Elliott & Thompson Spring 2025 Catalogue

NEW TITLES January–June 2025

OUT 10 OCTOBER 2024

CONTENTS

Welcome............................................................................................. 4 New Titles – Non-Fiction.......................................................... 5 New Titles – Fiction................................................................... 20 Out in Paperback........................................................................ 22 Summer Reads.............................................................................. 28 More E&T Highlights................................................................. 30 Find Us on Social Media....................................................... 31 Contact Information................................................................... 32

ABOUT US Awarded London Small Press of the Year in 2024 and 2022, and Highly Commended for Independent Publisher of the Year 2019, Elliott & Thompson publish original and bestselling non-fiction and carefully selected fiction, producing beautiful books that inform, inspire and bring enjoyment to a wide range of readers.

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WELCOME TO O U R S P R I N G 2025 C ATA LO G U E Elliott & Thompson is a publisher passionate about books and sharing the joy of reading universally. We are delighted to present our list of spring 2025 titles, which includes a fully revised and updated 10th-anniversary edition of Tim Marshall’s multi-million-copy bestselling Prisoners of Geography, bringing his sharp, insightful analysis to the events of the past decade.

Joining him on our list of spring 2025 new titles are Nicola Kelly with Anywhere But Here, a powerful and timely exposé of migration and asylum in the UK, and two acclaimed nature writers: Julian Hoffman with Lifelines and Hannah Bourne-Taylor with Nature Needs You. History comes alive in Barney Campbell’s powerful First World War novel, The Fires of Gallipoli. BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy reveals the alarming world of teenage hackers terrorising our digital lives in Ctrl+Alt+Chaos. Classic FM provides a lively introduction to classical music, the perfect guide for musical novices; Bernadatte Russell presents her mission to make the world a kinder place in Conversations on Kindness; Helen Jukes and Kerri Andrews explore different facets of motherhood in Mother Animal and Pathfinding; and speech coach guru Susie Ashfield will help you own the room and win over every audience with Just F**king Say It. We are proud champions of our authors and would like to say a huge thank you to all of them for their brilliant books.

Independent publishing and bookselling are flourishing and it’s a privilege to be a part of that community. Thank you wholeheartedly for your support for our books.

Katie Bond, Publisher Katie.bond@eandtbooks.com WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OUR BOOKS ‘This is not to be missed.’ Stylist on Radical Rest by Evie Muir ‘So much passion and poetic prose.’ Liz Bonnin, BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science on Infinite Life by Jules Howard ‘Pulls off the trick of shining a fresh light on our much-maligned climate.’

The Mail on Sunday on In All Weathers by Matt Gaw ‘This is an inspired piece of work, a travelogue shot through with anxiety, wisdom, rage and horror.’ Literary Review on Sunken Lands by Gareth E. Rees

Prices, covers and specifications are subject to change.

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NON-FICTION

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Mother Animal Helen Jukes

Mother Animal offers a startling new vision of motherhood When Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she searches for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange, the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends, passionate proponents of one birthing approach or another, feels oppressive.

So she widens her frame of reference, looking beyond humans to ask what motherhood looks like in other species. Spiders, polar bears, bonobos and burying beetles (among others) begin to unsettle & expand her notion of what mothering is; what it could be.

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Pub date: 27 February 2025 Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781783968381 epub: 9781783968398 Genre: Memoir; Natural World

As she enters the sleeplessness, chaos and intimate discoveries of life with a newborn, these animal stories become Helen’s companions and guides.

She becomes increasingly compelled to explore where her own animality begins and ends, and to fathom how the stuff of human industry has come to influence life even from its very beginnings.

A passionate, visceral and radical account of a body changed, Mother Animal combines personal memoir with fresh insights from evolutionary biology, zoology and toxicology to ask what it means to be alive – and a mother – today.

Format: Hardback Dimensions: Demy Extent: 224 pages Rights: UK & Commonwealth

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HELEN JUKES is the author of the acclaimed memoir A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings, a Book of the Year in BBC Countryfile, Glamour UK and Slate and a London Review of Books Book of the Week. It was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award. Jukes’ writing has appeared in The New York Times, Port Magazine, Aeon, The Clearing, Caught by the River, among others. Her forthcoming book Mother Animal has been awarded grant funding by Arts Council England. She currently teaches on the Creative Writing programme at the University of Oxford, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Nottingham. She is based on the edge of the Peak District where she lives with her daughter.

Praise for A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

‘This book has found a special place in my heart. It’s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it.’ Helen Macdonald ‘Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more than a book about insects had any right to … Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing.’ Observer ‘Written finely and insightful.’ Guardian

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Pathfinding

On Walking and Motherhood

Kerri Andrews The hidden histories and present-day pathways of walking, motherhood and freedom The desire to walk is something that defines us as human beings – bringing not just joy and a connection with nature, but also freedom. But what happens to this freedom when we become mothers?

In the wake of having her own children, walker and writer Kerri Andrews determines to undertake a series of journeys on foot to explore the complex interconnections that have long existed between motherhood and walking.

Kerri is joined by other walking mothers as she traverses urban, rural and increasingly mountainous landscapes. Together, they explore the complicated ground of motherhood today – post-partum bodies and minds, ambition, rage and hope – and the pursuit of pleasure and liberation through walking.

‘A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of “knowing” that they found along the path.’

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Pub date: 13 March 2025 Price: £20.00 ISBN: 9781783968428 epub: 9781783968435 Genre: History / Travel / Memoir Format: Hardback Dimensions: Royal Extent: 256 pages

KERRI ANDREWS is a writer, walker and academic with a PhD in women’s literature. She lives in Scotland with her two young children, but it was in the Yorkshire Dales that she discovered the delights of walking. She is a member of Mountaineering Scotland and has so far climbed over 120 of Scotland’s Munros.

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Conversations on Kindness Bernadette Russell

Could a year of kind acts really help change the world for the better?

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Hello, and thank you in advance for reading this book. So you know what you are getting yourself into, it’s about the experiment I undertook after I decided that I would do a kind thing for a stranger every single day for a year.

This story I’m about to tell you is a pretty messy one.

Some of it is sad. Some of it is joyful. Bits are funny, silly, surprisingly, unlikely and infuriating. Some parts might irritate you. Sometimes the protagonist (me) is annoying and makes very bad choices.

But on my way I have conversations with many wonderful people too, for whom kindness is at the centre of their work and lives. These scientists, artists, activists and academics have helped me dive deeper into what kindness is and what it is capable of. They have helped me to answer the question at the heart of all of this: ‘Can kindness really change the world for the better?’

Praise for How to Be Hopeful:

‘How to Be Hopeful will soothe your soul.’

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Katherine May, author of Wintering

Pub date: 28 March 2025

‘The toolkit to ignite hope in each of us.’

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Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works

ISBN: 9781783968510 epub: 9781783968527 Genre: Personal Development / Memoir Format: Hardcover Dimensions: Demy Extent: 256 pages Rights: World

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BERNADETTE RUSSELL is an expert on kindness and hope, as well as an author, playwright, storyteller and activist. She is the author of How to be Hopeful, The Little Book of Kindness and The Little Book of Wonder. For over a decade she has toured the US and UK speaking about the life-changing experience of practising kindness.

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Anywhere But Here

Inside Britain’s Broken Asylum System

Nicola Kelly A searing, nuanced, powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system Each year thousands of people risk their lives and the lives of those they love to cross the English Channel in small boats. They all want to find safety on our shores. Yet the UK’s asylum system has all but collapsed, leaving victims of torture, trafficking, persecution and conflict languishing, exploited, criminalised and sent back to countries where they narrowly escaped death.

Pub date: 3 April 2025 Price: £20.00 ISBN: 9781783968558

Anywhere But Here takes us behind the scenes of this humanitarian crisis for the first time. On the frontline we will meet the coastguard – formerly a Cornish fisherman – overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel; the decision-makers recruited from McDonald’s and Tesco to conduct ‘life and death’ asylum interviews; social workers supporting unaccompanied children in hotels; doctors and mental health professionals working in detention centres; immigration barristers fighting the system and urging reforms. Former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes as ministers and special advisors respond to emerging crises, tackling scandals such as Windrush and forming policies such as the Rwanda plan that would see private companies and offshore partners earn millions in profit.

epub: 9781783968565 Genre: Politics & Society Format: Hardback Dimensions: Royal Extent: 320 pages Rights: World All Languages

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Yet it is the voices and experiences of those arriving on British shores that take centre stage. There’s Afran, an Iranian-Kurdish aerospace engineer turned beautician; Kewser, a fearless 20-year-old environmental migrant from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, who dreams of becoming a radiologist; the Qadir family from Iraqi Kurdistan, who have undergone unimaginable hardship and who are now desperate to find work and secure school places for their two children in Preston.

What is it like to arrive on our beaches with nothing, to be pushed to the margins? Who gains and who profits from an asylum system that has been intentionally broken?

AUTHOR AWARDS AND ACCOLADES • Winner at the 2024 News Media Award at the Scottish Media Awards.

• Special mention at the One World Media Awards 2024 for International Journalist of the Year.

• Winner of Best News Story and Best Feature at the Freelance Journalism Awards 2024.

• Highly commended for 2022 Campaigning Journalist of the Year.

• Shortlisted for Freelance Journalist of the Year at the Society of Editors Media Freedom Awards.

• Finalist in the Social Affairs category for the British Journalism Awards 2022.

• Nominated for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado Award 2021.

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• Shortlisted for New Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2020.

NICOLA KELLY is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer focused on UK immigration and asylum. Her writing regularly appears in the Guardian, Observer, Independent, OpenDemocracy and elsewhere. Before moving into journalism, she worked as a diplomat for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with postings in Brussels and Istanbul. Later, she moved to the Home Office, working in their press office, before leaving the civil service during the rollout of the hostile environment policy and as the Windrush scandal came to the fore.

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Prisoners of Geography

Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Tim Marshall The 10-year anniversary edition of the runaway bestseller Prisoners of Geography is an essential primer on geopolitics, helping readers all around the globe understand the past, present and future of our rapidly-changing world.

Originally published in 2015, this revised and updated edition includes new material including: the Russia–Ukraine conflict and Moscow’s alliances with authoritarian states; the Israel/ Gaza war; China’s growing military and strategic power, and its stance on Taiwan; American global power and pivot to the Pacific; Europe’s leaning towards more extreme politics, increased defence spending, and the new ‘Iron Curtain’; Japan’s remilitarisation and increasing power; great power play in Africa; and the growth of Indian economic and military power.

‘Quite simply, one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine.’

Evening Standard on Prisoners of Geography

Pub date: 10 April 2025 Price: £10.99 ISBN: 9781783968596 epub: 9781783961429 Audio: 9781783968824 Genre: Politics / Geography Format: Paperback Dimensions: B-format Extent: 352 pages Rights: World

TIM MARSHALL is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience. He was diplomatic editor at Sky News, and before that was working for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. He has reported from 40 countries and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He is the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestsellers Prisoners of Geography, The Power of Geography and The Future of Geography; as well as Divided, Worth Dying For and Shadowplay.

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Also by Tim Marshall

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Classic FM

The Ultimate Guide

Tim Lihoreau, Phil Noyce and Maddy Shaw Roberts Published in partnership with Classic FM, this book will spread the gospel of classical music to audiences old and new

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Praise for The Classic FM Hall of Fame ‘A superb introduction to the UK’s best loved classical works.’

Nicola Benedetti ‘This book is full of delightful stories, recommended recordings and hidden treasures. A must for the Hall of Fame aficionado.’

Bryn Terfel

Pub date: 17 April 2025 Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781783968602 epub: 9781783968619 Genre: History of Music / Classical Music

Classical music marks life’s big occasions, from weddings to funerals, but it also answers a universal need – for connection, community and a sense of unity. It is everywhere you look – from school hymns to video games, sporting events to Hollywood blockbusters – and it belongs to all of us. Yet too often it can feel elitist or exclusionary.

Classic FM was founded on the belief that classical music is for everyone. Every day the Classic FM team live and breathe that mission, and now they’ve distilled all their knowledge and experience into one indispensable volume. In this brilliant new book, authors Tim Lihoreau, Phil Noyce and Maddy Shaw Roberts offer a truly inclusive introduction to the joys of classical music, from iconic moments in time to the world’s greatest composers and performers, and a whistlestop tour through the major musical eras.

PHIL NOYCE is the Managing Editor of Classic FM. TIM LIHOREAU is the host of weekend breakfast on Classic FM and the author of 24 books, including Sunday Times bestseller The Classic FM Hall of Fame.

MADDY SHAW ROBERTS is Classic FM’s Digital Managing Editor.

Format: Hardback Dimensions: Demy Extent: 304 pages Rights: World

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Lifelines

Finding a Home in the Mountains of Greece

Julian Hoffman A book about building life anew amidst the ancient mountains and lakes of northern Greece In the summer of 2000, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia found themselves disillusioned with city life. Overwhelmed by long commutes, they stumbled upon a book about Prespa, Greece – a remote corner of Europe filled with stone villages, snow-capped mountains and wildlife, which they would soon call home.

Prespa is a crossroads. Where three countries come together around two huge lakes, where limestone collides with granite and heat-pulsing Mediterranean ecosystems meet their colder, Balkan relatives. Here, languages, wartime histories and rivers converge, and pelicans, wolves and people leave their footprints on the water’s edge – next to unexploded bombs.

Lifelines is the tale of a courageous leap into a new life. Julian seamlessly weaves an intricate web of stories – of conflict and possibility; of refuge lost and found; of the wild lifelines that connect us all as we move through the world seeking a home.

Pub date: 24 April 2025 Price: £18.99 ISBN: 9781783968640 epub: 9781783968657 Genre: Travel / Nature / Memoir Format: Hardback Dimensions: Demy Extent: 304 pages Rights: World All Languages

JULIAN HOFFMAN is the author of two previous books, Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save our Wild Places (Highly Commended Finalist for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation 2020; Royal Geographical Society ‘Book of the Year’ 2020) and The Small Heart of Things (Winner of both the 2012 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature).

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Nature Needs You The Fight to Save Our Swifts

Hannah Bourne-Taylor The inspirational story of a bird lover and eco-warrior fighting to save swifts from extinction Nature Needs You tells the compelling story of how Hannah Bourne-Taylor set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. She launched her campaign from scratch, employing radical tactics to try to change the law and make ‘swift bricks’ (nestboxes that seamlessly blend into external walls) mandatory. Nature Needs You delves into the highs and lows of Hannah’s campaign – her headline-grabbing naked Feather Speech, the trolling and midnight self-doubt, and her determination to raise the requisite 100,000 signatures to trigger a House of Commons debate.

At stake, with a decline in numbers of over 60 per cent since 1995, are the birds that have become our symbol of summer, swooping in the skies above us.

Steeped in love for the wild, Nature Needs You is a clarion call to save the nature on our doorsteps and prove that passion can be a superpower in bringing change to nature-depleted Britain.

Pub date: 1 May 2025 Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781783968688 epub: 9781783968695 Genre: Nature / Eco-campaigning Format: Hardback Dimensions: Demy Extent: 320 pages

HANNAH BOURNE-TAYLOR is a conservationist, bird lover and author of the acclaimed nature memoir Fledgling (2022). An award-winning ecocampaigner, Hannah’s mission to save swifts has been backed by the RSBP, conservationists from Chris Packham to George Monbiot, politicians including Zak Goldmsith and Caroline Lucas, and local swift groups nationwide. Hannah lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and their two Ghanaian rescue dogs.

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Ctrl+Alt+Chaos

How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet

Joe Tidy From the BBC’s cyber correspondent Joe Tidy comes an insider exposé of the global rise of teen hackers Ctrl+Alt+Chaos is a gripping true-crime narrative about the life of Julius Kivimaki, aka Zeekill, arguably the most hated hacker in history.

Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy has investigated and interviewed the most infamous teenage hacker gangs of the past decade for the BBC, and previously for Sky News. Now he unveils the dark digital underbelly where teenage boys are reshaping cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and organised crime under the noses of their parents. Kivimaki’s journey from 12-year-old nuisance hacker to a Most Wanted cybercriminal culminated in his 2023 capture. In the cruellest hack in history, he blackmailed 30,000 Finnish psychotherapy patients with their stolen notes.

Kivimaki’s journey gives us vital insights into how hackers are created online and asks the question – how can we stop the cycle of teenage boys hijacking life online?

Pub date: 5 June 2025 Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781783968763 epub: 9781783968770 Genre: Technology; True crime Format: Trade paperback Dimensions: Royal Extent: 256 pages Rights: World English

JOE TIDY is the BBC’s first ever Cyber Correspondent and the foremost voice in the corporation on cybercrime and hacking. He has made documentaries about cyber security travelling to the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Germany and Ukraine, garnering more than 7 million views including 2.2m for The Teenage Millionaire Hacker and 1.4m for The Russian Hackers. Before joining the BBC, he was a correspondent at Sky News where he reported on the infamous 2014 Christmas day Lizard Squad attack.

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Just F**king Say It

How to Own the Room and Win Over Any Audience

Susie Ashfield Overcome your fear of public speaking and win over any audience with Britain’s leading speech coach Susie Ashfield is Britain’s leading speech coach and Just F**king Say It is a self-help book like no other – a no-BS guide that will empower you to say what you’ve always wanted to say, in a way that makes people really listen.

From wedding speeches that bring the house down to interviews, pitches and salary conversations that win over hearts and minds, Just F**king Say It offers extraordinary real-life case studies exploring where speakers have delivered brilliantly, less brilliantly and totally fluffed it.

With Susie Ashfield’s witty, straight-to-the-point tips in hand, you’ll move from kicking yourself after every conversation to being ready to deliver a TED-style talk to a packed stadium audience, or at least liking the sound of your own voice a lot more.

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Pub date: 22 May 2025 Price: £16.99 ISBN: 9781783968725 epub: 9781783968732 Genre: Self-Development Format: Hardback Dimensions: Demy Extent: 256 pages Rights: UK and Comm. ex Canada with exclusive Europe

Get noticed in your workplace, stand up for yourself and tell the negative thoughts in your head where to go. Stop overstuffing your PowerPoint, stop worrying about going red and start owning what you want to say.

No more sleepless nights, no more meetings that could have been an email, no more daydreaming about what you wish you’d said. Just F**king Say It is the ultimate guide to assertive communication and winning over the room when it matters.

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SUSIE ASHFIELD is the UK’s leading Speech Coach. Over the last decade, she has helped industry leaders, corporate executives, and public figures look good, sound good, and feel great about public speaking. She has been extensively featured on BBC Radio 2, Forbes Magazine, Elle, The Telegraph, The Times, The Daily Mail, The Independent and The New York Post, and in numerous high-profile podcasts.

Susie has amassed over 1 million views on TikTok and is a regular on the speaker circuit, having given talks on stages worldwide, from Adidas to Rolls Royce in Indiana, and has lectured at esteemed academic institutions, from Kings College London to the University of Cambridge.

She lives in Notting Hill, London. Just F**king Say It is her first book.

‘If you want whatever you say to feel refreshing, exciting, authentic and like a breath of fresh air to the people listening, work with Susie. I can’t recommend her enough.’

Lizzie Earl, CEO of Stakked

‘Susie has transformed me. She helps me prepare, practice and perfect the content and delivery to ensure I give my best possible performance. Working with her saves me time, raises my profile and means I’m constantly improving, talk after talk.’

Rob Gardner, CIO St James’s Place

‘Susie helped me harness my authenticity as a presenter and storyteller, which I’ve learnt is much more impactful that the details I was so hung up on.’

Jill Trainor, Global Marketing Operation Manager at Google

‘Ashfield has turned even the stuffiest of executives and business VIPs into TED Talk–style rockstars.’

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The Fires of Gallipoli Barney Campbell

A deeply moving story of courage, resilience and self-discovery, set during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16 Edward Salter is a shy, reserved lawyer whose life is transformed by the outbreak of war in 1914.

Thrown into the fiery hellscape of the Gallipoli campaign, he forges intense bonds of friendship with his comrades, particularly with the charming and quietly courageous Theodore Thorne. Through months of brutal fighting and terrible carnage, Edward and Theo are stripped bare to their souls by the appalling conditions and hourly slaughter, finding solace in the few snatched moments of normality they manage to create together. As he watches the limits of humanity being tested all around them, Edward comes to learn more about death, love, lies, madness, cruelty, misery, friendship and redemption than he ever could have imagined.

Praise for Rain:

‘Rain is a heartbreaking, brutally truthful first novel written with love and respect.’

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‘No better on-the-ground description of Britain’s war in Afghanistan will ever be written.’ �

Pub date: 13 February 2025 Price: £18.99

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ISBN: 9781783967070

BARNEY CAMPBELL joined the army after university, was commissioned into the Blues and Royals and served with them for five years. He was deployed on a tour of Afghanistan in the winter of 2009/10. He is from the Scottish Borders and is currently working in London. His first novel Rain was published in 2015 by Michael Joseph.

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In All Weathers

A Journey Through Rain, Fog, Wind, Ice and Everything In Between

Matt Gaw An inspiring exploration of the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms All too often our weather is simply deemed as good (sunny) or bad (anything else), and our likelihood of venturing outside is governed by that simplistic judgement. But inclement weather can be beautiful, sublime, even fun. It transforms the light, textures and colours of a landscape and influences our mood and behaviour. It has inspired poets and artists, seeped into our language and folklore, and fundamentally shaped our way of life on these isles. It allows new worlds to emerge, shrouded in fog, splintered by ice and refreshed by rain.

In In All Weathers Matt Gaw embarks on a series of walks across Britain – through rain, fog, wind, ice and snow – to look again at our most widely accessed experience of the natural world, exploring where our weather comes from, the ways it is changing, and how we can embrace it as a positive presence in our lives. It’s time to throw open the doors, window and soul to the inspiring wildness of weather.

Pub date: 16 January 2025

MATT GAW is a writer, journalist and naturalist who lives in Bury St Edmunds, and is the author of The Pull of the River: A Journey into the Wild and Watery Heart of Britain (E&T, 2017) and Under the Stars: A Journey into Light (E&T, 2020). His work has been published in the Guardian, the Telegraph and The Times.

Price: £10.99 ISBN: 9781783968497 epub: 9781783967742 Genre: Nature Format: Paperback Dimensions: B-format Extent: 256 pages Rights: World

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This Allotment

Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing

Edited by Sarah Rigby A celebration of allotment life in twelve original pieces – a vibrant collection about growing, eating and nurturing This Allotment brings together thirteen brilliant contemporary writers in a glorious celebration of these entirely unique spaces.

An allotment. A health-giving, heart-filling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their ‘patch’ and guard it protectively, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from overseas.

All life is here in this collection of vibrant original pieces on growing, eating and nurturing.

‘A celebration of community, belonging, intimacy, healing, reclamation, connection, growth, grief, birth, and joy.’

Victoria Bennett, author of All My Wild Mothers

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Pub date: 20 March 2025 Price: £10.99 ISBN: 9781783968466 epub: 9781783967896 Genre: Nature / Gardening / Gift Format: Paperback Dimensions: B-format Extent: 208 pages Rights: World All Languages

CONTRIBUTORS: Jenny Chamarette • Rob Cowen • Marchelle Farrell • Olia Hercules • David Keenan & Heather Leigh • Kirsteen McNish • JC Niala • Graeme Rigby • Rebecca Schiller • Sui Searle • Sara Venn • Alice Vincent SARAH RIGBY is an editor, publisher and book coach. She has published some of the country’s best-loved and award-winning writers of nature and place, including Nancy Campbell, Rob Cowen and James Aldred. Originally from Yorkshire, she lives in London with her family where she shares an allotment and volunteers for Organic Lea, a workers’ co-operative and community foodgrowing project on the edge of Epping Forest.

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Environomics

How the Green Economy is Transforming Your World

Dharshini David The perfect introduction to the new green economy: an original, highly accessible tour through a single day Economics affects every aspect of our lives, from the clothes on our backs to the bread on our tables and the fuel in our cars. And there are huge changes afoot as the global green revolution sweeps across the globe.

In this eye-opening book, Dharshini David follows the course of an average day – from the moment we flick on the light in the morning – to reveal the green changes that are already taking place in every aspect of our economy. Exploring industries such as energy, food, fashion, technology, manufacturing and finance, she asks what is happening, how quickly, who is driving it all – and what it means for us. From sustainability and corporate greenwashing, to industrialisation and trade wars, David shows how even the smallest details in our day are part of a much bigger story about where our world is heading.

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‘Opens our eyes to the everyday contributions all of us make to how the world is changing.’

Tim Marshall, author of Prisoners of Geography

Pub date: 17 April 2025 Price: £10.99

‘A much needed blend of optimism and realism.’

Brett Christophers, author of The Price is Wrong

ISBN: 9781783968473 epub: 9781783966301 Audio: 9781783966851 Genre: Current Affairs / Popular Economics Format: Paperback Dimensions: B format Extent: 320 pages

DHARSHINI DAVID is an award-winning economist and BBC’s Chief Economics Correspondent. She has presented business and political programmes for Sky News, including their flagship Sky News Tonight. She is the author of The Almighty Dollar.

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Infinite Life

An Epic New Story of Life on Earth

Jules Howard Each animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg Every egg there has ever been is an emblem of survival. In Infinite Life, zoology correspondent Jules Howard takes the reader on a mind-bending journey, from the churning coastlines of the Cambrian Period and Carboniferous coal forests, where insects were stirring, to the end of the age of dinosaurs when live-birthing mammals began their modern rise to power. Eggs would evolve from out of the sea; be set by animals into soils, sands, canyons and mudflats; be dropped in nests wrapped in silk; hung in stick nests in trees, covered in crystallised shells or secured by placentas.

Whether they belong to birds, insects, mammals or millipedes, animal eggs are objects shaped by their ecology, forged by mass extinctions, honed by natural selection to near-perfection. Finally, the epic tale of their role in the story of life can be told.

‘An excellent primer for new ways of thinking about the story of life on Earth.’

New Scientist

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Pub date: 8 May 2025

‘As fun and engaging as science writing gets.’

Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

Price: £10.99 ISBN: 9781783968480 epub: 9781783967780 Genre: Popular Science / Nature Format: Paperback Dimensions: B-format Extent: 304 pages Rights: UK & Commonwealth ex Canada

JULES HOWARD is a zoological correspondent, science writer and broadcaster, whose recent book, Wonderdog, won the 2022 Barker Book Prize for non-fiction. He writes on a host of topics relating to zoology, ecology and wildlife conservation. He lives in Northamptonshire with his wife and two children.

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Her Lotus Year

China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson

Paul French The compelling story of Wallis Simpson’s controversial and formative year in China in 1924–5 Her Lotus Year takes a headlong dive into Wallis Simpson’s early, formative years – and into the chaotic and thrilling China of the 1920s – to explore the untold story of a woman too often maligned by history. From the breakdown of her abusive first marriage to undertaking dangerous undercover diplomatic missions in a China torn by civil war, Wallis established her confidence and independence, developed her unique fashion sense, and forged lifelong friendships. She emerged from that year in China as the stylish, cosmopolitan and worldly woman for whom a king gave up his throne.

‘Her Lotus Year is a compelling exploration of a woman too often reduced to mere scandal.’

Dr Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of Georgiana and A World on Fire

‘A fascinating and very fun read.’

Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Pub date: 19 June 2025 Price: £10.99 ISBN: 9781783968800 epub: 9781783968190 Genre: Biography / History Format: Paperback Dimensions: B format Extent: 352 pages Rights: UK & Commonwealth

PAUL FRENCH was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

His most recent book, City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, received much praise with The Economist calling him a ‘champion storyteller’. Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils are currently in development for film.

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SUMMER READS

IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

Thinking about summer reading round-ups? We have plenty of options to pack into your suitcase…

Prisoners of Geography The Quiz Book

Tim Marshall Test your geopolitical IQ with this collection of multiple-choice questions, puzzles, word games and maps.

PB 10 October 2024

Environomics

Don’t Stop the Music

Dharshini David

Justin Lewis

The perfect introduction to how the global green revolution is transforming our economy – and what that means for our lives, our planet and our wallets.

A day-by-day collection of notable events, surprising stories and entertaining coincidences from music history.

PB 30 May 2024

PB 17 April 2025

‘A much needed blend of optimism and realism.’ Brett Christophers, author of The Price is Wrong

Prisoners of Geography

Rogue Agent

Her Lotus Year

Tim Marshall

James Crossland

Paul French

The 10-year anniversary edition of the runaway bestseller.

Read this to understand what’s happening in the news today, from China’s ambitions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.

PB 10 April 2025

The first biography of Robert Bruce Lockhart: British ‘agent’ and unconventional wartime hero, who played a key role in some of the most important events of the twentieth century.

HB 19 September 2024

A historian and New York Times bestselling author examines a controversial and revealing period in the early life of the legendary Wallis Simpson.

PB 19 June 2025

‘Magisterial, beautifully written and impeccably researched.’ Alexander Larman, The Windsors at War

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NEW FICTION Radical Rest

Reset

Evie Muir

Elaine Kasket

A journey of regeneration that reimagines what a world of true rest – radical rest – would look like and how that would feel.

Psychologist Elaine Kasket takes us on a journey to rethink technology – and tune into what really matters.

HB 18 July 2024

PB 22 Aug 2024

Just F**king Say It Susie Ashfield The first book from Britain’s leading speech coach, Just F**king Say It will show you how to win over any audience.

HB 22 May 2025

The Fires of Gallipoli Barney Campbell A deeply moving novel of courage, resilience and friendship, set during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915–16.

HB 13 Feb 2025

The Shadow Network

The Way through the Woods

Tony Kent

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

A tightly plotted and fast-paced political thriller set against the backdrop of Russian espionage, double agents and American spy-hunting.

HB 18 April 2024

PB 6 June 2024

Rebecca Beattie

IMMERSE YOURSELF IN NATURE Nature Needs You Hannah Bourne-Taylor The inspirational story of a bird lover and eco-warrior in the battle to save swifts from extinction.

HB 1 May 2025

Lifelines

Taking Flight

Julian Hoffman

Lev Parikian

A stunning book about finding a home amidst the ancient mountains and lakes of northern Greece, from an award-winning writer and a Highly Commended Finalist for the Wainwright Prize.

The aweinspiring evolutionary story of flight through fourteen species and across millions of years – from pterosaurs to dragonflies, butterflies to bats.

HB 24 April 2025

PB 16 May 2024

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