect Virginia’s happiness or her own.

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Priya Parmar is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. She lives in London and Hawaii.

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The Last Illusion Porochista Khakpour ‘Utterly original and compelling … At once grotesque, amusing, deeply sad – and wonderful too’ Claire Messud

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n a rural Iranian village, Zal’s demented mother, horrified by the pallor of his skin and hair, hides her son in a birdcage and there he lives. Unfamiliar with human society, Zal eats birdseed and insects and communicates only in the squawks and shrieks of the other pet birds around him. Freed from his cage and adopted by a behavioural analyst, Zal awakens to the possibility of a future in New York.

An emotionally stunted adolescent, he strives to become human as he stumbles towards adulthood and surrounds himself with a cast of fellow outsiders. These friendships send Zal’s life spiralling into chaos, and soon, he is on a collision course with devastation.

Porochista Khakpour’s debut novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, one of the Chicago Tribune’s Fall’s Best and the 2007 California Book Award winner in the First Fiction category. Her non-fiction has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, Harper’s, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times among many others. She lives in New York City.

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Us Conductors Sean Michaels ‘Told with grace and confidence, and in a finely wrought voice’ Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child

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ocked in a cabin, on a ship bound for Leningrad, Lev Termen types a letter to Clara, his ‘one true love’. He recalls his early years as a scientist, inventing the musical theremin and other electric marvels, and the Kremlin’s dream that these creations could help infiltrate capitalism itself. Instead, Manhattan infiltrated Termen – he fell in love with the city’s jazz clubs and speakeasies, and with Clara, a beautiful young violinist. When Termen’s spy games fall apart, he returns to a changed home: exiled to a Siberian gulag, only his wits and his love for Clara – passing through the ether like the theremin’s song – are able to keep him alive.

Montreal’s Sean Michaels is a writer, critic and founder of the pioneering music blog ‘Said the Gramophone’. Born in Stirling, Scotland in 1982, he has toured with rock bands, scoured the Paris catacombs, and made up stories for publications including the Guardian, McSweeney’s, Pitchfork and Plan B. usconductors.byseanmichaels.com • @stgramophone

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Some Here Among Us Peter Walker ‘A beautiful novel about the loss of innocence, the ineffable passing of time and the inescapable weight of the past’ Mail on Sunday

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t is 1967 and as New Zealand hesitates over whether to send more troops to Vietnam, and the strains of ‘All You Need is Love’ echo from Abbey Road, Race, Candy, Chadwick and FitzGerald and their elusive, electrifying Maori friend Morgan Tawhai take to the streets to protest the war. As Race and his companions move through the final decades of the twentieth century, they come to discover that Morgan – who will forever remain the 20-year-old they once knew – is both the mystery and the touchstone of their lives.

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Peter Walker is a New Zealander who has lived in London since 1986. He worked for seven years on the Independent and three on the Independent on Sunday where he was Foreign Editor. He has also written for the Financial Times and Granta. This is his second novel and third book published by Bloomsbury.

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Don’t Let Him Know Sandip Roy ‘Rich, delicious family story … It’s a believable and wonderfully written story of secrets between the generations’ The Times

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n a boxy apartment building in an American university town, Romola Mitra, a young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son Amit finds the letter and thinks he has discovered his mother’s secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes, and a way of following their keepers.

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Moving from adolescent rooftop games to adult encounters in gay bars, from hair salons in Calcutta to McDonald’s drive-thrus in California, this is an unforgettable story about family and the sacrifices we make for those we love.

Sandip Roy is Senior Editor at the popular news portal Firstpost.com and blogs for the Huffington Post. He has been a commentator on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio programme in the US, and has a weekly radio postcard for public radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also an editor with New America Media and has won several awards for journalism. Sandip Roy lives in Kolkata.

The Bamboo Stalk Saud Alsanousi ‘Ambitious, cultivated and brave’ Financial Times

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osephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home with their baby son José.

Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the Philippines, José clings to the hope of returning to his father’s country. Will his Kuwaiti family live up to his expectations? Alsanousi crafts a captivating saga that boldly deals with issues of identity and alienation.

Saud Alsanousi is a Kuwaiti novelist and journalist, born in 1981. His work has appeared in a number of Kuwaiti publications, including Al-Watan newspaper and Al-Arabi, and he currently writes for Al-Qabas newspaper. He lives in Kuwait. @saud_alsanousi

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Wallflowers Eliza Robertson ‘Reading Wallflowers is like taking a solo swim across a chilly lake. You become mesmerized by details … Captivating’ New York Times

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small boy and his grandmother set sail for China in the mud of her backyard; a supermarket car park becomes a graveyard of strewn blueberries; migratory birds fly over a marshland ringing with the sound of wooden spoons on kitchen pots; and the breaking of a silence between two roommates leads to disquieting revelations. Here there are swindlers and innocents, unlikely heroes and gritty survivors; they teach us how to trap hummingbirds, relinquish dreams gracefully and feed raccoons without getting bitten. These are tales of wildness and wonder, of animals in search of an escape and outsiders looking for a way back in.

Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada. While studying at the University of East Anglia, doing an MA in Prose Fiction, she received the Man Booker Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best writer. Robertson is now a highly celebrated short story writer, winning three national fiction contests in Canada and the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. @ElizaRoberts0n

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We Are Pirates Daniel Handler ‘Honest and funny, dark and painful … It’s the strangest, most brilliant offering yet from the mind behind Lemony Snicket’ Neil Gaiman

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boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water.

Pirates are terrorising the San Francisco Bay. Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling producer and the owner of a condo with a view of the water. But he’d like to be a rebel and a fortune hunter. Gwen is his daughter. She’s 14. She’s a student, a swimmer and a best friend. But she’d like to be an adventurer and an outlaw.

This is a book about our search for freedom. And a tale of a hapless father trying to get his daughter home.

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Daniel Handler is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Why We Broke Up, Adverbs, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour? and a sequence of children’s novels collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. He lives in San Francisco.

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The Girl in the Ice Lotte Hammer & Søren Hammer Translated from the Danish by Paul Norlen The second in the international bestselling Konrad Simonsen series, a chilling tale from the authors of The Hanging

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nder the endless blue vault of Greenland’s Arctic sky the body of a girl is discovered. Half-naked and bound, her mouth smeared with red lipstick, she has lain alone, frozen in the ice, undisturbed for 25 years.

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When Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen flies in from Copenhagen to investigate, the details of her icy grave trigger a dark memory. This is not the first time he has pursued this murderer. Back in Denmark, long-buried evidence surfaces revealing truths that some would rather stayed forgotten – and suddenly Simonsen’s team finds powerful forces are working against them.

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Lotte and Søren Hammer are a sister and brother from Denmark. Younger sister Lotte worked as a nurse after finishing her training in 1977 and her brother Søren was a trained teacher and a lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. To date, they have written six books in this series. The Girl in the Ice is the second.

Africa39 New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara

Edited by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey ‘A vivid, evocative, colourful and surprising portrait of the continent … Unusual and utterly compelling’ Mariella Frostrup

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frica has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who will be the next generation?

From the dazzling list of 39 writers chosen by the judges, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has selected richly rewarding short stories, extracts from novels, fables and other work by writers from Africa south of the Sahara, or its diaspora, and created a collection of some of the most varied and exciting new work in world literature today.

Africa39 is a Hay Festival and Rainbow Book Club project. It was launched at the PH Book Festival in UNESCO’s World Book Capital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in October 2014. The three judges were Margaret Busby, Elechi Amadi and Osonye Tess Onwueme.

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Not Quite Nice Celia Imrie ‘A shaft of early summer sunshine, a funny, spirited read’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

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heresa is desperate for a change. Forced into early retirement, tired of babysitting her bossy daughter’s obnoxious children, she sells her house and moves to a picture-perfect town, just outside Nice.

Once the hideaway of artists and writers, Bellevue-sur-Mer is now home to the odd movie star, and, as Theresa discovers, a close-knit set of foreigners. Settling into the gentle rhythm of the seaside, Theresa embraces her new-found friendships and freedom. But life is never as simple as it seems, and when skeletons fall from several closets, Theresa starts to wonder if life on the French Riviera is quite as nice as it first appeared…

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Celia Imrie, Olivier award-winning actress, is best known in films Calendar Girls, Nanny McPhee and The Love Punch and on television in After You’ve Gone, A Dark Adapted Eye and Acorn Antiques. In March 2015, she returned for the sequel to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Her autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, was published in 2011 and in 2014 she brought her cabaret Laughing Matters to the St James Theatre.

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She Will Build Him a City Raj Kamal Jha ‘Don’t let the lucid, lyrical grace of the prose fool you – this is a blistering, enthralling, bare-knuckle ride of a novel’ Neel Mukherjee

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s night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales for her sleeping daughter. A young man rides the Metro and dreams of murder. A newborn wrapped in a bloodred towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.

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There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are only three. But their stories – of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul and of an orphaned boy who maps out his own destiny – weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel.

Raj Kamal Jha is a journalist and a novelist, and works in New Delhi as Chief Editor of The Indian Express. Jha’s first novel, The Blue Bedspread, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His novels have been published in over a dozen languages.

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La Place de l’Étoile Patrick Modiano Translated from the French by Frank Wynne Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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odiano’s debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi occupation, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun… or he may have been none of these things. At the centre of this vortex is ‘La Place de l’Étoile’ – the Place of the Star – which is both the geographical and moral centre of Paris, and that place next to the heart where French Jews were compelled to wear the yellow star, the symbol of their persecution.

Patrick Modiano was born in 1945. From his very first book to his most recent, he has pursued a quest for identity and some kind of reconciliation with the past.

His screenplays include Lacombe Lucien (1974) and among his many prizes are the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française (1972) and the Prix Goncourt (1978).

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Frank Wynne is the prize-winning translator of Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder and Boualem Sansal.

The Kindness Polly Samson ‘Cumulatively addictive: intriguing, cleverly constructed, lyrical without pretension and thoroughly engrossing’ Sunday Times

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ulian’s fall begins the moment he sets eyes on Julia. Julia is married and eight years Julian’s senior. Ignoring warnings from family and friends, they give up all they have to be together and their new life offers immense happiness, especially after the birth of their daughter Mira. But when Mira becomes terrifyingly ill, it is impossible for Julia to conceal the explosive secret that she has been keeping.

An exploration of deception wrapped as a gift, The Kindness asks if we can ever truly trust another. This is an unforgettable story of love, grief, betrayal and reconciliation, masterfully plotted and beautifully told.

Polly Samson is the author of Out of the Picture, which was shortlisted for the Author Club’s First Novel Award. Her most recent story collection, Perfect Lives, was a Sunday Times Fiction Choice of the Year and was read on BBC Radio 4. She has been shortlisted for the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize and the Edge Hill Prize.

Polly Samson lives in Brighton.

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Weightless Sarah Bannan ‘Riveting, agile and beautifully judged, this is one of those essential stories that will capture the imagination of different generations of readers’ Colum McCann

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efore Carolyn Lessing arrived, nothing much had ever happened in Adamsville, Alabama. Then the new girl came. All Carolyn’s social media could reveal was that she had moved from New Jersey, she had 1,075 friends – and she didn’t have a relationship status. In beach photos she seemed beautiful, but in real life she was so much more. She was perfect.

This was all before the camera crews arrived, before it became impossible to see where rumour ended and truth began, and before the Annual Adamsville Balloon Festival, when someone swore they saw the captain of the football team with his arm around Carolyn, and cracks began to appear in the dry earth.

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Sarah Bannan was born in 1978 in upstate New York. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2000 and then moved to Ireland, where she has lived ever since. She is the Head of Literature at the Irish Arts Council and lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter.

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Rise Karen Campbell ‘A beautifully written novel about freedom and forgiveness … Heated, political and lyrical, this is an excellent, topical novel’ Viv Groskop, Red

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ustine is running for her life. Escaping a city and a man who between them have almost broken her, she heads north to the mountains and the valleys of the Highlands. Michael and Hannah are also running. With their two sons and their tattered marriage they have come to the village of Kilmacarra.

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In a place of standing stones, a shocking accident causes their lives to intertwine.

Tangled together in threads of guilt and love, with Scotland rushing towards a referendum and the community around them fracturing, each must question where they truly belong and each must find a way to face their ghosts.

Karen Campbell is a graduate of Glasgow University’s renowned Creative Writing Master’s, and author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life and, most recently, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime.

A former police officer, and council PR, Karen Campbell won the Best New Scottish Writer Award in 2009. She lives in Galloway, Scotland.

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Sleeping Dogs A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery

Thomas Mogford ‘Superb series … Moves Mogford’s shrewd and atmospheric Mediterranean noir into the newest and darkest of territories’ William Boyd, Guardian Summer Reading

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aunted by his failure to prevent the violent murders of two innocent women, Gibraltarian lawyer Spike Sanguinetti joins an old flame, Detective Sergeant Jessica Navarro, for a holiday on Corfu’s beautiful north-east coast. There they meet philanthropist Leo Hoffmann, scion of the powerful Hoffmann banking family.

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Leo has recently unearthed an important archaeological site, but the discovery of the body of a young Albanian, bludgeoned to death, halts progress. Reluctantly, Spike agrees to defend the local man accused, but as he digs deeper, he finds an island paradise full of deadly secrets – secrets that some will go to any lengths to let lie…

Thomas Mogford’s first novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the Rock, Sign of the Cross and Hollow Mountain, were published to critical acclaim

by Bloomsbury in 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively. He was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award for best new crime writer of 2013. He is married and lives with his family in London.

The Harder They Come T. C. Boyle ‘So gloriously, cheekily, full of colour that you can only sit back and applaud a master at work’ The Times

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ten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired principal, is on vacation in Costa Rica when his tour bus is hijacked. Sten reacts, killing one of the hijackers, and is hailed a hero. Back home, anti-government protestor Sara Jennings is arrested for resisting police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with Sten’s unstable son Adam sparks a passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. But Adam’s behaviour becomes steadily more extreme, descending into a spiral of fanatical violence impossible to halt.

The Harder They Come is as timely as it is provocative: a deep and disturbing meditation on the roots of American gun violence.

T. C. Boyle is the New York Times bestselling author of nine collections of stories and fourteen novels including, most recently, San Miguel, followed by the second volume of his collected stories, T. C. Boyle Stories II. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages and won a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.

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The Blue Between Sky and Water Susan Abulhawa ‘Abulhawa’s vision is precise, courageous and dazzling’ Teju Cole

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t is 1947, and Beit Daras, a rural Palestinian village, is home to the Baraka family – oldest daughter Nazmiyeh, brother Mamdouh, beautiful young Mariam and their widowed mother. But when Israeli forces descend on the village, the family must flee, taking the long road to Gaza, on a walk that will test them to their limits, with consequences that will echo throughout generations.

This is a story of strong women and lost men, of relocation and separation, but also renewal, endurance, and hope. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastating tale of a family’s survival.

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Susan Abulhawa is a human rights activist, a biologist, and political commentator.

She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organisation dedicated to upholding the Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated into 26 languages. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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Land of No Rain Amjad Nasser ‘An irresistible shape-shifting novel’ Guardian

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and of No Rain takes place in Hamiya, a fictional Arab country run by military commanders who treat power as a personal possession to be handed down from one generation to the next. The main character was forced into exile twenty years earlier for a failed assassination attempt on the military ruler known as the Grandson. On his return, he encounters family, childhood friends, former comrades and his first love, but most importantly he grapples with his own self, the person he left behind. A complex and mysterious story of the hardship of exile and the difficulty of return.

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Amjad Nasser, a Jordanian poet born in 1955, has written numerous volumes of poetry and several travel memoirs. He has worked for newspapers in Beirut and Cyprus and since 1987 he has lived in London where he is Managing Editor and Cultural Editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily newspaper. Land of No Rain is his first novel. @AmjadNasser

The Improbability of Love Hannah Rothschild ‘Exquisitely written, shimmering with eye-catching detail … A masterpiece’ Daily Mail

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hen lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn into the art world, populated by exiled Russian oligarchs, avaricious Sheikas, desperate auctioneers and unscrupulous dealers all scheming to get their hands on her painting – a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called ‘The Improbability of Love’. Delving into the painting’s past, Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners, but the darker secrets of European history – and in doing so she will learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again.

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Hannah Rothschild is a writer and film director, whose documentary feature films have appeared on the BBC and HBO and at international film festivals. She has written for Vanity Fair, New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue and her first book, The Baroness, was published in 2012, and has been translated into six languages. hannahrothschild.com • @jazzybaroness

Sophie and the Sibyl A Victorian Romance

Patricia Duncker ‘A book of startling panache, told with deep good humour and an obvious affection for the characters that illuminates the text’ Daily Telegraph

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uncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a publishing business in Berlin. Max, fond of gambling, is a thorn in Wolfgang’s side, and is sent to court a celebrity author – George Eliot. As captivating and intelligent as her books, admiringly known as the Sibyl, she soon has Max enthralled. Yet Wolfgang has further plans – to settle Max in marriage with Countess Sophie von Hahn, as stubborn as she is beautiful, who defies convention by contacting her heroine, George Eliot, beginning a series of events that overturn everybody’s future expectations. Sophie and the Sibyl is a delightful comedy of manners, a mischievous modern take on Victorian society and a playful imagining of the author George Eliot.

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Patricia Duncker is Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Manchester and the author of five previous novels including Hallucinating Foucault, winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize, and another neo-Victorian tale, James Miranda Barry.

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Sweet Caress The Many Lives of Amory Clay

William Boyd ‘English fiction’s master storyteller’ Independent on Sunday

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mory Clay’s first memory is of her father standing on his head – but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera, unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. Over the years, Amory’s search for life, love and artistic expression will take her from late 1920s Berlin, to New York in the 1930s and France in the Second World War – collecting lovers, husbands and children, pursuing dreams and battling demons. Sweet Caress is a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

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William Boyd is the author of twelve novels including An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, which was adapted into a Channel 4 drama; and Restless, a Richard & Judy selection, and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year. William Boyd lives in London and France.

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Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins James Runcie ‘An absolute treat for fans of Canon Sidney Chambers … Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ The Times

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oveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers is back, continuing his investigations. A mysterious stranger seeks sanctuary in Grantchester’s church; a shooting weekend in the country has a sinister end; a friend receives poison pen letters; a piano falls on a musician’s head; a school cricket match has an explosive finish; and Sidney is accused of stealing a priceless painting. On the home front, his new curate has become irritatingly popular with the parish and his daughter is starting to walk and talk. These stories are entertaining, suspenseful, thoughtful and deeply humane.

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James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of seven novels.

This is the fourth book in The Grantchester Mysteries series. In October 2014 ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time six-part series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers, based on the first book, Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death.

James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh. jamesruncie.com • @james_runcie

Reckless Hasan Ali Toptas The ‘Turkish Kafka’ weaves a mysterious and masterful tale of love and friendship, guilt and secrets

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ears after completing his military service Ziya flees the perplexing chaos of the city to seek a peaceful existence in a village of which he has heard dreamlike tales. However, the village does not provide the isolation Ziya yearns for, and memories of his military service on the treacherous Syrian/Turkish border flood his thoughts. As he battles spectres of the past, his rejection of village life provokes a dangerous undercurrent of ill-feeling among the villagers.

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Toptaş plays with ideas of time and memory, masterfully blurring the borders between dreams and reality, truth and memory, yet maintaining the novel’s suspense throughout.

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Hasan Ali Toptaş is one of Turkey’s leading writers. His novels have won many prizes and been translated into many languages. Shadowless (forthcoming Bloomsbury 2016) was made into a film.

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Maureen Freely is a novelist and journalist. She is the translator of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the inaugural British Council’s Young Translators’ Prize for prose in 2012.

The Arch and the Butterfly Mohammed Achaari A moving novel of identity, extremism and generational change set in modernday Morocco

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s he prepares to leave for work one morning, Youssef finds a mysterious letter under his door. In a single devastating line he learns that his only son, Yacine, whom he believed to be studying engineering in Paris, has been killed in Afghanistan fighting with the Islamist resistance.

Youssef, the son of a cross-cultural marriage between his Moroccan father and German-born mother, is quickly caught up in a mesh of family tragedies that reflect the changing world he lives in. Finding himself abandoned by his wife for another man, Youssef begins to question everything including his own values and identity.

Born in 1951, Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan poet, short story writer, journalist, former Minister of Culture in Morocco and head of the Union of Moroccan Writers.

He has published a number of works of fiction and poetry, some of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. The Arch and the Butterfly is his second novel.

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At Hawthorn Time Melissa Harrison ‘A bracing talent in the tradition of Thomas Hardy … Her prose is arresting’ ***** Daily Telegraph

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t is dawn in May. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked, violence gathered about them in the still morning air. As the sky lightens and a new day begins, lives hang in the balance. Howard and Kitty have not lived in Lodeshill long. A one-time roadie, Howard has not taken to the country – unlike Kitty, who always dreamed of this life. Jamie, meanwhile, is a local boy, born in the village, but struggling to build a life there. Finally, Jack is an itinerant landworker, protestor, poet and seer, who walks into Lodeshill one spring day, bringing change.

Melissa Harrison is a freelance writer and photographer whose clients include the Guardian and the FT Weekend. Her debut novel, Clay, was published in 2013 and was the winner of the Portsmouth First Fiction Award, selected for Amazon’s ‘Rising Stars’ programme and chosen by Ali Smith as a Book of the Year. She lives in South London.

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The All Saints’ Day Lovers Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ‘Brilliant … Vásquez has a wonderful eye for the ironies, lies and betrayals of love’ The Times

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chingly sad and beautifully crafted, The All Saints’ Day Lovers is a remarkable and intense exploration of relationships, loneliness and cruelty. Set mainly in the starkly beautiful landscape of Belgium’s Ardennes, these stories have been compared to Maupassant, Chekhov, John Cheever and Antonio Tabucchi. A Colombian writer is witness to a murder which will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman’s bed twenty kilometres away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder and long-meditated revenge, Vásquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality and landscape with these fragmented lives.

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. He is the author of The Sound of Things Falling, winner of the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Informers, shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

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Anne McLean has twice won the IFFP: for Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas in 2004 and for The Armies by Evelio Rosero in 2009.

Paradise City Elizabeth Day ‘Moving, humane and convincing’ Amanda Craig, Sunday Telegraph

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eatrice Kizza is a refugee in flight from her homeland; Howard Pink is a blustering self-made millionaire; Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth and Esme Reade is a journalist learning to muck-rake in pursuit of the elusive scoop. Four strangers, they are each inhabitants of the same city – the capital – where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when an inexcusable act shatters the boundaries between their worlds, they discover that the city has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.

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Elizabeth Day is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and Home Fires. She is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday, and who is now a feature writer for the Observer.

She grew up in Northern Ireland, and currently lives in London. elizabethdayonline.co.uk • @elizabday

The Field of the Cloth of Gold Magnus Mills ‘Another joyful performance of “pure word music” from one of Britain’s most original, inimitable writers’ Spectator

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n a lush meadow, bounded by dense forest and a sparkling river, the flags of several tents flutter in the breeze, rich with the promise of halcyon days.

Yet all is not as tranquil as it may seem: the balance of power wrought between the occupants of The Great Field, as it is properly known, is a delicate one, and relationships are stretched to breaking point when a new, large and disciplined group offers to share its surplus of milk pudding. Only the narrator acknowledges the gesture, but by forging links with the newcomers he becomes a conduit for change, change that threatens The Great Field.

Magnus Mills is the author of A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In and six other novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread (now the Costa) First Novel Award in 1998. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in London.

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The Sunlit Night Rebecca Dinerstein ‘Lyrical as a poem, psychologically rich as a thriller, funny, dark, warm’ Jonathan Safran Foer

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he Sunlit Night explores the intersection of two young lives: Frances, who flees her claustrophobic childhood apartment in Manhattan and seeks refuge at an obscure Norwegian artist colony; and Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised in a bakery in Brighton Beach, who heads north to carry out his beloved father’s last wish to be buried ‘at the top of the world’. The two meet in Lofoten, an archipelago in the Norwegian Sea. Their unlikely connection fortifies them against the turmoil of their distant homes and teaches them that however far they travel for independence, it is ultimately love that gives them their place in the world.

Rebecca Dinerstein was born in New York City in 1987. She received her BA from Yale University, and her MFA in Fiction from NYU. Her first book of poems, Lofoten, was published in English and Norwegian. The Sunlit Night is her first novel. @beckydinerstein

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A Fortunate Age Joanna Rakoff ‘Artful, engaging’ Daily Mail

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iving in crumbling Brooklyn apartments, holding down jobs as actors and writers and eschewing the middle-class sensibilities of their parents, six young graduates fresh from college believe they can have it all. When the friends come together to celebrate a marriage, anything seems possible. But soon the reality of rent, marriage and family will test them all – for this fortunate age can’t last forever, and the group must face adulthood, whether they are ready for it or not. Sprawling and richly drawn, A Fortunate Age is a brilliant, ambitious debut novel that perfectly captures the hopes, anxieties and dreams of a generation.

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Joanna Rakoff is a poet and author of the acclaimed memoir My Salinger Year. A Fortunate Age, first published in the United States in 2009, won the Goldberg Prize for Fiction and the Elle Readers’ Prize. She has written for the New York Times, Vogue, and many other publications. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

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Man on Fire Stephen Kelman ‘Man on Fire is a glorious, warm, unpredictable story, told by two glorious, warm, unpredictable narrators. I loved it’ Roddy Doyle

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ohn Lock has come to Mumbai to meet his destiny. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak’s next record attempt – to have fifty baseball bats broken over his body – will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in India’s city of dreams. But, as they take their leap of faith together, John learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he had ever bargained for.

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Stephen Kelman was born in Luton in 1976. Pigeon English, his first novel, was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and he was also shortlisted for the New Writer of the Year Award at the 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards. He lives in St Albans.

Bitter Almonds Lilas Taha In the fight for freedom, will he lose his heart?

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mar is an orphaned Palestinian born into chaos, displaced by violence, and driven by forces beyond his control to find his place in the world. He only has one thing to hold on to: a love that propels him forward and gives him hope.

Nadia is maturing into womanhood in a refugee community in Damascus. She tries hard to cope with the tough realities of her world, but is confronted with a cruel load thrust upon her by a selfish brother. Can she break out of her traditional social mould to create her own destiny?

Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the Gulf War.

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I Love You but I’m Not in Love with You Seven Steps to Saving Your Relationship

Andrew G. Marshall Over 100,000 copies sold worldwide

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ow do you fall back in love? This was the underlying problem of one in four couples seeking help from relationship therapist Andrew G. Marshall. They described their problem as: ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’. Noticing how widespread the phenomenon had become, he decided to look more closely. From his research Andrew has devised his own unique programme. By looking at how a couple communicate, argue, share love, take responsibility, give and learn, he offers a reassuring and empowering map for how two individuals can better understand themselves, strengthen their bond and recover that lost magic.

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Andrew G. Marshall is the author of How Can I Ever Trust You Again?, the Seven Steps series of practical relationship manuals and many other books. His titles have been translated into over fifteen different languages. He writes for the Mail on Sunday, The Times, the Guardian and Psychologies magazine. He lives in West Sussex. andrewgmarshall.com • @andrewgmarshall

Girl in the Dark Anna Lyndsey ‘Her chronicle of a life without light somehow sparkles with dark humour and wonder at the world … Beautifully affecting’ Observer

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his is the true story of an ordinary woman who developed an extraordinary condition, leading her to live an impossible life – a life without light, yet one that is illuminated in the most unexpected ways. It began with a burning sensation on her face when she was exposed to computer screens and fluorescent lighting.

Then the burning spread and the problematic light sources proliferated. Now Anna Lyndsey’s extreme sensitivity to light in all forms means she must spend much of her life in total darkness.

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Told with great beauty, humour and honesty, Girl in the Dark is the uplifting story of how light can be found in even the darkest of places.

Anna Lyndsey worked for several years in London as a civil servant until she became ill. She now lives with her husband in Hampshire. Anna is writing under a pen name.

One Wild Song A Voyage in a Lost Son’s Wake

Paul Heiney A poignant and moving account of setting a course through seemingly insurmountable grief and coming to terms with loss in a unique and very personal way

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hen Countrywise presenter Paul Heiney’s son Nicholas committed suicide aged 23, Paul and his wife, Times columnist Libby Purves, were rocked to the core. Nicholas was a keen sailor, with several of his posthumously published writings having a nautical theme. To try to reconnect with this happier memory of his son, Paul decides to set out – alone – on a voyage he would have liked them to embark upon together: sailing around Cape Horn, the sailor’s Everest. During the voyage Paul finds a peace of mind and a way to face the future without his son.

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Paul Heiney has been a radio and TV broadcaster for over 30 years, moving from Radio 1 to working on Radio 4’s Today programme. He was a presenter on That’s Life! from 1978 and 1982, and has more recently presented Watchdog on BBC One. He currently presents the prime-time ITV show Countrywise.

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Chasing the Scream The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Johann Hari This shocking account of the War on Drugs and the alternatives to it is ‘superb journalism and thrilling story-telling’ Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

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anuary 2015 marks 100 years since drugs were first banned. Johann Hari set off on a three-year long, 20,000-mile journey to find out why they were criminalised, how this is causing a disaster today and what happens when you choose a radically different path. His discoveries are told entirely through the startling and moving stories of real people – from a transsexual crack dealer in Brooklyn, to a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who discovered the real causes of addiction. This book will change how we think about one of the most controversial issues of our time.

Johann Hari has been twice named ‘Newspaper Journalist of the Year’ by Amnesty International UK for his reporting. He has written for the New York Times, the LA Times, the Independent, the Guardian and Le Monde amongst others. He has also been named ‘Journalist of the Year’ by Stonewall. johannhari.com • @johannhari101

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The Girl From Human Street Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family

Roger Cohen ‘An absorbing, haunting voyage … Full of love and loss’ Jonathan Freedland

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urning an eye on the legacy of his family, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen explores the anomie of European Jews after the Holocaust, following them from Lithuania to South Africa, England, the United States and Israel. He illuminates the uneasy resonance of the racism his family witnessed living in apartheid-era South Africa and explores the pervasive Jewish sense of ‘otherness’ and how it relates to his family’s own history of manic depression. This tale of remembrance and repression, suicide and resilience, moral ambivalence and uneasily evolving loyalties is an unflinching personal story that contributes an important chapter to the narrative of Jewish life.

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Roger Cohen is a former foreign correspondent and award-winning columnist, writing a regular column for the New York Times op-ed page as well as the International New York Times. He lives in London and New York.

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Sea Fever The True Adventures that Inspired our Greatest Maritime Authors, from Conrad to Masefield, Melville and Hemingway

Sam Jefferson An enthralling collection of the real-life adventures that gave inspiration to our best-loved maritime authors, including Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London

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ow did a big-game fishing trip rudely interrupted by sharks inspire one of the key scenes in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea? How did Robert Louis Stevenson’s cruise to the cannibal-infested South Sea islands prove instrumental in his writing of Treasure Island? How did Masefield survive Cape Horn and a near-nervous breakdown to write Sea Fever?

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Behind many a great sea story is a real-life adventure that inspired it, and Sea Fever explores the dangerous, exciting and often eccentric escapades of literature’s sailing stars, giving us a fascinating insight into how fact fed into fiction.

Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and the author of Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail and Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic. He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships.

Princes at War The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War

Deborah Cadbury ‘Impeccably researched, and written with all the brio and understanding of a major historical novel’ David Kynaston

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he sons of King George V and Queen Mary were brought up to fulfil very different roles within the royal family. Their personal lives were successfully kept out of the public eye until 1936, when the dazzling Edward VIII rejected his role as King of England for the sake of the glamorous American socialite and divorcee Wallis Simpson and plunged the family and his country into crisis. Drawing on new research, Cadbury shows just how far the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were prepared to go to take back the British throne from Edward’s younger, stammering brother, King George VI, should Germany prevail in the Second World War, and how the rift threatened to tear the royal family and the nation apart.

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Deborah Cadbury is an award-winning former TV producer for the BBC, including Horizon for which she won an Emmy. She is also the author of seven acclaimed books including The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, for which the accompanying television series received a BAFTA nomination for Best Series.

She lives in London.

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Another Little Piece of My Heart My Life of Rock and Revolution in the 60s

Richard Goldstein ‘A genuinely essential addition to the bibliography of the revolutionary 60s’ Guardian

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n 1966, at just 22, Richard Goldstein became the first person to write about rock music in a major publication. From his unique position he saw the arc of events that shaped the 1960s. He got stoned with Brian Wilson, was present for Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech and took Susan Sontag to her first disco.

Goldstein developed close relationships with Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, whose early deaths fuelled his disillusionment as the music he loved evolved from a communal rite into a vast industry – and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away.

Richard Goldstein wrote the ‘Pope Eye’ column in the Village Voice from 1966 to 1970 where he later served as arts editor and then executive editor. His work has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Harper’s and the Guardian. He is currently an adjunct professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

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The Fish Ladder A Journey Upstream

Katharine Norbury ‘What a delight! A beautiful, strange, intoxicating and utterly unique story’ Philip Pullman

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atharine Norbury was abandoned as a baby in a Liverpool convent. Raised by a loving adoptive family, she grew into a wanderer, drawn by the landscape of the British countryside. One summer, following the miscarriage of a much-longedfor child, Katharine sets out to follow a river from the sea to its source. But what begins as a diversion from grief evolves into a journey to the source of life itself: a life-threatening illness forces Katharine to seek a genetic medical history, and this new and unexpected path delivers her to the door of the woman who abandoned her all those years ago.

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Katharine Norbury trained as a film editor with the BBC and has worked extensively in film and television drama. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA programme at UEA and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths. She lives in London with her family. The Fish Ladder is her first book. @kjnorbury

The Dark Side of the Soul An Insider’s Guide to the Web of Sin

Stephen Cherry Far from being an outdated and guilt-ridden concept, Sin is a startlingly relevant tool in understanding the world today

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e think of ‘Sin’ as an old-fashioned word, burdened with connotations of guilt, but Stephen Cherry shows that the traditional ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ lie behind many of the challenges we face today. Modern economic problems are a direct consequence of Avarice; our compulsive busyness is the flip-side of Sloth; and our obsessive perfectionism is a manifestation of Pride. Cherry argues that ‘Sin’ is not only a vital concept in understanding what is wrong with human beings, but also a healthy and truthful word that can help to set us free.

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Stephen Cherry is Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. He is the bestselling author of Barefoot Disciple, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2011, and Healing Agony.

Kaleidoscope City A Year in Varanasi

Piers Moore Ede ‘An original new voice in travel writing: erudite, sensuous and introspective’ ***** The Lady

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iers Moore Ede first fell in love with Varanasi when he passed through it in search of wild-honey hunters. In the decade that followed, it continued to exert its pull on him, and so he returned to live there, renting a room overlooking the Ganges.

In this intoxicating ‘city of 10,000 widows’, where funeral pyres smoulder beside the river in which thousands of pilgrims bathe, and where holiness and corruption walk side by side, Piers encounters sweet-makers and sadhus, mischievous boatmen and weary bureaucrats, silk weavers and musicians, and discovers a remarkable interplay between death and life, light and dark.

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Piers Moore Ede has contributed to many literary, travel and environmental publications, including the Daily Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement, Ecologist, Traveller and Earth Island Journal. He is the author of Honey and Dust, winner of a D. H. Lawrence Prize for Travel Writing, and All Kinds of Magic. He lives in East Sussex with his wife and daughter.

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The Challenge of Things Thinking through Troubled Times

A. C. Grayling ‘Grayling is the approachable, upbeat carrier of the Enlightenment torch …

Sensible, articulate and eloquently expressed’ Observer

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. C. Grayling’s lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.

The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling’s recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds. Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.

A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio and TV, and the author of many books including The Meaning of Things and Liberty in the Age of Terror.

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The Good Book A Secular Bible

A. C. Grayling The Good Book, A. C. Grayling’s bestselling secular bible, is now published in a B format paperback edition

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. C. Grayling, Britain’s most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative nonreligious writing about all that it means to be human – from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life. Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world’s great religions, in which Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organises the collective secular wisdom of the world in one highly readable volume.

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A. C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London, a regular contributor to the newspapers, a frequent and popular contributor to radio and TV, and the author of many books including The Meaning of Things and Liberty in the Age of Terror.

Cuckoo Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies ‘An amazing detective story by one of the country’s greatest field naturalists’ Sir David Attenborough

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he cuckoo is nature’s most famous cheat, regularly manipulating and deceiving other species into raising its young. Nick Davies has studied this remarkable interaction for the past thirty years and shows that cuckoos are among the most cunning creatures in the natural world. Using shrewd detective skills and field experiments, he reveals the astonishing and beautiful adaptations that have taken place in the cuckoos’ long battle to keep on outwitting their hosts.

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The book is beautifully illustrated with photographs by leading wildlife photographers, including Richard Nicoll, and pen-and-wash drawings done in the field by renowned Norfolk artist James McCallum.

Nick Davies is Professor of Behavioural Ecology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cuckoo research has been presented on BBC Radio 4, and as a BBC film, produced by Mike Birkhead and narrated by David Attenborough.

The Strangers Who Came Home The First Australian Cricket Tour of England

John Lazenby A compelling and beautifully drawn social history of the first Australian cricket tour of England

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he Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest and most keenly contested rivalry in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen. The Strangers Who Came Home is a compelling social history which brings that momentous summer to life. It reveals how the tourists’ glorious achievements on the field of play threw open the doors to international sports touring, and how they provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket.

John Lazenby is a freelance journalist on national newspapers including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, and a sports broadcaster for both radio and television.

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Children of the Stone The Power of Music in a Hard Land

Sandy Tolan From the author of The Lemon Tree, a moving tale of music as a means of empowerment set in war-torn Palestine

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amzi Hussein Aburedwan is a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts an occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream a reality.

That dream is to transform the lives of thousands of children – as Ramzi’s life was transformed – by opening a music school. Children of the Stone tells a story about music, first, but also about freedom and conflict; determination and vision. And how one man created something lasting and beautiful in a war-torn, occupied land.

Sandy Tolan has written for the New York Times Magazine and for more than 40 other publications. Tolan has produced radio documentaries for NPR and PRI and his work has won numerous awards. He is an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC in Los Angeles.

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Atoms Under the Floorboards The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home

Chris Woodford Some seriously surprising science from the sofa

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he perfect way to enjoy science from the sofa, Atoms Under the Floorboards introduces you to the incredible scientific explanations behind a variety of household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes.

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Is it better to build skyscrapers like wobbly jellies or stacks of biscuits? Can you burn your house down with an electric drill? How many atoms would you have to split to power a lightbulb? Atoms Under the Floorboards answers all these questions, and hundreds more. You’ll never look at your home the same way again.

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Chris Woodford has been a professional science and technology writer for 25 years.

After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences, he has gone on to write, co-write and edit a number of science education books, including the bestselling Cool Stuff series. Chris runs explainthatstuff.com, dedicated to explaining the science behind everyday things.

Eat Pray Love One Woman’s Search for Everything

Elizabeth Gilbert A special tenth anniversary edition of the international bestseller Eat Pray Love, with an all-new introduction by the author

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t’s three a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. A worldwide phenomenon on first publication, Eat Pray Love now celebrates 10 years of capturing the hearts and minds of women across the globe.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of seven books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Signature of All Things, which was a New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014, and the forthcoming Big Magic. She lives in New Jersey. elizabethgilbert.com • @GilbertLiz

John le Carré The Biography

Adam Sisman The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic writer

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ohn le Carré is still at the top, more than half a century after The Spy Who Came in from the Cold became a worldwide bestseller. From his bleak childhood – the departure of his mother when he was five was followed by ‘sixteen hugless years’ in the dubious care of his father, a serial seducer and con man – through recruitment by both MI5 and MI6, to his emergence as the master of the espionage novel, le Carré has repeatedly quarried his life for his fiction. Millions of readers are hungry to know the truth about him. Written with exclusive access to le Carré himself, to his private archive and to many of the people closest to him, this is a major biography of one of the most important novelists alive today.

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Adam Sisman’s books have been much admired, both for their seriousness and their entertainment value. His most recent, a biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper, won universal praise and was described as ‘almost perfect’ by Robert Harris in the Sunday Times.

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Darjeeling A History of the World’s Greatest Tea

Jeff Koehler ‘Jeff Koehler’s passionate study of Darjeeling tea makes you want to sip a perfectly brewed cup’ Mark Kurlansky

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n the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, bound by Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, rows of brilliant-green, waist-high tea bushes cover the steep slopes and valleys around Darjeeling. They produce a fraction of the world’s tea, and less than 1 per cent of India’s total. Yet that limited crop is the world’s best. This is the story, rich in mythology, ecology and culture, of the industry’s rise under British Imperial rule, recent decline, and current struggle to produce. As this Edenic region seethes with unrest in a violent fight for independence and against climate change some measures to protect this unduplicable tea are nothing short of radical…

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Jeff Koehler is an American writer, photographer, traveller and cook. He studied at King’s College London, and has published four books including, most recently, Spain: Recipes and Traditions, named one of 2013’s best cookbooks by the New York Times. He lives in Barcelona, Spain.

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The Man with the Golden Typewriter Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters

Edited by Fergus Fleming The witty and engaging letters of the man who created the world’s most famous spy – James Bond, 007

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hen he had finished writing Casino Royale, the first in the James Bond series, Ian Fleming treated himself to a gold-plated typewriter. It was on this glittering machine that he typed not only his bestselling novels, but also his letters. Readers immediately engaged with Secret Agent 007 and wrote to Fleming with all sorts of quibbles, corrections and opinions; Fleming’s replies were considered and often charming, full of wry remarks and original turns of phrase. This entertaining correspondence relating to the Bond novels shows a fascinating and little-known side of Ian Fleming and sheds light on the development of his legendary creation, and on the era in which he first operated.

Fergus Fleming is Ian Fleming’s nephew. He is also the author of several nonfiction books including Barrow’s Boys, Killing Dragons and Ninety Degrees North.

Spirals in Time The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

Helen Scales A fascinating slice of marine biology and cultural history, revealing wonders that can be held in the palm of your hand

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he shell-making molluscs are among the most successful of all animals. They live extraordinary lives in many strange places; they provide food and homes for other animals, and across the ages, their shells, sculpted by evolution and mathematics, have become powerful symbols of sex and death, prestige and war.

They have become currency, been tapped for mind-bending drugs, even exchanged for human lives. Shells help heal the rift between us and the living world, and Spirals in Time – a Radio 4 Book of the Week – tells us how, revealing the story of these undersea wonders of calcium carbonate.

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Marine biologist Helen Scales tagged sharks in California, catalogued marine life in the Andaman Sea, and studied the diverse fish that live on coral reefs in the South Pacific, before becoming an author and presenter of science programmes on BBC Radio 4. Her credits include Inside Science, Home Planet, and The Museum of Curiosity. helenscales.com • @helenscales

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Changing Churches A Practical Guide to the Faculty System

Charles Mynors This book seeks to demystify the whole process of carrying out works to churches

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his book is a complete guide to the faculty system. It is essential reading for all those who are involved in carrying out alterations and extensions to church buildings – incumbents, PCC members, churchwardens, architects, surveyors, and specialist contractors and professionals – and a vital reference source for all those who administer the system – DACs, archdeacons, registrars, chancellors, amenity groups and local authorities.

The text takes fully into account the new Faculty Procedure Rules, coming into force in January 2016, and the new online system, and is accompanied by flow charts at critical points.

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Dr Charles Mynors worked as a town planner, before being called to the Bar. He has written the standard textbooks on listed buildings and the law of trees. He has been Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester for fifteen years and has also been the fundraiser and project manager of a major re-ordering scheme at his own church in London, and a churchwarden for several years.

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In Pursuit of Butterflies A Fifty-year Affair

Matthew Oates The butterflies of Britain, in the words of one of their greatest champions

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atthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is a chronicle of this life.

Oates leads the reader across the mountains, peat bogs, sea cliffs, heaths and forests of Britain in search of these insects. Full of humour, digression, expertise and anecdote, this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers, and with half a century of butterflying in Britain.

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Matthew Oates has been obsessed by butterflies since he was at school. He has made particular studies of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Mountain Ringlet and Duke of Burgundy, but no butterfly has entranced him so much as the elusive and beautiful Purple Emperor. Based with the National Trust, Matthew is a regular writer of The Times’s Nature Notes column.

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Spain The Centre of the World 1519–1682

Robert Goodwin ‘This is history as it should be but so rarely is’ Professor David Starkey

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n the sixteenth century, Spain was the first nation in history to have worldwide reach. Goodwin tells the story of Spain and the Spaniards, from great soldiers like the Duke of Alba to literary figures and artists such as El Greco, Velázquez, Cervantes, and Lope de Vega, and the monarchs who ruled over them.

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At the beginning of the modern age, Spaniards were caught between the excitement of change and a medieval world of chivalry and religious orthodoxy; they experienced a turbulent existential angst that fuelled an exceptional Golden Age, a fluorescence of art, literature and poetry.

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Dr Robert T. C. Goodwin was awarded his PhD by the University of London for his thesis on Golden Age Spain. His first major book was Crossing the Continent 1527–1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South.

He is a full-time writer and is a research associate at University College. He divides his time between London and Seville.

A Force for Good The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World

Daniel Goleman An important manifesto on how we can change our world for the better penned by the internationally bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence

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or decades, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world. In each country, he saw similar problems: values that have helped the very rich to advance beyond the multitudinous poor, a disregard for the environment and governments in paralysis among them. Now, the Dalai Lama gives us his vision of a better future, one that prioritises the concerns of humanity at large, and explains how we can get there.

He presents a new perspective on the world as we know it, one that can bring hope to millions and that has the potential to shape humanity’s course in the twenty-first century.

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Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of many books, including the international bestseller Emotional Intelligence. He co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago).

He lives in Massachusetts. danielgoleman.info • @DanielGolemanEI

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Playing Scared My Journey Through Stage Fright

Sara Solovitch ‘A thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of stage fright … shedding light so eloquently on such a widespread affliction’ Sunday Times

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ara Solovitch learned to play the piano as a young child and fell in love with music. As a teen, she played Bach and Mozart at her hometown’s annual music festival, but was overwhelmed by stage fright, which led her to give up aspirations of becoming a professional pianist. In her late fifties, Sara gave herself a one-year deadline to tame performance anxiety and play before an audience. She explored meditation, cognitive therapy, biofeedback, the use of beta blockers and other approaches. Her book chronicles how one woman set out to overcome performance anxiety, a problem encountered by millions of people.

Sara Solovitch is a lifelong journalist. She has been a medical writer at Stanford University and a health columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Her articles have appeared in Politico, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Wired and elsewhere. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. This is her first book. sarasolo.com • @SaraSolovitch

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The Oval World A Global History of Rugby

Tony Collins A comprehensive social history that investigates a truly global sport, from its earliest beginnings to the present day

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his is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its medieval origins in village-based football games to the globalised sport of the twentyfirst century, now played in over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last World Cup final. The Oval World investigates how rugby has survived and thrived in countries with very different traditions and cultures.

Tony Collins is Professor of History and former Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, the world’s leading centre for the study of the history of sport. His previous books include A Social History of English Rugby Union, which won the Aberdare prize for sports history book of the year.

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Warriors on Horseback The Inside Story of the Professional Jockey

John Carter ‘Jockeys are eternally fascinating and Warriors on Horseback is a wide-ranging portrait of the professional jockey’s world’ Robin Oakley, Spectator

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rofessional jockeys are a remarkable group. Fiercely competitive on the racecourse, they enjoy a tribal kinship in the weighing room. The minimum requirements for long-term success as a jockey are courage, skill, athleticism and an intuitive understanding of how to ‘get a tune’ out of a horse.

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This book celebrates these warriors on horseback, both the old and the new, highlighting the headline performers for jump racing and flat racing, male and female and from around the globe, as well as taking the reader on a behind-thescenes look at the lifestyle of professional jockeys in the twenty-first century.

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John Carter is a sports writer and author of Play the Masters, Newmarket: A Year at the Home of Racing, The History of Horse Racing: First Past the Post, and co-author of The Stupid Footballer is Dead.

House Guests, House Pests A Natural History of Animals in the Home

Richard Jones A witty and informative guide to nature in the home presented with vintage style

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e live in snug, well-furnished houses surrounded by the trappings of a civilised life. But we are not alone – we suffer a constant stream of unwanted visitors.

Our houses are under attack from a host of invaders eager to take advantage of the shelter, food stores and tasty soft furnishings.

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House Guests, House Pests is a modern version of the medieval bestiary. It asks where these animals came from, can we live with them, can we get rid of them, and should we? Richard Jones’s engaging style and the funky retro design makes this a book to treasure.

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Richard Jones is one of the co-authors of Little Book of Nits. A Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and past President of the British Entomological Society, Richard now writes about insects, nature and the environment for BBC Wildlife Magazine, the Guardian, Gardeners’ World and Country Living. bugmanjones.com • @bugmanjones

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Rescue Pilot Cheating the Sea

Jerry Grayson Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career, full of desperate searches, near-tragedies and thrilling last-minute rescues

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t 17 Jerry Grayson became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history.

This is his story.

Whether saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship or flying into the teeth of a storm to search for drowning sailors, the work of a search-and-rescue pilot is vital, dangerous, thrilling and also on the edge. Jerry’s account is excitingly told, frequently funny but also very poignant.

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Includes a Foreword by HRH The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-inChief of the Fleet Air Arm. Since leaving the navy, Jerry Grayson has become one of the film industry’s leading helicopter pilots, designing and shooting aerial action sequences for James Bond films as well as hundreds of commercials and documentaries. He now lives in Australia.

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Few and Far Between On the Trail of Britain’s Rarest Animals

Charlie Elder Award-winning writer Charlie Elder travels the length and breadth of Britain to track down our rarest and most endangered animals

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eeking the beautiful, the breathtaking and the bizarre, Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain’s most elusive and threatened species.

Meeting up with experts across the UK, Charlie tracks down secretive and scarce mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects living on the brink, ranging from the iconic Scottish wildcat and surreal spiny seahorse to the striking golden oriole, outlandish wart-biter cricket and sinister black rat. Few and Far Between celebrates the diversity on our doorstep and highlights the natural treasures we risk losing.

Charlie Elder is a journalist. For the last twenty-five years he has written for papers ranging from the Independent to the Times of Tonga in the South Pacific. He is currently Head of Production on the Herald in Plymouth. His first book, While Flocks Last, was published in hardback and paperback in 2009. charlieelder.com • @charlieelderTH

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On a Wing and a Prayer One Woman’s Adventure into the Heart of the Rainforest

Sarah Woods To encounter a harpy eagle Sarah Woods trekked through the world’s densest jungles, falling under the spell of Latin America’s extraordinary wildlife

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s a girl Sarah Woods imagined going on epic voyages to exotic lands filled with bizarre creatures, intoxicating rhythms and vibrant colours. As soon as she could she packed a bag and set off to see the world for real. To journey solo through Latin America was the ultimate challenge. Leaving the tourist traps behind, Sarah ventured into the wilderness, experiencing disease-ridden swamps, sharkinfested waters and dense tracts of primary rainforest that are home to jaguars, anacondas and tusk-gnashing peccaries. Facing gruelling, energy-sapping jungle conditions and constant challenges, Sarah’s intrepid travels took her through some of the toughest terrain imaginable.

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Sarah Woods has been travelling non stop for two decades, circumnavigating the globe in several directions. Sarah works for Europe’s largest wildlife conservation charity, the RSPB, and is a regular contributor to travel magazines, travel and documentary programmes and BBC Radio. sarahwoods.co.uk • @WdsySarah

Blood Ransom Stories from the Front Line in the War against Somali Piracy

John Boyle The first book to look at the issue of modern-day piracy from every side of the war – from pirate to hostage to president

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or the first time in history, every superpower on the planet has united against a common enemy – a couple of thousand ragtag underfed men and boys.

Crammed together in tiny open boats and armed with ancient AK47s and rocketpropelled grenades, they scour the western Indian Ocean. Many die at sea. But occasionally these modern-day pirates hit the jackpot, seizing vessels and crews that will be ransomed for millions of dollars.

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Using interviews with pirates, hostages, skippers, security guards and politicians, John Boyle paints a vivid picture of a seemingly unwinnable war.

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John Boyle is a lawyer turned film-maker. Whilst filming for National Geographic on the war against the Somali pirates, he found himself meeting victims on every side, and being drawn into the incredibly complex situation. Few people have any understanding of the overall picture, and John’s investigation gives us a unique insight into an ongoing war.

Inside the Banking Crisis The Untold Story

Hugh Pym New edition of the inside account of the UK banking crisis, featuring fresh interviews with key political and financial players

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ince the Lehmans debacle and the bailout of Halifax/Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), there has been a Financial Services Authority report on the collapse of RBS but no equivalent inquiry into the drama at HBOS, and no comprehensive investigation into the whole banking crisis. This book is the definitive insider’s guide to the UK banking crisis – the drama and characters involved in the astonishing collapse of some of the major pillars of British banking and the continuing impact on the economy – informed by those directly involved at Downing Street and the Bank of England.

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Hugh Pym is Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News and one of only a handful of broadcast correspondents to have covered the financial crisis from its origins in 2007 to the present. He is the author of What Happened? And Other Questions Everyone is Asking about the Credit Crunch and Gordon Brown: The First Year in Power (Bloomsbury).

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Half-Time The Glorious Summer of 1934

Robert Winder Three sporting victories from Fred Perry, Hedley Verity and Henry Cotton in one remarkable fortnight provide an atmospheric account of life between the wars

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et against the backdrop of Depression-era politics, 1934 was a spectacular summer for English sport. The Ashes Test at Lord’s saw Verity bowl England to a famous innings victory; that same day, Cotton began the first qualifying round of the British Open, a tournament he went on to win with a game so sparkling the Daily Express called it ‘the best round of golf ever played’. And within a fortnight, Perry had taken the Wimbledon title.

Together, the stories of these three contests – and their three very English heroes – weave a vivid portrait of an England that has faded from view.

Robert Winder was Literary Editor of the Independent and Deputy Editor of Granta.

He is the author of several books, including Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey and Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. His most recent book is The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden.

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Forever Boys The Days of Citizens and Heroes

James Lawton The story of the most exciting time in Manchester City’s history, seen through the eyes of a sportswriter just embarking on what would turn out to be a thrilling career

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oe Mercer and Malcolm Allison’s dazzling Manchester City team illuminated the late 1960s, and today evoke a period of football’s history that seems distant and unknowable except through the rose-tinted gloss of nostalgia. Lawton goes back to those heroes and vividly brings to life the story of a team that won everything before them.

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Yet this is also a broader story of how sport can sometimes perfectly mirror the exaltation and the despair of the real world, and how it carries those who do – or merely see – it to moments that will claim a permanent place in their hearts.

James Lawton first started covering top-flight football as a 19-year-old for the Daily Telegraph in 1963 and, after a seven-year stint in North America, went on to become chief sportswriter of the Daily Express and the Independent. He has written 12 books, including an award-winning collaboration with Sir Bobby Charlton on his two volumes of autobiography.

Bill Oddie Unplucked Columns, Blogs and Musings

Bill Oddie A compelling collection of Bill Oddie’s latest magazine columns, website blogs and general musings

B 16 JUNE 2016 PAPERBACK • 9781472915306 • £9.99

ill Oddie Unplucked contains 50 of Bill’s essays, magazine articles and blogs, designed to be read in any order you want, with each tale short enough to allow you to dip into something new every time you pick it up. Representing some of the very best of his writing and general musings of the last 20 years, this book is generously illustrated with Bill’s own whimsical drawings. Inside these pages you’ll find tales of Bill trespassing in a nunnery, being terrified by a tiger, wading in sewage, paddling with dinosaurs, slagging off the government, and nearly drowning in both Costa Rica and the Seychelles. There are, of course, some stories about birds.

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Bill Oddie has written dozens of books on wildlife and presented numerous natural history TV series over the last 30 years. In 2003 Bill was awarded an OBE for his services to conservation, though he feels it is only in recent years that he has had the time to truly justify the award. billoddie.com • @BillOddie

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A Accumulator, The Africa39 Ageless Body, The Age of Genius, The Alhambra All Saints’ Day Lovers, The Another Little Piece of My Heart Arch and the Butterfly, The At Hawthorn Time Atoms Under the Floorboards

46 69 46 21 9 78 85 77 77 90

B Bad News Bamboo Stalk, The Beside Myself Big Data Bill Oddie Unplucked Bird’s Egg, A Bitter Almonds Bitter Taste of Victory, The Blood Ransom Blue Between Sky and Water, The Born To Be Wild Bricks that Built the Houses, The Building Jerusalem Burning Gates, The

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16 67 2 41 100 35 81 17 98 73 52 10 61 63

Camper Van Bible, The Captain of the Carpathia Challenge of Things, The Changing Churches Chaos of the Senses Chasing the Scream Children of the Stone Cloudy Day on a Western Shore Complete Ocean Skipper, The Complete Scrimgeour, The Conversations with Roger Scruton Created in China Creating Financial Value Cuckoo Cultural Revolution, The

F 53 54 87 93 63 83 89 5 54 55 30 60 58 88 32

D Darjeeling Dark Side of the Soul, The Death on Earth Don’t Let Him Know Don’t Stop Me Now Dreams of a Refugee Drowned Detective, The Dust of Promises, The

91 86 38 66 48 21 7 3

E Eat Pray Love Electronic Dreams End of the Road, The Endurance Existentialism and Excess

90 37 50 51 26

Fall of the House of Wilde, The 31 Few and Far Between 97 Field of the Cloth of Gold, The 79 Fish Ladder, The 86 Following On 49 Force for Good, A 94 Forever Boys 100 Fortunate Age, A 80 Full Marks for Trying 31

G Gangster Warlords Girl From Human Street, The Girl in the Dark Girl in the Ice, The Gods and Angels Good Book, The Good Good Food Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic Great Acceleration, The Guilty Thing Gun Room, The Gutsy Girl, The

18 84 82 68 12 88 43

55 40 25 8 25

H Half-Time Harder They Come, The Herding Hemingway’s Cats Highlands House Guests, House Pests How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

99 73 37 52 96 18

How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been How to Thrive and Survive as a Working Woman HR Paradox, The Hurricane Pocket Manual, The

27 59 58 57

I I Love You but I’m Not in Love with You Improbability of Love, The In Other Words In Pursuit of Butterflies Inside the Banking Crisis In the Hope of Virgins

24 91 6 43

K Kaleidoscope City Keep You Close Kicking Off Kilimanjaro Spirit Kindness, The

87 10 47 13 71

L Land of No Rain Landskipping La Place de l’Étoile Last Illusion, The

26

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Creativity and Enterprise Light Losing It Lost Boys Ludwig Wittgenstein

60 40 51 48 28

On Augustine On a Wing and a Prayer One Wild Song On Shakespeare’s Sonnets Our Young Man Out of Time Oval World, The

M 82 74 17 93 99 11

J Jacobites John le Carré Jonathan Unleashed Junk Food Japan

Last Royal Rebel, The Leading Innovation,

74 34 70 65

Making of India, The Mammissima Man on Fire Man Who Invented Fiction, The Man with the Golden Typewriter, The Many Selves of Katherine North, The Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in Britain and Europe More than a Game Morning They Came for Us, The Mosquito Pocket Manual, The Murderous History of Bible Translations, The My Own Dear Brother

23 44 80 32 92 14

53 39 22 57 62 5

N Naked Shore, The Narrowboat Life Nightingales in November Not Quite Nice No Way But Gentlenesse

16 56 36 69 35

62 98 83 20 13 50 95

P Paradise City Passwords to Paradise Photographer’s Wife, The Playing Scared Please Do Not Disturb Princes at War Private Life of Mrs Sharma, The Psychology of Conflict, The

78 29 12 95 15 85 2 19

Q Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the Imagination 22

R Reckless Redeemable Reputations Rescue Pilot Rise River Cottage Gluten Free River of Ink

76 19 14 97 72 42 4

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Index S Sacred Combe, The Saffron Tales, The Scary Old Sex Sea Fever Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life She Will Build Him a City Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation Sidney Chambers and The Forgiveness of Sins Sleeping Dogs Sod it! Eat Well Sod Sixty!

Some Here Among Us Sophie and the Sibyl Sorting the Beef from the Bull Spain Spirals in Time Spit and Polish Strangers Who Came Home, The Summer Before the War, The Sunlit Night, The Sweet Caress Sweet Spot, The

U 34 44 6 84 20 70 15 76 72 45 45 66 75 38 94 92 23 89 8 79 75 41

Us Conductors

V Vanessa and Her Sister Vanished, The

Tendulkar in Wisden 47 Thatcher Stole My Trousers 24 That Was The Church That Was 61 They Are Trying to Break Your Heart 9 This is the Ritual 4 Trees, The 11 Tyrannosaur Chronicles, The 39

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W Wallflowers Warriors on Horseback We Are Pirates Weathering Weightless When We Are No More White Rage Who Was Who Volume XIII (2011–2015) Wicked Boy, The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2016 Women Chefs of New York World Without Us, The

67 96 68 64 71 27 33 28 30 49 42 3

Y You Could Look It Up

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