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Bloomsbury New Titles July–December 2015

July – December 2015

2 Original Fiction

12 Original Non-fiction

36 Popular Science

39 Outdoors

41 Food

44 Business

47 Sport

52 Fashion

53 Religion

55 Paperback Fiction

64 Paperback Non-fiction

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

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t is 1947, and Beit Daras, a rural Palestinian village, is home to the Baraka family – oldest daughter Nazmiyeh, brother Mamdouh, beautiful young Marian and their widowed mother. But when Israeli forces descend on the village, the family must flee, taking the long road to Gaza, on a walk that will test them to their limits, with consequences that will echo throughout generations. This is a story of strong women and lost men – of relocation and separation – but also renewal, endurance and hope. Susan Abulhawa brings a raw humanity and delicate authority to the story of Palestine in this devastating tale of a family’s survival.

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

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

Us Conductors Sean Michaels Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Us Conductors is a beautiful, electric novel, inspired by the life and loves of the famed Russian scientist, inventor and spy, Lev Termen – creator of the theremin

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

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

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street Natasha Pulley Time, destiny – and a clockwork octopus – collide in this ravishing debut literary fantasy. Plunging readers into a magical past, it hinges on real historical events and scientific ideas

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n 1884, Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London flat to find a gold watch on his pillow. But he has bigger things to worry about than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, where he has just received a bomb threat.

Six months later, the mysterious watch saves Thaniel’s life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, and at last, he goes in search of its maker – a strange Japanese man called Keita Mori who has, among other talents for clockwork and baking, the ability to tell the future. When physicist Grace Carrow enters the scene, events spiral beyond Thaniel’s control.

Twenty-six-year-old Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University.

After stints working at Waterstones as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Press as a Publishing Assistant in the Astronomy and Maths departments, she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She is currently living in Tokyo, on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is her first novel.

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

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

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

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

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The Governor’s Wife Michael Harvey Chicago’s favourite Ovid-reading, gun-toting private investigator is back, taking on Illinois’ first family in this latest instalment of the Michael Kelly series

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t’s been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a courthouse moments after being sentenced to 38 years in prison for corruption.

PI Michael Kelly gets an anonymous email offering to pay him nearly a quarter of a million dollars if he will find Perry, no questions asked. His investigation begins with the woman Ray Perry left behind – his wife. Everyone in Chicago has secrets, including the governor’s wife. Some of them she shared with her husband. Some of them she kept to herself. And some of them could get Michael Kelly killed.

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Michael Harvey is an author, journalist and documentary producer. His work has won numerous national and international awards, including multiple Emmy Awards, two Primetime Emmy nominations and an Academy Award nomination.

The Governor’s Wife is his sixth book, and the fifth in the Michael Kelly series.

He lives in Chicago.

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michaelharveybooks.com • @TheChicagoWay

Black Book of Arabia Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi Based on true stories, a princess lifts the veil on what life is really like beyond the palace gates

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heikha Hend has gathered together a collection of stories about women who live and love in the Middle East. These are candid, moving and surprising tales that will resonate with readers around the world.

Meet a young woman whose best friend literally tries to steal her wedding – down to her bridal shoes and fiancé. Another woman’s marriage goes wrong when her husband tries to divorce her on their honeymoon. Then there is the girl whose mother ‘kidnaps’ her from LA and keeps her hostage in the middle of a desert in Egypt...

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Sheikha Hend Al Qassemi is Emirati and lives in Sharjah and Doha. She is an accomplished artist and successful entrepreneur as well as a committed philanthropist. She is editor-in-chief of Velvet, a high-end fashion and lifestyle magazine.

Man on Fire Stephen Kelman An unforgettable story of faith, forgiveness and second chances, Man on Fire is a powerful and touching novel from the Booker- and Guardian-shortlisted author of Pigeon English

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ohn Lock has come to Mumbai to meet his destiny. He has fled the quiet desperation of his life in England to offer his help to a man who has learned to conquer pain, a world record breaker who specialises in feats of extreme endurance and ill-advised masochism. Bibhuti Nayak’s next record attempt – to have 50 baseball bats broken over his body – will set the seal on a career that has seen him rise from poverty to become a minor celebrity in India’s city of dreams. But, as they take their leap of faith together, John learns more about life, and death, and everything in between than he had ever bargained for.

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

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Bitter Almonds Lilas Taha ‘So it is good to eat bitter almonds because they make the sweet ones taste even better?’

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

Nadia is young and idealistic. Her attempts to be oblivious to the bleak reality in Damascus are thwarted by her cowardly brother. Will she be able to break out of her traditional social mould to create her own destiny?

Heartbreaking and moving, Bitter Almonds is about displacement and exile, family duty and honour, and the universal feelings of love and loss.

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

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The Occupation Trilogy La Place de l’Étoile – The Night Watch – Ring Roads

Patrick Modiano Translated by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf and Frank Wynne Three novels from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, with an introduction by William Boyd

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hen Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the ‘art of memory’ to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Questioning wartime collaboration in France and myths of the Gaullist era, each of these novels concerns a young man trying to make sense of a morally ambiguous world. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory fictions interweave layers of collaboration and resistance, evoking a portrait of an occupied city.

Patrick Modiano was born in 1945. From his very first book to his most recent, he has pursued a quest for identity and some kind of reconciliation with the past. His screen plays include Lacombe Lucien (1974) and among his many prizes are the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française (1972) and the Prix Goncourt (1978).

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

Up Against the Night Justin Cartwright From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one man’s relationship with South Africa and its history

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rank McAllister, who left South Africa 30 years ago, finds himself ever more involved in South Africa’s turbulent history. His ancestor, Piet Retief, was the leader of the Boers who left the Cape Colony and were murdered by King Dingane of the Zulus. In his house on a beach near Cape Town, Frank feels at home, though he understands that the country he loves is unstable and dangerous. And when his maverick Afrikaner cousin, Jaco, contacts him, Frank finds himself drawn into a world of violence and delusion which also drags in his family. Up Against the Night is a profound and heart-wrenching story of one man and his engagement with his native land.

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Justin Cartwright’s novels include Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, White Lightning, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, and the Spears novel of the year, Other People’s Money. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in north London. @justincartwrig1

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Lifted by the Great Nothing Karim Dimechkie A heartwarming, heartbreaking story about a Lebanese-American coming of age under a loving roof, and a devastating lie

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ax lives with his father, Rasheed, and doesn’t remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey.

Rasheed is enamoured of American culture and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely. Rasheed has a single purpose in life: to provide Max with a joyful childhood. But sometimes his efforts do more harm than good, and when Max is 17, he discovers that his father has been lying to him – about everything – and their peaceful universe is destroyed. And so, Max ventures on an uncertain mission to Beirut to find what he hadn’t known was lost.

‘One of the most psychologically attuned, wise and evocative young novelists I’ve read’ Kevin Powers ‘A talent to watch and follow’ Jim Crace

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Karim Dimechkie was a Michener Fellow. Before that he taught English in Paris.

This is his first book. He lives in New York City.

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Sweet Caress The Many Lives of Amory Clay

William Boyd The compelling story of one woman’s extraordinary career – and a heartwrenching tale of love and war in the 20th century

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mory Clay’s first memory is of her father standing on his head – but it is his absences she chiefly remembers. Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, supplies an emotional bond, and, when he gives her a camera, unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. Over the years, Amory’s search for love and artistic expression will take her from late 1920s Berlin, to 1930s New York and WWII France – collecting lovers, husbands and children, pursuing dreams and battling demons.

Sweet Caress is a sweeping panorama of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

William Boyd is the author of 12 novels including An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Any Human Heart, which was adapted into a Channel 4 drama; and Restless, a Richard & Judy selection, and winner of the Costa Novel of the Year. William Boyd lives in London and France.

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The Inflatable Woman Rachael Ball An unconventional, haunting and stunning debut graphic novel about unrequited love, hope, friendship and delusion – containing beautiful original artwork from a new British talent

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ris (or balletgirl_42 as she’s known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated by a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her unforgettable friends – Maud, Grandma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group of singing penguins – to comfort her, her fears begin to encircle her and all she has to cling on to is the attention of a lighthouse keeper called sailor_buoy_39.

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The Inflatable Woman combines magic realism with the grit of everyday life, to create a poignant and surreal journey inside the human psyche.

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Rachael Ball is a cartoonist and art teacher. Her illustrations and cartoons have appeared in various publications including Deadline, the Times Educational Supplement and the Radio Times. This is her first graphic novel. @rachaelcartoons

The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood A sinister, wickedly funny novel about a near-future in which the lawful are locked up and the lawless roam free

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iving in their car, surviving on tips, Charmaine and Stan are in a desperate state.

So, when they see an advertisement for Consilience, a ‘social experiment’ offering stable jobs and a home of their own, they sign up immediately. All they have to do in return for suburban paradise is give up their freedom every second month – swapping their home for a prison cell. At first, all is well. But then, unknown to each other, Stan and Charmaine develop passionate obsessions with their ‘Alternates’, the couple that occupy their house while they are in prison. Soon the pressures of conformity, mistrust, guilt and sexual desire begin to take over.

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than 40 books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid’s Tale, her novels include Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin (winner of the 2000 Booker Prize), the MaddAddam trilogy, and, most recently, the critically acclaimed story collection Stone Mattress.

Margaret Atwood lives in Toronto, Canada. margaretatwood.ca • @MargaretAtwood

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A Slant of Light Jeffrey Lent From the author of the international bestseller, In the Fall: an epic historical novel that fearlessly addresses questions of love, justice and how to live

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ater, Malcolm Hopeton would say he couldn’t remember what happened. He’d say it was as if he were back in the worst of the war, the war that tore apart America and that damaged him so irreparably he could not fathom how he came to be in prison awaiting trial for murder. In fact, though, he recalled every detail of the moment he killed Amos Wheeler. A Slant of Light is a tale of revenge and retribution and theft and forgiveness, of the moments that shatter people’s lives and the ways in which they put them back together.

Jeffrey Lent was born in Vermont and grew up there and in western New York State, on dairy farms. His first novel, In the Fall, was an international bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000. His other novels are Lost Nation, A Peculiar Grace and After You’ve Gone. Lent lives with his wife and two daughters in central Vermont. jeffreylent.com

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Paris, He Said Christine Sneed A psychologically adept novel about romance and art – and Paris – from the award-winning author of Little Known Facts

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ayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with Laurent Moller, a gallery owner. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will become if she meets her artistic potential.

Laurent, however, seems to have other women in his life and Jayne isn’t wholly innocent either.

Christine Sneed’s story collection Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry won the Grace Paley Prize, Ploughshares’ John C. Zacharis Prize, and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. Her debut novel Little Known Facts won the Society of Midland Authors award for best adult fiction and was named a top ten debut novel of 2013 by Booklist.

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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, between a mob boss and a special prosecutor who’ll stop at nothing to convict him

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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 sometime prostitute – is the witness who claims she can do it. Only George Morton Levy, a charismatic defense attorney, stands between Lucky and a life behind bars; between Dewey and a run for the White House. Based on a trove of newly discovered documents, Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) sheds dazzling new light on the trial that riveted a nation and introduced the world to the darkly glamourous demimonde of organised crime in America.

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, where he won the grand prize Storyteller Award. chuckgreaves.com

As Good as Dead Elizabeth Evans From the acclaimed author of Carter Clay comes a dark, addictive, sharply observed tale of vanity, betrayal and risky redemption

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ndearingly flawed and battered-around-the-edges, Charlotte has managed to fashion herself a life that balances marriage and a writing career, but now Esmé, the charming friend Charlotte betrayed at university, stands at Charlotte’s door: Surprise! Charlotte yearns to make amends, but she’s wary. Esmé makes no mention of Charlotte’s old betrayal and the two resume their friendship, but soon enough a request from Esmé will upend Charlotte’s careful world. Suspenseful, witty, with spot-on evocations of university life in the late 1980s, As Good as Dead performs an exquisite psychological high-wire act, exploring loves and friendships poisoned by secrets and fears.

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Elizabeth Evans’s five previous books are The Blue Hour, Suicide’s Girlfriend, Carter Clay, Locomotion and Rowing in Eden. Her distinctions include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the James Michener Fellowship, the Iowa Author Award and the Four Corners Award. A long-time professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona, Evans makes her home in Tucson.

Scarpia Piers Paul Read Based on one of the central figures from Tosca, Puccini’s classic opera, Scarpia is a powerful story of love, lust and political intrigue

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t is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitellio Scarpia finds himself, penniless and in disgrace, on the streets of Rome. Intent on furthering his position in the city, Scarpia supplements his income as a guard by accompanying a seductive countess, delighted at the prospect of having an ex-soldier on her arm.

But, traversing a society swirling with questions of political and sexual morality, the provincial soldier begins to toughen. And, as his own path converges with that of the gifted, beautiful Floria Tosca, he discovers that the fate that led him to power will be the same one that tears him from it.

Piers Paul Read is best known for his book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into a film in 1993. He has won a number of prizes for his fiction, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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Playing Scared My Journey Through Stage Fright

Sara Solovitch A thoughtful and insightful journey into the myriad causes of stage fright and the equally diverse ways to overcome it

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

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

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

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

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or decades, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world. In each country, he saw similar problems: values that have helped the very rich to advance beyond the multitudinous poor, a disregard for the environment and governments in paralysis among them. Now, the Dalai Lama gives us his vision of a better future, one that prioritises the concerns of humanity at large, and explains how we can get there. He presents a new perspective on the world as we know it, one that can bring hope to millions and that has the potential to shape humanity’s course in the 21st century.

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

He lives in Massachusetts. danielgoleman.info • @DanielGolemanEI

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Worlds Apart A Memoir

David Plante A moving portrait of a relationship at the centre of a world of writers, artists and farmers, whose realms are now disappearing for ever

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he writer David Plante has kept a diary of his life among renowned artists and writers and the less renowned for over half a century. This extracted memoir spans the 1980s, a period of exploration and growth for Plante and his lover, Nikos Stangos, as they expanded their London lives into worlds apart, in New York, in Italy, in Greece. Among these recollections are his house-share with Germaine Greer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his stay in Israel with Philip Roth, his parochial FrancoAmerican life in New England, the death of his parents, the loss of his friends to AIDS and his participation in the lives of Umbrian farmers; all worlds that, however challenged and pulled apart, remain strung together by memory.

David Plante is the author of the novels The Ghost of Henry James, The Family (nominated for the National Book Award), The Woods, The Country, The Foreigner, The Native, The Accident, Annunciation and The Age of Terror. He has published stories and profiles in the New Yorker, and features in the New York Times, Esquire and Vogue. He lives in London; Lucca, Italy; and Athens, Greece.

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Seven Days in Syria Janine di Giovanni A searing, intimate account of the conflict in Syria – and a major new documentary film to coincide with publication

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anine di Giovanni, an award-winning reporter renowned for her storytelling, who has covered nearly every violent conflict for the last 20 years, now turns her eyes to Syria. In this extraordinary book, she tells the real stories of that terrible conflict through the experiences of ordinary people, as the war gains momentum.

Written with great humanity, it powerfully and movingly describes what life is like during wartime – how people live, how they endure and how they find the strength to continue. It is a timely and important book about a country and a war that urgently needs to be understood by us all.

Janine di Giovanni is the Middle East Editor of Newsweek, contributing editor of Vanity Fair, and has written for the New York Times, Granta and Harper’s.

She was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in reducing armed conflict by Action on Armed Violence. Seven Days in Syria is her sixth book.

She lives in Paris. janinedigiovanni.com • @janinedigi

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The Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild John Cooper A major new biography of Nathaniel (Natty) Rothschild, the first Baron Rothschild

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he Rothschilds were a family that could make or break dynasties, yet were also outstanding philanthropists and collectors of some of the world’s greatest art treasures. As the first Jewish peer in the House of Lords, Nathaniel (Natty) Rothschild precipitated a major constitutional crisis as a leader of City opinion.

Under his guidance the family bank N.M. Rothschild reached the peak of its fortunes, benefiting from British imperial expansion. He knew every leading British politician from Disraeli to Lloyd George, helping the latter to surmount this country’s worst ever financial crisis. Natty died a man mourned by the political elite and the masses. It is only now that his story has been fully told.

John Cooper specialises in Jewish history. He is the author of four previous books, including The Child in Jewish History (Aronson), Jewish Doctors and Lawyers in England (Littman Library), and a biography of Raphael Lemkin (Palgrave Macmillan). After studying history at Balliol College, Oxford, he practised in London as a lawyer. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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

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

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

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

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

Cobra in the Bath Adventures in Less Travelled Lands

Miles Morland The hilarious story of a man who has done it all, from re-inventing investing in Africa, to running for his life from a Tehran mob (aged seven)

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iles Morland has adventures. After a childhood in India, Tehran and Baghdad he was sent to England for a ‘proper’ education. Later, after years of shouting down a Wall Street telephone, he set off to discover the world. Deported at gunpoint from Romania, saved from assassination in Ethiopia by a lucky plane crash, riding an Enfield Bullet through Ooty, and following Che over the Andes – Miles has a knack of finding trouble. Brilliantly observed and told with unique humour, Cobra in the Bath will have you crying with laughter and scared out of your wits.

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Miles Morland grew up all over the place. He overcame a conventional background to lead a life of often absurd adventure. His first book, The Man Who Broke Out of the Bank, about chucking up his job and walking across France with his wife, was a Sunday Times bestseller. He lives on a boat in London.

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Nabokov in America On the Road to Lolita

Robert Roper A unique portrait of Vladimir Nabokov told through the lens of the years he spent in America

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he author of the beloved Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, might seem quintessentially European. But Vladimir Nabokov, who moved to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time in the States as the richest of his life, and some of his best work, including Lolita, was inspired by his life there.

In Nabokov in America, Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer’s life with charm and insight. His illuminating book explores in a very original way the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov’s most beloved books.

Robert Roper’s journalism appears in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic and other publications. His most recent book, Now the Drum of War, was an Editor’s Choice pick in the New York Times Book Review.

He has also published several novels. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore and California.

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Anti-Semitism John Mann An important new contribution on a subject of increasing urgency and relevance: the rise of worldwide anti-Semitism

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nti-Semitism in our recent history has seen an alarmingly marked increase, with Jewish graves desecrated and synagogues daubed with swastikas. John Mann has assembled a Reader on the theme of anti-Semitism, ranging from the writings of Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein and Jean-Paul Sartre to George Washington, Jesse Jackson and Émile Zola.

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The book is published in the same year as a report under the auspices of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism. With a foreword by political activist and author Elie Wiesel, Anti-Semitism will come to be seen as a contribution of major importance on a subject of incipient lethal danger.

John Mann has been Labour MP for Bassetlaw since 2001. He sits on the influential Treasury Committee in the House of Commons and was formerly Chair of Labour Students. Since 2005, he has been Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism.

The Silk Roads A New History of the World

Peter Frankopan A major reassessment of global history that shows a new world in the East not emerging – but being reborn

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he peoples, places and cultures of the East once dominated the world. The region stretching from Eastern Europe right across Central Asia into China and India was tied by vast commercial veins through which religion, goods and ideas were disseminated. The rise of the West in the early modern period came at the expense of these networks; but now a new Silk Road is emerging. With patterns of exchange uncannily similar to those of the past, this web is once again taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture. Today, it is the East which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches – as it did for millennia.

The modern world must listen.

Peter Frankopan is Director of the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He was previously Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Fellow at Princeton. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The First Crusade: The Call from the East was published in 2012.

Cyberphobia Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet

Edward Lucas An alarming and persuasive exposé of how cyber-crime, cyber-terrorism, cyberespionage and cyber-warfare converge

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dward Lucas reveals the ways in which cyberspace is not the secure zone we may hope, how passwords provide no significant obstacle to anyone intent on getting past them, and how anonymity is accessible to anyone – malign or benign – able to cover their tracks. Cyberphobia not only explains how identities can be faked so easily that the very foundations on which our political, legal and economic systems are based are vulnerable, but explores successful defensive cyberstrategies and argues that we are moving into a post-digital age where face-to-face communication will be the only interaction that matters.

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Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. His expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, Russian foreign and security policy and the politics and economics of Eastern Europe. He is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to CNN and Sky News. He is the author of The New Cold War, which has been published in more than 15 languages.

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edwardlucas.com • @edwardlucas

Joy Ride Lives of the Theatricals

John Lahr A dazzling celebration of theatre, its workings and its most compelling playwrights by the New Yorker’s senior drama critic emeritus

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ohn Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,’ says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tony Kushner and August Wilson, through the work of directors like Nicholas Hytner and Ingmar Bergman, to Shakespeare himself, the depth of Lahr’s understanding is plain to see and extraordinary to read. Whether you are a regular theatre-goer, or just starting out, Lahr’s book delights as both a celebration and a guide.

John Lahr was the senior drama critic for the New Yorker for 20 years. He is a critic, novelist and biographer and is the author of 17 books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion, the biography of Bert Lahr and, most recently, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, which was a finalist for the National Book Award 2014. He lives in north London.

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Girl in Glass How My ‘Distressed Baby’ Defied the Odds, Shamed a CEO, and Taught Me the Essence of Love, Heartbreak and Miracles

Deanna Fei A brave and inspiring memoir of Fei’s daughter’s extremely premature birth and the controversy that erupted when AOL’s CEO blamed her for a cut in employee benefits

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n February 2014, a year after Deanna Fei’s daughter was born, the beautiful, miraculously healthy little girl was blamed by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong for a cut in employee benefits. This violation of privacy sparked intense debates across the US media and eventually propelled Fei to come forward to restore the humanity of a child who had overcome so much. Girl in Glass is Deanna Fei’s searing, luminous portrait of her daughter’s harrowing journey and her own struggles and joys as a mother. A testament to the fierceness and endurance of parental love, it humanises the perilous state of individual privacy versus corporate indifference.

Deanna Fei is the author of the novel A Thread of Sky. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, The Millions, Huffington Post and other publications.

She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.

Scootermania A Celebration of Style and Speed

Josh Sims A stylish celebration of one of the motoring world’s most lasting design icons

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he classic Italian motor scooter is an enduring design classic from the 20th century. With stylish photographs, original advertising and artworks, Scootermania celebrates the superbly simple vehicles that are so symbolic of freedom, style and the modern world. Early chapters look at scooter racing and long-distance attempts, while the iconic role of scooters in popular culture from films, music and fashion is given due attention.The penultimate chapter chronicles how generations across the world have made the bikes their own – from the British Mods of the 1960s and 1980s to their role in American and Japanese fashion and in their Italian homeland.

Josh Sims is a journalist who contributes to the Financial Times, the Independent, Wallpaper and Esquire writing on style and trends including menswear and cars.

He is editor of the social trends journal, Viewpoint.

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Democracy Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa & Annie Di Donna An epic graphic novel about the birth and rise of democracy – from the illustrator of the bestselling Logicomix

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emocracy opens in Athens in 490 bc, on the moonless eve of a great battle.

The story’s hero, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the fight, recounting his life story, and bearing direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and to the birth of a new political system. Through breathtaking scenes, we see that democracy was born through the cunning and courage of a group of highly talented, driven individuals. A vivid depiction of personal and political transition, this important graphic novel is at once exciting, moving and profound.

Alecos Papadatos has worked in both illustration and animation; his graphic novel Logicomix became an international phenomenon. He lives in Athens.

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Abraham Kawa is the author of numerous books and teaches Cultural Studies at the University of the Aegean, focusing on graphic novels and genre fiction.

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Annie Di Donna is an art director and colourist, and she has been an animator on many international productions. alecos.eu • @AlecosPapadatos

The Health Gap The Challenge of an Unequal World

Michael Marmot One of the world’s leading doctors and public intellectuals reveals how social injustice is the greatest threat to health in the world

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here are dramatic inequalities in health between countries and within countries.

A poor man in Glasgow is rich compared to the average Indian, but the Glaswegian’s life expectancy is eight years shorter than the Indian’s. The Indian is dying of infectious disease linked to his poverty; the Glaswegian of violence, suicide or heart disease linked to a wealthy country’s version of disadvantage. Michael Marmot also shows that higher social status leads to better health – extraordinarily so. These health inequalities defy the usual explanations and Marmot’s new evidence and recommendations have the potential to radically change the way we think about health and society.

Born in England and educated in Australia, Sir Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL. In 2015 he takes up the Lown visiting professorship at Harvard and Presidency of the World Medical Association.

He chaired the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. His recommendations have been adopted by the World Health Assembly and many countries.

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

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

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

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

Genius At Play The Curious Mathematical Mind of John Horton Conway

Siobhan Roberts Inside the eccentric world of gifted polymath John Horton Conway, inventor of the Game of Life

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orn in Liverpool in 1937, John Horton Conway found fame as a Cambridge professor, making a pivotal contribution to the field of mathematical symmetry and inventing ‘surreal numbers’. At Princeton University since 1987, his contributions to various aspects of mathematics are legendary. Conway is most celebrated for his 1970s cult classic ‘Game of Life’, which has had broad cultural and scientific influence, providing an analogy for all mathematics and also for the universe itself. Genius at Play recalls A Beautiful Mind in its examination of brilliance and eccentricity – it is a unique and intimate portrait of the mind and work of one of the world’s most acclaimed mathematicians.

Siobhan Roberts is a science writer and winner of two National Magazine Awards.

Her first book, King of Infinite Space, won the Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Prize for expanding the public’s view of mathematics. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear

Elizabeth Gilbert From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you’ve dreamed of

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eaders of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, this beloved author digs into her own life to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With radiant generosity, she ponders the mysterious nature of inspiration, asking us to embrace curiosity, tackle what we most love and face down what we most fear. Whether we are looking to create art, address challenges at work, embark on a dream long deferred, or simply to infuse our everyday lives with more mindfulness and passion, Big Magic cracks open a world of wonder and joy.

Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of seven books of fiction and non-fiction, including Eat Pray Love, which sold over ten million copies worldwide, and was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. Her most recent work, The Signature of All Things was a New York Times bestseller, and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2014. She lives in New Jersey.

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Thatcher’s Trial Six Months that Defined a Leader

Kwasi Kwarteng A fascinating examination of the leadership of Britain’s most controversial postwar Prime Minister from acclaimed historian Kwasi Kwarteng

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n 1981, Margaret Thatcher faced the greatest challenge of her premiership. The ‘no hope’ budget delivered by Chancellor Geoffrey Howe in March marked the beginning of a six-month period which saw pressures in Northern Ireland, hunger strikes, urban riots and unprecedented unrest within the Conservative Party.

Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng here captures this shopkeeper’s daughter’s unique leadership qualities, from the pulpit style and the Old Testament imagery to the emphasis on personal moral responsibility, in some of the most adverse conditions facing any statesman in modern peacetime. He offers a brilliant study of one of the historic leaders of our time.

Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and is the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. He is the author of Ghosts of Empire and War and Gold. This is his third book.

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Francis Bacon in Your Blood Michael Peppiatt A deeply intimate and revealing memoir of one of the most important artists of the 20th century

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ichael Peppiatt first met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in the French House in Soho. Peppiatt was immediately swept up into the controversial painter’s world and, over oysters and champagne, they embarked on a friendship that would endure for 30 years. From Bacon’s electrifying early exhibitions through the chaos of drink, drugs and gambling – predatory homosexuals, louche clubs and East End criminals – Peppiatt became deeply involved with the genius who created the defining images of our times. This superb memoir reveals Bacon at his most indiscreet while bringing the London and Paris art worlds vividly alive. A story of two lives closely intertwined and recalled at their most extraordinary moments.

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Michael Peppiatt studied at the University of Cambridge. He has curated several exhibitions of Francis Bacon’s work and published numerous books. In 1985 he became owner and editor of Art International, which he relaunched from Paris.

In 2005 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Cambridge for his published work in the field of 20th century art.

A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice The ultimate romantic story retold with a cast of guinea pigs… following the international success of A Guinea Pig Nativity 24 SEPTEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • 9781408865514 • £7.99 EBOOK • 9781408865521 • £7.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 OCTOBER 2015 HARDBACK • AUS $19.99 • NZ $24.99

‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’

Mrs Bennet’s only wish is for her five unmarried daughters to settle down with husbands, so when two eligible bachelors move to the neighbourhood, excitement is in the air. Mr Bingley is charming and genteel, but it is noble and handsome Mr Darcy who gains all the attention – until, that is, he refuses to dance with spirited Elizabeth Bennet. Deemed the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, everyone hopes never to see him again. But much to his dismay, Mr Darcy starts to find himself increasingly drawn to Elizabeth’s beautiful dark eyes…

Here is a brand new abridgement of the classic Jane Austen novel, with cute and humble guinea pigs in the starring roles.

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Heirloom Harvest Amy Goldman Magical daguerreotypes of garden harvests, celebrating forgotten varieties of vegetables and fruit

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my Goldman, one of the world’s leading plant conservationists, has devoted her life to growing heirloom fruit and vegetables. On her 200-acre plot of land in New York’s Hudson Valley, she cultivates orchards full of apples, pears and peaches and plots of squashes, beetroot, peppers and tomatoes. Heirloom Harvest features delicate and luminous images of Amy’s produce, taken by acclaimed photographer Jerry Spagnoli on the earliest type of camera, a daguerreotype. With exquisite production values, this unique book is a must-have for anyone fascinated by food, gardening or photography.

Amy Goldman is a zealous gardener, conservationist and well-known advocate for heirloom gardening. She is the author of Melons for the Passionate Grower, The Compleat Squash and The Heirloom Tomato. She lives in New York City and Rhinebeck, New York.

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The Hollow of the Hand PJ Harvey & Seamus Murphy The debut book by artist and writer PJ Harvey, in collaboration with film-maker and photographer Seamus Murphy, emerges as a one-of-a-kind collection of poetry and images

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etween 2011 and 2014 PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy set out on a series of journeys together to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected pictures, and together they created an extraordinary chronicle of our life and times. The Hollow of the Hand marks the first publication of Harvey’s powerful poetry, in conversation with Murphy’s indelible images. It is a landmark project and will be published in a hardback edition with highest quality photographic reproductions, as well as a reader’s paperback version. A limited number of signed special editions will also be available.

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PJ Harvey has released eight acclaimed albums, been nominated for six Grammy Awards, and is the only artist to have been awarded the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize twice. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE for services to music. The Hollow of the Hand is her first published collection of poetry.

Seamus Murphy has documented life and change around the world, and won seven World Press Photo awards. His depiction of Afghanistan and the Afghans over more than a decade was published as a book, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan.

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Metropolis Mapping the City

Jeremy Black How the city has been imagined in maps from ancient times to the present day

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he city is a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. This sumptuous volume looks at the development of the mapping and representation of the city, revealing how we organise the urban space. From skyline profiles, bird’s eye views and panoramas, to schematic maps of transport networks and road layouts, and statistical maps that can provide information on human aspirations, cities reveal themselves in many ways. Focusing on key points in the development of urban representation, this enlightening book illustrates some of the oldest, youngest, liveliest and most contested cities in the world.

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of more than 80 books and has lectured extensively around the world. Jeremy’s recent publications include Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918–40 (Bloomsbury, 2012), The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (Continuum, 2011) and London: A History (Carnegie, 2009).

1916 A Global History

Keith Jeffery A compelling exploration of the First World War’s global reach, told through events that dramatically altered the fate of many nations

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overing the 12 months of 1916, Keith Jeffery uses 12 significant moments from various countries and shows how these events reverberated around the globe and dramatically changed the face of the war. As well as exploring the betterknown battles of Gallipoli, Verdun and the Somme, he also reaches beyond the well-trodden path, visiting Dublin, Africa, Central Asia and even Japan. Using an incredible range of military, social and cultural sources, and relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider, global developments, these are the stories lost to history, conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Western Europe and moments that transformed the war.

Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is the author of 15 previous books, including MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–1949. He lives in Northern Ireland.

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands Thinkers of the New Left

Roger Scruton The primary thinkers of the New Left are examined and re-evaluated in this study by one of the leading critics of leftist orientations in modern Western philosophy

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n Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, Roger Scruton explores the intellectual roots and political effect of the radical arguments that arose during the 1960s and 1970s, and which have – after a period of doubt – now returned with a vengeance. From Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband to Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, the vision of an egalitarian Utopia has occupied a central place in the discussion of history, politics and culture throughout the West. What explains the persistence of the Utopian illusion? And how do we replace it with a realistic vision that is not merely a form of pessimism?

Professor Roger Scruton is Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington DC. He has published a large number of books, including some works of fiction, and has written and composed two operas. He writes regularly for The Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator.

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The Rise and the Fall of the Reader From Socrates to Twitter

Frank Furedi An eclectic and entirely original history of reading from eminent social historian Frank Furedi

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he very act of reading endows individuals with an identity that has great symbolic significance. Historically, readers have been divided into a variety of categories – literates and illiterates, intensive and extensive readers, or vulgo and discreet readers. Today distinctions are made between cultural and instrumental readers and scorn is communicated towards the infamous ‘tabloid reader’ and the ‘distracted’ consumer of social media. The Rise and the Fall of the Reader explores the changing meanings attributed to the act of reading, arguing vigorously for the cultivation of the art of reading – every bit as important as the art of writing.

Frank Furedi is Professor of Social Studies at the University of Kent and is well known as a pundit and public intellectual throughout the English-speaking world.

His previous books include First World War: Still No End in Sight (Bloomsbury) and Paranoid Parenting (Continuum).

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Parish Church Treasures The Nation’s Greatest Art Collection

John Goodall An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England’s remarkable parish churches, ‘the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory’

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ur parish churches constitute a living patrimony without parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing: fine art and architecture here combine unpredictably with the functional, the curious and the naïve to form an unsung national museum which presents its contents in an everyday setting without curators or formal displays.

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John Goodall’s weekly column in Country Life has celebrated particular objects in or around churches that are of outstanding artistic, social or historical importance.

Building on this popular series, Parish Church Treasures tells afresh the remarkable history of the parish church, illustrated with stunning photographs by leading architectural photographer Paul Barker.

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Dr John Goodall is an award-winning author and the Architectural Editor of Country Life. His most recent book The English Castle was awarded the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in 2011. John previously worked as a historian for English Heritage and was the series consultant for BBC One’s How We Built Britain (2007).

Quentin Blake In the Making

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

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uentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the 20th century.

Internationally cherished by all generations, he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Roald Dahl.

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Ghislaine Kenyon has known Quentin Blake since 1998. She has observed how Blake’s take on life informs his memorable illustrations and his art in turn has informed his life – a life which is extremely private and contained. With exceptional insight into Blake’s oeuvre, and accompanied by numerous examples of his remarkable illustrations, Quentin Blake is a different kind of life-writing, starting from a critical view of the artist’s work, and forms a fitting tribute to Quentin Blake’s journey and his great legacy.

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

John le Carré The Biography

Adam Sisman The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic writer

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

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

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Coventry Thursday, 14 November 1940

Frederick Taylor The definitive account of the German bombing of Coventry – a companion volume to the same author’s acclaimed Dresden

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n the night of 14/15 November 1940 the Luftwaffe launched a massive bombing raid against Coventry, one of the most devastating to hit Britain during the entire war. It was a turning point, representing a new kind of air warfare, one which sacrificed immediate military goals and instead focused on attacking all aspects of city life: a ‘blueprint for obliteration’.

Churchill’s government exploited the raid to tip American opinion in favour of Britain. Frederick Taylor tells the story of this terrible, extraordinary moment and its consequences, and looks at whether the fate of Coventry really could provide justification for the horror of Dresden, 1945.

Frederick Taylor read History and Modern Languages at Oxford and did postgraduate work at Sussex University. He edited and translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–41 and is the author of four acclaimed books of narrative history, Dresden, The Berlin Wall, Exorcising Hitler and most recently The Downfall of Money. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives in Cornwall.

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Richard III A Ruler and his Reputation

David Horspool A riveting major new biography of Richard III, one of England’s most enigmatic and elusive kings

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amously depicted as ‘Crookback Dick’, Shakespeare’s hunchbacked fiend, the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England’s most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the discovery of Richard’s bones under a car park in Leicester, the obsession with this mysterious king has been further ignited.

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In this major new biography David Horspool is as concerned to examine the legend as he is the man. Have we retrospectively considered Richard III to be the personification of evil? Where should his remains be reburied? These questions and more are discussed in this fascinating insight into one of England’s most elusive kings.

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David Horspool is the History Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and the author of Why Alfred Burned the Cakes (Profile), The English Rebel (Viking/ Penguin) and with Colin Firth, The People Speak (Canongate).

The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Arthur Miller, edited by Dr Matthew Roudané A selection of essays published together for the first time to mark the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth

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hese essays take the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history: the Nazi war crimes trials, Vietnam, Watergate, the Balkan conflict and President Clinton’s infamous liaison with Monica Lewinsky, as well as Miller’s views on theatre. Drawn from three earlier publications, Echoes Down the Corridor, The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller and The Crucible in History, together they form this definitive record of Miller’s views, edited and introduced by Matthew Roudané, Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University.

Arthur Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City and was arguably the greatest American playwright of the 20th century.

Dr Matthew Roudané is Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University, USA.

Jonathan Franzen The Comedy of Rage

Philip Weinstein The first literary biography, drawing on unpublished emails and a private interview, to unpack Franzen the person and the writer

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hilip Weinstein explores the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer – from his ultra-sensitive Midwestern childhood, through his heady years at Swarthmore College, where the two became acquainted, his marriage and the alienating decade of the 1990s, up to his spectacular ascent and assimilation into pop-culture as one of the literary figures of his generation. The book joins biography and criticism and tries to answer the question: how did Franzen move from the rage of his first two novels to the comic stance of the later two on which his reputation rests?

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Philip Weinstein is the Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College, USA. Weinstein has written books that range from James to Faulkner and Morrison (in American literature), and from Dickens to Joyce (in British literature). Weinstein’s Becoming Faulkner was the recipient of the Hugh Holman Award for the best book written on Southern Literature.

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George and Martha Washington A Revolutionary Marriage

Flora Fraser An enthralling, revealing portrait of the marriage of George and Martha Washington, from bestselling biographer Flora Fraser

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eorge and Martha Washington were America’s original first couple. In a narrative enhanced by a close reading of personal, military and presidential papers, Flora Fraser brings Martha and her better-known husband to life afresh. This book will connect a new generation with a man whose foibles were many but whose stature on the world stage is undeniable. Martha Washington, when tested, proved a redoubtable spouse to Revolutionary War commander and President alike. From quiet beginnings in colonial Virginia together, in winter headquarters and in presidential residences, they helped forge a new nation. Flora Fraser traces the personal as well as the political development of an extraordinary relationship.

Flora Fraser is the author of bestselling biographies of Emma Hamilton, Beloved Emma, Queen Caroline, The Unruly Queen, as well as of Princesses: The Daughters of George III and Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte.

She lives in London.

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

Pierre Bayard Translated by Michele Hutchison A lively exploration of place and travel and the place of travel in our lives

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mong the expanding requirements of the educated modern citizen are those of extensive travel and experience of foreign cultures. Spinning around the world like Phileas Fogg, disregarding time, geography and reality, Bayard takes the reader from Marco Polo’s medieval China and Chateaubriand’s North America, to lost islands, stolen marathons and the invented worlds of cheats, murderers, lovers and adulterers. Mixing impish humour with serious challenges in this entertainingly subversive book, he ultimately leads the reader to a fresh understanding of the world. Bayard will provoke you to re-examine how you travel, how you don’t – and most importantly how to talk about it afterwards.

Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of the bestseller How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read and many other books. He lives in Paris.

Patti Smith Collected Lyrics Patti Smith An essential new collection of the lyrics of Patti Smith, writer, artist and musician, author of the international bestseller Just Kids

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015 marks the fortieth anniversary of Patti Smith’s seminal album Horses. To celebrate, Smith and her band will embark on an international tour. Sony will release a box set of Smith’s entire catalogue. And Bloomsbury will publish a revised, updated edition of Smith’s lyric collection. This new edition will include around 36 new songs including songs from Banga; songs written with Sam Shephard, for Blue Oyster Cult and Piss Factory; songs for the films Hunger Games, Noah and Rum Diary; political songs published online, and songs from her new album. It will be illustrated with cover art for each album.

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Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids was a number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and awarded the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2010.

She is the recipient of the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and The Polar Award. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and received ASCAP’s Founders Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

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M Train Patti Smith From the bestselling author of Just Kids, an unforgettable odyssey into the writer’s obsessive mind and the journey she takes in search of consolation and inspiration In a Greenwich Village Café Patti Smith takes up residence, writing, drinking coffee, ruminating on the world as it is and the world as it was. In homage to the writers she treasures, she travels to the graves of Genet, Rimbaud and Mishima. Itinerant photographer, she documents her travels with exquisite polaroids of artists’ totems: Bolano’s chair, Kahlo’s crutches, Virginia Woolf ’s walking stick. Woven throughout are conversations on the writer’s craft with an astral cowpoke and memories of a distant life in Michigan with her husband. A meditation on loss, a call to life, M Train is a poetic tour de force.

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Patti Smith’s memoir Just Kids was a number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller and awarded the National Book Award for non-fiction in 2010.

She is the recipient of the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and The Polar Award. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 and received ASCAP’s Founders Award for a Lifetime Achievement in 2010.

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

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

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

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

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Soldier, Spy Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud From the author of bestselling Rifleman, this is the final, fascinating part of his trilogy about one ordinary man’s extraordinary life 5 NOVEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • 9781408867853 • £16.99 EBOOK • 9781408867877 • £14.99 TERRITORY: WE TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONVILLE & WALSH

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eginning in 1946, this is the story of a demobbed soldier returning to civilian life and all the challenges it entails. Facing a new London, a shifting political landscape and plenty of opportunities to make a few bob, Vic moves from one job to the next, until he is offered ‘a nice clean job’ as chauffeur to the chairman of the Moscow Narodny Bank. However, there is more to his new employment than meets the eye, and lured by the possibility of excitement, Vic adds spy to his roster of employment, risking everything he holds dear in the process.

Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in North Africa and then with the Parachute Regiment, at the Battle of Arnhem. He survived the bombing of Dresden and was repatriated in 1946.

Rick Stroud is a writer and film director. As well as working with Victor Gregg on Rifleman and King’s Cross Kid, he is the author of three books, most recently, Kidnap in Crete. He lives in London.

When the Office Went to War War Letters from Men of the Great Western Railway

Clare Horrie & Kathryn Peterson

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uring the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway’s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington.

These were collated into monthly ‘newsletters’ by those who stayed at home to keep Britain moving. Today these newsletters give a unique insight into the Great War: these soldiers were writing to inform and entertain their colleagues rather than to comfort a worrying parent or to confess their love to a distant partner – and bring a distinct band of individuals to life from a very particular standpoint.

The collection is edited by and has a commentary by Kathryn Peterson and Clare Horrie, who are specialist archivists at The National Archives.

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The Lost Detective Becoming Dashiell Hammett

Nathan Ward A fascinating portrait of Dashiell Hammett, author of some of the most iconic detective novels of the 20th century

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efore he became a household name as perhaps the greatest hard-boiled American crime writer, Dashiell Hammett led a life of action. Born in 1894 into a poor family, Hammett left school at 13 and held several jobs before joining the Pinkerton National Detective Agency as an operative in 1915. While Hammett’s later life has been well documented, his earlier life has been largely overlooked.

Based on original research across the country, The Lost Detective is the first book to illuminate Hammett’s transformation from real detective to great detective writer, throwing brilliant new light on one of America’s most celebrated novelists and his world.

Nathan Ward is the author of Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. He was an editor at American Heritage, and he has written for the New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Deep Thought 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Western Philosophy

Gary Cox A witty and illuminating guide to the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of thought

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sing the writings of everyone from Douglas Adams to A.J. Ayer and Thomas Aquinas to Karl Marx, Gary Cox takes us on a philosophical journey through history, culture and writing to bring us to a deeper understanding of why we think the way we do. This collection of quotes doesn’t merely list who said what and when – the author claims that each quote is a philosophical thesis in itself and by exploring who a particular philosopher is and what he or she really meant when they said what they said, you can find the philosophy within the quote.

Gary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. He is the author of a number of books on philosophy, including How to Be an Existentialist and How to Be a Philosopher.

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Patternalia An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage and Other Graphic Patterns

Jude Stewart From the author of ROY G. BIV, a delightful new book on the histories and hidden meanings of patterns, from polka dots to plaid 3 DECEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • 9781632861085 • £16.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 1 NOVEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • AUS $35.00 • NZ $39.99

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atterns are everywhere – yet they can often go unnoticed. Here, Jude Stewart, author of ROY G. BIV, brings her same sprightly sense of humour and roving curiosity to this cultural history of patterns. From camouflage to keffiyeh, plaid to paisley, Patternalia plumbs the backstories of individual patterns, the surprising kinks in how each developed, the parallels between patterns natural and invented and the curious personalities these patterns accrue over time. Boldly designed by Oliver Munday and cleverly cross-referenced, Patternalia is a beautiful object and a dazzling read that will appeal to anyone interested in design and fashion.

Jude Stewart writes about design and culture for Slate, the Believer, Fast Company, Design Observer and other publications. She is also a contributing editor at PRINT magazine. Her first book, ROY G. BIV, was published in six languages. Stewart lives in Chicago. judestewart.com • @joodstew

UNBORED Adventure Joshua Glenn & Elizabeth Foy Larsen The exciting new book in the acclaimed, bestselling and award-winning UNBORED series

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NBORED Adventure has all the innovation and free-wheeling spirit of UNBORED and UNBORED Games, but with a fresh focus on encouraging children to explore the world around them. Combining old-fashioned favourites with today’s high-tech possibilities, the book offers a goldmine of activities that kids can do on their own or with their families. From camouflage techniques, survival skills and cloud-spotting advice to instructions on how to build a kite or raft, to using apps to navigate and explore, it’s all here. UNBORED Adventure encourages kids to become more independent, to solve problems and to engage with their community and the natural environment.

Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen are the authors of UNBORED: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun and UNBORED Games: Serious Fun for Everyone. Josh is editor of the website HiLobrow. Elizabeth’s stories on children and families have appeared in the New York Times, Slate and elsewhere.

Who’s Who 2016 The 168th edition of the renowned source book of information on people of influence in every area of public life

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ho’s Who 2016 is the 168th edition of the world’s longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 168 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves.

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Chilled How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

Tom Jackson A thrilling, mystery-lifting narrative history of the refrigerator and the process of refrigeration

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he refrigerator in your kitchen is one of the wonders of 20th-century science – life-saver, food-preserver and social liberator – while the science of refrigeration is crucial on a host of branches of the scientific tree. Refrigeration provides the backdrop to Chilled, the story of how science managed to rewrite the rules of food. It tells us how the technology whirring behind every refrigerator is at play, unseen, in a surprisingly broad sweep of modern life, and has been crucial in many scientific breakthroughs, from the discovery of superconductors to the search for the Higgs boson.

Tom Jackson is a science writer who specialises in recasting science and technology into lively historical narratives, told through the deeds of the people that discovered them. After almost 20 years of writing non-fiction, Tom has uncovered a wealth of stories that help to bring technical content alive and create new ways of enjoying learning about science. @jinjatom

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

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

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orsemeat in burgers, melamine in infants’ 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, profitmaking short-cuts. 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 possibly even their lives.

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

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

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

A is for Arsenic The Poisons of Agatha Christie

Kathryn Harkup Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s all made up...

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gatha Christie used poison to kill her characters more often than any other murder method, with the poison itself being a central part of the novel, while Christie’s choice of deadly substances was far from random; the chemical and physiological characteristics of each poison provide vital clues to the identity of the murderer. Celebrating Christie’s 125th anniversary, A is for Arsenic celebrates the use of science in Christie’s work. It looks at why certain chemicals kill, how they interact with the body, and the feasibility of obtaining, administering and detecting these poisons, both when the novel was written and today.

Kathryn Harkup completed a degree, a PhD and postdoctorial research in chemistry before realising that talking and writing about science appealed more than hours slaving over a hot fume-hood. She is now a science communicator, specialising in the quirky side of science. harkup.co.uk • @RotwangsRobot

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Breaking the Chains of Gravity The Story of Spaceflight before NASA

Amy Shira Teitel America’s desperate battle to win the space race

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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. @astVintageSpace

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Suspicious Minds Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories and Why It Matters

Rob Brotherton The psychology of our belief in conspiracy theories

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onspiracy theories have been widespread throughout history, from Ancient Rome to JFK and 9/11. Suspicious Minds explores the psychology of this phenomenon, shedding light on the important consequences conspiracy theories have for society. Conspiracy theorists aren’t limited to people with bizarre ideas about shape-shifting reptilian aliens. Conspiracies are as likely to appeal to women as to men, to students as to underprivileged youths, to aristocrats as to blue-collar workers, due to a complex mix of personality traits and drives – the desire for excitement, for control, for possession of privileged knowledge.

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We’re all born conspiracy theorists. This brilliant book tells you why.

Rob Brotherton is a leading expert on the psychology of conspiracy theory. Following his doctorate on the subject, he went on to become a lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written about conspiracy theories for periodicals such as New Scientist, and on his website conspiracypsychology.com. @rob_brotherton

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Ralph Steadman’s Nextinction Ralph Steadman & Ceri Levy Cartoonist, friend of the feathered and national treasure Ralph Steadman’s unique take on critically endangered birds

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ollowing on from the award-winning Extinct Boids, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman, this time focusing on birds that there’s still time to save. These are the 192 Critically Endangered birds on the IUCN Red List, species such as the Giant Ibis, the Kakapo, the Sumatran Groundcuckoo and the iconic Spoon-billed Sandpiper – these nearly extinct boids feature along with a number of classic Steadman creations, such as the Unsociable Lapwing and the Blue-beaked Waddle. Woids are again by author, conservationist and filmmaker Ceri Levy. Ceri and Ralph – THE GONZOVATIONISTS. Ralph Steadman collaborated with Hunter S. Thompson in the birth of ‘gonzo’ journalism with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; he has illustrated classics such as Alice in Wonderland, and his own books include Sigmund Freud.

Ceri Levy is a film-maker who made music videos before moving into documentaries. His works include Bananaz, a film about the group Gorillaz.

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@SteadmanArt • @cerilevy

Inglorious Conflict in the Uplands

Mark Avery A hard-hitting, passionate and well-researched book on the conflict between driven grouse-shooting and nature conservation in Britain today

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riven grouse-shooting, where flocks of Red Grouse are chased so they fly over lines of ‘guns’ that shoot the fast-flying birds, is a peculiarly British fieldsport. This multi-million-pound business dominates the hills of northern Britain, and, backed by powerful lobbying groups, its tendrils run throughout society.

Inglorious details Mark Avery’s mission to end this sport, which sees illegal killing of wildlife such as Hen Harriers, and wrecks the hill-country ecology. But it is economically important, and a British tradition. Ever controversial, Avery presents the argument from both sides in a book that all British conservationists will want to read.

Mark Avery is a highly respected blogger, public speaker and writer on UK nature conservation and environmental issues, and was formerly the Conservation Director of the RSPB. A scientist by training, and a conservationist most of his life, Mark’s previous book for Bloomsbury was A Message from Martha, the story of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon. markavery.info • @MarkAvery

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An Illustrated Coastal Year The Seashore Uncovered Season by Season

Celia Lewis An amusing and informative anthology of coastal wildlife through the year

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eason by season Celia Lewis reveals the wildlife found on and around northern European coastlines. Each season is illustrated with her gorgeous watercolours and linocuts of flowers, fish, birds and shells, and features tips on things to look out for and forage on coastal walks and suggestions for turning your finds into imaginative craft projects or tasty meals. Celia’s new book includes seafood recipes by top chefs, including Rick Stein, Nathan Outlaw, Mitch Tonks, Thomasina Miers, Katriona MacGregor, Sarah Raven, Ellen Parr, and Guy and Juliet Grieves of The Ethical Shellfish Company.

Celia Lewis has always taken a great interest in nature. She delights in observing the passing year and recording her sightings in her artwork. She has won several prizes for her art and is the author and illustrator of our beautiful Illustrated Guide to... books on choosing and keeping chickens, pigs, cows, and ducks and geese.

Herring Bones How the Silver Darlings Shaped Human Taste and History

Donald S. Murray A lighthearted and informative narrative about the history of herring in northern Europe and our love affair with the silver darlings

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cots like to smoke or salt them. The Dutch love them raw. Jamaicans prefer them with a dash of chilli pepper. Throughout the centuries since men started fishing, the herring has done much to shape both human taste and history. Men have co-operated and come into conflict over its shoals, straying too, to bring full nets to shore. Donald S. Murray has stitched together tales of the fish that was of central importance to the lives of our ancestors, noting how it – and those involved in its capture – were celebrated in the art, literature, craft, music and folklore of life in northern Europe.

Donald S. Murray was born in Ness on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Shetland.

An author and journalist, his poetry, prose and verse has been shortlisted for both the Saltire Award and the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. Published widely, his work has also appeared in a number of national anthologies and on BBC Radio 4 and Radio Scotland.

Game River Cottage Handbook No.15

Tim Maddams In the 15th River Cottage Handbook, Tim Maddams explains everything you need to know about sourcing, preparing and cooking game

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ame offers some of the richest and most varied meat around. And not only is it delicious, but it can also be a healthy alternative to more commonplace meats. Here, Tim Maddams gives a comprehensive guide to cooking with species such as duck, pheasant, grouse, partridge, pigeon, venison and rabbit. He explains sourcing and seasonality, and gives a step-by-step guide to skinning, plucking and butchering. He also shares seriously tasty recipes, such as slow-roast spiced soy duck, pheasant and wild mushroom lasagne, and partridge with pumpkin and cider.

With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Game is the indispensable guide to enjoying wild meat.

After growing up on his family’s farm in Wiltshire, Tim Maddams worked with Fergus Henderson, Alistair Little, Marco Pierre White and Mark Hix before becoming Head Chef at River Cottage Canteen. He founded his company Green Sauce in 2012, teaching, cooking and consulting on ethical food.

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rivercottage.net • greensauce.co.uk • @TimGreenSauce © Dave Smith

Quinntessential Baking Frances Quinn Imaginative ideas for turning simple bakes into ingenious creations – from Frances Quinn, winner of The Great British Bake Off 2013

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n this inspirational new cookbook, baker and designer Frances Quinn reveals the ‘baking maths’ that underpins basic cakes (from chocolate cake to meringue, gingerbread to tiffin) and then shows how to transform them into something extraordinary with a simple but imaginative twist. Enter a world where ‘honey bee bites’, ‘hidden bulb cake’ and ‘brown owl brownies’ await. With striking design, photography and illustration, this enchanting book will become the classic you turn to for surprising, witty and delightful baked designs for all occasions.

Having studied Textile Design, Frances Quinn worked at design companies in London and Vancouver before winning The Great British Bake Off in 2013.

Renowned for her extraordinary edible masterpieces that combine a love of design and baking, her baked designs have been commissioned by Nike, Cadbury’s and the Tate Modern, and celebrities including Jo Whiley, Paul Smith and Alex Monroe.

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francesquinn.co.uk • @frances_quinn

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SPUNTINO Russell Norman A sizzling New York cookbook, from the bestselling author of POLPO

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fter the success of Venetian restaurant POLPO, Russell Norman scoured the Big Apple’s scruffiest boroughs to find inspiration for an urban diner. The result, SPUNTINO, delivers bold flavours with a dose of swagger to the crowds who flock to its pewter-topped bar. SPUNTINO takes you on a culinary adventure to New York and back as Russell maps out his walks through the city’s quirkiest neighbourhoods.

The 120 recipes include zingy salads, juicy sliders, oozing pizzette, boozy desserts and prohibition-era cocktails. With radiant photography capturing New York’s visceral grittiness, SPUNTINO pays homage to the energy and dynamism inspired by the world’s greatest melting pot.

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Russell Norman is a restaurateur with over 20 years’ experience running some of London’s most venerated eateries. He founded his own company in 2009 and now operates eight restaurants in central London. He presented the BBC2 TV series The Restaurant Man in 2014 and his first book POLPO won Waterstones Book of the Year in 2012. He lives in London with his wife and three children. russellnorman.co • @russellnorman_ • spuntino.co.uk • @Spuntino

Social Sweets Jason Atherton Jason Atherton’s collection of top desserts to make at home

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ore than 100 recipes make up this heavenly collection of desserts from Jason Atherton: perfect treats to share with friends and family. It is not only a showcase of Jason’s favourite sweet dishes, but also a celebration of the flavours and techniques that have inspired him from around the world.

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Having worked under Pierre Koffmann, Nico Ladenis and Marco Pierre White, Jason Atherton ran Verre and Maze for Gordon Ramsay before opening his own incredible fine-dining empire. Jason’s not only a world-class culinary alchemist, but also featured in national newspapers, magazines and TV series, most recently as the host of Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules. jasonatherton.co.uk • @_JasonAtherton

MasterChef: The Masters at Home Recipes, stories and photographs Master chefs from around the globe celebrate their favourite dishes for a perfect weekend

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ave you ever wondered what chefs love to cook when they are in their own kitchen? Away from the intensity and heat of restaurant service, what food makes them happiest on a weekend off? More than 30 world-renowned chefs have each shared three recipes for weekend treats in this special MasterChef anthology of food at home, all brought to life with photographs from the incredible David Loftus.

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Ferran Adria, Andoni Aduriz, Michael Anthony, Elena Arzak, Jason Atherton, Joe Bastianich, Lidia Bastianich, Claude Bosi, Massimo Bottura, Claire Clark, Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot, Andrew Fairlie, Peter Gilmore, Peter Gordon, Bill Granger, Angela Hartnett, Tom Kerridge, Tom Kitchin, Atul Kochhar, Pierre Koffmann, Jamie Oliver, Ashley Palmer-Watts, Neil Perry, Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, Joan and Jordi Roca, Ruth Rogers, Curtis Stone, David Thompson, Mitch Tonks and Tetsuta Wakuda.

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@masterchefuk

sketch Mourad Mazouz & Pierre Gagnaire A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary restaurants: London’s sketch

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ith diverting treasures to be discovered in every room, sketch is a unique meeting place in Mayfair. Now its myriad food, drink and entertainment styles are captured in a book – the phantasmagoric compendium of all things sketch. With incredibly unique cuisine at its heart, world-renowned, three-Michelin-star chef Pierre Gagnaire showcases the best 85 recipes from sketch’s kaleidoscopic menus.

Interlaced with the recipes are stories and art from the wonderful gastrodome, presented by restaurateur Mourad Mazouz. This is a sensual feast in a book, with photography by Jean Cazals.

Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have created unique experiences in six international cities.

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Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star, mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world. sketch.uk.com • @sketchlondon FOOD 43

The HR Paradox A Manifesto for Change

Scott McArthur & Cary L. Cooper Reviewing the current techniques used to manage people in our organisations, a new approach to HR will be proposed, offering a manifesto for improvement

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or decades HR has attempted to enable the best possible work environment, whilst claiming a strategic corporate role. The recent financial crises left businesses looking for innovation and improved employee performance as key sources of competitive advantage. HR, however, continues to focus on process and the deployment of techniques that range from being effective to pseudoscientific, so creating the HR Paradox. This book considers the impact of the HR Paradox on the profession and on its reputation. It deliberates the assumed key disciplines including employee engagement, recruitment, performance management and people development, reflecting 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. Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School, Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences and President of RELATE.

The Neuroscience of Leadership Coaching Why the Tools and Techniques of Leadership Coaching Work

Patricia Bossons, Patricia Riddell & Denis Sartain Combining psychology, neuroscience and executive coaching, this book explains how to achieve the most effective behavioural change in the workplace

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ritten by practitioners for practitioners and managers wanting to get the best from individuals in leadership coaching roles. This book brings together the authors’ extensive experience to analyse the neuroscience behind behavioural change, and presents the latest views on leadership, executive coaching and an introduction to the concepts of how the brain works, enabling managers and coaches to work more confidently and with greater focus. A series of coaching case histories are accompanied by neuroscience commentaries providing explanations of the systems in the brain that underlie these coaching interventions and the changes elicited.

Patricia Bossons is Director of the Henley Centre for Coaching and Behavioural change at Henley Business School. Patricia Riddell is Professor of Neuroscience at the School of Psychology, University of Reading. Denis Sartain is Lead Tutor (Coaching) at Henley Business School, and Managing Director of International Coaching and Development Ltd.

Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule Life’s Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories

Philip Gooden A unique exploration of the most diverting, useful and intriguing laws we come across in politics, science, sport, the Internet, work and life itself

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hat is the shade of difference between Sod’s Law and Murphy’s Law? What is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory? What part do the McNaughton Rules and the Miranda Law play in criminal justice? Skyscrapers, Hemlines and Eddie Murphy focuses on the most diverting, useful and intriguing of these laws, old and new, grouping principles under areas of interest, describing how they work, who invented them and how useful or otherwise they are. This diverse scrapbook attempts to provide a system – serious, humorous, eccentric or plain mischievous – for human activity across all aspects of life.

Philip Gooden read English at Oxford, and then taught at secondary school level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. He was chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association in 2007–8 and is part of the writing collective, The Medieval Murderers. He has also written Faux Pas? and Who’s Whose? A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words.

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Rewire A Radical Approach to Tackling Diversity and Difference

Chris Yates & Pooja Sachdev A fresh perspective on tackling diversity and difference in the workplace and the tools for creating more inclusive and effective environments

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ewire tackles the issue of equality, diversity and inclusion, in a fresh and radical way. Critiquing current thinking and practice that is responsible for slow progress in this area, it provides readers with a new, holistic and tactical perspective that leverages what we know about mind-set and change. This book identifies social, psychological, cultural and evolutionary factors that contribute to how we are naturally inclined to think about ourselves and others, how group dynamics operate, and the impact of difference and power. It proposes tactical steps to instigate the fundamental psychological and cultural shift that is needed to create more effective, ethical, equal and diverse environments.

Chris Yates is the Chief Learning Officer and Head of People and Organisational Development for Caterpillar Inc. He is also the Founder and MD of Ethical Organisational Design. Pooja Sachdev is currently working as a consultant.

Previously, she worked at Towers Watson and at Taylor Nelson Sofres and was appointed Senior Policy Officer at the Commission for Racial Equality.

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Lehman Brothers A Crisis of Value

Oonagh McDonald How trillions of dollars seemingly disappeared overnight, why it happened and why it became a trigger of global financial meltdown

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n 12 September 2008, Lehman Brothers was valued at 639 billion US dollars.

On Monday 15 September, it was worth nothing. How could trillions of dollars seemingly melt into air? In this book, Oonagh McDonald unravels the events of that fateful September weekend. Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, she reveals the decisions that led to Lehman’s collapse, looks at why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. She demonstrates both the short and long term effects of Lehman’s collapse.

Oonagh McDonald was a board member of the Securities and Investments Board, the Financial Services Authority and the General Insurance Standards Council.

The author of a number of books, she was awarded the CBE for her services to business and financial regulation in 1998.

The Oval World A Global History of Rugby

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

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his is the first full-length history of rugby on a world scale – from its medieval origins in village-based football games to the globalised sport of the 21st century, now played in over 100 countries. It tells the story of how a game played in an English public school became the winter sport of the British Empire, spread to the rest of the world and commanded a global television audience of over four billion for the last World Cup final. The Oval World investigates how rugby has survived and thrived in countries with very different traditions and cultures.

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

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Ride the Revolution The Inside Stories from Women in Cycling

Edited by Suze Clemitson Brings together the best cycling writing and interviews from women involved at all levels – riders, fans, personnel, journalists, presenters

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his is not a book of women writing about women’s cycling. Nor is it an anthology of women writing about men’s bottoms in lycra, or the curse of helmet hair. Our voices come from within the sport itself and from passionate fans. We celebrate the diversity of lives within the glorious, sometimes murky, often bizarre world of cycling in all its soapy operatic glory. These are the inside stories of women in cycling, many of them unsung heroines, the women who have brought about a glorious revolution in the sport.

Editor Suze Clemitson is a journalist and author. Contributors include campaigner Betsy Andreu, Commonwealth Gold medallist Yvonne McGregor, Tinkoff-Saxo chef Hannah Grant, racing cyclist and owner and manager of Wiggle Honda Rochelle Gilmore, Olympic Gold medallist Connie Carpenter, Trek’s Chris Garrison, ex-soigneur Emma O’Reilly, rider Marijn de Vries and UCI Vice President Tracey Gaudry.

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The Rugby World Cup The Definitive Photographic History

Brendan Gallagher A stunning visual narrative of the Rugby World Cup, telling stories from on and off the pitch 10 SEPTEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • 9781472912626 • £25.00 EBOOK • 9781472912640 • £21.99 TERRITORY: WO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY ANZ PUB DATE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2015 HARDBACK • AUS $49.99 • NZ $59.99

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visual history of rugby’s greatest sporting event, this beautiful photographic book is a fascinating exploration of the matches, teams, heroes and surrounding stories of the tournament. It covers each Rugby World Cup from the inaugural competition in 1987, in which New Zealand confirmed their status as the world’s top rugby nation, to the historical 1995 tournament in South Africa after the end of apartheid and the international sports boycott, through England’s fantastic win in 2003 breaking the southern hemisphere’s dominance, up to the 2015 qualifiers.

Each photograph has been carefully selected to give a real glimpse into this great tournament.

Brendan Gallagher was a rugby union reporter, columnist and feature writer for the Daily Telegraph, specialising in rugby, cycling, athletics and cricket. He co-authored autobiographies of Ireland and Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll and three-time Olympic gold medal winner Bradley Wiggins. @gallagherbren

Forever Boys The Days of Citizens and Heroes

James Lawton The story of the most exciting time in Manchester City’s history, seen through the eyes of a sportswriter who was just embarking on what would turn out to be a thrilling career

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oe Mercer and Malcolm Allison’s dazzling Manchester City team illuminated the late sixties, and today evoke a period of football’s history that seems distant and unknowable except through the rose-tinted gloss of nostalgia. Lawton goes back to those heroes and vividly brings to life the story of a team that won everything before them.

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Yet this is a broader story of how sport can sometimes so perfectly mirror the exaltation and the despair of the real world, and how it carries those who do – or merely see – it to moments that will claim a permanent place in their hearts.

James Lawton first started covering top-flight football as a 19-year-old for the Daily Telegraph in 1963 and, after a seven-year stint in North America, went on to become chief sportswriter of the Daily Express and the Independent. He has written 12 books, including an award-winning collaboration with Sir Bobby Charlton on his two volumes of autobiography.

The World’s Most Extreme Challenges 50 Exceptional Feats of Endurance from Around the Globe

Paul Moore A stunning, photo-led, inspirational book looking at 50 of the world’s most extraordinary challenges and the exceptional individuals who are driven to go further, higher, harder or faster than ever before

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he World’s Most Extreme Challenges celebrates the extraordinary – whether leaping from the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere, trekking through the depths of the Antarctic winter or sailing solo around the world, these exceptional feats capture the imagination. Gain an insight into what human beings can achieve against incredible odds – with spectacular photographs and interviews with the athletes themselves.

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Paul Moore is author of Ultra Performance and The World’s Toughest Endurance Challenges. A triathlete and runner, he competes in events around the world.

Includes contributions from Dean Karnazes on non-stop running, Triple Crown of cycling winner Stephen Roche, Amazon explorer Ed Stafford and Felix Baumgartner on skydiving from the edge of space.

P is for Peloton The A–Z of Cycling

Suze Clemitson This beautiful A–Z of cycling, illustrated by renowned cycling artist Mark Fairhurst, is the perfect gift for all fans of the peloton, old and new

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is for Peloton is packed with fun facts from the amazing to the bizarre, and stories about the greatest riders in the sport. Ever wanted to know the difference between your flamme rouge and your lanterne rouge? This is the book for you – or the cycling obsessive in your life.

Suze Clemitson is a cycling journalist and commentator. @MrMarkFairhurst

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Gilbert The Last Years of W.G. Grace

Charlie Connelly A new and unique perspective on W.G. Grace, who remains one of the most instantly recognisable sporting figures in history

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n the year that marks the centenary of W.G. Grace’s death, Charlie Connelly charts the final years of his life, from his fiftieth birthday celebrations in 1898 to his death in 1915, through the eyes of Grace himself. In an unusual take on this most eminent Victorian and extraordinary pioneering sportsman, Connelly draws on contemporary documents and accounts to imagine Grace’s progress through his final years.

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Gilbert is an affectionate and beautifully written account of the Champion’s later life that comes closer than ever before to giving a sense of the real man behind the mythology.

Charlie Connelly is the author of 11 books – including Elk Stopped Play and the bestselling Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast – and an award-winning broadcaster. He has collected Wisden since receiving the 1983 edition for his 13th birthday. He lives in London.

Wisden on the Ashes The Authoritative Story of Cricket’s Greatest Rivalry

Steven Lynch This detailed journey through the history of the Ashes is a remarkable record of cricket’s most enduring battle

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his authoritative story of cricket’s greatest rivalry is a detailed chronological journey through the history of the famous English–Australian contest and includes Test reports, scorecards, ‘Great bowlers of the year’ and other fascinating material from the archives, together with new editorial pieces.

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This updated edition includes this summer’s 2015 series as well as both 2013 series, which saw England retain the Ashes on home soil before Australia won all five Tests in the second series later that year. It also includes a colour photo section celebrating the players, the matches and the key moments from an ongoing rivalry.

Deputy Editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack since 2005 and Editor of The Wisden Guide to International Cricket since 2008, Steven Lynch is a leading cricket writer. He has also edited the Wisden Book of Test Cricket books and The Wisden Cricket Quiz Book.

HMS Victory Pocket Manual 1805 Nelson’s Flagship at Trafalgar

Peter Goodwin A history of life on board HMS Victory, the world’s most famous warship, in an accessible pocket-book format

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his new addition to the best-selling Conway Pocket-book range features Admiral Nelson’s fully preserved flagship HMS Victory, the most tangible symbol of the Royal Navy’s greatest battle off Cape Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. In the HMS Victory Pocket Manual, Peter Goodwin adopts a fresh approach to explain the workings of the only surviving ‘line of battle’ ship of the Napoleonic Wars. And, as Victory was engaged in battle for only 2 per cent of her active service, the book also provides a fascinating glimpse into life and work at sea during the other 98 per cent of the time.

Peter Goodwin is widely acknowledged as one of the leading writers on the sailing warship. His published titles include the classic The Construction and Fitting of the Sailing Man of War (Conway, 1990), The Naval Cutter Alert (Conway 1992), Nelson’s Ships (Conway 2002) and The Ships of Trafalgar (2005). Peter was Keeper and Curator of HMS Victory for some 20 years.

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Fashion Victims The Dangers of Dress Past and Present

Alison Matthews David A gruesome and lavishly illustrated history of death by clothing – by both accident and design

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rom insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design. Clothing is designed to protect, shield and comfort us, yet lurking amongst seemingly innocuous garments we find hats laced with mercury, frocks laden with arsenic and literally ‘drop-dead gorgeous’ gowns. Fashion Victims takes the reader on a journey through the toxic history of dress, in myth and reality, from ancient times to the present day. From lice-ridden soldiers, to the fiery deaths of Oscar Wilde’s half-sisters, Alison Matthews David unpicks the dark side of fashion.

Fashion Victims is lavishly illustrated with over 100 images and is a remarkable resource for everyone from scholars and students to fashion enthusiasts.

Alison Matthews David is Associate Professor in the School of Fashion, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

Fashion’s Front Line Fashion Show Photography from the Runway to Backstage

Niall McInerney, Nilgin Yusuf & Clive Crook An access-all-areas pass to the catwalk world from three decades of shows in Paris, Milan, London and New York

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ith 200 images from catwalk photographer Niall McInerney, Fashion’s Front Line captures many rare and never-before-seen images of iconic moments on the runway, famous faces on the front row, backstage atmosphere and dazzling aftershow parties. With rare shots of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Christy Turlington, interviews with fashion insiders such as Suzy Menkes, as well as commentary from the photographer himself, this is a window onto the world of late 20th-century fashion – a must-have for fashion lovers.

Niall McInerney is an international catwalk photographer whose work spans over three decades. He has also worked as house photographer for major designers and for magazines.

Nilgin Yusuf is currently a Programme Director at the London College of Fashion’s Graduate School and is former Fashion Editor of the Sunday Times and Fashion Writer at the Daily Telegraph.

Clive Crook (Art Direction) is former Art Director at the Telegraph Media Group, UK.

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Pope Francis Untying the Knots: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism

Paul Vallely A new revised, updated and greatly expanded edition of Paul Vallely’s bestselling biography of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first Pope Francis

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rom his first appearance on a Vatican balcony Pope Francis proved himself a Pope of Surprises. With a series of potent gestures, history’s first Jesuit pope declared a mission to restore authenticity and integrity to the Catholic Church. Yet little is known of the Pope’s more complicated past, in particular his hugely divisive role within the Jesuit community in his native Argentina.

Published to coincide with Pope Francis’s visit to the USA in 2015, Paul Vallely’s revised and expanded edition of Pope Francis: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism offers a wealth of new material and penetrating insights into the kind of leader Pope Francis has and will become.

Paul Vallely is a journalist with an international reputation as a commentator on religion, society and political issues. He was created a CMG ‘for services to journalism and to the developing world’ in 2006 and is currently Associate Editor of the Independent.

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The New Asceticism Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God

Sarah Coakley Sarah Coakley draws both liberal and conservative camps into a new and serious reflection on ascetical theology

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ach chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology – the role of women in the church, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism. Sarah Coakley draws creatively on patristic and early modern theologies of desire, pointing the way through the false modern alternatives of repression and libertarianism, agape and eros, recovering a way in which desire can be freed from associations with promiscuity and disorder, and forging a new ascetical vision founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.

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Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and was previously Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, USA. She was an assistant curate at Littlemore, Oxford, for seven years after her ordination in 2000 and is currently an honorary canon of Ely Cathedral.

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How to Believe John Cottingham How to Believe aims to show how religious belief can still be a live option even in an increasingly secular age

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any people feel a powerful interest in religious and spiritual questions but have serious doubts about whether belief in God is rationally defensible in the modern age. In How to Believe, John Cottingham charts a course towards belief by arguing that adopting a religious outlook is not so much about subscribing to abstruse theological doctrines as about undergoing a process of transformation which enables us to see true meaning and value in our human existence.

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John Cottingham is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Reading University, Professorial Fellow at Heythrop College London, and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. A world authority on Descartes, he is also well known for his work on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion. His previous books include Why Believe? (Continuum), to which How to Believe is a sequel.

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I Am With You The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book 2016

Kathryn Greene-McCreight A reflective meditation for the Lenten period from Kathryn Greene-McCreight

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n I Am With You, Episcopal priest and theologian Kathryn Greene-McCreight examines the biblical portrayal of God’s presence among us in darkness and light.

Christians confess the Triune God to be present among the disciples in Jesus of Nazareth, and present to the Church in the power of the Holy Spirit. But sometimes our God seems distant, even absent, indeed self-concealing. The resurrection of Easter morning bears the Light that both illumines our darkness, refines our dross in its flames, and draws us into the presence of God, that ‘Light by which we see light’.

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Kathryn Greene-McCreight (PhD Yale University) is associate chaplain at The Episcopal Church at Yale and a theological writer. Her previous books include Darkness is my Only Companion and Feminist Reconstructions of Christian Doctrine.

The Mime Order Samantha Shannon ‘Dark, embattled, highly wrought fantasy... There is no doubt that Shannon is the real thing’ Observer

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aige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London…

As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mimequeens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly.

Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.

Born in 1991, Samantha Shannon started writing at the age of 15. In 2013 The Bone Season hit bestseller lists across three continents in the first week of publication. It was picked as a Book of the Year by the Daily Mail, Stylist and Huffington Post.

It has been translated into 28 languages.

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China Dolls Lisa See ‘You’ll want to dive right in’ Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

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n San Francisco the exclusive Forbidden City nightclub is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each others’ lives. They all have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family with roots in San Francisco’s Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.

Lisa See is the author of seven previous novels, including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Dreams of Joy, Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, a Richard & Judy pick which sold 1.2 million copies worldwide. She is also the author of the widely acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain. She lives in Los Angeles.

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The Disappearance Boy Neil Bartlett ‘Mysterious, tender and utterly compelling’ S.J. Watson

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eggie Rainbow is an angry young man, one who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel Variety theatres for a living. Childhood polio has left him with a limp, but his strong arms and nimble fingers are perfect behind the scenes, helping illusionist Mr Brookes to ‘disappear’ a series of glamorous assistants night after night. Then, when Mr Brookes accepts an unexpected booking down at the Brighton Grand – and picks up a beautiful new assistant on the way – Reggie finds himself in a strange new town. The seaside air starts to work its own disconcerting kind of magic, and Mr Brookes’s disappearance boy starts to wonder just how much longer he can go on keeping secrets for a living…

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Neil Bartlett is a major figure of British theatre, as well as a novelist. He has published three acclaimed novels: Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, Mr Clive and Mr Page (nominated for the Whitbread Prize) and Skin Lane (shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2007). In 2000 he was awarded an OBE for services to the theatre.

Fives and Twenty-Fives Michael Pitre ‘Moving, deeply memorable… One of the most heart-stopping fictional portraits to have emerged so far from the US occupation of Iraq’ Financial Times

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t is the early months of the Arab Spring, 2011. But for three young men, two American and one Iraqi, their minds return again and again to 2006, to the bloodiest stretch of the Iraq War. Members of the same platoon, they were tasked with the often deadly job of repairing potholes in the roads of the Al Anbar Province: potholes that almost always concealed a home-made bomb. They have survived the war but now they must learn to live with themselves.

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As they struggle to find their place in a world that no longer knows them, they realise that the war has left nothing in their lives untouched and that salvation may come from an unexpected quarter.

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Michael Pitre joined the US Marines in 2002, deploying twice to Iraq and attaining the rank of Captain before leaving the service in 2010 to get his MBA at Loyola. He lives in New Orleans. Fives and Twenty-Fives is his first novel.

The Planner Tom Campbell ‘Rumbustiously rude but bang-on accurate… A cracker of a read’ Sun

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ames is exactly what you’d expect from one of London’s most promising young town planners: he is cautious, conscientious and respected by his colleagues.

But while he understands the glitter and grime of the city better than almost anyone, he hasn’t actually experienced much of it. That is, until he meets Felix, who introduces James to a London that doesn’t feature in planning manuals, a world of executive football boxes, suburban drug dealers and dates with exotic women. But this world comes at a price. James may know how to design housing estates and high streets, but can he remodel the masterplan for his own life? And what will he lose along the way?

Tom Campbell read history at Edinburgh University. Fold, his first novel, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011 to critical acclaim. He lives in north London with his wife and three sons.

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The Arsonist Sue Miller ‘Thoughtful, searching prose... Her vivid characters are utterly believable.

Brilliant’ Kate Saunders, The Times

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leeing the end of an affair, and troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after working in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley comes home to the small New Hampshire town of Pomeroy where her family has always summered.

On her first night back, a house up the road burns to the ground. Is it an accident?

Over the weeks that follow, as Frankie tentatively gets to know the new owner of the local newspaper, another house burns, and then another. These frightening events open the deep social fault lines in the town and raise questions about how and where one ought to live, and what it really means to lead a fulfilling life.

Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of nine previous novels including The Good Mother, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, Lost in the Forest, The Lake Shore Limited, the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father and the Richard & Judy hit The Senator’s Wife. Sue Miller lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bitter Remedy An Alec Blume Case

Conor Fitzgerald ‘Alec Blume is an inspired creation’ Guardian

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here’s no cure for murder… Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave and fleeing his partner Caterina, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At the Villa Romanelli he enrols on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman named Silvana. But far from recuperating or resolving his differences with Caterina, a feverish Blume becomes isolated and sluggish with sickness. Increasingly ill-atease in the stifling environment, the dark history of the crumbling villa and its once-magnificent gardens draws him in. And when a Romanian girl who works for Silvana’s ambiguous fiancé Niki asks for his help, Blume finds himself dragged into the shadowy case of a missing girl, and the secret horrors of the garden’s malign beauty.

Conor Fitzgerald has lived in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States, but has spent most of his life in Italy. Bitter Remedy is the fifth in his series of Alec Blume novels. conorfitzgerald.net • @ConorFitzgerld

Owen’s Daughter Jo-Ann Mapson ‘Jo-Ann Mapson is one of my favourite authors – quite simply, she’s an archivist of the human heart’ Jodi Picoult

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t’s been years since Skye Elliot has seen her biological father. He left when she was 12, breaking her heart, and her life has not exactly been going well since.

A drug user and alcoholic, Skye is given a choice after a car accident: jail or rehab.

It takes eight months to get clean, and the day Skye is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother to her four-year-old daughter, Gracie. But first she has to find her. As she sets out on her unsettling, life-changing quest, she is joined by the last person in the world she ever expected to help her.

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Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of 11 previous novels, including Finding Casey, Solomon’s Oak, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (CBS TV movie) and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs. joannmapson.com • @JoAnnMapson

Problems with People David Guterson ‘Guterson writes beautiful, persuasive prose, harking back to Hemingway, with a glimmer of wit that brings a modern sensibility’ Daily Telegraph

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new couple’s first night together is overshadowed by a decades-old story of a lost love. A man takes a two-hour walk across Kathmandu to visit his estranged wife in hospital in the midst of a Maoist strike. A family is forced to sit through a dinner-time account of the death of their teenage son as their food turns cold on the table. And an unexpected and tender friendship develops between an ailing man and his dog walker.

These ten sharply observed stories are by turns funny, thought-provoking and deeply moving, as Guterson deftly taps into the sadness, beauty, joy and complexities of our everyday lives.

David Guterson is the bestselling author of five novels; a collection of short stories; a non-fiction book Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense; a memoir Descent: A Memoir of Madness and a collection of poetry. Snow Falling on Cedars won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into a major film starring Ethan Hawke. David Guterson lives in Washington State.

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Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson The original rip-roaring adventure story loved by children and adults alike, this new edition includes a foreword by Mackenzie Crook

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n this much-loved classic adventure, innkeeper’s son Jim Hawkins finds a map amongst a dead sailor’s possessions. The local squire is convinced the map is of the island where infamous pirate Captain Flint buried his stolen booty. Jim joins the voyage, but unbeknownst to everyone else, so do numerous members of Flint’s old crew, including Long John Silver. But when they arrive on Flint’s island they are not alone, and the treasure may already have been found. This beautifully produced new edition of the book includes an exclusive foreword by Mackenzie Crook, star of Pirates of the Caribbean, children’s author and scriptwriter.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped over a short period in his mid-30s. He died in 1894 aged only 44 but during his lifetime became one of the first celebrity writers.

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Let Me Be Frank With You A Frank Bascombe Book

Richard Ford ‘Ford here is at the top of his form... Stylish, elegiac and funny’ John Banville, Guardian Books of the Year

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ichard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now 68, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam, and has thrived – seemingly but not utterly – amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford – and Bascombe. With a flawless comedic sensibility and unblinking intelligence, these stories range over the full complement of universal subjects: ageing, race, loss, faith, marriage, the real estate debacle – the tumult of the world we live in.

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Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944. He has published seven novels and four collections of stories, most recently the New York Times bestseller, Canada, which also won the French Prix Femina Etranger. His novel, Independence Day, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He lives in Maine, with his wife, Kristina Ford.

The Visitors Patrick O’Keeffe ‘O’Keeffe writes with meticulous plainness about failure, fresh beginnings and the seemingly inescapable consequences of who you are and where you’re from’ Independent

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n a warm July night, a homeless man comes to the door of James’s apartment in a college town in Michigan. Walter has a sunburnt face, smells like dry wood and claims there is an old lady lying in the middle of the road. But when James goes to look, there’s nobody to be seen, and he begins to question the stranger’s motives.

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Walter’s arrival stirs up memories that James thought he’d left behind in Tipperary.

Slowly he unearths the long-ago mysteries: what the men in the village were whispering about, what happened to his Aunt Tess and whether people, especially his nemesis Kevin, ever really change.

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Patrick O’Keeffe was born and grew up in Co. Limerick, and moved to the US in his twenties. His first book, The Hill Road, was published by Bloomsbury in 2005; in the USA it won the prestigious Story Prize ahead of such authors as William Boyd, T. C. Boyle, James Salter and Robert Coover. He teaches in the graduate creative writing programme at Ohio University.

Flying Shoes Lisa Howorth ‘Fizzles with energy and wit’ Daily Mail

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hirty years ago Mary Byrd Thornton’s nine-year-old stepbrother was murdered.

His killer was never found. At the time, Mary Byrd was caught up in being 15 and in love; when Stevie died, her family and her world fell apart.

Since then she has built a new life for herself in Mississippi: she is married, owns a ramshackle house, and has two children she adores. So when a journalist chances upon the mystery of Stevie’s death and begins to dig into it, Mary Byrd has no wish to revisit the past she flew from so many years ago. But it seems the choice may not be hers to make.

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Lisa Neumann Howorth was born in Washington, DC, where her family has lived in the area for four generations. She moved to Oxford, Mississippi where she married her husband, Richard, and raised their three children. They opened Square Books (named by Publishers Weekly as the 2013 Book Store of the Year) in 1979. squarebooks.com • @SquareBooks

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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax Film Tie-in

Liz Jensen Soon to be a major feature film starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul

Liz Jensen is the bestselling author of seven acclaimed novels, including the Guardian-shortlisted Ark Baby, The Rapture, shortlisted for the Brit Award and selected as a Channel 4 TV Book Club Best Read, and The Uninvited. She has been nominated three times for the Orange Prize for Fiction and her work has been published in more than 20 countries. Liz Jensen lives in Wimbledon, London.

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ine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. On a family day out it seems almost predestined that something will happen. But this time it is worse than anyone imagined. When Louis falls over a cliff into a ravine and lapses into a deep coma, his father vanishes and his mother is paralysed by shock. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, and the doctor is drawn into the dark heart of Louis’ buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery and he can’t communicate. Or can he?

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Carol Film Tie-in

Patricia Highsmith Soon to be a major Studio Canal film starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara

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herese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter.

Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an awkward 19-year-old with a job she hates and a boyfriend she doesn’t love; Carol is a sophisticated, bored suburban housewife in the throes of a divorce and a custody battle for her only daughter. As Therese becomes irresistibly drawn into Carol’s world, she soon realises how much they both stand to lose...

First published pseudonymously in 1952 as The Price of Salt, Carol is a hauntingly atmospheric love story set against the backdrop of fifties New York.

Patricia Highsmith is the author of classics such as Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley. Born in Texas, she spent much of her life in England, France and Switzerland. She died in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.

Harraga Boualem Sansal ‘Boualem Sansal knows no bounds in his eloquent reasoning and passionate defiance’ The Lady, Book of the Week

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ne night, the solitary Lamia hears a loud banging on her door. She opens it cautiously, trying not to think of who might be out there, to find Cherifa on her doorstep, all of five-foot nothing, 17, dressed like a disco queen, and five months pregnant. Cherifa bursts into Lamia’s life like a whirlwind – talkative, curiously innocent and seemingly unafraid of anyone. Harraga, by the controversial author of An Unfinished Business, is a dazzling novel about how two strong, but very different, women manage to become friends, and what becomes of them in ferociously male-dominated Algiers.

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Boualem Sansal lives near Algiers. His novels have won France’s Prix du Premier Roman and Grand-Prix RTL-Lire and the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize. Banned in his native country, his books are published in 17 languages throughout the world.

Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations including the Impac Prize for the English edition of Michel Houellbecq’s Atomised.

Tabula Rasa A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie ‘Downie deftly crafts Ruso’s investigation... The historical detail, judiciously deployed, is superb’ Irish Times

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he Medicus Ruso and his British wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, helping to tend the builders of Hadrian’s Great Wall. But the construction work is behind schedule, the native tribes resent being forced off their land in the wake of a failed rebellion, and there are worrying rumours of a body being hidden inside the stonework. The locals are outraged when soldiers ransack their farms in a search for Ruso’s incompetent clerk – and then the boy accused of spreading the rumours also goes missing. It’s imperative that Ruso and Tilla solve the mystery of the disappearances before the tensions between the army and the locals erupt into a full-scale war.

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Ruth Downie is the author of the New York Times bestselling Medicus, as well as Terra Incognita, Persona Non Grata, Caveat Emptor and Semper Fidelis. She is married with two sons and lives in Devon.

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My Salinger Year Joanna Rakoff ‘Spellbinding… You don’t have to be a Salinger fan to fall under Rakoff ’s spell; I’m not and I did’ Guardian

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t’s 1996 and Joanna Rakoff takes a job at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies.

On her first day, her boss – who has been there for three decades – gives her a stern talk about someone named ‘Jerry’. Later that afternoon she notices an entire wall of books containing myriad editions of J.D. Salinger. Oh, she thinks. That Jerry.

To the shock and amusement of her friends, who are busy designing video games, Joanna uses a pedal-driven Dictaphone to compose correspondence and pounds out rigid, form letters to Salinger’s fans on an ancient Selectric typewriter. Then, one day, Joanna decides to throw out the template letter and starts to write back…

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Joanna Rakoff is a poet and the author of the novel A Fortunate Age. As a journalist and critic, she has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Vogue and Time Out. The BBC produced a radio documentary following her as she tracked down the writer of her favourite Salinger fan letter. She lives in Boston.

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Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum The original and best sailing classic, this beautifully produced edition shows why it has remained a favourite for over 100 years

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oshua Slocum’s epic solo voyage around the world in the 37ft yacht Spray still stands as one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. Setting sail in 1895, by the time he dropped anchor again over three years later he had cruised some 46,000 miles, entirely by sail and entirely alone. Slocum’s account of his inspirational voyage is a classic of sailing literature, acclaimed as an unequalled masterpiece of vital yet disciplined prose. This beautifully produced new edition includes new maps, atmospheric line drawings and an exclusive foreword by sailing legend Dame Ellen MacArthur.

Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail singlehandedly around the globe, and has been an inspiration to adventurous sailors ever since.

The Emperor Far Away Travels at the Edge of China

David Eimer ‘Fascinating… Eimer’s odyssey shows a side of China that’s rarely examined’ Daily Telegraph

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ar from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China’s borderlands are populated by around 100 million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage ‘the mountains are high and the Emperor far away’, meaning Beijing’s grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China’s most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented

by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.

David Eimer was the Sunday Telegraph’s China Correspondent between 2007 and 2012, and is currently the Southeast Asia Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.

Having first visited China in 1988, Eimer spent seven and a half years living in Beijing and has travelled to almost every province of the country.

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Sex on Earth A Celebration of Animal Reproduction

Jules Howard The wonders and peculiarities of sex in the animal kingdom, from ducks and dolphins to slugs, salamanders and sticklebacks, and many more besides

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ince sex first took place – one billion years ago – the world has become ever more colourful, ringing with elaborate songs, epic battles and rallying cries as the male and female desires collided. Right now, warring hordes are locking horns, preening feathers, questioning their mate’s fidelity. Birds are singing, flowers bloom.

A million females choose; a billion penises ejaculate (or snap off); a trillion sperm battle, block and tackle. Sex made planet Earth sexy.

Written in a brilliantly engaging style by biologist Jules Howard, Sex on Earth takes us on a thrilling journey through the ins and outs of animal reproduction.

Jules Howard is a zoologist, writer and broadcaster. He is a features writer for BBC Countryfile magazine, and a regular contributor to the Guardian, the Independent, and BBC Wildlife, for whom he is a judge for the Wildlife Writer of the Year award. His TV work incorporates regular appearances on Inside Out, BBC Breakfast and The One Show. juleshoward.co.uk • @juleshoward

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Understanding Bird Behaviour Stephen Moss An information-packed introduction to bird behaviour, suitable for both the novice birdwatcher and the experienced birder who wants to know more

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he way birds behave is one of the vital keys to accurate identification and this book provides the experienced instruction needed to understand and get the most out of watching birds. The guide covers all the fundamental types of bird behaviour, including movement, feeding, breeding, migration, navigation, distribution, range and life and death. All of these topics are illustrated with beautiful colour photographs. There is a whole section dedicated to the behaviour of different species groups, from divers and grebes through to sparrows, buntings and finches.

Stephen Moss is a BBC television producer and journalist, who works mainly on Bill Oddie’s wildlife programmes. He has written several books including Tweet of the Day, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Birds… But Were Too Afraid to Ask and Attracting Birds to Your Garden.

The Lagoon How Aristotle Invented Science

Armand Marie Leroi ‘Lush, epic and hugely enjoyable… Leroi is a beautiful writer and it’s been too long, a decade, since his last outstanding book’ Observer

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ristotle is known by many as a philosopher – as the author of the Poetics and Politics and founder of formal logic. Few know that he was also a biologist, the first – and one of the most influential of all time. Travelling to a Greek island, he lived there and studied its animals. He observed their behaviours, dissected their bodies and wrote about how they live, feed and breed. He developed an entire science. The Lagoon is not only about what Aristotle did, but also about how, 2,000 years later, his thought still permeates modern science.

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Armand Marie Leroi is Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College London. He studied in Halifax, Canada, and Irvine, CA, and did postdoctoral work at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. As well as many technical papers, he is the author of Mutants: On the Form, Variety and Errors of the Human Body (2003), which has been translated into nine languages and won the Guardian First Book Award. He lives in London.

The Letters of John F. Kennedy Edited by Martin W. Sandler ‘He chose those words with impressive care: punchy or gracious, droll or stern, as he wanted; always the articulate expression of an exacting intellect’ Simon Schama, Financial Times

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ohn F. Kennedy led the United States for barely a thousand days, and yet is regarded as one of the great Presidents of all time. Drawn from more than two million letters on file at the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, this collection presents readers with a portrait of both Kennedy the politician and Kennedy the man, as well as the turbulent times he lived in. The beginnings of American involvement in Vietnam, a touch-and-go Cold War relationship with the Soviet bloc and many other international controversies are intertwined with Kennedy’s own hushed-up health problems, his renowned controversial personal life and his charismatic engagement with the world of presidential politics.

Martin W. Sandler has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than 60 books, two of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Sandler has taught American History and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts.

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Philip Larkin Life, Art and Love

James Booth ‘Booth’s attempt to understand Larkin through his interaction with others is inspired’ Sunday Telegraph

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n one of the most comprehensive pictures of the poet yet published, James Booth examines the people, the places and the chance encounters that influenced Larkin and shaped his poetry. From Larkin’s early life, his academic studies and his aspirations as a novelist, an image emerges of a reserved and gentle man greatly affected by those close to him. Delving into his fluctuating relationships with Maeve Brennan and Monica Jones, two of the many women in Larkin’s life, and analysing their varied effect on his work, Booth sheds fresh light on one of Britain’s best loved poets.

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James Booth is Literary Adviser to The Philip Larkin Society and Co-Editor of its journal About Larkin. He has published two books on Larkin: Philip Larkin: Writer in 1991 and Philip Larkin: The Poet’s Plight in 2005. He has recently retired from the Department of English at the University of Hull, where he was a colleague of Larkin for 17 years.

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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

Michael Sims ‘His fresh, engaging style conceals colossal reading… This beguiling book makes you want more’ Sunday Times

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elling the story of a complex man seeking meaning in a tempestuous era, Michael Sims brings to life the youthful Henry as he embarks on the path to becoming the literary icon Thoreau. Using the letters and diaries of Thoreau’s family and friends, Sims charts the great man’s coming of age in 1830s America. From skating and boating with Nathaniel Hawthorne to his launching of a progressive school, this book paints a vivid portrait of the young writer struggling to find his voice through communing with nature, whether mountain climbing in Maine or building his cabin at Walden Pond.

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Michael Sims is the author of non-fiction books such as The Story of Charlotte’s Web and Adam’s Navel, as well as editor of anthologies including Dracula’s Guest, The Dead Witness and The Phantom Coach. His writing has appeared in The Times, the New Statesman, the New York Times and the Washington Post. michaelsimsbooks.com • @MichaelSimsBook

Women in Dark Times Jacqueline Rose ‘A rigorously argued and at times breathtaking book’ Daily Telegraph

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hrough compelling portraits of women as diverse as revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg, film icon Marilyn Monroe, and contemporary painter Thérèse Oulton, Jacqueline Rose provides a challenging and new template for the struggles of women. Descending into some of today’s bleakest realities, including ‘honour killings’, she argues that the work of feminism is far from done. The women presented here are visionary, enraged by injustice while also in touch with what is most painful about being human. Jacqueline Rose shows us why all these women are vital to feminism in its ongoing project to transform the iniquities of the modern world.

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Internationally acclaimed as a public intellectual for her writing on feminism, literature and psychoanalysis, Jacqueline Rose is Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of ten books including The Haunting of Sylvia Plath and On Not Being Able to Sleep, and a novel, Albertine. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. She lives in London.

Tennessee Williams Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

John Lahr ‘Dazzling, insightful... It is a masterpiece’ Independent

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ennessee Williams was a pioneer in what Arthur Miller declared ­‘a revolution’ in American theatre. Williams put his best self­and most of his life into plays like The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Tracing Williams’s turbulent moral and psychological shifts, John Lahr sheds new light on the man and his work as well as the America his plays helped to define. Here, along with his sensational rise and fall, Williams’s late-blooming homosexual rebellion and his struggle against madness, Lahr delivers an eloquent consideration of the man, his psychology and his plays in this masterpiece of the biographer’s art.

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John Lahr was the senior drama critic for the New Yorker for 20 years. He is a critic, novelist and biographer and is the author of 17 books, including Notes on a Cowardly Lion, the biography of Bert Lahr, and Prick Up Your Ears, the biography of Joe Orton. He lives in north London.

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The Impulse Society What’s Wrong With Getting What We Want?

Paul Roberts ‘The Impulse Society is a feisty read and full of energy’ Financial Times

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hat do soaring debt, endemic narcissism, road rage and killer drones have in common? All are symptoms of a society that moves relentlessly to exploit the fastest, most efficient means to any end, regardless of cost. This is the ‘impulse society’ in which we live. The costs of living this way are substantial: financial volatility, health epidemics, environmental exhaustion and political paralysis, to say nothing of a growing dissatisfaction. Paul Roberts traces the roots of this problem, damningly revealing how it has permeated society, and cogently argues how it may, perhaps, still be reversed. The Impulse Society is an epoch-defining wake-up call.

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Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil and The End of Food. As a journalist, he has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times and the Guardian, and his work has appeared in Slate, the New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. Roberts also appears regularly on American TV and radio.

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Mecca The Sacred City

Ziauddin Sardar ‘The story of Mecca has seldom been told with such insight and passion…

A major achievement and a hugely enjoyable and important study of one of the world’s great cities’ William Dalrymple, Observer

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ecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray and the site of pilgrimage which annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world.

Tracing its history, from its origins as a ‘barren valley’ in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious centre of a world empire, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the significance of Mecca today. An illuminative, lyrical and witty blend of history, reportage and memoir, this astounding book reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world.

Writer, broadcaster and cultural critic, Ziauddin Sardar is one of the world’s foremost Muslim intellectuals and author of over 45 books on Islam, science and contemporary culture. He has been listed by Prospect magazine as one of Britain’s top 100 intellectuals. Co-editor of quarterly Critical Muslim, currently he is Professor of Law and Society at Middlesex University.

A Message from Martha The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today

Mark Avery The tale of the Passenger Pigeon – from billions to none in fifty years

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eptember 1st, 2014 marked the centenary of one of the best-documented extinctions in history – the demise of the Passenger Pigeon. From being the commonest bird on the planet 50 years earlier, the species became extinct on that fateful day, with the death of Martha – the last of her kind.

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This book tells the tale of the Passenger Pigeon, and of Martha, and of Mark Avery’s journey in search of them. It contains an underlying theme – that we need to re-forge our relationship with the natural world on which we depend, and plan a more sustainable future. We must listen to the message from Martha.

Mark Avery is a scientist by training and a naturalist by inclination, who writes about and comments on environmental issues. Mark worked for the RSPB for 25 years and was their Conservation Director for nearly 13 years, before standing down in April 2011. Mark lives in rural Northamptonshire.

The Naming of the Shrew A Curious History of Latin Names

John Wright ‘Who would have thought that a book about Latin names could be quite so compelling!’ Alan Titchmarsh

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atin names are frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel. Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus, or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus – ‘dirty old man’? What were naturalists thinking when they called a genus of fish Batman? Why is zoology replete with names such as Chloris chloris chloris (the greenfinch), and Gorilla gorilla gorilla (a species of, well, gorilla)? The Naming of the Shrew unveils these mysteries, exploring the history of Latin names, celebrating their poetic nature and revealing the baroque rules that govern their creation.

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John Wright is a passionate natural historian and the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore, Hedgerow and Booze. He lectures on natural history, and he is a member of the British Mycological Society and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. He lives in rural West Dorset with his wife and two teenage daughters.

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p53 The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code

Sue Armstrong Medical science’s mission to unravel the mysteries of the most studied gene in history

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ll of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene. Its job is straightforward: to protect us from cancer. This gene – known simply as p53 – scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap. Cancer cannot develop unless p53 itself is damaged and malfunctioning. Not surprisingly, p53 is the most studied gene in history.

This book is the story of medical science’s mission to unravel the mysteries of p53.

A timely tale of scientific discovery, p53 charts our understanding of a disease that affects one in three of us at some point in our lives.

Sue Armstrong is an author and broadcaster. Sue has undertaken regular assignments for the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, writing about women’s health issues and the AIDS pandemic, among many other topics.

She has also worked on major Radio 4 documentaries, focusing on topics such as ageing, alcoholism, obesity and cancer.

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Index 1916

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A Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The A is for Arsenic An Illustrated Coastal Year Anti-Semitism Arsonist, The As Good as Dead

Emperor Far Away, The 68 37 40 16 57 10

21 5 58 4 2 37

C Carol Children of the Stone Chilled China Dolls Cobra in the Bath Collected Essays of Arthur Miller, The Coventry Cyberphobia

62 14 36 55 15 28 27 17

D Deep Thought Democracy

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E

B Big Magic Bitter Almonds Bitter Remedy Black Book of Arabia Blue Between Sky and Water, The Breaking the Chains of Gravity

Disappearance Boy, The

33 19

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Hollow of the Hand, The 23 How to Believe 54 How to Talk About Places You’ve Never Been 30 HR Paradox, The 44

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I

Fashion’s Front Line 52 Fashion Victims 52 Fives and Twenty-Fives 56 Flying Shoes 61 Fools, Frauds and Firebrands 25 Force for Good, A 12 Forever Boys 48 Francis Bacon in Your Blood 22

I Am With You Impulse Society, The Inflatable Woman, The Inglorious

G Game Genius At Play George and Martha Washington Gilbert Girl in the Ice, The Girl in Glass Governor’s Wife, The Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice, A

41 20 29 50 3 18 4

J John le Carré Jonathan Franzen Joy Ride

27 29 17

L Lagoon, The Lehman Brothers Let Me Be Frank With You Letters of John F. Kennedy, The Lifted by the Great Nothing Lost Detective, The

66 46 60 67 7 33

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H Harraga Health Gap, The Heart Goes Last, The Heirloom Harvest Herring Bones HMS Victory Pocket Manual 1805

54 69 8 39

62 19 8 23 40 51

Man on Fire Man with the Golden Typewriter, The MasterChef: The Masters at Home Mecca Message from Martha, A Metropolis

5 20 43 70 70 24

Mime Order, The M Train My Salinger Year

55 31 64

N Nabokov in America 15 Naming of the Shrew, The 71 Neuroscience of Leadership Coaching, The 44 New Asceticism, The 53 Ninth Life of Louis Drax, The 61

O Occupation Trilogy, The Oval World, The Owen’s Daughter

6 47 58

P p53 Parish Church Treasures Paris, He Said Patternalia Patti Smith Collected Lyrics Philip Larkin P is for Peloton Planner, The Playing Scared Pope Francis Problems with People

71 26 9 34 30 67 49 57 12 53 59

Q Quentin Blake Quinntessential Baking

26 41

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U

Ralph Steadman’s Nextinction 39 Rewire 45 Richard III 28 Ride the Revolution 47 Rise and the Fall of the Reader, The 25 Rugby World Cup, The 48

UNBORED Adventure 34 Understanding Bird Behaviour 66 Unexpected Story of Nathaniel Rothschild, The 14 Up Against the Night 6 Us Conductors 2

S

V

Sailing Alone Around the World 64 Scarpia 11 Scootermania 18 Seven Days in Syria 13 Sex on Earth 65 Silk Roads, The 16 sketch 43 Skyscrapers, Hemlines and the Eddie Murphy Rule 45 Slant of Light, A 9 Social Sweets 42 Soldier, Spy 32 Sorting the Beef from the Bull 36 SPUNTINO 42 Suspicious Minds 38 Sweet Caress 7

Visitors, The

60

W Watchmaker of Filigree Street, The 3 When the Office Went to War 32 Who’s Who 2016 35 Wisden on the Ashes 50 Women in Dark Times 68 Worlds Apart 13 World’s Most Extreme Challenges, The 49

Y You Could Look It Up

31

T Tabula Rasa Tennessee Williams Thatcher’s Trial Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) Treasure Island

63 69 21 10 59

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