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The Horseman Tim Pears From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful pastoral novel, the first in a dazzling new trilogy

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911. In a forgotten West Country valley, 12-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter, and dreams of a job on the Master’s stud farm. Spring comes and Leo is breaking a colt when a boy in a Homburg and breeches appears. Peering under the stranger’s hat, he discovers the Master’s daughter, young Miss Charlotte. And so a friendship begins, bound by a love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries – which become increasingly difficult to navigate as adolescence approaches.

Evoking the realities of agricultural life with precise, poetic brushstrokes, Tim Pears has created a masterful, Hardyesque novel.

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Tim Pears is the author of eight novels including In the Place of Fallen Leaves, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, In a Land of Plenty, made into a tenpart BBC series, Landed, shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and Disputed Land. He lives in Oxford. timpears.com

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‘This is the real thing … Comic, and wry, and elegiac, and shrewd and thoughtful’ A. S. Byatt

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‘A gifted storyteller, steeped in country lore and the beauty of ordinary events’ New York Times

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The Burning Ground Adam O’Riordan The debut short story collection, set on America’s West Coast, from the awardwinning, critically acclaimed poet Adam O’Riordan

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oving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, this collection of eight stories explores fractured lives on America’s West Coast.

A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles and forges an unexpected bond with a fellow traveller; the foreman of a desert building project takes a journey into California’s underworld when his employer’s daughter disappears; and an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair. Written with a poet’s lyricism and an outsider’s keen eye, this insightful work of beauty and poignancy paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives.

Adam O’Riordan was born in Manchester in 1982 and read English at Oxford University. In 2008 O’Riordan became the youngest Poet in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His first poetry collection, In the Flesh, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. He is lecturer in Poetry Writing at the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. adamoriordan.com • @oriordanadam

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The House at Bishopsgate Katie Hickman From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughters of Britannia comes a story of marital secrets and obsession, set in Jacobean London

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leppo, 1611. Celia Lamprey and her husband, Paul Pindar, the Levant Company consul, are to set sail for England after ten years away. They find a country much changed; James I has succeeded Queen Elizabeth and the Renaissance is flourishing. Pindar’s great house at Bishopsgate is being restored to its former glory. But all is not as it seems. Between the couple lies a great, unspoken darkness.

And, as they await the arrival of Celia’s friend Annetta, the alluring widow Frances Sydenham becomes increasingly indispensable to the household – and its members.

A sumptuous, richly woven novel from a master of historical fiction.

Katie Hickman is the author of seven books, including two bestselling history books, Courtesans and Daughters of Britannia, Travels with a Mexican Circus (shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award), and has been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year award. Her novels The Aviary Gate and The Pindar Diamond have sold in 19 countries. She lives in London. katiehickman.com

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Norse Mythology Neil Gaiman Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman brings to incandescent life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing

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he great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling – from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliffe to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman’s own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales.

Gaiman’s gods are thoroughly alive on the page – irascible, visceral, playful, passionate – and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised

by Gaiman’s prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freja are irresistible forces for modern readers, and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night.

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Neil Gaiman has written highly acclaimed books for children and adults and is the first author to have won the Carnegie and Newbery Medals for the same work – The Graveyard Book. The Sleeper and the Spindle, illustrated by Chris Riddell, won the 2016 Kate Greenaway Medal. American Gods has been adapted into a major series which will air in 2017.

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‘One of the joys of reading Gaiman is how he subverts our expectations of magic, horror, fantasy and the mundane’ The Times ‘Gaiman has a rich imagination ... and an ability to tackle large themes’ Philip Pullman ALSO AVAILABLE

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The Song Rising Samantha Shannon The hotly anticipated third book in the internationally bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination Even a rebel can become a queen

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ollowing a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London’s clairvoyant population.

But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.

Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know it…

Samantha Shannon published The Bone Season in 2013 and The Mime Order in 2015. Both were Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into 26 languages. The film rights have been optioned by the Imaginarium Studios and 20th Century Fox. The Song Rising is the third novel in the series.

Samantha lives in London.

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samantha-shannon.blogspot.co.uk • @say_shannon ‘Don’t just suspend your disbelief – send it to the pictures and sink into this fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Bring on the sequel’ The Times ‘Language as rich as a figgy pudding, the best terminology in the genre and gripping, edge-of-the-seat plotting to boot’ Daily Mail

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Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prizewinning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders

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n 22 February 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln is laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery.

That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery, alone, under cover of darkness.

Unfolding in the graveyard over a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief and love. It is a novel completely unlike anything you have read before, written as only George Saunders could do: with humour, pathos and grace.

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George Saunders is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestselling Tenth of December, which won the Folio Prize 2014 and was a finalist for the National Book Award 2013. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships, the PEN/ Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and in 2013 was listed by Time as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People.

He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University. georgesaundersbooks.com ‘He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless’ Jonathan Franzen

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‘He will be read long after these times have passed’ Zadie Smith

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Carnivalesque Neil Jordan A magical and haunting coming-of-age story from the Oscarwinning film director and novelist

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o Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn’t. Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out and rejoins his parents – leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where the laws of gravity are meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks.

And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy’s life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness.

Intoxicating and kaleidoscopic, Carnivalesque is a dark, twisted tale of adolescence, metamorphosis and identity.

Neil Jordan has written seven previous books including a story collection, Night in Tunisia, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize, and his recent acclaimed novel, The Drowned Detective. His films have won multiple awards, including an Academy Award (The Crying Game), a Golden Bear at Venice (Michael Collins), and several BAFTAS (Mona Lisa and The End of the Affair). He lives in Dublin. neiljordan.com

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‘One of Ireland’s most talented artists’ John Banville ‘Prose of the most bewitching kind’ Sunday Times

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All the Beloved Ghosts Alison MacLeod From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded comes a haunting, atmospheric new story collection

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overing on the border of life and death, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into the hidden lives of iconic figures and moments in history. From a woman who spends her savings on a fur coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life, to two teens on an estate coming together in a summer marked by community unrest, from a professor of cardiovascular physiology awaiting his new heart, to Angelica Garnett, a former Bloomsbury child, overpowered by the echoes of her past; All the Beloved Ghosts masterfully captures the small tragedies, unexpected joys and profound truths of existence.

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Alison MacLeod is the author of three novels: Unexploded, The Wave Theory of Angels and The Changeling, as well as a collection of stories, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction. She was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011, and is the joint winner of the 2016 Eccles British Library Writer in Residence Award. She lives in Brighton. alison-macleod.com

Based on a True Story Delphine de Vigan Translated from the French by George Miller The prize-winning psychological thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy Bookclub selection, No and Me

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verwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. Unusually intuitive, L. slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer’s life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister and dangerous ways.

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A sophisticated psychological thriller about the destructive power of obsessive friendship that skilfully blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction.

Delphine de Vigan is the author of bestselling D’après une histoire vraie, winner of both Le Prix Renaudot and Le Prix Goncord des Lycéens, it has sold over 450,000 copies in France alone. Previously she has won the Prix FNAC, the Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE and the Prix des Libraires. She lives in Paris.

George Miller is the translator of Nothing Holds Back the Night, No and Me and Underground Time.

The Forensic Records Society Magnus Mills The master of comic deadpan returns with his best novel yet, a surreal exploration of power, fanaticism and really, really good records

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wo men with a passion for vinyl create a society for the appreciation of records.

Their aim is simple: to elevate the art of listening by doing so in forensic detail.

The society enjoys moderate success in the local pub, The Half Moon, with enthusiasts drawn to the initial promise of a weekly gathering.

However, as the club gains popularity, one founder’s uncompromising dogma results in a schism and a counter group forms. Then the arrival of a young woman called Alice further fractures the unity of the vulnerable society. As rifts form, Magnus Mills brilliantly examines the surreal nature of ordinary lives.

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Magnus Mills is the author of eight previous novels, including The Restraint of Beasts, which won the McKitterick Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1999. The Field of the Cloth of Gold was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015. His books have been translated into 20 languages. He lives in London.

Gravel Heart Abdulrazak Gurnah The Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Paradise captures the immigrant experience in this powerfully affecting story of belonging, betrayal and exile

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rowing up in 1970s Zanzibar in a house full of secrets, Salim has always known that his father does not want him. When his father moves out, retreating into dishevelled introspection, Salim is confused and ashamed. His mother does not explain her absences with a strange man; silence is layered on silence. When his adored Uncle Amir, now a senior diplomat, offers Salim an escape, he travels to London for college. Struggling to find a foothold in this hostile city, and to understand the darkness at the heart of his family, Salim must face devastating truths about himself and those closest to him.

Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of eight novels including By the Sea, longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Paradise, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award. He is Professor of English at the University of Kent, and is one of the judges of the Man Booker Prize 2016. He lives in Canterbury.

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The Walworth Beauty Michèle Roberts From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author comes a haunting, sensuous tale set between 1850 and 2011, exploring sexual desire in Victorian London

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851. Joseph Benson is employed by Henry Mayhew to interview London’s poor.

A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph must coax testimony from prostitutes for Mayhew’s newspaper articles on the working classes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels’ promises of pleasure – yet when he meets Mrs Dulcimer, proprietor of a Walworth boarding house, Joseph’s eyes are gradually opened to the complexities of women’s lives. One hundred and sixty years later, Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer and moves to Walworth. As her story unfolds, the two eras brush against each other and ghosts of the city’s past erupt in the present.

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Michèle Roberts is the author of 13 novels, including Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has also published a memoir, poetry and short stories, and is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in south-east London. micheleroberts.co.uk

The Songs Charles Elton The poignant, darkly comic story of an extraordinary family, from the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick

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z Herzl, famed activist and protest singer, has always said that you should only concentrate on the future. Now aged 80, Iz’s refusal to look back at his past leaves his teenage children, maths wunderkind Rose and her dying brother Huddie, adrift in uncertainty. Meanwhile their half-brother Joseph, whom they have never met, is on a shocking path to self-destruction. As the scattered children of Iz Herzl begin to converge, the ambiguities of their father’s life start to surface in a way that will change them all. Funny and heartbreaking, The Songs is a haunting story of family, fame and music.

Charles Elton was a director of the literary agency Curtis Brown before becoming an Independent TV producer in 1991. In 2000 he joined ITV as Executive Producer in Drama and left in 2010 when his bestselling first novel Mr Toppit was published. He lives in London and Somerset. The Songs is his second novel.

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‘Dark, funny … Jangly with secrets’ Sunday Times ‘Elton has an arch wit, an engaging style and a sense of invention that recalls Jonathan Coes’s What a Carve Up!’ Evening Standard

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A Thousand Paper Birds Tor Udall An exquisite, strange and beautiful novel with a mystery at its heart for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Audrey Niffenegger

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fter the death of his wife, Jonah roams Kew Gardens trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life. Chloe finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when Chloe meets Jonah, her defences threaten to fall. Milly – a child quick to laugh – freely explores Kew. But where does she go when the gardens are closed? Harry saves plants from extinction. He longs for something – or someone – to root him to the earth.

Audrey links these strangers. As the mystery of her death unravels, the characters weather the passing seasons to learn that stories, like paper, can be reformed.

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Tor Udall studied Theatre and Film at Bristol University. At 18 she directed a show that won the opportunity to be performed at the National Theatre. She co-founded a dance-theatre company, taught theatre and dance, and choreographed an opera for the Royal College of Music. A Thousand Paper Birds is her first novel. She lives in London. @TorUdall

Shadowless Hasan Ali Toptas Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss Hasan Ali Toptaş, the ‘Turkish Kafka’, playfully challenges ideas of identity and memory in this surprising and beguiling novel

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n an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he drunkenly staggers to bed that night, the village is prospering. But when he awakes to discover that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared in the dead of night the community begins to fracture. In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop, not knowing how he has arrived. Blurring the lines of reality to terrific effect, this novel is both a compelling mystery and an enduring evocation of displacement.

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Hasan Ali Toptaş’s prize-winning novels have been translated into many languages.

Reckless was longlisted for the FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award 2016 and Shadowless has been made into a film.

Maureen Freely is the translator of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence. John Angliss won the British Council’s inaugural Young Translators’ Prize for Prose 2012.

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The Dust of Promises Ahlem Mosteghanemi Translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts ‘A rhapsodic and voluptuous prose poem’ Independent

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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.

Ranked among the top ten 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 of bestselling novels, The Bridges of Constantine and Chaos of the Senses were published by Bloomsbury, and have been translated into several languages.

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My Own Dear Brother Holly Müller ‘Captivating and haunting from the first page’ Guardian

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n 1944 war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For 13-year-old Ursula Hildesheim life in the village of Felddorf remains as it was: idly thieving, enlisted in chores and running wild with her adored older brother.

But when Russian prisoners escape from a concentration camp, her friend goes missing and her brother’s allegiance to the Hitler Youth emerges, Ursula finds herself disturbed by dark memories and surrounded by threat.

She must discover a bravery she has never known and recognise that danger comes not only from the enemy at the door but from the enemy within.

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

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The World Without Us Mireille Juchau ‘Masterly … An extraordinarily vivid novel, elegant, convincing, intelligent and profoundly moving’ Alberto Manguel, Guardian Book of the Year

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t has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother goes each day, pushing an empty pram.

Their father tends to his apiary, trying to understand why his bees are disappearing.

But when he discovers human remains on their farm, secrets emerge which threaten the fragile family. As trees are felled, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path.

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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 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2008.

The World Without Us won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2016 and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Stella Prize 2016. mireillejuchau.com • @MireilleJuchau

Nice Work (If You Can Get It) Celia Imrie ‘Joie de vivre and a sunny, good-natured feel’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

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ucked between glitzy Monte Carlo and the red carpets of Cannes, Bellevue-Sur-Mer seems like the perfect place for some enterprising expats to open a restaurant. In exile from tiresome families and bad weather, they have found peace and Provençal cooking in its cobbled streets. However, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to sabotage their project.

Down the coast, the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing.

Celebrities are flying in, luxury yachts arriving. As the excitement spills over into Bellevue-Sur-Mer, the residents realise they are embroiled in something far murkier than they could have imagined – and the race is on to get the restaurant open in time…

Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guildnominated actress, best known for her film roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and Nanny McPhee. Her upcoming films include Bridget Jones’s Baby and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. She is the author of an autobiography, The Happy Hoofer, and a Sunday Times bestselling novel, Not Quite Nice. celiaimrie.info • @CeliaImrie

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River of Ink Paul M.M. Cooper ‘River of Ink is what historical fiction should be: immersive, illuminating and captivating’ The Times

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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 violently usurps the Lankan throne, Asanka’s world is changed beyond imagination.

To his horror, the king tasks him with the translation of an epic poem designed to snuff out the fires of rebellion…

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

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Paul M.M. 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, websites and also worked as an archivist, editor and journalist. paulmmcooper.com • @PaulMMCooper

This is the Ritual Rob Doyle ‘Full of booze, books, sex and despair … Irresistible. He writes with the confidence of a literary giant’ Daily Mail

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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 a break-up 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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Layering narratives and splicing fiction with non-fiction, This is the Ritual tells of the ecstatic, the desperate and the uncertain. Immersive, at times dreamlike, and frank in its depiction of sex, the writer’s life, failed ideals and the transience of emotions, it introduces an unmistakable new literary voice.

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Born in Dublin, Rob Doyle holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. 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, Sunday Times and Sunday Business Post. robdoyle.net • @RobDoyle1

Jonathan Unleashed Meg Rosoff ‘Hilarious, thoughtful, touching … Wonderfully romantic as well as brilliantly satirical’ Wendy Holden, Daily Mail

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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 because, being dogs, 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.

Meg Rosoff grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to London in 1989. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold over 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 • @megrosof ‘Surreal, charming and very, very funny’ Sunday Express

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‘Like Ephron, Rosoff has a lightness of touch, and is also a clever comic writer: her dialogue is sharp, her characters keenly observed and ruthlessly well realised’ Sunday Times

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Scary Old Sex Arlene Heyman ‘Graphic, funny, tender and shocking’ Elaine Showalter, Guardian

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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 extra-marital 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 Best American Short Stories. A psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practising in New York, she is currently at work on a novel.

The Summer Before the War Helen Simonson ‘P. G. Wodehouse and Mapp and Lucia territory … An exhilarating new comic voice’ Daily Express

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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 community 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 town prepares for the devastating realities of war.

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 and Judy Book Club pick, and was translated and published in 21 countries. She lives in New York City. helensimonson.co.uk • @Simonsonhelen ‘An immersive, howlingly emotional read’ Sunday Times

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‘A gorgeous gem of a book … She’s a wonderful, original writer’ Santa Montefiore

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A Doubter’s Almanac Ethan Canin ‘551 pages of bliss … So true that it’s a pure joy to read ... Devastating and wonderful’ Esquire

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ilo Andret is studying at UC Berkeley when his brilliance of mind is first recognised. The research he begins there makes him a legend, but California in the 1970s is rife with temptations. These expose a dark need in Milo, and it is this duality that ultimately unravels his life. It is a duality that his son inherits – and must conquer.

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This major work of seductive beauty from one of our foremost writers is a novel of flawed characters and unreachable dreams, of the bonds that tie and the passions that destroy.

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Ethan Canin is the author of seven books, including the story collection The Palace Thief and the novel America America. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan. He is also a physician. ethancanin.com

The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest Kate Tempest’s Sunday Times bestselling debut novel takes us into the beating heart of London – an electrifying, multigenerational tale of drugs, desire and belonging

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oung Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money.

They are running from jealous boyfriends, dead-end jobs, violent maniacs and disgruntled drug dealers in the hope of escaping the restless tedium of life in south-east London – the place they have always called home.

As the story moves back in time, to before they had to leave, we see them torn between confidence and self-loathing, between loneliness and desire, between desperate ambition and the terrifying prospect of getting nothing done.

In The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest explores contemporary city life with a powerful moral microscope, giving us irresistible stories of hidden lives, and showing us how the best intentions don’t always lead to the right decisions Kate Tempest is the writer of two plays, Wasted and Hopelessly Devoted, and two collections of poetry, Everything Speaks in its Own Way and Hold Your Own. Her epic poem, Brand New Ancients, won the 2012 Ted Hughes Award. Her album Everybody Down was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Music Prize. She is a Next Generation Poet and lives in south London.

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katetempest.co.uk • @katetempest ‘Deeply affecting: cinematic in scope; touching in its empathic humanity … Tempest’s voice never falters’ New York Times ‘A bold, bright, beguiling novel; a lustrous pageant that dazzles and grips … An irresistible, immersive snapshot of a changing world … Unstoppable’ Sunday Telegraph

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The Photographer’s Wife Suzanne Joinson ‘Suzanne Joinson’s Atonement-esque second novel creates a lingering sense of trauma’ Sunday Telegraph

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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 places, the New York Times, Vogue, Aeon, Lonely Planet collections of travel writing 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

They are Trying to Break Your Heart David Savill ‘Tense and powerful’ Times Literary Supplement

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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 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.

20 APRIL 2017

But a disaster as destructive as war is approaching: one 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 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 teaches Creative Writing at St Mary’s University, London. This is his first novel. davidsavill.com • @SavillDavid

The Gun Room Georgina Harding ‘The finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft and a testament to the power and poetry of clean and disciplined prose’ Sadie Jones, Guardian

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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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The Theoretical Foot M. F. K. Fisher ‘Intimate and moral, funny and wise … She is not, you see, just a great food writer. She is a great writer, full stop’ Observer

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usan and Joe never want this perfect summer to end. It is the 1930s, and society frowns on the slack morals of couples living in sin – but judgement is suspended at the haven on Lake Geneva where Joe’s friend Sara and her lover Tim preside.

Here, surrounded by orchards heavy with plums, they are thrust into an exotic milieu of artistic Americans. As one day is recounted through the eyes of seven characters, the group’s hidden tensions and desires are revealed. This lost gem by one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated food writers is a witty, bold portrait of bohemian life.

M. F. K. Fisher is credited with inventing American food writing and was one of its pre-eminent figures in the twentieth century. She published over 25 books encompassing essay collections, short stories, memoirs, journals, one other novel, Not Now But Now, and her classic work, Consider the Oyster. Born in Michigan in 1908, she lived in California and died in 1992.

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Commonwealth Ann Patchett ‘Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction. Patchett is unique; generous, fearless and startlingly wise’ New York Times

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hen Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited and later kisses Franny’s mother, he sets in motion the joining of two families. Commonwealth weaves across 50 years to tell how that chance encounter changed the lives of the six children and four parents involved. When, in her twenties, Franny meets the famous author Leon Posen and tells him about her family, the story ceases to be anything she can control. Told with equal measures of humour and heartbreak, Commonwealth is a meditation on inspiration, interpretation and the ownership of stories, as well as the far-reaching bonds of love and responsibility.

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Ann Patchett has written seven novels and three non-fiction books.

Both The Magician’s Assistant and State of Wonder were shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, which she won with Bel Canto in 2002. She has won the PEN/Faulkner Award and her work has been translated into over 30 languages. She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.

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‘There is a stillness and beauty to Ann Patchett’s writing that takes the breath away … Patchett’s mastery of language is matched only by her narrative abilities’ The Times ‘Masterfully done – the sweep of it and the subtlety of the ideas’ Esther Freud

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Reputations Juan Gabriel Vásquez Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean ‘A strong writer with a compelling vision’ Guardian

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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 40 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.

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez was born in Bogotá. The Sound of Things Falling won the 2014 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Reputations won the el Premio Real Academia Española and The Informers was 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.

Everything Love Is Claire King ‘Wonderful … Unforgettably poignant. Life-affirming, love-affirming, perfect’ Vanessa Gebbie

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oored on his beloved houseboat at the edge of Toulouse, Baptiste Molino helps his clients navigate the waters of contentment, yet remains careful never to make waves of his own.

But between Sophie, the young waitress in his local bar who believes it is time for Baptiste to rediscover passion, and his enigmatic new client Amandine Rousseau, this fragile status quo is now at risk. When the rising tensions on the city streets cause his mysterious past to catch up with him, Baptiste finds himself torn between finally pursuing his own happiness and safeguarding that of the one he loves.

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Claire King’s debut novel, The Night Rainbow, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013. She is also the author of numerous prize-winning short stories. After 14 years in southern France, Claire has recently returned to the UK and now lives with her family by a canal in Gloucestershire. claire-king.com • @ckingwriter

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Our Young Man Edmund White ‘A book that floats above things, so light is its touch, so playful and joyous its execution’ Neel Mukherjee, Guardian

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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.

18 MAY 2017

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.

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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. edmundwhite.com

Mr Toppit Charles Elton ‘Engrossing, moving and perceptive … It’s quite a ride’ The Times

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hen Arthur Hayman, writer of The Hayseed Chronicles, dies, a bizarre chain of events conspires to make his series of children’s books world famous. But buried inside the books lie secrets that begin to shake the fragile Hayman family – Arthur’s son, Luke, reluctantly immortalised as the young hero of the series; his daughter, Rachel, for whom the books are a hole through which her life has fallen; and his enigmatic wife, Martha, who knows that secrets are best kept well hidden.

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Charles Elton was a director of literary agency Curtis Brown before becoming an independent TV producer in 1991. In 2000 he joined ITV as Executive Producer in Drama and left in 2010 when his bestselling first novel Mr Toppit was published.

He lives in London and Somerset.

Gods and Angels David Park ‘Dazzling … Park appears to write effortlessly … His emotional intelligence is remarkable’ Daily Mail

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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.

David Park has written nine previous books including The Truth Commissioner, The Light of Amsterdam and, most recently, The Poets’ Wives. 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.

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The Many Selves of Katherine North Emma Geen ‘Startlingly fresh … I hunted, flew and swam in this extraordinary book’ Jane Shemilt

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it has been projecting into other species for seven years.

Longer than anyone else at ShenCorp.

Longer than any of the scientists thought possible.

But lately she has the feeling that when she jumps she isn’t alone.

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Emma Geen is a speculative thinker and writer whose fiction draws on her education in Psychology and Philosophy. She is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, where she won the 2012 Janklow & Nesbit Bath Spa Prize. The Many Selves of Katherine North is her debut novel. emmacgeen.wordpress.com • @EmmaCGeen

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Please Do Not Disturb Robert Glancy A gripping and beautifully observed novel of power, corruption and innocence from the author of Terms & Conditions

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harlie, a boy with a dangerous Dictaphone habit, eavesdrops on the eccentric guests of the Mirage Hotel as the African nation of Bwalo prepares for the appearance of its Glorious Leader Tafumo. Sean, who’s given his heart (and his liver) to Bwalo, struggles to write the great African novel. Josef, kingmaker and mythmaker, starts to hear the ominous rattle of skeletons in his closet. Hope, the nurse caring for the King, keeps the old man alive as she mourns her own broken dreams.

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And storm clouds gather as Jack smuggles something into Bwalo that will change all their lives for ever…

Robert Glancy was born in Zambia and raised in Malawi. At 14 he moved to Edinburgh then went on to study history at Cambridge. His first novel, Terms & Conditions, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014 to critical acclaim. He has recently been awarded the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship in New Zealand, where he lives with his wife and children. @RobertGlancy

Show Me A Mountain Kerry Young ‘Kerry Young is a stand-alone talent … Her stories are gritty and also funny and very real’ Monique Roffey

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ay Wong is caught between worlds. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, conjured a fortune from nothing; her mother grew up on a plantation and now reigns over the family mansion. But her father’s Chinatown haunts are out of bounds and the rooms of their home are filled with her mother’s rages.

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As she tries to escape the restraints of her privileged upbringing, Fay’s eyes are opened to a Jamaica she was never meant to see. And when it is decided that she must marry the racketeer Yang Pao, she finds herself on a journey that leads to sacrifice and betrayal.

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Kerry Young moved to England in 1965 from Kingston, Jamaica and lives in Leicestershire. Kerry is a reader and mentor for The Literary Consultancy and a tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She is also Honorary Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Leicester. kerryyoung.co.uk • @KerryYoungWrite

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The River at Night Erica Ferencik When the adventure of a lifetime becomes a fight to stay alive

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hich was worse, the fear of being left behind by my friends as they dashed away on some uberbonding, unforgettable adventure, or the inevitable self-loathing if I stayed behind like some gutless wimp…? Why couldn’t I just say yes to a camping trip with three of my best friends? What was I so afraid of?’

Win doesn’t want an adventure. After a miserable divorce and the death of her beloved brother, she just wants to spend some time with her friends. But athletic, energetic Pia has other plans.

Plans for an adrenaline-raising, breath-taking, white-water rafting trip in the Maine wilderness. Five thousand square miles of remote countryside. Just mountains, rivers and fresh air.

No phones. No people.

No help…

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Erica Ferencik is a Massachusetts-based novelist and screenwriter.

She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Boston University and has taught writing for years. Her essays have been featured in Salon, the Boston Globe and on National Public Radio.

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‘Raw, relentless and heart-poundingly real, this book knocked me off my feet like a river in flood’ Ruth Ware, bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 ‘Ferencik’s writing pulses with a dangerous energy akin to the river she depicts’ Vicki Pettersson, New York Times bestselling author of Swerve

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A Thousand Cuts A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery

Thomas Mogford Time passes. Some wounds never heal.

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n Gibraltar, the troubles of the past are never far away. Scratch the surface, and the poison bleeds through. What links a catastrophic dockyard bomb in the Second World War to a series of murders in the present day? Is retribution finally being served? Or is a killer trying to cover his tracks?

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When a routine court case takes a sinister turn, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti starts asking dangerous questions. As the sun beats relentlessly down, crimes of the past and present collide, relationships are tested and long-buried secrets exposed. Who can Spike trust? And where do his own loyalties lie?

Thomas Mogford has worked as a journalist for Time Out and as a translator for the European Parliament. His first four novels in the Spike Sanguinetti series were published by Bloomsbury to great critical acclaim. Thomas Mogford is married and lives with his family in London. thomasmogford.com • @ThomasMogford

The Lake A Konrad Simonsen Thriller

Lotte Hammer & Søren Hammer Translated from the Danish by Charlotte Barslund A chilling crime novel from the internationally bestselling authors of The Hanging – the fourth in the Konrad Simonsen series

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he remains of a woman are discovered tied to a stone in a lake deep in the Danish countryside. The woman’s identity is a mystery; no one matching her description has been reported missing. After months of fruitless investigation it eventually becomes clear that this unknown woman is the key to a sinister world of human trafficking, prostitution and violence. A world where everything comes with a price.

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

Charlotte Barslund translates Scandinavian novels and plays. Recent translations include The Son by Jo Nesbø. hammerhammer.com

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Party Girls Die in Pearls Plum Sykes Agatha Christie meets Clueless in a comic murder mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes, the first in a major series

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985: diligent country girl Ursula Flowerbutton can’t believe she’s made it to Oxford’s dreaming spires. She foresees three blissful years poring over history books and writing for the famous student newspaper, Cherwell. Meanwhile gutsy American student Nancy, whose Oxford fantasy revolves around Pimms, punting, and ‘Earlcatching’, sees Ursula as the perfect ‘project’.

When Ursula discovers the murder of glamorous fellow undergraduate Lady India Brattenbury, she is catapulted into the heart of a murky crime. Hungry for her first scoop, she and Nancy unravel the case while navigating a whirl of black-tie parties, secret dining societies and Sloane Rangers.

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Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. She has written two novels, Bergdorf Blondes, a top ten Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and The Debutante Divorcée, a New York Times bestseller. She is a Contributing Editor at American Vogue where she writes about fashion, celebrity and society. Plum Sykes lives on a Cotswolds farm.

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Find her on Instagram @therealplumsykes ‘Perfectly pitched – playful, funny, satirical’ Anna Wintour ‘Into the blender go Bridget Jones, Anita Loos, Sex and the City and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction’ Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love James Runcie The sixth book in the beloved Grantchester Mysteries series featuring full-time priest, part-time detective Sidney Chambers

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t is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer. Attending to his paternal duties, Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna when they stumble upon a body. Beside the dead man lies a basket of wild flowers, all poisonous. And so Sidney is thrust into another murder investigation, entering a world of hippies, folk singers and psychedelic plants, where love triangles and permissive behaviour seem to hide something darker.

As always, Sidney must grapple with the divine mysteries of life and love while wrestling with earthly problems – from parish scandals and an alarmingly progressive new secretary to his own domestic misdemeanours, the challenges of parenthood and a great loss.

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James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker, Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4, and the author of eight novels.

Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death was published in 2012, soon followed by four more in the Grantchester Mysteries series.

In 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton. The third season is scheduled for spring 2017. He lives in London and Edinburgh. jamesruncie.com • grantchestermysteries.com • @james_runcie ‘There is no denying the winning charm of these artfully fashioned mysteries’ Independent ‘Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ The Times

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The Vanished A Konrad Simonsen Thriller

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

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man is found dead at the bottom of his stairs. His death appears to have been a tragic accident. However when images of a vanished girl are found on the walls of the dead man’s attic, the case takes a sinister turn. Soon the homicide team find themselves delving into the past, but as they approach the truth, Simonsen is forced to confront long-hidden skeletons in his own cupboard.

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Lotte and Søren Hammer are siblings from Denmark. Sister Lotte worked as a nurse and brother Søren was a trained teacher and lecturer at the Copenhagen University College of Engineering. Together, 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. hammerhammer.com

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Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation James Runcie ‘Those who would like an engaging summer read should pack James Runcie’s latest tale of clerical detection’ Alexander McCall Smith

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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 third season will air in spring 2017. James Runcie lives in London and Edinburgh. jamesruncie.com • grantchestermysteries.com • @james_runcie ‘An Anglican Father Brown ... Each tale is beautifully crafted and surprising. I hope for many more volumes’ A. N. Wilson, Spectator ‘We should welcome him to the ranks of classic detectives’ Daily Mail

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The Secrets of Wishtide A Laetitia Rodd Mystery

Kate Saunders ‘A Dickensian glow pervades this immensely satisfying novel.

Hugely enjoyable’ James Runcie

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rs Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the impoverished widow of an archdeacon – who just so happens to make her living as a private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, finds the cases, and Mrs Rodd solves them, using her arch-intelligence and iron discretion. When Frederick brings her a case involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Mrs Rodd heads to Lincolnshire, to pose as the family’s new governess. But the seemingly simple case – looking into young Charles Calderstone’s inappropriate love interest – soon takes an unpleasant turn, and as the family’s secrets unfold, Mrs Rodd discovers the Calderstones have more to hide than most.

Kate Saunders is an author and journalist. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including the bestselling Night Shall Overtake Us and Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2014. She lives in London.

‘Saunders’s prose is precise and a pleasure to read. The plot twists and turns, and Laetitia is a warm and engaging heroine’ The Times

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‘Pure delight’ Sunday Times Crime Club

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Breaking Cover A Liz Carlyle Novel

Stella Rimington ‘She bids to join the ranks of such secret-agent authors as Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and John le Carré’ Wall Street Journal

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ack in London after a gruelling operation in Paris, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5’s counter-espionage desk. Her bosses hope the new position will give her some breathing space, but they haven’t counted on the fallout from Putin’s incursions into the Ukraine. Discovering that an elusive Russian spy has entered the UK, Liz needs to track him down before he completes his fatal mission – and plunges Britain back into the fraught days of the Cold War. Gripping, nail-bitingly tense and drawn from her own experience as Head of MI5, Stella Rimington’s latest thriller brings the new Cold War vividly to life.

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Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968.

During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She has written her autobiography and nine Liz Carlyle novels. She lives in London and Norfolk.

‘This is something rare: the spy novel that prizes authenticity over fabrication, that is true to the character and spirit of intelligence work’ Mail on Sunday ‘Damn good … I’d certainly take any sequel she writes’ Daily Telegraph

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Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) C. Joseph Greaves A gripping novelisation of one of the most colourful courtroom showdowns in US history

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he year is 1936. Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano is the most feared gangster in America.

Thomas E. Dewey is an ambitious young prosecutor hired to bring him down, and Cokey Flo Brown – grifter, heroin addict, and sometimes prostitute – is the witness who claims she can do it. Only George Morton Levy, a charismatic defence attorney, stands between Lucky and a life behind bars; between Dewey and a run for the White House.

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C. Joseph Greaves is a former LA trial lawyer now living in Colorado. His first novel, Hard Twisted, was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction and was named Best Historical Novel in the SouthWest Writers’ International Writing Contest, in which Greaves was also honoured with the Grand Prize Storyteller Award.

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Indelible Adelia Saunders A masterful debut novel from a dazzling new talent about fate, family secrets and human connection

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agdalena possesses an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their skin – names, dates, details both banal and profound. When she meets Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek, and soon she is drawn into a family drama that began decades before, when Neil’s father, Richard, was abandoned at birth by his mother, a famous expatriate novelist. Magdalena may be the key to the truth that has long eluded their family.

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Indelible, pulsing with humanity and breathing life into unexpected fragments of history, is an exquisite illustration of our urgent need to connect with others and the past.

Adelia Saunders has a Master’s degree from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s from New York University. She taught English in Paris, has written for an independent newswire at the United Nations and assisted an agricultural economist in Uganda. She currently lives in New York City, where she works for an international think tank. Indelible is her first novel. @adelia_saunders

The Coming David Osborne A sweeping historical novel of the American West, following the dramatic life of Daytime Smoke, son of explorer William Clark

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n 1805, Lewis and Clark stumble out of the Rockies on the edge of starvation.

The Nez Perce tribe comes to the explorers’ aid, leading them back across the snowbound mountains. Daytime Smoke is born not long after, and the tribe of his youth continues a deep friendship with white Americans. But when gold is discovered on Nez Perce land in 1860, it sets an inevitable tragedy in motion.

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The Coming is an epic novel of native–white relations in North America, intimately told through the life of Daytime Smoke – the real-life red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman.

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David Osborne is the author of five books: Laboratories of Democracy; Reinventing Government, Banishing Bureaucracy; The Reinventor’s Fieldbook; and The Price of Government. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and many other publications. Osborne is currently a Senior Fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, directing the Reinventing America’s Schools Project.

He lives in Essex, Massachusetts.

The Violated Bill Pronzini An electrifying new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series

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he mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found in Echo Park, California. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes.

Police chief Griffin Kells and Detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public who are demanding results in this complex case.

Unfolding through alternating perspectives – Torrey’s wife, caught between grief and fear of her husband’s guilt; the husbands of the violated women; the editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned with his ratings; the detectives, spinning in circles – The Violated will keep you guessing until the very end.

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Bill Pronzini is the author of more than 80 novels and is the creator of the Nameless Detective series. A six-time nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Pronzini is also the recipient of three Shamus Awards. He received a Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America in May 2008. He lives in Northern California.

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Man of Iron Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain

Julian Glover The enthralling biography of the man whose revolutionary engineering changed the world and from whose genius we still benefit today

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ew people have done more than Thomas Telford to shape our nation. A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, he created the backbone of our national road network while his bridges are some of the most dramatic and beautiful ever built. He cherished a vision of a country connected to transform mobility and commerce: his radical politics lay not in ideas but the creation of useful, solid things. Almost everything he built remains in use today.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, this, the first full modern biography of Telford, the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced, is utterly original, inspiring and illuminating.

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Julian Glover is a journalist, speechwriter and special adviser.

Previously a columnist for the Guardian, in 2011 he was appointed chief speechwriter to David Cameron before in 2012 being made special adviser in the UK Department for Transport. He is married to The Times columnist and former Conservative MP Matthew Parris.

‘A biography of great verve, infectious enthusiasm and subtle, lightly-worn learning and wisdom’ Andrew Marr

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The Locomotive of War Money, Empire, Power and Guilt

Peter Clarke A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the twentieth century from one of our foremost historians

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n exploration of the idea that war, rather than inexorable socioeconomic forces, has been a prime mover of history in the twentieth century. Through the prism of the tragedy of two World Wars, Peter Clarke examines the interplay between key figures with a sophisticated analysis of their writings, decisions and pronouncements, alongside the broader dynamics of history of this extraordinary period. Clarke illuminates some crucial historical controversies, putting the question of how a world war started in 1914, and the issue of Germany’s ‘war guilt’, into a challenging new perspective. Revealing and insightful, this is history of the highest calibre.

Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of Modern History and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include Keynes: The Twentieth Century’s Most Influential Economist, the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900–2000 and Mr Churchill’s Profession, a study of Churchill as writer. He is now resident in Cambridge.

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Isabella of Castile Europe’s First Great Queen

Giles Tremlett A major biography of the queen whose reign united Spain, setting the stage for its golden era of global dominance

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n 1474, Isabella, only 23 years old, ascended the throne of Castile – a kingdom riddled with crime, religious tension and political factionism. Her marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon united two kingdoms and created a formidable partnership. Harnessing the newest ideas and tools of the early Renaissance, they built a truly modern state, sending Columbus to discover the Americas, unleashing the Spanish Inquisition, expelling Spain’s Jews and forcibly converting its Moslems. With commanding flair, acclaimed historian Giles Tremlett relates the story of this legendary and controversial queen whose pivotal and transformative reign established one of the world’s greatest empires.

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Giles Tremlett is Contributing Editor to the Guardian and Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics.

He has lived in and written about Spain for the Guardian and the Economist for the past twenty years, and is the author of Ghosts of Spain and Catherine of Aragon. He lives in Madrid with his family. @gilestremlett

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Praise for Catherine of Aragon ‘Enthralling … Tremlett brilliantly breathes life into the shadowy figure of a stubborn and finally heroic woman’ Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph ‘Rigorous yet accessible ... Tremlett has done an excellent job of accessing Catherine of Aragon’s more private moments’ Kathryn Hughes, Guardian

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Dead Zone Where the Wild Things Were

Philip Lymbery A tour of some of the world’s most iconic and endangered species, and what we can do to save them

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rom the author of the internationally acclaimed Farmageddon, Dead Zone takes us on an eye-opening investigative journey across the globe, focussing on a dozen iconic species to examine the role that industrial farming is playing in their plight.

The impact of consumer demand for cheap meat is devastating: it is vital that we confront this problem in order to reduce its effect on the world around us. This is a passionate wake-up call for us all, laying bare the myths that prop up factory farming before exploring what we can do to save the planet with healthy food.

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Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organisation Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming.

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Out of the Shadows Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day

Neill Lochery An incisive and dramatic account of Portugal in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first

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ut of the Shadows captures in vivid detail the emergence of democratic Portugal, beginning with the Carnation Revolution in April 1974 and using previously unseen material from documentary sources and files from the National Archive in Kew. In a departure from the numerous accounts depicting Portugal as a golden imperial power, now lacklustre, or as the modern-day ‘poor man of Europe’, Lochery argues that Portugal’s best days are far from behind her. Instead, this is a nation emerging from the ashes of the financial crisis, one of increasing relevance on the world stage, and with much to offer.

Professor Neill Lochery is the Catherine Lewis Professor of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Studies at University College London and the author of more than a dozen books including Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light 1939–45, Brazil: The Fortunes of War and The Resistible Rise of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Reformation Divided Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England

Eamon Duffy A new perspective on the Catholic and Protestant reformations from eminent historian Professor Eamon Duffy

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ublished to mark 500 years since the Reformation in England, Reformation Divided argues that the process was far more complex than previously thought – England did not become Protestant overnight. In fact, the country and church were propelled by the great forces of Reformation and Counter-Reformation as both Catholics and Protestants responded to the seismic changes of the early sixteenth century.

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A natural companion to his previous books on this period, in this new publication Professor Duffy proves that he is that rare phenomenon – a major Reformation historian who writes exquisitely, commanding the attention of a wide readership.

Professor Eamon Duffy is Emeritus Professor of Christian History at Cambridge University and a past President of Magdalene College. His previous books include The Stripping of the Altars (Yale UP) and Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition (Bloomsbury Continuum).

A Secret Well Kept The Untold Story of Sir Vernon Kell, Founder of MI5

Lady Constance Kell An unparalleled insight into the personal life of Sir Vernon Kell, founder of MI5, from his wife Lady Constance Kell

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Secret Well Kept is a highly personal biography of Sir Vernon Kell, an extremely powerful and important man in the history of Britain’s domestic intelligence service, written in the 1940s by the one person who knew him most intimately.

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In the book we learn a great deal about the background, talents and character of the man who founded MI5 and directed it for over 30 years, including key characters, events and major spy cases during Kell’s career. A modern-day introduction, footnotes and photographs offer further insight into Kell’s fascinating life.

Constance Kell was Sir Vernon Kell’s wife for over 40 years. She wrote A Secret Well Kept after his death in 1942.

An introduction to the biography is written by Dr Chris Northcott. Dr Northcott has taught Intelligence and Security Studies at the universities of Salford and Bedfordshire and is author of MI5 at War 1909–1918 (2015).

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A Bitter Pill A Doctor’s Insight into Medical Corruption

Dr Aseem Malhotra One doctor’s mission to expose the corruption threatening the heart of medical practice today

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shocking tale of over treatment, an over-burdened health service and collusion for financial gain. Dr Aseem Malhotra tells his incredible story – of a cardiologist taking on and exposing the manipulations of those vested interests that are benefiting from an increasingly fat and sick society. Millions of people are taking drugs and undergoing tests and operations that will give them no benefit, and this truth is being hidden from them. This epidemic of misinformation will have devastating consequences for our health worldwide.The system is broken. We need to fix it.

Dr Aseem Malhotra MBChB, MRCP, Consultant Cardiologist, is the former Science Director of the group Action on Sugar and an adviser for the National Obesity Forum. He has also become one of the most influential and effective campaigning doctors in the world on issues that affect obesity, heart disease and population health.

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Arthur & Sherlock Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

Michael Sims The fascinating true account of the inspiration behind Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story

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rthur Conan Doyle studied Medicine under Dr Joseph Bell at the University of Edinburgh. Doyle observed as Dr Bell identified a patient’s occupation, hometown and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Young Doyle did not know that he was cultivating knowledge that later would inspire him to redefine the detective novel.

From his early years of poverty to the first triumphs of Sherlock Holmes, Sims tracks the father of the modern mystery. Through deft interweaving of Doyle’s real-world and literary influences, this lively and engaging narrative brings Doyle to life as vividly as he conjured his most famous creation.

Michael Sims is the acclaimed author of The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire, Adam’s Navel and editor of Dracula’s Guest, The Dead Witness and The Phantom Coach. He lives in western Pennsylvania.

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The Folded Clock A Diary

Heidi Julavits A dazzling meditation on time, relationships and identity; ‘A work so artful that it appears to be without artifice’ New York Times

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ike many young people, Heidi Julavits kept diaries. Decades later she found them in a storage bin and hoped to discover early evidence of the writer she’d since become. Instead, they ‘revealed me to possess the mind of a paranoid tax auditor’.

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Thus was born a desire to try again, to chronicle her life as a 40-something woman, wife, mother and writer. The diary form becomes a brilliant reflection on time and self, youth and ageing, friendship and romance, art and ambition. Playful and brilliant, this is a tour-de-force by a gifted prose stylist.

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels and co-editor of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s and The Best American Short Stories. She is a founding editor of The Believer magazine and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Manhattan.

The Dog’s Last Walk (and Other Pieces)

Howard Jacobson A gloriously rich and varied second collection of essays from the winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize

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n his own inimitable style, Howard Jacobson reflects on the world around him.

From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes about it all from a deeply personal point of view, with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Heartbreaking, provocative and affecting, Jacobson’s irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity.

Taken alone, each essay throws new light on its subject; read together, they are a layered, rewarding and enriching reflection of a great mind working at the peak of its powers.

Howard Jacobson was born in Manchester and lectured in English Literature before becoming a full-time writer. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, Zoo Time (both winners of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize), Kalooki Nights (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize), J (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize) and The Finkler Question, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2010.

The Art of the Affair An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence

Catherine Lacey & Forsyth Harmon A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements between some of the foremost writers and artists of the twentieth century

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long thread of love, affection and artistic influences weaves its way through The Art of the Affair, beautiful watercolour portraits on every page helping to bring each character vividly to life. And what a chain of names. From Robert Lowell to Anaïs Nin, Frida Kahlo to Hemingway, Coco Chanel to Stravinsky to Dali to Miles Davis… Scrupulously researched but playfully prurient, cleverly designed and colourfully illustrated, it’s a fascinating, unique and charming creation.

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Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing and The Answers.

Named a Granta New Voice, her work has appeared in McSweeney’s and the New York Times.

Forsyth Harmon earned a BA in visual arts and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She is working on her first novel. catherinelacey.com • @_catherinelacey • forsythharmon.com • @ForsythHarmon

Havana A Subtropical Delirium

Mark Kurlansky A city of tropical heat, sweat, music and religion, brought to pulsing life

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ew York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider’s view of Havana. A rich history informing the vibrant place it is today, Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since the revolution.

Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, photographs and Kurlansky’s own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city’s singular music, literature, baseball and food; its outstanding architecture and its extraordinary blend of cultures. This is a multi-layered and electrifying portrait of a seductive city.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award and the Glenfiddich Award. Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune for ten years, he now lives in New York City.

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Crafted in Britain The Survival of Britain’s Traditional Industries

Anthony Burton & Rob Scott Celebrating Britain’s unique surviving industries and crafts, the people who practise them today, and the wonderful objects they create 09 FEBRUARY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472922830 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472922816 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE 01 MARCH 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $53.99 • NZ $56.99

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he authors have travelled the country, from the Spey valley in Scotland where they visited a traditional whisky distillery, to Cornwall and the studio of a specialist pub sign painter. They’ve gone underground with a Free Miner of the Forest of Dean and seen molten metal being poured to create majestic church bells. Crafted in Britain delights in the variety and individuality of the different traditional industries that have survived into the modern world, and flourished. In an age of increasing automation and standardisation, it is a joy to find such places, where craftsmanship and personal skills are still valued.

Anthony Burton is a regular contributor to Countryfile Magazine, has written various books on Britain’s industrial heritage and has written and presented for the BBC. Rob Scott has worked as a photojournalist all over the world. His work regularly appears in Countryfile Magazine, BBC Music Magazine and on album covers for artists such as the Arctic Monkeys and Feeder.

Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day The Titan With Many Faces

Jonathan Black The evolution of Churchill’s public image that explores how complicit he was in its production

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he memory today of Churchill as a great leader, war hero and literary heavyweight is the latest in a long-evolving identity, which at times sustained his power, enhanced his popularity and enabled him to personify aspects of British national identity. Containing rare images of Churchill, this illustrated book considers his changing image in visual art, from cartoons and paintings to photographs and sculptures, asking why it has devoloped up until today and looking at the extent to which Churchill was complicit in its production.

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Jonathan Black is a Senior Research Fellow in History of Art at Kingston University.

A Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, he became interested in the image of Churchill when studying the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones, who was responsible for the iconic statue of Churchill in Parliament Square.

Europe: An Obituary?

Douglas Murray A controversial and devastatingly honest depiction of the fall of Europe

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urope: An Obituary? is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of self-destruction. Declining birth rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their alteration as a society.

In this book Murray looks at the deeper issues which lie behind a continent’s possible fate, from an atmosphere of mass terror attacks to the steady erosion of our freedoms. He ends with an outline for a new Europe utterly different to anything we have known.

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Douglas Murray is a regular columnist for both the Spectator and Standpoint and writes frequently for a variety of other publications, including the Sunday Times and the Wall Street Journal. A prolific debater, Douglas has spoken on a variety of prominent platforms, including at the British and European Parliaments and the White House.

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Do You Know Who I Am? A Memoir

Tim Pigott-Smith A memoir of theatrical life and more by one of the best-known actors of his generation

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ver since he hit the headlines playing the part of Merrick in the TV adaptation of The Jewel in the Crown, Tim Pigott-Smith has been consistently employed on stage and film in an astonishing variety of roles, including Mike Bartlett’s hit play King Charles III, Miranda, Enron and V for Vendetta.

Pigott-Smith captivates with his descriptions of theatrical technique and reveals often amusing anecdotes about those he has worked with – Peggy Ashcroft, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, and countless others. Accompanied by photographs, Do You Know Who I Am? is a rare memento of a life treading the boards.

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Tim Pigott-Smith is a British actor who trained at the Bristol Old Vic before beginning a career in television, film and on stage. Most recently he played the title role in the Tony Award-nominated play King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre, which transferred to Wyndham’s Theatre before moving to Broadway. This is Tim’s fifth book; he lives in London.

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So High a Blood The Life of Margaret, Countess of Lennox

Morgan Ring The overlooked and enthralling story of Lady Margaret Douglas, would-be architect of a united Catholic Britain

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midst the Christmas revels of 1530, a 15-year-old girl arrived at the court of Henry VIII. Half-English, half-Scottish, she was his niece, Margaret Douglas. For five decades, she held a dangerous place in the palaces of Henry and his children. As the Reformation engulfed the British Isles and the Tudors struggled to produce heirs, Margaret had plans of her own. She longed to see her family rule a united, Catholic Britain.

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Based on previously unexamined archival sources, So High a Blood is the story of one woman’s ambitions for her family, her faith and her countries.

Morgan Ring was born and raised in Toronto. She read History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, winning a Senior Scholarship and the Gonville Studentship.

So High a Blood is her first book.

Identity Unknown Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists

Donna Seaman An award-winning critic rescues seven women artists from oblivion – their lives fascinating, their artwork a revelation

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n too many art books, women artists have been marginalised with cold efficiency.

Donna Seaman here brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten American artists. In brilliant, compassionate prose, Seaman reveals what drove them, how they worked and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects – not makers – of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges and struggles they face to be taken seriously in whatever their chosen field.

Donna Seaman has degrees in the fine arts and English. An editor at Booklist, she reviews books for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among others. She has written bio-critical essays for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers, and has published in TriQuarterly and Creative Nonfiction.

She lives in Chicago. donnaseaman.com • @Booklist_Donna

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Nits and Other Nasties Mumsnet Everything you always wanted to know about childhood ‘nasties’ (but were afraid to ask)

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he all-seeing, all-knowing powerhouse that is Mumsnet brings you the ultimate guide to the most testing of childhood ailments, leaving you armed and ready for combat whenever mini-beasts, bacteria and viruses strike.

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Brimming with first-hand experience, this little book is full of tips, ranging from how to deal with a poonami to how to be your child’s bedtime hero, all accompanied by wry words of hope and encouragement. ‘Nasties’ tackled include nits, threadworm, ringworm, warts, molluscum, conjunctivitis, foreign objects, vomit, poo and dragons under the bed. Light-hearted, funny and utterly indispensable, this comprehensive guide will be your pocket-sized lifesaver.

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Conceived in 2000 by Justine Roberts as an online destination where parents could pool their wisdom, Mumsnet is widely regarded as the UK’s leading online community. It has nearly ten million monthly visitors and racks up 90 million views per month. Its members are highly engaged, loyal, active and passionate about the site. mumsnet.com • @MumsnetTowers

At the Edge of the World The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

Jean-Vincent Blanchard The remarkable and dramatic story of the French Foreign Legion and its most committed champion, Maréchal Hubert Lyautey

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n aura of romance surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Despite its reputation for its gruelling training and missions, the legion continues to attract men from across the world to this day.

Drawing from archives and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France’s first resident-general in Morocco, At the Edge of the World chronicles the rise to power of the Foreign Legion and its time at the height of its renown when it became the symbol of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend.

Jean-Vincent Blanchard is Professor of French Studies at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books published in Canada and France, as well as Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France.

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Buddhist Economics An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Clair Brown Renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability and right living

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raditional economics measures how we spend our income without attributing worth to the human interactions that give our lives meaning.

Buddhist economics leads us to think mindfully in our daily routines and to appreciate how our actions affect the welfare of others. By replacing the endless cycle of desire with more positive collective priorities, our lives can become happier and more meaningful. Inspired by the popular course Brown developed for UC Berkeley that has garnered international attention, Buddhist Economics represents an enlightened approach to our modern world infused with ancient wisdom, with benefits personal and global for generations to come.

Clair Brown is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. An economist focusing on work and economic justice, she is a former Director of the Institute of International Relations at Berkeley, and Chair of the Committee on Education Policy of the UCB Academic Senate.

The Exile The Flight of Osama Bin Laden

Catherine Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy An intimate insider’s story of Osama bin Laden’s retinue in the years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war

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n the years following the attacks of 9/11, intelligence services and Special Forces units spent millions of dollars hunting down Osama bin Laden. The Exile is the extraordinary story of that decade leading up to his death told by those who witnessed it – bin Laden’s family and deputies, the CIA, Pakistan’s ISI and many others who have never before told their stories.

As authoritative in scope and detail as it is compulsively readable, The Exile is a landmark work of investigative reportage, its revelations essential reading for anyone concerned with history, security and future relations with the Islamic world.

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are the authors of, among other books, the acclaimed The Siege: Trapped Inside the Taj Hotel. For 16 years they worked as foreign correspondents and investigative reporters for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. One World Trust named them Foreign Correspondents of the Year and British Journalists of the Year in 2004 and 2009 respectively.

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Praise for The Siege

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‘Propulsive, intense, exceedingly well-reported . . . a tragedy and a thriller with concussive human and political resonance. I read it in what felt like three blinks’ New York Times ‘Absolutely spine-chilling, breathless, heart-rending, astonishing’ Sunday Times

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Abandon Me Melissa Febos An impassioned work about art and addiction, family and identity, sex and love – about giving in to abandonment and getting free

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bandonment takes many forms. For Melissa Febos, it began with the birth father that left her with a Native American heritage but little connection to it. Then the loving sea captain that raised her, but was routinely away at sea. She spent her youth losing herself in recreational drugs, then to a relationship – one of mutual abandonment in passion, of long-distance co-dependence and shared identity, of obsessed attentiveness that ultimately turned to manipulation.

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At once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive, wide-ranging look at art, love and identity – Abandon Me reveals intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal.

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Melissa Febos is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Whip Smart. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Salon and the New York Times, and she was a contributor to the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. Febos is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and on the MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn. melissafebos.com • @melissafebos

Insomniac City New York, Oliver, and Me

Bill Hayes A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ‘the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected’ of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks

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rieving over the death of his partner, Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with little idea of how he would get by. He discovered the profound consolations of the city and New Yorkers themselves, kindred spirits that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his neighbour Oliver Sacks. Filled with Hayes’s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, Insomniac City is a love song to the city, a beautiful and personal portrait of Oliver Sacks, a meditation on grief and a celebration of life.

Bill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, among many others. He lives in New York. billhayes.com

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Overmapped and Uncharted Ten Years of Writings from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Edited by Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton Featuring Suad Amiry, J. M. Coetzee, Richard Ford, Claire Messud, Michael Palin, Raja Shehadeh, and more

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or ten years the Palestine Festival of Literature has conducted an annual cultural roadshow that crosses military checkpoints to stage events in cities across occupied Palestine. Overmapped and Uncharted is a collection of essays, short stories and poems from some of the world’s most exciting writers. It is a mosaic of ideas, a sequence of impressions and a set of tools with which the reader can better see, hear and understand the injustice at the heart of the modern world.

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Ahdaf Soueif is the author of several books, including the bestselling novel The Map of Love, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. A co-founder of PalFest, she lives in London and Cairo.

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Omar Robert Hamilton is an award-winning film-maker, writer and co-founder of PalFest. His debut novel, The City Always Wins, will be published in 2017. ahdafsoueif.com • @asoueif • orhamilton.com • @ORHamilton

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The Doomsday Machine Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

Daniel Ellsberg From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America’s hidden nuclear policy

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hen former presidential adviser Daniel Ellsberg famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, he also took a cache of top-secret documents related to America’s nuclear programme in the 1960s.

Here for the first time he reveals their contents – and their chilling continued relevance.

The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg’s hair-raising insider’s account of the most dangerous arms build-up in history, whose legacy – and recent renewal – threatens our very survival. Ellsberg offers steps we can take under a new administration to avoid nuclear catastrophe. Framed as a memoir, this gripping exposé is ultimately hopeful – and powerfully important.

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In 1961, Daniel Ellsberg drafted Secretary Robert McNamara’s plans for nuclear war. Later he leaked the Pentagon Papers. A Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Ellsberg is the author of Secrets and the subject of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America. He lives in California. ellsberg.net • @DanielEllsberg Praise for The Secret ‘Fascinating, meticulous; every scene is thoroughly researched and carefully paced … The Pentagon section of Secrets is a wonderful evocation of the intoxicatingly frantic routine of the overachievers who populate the next-to-the-top level of government’ New Yorker

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Between Them Remembering My Parents

Richard Ford From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Canada and Independence Day comes a moving remembrance of Richard Ford’s parents – which enacts a vivid portrait of mid-twentiethcentury American life

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ichard Ford’s parents were not practised self-explainers or confiders. He has therefore investigated their lives – and his – from anecdote, history and conjecture. Ford’s mother, a dark-eyed Arkansas beauty whose education was cut short by her colourful itinerant parents, fell in love with Ford’s first-generation Irish father at only 17. They took to the road together as kids across the American South, coming to a halt only when a son was born.

Written with precision, power, humanity and intelligence, Between Them is both a son’s act of great love and a searing meditation on family.

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Richard Ford is the author of eight novels and four collections of stories. His work has been translated into 28 languages and most recently was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in France and the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature in Spain. He lives in Boothbay, Maine.

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‘Ford is possessed of a writer’s greatest gifts … Pure vocal grace, quiet humour, precise and calm observation’ Lorrie Moore ‘A marvellous writer’ John Banville

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The Good Bohemian The Letters of Ida John

Edited by Rebecca John & Michael Holroyd Captivating and intimate letters reveal the story of life with one of the great artists of the last century

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hen Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in 1901 it was against the wishes of her parents. But Ida was in love with this flamboyant and charismatic man who would become one of the most famous artists of his time. A naturally gifted writer, it is with a candour and social intelligence extraordinary for a woman of her period that Ida opens up her world, revealing her anguish when Augustus falls in love with another woman and her courage in deciding to live in a ménage à trois.

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‘You are the one outside who calls the man to apparent freedom & wild rocks & wind & air & I am the one inside who says come to dinner & whom to live with is apparent slavery’, Ida wrote to Dorelia McNeill, in 1905.

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These deeply personal, funny and sometimes devastatingly sad letters bring Ida vividly to life.

Rebecca John is an artist and granddaughter of Augustus and Ida John. She lives in London.

Michael Holroyd is recognised as one of the great biographers of our time. His life of Augustus John was published in 1996 and he was awarded a knighthood for services to English Literature in 2007. He lives in London and Somerset.

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The Sagrada Familia Gaudí’s Heaven on Earth

Gijs van Hensbergen The definitive biography of the most famously unfinished building in the world, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia, and Gaudí, its extraordinary creator

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ts scaffolding-cloaked spires reach up to the heavens, dominating the Barcelona skyline and drawing in millions of visitors every year. The first stone was laid in 1882, with Antoni Gaudí as its creator. With work ongoing to this day, it has therefore lived through momentous changes in society, culture and history. Gijs van Hensbergen engagingly explores the evolution of this remarkable building and the role and influence of Gaudí in its construction and legacy. It is at once both a guidebook and a chronological history, and a fascinating socio-religious study of man’s desire and need to aspire towards the divine.

Gijs van Hensbergen is a Dutch art historian, food critic and Hispanist. Author of five books, including Antoni Gaudí: A Biography, van Hensbergen is a former Harry Ransom Research Fellow, has given lectures across the world and contributed to, amongst others, Radio 4, TV España, The Times, El Pais and the Economist.

He lives in Dorset.

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Scribbles in the Margins 50 Eternal Delights of Books

Daniel Gray A collection of sweet-nothings whispered to handwritten dedications, afternoons lost in bookshops, and 48 other reminders of why we love books

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here has the joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? Scribbles in the Margins offers a glorious antidote to the relentless modern-day information churn. It is here to remind you that books and bookshops can still sing to your heart.

Fifty warm and witty short essays of prose poetry are dedicated to the simple joy to be found in reading and the rituals around it: impromptu bookmarks, reading in bed and visiting someone’s home and inspecting the bookshelves. Scribbles in the Margins is an attempt to fondly weigh up what makes a book so much more than paper and ink.

Scribbles in the Margins is Daniel Gray’s sixth book, and the second in his series of ‘Delights’. His first book, Homage to Caledonia, was turned into a television miniseries, and he continues to present history on Scottish TV. He is currently writing and producing a BBC whisky series, and his work has appeared across various newspapers, magazines and radio.

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Letter to a Young Writer (And You Too) Colum McCann An inspiring and practical book of writing advice from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author

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n January 2016, Colum McCann began giving weekly advice to budding writers on his blog – short, lyrical, impassioned pieces that provoke and resonate. Comprising 52 such missives, Letter to a Young Writer (And You Too) addresses the professional, artistic and philosophical concerns that challenge an author. Advising on practical matters such as finding an agent and handling bad reviews, McCann also celebrates the moral need that writing fulfils, meditates on the trials of the writer’s life and discusses technique and structure. At once a helpful guide and a heartfelt love song to the adventure of creativity, this is an essential new bible for writers.

Colum McCann is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and his previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York. colummccann.com

Hats Clair Hughes From baseball caps to the female turban, this is the history of hats from the eighteenth century to today

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owlers, berets and beyond, this is the ultimate guide to hats through history.

From the lavish fashion hats of Marie Antoinette’s court to the experimental millinery of Stephen Jones, over 150 images take us on an illustrated journey through class conflict, gendered etiquette and national allegiances to reveal the complex cultures from which each style emerged. Including head-turning designs at world-famous horse races, the hat habits of royal family members, literary mad hatters and French high-fashion millinery by the likes of Poiret and Chanel, this is the authoritative guide to one of the most culturally rich accessories in fashion.

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Clair Hughes is an independent scholar living in Ireland.

Chief Engineer The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Erica Wagner An unparalleled biography of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, giant of American civil engineering history ‘I have worked for the bridge when I could scarcely eat speak or move … I have done my duty in every way as far as my strength would let me’ Washington Roebling, letter to C. C. Martin, 1882

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s much a part of the New York skyline as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge is instantly and internationally recognisable. Yet as iconic as it is, its builder, Washington Roebling, is too often forgotten. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 dramatic years to complete and here the personal story which lies behind that construction is told for the first time.

Meticulously researched, written with revealing archival material only recently uncovered, this is an engaging and illuminating portrait of a brilliant and driven man, and of the era in which he lived.

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Erica Wagner is the author of, amongst others, Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for 17 years and now contributes to the New Statesman and is consulting literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar. She lives in London.

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge A powerful, provocative argument on the role that race and racism play in modern Britain, by award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge

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n 2014, Reni Eddo-Lodge posted an impassioned piece online about her frustration with the way discussions of racism were being shut down by those who weren’t affected by it. The post went viral, and responses from those desperate to speak up about their own, similar experiences flooded in. Galvanised, Eddo-Lodge decided to dive into the source of these feelings; the result is a searing exploration of what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today. From eradicated history to white privilege, the fallacy of ‘meritocracy’ to white-washed feminism, to the inextricable link between class and race, this is a timely, essential book by a vital new voice.

Reni Eddo-Lodge is an award-winning journalist and black feminist. She has written for the New York Times, Telegraph, Guardian and Independent among many others. She is the winner of an MHP 30 to Watch Award and was chosen as one of the Top 30 Young People in Digital Media by the Guardian. She lives in London. renieddolodge.co.uk • @renireni

Walking to Listen 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time

Andrew Forsthoefel One young man’s coming-of-age memoir told through the stories of the people he meets on a trek across America

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t 23, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out of his home with a backpack, an audio recorder and a sign that read ‘Walking to Listen’. Recently graduated, he didn’t know how to begin his adult life. So he began to walk. Battling extremes of weather and his own loneliness and doubts, he encountered the most incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories and raised questions small and profound for which Andrew couldn’t always find a response. Yet gradually he began to find the answers. This is a book that sings with heart, hope and humanity.

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Andrew Forsthoefel is a writer, radio producer and public speaker. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2011, he spent nearly a year walking across the United States. He now facilitates workshops on walking and listening as practices in personal transformation, interconnection and conflict resolution. He is currently based in Massachusetts. walkingtolisten.com • @aforstho

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Reading the Rocks How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life

Brenda Maddox A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists from critically acclaimed biographer Brenda Maddox

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he first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests.

However, boosting their numbers and increasing their learning and findings were clergymen, academics – and women. This eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology.

Their individual stories, the theological, philosophical and scientific debates their findings provoked and the way that as a group they were to change irrevocably and dramatically our understanding of the world, is told by Brenda Maddox with a storyteller’s skill and a fellow scientist’s understanding. The effect is absorbing, revelatory and strikingly original.

Born in Massachusetts, Brenda Maddox, FRSL, has lived in the UK since 1959. Her widely acclaimed books include biographies of W. B. Yeats and Rosalind Franklin. She has won the Los Angeles Times Biography Award, the Silver PEN Award, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and the Whitbread Biography Prize.

She lives in Wales.

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Praise for Yeats’s Ghosts ‘A blithe, energetic, jolly, debunking operation’ Hermione Lee, New York Times Praise for George Eliot ‘We get a clear and absorbing sense of Eliot, not as public intellectual or thinker, but as a human being’ Philip Hensher

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The Planet Factory Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth

Elizabeth Tasker Forget about rockets to Mars – the study of exoplanets is the future of astronomy

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ifteen years ago, the search for planets – and life – outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy; more than 4,600 ‘exoplanets’ have now been discovered to date.

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The Planet Factory tells the story of exoplanets. It discusses the way planets form, their structure and features, and describes in detail the modern detection techniques being used. What can we learn about these faraway surface environments and planetary atmospheres? And do the results hint at the tantalising possibility of alien life?

Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist specialising in computational simulations of star formation in galaxies. Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for many years, dating back to winning the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers Award in 1999. Since then she has written blogs for Scientific American and Physics Focus. @girlandkat

Built on Bones 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death

Brenna Hassett The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it’s probably killing you, too – this book tells you why

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ome 12,000 years ago our hunter-gatherer ancestors made a choice to significantly adjust their lifestyles to live in settlements. But urban life was short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; children were sickly and risked a violent death at the point of a spear. So why did they make this move? Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution. It tells the story of shifts in human longevity, growth and health that occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species.

Brenna Hassett is an archaeologist who specialises in using clues from the human skeleton to understand how people lived and died in the past. Originally from the USA, she completed her doctorate at UCL, and is now based at London’s Natural History Museum. Brenna is one quarter of the TrowelBlazers project, which celebrates women’s contributions to the trowel-wielding arts. @brennawalks

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My European Family The First 54,000 Years

Karin Bojs The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy

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arin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family, and decided to use DNA research to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we’re all related. In a sense, we are all family.

My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. By having her DNA sequenced and tested, and effectively becoming an experimental subject, Bojs was able to trace the path of her ancestors back some 50,000 years to a time when Neanderthals and other human relatives shared the planet with us. This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, and the author meets dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists over the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary, modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell.

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Karin Bojs is an author and science journalist. She was head of the science desk at Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily newspaper in Sweden, for nearly two decades. Karin has an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University, and has received several awards, including the 2015 Swedish August Prize for My European Family.

She has published three other books and has written articles on a broad range of topics in natural sciences. Her books have been translated into seven languages.

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@KarinBojs

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4th Rock from the Sun The Story of Mars

Nicky Jenner Everything you ever wanted to know about the red planet revealed in an up-close and personal tour of Mars

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ars, the red planet, is ingrained in our culture, from David Bowie’s extraterrestrial spiders to Captain Scarlet to War of the Worlds. It has inspired hundreds of authors, scientists and science-fiction writers – but why? What is it about this particular planet that makes it so intriguing?

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Nicky Jenner’s 4th Rock from the Sun reviews Mars in its entirety – its nature, attributes, and impact on 3rd Rock-culture, its environmental science and geology, and its potential for a human colony – everything you need to know about the red planet (and quite a few things you don’t).

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Nicky Jenner is a freelance writer and editor. Her news stories, features, interviews and reviews have appeared in a variety of international popular science magazines, including New Scientist, Nature, BBC Sky at Night, Astronomy Now, The Times, Eureka, and Physics World. nickyjenner.com • @nickyjenner1

Systematic How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine

James R. Valcourt Introducing a fascinating emerging field that is changing our understanding of how the body works and the way we can approach healing

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ystematic is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is revolutionising medical research and treatments. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but a systems biologist studies how the surrounding biological network or system affects the protein’s function – how it promotes health and how to remedy the situation when the protein isn’t working properly. In accessible prose, Systematic sheds light not only on how systems within the body work, but also how research is yielding new kinds of remedies that enhance and harness the body’s own defences.

James R. Valcourt is pursuing a doctorate in biology at Harvard University. A former researcher at D. E. Shaw Research in New York City working on drug discoveries using supercomputer simulations to study cellular receptors, he was also a recipient of the quarter-million-dollar John and Fannie Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship. @jrvalcourt

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Patient H69 The Story of My Second Sight

Vanessa Potter A gripping human story, made more real by the unique response of one patient and the science she uncovers

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magine what it would be like to one day wake up and find that you were suddenly blind and completely paralysed. This is what happened to Patient H69. Over the course of the next six months, Vanessa slowly recovered her vision. Opening her eyes onto a watery, two-dimensional landscape, she saw an unrecognisably monochromatic world.

This mesmerising account tells the story of Patient H69 in her own words, based on audio diaries she kept during her time of blindness and over the two years of scientific research that followed. It provides a unique story – of torment in the beginning, moving onto scientific discovery, some weird neurobiology and a woman battling against all the odds, turning herself into a science sleuth to uncover the mechanics of her brain.

04 MAY 2017

Vanessa Potter spent 16 years as an award-winning broadcast producer in London’s advertising industry, before one day fate conspired to turn the lights out on her. Suddenly losing then slowly regaining her sight led Vanessa to change direction, turning the camera upon herself to tell her story via immersive art and storytelling.

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patienth69.com • @patienth69

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Wonders Beyond Numbers A History of All Things Mathematical

Johnny Ball An all-encompassing history of maths from household name Johnny Ball

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ohnny Ball has been a well-loved name in mathematics for many years. Wonders Beyond Numbers is his magnum opus, and his first book for more than ten years. It will help spark (or re-spark) the reader’s love of maths in its many facets.

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Running in chronological order, this book shows that every breakthrough in maths represents a single step forward, resting on the work of others, and brings to life the importance of numbers, shapes and patterns in the world around us. It’s all-encompassing, yet written in a light and reader-friendly fashion, and filled with diagrams to help explain the principles. Dotted throughout are stories from Johnny’s life, both in front of the camera and in the real world too.

A life-long maths obsessive, Johnny Ball started out as a Butlin’s redcoat and stand-up comic before appearing on BBC TV’s Play School from 1967. His real break, though, came in 1977, with the first series of Think of a Number, a tea-time popular maths show.

A smash hit, this spawned various other shows, as Johnny quickly became one of the most famous faces on British television.

Johnny remains a regular fixture on TV and radio, and is comfortably Britain’s most famous mathematician.

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The Robber of Youth Tuberculosis Past, Present and Future

Kathryn Lougheed A biography of tuberculosis, the ‘robber of youth’ – an ancient disease, but not a disease of history

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ith more than a million victims every year and antibiotic resistance now found in every country worldwide, tuberculosis is once again proving to be one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced.

The Robber of Youth follows the history of TB, from its time as an infection of hunter-gatherers to the first human villages, which set it up with everything it needed to become the monstrous disease it is today, through to the perils of industrialisation. It goes on to look at the latest research, interviews with doctors treating the disease, and the personal experiences of those affected.

Kathryn Lougheed worked in tuberculosis research for more than ten years, focusing on the biological mechanisms of latent tuberculosis and small molecule drug discovery. She completed her doctorate at Imperial College London in 2006, before moving to the National Institute for Medical Research.

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The Way of the Hare Marianne Taylor An exploration of the relationship between humans and the charismatic and elusive hare

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he Brown Hare is an animal we all know but rarely see; the Mountain Hare is an even greater mystery, living on bleak and remote uplands. This book explores the lives of both of these hares, in life and in story, and attempts to unravel the real animal from its image in our collective imagination, and examines why it holds such fascination for us. It includes accounts of first-hand encounters with wild hares, and interviews with those who have worked with and studied them.

It is illustrated with line drawings and a section of beautiful colour photographs taken by the author.

Marianne Taylor is a writer and photographer who has written many books on natural history subjects including RSPB British Birds of Prey, Owls, Dragonflight, RSPB NatureWatch.

In Search of Songbirds Dominic Couzens A journey of discovery with the birds that make up the choir of the dawn chorus

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he dawn chorus: a single voice cutting through the morning mist soon develops into a symphony of different songs hailing the new day. Many of these songbirds are familiar and iconic features of British wildlife, and yet much about their lives remains mysterious, even to scientists. There is a simple pleasure in listening to birdsong, but curiosity on this enchanting phenomena will soon see you asking questions about every aspect of these birds’ lives: from courting a potential mate and defending a territory, to mimicry and migration.

Dominic Couzens has written a wide range of books about birds and other animals including, for Bloomsbury, The Secret Lives of Puffins, RSPB The Secret Lives of British Birds, RSPB The Secret Lives of Garden Birds and RSPB The Secret Lives of Garden Wildlife.

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Mark Carwardine’s Guide to Whale Watching in North America Mark Carwardine The definitive guide for anyone hoping to see whales, dolphins and porpoises in the USA, Canada and Mexico

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his essential guide from bestselling author and zoologist Mark Carwardine features every whale-watching location in North America, from Boston to Baffin Island, provides a fascinating introduction to whales and whale-watching, and includes a detailed field guide with spectacular illustrations, photographs, identification tips and distribution maps for all the cetaceans found in the region.

Whether you want to tickle friendly Grey Whales in Mexico’s San Ignacio Lagoon, or watch Killer Whales off Vancouver Island, this comprehensive guide is the ideal companion.

Mark Carwardine has been studying, protecting and photographing whales and dolphins for 30 years, and has written many books on the subject, including Whale Watching in Britain and Europe. He presented the weekly programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for many years, and the BBC television series Last Chance to See and Museum of Life.

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The Detox Kitchen Bible Lily Simpson & Rob Hobson The cookbook that will leave you feeling cleansed from the inside out – with 200 delicious recipes and tailored detox plans

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he Detox Kitchen philosophy is all about bright, inspiring and nutritious food that will make your skin glow, your hair shine, your stress levels fall and your energy increase. Using mouth-watering flavour combinations and an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingredients, chef Lily Simpson and nutritionist Rob Hobson bring you this ultimate bible of detox food. The 200 vibrant recipes are all free from wheat, dairy and refined sugar, and include Pad Thai with brown rice noodles, turkey burgers with cabbage slaw, salmon and dill fishcakes and beetroot brownies. With exquisite photography, this is the definitive guide to eating your way to radiant health.

A unique detox food delivery service, and now with two delis in London, The Detox Kitchen was founded by inventive chef Lily Simpson in 2012, and launched to dazzling success and a loyal following of celebrity clients. Rob Hobson is an expert nutritionist who runs two consultancies in London. Together they are a unique team shaking up the food industry. detoxkitchen.co.uk • @TheDetoxKitchen

Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet My low-carb, high-flavour, stay-happy way to lose weight

Tom Kerridge How to diet by keeping all of the good stuff and none of the boring stuff – from Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge

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ver the past three years Tom Kerridge has positively transformed his life, shedding 12 stone and getting his weight firmly under control. Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet reveals the secret of his success – achieved by weaning himself off empty carbs and booze, and focusing on foods that are especially rich in flavour and have been scientifically proven to trigger the release of dopamine, the ‘happy’ chemical: ‘I’m just going to give you a load of recipes that are fairly low on carbohydrates and high in the amino acid tyrosine, which has the potential to increase the dopamine levels in the brain. Meaning that you will enjoy eating it. It is that easy.’

Tom Kerridge opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth in 2005; it is the only pub in the world to have acquired two Michelin stars. In 2014 he opened The Coach, his second pub in Marlow. Tom has hosted several BBC television series, including two of his own, and was named Observer Food Monthly’s Best Food Personality in 2015. thehandandflowers.co.uk • @ChefTomKerridge

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Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Live Longer Reiko Hashimoto Reiko Hashimoto’s new book is packed full of delicious dishes for a sustainable, slimming diet and long healthy lifestyle

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eiko Hashimoto explores the benefits of the Japanese diet – slim physique, stable blood sugar, increased joint flexibility and a longer lifespan – and provides an insight into key Japanese fresh and store-cupboard essentials. Debunking the myths surrounding the complexity and accessibility of Japanese food, the recipes are constructed with easy-to-follow instructions and vary from basics to technically complex, perfect for all those wishing to perfect the art of Japanese home cooking.

With Japanese food so enjoyed in restaurants across the country this is the perfect book for home cooks.

Reiko Hashimoto was born and grew up in Kyoto, Japan and counts herself as fortunate to have had a mother who cooked fresh food for every meal and instilled in her a dedication to authentic Japanese flavours. Reiko now lives in London and runs a cookery school, Hashi Cooking, where she teaches beautiful, traditional and healthy Japanese cooking.

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hashicooking.co.uk • @hashicooking

Risotto! Risotto!

Valentina Harris A fully revised and updated edition of Valentina Harris’ seminal work on one of Italy’s most iconic dishes

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rized for its texture, flavour and versatility, risotto has been part of the Italian diet since the eighth century and is one of Italy’s most famous dishes. With an updated introduction and new recipes, Risotto! Risotto! shows you how to prepare, cook and serve this iconic dish using ingredients from the humble tomato to the much-sought-after truffle.

As well as exploring the history of risotto, Valentina provides information on the variety of rice that can be used and how to make the all-important stock.

Recipes are supplemented by beautiful photography and a step-by-step guide to the perfect risotto.

Educated in Italy, renowned cookery writer Valentina Harris has published more than 30 award-winning cookery books, becoming an authority on Italian cuisine.

She now offers culinary adventures across Europe, sharing her passion for food by hosting bespoke cookery courses and private catering commissions, and is often found at food festivals in the UK.

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30 Minute Curries Atul Kochhar BBC’s Saturday Kitchen favourite Atul Kochhar shows you how to create simple, beautiful curries at home in just 30 minutes

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urry is the nation’s favourite dish, but too often it can seem daunting to attempt at home. However, this beautiful new book by Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar promises to transform boring weeknight dinners, with 80 delicious curries. Complementing the curries, Atul provides an introduction to spice mixes and bases, and the best way to store these ready for use in the quick and easy recipes.

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Each of the curries is accompanied by stunning photography by Mike Cooper.

This is a book for curry lovers everywhere, and one you will cook from time and time again.

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Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in Britain, renowned for the vibrancy of his food and the subtlety of his flavours. He was one of the first Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star and has fast become the face of Indian cuisine on British television, with regular appearances on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. atulkochhar.com • @atulkochhar

Vivek’s Indian Festival Feasts Vivek Singh A beautiful gastronomic celebration of some of India’s most famous festivals

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n this tour of Indian festival cuisine executive chef of London’s acclaimed The Cinnamon Collection Vivek Singh brings his unique touch to traditional festival recipes and gives his insight into the significance of food from a country with a history of such diverse religions and cultures.

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Chapters feature the most popular Indian festivals celebrated across the world, such as Holi, Onam and Diwali, covering all religions and geographical areas within India. As well as new recipes, the history and culture surrounding each festival will be explored in colourful detail. Accompanying photography brings alive the beauty and vibrancy of these incredible celebrations.

Vivek Singh is one of Britain’s best-known and respected Indian chefs. As well as being an award-winning author, he is often on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and Masterchef. He has been executive chef of The Cinnamon Collection since its launch in 2001, where his food is famous for its blend of authentic Indian spicing and Western techniques. viveksingh.co.uk • @chefviveksingh

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Junk Food Japan Addictive Food from Kurobuta

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, Observer), which 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. One hundred 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 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 restaurant in London and then opening Nobu in Melbourne in his native Australia.

He has appeared on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen. kurobuta-london.com • @KurobutaLondon • @scotthallsworth

MasterChef: Street Food of the World Genevieve Taylor A celebration of a food trend that continues to excite and entice foodies

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rom burritos and pretzels to pad Thai or aromatic buns, it is estimated that 2.5 billion people per day eat street food across the world. This collection focuses on the celebration of fresh and local ingredients and different cultures and cuisines.

Often quick and easy to make, these recipes will delight home cooks who want to create sensational street food snacks in their own kitchens. With stunning photography from the legendary David Loftus, the book also features recipe contributions from MasterChef winners from across the world.

Genevieve Taylor is an author, food stylist and cookery presenter. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two children.

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genevievetaylor.co.uk • @genevieveeats Contributions from Andy Allen (Australia), Tim Anderson (UK), Dhruv Baker (UK), Marc Boissieux (France), Ping Coombes (UK), Christine Hà (US), Anders HalskovJensen (Denmark), Woo Wai Leong (Singapore), Adam Liaw (Australia), Luca Manfe (US), Brent Owens (Australia), Claudia Sandoval (US), Simon Wood (UK).

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Cow Pie and Other Stories Jesse Dunford Wood Jesse Dunford Wood presents his fun, unique riffs on classic British dishes

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ith his infectious humour and brilliant writing style, Jesse Dunford Wood presents a delightfully wacky, delicious and irresistible collection of British classics with a twist and a turn, based around the premise that food should be fun for all and that flavour is key. Cow Pie sits alongside retro favourites such as Chicken Kyiv and a wealth of wittily conceived, much-loved British dishes, beautifully realised through great photography.

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Cow Pie and Other Stories is intended to be the ultimate fun cookery book, great to give and great to receive. A cookery book to make you smile and to make you hungry.

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Jesse Dunford Wood is considered an expert on British food. He has worked with top chefs including Michael Caines, Charlie Trotter, Rowley Leigh and Mark Hix. In 2007 he teamed up with Oliver Peyton to open The National Dining Rooms at the National Gallery. He is now the owner and chef of Parlour, Kensal Green.

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parlourkensal.com • @ParlourUK • @dunfordwood

Cheese & Dairy River Cottage Handbook No.16

Steven Lamb In the sixteenth River Cottage Handbook, Steven Lamb offers a comprehensive guide to buying, making and eating cheese and dairy products

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his handy little book covers all areas of cheese and dairy in the inimitably clear, concise and charming River Cottage style. Features include how to make your own dairy produce such as butter and yoghurt; how to make your own cheeses, from fresh to matured; types of cheese and their characteristics; the history of famous British cheeses such as Cheddar; and sweet and savoury recipes with cheese in the starring role. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and colour photography throughout, this book is the indispensable guide to enjoying and making the most of cheese and dairy products.

Steven Lamb has been involved with River Cottage since the very beginning, hosting events and appearing regularly in the TV series and online. He is the author of Curing and Smoking and works closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He teaches regularly at the cookery school and represents River Cottage in the UK and abroad. rivercottage.net • @lambposts

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Delicious Gifts Rob Kirby Eighty beautifully presented, delectable handcrafted treats to make at home as perfect gifts

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elicious Gifts celebrates the best, beautifully styled, handcrafted food gifts for all occasions. Eighty delightful recipes are accompanied by stunning photography from Jodi Hinds, along with inspiration, guidance and ideas for how best to wrap and package these thoughtful gifts.

Whether you’re looking for a unique Christmas present, something romantic or a healthy treat for loved ones, this book has plenty of ideas to inspire you. Recipes range from something simple for the family to enjoy making together, such as biscuits, chocolate-dipped strawberries and rose-petal sugar, to treats such as meal kits, marinades, rubs and relishes, chutneys and champagne jellies.

Rob Kirby is the Chef Director of Lexington Catering and a leading member of the Academy of Culinary Arts. A well-respected figure in the industry, Rob often appears on television, from BBC Breakfast to Saturday Kitchen. His first book, Cook with Kids (2011), was the winner of Best Fundraising and Charity Cookbook at the Gourmand Awards in 2012.

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@DeliciousKirby

On the Side Ed Smith An inspiring selection of superb side dishes

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ides should be celebrated – they’re often the best bit of the meal, so it’s about time they were put to the centre and given the star billing they deserve.

On the Side hosts recipes to spark a whole meal (za’atar mushrooms and curd), intriguing twists and garnishes (asparagus with cured egg yolk) and essential classics (like caponata and bread sauce). In addition, the cookbook includes short essays, thoughtful indexes and cross-references to encourage and inspire. Inventive, playful and hardworking, On the Side establishes Ed Smith as a major new name in British food writing.

Ed Smith is the author of the celebrated food blog Rocket & Squash. He has featured as resident chef in the Guardian’s Cook supplement, and guest cookery writer at the Independent on Sunday. Ed was named Best Online Restaurant Writer and shortlisted for Best Cookery Writer at the 2015 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. On the Side was shortlisted for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award.

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The Magic Fridge (and the Fantastic Freezer)

Alex Mackay A treasure chest of tips and tricks to bring magic into your everyday meals

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n his follow up to Everybody, Everyday, the irrepressible culinary wizard Alex Mackay reveals how to create easy and delicious sauces, pastes and bases that you can keep in your fridge or freezer, ready to be turned into lunch, tea or supper at a moment’s notice. This is convenience food done the right way – using one big batch of a delicious base recipe to create a multitude of meals, thus minimising the work and maximising the flavour. With recipes that include Chicken bone broth, Tomato chilli relish, Salsa verde and Almond cream, The Magic Fridge (and the Fantastic Freezer) reveals tips and tricks for transforming simple, everyday cooking into an exciting spectrum of sweet and savoury dishes.

Alex Mackay has worked as a chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in France, Italy and the UK. Having run Raymond Blanc’s cookery school and taught alongside Delia Smith, he now cooks for Merchant Gourmet and is a patron of the Kids Cookery School. His first book, Cooking in Provence, was a winner at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

The Little Viet Kitchen Thuy Pham-Kelly Dynamic and engaging, The Little Viet Kitchen brings a taste of Vietnamese cuisine to your home

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ffering a fresh insight into classic Vietnamese dishes and cooking techniques, Thuy Pham-Kelly’s expertise and memories are at the heart of each recipe in this collection. Embracing all elements of Vietnamese cuisine, Thuy’s food enhances and showcases the natural goodness and flavours of the ingredients she uses.

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This book delves into Thuy’s personal journey from Vietnam to England, celebrating her love of Vietnamese cooking, culture and way of life. A feast for the eyes as well as the tastebuds, Thuy’s easy-to-follow recipes will turn everybody’s kitchen into a little Viet kitchen. Beautiful photography accompanies every recipe, styled

by Thuy herself.

Thuy Pham-Kelly spent her early years in Vietnam before moving to the UK when she was seven years old. Thuy learnt her craft through studying traditional recipes and techniques, passed down by her mother and other family members. In 2015, along with her husband Dave, Thuy opened The Little Viet Kitchen in Islington, London. thelittlevietkitchen.com • @LVK_ISLINGTON • @ThuyDiemPham

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Herding Cats The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy

Charlie Campbell An entertaining guide to the trials and tribulations of amateur cricket captaincy

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n 1985 Mike Brearley published The Art of Captaincy, revealing how he steered Middlesex and England to victory, extracting the best from his team of first-class cricketers. Herding Cats is Charlie Campbell’s witty companion title as he guides us through the realities of captaining an amateur team instead. How does the Sunday captain keep his side happy when they all want to bat at four? And how can he win when some of his team haven’t taken a catch in years? Coupled with insights from captains at the top of the sport, Herding Cats is perfect for those of us who appreciate the shambling joys of amateur cricket.

Charlie Campbell is captain of the Authors Cricket Club and edited their book The Authors XI. He has led his team in over 125 consecutive games and on five foreign tours, facing the might of the Rajasthan Royals, the Vatican and the national team of Japan along the way. He has written for the Observer, Wisden India, The Nightwatchman, Time Out and Literary Review.

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@AuthorsCC

Sixty Years of Jump Racing From Arkle to McCoy

Robin Oakley with foreword by Edward Gillespie An elegant history of the majestic sport of jump racing, packed with photographs and featuring interviews with key horseracing figures

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obin Oakley brings alive the colourful world of those who ride and train jumping horses. A beautiful book, filled with gripping images, The History of Jump Racing chronicles the social and economic changes which have brought the sport’s ups and downs – from the development of sponsorships and syndicate ownership, the growing domination of the Cheltenham Festival to the growth of all-weather racing to meet the bookies’ demands for betting-shop fodder. Famous rivalries and memorable races are relived and key victories revisited in portraits and interviews with the owners, jockeys and trainers who have dominated the sport.

Robin Oakley wrote for several newspapers before becoming Political Editor of The Times and then the BBC. He contributes to CNN and has written the ‘Turf ’ column in the Spectator since 1995.

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Edward Gillespie (Foreword) was Managing Director at Cheltenham Racecourse for 32 years. He is currently a member of the Jockey Club and chair of the Pony Racing Authority.

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Re:Cyclists 200 Years on Two Wheels

Michael Hutchinson A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling

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omewhere in a German forest 200 years ago, during the darkest, wettest summer for centuries, the story of cycling began. The calls to ban it were more or less instant. In Re:Cyclists, Michael Hutchinson picks his way through the next 200 years of wheeling through town and country: from penny-farthing riders roaming the lonely roads during the railway era, to the Victorian high-society bicycle craze of the 1890s, through the despair of the 1970s when cycling almost vanished, to the twenty-first-century revival. Re:Cyclists examines how cycling became the sport, the pastime and the love affair of millions of ordinary people.

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Michael Hutchinson is a former professional cyclist. He has won multiple national titles in both Britain and Ireland, and represented both countries internationally.

He is now the principal columnist for Cycling Weekly. Re:Cyclists is the follow-up to his previous critically acclaimed book Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists and the award-winning The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way. @Doctor_Hutch

Ultra-Distance Cycling An Expert Guide to Endurance Cycling

Simon Jobson & Dominic Irvine This authoritative manual provides cyclists with everything they need to ride longer and faster, and to excel at ultra-distance cycling events

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p and down the country, thousands of cyclists are stepping up to the challenge, cycling up to and over 100 miles for their ultra-distance fix. This science and experience-based handbook gives comprehensive advice for cyclists to enhance their performance and step up to the endurance challenge. With detailed sections on fitness, mental approach and equipment, it’s the ultimate guide for the competitive ultra-distance cyclist.

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Simon Jobson is Professor of Sport and Exercise Physiology at the University of Winchester, UK. As a BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist, he provides sport science support for a number of top cyclists.

Dominic Irvine is a leading ultra-distance cyclist. He has successfully completed events including the Race Across the Alps and London–Edinburgh–London. @ProfSimonJobson • @DomIrvine

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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2017 The 154th 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.

This is Lawrence Booth’s sixth year as Editor of Wisden. He is also cricket writer for the Daily Mail and 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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@WisdenAlmanack

Giro 100 A History of Cycling’s Most Brutal and Beautiful Grand Tour

Brendan Gallagher A vibrant history of the Giro d’Italia in its 100th edition

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he Giro d’Italia is the cooler, tougher brother of the Tour de France. First staged in 1909, and only pausing for two World Wars, its hundredth edition takes place in 2017. From its first years the Giro pushed riders to their limits with brutal climbs, treacherous road conditions and epic distances.

The history of the Giro is the history of cycling’s superstars and all previous winners are covered in Giro 100: from Luigi Ganna and Fausto Coppi, to Vincenzo Nibali and Alberto Contador. Brendan Gallagher skilfully combines history, anecdote and analysis to bring this ultimate test of endurance vividly to life.

Brendan Gallagher is a sports journalist who specialises in cycling, rugby and all things Olympic. He has written numerous books, including In Pursuit of Glory with Bradley Wiggins. He lives in Sussex.

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@gallagherbren

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Barry Sheene The Official Photographic Celebration of Britain’s Greatest Motorcycle Champion

Rick Broadbent A landmark photographic book charting the private and public lives of one of motorsport’s best-loved and most charismatic figures 04 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472944580 • £20.00 EBOOK • 9781472944597 • £17.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE 01 MAY 2017 HARDBACK • AUS $39.99 • NZ $45.00

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arry Sheene is the greatest British motorcycle racing rider of all time. A chancer, lovable rogue and the leading sports star of his era, adored by the public and press alike, he won two world motorcycle championships in 1976 and 1977. For the first time Barry’s family have agreed to open up their personal archive to give an unprecedented insight into the world champion. Via private photographs, memorabilia and letters, award-winning journalist Rick Broadbent tells the story of a remarkable man in unprecedented fashion.

This is the Barry Sheene story as told like never before.

Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has worked at The Times for 10 years and has written nine books. His previous titles on motorcycle racing include That Near-Death Thing, winner at the British Sports Book Awards 2013 and shortlisted for the William Hill prize, and Ring of Fire, also shortlisted for the William Hill Prize.

Quiet Genius Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager

Ian Herbert The untold story of the manager who produced the greatest club team British football has ever known

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ob Paisley was the quiet man who swept all domestic and European opposition aside as the manager of Liverpool Football Club between 1974 and 1983. He won trophies at a rate per season that dwarfs even Sir Alex Ferguson’s achievements at Manchester United, and he remains the only Briton to have lead a team to three European Cups. Yet, 30 years on from Paisley’s death, the life of this shrewd, visionary, modest football man has still never been fully explored. Based on in-depth interviews with his family, players and opponents, Quiet Genius is the first biography to examine the secrets of Paisley’s success.

Ian Herbert is the Independent’s chief sportswriter, and has covered Liverpool’s frustrated attempts to rediscover the glory of the Paisley years. During ten years at the Liverpool Daily Post, where he became Deputy Editor, he witnessed the club’s early decline from the standards Paisley set. @ianherbs

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Swell A Waterbiography

Jenny Landreth A funny, bold account of how women fought their way into the water and the delights to be found there

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wimming seems like the most egalitarian of pastimes, open to anyone with a swimsuit. Yet, like pretty much everything, swimming used to be exclusively a male domain. Even by the mid-1800s, access to pools was a luxury limited both by gender and class. Part social history, part memoir, Swell is a joyful celebration of the water as Jenny Landreth uncovers a world of secret swimmers: the foremothers who collectively made it possible for us to plunge in anywhere we chose. Looking back at her own swimming story, Landreth explores what it is that attracts so many women into the water.

Jenny Landreth is a script editor and writer. She was the main contributor to the Guardian’s weekly swimming blog, writing on everything from pool rules to ice swimming, and she’s swum in and written about many pools round the country.

She reviews TV for the New Statesman online when there’s something on she feels passionate about. Swell is her third book.

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@jennylandreth

A History of Cycling in 100 Objects Suze Clemitson An alternative insight into the two-wheeled revolution

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fascinating and quirky look at the history of cycling, seen through 100 objects that have been pivotal in the development of cycling and bike design. Charting the journey from the laufmachine to the Brompton, through the early prototypes and the evolution of the two-wheeled toys of the aristocracy to the speed machines we know today.

Beautifully illustrated throughout with accompanying text and trivia, dip into the weird and wonderful history of the cycling revolution – from the broom wagon to the cobbles, via steak, cuddly lions and ball bearings. The perfect gift for the cyclist in your life.

Suze Clemitson is a cycling journalist and commentator. Suze is author of P Is for Peloton, with artist Mark Fairhurst, and edited the volume on women’s cycling Ride the Revolution.

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The Billionaires Club The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners

James Montague A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich

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nce upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, made staggeringly wealthy from oil, royalty and murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe, and what do they want with our beautiful game? The Billionaires Club delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time. It is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the world, and part travel book as Montague crosses the globe in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football.

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James Montague is an award-winning journalist who writes primarily about sport and politics. He writes for the New York Times, CNN and World Soccer and is a regular voice on the BBC World Service’s World Football show. His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football, War & Revolution in the Middle East and ThirtyOne Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders. @JamesPiotr

The Cycling Cartoonist An Illustrated Guide to Life on Two Wheels

Dave Walker Celebrate the joys of cycling with this humorous collection of cycling cartoons

01 JUNE 2017 HARDBACK • 9781472938893 • £10.99 EBOOK • 9781472938886 • £10.99

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delightful celebration of cycling from renowned cartoonist and multiplebike owner Dave Walker. An affectionate take on cycling and everything it is associated with, featuring 100 cartoons about every aspect of life on two wheels, from racing to commuting, to the simple pleasure of getting from A to B.

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Dave Walker is a cartoonist. He has had cycling cartoons published by Cycling Weekly, CTC and others. Dave has had a weekly cartoon in the Church Times newspaper since 2005. davewalker.com • @davewalker

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Edging Towards Darkness The Story of the Last Timeless Test

John Lazenby A compelling and beautifully drawn social history of the longest cricket match in history set against the backdrop of impending war

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ricket matches didn’t always top out at five days; they used to be ‘timeless’, with play continuing until one team won. In 1939 the final ‘timeless’ Test lasted ten days – quite simply the longest Test ever played. A litany of records also perished in its wake and ‘whole pages of Wisden were ruthlessly made obsolete’.

Edging Towards Darkness tells the story of that Test for the first time. Set in its historical and social context, the story balances the game against the threat of encroaching World War, before bringing these two disparate strands together in an evocative and vibrant denouement.

John Lazenby is a freelance journalist who has worked for The Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday, and as a sports broadcaster for both radio and television. His first book, Test of Time, was longlisted for the William Hill Prize, and his last book, The Strangers Who Came Home, was published to critical acclaim.

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Wisden at The Oval An Anthology

Edited by Jon Surtees A celebration of the greatest players, matches and rivalries showcased at The Oval during 100 Tests

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he Oval in Kennington, south London, is so iconic a cricket venue that the modern-day history of the game can be told purely by referencing events that have taken place at the ground or players who have called The Oval home.

Delving into the archive of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, Wisden at The Oval showcases remarkable matches and series – from that first Test match in England and the subsequent birth of the Ashes to The Oval’s key role in the birth of Twenty20 in 2003 – and argues that more memorable events have happened at The Oval than any other ground in the world.

Jon Surtees is a former journalist and now communications manager at Surrey CCC.

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Fuelling the Cycling Revolution The Nutritional Strategies and Recipes Behind Grand Tour Wins and Olympic Gold Medals

Nigel Mitchell The must-read practical guide to what to eat for any cyclist looking for a training or performance advantage

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hey say you are what you eat – and for an elite-level cyclist this is even more important. Nigel Mitchell, performance nutritionist for some of the top cyclists in the world, knows that if you train hard and expect results your diet is even more crucial. Get it wrong and you can feel sluggish and below par – but eating right, on and off the bike, will make your training and preparation even more worthwhile.

Follow Nigel’s expertise and this no-nonsense and non-faddy approach to get the most from your diet, fuel your ride and get that ever-important performance advantage. Real rider anecdotes and case studies are also used throughout the book.

Nigel Mitchell has over 25 years of clinical and elite sport nutrition experience. He has provided nutritional support to Olympic Gold medallists, World Champions and Tour de France winners. Previously attached to Team Sky and British Cycling, Nigel is currently working for Cannondale Pro Cycling, and the English Institute of Sport. @Nuttynige

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Breaking Mad The Survivor’s Guide to Coping with Anxiety

Anna Williamson An honest guide to getting one over on anxiety, stress and other conditions

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reaking Mad is a therapist in your pocket – a friendly manual to help you through the worst times – by someone who has been there and now works as a therapist herself. Find helpful advice every step of the way – from recognising the first warning signs of anxiety, to coping with a panic attack. Simple, straightforward guidance, whenever and wherever you might need it – at home, on the bus, at college or even having a meltdown in the work toilet cubicle. Breaking Mad is here for you. So, welcome to the club – time to tackle anxiety head on!

Anna Williamson is a counsellor, Master NLP practitioner and performance coach and is qualified in this field to a Level 5 (the highest level) and is also a member of the NCP (National Council of Psychotherapists). She uses these skills as a regular expert and agony aunt on TV. Also including contributions from clinical psychiatrist, Dr Reetta Newell. @annawilliamsTV

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My Sugar Free Baby and Me Sarah Schenker Packed with healthy weaning ideas and delicious, balanced, sugar-free recipes for both you and your baby

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any new mums find weaning daunting and confusing and are keen to make sure their baby eats healthily. But they often forget to look after themselves, and can end up grabbing unhealthy, empty calories on the go. But by sharing ingredients like avocado or butternut squash, it means both you and your baby can eat well, there is less waste and it takes less time. The recipes are very simple, quick to prepare and above all nutritious and delicious.

Find out everything you need to know to create healthy, sugar-free meals – it’s much easier than you think.

Dr Sarah Schenker is a registered dietitian and nutritionist, and mum of two boys.

She was the nutritional adviser for the Fast Diet Recipe Book. She is also a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Top Sante and Glamour, and This Morning, Watchdog and BBC Radio.

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@SarahSchenker

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The Wealthy Body in Business Earn More Money by Being in Better Shape

Anne Laing & Tim Bean A healthy body equals a healthy mind – drop the excuses and get in shape to maximise career success and financial reward

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eople who are in better shape age better with more energy. They sleep better, work better, are on top of their game and will always be more successful in business and in life. The Wealthy Body in Business reveals the authors’ most successful strategies, tips and best practices that have been used successfully with private clients at the top levels of business for many years. In applying these simple but robust remedies, you will find yourself leaner, stronger, smarter, sharper, more confident and a whole lot less stressed than you’ve ever been.

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Tim Bean is a longevity specialist, keynote speaker, TV presenter and author. Tim is on the senior faculty for Duke Corporate Education, and lectures at corporate events, medical conferences and business universities around the world.

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Anne Laing is a researcher, health club owner and health campaigner, specialising in weight loss, well-being and anti-ageing @Tim_Bean • @annelaing2016

Sorted: The Active Woman’s Guide to Health Juliet McGrattan A no-nonsense guide to keeping women active, covering common women’s health issues, written by a practising GP

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uliet talks with you, not at you, and her enthusiasm for the joys of an active lifestyle are bound to inspire millions of women of all ages to lead healthier, fitter and much happier lives.’ Lisa Jackson, author of Your Pace or Mine? What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last

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A friendly, accessible handbook that gives you a top-to-toe MOT to help you stay fit and well. From wearing the right bra or exercising during your period, to recovering from injury or exercising during pregnancy, Juliet’s advice will soon have you sorted and on the road to health.

Juliet McGrattan is a GP and runner, and writes for Women’s Running magazine and website. Her passion is improving health and wellbeing through exercise. @JulietMcGrattan

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Sod Sitting, Get Moving!

Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond

Muir Gray & Diana Moran Illustrated by David Mostyn Down with sofas and up with stairs! Are you sixty plus? It’s time to get moving!

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ours spent on sofas and sitting at computers have caused multiple health issues, and the rise of the Internet means many of us roll out of bed into a chair or car, then to our desks or other sedentary activities, and don’t break our sitting marathon until it’s time to move to the sofa for more sitting. Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is filled with simple, clear exercises to help improve your stamina, strength and balance, to get strong and fit for the years ahead – and to feel better, with more energy!

Sir Muir Gray is one of Britain’s most senior medical figures. He is also author/ co-author of Sod 70!, Sod 60! and Sod it! Eat Well!

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Diana Moran introduced fitness to Britain in the 1980s as the BBC’s ‘Green Goddess’.

A well published author, she manages her own web community at primetimelife.tv and is the Health Editor of The Lady. @muirgray

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Taking Charge of Your Career The Essential Guide to Finding the Job That’s Right for You

Camilla Arnold & Jane Barrett A comprehensive, practical guide on finding and succeeding in the perfect career

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n this action-oriented and pragmatic book, expert career coaches Camilla Arnold and Jane Barrett address the common barriers to career change and give readers a proven and effective roadmap to achieve their new job goals. Taking Charge of Your Career includes first-hand experiences of successful career change, but also quizzes, exercises and self-assessment tools to help readers make the best choices for them. This edition has been updated to reflect new social media demands and the modern challenges faced when changing career.

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Camilla Arnold started in corporate finance before becoming a recruitment consultant in London and Sydney. She has been a fully qualified coach for over ten years, specialising in career change and transition.

Jane Barrett is co-founder of The Career Farm, a career development company which provides individuals with the tools and inspiration to proactively grow their careers. thecareerfarm.com • @TheCareerFarm

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

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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.

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.

Sir 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.

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Inspiring Leadership Becoming a Dynamic and Engaging Leader

Kerrie Fleming & Roger Delves Inspiring Leadership is an edited collection of reflections, research and practice from the leadership faculty at Ashridge/Hult International Business School

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nspiring Leadership showcases the best of leadership development practice and the most effective leadership styles that have evolved in recent years or are currently gaining attention. This book maps out the context of the past, present and future of leadership, including a focus on values, developing authenticity and using emotional intelligence to develop a high level of self-awareness. Inspiring Leadership offers insight on how best to ‘practise leadership’ using the techniques and leadership perspectives that are most commonly used in business school interventions around the world.

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Dr Kerrie Fleming is Director of Ashridge’s Leadership Research Centre. She specialises in leadership development, including leader emotional intelligence and its practical applications.

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Roger Delves is Head of the Leadership and People Faculty at Ashridge and leads on employability and personal impact for the Ashridge MBA. He specialises in authenticity, emotional intelligence and integrity in leadership and management.

Infinite Value Accelerating Profitable Growth Through Value-based Selling

Mark Davies Infinite Value presents a practical framework to help organisations become value-based, so as to boost sales and generate new business

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nfinite Value argues that a value-based approach is the best way forward in order for a business to thrive and grow in the modern economy. Although a valuebased business strategy provides stronger competitive advantage and long-term profits for both the supplier and the customer, few organisations manage to work in this way for sustained periods. This book offers a seven-pillar model to help organisations understand and implement the concepts of value-based selling.

For any business, regardless of size, Infinite Value offers a unique perspective on proactive selling techniques and effective practices in client relationship management.

Mark Davies is MD of Segment Pulse Limited, a Visiting Fellow with Cranfield School of Management, and a Visiting Fellow with Aston Business School. Mark has an MBA and an MSc in Advanced Manufacturing Systems; he is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Institute of Marketing.

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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 the authors 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?

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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.

Sir Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology at Manchester Business School and President of RELATE. theworkfoundation.com • @StephenBevan • @ProfCaryCooper • @WorkFoundation

The Leadership of Teams How to Develop and Inspire High-performance Teamwork

Mike Brent & Fiona Elsa Dent Exploring common challenges faced when operating in complex team situations, with a particular focus on the role of the leader

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eams can succeed or fail on the quality and effectiveness of their leader, so what can leaders do to ensure that their teams collaborate effectively and are committed to the right goals? Utilising the authors’ access to leaders and team members working in sport, the military, business and the charity sector, The Leadership of Teams looks at all aspects of teamwork, focusing on the role of the leader and examining the most common challenges facing both teams and leaders, including: interpersonal challenges; working in a global context; different roles in different teams; multicultural teams; and coaching and developing team members.

Mike Brent is Head of Experiential Learning at Ashridge/Hult International Business School, specialising in leadership, team-building, influencing, coaching and cross-cultural management.

Fiona Elsa Dent has Programme and Client Director experience at Ashridge, and works with a range of organisations and clients on a national and international basis.

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Fully Connected Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload

Julia Hobsbawm The first book defining social health in the modern workplace, exploring the implications for individuals and society in our hyper-connected world

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he challenges, threats and opportunities of the Internet and social media on employee and workplace health will only continue to increase. Julia Hobsbawm argues that developing ‘social health’ will help employees become more efficiently engaged with each other and their work, and help employers create workplaces that support greater productivity. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, Fully Connected provides a blueprint for how to use social health to foster wellbeing and productivity, as well as reclaim time, space and identity in our hyper-connected world.

Julia Hobsbawm OBE is a renowned expert on networking and social health. She is Professor of Networking at Cass Business School, London. She was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2015.

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juliahobsbawm.com • juliahobsbawm.wordpress.com • @juliahobsbawm

Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice Brian Thomas & Matthew Housden The essential manual for those needing to utilise the latest and most powerful marketing techniques

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ully updated to reflect the continuing impact and future implications of the Internet on marketing, this third edition is one of the only comprehensive textbooks written entirely by practising professionals. It covers vital issues such as the new marketing landscape, gaining customer insight, integrating traditional and digital media, and campaign planning and budgeting. An ideal reference tool for students and marketing professionals, the book presents detailed explanations of key concepts with practical examples and case studies. For managers looking to improve customer reach, and current students of marketing, this book provides invaluable and up-to-date guidance on both theory and best practice.

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Brian Thomas has had a career in marketing spanning more than 40 years, and is Course Director for the IDM’s Diploma in Direct & Interactive Marketing.

Matthew Housden is a marketing consultant, author, academic and trainer. He has worked in marketing for 25 years, with a client list that includes IBM, Barclays and Microsoft.

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Boards That Dare Unleashing the Strategic Potential of Your Directors

Marc Stitger & Cary L. Cooper Offers actionable solutions to help board directors, chairs and CEOs tackle challenges and opportunities, and develop a successful organisational strategy

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n today’s volatile and uncertain world, boards need to become more proactive and collaborative in their approach to organisational strategy. Boards That Dare explores how organisations can create boards that have the strategic capability, the desire and the sheer guts to identify and deliver successful strategic change. Based on the authors’ first-hand experiences, as well as their own research and interviews with board members and chairs of international private, public and not-for-profit organisations, this highly practical and accessible book delivers the necessary answers as to how boards can and should contribute to organisational strategy.

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Sir Cary Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School. He was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to social sciences.

Marc Stitger is an Honorary Senior fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Business and Economics, and Associate Director at Melbourne Business School.

Branded Britain How the Best of British Brands Were Created and Built

Dave Meneer & Roger Delves Branded Britain looks behind the logos to the insights and techniques of branding that have shaped the world-famous British brandscape

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ritain has long been viewed as a market leader in terms of advertising, design and branding – with globally-recognised brands such as the Mini Cooper, David Beckham and Doc Martens. But what are the creative forces behind a winning brand? And how can the success of brands be maintained over the course of years or even decades? This new title uses case studies of successful British brands to identify and illustrate the common threads that link all successful branding exercises. Topics covered include leadership, timing, the rise of social media, branded houses versus a house of brands, and brand failures.

Dave Meneer worked in major league advertising agencies for over 25 years. He was the first Marketing Director of the Eden Project, followed by five years as CEO of Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen in Cornwall.

Roger Delves is a faculty member of Ashridge/Hult International Business School and Dean of Qualifications, with advertising experience with companies such as General Food, Sony and Mars.

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Leadersmithing An Apprenticeship Approach to Making Great Leaders

Eve Poole This new title examines the foundational practices of leaders, explaining how leaders-in-training can incorporate apprentice-style thinking into their working lives

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n many trades and professions, mastery of the subject can take a lifetime; leadership is no different. Leadersmithing shows how an apprenticeship approach can reinvigorate the development of leaders in learning the art of being a great leader.

Using insights gained by Ashridge/Hult International Business School about how leaders really learn, Leadersmithing guides readers through the process of becoming more precisely job-ready and more effectively resourced for the challenges they face. The result is a more confident leader, more perceptive as to their vocation and mandate, and better able to maintain the most effective position at the very top of their game.

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Eve Poole joined Ashridge from Deloitte in 2002. Now an Ashridge Associate, Eve has taught across the Ashridge portfolio of open and custom programmes, as well as in the public, private and voluntary sectors.

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

Ioan Grillo ‘Grillo is a breathtakingly intrepid reporter, diving in where police fear to tread … Enthralling ****’ Mail on Sunday

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new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, 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 flourish so? Ioan Grillo has gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas. He provides a disturbing understanding of a war that has spiralled out of control – one that people across the political spectrum must confront now.

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

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In Gratitude Jenny Diski ‘Clear-sighted, defiant and written with Diski’s customary furious elegance, it is a remarkable last word from a writer who survived to live and love, almost despite herself ’ Daily Mail

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n August 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given ‘two or three years’ to live. Being a writer, she decided to write about her experience – and to tell a story she had not yet told: that of being taken in, aged fifteen, by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. Splicing childhood memories with present day realities, Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers – Lessing and herself.

Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude.

A cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid memoir, it is her final masterpiece.

Jenny Diski was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, two volumes of essays and a short-story collection. Her journalism appeared in publications including the Observer and the London Review of Books, to which she contributed more than 200 articles.

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jennydiski.co.uk ‘Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … In Gratitude amounts to the inner monologue of a highly intelligent, furiously funny, traumatised woman, “trembling at the prospect of extinction” …

She cannot be subsumed into the wider narrative or by Lessing.

In Gratitude assures Diski the last word’ Sunday Times

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Bad News Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

Anjan Sundaram ‘Powerful and shocking’ Sunday Times

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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.

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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 corrupted 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

Farmageddon in Pictures The True Cost of Cheap Meat – in bite-sized pieces

Philip Lymbery A stunningly illustrated, infographic version of the bestselling, fascinating and thought-provoking Farmageddon by Philip Lymbery

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armageddon in Pictures is a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices – delivered in handy, bite-sized pieces. Clear, direct text, lavishly illustrated with full-colour photography and infographics, this is a fascinating and terrifying investigation behind the closed doors of a global runaway industry. How do we find a way to a better farming future?

Philip Lymbery is the CEO of leading international farm animal welfare organisation, Compassion in World Farming and a prominent commentator on the effects of industrial farming. @philip_ciwf

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Electronic Dreams How 1980s Britain Learned to Love the Computer

Tom Lean ‘The first good book on the subject’ Esquire

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emember the ZX Spectrum? Ever have a go at programming with its stretchy rubber keys? How about the BBC Micro or Acorn Electron? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite or lose yourself in the surreal caverns of Manic Miner?

For anyone who was a kid in the 1980s, these iconic computer brands are the stuff of legend. In Electronic Dreams, Tom Lean tells the story of how computers invaded British homes for the first time, as people set aside their worries of electronic brains and Big Brother and embraced the wonder-technology of the 1980s.

Tom Lean is a historian of science based at the British Library, where he works on the Oral History of British Science, a major project concerned with archiving interviews with 100 figures from the recent history of science and technology. His fascination with computer technology culminated in his doctorate at the University of Manchester on popular computing in 1980s Britain. @reggitsti

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Breaking the Chains of Gravity The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

Amy Shira Teitel ‘Teitel delivers on detail, such as the exploits of supersonic-flight pioneer Chuck Yeager’ Nature

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ASA’s history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the Moon in 1969. But its prehistory is largely absent from the popular space-age literature.

America’s space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. From Wernher von Braun fleeing the ruins of Berlin to the Mercury programme, tests of new technology by pilots such as Neil Armstrong and, in the shadow of Sputnik and an ever-cooling Cold War, the final creation of NASA. Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the full story of NASA’s roots.

Amy Shira Teitel is an author and expert in the history of science, with a lifelong passion for spaceflight. An accomplished science communicator, Amy regularly appears on Discovery News and Al-Jazeera. amyshirateitel.com • @astVintageSpace

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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, from the first stumbling (and sweaty) steps on the running machine to the ultradistance runner he is today.

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Each chapter also features a fascinating insight into how others first started – from Paula Radcliffe to Steve Cram, the Brownlees to Jenson Button, Nicky Campbell and Nell McAndrew. Funny, inspiring, honest – the perfect read for anyone with a pair of well-worn trainers by the door (or thinking of buying some...).

Vassos Alexander is one of the UK’s best known sports broadcasters. Every morning he’s heard by ten million people as an integral part of the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio2. 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. @VassosA

World Without End Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. & Lucette Verboven Thomas Keating, bestselling author and father of the Centering Prayer Movement, reflects on his life and Christian practice

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n these conversations with film-maker and writer Lucette Verboven, Father Thomas Keating – author, Trappist monk and director of Contemplative Outreach – looks back on his spiritual development. Following on from his previous books Invitation to Love, Open Mind, Open Heart and The Mystery of Christ, Father Keating now turns his attention to the themes of awakening, the nature of true happiness and the character and purpose of death.

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Identity, transformation, silence, nature and the cosmos – the themes which Father Keating here explores are universal and applicable to all those searching for a deeper and more meaningful life.

Father Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St Benedict’s Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and a well known author.

Lucette Verboven is a Flemish film producer and the author of a number of books, including The Dominican Way.

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The Sacred Combe A Search for Humanity’s Heartland

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

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e’ve all got one. A secret, special place. Hidden. Enclosed. A little greener and more fertile than the world outside. Here the birds are slightly more exotic, slightly more confiding, the grass greener and the fruit sweeter. To know such a place, to love such a place, is part of being human.

Simon Barnes found such a place when he first awoke in the Luangwa Valley to find elephants eating the roof of his hut. This book explores the special places of the mind and the world; it’s about the eternal human search to find such a paradise everywhere.

Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning author of 20 or so books, 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, Simon now lives in Norfolk with his family and four horses, beside a marsh.

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Geological Structures A Photographic Field Guide

Chris and Helen Pellant An ideal handbook for anyone interested in learning more about the Earth’s pre-history and these fascinating natural phenomenas

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eological Structures is an easy to use, highly informative guide exploring and explaining the wide range of geological features that can be found all around us.

Helpfully divided into the three main rock groups, landforms such as escarpments, waterfalls, stacks, caves, arches and sink holes are featured in this essential guide.

The authors’ beautiful photography, extended captions and concise text make exploring the subject of geological structures and related landforms accessible to both amateur enthusiasts and expert geologists alike for the first time.

Chris and Helen Pellant are based in North Yorkshire and they began writing books together in the 1980s. They have written a number of earth science books, and also run their own photographic library (picsandwords.com). They are keen conservationists, studying and recording everything from plants and lepidoptera to marine life.

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The Naked Shore Of the North Sea

Tom Blass ‘Intensely rewarding’ Independent

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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.

Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Frances Wilson ‘Stunning … A brilliant, giddy-making portrait … Energetic and wonderfully compelling *****’ Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

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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.

Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks Clare Nina Norelli Marking Twin Peaks’ 2017 return, this is the first book to explore the soundtrack’s role in its cult status

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cult sensation, key to Twin Peaks’ success was an unforgettable soundtrack

by Angelo Badalamenti, a reoccurring collaborator within the David Lynch universe. Badalamenti’s evocative music served as a constant in a narrative that was consistently unhinged and went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide.

How did a unique collaborative process result in a perfectly post-modern soundtrack and how did Badalamenti’s musical cues work with Lynch’s visuals for Twin Peaks; having the ability to break with television convention, eliciting unexpected responses in its audience? Clare Nina Norelli delves deep into the Lynchian underworld answering all these questions and more.

Clare Nina Norelli is an Australian writer and music practitioner. She has composed music for ensembles and film, and her writing has appeared in various publications.

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

Frank Dikötter ‘Magnificent’ Sunday Times

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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 Chinese 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 killed 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.

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

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, his books have changed the way historians view China.

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Landskipping Painters, Ploughmen and Places

Anna Pavord ‘Impeccably informed, fervently opinionated, gently witty and incurably passionate’ The Times

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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 appeared in the Independent for its full 30 years. She writes and presents programmes for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and served for ten years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, the last five as Chair.

In Other Words Jhumpa Lahiri ‘As an insight into ruthless creative daring and obsession with language, In Other Words is superb’ Horatio Clare, Daily Telegraph

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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.

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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.

Redeemable A Memoir of Darkness and Hope

Erwin James ‘This is how redemption should be done. James has done us a great service’ John Bird, Big Issue

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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 ten 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.

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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.

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Herding Hemingway’s Cats Understanding How Our Genes Work

Kat Arney ‘Arney’s chirpy tour through the mysteries of modern genetics is engrossing and fun’ Guardian

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he language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue or your hair curly. We’re told that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer’s. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. Drawing on stories from six-toed cats and stickleback hips to Mickey Mouse mice and zombie genes – told by researchers working at the cutting edge of genetics – Kat Arney explores the mysteries in our genomes with clarity, flair and wit, creating a companion reader to the book of life itself.

Following a doctorate in Developmental Genetics at Cambridge University and a research career, Kat Arney is now Science Communications Manager at Cancer Research UK where she translates science-speak into plain English for the media and the general public. Kat is also a freelance science writer and broadcaster, whose work has appeared in the Guardian and New Scientist.

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Isms: Understanding Photography Emma Lewis Clear and concise, this pocket-sized introduction to photography is perfect for the general reader and student, covering key trends and movements from the nineteenth century to the present day

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he latest in the bestselling Isms series. Concisely written, Isms: Understanding Photography packs an enormous amount of detail into a handy and attractive format tracing the evolution of photography through a series of interconnected trends, groups, themes and movements, from the invention of the photographic process to the post-Internet age. Completely international and comprehensive in scope, Isms: Understanding Photography is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this subject, one that in the Instagram age is of more resonance and general interest than ever before.

Emma Lewis is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, London, where she has worked on photographic acquisitions, curated collection displays – including Italian Modernist Photography (2014) and Otto Steinert (2015) and is currently researching a major monographic photography exhibition opening in Spring 2017.

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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enry Arthur Rostron was the captain of 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 professor of history at Missouri State University. The Atlantic liners were his first historical interest and he also served a hitch in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Reach the Top in Finance The Ambitious Accountant’s Guide to Career Success

Sally Percy Provides finance professionals around the world with a detailed blueprint for making it to the top of their chosen career

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n an increasingly global marketplace, finance is a highly competitive industry and it can be tough to reach the top. Those who are able to make it to the most senior positions require a unique skill set, covering areas that extend far beyond just crunching numbers.

This book features commentary from, and interviews with, current and former CFOs in the UK and overseas, as well as from related groups such as recruiters and headhunters. The book will provide the ambitious finance professional of today with the knowledge, insight and guidance they need to become the respected CFO of tomorrow.

Sally Percy is a journalist with over ten years of experience, mostly writing for the finance sector. With a high profile in the field, she has edited two journals (Accountancy and the Treasurer) and written a number of white papers for companies such as Ernst & Young and Hays.

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The Art of Content Marketing Building an Agile and Sustainable Brand Story

Alex Reeve A complete guide for marketers looking to maximise the impact and value of their content strategy

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ne of the most analyzed areas in modern business, content marketing is seen as an essential way to engage customers, win new business, and encourage loyalty and advocacy. The Art of Content Marketing outlines how companies can create a more authentic culture and develop an operating model that is attuned to the needs and behaviour of its target customers.

Not simply a guide to the mechanics of digital marketing, this book looks beyond the latest trends in social media to provide a fresh perspective on the core principles, with the longer-term goal of inspiring, engaging and retaining customers.

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Alex Reeve is a lecturer at Ashridge/Hult International Business School, where he teaches courses on agile marketing, digital marketing and new product development for the Masters in Marketing and Masters in International Business programmes. Alex was VP of Marketing at Pearson; prior to that, he was with Microsoft UK, as a director of the Windows phone division.

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

A. C. Grayling ‘The Age of Genius excels. Its scope is remarkable and it wears its learning lightly’ Literary Review

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n the seventeenth century science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered, affecting the new mind set – Descartes’ dualism, an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, yet 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.

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. acgrayling.com • @acgrayling

The Morning They Came for Us Dispatches from Syria

Janine di Giovanni ‘Heartbreaking … A testimony of the power of empathy, conscience and understanding’ Elif Shafak, Financial Times

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n May 2011, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, a region she had worked in for over 20 years. It marked the beginning of an intense relationship, as she began reporting from both sides of the Syrian conflict, through its descent into bloody war, and up until March 2015. Talking to people from every sector of society – villages to cities, government officials to opposition fighters – and working with the UN’s refugee agency, the country consumed all of her work and emotion. Delivered with passion and fearlessness, The Morning They Came For Us is an unflinching account of a nation on the brink of disintegration – and an unforgettable testament to human resilience in the face of unimaginable horrors.

Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for 25 years and is the winner of the 2016 Courage in Journalism Award. 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. janinedigiovanni.com • @janinedigi

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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

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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 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.

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The Wicked Boy The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

Kate Summerscale ‘Unexpectedly touching … A fascinating account of a murder and its endless reverberations’ Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday

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n Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his brother Nattie set out from their home in east London to watch a cricket match. Over the next ten 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. But when an awful smell arose from the boys’ house, the police were called to investigate. The Wicked Boy is the fascinating true story of a murder, and also of its astonishing aftermath.

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Kate Summerscale is the author of The Queen of Whale Cay, winner of the Somerset Maugham award; The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, and a Richard and Judy Book Club pick; 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. katesummerscale.com

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‘Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light’ John Carey, Sunday Times

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

Richard Hines ‘A work of enchanting honesty and tenderness … Rich with history, lit with humour and passionate social concern’ Helen Macdonald

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arry and Richard Hines both grew up in Hoyland Common, a South Yorkshire mining village. But after 11+ 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 sixteenthcentury hall. This obsession was to shape the course of his life.

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No Way But Gentlenesse is a moving tale of one boy’s attempt to find salvation in the natural world.

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Richard Hines was raised in Hoyland Common, a village in South Yorkshire. He was Deputy Head in a school but has spent most of his career as a documentary filmmaker, 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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Full Marks for Trying An Unlikely Journey from the Raj to the Rag Trade

Brigid Keenan ‘Poignant insights into a Britain now long gone ... Charming’ The Times

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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 60s London, Brigid fell into a career and found herself, at just 21, a Fashion Editor at the Sunday Times. Working with David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, 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.

Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. Now Fashion Editor at the Oldie, 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 Most Perfect Thing Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s Egg

Tim Birkhead ‘You’ll never dip your morning soldiers without a shiver of wonder at the complexity of the humble egg’ Observer

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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? These are just some of the questions Tim Birkhead answers in his fascinating new book, placing current scientific knowledge within an historical context and taking 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.

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Tim Birkhead is a professor at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. 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. bird-sense.com • @TimBirkhead1

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

Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple ‘A must-read’ Financial Times

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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 fight 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.

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

Having been at the forefront of analytical chemistry for more than 30 years, his methodologies have been crucial in the fight against food fraudsters. Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer. nicolatemple.com • @nicolatemple

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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, focussing 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.

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.

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Jacobites A New History of the ’45 Rebellion

Jacqueline Riding ‘A gripping, panoramic and timely account of the greatest eighteenth-century crisis to menace the Union of Great Britain’ Tom Holland

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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, doomed ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’; the heartless ‘Butcher’ Cumberland. This magnificent, wideranging 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.

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

She was founding Director of the Handel House Museum, London, and has worked as a curator at both the Guards Museum and the Palace of Westminster. Historian and adviser on Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (2014), she is now working on his next film project Peterloo.

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The Great Acceleration How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

Robert Colvile ‘Really an excellent book*****’ The Times, Book of the Week

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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 revelatory 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. robertcolvile.com • @rcolvile

Following On A Memoir of Teenage Obsession 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. @em_john

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The Fall of the House of Wilde Oscar Wilde and His Family

Emer O’Sullivan ‘An indispensable contribution to Wildean literature ... Compelling, informative and fascinating’ Stephen Fry

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scar Wilde’s father – scientist, surgeon, archeologist, 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 ten 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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The Last Royal Rebel The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

Anna Keay ‘The best royal biography I have read in years’ A. N. Wilson

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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.

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.

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.

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The End of the Road The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked 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.

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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 24 Tours de France and 20 Tours of Spain.

He was the Independent and the Independent on Sunday’s cycling correspondent from 2001 to 2016, and is a regular contributor to a number of leading cycling magazines. He has written two cycling books: The Eagle of Toledo and Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocana.

The Stress Test How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper

Ian Robertson ‘You can change, and here’s the proof ’ Oliver James

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hile some people rise to a challenge and function better in difficult situations, others fall apart. The difference between too much pressure and too little can result in either debilitating stress or demotivation. The right level of challenge, however, can help people flourish. This level varies hugely between individuals and situations but when 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.

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife The World of the Foreign Correspondent

John Simpson From distinguished foreign correspondent John Simpson, a fascinating history of those bringing home news of the troubled world

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cross the world, where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed, foreign correspondents have for centuries been engaged in uncovering the latest news and – despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent – relaying it home.

We Chose to Speak of War and Strife brings us pivotal moments in our history through the eyes of those who risked life and limb to witness them first hand, and the astonishing tales of what it took to report them. Weaving the tales of the greats of yesterday and today with extraordinary accounts from his own lifetime on the front lines, this is a deeply personal book from a true master of the profession.

John Simpson CBE is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor. In a BBC career spanning 50 years he has twice been the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year, and has won three BAFTAs, an International Emmy, and a wide range of other British, German, French and other awards for his reporting. He lives in Oxford.

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@JohnSimpsonNews Praise for Strange Places, Questionable People ‘Great stories, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious’ Daily Telegraph Praise for Days from a Different World ‘Superlative … Tangy, sensuous prose … The rationed, soot-black world of the late 1940s is beautifully evoked’ Sunday Times

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The Jane Austen Writers’ Club Inspiration and Advice from the World’s Best-Loved Novelist

Rebecca Smith ‘Winning and beguiling ... Smith shares Jane Austen’s clarity and gentle irony’ Independent

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ane Austen is the most beloved writer of the English literary canon. Her six novels changed the landscape of fiction forever – and her writing remains as fresh, entertaining and witty as when her books were first published. Now, you can learn her methods and how to live well as a writer with this illuminating and entertaining new book. Writing exercises sit alongside beautiful illustrations and quotes from Austen’s novels – highlighting the techniques of plotting and characterisation, through to dialogue and suspense. This remarkable guide will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work – and aspiring writers everywhere.

Rebecca Smith teaches creative writing at the University of Southampton, and is the author of three novels and one work of non-fiction, Jane Austen’s Guide to Modern Life’s Dilemmas. A Writer in Residence at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, she has run many Austen-inspired writing workshops at the museum and other venues. She lives in Hampshire. @RMSmithAuthor

Soccermatics Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game

David Sumpter ‘Football looked at in a very different way’ Pat Nevin, former Chelsea and Everton star and football media analyst

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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.

Soccermatics 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 traveling across the Sahara; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by Japanese slime moulds. collective-behavior.com • @Soccermatics

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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.

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Rick Broadbent is an award-winning journalist and author. He has been staff writer at The Times for ten 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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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

David Hone ‘Gripping and wonderfully informative’ Tom Holland, New Statesman

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yrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world. It topped six tons, was more than 12 metres 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 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.

David Hone is lecturer in Zoology at Queen Mary University, 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 time on the famous Chinese feathered dinosaur deposits. David writes a regular blog for the Guardian, Lost Worlds.

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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.

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, the Spectator and many others. @simonbarneswild

Death on Earth Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Jules Howard ‘An altogether eye-opening, engaging, and enjoyably humorous (but never distasteful) guided tour through the world of death’ Science

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atural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre.

With a narrative featuring a fish with a fake eye, the immortal jellyfish and some of the world’s top death-investigating biologists, Death on Earth explores the neverending cycle of death and the impact it has on the living. Why are we so weird about death? Where does this fear come from? And how might knowledge of ageing in other animals help us live better lives, free from the diseases of old age?

Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer, blogger 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, Nature 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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Big Data Does Size Matter?

Timandra Harkness ‘Harkness has the perfect combination of wit, charm and statistical insight to crunch big data’ Matt Parker, Stand-up Mathematician

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ig data knows where you’ve been and who your friends are. It can predict what you’ll buy and where you’ll be a victim of crime. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know big data?

Timandra Harkness takes us on a whirlwind tour of how people are using big data today: from science to smart cities and business to politics. She asks the big questions about where it’s taking us, leaving you armed and ready to decide what you think about one of the decade’s big ideas: big data.

Timandra Harkness is a writer, comedian and broadcaster, who has been performing on scientific, mathematical and statistical topics since the latter days of the twentieth century. She is a regular on BBC Radio, resident reporter on The Human Zoo as well as writing and presenting documentaries including BBC Radio 4’s Data, Data Everywhere and FutureProofing series.

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Hope My Life in Football

Hope Powell The story of the pioneering England women’s football manager

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ope Powell always wanted to play football as a child but was told it was not a suitable game for little girls. The original Bend It Like Beckham tale, hers is the inspiring story of how a kid from a south London housing estate became one of the most influential figures in world football.

A true role model, Powell relives the highlights of a lifelong career in the sport – from her playing days, through her incredible 15-year tenure as England manager and her work revolutionising how the women’s game was run and perceived, to being the first woman to gain the UEFA Pro Licence coaching qualification, and her time managing Great Britain Women at the 2012 Olympics.

Hope Powell is the first female Coach Educator at the Professional Footballers’ Association, and works as an advocate for change and development in women’s football. She lives in London.

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Index 0–9 4th Rock from the Sun 21st Century Workforces and Workplaces 30 Minute Curries

C 66 92 74

A Abandon Me 54 Age of Genius, The 108 All the Beloved Ghosts 8 Angelo Badalamenti’s Soundtrack from Twin Peaks 103 Arthur & Sherlock 45 Art of Content Marketing, The 107 Art of the Affair, The 47 At the Edge of the World 51

B Bad News 98 Barry Sheene 82 Based on a True Story 8 Between Them 57 Big Data 121 Billionaires Club, The 84 Bitter Pill, A 45 Boards That Dare 94 Branded Britain 94 Breaking Cover 36 Breaking Mad 87 Breaking the Chains of Gravity 99 Bricks that Built the Houses, The 21 Buddhist Economics 52 Built on Bones 64 Burning Ground, The 3

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Captain of the Carpathia Carnivalesque Cheese & Dairy Chief Engineer Coming, The Commonwealth Cook Japan, Stay Slim, Live Longer Cow Pie and Other Stories Crafted in Britain Cultural Revolution, The Cycling Cartoonist, The

F 106 7 76 61 38 24 73 76 48 103 84

D Dead Zone Death on Earth Delicious Gifts Detox Kitchen Bible, The Direct and Digital Marketing in Practice Dog’s Last Walk, The Don’t Stop Me Now Doomsday Machine, The Doubter’s Almanac, A Do You Know Who I Am? Dust of Promises, The

43 120 77 72 93 46 100 56 20 49 13

E Edging Towards Darkness Electronic Dreams End of the Road, The Endurance Europe: An Obituary?

Everything Love Is Exile, The

85 99 116 119 49 25 53

Fall of the House of Wilde, The 115 Farmageddon in Pictures 98 Folded Clock, The 46 Following On 114 Forensic Records Society, The 9 Fuelling the Cycling Revolution 86 Full Marks for Trying 111 Fully Connected 93

G Gangster Warlords Geological Structures Giro 100 Gods and Angels Good Bohemian, The Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic Gravel Heart Great Acceleration, The Guilty Thing Gun Room, The

96 101 81 27 58

113 9 114 102 23

H Hats Havana Herding Cats Herding Hemingway’s Cats History of Cycling in 100 Objects, A Hope Horseman, The House at Bishopsgate, The HR Paradox, The

60 47 79 105 83 121 2 3 90

I Identity Unknown Indelible Infinite Value In Gratitude In Other Words In Search of Songbirds Insomniac City Inspiring Leadership Isabella of Castile Isms: Understanding Photography

Mark Carwardine’s Guide to 50 38 91 97 104 70 54 91 42 106

Jacobites 113 Jane Austen Writers’ Club, The 118 Jonathan Unleashed 17 Junk Food Japan 75

L 30 104 115 92 95 60 6 78 41 120

M Magic Fridge, The Man of Iron Many Selves of Katherine North, The

78 40 27

Naked Shore, The Nice Work (If You Can Get It) Nits and Other Nasties Norse Mythology No Way But Gentlenesse

102 15 51 4 111

O On the Side 77 Our Young Man 26 Out of the Shadows 43 Out of Time 109 Overmapped and Uncharted 55

P Party Girls Die in Pearls Patient H69 Photographer’s Wife, The Planet Factory, The Please Do Not Disturb

31 67 22 64 28

Q Quiet Genius

R Reach the Top in Finance Reading the Rocks Re:Cyclists Redeemable Reformation Divided Reputations Risotto! Risotto!

River at Night, The River of Ink Robber of Youth, The

107 63 80 105 44 25 73 29 16 69

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Lake, The Landskipping Last Royal Rebel, The Leadership of Teams, The Leadersmithing Letter to a Young Writer (And You Too) Lincoln in the Bardo Little Viet Kitchen, The Locomotive of War, The Losing It

Whale Watching in North America 71 MasterChef: Street Food of the World 75 Morning They Came for Us, The 108 Most Perfect Thing, The 112 Mr Toppit 26 My European Family 65 My Own Dear Brother 13 My Sugar Free Baby and Me 87

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Sacred Combe, The 101 Sagrada Familia, The 59 Scary Old Sex 18 Scribbles in the Margins 59 Secrets of Wishtide, The 35 Secret Well Kept, A 44 Shadowless 12 Show Me A Mountain 28 Sidney Chambers and The Dangers of Temptation 34 Sidney Chambers and the Persistence of Love 32 Sixty Years of Jump Racing 79 Soccermatics 118 Sod Sitting, Get Moving!

89 So High a Blood 50 Song Rising, The 5 Songs, The 11 Sorted: The Active Woman’s Guide to Health 88 Sorting the Beef from the Bull 112 Stress Test, The 116 Summer Before the War, The 19 Swell 83 Systematic 66

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Taking Charge of Your Career 90 Theoretical Foot, The 23 They are Trying to Break Your Heart 22 This is the Ritual 16 Thousand Cuts, A 30 Thousand Paper Birds, A 12 Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet 72 Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) 37 Tyrannosaur Chronicles, The 119

Walking to Listen 62 Walworth Beauty, The 10 Way of the Hare, The 70 Wealthy Body In Business, The 88 We Chose to Speak of War and Strife 117 Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race 62 Wicked Boy, The 110 Winston Churchill in British Art, 1900 to the Present Day 48 Wisden at The Oval 85 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2017 81 Wonders Beyond Numbers 68 World Without End 100 World Without Us, The 14

U Ultra-Distance Cycling

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V Vanished, The 33 Violated, The 39 Vivek’s Indian Festival Feasts 74

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