Elliott & Thompson Spring 2024 catalogue

NEW TITLES JANUARY–JUNE 2024

WELCOME TO OUR SPRING 2024 CATALOGUE

At Elliott & Thompson we have developed a reputation for publishing books that explain the geopolitical and social weather that define our times. With many reader favourites on our list – including the multi-million-copy bestseller Tim Marshall (Prisoners; Power; and Future of Geography) and bestselling social historian Julia Boyd (Travellers in the Third Reich and A Village in the Third Reich) – we are now looking to develop the next generation of historians and commentators.

Over the last two years we have focused on searching out expert authors of authoritative narrative non-fiction, from science writers such as Jules Howard, telling a captivating new story of life on Earth, to Gareth E. Rees exploring the sunken lands of our past, present and future. With a long history of working with established authors such as Horatio Clare, Rob Cowen and Melissa Harrison on one-off passion projects, we are also thrilled to be bringing together a diverse cast of writers for our collection of essays on the glory of the allotment. We also look forward to welcoming back Dharshini David with A Day in the Life of the Green Economy, the follow up to the BBC Chief Economics Correspondent’s acclaimed first book, The Almighty Dollar. Alongside our growing non-fiction list, we are also delighted to be publishing thriller writer Tony Kent’s new book, The Shadow Network.

This spring celebration epitomises the creative commissioning at the heart of a list that encompasses science and psychology, history and society, politics and current affairs, as well as the very best of nature, memoir and seasonal gifting. We look forward to welcoming and publishing many more new projects that explore big questions, offer fresh perspectives and tell the essential stories of our time.

Robin Harvie, Executive Publisher robin@eandtbooks.com

Sarah Rigby, Publishing Director sarah@eandtbooks.com

ABOUT US

Awarded London Small Press of the Year 2022 and Highly Commended for Independent Publisher of the Year 2019, Elliott & Thompson is known for publishing popular and creative non-fiction, including the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography and The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall.

We have also enjoyed successes with Julia Boyd’s top three Sunday Times bestseller Travellers in the Third Reich and her recent triumph A Village in the Third Reich, as well as the hugely popular thriller series by Tony Kent, whose debut Killer Intent was selected for the Zoe Ball Book Club in 2018, and whose second novel, Marked for Death, was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR BOOKS

‘A voyage of galactic discovery.’

Robert Verkaik at the Mail on Sunday on The Future of Geography by Tim Marshall

‘[Lev Parikian] brings a sense of infectious enthusiasm to his account of the evolution of flight in the natural world, from mayflies and bees to bats and hummingbirds by way of pterosaurs and archaeopteryx, combining a wealth of information with a sense of wonder.’

The Observer on Taking Flight by Lev Parikian

‘One of the most inspired items of environmental literature in recent years.’

Irish Independent on The Language of Trees by Katie Holten

‘A persuasive study of a tragic moment: a collision of men and necessities’

The Daily Telegraph on Road to Surrender by Evan Thomas

NEW TITLES

The Shadow Network

Tony Kent

A New Dempsey/Devlin Thriller

no one believes they exist?

When the lawyers of alleged war criminal

Hannibal Strauss are caught up in a terror attack in The Hague, barrister Michael Devlin immediately suspects all is not what it seems. Teaming up once more with Agent Joe Dempsey, they must find who’s behind it all before any more innocent lives are lost.

With their key witness on the run and assassins on their tail, their only lead is a codename: the Monk, a legendary and mysterious foreign agent with a fearsome reputation. But what is his stake in this dangerous game? And just who is part of his shadowy network of spies? Caught in a complicated web of lies, secrets and double agents, there’s no one Dempsey and Devlin can trust but themselves.

Pub date: 15 February 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783966684

epub: 9781783966691

Audio: 9781783967155

Genre: Crime / Political Thriller

Format: Hardback

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 464 pages

Rights: World

Tony Kent is the author of Killer Intent, Marked for Death, Power Play and No Way to Die. As a practising criminal barrister and former boxer, he draws on his experiences to bring a striking authenticity to his thrillers. Ranked as a ‘leader in his field’, Tony has prosecuted and defended in the most serious trials during his twenty years at the Criminal Bar, and appears as a criminal justice expert on a number of TV shows, including Meet, Marry, Murder; My Lover, My Killer and Kill Thy Neighbour. Tony is the founder director of Chiltern Kills, which launches in October 2023. He lives just outside London with his wife, young son and dog.

PRAISE FOR TONY KENT

‘A gripping conspiracy thriller’

Ian Rankin

‘An intricate twisty minefield . . . Kent has outdone himself’

David Baldacci

‘Gripping, absorbing, a page-turner’

Judith O’Reilly, author of Killing State

‘Like Baldacci at his best. Really intelligent, bang-up-to-date thriller.’

Steve Cavanagh, author of Thirteen

‘A high-octane conspiracy yarn’

The Times

‘A pulsating action thriller’

Sunday Times

‘Twist after twist ... it builds to a brilliant finale’

Daily Mirror

Sign up for Tony Kent’s newsletter at tonykent.net, or find him on Twitter @TonyKent_Writes

Sunken Lands

Gareth E. Rees

A journey through drowned forests, shrinking wetlands, vanished villages and sinking cities

Floods have been part of humanity’s story from its very beginnings; each time the waters rose, they left their mark on our ancestors, influencing religion, folklore and culture across the world. But while floods cause violent change, death and extinction, they also lead to renewal and rebirth as part of the ebb and flow of Earth’s natural cycles.

The places lost to the eternally shifting boundaries between water and land continue to have a powerful emotional resonance today. Their uncertain features emerge to haunt us, briefly, when the moon draws back the tide to reveal a spire or a tree stump. Imbued with myths and warnings from the past, these underwater worlds can also teach us important lessons about the unavoidability of change, the necessity of harmonising with nature’s flux and the folly of trying to control it.

Pub date: 21 March 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967698

epub: 9781783967704

Genre: Cultural History / Travel Writing

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Sunken Lands peels back the layers of silt, sea and mythology to reveal what our submerged past can tell us about our imminent future as rising sea levels transform our planet once more.

Gareth E. Rees is the author of Unofficial Britain, longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and one of the Sunday Times best books of the year 2020. He’s also the author of Car Park Life, The Stone Tide and Marshland. His first short story collection, Terminal Zones, was published in 2022 and examines the strangeness of everyday life in a time of climate change. He lives in Hastings.

In All Weathers

Matt Gaw

An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather

in all its wild and stormy forms

The UK is undoubtedly weather-soaked. Yet our weather is too often deemed as simply good (sunny) or bad (anything else). Our very likelihood of venturing outside is governed by that simplistic judgement. But in a place where annual sunshine averages about 1300 hours (just 54 days), that is a long time to be miserably cooped up indoors.

In All Weathers is a mission to redress the balance – to look again at our most widely accessed experience of the natural world and realise it can be beautiful, sublime, even fun, no matter the forecast. From the treeless, wind-smoothed landscape of Orkney to the fog-coated coasts of eastern England, Matt Gaw embarks on a series of walks in weather of all kinds across Britain –wind, rain, fog, ice and snow – to explore and understand the science of weather, how it is changing, its role in folklore and cultural history, and its psychological impact on us.

Pub date: 28 March 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967735

epub: 9781783967742

Genre: Nature

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 256 pages

Rights: World English

This is not about simply braving inclement conditions for the sake of it but to actively seek them out and enjoy them. With our rapidly changing climate, we need to embrace the elements, to throw open the doors, windows and soul to the inspiring wildness of weather.

Matt Gaw is a writer, journalist and naturalist who lives in Bury St Edmunds, and is the author of The Pull of the River and Under the Stars. His work has been published in the Guardian, Telegraph and The Times

The Way Through the Woods

Rebecca Beattie

Discover your path through life’s twists and turns with ‘green witch’ Rebecca Beattie

In this enchanting book, Rebecca Beattie – a Wiccan priestess who has practised witchcraft for over twenty years – takes us on an inspirational journey through the twists and turns of life.

In The Way Through The Woods she reclaims the great changes in our lives – in relationships, work and family and in our bodies and selves – as transformative moments full of possibility.

Drawing inspiration from the ebb and flow of the natural world and filled with nurturing rituals and wild magic from a witch’s toolkit, this is a musthave guide to optimising our spiritual and mental health when we lose our way.

With Rebecca as your guide, her rejuvenating wisdom will help you pause, reflect and reconnect to nature and yourself as you uncover your path forwards and thrive.

‘Warm, friendly . . . It’s a way to make time and space to really experience the world around us.’

Pub date: 18 April 2024

Price: £14.99

ISBN: 9781783967841

epub: 9781783967858

Genre: Nature / Spirituality / Well-Being / Gift

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

Resurgence & Ecologist on The Wheel of the Year

Dr Rebecca Beattie grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an early appreciation of the power of nature. She has been practising solitary witchcraft for twenty years and been an initiate of the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition for fifteen. A Wiccan priestess, she is acclaimed for her highly informed teaching of witchcraft subjects. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative Writing. She is the author of The Wheel of the Year

Infinite Life

Jules Howard

A revolutionary story of eggs, evolution and life on earth

We owe eggs for our existence. For life on Earth today. Eggs are, quite probably, the single biggest ‘invention’ in the history of evolution.

Five billion years ago, this place was barely a planet at all, more like a condensing cloud of debris that circled a fledgling star. Not a promising candidate, perhaps, for a place where eggs would one day evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas, transforming the evolution of life on Earth.

Unveiling an awe-inspiring new outlook on Earth’s deep history, science writer and zoologist Jules Howard retells our planet’s grand narrative from the perspective of the animal egg. Through lyrical prose, captivating storytelling and meticulous research, Howard offers a masterful narrative that transforms our understanding of these extraordinary organisms and of a world in the making.

Pub date: 9 May 2024

Price: £16.99

ISBN: 9781783967773

epub: 9781783967780

Genre: Popular Science / Nature

Format: Hardback

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 288 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth, ex Canada

Jules Howard is a zoologist, science writer and broadcaster, whose most recent book, Wonderdog, won the 2022 Barker Book Prize for non-fiction. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology and wildlife conservation, and appears regularly in BBC Wildlife Magazine and on radio and TV, including on BBC’s The One Show, Nature and The Living World as well as BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s Today programme. He lives in Northamptonshire.

This Allotment

Edited by Sarah Rigby

A celebration of allotment life in twelve original essays –a vibrant collection about growing, eating and nurturing

An allotment. ‘A “10 pole” space about the size of a doubles tennis court for the growing of fruit and vegetables.’ A health-giving, heartfilling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their ‘patch’ and guard it fiercely, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from across the seas.

They are places of resilience, resistance and freedom with a radical history (and the potential to be so again). They are blowsy dahlias, cricket on the radio and pigeons in lofts; buzzing bees and the wisdom of weeds and seeds.

This Allotment brings together twelve brilliant writers in a glorious celebration of these entirely unique spaces: plots that mean so much more than the soil upon which they sit.

Contributors include: Olia Hercules; Marchelle Farrell; JC Niala; Rob Cowen; Kirsteen McNash; Jenny Chamarette, with more to come.

Pub date: 6 June 2024

Price: £14.99

ISBN: 9781783967889

epub: 9781783967896

Genre: Nature / Gardening / Gift

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Rights: World

Sarah Rigby is an editor and book coach, and Publishing Director at the vibrant independent Elliott & Thompson. Sarah has worked with some of the country’s best-loved and award-winning writers of nature and place. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in London with her family where she has an allotment and volunteers for the food-growing workers’ co-op, Organic Lea. She is very proud of her yellow courgettes this year.

Radical Rest

Evie Muir

A bold, energetic and deeply honest book about the malaise of burnout in our society

Radical Rest will argue that the national burnout that we have all experienced in some form over the last few years is a symptom of a desperately unhealthy society. The solution lies not only with the individual, because we cannot simply ‘fix ourselves’ under oppression, but in a radical reimagining of the capitalist status quo.

Through a Black feminist, abolitionist and transformative justice lens, Radical Rest follows Evie on her own journey of burnout recovery as she explores embodied, nature-allied alternatives to the way we organise, work and exist. Radical Rest poses imaginative alternatives for a hopeful and healed future.

Pub date: 13 June 2024

Price: £14.99

ISBN: 9781783967650

epub: 9781783967667

Genre: Self-help / Health

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 216x135 mm

Extent: 272 pages

Rights: World

Evie Muir is both a domestic abuse survivor and qualified domestic abuse specialist, writer and the founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District-based nature-for-healing community group, by and for people of colour. Having worked in the VAWG sector for over 10 years, specialising in Black and queer survivors’ intersectional experiences of gendered and racialised trauma, she left the sector when she became burnt out, disenfranchised and disillusioned. Her work now sits on the intersections of gendered, racial and land justice, and seeks to nurture survivors’ joy, rest, hope and imagination as abolitionist praxis. As a Northern freelance writer, she’s passionate about the liberating form of writing as healing and resistance.

A Day in the Life of the Green Economy

Dharshini David

How the drive towards a greener future is transforming our economy – and how it affects you

Economics affects every aspect of our lives, from the clothes on our backs and the bread on our tables, to the steel in our office blocks and the fuel in our cars. And there are huge changes afoot as the global green revolution sweeps across our world.

Following the course of an average day – from the moment we flick on the light to the daily commute, and even where our savings are going – economist and broadcaster Dharshini David explores the green economic changes, challenges and opportunities facing us all. From sustainable materials and corporate greenwashing to industrialisation and global trade wars, she reveals the biggest factors driving innovation around the world.

If you’ve ever wondered what green issues really mean for our day-to-day lives, this book is for you.

Pub date: 20 June 2024

Price: £20

ISBN: 9781783966295

epub: 9781783966301

audio: 9781783966851

Genre: Current affairs / Popular Economics

Format: Hardback with jacket

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 288 pages

Rights: World

Dharshini David is an award-winning economist and broadcaster, currently the Chief Economics Correspondent for BBC News, as well as a presenter on BBC Radio 4, including for a recent series on ‘fast fashion’. She began her career as an economist in government and then as HSBC Investment Bank’s UK Economist, before going on to cover financial stories for the BBC and Panorama. She has also presented business and political programmes for Sky News, including their flagship Sky News Tonight. She is the author of Almighty Dollar.

Panorama. She has also presented business and The

Also by Dharshini David

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The Centre Must Hold

Edited by Yair Zivan

A collection of essays on securing liberal democracies during a time of increasing extremism and polarisation

In an age of complex global challenges, extremism and populism offer a simple but fatally flawed narrative to a public craving a sense of normalcy. There is another way.

Centrism today is the radical approach to politics that drives progress and secures the foundations of liberal democracy. Far from being an arbitrary middle point between left and right, centrism offers a coherent set of political ideas, principles and approaches. It is about finding the most productive and effective balance between globalisation and local communities, civil rights and security, religion and democracy, free markets and protecting the weakest in society. It is a form of politics that encourages moderation; that embraces compromise not as a necessary evil but as a core principle.

Pub date: 27 June 2024

Price: £20

ISBN: 9781783967933

epub: 9781783967940

Genre: Politics / Social History

Format: Hardback

Dimensions: 234x153 mm

Extent: 288 pages

Rights: World

Drawing together politicians, thought leaders and social commentators, The Centre Must Hold is a series of essays from those who have led from the centre or made significant contributions to centrist thought and policy-making including former prime ministers, leading journalists, ministers and policy makers from across the world.

Contributors include: Michael Bloomberg; Tony Blair; Malcolm Turnbull; Yair Lapid; Jennifer Rubin.

The Centre Must Hold is collated and edited by Yair Zivan, who after growing up in the UK returned to Israel and served as an advisor to the foreign minister, prime minister and president of his country.

OUT IN PAPERBACK

Beyond the Hype

Fiona Fox

What happens when science hits the headlines –for all the wrong reasons?

Do you remember the ‘Climategate’ email leak? Or the ‘Frankenfoods’ headlines about the perils of GM foods?

As a founding director at the Science Media Centre, Fiona Fox has had a front row seat at the major scientific media controversies of the past twenty years. She takes us through each crisis, from Climategate to Covid, showing us why openness and clear communication are so vital when reporting on scientific developments – and what happens when media hype, political spin and misinformation from those with vested interests take hold.

With interest in public health at an all-time high, these gripping dispatches from the frontlines of science are essential reading for everyone.

‘This is how to talk about science’

Justin Webb, BBC R4 presenter

‘Should be recommended reading’

Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of The Life Scientific

Pub date: 1 February 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783966929

epub: 9781783966189

Genre: Popular Science / Science & Society

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 288 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

Fiona Fox became the founding director of the Science Media Centre in 2001. She has won several awards for her achievements, and in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for her services to science. She holds honorary fellowships at the Royal Society of Biology, the British Pharmacological Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Bristol.

On the Brink

Penelope Campling

An urgent, insightful assessment of the crisis we face with our mental health services

Over the course of her forty-year career, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Penelope Campling has worked with patients from all walks of life, from survivors of abuse to ICU doctors struggling under the strain of Covid-19. She has seen many positive changes in how we approach mental health – and yet she is increasingly troubled by the state of our health services. Too often those who most need help are being failed by a system that cannot adequately care for them.

In On the Brink Campling takes us into the therapy room, offering a unique insight into how we treat those in distress. She shows us how the progress made in a more optimistic era of psychiatry is fast being eroded; how our struggling healthcare system often fails those who need our support; and how crucial it is in today’s uncertain world that we do not turn away.

‘Deeply thoughtful and compassionate’

Susie Orbach

Pub date: 8 February 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967001

epub: 9781783966516

Genre: Memoir / Psychology / Mental Health Services

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 320 pages

Rights: World

‘A book with the power to move and inform’

Gwen Adshead

Penelope Campling is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. For twenty years, she ran the Leicester NHS service for people diagnosed with personality disorder, and she is the co-author of Intelligent Kindness: Rehabilitating the Welfare State (CUP, 2020). Now retired from the NHS, she continues to lecture and campaign, and works independently.

Reboot

Elaine Kasket

A leading psychologist and tech expert shows us how to navigate our digital lives in the 21st century

In a world full of algorithms, addictive apps and data-driven adverts, it often feels as if the digital environment is determining our behaviour. We trace our steps, track our kids and share our lives online, without really knowing whether this technology is serving our best interests – or those of the people we love. We speak as though technology is a powerful, unstoppable force and we are the victims. But are we as helpless as we assume?

In Reboot, leading psychotherapist and cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket offers a new approach to understanding technology’s role at every stage of our lives. Journeying all the way from digital gestation to the digital afterlife, via discussions of ‘sharenting’, surveillance and social media, Kasket reveals how we can shape our relationships with and through technology in a deliberate, mindful and empowered way.

‘Digital technologies aren’t just transforming every area of life; they’re transforming us. This book couldn’t be more timely.’

Pub date: 11 April 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967834

epub: 9781783967575

Genre: Psychology / Technology / Self-Help

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: World

Catherine Mayer, author of Good Grief

Elaine Kasket is a psychologist, keynote speaker and coach, and an expert on the modern challenges and opportunities brought about by technology. Her previous book All the Ghosts in the Machine examined what happens to our data when we die. Elaine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

The Language of Trees

Katie Holten

A stunning international collaboration that reveals how trees make our world and rewild our lives

The Language of Trees is a beautifully illustrated love letter to trees, filled with prose, poetry and art from over fifty collaborators, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Macfarlane, Elizabeth Kolbert, Amitav Ghosh, Richard Powers, Gaia Vince, Tacita Dean, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.

In this deeply thoughtful collection, artist Katie Holten gifts readers her visual Tree Alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate these pieces from some of the world’s most exciting writers and artists, activists and ecologists.

Holten guides us on a journey from prehistoric cave paintings and creation myths to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry. In doing so, she unearths a new way of seeing the natural beauty that surrounds us and creates an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away.

‘Immersive, celebratory and timely.’

The Observer

Pub date: 2 May 2024

Price: £12.99

ISBN: 9781783967810

epub: 9781783967490

Genre: Language

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 320 pages

Rights: UK & Commonwealth

Katie Holten is an artist and activist, born in Ireland and living in New York City and Ardee, Ireland. In 2003 she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Dublin City Gallery. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, New York Times and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthopocene.

Taking Flight

Lev Parikian

The awe-inspiring evolutionary story of flight across fourteen species and millions of years

A bird flits overhead. It’s something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how incredible it is.

In this exhilarating new book, meet fourteen flying species, each with their own extraordinary story to tell about life on earth. Encounter the first fluttering insect of 300 million years ago and the crested pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era; the hummingbirds that co-evolved with rainforest flowers; and the wonders of the puffins and the penguins, dragonflies and monarch butterflies, with which we share the planet today.

Conjuring lost worlds, ancient species and everevolving ecologies, Taking Flight is a mindexpanding feat of the imagination, a close encounter with flight in its many shape-shifting forms that continue to transform life on Earth today.

‘This book soars . . . Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.’ Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Pub date: 16 May 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967827

epub: 9781783967049

Genre: Nature / Popular Science

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: World

Lev Parikian is a writer, birdwatcher and conductor. He is the author of Into the Tangled Bank, longlisted for the Wainwright Prize, Light Rains Sometimes Fall and Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? He lives in South London with his family, who are getting used to his increasing enthusiasm for nature. As a birdwatcher, his most prized sightings are a golden oriole in the Alpujarras and a black redstart at Dungeness Power Station.

Justin Lewis has been an editor, writer and contributor to music publications for more than 30 years, including the Guinness Book of Hit Singles.

Don’t Stop the Music

Justin Lewis

Pub date: 30 May 2024

Price: £10.99

ISBN: 9781783967926

epub: 9781783967179

Genre: Music / Gift

Format: Paperbackt

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 304 pages

Rights: World

With entries for every day of the year, ranging from mini-essays to pithy and engaging sentences, Don’t Stop the Music is a novel musical companion – a way of charting your year through the major events and tiny incidents in the lives and careers of pop stars and recording artists.

Whether it be when pop became newsworthy; when future stars attended notable gigs; when that K-Pop act issued their first single; or when Elvis Presley found himself on TV singing ‘Hound Dog’ to a basset hound, there are surprising and enlightening events from the history of popular music for every single day of the year.

The Shadow Network

Tony Kent

Pub date: 6 June 2024

Price: £8.99

ISBN: 9781783967148

epub: 9781783966691

Genre: Crime / Political thriller

Format: Paperback

Dimensions: 198x129 mm

Extent: 480 pages

Rights: World

See pages 4–5 for full details

When the lawyers of alleged war criminal Hannibal Strauss are caught up in a terror attack in The Hague, barrister Michael Devlin immediately suspects all is not what it seems. Teaming up once more with Agent Joe Dempsey, they must find who’s behind it all before any more innocent lives are lost.

Tony Kent is the author of Killer Intent, Marked for Death, Power Play and No

Way to Die. As a criminal barrister, he brings startling authenticity to his thrillers.

With their key witness on the run and assassins on their tail, their only lead is a codename: the Monk, a legendary and mysterious foreign agent with a fearsome reputation. Caught in a complicated web of lies, secrets and double agents, there’s no one Dempsey and Devlin can trust but themselves.

SUMMER READS

Thinking about summer reading round-ups?

We’ve got plenty of smart non-fiction to pack into your suitcase…

A Day in the Life of the Green Economy

by Dharshini David

How the eco revolution is transforming our economy –and what it means for our lives, our planet and our wallets.

HB 20 June 2024

‘Brilliantly revealing’ – Ian King on The Almighty Dollar

The Future of Geography

by Tim Marshall

If you’ve ever wondered if humans are going back to the Moon, who will benefit from exploration, or if Musk and Bezos’ space race ambitions will ever come to fruition, the answers are here.

PB 1 Oct 2023

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

And Then What?

The Shadow Network

by Tony Kent

How do you take down an enemy when no one believes they exist?

When the lawyers of alleged war criminal Hannibal Strauss are caught up in a terror attack in The Hague, barrister Michael Devlin and Agent Joe Dempsey team up once again to find who’s behind it. Their only lead is a codename: the Monk, a legendary and mysterious foreign agent with a fearsome reputation . . .

HB 15 Feb 2024

PB 6 June 2024

Luck of the Draw

by Catherine Ashton

What does a diplomat actually do? Ashton takes us behind the scenes of major crises in Ukraine, Iran and more to reveal how modern-day diplomacy really works.

PB 28 Sep 2023

‘A colourful insider account’ The Observer

by Frank Murphy

A gripping and terrifying memoir from one of the few bomber pilots who survived the Second World War POW camps after being shot out of his B-17 Flying Fortress.

HB 5 October 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This Allotment

Edited by Sarah Rigby

A highly covetable celebration of allotment life in twelve original essays – a vibrant collection about growing, eating and nurturing in these unique spaces.

HB 6 June 2024

The Way Through the Woods

by Rebecca Beattie

Navigate life’s twists and turns using nature as your path with ‘green witch’ and Wiccan priestess Rebecca Beattie.

HB 18 April 2024

The Language of Trees

by Katie Holten

A beautifully illustrated international collaboration that gathers together the world’s most exciting writers and artists, ecologists and activists to reveal our indelible connection to trees.

PB 2 May 2024

AN IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Immersive, celebratory and timely.’

The Observer

In All Weathers

by Matt Gaw Matt Gaw

embarks on a series of walks to explore and understand the science and folklore of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms.

HB 28 March 2024

Taking Flight

by Lev Parikian

The awe-inspiring evolutionary story of flight through fourteen species and across millions of years – from pterosaurs to dragonflies, butterflies to bats. Look up and drink in the spectacle of these gravity-defying marvels.

PB 16 May 2024

Thunderstone

by Nancy Campell

An intimate journal across the span of a defining summer, Thunderstone is a celebration of change, recovery, self-discovery –and van life. PB 6 April 2023

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ACKERLEY PRIZE 2023

‘Vivid, intense, wry’ – Helen Jukes

Sunken Lands

Gareth E. Rees

Gareth E. Rees journeys through drowned forests, shrinking wetlands, vanishing islands and sinking towns to explore stories of flooded places from the past – and those disappearing before our eyes.

HB 21 Mar 2024

Goshawk Summer

by James Aldred

James Aldred tells of a lockdown summer spent amidst the canopy of the New Forest, with just his camera and a family of goshawks for company.

PB 11 May 2023

WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

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