Bluebird Spring 2019 Catalogue

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Veggie Lean in 15 15-minute Veggie Meals with Workouts Joe Wicks The first vegetarian cookbook from number one bestselling author of Lean in 15, Joe Wicks, The Body Coach.

Get ready for the first veggie cookbook from the nation’s favourite healthy cook and fitness sensation, Joe Wicks.

Inside are one hundred flavour-packed vegetarian recipes, many of which are also vegan, plus three exclusive Body Coach HIIT workouts and a bonus abs workout.

From Smoky Sweet Potato Chilli to ‘Creamy’ Butternut Pasta, Veggie Lean in 15 features a fantastic range of meat-free dishes, all prepared in fifteen minutes flat. The recipes are ideal for full- and part-time veggies, as well as those wishing to cut down on eating meat in a healthy and delicious way. There are also plenty of make-ahead ideas to get you prepping like a boss in no time at all.

‘He is changing the lives and shapes of thousands of people.’

BALANCE ‘The leader of a generation of trainers and nutritionists.’

Men’s Fitness

Joe has more than four million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum and gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards.

Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers.

‘Fat-Loss King.’

Sun ‘Britain’s Number 1 Fitness Guru.’

The Sunday Times Magazine Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, has helped countless people achieve new levels of fitness and fat loss with his books, Veggie 90 Day Plan, his 90 Day Plan and his Instagram account. He is the author of Lean in 15: The Shift Plan, Lean in 15: The Shape Plan, Lean in 15: The Sustain Plan, Cooking for Family and Friends, The Fat-Loss Plan and Joe’s 30-Minute Meals.

13/12/2018 • £16.99 • 9781509856152 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback Crown Quarto • 240pp • Rights: World

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The 28-Day Vegan Plan Kickstart a Plant-based Lifestyle in Just One Month Kim-Julie Hansen Find out how to go vegan in a month with this ultimate all-you-need-to-know guide.

The 28-Day Vegan Plan is a guide to going vegan the healthy way. Food writer and blogger Kim-Julie Hansen offers a practical and easy-to-follow programme, laid out day by day with meal plans, shopping lists, inspiration and incredible recipes.

If you want to try veganism and don’t know where to start, this is the ultimate guide. But it’s also invaluable for anyone looking to feel healthier, pack lots of veg into their diet and be more environmentally friendly.

‘A great way to eat more beautiful veg’ Jamie Oliver ‘Healthy, simple plant-based recipes – we love this book!’

Kim-Julie introduces the benefits of a vegan reset, guides you through the 28-day meal plan, and finishes with additional recipes that take you beyond the first month.

Thanks to incredible recipes including Black Bean Tacos, Butternut Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Blueberry–Banana Ice Cream, The 28-Day Vegan Plan is all you need to create healthy and satisfying plant-based meals.

Bosh!

Kim-Julie Hansen is the person behind the vegan brands Brussels Vegan, Best of Vegan, Vegan Reset and Vegan Challenge (also called 7-Day Vegan Challenge). She became an vegan for ethical reasons in 2011 and soon also discovered the many health benefits of a plant-based diet.

In 2013, she started sharing her passion online to show people how easy it can be to adopt a vegan lifestyle, no matter how challenging it may seem at first. She is the author of two ebooks, The Practical Vegan and Simply Delicious.

Kim-Julie runs several very popular Instagram accounts, including the most-followed vegan food account on Instagram worldwide, bestofvegan, with more than one million followers, and Idontwantsalad. She is originally from Brussels, Belgium, but now lives in Brooklyn, New York. While teaching people about veganism and healthy living is her biggest passion, she is also a certified Yoga teacher and loves to read and travel the world.

27/12/2018 • £16.99 • 9781509874934 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback Other • 304pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN

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Ten to Zen Ten Minutes a Day to a Calmer, Happier You Owen O’Kane Calm your mind and alleviate stress in just ten minutes a day, for clearer thinking and a happier life.

Each morning most of us will spend about ten minutes in the shower, ten minutes making and eating breakfast but no time at all tending to our minds. Ten to Zen is a simple, effective and fuss-free guide to help you start your day in the right head-space to prepare for the challenges it may bring.

Ten to Zen uses a combination of four therapeutic models – Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy – in a simple, easy-tofollow programme.

You will learn:

‘I’ve never been able to quieten my mind, but this book has helped me do just that!

It’s packed with wisdom, time efficient techniques and rich experience that really will make a difference to your day and your life. Fantastic read that will benefit absolutely anyone who picks up the book.

No matter how busy their brain is!’

Kate Thornton ‘Owen offers a unique, fresh perspective and has created a valuable, time efficient toolkit for absolutely anyone looking to improve their mental wellbeing. Definitely worth a read.’

Dr Angharad Ruttley - Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, NHS

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How to settle your mind quickly

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How to focus and retrain your brain on dealing with stress

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How to restructure unhelpful patterns of thinking

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How to develop ways of communicating that are more effective

Ten to Zen was developed by Owen O’Kane to encourage new principles for living based on his experience as a psychotherapist and his many years of caring for the dying in the field of palliative care, which has hugely influenced how he works and how he views life.

Owen O’Kane has a dual medical and psychotherapy background and is a clinical lead for a mental health service in the NHS. He is also the founder of Ten to Zen, a business for stress management training, through which he delivers workshops on Mindfulness and the Ten to Zen solution across the UK and Ireland. He grew up in Belfast during the period known as The Troubles, which he describes as a great training ground for understanding the anxious mind. His clients include BBC Worldwide, Goldman Sachs, Bupa, Virgin Atlantic and the NHS.

27/12/2018 • £10.99 • 9781509893676 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback S format • 192pp • Rights: World

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Just Eat It How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food Laura Thomas Ph.D The straight-talking guide to Intuitive Eating: how to develop a healthy, trusting relationship with food and your body.

Have you ever been on a diet? Spent time worrying that you looked fat when you could have been doing something useful? Compared the size of your waistline to someone else’s? Felt guilt, actual guilt, about the serious crime of . . . eating a doughnut? You’re not alone. Just Eat It gives you everything you need to develop a more trusting, healthy relationship with food and your body.

This anti-diet guide from registered nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD can help you sort out your attitude to food and ditch punishing exercise routines. As a qualified practitioner of Intuitive Eating – a method that helps followers tune in to innate hunger and fullness cues – Thomas gives you the freedom to enjoy food on your own terms.

‘Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our bodies.’

Red ‘Laura is one of the most important voices in food today. She has a rare combination of impeccable academic credentials, clinical experience and a nose for the profound social justice issues at the heart of nutrition science.’

Anthony Warner, The Angry Chef

There are no rules: only simple, practical tools and exercises including mindfulness techniques to help you recognise physiological and emotional hunger, sample conversations with friends and colleagues, and magazine and blog critiques that call out diet culture.

Just Eat It isn’t just a book. It’s part of a movement to give women power and control over our bodies. To free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. To reject the guilt and anxiety associated with eating and, ultimately, to help us feel good about ourselves.

Laura Thomas PhD, RNutr is a Registered Nutritionist who isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. Having had her own strained and weird relationship with food, she now helps her clients build a healthy relationship with food by helping them tune into their own innate hunger and satiety cues and disconnect from diet tools like meal plans and calorie trackers using a process called intuitive eating, together with other non-diet approaches. In 2016 Laura launched Don’t Salt My Game – a podcast that calls out diet trends and myths – to tell you what you really need to know to stay on top of your game. Laura was the Nutrition Consultant for the BBC1 documentary ‘Mind Over Marathon’ where she supported people suffering with mental health problems train for the 2017 London Marathon. She is an Association for Nutrition Media Nutritionist and has appeared on a BBC News Facebook Live stream. Her writing has appeared in Hip and Healthy, Huffington Post, New Scientist, and Spectator Health, and she provides comment for publications such as Men’s Health, the Guardian, and Red magazine.

10/01/2019 • £12.99 • 9781509893911 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback Royal • 224pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA

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Solve For Happy Engineer Your Path to Joy Mo Gawdat The international bestseller examining life’s questions, helping everyone find lasting contentment.

As a former engineer with the highly secretive Google [X] programme, Mo Gawdat is skilled in finding answers to impossible questions. When he realised – in spite of his wealth and professional success – that he was deeply unhappy, he analyzed the problem with his engineer’s mind and developed an algorithm that can be applied to anyone’s life to predictably deliver lasting happiness.

Happiness was a conceptual problem for Mo until the day his wonderful teenage son, Ali, died during routine surgery. Then it became a practical, personal and profoundly urgent problem. Could the algorithm help him and his family come to terms with the loss of their dearly loved child and brother? Inspired by the good nature of his son, Mo put the system to the test – he was able to find happiness again. Using his Solve For Happy algorithm, so can you.

‘A powerful personal story woven with a rich analysis of what we all seek in a way we can act upon.’

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google ‘Explains how even in the face of the unthinkable, happiness is still possible.’

Stylist

Mo Gawdat is a serial entrepreneur and former chief business officer of Google [X]. Through his twelve-year research on the topic of happiness, he created an algorithm and a repeatable engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness, regardless of circumstance in life. Mo’s happiness model proved highly effective and, in 2014, was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali to preventable medical error during a simple surgical procedure. Solve For Happy is the pillar for Mo’s personal ‘moonshot’ mission, a mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world.

10/01/2019 • £9.99 • 9781509809950 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 368pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA

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Untitled Russell Brand Russell Brand Russell Brand shares what he has learned on his fifteen-year path to recovery from his addictions.

Living and working a conscious programme of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction has helped Russell Brand to re-frame his thinking in all areas of his life. Across the twelve chapters of this book, he looks at twelve themes that inform the process of recovery and, using that framework, discusses the lessons he has learned so far along his fifteen-year path.

Chapters feature insights from guests on his charttopping podcast, Under the Skin, and friends he has made in his recovery from addiction. These include bestselling authors Yuval Noah Harari, Naomi Klein and Jordan Peterson.

Russell Brand is a comedian and an addict.

He’s been addicted to drugs, sex, fame, money and power.

Even now as a new father, fifteen years into recovery, he still writes about himself in the third person and that can’t be healthy.

This is his fifth book. He still performs as a comic and is studying for an MA in Religion in Global Politics. He has two cats, a dog, a wife, two babies, ten chickens and sixty thousand bees in spite of being vegan curious. He is certain that the material world is an illusion but still keeps licking the walls of the hologram.

24/01/2019 • £12.99 • 9781509850884 • Non-Fiction • Hardback B Format • 112pp • Rights: World

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The Orchid and the Dandelion Why Some People Struggle and How All Can Thrive W. Thomas Boyce MD Dr Boyce explains the powerful, positive and groundbreaking research into the difference between those who succeed with ease and those who struggle to thrive.

Why do some people struggle to survive while others thrive easily?

In his landmark publication Dr Tom Boyce reveals an extraordinary discovery about childhood development, parenting and the key to helping everyone find happiness and success.

With pioneering scientific research, personal experience and clinical expertise, he explains how there are two kinds of people: the more hardy and resilient, who like dandelions can thrive anywhere, and those who like orchids are more sensitive and susceptible to their environment. While orchids experience the vast majority of physical and mental illness, we now know that given the right support, orchids can thrive as much, if not more than anyone else.

‘The Orchid and the Dandelion is based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children—and the adults who love them.’

Susan Cain, New York Times bestselling author of Quiet ‘It’s a must read for all parents, teachers, and psychologists!’

Gottmann, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

The author’s moving personal story is woven through this highly readable book about the origins, sensibilities and enormous potential of the 20 per cent of us who are orchids.

As powerful and applicable as Susan Cain’s Quiet, The Orchid and the Dandelion is the culmination of twentyfive years of groundbreaking research from one of the world’s foremost paediatricians.

Dr W. Thomas Boyce is professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and heads the Division of Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also co-director of the Child and Brain Development Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Dr Boyce’s research addresses the interplay among neurobiological and psychosocial factors leading to differences in childhood health and disease. He frequently gives talks on his groundbreaking work. He is the parent of two wonderful adult children, one orchid and one dandelion. He is also an avid sailor who likes to tie sailing knots and untie scientific ones.

24/01/2019 • £20.00 • 9781509805181 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 224pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA 24/01/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509805136 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 224pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA

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The Girl in the Dark A Runaway Child With a Secret Life. A Devastating Discovery that Changes Everything.

Angela Hart A dark secret. A troubled little girl. And the support she needs to turn her life around.

A moving true story from foster carer and Sunday Times bestseller Angela Hart.

Melissa is a sweet-natured girl with a disturbing habit of running away and mixing with the wrong crowd. After she’s picked up by the police, and with nowhere else to go, she is locked in a secure unit with young offenders. Social Services beg specialist foster carer Angela to take her in, but can she keep the testing twelve year old safe? And will Angela ever learn what, or who, drove Melissa to run and hide, sometimes in the dead of night?

The Girl in the Dark is the sixth book from well-loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. This is a true story that shares the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years.

Angela’s stories show the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to children who have had more difficult upbringings than most.

‘A no holds barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else’s children.

A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me.’

Casey Watson ‘A moving story that testifies to the redemptive power of love. I hope Angela Hart inspires many others to foster.’

Angela Hart, who writes under a pseudonym, is a specialist foster carer for children with complex needs. Angela has been a foster carer for over twenty-five years, during which time she and her husband, Jonathan, have looked after more than fifty children. Her books Terrified and The Girl Who Just Wanted To Be Loved were top ten Sunday Times bestsellers.

Torey Hayden ‘Praise for Angela Hart: A true tear-jerking tale of love and compassion.’

Sunday Mirror

21/02/2019 • £7.99 • 9781529004151 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 320pp • Rights: World

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Stress Less, Accomplish More Meditation for Busy Minds Emily Fletcher Easy fifteen-minute guided meditation practices to recharge, revitalise and boost productivity – for busy people who think they can’t meditate.

In Stress Less, Accomplish More Emily Fletcher shares an ancient meditation technique designed for busy lives. The focus of the practice is stress relief, mental clarity and improved productivity, so it’s perfect for the fast pace of modern life. This style of meditation was developed specifically for people with a lot of demands on their time – those with busy jobs, lives and families – and so it has been designed to work anywhere, anytime. All you need is somewhere to sit, a little training and a few minutes to yourself.

Stress Less, Accomplish More teaches you how to:

‘I used to think, ‘‘I can’t ever quiet my mind, so how can I learn to meditate?’’

After the Ziva course, I now know that even if I am having thoughts, it is still working. Now it is a part of my daily ritual and people have noticed a change. They say, ‘‘You look so radiant!’

Jenna Dewan- Tatum, Actress ‘I am addicted to Ziva Meditation. I love how rejuvenated I feel afterwards. My recovery time is faster and I feel more grounded. Anxiousness I didn’t even know was there, is gone. My life has even more beauty and ease. Thank you.’

Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author & Director, The Cleveland Clinic for Functional Medicine

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Reduce stress

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Increase focus

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Master an energetic recharge five times more powerful than sleep

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Increase productivity and creativity

Emily Fletcher is regarded as the leading expert in meditation for high performance. She is the founder of Ziva Meditation and the creator of The Ziva Technique.

The New York Times, Today Show, Vogue and ABC News have all featured Emily’s work. Emily has taught more than 10,000 students around the world and has spoken on meditation for performance at Google, Harvard Business School, Summit Series, Viacom and more. Ziva graduates include Oscar, Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winners, as well as NBA players, CEOs, busy parents, entrepreneurs and everyone in between.

Before founding Ziva in 2011, Emily was a Broadway performer for 10 years, but ultimately left the stage to pursue meditation teacher training after experiencing the profound physical and emotional benefits of meditation.

21/02/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509876167 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 256pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA

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How to: Be a Better Leader Stefan Stern Become the leader you’ve always wanted to be with this essential guide and learn how the latest research can help you lead your team effectively for the best possible creativity and productivity.

We know that businesses and organisations expect people at all levels to show initiative and display good leadership qualities, but to put this into practice is easier said than done. This book will show you how you can become a better leader, whether you’re already in charge of a large team, or you’re paving the way for your future career.

How to Be a Better Leader by Stefan Stern is designed to help you truly understand what it means to be a leader, as well as what good and bad leadership looks like. Stern investigates the different ways in which men and women lead and, crucially, how we can get nearer to genuine equality at work. Using examples of leaders from President Obama and Mary Barra to Rosa Parks, he highlights the language of leaders, and gives examples from around the world of different prominent leaders from business and politics.

Stefan Stern has been writing about management and leadership for over two decades. He has worked for the BBC, Management Today magazine and the Financial Times, where he was the management columnist between 2006 and 2010. He continues to write for the FT, Guardian and other publications. He is Visiting Professor in Management Practice at Cass Business School, City University of London. He was also until recently director of the High Pay Centre, a think tank that looks at the issue of top pay.

07/03/2019 • £6.99 • 9781509821266 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 160pp • Rights: World

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How To Negotiate Christopher Copper-Ind Negotiation is a fundamental part of all of our lives, and by understanding how the psychology of it works, you will be able to conduct all types of negotiation with greater ease and efficiency.

Negotiation is such a familiar part of our everyday lives that we often fail to recognize it’s even happening, let alone identify the power battles and psychological warfare it entails. In busy everyday lives, we seldom pause to reflect that negotiating is, in fact, a complex and strategic mind game between two competing but mutually intertwined goals.

In How To Negotiate, Christopher Copper-Ind shows the inner workings of all types of negotiations, from mundane division of household chores to high-powered business deals. By understanding how the process works you’ll be able to bring enviable insight to your own negotiations going forward, giving you the confidence to steer through life’s choppy waters without losing your cool.

Christopher Copper-Ind is Publisher of International Investment, a financial news organisation in London. He also writes tailored reports on Turkey and Iran for a Middle East consultancy. Before this he was editorial director of a media company in Istanbul covering the economies of the Middle East and Central Asia. From 2004 to 2010 CopperInd was a company director at the publishing house Stacey International, for whom he negotiated contracts across the Middle East and Asia for high-end book projects and business guides.

As a publisher and Middle East consultant, he has worked on projects in over twenty-five countries. His business trips did not always go according to plan, however. Negotiating for a contract in Iran in 2009, he found himself briefly imprisoned on charges of espionage.

He divides his time between London and Paris.

07/03/2019 • £6.99 • 9781509814633 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 160pp • Rights: World

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The Dirty Dishes 100 Fast and Delicious Recipes Isaac Carew A stylish and simple take on delicious, classic recipes from chef and model Isaac Carew.

Isaac Carew takes it back to the kitchen in The Dirty Dishes, his debut cookbook featuring the food that’s inspired his life-long love of cooking.

Carew spent his childhood in kitchens with his dad and godfather, washing mussels and leafy greens, before he went on to qualify as a chef himself. His culinary career spanned some of the world’s top restaurants – including London’s The Connaught and Miami’s El Cielo but life took a different turn when he was scouted by a modelling agency in 2008. Isaac went on to front major campaigns for the likes of Hermès, Moschino and Valentino, whilst never forgetting his passion for great food. He often uses the cuisine of fashion capitals as his inspiration.

‘He has unassailable culinary credentials that put him head and shoulders above your average selfie-prone Instagram feeder.’

The Times ‘Primed to become the next big TV chef.’

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The Dirty Dishes returns Isaac to his first love with a fresh and modern collection of one hundred recipes: from lazy brunches to easy weekday suppers, and from vegan delights to late-night bites. He shares new takes on popular dishes such as Poached Salmon Niçoise and the more adventurous Tamarind Treacle Tart. Modern and bursting with flavour, the book reveals the secrets of Isaac’s culinary training and gives you everything you need to get a bit messy and have fun in the kitchen.

Isaac Carew trained at culinary school for two years and got his big break in 2007 cooking alongside Angela Hartnett at The Connaught and El Cielo in Miami. Here his passion for homemade pasta grew.

In 2008, Isaac was spotted outside Selfridges and approached to become a model. He has fronted major campaigns for the likes of Hermès, Moschino and Valentino and been photographed by Rankin and Nick Knight.

Isaac’s social media accounts – where he posts a wide range of food and recipe content – have a huge, highly engaged following, with more than 350k followers on Instagram alone.

07/03/2019 • £20.00 • 9781509841004 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Crown Quarto • 256pp • Rights: WEL

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Pinch of Nom 100 Slimming, Home-Style Recipes Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone Delicious, healthy recipes from the founders of Pinch of Nom, the UK’s most frequently visited food blog.

There’s no-one better than a trained chef to show you how to slim down without sacrificing exciting and flavoursome meals. These reliable recipes are tried and tested to ensure that they are not only healthy, but tasty too. Packed with a hundred mouth-watering dishes such as Dirty Rice, Mediterranean Chicken Orzo, Mexican Chilli Beef and Chicken Korma Curry, the food is so good, it’s hard to believe it is low in calories. Helpful symbols and calorie information alongside each recipe guide you towards the ones that suit you best – whether you want to feed a family of four, love using your slowcooker or have limited time. Pinch of Nom will be your go-to book for meals that tick all the boxes.

Chefs Kate and Kay created the Pinch of Nom blog with the aim of teaching people how to cook. It was originally a collection of decadent, beltbusting recipes, but the pair repurposed the blog to provide healthy recipes after they decided to lose weight and have since lost nearly twelve stone between them. Sharing motivational posts as well as recipes, they’ve amassed an engaged community of over one million online followers. With Pinch of Nom, Kate and Kay prove that dieting should never be a barrier to cooking satisfying, incredible food – and enjoying yourself at the same time.

21/03/19 • £20.00 • 9781529014068 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Crown Quarto • 272pp • Rights: World

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The Path Made Clear Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose Oprah Winfrey In a follow-up to the bestselling The Wisdom of Sundays comes a beautifully designed book of reflections and inspiration about finding your calling and pursuing a life purpose.

Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, ‘Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and begin to honor your calling in the best way possible.’

That journey starts right here.

In her latest book, The Path Made Clear, Oprah shares what she sees as a guide for activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering the framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. The book’s ten chapters are organised to help you recognize the important milestones along the road to selfdiscovery, laying out what you really need in order to achieve personal contentment, and what life’s detours are there to teach us.

Oprah opens each chapter by sharing her own key lessons and the personal stories that helped set the course for her best life. She then brings together wisdom and insights from luminaries in a wide array of fields, inspiring readers to consider what they’re meant to do in the world and how to pursue it with passion and focus.

These renowned figures share the greatest lessons from their own journeys towards a life filled with purpose.

Paired with over one hundred awe-inspiring photographs to help illuminate the wisdom of these messages, The Path Made Clear provides a beautiful resource for achieving a life lived in service of your calling – whatever it may be.

Over the course of her esteemed career, Oprah Winfrey has created an unparalleled connection with people around the world. As host and supervising producer of the top-rated, award-winning The Oprah Winfrey Show, she entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers for twenty-five years. Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most influential and admired public figures in the world today.

26/03/19 • £18.99 • 9781529005424 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Other • 208pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN

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The Moment of Lift How Empowering Women Changes the World Melinda Gates A debut from Forbes’ third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women’s empowerment.

For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: if you want to lift a society up, invest in women.

In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to ‘turbocharge’ change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference.

Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, Melinda Gates has dedicated her life to achieving transformational improvements in the health and prosperity of families, communities and societies.

Core to her work is empowering women and girls to help them realise their full potential. Melinda received a bachelor’s degree from Duke and an MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School. After joining Microsoft Corp. in 1987, she helped develop many of the company’s multimedia products. In 1996, Melinda left Microsoft to focus on her philanthropic work and family. In 2015, Melinda created Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company that enables her to bring together new and emerging strands of her advocacy and philanthropic work focused in the US.

Convinced that all women should be free to decide whether and when to have children, Gates took her first step onto the global stage to make a stand for family planning. That step launched her into further efforts: to ensure women everywhere have access to every kind of job; to encourage men around the globe to share equally in the burdens of household work; to advocate for paid family leave for everyone; to eliminate gender bias in all its forms.

Throughout, Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement towards equality, offers startling data, shares moving conversations she’s had with women from all over the world – and shows how we can all get involved.

A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates’ journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world’s foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equality is the lever that lifts everything.

04/04/2019 • £16.99 • 9781529005493 • Fiction • Hardback Royal • 288pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN AU NZ 04/04/2019 • £14.99 • 9781529005509 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 288pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN AU NZ

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Wandering A Buddhist Monk’s Encounter with Death and his Journey Back to Life Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov The Buddhist master brings together ancient wisdom learned throughout his life and on his four-year wandering retreat, with innovative meditation techniques for a more enlightened and happier life.

Wandering is a timely, personal account of a modern-day monk’s near-death experience, and the life-changing wisdom that he gained on his four-year wandering retreat. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s experience begins the night he slips past the monastery gates (alone for the first time in his life) and sets out into the unknown.

His initial motivation is to throw off the titles and rank that have defined his life of privilege and to explore the deepest, most hidden aspects of his being, but what he discovers throughout his retreat – about himself and about the world around us – comes to define his meditation practice and teaching.

Just three weeks into his retreat, Rinpoche becomes deathly ill and his journey begins in earnest through this near-death experience. Moving, beautiful and suffused with local colour, Wandering is the story of two different kinds of death: that of the body and that of the ego, and how we can bridge these two experiences to live a better and more fulfilling life. Rinpoche’s skilful and intimate account of his search for the self is a demonstration of how we can transform our dread of dying into joyful living.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was born in the Himalayan border regions between Tibet and Nepal. He teaches throughout the world. His book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. In early June, 2011, Mingyur Rinpoche walked out of his monastery in Bodhgaya, India and began a ‘wandering retreat’ through the Himalayas and the plains of India that lasted four and a half years. When not attending to the monasteries under his care in India and Nepal, Rinpoche spends time each year travelling and teaching worldwide.

Helen Tworkov is the founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and author of Zen in America: Profiles of Five Teachers (Kodansha, 1994). She has studied in both the Zen and Tibetan traditions. She began studying with Mingyur Rinpoche in 2006 and worked with him on Turning Confusion into Clarity, A Guide to the Foundation Practice of Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala, 2014).

18/04/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509899326 • Non-Fiction • Hardback B Format • 288pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA 18/04/2019 • £12.99 • 9781529015164 • Non-Fiction • Demy Trade Paperback • 288pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA

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Diary of a Lone Twin David Loftus An enchanting and powerful memoir about life as a lone twin.

More than thirty years ago, David Loftus’s cherished identical twin, John, passed away. Since then, a day hasn’t passed without David feeling the loss.

In 1987, after recovering from a brain tumour, John contracted meningitis and found himself back in hospital for treatment. David, as always, was by his side. They were opening their twenty-fourth birthday presents when a fatally miscalculated routine injection forced John into a coma. He died within two weeks.

Over the past year, David has spent time every day remembering John and recording his story by hand.

Diary of a Lone Twin is the product of that daily ritual – a powerful and deeply personal account that covers everything from enchanting and beautifully evoked childhood vignettes to the acute loneliness and raw pain that followed John’s death.

This diary is the first step for David Loftus, an awardwinning and internationally acclaimed photographer, on a journey to find peace after years of overwhelming guilt and injustice following a unique tragedy that few will ever comprehend.

David Loftus is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed photographer. His food photography for the likes of Jamie Oliver, Prue Leith, Rachel Khoo, to name a few, have brought recipes to life for millions of people. In 2012, David published Around the World in 80 Dishes which was his first book under his own name. David grew up as the joint eldest of four siblings in Carshalton Beeches in South London.

He lives with his wife in London, when not travelling and photographing the world.

16/05/2019 • £16.99 • 9781529011289 • Non-Fiction • Hardback S format • 320pp • Rights: World

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The First Breath How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile Olivia Gordon A powerful medical memoir and science book about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies into the world.

Olivia Gordon was 29-weeks pregnant when a scan revealed that her baby was critically ill and had only a 50 per cent chance of survival. Thanks to an operation in utero and five months in neonatal care, her son survived.

The First Breath is a memoir that balances the powerful emotion of that experience, case histories of high-risk pregnancies and the extraordinary medical science making these births possible.

Following the success of medical memoirs by Paul Kalanithi and Atul Gawande, The First Breath is the first book of its kind to explore the female experience.

Shining a light on the intense patient doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book will reflect on what happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby’s life don’t go as planned and how modern medicine responds.

Olivia Gordon is a freelance journalist and author of The Agony of Ecstasy. Educated at Cambridge University, she has written for publications including the Observer, The Times, the Telegraph, Red and Wired.

13/06/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509871179 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Demy • 320pp • Rights: WEL

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Asperger’s and Asparagus Katherine and Julia Kingsford Asperger’s and Asparagus centres on the life and experience of Katherine, and her unique relationship with her younger sister, Julia, as they have faced the world and Katherine’s autism diagnosis together.

This is the memoir of Katherine Kingsford and her younger sister, Julia Kingsford.

Katherine was diagnosed with Asperger’s when she was thirty-two, even though she had first been referred for psychiatric evaluation when she was just seven. She struggled her whole life with fitting in and living life in the ‘normal’ way. Despite interventions and evaluations, her desperate search for answers to what was ‘wrong’ with her and lack of diagnosis took an increasing toll on her mental health and led to a breakdown in her twenties. Asperger’s and Asparagus is the story of what it’s like to grow up palpably different from those around you, but with no one explaining how or why or that it’s actually okay not to be the same, and so never living a life that’s true to who you really are.

It’s also the story of what it’s like to grow up alongside that. From her earliest days, Julia learned that she had to be a guide for Katherine in a world where she clearly didn’t quite fit – despite their relationship being almost impossibly explosive at times. As adults it was Julia’s absolute belief that there were still questions left unanswered that forced a GP to refer Katherine for diagnosis. Finally receiving a diagnosis saw Julia become Katherine’s guide on an entirely different journey: to understanding her autism and how it can present so differently in women; the clichéd views we all harbour of what autism means and how this has utterly shaped who they both are without them even knowing. It’s also, a very little bit, about asparagus and how a job sorting spears on a local farm taught them both that the things that had made Katherine feel like a freak were actually superpowers.

Asperger’s and Asparagus offers a unique insight into an autistic world, showing life through Katherine’s eyes as well as offering Julia’s perspective from a life lived wholly – but unconsciously – on the borders of it. This is both the story of how none of our lives can really begin until we learn to embrace our superpowers and how special the relationship between sisters can be.

Katherine Kingsford is an actor, playwright and potter who lives in the West Country. She was diagnosed as autistic when she was thirty-two though she was first referred for psychiatric evaluation when she was seven and has spent many years struggling with how she fits into the world due to her lack of diagnosis. Writing and telling stories have been a constant source of joy in her life.

Julia Kingsford is a literary agent and a campaigner for increasing diversity and representation in books.

She co-founded The Good Literary Agency and The Good Journal with Nikesh Shukla as well as running her own agency. Prior to setting up her agency she was CEO of World Book Night and before that was head of marketing at Foyles. She divides her time between London and Somerset.

27/06/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509887019 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 224pp • Rights: World 04/04/2019 • £12.99 • 9781509887026 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 224pp • Rights: World

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