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BLOOMSBURY ADULT RIGHTS GUIDE LONDON 2018

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Sea Prayer

Khaled Hosseini with illustrations by Dan Williams

© Elena Seibert

The international bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the current refugee crisis with this lyrical, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world My dear Marwan, I look at your profile in the glow of this moon, my boy, your eyelashes like calligraphy, closed in guileless sleep. And I say to you, ‘Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen.’

PUBLICATION DATE: 06/09/2018

On a moonlit beach a father speaks to his sleeping son of his childhood days, recalling his grandfather’s house outside Homs, the stirring of olive trees in the breeze, the bleating of his grandmother’s goat. And he remembers Homs as it was before the skies spat bombs, the bustling city with its crowded lanes, its mosque and grand souk.

EXTENT: 48 pages with 16-20 colour spreads

When dawn breaks they and those around them will embark on a perilous sea journey in search of a new home.

SPECIFICATIONS: Hardback, 156 x 240mm

Khaled Hosseini is one of the most widely read and beloved novelists in the world, with over 55 million copies of his books sold in more than 70 countries.

The Kite Runner was a major film and was a Book of the Decade, chosen by The Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian. A Thousand Splendid Suns was the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2008. And the Mountains Echoed was chosen for the Richard & Judy Summer Book Club in 2014, and readers voted it as their favourite of all the titles. Hosseini is also a Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN Refugee Agency and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation which provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan. He was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and lives in northern California.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)

TEXT RIGHTS: Chandler Crawford (world exc US and Canada) ILLUSTRATION RIGHTS: Bloomsbury RIGHTS SOLD:

khaledhosseini.com @khaledhosseini Dan Williams is a London-based artist whose illustrations accompanied an extract of A Thousand Splendid Suns in the Guardian when it was first published 15 years ago.

His work has also appeared in National Geographic, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, amongst many other publications. dan-williams.net

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This is How it Ends Eva Dolan

Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month The Times Crime Book of the Month Mail on Sunday Thriller of the Week ‘Elegantly crafted, humane and thought-provoking. She’s top drawer’ Ian Rankin ‘It couldn’t be more timely. Or more imbued with passion’ Val McDermid ‘Anyone wanting smart and compelling crime fiction with razor-sharp social comment should read Eva Dolan. In fact, EVERYONE should read her’ Mark Billingham LIST: Raven Books PUBLICATION DATE: 25/01/2018 Paperback: 09/08/2018 EXTENT: 336 RIGHTS SOLD: Modernista (Swedish); Liana Levi (French)

‘Superb ... Gripping ... A sad, intelligent book, with a shocking ending’ The Times ‘A thoroughly contemporary and distinctively intelligent thriller’ Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week A searing contemporary thriller about betrayal, loyalty, loss and lies from one of the brightest stars in crime fiction The TV rights to her Zigic and Ferreira series have been optioned by ITV Studios This is how it begins.

With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers.

With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly.

With a body hidden in a lift shaft.

But how will it end?

Eva Dolan was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for unpublished authors when only a teenager. The four novels in her Zigic and Ferreira series have been published to widespread critical acclaim: Tell No Tales and After You Die were shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award and After You Die was also longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. She lives in Cambridge. @eva_dolan

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The Road to Grantchester James Runcie

The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in post-war London

© Charlotte Runcie

It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert’s birthday party at the Caledonia Club. No one can believe, on this golden evening, that there could ever be another war.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 21/03/2019 EXTENT: 320 RIGHTS SOLD:

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Returning to London from the war seven years later, Sidney has gained a Military Cross, and lost his best friend on the battlefields of Italy. The carefree youth that he and his friends were promised has been blown apart, just like the rest of the world – and Sidney, carrying a terrible, secret guilt, must decide what to do with the rest of his life. But Sidney has heard a call: constant, though quiet, and growing ever more persistent. To the incredulity of his family and the derision of his friends – the irrepressible actor Freddie, and the beautiful, spiky Amanda – Sidney must now negotiate his path to God: the course which, much like true love, never runs smooth.

The touching, engaging and surprising origin story of the Grantchester Mysteries’s beloved Archdeacon Sidney Chambers, The Road to Grantchester will delight new and old fans alike.

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

Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death, the first in ‘The Grantchester Mysteries’ series, was published in 2012, soon followed by Sidney Chambers and The Perils of the Night, Sidney Chambers and The Problem of Evil, Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sins and Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation. In October 2014, ITV launched Grantchester, a prime-time series starring James Norton as Sidney Chambers, with the second season airing in March 2016. In May 2016 James Runcie became Commissioning Editor for Arts at BBC Radio 4. He lives in London and Edinburgh. www.jamesruncie.com | www.grantchestermysteries.com | @james_runcie

Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night Sidney Chambers and the Problem of Evil Sidney Chambers and the Forgiveness of Sin Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of Temptation OPTION PUBLISHERS: Hoffman und Campe (German), Actes Sud (French), Duomo Ediciones (Spanish), Vallardi (Italian), Massolit (Swedish), AST (Russian) 4

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A Shot in the Dark A Twitten Mystery Lynne Truss

The first book in a charming and witty new crime series from muchloved author 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.

LIST: Raven Books PUBLICATION DATE: 26/08/2018 EXTENT: 304 RIGHTS SOLD:

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: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, 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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Peach

Emma Glass 'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power of literature' George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize Something has happened to Peach. 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.

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.

LIST: Bloomsbury Circus PUBLICATION DATE: 11/1/2018 EXTENT: 112 RIGHTS SOLD: Nautilus (German); Il Saggiatore (Italian); Sexto Pisto (Spanish – World); Flammarion (French); Swedish (Modernista)

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.

Emma Glass was born in Swansea. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Kent, then decided to become a nurse and studied Children's Nursing at Swansea University. She lives in North London and is a research nurse specialist at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Peach is her first book. @Emmas_Window ‘Peach by Emma Glass is a short and brutal tale of sexual assault and its resulting traumas that carries clear echoes of Eimear McBride ... The language is scintillating, the emotional heft remarkable’ Observer, The best fiction for 2018 ‘Addressing an all-too-relevant issue, the novel charts the physical and psychological effects on Peach through stylised, poetic prose, self-confessedly informed by James Joyce’s experiments with language. Referenced variously as “the new Jane Eyre”, “intimately weird” and “exhilaratingly bold”’ Independent Books to look out for in 2018 ‘What it lacks in pages (Peach has just 98), it makes up for in uniqueness’ Red, Most Hotly Anticipated Books of 2018 ‘Genre-defying and brilliantly surreal novella ... Barely 100 pages, and somewhere between poetry and prose, this is a book to be devoured in a single sitting. Glass is an exciting new author to know’ Vogue ‘Glass’s prose is capable of breath-taking deftness ... A terrifying window into a freshly traumatized psyche. With paragraphs that read like poems, this is a memorably crafted entry into the canon of revenge narratives’ Kirkus ‘A daring novel’ The Sunday Times ‘Powerfully felt, sinister, vivid’ Literary Review

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Land of the Living Georgina Harding

A luminous and profound meditation on the devastations of trauma in the wake of the Second World War, from a writer at the height of her powers 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.

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.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 01/11/2018 EXTENT: 320 RIGHTS SOLD:

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?

An intimate, exploration 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 two non-fiction works, In Another Europe and Tranquebar and four previous novels: The Gun Room, The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game and Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.

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The Solitude of Thomas Cave

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The Spy Game

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

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

The Gun Room Georgina Harding

‘The finely tuned work of a writer exceptionally at ease with her craft’ Sadie Jones, Guardian ‘A book that provokes searching questions’ Daily Mail 7

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Travelling in a Strange Land David Park

An Irish Times Book of 2018 ‘This is a father and son novel of rare intensity. We are taken on an unforgettable winter journey and, like in a skid, we have no idea which way we’ll be facing by the end. He writes with a focus and precision which wrings the heart’ Bernard MacLaverty ‘An extraordinary novel, at once startling and quietly brilliant. David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists and this is, perhaps, his best’ Roddy Doyle The world is shrouded in snow. Transport has ground to a halt. Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 08/03/2018 EXTENT: 176 RIGHTS SOLD: Jensen and Dalgaard (Danish)

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But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret.

Written in spare, crystalline prose by one of the most important voices in contemporary Irish writing, Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.

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.

The Light of Amsterdam

The Poets’ Wives

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The Musical Human Michael Spitzer

A comprehensive history of music like no other, The Musical Human is a deftly woven musical narrative spanning cultures, time and space At the heart of The Musical Human is the simple Darwinian notion that human and animal communication are continuous with each other: human music is a species memory, an umbilical cord back to Mother Nature. While there are many different kinds of music in the world – and there may not be one single musical language – there is something irreducibly human about all the music of the earth.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 21/01/2021 EXTENT: tbc RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel, part of Planeta (Spanish – World)

This, then, is a history that goes deeper than the usual catalogue of who wrote what, and when. There are many books on the history of music that describe successive styles and the works of famous composers. Others set out to describe the anthropology of music, and the variety of musical cultures. And there have been several recently that speculate on the evolutionary origins of music, as well as music science books that look at how the human brain responds to music.

In this ground-breaking and compelling study, celebrated musicologist Michael Spitzer embraces all of these themes in one comprehensive work.

The Musical Human is a Big History of Music, presenting the long view of Man’s relationship with music over three distinct timelines: the human life span, world history, and evolution. Inspired by the example of ‘big’ or ‘deep’ histories, such as David Christian’s Big History and Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, this is essential reading for anyone who has ever reflected on why music is such a significant and fundamental part of our lives.

Michael Spitzer is Professor of Music and Head of School at the University of Liverpool. He leads the Department’s work on Classical music. A music theorist and musicologist, he is an authority on Beethoven, with interests in aesthetics and critical theory, metaphor, and music and emotion. He was President of the Society for Music Analysis, and also chairs the Editorial Board of the journal Music Analysis. He has written articles for The Conversation, and appeared in the BBC documentary How Music Makes Us Feel with Alan Yentob. His other books include A History of Emotion in Western Music (OUP) and Metaphor and Musical Thought (University of Chicago Press).

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Eyes Wide Open A New Story of Art Jean-Paul Stonard

Eyes Wide Open: A New Story of Art is a comprehensive and compelling introduction to the story of world art for a contemporary audience Since the birth of art – around 40,000 BC – man has created images as a way of making sense of the world. Art is intrinsically linked to our sense of being human. And no matter how much art may have developed since those first cave paintings, we are still left in the same bewildered position as earliest man – our eyes widened in amazement, shock, recognition, delight.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 16/05/2019 EXTENT: tbc RIGHTS SOLD:

In Eyes Wide Open, revered art historian John-Paul Stonard tells the story of world art as it’s never been told before, celebrating art as the key to human history. This the first book to trace and connect traditions from around the world, from prehistoric times to present in a way that is engaging, entertaining and thoroughly contemporary. Eyes Wide Open adopts a global perspective, tracing the relationship between Western and non-Western art, and revealing the ways in which art reflects the social and political themes of the times. From the birth of art in Palaeolithic times right through to the philosophical art of conceptualism and the ‘ends of art’ in the present day, Stonard presents us with familiar works of art – and the conversations surrounding them – and invites us to view them in a new light. Eyes Wide Open is essential reading for anyone with a desire to discover more about art and the ideas that have shaped it.

John-Paul Stonard is a writer, art historian and member of the consultative committee of the Burlington Magazine, where he worked as an editor from 2005 to 2010. He completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2005, and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art. He was the co-curator of critically acclaimed 2014 Tate Britain exhibition ‘Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation’. His publications include Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation and Fault Lines: Art in Germany 1945-55. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Burlington Magazine and Apollo.

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The Creative State Rohan Silva

In The Creative State, Rohan Silva outlines his vision for a new kind of society: one where innovation is sparked by the government Right and left-wing governments alike have come to see state intervention in the economy as the cause of problems, not the key to growth. But on closer inspection, intelligent government action is at the heart of the world’s most innovative and prosperous nations. Many are familiar with the story of Google’s founders starting their business out of a Silicon Valley garage, but few people know the active role the American government played in the creation of one of the world’s most valuable companies.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 13/06/2019 EXTENT: tbc RIGHTS SOLD:

It’s not just in America that the government is playing a deliberate role in driving innovation and economic growth – creative states can be found from Singapore to Denmark, Estonia to Israel. It turns out that generous, long-term and intelligently targeted government support can build a deep pool of expertise ready to be tapped by the next generation.

Drawing on wide research and entrepreneurial expertise, Rohan Silva shows that the future lies not in laissez-faire economics but in a bold, radical and exciting alternative: the creative state.

Rohan Silva is the co-founder of Second Home, a social enterprise that supports creativity, entrepreneurship and job creation in cities around the world. He was previously Senior Policy Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, where he created the hugely successful Tech City initiative that helped build the world’s fastest growing technology cluster in East London. A Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a World Economic Forum ‘Young Global Leader’, he has a weekly column in the Evening Standard and also writes regularly for the Sunday Times and other publications.

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Consent

A Revolution in Desire Laurie Penny An urgent, hopeful and unapologetically radical new book by awardwinning writer Laurie Penny about one of the biggest issues of our time: sexual consent, rape culture and the power of desire Based on Penny’s celebrated, Ellie-nominated series at Longreads, Consent is a hand grenade of a book that demands a shake-up in gender and sexual relations.

From mental health to abortion, issues of race to the rise of the far right, existing social and political paradigms breed sexual inequality and injustice. As recent global movements demonstrate, it is time for these paradigms to be upended.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 07/03/2019 EXTENT: tbc

Nuanced, accessible and lyrical, Penny draws on years of journalistic and academic research to argue that a new attitude to consent can change not only sexual politics, but democracy itself.

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for Vice, the Guardian and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesman magazine. She was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing on her blog ‘Penny Red’. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digital culture and feminism from around the world, working with activists from the Occupy movement and the European youth uprisings. She lives in Brighton.

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laurie-penny.com | @PennyRed ‘Bitch Doctrine by Laurie Penny, one of the most accomplished and acerbic of the new, young journalists emerging from the protest movements of the 2010s, takes you to the front trench of the gender war and keeps you there longer than anyone should really stay’ Guardian

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'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

‘An insightful, provocative and bold commentator. She never compromises her compassion and humanity’ Irvine Welsh

Essays for Dissenting Adults

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Sex, Lies and Revolution

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Blood Gun Money Ioan Grillo

From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, Blood Gun Money is the story of the black-market arms trade across the US-Mexican border and the violence it fuels in Mexico, the United States, and around the world

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) PUBLICATION DATE: 11/06/2020 EXTENT: 336 RIGHTS SOLD:

Blood Gun Money takes us into the shady world of gangster capitalism that stretches to all corners of the earth, but starts at gun shows in the United States.

Through legal arms purchases along the US-Mexican border, gun runners have access to thousands of weapons, which they drive across the border into Mexico by the carload. This trade provides most of the guns used by criminals and terrorists, both within the United States and abroad. Ioan Grillo follows how this network provides weapons to narco cartels that have drowned Mexico in blood, gangbangers who litter corpses on the streets of American inner cities, and terrorists who unleash massacres from Texas to Norway to Syria. Blood Gun Money is a necessary portrait of the illegal arms trade around the world and a call to consider how people and governments can reduce the murders this system enables.

Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS News Hour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England, Grillo lives in Mexico City.

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The Bloody Rise of Mexican Drug Cartels

Gangster Warlords

Ioan Grillo

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

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Climate Justice

Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future Mary Robinson A powerful and hopeful manifesto for justice in the most pressing humanitarian issue of our time: climate change Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people – people battling for food, water and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate. The faceless, shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) PUBLICATION DATE: 04/09/2018 EXTENT: 176 RIGHTS SOLD:

Mary Robinson’s mission would lead her all over the world, from Malawi to Mongolia, and to a heartening revelation: that the agents of change in the battle for climate justice at grassroots level were women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. From Sharon Hanshaw, the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to Constance Okollet, a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda, Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change.

Powerful and deeply humane, Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on the most pressing humanitarian issue of our time, and a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.

Mary Robinson is president of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice.

She served twice as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is the former president of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and is now a member of The Elders and the Club of Madrid. In 2009, she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Women Rowing North

Navigating the Challenges to Our Selves as We Age Mary Pipher

© Sarah Greder

From the New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, a guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women in the later years

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) PUBLICATION DATE: 15/01/2019 EXTENT: 320 RIGHTS SOLD:

As women grow older, they contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be.

In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face, by attention and intention. “If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully,” Pipher writes, “we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent.”

Mary Pipher is a psychologist specializing in women, trauma, and the effects of our culture on mental health, which has earned her the title of "cultural therapist" for her generation. She is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, Another Country, and Letters to a Young Therapist. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Double Lives

A History of Working Motherhood Helen McCarthy

© Jonathan Ring

In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy presents a working mother’s history of modern Britain, telling this timely story through the eyes of the women who quietly and resolutely confounded the social mores of their day

LIST: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2020 EXTENT: tbc RIGHTS SOLD:

From the moment she entered the workplace, a powerful narrative of public and private disorder was woven around the working mother. There were good mothers and there were working mothers. Those who tried to be both were leading unnatural ‘double lives’. And yet, in the history of women’s work, one glaring fact stands out: mothers earning to support their families were ordinary, not extraordinary, creatures.

In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy recovers and reconstructs what working mothers thought and felt and said about their lives, and what others thought and felt and said about them over a century and a half of social change. From the smoking chimney-stacks of mid nineteenth-century Manchester to the shimmering skyscrapers of present-day Canary Wharf, McCarthy reveals the deep and complicated past of a phenomenon so often assumed to be a product of contemporary lifestyles and aspirations.

She shows how working motherhood, once understood as a social ‘problem’, became a social norm as women’s aspirations for financial independence and for lives beyond home and family were slowly recognised. Workplace equality still eluded women in the later twentieth century, yet the mother who worked for pay was no longer named as a social evil but was instead accepted as a permanent feature of British society and economy. McCarthy’s important and insightful book explains how this transformation in the meaning of working motherhood took place, and asks whether, as a result, leading a double life has become any easier for women in the twenty-first century.

Helen McCarthy is Reader in History at Queen Mary, University of London. She studied as an undergraduate at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. She worked briefly for the think-tank Demos before embarking on doctoral studies at the University of London. Her first book, The British People and the League of Nations (Manchester University Press, 2011), explores the vibrant popular cultures of internationalism in interwar Britain, and her second book, Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (Bloomsbury, 2014), won Best International Affairs Book at the Political Book Awards 2015. Before taking up her post at Queen Mary, Helen was a Research Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. @HistorianHelen

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One Person, No Vote

How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy Carol Anderson From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, the startling – and timely – history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin

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In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively allowed districts with a demonstrated history of racial discrimination to change voting requirements without approval from the Department of Justice.

Focusing on the aftermath of Shelby, Anderson follows the astonishing story of government-dictated racial discrimination unfolding before our very eyes as more and more states adopt voter suppression laws. In gripping, enlightening detail she explains how voter suppression works, from photo ID requirements to gerrymandering to poll closures. And with vivid characters, she explores the resistance: the organising, activism, and court battles to restore the basic right to vote to all Americans as the nation gears up for the 2018 midterm elections.

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes off the Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas Mark Kurlansky

‘As with Mark Kurlansky’s Cod and Salt, I wish I had written Milk! Never would I have thought that so elementary a liquid food had such an intriguing history, one that includes science, politics, economics, and gourmandize. A great read on a great subject!’ Mimi Sheraton, New York Times food critic ‘Kurlansky’s entertaining, fast-paced history of milk exhibits his usual knack for plumbing the depths of a single subject ... Kurlansky’s charming history brims with excellent stories and great details’ Publisher’s Weekly Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy – with recipes throughout

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According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, and then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself.

Before the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows and produce their own milk. But during the nineteenth century mass production and urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. And today milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming and animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement, and advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurization.

Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling and a surprisingly global story to tell, and historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. Tracing the liquid's diverse history from antiquity to the present, he details its curious and crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, and economics.

Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Havana, Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com

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Memorial

The Great War and the Quest for Closure Richard van Emden

© Jonathan Ring

To coincide with the centenary of the end of the First World War in 2018, the story of a mother’s relentless search over many years for the body of her eldest son, a pilot shot down over no man’s land

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In May 1918, Angela and Leopold Mond received the knock on the door that signalled what they had been dreading: notification that their beloved son, Lieutenant Francis Mond, had died in action. At first, there was one sliver of comfort: his body had been retrieved. At least there would be a grave they could visit. But then, there was nothing. Silence. When Angela Mond wrote to the Imperial War Grave Commission asking for further details, there was only confusion.

And so began one of the most remarkable private investigations undertaken in the aftermath of the Great War. Angela, a 48-year-old mother of five, embarked on an exhaustive hunt to find her son, an investigation that took her to the battlefields and cemeteries of France and into correspondence with hundreds of French civilians and British and German servicemen.

Memorial is a testament to the strength, determination and love of one mother but it is also a history of a time when many had to cope with the most devastating of losses. Gripping and deeply moving, this one extraordinary story illuminates the lives and losses of thousands and how they began to remember and commemorate all those who had fallen.

Richard van Emden has interviewed over 270 veterans of the Great War and has written fourteen books on the subject including Boy Soldiers of the Great War and The Last Fighting Tommy. He has also worked on more than a dozen television programmes on the First World War, including Britain’s Last Tommies, Britain’s Boy Soldiers, the award-winning Roses of No Man’s Land, and most recently, War Horse: The Real Story. He lives in West London.

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América

Robert Goodwin A definitive history of the Spanish empire in America from 1492 to 1853

by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Center of the World By the time of the American revolution, much of what is now considered the United States of America was part of the Spanish empire. After Columbus claimed the Caribbean in 1492, he went north in November 1493 and landed for the first time in the present day United States. As he had in the Caribbean, Columbus declared the land the property of the Spanish Empire and then returned home with slaves, the limited gold he could find, and myths of America as a fertile land populated by cannibals and promiscuous women.

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Columbus’s journey was far from the only Spanish excursion into the American continent. Over the next 350 years, a group of resilient adventurers, hard pragmatists, and cruel dreamers explored and claimed what they called the Gran Norte in the name of the Spanish Crown, the Catholic religion, and themselves. These men were often the only connection between Spain and the American continent, so when the United States gained political freedom, the ties between Spain and America were weakened to the point of collapse. By 1848, Spain’s claim to this far-flung outpost was permanently severed by their loss in the Mexican-American War. América is a gripping account of early America that redefines how we understand the United States’ founding and expansion. Through the lives of well-known Spanish explorers like Columbus, Cortes, and Ponce de Leon and the ordinary stories of the Native Americans, Spanish soldiers, and early settlers, Goodwin weaves the history of the North American continent in this pivotal, but frequently overlooked, period.

Dr. Robert Goodwin is a research and teaching fellow at University College London. His two trade books, Crossing the Continent 1527–1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South and Spain:The Centre of the World 1519-1682, were published to critical acclaim. He appears on Spanish radio and TV. He lives between London and Seville, where he regularly conducts archival research.

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Marooned

Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin Joseph Kelly For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering a cautionary tale. Lazy louts hunted gold till they starved, and the shiftless settlers had to be rescued by English food and the hard discipline of martial law.

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Neither story is true. In Marooned, Joseph Kelly reexamines the history of Jamestown and comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians.

In this gripping account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America's earliest settlements, Kelly argues that the colonists at Jamestown were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness.

The British caste system meant little on this frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations. Ten years before the Mayflower Compact and decades before Hobbes and Locke, they invented the idea of government by the people. 150 years before Jefferson, they discovered the truth that all men were equal.

The epic origin of America was not an exodus and a fledgling theocracy. It is a tale of shipwrecked castaways of all classes marooned in the wilderness fending for themselves in any way they could –a story that illuminates who we are today.

Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature at the College of Charleston and a member of the American Studies Association. He is the author of America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War, and the editor of the Seagull Reader series. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Apostles of Revolution

Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe John Ferling From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of how Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe championed the most radical ideas of the American and French Revolutions

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Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe were in the vanguard of revolutionary ideas in the 18th century. As founding fathers, they risked their lives for American independence, but they also wanted more. Each wished for profound changes in the political and social fabric of pre-1776 America and hoped that the American Revolution would spark republican and egalitarian revolutions throughout Europe, sweeping away the old monarchical order.

Ultimately, each rejoiced at the opportunity to be a part of the French Revolution, a cause that became untenable as idealism gave way to the bloody Terror.

Apostles of Revolution spans a crucial period in Western Civilization ranging from the American insurgency against Great Britain to the Declaration of Independence, from desperate engagements on American battlefields to the threat posed to the ideals of the Revolution by the Federalist Party. With the French Revolution devolving into anarchy in the background, the era culminates with the “Revolution of 1800,” Jefferson’s election as president.

Written as a sweeping narrative of a pivotal epoch, Apostles of Revolution captures the turbulent spirit of the times and the personal dangers experienced

by Jefferson, Paine, and Monroe. It reminds us that the liberty we take for granted is ours only because we, both champions and common citizens, have fought for it.

John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia.

He is the author of many books on American Revolutionary history, including The Ascent of George Washington; Almost a Miracle, an acclaimed military history of the War of Independence; and the award-winning A Leap in the Dark. His most recent book on American history is Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It. He and his wife, Carol, live near Atlanta, Georgia.

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The Wild Bunch W. K. Stratton

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For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton’s definitive history of the making of The Wild Bunch, considered by the American Film Institute to be one of the greatest Westerns of all time The Wild Bunch is the story of a gang of outlaws who are one big steal from retirement. When their attempted train robbery goes awry, the gang flees to Mexico and falls in with a brutal general of the Mexican Revolution, who offers them the job of a lifetime. Conceived by a stuntman, directed by a washed-up alcoholic, and shot in the sand and heat of the Mexican countryside, the movie seemed doomed to fail. Instead it became a dark, violent take on the Western movie tradition and an instant classic.

In The Wild Bunch, W.K. Stratton tells the fascinating history of the making of the movie. Shaped by infamous director Sam Peckinpah, and starring such visionary actors as William Holden, Chalo Gonzalez, and Ernest Borgnine, the movie was also the product of an industry and a nation in transition. By 1968, when the movie was filmed, the studio system that had perpetuated the myth of the valiant cowboy in movies like The Searchers had collapsed, and America was riled by Vietnam, race riots, and assassinations. The Wild Bunch spoke to America in its moment, when war and senseless violence seemed to define both domestic and international life.

The Wild Bunch is an authoritative history of the making of a movie and the era behind it.

W.K. Stratton is the author of five books of nonfiction and two of poetry. He has written for Sports Illustrated, Americana, Southern Magazine, GQ, and Texas Monthly, and was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2005. Born and raised in Oklahoma, he now lives in Austin, Texas.

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The Life of Lucian Freud Volume I: 1922 – 1968 William Feaver

An intimate, shocking and truly definitive biography of one of the most important British artists of all time, brought to life in his own words in all his wit, irreverence and vitality ‘I’ve always been rather private. Secretive. Always wanted never to have anything known about me.’

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Lucian Freud (1922–2011) is one of the great painters of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Though ferociously private, he spoke on the phone for at least an hour a day for almost forty years to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver – about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. Feaver wrote down their conversations immediately and typed up his hand-written account the next day.

Shot through with Freud’s own words, Feaver brings the elusive, maddening genius to life in this definitive and extraordinary work, both autobiography and biography. In the first of two volumes, he conjures Freud’s early childhood – the grandson of Sigmund Freud, born into a well-to-do middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 and dropped into an English public school. Following Freud through art school, his time in the Merchant Navy during the war – during which he proved to be a hopeless sailor, and passed the time drawing portraits of his fellow crew members – his post-war adventures in Europe, and his setting up as a painter in the then-seedy Maida Vale, Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age, following his instincts as he rejects the popular style of his contemporaries to create art entirely on his own terms. A passionate and often destructive lover, with swathes of admirers both male and female – the young Freud blazes on the page, tearing like a comet through post-war bohemian London.

The story of an epic life, and the story of century told through one of its most important artists, The Life of Lucian Freud is a landmark not simply in the story of its subject but in the art of biography itself.

‘A necessity for art scholars and an absolute pleasure for the novice’ Publishers Weekly ‘A great pleasure … The breadth of vision it gives of the artist’s development has never before been seen in books on Freud’ Art Book ‘A sweeping visual appreciation of a painter of major importance’ Choice William Feaver is a painter, curator and author, and has been the art critic for the Observer for 23 years. His books include Lucian Freud (2007) and Frank Auerbach (2009). He is on the Academic Board of the Royal Drawing School where he also currently tutors. As well as extensive work as a broadcaster he has produced films including Lucian Freud Portraits (with Jake Auerbach) and The Last Art Film. His book Pitmen Painters (about the Ashington Group in Northumberland) was adapted for the stage by Lee Hall has been performed throughout the world since 2007. He curated Lucian Freud’s 2002 retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002, and the 2012 exhibition of Freud’s drawings in London and New York. He also curated the John Constable exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2002 with Freud. He has sat, weekly, for Frank Auerbach since 2003.

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My Country

A Syrian Memoir Kassem Eid Foreword by 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, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni Born to Palestinian refugees, Kassem Eid grew up in the small town of Moadamiya on the outskirts of the ancient city of Damascus. The streets that he and his many siblings played on were perfumed with jasmine. A precocious child, he excelled at school, and had a natural gift for languages. But it didn’t take long for Kassem to realise that he was treated differently at school because of his family’s resistance to the brutal government regime.

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When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that he would ease its severity were swiftly crushed. When the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Syria were met with extreme violence, it was yet another blow – and as Kassem reached young adulthood, life in Syria became increasingly precarious, as the country spiralled into civil war.

Then, on 21 August 2013, Kassem nearly died in a sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians. Later that day, he would pick up a gun for the first time, to join the Free Syrian Army as they fought government forces. For Kassem, this marked the moment that he and his country changed forever.

A searing account of oppression, war, survival and escape, My Country is both a brave and deeply felt memoir of one man’s life, as well as a compelling indictment of a world that turned its face away as a nation fell apart.

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 Germany.

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MI5 and Me

A 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 (and 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 Lottie is summoned to her father’s office at the age of eighteen, she is astonished to learn that this aloof, unexciting parent is a spy. Even more perturbing is his view that she should stop drifting around and get a proper job, something patriotic and worthwhile.

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So Lottie finds herself outside MI5’s Mayfair headquarters in a dreary suit, feeling naked without her false eyelashes. Miserably assigned to the formidable Dragon, Lottie longs to escape, or for anything to release her from the torment of typing. Thankfully the serene Arabella is on hand to decode the enigmas of office life – from the strange disappearance of some security films to the career-transforming properties of garlic. But as Lottie’s home fills with actors doubling as spies, and Arabella’s mother is besieged by fishy telephone calls, Lottie begins to feel well and truly spooked.

This unique memoir is a window into 1950s Britain: a country where Russian agents infiltrate the highest echelons, where debutantes are typists and where Englishness is both a nationality and a code of behaviour. Discretion and honour meet secrecy and suspicion in this enchanting, extraordinary and hilarious true story.

Charlotte Bingham wrote her first book, Coronet Among the Weeds, a memoir of her life as a debutante, at the age of 19. It was published in 1963 and became an instant bestseller. She went on the write a further memoir, Coronet Among the Grass. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, was a member of M15 where Charlotte Bingham worked as a secretary. He was an inspiration for John le Carré's character George Smiley.

Charlotte Bingham went on to write thirty-three internationally bestselling novels and, in partnership with her late husband Terence Brady, a number of successful plays, films and TV series including Upstairs Downstairs and Take Three Girls.

She lives in Somerset.

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Sylvia Pankhurst Rachel Holmes

A definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, lifelong political rebel and human-rights champion, published a century after the first British women got the vote Sylvia Pankhurst’s early years as one of the three key leaders of the suffragette movement developed into a lifetime’s feminist work for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to welfare and education, and freedom of sexual expression.

Starting out as an Edwardian suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst became a modern radical feminist.

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Seen as ‘wild’, even by the standards of her suffragette family, she lived a political life that included trade unionism, Irish republicanism, Pan-Africanism, pacifism and fighting racism in Europe, the Indian subcontinent, the USA and colonial Africa – where she was dubbed the first white Rastafarian. And she wrote about it all, prolifically. She spent her life in dialogue, dispute, collision and resolution with Churchill, Trotsky, Lenin, Kenyatta, Selassie, Rama Rau and Keir Hardie, among others.

Sylvia was the suffragette who converted her experiences of torture, imprisonment and multiple forms of external physical violence into a lifelong quest to champion human rights. In this enthralling biography, Rachel Holmes interweaves Sylvia’s rebellious political life with her private life to show how her astonishing career, long overlooked by historians, continues to resonate today.

Rachel Holmes is the author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor, with Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach, of Fifty Shades of Feminism and co-commissioning editor, with Josie Rourke and Chris Haydon, of Sixty-Six Books: Twenty-First Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. She lives in Gloucestershire.

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The Book of Beautiful Questions The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead Warren Berger

From the bestselling author of A More Beautiful Question, hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face – at work, in our relationships, and beyond As Warren Berger showed in A More Beautiful Question, the humble question can be a powerful tool. By asking questions, we can analyze, learn, and move forward in the face of uncertainty. When confronted with almost any demanding situation, the act of questioning can help guide us to smart decisions. But the questions must be the right ones; the ones that cut to the heart of complexity, or that enable us to see an old problem in a fresh way.

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The Book of Beautiful Questions contains over 200 such questions addressing everyday dilemmas of all types: getting out of a career rut, generating fresh ideas, overcoming a fear of failure, checking your own biases, and many more.

The book is about asking the right questions, at the right time, in order to make the best choices when it truly counts. Each beautiful question is thoughtful, provocative, and actionable, meaning it can be applied immediately to bring about change. Along with each question, Berger offers insights gleaned from his own research, as well as guidance from leading thinkers and experts, including Adam Grant, Elizabeth Gilbert, Atul Gawande, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The Book of Beautiful Questions provides essential questions to guide readers to their own answers where it matters most.

Warren Berger has studied hundreds of the world's foremost innovators, entrepreneurs, and creative thinkers to learn how they ask questions, generate original ideas, and solve problems. His writing and research appears regularly in Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Glimmer – named one of Businessweek's Best Innovation and Design Books of the Year--and the bestseller A More Beautiful Question. He lives in New York.

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)

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Fewer, Better Things

The Hidden Wisdom of Objects Glenn Adamson From the former director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, a timely and passionate case for the role of the well-designed object in the digital age Curator and scholar Glenn Adamson opens Fewer, Better Things by contrasting his beloved childhood teddy bear to the smartphones and digital tablets children have today. He laments that many children and adults are losing touch with the material objects that have nurtured human development for thousands of years.

The objects are still here, but we seem to care less and know less about them.

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In his presentations to groups, he often asks an audience member what he or she knows about the chair the person is sitting in. Few people know much more than whether it's made of wood, plastic, or metal. If we know little about how things are made, it's hard to remain connected to the world around us.

Fewer, Better Things explores the history of craft in its many forms, explaining how raw materials, tools, design, and technique come together to produce beauty and utility in handmade or manufactured items. Whether describing the implements used in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the use of woodworking tools, or the use of new fabrication technologies, Adamson writes expertly and lovingly about the aesthetics of objects, and the care and attention that goes into producing them. Reading this wise and elegant book is a truly transformative experience.

Glenn Adamson is a senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and works across the fields of design, craft, and contemporary art. Until March 2016 he was the director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and has been head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. His books include Art in the Making (coauthored with Julia Bryan-Wilson) and The Craft Reader, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Lead Yourself First

Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin “Lead Yourself First makes a compelling argument for the integral relationship between solitude and leadership.” The Wall Street Journal Throughout history, leaders have used solitude as a matter of course. Martin Luther King found moral courage while sitting alone at his kitchen table one night during the Montgomery bus boycott. Jane Goodall used her intuition in the jungles of central Africa while learning how to approach chimps. Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. But these days, handheld devices and other media leave us awash with the thoughts of others. We are losing solitude without even realizing it.

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To find solitude today, a leader must make a conscious effort. This book explains why the effort is worthwhile and how to make it. Through gripping historical accounts and firsthand interviews with a wide range of contemporary leaders, Raymond Kethledge (a federal court of appeals judge) and Michael Erwin (a West Pointer and three-tour combat veteran) show how solitude can enhance clarity, spur creativity, sustain emotional balance, and generate the moral courage necessary to overcome adversity and criticism. Anyone who leads anyone – including oneself – can benefit from solitude. With a foreword by Jim Collins (author of the bestseller Good to Great), Lead Yourself First is a rallying cry to reclaim solitude – and all the benefits, both practical and sublime, that come with it.

Raymond M. Kethledge is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He formerly served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy and founded his own law firm. He lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Michael S. Erwin is a graduate of West Point and served three tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now the CEO of the Character & Leadership Center, the president of the Positivity Project, and the founder and chairman of Team Red, White & Blue. He lives in North Carolina.

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The Science of Sin

Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t Jack Lewis Looks at the science behind why we are constantly tempted to do the things we know aren’t good for us Anyone who has ever wondered why they never seem to be able to stick to their diet, who marvels at how little work some of their colleagues get away with doing, who despairs at the anti-social behaviour of their teenagers, who can't understand how love-cheats can handle multiple extra-marital affairs, who struggles to resist the lure of the comfy sofa and the third helping of cake, or who makes themselves thoroughly bitter by endlessly comparing themselves to others – well, this book is for you.

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The Science of Sin brings together the latest findings from neuroscience research to shed light on the universally fascinating subject of temptation – where it comes from, how we are able to resist and why we all succumb to it eventually. Structured around a loose interpretation of the seven deadly sins, this book will explore what motivates our own and others behaviour.

From time to time, we all give into the urges enticing us to do things we know we shouldn't, and neurobiologist and TV presenter Jack Lewis will illuminate the neural battles between temptation and restraint. He will explain the brain mechanisms of temptation in a friendly and approachable style, and indicate strategies to help us better manage our impulses in a way that will lead to improvements in health, happiness and productivity.

Jack Lewis is a neurobiologist and television presenter. He is a regular on ITV's This Morning, and has presented shows on psychology for the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and The Discovery Channel, and a three-part ITV series called How to Get More Sex. @DrJackLewis

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The Edge of Memory

The Geology of Folk Tales and Climate Change Patrick Nunn We all know those stories that have been told in our families for generations.

The ones that start ‘Have I ever told you about your great, great Uncle …?’ In some cultures these stories have been passed down for thousands of years, and often reveal significant information about how the surrounding environment has changed and the effect it has had on societies – from stories referring to coastal drowning to the devastation caused by meteorite falls.

Using Australia as a springboard, this book explores the science in folk history.

It looks at other ancient tales and traditions that may in all probability be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.

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Nowadays the majority of our historical knowledge comes from the written word, but in The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the largely untapped resource of the collective human memory that is held in stories. This important book explores the wider implications for our knowledge of how human society has developed through the millennia.

Patrick Nunn received his PhD from the University of London before spending 25 years teaching and researching at the international University of the South Pacific, based in Fiji, where he was appointed Professor of Oceanic Geoscience in 1996. He moved to Australia in 2010 to work at the University of New England before being appointed in March 2014 to a research professorship in the Sustainability Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

Patrick has more than 230 peer-reviewed publications to his credit, including several books, including Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific (University of Hawai’i Press), which was named by the American Library Association as one of the Best of the Best from the University Presses in 2009.

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Turned On Kate Devlin

An exploration of humans, sexuality, interaction and technology through the lens of the sex robot The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the ancient Greeks to twenty-first century movies, robots in human form have captured our imagination, our hopes and our fears. But beyond the fantasies there are real and fundamental questions about our relationship with technology as it moves into the realm of robotics. Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently.

What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems?

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Sex robots are here, and here to stay, and more are coming. This book explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us, and the society in which we live. It explores the social changes arising from emerging technologies, and our relationships with the machines that may someday care for us and about us.

Kate Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Having begun her career as an archaeologist before moving into computer science, Devlin’s research is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology, to understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live.

Two years ago, Kate began to explore the particular ways in which sex, gender and sexuality might be incorporated into cognitive systems such as sexual companion robots; having assembled a research team of leading academics to work on this topic, she has become a driving force in the field of artificial sexuality. In short, Kate has become the face of sex robots. She has written articles on the subject for New Scientist and the Guardian, appeared on BBC Radios 1–5, and made a number of TV appearances, along with TEDx talks and numerous other tech and philosophy events, receiving significant media coverage on the way.

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Kindred

300,000 Years of Neanderthal Life and Afterlife Rebecca Wragg Sykes Our perception of the Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. Spanning scientific curiosity and popular cultural fascination means that there is a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond – but do we get the whole story? The reality of 21st century Neanderthals is complex and fascinating, yet remains virtually unknown and inaccessible outside the scientific literature.

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In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Becky Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. Using a thematic rather than chronological approach, this book will shed new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that is being discovered.

Based on the author’s first-hand experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research and theory, this easy-to-read but information-rich book lays out the full picture we now have of the Neanderthals for the first time, from amazing new discoveries changing our view of them forever, to the more enduring mysteries of how they lived and died, and the biggest question perhaps of them all, their relationship with modern humans.

Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic characters of all, the Neanderthals. After a PhD on the last Neanderthals living in Britain, she worked in France at the worldfamous PACEA laboratory, Université de Bordeaux, on topics ranging from Neanderthal landscapes and territories in the Massif Central region of southeast France, to examining how they were the first ancient humans to produce a synthetic material and tools made of multiple parts.

Alongside her academic activities, she frequently writes for the popular media, including the Scientific American and Guardian science blogs. Becky is passionate about sharing the privileged access scientists have to fascinating discoveries about the Neanderthals. She is also co-founder of the influential Trowelblazers project, which highlights women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists through innovative outreach and collaboration. @LeMoustier

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Borrowed Time

How and Why We Age Sue Armstrong Like ‘time’, everyone knows what ageing is until we try to pin it down.

When does it begin? How does it happen and why? What lies ahead for each of us individuals, and would we want to live forever, given the option?

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The question of how and why organisms age has teased scientists for centuries, yet there is still no agreement. There are a myriad of competing theories, from the idea that ageing is a simple wear and tear process, like the rusting of a car, to the belief that ageing and death are genetically programmed and controlled. In fact, there is no clearly defined limit to life, and no single, predictable programme playing itself out: different things are happening within and between tissues, and each system or organ accumulates damage at its own pace, according to the kind of insults imposed on it by daily living.

Sometime before 2020, the number of people over 65 worldwide will, for the first time, be greater than the number of 0-4 year olds; and by 2050 there are likely to be 2.5 times as many older people in the world as toddlers. With statistics like these, society is understandably preoccupied with the ‘greying of the world’, and there is a huge community of scientists exploring the phenomenon from every angle. Sue Armstrong tells the story of society’s quest to understand ageing through the eyes of the scientists themselves, as well as through the ‘ordinary’ people who exemplify the mysteries of ageing – from those who suffer from the premature ageing condition, Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, to people still running marathons in their 80s.

Borrowed Time will investigate such mind-boggling experiments as transfusing young blood into old rodents, and research into transplanting the first human head, amongst many others. It will explore where science is taking us and what issues are being raised from a psychological, philosophical and ethical perspective, through interviews with, and profiles of, key scientists in the field and the people who represent interesting and important aspects of ageing.

Sue Armstrong is a science writer and broadcaster based in Edinburgh. She has worked for a variety of media organisations, including New Scientist, and since the 1980s has undertaken regular assignments for the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS, writing about women's health issues and the AIDS pandemic, among many other topics, and reporting from the frontline in countries as diverse as Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Uganda, Thailand, Namibia and Serbia. Sue has been involved, as presenter, writer and researcher, in several major documentaries for BBC Radio 4; programmes that have focused on the biology of ageing, and of drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity, AIDS, CJD, cancer and stress. Her previous book was p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code, also published with Bloomsbury Sigma. It has been highly commended by the BMA Book Award.

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Seeds of Science

Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs Mark Lynas Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s – working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement – he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world – from New York to China – still think that ‘GMO’ foods are bad for their health or likely to damage the environment. But Mark has changed his mind. This book explains why.

In 2013, in a world-famous recantation speech, Mark apologised for having destroyed GM crops. He spent the subsequent years touring Africa and Asia, and working with plant scientists who are using this technology to help smallholder farmers in developing countries cope better with pests, diseases and droughts.

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This book lifts the lid on the anti-GMO craze and shows how science was left by the wayside as a wave of public hysteria swept the world. Mark takes us back to the origins of the technology and introduces the scientific pioneers who invented it. He explains what led him to question his earlier assumptions about GM food, and talks to both sides of this fractious debate to see what still motivates worldwide opposition today. In the process he asks – and answers – the killer question: how did we all get it so wrong on GMOs? 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 on climate change to the President of the Maldives 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. Until 2017 he is a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science, Cornell University. @mark_lynas

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Eye of the Shoal

A Fishwatcher’s guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything Helen Scales Seven tenths of the earth’s surface is covered in water. This vast aquatic realm is inhabited by a multitude of strange creatures and reigning supreme among them are the fish There are giants that live for centuries and thumb-sized tiddlers that survive only weeks; they can be pancake-flat or inflatable balloons; they can shout with colours or hide in plain sight, cheat and dance, remember and say sorry; some rarely budge while others restlessly travel the globe. And yet the mesmerising and complex lives of fish remain largely underrated and unseen, living hidden beneath the waterline, out of sight and out of mind.

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Humans can only ever be temporary visitors to the fish’s liquid world and it can be a mystifying place, so utterly different to our normal, everyday experiences.

Helen Scales is our inimitable guide on an underwater journey, as we fathom the depths and watch these animals going about the glorious business of being fish. Along the way we meet devoted fishwatchers, past and present, including the man who searched for a voodoo zombie potion made of deadly pufferfish and the woman who, in her nineties, dived deep to watch how triggerfish build their nests.

Woven throughout are vignettes of Scales’ own aquatic explorations, from eerie nighttime dives with glowing fish and up-close encounters with giant manta rays, to floating in the middle of swirling shoals being watched by thousands of inquisitive eyes.

As well as being a rich and entertaining read, this book will inspire readers to think again about these animals and the seas they inhabit, and to go out and appreciate the 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, diver, surfer, broadcaster and writer who’s spent hundreds of hours underwater watching fish. A familiar voice for the oceans, she’s pondered the mysteries of the deep sea with Robin Ince and Brian Cox on BBC Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage and donated an imaginary tank of seahorses to The Museum of Curiosity. She’s a regular writer for BBC Focus and BBC Wildlife magazines. Among her radio documentaries she’s explored the dream of living underwater and followed the trail of endangered snails around the world and back again.

Helen’s recent book, Spirals in Time, is a Guardian bestseller. It was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Biology book prize, picked as a book of the year by The Economist, Nature, The Times and the Guardian and was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. @helenscales / helenscales.com

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Nodding Off

The Science of Sleep from Cradle to 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?

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.

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Using cutting-edge findings in the field, renowned sleep researcher Alice Gregory tackles the big questions, such as

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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 Professor 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

Algorithms are running our society and we don’t really know what they are up to 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 and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits.

But how reliable is this data? Without understanding what mathematics can and can’t do, it is impossible to get a handle on how it is changing our lives.

In this book, David Sumpter takes an algorithm-strewn journey to the dark side of mathematics. He investigates the equations that analyse us, influence us and will (maybe) become like us, answering questions such as: How does Facebook build a 100-dimensional picture of your personality?

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Are Google algorithms racist and sexist?

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Why do election predictions fail so drastically?

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Are algorithms that are designed to find criminals making terrible mistakes?

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What does the future hold as we relinquish our decision-making to machines?

Featuring interviews with those working at the cutting edge of algorithm research along with a healthy dose of mathematical self-experiment, Outnumbered will explain how mathematics and statistics work in the real world, and what we should and shouldn’t worry about.

A lot of people feel outnumbered by algorithms – don’t be one of them.

David Sumpter is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Originally from London, but growing up in Scotland, he completed his doctorate in Mathematics at Manchester, and held a Royal Society Fellowship at Oxford before heading to Sweden. His scientific research covers everything from the inner workings of fish schools and ant colonies, the analysis the passing networks of football teams, segregation in society to machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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David has written for The Economist, The Telegraph, Current Biology, Mathematics Today and FourFourTwo magazine, amongst others. He has been awarded the IMA’s Catherine Richards prize for communicating mathematics to a wider audience. David’s first book was Soccermatics: Mathematical Adventures in the Beautiful Game. @djtsumpter

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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.

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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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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 heritable traits

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In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated 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. Most alarming are chapters about epigenetic changes we are undergoing 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, and how outside influences drive what we pass along to our progeny.

Peter Ward, Ph.D. is a paleontologist and astrobiologist whose most recent book is 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 his 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.

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Sophie’s Planet

A Search for Truth About Our Remarkable Home Planet and Its Future James Hansen In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world Dr. James Hansen is the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book, Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate.

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But Hansen remains an optimist. In a series of moving and insightful letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, he speaks about the fight to preserve life on the planet, a fight that for her generation will be as personal as it is political—as much about policy actions as about the right of the Monarch, Sophie's favorite butterfly, to live and thrive on this earth.

Sophie's Planet turns toward solutions, asking: How can we connect the dots from climate observations to necessary policies? What can be done to preserve our planet for the young people who will follow us? And how can we make the climate story clear to these young people, to prepare them for what will be one of their generation's central struggles: the fight for environmental justice?

Hansen's conversations with Sophie offer a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of a life spent at the highest levels of environmental research and policy—including the realms where dark motives prevail—as well as a moving clarion call for the future of the climate change fight.

Dr. James Hansen is best known for bringing global warming to the world's attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress. An adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, he directed the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. His background in space and earth sciences allows a broad perspective on the status and prospects of our home planet. He is the author of Storms of My Grandchildren.

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Eat Like a Local Food-focused city guides starting with New York, London, Paris and Tokyo Eat Like a Local is a series of stylish travel guides that focus on the culinary scenes of the world’s most exciting cities. These books act as a food tour in your pocket, giving you inside knowledge to drink, shop, cook and eat like a local.

Contents include over 100 listings for the best restaurants, cafes, bars, markets and street food as recommended by in-the-know locals; short essays that give a real insight to each city’s idiosyncratic food cultures; plus a handful of iconic recipes to cook from your holiday kitchen or back home.

Whether you’re visiting for a weekend or a week, these sleek little guides will equip you with everything you need to get off the well-worn tourist track and under the skin of the city’s food scene, leaving you feeling satisfied that you’ve eaten your way through the very best the city has to offer.

Note: We will be updating them every two years.

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The Vicious Wonderland David Eimer

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David Eimer goes to the heart of Burma and out to its unexplored vistas, bringing to vivid life all its riches and complexities

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From 1962, the people of Burma were marooned in a paranoid military dictatorship, effectively cut off from the outside world. It was only in late 2015 that the National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won absolute majority and were able six months later to take their seats in government. Yet the government and country are still far from stable: some of its 134 ethnic minorities are still fighting for self-rule, a quarter of all seats in parliament remain reserved for the military and animosity is surging between the vast Buddhist majority and the Muslim and Hindu minority.

Nothing is straightforward in this captivating and enigmatic land. In a country where building a temple takes priority over installing traffic lights, golf courses are ploughed out alongside fields of opium poppies and fortune-tellers are consulted on a daily basis even by the government, any sepia-tinged and colonial idea of Burma is long out of date. The Vicious Wonderland reveals it in all its technicolour glory. To explore its magic and depths, David Eimer takes his narrative through history, class and geography, anchoring it in his base of Yangon before ranging right out to the furthest corners of Burma, some of which are still ruled by private armies and run by warlords. This is a story balanced by historical context but related by the people with whom Eimer shares his time, from granddaughters of former presidents to the squatters in Yangon’s shacks, from former political exiles to jade miners digging for their fortune in the far north.

Layers of history are unfurled and innumerable stories from its past and present are woven together to create a sensitive and revelatory portrait of this most fascinating and mysterious of countries, with the story of its people at its heart.

Authoritative and ground-breaking, The Vicious Wonderland is set to be a modern classic of travel-writing.

David Eimer was the China correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph before becoming their South-East Asia correspondent, and freelancing for the Daily Telegraph and the South China Morning Post. Eimer lived in China for a decade but after dividing his time between Bangkok and Rangoon for a time, he now lives in Rangoon full-time.

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Around the World in 80 Trains Monisha Rajesh

Following her hugely popular debut, Around India in 80 Trains, Monisha Rajesh sets her sights on broader horizons and invites you on a remarkable journey Around the World in 80 Trains

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In Around the World in 80 Trains, Monisha Rajesh leaves behind the ease and reliability of the everyday commuter experience to embark on the lesser-known train services that connect one end of the world to the other. From the comfort of the Eurostar connecting London to Paris, across the Balkan straits, traversing continents on the Trans Mongolian, and even reaching the dizzying heights of the notorious Death Railway in Thailand. The ambitious route followed in this book offers a glimpse of some of the most beautiful corners of the globe, but it is the trains and their passengers that take centre stage. Step aboard trains as delightful and diverse as the Japanese Shinkansen, the Ferrocaril Central Andino in Peru, USA’s Sunset Limited, and, of course, the legendary Orient Express. Each journey is brought to life by the vibrant cast of characters Rajesh encounters along the way, as she strikes up friendships and swaps stories both on and off the platform. Documenting her rich experiences with energy and zest, wit and warmth, Rajesh will inspire you to rediscover the glory of train travel.

Monisha Rajesh was born in Norfolk in 1982 and grew up between Hull, Sheffield and Birmingham, with a brief stint in India aged nine. Monisha read French at the University of Leeds and taught English at a high school in Cannes before taking a post-graduate diploma in Magazine journalism at London’s City University. She has since worked as a freelance features writer covering film, lifestyle, health, environment and travel for The Guardian, The Times, Conde Nast Traveller, The New York Times and Time magazine. Her first book, Around India in 80 Trains was published in 2012 at the same time as Monisha joined The Week magazine as sub-editor. She left her job in 2015 to travel around the world for her second book – about which she wrote a column for The Sunday Telegraph, called ‘Around the World in 80 Trains’.

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At Sea

Lamorna Ash In this beautifully written and strikingly original debut, Lamorna Ash weaves a deeply discerning tapestry of the lives of people in the Cornish fishing village of Newlyn There are some places that leave an indelible impression on our lives. For Lamorna Ash, this place was Newlyn. By the final days of a month spent carrying out anthropological fieldwork, Ash had written at the bottom of her field notes, underlined: “Remember that you have been happier and felt more solid here than you ever did in London. Remember that this cannot and must not be the end of your time in Newlyn.”

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At Sea delivers us to the shores of Newlyn, immersing us in the rhythms of this coastal village and threading together the experiences of a proud and intensely compassionate community, whose every moment is defined and sustained by the sea – “that life-giving, life-taking thing that is everything.” Interleaving personal experience – including a week’s voyage on a deep-sea trawler – with histories ancient and recent, figures mythological, literary and scientific, Ash traces the complex, and at times devastating, history of the fishing industry in Newlyn through its many fluctuations. From the fish riots with St Ives of 1896, to the Penlee lifeboat disaster of 1981 and onwards towards the unknown territories that Brexit and increasing political instabilities might bring to the village. But at its very heart, this book is a celebration of the spirited and resilient people of Newlyn; a self-sustaining world made rich with stories, with history, with life.

Lamorna Ash has just completed her masters in Social and Cultural Anthropology at UCL. She has worked as an intern for the Times Literary Supplement, writing reviews of theatre, of memoirs about freshwater mussels and science fiction novels, as well as articles about Cornwall, Soviet movie posters, Joseph Conrad cycle tours of London and all manner of other strange subjects. At Sea is her first book.

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The Dark Stuff

Stories from the Peatlands Donald S. Murray An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths Donald S Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working on the moor, chasing sheep across empty acres and cutting and gathering peat for fuel.

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The Dark Stuff is an examination of how this landscape affected him and others.

Donald explores his early life on the Isle of Lewis together with the experiences of those who lived near moors much further afield, from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland to the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and even Australia. Examining this environment in all its roles and guises, Donald reflects on the ways that for centuries humans have represented the moor in literature, art and folktale, and he reveals how in some countries, these habitats remain an essential aspect of their industrial heritage and working life today.

On his journey, Donald confronts the unexpected – how Europe’s peatlands are part of the dark heart of that continent, playing a crucial role in the history of crime and punishment in several countries. He also examines our current perception of moorland, asking how – for the sake, perhaps, of our planet’s survival – we can learn to love a landscape we have all too often in our history denigrated, feared and despised.

Donald S. Murray comes from Ness at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Shetland. Donald is an award-winning writer, playwright and poet.

His last book, Herring Tales, was one of The Guardian's nature books of the year in 2015, as was his previous book,The Guga Stone, in 2013.

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TRAVEL AND NATURE WRITING

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway A Year of Gardening and (wild)life Kate Bradbury

The story of a garden brought back from the dead and the wildlife that returns to it, set amidst the chaos of new beginnings, old haunts and nearly losing everything Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectarand pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden.

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But while she’s doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave and deck their gardens locking them away, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she’s fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement?

Sadly, events take Kate away from her garden, and she finds herself back home in Birmingham where she grew up, travelling the roads she used to race down on her bike in the eighties, thinking of the gardens and wildlife she loved, witnessing more land lost beneath paving stones. If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?

Kate Bradbury is the wildlife editor on BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, and a freelance writer for the Guardian, BBC Wildlife magazine, and Telegraph Gardening. Kate is a regular contributor to BBC Gardener’s Question Time and appears in the gardenersworld.com/no-fuss-guides videos. Her book The Wildlife Gardener (published by Kyle Books, May 2013) was the Environmental Award winner at the Garden Media Guild Awards in 2013. Kate is a Butterfly Conservation Ambassador and A Focus on Nature mentor.

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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.

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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.

‘Who knew that seventeenth century ornithology could be so enthralling? Tim Birkhead’s careful sleuthing uncovers the remarkable story of an ingenious gentleman-scholar living at the dawn of the scientific revolution, while his own immense experience of dissecting and observing birds gives him unique insights into the mysteries and puzzles that Francis Willughby and John Ray solved, as they invented scientific ornithology’ Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything

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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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When the Last Lion Roars

The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts Sara Evans The illegal killing of Cecil – a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion – by an American big-game hunter in 2015 sparked international outrage. More significantly, it drew the world’s attention to the devastating plight of Africa’s lions A century ago, there were more than 200,000 wild lions living in Africa. Today, with that population reduced by more than 90%, many experts believe that without effective conservation plans, Africa’s remaining wild lions will be completely wiped out by the mid-half of this century.

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When the Last Lion Roars explores the historic rise and fall of the lion as a global species, and examines the reasons behind its catastrophic decline. Interwoven with vivid personal encounters of Africa’s last lions, Sara Evans questions what is being done to reverse (or at least stem) this population collapse, and she considers the importance of human responsibility in this decline and, more crucially, in their conservation. From the Lion Guardians in Kenya to the Living Walls of Tanzania, this book describes the projects and protectors that are fighting to bring this iconic species back from the brink of extinction.

‘An eloquent story of despair and hope’ Jonathan and Angela Scott Sara Evans is an award-winning writer, specialising in travel and wildlife. Her work has featured in numerous publications around the globe, including the Sunday Telegraph, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Australian, The Boston Globe, BBC Wildlife Magazine and Africa Geographic. A former speaker at Bradt travel-writing seminars, she is also the author of The Travel Industry Uncovered and The Real Life Guide to Travel and Tourism. After spending much of her time travelling and looking for some of the world’s most amazing animals, Evans now lives in the Fens with her husband, Conor, and cat, Sybil. @SaraTEvans

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Lateral Cooking

Niki Segnit with a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi A ground-breaking handbook designed to help creative cooks develop their own recipes, from the bestselling author of The Flavour Thesaurus.

One dish leads to another…

Lateral Cooking is, in a sense, the ‘method’ companion to its bestselling predecessor, The Flavour Thesaurus – and is just as useful, ingeniously organised and enjoyable to read.

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The book is divided into 12 chapters, each covering a basic culinary category, such as ‘Bread’, ‘Sauces’ or ‘Custard’. The recipes in each chapter are then arranged on a continuum, the transition from one recipe to another generally amounting to a tweak or two in the method or ingredients. Which is to say, one dish leads to another: once you’ve got the hang of flatbreads, for instance, then its neighbouring dishes on the continuum (crackers, soda bread, scones) will involve the easiest and most intuitive adjustment. The result is greater creativity in the kitchen: Lateral Cooking encourages improvisation, resourcefulness, and, ultimately, the knowledge and confidence to cook by heart.

Lateral Cooking is essentially a practical book, but like The Flavour Thesaurus it’s also a highly enjoyable read. The ‘Flavours & Variations’ sections, for example, draw widely on culinary science, history, ideas from professional kitchens, observations by renowned food writers and personal recollection. Entertaining, opinionated and inspirational, Lateral Cooking will have you torn between donning your apron and settling back in a comfortable chair.

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

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A Little Tea Book

All the Essentials from Leaf to Cup Sebastian Beckwith with Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton ‘Mr. Beckwith [is] an engaging, unpretentious and encyclopaedic tea maven’ New York Times From tea guru Sebastian Beckwith and New York Times bestsellers Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton comes the essential guide to exploring and enjoying the vast world of tea

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Tea, the most popular beverage in the world after water, has brought nations to war, defined cultures, bankrupted coffers, and toppled kings. And yet in many ways this fragrantly comforting and storied brew remains elusive, even to its devotees. As down-to-earth yet stylishly refined as the drink itself, A Little Tea Book submerges readers into tea, exploring its varieties, subtleties, and pleasures right down to the process of selecting and brewing the perfect cup.

From orange pekoe to pu-erh, tea expert Sebastian Beckwith provides surprising tips, fun facts, and flavorful recipes to launch dabblers and connoisseurs alike on a journey of taste and appreciation. Along with writer and fellow tea-enthusiast Caroline Paul, Beckwith walks us through the cultural and political history of the elixir that has touched every corner of the world. Featuring featuring charming, colorful charts, graphs, and illustrations by bestselling illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and Beckwith’s sumptuous photographs, A Little Tea Book is a friendly, handsome, and illuminating primer with a dash of sass and sophistication. Cheers!

Sebastian Beckwith is a preeminent tea authority and co-founder of In Pursuit of Tea, a purveyor of fine teas from around the world to some of the finest restaurants in the country. He divides his time between New York City and Connecticut.

Caroline Paul is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl and Lost Cat. She lives in San Francisco.

Wendy MacNaughton is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and The Gutsy Girl. She lives in San Francisco.

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What To Do When I’m Gone Hallie Bateman and Suzy Hopkins

A mother’s advice to her daughter – a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime – with full-color illustrations throughout One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: her mom would die, and after she died she would be gone. The prospect was devastating, and also scary – how would she navigate the world without the person who gave her life? She thought about all the motherly advice she would miss – advice that could help her through the challenges to come, including the ordeal of losing a parent.

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The next day, Hallie asked her mother, writer Suzy Hopkins, to record stepby-step instructions for her to follow in the event of her mom’s death. The list began: "Pour yourself a stiff glass of whiskey and make some fajitas" and continued from there, walking Hallie through the days, months, and years of life after loss, with motherly guidance and support, addressing issues great and small – from choosing a life partner to baking a quiche. The project became a way for mother and daughter to connect with humor, openness, and gratitude.

It led to this book.

Combining Suzy’s wit and heartfelt advice with Hallie’s quirky and colorful style, What to Do When I’m Gone is the illustrated instruction manual for getting through life without one’s mom. It’s also a poignant look at loss, love, and taking things one moment at a time. By turns whimsical, funny, touching, and above all pragmatic, it will leave readers laughing and teary-eyed. And it will spur conversations that enrich family members’ understanding of one another.

Hallie Bateman is a Los Angeles-based illustrator and writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Lenny, BuzzFeed, the Awl, and elsewhere. Her creative journal, Brave New Work, was published

by MOMA in 2017.

Suzy Hopkins is a former newspaper reporter who since 2008 has published a quarterly magazine (Friends & Neighbors, www.seniorfan.com) for boomers and seniors in California’s Central Sierra. She is also Hallie’s mom. She lives in Columbia, California.

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A Guinea Pig Christmas Carol Miserable to the core and wholly unwilling to extend a paw to help those in desperate need, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge says ‘bah, Humbug!’ to the festive season. But one night he is visited by three Christmas Spirits who take him on a journey through time, so he can see the error of his ways and learn the true meaning of Christmas…

This is Charles Dickens’s joyful Christmas tale, retold in an entirely new way.

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and became the most popular novelist of the Victorian era. A prolific writer, he published more than a dozen novels in his lifetime, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and Hard Times, most of which have been adapted many times over for radio, stage and screen.

Tess Newall was born in 1987 and when she is not sewing miniature tweed caps or paving tiny cobbled streets, she works as a freelance set designer on a variety of scales for fashion, film, events and window displays. She lives in London.

Alex Goodwin was born in 1985 and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where he surprised his classmates with the news that his first book would feature guinea pigs in bonnets and top hats. He lives in London.

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A Guinea Pig Oliver Twist

A Guinea Pig Nativity

A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice

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GREEN TREE

Not Fade Away Celia Dodd

Retirement is one of the biggest life changes we face – it's no longer seen as a decline into old age but a vibrant stage of life – and many of us are keen for guidance on making the most of retirement Retirement is one of the biggest life changes we face. And it’s been transformed since our parents retired into a period of exciting opportunities for personal growth and development.

Retirement has been revolutionised. It’s no longer seen as a decline into old age, but a vibrant new stage of life with infinite possibilities for personal fulfilment and renewed energy. This generation wants to seize the hour, but are keen for guidance on making the most of retirement.

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Every year another 600,000 people in the UK reach retirement age. 60 somethings are fitter and healthier than ever before. They can expect at least another 20 years of healthy, active life.

But too many people struggle with the adjustment, and it can have a negative impact on their physical and mental health. Research by the Institute of Economic Affairs found that retired people are 40% more likely to suffer from depression and 60% more likely to have a diagnosed physical condition.

For couples the transition brings added challenges, as the soaring ‘silver divorce’ rate indicated. A recent study found that marital conflict peaked while marital satisfaction plummeted after couples gave up work.

So while on paper its great news that we’re living longer, healthier lives, with endless opportunities for fulfilment in retirement, the reality is that many people simply feel overwhelmed by choice and the pressure of expectation.

The latest research shows that successful retirement is all about attitude. This book inspires readers to nurture a positive attitude to life beyond work and take control of their future. In it men and women share their very different experiences, from unexpected pleasures to disastrous mistakes, successes, failures and how they might do things differently. They speak from the heart about the issues that will face us all: how they’ve dealt with loss of status and routine, found new meaning, reinvented their relationships.

Celia Dodd has been a journalist for national newspapers and magazines for over 30 years including the Times, the Independent, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Psychologies and Good Housekeeping. She specializes in relationships, health education and celebrity interviews and in the past decade has focused on issues that are particularly relevant to the generation of over 50s. She is author of Empty Nest (Piatkus 2011). She regularly contributes to television and radio discussions about issues affecting the over 50s. Recent appearances include ITV’s This Morning, Woman’s Hour, PM with Eddie Mair, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio London. www.celiadodd.co.uk.

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Menopause

The Change for the Better Edited by Deborah Garlick This no-nonsense, easy-to-read guide, written by menopause experts, explores the facts, the myths, what to expect and includes stories from real women who have been there Why is talking about the menopause so taboo? When it's something that all women experience, and all in their own unique way. Written by women, for women, this comprehensive and thoroughly researched guide equips readers with everything they need to help them prepare for the changes ahead.

Completely up to date and reflecting the latest NICE guidelines and information about HRT, this book provides a balanced view and encourages women to explore the options and think about what’s right for them.

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Covering the facts, the myths, different approaches to menopause, including natural and medical options, and what to expect. Also included are quotes and stories from real women, sharing their own experiences. You've been through puberty and survived. You're about to enter a new phase of your life, and it's up to you how you approach it. So grab a cup or glass of something, have a flick through this guide and let's start talking about the menopause.

Deborah Garlick is passionate about helping thousands and thousands of women live better lives by raising awareness and understanding around the menopause, changing perceptions and getting everyone talking about it.

She is the founder of Henpicked.net, one of the UK’s largest, fastest growing communities for women over 40.

Contributors to the book include: Dr Louise Newson – who runs a private menopause clinic in Solihull; Katherine Bellchambers-Wilson – a medical herbalist; Pamela Windle – a women’s health therapist; Kathryn Peden – a physiotherapist; Dr Heather Currie, an Associate Specialist Gynaecologist and Obstetrician and Chair of British Menopause Society; Dr Sarah Gray, a GP who provides clinical leadership for contraception and sexual health; Dr Marian Everett, recently retired; Dr Marion Gluck – a top private doctor specialising in treating hormonal imbalances using natural, bioidentical hormones.

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A Life Less Lonely

What We Can All Do To Lead More Connected, Kinder Lives Nick Duerdan in collaboration with the Jo Cox Foundation This book is a call to arms – the beginning of a national conversation about how we can end the stigma attached to loneliness Loneliness is an epidemic on the increase. It can affect anyone and everyone, irrespective of age, race or class. It is well known that older people can suffer from isolation and loneliness, but there are many other groups who also suffer, often in silence, whether they are teenagers, new mothers, fathers, those with disability or illness, or anybody going through a significant life change.

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As more people work full time, as people self-isolate more through internet shopping, banking, entertainment, with pensions paid online and church congregations continuing to fall, we need to ask ourselves: what can we do to ameliorate this isolation and ensure all our futures are more connected and socially satisfying?

This book will help to share stories and look for possible solutions, to use the research the Jo Cox Commission has undertaken and try to give us all ideas for future-proofing ourselves against this silent plague. It offers a wealth of practical advice for every reader: how to spot the symptoms in yourself and in others; how to ease them; how to seek help, and ultimately, how to understand this most fundamental of human emotions. Its aim is to provide you with the tools you need to lead a kinder life.

“Jo Cox’s selfless service to others made the world a better place.” Barack Obama.

Her service lives on.

Nick Duerden is a writer and freelance broadsheet journalist. He is also the author of Get Well Soon (Bloomsbury). He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 and 5 and Sky News. He has written widely on the arts, travel and health.

Before she was so senselessly killed in 2016, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, Jo Cox, set up the Commission On Loneliness, with an aim to address the impact the condition has on so many different sections in society, and to focus on the positive action we can all take to recognise it, to build connections with people, and help ourselves help everybody else.

Since her death, the Commission has now become a cross-party initiative cochaired by the Labour MP Rachel Reeves and the Conservative MP Seema Kennedy. Working in close conjunction with partners like Action for Children, Age UK, The Alzheimer’s Society, The Campaign To End Loneliness and The Eden Project Communities, they are working towards making loneliness a treatable condition by helping us all to look out for ourselves and also to reach out more, to make that connection to others as we would hope others might make with us in times of great need.

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The Mother of All Jobs Christine Armstrong

The Mother of All Jobs 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 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 work and small kids is hard.

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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.

The Mother of All Jobs 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.

As practical as What to Expect When You‘re Expecting: what working mums need to know about to navigate working parenthood that no one tells them.

As revealing as The Secret: from money to affairs at work to the codes at the school gate, there is so much that no one tells you.

As human as Bridget Jones’ Diary: the book is grounded in real stories that every working parent can recognise and relate to, cringe at and learn from.

Like coming back from an interview and realising the house smells of wee so crawling around on all fours to sniff the carpet and work out where the smell is coming from.

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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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.

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Yolanda Barker is a writer and award-winning film director. During her 13 years in the film industry, Yolanda has edited for TV, directed award-winning documentaries, and is now directing live action and animation fiction. Her thought-provoking, soul searching work explores the space between pain and beauty. Born and raised in Ireland and Poland, Yolanda’s diverse upbringing gave rise to the themes of her life: open-mindedness, equality, and connection beyond social conventions. Having travelled widely around Europe, Asia, Africa and America, she now lives in London; which she believes to be one of the most culturally diverse and inspiring cities in the world. She is also an experienced yoga teacher who trained in India. Her first health and wellness book The Breathing Revolution will publish in 2017. @YolandaBarker

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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.

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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, Childline and The Princes’s Trust.

Dr Reetta Newell is a Clinical Psychologist, and runs a private practice specialising in working with children and families.

Breaking Mad

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), Beijing Sunnbrook Culture & Art Co. Ltd (Chinese simplified) 60

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The Human Kind

A Doctor’s Stories From The Heart Of Medicine Peter Dorward The Human Kind is a compelling account of some of the hardest cases in one doctor’s career Everyone gets to be a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult doctors; of relationships burdened with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain.

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult relationships with patients, of the decisions made, and the outcomes that followed. People whom, despite all of their patience, persistence, the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven’t helped. People for whose unique suffering it seems medicine has nothing to offer.

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Dr. Peter Dorward explores the many ethical dilemmas that GPs must face every day, to explain why it is that despite vast resources, time, skill and dedication, medicine is so often destined to fail. His recollections include his worst failures and biggest challenges, ranging from the everyday, the tragic, the grotesque, the villainous and the humorous. The Human Kind presents a fresh understanding of the difficult relationship between doctor and patient, and the challenges which both must face.

Dr. Peter Dorward grew up in St Andrews, Scotland. Having worked for a number of years as a doctor in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Belize and London, he is now a GP and medical teacher based in Edinburgh. He is an award-winning author of short stories and screenplays. His novel Nightingale was published in 2007

by Two Ravens Press.

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

A positive and empowering guide for girls who are going through puberty or are interested in what’s in store The Girls Guide to Growing Up Great is about thriving during puberty – not simply surviving it. A positive, empowering guide for girls aged from 10 years.

Covering everything from bodies and bodily changes, friends, feelings and sex (with all its different meanings and connotations) as appropriate for the age group, as well advice about cyberbullying and how to stay safe online.

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Readers are encouraged to face head on the changes coming their way, allowing them to recognise the bumps on the road ahead, enabling them to understand their bodies (the plusses and the minuses) and help to counter any fears or disassociations between mind and body that puberty can bring about.

Featuring witty and original illustrations from Flo Perry as well as space to doodle and really make the book the reader’s own.

Also including contributions from Laura Chaisty, a trained psychotherapist, as well as medical input from GP Maddy Podichetty, this well-balanced book gives a modern reflection of what it’s like growing up today.

Sophie Elkan has a background in Marketing and PR and now works in Communications. She started her career working on women’s magazines, including Marie Claire as well as teen titles, Mizz and 19.

Laura Chaisty is a qualified Art Psychotherapist with over fifteen years of experience working in the National Health Service.

Dr Maddy Podichetty is a GP based in Oxford.

All three are mothers of girls.

Flo Perry is a freelance illustrator and writer. She’s a former editor at BuzzFeed, and has a passion for drawing funny pictures, especially about boobs and cats.

Before all that she studied chemistry at Durham University. She lives in London with her girlfriend, her best friend and a large, annoying, deaf cat.

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Do You Speak Football?

A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World Tom Williams An expertly compiled and utterly delightful compendium of the weird and wonderful words and phrases used to describe football around the world To speak football is to speak a language of a thousand tongues…

In this ground-breaking global glossary of football words and phrases, you’ll discover the rich, quirky and joyously creative language used by fans, commentators and players across the world.

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From placing a shot ‘where the owl sleeps’ in Brazil, to what it means to use your ‘chocolate leg’ in the Netherlands, via Wembley-Tor – a phrase adopted by Germans to describe a dubious goal – this comprehensively researched book will entertain and inform in equal measure.

Discover the unfortunate Finnish term for a holding midfielder, what it means when South Korean fans get nostalgic about a ‘Leeds season’ and why Dundee United supporters should keep their heads down in Nigeria.

With over 700 terms from 89 countries (including 29 ways to describe a nutmeg), this is the definitive guide to the global language of football.

Tom Williams lives in London and covers football for the Agence France-Presse international news agency. His writing has also appeared in The Blizzard, The Guardian and Bleacher Report. He has featured on BBC Radio 5 Live, BT Sport, CNN, BBC News 24, the BBC World Service, talkSPORT and the Totally Football Show. @tomwfootball #doyouspeakfootball

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Monsieur X

The Incredible Story of the Most Audacious Gambler in History Jamie Reid *William Hill Sports Book of the Year award winning author* Monsieur X is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well-educated Frenchman with an aristocratic family, a respectable, insurance business, and a warm welcome, in the smartest Parisian salons. He was also a compulsive gambler and illegal bookie.

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Between the late 1950s and the early 1970s, Des Moutis made a daring attempt to beat the French state-run betting system. His success so alarmed the authorities that they repeatedly changed the rules of betting in an effort to stop him. And so a battle of wills began, all played out on the front pages of the daily newspapers as the general public willed Des Moutis on to ever greater triumphs. He remained one step ahead of the law until finally the government criminalised his activities, driving him into the arms of the underworld. Eventually the net began to close, high-profile characters found themselves the target of the state’s investigation, and people began turning up dead.

Jamie Reid is the author of the non-fiction books A Licence to Print Money, Blown and Doped, the winner of the 2013 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. A life-long betting and racing enthusiast, he has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times supplement How To Spend It, and has also written for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday, as well as a wide range of magazines.

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The Men on Magic Carpets

Searching for the Superhuman Sports Star Ed Hawkins The bizarre true story about the cosmic side of sports Imagine you are a professional footballer, golfer or athlete. Now imagine you are that professional sportsman or sportswoman but – using no more than the power of your own mind – you can make yourself bigger, faster, more accurate, or able to control your opponent’s mind. You would be the world’s first superhuman sports star.

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In the 1970s the US military believed they could create a ‘super soldier’ – one who could use psychic powers to walk through walls, disarm the enemy through telepathy, or kill a goat by staring at it. The brain behind these techniques was Michael Murphy, one of the founders of ‘New Age’ spiritualism in the hippy enclaves of San Francisco. But Murphy’s primary goal was to use these powers in sport to create a supreme athlete capable of extraordinary feats.

Murphy and his protégés have dedicated their lives to teaching athletes and coaches to use his methods. Locking runners in huts to make them believe they were dead saints, spies using mind control to win chess matches, Russian Olympians ‘shape shifting’, and golfers imagining they were Darth Vader – coaches and athletes soon began to trust in very weird things.

So weird, in fact, that sport’s burgeoning obsession with money and image meant the hippies went underground and the superhuman powers became mythical. But the trailblazers – now more hip-replacement than hippy – are making a comeback, influencing some of the world’s top teams.

Award-winning investigative journalist Ed Hawkins meets Murphy and his protégés as well as a cast of athletes and coaches convinced by their methods as he immerses himself in a world shrouded in secrecy and weirdness. In a simultaneously hilarious and unsettling tale, he experiences first-hand the techniques as he endeavours to reveal the truth about sports psychology. Is it really possible to enter a mind-altering state or to shift your body shape? Or is it all just bunkum? And are the American military still watching?

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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Running Up That Hill Vassos Alexander

Running Up That Hill is a celebration of endurance running. Of running ridiculous distances, through cities, over mountains and across countries. Distances that most people can’t imagine running. But sports presenter and radio host Vassos Alexander is hooked. Why else would he run an ultra-race in Paris, backwards, having missed the start? Why attempt the world’s hardest mountain race with a badly sprained ankle? And why try to follow in some legendary, 2,500-year-old footsteps in the most unforgiving event on the planet, the 153-mile Spartathlon in Greece?

There's joy to be found in running ridiculous distances. Really there is. There’s the astonishing highs that it provides. The joy that comes from pushing your limits and exceeding your own expectations. The confidence and peace that it brings when you challenge yourself and succeed. It’s having belief in yourself and your capabilities.

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Vassos recalls his own attempts at these gruelling races, along with several ultra-running legends, including Scott Jurek, Jasmine Paris, Kilian Jornet, Dean Karnazes and Mimi Anderson, who testify to the transformative power of ultradistance running.

Together it’s a cracking tale of what keeps ultra-distance runners running, mile after mile after mile.

Vassos Alexander is one of the best-known sports reporters in the UK. He just loves running, and hopes more and more people give it a try. He is the author of the best-selling Don’t Stop Me Now, 26.2 Tales of a Runner’s Obsession, also published by Bloomsbury.

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The Wind at my Back Paul Maunder

A beautifully written exploration of the links between cycling, creativity and the landscape A lone cyclist, disappearing into a wild landscape – brave, free, engaged with the world. It’s the kind of image that sells bikes, magazines, clothing; a romantic image that all cyclists aspire to. For cycling is an activity deeply and intimately involved with landscape. The bicycle allows us to explore, to engage with wild places, and return in time for dinner. It also allows us to investigate our surroundings closer to home.

It is an activity which, for most of us, happens at a speed that allows a great deal of voyeurism. We peer into houses and shops, gardens and farmyards, fields and hedgerows. What we see may be familiar or alien, but for the creative mind it is always stimulating. Yet – unlike with walking or swimming – the connection between cycling and creativity has only been explored in fragments.

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On a bicycle, as one is exposed to sights – new or otherwise, through chance or purposeful searching – the repetitive physical actions of cycling work on the mind in a different way to those of walking. The shape of a long ride can become the shape of a novel; the atmosphere imbued by the weather, the hills, the physical exertion, can all influence a writer’s tone. Our memories have a dialogue with the landscape; we remember rides through the landscape, and the landscape shapes our thinking. And for Paul Maunder – a writer all his adult life – cycling and creativity have always been interlinked.

In The Wind on Your Back, Maunder takes a journey from the most dense centres of population to the wild places; starting from cycling in a major city, then moving through suburbia, the edgelands at the periphery of the city, then into the managed and pastoral farmland, and beyond to the sublime mountains.

He explores the experience and history of cycling in these different types of place, and seeks to understand how cycling has played a role in his own creative life as well as that of other cyclist-artists, musicians, photographers, writers and painters. Played out against the backdrop of the British countryside, and drawing of elements of psychogeography and human geography, Maunder seeks to understand the way the outside world interacts with the creative mind, and the way our surroundings help to shape who we are.

Rainbows in the Mud

Paul Maunder is a writer and journalist, contributing regularly to Peloton, Soigneur and Rouleur magazines. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, where he studied with Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott. In 2011 he was awarded a Faber Fellowship, and he is currently working on his fifth novel.

His first non-fiction book, Rainbows in the Mud, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2017. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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

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Done Deal Daniel Geey

Insightful, enlightening and thought provoking, leading Premier League lawyer Daniel Geey lifts the lid on the inner workings of modern football Whether it is a manager being sacked, the signing of a new star player, television rights negotiations, extreme player misconduct or the million-pound club takeovers, lawyers remain at the heart of all football business dealings. Written by leading Premier League lawyer Daniel Geey, who has dealt with all these incidents first hand, this book explores the issues – from pitch to boardroom – that shape the modern game and how these impact leagues, clubs, players and fans.

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Made up of more than 50 standalone essays, the book will include real-life club and player examples and insider anecdotes, as well as high-impact features exploring the 'Ways a Player Can Engineer a Big Money Transfer', 'How Agents Tap-up Players' and 'How much would it cost to buy Lionel Messi?' The book will draw on the author’s considerable experience and feature contributions from leading journalists and Premier League footballers.

Not scared to explore the underbelly of football, the book covers areas such as bribes, player strikes, drug use, underhand tactics and the way agents, clubs and players can manipulate the system. This highly accessible book will provide football fans with a clearer and entertaining understanding of all on and off-field football matters.

Daniel Geey is the UK’s most highly respected sports, competition and regulatory lawyer. His clients include Premier League and Champions League football clubs, agencies, rights holders and other sports companies. He is the media’s go-to man when complex legal matters need to be explained to a wider audience and he has appeared on Sky Sports, Sky News, BBC, CNN, BT Sport, Bloomberg, TV2, BBC Radio 4, and TalkSport, and contributed to the Daily Telegraph and the Independent. He has more than 20k Twitter followers. @FootballLaw

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One Night in Tokyo Aiden Pattersen

A noir crime novel that shuttles in time and setting between newly independent Scotland and a hotel room overlooking the bright lights of Tokyo It is 2023 and Alastair Taylor is hiding out in a hotel room in Tokyo. On the run from shadowy powers, he has fled Britain to the opposite end of the globe in search of safety. The world has changed around him: a newly independent Scotland is swimming in North Sea oil wealth, but a spill of huge proportions off the coast of Aberdeen, which Alastair is tasked with investigating, changes everything. He quickly begins to suspect that not everything is as it seems, and that a cover-up is in the offing. In the counsel of two colleagues, Joel, a gregarious accountant, and Trina, his boss’s beautiful personal assistant, he begins to discover clues that hint at a much wider conspiracy. With echoes of post-Soviet Russia, Alastair realises where the balance of global power truly lies: but can he reveal the truth to the world in time to save himself?

Aiden Patterson began a career as a trader in New York and London, before turning his hand to investigative journalism.

His thirty years of experiences in oil trading, downstream financing and shipping inspired this novel. Aiden Patterson is the author of one other novel, Mystery in Westminster Square.

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The Prisoner of Thiago Jamie d’Antioc

A spellbinding portrait of a courageous and headstrong sixteen-year-old Muslim girl in early sixteenth-century Andalusia, and her struggle against a fanatical bishop who would see her people persecuted and exterminated At the turn of the sixteenth century, the Muslim population of Andalusia are struggling against Christian oppression.

Caught in the centre of this conflict is Zaira, a spirited young Morisco woman living in Granada, who is grievously punished for her part in an uprising and condemned to slavery in the household of the region’s most fanatical and ruthless bishop.

Although at first all seems lost, Zaira soon learns her lowly new position in the bishop’s opulent home makes her a woman on the inside for the Moriscos. Spurred on by an unlikely friendship and a forbidden romance, she is drawn back into the rebellion, and although the struggle is now more dangerous than ever, Zaira is determined to fight for her people, no matter what the cost.

Jamie d’Antioc has lived, worked and travelled all over the world in various capacities. The variety of his experiences and his interest in history, cross-cultural dialogue and Morisco culture in Andalusia inspired him to write this novel. Jamie is the author of several published historical novels, including The Levantine Journal, several anthologies and the award-winning God’s Cookbook, a collection of recipes based upon ancient texts. He now devotes the majority of his time to his family and his writing.

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The Memory Stones

The Hollow of the Hand

‘A lyrical portrait that lingers in the memory’ Guardian

‘A sincere and sincerely impressive collection’ Independent

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

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

All the Beloved Ghosts

The Walworth Beauty

The Songs

An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of Unexploded, blending fiction, biography and memoir

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

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

Caroline Brothers

Alison MacLeod

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PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy

Michèle Roberts

The Bricks that Built the Houses Kate Tempest

‘Bold, bright, beguiling... unstoppable’ Sunday Telegraph RIGHTS SOLD: Casa da Palavra (Portuguese – Brazil), Meulenhof (Dutch), Payot and Rivages (French), Rowohlt (German), Frassinelli (Italian), Brombergs (Swedish), Forlaget Korridor (Danish)

Charles Elton

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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

Dreamland

The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction

The Health Gap

The Challenge of an Unequal World Michael Marmot ‘Splendid and necessary’ Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm, New Statesman

RIGHTS SOLD: Nutrimenti (Italian)

National Book Critics Circle Winner RIGHTS SOLD: Dong Nyok (Korean), Il Pensiero Scientifico (Italian), Nippon RIGHTS SOLD: Hyoron (Japanese), Shanghai Sanhui Polish (Czarne), Shanghai Translation (Simplified Chinese) Publishing House (Chinese Simplified)

Rise Up Women!

Scribbles in the Margins

The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes Diane Atkinson

50 Eternal Delights of Books Daniel Gray RIGHTS SOLD: Ariel (Spanish), Kamper Verlag (German)

BUILT

The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures Roma Agrawal RIGHTS SOLD: Hanser Verlag (German), Ginkgo Beijing Book Co (Simplified Chinese)

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Return of a King

Mecca

William Dalrymple

Ziauddin Sardar

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, 2013

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

The Battle for Afghanistan

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)

The Sacred City

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)

Affluence Without Abundance

The Doomsday Machine

James Suzman

From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day.

The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

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

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Daniel Ellsberg

Rights Sold: Dourei Publishing (Korean) Iwanami (Japanese), Alpina (Russian), Athenaeum (Hungarian), Xinhua Publishing (Chinese Simplified)

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Koh-i-Noor

The Ethical Carnivore

The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

My Year Killing to Eat

William Dalrymple & Anita Anand

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

RIGHTS SOLD: Noir Sur Blanc (French), Noir Sur Blanc (Polish), Unieboek Het Spectrum (Dutch), Adelphi (Italian), Eksmo (Russian)

Louise Gray

The Exile

The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy

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Respect Yourself

Insomniac City

Robert Gordon

Bill Hayes

‘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

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

We Are the Change We Seek

Chief Engineer

Memphis Rent Party

E.J. Dionne Jr. & Joy-Ann Reid

Erica Wagner

Robert Gordon

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

Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

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)

The Speeches of Barack Obama A collection of Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. and MSNBC host JoyAnn Reid RIGHTS SOLD: Record Publishing Group (Brazilian Portuguese) 74

Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge

Rights sold: Porfico Inc (Chinese simplified)

New York, Oliver, and Me

RIGHTS SOLD: Alma Publishing (Korean), ROPI Publications (Greek), PsyGarden Publishing Co (Chinese Complex)

The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

"Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right." Keith Richards

RECENT SIGMA BACKLIST

Goldilocks and the Water Bears The Search for Life in the Universe Louisa Preston RIGHTS SOLD: United Sky (Chinese Simplified), Il Saggiatore (Italian)

Bring Back the King

The New Science of De-Extinction

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)

Science and the City

Furry Logic

Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Helen Pilcher

The Mechanics behind the Metropolis

RIGHTS SOLD: Beijing Chinese Paper Jump (Simplified Chinese), Biblioteca Nueva (Spanish)

RIGHTS SOLD: Interpark (Korean), Biblioteca Nueva (Spanish)

Laurie Winkless

A Journey Through Nature’s Most Intimate Moments

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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Making the Monster

I, Mammal

Best Before

Rights sold: Lyiang Publishing House (Simplified chinese), Darkside Books (Portuguese Brazil)

Liam Drew

Nicola Temple

Kathryn Harkup

Catching Stardust

Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System Natalie Starkey

The Story of What Makes Us Mammals RIGHTS SOLD: Wydawnictwo Literackie (Polish), Intershift (Japanese), Ambo Anthos (Dutch)

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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The Evolution and Future of Processed Food

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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)

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Wonders Beyond Numbers

A Brief History of All Things Mathematical Johnny Ball

Soccermatics

Mathematical Adventures In the Beautiful Game David Sumpter

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

Rights sold: SB Creative (Japanese); Azbooka (Russian); Beijing Xiron (Chinese simplified); Libsa (Spanish)

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

Richard Evershed & Nicola Temple

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles

Herding Hemingway’s Cats

Suspicious Minds

The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

Understanding how our genes work

David Hone

Kat Arney

RIGHTS SOLD: Alpina OOO (Russian)

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

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

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) 77

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Spirals in Time

The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells Helen Scales RIGHTS SOLD: Guangxi Normal University Press (Simplified Chinese), Tsukiji Shokan (Japanese)

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), Darkside Books (Portuguese – Brazil only)

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)

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

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The Long Spring

Tracking the Arrival of Spring Through Europe Laurence Rose

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Gardens of Awe and Folly Vivian Swift

When Wanderers Cease to Roam Vivian Swift

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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

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

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

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 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)

The Gutsy Girl

Lost Cat

Caroline Paul Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton

Caroline Paul Illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton

New York Times Bestseller!

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)

Escapades for Your Life of Eipc Adventure

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: Pepper Books (Dutch), Giunti (Italian), Planeta (Spanish), Black Button Books (Romanian), Publicat (Polish), Woori School (Korean)

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A True Story of Love, Desperation and GPS Technology

SPORTS BACKLIST

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

The Billionaires Club

The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners James Montague RIGHTS SOLD: Kanzen (Japanese); Spoleczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak (Polish), Ithaki (Turkish)

The Wenger Revolution Twenty Years of Arsenal

Amy Lawrence and Stuart MacFarlane

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RIGHTS SOLD: Sol Media (Japanese), Freewriters (Mongolian)

The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman

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A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Heartlands Harry Pearson

The Extraordinary Story of the Man who Ran 401 Marathons in 401 Days and Changed his Life Forever Ben Smith

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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 signiďŹ cant moments

The Title

Scott Murray

Re:Cyclists

200 Years on Two Wheels Michael Hutchinson A bumpy ride through two centuries of cycling RIGHTS SOLD: profil Kitap (Turkish)

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The Ageless Body

How To Hold Back The Years To Achieve A Better Body Peta Bee & Sarah Schenker RIGHTS SOLD: Wydawnictwo Bukowy (Polish), IFP Publishing (Czech), Random House Germany (German), Kosmos (Dutch)

Get Well Soon Nick Duerden

‘An intelligent, incisive exploration of the cures trotted out to treat the 21st century’s most insidious malaise. And no, it’s not all in your head.’

- Meg Rosoff

Sod it! Eat Well

Sod Sitting, Get Moving!

Anita Bean & Muir Gray, Illustrated

by David Mostyn

Muir Gray & Diana Moran

Healthy Eating in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond

Getting Active in Your 60s, 70s and Beyond

The Wealthy Body In Business

Earn More Money By Being In Better Shape Tim Bean & Anne Laing

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

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