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Flint Books publishes books that spark debate, conversation, joy and change in our world.

We explore the big questions about what it means to be human: how we work, live and love; what the future means for people and the planet; and why it all matters in the first place.

Our authors are at the heart of all we do, and we love working with brilliant brains from across the world who we hope will spark new conversations and ideas for you.

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Milk Without Honey Hanna Harms, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

A graphic novel that inspires not only reflection but also action.

Includes a foreword by Sarah Wyndham Lewis, ecologist, honey expert and bestselling author of Planting for Honeybees.

We could live in a paradise where insects, especially bees, pollinate fragrant oceans of flowers whose fruits we harvest. Instead, gravel fields are now displacing flower gardens and agriculture is characterised by monocultures. Pesticides and climate change are also causing insect mortality - with dramatic consequences for the global ecosystem. Honey is just one of the many foodstuffs that will no longer be available to us.

March 2024 NEW £17.99 9781803995311 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 112 pages World English Rights

Hanna Harms is an illustrator and comic book author. She is co-editor and author of the comiczine ‘Sonder’ and her project ‘Milch ohne Honig’ was awarded the Ginco Award for ‘Best Non-Fiction Comic’ in 2020.

Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp translates fiction and non-fiction into English from Arabic, German and Russian. Four of Ruth’s translations have won PEN Translates awards, and her translations of Ulrich Raulff’s Farewell to the Horse was the Sunday Times History Book of the Year, 2017.

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You Must Stand Up The Fight For Abortion Rights in Post-Dobbs America Amanda Becker The inspiring, on-the-ground story of the rising grassroots leaders in the abortion rights movement in the pivotal first year after Dobbs.

When the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization – overturning the constitutional right to abortion care – the country was thrown into chaos. Abortion providers and their patients faced sudden closures, new restrictions, and rapidly changing rules as nearly half of the states moved quickly to ban or severely curtail abortion access. Against this backdrop, an army of health care providers, lawyers, activists and everyday people mobilized to protect what a majority of Americans want: legal abortion.

In You Must Stand Up, Nieman Fellow Amanda Becker provides a real-time portrait of the creative resistance that unfolded in America's first year without the protections of Roe v. Wade. At a moment when healthcare access shifts daily, new legal battles are argued before partisan courts, and state constitutions are re-interpreted or amended, Becker traces the story of the people rising to meet these new challenges and ultimately shows how outrage can beget hope, and give rise to a new movement.

September 2024 NEW £20.00 9781803994352 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 272 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada Amanda Becker has worked as a journalist for 15 years, cutting her teeth covering politics for Reuters and The Washington Post. She now works for The 19th – an independent non-profit specialising in gender, politics and policy – focusing on character-driven political features that centre marginalised voices.

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Crypto Confidential An Insider's Account from the Frontlines of Fraud Jake Donoghue An uncompromising account of the exorbitant greed and systemic corruption which characterises the cultish world of cryptocurrency.

Written by a prominent, wellconnected and well-informed insider, the book tells the salacious story of the industry everyone is talking about right now. In doing so, it sheds light on some of the most scandalous financial crimes of the 21st Century.

The book lifts the lid on the intricate and immense web of malpractice which crypto founders spin to trap ordinary investors. From billion-dollar fraud cases to international money laundering cartels, political bribery and even faked deaths. It provides a first-hand account of how the industry truly operates, and how every aspect is engineered for one purpose: to make vast amounts of fast money for those on the inside, by any means necessary.

August 2024 NEW £20.00 9781803996189 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 256 pages World English Rights Jake Donoghue co-founded the UK’s foremost crypto marketing agency, working with the biggest names in the business.

A frequent key-note speaker on the conference circuit, he has also written for major publications such as The Times and the FT. Crypto Confidential presents his scandalous insider’s account of the world’s most volatile asset class.

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Rigged The Incredible True Story of the Whistleblowers Jailed after Exposing the Rotten Heart of the Financial System Andy Verity As Featured in The Times, Daily Mail, BBC, Bloomberg, New Statesman, Private Eye & more …

Rigged exposes a cover-up at the highest level on both sides of the Atlantic, upending the official story of the biggest scandal since the global financial crisis. Banks’ health is judged by an interest rate called Libor, which is heading skywards. To save themselves from collapse, nationalisation and loss of bonuses, banks instruct traders to manipulate Libor down – a criminal practice known as lowballing. Outraged, traders turn whistleblowers, alerting the authorities.

As Rigged reveals, their instructions come first from top bosses – then from central banks and governments.

When the scandal explodes into the news, prosecutors allow banks to cover up evidence and point instead to thirty-seven traders. In nine trials from 2015 to 2019, nineteen are convicted and sentenced.

Rigged exclusively shows why all the defendants are innocent, and how any real culprits go unpunished.

July 2024 NEW IN PAPERBACK £15.99 9781803996349 Paperback 234 x 156mm, 348 pages World English Rights

Andy Verity is the award-winning economics correspondent for BBC News, covering finance and business.

He can currently be heard on the Today programme, Radio Four’s six o’clock news and the BBC News TV channel reporting the worst economic crisis in 300 years caused by the pandemic.

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The Quiet Moon Pathways to an Ancient Way of Being Kevin Parr A lyrical exploration of mental health and nature, set to the phases of the moon.

The ancient Celts lived by and worshipped the moon. In a quest to find a more harmonious way of being, Kevin Parr discovers how a year of moons has much to teach us about how we live within the world that surrounds us.

January’s Quiet Moon reflects an air of melancholy; it is the time of the Dark Days for the ancient Celts, when the natural world balances on the edge of a knife. By May, the Bright Moon brings happiness, time slows and the mood lifts. Mayflies cloud and elderflowers cascade. With the descent into winter comes the sadness of December’s Cold Moon. Yet it is the Blue Moon that surprises Kevin most as stoat packs charge, buzzards grapple and salmon leap. While modern, digital life is often at odds with nature, rubbing against it rather than working in harmony with it, Kevin explores how being more in tune to the rhythms of the world around us, even in the cold and dark, can help ease the suffering mind.

August 2024 NEW IN PAPERBACK £9.99 9781803996608 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 256 pages World Rights Kevin Parr is a Dorset-based writer, fisherman and naturalist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Rivers Run (2016), which was longlisted for the inaugural Richard Jefferies Prize for Nature Writing. He is a monthly columnist for BBC Countryfile Magazine, the angling correspondent for The Idler magazine and has written for the Daily Telegraph and Independent.

‘… for anyone seeking a roadmap for resilience in uncertain times.’ – DAN KIERAN, author of The Idle Traveller ‘Kevin Parr stands among the finest natural history writers of our generation.’

– WILL MILLARD, BBC presenter and author of The Old Man and the Sand Eel 7

Friday is the New Saturday How a Four-Day Week Can Save Capitalism Dr Pedro Gomes A groundbreaking book on how and why the status quo of the five-day week must change.

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH Friday is the New Saturday makes a compelling, provocative and timely case for societal change. Drawing on an eclectic range of economic theory, history and data, Dr Pedro Gomes argues that a four-day working week will bring about a powerful economic renewal for the benefit of all society. It will stimulate demand, productivity, innovation and wages, whilst reducing unemployment and crushing populist movements. The arguments come from both the left and right of the political spectrum to show that a polarised society can still find common ground.

In the 1800s, people in the West worked six days each week, resting on Sundays.

In the 1900s, firms began to give workers Saturdays off as well, realising that a two-day weekend helped the economy.

In the 2000s, Friday will become the new Saturday, and we will never look back.

May 2024 NEW IN PAPERBACK £10.99 9781803996615 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 288 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights

‘… a compelling approach to the topic.’

– FINANCIAL TIMES Pedro Gomes is Reader in Economics at Birkbeck, University of London. He studied for his BSC in Economics in his home town of Lisbon and received his PhD from LSE in 2010. A leading researcher on public sector employment, his work has influenced policy makers globally. He lives in London.

‘[This] book should be on the bookshelves of every socially curious reader.’

– PIETRO GARIBALDI

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The Super-Helper Syndrome A Survival Guide for Compassionate People Jess Baker and Rod Vincent A response to the urgent and growing need to change the way we think about the role of helping in society.

Super-Helpers are the backbone of the caring professions, but they can also be found in offices, restaurants, charities, gyms and many other walks of life. All of us at some point will experience what it is like to care for a loved one. What SuperHelpers have in common is that they put endless effort into caring for other people.

However, all too often they fall prey to a compulsion to help beyond their capacity and are frequently taken for granted.

The increasing tensions of the last few years highlight how much we need people who care. The current health crisis has drawn even more attention to helpers with louder calls for fair pay and support. But it is not enough. Helpers are overstretched and suffering. It’s time to help the helpers. Psychologist and researcher Jess Baker has worked extensively with Super-Helpers and has learnt what motivates them and what holds them back. She gives you the tools you need to care in a healthy way.

March 2024 NEW IN PAPERBACK £12.99 9781803996523 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 304 pages World Rights, Chinese complex, Turkish and Japanese rights sold Jess Baker is a Chartered Psychologist. She started her career in clinical and research psychology in the NHS, and later moved into leadership roles in the corporate sector and consulting. She is an expert in wellbeing at work and speaks to large conference audiences on this topic. Rod Vincent is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

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Coverage in The Telegraph, Stylist, Metro, Fabulous (The Sun) and BACP Healthcare Journal.

‘This book is a powerful catalyst in showing helpers how to help themselves.’ – SUZY READING, author of The Self-Care Revolution

Faking It Artificial Intelligence in a Human World Toby Walsh The brave new world of faking it …

Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We’ve been trying to fake it since Alan Turing answered the question ‘Can machines think?’ by proposing that machines pretend to be humans.

Now we are starting to build AI that truly deceives us. Powerful AIs such as ChatGPT can convince us they are intelligent and blur the distinction between what is real and what is simulated. In reality, they lack true understanding, sentience and common sense. But this doesn’t mean they can’t change the world.

Can AI systems ever be creative?

Can they be moral? What can we do to ensure they are not harmful? In this fun and fascinating book, Professor Toby Walsh explores the ways AI fakes it, and what this means for humanity – now and in the future.

November 2023 £22.99 9781803994598 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 248 pages World English Rights, excluding Aus/NZ; Audio rights sold Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in AI and is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He regularly appears on the BBC and writes for global national press.

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War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance The Kyiv Independent How does a newsroom, made up of young journalists, find itself in a war zone overnight?

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY One member of The Kyiv Independent’s young editorial staff was covering the business world in Ukraine, another was reporting on entertainment, while a third was dealing with geopolitics, when the Russian army crossed the border. They made the choice to stay: to face head-on the uncertainty of living and working in an active war zone. The power cuts, threat to life, trips to shelters, lethal attacks – despite it all, they keep informing.

In War Diary of the Ukrainian Resistance, they share their work on the war that is ravaging their country.

Combining articles published during the conflict with personal accounts, they give us an unprecedented inside look at the reality of the Russian invasion and its consequences.

February 2023 £16.99 9781803993249 Paperback 234 x 156mm, 368 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada

‘Every page contains stories ... of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

There are horrors here, but there is also love, compassion and a steady drumbeat of determination to stay alive and to keep other people alive.’

– THE OBSERVER

The Kyiv Independent is an Englishlanguage Ukrainian media outlet set up by journalists who were fired from The Kyiv Post for defending editorial independence. The Kyiv Independent has been described by Barack Obama as a Ukrainian media ‘that helps to make a difference’.

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Eliminating Poverty in Britain Helen Rowe

Can we really end poverty in Britain?

Helen Rowe argues that we can.

In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from across Britain to show us that ending poverty in the twenty-first century is possible. She describes the effects of deprivation on British society, our institutions, communities, families and individuals – down to their very DNA. By using a combination of compassion, focus and a plan, Rowe describes how we can end poverty in five years, without raising taxes. Her radical ideas are grounded in practical realities, as she reveals how an ordinary process can yield extraordinary results.

This book has huge ramifications for Britain and every developed nation globally. It will force governments to face an issue which has been ignored for too long. After Covid-19, Brexit, war, austerity and the global financial crash, Britain deserves a more positive future. How do we create it? This book has the answers.

September 2023 £18.99 9781803992471 Hardback 216 x 138mm, 264 pages World Rights

‘If you’ve ever wondered, like I have, how the government of a wealthy country such as ours, has so badly served its population in terms of mental health provision and the growing index of social ills from poverty to care of the elderly, Helen Rowe provides a wealth of new ideas to begin to mend us.’ – JO BRAND

Helen Rowe has dedicated her professional life to tackling some of the big issues that have faced this country, from counterterrorism to tackling deprivation. Her work has taken her from Whitehall to drop-in shelters. She has witnessed the reality of poverty in this country first-hand and her passionate, pragmatic approach sits at the heart of her plan to eradicate it.

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Future Hackers The Indispensable Guide For Curious Minds Matt O’Neill How can we make future-ready choices in a rapidly changing world? Here are hacks to help you thrive.

May 2023 £12.99 9781803991108 Paperback 153 x 200mm, 160 pages World Rights

Matt O’Neill is a futurist and keynote speaker, who works with global corporations to futureproof their teams. His real interest lies at the intersection between technology and humanity.

His positive outlook means he’s always looking for ways to fuse the best of what technology has to offer and how we humans can flourish alongside, as individuals and societies. He has delivered keynotes at innumerable conferences across the UK, Europe and Asia on a wide range of futures topics. Additionally, he has worked at board level on business strategy, leadership development and organisational workshops to prepare teams for a changing world.

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Looking towards the future can be daunting, but with Future Hackers, the sequel to The Future Is Now, you can prepare for the exciting changes that lie ahead. From technological advancements to cultural shifts, the coming years will bring unprecedented transformations that will shape our lives in ways we can’t even imagine.

This book is your essential guide to understanding these changes and adapting to them with optimism and confidence. With expert insights into the latest trends in work, leadership and technology, Future Hackers is your indispensable tool for thriving in a rapidly changing world. Whether you’re a business leader, a student, or just someone who wants to stay ahead of the curve, this book will help you navigate the road to 2030 and beyond.

Flaws of Nature The Limits and Liabilities of Natural Selection Andy Dobson This book is about evolution, but not its greatest hits.

Consider that an elephant will not grow a seventh set of teeth, even though wearing down the sixth will condemn it to starvation; that male mandarin ducks sport bright-orange feathers that attract not just females but also predators; and as for whales … Whales are fully aquatic mammals who, millions of years after first abandoning the land, still cannot breathe underwater.

Flaws of Nature explores everything in the animal kingdom that is self-defeating, ill-made, uneconomical, or downright weird – and explains how natural selection has favoured it. In the grand struggle for survival, some surprising patterns emerge: animals are always slightly out-of-date; inefficiency tends to increase over time; predators usually lose; and parasites usually win. With equal parts humour and scientific insight, Andy Dobson is here to explain the how and why of evolution’s greatest mishaps.

April 2023 £16.99 9781803990170 Hardback 216 x 138mm, 272 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada

After a first-class degree in Ecology from Durham, Andy Dobson completed a PhD at Nottingham, before joining the University of Oxford’s Zoology Department. Most recently, he took up a research post at Edinburgh University to apply data-science techniques to anti-poaching efforts. He is currently a freelance scientific copy-editor, and remains a Visiting Academic at Edinburgh.

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The Ocean in a Drop Navigating from Crisis to Consciousness Dr Rosalind Savage MBE A radical new way of looking at the future of human civilisation by one of the world’s leading female adventurers.

The Ocean in a Drop follows the quest of Roz Savage, a frustrated environmentalist and ocean adventurer, to find out why her own endeavours and the environmental movement more generally have failed to achieve change of the necessary scope, scale and speed.

Her journey takes her from the environment through economics and politics into patriarchy and a global culture of domination – the domination of rich over poor, strong over weak, humanity over nature.

Exploring cutting-edge theories on the nature of reality and the relationship between matter and consciousness, she arrives at a bold, new narrative for humanity and a vision of a future in which people and planet thrive.

November 2022 £20.00 9780750999694 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 320 pages World English Rights

‘Roz is a born storyteller … In sixteen chapters, she rows across the ocean of our fading planet. When her story finally hits sacred land, the reader will never be the same. I will read it twice.’

– PAUL HAWKEN, bestselling author of Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

Dr Rosalind Savage MBE is the only woman to have ever solo-rowed the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. She holds four Guinness World Records, and was appointed an MBE for services to fundraising and the environment. She has shared a stage with President Obama, and is sought out by major organisations for her insights. In 2010 she was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic and is a UN Climate Hero.

‘Candid, thought-provoking and visionary.’ – CLARE BALDING

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Zero Altitude How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More Helen Coffey How going flight-free can save the planet – and change how you see the world.

In recent decades, private jets have become status symbols for the world’s wealthiest, while quick and easy flights have brought far-flung destinations within the reach of everyone. But at what cost to the environment?

Around the world, flying emits about 860 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, and until the outbreak of Covid-19, the aviation industry was one of the planet’s fastest-growing polluters.

Part climate-change investigation, part travel memoir, Zero Altitude follows Helen Coffey as she journeys as far as she can in the course of her job as a top travel journalist – all without taking a single flight. Between trips by train, car, boat and bike, she meets climate experts and activists at the forefront of the burgeoning flight-free movement.

Her book is brimming with tips and ideas for swapping the middle seat for the open road.

May 2022 £16.99 9780750995726 Hardback 216 x 138mm, 288 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights

‘Helen Coffey’s book is an inspiration to share the joys of terrestrial travel.’ – SIMON CALDER ‘… passionate, entertaining and compelling … puts forward a strong case for travelling without flying.’ – ANNA HUGHES, director of Flight Free UK

Helen Coffey is deputy travel editor of the The Independent, following stints as a travel reporter at The Daily Express and online editor of The Telegraph’s ski and snowboard section.

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Difference Is Born on the Lips Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society Michael Handrick Shining a light on the trauma of same-sex abuse.

At this point in history, despite having more equal rights and media representation than ever before, the gay community is suffering a mental health epidemic. 49% of gay men have suffered from domestic abuse, while 26% have experienced rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner.

Those statistics would be substantially higher if gay men had been aware that they had been subjected to abuse, and if society had not denied them a right to a voice. It is not a secret that men are far less likely to discuss their emotional inner-lives than women, but the repercussions of this reluctance are deadly for male homosexuals.

In this shockingly raw, but beautifully written book, Michael Handrick embarks on a course of research to trace the root causes of the abuse, trauma and mental health crises faced by gay men, and the silence that surrounds them.

October 2022 £16.99 9780750999021 Hardback 216 x 138mm, 224 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada and Audio

‘[A] provocative, raw, and soulful book …

An unflinching and visionary read.’

– ATTITUDE

Michael Handrick’s work has been shortlisted for Penguin Random House’s Write Now 2020 and Kit de Waal’s anthology, Common People, and longlisted for the London Writers Awards, 2019. In 2013, he was invited to present his thesis on gender and sexuality at an international literary conference at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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Machines Behaving Badly The Morality of AI Toby Walsh Toby Walsh explores how AI is here to stay and, although it may not be the stuff of science fiction, it will undoubtedly change the future of the human race, for better or worse.

AI is rapidly becoming a pervasive and critical technology that invisibly permeates every aspect of our lives.

AI touches every stage of life, from the start (predicting which fertilised eggs to implant) to the very end (powering chatbots that even bring back the dead). Soon robots will outnumber humans. For the first time, we are giving technology autonomy. But what happens if an autonomous AI harms or kills a person, deliberately or accidentally? It will happen; in fact, it already has. AI is changing how we operate and shaping society in ways that we are unaware of. It is influencing how we shop, how we live in our homes, how we vote, how we date, how and when we have sex, and what we think about those around us. Its presence in our lives means we need to get to grips with how it works and how it thinks.

May 2022 £20.00 9780750999366 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 288 pages World English Rights, excluding Aus/NZ

‘[Walsh] makes a persuasive case that AI will eventually have as big an impact as the Industrial Revolution … a provocative guide to the future.’ – FINANCIAL TIMES

Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in AI. He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of New South Wales. He has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI, and has won the prestigious Humboldt research award. He regularly appears on the BBC and writes for global national press.

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The Great Melt Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change Alister Doyle The time for action is now.

The fate of the world’s coasts rests on a knife edge as global warming melts ice sheets and glaciers from the Alps to the Andes. The choices we make now will determine whether oceans rise by a coast-swamping 1 metre by 2100 or whether we can save our coastal communities.

From the glaciers of Antarctica and the high Andes, to the small island states of the Pacific and the coastal cities of Miami, New York, Venice and Rotterdam – Alister Doyle tracks the thaw that threatens life as we know it, shining a light on the most vulnerable people at the shoreline who are already moving inland, on the scientists puzzling about what is going on, and on the ideas about how to limit the damage.

October 2021 £20.00 9780750997843 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 256 pages World Rights

‘This book is an innovative wake-up call for action from the fragile frontlines.’

– CHRISTIANA FIGUERES

Alister Doyle is an award-winning journalist who has covered climate change for almost two decades. He has reported from about 50 nations in six continents, including two trips to Antarctica and numerous visits to the Arctic, and was the first Environment Correspondent for Reuters, from 2004–19. He was also a lead writer for Reuters’ award-winning Project Greenland in 2018 and wrote the UN report, ‘The Heat is On’ (2019).

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‘The Great Melt draws our attention to the people and places where the climate crisis is a real and present danger.’

– THE EARTHBOUND REPORT ‘A must-read … Fascinating.’

– ALEXANDER VERBEEK, The Planet

Dwellbeing

Planet Grief

Finding Home in the City Claire Bradbury

Redefining Grief for the Real World Dipti Tait

How do we create the happy city of tomorrow?

Grief doesn’t just occur when someone dies – it is the stuff of life.

Over 4.2 billion people live in cities worldwide. By 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in cities, making them vital to creating the future we all want. International sustainability and wellbeing advocate Claire Bradbury explores what we need to do to fall back in love with the city and revitalise our urban homes.

Loss can often threaten to overwhelm us, but – when managed well – it can help mould us into our most powerful selves. In this surprisingly uplifting book, acclaimed grief therapist Dipti Tait draws on her own professional and personal experiences, her clients’ stories and the neuroscience behind our emotions to redefine grief for our fast-paced lives and this sometimes alarming yet wonderful world we live in.

‘... passionately argues for greener urban planning.’ – BEAST Magazine

‘… it will transform you.’

– PENNY POWER OBE

October 2021 £20.00 9780750996020 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 256 pages World Rights

October 2021 £18.99 9780750994644 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 224 pages World Rights, Turkish rights sold 20

2030

A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything Mauro F. Guillén

Susan Denham Wade

The world is changing drastically before our eyes – will you be prepared for what comes next?

Can our eyes keep up with technology in the twenty-first century? Have we gone as far as the eye can see?

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

Jam-packed with fascinating stories, facts and insights and impeccably researched, A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions investigates the story of seeing from the evolution of eyes 500 million years ago to the present day. Time after time, it reveals, inventions that changed how people saw the world ended up changing it altogether.

2030 is a groundbreaking analysis by one of the world’s foremost experts on global trends – from the shifting nature of retirement to the emergence of a new middle class, the rise of women as entrepreneurs and the end of modern banking. This essential guide to the future ends with insight into how COVID-19 will amplify and accelerate each of these changes.

‘A remarkable achievement.’

– STEPHEN FRY

October 2021 £12.99 9780750998024 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 354 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Canada

August 2021 £12.99 9780750997164 Paperback 216 x 138mm, 432 pages World Rights, excluding Chinese simplified, Russian 21

Dare To Be Great

M-Boldened

Unlock Your Power to Create a Better World Polly Higgins

Menopause Conversations We All Need to Have Edited by Caroline Harris

‘… we are sowing the seeds of greatness for countless generations to come.

That is the Great Work of our times.’

‘Please read this book. It will save your sanity.’ – KIRSTY WARK FRSE The reality of the menopause experience is so diverse and deserves to be heard.

With an astounding range of perspectives across 21 chapters, M-Boldened covers stories from harrowing experiences of surgical menopause, the impact on relationships and hormonal realities of transitioning, to revelations of shocking neglect in the UK criminal justice system and compelling chapters on menopause as a time of activism, rage, transformation and realising your own power.

Dare To Be Great is both a playful, inspirational conversation and a heartfelt call, daring each one of us and our societies to become truly great.

Celebrated Earth lawyer Polly Higgins was a luminary in the environmental justice movement as she worked to Stop Ecocide across the globe. This book shares insights from her own remarkable journey, inspiring us to step into our greatness and align with our unique purpose in service of a better world.

April 2020 £9.99 9780750994101 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 192 pages World Rights

October 2020 £20.00 9780750994064 Hardback 234 x 156mm, 288 pages World Rights 22

Stop Believing Bullsh*t and Actually Start Helping Yourself

Fuck Off, I’m Sewing

James Adonis

Swearing and Sewing That Will Have You in Stitches Profanity Embroidery Group

An ‘anti-self-help’ book that speaks to our need to cut through all the bullsh*t of modern life.

Swearing is good for you Stitching is good for you It’s win f*cking win.

Stop Believing Bullsh*t offers sense in place of the sparkling nonsense that permeates the inspiration industry. It exposes the unrealistic clichés and misleading mantras that frequently just make you feel bad, replacing them with evidence-based insights that are no less motivating, but are credible, reliable and, most importantly, scientifically tested. A reality check like no other, Stop Believing Bullsh*t is among the most refreshing, liberating and surprisingly comforting books you’ll read this year.

Once upon a time in the quiet coastal town of Whitstable, previously known for oysters and fingering, a bunch of unknown stitchers came together to sew, drink and swear. We bring you the highlights and lowlifes of the Profanity Embroidery Group, inspired by Mrs Winchester who found a positive outlet for her frustrated negative energy. Beautiful stitching for a world that is fucked.

January 2021 £9.99 9780750994972 Paperback 198 x 129mm, 192 pages UK & Commonwealth Rights, excluding Aus/NZ/Can

November 2020 £9.99 9780750996051 Paperback with flaps 190 x 168mm, 96 pages 50 colour Illustrations World Rights 23

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