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COSMIC KIDS YOGA ADVENTURE SERIES 6 THE POWER OF BREATH 8 HOW TO OVERCOME PAIN 10 GLADIATORS, PIRATES AND GAMES OF TRUST 11 HOW SOON IS NOW 12 MINDFULNESS FOR PARENTS 13 THE SPIRIT OF ZEN 14 TALES FROM THE TAO 16 SACRED TEXTS: THE KORAN 18 SACRED TEXTS: THE TAO TE CHING 19 21 RITUALS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE 20 ANY IDEAS? 21 YOU WERE NOT BORN TO SUFFER 22 THE HEALING POWER OF LIFE ALIGNMENT 23 THE WISDOM SEEKER’S TAROT 24 SOUL STORY 26 CHAKRA WISDOM ORACLE: HOW TO READ THE CARDS FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS 27 ORGANIZING FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE 28 INSTANT PRESENCE 29 WHAT IS POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH? 30 WHAT IS MINDFULNESS? 31 EVERY DAY MATTERS 2018 DIARY 32 THE MAGDALENE 34 THE SOUL AWAKENING PRAYER 35
Sheriff Updown Turns the Bad Guys Good: 9781780289588 Ebook: 9781786780669
Twilight the Unicorn’s Sleeptime Quest: 9781780289595 Ebook: 9781786780652
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COSMIC KIDS YOGA ADVENTURE SERIES Jaime Amor
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9781780289571 Lulu the Lion Cub Learns to Roar
Jaime Amor founded Cosmic Kids Yoga with her husband Martin in 2012, when they posted their first YouTube video, Squish the Fish (since viewed over one million times). They are passionate about making yoga and meditation fun and free online for kids. Jaime is followed on YouTube from homes and schools by up to 160,000 children every day. Through the books they offer children a chance to take the yoga more slowly, spend more time in their favourite poses, and also enjoy reading the story (or having it read to them).
Sheriff Updown Turns the Bad Guys Good This is an adventure set in the Wild West with Sheriff Updown, the rabbit who takes on all the bad guys. Luckily, he finds a secret weapon: a Zappy Happy that turns bad guys into good guys. When we spread our inner love and positivity, we find that we can make all sorts of scary situations seem fine after all.
Twilight the Unicorn’s Sleeptime Quest 9781780289564 Norris the Seahorse Takes on the Bullies
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In this truly magical adventure we encounter Twilight the Unicorn in an enchanted night-time forest. The mission is to scatter starshine and bring peaceful sleep and lovely dreams to all.
Mr Hoppit also has lots of babies. The little hares are all running around laughing and playing with their carrots. It looks like fun and we decide to join in!
Stand up tall and straight like a carrot. Can you be a happy smiling carrot . . . . . . a sad carrot with your shoulders hunched up by your ears . . .
. . . a cross carrot . . . . . . a disco dancing carrot shaking it all about!
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We need to help Twilight find her starshine so she can get a good night’s sleep and feel safe in her dreams. Luckily we know where ours is . . . As the starshine starts to work, something magical happens . . .
Sit on your heels. Count slowly from 10 to 1.
It makes us feel a bit sleepy so we breathe slowly, close our eyes and .
Aaah!
At the end, take a big deep breath in and out. To feel your starshine come to kneel and place one hand on your heart and one hand on your tummy.
“See Twilight?” we say. “It’s important to find our starshine . . . That’s what keeps us safe in our dreams and helps us sleep all night long.”
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9781786780188 160pp PB 235 x 162mm Colour illustrations £12.99/$17.95 January 2017 Meditation Available in eBook: 9781786780515
THE POWER OF BREATH
Yoga Breathing for Inner Balance, Health and Harmony Swami Saradananda By the same author:
9781780289984 Mudras for Modern Life
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Breathing is the most fundamental of our body’s physical processes, yet most of us give it little thought in our daily lives. Once fully acknowledged and harnessed, however, the power of the breath is unlimited – easing stress and anxiety, boosting energy and stamina, enhancing self-confidence, sharpening the ability to focus, strengthening quality of voice and even helping to relieve pain. A Sanskrit proverb claims, “If you breathe well, you will live long on earth.” With evocative artwork, inspiring photography and easy-tofollow guidance, this book will enhance and affirm your daily life through breathwork. Swami Saradananda is an internationally renowned yoga and meditation instructor who has been teaching for more than 40 years, and is author of a range of globally successful books, including Chakra Meditation, The Essential Guide to Chakras and Mudras for Modern Life. Formerly editor of Yoga Life and director of Sivananda Yoga Centres in New York, London and Delhi, she now teaches meditation and yoga in centres around the world. She also leads frequent pilgrimages to India and writes extensively.
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YOUR VITALIZING BREATH U N D E R S TA N D I N G P R A N A The first of the five forms of prana – the energy, or driving force, behind all energy – that flows through your body is, rather confusingly, also known as prana. Yoga teachers will tell you that every time you breathe in, you draw in this vital energy along with the air you inhale. Just as you need physical oxygen to vitalize your body, you need prana to enliven your mind and emotions. In the following pages, you will discover how this vitalizing prana breath enables you not only to inhale air into your lungs, but to take in stimuli of all forms – from sights, sounds and smells to feelings, ideas and knowledge. For prana
The region of the body most affected by prana energy
provides the basic stimulus that sets all things in motion. In doing so, it enhances your appreciation of, and zest for, life, and opens your heart and mind to new possibilities of every kind – from your personal creativity and productivity at work to your relationships with others and your environment.
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Enhancing your self-image “When exhaling, the stream of air measures about 12 fingers from the nose. When singing, its length increases to 16 fingers; when talking, to 24 fingers. During strenuous exercises, to even more.” Gerhanda Samhita, 84–6
As you begin to practise breathing exercises regularly, you may notice that you can effortlessly complete tasks you used to find difficult. You might find yourself speaking up for what you believe in, even in front of a group. Fear of speaking in public is one of the most common of self-imposed limitations. If you feel apprehensive about contributing in meetings, presenting a report or stating your point of view in public, you may have spent years integrating that fear into your body. By calling on the outward-expanding nature of your vyana breath with the Expansiveness Meditation, opposite, you can begin to dismantle this mental barrier and enhance the way you think about yourself. As you do so, watch how other self-imposed emotional or behavioural barriers break down, enjoy the liberation of allowing your true self to shine forth.
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expansiveness meditation This exercise allows you to physically experience the outward-expanding nature of your vyana breath. Start by sitting comfortably (see pages 35–7). 1 Sit with your back straight and gently seal your lips. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths through your nose. Then, try to stop controlling your breath. Allow it to flow naturally, becoming as deep or as long, as fast or as slow as seems comfortable. 2 Become aware of the parts of your body that are in contact with the ground. Direct your breath in their direction and observe what happens. You may feel as if you are expanding downward or becoming heavy. Or you may feel incredibly light and perhaps even experience a sensation of floating. 3 After a few minutes, shift your awareness to the left side of your body and visualize your energy radiating to this side. Imagine sending your breath into your left leg, waist, arm, neck, cheek and temple. Notice how your body feels – does it seem to be expanding to the left? 4 Become aware of the right side of your body and direct your breath to these body parts. Observe the effects – do you seem to be expanding to the right? 5 Now direct your breath to the rear of your body – not just to your back, but to the nape of your neck and the back of your arms and head. Notice how your body feels – do you have a sensation of expanding backward? 6 Repeat to the front of your body, sending your breath from your belly to your chest and into your arms, throat and face. Observe how your energy radiates toward your front side and how you seem to expand forward. 7 Observe the top of your body, then send your breath into your shoulders, head and scalp. Notice how far your energy radiates up from each part in turn, then feel them all simultaneously expanding upward. 8 Finally, feel your entire body expanding in all directions simultaneously with each breath. If you find it helpful, repeat an affirmation, such as “I am at one,” or “Nothing can stop me”. Sit quietly before opening your eyes.
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9781786780171 176pp PB  199 x 138mm £8.99/$13.95 B&W diagrams January 2017 Pain Management Available in eBook: 9781786780485
HOW TO OVERCOME PAIN
Natural approaches to dealing with everything from arthritis, anxiety and back pain to headaches, PMS and IBS Leon Chaitow You might also like:
Living with pain can provoke frustration, depression and often a reliance on pharmaceutical painkillers. In this insightful guide, Leon Chaitow presents a wide range of tried-and-tested natural approaches to pain relief, as well as respected research on the topic and a whole host of breakthrough mind-body techniques. Featuring step-by-step self-help exercises and helpful diagrams, this is an essential book for everyone wanting to take control of pain, get their health and vitality back, and enhance their overall sense of comfort, ease and freedom in everyday life.
9781780285948 Back in Balance
Leon Chaitow is a registered osteopath and naturopath, editor of the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, and Honorary Fellow and former senior lecturer at the University of Westminster, London. Author of more than 60 books, including Holistic Pain Relief, he lectures internationally on both bodywork and general health topics from an integrated perspective.
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9781786780102 192pp PB  198 x 129mm £9.99/$14.95 Mono February 2017 Psychology Available in eBook: 9781786780645
GLADIATORS, PIRATES AND GAMES OF TRUST
How Game Theory, Strategy and Probability Rule Our Lives Haim Shapira, PhD By the same author:
9781780289670 Happiness and Other Small Things of Absolute Importance
In every part of our lives we find ourselves using game theory, mostly without even noticing. From choosing where we stand to get on a train to the tactics of online auctions, we combine strategy with data to make decisions that bring us the best results. But how else can this mathematical stratagem get us ahead? In this approachable and engaging book, Professor Haim Shapira, a renowned expert on game theory, uses humorous anecdotes and insightful examples to show how our lives are already affected by game theory and how we can further benefit from its use. Haim Shapira, PhD was born in Lithuania and emmigrated to Israel, where he earned two PhDs. He teaches mathematics, psychology, philosophy and literature. Haim is an author of seven bestselling books.
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9781780289724 288pp HB 234 x 153 mm £14.99/$24.95 Mono February 2017 Political Science Available in eBook: 9781786780362
HOW SOON IS NOW?
From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation Daniel Pinchbeck; introduction by Russell Brand; preface by Sting You might also like:
9781780283920 New Revolutions for a Small Planet
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It’s all too easy to say the world is in crisis and that global unity will help. But how did we end up here? How can we work together, especially with those we think are responsible? In this thesis Daniel Pinchbeck offers a blueprint for this global change. Covering everything from energy and agriculture, to culture, politics, media and ideology, Pinchbeck’s book is ultimately about the nature of the human soul and the future of our current world. Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of numerous books and the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki. His essays and articles have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, ArtForum, among other publications. In 2007, Daniel launched the web magazine Reality Sandwich and co-founded Evolver.net.
9781780289601 256pp PB 216 x 135mm ÂŁ9.99/$14.95 Mono February 2017 Parenting Available in eBook: 9781786780126
MINDFULNESS FOR PARENTS
Finding Your Way to a Calmer, Happier Family Amber Hatch By the same author:
9781780289762 More Colouring for Contemplation
9781780289267 Colouring for Contemplation
Many of us find the demands of family life, especially the early years, daunting and overwhelming. The task of raising children is not easy, and the stakes are high. So how can mindfulness help us parent? This book will show you what mindfulness is, how you do it and how it can help you rise to the challenges of parenthood. Written in a friendly and accessible style, Amber Hatch includes tons of practical information alongside anecdotes, tips and insights that will help any parent, whether they are new to mindfulness or wellpractised, to achieve a calmer, more relaxed family life. Amber Hatch is a writer, teacher, parent and childminder. She studied for an English Literature degree in Southampton and holds an MA in Creative Writing. She is the author of Nappy Free Baby and two mindful colouring books. She has been practising Buddhist meditation for seven years and regularly goes on retreat. She also helps to organize family retreats for the Samatha Centre in Wales.
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9781780289908 176pp HB 234 x 153mm Illustrated £16.99/$24.95 February 2017 Zen Buddhism Available in eBook: 9781786780737
THE SPIRIT OF ZEN
Teaching Stories on The Way to Enlightenment Solala Towler
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9781907486944 Zen Inspirations
The Spirit of Zen presents the most basic principles and practices of Zen in a simple yet authentic fashion, guiding you down the path to enlightenment with stories, history and practical guidance from the masters of Zen. Often the stories contained in these teachings are an attempt to shake the student out of his or her complacent acceptance of “things as they are”. The stories are arranged according to theme: Gradual Enlightenment, Sudden Enlightenment, Teaching Stories, Paradoxical Teaching, Eccentric Masters and so on. Most of them are from traditional sources with some original additions from Taoist expert Solala Towler. These stories are profound and illuminating while also being entertaining, containing the kernel or true flavour of Zen. Solala Towler has been editor/publisher of The Empty Vessel: The Journal of Taoist Philosophy and Practice since 1993. He has written 13 books including The Inner Chapters and Tales From The Tao. Solala has been a student of Eastern philosophy since 1969 and leads yearly tours to visit Taoist and Buddhist temples in the sacred mountains of China.
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An Unusual Exit
One day, when all the monks had gathering together for a dharma talk, Master Dasui sat in front of them in his usual seat. Suddenly his mouth contracted into a painful shape. Alarmed, all the monks fell over each other, offering various potions and poultices, but all to no avail. Poor Master Dasui just sat there with his mouth all twisted around. Once the word got out in the town, many of the townspeople came to the temple, offering their own medicines and cures. But nothing seemed to help. Then, seven days later, Master Dasui suddenly slapped himself on the side of the head and his mouth magically took on its usual shape. Dumbfounded, all the monks and townspeople just stared. ‘My two lips have been flapping against each other for all this time,’ said Master Dasui, ‘and up to now no one has been able to cure them.’ Then, smoothing his robes and sitting up straight, the master passed away.
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Dropping the Subject
Two monks were walking along when they came to a fast-running creek. They saw a woman there. She was obviously from high society and was dressed in silks. Yet she also had the air of a woman of ‘the floating world’ (a prostitute). When she saw the monks she beseeched them to carry her across the creek. Of course the monks had taken a vow not to have anything to do with the opposite sex. Imagine the surprise of one of the monks, then, when the other squatted down without a word and allowed the woman to climb onto his back. He then calmly carried her across the creek and set her down gently on the other side. The other monk could not believe that his fellow monk had broken his vow so easily. As they walked along he fumed and fretted, and finally blurted out, ‘I can’t believe you just carried that woman, obviously of ill repute, across the creek like that! Did you forget your vows?’ The monk turned to him and said, ‘Brother, I put the woman down and left her on the other side of the creek. But it seems that you are still carrying her!’
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TALES FROM THE TAO
The Wisdom of the Taoist Masters Solala Towler; photographs by John Cleare By the same author:
9781906787998 The Inner Chapters
This unique collection brings together the most inspiring, illuminating and downright funny stories from the classical works of Taoist masters, alongside new writing inspired by traditional tales. Set against a backdrop of the mountains, waterfalls and gorges of China, these tales introduce important Taoist ideas about many of the most basic human experiences – including birth, death, loss, pleasure and how to surrender to the most fundamental experience of the Tao itself. Interwoven with classic Taoist quotations and illustrated with beautiful photography throughout, these engrossing narratives are as relevant today as they were in the great dynasties of ancient China. Solala Towler has been teaching Taoist philosophy and practice for over 15 years, both in China and the US. John Cleare is an internationally renowned photographer specializing in mountains and landscapes.
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His Cup Runneth Over There was once a highly educated and somewhat arrogant student of the Way. Upon hearing that an old sage lived nearby he decided to visit so that he could show off his great depth of knowledge in hopes of gaining some new tidbit to add to his resume. When he arrived at the sage’s home he was surprised to find it but a humble hut. Inside, an old man with a long wispy beard and bright shining eyes sat over a tea kettle, humming to himself. Presently he looked up and, upon seeing the student outside of his door, bade him enter his hut. He then sat the student down in the place of honor and asked the student to join him in some tea. They sat, and while the student boasted about his education and recounted his many accomplishments, the old master began to fill his guest’s teacup. As the student rambled on and on so too did the old master keep pouring tea into his cup until the hot tea overflowed across the table and poured onto the student’s lap. “What are you doing, you old dolt?” he shrieked, leaping from his chair. “You are spilling tea everywhere. Can’t you see that my cup is already full?”
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The sage calmly stopped pouring tea and looked at him. “Your mind, sir, is much like this teacup. I’m afraid it is already too full for me to be able to fit anything else into. Else it will surely run over and spill everywhere.” TRADITIONAL
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9781786780386 640pp HB 153 x 105mm £7.99/$11.95 March 2017 Religion Available in eBook: 9781786780553
SACRED TEXTS: THE KORAN
The Holy Book of Islam with Introduction and Notes Translated by EH Palmer and RA Nicholson Also in the series:
9781780289700 Sacred Texts: The Gnostic Gospels
Muslims believe the Koran (literally meaning “The Recitation”) was verbally revealed by God to the Prophet Muhammad in Arabic through the Angel Gabriel over a period of approximately 23 years. Muslims regard koranic revelations as the sacred word of God, intended to correct any errors in previous holy books such as the Old and New Testaments. The Koran is accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture and politics. Although early variants of the Koran are known to have existed, Muslims believe that the text we have today was established shortly after the death of the Prophet by the Caliph Uthman. This classic translation brings an enduring clarity to this ancient and revered text. EH Palmer (1840–1882) was a renowned English explorer and Orientalist. RA Nicholson (1868–1945) was an eminent English Orientalist, scholar of both Islamic literature and mysticism and widely regarded as one of the greatest Rumi scholars and translators in the English language.
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9781786780287 224pp HB 153 x 105mm £7.99/$11.95 March 2017 Religion Available in eBook: 9781786780546
SACRED TEXTS: THE TAO TE CHING The 81 Verses by Lao Tzu with Commentary Lao Tzu, translated by Ralph Alan Dale Also in the series:
9781780289694 Sacred Texts: The Dhammapada
Tao Te Ching translates very roughly as “the way of integrity”. In its 81 verses it delivers a treatise on how to live in the world with goodness and integrity: an important kind of wisdom in a world where many people believe such a thing to be impossible. Taosim affirms that each human being is a reflection of the whole universe, a microcosm within the macrocosm, and that all of us live under the same cosmic laws of the Tao. The Taoist follows the path of nonaction (Wu Wei), flowing with the constantly changing stream of life, and trying to live in universal harmony and balance. The easily assimiliated aphorisms in this great book are a continuous source of spiritual guidance and nourishment, and its insights on statesmanship are practical guides for our own time. Ralph Alan Dale’s brilliant translation uniquely captures, as never before, the essential meaning of this profound text, and makes it entirely relevant to today’s readers. Ralph Alan Dale (1920–2006) was a teacher, researcher, writer, acupuncturist and composer who published more than 70 books, videos and audiobooks over 30 years. 19
9781780289878 160pp PB 185 x 123mm Mono £7.99/$12.95 March 2017 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781780289113
21 RITUALS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Daily Practices to Bring Greater Inner Peace and Happiness Theresa Cheung You might also like:
9781780289373 Living in the Moment
Aristotle said “you are what you repeatedly do”. Most of us think our future is shaped by big events and the important decisions we make; this book will show you that it is your daily actions that are the key. If an action is repeated enough times it becomes habit – but habits lack thought, consideration and presence. To effect long-lasting meaningful change, our actions need to be filled with a sense of personal meaning and power – they need to be ritualized. Creating personal ritual in our lives allows us to bring the presence of the sacred into the everyday. In this book, the seven morning rituals are designed to help you “wake with determination”, the seven afternoon rituals focus on “living on purpose”, and the seven evening rituals are about “retiring with satisfaction”. Theresa Cheung was born into a family of psychics and spiritualists. She has written numerous bestselling mind, body, spirit books, including two Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers, which have been translated into over 25 languages.
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9781786780218 160pp PB 198 x 129mm Mono £8.99 March 2017 Personal Development Available in eBook: 9781786780539
ANY IDEAS?
Tips and Techniques to Help You Think Creatively Rob Eastaway You might also like:
9781780289717 How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Toolkit
Every great creation starts with a good idea, but where does that special spark come from? How do you recognize the ideas that are worth taking further? And what do you do when your mind goes blank? Ideas are fragile; they need to be nourished, encouraged and shaped. This is a book about how to have ideas and how to nurture them so that you can think more creatively, overcome “idea killers”, solve problems more effectively on your own or in a team, evaluate, hone and pitch your ideas, help your ideas become a reality and open your mind to new possibilities and experiences. Packed with tips, puzzles and practical techniques, this quide to brilliant creative thinking will show you that in order to have a good idea you need to have lots of ideas. Rob Eastaway is an author and a speaker, with a particular interest in maths, puzzles, cricket – and ideas. He has written numerous books, including the bestselling Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and What is a Googly? He lives in London with his wife and three children. 21
9781780289854 288pp PB 216 x 135mm Mono £10.99/$16.95 March 2017 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781786780638
YOU WERE NOT BORN TO SUFFER
Overcome Fear, Insecurity and Depression and Love Yourself Back to Happiness, Confidence and Peace Blake D. Bauer You might also like:
9781780288963 Wake the F#ck Up
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This book offers practical advice that will help you transform suffering, fear and insecurity in the present and find the strength and courage necessary to enjoy your life, fulfil your purpose and be true to yourself in every situation. You’ll discover why all depression, addiction and illnesses are simply cries asking you to stop pleasing others. If you’re tired of settling for crumbs of love, health, happiness, connection or peace, this book offers the answers you’ve been waiting for. Blake D. Bauer is a contemporary spiritual teacher, counsellor, and alternative-medicine practitioner who speaks internationally. He is considered by many to be a modern meditation and qigong master.
9781780289885 256pp PB 234 x 153mm B&W illustrations £12.99/$19.95 April 2017 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781786780706
THE HEALING POWER OF LIFE ALIGNMENT Realigning Body, Heart & Mind With Your Soul’s Purpose Philippa Lubbock; foreword by Jeff Levin You might also like:
9781906787950 Life Alignment
Everything you need to heal and claim the life destined to become yours is already within you. This is the simple but powerful message at the very heart of Life Alignment – an extraordinary system of vibrational healing that has been handed down from higher powers and other dimensions to help you do just that. Life Alignment practitioner Philippa Lubbock tells the incredible story of this healing system and its guru Jeff Levin. Here you will find the very latest of those teachings and a pathway to meet your deeper spiritual self, who already has the answers and is waiting for you to hear the inner guidance that will show you the path you need to take. Philippa Lubbock is a Life Alignment practitioner who entered the field of energy medicine via a winding path through classical music, theatre, early education, bodywork and psychology. Her years as a Gestalt psychotherapist provided first-hand evidence of the mind as the source of “dis-ease”. This fuelled her passion to search for – and find – this healing method that dissolves the boundaries between mind, body, spirit and the environment. 23
9781844837168 80pp guidebook Kit, 78 cards Full colour £14.99 (inc VAT)/$19.95 April 2017 Tarot
THE WISDOM SEEKER’S TAROT
Cards and Techniques for Self-Discovery and Positive Change David Fontana By the same author:
This kit is a Tarot classic, combining inspiring, luminous illustrations that make the symbolism of the cards easy to grasp with a guidebook that clarifies the mysteries and symbolism of the Tarot and encourages users as they embark on their own journey of self-discovery with the cards. Author David Fontana’s twin perspectives as Tarot expert and psychologist make this deck the most accessible and useful on the market. He shows how accessing the unconscious through Tarot can play a crucial role in our psychological and spiritual development.
9781907486838 The Essential Guide to the Tarot
The late Professor David Fontana was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and his many books, which include The Essential Guide to the Tarot, The Secret Language of Symbols and The Secret Language of Dreams, have been translated into more than 25 languages. He held a professorship at Liverpool John Moores University and was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Cardiff University.
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Introduction I first encountered a reference to the Tarot as an undergraduate student. One of the set texts in an English literature class I took during my first year was T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and in this great poem I found mention of “a wicked pack of cards”, followed by some enigmatic lines that appeared to relate to the cards concerned. In his notes on The Waste Land, Eliot named the deck as the “Tarot”, and gave hints about the symbolism of the cards to which he had referred. Impressed by Eliot as a poet and by the mysticism and psychological insight underlying his work, I resolved to learn more about these intriguing cards. I discovered that the first known Tarot deck had been hand-made and had surfaced in Europe in the fourteenth century, probably as part of an even older tradition. However, it was some time before I managed to track down a Tarot deck for myself, as at that time the cards were not widely available. But when I did finally get hold of one, I was fascinated by their rich imagery. As a psychologist with an abiding interest in the connection between symbols and the deeper levels of the unconscious, I was captivated with the way in which the Tarot communicates through universal visual symbolism. Even the oldest decks, which open a window into the medieval world in which they were created, possess a tess II – The High Pries timeless relevance, making them just as useful a
tool for self-exploration and self-discovery now as they were seven centuries ago. Symbols, as recognized by the great psychologists Freud and Jung, are images that arise from deep levels of the creative unconscious and represent profound truths about our inner life. Focusing on the symbols in the Tarot in meditation can therefore provide us with keys to the vast amount of instinctive patterns of thought and behaviour that is normally inaccessible to our conscious minds, but which determines much of who we are and what we can become. Thus, accessing the unconscious through the Tarot can play a crucial role in our psychological and spiritual ortune el of F e Whe development. X – Th The longer I studied the Tarot, the more I realized that it is far more than a mere deck of cards, and is certainly not a “wicked pack” (Eliot described the cards in this way because the medieval Church had condemned them owing to their use in fortune-telling). The purpose of this book is to offer guidance to the mysteries and symbolism of the Tarot, and to encourage you as you embark on your own journey of selfdiscovery with the cards in this kit.
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THE FOOL / THE MA G ICIA N
The Fool
The Magician
The Fool is the first card in the Tarot deck in this kit. In some early decks he appears at the end of the Major Arcana rather than at the beginning, as he not only begins our journey, but also accompanies us throughout. This is because, essentially, he is ourself. When he sets out, he lives primarily in his conscious mind, a stranger to his inner being, but by the end he has glimpsed the deeper mysteries of his real self. Oblivious to the chasm ahead, the Fool wanders off, his dog jumping at his leg, symbolizing the instinctive life that both holds him back and urges him on. He carries a pilgrim’s staff, and his few possessions are slung from another staff over his shoulder. His number is zero, the circle,
The Magician challenges us not to be deceived by the transient, material world. He shows us that life is a magical act, and our mind the magician. He is a showman, a mysterious stranger who captivates the crowd by sleight of hand, as well as by real magic, reminding us that the mind can be deceived by delusions of spiritual grandeur masquerading as the real thing. On his magical, floating table is an array of objects symbolizing the mental clutter that prevents us from self-exploration. However, his magic wand, pointing both “above and below” – the occult expression of the unity of Heaven and Earth – hints that he can make the objects vanish. The Magician’s number is one, the
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0 – The Fool indicating that he will end his journey back at the beginning, transformed by his travels. When you work with this card, ask yourself: What do I hope to gain from my Tarot journey? As you embark on your journey, it is worth reminding yourself that even a fool can have flashes of great wisdom.
I – The Magician symbol of a new beginning, and the brim of his hat forms a figure of eight, the symbol of infinity and the eternal cycle of life. When you work with this card, ask yourself: How can I begin to shift my focus in life from external things to my inner self? By looking inward you can discover greater treasure than you can ever find in the material world. 19
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9781780289847 288pp PB 200 x 145mm £12.99/$18.95 April 2017 Spirituality Available in eBook: 9781786780713
SOUL STORY
Evolution and The Purpose of Life By the same author:
9781780289625 Lucid Living
9781780289861 Deep Awake
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Tim Freke In this book pioneering philosopher Tim Freke addresses the “soul crisis” in modern culture that has arisen from lack of meaning. He offers an intelligent spiritual perspective on life and death to help us make sense of a paradoxical world, which is sometimes bleak and banal, but also can be magical and full of significance. He presents a revolutionary paradigm shift in our understanding of reality that integrates the deepest insights of science and spirituality to create a new model of human identity, which makes the idea of the immortal soul intellectually credible. We are not insignificant specks in a vast purposeless cosmos. We are significant participants in the magnificent story of soul. The universe is coming to know itself through each one of us and this process doesn’t end at death, because evolution of soul has also been evolution of immorality. Tim Freke is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality and the bestselling author of more than 20 books, which have been translated into 15 languages. He has often been featured in the global media, including the BBC and The History Channel.
9781780289151 192pp PB  200 x 145mm B&W illustrations £9.99/$14.95 May 2017 Fortune-telling & divination Available in eBook: 9781786780461
By the same author:
CHAKRA WISDOM ORACLE: HOW TO READ THE CARDS FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS Tori Hartman
9781780287515 Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards
Aimed at those looking to enhance their own readings as well as anyone interested in learning to read for others, this book naturally complements the hugely successful Chakra Wisdom Oracle Cards. It offers a natural starting point for those new to divination with cards, as well as enhanced information not featured elsewhere for those already proficient in using them. Tori guides the reader through the various processes involved in creating and using spreads, outlining the techniques and abilities needed for each type of reading and showing how to cultivate them. Tori Hartman is a professional intuitive. Following a near-death experience 20 years ago, Tori was visited by a spirit who told her a collection of brightly coloured stories. These stories prompted her lifelong fascination with colour, the chakras and their power to transform and heal lives. Tori is based in Los Angeles, California.
9781780288291 The Chakra Wisdom Oracle Toolkit
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9781786780225 224pp PB 216 x 135mm Mono £10.99/$16.95 May 2017 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781786780690
ORGANIZING FOR CREATIVE PEOPLE
How to Channel the Chaos of Creativity into Career Success Sheila Chandra You might also like:
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Most of the conventional productivity advice you’ll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book that addresses the unique organizational challenges that artists face. This book sets out to change that, challenging the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines – showing them how good organization can liberate their creative magic. Sheila Chandra made some of the most beautiful and innovative recordings in the World Music category, beginning in 1982 with her band Monsoon’s groundbreaking Asian Fusion single “Ever So Lonely” which was a Top Ten hit around the world. In 2010 she published the bestselling Banish Clutter Forever, outlining her own system for home organizing which she says makes it possible to “pretty much, never tidy up again”.
9781786780614 208pp PB 216 x 135mm Mono £10.99/$16.95 May 2017 Self-help Available in eBook: 9781786780720
INSTANT PRESENCE
Allow Natural Meditation to Happen Enza Vita You might also like:
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This book is a practical guide to accessing an awakened state, offering a spiritual practice, “Instant Presence”, that is based on Enza Vita’s own profound encounter with enlightenment. She gets to the heart of what is wrong with so much of our spiritual strivings: if a practice is bound to a goal then that is an obstacle, because in reality there is no goal to be achieved. What we are looking for is here now and has always been. She explains the meaning of real meditation, and offers “presence pause” exercises and many hints and tips for letting your thoughts be and accessing true awareness. Her book shows that awakening is an ever-present possibility through her “no–practise practice”. Enza Vita lives in Australia, where she is the publisher and editor of InnerSelf newspaper and website and the founder and director of the MahaShanti Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to spiritual awakening. She has distilled over 40 years of spiritual exploration into a modern, practical and authentic spirituality that engages with the universal teaching underlying all religions. 29
9781780289793 144pp Flexi Cover 165 x 117mm Mono £7.99/$12.95 May 2017 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781786780065 Also in the series:
WHAT IS POST-TRAUMATIC GROWTH? Miriam Akhtar This fascinating and accessible book explains the many varied forms trauma can take, shows how to recognize signs of post-traumatic stress, and offers resilience-building strategies to go beyond “coping” with it in order to grow from it instead – proving that what doesn’t kill you can indeed make you stronger.
9781780288987 What is a Near-Death Expererience?
9781780289069 What is Sound Healing?
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Miriam Akhtar is one of the UK’s leading positive psychology practitioners and authors, and has been described as “one of 100 names you need to know in health and wellbeing” by Top Santé magazine. She is the author of four previous books, including Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression for Watkins. She is also a coach, consultant, keynote speaker and lecturer at universities on MAPP (MSc Applied Positive Psychology) programmes.
9781786780157 144pp Flexi Cover 165 x 117mm Mono ÂŁ7.99/$12.95 May 2017 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781786780447 Also in the series:
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS? Dr Tamara Russell
9781780289304 What is Hypnosis?
Due to the recent widespread media coverage on the far-reaching health benefits of mindfulness, misconceptions about the practice have become common as it has moved from spiritual to secular realms. So what is the reality? And how can this one thing have such a dramatic impact on so many people, in so many areas of their lives? This book aims to demystify the confusions that often get in the way of mindfulness training, and help readers get to grips with it in a way they can put to optimal use in their daily lives. Dr Tamara Russell is an experienced clinical psychologist, martial artist and neuroscientist who brings a unique, multiple perspective to mindfulness teaching, thinking, therapy and research. Currently the Director of the Mindfulness Centre of Excellence in London and a visiting Lecturer at King’s College London, she is also a mindfulness consultant, trainer and speaker in a wide variety of settings, including education and health.
9781780289380 What is Numerology?
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EVERY DAY MATTERS 2018 DIARY
A Year of Inspiration for the Mind, Body & Spirit Dani DiPirro By the same author:
9781780289991 The Positively Present Guide to Life
This bestselling illustrated diary provides not only plenty of space for daily planning but also offers inspiring advice on how to make each and every day really matter. Designed as a resource for enriching daily life, it will guide you on a journey of awareness and fulfilment as you go about your everyday activities. This year’s monthly themes range from Openness, Imagination, Gratitude and Awareness to Friendship, Patience, Compassion and Transformation. Each week-toview spread then features an inspiring quote that encourages reflection on the theme and an exercise to further your holistic wellbeing. At the end there is a month-by-month holistic health tracker for monitoring mood, exercise, diet and other aspects of overall wellbeing to help you achieve the optimal life balance that we’re all seeking. Dani DiPirro is the founder of PositivelyPresent.com, an inspiring website created in 2009 to share insights on positivity, awareness and self-love. She has over 120,000 page views on her website monthly, her work has been featured on sites such as The Happiness Project, Psychology Today, and Forbes, and she has been featured as ELLE magazine’s coach of the month.
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THE MAGDALENE
Volume 2 of The O Manuscript Lars Muhl By the same author:
9781780286723 The O Manuscript
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Mary Magdalene is arguably one of Jesus’s best-known disciples and yet we know very little about her. From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, distorted and contradicted. Mary is considered by many as an outcast, undeserving of Jesus’s love. In this follow-up book to The Seer, we join Lars Muhl as he seeks to find out more about the intimate relationship between Jesus (Yeshua) and Mary Magdalene. This is the story of a forgotten feminine power recounted in parallel to the author’s own journey. The Magdalene is the second book in the Grail Trilogy otherwise known as The O Manuscript. Lars Muhl is a Danish mystic, musician, social commentator and bestselling author. See more at: larsmuhl.com and wikipedia.org/ wiki/Lars_Muhl
9781786780522 176pp HB 163 x 127mm Mono £8.99/$12.95 June 2017 Mind, Body, Spirit Available in eBook: 9781786780683
THE SOUL AWAKENING PRAYER James O’Dea; foreword by Lynne McTaggart
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Featuring a foreword by Lynne McTaggart and contributions by Ervin Laszlo, Michael Singer, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Anodea Judith, Kabir Helminski and Mona Polacca, this is a prayer book for activists, ecologists and spiritual seekers as well as for all those thirsty for a spiritually coherent worldview. The Soul Awakening Prayer is a repeated mantra. With repetition it reveals a spiritual universe of both power and beauty. There are commentaries by key luminaries from science, cosmology, evolutionary theory, yoga, Sufism and indigienous traditions. The Soul Awakening Prayer offers a map that integrates ancient wisdom, modern science and psychology and makes clear the moral imperative for spiritual engagement in individual and societal transformation. James O’Dea is on the extended faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and its former President. Prior to that he served as Director of the Washington, D C Office of Amnesty International and CEO of the Seva Foundation. O’Dea is also a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Group, an Honorary Fellow of the Laszlo New Paradigm Institute and serves on the Advisory Board of The Peace Alliance and KOSMOS Journal. 35
Here at Nourish we’re all about wellbeing through food and drink – irresistible dishes with a serious good-for-you factor. If you want to eat and drink delicious things that set you up for the day, suit any special diets, keep you healthy and make the most of what you can afford, we’ve got some great ideas to share with you.
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PACKED
Lunch Hacks to Squeeze More Nutrients into Your Day Becky Alexander and Michelle Lake You might also like:
9781848992771 In the Mood for Healthy Food
The workday packed lunch – so often a repetitive and disappointing affair – is easier than you think to get right; it just requires a little forward planning. Contemporary and seasonal recipes are supported by sound nutrition to bring you this guide on a lunch-to-go to suit your mood and the weather outside. While food writer Becky Alexander shows you how to knock up simple and satisfying bites – from vibrant Up-Beet Soup to satisfying Good Mood Cookies – nutritionist Michelle Lake will explain how that lunch is doing you good. Becky Alexander is a food writer and cookery book editor who is intimately familiar with the early morning commute and the problems of eating healthily on the go. Michelle Lake is a registered Nutritional Therapist who runs her own busy practice: Mission Nutrition.
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This crimson soup looks and tastes amazing. Even if you think you are not a fan of beetroot/beet, give it a go; it’s delicious combined with lemon and spices. Instead of using fresh, you could use vacuum-packed pre-cooked beetroot/beets to save time. Cook the soup for just 5 minutes before blending. Take a small pot of plain yogurt with you to work, and stir a spoonful into the soup when you are ready to eat. Finish the pot mid-afternoon with some fruit or nuts.
UP-BEET SOUP 1 tbsp rapeseed/canola oil
1 tsp ground coriander
1 large red onion, chopped
1 tsp dried chilli/hot pepper flakes
2 tsp frozen chopped garlic or 2 garlic cloves, chopped
500g/1lb 2oz beetroot/beet, roughly chopped
3 celery stalks, sliced
2 tbsp ground almonds
1 tsp ground cumin
juice of 1 lemon
• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over a medium heat. Add the onion, garlic and celery, and cook for 5 minutes or until softened. • Add the cumin, coriander and chilli, then add the beetroot/beet and pour in 1.50l/ 52fl oz/6½ cups water. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until the beetroot is just tender.
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Beetroot/beet is crammed with iron, calcium, folate, betaine, B vitamins and antioxidants, which combine to make it a great detoxifier. A shorter cooking time means you’ll get the most from all these nutrients.
• Transfer the mixture to a blender or food processor and whizz until smooth. Add the ground almonds and whizz again.
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper plain yogurt, to serve
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Add the lemon juice and season with salt and plenty of pepper.
• Divide the soup among four freezerproof containers and freeze for up to 3 months any that you don’t want to eat soon. Defrost overnight in the fridge. Reheat a portion before you go to work and transfer to a vacuum food flask – or reheat it at work. Pack the yogurt to take with you.
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Can’t resist a crunchy, salty snack? Keep a tub of these in your bag for a nutrition boost. Kale isn’t to everyone’s taste, but prepared this way it’s irresistible. The recipe uses cavolo nero (black kale). It’s more robust than curly kale and won’t burn as easily. The secret is to dry out the kale rather than cooking it so that it retains its goodness and doesn’t burn (so don’t be tempted to turn up the heat).
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THE REALLY QUITE GOOD BRITISH COOKBOOK
The Food We Love from 100 of our Best Chefs, Cooks, Bakers and Local Heroes Edited by William Sitwell; cover art by Sir Peter Blake What do you cook for the people you love? Asked this question,100 of Britain’s food heroes have shared their most beloved recipes to make this extraordinary cookbook. While Nigella Lawson divulges how to bake her Chocolate Guinness Cake, Rick Stein fries up Shrimp and Dill Fritters with Ouzo. Yotam Ottolenghi would serve Pea & Mint Croquettes and for Jamie Oliver, an unrivalled Fantastic Fish Pie. These are just a few of the incredible recipes provided by the best and brightest on the British food scene, including chefs such as Raymond Blanc, Gordon Ramsay, Delia Smith, James Martin, Nigel Slater, Thomasina Miers, Mark Hix, Jason Atherton, Marco Pierre White, Claudia Roden and more.
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FOOD WRITER & TV BROADCASTER This cake is magnificent in its damp blackness. I can’t say that you can absolutely taste the stout in it, but there is certainly a resonant, ferrous tang, which I happen to love. The best way of describing it is to say that it’s like gingerbread without the spices. There is enough sugar – a certain understatement here – to counter any potential bitterness of the Guinness, and although I’ve eaten versions of this made up like a chocolate sandwich cake, stuffed and slathered in a rich chocolate icing, I think that can take away from its dark majesty. Besides, I wanted to make a cream-cheese frosting to echo the pale head that sits on top of a glass of stout. It’s unconventional to add cream, but it makes it frothier and lighter, which I regard as aesthetically and gastronomically desirable. But it is perfectly acceptable to leave the cake un-iced; in fact, it tastes gorgeous plain.
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CHOCOLATE GUINNESS CAKE Recipe by NIGELLA LAWSON, food writer & TV broadcaster, London, England SERVINGS: 12 | PREP TIME: 15 MINS | COOK TIME: 1 HOUR | SKILL LEVEL: 1 (EASY) INGREDIENTS
METHOD
For the cake 250 ml Guinness 250 g unsalted butter 75 g cocoa 400 g caster sugar 1 x 150 ml pot sour cream 2 eggs 1 tbsp real vanilla extract 275 g plain flour 2½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
Pre-heat the oven to 180°C, and butter and line a 23 cm springform tin.
For the topping 300 g cream cheese (I use Philadelphia) 150 g icing sugar 125 ml double or whipping cream
Pour the Guinness into a large, wide saucepan, add the butter – in spoons or slices – and heat until the butter’s melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar. Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarb. Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake. When the cake’s cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and get on with the icing. Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and then beat them both together. Or do this in a processor, putting the unsieved icing sugar in first and blitzing to remove lumps before adding the cheese. Add the cream and beat again until it makes a spreadable consistency. Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.
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WILLIAM SITWELL Editor
William Sitwell is an award-winning editor, broadcaster and writer. Editor of Waitrose Food magazine, he is a frequent guest and presenter on TV and radio – he’s best known as a critic on the BBC show MasterChef – and also contributes regularly on the subject of food to various magazines and newspapers. His weekly show, Biting Talk, on Soho Radio features the biggest names and new talent from the food/drink world.
SIR PETER BLAKE Cover Artist
Sir Peter Blake graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1956. A founder of the Pop Art movement, his first solo show was held in the Portal Gallery in 1962, and since the early 1970s his work has regularly been exhibited in one-man shows and retrospectives around the world. In 1981 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy and in 1994 he was appointed the third Associate Artist of the National Gallery. He was knighted in 2002.
THE TRUSSELL TRUST Charitable Partner
The Trussell Trust will receive a portion of the proceeds from The Really Quite Good British Cookbook to support their effort towards providing emergency food and support for people in crisis. The target is to raise over GBP 150,000 from sales of the book. The Trussell Trust partners with churches and communities to open foodbanks nationwide. To date they have launched 420 foodbanks and their goal is to have a foodbank in every town. www.trusselltrust.com 42
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RISOTTO CON PISELLI, LIMONE E RICOTTA PEA, RICOTTA & LEMON ZEST RISOTTO Recipe by RUTH ROGERS, The River Café, London SERVINGS: 6 | PREP TIME: 20 MINS | COOK TIME: 30 MINS | SKILL LEVEL: 1 (EASY) INGREDIENTS
METHOD
1½ litres chicken stock Maldon salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 kg fresh young peas (podded weight 1½ kg) 2 tbsp fresh mint leaves 3 cloves garlic, peeled, 2 chopped 200 g unsalted butter 500 g spring onions, roughly chopped 400 g Carnaroli or Arborio rice 2 tbsp torn fresh basil leaves 150 ml dry vermouth 250 g fresh ricotta cheese, lightly beaten finely grated zest of 2 washed lemons 50 g Parmesan, freshly grated
Heat the chicken stock to boiling and check for seasoning. Bring a medium saucepan of water to the boil, and add ½ tablespoon salt, the peas, half the mint and the whole garlic clove. Simmer for 3–4 minutes or until the peas are al dente. Drain, keeping back 150 ml of the water. Return the peas, mint and garlic clove to this water and put aside. Melt 150 grams of the butter in a large, thick-bottomed saucepan, add the spring onion and soften. Add the chopped garlic, then the rice, stirring for about 2–3 minutes to coat each grain. Add a ladle of hot stock and stir, adding another when the rice has absorbed the first. Continue stirring and adding stock for 10 minutes or until the rice is not quite al dente. Add half the peas, keeping back the cooked garlic and mint and their liquor. Mash together the remainder of the peas, mint and garlic with the liquor in a food processor, then add to the risotto and stir. Stir in the basil. Add the vermouth, about 2 tablespoons of the ricotta, and the remaining butter. Cook briefly to wilt the basil and melt the butter. Test for doneness: the rice should be al dente. Serve with the remaining ricotta over each portion, sprinkled with lemon zest, salt, pepper and Parmesan.
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I LOVE MY BARBECUE You might also like:
More Than 100 of the Most Delicious and Healthy Recipes For the Grill Hilaire Walden
9781848990371 I Love My Slow Cooker
I Love My Barbecue is the perfect resource for anyone looking to brush up on their grilling technique as well as expand their recipe repertoire. Focusing on fresh ingredients and ingenious ideas from a wide range of cuisines, there is a dish to suit everyone and every occasion. More than 100 delicious and diverse recipes include new takes on traditional dishes, such as Indonesian Pork Burgers and Chicken, Mango and Mint Kebabs, as well as the more exotic like Salmon with Spiced Tea Marinade. Vegetable and vegetarian dishes will wow even the most sceptical carnivore, and there are recipes for vegans as well, giving you options for every dietary preference. Hilaire Walden has a range of food and cooking experience spanning over 45 years. She has published more than 45 cookbooks and has written for many national newspapers, women’s lifestyle and cooking magazines. She also lectures extensively and works as a consultant to food companies.
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SICILIAN RED MULLET
SWORDFISH WITH THYME & ANISE
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P R EPAR ATI ON TI ME 15 minutes C OOKI N G TI ME 12–14 minutes
PREPA RATION TIM E 10 m inute s, plus 1–2
S ER V ES 4
hours m arinating COOK ING TIM E 6 minutes
4 red mullet, 350g/12oz each, cleaned
SERVES 4
olive oil, for brushing 1 tsp fennel seeds
4 swordfish steaks, about 200g/7oz each
½ tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp dried oregano
MARINADE
½ tsp black peppercorns
2 tsp fennel seeds
1 lemon, quartered and thinly sliced
3 tbsp Pernod
12 fresh bay leaves
2 tbsp olive oil
sea salt
2 tsp fresh thyme leaves 1 tsp chilli/hot pepper flakes
Using a sharp knife, cut three deep slashes on each side of all the fish. Brush them with olive oil. Using a pestle and mortar, crush the fennel, cumin
4 sun-dried tomato halves, finely chopped sea salt
and oregano with the peppercorns.
Lay the swordfish in a shallow non-metallic dish.
Rub into the fish, making sure the mixture goes
Make the marinade by heating a small, heavy
into the slashes. Push a lemon slice and bay leaf
frying pan. Add the fennel seeds and heat until
into each slash. Brush the fish again with oil and
they begin to darken. Crush lightly, then mix with
sprinkle with sea salt.
the remaining ingredients.
Cook in an oiled fish basket or on an oiled grill
Pour the marinade over the fish, turn the steaks to
rack for 6–7 minutes on each side until cooked
coat them evenly, then cover and leave in a cool
through, turning once.
place for 1–2 hours, turning once or twice. Lift the fish from the marinade and cook on an oiled grill rack for 3 minutes or so on each side so they are still slightly pink in the centre.
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CARAMEL ORANGES
63q P R EPAR ATI ON TI ME 15 minutes COOKI N G TI ME 12–14 minutes
4 large oranges melted unsalted butter, for brushing 1–2 tbsp brown sugar 2 tbsp Orange Nassau, Cointreau, Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur vanilla ice cream, to serve
SERVES 4
Working over a bowl to catch any juice, carefully cut away all the orange skin and white pith. Reserve some of the skin. Cut across each orange to make six slices. Remove the pith from the peel, then cut the peel into very fine shreds. Blanch these in boiling water for 2–3 minutes. Drain and dry. Cut four double-thickness squares of foil that are large enough to wrap loosely around an orange. Butter the centre of each square thoroughly with unsalted butter. Divide the slices among well-buttered foil. Fold up the sides of the foil. Divide the orange juice from the bowl, the sugar and liqueur among the oranges, then twist the edges of the foil firmly together to make roomy but tightly sealed parcels. Cook the parcels of oranges on the side of the barbecue for about 10 minutes. Carefully transfer the cooked parcels to serving plates and open up the foil. Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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TOO GOOD TO WASTE How to Eat Everything Victoria Glass You might also like:
Make the most of your groceries with minimum waste. Uninspiring pumpkin? While Pumpkin Maple Cheesecake uses the flesh, Pumpkin Skin Chutney and Pumpkin Seed Energy Balls will help you use the whole vegetable. Stale bread is transformed into Treacle Tart with Brown Bread Ice cream; Strawberry tops are brewed to a delicious tea; leftover chicken fat can make the crispiest roast potatoes; and vegetable peelings make perfect crisps. Supported by tips and tricks to help you get the most out of every item in your shopping trolley, this is a playful guide to making feasts without waste.
9781848992658 The Part-Time Vegetarian
Victoria Glass is a London based cook, recipe developer and food writer. She is an author, a contributor of recipes to greatbritishchefs. com, and has cooked her way through the alphabet – from artichokes to za’atar zebra – on her blog, Alphabet Soup. She founded Victoria’s Cake Boutique in 2008, creating celebration cakes for celebrity clients, and has just completed a stint as food writer in residence at The Roald Dahl Museum & Story Centre.
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Traditional SF and fantasy has been ploughing an entertaining furrow for many decades, but to our way of thinking much of it is missing a trick. To the new generations of readers reared on Dr Who and Battlestar Galactica, graphic novels and the latest Halo, old school can mean staid, stuck in a rut. “Crossover” is increasingly the way forward and you’ll find plenty of it here.
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THE LAST SACRIFICE 50 NUMENERA: THE POISON EATER 51 A PERFECT MACHINE 52 DR POTTER’S MEDICINE SHOW 53 INFERNAL DEVICES 54 THE STARS ARE LEGION 55 A TYRANNY OF QUEENS 56 HUNGER MAKES THE WOLF 57 INHERIT THE FLAME 58 AMONG THE FALLEN 59 FIENDISH SCHEMES 60 KOKORO 61 THE STRANGE: MYTH OF THE MAKER 62 DAMNATION 63 REV 64 THE SONG OF THE DEAD 65 GRIM EXPECTATIONS 66 THE REBELLION’S LAST TRAITOR 67
“James A Moore keeps getting better.” ADVENTURES FANTASTIC
9780857665430 400pp B Format PB £8.99 January 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857665454
THE LAST SACRIFICE Book I of the Tides of War James A Moore By the same author:
A devastating new series from the acclaimed author of the Seven Forges novels, for all fans of epic fantasy. Since time began, the Grakhul – immortal servants of the gods – have taken human sacrifices to keep the world in balance and the gods appeased. When they choose the family of warrior Brogan McTyre, everything changes. Brogan begins the toughest battle of his life to free his family from their terrible fate. But when you challenge the gods, you challenge the very fabric of society. Declared an outcast, Brogan and his kin are hunted like criminals – but nothing will stand in his way.
9780857663825 Seven Forges
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James A Moore is the award-winning, bestselling author of over 40 novels, thrillers, dark fantasy and horror alike, including the critically acclaimed Fireworks, Under the Overtree, Blood Red, the Serenity Falls trilogy and his most recent Seven Forges series. Along with Jonathan Maberry and Christopher Golden, he hosts the popular Three Guys With Beards podcast.
9780857666345 400pp B Format PB £8.99 January 2017 Science Fiction / Game Tie-In Available in eBook: 9780857666369
THE POISON EATER A Numenera novel Shanna Germain You might also like:
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The exciting first tie-in novel for the acclaimed Numenera roleplaying game, for all fans of inventive science-fantasy – accompanies the worldwide launch of the PC game Torment: Tides of Numenera. Poison never lies. Tali was once one of the seven martyrs of the forgotten compass. She barely escaped that life with her body and soul intact. Now she has a new life as a poison eater in the city of Enthait. Here she is hailed as one of the city’s protectors. No one knows her history; no one has asked about her past. She’s been here so long that Enthait is her home now, these are her people. But in the Ninth World, the past is a living, breathing thing. And when it hunts you down, you can run. You can fight. Or you can die. Shanna Germain is the co-creator of the award-winning Numenera roleplaying game world. She claims the titles of writer, editor, leximaven, girl geek, she-devil, vorpal blonde and Schrodinger’s brat. Her short stories, essays, poems, novellas and more have appeared in hundreds of books and publications. 51
“A destabilizing gutshot of science fiction, crime and existentialism that will leave your head spinning … an inventive, disturbing and unforgettable thrill ride.”
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PAUL TREMBLAY, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
384pp B Format PB £8.99 February 2017 Science Fiction Available in eBook: 9780857666314
A PERFECT MACHINE Brett Savory You might also like:
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Acclaimed publisher turned novelist gets dark and dangerous in his tale of secret city-wide combat – like Rollerball rewritten by JG Ballard. Henry Kyllo is a Runner, a member of a secret society called the Inferne Cutis. Every day he is chased through the city by Hunters whose goal is to fill him with bullets. It is a secret war steeped in history, tradition and mutual fear. Rumours abound about what happens when a Runner achieves ascension, but it has supposedly never happened before, so no one knows for sure. Except that it has happened before, and it is happening again. This time, to Henry Kyllo. Brett Savory is the co-publisher of the World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award-winning ChiZine Publications. He has had over 50 short stories published in a variety of major science fiction magazines, as well as two other novels, In and Down and The Distance Travelled.
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9780857666376 416pp B Format PB £8.99 February 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666390
DR POTTER’S MEDICINE SHOW Eric Scott Fischl You might also like:
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A snake-oil shyster in a travelling show comes across real magic in this twisted alchemical misadventure. The year is 1878. Dr Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now snake-oil salesman, travels the American badlands with a disheartened company of strongmen, fortune-tellers and dancing girls. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, an elixir claimed to cure all ills both physical and spiritual. For a few unfortunate customers, however, the Sagwa offers something much, much worse. Dark magic and sinister intrigue abound in a travelling show unlike any other. Eric Scott Fischl writes novels of speculative historical fiction and the supernatural. He balances writing with a day job managing technology for a conservation-focused non-profit organisation, and lives in Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains.
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“This is the real thing – a mad inventor, curious coins, murky London alleys and windblown Scottish Isles … a wild and extravagant plot that turns up new mysteries with each succeeding page.”
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JAMES P BLAYLOCK, author of Homunculus
352pp B Format PB £8.99 February 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666864
INFERNAL DEVICES KW Jeter By the same author:
9780857660992 Morlock Night
It was the first official Steampunk novel when it was published 30 years ago, and we are delighted to celebrate that anniversary with this new edition of KW Jeter’s classic novel When George’s father died, he left George his watchmaker’s shop – and more. But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal a mysterious arcane device from the premises, George finds himself dragged into a mystery of time travel, music and sexual intrigue. To celebrate 30 years of Steampunk, Infernal Devices is being republished alongside two new instalments, in matching covers. KW Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton, where he became friends with James P Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K Dick. Jeter coined the term “steampunk”, in a letter to Locus in April 1987, to describe the retro-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. As well as his own wildly original novels, KW Jeter has written a number of authorized Blade Runner sequels.
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“Hurley writes with passion, power and raw unapologetic honesty.”
JIM C HINES, author of the Goblin Quest series
9780857666611 464pp B Format PB £8.99 February 2017 Science Fiction Available in eBook: 9780857666628
THE STARS ARE LEGION Kameron Hurley By the same author:
9780857665553 The Mirror Empire
The astounding science fiction novel from one of the most important new voices in the genre. Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion travels in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged. Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion’s gravity well to the very belly of the world. She carries the seeds of the Legion’s destruction – and its possible salvation. Kameron Hurley is an award-winning author, advertising copywriter and online scribe. She has won the Hugo Award, Kitschy Award and Sydney J Bounds Award for Best Newcomer; she has also been a finalist for the Arthur C Clarke Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, BFS Award, the David Gemmell Morningstar Award and the BSFA Award for Best Novel. Her non-fiction has been featured in The Atlantic, Locus and the game-changing collection The Geek Feminist Revolution. 55
“This is the portal fantasy I’ve spent my whole life waiting for.” LIZ BOURKE, Tor.com on An Accident of Stars
9780857665874 432pp B Format PB £8.99 March 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857665898
A TYRANNY OF QUEENS
Book II in the Manifold Worlds series Foz Meadows By the same author:
9780857665843 An Accident of Stars
The portal fantasy is reinvented for today’s readers, in the second of the acclaimed Manifold World series. Saffron Coulter has returned from the fantasy kingdom of Kena. Threatened with a stay in psychiatric care, she has to make a choice: to forget about Kena and fit back into the life she’s outgrown, or pit herself against everything she’s ever known and everyone she loves. Meanwhile in Kena, Gwen is increasingly troubled by the absence of Leoden, cruel ruler of the kingdom, and his plans for the captive worldwalkers, while Yena, still in Veksh, must confront the deposed Kadeja. Only Saffron holds the key. Foz Meadows is a genderqueer author, blogger, essayist, reviewer and poet. In 2014, she was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer for her blog, Shattersnipe. She is a contributing writer for The Huffington Post and Black Gate, and a contributing reviewer for Strange Horizons and Tor.com.
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9780857666437 416pp B Format PB £8.99 March 2017 Science Fiction Available in eBook: 9780857666451
HUNGER MAKES THE WOLF Alex Wells You might also like:
9780857665232 Time Salvager
Strong science fiction debut that reads like Dune meets Sons of Anarchy. The strange planet known as Tanegawa’s World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there ten years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves. Ten years later, she discovered the body of Nick’s brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen. But there are greater mysteries to be discovered – both about Hob and the strange planet she calls home. Alex Wells is a writer, geologist and sharp-dressed sir. They’ve had short stories in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Daily Science Fiction, Shimmer and more. Alex is a host on the popular Skiffy and Fanty podcast, where they talk about movies and other nerdy sci-fi and fantasy things.
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“It’s like an epic Steampunk Firefly.” BETH CATO, author of The Clockwork Dagger 9780857664952 464pp B Format PB £8.99 March 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857664976
INHERIT THE FLAME
A Scorched Continent novel Megan E O’Keefe By the same author:
9780857664891 Steal the Sky
An action-packed return to the Scorched Continent – and this time Detan and his band of rogues must defend their city against not one but two armies. After Detan retrieves the renowned engineer Nouli from the clutches of the empire, he returns to find his home under siege by Thratia’s army. Together they turn the tide – until imperial forces arrive to hammer Thratia’s army against the anvil of the city’s walls. Worse yet, the imperial advance is aided by an elite force of deviant magic users. Detan must ally with enemies to protect their city, but how long can your enemy’s enemy be your friend? Megan E O’Keefe lives in the Bay Area of California and makes soap for a living (it’s only a little like Fight Club). She has worked in arts management and graphic design, and spends her free time tinkering with anything she can get her hands on. She was a firstplace winner in the Writers of the Future competition.
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“Very nearly a perfect fantasy novel.”
JAMES A MOORE author of Seven Forges on Silent Hall
9780857665690 520pp B Format PB £8.99 April 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857665713
AMONG THE FALLEN
Book II of the Godserfs series NS Dolkart By the same author:
9780857665669 Silent Hall
In the second book in the acclaimed Godserfs series a band of warriors must find a way to negotiate peace before war returns in this deep fantasy novel. The survivors of the battle in Silent Hall are commanded to travel to the Dragon Knight’s tomb in Ardi. A community of Dragon Touched has survived in hiding, and with the wizard Criton’s leadership, they begin a campaign to retake their former territories helped by the power of their ancient god. But when his friends convince Criton to end the war and make peace with their neighbours, he is assassinated. Now the heroes must journey to the underworld to retrieve him and revive the fragile peace before it is too late. NS Dolkart was home-schooled until high school by his Israeli father and American mother. He is a graduate of the notorious Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts where he studied creative writing and Jewish studies.
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“K W Jeter has created a quite marvellous world.” THE TRAVELER’S STEAMPUNK BLOG
9780857666871 416pp B Format PB £8.99 April 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666895
FIENDISH SCHEMES KW Jeter You might also like:
9780857665294 The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter
The sequel to KW Jeter’s genre defining Infernal Devices is published in Britain for the first time, to mark the 30th anniversary of Steampunk. The world George Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London. Dower is enticed into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess. If he can locate and make his father’s Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake. Drugged, arrested and interrogated Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world. KW Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton, where he became friends with James P Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K Dick. Jeter coined the term “steampunk”, in a letter to Locus in April 1987, to describe the retro-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. As well as his own wildly original novels, KW Jeter has written a number of authorized Blade Runner sequels.
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“Beautifully crafted; well-written, with a loving attention to detail.” JAPANATOR on Kojiki
9780857666178 416pp B Format PB £8.99 April 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666192
KOKORO Keith Yatsuhashi By the same author:
9780857666147 Kojiki
Masterfully combining fantasy, science fiction and Japanese mythology, the sequel to Kojiki takes us into the heart of a war that spreads across the worlds. On the planet of Higo, without the guidance of the Great Spirits, its people are descending into religious civil war. Baiyren Tallaenaq, Prince of Higo, is exiled after causing the death of his mother. Freed from his responsibilities and the looming war, he steals their greatest weapon – a giant, sentient, armoured suit – and uses it to open a Portal to a world he never knew existed. A world called “Earth”… home of a magical young woman called Keiko. Keith Yatsuhashi is inspired equally by Lord of the Rings and Toho’s Godzilla movies. He is Director of the US Department of Commerce Export Assistance Centre in Providence, Rhode Island. A long time ago, in a world far, far away, Keith was a champion figure skater.
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9780857666499 400pp B Format PB ÂŁ8.99 April 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666512
MYTH OF THE MAKER A novel of The Strange Bruce Cordell You might also like:
The first tie-in novel from the sinister and mysterious realms of The Strange roleplaying game. Carter Morrison didn’t want to kill his friends, or himself, but he had a good reason. It was either them, or the end of all life on the planet: their sacrifice saved the world. Not that anyone knew it, until Katherine Manners stumbled over a melting man in a computer room clutching a message of doom from another world.
9780857664594 Flex
Now they must try to understand, survive, save and break free of the fictional worlds that insulate Earth from the dangers of The Strange, where world-eating monstrosities called planetovores lurk. Bruce Cordell is an award-winning writer working as a Senior Designer at Monte Cook Games, where he is an author for The Strange and Numenera roleplaying games. Before that, he wrote for Dungeons & Dragons over four editions and nine novels set in the bestselling Forgotten Realms setting.
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“Snarky, pacy and hellishly fun. Don Drake is just the sort of hero, with just the sort of life, to make you feel good about yourself.”
FRANCIS KNIGHT, author of the Rojan Dizon series on Drake
9780857666635 320pp B Format PB £8.99 May 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666659
DAMNATION
Book III in the Burned Man series Peter McLean By the same author:
9780857665102 Drake
Shambolic demon-hunting hitman Don Drake is back and teetering on the edge of madness in this smart, witty urban fantasy novel. Don Drake is living rough in a sink estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh, doing cheap spells for even cheaper customers while fending off the local lowlifes. Six months ago, Don fled from London to Glasgow to track down his old girlfriend Debbie the alchemist. With the Burned Man gradually driving him mad, Don meets with an ancient and mysterious tramp-slash-magician, with disastrous consequences. Now his old accomplices must step in to save Don from himself, before he damns himself for good this time. Peter McLean was born near London in 1972, the son of a bank manager and an English teacher. He grew up in the Norwich alternative scene, alternating dingy nightclubs with studying martial arts and practical magic. He has a black belt in Taoist Wu-Dang kung fu and practices Chaos magic.
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9780857665386 320pp B Format PB £8.99 May 2017 Science Fiction Available in eBook: 9780857665409
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Book III in The Machine Dynasty series By the same author:
Madeline Ashby In the final instalment of the influential Machine Dynasty series, the rapture for which the self-replicating humanoids were engineered finally comes to pass.
9780857662613 vN
Now that the failsafe that once kept synthetic beings from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing feeble, fleshy humanity to its knees. The battle between Portia and granddaughter Amy comes to its ultimate conclusion. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom? Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and strategic foresight consultant living in Toronto. Her short fiction has appeared in Nature, FLURB, Tesseracts, Imaginarium and Escape Pod. Her other essays and criticism have appeared at BoingBoing, io9, WorldChanging, Creators Project, Arcfinity and Tor.com.
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“With Agatha Christie’s flair for the subtle conundrum, Patel’s debut novel [is a] subtly fantastical story.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY on A Buried Life 9780857666093 400pp B Format PB £8.99 May 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666109
THE SONG OF THE DEAD Book III of The Recoletta series Carrie Patel By the same author:
9780857665201 The Buried Life
In the dramatic conclusion to Carrie Patel’s trilogy the lost histories of the Catastrophe will be revealed and with them the ultimate fate of the buried city of Recoletta. With Ruthers dead and the Library Accord signed by Recoletta, its neighbours, and its farming communes, Inspector Malone and her partner Laundress Jane Lin are in limbo as the city leaders around them vie for power. A desperate attempt to save Arnault from execution leads to Malone’s arrest and Jane’s escape. They must pursue each other across the sea to discover a civilization that has held together over the centuries. There they will finally learn the truths about the Catastrophe that drove their own civilization underground. Carrie Patel was born and raised in Houston, Texas. An avid traveller, she studied abroad in Granada, Spain and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works as a computer game narrative designer at Obsidian Entertainment in Irvine, California, where the only season is Always Perfect. 65
“Each chapter is a cliffhanger, each stands alone in such a way that it is difficult to put the book down” THE SECRET LAIR on Morlock Night 9780857666901 352pp B Format PB £8.99 June 2017 Fantasy Available in eBook: 9780857666925
GRIM EXPECTATIONS KW Jeter
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We continue the celebration of 30 years of Steampunk with the mindboggling new sequel to Infernal Devices from KW Jeter. Some time after the events of Fiendish Schemes, George Dower finds himself a widower, of sorts. On her deathbed, Miss McThane entrusts Dower with a small, ticking clockwork box. The box is mysteriously linked to her. When she breathes her last, the box stops ticking and Dower is able to open it, to find hundreds of letters – written in an unknown hand, signed only with the initial S. They’re not love letters, but refer instead to the letter-writer’s ongoing search for some other person. The last is a simple note, reading “Found him”…
9780857665966 The Bookman
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KW Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton, where he became friends with James P Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K Dick. Jeter coined the term “steampunk”, in a letter to Locus in April 1987, to describe the retro-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers. As well as his own wildly original novels, KW Jeter has written a number of authorized Blade Runner sequels.
“The pop culture apocalypse is now, and Nik Korpon is one of its darkest new voices.”
ANTHONY NEIL SMITH, author of Hogdoggin’ 9780857666550 352pp B Format PB £8.99 June 2017 Science Fiction Available in eBook: 9780857666574
THE REBELLION’S LAST TRAITOR Book I in the Memory Thief trilogy Nik Korpon You might also like:
9780857664501 Outriders
Blade Runner meets Inception in the first science fiction title from acclaimed crime writer Nik Korpon. After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order to shattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity – bought and sold, and experienced like a drug. Henraek works as a Tathadann memory thief, draining citizens’ memories. Everything changes when Henraek harvests a memory of his own wife’s death, in the secret rebellion that once tore apart their city. Now he will do whatever it takes to learn the truth – even if it means burning Eitan City to the ground. Nik Korpon is the author of several novels, including The Soul Standard and Stay God, Sweet Angel. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.
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LITTLE HOUSES, BIG FORESTS 70 TRIPTYCH 71 NOTES FROM THE SICK ROOM 72 THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE 73 SPLATTER CAPITAL 74 FILLING THE VOID 75 THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES REVOLUTION 76 MAURICE EL MEDIONI – A MEMOIR 77 SHARD CINEMA 78
9781910924990 300pp Paperback original ÂŁ12.99/$19.95 January 2017 Fiction/General Available in eBook: 9781910924907
LITTLE HOUSES, BIG FORESTS Desire is No Light Thing Siouxzi Connor This book is an invitation to get lost within the varied landscapes of its pages: middle-of-nowhere Australia, the minds of Susan Sontag and WG Sebald, and, most prominently, the proverbial forests of all of our childhoods. There are, however, a few thematic paths to trace through these landscapes. Coming-of-age desire, our uneasy sense of self when isolated in nature and female sexuality become the mile-markers. The invitation to get lost is an invitation to come out the other side with the sense that being lost is not necessarily a state to be avoided but one in which we can occasionally luxuriate in. Siouxzi Connor is an Australian writer and experimental filmmaker whose work has appeared in galleries, anthologies and cultural journals in Australia, the UK and Europe, exploring ecology, anthropology and female sexuality. A former fellow of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, she is based in Berlin with the creative collective Uferlos.berlin Studios. Website: www.siouxzimernagh.com 70
9781910924983 330pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 February 2017 Music/Social science Available in eBook: 9781910924891
TRIPTYCH
Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible Rhian E Jones, Daniel Lukes, Larissa Wodtke Manic Street Preachers remain one of the most significant and best-loved bands of the past 30 years. The Holy Bible (1994) is generally considered their most enduring work. Triptych reconsiders The Holy Bible, combining personal with political, history with memory, and popular accessibility with attention to the album’s depth and complexity. Rhian E Jones considers The Holy Bible in terms of its political context; Daniel Lukes looks at the album’s artistic sources; and Larissa Wodtke analyses the way the album links with philosophical ideas of memory and the archive. Daniel Lukes has a PhD in Comparative Literature from NYU and teaches at Indiana University. Larissa Wodtke is Research Coordinator at the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, and Managing Editor of Jeunesse. Rhian E Jones is the author of Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender and Petticoat Heroes. She writes for publications including The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books and the Morning Star. 71
9781910924976 360pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 February 2017 Literary critcism/ Biography Available in eBook: 9781910924433
NOTES FROM THE SICK ROOM Steve Finbow Notes from the Sick Room is a study of artists, musicians and writers who have suffered from various physical illnesses – cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and other physical traumas. Their lives and works are discussed in an attempt to diagnose how their complaints influenced their work – or how their creativity affected their symptoms. We meet Virginia Woolf, Kathy Acker, Frida Kahlo, Bob Dylan, Franz Kafka, David Bowie and many more as they struggle to produce works of art, literature and music through periods of serious illness and convalescence. Steve Finbow’s fiction includes Balzac of the Badlands (Future Fiction London, 2009), Tougher Than Anything in the Animal Kingdom (Grievous Jones Press, 2011), Nothing Matters (Snubnose Press, 2012). His biography of Allen Ginsberg in Reaktion’s Critical Lives series was published in 2011. His other works include Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia (Zero Books, 2014) and Down Among the Dead (Number Thirteen Press, 2014). He was recently writer-in-residence at The Function Room.
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9781910924969 300pp Paperback ÂŁ8.99/$14.95 March 2017 Music/Philosophy Available in eBook: 9781910924877
THE MUSIC OF THE FUTURE Robert Barry Charles Fourier imagined a whole society structured by music. Hector Berlioz wrote science fiction. Hugo Gernsback looked forward to telematic operas. John Cage imagined an infinite sound palette. But where are today’s musical futurists? The Music of the Future is not a book of predictions or speculations about how to save the music business or the bleeding edge of technologies. It is more a history of failures, mapping 200 years of attempts by composers, performers and critics to imagine a future for music. Encompassing utopian dream cities, temporal dislocations and projects for the emancipation of all sounds, The Music of the Future is finally a sort of call to arms for everyone engaged in music: to fail again, fail better. Robert Barry is a freelance writer and composer, based in London. A regular contributor to Frieze, The Wire, Art Review and Fact, he is also visual arts editor at The Quietus and digital culture editor at Review 31. His music has been featured in films and published, in the form of prose scores, by BCNVT of Stockholm, Sweden. 73
9781910924952 300pp Paperback ÂŁ8.99/$14.95 March 2017 Cultural Studies Available in eBook: 9781910924860
SPLATTER CAPITAL Mark Steven Splatter Capital shows how a popular sub-genre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. The story this book tells will serve as a source of both theoretical and practical knowledge for surviving the horror movie we collectively inhabit. Mark Steven is a research fellow at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, based at the University of New South Wales, where he also teaches film studies.
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9781910924945 300pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 April 2017 Cultural Studies/ Politics Available in eBook: 9781910924853
FILLING THE VOID
Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism Marcus Gilroy Ware Filling The Void shows how the culture and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. Much social media use is an attempt to seek comfort in a stressful life under capitalism. The explosive growth of social media, and the shift from an information-based internet into an entertainment-based one, are best explained through the subjective psychological experience of their users as capitalist subjects seeking “depressive hedonia”. Filling the Void interrogates the role of social media networks, designed for private commercial gain, as part of a de-facto public sphere. Both the decreasing importance of factual media and new forms of content manipulation – using labour in the developing world and secret algorithms – have potentially serious implications for the capacity of social media users to query or challenge the reality offered by the established hegemonic order. A proud Londoner, Marcus Gilroy-Ware has been immersing himself in digital media since the age of five. Having lived in the Unites States, Brazil and Britain, he now writes, teaches, researches, creates and codes at the intersection of culture and communication. 75
9781910924921 300pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 May 2017 Political Science/ Social Science Available in eBook: 9781910924839
THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES REVOLUTION James Heartfield At the start of the decade no employer had heard of an “equal opportunities policy” – by the end three-quarters of all those in work were covered by one. That was the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher’s government were known for their backward-looking stance on race, women and labour law. But it was under their rule, all the same, that the greatest advances in race and sex equality in the workplace were made. This is the story of the “equal opportunities revolution” at work. Not a handbook or a guide but a history of a sea-change in the workplace, drawn from contemporary sources. Lifelong campaigner for social justice James Heartfield writes and teaches about the history of the British Empire and public policy. He wrote The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society: A History (2016) and Who’s Afraid of the Easter Rising? (2015, with Kevin Rooney).
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9781910924426 300pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 May 2017 Biography/Music Available in eBook: 9781910924464
MAURICE EL MEDIONI – A MEMOIR From Oran to Marseilles (1938-1992) Maurice El Médioni Maurice El Médioni is one of the few living artists to have performed with the great Chaabi artists Lili Labassi, Line Monty, Samy el Maghribi and Reinette l’Oranaise along with modern Rai greats like Khaled. This book contains his original handwritten memoirs, translated by Jonathan Walton. He tells firsthand the story of his early life in the derb (Oran’s Jewish quarter); his first piano; Rommel’s Nazi forces and his experiences during WW2 with the Dominican and Puerto Rican GIs; how he developed his unique “pianorientale” style; the subsequent golden years of nightlife in Oran, the “Paris of the South”; the horrific years of bloodshed that followed in the Algerian war of Independence; his exile from Algeria; and his later life in France. Maurice El Médioni (born on 18 October 1928 in Oran, French Algeria) is a French–Algerian pianist, composer and interpreter of Andalusian, Rai, Sephardic and Arab music.
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9781910924914 300pp Paperback £8.99/$14.95 June 2017 Film/Cultural Studies Available in eBook: 9781910924822
SHARD CINEMA Evan Calder Williams Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight and navigate an unsteady world. With a range that takes in films, games, architecture, technology and war, the book crosses the 20th century into our present to confront a new order of seeing and making that took slow shape: the composite image, where no clean distinction can be made between production and post-production, the filmed and the animated, the material and the digital. Giving equal ground to costly blockbusters and shaky riot footage, Williams leads us from computer-generated “shards” of particles and debris to the broken phone screen on which we watch those digital storms, looking for the unexpected histories lived in the interval between. Evan Calder Williams is a writer and artist. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters, and his essays have appeared in Film Quarterly, Mute, The New Inquiry, La Furia Umana, World Picture and The Journal of American Studies.
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