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BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING ADULT RIGHTS GUIDE FRANKFURT 2017

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FICTION

This is How it Ends Eva Dolan

‘Elegantly crafted, humane and thought-provoking. She’s top drawer’ Ian Rankin ‘Stupendous. The thriller comes of age.’ Sarah Hilary, winner of the Theakston Crime Book of the Year ‘Eva Dolan’s This Is How It Ends is a tense, intelligent, politically charged thriller, expertly crafted by a writer at the top of her game.’ Mari Hannah, winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library ‘Bold and unusual, Eva Dolan’s exquisite writing perfectly captures contemporary London in this cleverly plotted novel.’ Sarah Ward, author in In Bitter Chill Eva Dolan has been twice shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year and longlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger List: Raven PUBLICATION DATE: 25/01/2018 EXTENT: 384 RIGHTS SOLD: Modernista (Swedish)

The TV rights to her Zigic and Ferreira series have been optioned by ITV Studios Three hundred gone. Just six left.

The building was once home to families, friends, children, couples, love, life.

Now, almost every flat is empty, the inhabitants forced out by the developers tearing down the old social housing to build luxury flats.

Only a few of the inhabitants have fought back against the attempts to evict them from their homes and their histories. And they have been joined by passionate student protestor and would-be journalist, Ella, who is leading a high profile media campaign to protect those who refuse to leave.

But Ella is in trouble. Because now there are more than six people in the building, but one of them is lying in a lift shaft with a broken neck…

Eva Dolan is an Essex-based copywriter and intermittently successful poker player. Shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for unpublished authors when she was just a teenager, the first four novels in the Zigic and Ferreira series, set in the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit, have been published to widespread critical acclaim. Tell No Tales was shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award and the third in the series, After You Die, was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. @eva_dolan

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The Land of the Living Georgina Harding

Every time the dream came it was different and yet he felt that he had dreamt it exactly that way before. The trees, there were always the trees, and the mist and the shadows and the running.

© Mark Pringle

Charlie’s experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Northern India are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk with his wife Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. The soil promises healthy crops and Claire is ready for a family.

But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie’s mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present. What should be said and what left unsaid? Is it possible to find connection and forge a new life in the wake of unfathomable horror?

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 1/11/2018

An intimate, profound meditation on the isolating impact of war and the inescapable reach of the past, Georgina Harding’s haunting and lyrical new novel questions the very nature of survival, and what it is that the living owe the dead.

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

ALSO AVAILABLE

The Gun Room

Painter of Silence

RIGHTS SOLD: Ambo Anthos (Dutch), Artemis (Turkish), Denoel (French), Einaudi (Italian), Nemira (Romanian), Perleblekk (Norwegian)

The Spy Game

RIGHTS SOLD: Ambo Anthos (Dutch), Denoel (French), Minimum Fax (Italian), Mehta Publishing (Marathi)

The Solitude of Thomas Cave

RIGHTS SOLD: Ambo Anthos (Dutch), Kinneret (Hebrew), serpent a plumes (French), Shinchosa (Japanese), Timas (Turkish), Vertigo (Italian)

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A Shot in the Dark Lynne Truss

The charming first novel in a new comic crime series set in Brighton, from one of Britain’s most-loved writers, the incomparable Lynne Truss After the notorious ‘Middle Street Massacre’ of 1951, when the majority of Brighton’s criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life as a policeman. No criminals, no crime, no stress. He just wishes Sergeant Brunswick would stop insisting that perhaps not every criminal was wiped out that fateful day.

Raven PUBLICATION DATE: 28/06/2018 EXTENT: 304

So it’s really rather annoying when an ambitious – not to mention irritating – new Constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it’s even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is despatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead part way through the opening night of a new play.

It seems Brighton may be in need of a police force after all…

Lynne Truss is a writer and broadcaster. She has written for Woman’s Journal, the Daily Mail, The Times and the Sunday Times. In 1996 she was named Columnist of the Year and the following year was shortlisted for Sportswriter of the Year. She has written extensively for radio, including dramas, adaptations and short stories. She is the author of three novels and she also writes scripts and comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Truss’s first book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, was an international bestseller and won the British Book Awards Book of the Year. Lynne Truss lives in Brighton. lynnetruss.com

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Travelling in a Strange Land David Park

© Bobbie Hanvey

Set in a frozen winter landscape, the new novel from the prize-winning, acclaimed author David Park is a psychologically astute, expertly crafted portrait of a father’s inner life and a family in crisis

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 224

The world is hushed, cloaked in snow. Transport has ground to a halt, flights cancelled and roads treacherous. Yet Tom must venture out into this transformed landscape to collect his son Luke, sick and stranded in his student lodgings.

During this solitary journey from Belfast to Sunderland by car and boat, Tom reflects on his life: the beloved wife he leaves behind, labouring to create the perfect Christmas and mend their family’s cracks with seasonal cheer; the son he is driving towards, yet struggles to connect with; the countless small disappointments of his photography career; and the absence that is always there as a voice in his head – his other son, Daniel.

In prose both lyrical and effortless, David Park vividly presents us with the inner life of a man grappling with existence’s challenges: the memories that haunt us, the secrets that divide us, and the bonds that strengthen us. Meditating on marriage, masculinity, parenthood and ambition, this novel encapsulates, with its exquisitely nuanced, precisely delineated depiction of human experience, the unsolved mystery at the heart of our lives.

David Park has written ten previous books including The Light of Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize, The Poets’ Wives, which was selected as Belfast’s Choice for One City One Book 2014, and The Truth Commissioner, which was adapted into a TV drama for BBC Two. He has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the University of Ulster’s McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. David Park lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

ALSO AVAILABLE

The Truth Commissioner

The Light of Amsterdam

The Poets’ Wives

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Peach

Emma Glass Introducing a dazzling new literary voice – a wholly original novel as ground-breaking as the work of Eimear McBride and Max Porter Slip the pin through the skin. Start stitching.

It doesn’t sting. It does bleed. White thread turns red.

Red string. Going in. Going out. I pull. Tug. Tug the pin. In. Out. Out. Out. Blackout.

Something has happened to Peach. Blood runs down her legs and the scent of charred meat lingers on her flesh. It hurts to walk but she staggers home to parents that don’t seem to notice. They can’t keep their hands off each other and besides, they have a new infant, sweet and wobbly as a jelly baby.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 11/01/2018 EXTENT: 112 RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German), Il Saggiatore (Italian)

Peach must patch herself up alone so she can go to college and see her boyfriend, Green. But sleeping is hard when she is haunted by the gaping memory of a mouth, and working is hard when burning sausage fat fills her nostrils, and eating is impossible when her stomach is swollen tight as a drum.

In this dazzling debut, Emma Glass articulates the unspeakable with breathtaking clarity and verve. Intensely physical, with rhythmic, visceral prose, Peach marks the arrival of a visionary new voice.

Praise for Peach “A strange and original work of art that manages to be both genuinely terrifying and undeniably joyful … In this dark poetic myth, Emma Glass takes on the big issues: good and evil, violence, redemption...An immensely talented young writer … Her fearlessness renews one’s faith in the power of literature.”

– George Saunders “Choose wisely the moment when you pick up Peach; because once you do you’ll be unable to put it down until the very last sentence.”

– Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire “Impossible to categorise, intimately weird and exhilaratingly bold, Peach shares literary DNA with Gertude Stein, Hubert Selby Jr, and Eimar McBride, but Emma Glass’s massive talent is all her own.”

– Laline Paull, author of The Bees “Peach is a work of genius. So lonesome and moving, so gruesome, wry, tender and plaintive. It is the new Jane Eyre, and one wild, thrilling ride.

Swallow it in one gulp, and carry a spare copy in your pocket. Always.”

– Lucy Ellmann author of Dot in the Universe

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Sidney Chambers and The Persistence of Love James Runcie

The sixth book in James Runcie’s crime series, adapted for ITV as Grantchester, starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers It is May 1971 and the Cambridgeshire countryside is bursting into summer.

Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna and their ageing Labrador Byron when they stumble upon a body. Plunged into another murder investigation, Sidney discovers a world of hippies and psychedelic plants, where permissive behaviour seems to hide something darker.

This is the first of many disturbing secrets that Sidney unearths beneath the tranquil surface of the diocese: a celebrated photographer is accused of rape; a priceless religious text vanishes from a Cambridge college; the authentication of a lost masterpiece proves a slippery business; and Sidney’s own nephew goes missing.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 04/05/2017 EXTENT: 368 RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffman und Campe (German), Actes Sud (French), Duomo Ediciones (Spanish), Vallardi (Italian), Massolit (Swedish), AST (Russian)

Endeavouring to fit in his clerical duties around sleuthing, Sidney continues to reflect on the divine mysteries of love, life and faith, while wrestling with the earthly problems of parish scandals, a progressive new secretary, the challenges of parenthood, and a great loss.

Praise for The Grantchester Mysteries ‘Runcie has the gift of the born story-teller with an easy style that makes it hard to put the book aside’ Daily Mail ‘An absolute treat … Perfect reading for a sunny English garden’ Kate Saunders, The Times James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker and the author of nine previous novels. Sidney Chambers and The Persistence of Love is the sixth book in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, which began in 2012 with Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a primetime series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers. The second season aired in spring 2016 and the third will be broadcast in spring 2017. James Runcie is Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4. He lives in London and Edinburgh. jamesruncie.com grantchestermysteries.com @james_runcie

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NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA

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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS FICTION: RECENTLY PUBLISHED

All the Beloved Ghosts Alison MacLeod

An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir RIGHTS SOLD: Penguin Random House Canada (US), Tokyo Sogensha (Japanese)

The Walworth Beauty Michèle Roberts

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author comes a sensuous, evocative novel exploring the lives of women in Victorian London, for fans of Sarah Waters, Emma Donoghue and Kate Atkinson

Before We Sleep Jeffrey Lent

The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from The Second World War to the dawning of the sixties – the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent’s career

The Songs Charles Elton

From the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, comes a witty and poignant story of siblings searching for the truth about their musician father

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GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Koh-i-Noor

The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond William Dalrymple & Anita Anand The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 15/06/2017 EXTENT: 352 RIGHTS SOLD: Noir Sur Blanc (French), Noir Sur Blanc (Polish), Unieboek Het Spectrum (Dutch), Adelphi (Italian)

On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over great swathes of the richest land in India in a formal Act of Submission to a private corporation, the East India Company. He was also compelled to hand over to the British monarch, Queen Victoria, perhaps the single most valuable object on the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light.

The history of the Koh-i-Noor that was then commissioned by the British may have been one woven together from gossip of Delhi bazaars, but it was to be become the accepted version. Only now is it finally challenged, freeing the diamond from the fog of mythology that has clung to it for so long. The resulting history is one of greed, murder, torture, colonialism and appropriation told through an impressive slice of south and central Asian history. It ends with the jewel in its current controversial setting: in the crown of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Masterly, powerful and erudite, this is history at its most compelling and invigorating.

Anita Anand has been a radio and television journalist for over twenty years. She is the presenter of Any Answers on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC television she has presented Newsnight, among other shows. Her first book, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette and Revolutionary was received to widespread acclaim. She lives in West London.

William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was just twenty-two. Since then, he has had seven more books published and has won numerous awards for his writing, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, the Hemingway Prize and the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

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GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

BUILT

The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures Roma Agrawal The wonders of engineering revealed – by the inspirational young female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building Our cities are full of incredible engineering feats and most of us live with little idea of what we are looking at in the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is built upon or how it remains standing.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 08/02/2018 EXTENT: 352 RIGHTS SOLD: Hanser Verlag (German)

In this book Roma Agrawal uncovers the astonishing science behind her profession. Each of the eight chapters will tackle a great engineering challenge – how we keep a building from falling down, or how a bridge is built to span vast distances – explaining solutions from modern times, reaching back to the Romans and other ancient cultures who developed techniques still used today.

Interweaving science, history, illustrations and personal stories, Roma will offer a new window into a subject that touches our everyday lives.

Roma Agrawal is a 31-year-old structural engineer who builds BIG – bridges, skyscrapers and sculptures – and is currently working on two buildings over London underground stations. Her first project was to construct a bridge over an eight-lane motorway in Newcastle; one year later, aged just 23, she began work on the Shard, with responsibility for the building’s peak and foundations.

She is increasingly the public face of engineering, featuring in last year’s national advertising campaign for Marks & Spencers. Roma Agrawal shares Sir James Dyson’s belief that we need to encourage young people, particularly women, into the engineering professions. She’s a tireless advocate, lecturing to institutions, schools and universities, and increasingly appears as a talking head in television documentaries, on radio and in print. BUILT is her first book. romatheengineer.com / @RomaTheEngineer

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GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Scribbles in the Margins 50 Eternal Delights of Books Daniel Gray

A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to afternoons lost in old bookshops, handwritten dedications in secondhand editions, reading to a child, and 47 other reminders of why we love books We lead increasingly time-poor lifestyles, bombarded 24/7 by petrifying news bulletins, internet trolls and endless noise. Where has the joy and relaxation gone from our daily lives? Scribbles in the Margins offers a glorious antidote to that relentless modern-day information churn. It is here to remind you that books and bookshops can still sing to your heart.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 18/05/2017 EXTENT: 160 RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish), Kamper Verlag (German)

Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are 50 short essays of prose poetry dedicated to the simple joy to be found in reading and the rituals around it. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain pleasurable and right, that warm our hearts and connect us to books, to reading and to other readers: smells of books, old or new; losing an afternoon organising bookshelves; libraries; watching a child learn to read; reading in bed; impromptu bookmarks; visiting someone’s home and inspecting the bookshelves; stains and other reminders of where and when you read a book.

An attempt to fondly weigh up what makes a book so much more than paper and ink – and reading so much more than a hobby, a way of passing time or a learning process – these declarations of love demonstrate what books and reading mean to us as individuals, and the cherished part they play in our lives, from the vivid greens and purples of childhood books to the dusty comfort novels we turn to in times of adult flux.

Scribbles in the Margins is a love-letter to books and bookshops, rejoicing in the many universal and sometimes odd little ways that reading and the rituals around reading make us happy.

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

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GENERAL NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

The Exile

The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider’s story of Osama bin Laden’s retinue in the years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.

From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads.

The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden’s four wives and many children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, and many others who have never before told their stories.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 23/5/2017 EXTENT: 640

Investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy gained unique access to Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, and they recount the flight of Al Qaeda’s forces and bin Laden’s innocent family members, the gradual formation of ISIS by bin Laden’s lieutenants, and bin Laden’s rising paranoia and eroding control over his organization. They also reveal that the Bush White House knew the whereabouts of bin Laden’s family and Al Qaeda’s military and religious leaders, but rejected opportunities to capture them, pursuing war in the Persian Gulf instead, and offer insights into how Al Qaeda will attempt to regenerate itself in the coming years.

While we think we know what happened in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011, we know little about the wilderness years that led to that shocking event. As authoritative in its scope and detail as it is propuslively readable, The Exile is a landmark work of investigation and reporting.

Praise for The Exile: “Remarkable . . . They have produced the best account yet of what happened to al-Qaida after 9/11: it is an astonishingly good piece of work.” – Guardian “This book is a tour de force and the first detailed account told by al-Qaeda members themselves, making good use of the diaries of Abu Zubaydah, the captured al-Qaeda facilitator, as well as extensive interviews with one of its religious thinkers . . . It tells us lots of things we knew, but in far more detail.”

– The Sunday Times “Based on meticulous and unique research, this riveting account of Osama bin Laden’s last decade is the most important and revealing book about the al Qaeda leadership in years. The role of the Iranian and Pakistani ‘deep states’ in hiding bin Laden and his family is fascinating and disturbing.”

– Bruce Riedel, former CIA analyst and counter-terrorism expert, and adviser to four US Presidents

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Rise Up Women!

The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes Diane Atkinson Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women’s fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebration of an extraordinary struggle On 6 February 1918, after campaigning for over fifty years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first female MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 08/02/2018 EXTENT: 432

A hundred years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them. In the voices of key suffragettes, Rise Up Women! chronicles the founding of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in the 1860s, led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the formation of the more militant Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903. ‘Deeds Not Words!’ was their slogan – and they took increasingly violent action, enduring police brutality, imprisonment and force-feeding.

Illuminating the stories of lesser-known figures as she charts the fight for the vote, Diane Atkinson depicts a truly national and international struggle. Brilliantly researched, vividly rendered and celebratory, Rise Up Women! is an essential reminder of what it took to get where we are today – and the progress yet to be made.

Praise for The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton 'Important and definitive, this beautifully written and extremely entertaining book resurrects a nineteenth-century heroine for the twenty-first century' Amanda Foreman Diane Atkinson has a PhD from the University of London on the politics of women’s sweated labour and an MA in Life-writing from the University of East Anglia. She was a history teacher before working as a lecturer at the Museum of London, where she curated a major exhibition on the suffragettes. She is the author of two illustrated history books, Suffragettes in Pictures and Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality, and three biographies, Love & Dirt: The Marriage of Arthur Munby & Hannah Cullwick, Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front and The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton.

Diane Atkinson has lectured on the suffragettes at conferences and festivals, spoken on radio programmes including Woman’s Hour, and consulted and appeared on numerous television documentaries such as Suffragette City, presented by Sheila Hancock in 2008. She lives in London. dianeatkinson.co.uk / @DitheDauntless

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NON FICTION: FICTION AND RECENTLY CURRENT PUBLISHED AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS

This Is Not a Border

Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Edited by Ahdaf Soueif & Omar Robert Hamilton A celebration of ten years of the Palestine Festival of Literature, featuring Suad Amiry, J. M. Coetzee, Richard Ford, Claire Messud, Michael Palin, Raja Shehadeh, and many more

Bitch Doctrine

Essays for Dissenting Adults Laurie Penny 'I can't really think of another writer who so consistently and bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better' Caitlin Moran RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German)

Unspeakable Things Sex, Lies and Revolution Laurie Penny

‘A writer and polemicist, a bad-ass, contrary, angry, bisexual troublemaker who is never happier than when she’s upsetting someone, or preferably everyone … We need her’ – The Times ‘An insightful, provocative and bold commentator. She never compromises her compassion and humanity’ Irvine Welsh RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German), Ordfront (Swedish), Continta Me Tienes (Spanish)

Affluence Without Abundance

The Disappearing World of the Bushmen James Suzman A vibrant portrait of the ‘original affluent society’ – the Bushmen of southern Africa – by the anthropologist who has spent the better part of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity ‘Affluence Without Abundance is not simply a description of Bushman life. Mr Suzman deftly weaves his experiences and observations with lessons on human evolution, the history of human migration and the fate of African communities since the arrival of Europeans. The overarching aim of the book is more ambitious still: to challenge the reader’s ideas about both hunter-gatherer life and human nature.’ – Economist 14

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Syrian Memoir

Kassem Eid with Janine di Giovanni An unforgettable memoir of growing up in Syria under al-Assad’s regime, surviving a gas attack, and rallying worldwide support to break the siege of cities across the country On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people were killed. Later that day he was hit by a mortar while helping the Free Syrian Army fight government forces. He survived that too. But the devastation wrought on his friends, his neighbours and his home transformed them into something unrecognisable, horrifying.

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 320

Born to Palestinian immigrants, Kassem Eid remembers moving to Moadamiya in 1989, at the age of three. The streets where he and his siblings played were fragrant with jasmine. But he soon realised that he was treated differently at school because of his family’s resistance to the regime. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that he would ease its severity were swiftly crushed.

Breathtakingly powerful, this brave, deeply felt memoir illuminates the realities of growing up in a corrupt dictatorship; the strictures of living under siege for a year; the impact of unspeakable violence; and how Kassem Eid rallied worldwide support through a highly-publicised hunger strike to break the siege of cities across Syria. It is a searing account of oppression, war, survival and escape – and an eloquent howl against the destruction of a nation as the world turned its face away.

Kassem Eid is a Palestinian–Syrian rebel and human rights activist. In 2014 he went on a speaking tour across the United States and testified before the United Nations Security Council. He has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and was interviewed on 60 Minutes. He is currently a refugee living in Europe.

Janine di Giovanni has reported on war for over twenty years and is the winner of the 2016 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award. She has written eight books, including the critically acclaimed Madness Visible, and, most recently, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, which won the Hay Festival Award for Prose. She lives in Paris. janinedigiovanni.com / @janinedigi

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Memphis Rent Party

The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown Robert Gordon Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion.

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music – home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. A Memphis native, he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis, stays up late with barrelhouse piano player Mose Vinson, and sips homemade whiskey at Junior Kimbrough's churning house parties. A passionate listener, he hears modern times deep in the grooves of old records by Lead Belly and Robert Johnson.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 06/03/2018 EXTENT: 288

The interconnected profiles and stories in Memphis Rent Party convey more than a region. Like mint seeping into bourbon, Gordon gets into the wider world.

He beholds the beauty of mistakes with producer Jim Dickinson (Replacements, Rolling Stones), charts the stars with Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star), and mulls the tragedy of Jeff Buckley's fatal swim. Gordon's Memphis inspires Cat Power, attracts Townes Van Zandt, and finds James Carr always singing at the dark end of the street.

A rent party is when friends come together to hear music, dance, and help a pal through hard times; it's a celebration in the face of looming tragedy, an optimism when the wolf is at the door. Robert Gordon finds mystery in the mundane, inspiration in the bleakness, and revels in the individualism that connects these diverse encounters.

Robert Gordon has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of It Came from Memphis, Can’t Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, The Elvis Treasures, and Respect Yourself. He won a Grammy in 2011 for his liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His film work includes producing and directing the documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story and also Best of Enemies, which was recently Emmynominated and Oscar-shortlisted. Gordon lives in Memphis.

Respect Yourself Robert Gordon

‘A masterful storyteller, music historian Gordon artfully chronicles the rise and fall of one of America’s greatest music studios, situating the story of Stax within the cultural history of the 1960s in the South ...

Gordon deftly narrates the stories of the many musicians who called Stax home’ Publishers Weekly 16

MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY

Coronet Among the Spooks Charlotte Bingham

From the bestselling author comes a beguiling comic memoir about a young woman who discovers her father is a spy (he was the model for John le Carré’s George Smiley) and goes to work as a secretary in 1950s MI5 It seems to me now that everyone who came to our house in those days was a spy…

When Charlotte Bingham, daughter of an obscure aristocrat, was summoned to her father’s office aged eighteen, she never expected to discover that this aloof, soberly-dressed parent was a spy. Even more ominous than The Facts was his suggestion that she should stop drifting around working for the sort of people her mother could never ask to dinner, and get a proper job, something patriotic and worthwhile.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 224

So Lottie finds herself outside MI5’s Mayfair offices in a dreary suit, feeling naked without her false eyelashes. Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, she wishes for pneumonia, or anything to release her from the torment of typing.

But as another secretary, the serene Arabella, starts illuminating the mysteries of MI5, and Lottie’s home fills with actors doubling as spies, Lottie begins to feel well and truly spooked.

This hilarious memoir from the bestselling author of Coronet Among the Weeds is a window into 1950s Britain: a country where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour. Discretion, honour and office politics meet secrecy, suspicion and film stars in this enchanting, extraordinary true story.

Praise for Charlotte Bingham ‘Bingham relishes her period detail and social comedy and adds a touch of whimsy’ Sunday Times ‘Charlotte Bingham always tells a rattling good story’ Woman & Home Charlotte Bingham is an internationally bestselling author whose works include over thirty novels and two memoirs, Coronet Among the Weeds and Coronet Among the Grass, which were adapted for television. She has also written extensively for stage and screen, most notably helping to create Upstairs Downstairs and adapting Jilly Cooper’s Riders for television. She lives in Somerset. charlottebingham.com

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Train to Nowhere Anita Leslie

'Train to Nowhere speaks of another mood, a different time and a grittier generation...This, surely, is the second world war we want to rediscover in print' Robert McCrum, Observer Train to Nowhere is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic.

Daughter of a Baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanized Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France and Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoans ‘first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men,’ and, as the British Army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty.

Bloomsbury Caravel PUBLICATION DATE: 24/08/2017 EXTENT: 336

Writing letters in Hitler’s recently vacated office and marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered and a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war.

Unflinching and unsentimental, Train to Nowhere is a memoir of Anita’s war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant and relevant.

Anita Leslie (1914–1985), daughter of Shane Leslie (Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet) and first cousin once removed of Sir Winston Churchill, was a writer of memoir and biography. She joined the Mechanised Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France and Germany. She wrote letters home from Hitler's office in the Reich Chancellery and took part in the Victory parade in Berlin. In the latter part of the war she drove an ambulance for the Free French Forces, and was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1945 by General Charles de Gaulle.

Leslie later married Commander Bill King and had two children. She published seventeen books, the last in 1985 – the year she died.

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MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY: RECENTLY PUBLISHED

Insomniac City

New York, Oliver, and Me Bill Hayes A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls ‘the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected’ of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks RIGHTS SOLD: Alma Publishing (Korean), ROPI Publications (Greek)

Chief Engineer

Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge Erica Wagner The unparalleled biography of one of the most important figures in American civil engineering history – Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge

The Good Bohemian

The Letters of Ida John Edited by Michael Holroyd & Rebecca John Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John’s first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century

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MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY: RECENTLY PUBLISHED

We Are the Change We Seek The Speeches of Barack Obama E.J. Dionne Jr. & Joy-Ann Reid

A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.

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Can't Stand Up For Falling Down Rock'n'Roll War Stories Allan Jones

A funny, eye-opening collection of reminiscences from one of the UK's leading music journalists.

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SMART THINKING

How to Resist Matthew Bolton

An inspiring and practical set of seven principles to enact lasting change in our communities ‘This book is for people who are angry with the ways things are and want to do something about it; for people who are frustrated with the system, or worried about the direction the country is going in. Maybe they’ve been on a march, posted their opinions on social media, or shouted angrily at something they’ve seen on the news but don’t feel like it’s making any difference. It is for people who want to make a change but they’re not sure how.’ – Matthew Bolton

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 13/07/2017 EXTENT: 176

How to Resist is about what you can do after the march. In seven practical principles, Matthew Bolton outlines a method for how we can enact real and lasting change in our communities. This is the method he used in leading the Living Wage campaign, which resulted in pay rises for millions of people in the UK, and in building the Citizens UK alliance of tens of thousands of community campaigners.

Matthew Bolton, Deputy Director of Citizens UK and Lead Organiser for London Citizens, has built a nationwide alliance of thousands of community campaigners who have driven two of the most effective, strategic and wide-reaching campaigns in the UK of the past two decades. He led the UK Living Wage campaign, which has won over £200 million for 150,000 low-paid workers and persuaded the Government to introduce the national Living Wage, benefitting millions more. The Refugee Welcome and Safe Passage campaign has secured entry for over 1,100 vulnerable Syrian children, including hundreds from the ‘jungle’ camps of Calais. Matthew coaches community organisers across the country, and is a Trustee of the London Community Land Trust affordable housing provider. He lives with his wife and young son in South London.

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SMART THINKING: THINKING HIGHLIGHTS RECENTLY PUBLISHED

A More Beautiful Question

The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas Warren Berger ‘One closes Berger’s book newly conscious of the significance of smart questions’ New York Times Book Review RIGHTS SOLD: Cheers Media LLC(Simplified Chinese), Domain Publishing Company (Complex Chinese), Popuri Publishers (Russian), Berlin Verlag (German), Book 21 Publishing Group (Korean), Diamond Inc (Japanese),Aleph (Brazilian Portuguese), 1980Books (Vietnamese)

Finding the Space to Lead

A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership Janice Marturano ‘With leaders everywhere searching for ways to be mindful, Janice Marturano’s timely new book, Finding the Space to Lead, is the definitive guide to becoming a mindful leader. If you follow her practical advice and easy-to-adopt exercises, this book will change your life. You will not only become a better leader, you will have a more fulfilling life’ Bill George, Professor, Harvard Business School and former Chair and CEO of Medtronic RIGHTS SOLD: Arbor Verlag (German),Bulkwang Publishing Co. (Korean),Beijing Huazhang Graphics & Information (Simplifi ed Chinese), De Boeck Supérieur (French); Martin Fontes (Brazilian Portuguese); Øivind Arneberg (Norwegian), Amber (Polish). Kairós (Spanish)

The Great Acceleration

How the World is Getting Faster, Faster Robert Colvile ‘An alert and readable survey of the effects of “the great acceleration” on tech firms, social media, art, news media, politics, banking and the environment. Its statistics are certainly striking’ Sunday Times RIGHTS SOLD: United Sky New Media Co. (Simplified Chinese)

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Lead Yourself First

Inspiring Leadership through Solitude Raymond M. Kethledge & Michael S. Erwin For fans of Susan Cain's Quiet, a guide to the role of solitude in good leadership, including profiles of historical and contemporary figures who have used solitude to lead with courage, creativity and strength

Buddhist Economics

An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science Clair Brown In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability and right living RIGHTS SOLD: Vallardi (Italian)

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Lamarck’s Revenge

How Epigenetics is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution’s Past and Present Peter Ward Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future traits

Bloomsbury US Publication date: 17/7/2018

In the 1700s Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics, but in the 1800s, his theory was supplanted by Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how quickly species re-diversified and re-populated after mass extinctions. Now advances in the study of DNA and RNA have resurrected epigenetics, which can create radical physical and physiological changes in subsequent generations by the simple addition of a single small molecule, thus passing along a propensity for molecules to attach in the same places in the next generation.

Epigenetics is a complex process, but paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter Ward breaks it down for general readers, using the epigenetic paradigm to reexamine how the history of our species – from deep time to the outbreak of the Black Plague and into the present – has left its mark on our physiology, behavior and intelligence. Of particular interest are chapters on how we are undergoing epigenetic changes now triggered by toxins, environmental pollutants, famine, poor nutrition and overexposure to violence.

Lamarck’s Revenge is an eye-opening and controversial exploration of how traits are inherited, with special emphasis on outside influences that drive what we pass along to our progeny.

Peter Ward, Ph.D. is a paleontologist and astrobiologist, and an acknowledged expert on mass extinctions. He has published many books, including A New History of Life, with coauthor Joe Kirschvink. Ward’s Rare Earth, coauthored with Don Brownlee, was named by Discover Magazine as one of the ten most important science books of 2001 and Gorgon was awarded a Washington State Governor’s Book Award in 2005. He has appeared often on the Art Bell Coast to Coast radio program and on Science Friday with Ira Flatow. Ward lives in Washington State.

A New History of Life

The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth Peter Ward & Joe Kirschvink RIGHTS SOLD: DVA (German), Kachi (Korean), Kawade Shobo Shinsha (Japanese), The Commercial Press (Simplified Chinese) 24

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Are We Screwed?

How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change Geoff Dembicki A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 22/8/2017 EXTENT: 304

If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed? makes the argument that the ardor for change defines this generation, especially when it comes to climate change, and they are willing to consider options that their elders might consider naïve and impractical, rejecting a capitalism that cares only about profit and a political system riven by false ideology. In telling the stories of his contemporaries around the globe, in describing how they think and the many ways they are already affecting change, Geoff Dembicki documents a historic shift in values and a corresponding re-thinking of how social change can happen.

As of this year, the millennial generation (18- to 34-year-olds) will become North America's largest demographic. It is also the generation that has lived with the looming reality of global warming and will be most affected by its impacts. In vividly reported dispatches from Beijing to Paris, and from San Francisco to New York, Dembicki examines what millennial responses to climate change look like and how they are shaping our future. He also provides an essential perspective on how climate change is intensifying generational tensions and shifts in society.

In the process, a portrait of a generation emerges that goes a long way toward re-branding his generation in ways that are positive and full of hope for the future.

Reviews ‘[One of] the most talented young journalists I have worked with during my thirty years in the business’ Monte Paulsen, Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award-winning journalist Geoff Dembicki, born in Edmonton in 1986, is a staff reporter for Vancouver independent news site The Tyee, where he wrote the popular series ‘Are We Screwed?’ in 2014. His work is also published in Foreign Policy, Vice, Salon, Motherboard, the Toronto Star, Alternet and the Walrus, and has been cited

by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity. He was awarded a 2012–2013 media fellowship from the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and moderated a sold-out David Suzuki Foundation event on climate change and democracy.

Dembicki received a grant from the New York-based Solutions Journalism Network to support the writing of this book. He lives in Vancouver, BC.

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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING

Where the Wild Coffee Grows

The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup Jeff Koehler Coffee is one of the largest and most valuable commodities in the world.

This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award–winning author of Darjeeling

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 14/11/2017 EXTENT: 304

Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia are the original home of Arabica, the most prevalent and superior of the two main species of coffee being cultivated today. Virtually unknown to European explorers, the Kafa region was essentially off-limits to foreigners well into the twentieth century, which allowed the world’s original coffee culture to develop in virtual isolation in the forests where the Kafa people continue to forage for wild coffee berries.

Deftly blending in the long, fascinating history of our favorite drink, awardwinning author Jeff Koehler takes readers from these forest beginnings along the spectacular journey of its spread around the globe. With cafés on virtually every corner of every town in the world, coffee has never been so popular – nor tasted so good.

Yet diseases and climate change are battering production in Latin America, where 85 percent of Arabica grows. As the industry tries to safeguard the species’ future, breeders are returning to the original coffee forests, which are under threat and swiftly shrinking. ‘The forests around Kafa are not important just because they are the origin of a drink that means so much to so many,’ writes Koehler. ‘They are important because deep in their shady understory lies a key to saving the faltering coffee industry. They hold not just the past but also the future of coffee.’

Darjeeling

The Colourful History and Precarious Fate of the World’s Greatest Tea Jeff Koehler Gourmand Award for 2015 Best Tea Book in the US The International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing RIGHTS SOLD: Rye Field Publications (Complex Chinese) 26

Jeff Koehler is the author of Darjeeling: The Colorful History and Precarious Fate of the World’s Greatest Tea, winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award and a Gourmand Award; Spain: Recipes and Traditions; Morocco: A Culinary Journey with Recipes; and La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain’s Mediterranean Coast. His work has appeared in Saveur, Food & Wine, NPR, the Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Barcelona.

Praise for Darjeeling ‘It is not just about Darjeeling, though; and not even just about tea. It is also about the history of colonial and post-colonial India ... As for the rest, it is a book teeming with characters and interest. Koehler, described as “writer, photographer, traveller and cook” has the polymath’s curiosity for everything, as well as the writer’s ability to listen to and retell a good story ... A richly digressive book.’ — Guardian ‘This exhaustively researched and eminently readable book will delight foodies, history buffs and armchair travelers alike.’ — Seattle Times

TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING

Havana

A Subtropical Delirium Mark Kurlansky Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider’s view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years. Part cultural history, part travelogue, with recipes, historic engravings, photographs, and Kurlansky’s own pen-and-ink drawings throughout, Havana celebrates the city’s singular music, literature, baseball, and food; its five centuries of outstanding, neglected architecture; and its extraordinary blend of cultures.

Like all great cities, Havana has a rich history that informs the vibrant place it is today – from the native Taino to Columbus’s landing, from Cuba’s status as a U.S. protectorate to Batista’s dictatorship and Castro’s revolution, from Soviet presence to the welcoming of capitalist tourism. Havana is a place of extremes: a beautifully restored colonial city whose cobblestone streets pass through areas that have not been painted or repaired since long before the revolution.

Bloomsbury USA PUBLICATION DATE: 07/03/2017 EXTENT: 224 The book will include recipes, with the author’s sketches, etchings and photographs through-out RIGHTS SOLD: Czarne (Polish), Giunti Editore (Italian), Tyto Alba (Lithuanian), Shanxi People’s Publishing House (Simplified Chinese)

Kurlansky shows Havana through the eyes of Cuban writers, such as Alejo Carpentier and José Martí, and foreigners, including Graham Greene and Hemingway. He introduces us to Cuban baseball and its highly opinionated fans; the city’s music scene, alive with the rhythm of Son; its culinary legacy. Through Mark Kurlansky’s multilayered and electrifying portrait, the long-elusive city of Havana comes stirringly to life.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, International Night, The Eastern Stars, A Continent of Islands, and The White Man in the Tree and Other Stories. He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. Salt was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. He spent ten years as Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com

What?

International Night

RIGHTS SOLD: Hoffman und Campe (German), Butik Yayincilik (Turkish), Exmo (Russian), Random House Korea (Korean)

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Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky and Talia Kurlansky

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The Wonderful Mr Willughby Tim Birkhead

From the author of Bird Sense and The Most Perfect Thing, a biography of Francis Willughby, the first ornithologist Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the rapidly accelerating scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Travelling and talking science with his Cambridge tutor John Ray, Willughby was determined to overhaul the whole of natural history and impose order on its messiness and complexity. It was exhilarating, exacting and exhausting work. Yet before Willughby and Ray's first book, Ornithology, could be completed, Willughby died. In the centuries since, Ray’s reputation has grown, obscuring that of his collaborator. Now, for the first time, Willughby's story and genius are given the attention they deserve.

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 03/05/2018 EXTENT: 288

RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij (Dutch), The Commercial Press Ltd (Simplified Chinese), Libros del Jata (Spanish), Hakuyosha Publishing Co. (Japanese)

In his too-short life, Francis Willughby helped found the Royal Society, finesse the differentiation of birds through identification of their distinguishing features and ask questions that were, in some cases, centuries ahead of their time.

His discoveries and his approach to his work continue to be relevant – and revelatory – today.

Tim Birkhead, with a fellow expert’s understanding and passion, shows and celebrates how Willughby’s endeavours set a standard for the way birds and natural history should be studied. Rich with glorious detail, The Wonderful Mr. Willughby is at once a fascinating insight into a thrilling period of scientific history and an authoritative and lively biography of a man who lived at its heart.

Tim Birkhead FRS is a professor at the University of Sheffield where he teaches animal behaviour and the history of science. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his research has taken him all over the world in a quest to understand the lives of birds. Among his other books are Promiscuity; Great Auk Islands; The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Birds, which won the McColvin medal; The Red Canary, which won the Consul Cremer Prize; The Wisdom of Birds; Bird Sense, which was the Guardian's and the Independent's Natural History Book of the Year; and The Most Perfect Thing, which won the Zoological Society of London's Communicating Zoology Award for 2016. He is married with three children and lives in Sheffield.

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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING

The Long Spring: Tracing the Arrival of Spring North through Europe Lawrence Rose

One man tracks the arrival of spring north through Europe from southern Spain to the Arctic Circle.

Exploring the wildlife, places, traditions, culture and personalities associated with spring throughout Europe, and introducing readers to cultural, scientific and historical research and his recollections of 30 years of continental travel, Laurence Rose paints a vivid picture of one of the world’s most significant and beautiful natural phenomena: spring.

Bloomsbury Natural History PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 272

Laurence begins his journey in the first week of February, arriving in southern Spain with the storks that herald the beginning of Europe's spring on San Blas Day. Swallows, cranes and, later on, wild swans are his constant companions as he journeys his way north through Spain, France and the UK, eventually crossing over to Sweden, Finland and Norway before finally reaching the Arctic Circle four months later.

While on the road, Laurence follows live data from satellites tracking birds as well as other indicators of spring. Throughout his travels, he meets people living closely with nature. He also encounters new behaviours, such as cranes wintering in France, and explores how they link to climate change.

The further north he travels, the more unpredictable the events of spring become. At the end of his journey, Laurence reflects on what he has learned, as the long Arctic days stretch out into 24 hours of daylight.

Laurence Rose has worked as a wildlife conservation professional for over 30 years, working both at ground level and in the boardroom. He was the head of the RSPB’s European Programme for ten years.

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The Cape Horners’ Club

Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World's Most Feared Cape Adrian Flanagan A thrilling tale of triumph and disaster on the sailing world's Everest – Cape Horn, the most terrifying and lethal place on the world's oceans.

Cape Horn’s fearsome reputation and the price it has exacted from those who venture there derives from a lethal contrivance of geography that unleashes the most powerful natural dynamic forces on the earth’s surface. Reaching deep into the Southern Ocean, the Cape intrudes into the flow of the water and weather patterns at the bottom of the world and funnels them into a maritime superhighway a mere 500 miles wide, building massive seas and accelerating wind speeds to hurricane strength. Currents rip at rates that defeat powerful engines.

These legendarily treacherous conditions were enough to secure Cape Horn’s reputation as the ultimate in ocean violence; the supreme test of sailors and ships. It is the oceanic equivalent of the climbers’ Everest, and the challenge to some became irresistible. The roll call of sailors who have managed to round the Horn east-about (and more rarely, head to wind and west-about) glitters with the names of sailing legends: Vito Dumas, Marcel Bardiaux, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, Bernard Moitessier and Chay Blyth.

This book recounts the history of the Cape through the stories of the people who’ve taken it on and made it round – the Cape Horners’ Club. From the first recorded single-hander in 1934 (Al Hansen, who was lost shortly afterwards and his body never found), we follow these very different protagonists as they pursue the ultimate goal while battling almost overwhelming odds. Woven through their stories is a history of the Cape, from its discovery to its use as a trading corridor until the opening of the Panama Canal, to its more recent role as a pure challenge for the best yachtsmen and yachtswomen in the world. Changes in weather prediction and navigation have had a huge impact, but the pressure for ever-faster times has never been greater.

Adrian Flanagan was born in Nairobi in 1960, and spent his early life in Africa and the Far East. He read medicine at King's College, London before taking time out to travel around Sri Lanka on a motorbike. Adrian is a freelance sports journalist, contributing to The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Daily Mail.

In October 2008, he became the first solo yachtsman to sail vertically round the world (via Cape Horn and the Russian Arctic). Over the Top, his account of the voyage, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING: RECENTLY PUBLISHED

The Ethical Carnivore My Year Killing to Eat Louise Gray

Winner of the Food Book of the Year, and the Campaigning and Investigative Food Work award at the Guild of Food Writers Award 2017 What would happen if you could only eat animals you killed yourself? This is the story of how one woman took an extreme dinner party challenge seriously, and what she learned about herself and the animals we eat along the way.

Songs of Love and War The Dark Art of Bird Behaviour Dominic Couzens

A naturalist's journey to explore and understand the birds that fill the air with their music.

Off the Deep End

A History of Madness at Sea Nic Compton A unique and fascinating study into why, historically, sailors were seven times more likely to suffer from severe mental illness, and how the sea continues to have the power to drive people mad

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SIGMA

I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals Liam Drew

A scientific and historical look at what makes a mammal a mammal A human being is a mammal. Most of us appreciate that at some level. But what does it mean to have more in common with a horse and an armadillo than with a sparrow, gecko or T. Rex? Why do only mammals have hair, mammary glands and three bones in their middle ears?

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 02/11/2017 EXTENT: 288 RIGHTS SOLD: Wydawnictwo Literackie (Polish), Intershift (Japanese)

I, Mammal is a personalised quest to understand what it means to be a mammal, exploring the different traits that uniquely define them. From their particular sexual anatomy through to their burgeoning brains, via milk, parenting and warm blood, each chapter provides a potted history of how each mammalian feature evolved and of how scientists came to understand it. Entwined are tales of how different mammals live with these traits everyday, exploiting them in ways that enable them to adapt and survive.

Gradually, an animal emerges – a mammal. A type of creature whose biology runs throughout the human experience.

Liam Drew is a freelance writer and former neurobiologist. He holds a PhD in sensory biology from University College London, and spent twelve years researching the neural and genetic basis of schizophrenia, the biology of pain and the birth of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain at Columbia University, New York and again at UCL. As a writer, his work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Slate and the Guardian. He is director of NeuWrite London, a London subsidiary of 'NeuWrite: a collaborative working group for scientists, writers, and those in between'. @liamjdrew

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Making the Monster Kathryn Harkup

A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a 19-year-old woman with no formal education come up with the idea for an extraordinary novel such as Frankenstein? The period 1790–1820 saw huge advances in our understanding of electricity and physiology. Sensational science demonstrations caught the imagination of the general public, and newspapers were full of lurid tales of murderers and resurrectionists.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 08/02/2018 EXTENT: 288

It is unlikely that Frankenstein would have been successful in his attempts to create life back in 1818. However, advances in medical science mean we have overcome many of the stumbling blocks that would have thwarted his ambition. We can resuscitate people using defibrillators, we can save lives using blood transfusions, and we can prolong life through organ transplants – these procedures are nowadays considered almost routine. Many of these modern achievements are a direct result of 19th century scientists conducting their gruesome experiments on the dead.

Making the Monster explores the science behind Shelley's book. From tales of reanimated zombie kittens to electrical experiments on human cadavers, Kathryn Harkup examines the science and scientists that influenced Mary Shelley and inspired her most famous creation, Victor Frankenstein. While, thankfully, we are still far from being able to recreate Victor's 'creature', scientists have tried to create the building blocks of life, and the dream of creating life-forms from scratch is now tantalisingly close.

Kathryn Harkup is a chemist and author. Kathryn completed a doctorate on her favourite chemicals, phosphines, and went on to further postdoctoral research.

For six years she ran the outreach in engineering, computing, physics and maths at the University of Surrey. Kathryn is now a freelance science communicator delivering talks and workshops on the quirky side of science.

A is for Arsenic

The Poisons of Agatha Christie Kathryn Harkup RIGHTS SOLD: Iwanami Shoten (Japanese), J. C. Lattes (French), RAO Editura (Romanian), Lijang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese), Thinking Power (Korean) 33

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Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food Nicola Temple

Does our food packaging tell us the whole story behind what's in the food on our plate?

History would suggest that the answer to this question is no – or do we just need to learn to read the language of our packaging? The food industry has had to adapt to changing consumer needs; and technological advancements, such as fermentation, pasteurization, refrigeration and additives, mean that our supermarket shelves are a far more varied place than they once were.

Nowadays we are able to store and preserve food so effectively that we can move it around the world at astonishing rates. We can eat food out of season and remain completely detached from its origins.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 22/02/2018 EXTENT: 288

But there is a lot going on that you or I have simply no idea about. For example, supermarket mature cheese. Tasty and rich – but not so mature. Ageing takes a long time, and a lot of space, and food manufacturers have developed a shortcut. In truth this cheese is probably just a few days old, and has been altered through the application of chemicals to give it the taste, smell and texture of an aged cheese.

This is just one of hundreds of tricks and cheats – all legal – used by the food industry, ultimately, to save money and drive up profit margins, from fluffy white bread to tomatoes in winter and salty products secretly laced with sugar. Not surprisingly, the industry is not keen for the buying public to be too aware of this.

In Best Before, Nicola Temple builds on the food fraud uncovered by herself and Richard Evershed in her first book, Sorting the Beef from the Bull. Through a combination of personal stories, scientific explanation and historical perspectives she sheds light on shady, but legal, areas of food processing, highlighting how little we know about our food after it leaves the farm. Developments have revolutionised our food industry, but have there been instances where this has gone too far, at a cost to nutritive value, and ultimately, our health?

This book will arm consumers with eye-opening information about their food, enabling them to make better choices and to understand what the language used on our food labels actually means.

Sorting the Beef from the Bull The Science of Food Fraud Forensics Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple RIGHTS SOLD: Alpina OOO (Russian), Nikkei BP (Japanese)

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Nicola Temple is a biologist, conservationist and science writer. Her writing has taken her from the precipices of volcanoes in Ethiopia to the banks of salmon streams in Canada’s temperate rainforest. Based in Bristol, Nicola works with universities, research councils and individuals to develop engaging science stories on how research has an impact beyond the closeted world of academia.

Nicola was co-author of Sorting the Beef from the Bull (Bloomsbury Sigma, February 2016).

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Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System Natalie Starkey

Takes us up close and personal with comets, and explains how we can use these ancient voyagers to understand our place in the Solar System.

Comets are the oldest objects in the Solar System, plucked 4.6 billion years ago from a massive, swirling cloud of gas and dust that went on to create the Sun and our entire Solar system.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 288

The list of ingredients contained in a comet is the same as that required make a planet, and through studying them we can learn how Earth became the planet it is today. Comets have remained in the Solar System deep-freeze for the whole of their existence, and provide scientists with a perfectly preserved snapshot of a time long ago – if they can get their hands on a sample, that is. We have only seen a handful of comets whizzing through the sky as they pass us on their way to their final destination, and we’ve had even fewer actual crash-landings, though our knowledge and understanding of these bodies has increased considerably following the incredible Rosetta mission, in which the research craft Philae actually landed on a comet as it swung around the Sun. Comets are extensively studied to analyse their composition and behaviour, and through the results scientists can begin to answer fundamental questions about our existence: where did we come from? Where did our planet’s water originate? Was life delivered to Earth from outer space, and did it ride on the back of a comet?

Although the Earth hasn’t experienced a major cometary collision for a very long time, it is thought that a comet impact marked the end of the dinosaur reign.

What would happen if a large comet were to set its sights on earth again? Would that be the end of humanity’s reign? It is almost certain that this will happen one day, and space agencies are actively researching how the course of a comet might be altered. Blow it up? Or nudge it out the way? These ideas are no longer just in the realms of science fiction books.

Natalie Starkey has been at the forefront of comet and asteroid research for more than a decade. In Catching Stardust she takes us up close and personal with comets, and explain how we can use these ancient voyagers to help understand our place in the Solar System.

Now living in California, Natalie regularly appears on television and radio internationally. She has written articles for The Guardian, where she undertook a British Science Association Media Fellowship, and she regularly contributes to The Conversation website. In 2014 she received a SEPnet award for Public Engagement in the Media and Communications category. @starkeystardust / nataliestarkey.com

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Wonders Beyond Numbers A History of All Things Mathematical Johnny Ball

Enriched with tales of colourful personalities and remarkable discoveries, there is also plenty of mathematics for keen readers to get stuck into. Written in Johnny Ball’s characteristically light-hearted and engaging style, this book is packed with historical insight and mathematical marvels; join Johnny and uncover the wonders found beyond the numbers.

By introducing us to the major characters and leading us through many historical twists and turns, Johnny slowly unravels the tale of how humanity built up a knowledge and understanding of shapes, numbers and patterns from ancient times, a story that leads directly to the technological wonderland we live in today. As Galileo said, ‘Everything in the universe is written in the language of mathematics’, and Wonders Beyond Numbers is your guide to this language.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 5/10/17 EXTENT: 336

Mathematics is only one part of this rich and varied tale; we meet many fascinating personalities along the way, such as a mathematician who everyone has heard of but who may not have existed; a Greek philosopher who made so many mistakes that many wanted his books destroyed; a mathematical artist who built the largest masonry dome on earth, which builders had previously declared impossible; a world-renowned painter who discovered mathematics and decided he could no longer stand the sight of a brush; and a philosopher who lost his head, but only after he had died.

Forty years ago, Johnny Ball wrote his first Think of a Number TV show, which opened the door to a whole new genre of programmes based on maths and science. He drew in audiences of all ages, and influenced a generation. While Johnny had no formal university experience in mathematics he made it his hobby, and after being a drummer, comedian, comedy writer and TV presenter, he turned this into a second career, one that continues to this day. Today he lectures on mathematics and science to readers, viewers and listeners of all levels and ages.

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Seeds of Science

Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs Mark Lynas The inside story of the fight for and against genetic modification in food, from someone who's been on the front line of both sides of the argument In the mid-1990s, UK newspapers picked up on a controversial issue that had been slowly gathering steam – genetically modified organisms. The media soon could talk about little else. Headlines screamed that this technological advance could pose serious health risks, that our food was already GM-rich and yet we didn’t even realise. How could this be? Of course there was science and statistics to back up these bold claims … or was there?

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 05/04/2018 EXTENT: 288

Twenty years on, the dust has settled. Scientists are working hard to devise new farming methods that will meet the world’s food requirements while causing the minimum amount of ecological harm. We’re now discovering that the environmentalist mainstream might have misjudged the GM issue completely, and as a consequence we have forfeited two decades’ worth of scientific progress in perhaps the most vital area of human need: food.

No one is more aware of this fact than the author of this book, Mark Lynas.

Starting out as one of the leading activists in the fight against GM – from destroying experimental crop fields to leading the charge in the press – in 2013 Lynas famously admitted that he had got it all wrong. This book tells the story of how and why so many people were confused by genetic engineering. Lynas takes us back to the origins of the technology, and examines the histories of the people and companies who pioneered it. He explains what led him to question his assumptions on GM, and what he is doing now to further research in this field, making a difference in tackling poverty by using science to encourage better harvests.

Seeds of Science lifts the lid on the whole controversial GM story, from the perspective of someone who has fought prominently on both sides. It provides an explanation of the research that has enabled this technology – something that was sorely missing from the media in the late 90s, which led to countless misconceptions about the field, one that could provide perhaps the only solution to a planet with a population of ten billion people.

Mark Lynas is the author of three major popular science environmental books: High Tide (2004), Six Degrees (2008) and The God Species (2011), as well as the Kindle Single ebook Nuclear 2.0 (2012). Six Degrees won the Royal Society prize and was made into a National Geographic documentary.

Lynas was advisor to the President of the Maldives on climate change from 2009 until the coup in 2012. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Bangkok Post and numerous others. He is a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science, Cornell University.

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Eye of the Shoal

A Fish-watcher’s guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything Helen Scales Uncovers the beautiful, mesmerising and complex world of fish It’s difficult to think of fish as wild, living things, partly because those chunks of white meat on our plates are almost impossible to connect to animate, living, breathing creatures, in the same way a steak doesn’t call to mind a mooing, cud-chewing cow.

In this book, Scales shares the secrets of fish, unhitching them from their reputation as cold-hearted, unknowable beasts and reinventing them as clever, emotional, singing, thoughtful animals, and challenging readers to rethink these animals. She takes readers on an underwater journey to watch them going about the hidden but glorious business of being a fish.

Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 3/5/18 EXTENT: 288

Woven throughout will be stories of how fish have splashed into our world, and not simply as food. Our relationship with these scaly creatures goes much deeper than predator versus prey. Fish leave their mark on the human world.

As well as being a rich and entertaining read, this book will inspire readers to think again about these animals, and the seas, and to go out and appreciate the wildness and wonders of fish, whether through the glass walls of an aquarium or, better still, by gazing into the fishes’ wild world and swimming through it.

Helen Scales is a marine biologist based in Cambridge. Her doctorate involved searching for giant, endangered fish in Borneo; she’s also tagged sharks in California, and once spent a year cataloguing all the marine life she could find surrounding a hundred islands in the Andaman Sea. Helen regularly appears on BBC Radio 4, Sky News and the BBC World Service, and has presented documentaries on topics such as whether people will ever live underwater, the science of surfing and the intricacies of sharks’ minds.

She is scientific advisor to the charity Sea Changers, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a tutor at the University of Cambridge. Her previous book Spirals in Time was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, a number one smash on Amazon and a Guardian bestseller. @helenscales / helenscales.com

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Nodding Off

Understanding Sleep from the Cradle to the Grave Alice Gregory Getting a good night’s sleep on a regular basis is essential to living a happy and healthy life, but why is it harder for some of us than others?

How do our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, and what are the long-term effects for bad sleepers?

Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 14/6/18 EXTENT: 288

These are the types of questions that jump into every person’s head while they toss and turn, unable to ‘drop off’. Sleep is important to the way we learn, remember and forget, to how we feel about family and partners, as well as to our wellbeing and our mental and physical health. In fact, it is essential for life itself. Nodding Off: Sleep from the Cradle to the Grave explores every aspect of sleep, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong and getting some shut-eye becomes more of a trial than a pleasure.

In Nodding Off, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory takes the reader on a scientific journey though slumber. Using cutting-edge findings in the field, she tackles the big questions, such as How do things that happen before we are even born affect our sleep?

How do genes influence the way we sleep?

What sleep problems should raise a red flag in children?

What are the consequences of sleep problems in the elderly?

Most of us spend a large proportion of our lives asleep without ever thinking about why we do this. Nodding Off lifts the lid on this mysterious past time.

It examines all of the biggest sleep secrets, and Professor Gregory provides solutions to some of the common sleep problems that people suffer throughout their lives.

Alice Gregory is a highly respected expert on sleep throughout development.

She has been researching sleep for more than a decade and has published more than 100 articles on this and associated topics. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford, her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and is currently a Reader at Goldsmiths, University of London. Gregory collaborates widely with other sleep experts throughout the world, and has the latest research on sleep at her fingertips. As a parent of two young children herself, she is well qualified to provide an informed, friendly and amusing narrative on the important issue of sleep.

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Outnumbered David Sumpter

Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy, what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits, and increasingly we are relinquishing our decision-making to algorithms – are we giving up this up too easily?

The media report daily on some new way our privacy is being violated, but without understanding what mathematics can and can’t do it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives. Outnumbered is a journey to the dark side of mathematics, from how it dictates our social media activities to our travel routes. David Sumpter will investigate into whether mathematics is sucking the mystery out of life, making everything too predictable, and crossing dangerous lines when it comes to what we can make decisions about.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 19/04/2018 EXTENT: 288

This book will show how maths impacts all parts of our lives: from the algorithms that decide whom we interact with to the statistical methods that categorise us as potential criminals. It tests financial algorithms that purport to generate money from nothing, and reveals that we are constantly manipulated by the maths used by others, from algorithms choosing the news we hear to automated hospital waiting lists deciding whether we receive treatment.

Using interviews with those people working at the cutting edge of mathematical research, Outnumbered will explain how maths and stats work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn’t worry about.

David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held academic research positions at both Oxford and Cambridge before heading to Sweden. An incomplete list of applied maths research projects on which David has worked include pigeons flying in pairs over Oxford; the traffic of Cuban leaf-cutter ants; fish swimming between coral in the Great Barrier Reef; swarms of locusts traveling across the Sahara; dancing honey bees from Sydney; and the tubular structures built by Japanese slime moulds.

Soccermatics

Mathematical Adventures In the Beautiful Game David Sumpter RIGHTS SOLD: Eksmo (Russian), Copernicus (Polish), Codice (Italian), Kobun-sha (Japanese), Ariel (Spanish), Benevento (German), Volante (Swedish), Planeta (Spanish) 40

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The Planet Factory

Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth Elizabeth Tasker Forget about rockets to Mars – the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was a job restricted to science-fiction writers. Now it’s one of the fastest-growing fields in astronomy with thousands of exoplanets discovered to date.

These new worlds are more alien than anything in fiction. Planets larger than Jupiter with years lasting one week, planets circling the dead remains of stars, others with two suns lighting their skies or with no sun at all. These locations hint at Earth-sized worlds but with split hemispheres of perpetual day and night, waterworlds drowning under global oceans and volcanic lava planets spewing seas of magma.

Bloomsbury Sigma PUBLICATION DATE: 07/09/2017 EXTENT: 288

The Planet Factory tells the story of these exoplanets. The specks of dust that circle a young star come together in a violent building project that can form colossal worlds hundreds of times the size of the Earth. The changing orbits of young planets risk dooming the life forming on neighbouring worlds or alternatively, can deliver the key ingredients needed to seed its beginnings.

It is one of the greatest construction schemes in the Universe and it occurred around nearly every star you see. Each result is an alien landscape, but is it possible that one of these could be like our own home?

Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist specialising in computational simulations of star formation in galaxies. After a degree in theoretical physics, she went on to complete her doctorate at Oxford before post-doctoral research at Columbia University and the University of Florida in the United States, and McMaster University in Canada. She currently works at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Elizabeth has been a keen science communicator for many years, dating back to winning the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writers Award in 1999. Since then she has written blogs for Scientific American and Physics Focus, and currently writes Hokkaido University’s research blog. @girlandkat

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Lateral Cooking Niki Segnit

From the author of the bestselling Flavour Thesaurus Lateral Cooking is at once a source of practical recipe information for keen cooks and reading pleasure for all those who love food Lateral Cooking is a unique and ambitious book for opinion-former cooks, for people who have moved beyond slavishly following recipes, preferring to adapt and create their own, or even cooking entirely without recipes.

This book contains approximately 80 recipes, which act as starting points.

Then each of these original source recipes has a set of ‘leeway’ notes. These leeway notes guide the reader through the ways these starting-point recipes can be adapted. Here the text echoes Niki’s bestselling first book, The Flavour Thesaurus, with paragraphs on the various flavours and combinations that make up the leeways.

Bloomsbury UK PUBLICATION DATE: 23/08/18 EXTENT: 608, two colour illustrations throughout RIGHTS SOLD: Holland (Podium)

The recipes are organised into 12 chapters, each covering a basic culinary category, such as Breads, Sauces, Nuts, Custards, Cakes and Biscuits.

Every chapter begins with an introductory essay and double–page spreads of inspirational illustrations. The recipes that then follow are arranged on a ‘continuum’: the transition from one recipe to another amounts to a single tweak or possibly two to the list of ingredients or the method. This way, the reader can easily understand how individual recipes on the continuum relate to one another, providing a solid basis for cooking dishes by heart.

Lateral Cooking is a truly original book. Seven years in the research and writing, with an exceptional and distinctive design, cookery book readers will never have seen anything quite like it before.

Niki Segnit was inspired to write her bestselling first book, The Flavour Thesaurus, when she noticed how dependent she was on recipes. Her background is in marketing, specialising in food and drink, and she has worked with many famous brands of confectionery, snacks, baby foods, condiments, dairy products, hard liquors and soft drinks. She lives in central London with her husband.

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The Flavour Thesaurus Niki Segnit

RIGHTS SOLD: Berlin (German), Casa da Palavra (Portuguese for Brazil), CITE (Chinese complex), Exmo (Russian), Gribaudo (Italian), Foksal (Polish), Forma (Sweden), Lua da Papel (Portuguese), Marabout (French), Podium (Dutch), Rakkousha, INc (Japanese), Random Huose Penguin (Spanish), Vaga (Lithuanian), Business Weekly Publications (Complex Chinese)

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A Guinea Pig Romeo & Juliet True love blossoms in this retelling of Shakespeare’s classic play, adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs

Bloomsbury Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 07/09/2017 EXTENT: 64

Born into the litters of two rival families, star-cross’d lovers Romeo and Juliet fall tuft-over-paw for each other before learning that they are sworn enemies. ‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?’ squeaks Juliet from her balcony, before declarations of undying affection are made and a secret wedding is planned. But the path of true love does not run smooth, and Romeo soon finds himself banished from the city of Verona after playing his part in a fatal brawl with Juliet’s family. In a desperate attempt to scurry away together, they devise a plan fraught with danger that eventually leads to heart-break…

Discover Shakespeare’s classic tale of romance and tragedy, retold in an entirely new way.

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. He wrote over 37 plays, including Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which have been translated into every major living language and performed countless times over the last 450 years.

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A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist

A Guinea Pig Nativity

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A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

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The Art of the Affair

An Illustrated History of Love, Sex and Artistic Influence Catherine Lacey & Forsyth Harmon A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century – fascinating, scandalous and surprising

The Gutsy Girl

Caroline Paul Illustrated by Wendy McNaughton New York Times Bestseller!

From a real-life derring-do woman, exhilarating stories, activities and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life of adventure and excitement RIGHTS SOLD: Intrínseca (Brazilian Portuguese), Pepper Books (Dutch), Giunti (Italian), Planeta (Spanish), Black Button Books (Romanian)

Lost Cat

Caroline Paul Illustrated by Wendy McNaughton RIGHTS SOLD: Global Group Holdings (Complex Chinese), Heyne (German), Jilin (Simplified Chinese), Salani Editore (Italian), Will Book (Korean), Versus Yayinlard (Turkish), Ariel (Spanish), Forgalet Press (Norwegian), Kodansha (Japanese), Vellant Publishing (Romanian)

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

The only book on camper vans and camping you’ll ever need in order to successfully and happily live, eat, sleep and repeat the camper van life RIGHTS SOLD: Paul Pietsch Verlag (German), Éditions Ouest-France (French)

Out on the Land

Bushcraft Skills from the Northern Forest Ray Mears & Lars Fält A celebration of the history and culture of the northern wilderness – the largest forest on the planet – from two acknowledged experts on bushcraft and survival skills RIGHTS SOLD: Bonniers Forlag (Swedish), Gyldendal Norway (Norwegian)

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The Billionaires Club

The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners James Montague A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game?

Bloomsbury Sport RIGHTS SOLD: Kanzen (Japanese); Spoleczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak (Polish)

While almost cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner has to raise his head above the bunker when it comes to football ownership – a rare Achilles heel that allows access to worlds normally off limits to journalists and outsiders. In The Billionaires Club James Montague delves deeper than anyone ever dared, to tell this story for the first time. He criss-crosses the world – from Dhaka to Doha, from China to Crewe, from St Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium – to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.

The Billionaires Club is part history of club ownership, part in-depth investigation into the money and influence that connects the super-rich around the globe, and part travel book as he follows the ever-shifting trail around the globe in an attempt to reveal the real force behind modern-day football.

At its heart The Billionaires Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is headed and how football has become an essential cog in this machine.

James Montague is an award-winning journalist who writes about football, culture and politics across the globe. He has reported from over 65 countries for the New York Times, World Soccer and the Bleacher Report, amongst others.

He also features regularly on the BBC World Service’s World Football podcast.

His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders, which won Football Book of the Year at the 2015 British Sports Book of the Year Awards. Sports Illustrated described him as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’. @JamesPiotr

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Faster Higher Stronger Weirder

The Quest for the Superhuman Sports Star Ed Hawkins The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports In the 1970s several hippies from America believed they could change the world using superhuman powers. And they did (with the US military keeping a watchful eye). Thanks to a shared belief by their Soviet brethren of New Age spiritualism they helped the Cold War thaw. Then they focused on sports: could mystical powers be used to create superhuman athletes? Locking runners in huts to make them believe they were dead saints, and golfers imagining they are Darth Vader – coaches began to trust in very weird things. So weird, in fact, that the hippies went underground and their superhuman powers became mythical. But the trailblazers are making a comeback, influencing some of the world’s top teams.

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 03/05/2018 EXTENT: 292

For fans of Jon Ronson and Louis Theroux, Faster Higher Stronger Weirder is another highly entertaining, mind-boggling look into an improbable world.

Ed Hawkins is an award-winning author and investigative journalist. He has written several books including the critically acclaimed The Lost Boys: Inside football’s slave trade and Bookie Gambler Fixer Spy, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has won three Sports Journalist Association awards. He lives in Kent.

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Monsieur X

The Incredible Story of the Most Audacious Gambler in History Jamie Reid The gripping, noirish tale of gambling’s Robin Hood figure and his attempt to beat the French state-run betting system

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 320

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Patrice Des Moutis was a respected French aristocrat with a warm welcome in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie who, between 1958 and the early 1970s, made daring attempts to beat the French state-run betting system. A series of spectacular coups netted him millions of pounds and earned him the nickname Monsieur X. But his success so alarmed the authorities that they repeatedly changed the rules of betting in an effort to stop him. This long- running cat and mouse game – with the law on one side and the gangsters on the other – is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy.

A journalist and lifelong betting and racing enthusiast, Jamie Reid is the author of two novels and five non-fiction books including Doped, winner of the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Blown, Days Like These: The Education of a Racing Lover and A Licence To Print Money, shortlisted for the 1992 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He lives near Bath.

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The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Heartlands Harry Pearson

A journey through the wild madness of Flemish bicycle racing.

Bloomsbury Sport PUBLICATION DATE: 22/02/2018 EXTENT: 304

Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Flanders is the size of East Anglia with population a tenth of that of Great Britain, yet this small corner of north-west Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France, five times as many professional riders as Italy or Spain. Blending reportage, interviews, observation, biography and history and written with affectionate humour by a committed Belgophile, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman tells the story of Flanders’ neurotic love affair with bike racing.

Harry Pearson has been shortlisted for both the William Hill and the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph prizes. Slipless in Settle was the 2012 MCC Book of the Year. The Far Corner has been named as one of the fifty greatest sports books of all time by both the Times and the Observer. His book, A Tall Man in a Low Land is the bestselling English language travelogue about Belgium.

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401

Ben Smith The inspiring story of Ben Smith – who ran 401 marathons in 401 days with minimal support, to raise money for Stonewall and Kidscape.

On 1 September 2015, Ben Smith set out from Bristol. Over the next 401 days, he would burn an estimated 2.4 million calories; run with almost 10,000 people; inspire almost 600 first-time marathon runners and visit 101 schools. He would also raise in excess of £325,000 for charity.

In between, Ben fractured his back; was almost blown away by a hurricane on the Gower Peninsula; kissed his boyfriend Kyle live on TV during the London Marathon; took 10 days off after discovering his spine was collapsing; spent the next 117 days playing catch-up. And he wouldn’t have changed a thing.

PUBLICATION DATE: 05/04/2018 EXTENT: 256

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Ben Smith ran 401 marathons in 401 days. He is currently planning to take on the San Francisco to New York challenge to break that record. He and his partner Kyle recently set up the Festival of Running in Bristol, including a virtual element allowing people to take part from around the world. @the401challenge

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Golden Kicks

The Sneakers that Changed Sport Jason Coles Golden Kicks reveals the fascinating histories behind the greatest sports shoes ever made and the role they played in some of sport’s most significant moments

Rainbows in the Mud

Inside the Intoxicating World of Cyclocross Paul Maunder A colourful ride through a season of cyclocross, cycling’s off-road, cult discipline

Re:Cyclists

200 Years on Two Wheels Michael Hutchinson A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling

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Breaking Mum and Dad Anna Williamson

Breaking Mum and Dad is a helpful, often humorous, and always honest guide to help all new mums and dads cope with and conquer anxiety, stress and low mood in those overwhelming fledgling parent days.

With more than 1 in 10 new parents experiencing post-natal depression and anxiety, and after suffering the traumatic birth of her son, and herself being diagnosed with post-natal anxiety and birth trauma, Anna Williamson uncovers the real thoughts, feelings and behaviours that many of us experience in those first few weeks and months after becoming a parent.

From ‘I’m struggling to love my baby’ to ‘I miss my old life’ and ‘Will I ever feel like “me” again?’ to ‘I’m anxious about having sex’ this book will help new parents cope with the often taboo topics that we ALL encounter.

Green Tree PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 208

A therapist in your pocket, meaning you don’t have to face one of life’s most momentous experiences alone, or fear being judged of the weird and often worrying irrational thoughts that plague our frazzled minds. Mental health for new mums (and dads) is a thing - a big thing - and it’s time we all stopped suffering in silence.

It takes time to adjust to this new identity and role - whether it’s making new friends, coping with changing relationships, breast and bottle feeding anxiety, going back to work worries, or the whole shift being a new parent poses mentally. Breaking Mum and Dad is a little pocket guide of empathy, sympathy and above all, hope.

Anna Williamson is a television presenter, radio broadcaster, life coach, counsellor and Master NLP practitioner. She lives in rural Hertfordshire with her husband and young son. Anna is also an Ambassador for Mind and The Princes Trust. Her goal is to continue to destigmatise mental health.

Dr Reetta Newell is a Clinical Psychologist, and runs a private practice specialising in working with children and families. She provides psychological assessment, consultation, formulation and therapy to individuals and families.

She works with lots of clients with anxiety. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and two children.

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The Insider’s Guide to Conquering Anxiety Anna Williamson with Dr Reetta Newell Illustrated by Beth Evans An honest guide to getting one over on anxiety, stress and other conditions RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur (German), Zero A Oito (Portuguese) 52

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Get Well Soon Nick Duerden

If you were diagnosed with a condition for which there was no known cure, what would you do?

Nick Duerden is a writer and journalist. This is his memoir about a long period of ill health, and how he was forced to plunge, like it or not, into the often bewildering – but increasingly blossoming – world of alternative therapy in pursuit of a cure …

Green Tree PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 240

He followed strictly regimented, vitamin-rich diets, and swallowed all manner of supplements. He smeared himself in coarse mineral salts, and grew tepid in Epsom salt baths. He visited energy practitioners and spiritual gurus. He learned yoga, how to meditate, to breathe properly, to face his fears and manage the new anxieties those very fears had done so well to engender. Over the course of three years, Nick’s lifelong cynicism is gradually replaced by an open eagerness to try anything, if not quite everything and in doing so, he starts on the pathway back to health.

Get Well Soon is a memoir that focuses on the journey all of us will at some point have to face: the abrupt obligation to start living better, wiser, healthier, to be kinder to our minds and bodies by realising that minds and bodies do require care. It’s about what happens to life when you become ill, because everyday life is never going to stop going about its chaotic business.

This is not a self-help book. But it is, in its own candid, unflinching and stumbling way, a mapless guide to belatedly learning to live well, to negotiating a very particular, and all too common, midlife crisis. It is honest, and funny, and ultimately optimistic. And it might just offer proof that self-discovery, even when it is enforced self-discovery, is no bad thing.

Nick Duerden is a writer and freelance broadsheet journalist. He is the author of two novels and a memoir on fatherhood, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and 5 and Sky News. He has written widely on the arts, travel and health. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

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The Breathing Revolution Yolanda Barker

Breathing is at the core of everything we do. Breath is life We breathe over 20,000 times a day. But most of us don’t breathe properly.

Years of stress and anxiety mean many of us breathe through our chests, forgetting to use our diaphragms and stomachs. Learn to breathe correctly and you will be calmer, lose weight and sleep better. The 7-day Breathing Programme will help you re-teach yourself how to breathe and to experience the benefits of harnessing our breath, helping you banish anxiety and find inner calm. Take a deep breath – and learn how to breathe again.

Yolanda Barker is a yoga teacher and film maker. Through her yoga experience she has developed an accessible method for anyone and everyone – to re-teach us how to breathe and to experience the benefits of harnessing our breath. @YolandaBarker Green Tree PUBLICATION DATE: 05/04/2018 EXTENT: 160

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The Human Kind: stories from the Heart of Medicine Peter Dorwood

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience, persistence, the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven’t helped. The relationship between doctors and patients can be freighted with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. These are the stories of Dr Peter Dorward’s hardest cases, including his worst failures (and a few triumphs). Within these Peter explores the philosophical problems and contradictions entangled in the practice of medicine, showing how, despite its vast resources, it is so often destined to fail people.

Peter Dorward has thirty years’ experience practising as a doctor in Edinburgh.

He has a long-standing interest in medical ethics and philosophical problems in clinical practice. He has also worked as a scriptwriter for television dramas.

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The Girls' Guide to Growing Up Great Sophie Elkan, Laura Chaisty and Maddy Podichetty

This book is about thriving during puberty – not simply surviving it This is a positive and empowering guide for girls who are starting to go through puberty, or are just interested in what’s in store. With chapters on bodies and bodily changes, friends and feelings, cyber-bullying, sex and sexuality, it encourages girls to face head on the changes coming their way, recognising the bumps on the road ahead, and helping them to understand their bodies. Lighthearted illustrations and the space for doodles make this a fun and interactive guidebook, with age-appropriate levels of detail and no-nonsense facts.

PUBLICATION DATE: 05/04/2018

Sophie Elkan is a marketing and PR consultant. She has worked for Marie Claire, Woman & Home, Options, 19 and Mizz. Contributing author Laura Chaisty has over fifteen years’ experience as a practicing Art Psychotherapist, mainly working within the NHS. Contributor Dr Maddy Podichetty is a GP in Oxford.

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Big Jobs, Small Children Christine Armstrong

When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to stop work or even work part-time. But the truth is, combining big jobs and small kids is hard – for men and women.

From the broken breast pumps on business trips, to hiding chickenpox from the nursery, to the heartbreak when you come home and realise your baby smells of the childminder. When Christine Armstrong tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to make it work, she looked for answers by interviewing other working mums and found that she wasn’t alone. These are the stories of the women who shared everything (and we mean, everything) and what they want you to know.

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Big Jobs, Small Children is a funny, heart-breaking and completely realistic take on why combining a big job and small children breaks you, why everyone lies about it but ultimately how you can be happy if you extract the knowledge others learnt the hard way.

A book you will wish someone had given you the day you became a parent.

Read it and pass it on…

Christine Armstrong is Contributing Editor of Management Today, co-founder of communications consultancy Jericho Chambers and Chair of the Maternity Liaison Committee at University College London Hospital. She has spent four years interviewing women with big jobs and small children. She has three daughters under eight, is – against her own advice – an active member of the school PTA and recently introduced plastic fishing to London’s docklands. @CArmstrongLDN

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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS

The Memory Stones

The Gun Room

Everything Love Is

‘A lyrical portrait that lingers in the memory’ Guardian

‘The finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft’ Sadie Jones, Guardian

‘Beautifully written and intriguing this atmospheric novel had me hooked’ Katie Fforde

Caroline Brothers

‘Raw and beautiful’ Emma Barnett, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

Georgina Harding

Claire King

‘A book that provokes searching questions’ Daily Mail

The Bricks that Built the Houses

The Photographer’s Wife

Please Do Not Disturb

‘Exquisite prose’ New York Times

‘Bold, bright, beguiling... unstoppable’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Tour de force’ Marie Claire

‘You’d have to go back to the young Paul Theroux to find a writer this savvy … A smart, feverish talent’ Seattle Times

Kate Tempest

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Suzanne Joinson

RIGHTS SOLD: Zhejiang Photographic Press (simplified Chinese)

Robert Glancy

RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur (German)

FICTION HIGHLIGHTS

The Ladies of Grace Adieu

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

‘Clarke is a natural storyteller’ Sunday Telegraph

RIGHTS SOLD: Agave Kiado (Hungarian), Hunan Literature and Arts Publishing (Simplified Chinese), Salamandra (World Spanish), Casa da Palavra (Portuguese), Robbert Laffont (French), Dobrovsky (Czech), Slovart (Slovak), Mag Jacek Rodek (Polish), Berlin Verlag (German), Zalozba Sanje (Slovenian), Companhia das Letras (Brazilian Portuguese), Atticus Azbooka (Russian), Alfa Yayinlari (Turkish), Casa das Letras (Portuguese), Mauri Spagnol (Italian)

Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke

RIGHTS SOLD: Hunan Literature and Arts Publishing (Simplified Chinese), Mag Jacek Rodek (Polish), Editorial Notícias (Portuguese), Salamandra (Spanish), , Longanesi (Italian), Agave Kiado (Hungarian), Robert Laffont (French), Alfa (Turkish), Yanshuf (Hebrew), R.A.O (Romanian), Argo (Czech), Atticus Azbooka (Russian)

Terms & Conditions

When Mr Dog Bites

The Hollow of the Hand

Brian Conaghan

PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy

‘Original, very funny and very poignant’ Paul Torday, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

‘I loved Dylan Mint. He made me laugh out loud and his tenacity had me rooting for him from the first page’ Stephen Kelman

‘A sincere and sincerely impressive collection’ Independent

Robert Glancy

RIGHTS SOLD: Droemer Knaur (German), Host (Czech), Sindbad (Russsian)

RIGHTS SOLD: Arche Verlag (German), Argo Nakladatelsvi (Czech), Pegasus Yayinlari (Turkish), Rocco (Brazilian Portuguese), Rosinante (Danish)

RIGHTS SOLD: Samlaget (Norwegian), Sexto piso (Spanish – World), L’Age d’Homme (French), La Nave Di Teseo (Italian)

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FICTION HIGHLIGHTS

A Thousand Cuts

A Spike Sanguinetti Mystery

Sleeping Dogs Thomas Mogford

Thomas Mogford

Hollow Mountain Thomas Mogford

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Sign of the Cross Thomas Mogford

Shadow of the Rock Thomas Mogford

NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS

The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting Anne Trubek

Dead Zone

Where the Wild Things Were Philip Lymbery ‘An honest, compelling and important account and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security’ Chris Packham

Farmageddon in Pictures Philip Lymbery and Isabel Oakeshott

RIGHTS SOLD:Alianza (Spanish world)

RIGHTS SOLD: Nutrimenti (Italian)

Dreamland Sam Quinones

Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction National Book Critics Circle Finalist

Gangster Warlords

El Narco

Ioan Grillo

Ioan Grillo

RIGHTS SOLD: Penguin Random House Mexico (Spanish – World), Gummerus (Finnish)

RIGHTS SOLD: De Agostini (Italian), Modernista (Swedish), Remi (Polish), Urano (Spanish), Meta (French), Gendaikika (Japanese), Corint (Romanian)

RIGHTS SOLD: Polish (Czarne)

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NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS

Return of a King

Mecca

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2013

‘A major achievement ... Hugely enjoyable’ William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple

RIGHTS SOLD: Adelphi (Italian), Buchet-Chastel (French), Desperta Ferro Ediciones (Spanish), Noir Sur Blanc (Polish), Social Sciences Academics Press (Simplified Chinese), Menla Publishing House (Marathian), Brazilian Portuguese (Ayiné)

Ziauddin Sardar

RIGHTS SOLD: Payot et Rivages (French), Czarne (Polish); Arab Network for Research & Publishing (Arab); Nesil Publishing (Turkish), Linkius Publishing (Complex CHinese), PT Zaytuna Ufuk Abadi (Indonesian)

You Could Look It Up

The Health Gap

RIGHTS SOLD: Communication Books (Korean)

Michael Marmot

Jack Lynch

Story of a Death Foretold

Pinochet, the CIA and the Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 Oscar Guardiola-Rivera ‘Fascinating … Commendable for [its] originality and research’ Washington Post

The Challenge of an Unequal World ‘Splendid and necessary’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman RIGHTS SOLD: Dong Nyok (Korean), Il Pensiero Scientifico (Italian), Nippon Hyoron (Japanese), Shanghai Sanhui (Simplified Chinese)

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NON FICTION AND CURRENT AFFAIRS HIGHLIGHTS

High Noon

The Ethical Carnivore

The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic

My Year Killing to Eat Louise Gray

RIGTHS SOLD: Aki Shobo (Japanese), Edel Verlag (German)

Glenn Frankel

MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS

Mad Enchantment:

Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies Ross King RIGHTS SOLD: De Bezige Bij (Dutch), Record (Brazilian Portuguese), Rizzoli (Italian), Random House (Canadian), Atticus Azbboka (Russian), Park Kiado (Hungarian), China Youth Press (Simplified Chinese)

Waves Passing in the Night

Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists Lawrence Weschler

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SIGMA BACKLIST

PIG/PORK

Archaeology, Zoology and Edibility

Catching Breath

Immune

Pía Spry-Marqués

The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis Kathryn Lougheed

Catherine Carver

Built on Bones

Patient H69

Goldilocks and the Water Bears

15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death Brenna Hassett

The Story of My Second Sight Vanessa Potter

How Your Body Defends and Protects You

The Search for Life in the Universe Louisa Preston

RIGHTS SOLD: United Sky (Chinese Simplified)

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Death on Earth

Sex on Earth

Jules Howard

Jules Howard

RIGHTS SOLD: Film Art-Sha (Japanese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Blackie Books (Spanish); The Commercial Press (Simplified Chinese); Kadakawa Corporation (Japanese); Puriwa Ipari (Korean)

Bring Back the King

Science and the City

Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

The New Science of De-Extinction

A Journey Through Nature’s Most Intimate Moments

Helen Pilcher

The Mechanics behind the Metropolis

RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Chinese Paper Jump (Simplified Chinese)

RIGHTS SOLD: Interpark (Korean)

Laurie Winkless

4th Rock from the Sun The Story of Mars Nicky Jenner

Furry Logic

The Physics of Animal Life Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher RIGHTS SOLD: Intershift Inc. (Japanese), Beijing Paper Jump Cultural Development Company (Simplified Chinese), Znak (Polish)

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Soccermatics

Mathematical Adventures In the Beautiful Game David Sumpter

Big Data

Does Size Matter?

Timandra Harkness

The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

RIGHTS SOLD: Alpina OOO (Russian), Nikkei BP (Japanese)

Herding Hemingway’s Cats

Understanding how our genes work

David Hone

Kat Arney

RIGHTS SOLD: Alpina OOO (Russian)

RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Paper Jump Cultural Development (Simplified Chinese)

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The Science of Food Fraud Forensics Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple

RIGHTS SOLD: Eksmo (Russian), Copernicus (Polish), Codice (Italian), Kobun-sha (Japanese) , Ariel (Spanish), Benevento (German), Volante (Swedish)

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles

Sorting the Beef from the Bull

Suspicious Minds

Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories Rob Brotherton RIGHTS SOLD: Faces Publications Taiwan (Complex Chinese), Diamond Inc. ( Japanese), Grand China Publishing (Simplified Chinese), Alpina OOO (Russian)

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Chilled

Spirals in Time

Tom Jackson

Helen Scales

Rights sold: MID (Korean)

RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Normal University Press (Simplified Chinese), Tsukiji Shokan (Japanese)

Breaking the Chains of Gravity

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How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again

The Story of Spaceflight before NASA Amy Shira Teitel Lijang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese)

The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells

The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code Sue Armstrong RIGHTS SOLD: Chongqing Publishing House (Simplified Chinese); Cheomnetworks (Korean), Cite Publishing Ltd (Complex Chinese), Kurhaus (Polish)

A is for Arsenic

The Poisons of Agatha Christie Kathryn Harkup RIGHTS SOLD: Iwanami Shoten (Japanese), J. C. Lattes (French), RAO Editura (Romanian), Lijang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese), Thinking Power (Korean)

Atoms Under the Floorboards

The Surprising Science Hidden in Your Home Chris Woodford Winner of The American Institute of Physics Book Prize RIGHTS SOLD: Mann – Ivanov – Ferber (Russian), Hoffmann und Campe (German), Publicat (Polish), Cite Publishing (Complex Chinese), Chemical Industry Press (Simplified Chinese), Bookie Publishing ( Korean) 67

ILLUSTRATED HIGHLIGHTS

Gardens of Awe and Folly Vivian Swift

When Wanderers Cease to Roam Vivian Swift

RIGHT SOLD: Kidary Publishing (Korean)

Knives & Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton

Vivian Swift

RIGHTS SOLD: Astrel (Russian), China CITIC Press (Simplified Chinese), Common Master Press (Complex Chinese), Kidary (Korean)

Pen & Ink

Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton RIGHTS SOLD: Letterpress (Korean)

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Le Road Trip: A Traveller’s Journal of Love and France

SPORT HIGHLIGHTS

The End of the Road

Endurance

The Festina Affair and the Tour that Almost Wrecked Cycling

The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zátopek

Alasdair Fotheringham

Rick Broadbent Rights Sold: Simplified Chinese (Wuhan Enlightenment), Czech (Slovart)

The Wenger Revolution Twenty Years of Arsenal

Amy Lawrence and Stuart MacFarlane RIGHTS SOLD: Sol Media (Japanese)

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GREEN TREE HIGHLIGHTS The Ageless Body

How To Hold Back The Years To Achieve A Better Body Peta Bee & Sarah Schenker From the co-author of the bestseller Fast Exercise, and a contributor to the bestselling The Fast Diet Recipe Book, the truth about how to hold back the years, what exercise will keep you looking young and how to avoid gym-face.

RIGHTS SOLD: Wydawnictwo Bukowy (Polish), IFP Publishing (Czech), Random House Germany (German), Kosmos (Dutch)

Sorted: The Active Woman's Guide to Health Dr Juliet McGrattan

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

Sod it! Eat Well

Healthy Eating in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond Anita Bean & Muir Gray, Illustrated by David Mostyn A new title in the Sod series – to accompany Sod Seventy! and Sod Sixty! – a fun, accessible guide to help you eat well and boost your health and fitness. Based on the Mediterranean diet, this is packed with delicious recipe ideas, practical tips and myth busters. For any of us confused about what we should or shouldn't be eating, and how much of it, this book is the perfect read! Make those crucial diet tweaks to have a massive impact on your health and wellbeing.

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Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond Muir Gray & Diana Moran Sod Sitting, Get Moving! is the must-have guide to keeping fit and healthy in your sixties, seventies and beyond. Specifically designed for older adults the exercises, stretches and strengthening movements will help keep you fit, strong and supple for the years ahead. You will feel better, look better and younger and reduce your risk of disability and dementia.

The Wealthy Body In Business

Earn More Money By Being In Better Shape Tim Bean & Anne Laing People who are in better shape age better with more energy, are sleeping better, less stressed, thinking smarter, and will always be more successful in business, and in life.

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