Moeen Moeen Ali (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h200mm x w130mm x s25mm 260g 2 16pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781911630142 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-14-2 ISBN10: 1911630148 EAN: 9781911630142 x Description: Shortlisted for The Telegraph's Sports Book Awards - Autobiography of the Year, 2019 Longlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards One of the Daily Mail's and the Observer's Books of the Year, 2018 The match-winning superstar of the England cricket team finally shares his remarkable personal story in this eagerly-awaited autobiography. Moeen traces his journey from backyard cricket to the county game and his first-class debut as a teenager, through to his international debut at the relatively late age of 27 and the golden summer of 2017, when he was anointed Player of the Series against South Africa with thousands of England fans chanting his name. But cricket is just one part of Moeen's life. His upbringing in the tough Sparkhill neighbourhood of Birmingham and the awakening at eighteen that led him to become a devout Muslim have given him a social conscience unusual for an elite athlete but have also attracted controversy. Here, for the first time, Moeen tells his side of the story. Talented, tenacious and thoughtful, Moeen Ali is a true all-rounder. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Munmun Jesse Andrews (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 277g ISBN13: 9781911630128 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-12-8 ISBN10: 1911630121 EAN: 9781911630128 x Description: In an alternate reality a lot like our world, every person's physical size is directly proportional to their wealth. The poorest of the poor are the size of rats, and billionaires are the size of skyscrapers. Warner and his sister Prayer are destitute - and tiny. Their size is not just demeaning but dangerous: day and night they face mortal dangers that bigger, richer people don't ever have to think about, from being mauled by cats to their house getting stepped on. There are no cars or phones built small enough for them, or schools or hospitals, for that matter - there's no point, when no one that little has any purchasing power, and when salaried doctors and teachers would never fit in buildings so small. Warner and Prayer know their only hope is to scale up, but how can two littlepoors survive in a world built against them? Brilliant, warm and funny, this is a social novel for our times in the tradition of 1984 or the work of Douglas Adams. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sylvan Cities: An Urban Tree Guide Helen Babbs (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s2mm 445g ISBN13: 9781786493644 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-364-4 ISBN10: 1786493640 EAN: 9781786493644 x Description: 'Clever, pretty, fun and informative - what more can a reader ask for?' Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the Forest We're surrounded in cities by trees, quiet colossuses that most of us don't know by name. Does that matter? It's certainly possible to appreciate a tree for its beauty, its shade and its shelter without knowing whether it's an alder, an elder, a lime or a beech. But look harder, and we begin to see the beauty beneath the bark - the tales of how trees are integral to medicine and art as they are furniture and firewood; the stories of why wild figs grow on the banks of Sheffield's rivers and why the ash tree is touched with magic and mischief. As well as being an illustrated guide that will help you identify some of the species you see around town every day, Sylvan City is also a potted-journey through our cities' woody places and a literary hunt for where their wild things are. Inviting readers on an intricately illustrated journey into the urban forest, Sylvan City is both a practical guide to identifying twenty of the most common trees standing sentry on our street corners, and a lyrical, anecdotal treasure trove of facts and history, culture and leafy lore. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Into the Night Sarah Bailey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 290g ISBN13: 9781786494917 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-491-7 ISBN10: 1786494914 EAN: 9781786494917 x Description: The hotly anticipated sequel to The Dark Lake, this is perfect for fans of The Dry, police procedurals, and classy, clever crime fiction. _____________ Highly recommended - LoveReading ______________ Senior Detective Gemma Woodstock is a small-town policewoman working on the biggest homicide cases in Melbourne. When an up-and-coming movie star is stabbed to death while the cameras are rolling on his new blockbuster, Gemma, eager to prove herself, is assigned to the case. With the whole thing caught from multiple angles, how hard can it be to catch the crazed culprit? And who would want to hurt Australia's adored boynext-door? As Gemma uncovers the deadly underside of fame, her investigation turns into a dangerous game against those with money, power and everything to lose... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lost Property Laura Beatty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h242mm x w162mm x s24mm 510g ISBN13: 9781786497383 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-738-3 ISBN10: 1786497387 EAN: 9781786497383 x Description: 'Clever, brave and urgent. I thought about Lost Property for days after I finished it.' Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall Fascinating and eloquent discussion of nationalism, art and conflict, leavened with wry humour. - Mail on Sunday ____________________ In the middle of her life, a writer finds herself in a dark wood, despairing at how modern Britain has become a place of such greed and indifference. In an attempt to understand her country and her species, she and her lover rent a busted-out van and journey through France and down to the Mediterranean, across Italy and the Balkans, finishing in Greece and its islands. Along the way, they drive through the Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Italian Renaissance, the 1990s and on to the current refugee crisis, encountering the shades of history, sometimes figuratively and sometimes - such as Joan of Arc, sitting pertly in the back of the van - quite literally. As she roadtrips through 10,000 years of civilization, watching humanity repeat itself with wars over borderlines and exceed itself with the creation of timeless art, the writer begins to reckon with the very worst and the very best in our collective natures - and it is in seeing the beauty beside the ugliness, the light among the trees, that she begins to see, finally, a way for her to go home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beneath the World, a Sea Chris Beckett (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h240mm x w160mm x s25mm 420g ISBN13: 9781786491558 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-155-8 ISBN10: 1786491559 EAN: 9781786491558 x Description: 'A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand.' Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results... Beneath the World, A Sea is a tour de force of modern fiction - a deeply searching and unsettling novel about the human subconscious, and all that lies beneath.
'Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard.' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets Michael Blastland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h223mm x w145mm x s28mm 505g ISBN13: 9781786497772 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-777-2 ISBN10: 1786497778 EAN: 9781786497772 x Description: Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, Blastland reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. The result - from GDP figures to medicine - is that experts know a lot less than they think. Filled with compelling stories from economics, genetics, business, and science, The Hidden Half is a warning that an explanation which works in one arena may not work in another. Entertaining and provocative, it will change how you view the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets Michael Blastland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h216mm x w138mm x s23mm 385g ISBN13: 9781786496379 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-637-9 ISBN10: 1786496372 EAN: 9781786496379 x Description: Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world. We humans are very clever creatures - but we're idiots about how clever we really are. In this entertaining and ingenious book, Blastland reveals how in our quest to make the world more understandable, we lose sight of how unexplainable it often is. The result - from GDP figures to medicine - is that experts know a lot less than they think. Filled with compelling stories from economics, genetics, business, and science, The Hidden Half is a warning that an explanation which works in one arena may not work in another. Entertaining and provocative, it will change how you view the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 296g TBC ISBN13: 9781786490162 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-016-2 ISBN10: 1786490161 EAN: 9781786490162 x Description: Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019 The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018 For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of short-term jobs with no security and little future. In this essential expose, James Bloodworth goes undercover to investigate how working life has become a waking nightmare. From the Orwellian reach of an Amazon warehouse to the trials of a care worker, Hired is a clear-eyed analysis of a divided nation and a riveting dispatch from the very frontline of low-wage Britain. 'An extraordinary and unsettling journey into the way modern Britons work. It is George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London for the gigeconomy age' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, author of Post-Truth _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forgotten Sister Caroline Bond (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h234mm x w157mm x s26mm 565g ISBN13: 9781786493682 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-368-2 ISBN10: 1786493683 EAN: 9781786493682 x Description: "Caroline Bond has a gift for weaving heart-rending tales of impossible decisions" Amanda Brooke To lose your family is heart-breaking. To be forgotten by them is unforgivable. Cassie and Erin are sisters. They are close - in age, looks and personality - but there is one crucial difference: Cassie is adopted. At seventeen, Cassie sets out to find her birth mother. She is hungry for the truth, but she discovers her adoption was far more complicated than even she could have imagined. In uncovering her past identity Cassie learns her adoptive parents have kept a terrible secret from her her whole life, which now threatens to destroy everything she has ever held dear. A heart-rending, profoundly moving novel about protecting the ones you love from the secrets that will hurt them most, perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last Stone: A Gripping Account of a Cold Case Criminal Investigation Mark Bowden (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
06 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 352pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781611854862 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-486-2 ISBN10: 1611854865 EAN: 9781611854862 x Description: On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch's sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Small Fry Lisa Brennan-Jobs (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 401g ISBN13: 9781611854916 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-491-6 ISBN10: 1611854911 EAN: 9781611854916 x Description: Vogue's Best Books of the Year Sunday Times' Best Memoirs of the Year A New York Times Book of the Year New Yorker Book of the Year A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. __________________________________________________ Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest in her, ushering her into a new world of mansions, holidays and private schools. His attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. When her relationship with her mother grew strained in high school, Lisa decided to move in with her father, hoping he'd become the parent she'd always wanted him to be. Small Fry is Lisa Brennan-Jobs's poignant story of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes. Scrappy, wise and funny, young Lisa is an unforgettable guide through her parents' fascinating and disparate worlds. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book by an insightful new literary voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism Richard Brooks (author of Bean Counters) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h197mm x w126mm x s27mm 340g Black-and-white line drawings/graphs and photos throughout (integrated) ISBN13: 9781786490315 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-031-5 ISBN10: 1786490315 EAN: 9781786490315 x Description: 'A devastating expose.' Mail on Sunday They helped cause the 2008 financial crash. They created a global tax avoidance industry. They lurk behind the scenes at every level of government... The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But how has the seemingly humdrum profession of accountancy got to this level? And what is the price we pay for their excesses? Leading investigative journalist Richard Brooks charts the profession's rise to global influence and offers a gripping expose of the accountancy industry. From underpinning global tax avoidance to corrupting world football, Bean Counters reveals how the accountants have used their central role in the economy to sell management consultancy services that send billions in fees its way. A compelling history informed by numerous insider interviews, this is essential reading for anyone interested in how our economy works and the future of accountancy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Sacred Storm Theodore Brun (Author) (Author) Series:
The Wanderer Chronicles Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s45mm 521g ISBN13: 9781786490032 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-003-2 ISBN10: 178649003X EAN: 9781786490032 x Description: 'A masterly debut... If Bernard Cornwall and George RR Martin had a lovechild, it would look like A Mighty Dawn. I devoured it late into the night, and eagerly await the sequel.' -- Antonia Senior on A Mighty Dawn Forged in fire. Bound by honour. Haunted by loss. 8th Century Sweden: Erlan Aurvandil, a Viking outlander, has pledged his sword to Sviggar Ivarsson, King of the Svears. But violence is stirring in the borderlands. As the fires of an ancient feud are reignited, Erlan is bound by honour and oath to stand with King Sviggar. But, unbeknownst to the old King his daughter, Princess Lilla, has fallen under Erlan's spell. As the armies gather Erlan and Lilla must choose between their duty to Sviggar and their love for each other. Blooded young, betrayed often, Erlan is no stranger to battle. And hidden in the shadows, there are always those determined to bring about the maelstrom of war... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Tokyo Romance Ian Buruma (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 251g integrated b&w photographs ISBN13: 9781782398028 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-802-8 ISBN10: 1782398023 EAN: 9781782398028 x Description: 'The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life' Observer When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma came of age. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him, and a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic and sexual. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
America Is Not the Heart Elaine Castillo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 290g ISBN13: 9781786491350 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-135-0 ISBN10: 1786491354 EAN: 9781786491350 x Description: Longlisted for the Aspen Literary Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2018 Longlisted for Elle's Big Book Award, 2018 Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines, she's already on her third. Her uncle, Pol, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area, knows not to ask about the first and second. And his younger wife, Paz, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to scream with hurt at the steering wheel of the car she drives to collect her from school, and only Rosalyn, the fierce but open-hearted beautician, has any hope of bringing Hero back from the dead. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It Chris Clearfield (Author) Andras Tilcsik (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 296g ISBN13: 9781786492265 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-226-5 ISBN10: 1786492261 EAN: 9781786492265 x Description: Financial Times' best business books of the year, 2018 'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book about failure has any right to be.' - Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit What can we learn from our most disastrous failures? An accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital. The Starbucks publicity stunt that spectacularly backfired. The mix-up at the 2017 Oscars ceremony. As technology rapidly advances, it brings with it an explosion of complexity that can trip us up. Meltdown uses real-life examples to reveal how errors in thinking, perception, and design lie behind both our everyday mistakes and our most terrifying disasters. It reveals how a five-minute exercise can prevent billion-dollar catastrophes, why teams with fewer experts are better at managing risk, and why diversity is one of our best safeguards against failure. This eye-opening book will change the way you see our complex world - and your place within it. 'Essential reading.' - Martin Ford, bestselling author of Rise of the Robots _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Equations of Life: The Hidden Rules Shaping Evolution Charles Cockell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h199mm x w128mm x s25mm 330g ISBN13: 9781786493040 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-304-0 ISBN10: 1786493047 EAN: 9781786493040 x Description: Britain's foremost astrobiologist offers an accessible and game-changing account of why life is like it is. The puzzles of life astound and confuse us like no other mystery. But in this revolutionary new book, Charles Cockell reveals how nature is far more understandable and predictable than we think. Refining Darwin's theory of natural selection, Cockell puts forward a remarkable and elegant account of why evolution has taken the paths it has. From animals to atoms, he shows that is it not biology, but physics, which is the true touchstone for understanding life in all its extraordinary forms. _______________ An intriguing and enthralling adventure into the physics of life that is all around us and inside us. Cockell provides a reminder of the seeming rarity of all this beauty but also an invitation to look up to the skies and ask 'where else might something like this be?' - Robin Ince - Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Infinite Monkey Cage Riveting... Cockell is not only a fine scientist but a fine writer too. - Sir Martin Rees - Astronomer Royal and former President of the Royal Society
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Don't Worry About the Robots: How to survive and thrive in the new world of work Dr Jo Cribb (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 240pp h235mm x w155mm x s19mm 310g ISBN13: 9781760633509 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-350-9 ISBN10: 176063350X EAN: 9781760633509 x Description: In this timely book, Dr Jo Cribb and David Glover, former CEOs who have launched successful portfolio careers, share insights from their own experiences plus those of an impressive range of successful business leaders who are all actively thinking about the future of work. Aimed at anyone who needs to change careers or whose job leaves them feeling unchallenged and unfulfilled, as well as those starting work for the first time, this book will provide the inspiration, support and practical tools needed to change your working life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls Lisa Damour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
18 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h234mm x w156mm x s21mm 480g ISBN13: 9781786493965 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-396-5 ISBN10: 1786493969 EAN: 9781786493965 x Description: Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent research studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of the century. So what's to blame? And how can we help these girls? In the same engaging, anecdotal style and reassuring tone that won over thousands of readers of her first book, Untangled, clinical psychologist Lisa Damour starts by examining the science of stress and anxiety, then turns to the many facets of girls' lives where stress hits them hard: the parental expectations they face at home, pressures at school, social anxiety among their peers, and on social media. Exploring the multiple layers of girls' lives, Damour shows us the critical steps we can take to shield them from the toxic stress to which both our culture and also we, as their caregivers, subject them. Readers familiar with Damour from Untangled or from her New York Times journalism will be drawn to this important new contribution to understanding and supporting today's girls - and tomorrow's young women. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-HundredYear Odyssey Margaret Leslie Davis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h240mm x w165mm x s30mm 625g integrated photos ISBN13: 9781786497635 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-763-5 ISBN10: 1786497638 EAN: 9781786497635 x Description: 'A lively tale of historical innovation, the thrill of the bibliophile's hunt, greed and betrayal.' New York Times
The never-before-told story of one extremely rare copy of the Gutenberg Bible, and its impact on the lives of the fanatical few who were lucky enough to own it. For rare book collectors, an original copy of the Gutenberg Bible - there are only forty-six in existence - is the undisputed gem of any collection. The Lost Gutenberg recounts five centuries in the life of one particular copy of the Bible from its very creation by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany, to its ultimate resting place, in a steel vault under the protection of the Japanese government. Margaret Leslie Davis draws readers into this incredible saga, inviting them into the colourful lives of each of its fanatic collectors along the way. Exploring books as objects of desire across centuries, Davis will leave readers not only with a broader understanding of the culture of rare book collectors, but with a deeper awareness of the importance of books in our world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men who Shaped Britain's Gardens Fiona Davison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h240mm x w165mm x s35mm 750g 2x8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781786495075 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-507-5 ISBN10: 1786495074 EAN: 9781786495075 x Description: 'Delightful... The Hidden Horticulturists pulsates with the extraordinary energy and excitement of the time.' Daily Mail ______________________ The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden today. In 2012, whilst working at the Royal Horticultural Society's library, Fiona Davison unearthed a book of handwritten notes that dated back to 1822. The notes, each carefully set out in neat copperplate writing, had been written by young gardeners in support of their application to be received into the Society's Garden. Amongst them was an entry from the young Joseph Paxton, who would go on to become one of Britain's best-known gardeners and architects. But he was far from alone in shaping the way we garden today and now, for the first time, the stories of the young, working-class men who also played a central role in the history of British horticulture can be told. Using their notes, Fiona Davison traces the stories of a selection of these forgotten gardeners whose lives would take divergent paths to create a unique history of gardening. The trail took her from Chiswick to Bolivia and uncovered tales of fraud, scandal and madness - and, of course, a large number of fabulous plants and gardens. This is a celebration of the unsung heroes of horticulture whose achievements reflect a golden moment in British gardening, and continue to influence how we garden today.
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The Missing Years Lexie Elliott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h234mm x w156mm x s28mm 495g ISBN13: 9781786495570 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-557-0 ISBN10: 1786495570 EAN: 9781786495570 x Description: A Goodreads 'Mover and Shaker' for summer 2019 She thought she would never go back... Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs to a man who disappeared without a trace twenty-seven years ago. Her father. Leaving London behind to settle her mother's estate, Ailsa returns to her childhood home nestled amongst the craggy peaks of the Scottish Highlands, accompanied by the half-sister she's never taken the time to get to know. With the past threatening to swallow her whole, she can't escape the claustrophobic feeling that the house itself is watching her. And when Ailsa confronts the first nighttime intruder, she sees that the manor's careless rugged beauty could cost her everything... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vagina: A re-education Lynn Enright (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h216mm x w135mm x s17mm 306g ISBN13: 9781911630012 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-01-2 ISBN10: 1911630016 EAN: 9781911630012 x Description: Winner of the Hearst Big Book Awards, 2019 - Women's Health's Book of the Year _____________ Shocking, brilliant, important. A fine addition to the feminist canon. - Emma Jane Unsworth For the first time I feel like I PROPERLY understand my vagina! I wish I had read this 23 years ago! - Scarlett Curtis _____________ From earliest childhood, girls are misled about their bodies, encouraged to describe their genitalia with cute and silly names rather than anatomically correct terms. In our schools and in our culture, we are coy about women while putting straight men's sexuality front and centre. Girls grow up feeling ashamed about their periods, about the appearance of their vulvas, about their own desires. They grow up without a full and honest sex education, and this lack of knowledge has serious consequences: the number of women attending cervical screening appointments in the UK is at a 20-year low while labiaplasty is the fastest growing type of plastic surgery in the world. Vagina provides girls and women with information they need about their own bodies - about the vagina, the hymen, the clitoris, the orgasm; about conditions like endometriosis and vulvodynia. It confronts taboos, such as abortion, miscarriage, infertility and masturbation. It tackles vital social issues like period poverty, female genital mutilation and the rights of transgender women. It is honest and moving as Lynn Enright shares her personal stories but this is about more than one woman - this is a book that will provoke thousands of conversations. We urgently need to talk about women's sexual and reproductive health, about our experiences of sex and pregnancy and pain and pleasure. Vagina: A Re-Education will help us do just that. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption Patrick Flanery (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h217mm x w155mm x s35mm 450g ISBN13: 9781786497246 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-724-6 ISBN10: 1786497247 EAN: 9781786497246 x Description: A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to others. This uniquely powerful book moves deftly between heartbreaking memoir and illuminating meditation on parenting, adoption and queerness in contemporary culture, stopping along the way to consider recent science fiction film, camp horror television, fiction and visual art. At the end, which could also be the beginning of a new journey, Flanery asks whether we might all imagine ourselves as ginger children-fragile, sensitive, more easily hurt than we think possible, but with the hope that we are also survivors, with greater powers of resilience than we know. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Every Note Played Lisa Genova (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
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Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 226g ISBN13: 9781760633080 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-308-0 ISBN10: 1760633089 EAN: 9781760633080 x Description: A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations. An accomplished concert pianist, Richard has already suffered many losses in his life: the acrimonious divorce from his ex-wife, Karina; the estrangement of his daughter, Grace; and now, a devastating diagnosis. ALS. The relentlessly progressive paralysis of ALS begins in the cruellest way possible - in his hands. As Richard becomes more and more locked inside his body and can no longer play piano or live on his own, Karina steps in as his reluctant caregiver. Paralysed in a different way, Karina is trapped within a prison of excuses and blame, stuck in an unfulfilling life as an after-school piano teacher, afraid to pursue the path she abandoned as a young woman. As Richard's muscles, voice and breath fade, the two struggle to reconcile their past before it's too late. With a strong musical sensibility and the staggering insight of Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, Lisa Genova has delivered a masterful exploration of what it means to find yourself within the most shattering of circumstances. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kill [redacted] Anthony Good (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h240mm x w165mm x s38mm 720g ISBN13: 9781786495679 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-567-9 ISBN10: 1786495678 EAN: 9781786495679 x Description: 'Provocative and compelling, it is a spectacular debut' - Daily Mail ____________ Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller. Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack on a London train. Since then, he has been seeing a therapist to help him come to terms with his grief - and his anger. He can't get over the fact that the man he holds responsible has seemingly got away scot-free. He doesn't blame the bombers, who he considers only as the logical conclusion to a long chain of events. No, to Michael's mind, the ultimate cause is the politician whose cynical policies have had such deadly impact abroad. His therapist suggests that he write his feelings down to help him forgive and move on, but as a retired headteacher, Michael believes that for every crime there should be a fitting punishment - and so in the pages of his diary he begins to set out the case for, and set about committing, murder. Waltzing through the darkling journal of a brilliant mind put to serious misuse, Kill [redacted] is a powerful and provocative exploration of the contours of grief and the limits of moral justice, and a blazing condemnation of all those who hold, and abuse, power. ONE OF THE BEST DEBUT NOVELS of 2019 (the i ) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kill [redacted] Anthony Good (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 416pp h233mm x w156mm x s31mm 550g ISBN13: 9781786496850 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-685-0 ISBN10: 1786496852 EAN: 9781786496850 x Description: Is murder ever morally right? And is a murderer necessarily bad? These two questions waltz through the maddening mind of Michael, the brilliant, terrifying, fiendishly smart creation at the centre of this winking dark gem of a literary thriller. Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack on a London train. Since then, he has been seeing a therapist to help him come to terms with his grief - and his anger. He can't get over the fact that the man he holds responsible has seemingly got away scot-free. He doesn't blame the bombers, who he considers only as the logical conclusion to a long chain of events. No, to Michael's mind, the ultimate cause is the politician whose cynical policies have had such deadly impact abroad. His therapist suggests that he write his feelings down to help him forgive and move on, but as a retired headteacher, Michael believes that for every crime there should be a fitting punishment - and so in the pages of his diary he begins to set out the case for, and set about committing, murder.
Waltzing through the darkling journal of a brilliant mind put to serious misuse, Kill [redacted] is a powerful and provocative exploration of the contours of grief and the limits of moral justice, and a blazing condemnation of all those who hold, and abuse, power. ONE OF THE BEST DEBUT NOVELS of 2019 (the i ) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Knowledge Martha Grimes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 258g ISBN13: 9781786497550 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-755-0 ISBN10: 1786497557 EAN: 9781786497550 x Description: In the new mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series, Martha Grimes brings London's finest on a double-homicide case that involves Kenyan art, rare gems, astrophysics and a long-fermented act of revenge. 'Read any one [of her novels] and you'll want to read them all.' - Chicago Tribune Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theatre, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who shot Robbie's previous pair of customers point-blank in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallerycum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the killer eventually escapes to Nairobi with ten-year-old Patty Haigh - one of a crew of stray kids who serve as the cabbies' eyes and ears at Heathrow and Waterloo - in pursuit, superintendent Richard Jury comes across the double-homicide in the Saturday paper. Two days previously, Jury had met and instantly connected with one of the victims, a professor of astrophysics at Columbia and an expert gambler. Jury considers the murder a personal affront and is soon contending with a case that takes unexpected turns into Tanzanian gem mines, a closed casino in Reno, and a pub that only London's black cabbies, those who have 'the knowledge,' can find. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians Isabel Hardman (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
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Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 341g Plate section TBC ISBN13: 9781782399759 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-975-9 ISBN10: 1782399755 EAN: 9781782399759 x Description: Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year Winner at the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ "A really good book... Well-structured and well-written." Observer "Well written and incisive." The Times "Vital and compelling." New Statesman In an era when politicians are responsible for the Brexit logjam and embroiled in sexual-harassment and expenses scandals, it's no wonder we've lost our faith in government. Every year, they introduce new legislation that doesn't do what it sets out to achieve - often with terrible financial and human costs. But, with some notable exceptions, they are decent, hard-working people, doing a hugely difficult and demanding job. In this searching examination of our political class, award-winning journalist Isabel Hardman investigates the strange and demanding world of Westminster, and asks
why we end up with representatives we no longer trust - and how might faith be restored. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Animal's Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story Jacky Colliss Harvey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Hardback 304pp h218mm x w154mm x s29mm 545g 2 x 16pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781760295783 ISBN13: 978-1-76029-578-3 ISBN10: 1760295787 EAN: 9781760295783 x Description: The earliest evidence of a human and a pet can be traced as far back as 26,000 BC in France where a boy and his 'canid' took a walk through a cave. Their foot and paw prints were preserved together on the muddy cave floor, and smoke from the torch the boy carried was left on the walls, allowing archaeologists to carbon-date their journey. And so, the story unfolds, from these prehistoric days all the way up to the present, of our innate and undeniable need to live in the close company of animals. In this startling new work, acclaimed cultural detective and lifelong pet owner Jacky Colliss Harvey uses her compelling storytelling skills and keen eye for historical investigation to examine our role as animals' companions, in this exploration of the history not of the pet, but of us as pet owners. Drawing on literary, artistic and archaeological evidence of our relationships with other species, over thousands of years of human experience, she examines the when, the how and the why of our connection to those animals we take into our lives, assessing these against the latest scientific thinking on this complex and enthralling subject, and suggesting new insights into this most long-standing of all human love-affairs. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Narrow Land Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 634g ISBN13: 9781786496713 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-671-3 ISBN10: 1786496712 EAN: 9781786496713 x Description: "A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it constantly surrounds us, suspends us, haunts us." Colum McCann 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple living nearby - the artists Jo and Edward Hopper - and an unlikely friendship is forged. She, volatile, passionate and often irrational, suffers bouts of obsessive sexual jealousy. He, withdrawn and unwell, depressed by his inability to work, becomes besotted by Richie's frail and beautiful Aunt Katherine who has not long to live - an infatuation he shares with young Michael. A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy of World War II and the ever-changing concept of the American Dream. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Narrow Land Christine Dwyer Hickey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h234mm x w155mm x s29mm 495g ISBN13: 9781786496720 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-672-0 ISBN10: 1786496720 EAN: 9781786496720 x Description: "A brilliant portrait... With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it constantly surrounds us, suspends us, haunts us." Colum McCann 1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Richie and his glamorous but troubled mother. Left to their own devices, the boys meet a couple living nearby - the artists Jo and Edward Hopper - and an unlikely friendship is forged. She, volatile, passionate and often irrational, suffers bouts of obsessive sexual jealousy. He, withdrawn and unwell, depressed by his inability to work, becomes besotted by Richie's frail and beautiful Aunt Katherine who has not long to live - an infatuation he shares with young Michael. A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy of World War II and the ever-changing concept of the American Dream. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Devil's Half Mile Paddy Hirsch (Author) Series:
Lawless New York
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 258g ISBN13: 9781786493521 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-352-1 ISBN10: 1786493527 EAN: 9781786493521 x Description: Golden Hill and The Alienist meet Gangs of New York in this sweeping historical crime drama set in 18th century New York. New York, 1799. Justy Flanagan returns to his native city after five years in Ireland fighting the English. Bloodied and battered, Justy is no stranger to violence. Now he must use all his resources to uncover the truth behind his father's murder. But while he looks so intently at the past, it is the present that threatens to trip him up. When the body of a young woman appears in the docklands, brutally murdered, Justy must venture into the dark underbelly of the nascent city, where the labyrinthine streets hold danger at every turn. And, as the conspiracy deepens, it becomes clear that those involved will stop at nothing to keep their secrets... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bride Test Helen Hoang (Author) Series:
Kiss Quotient Series
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 217g ISBN13: 9781786499639 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-963-9 ISBN10: 1786499630 EAN: 9781786499639
x Description: Goodread's Big Books of Spring 2019 - Romance 'Such a fun read... Original and sexy and sensitive.' Roxane Gay, on The Kiss Quotient 'Refreshingly real.' Marie Claire for The Bride Test __________________ From the bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient. Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, not big, important emotions - like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better - that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly refuses to consider a relationship, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride. As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. So when the opportunity arises to go to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down. This could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go quite as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working... but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection. As Esme's time in the United States dwindles, will Khai let his head catch up with his heart? Will he find the strength to let go, and let love in? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cafe de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa Christopher Hope (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h200mm x w130mm x s30mm 315g Integrated photographs ISBN13: 9781786490612 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-061-2 ISBN10: 1786490617 EAN: 9781786490612 x Description: Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019 In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela, of a future when race and colour would not count. He finds a country still in the grip of a ruling party intent only on caring for itself, to the exclusion of all others; a country where racial divides are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a mass yearning to destroy the past, Hope ponders the question: what next? Framed as a travelogue, this is a darkly comic, powerful and moving portrait of South Africa - an elegy to a living nation, which is still mad and absurd. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity Robin Ince (Author) Stewart Lee (Contributions by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h200mm x w130mm x s25mm 270g ISBN13: 9781786492616 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-261-6 ISBN10: 178649261X EAN: 9781786492616 x Description: Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year, 2018 Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018
'Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human.' Observer 'Funny, honest and heart-warming.' Matt Haig What better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? In this touching and witty book, award-winning presenter and comic Robin Ince uses the life of the stand-up as a way of exploring some of the biggest questions we all face. Where does anxiety come from? How do we overcome imposter syndrome? What is the key to creativity? How can we deal with grief? Informed by personal insights from Robin as well as interviews with some of the world's top comedians, neuroscientists and psychologists, this is a hilarious and often moving primer to the mind. But it is also a powerful call to embrace the full breadth of our inner experience - no matter how strange we worry it may be! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Human Network: How We're Connected and Why It Matters Matthew O. Jackson (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h225mm x w145mm x s30mm 401g 10 x integrated b+w line drawings ISBN13: 9781786490209 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-020-9 ISBN10: 178649020X EAN: 9781786490209 x Description: It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe. Based on his ground-breaking research, The Human Network reveals how our relationships in school, university, work and society have extraordinary implications throughout our lives and demonstrates that by understanding and taking advantage of these networks, we can boost our happiness, success and influence. But there are also wider lessons to be learnt. Drawing on concepts from economics, mathematics, sociology, and anthropology, Jackson reveals how the science of networks gives us a bold new framework to understand human interaction writ large - from banking crashes and viral marketing to racism and the spread of disease. Filled with counter-intuitive ideas that will enliven any dinner party - e.g. how can our popularity in school affect us for the rest of our lives? - The Human Network is a "big ideas" book that no one can afford to miss. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Silver Road Stina Jackson (Author) Susan Beard (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h240mm x w163mm x s29mm 600g ISBN13: 9781786497307 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-730-7 ISBN10: 1786497301 EAN: 9781786497307 x Description: Even the darkest journey must come to an end... ____________ 'Haunting, intoxicating' Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me 'Deeply affecting' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls ____________
Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers driving the Silver Road under the midnight sun, frantically searching for his lost daughter, for himself and for redemption. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start. She is the same age as Lelle's daughter was - a girl on the brink of adulthood. But for Meja, there are dangers to be found in this isolated place. As autumn's darkness slowly creeps in, Lelle and Meja's lives are intertwined in ways, both haunting and tragic, that they could never have imagined. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Silver Road Stina Jackson (Author) Susan Beard (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h233mm x w157mm x s25mm 480g ISBN13: 9781786497321 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-732-1 ISBN10: 1786497328 EAN: 9781786497321 x Description: Even the darkest journey must come to an end... 'Haunting, intoxicating' Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me 'Deeply affecting' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers driving the Silver Road under the midnight sun, frantically searching for his lost daughter, for himself and for redemption. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start. She is the same age as Lelle's daughter was - a girl on the brink of adulthood. But for Meja, there are dangers to be found in this isolated place. As autumn's darkness slowly creeps in, Lelle and Meja's lives are intertwined in ways, both haunting and tragic, that they could never have imagined. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ayesha at Last Uzma Jalaluddin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 247g ISBN13: 9781786497949 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-794-9 ISBN10: 1786497948 EAN: 9781786497949 x Description: Winner of the Hearst Big Books Award, 2019 - Cosmopolitan's Book of the Year ______________ 'Enchanting, achingly funny and uplifting, Ayesha at Last is a must read!' Randa Abdel-Fattah ______________ A big-hearted, captivating, modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice, with hijabs instead of top hats and kurtas instead of corsets. AYESHA SHAMSI has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been overtaken by a demanding teaching job. Her boisterous Muslim family, and numerous (interfering) aunties, are professional naggers. And her flighty young cousin, about to reject her one hundredth marriage proposal, is a constant reminder that Ayesha is still single. Ayesha might be a little lonely, but the one thing she doesn't want is an arranged marriage. And then she meets Khalid... How could a man so
conservative and judgmental (and, yes, smart and annoyingly handsome) have wormed his way into her thoughts so quickly? As for Khalid, he's happy the way he is; his mother will find him a suitable bride. But why can't he get the captivating, outspoken Ayesha out of his mind? They're far too different to be a good match, surely... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Night by Night Jack Jordan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 311g ISBN13: 9781786494429 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-442-9 ISBN10: 1786494426 EAN: 9781786494429 x Description: 'If you're reading this, I'm dead.' Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is on the brink . But one dark evening she collides with a man running through the streets, who quickly vanishes. The only sign he ever existed - a journal dropped at Rose's feet. She begins to obsessively dedicate her sleepless nights to discovering what happened to Finn Matthews, the mysterious author of the journal. Why was he convinced someone wanted to kill him? And why, in the midst of a string of murders, won't the police investigate his disappearance? Rose is determined to uncover the truth. But she has no idea what the truth will cost her... 'Wow, it grabs you in the gut from the first few pages and doesn't let go!' Jo Spain, bestselling author of The Confession 'What a heart-breaking, heart-stopping read! I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Night by Night is AMAZING!' Lauren North, author of The Perfect Betrayal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power Ichiro Kishimi (Author) Fumitake Koga (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 354g ISBN13: 9781911630210 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-21-0 ISBN10: 1911630210 EAN: 9781911630210 x Description: The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary dilemmas continues with life-changing advice on finding happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________ In The Courage To Be Happy, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga again distil their wisdom into simple yet profound advice to show us how we, too, can use twentieth-century psychological theory to find true happiness. ON THE COURAGE TO BE DISLIKED: The ideas proffered here will certainly make you think twice about the real cause of the emotional drama in your life. A thought-provoking read. - Mail on Sunday. A real game-changer - Marie Claire.
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Trenton Makes Tadzio Koelb (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 162g ISBN13: 9781786494078 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-407-8 ISBN10: 1786494078 EAN: 9781786494078 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, 2018 __________________________________________ "A novel of bewitching ingenuity" New York Times "Electrifying" Lit Hub __________________________________________ Abe Kunstler wants his share of the American Dream, which for him is a factory job, a wife and a family. Getting these things will be harder for Abe than it is for other people, however, because his life is a lie - an invention forged in the heat of a terrible crime. Haunted by his past, terrified of exposure, and searching obsessively for redemption, Abe moves from one ruthless act to the next, tricking an alcoholic young taxi-dancer into becoming first his wife, then the mother of a child she believes is his. When the life they have built is threatened, he becomes desperate, until even Abe himself isn't sure how far he'll go to keep his secret... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Feral Detective Jonathan Lethem (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h240mm x w160mm x s30mm 580g ISBN13: 9781786497482 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-748-2 ISBN10: 1786497484 EAN: 9781786497482 x Description: 'A nimble and uncanny performance, brimming with Lethem's trademark verve and wit' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist - a laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer - to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desertdwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble - caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. Phoebe's trip to the desert was always going to be strange, but it was never supposed to be dangerous... Jonathan Lethem's first detective novel since Motherless Brooklyn, The Feral Detective is a singular achievement by one of our greatest writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gallowstree Lane Kate London (Author) Series:
The Metropolitan Series
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h242mm x w164mm x s33mm 630g ISBN13: 9781786497956 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-795-6 ISBN10: 1786497956 EAN: 9781786497956 x Description: 'Taut, tight and terrific, a London thriller for our times' Philippe Sands
Please don't let me die. Please don't. When a teenage boy steps out of the shadows of Gallowstree Lane and asks a passer-by for help, it's already too late. His life is bleeding out on the London street. The murder threatens to derail Operation Perseus, a cover police investigation into the Eardsley Bluds, an organised criminal network. Detective Kieran Shaw can't and won't allow that to happen. But fifteen-year-old Ryan has other ideas. He's witnessed the death of his best friend, and now he wants someone to pay... As loyalties collide, a chain of events is triggered that threatens everyone with a connection to Gallowstree Lane. 'Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing. Read everything she writes.' Tony Parsons _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gallowstree Lane Kate London (Author) Series:
The Metropolitan Series
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781786493385 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-338-5 ISBN10: 1786493381 EAN: 9781786493385 x Description: Please don't let me die. Please don't. The final words of teenager Spencer Cardoso as he bleeds out on a London street, his life cut short in a single moment of rage. Detective Inspector Kieran Shaw's not interested in the infantry. Shaw likes the proper criminals, the ones who can plan things. For two years he's been painstakingly building evidence against an organized network, the Eardsley Bluds. Operation Perseus is about to make its arrests. So when a low-level Bluds member is stabbed to death on Gallowstree Lane, Shaw's priority is to protect his operation. An investigation into one of London's tit for tat killings can't be allowed to derail Perseus and let the master criminals go free. But there's a witness to the murder, fifteen-year-old Ryan Kennedy. Already caught up in Perseus and with the Bluds, Ryan's got his own demons and his own ideas about what's important. As loyalties collide and priorities clash, a chain of events is triggered that draws in Shaw's old adversary DI Sarah Collins and threatens everyone with a connection to Gallowstree Lane... "Kate London, the new rising star of crime fiction, is the real thing. Read everything she writes." --Tony Parsons
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy and a Collision of Lives in World War II Adam Makos (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h240mm x w165mm x s38mm 860g 2 x16pp b/w plates ISBN13: 9781782395782 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-578-2 ISBN10: 1782395784 EAN: 9781782395782 x Description: The New York Times Bestseller 'Brilliant... Gripping' Wall Street Journal From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich. At first, gunner Clarence Smoyer and his fellow crewmen in the legendary 3rd Armored Division - 'Spearhead' - thought their tanks were invincible. Then they met the German Panther, with a gun so murderous it could shoot through one Sherman and into the next. Soon a pattern emerged: the lead tank always gets hit. After Clarence sees his friends cut down breaching the West Wall and holding the line in the Battle of the Bulge, he and his crew are given a weapon with the power to avenge their fallen brothers: the Pershing, a state-of-the-art 'super tank', one of twenty in the European theatre. But with it comes a harrowing new responsibility: now they will spearhead every attack. That's how Clarence finds himself leading the U.S. Army into its largest urban battle of the European war, the fight for Cologne, the 'Fortress City' of Germany. Battling through the ruins, Clarence will engage the fearsome Panther in a duel immortalized by an army cameraman. And he will square off with Gustav Schaefer, a teenager behind the trigger in a Panzer IV tank, whose crew has been sent on a suicide mission to stop the Americans. As Clarence and Gustav trade fire down a long boulevard, they are confronted by a tragic mistake of war. What happens next will haunt Clarence to the modern day, drawing him back to Cologne to do the unthinkable: to face his enemy, one last time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Original Spin: Misadventures in Cricket Vic Marks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
27 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h242mm x w165mm x s32mm 695g 2 x 8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781911630197 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-19-7 ISBN10: 1911630199 EAN: 9781911630197 x Description: The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time. In April 1974 new recruits Viv Richards, Ian Botham, Peter Roebuck and Vic Marks reported for duty at Somerset County Cricket Club. Apart from Richards, 'all of us were eighteen years old, though Botham seemed to have lived a bit longer - or at least more vigorously - than the rest.' In this irresistible memoir of a life lived in cricket, Vic Marks returns to the heady days when Richards and Botham were young men yet to unleash their talents on the world stage while he and Roebuck looked on in awe. After the high-octane dramas of Somerset, playing for England was almost an anticlimax for Marks, who became an unlikely all-rounder in the mercurial side of the 1980s.
Moving from the dressing room to the press box, with trenchant observations about the modern game along the way, Original Spin is a charmingly wry, shrewdly observed account of a golden age in cricket. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emergencies Only: An Australian nurse's journey through natural disasters, extreme poverty, civil wars and general chaos Amanda McClelland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 336pp h235mm x w155mm x s26mm 480g ISBN13: 9781760294212 ISBN13: 978-1-76029-421-2 ISBN10: 1760294217 EAN: 9781760294212 x Description: In 2015, Amanda McClelland was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, in recognition of an extraordinary career dedicated to making a difference. As a nurse and a humanitarian aid worker she has battled against extreme poverty, disease epidemics and natural disasters, helping to rebuild broken lives and strengthen communities across the globe. From nursing in remote Indigenous communities in Australia's Top End to re-building villages after the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in Aceh, from fighting famine in Sub Saharan Africa to facing kidnapping on the war-torn streets of Mogadishu, from battling cyclone damage in PNG to heading up the Red Cross's West African Ebola response, Amanda has faced huge challenges and collected incredible stories along the way. Emergencies Only is not a compendium of tragedy, but an eye-opening life-lesson in practicality, compassion and good humour, written with empathy and an eye for detail, and filled with the human stories that lie behind the headlines. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Joshua Mezrich (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h240mm x w170mm x s40mm 745g ISBN13: 9781786498861 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-886-1 ISBN10: 1786498863 EAN: 9781786498861 x Description: A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon Joshua Mezrich (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h234mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781786498878 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-887-8 ISBN10: 1786498871 EAN: 9781786498878 x Description: A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Passage of Love Alex Miller (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 608pp h197mm x w128mm x s38mm 315g ISBN13: 9781760630676 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-067-6 ISBN10: 1760630675 EAN: 9781760630676 x Description: Robert Crofts, a young Englishman, arrives in Australia in the 1950s, determined to inhabit the outback. After five years of life on the land, he makes his way to Melbourne where, living in a boarding house, working as a cleaner, he finds himself consumed by a burning need to read, write, draw, create. When he meets the enigmatic Lena, she instantly becomes his staunchest champion but as their tortured marriage evolves and gradually erodes she ultimately becomes an obstacle. This intensely autobiographical novel has much to say about the compulsion to create, and the fundamental unknowability of even our most intimate partners. As the reader sinks into the text of this singular book, the artifice of fiction gradually melts away, leaving nothing but truth on the page. In The Passage of Love Alex Miller has given us a masterful work which will come to define his career as one of the great writers of our time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Last House Guest Megan Miranda (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
20 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 457g ISBN13: 9781786492913 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-291-3 ISBN10: 1786492911 EAN: 9781786492913
x Description: When a wealthy young woman dies on holiday, her best friend is cast in a cloud of suspicion. A deeply compelling thriller from a New York Times bestselling author. ______________________ Never overstay your welcome... Littleport, Maine is like two separate towns: a vacation paradise for wealthy holidaymakers and a simple harbour community for the residents who serve them. Friendships between locals and visitors are unheard of - but that's just what happened with Avery Greer and Sadie Loman. Each summer for a decade the girls are inseparable - until Sadie is found dead. When the police rule the death a suicide, Avery can't help but feel there are those in the community, including a local detective and Sadie's brother Parker, who blame her. Someone knows more than they're saying, and Avery is intent on clearing her name before she's branded a killer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Prague Sonata Bradford Morrow (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 365g ISBN13: 9781611855036 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-503-6 ISBN10: 1611855039 EAN: 9781611855036 x Description: Pages of a weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. The gift comes with the request that Meta find the manuscript's true owner - a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since the Second World War forced them apart - and to make the three-part sonata whole again. Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvorak and Kafka, Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata and uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives, even as it becomes clear that she isn't the only one seeking the music's secrets. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ajax the Kea Dog: A working dog's life in the high country Corey Mosen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
A&U New Zealand
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
24 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: New Zealand Paperback / softback 300pp h235mm x w155mm x s20mm 690g ISBN13: 9781760633615 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-361-5 ISBN10: 1760633615 EAN: 9781760633615 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack H. M. Naqvi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback 304pp h240mm x w161mm x s28mm 545g ISBN13: 9781611856309 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-630-9 ISBN10: 1611856302 EAN: 9781611856309 x Description: Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a 'mythopoetic legacy' of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan heart of Pakistan, Abdullah has lost his zeal. A surprise invitation for a night out from his old friend Felix Pinto snaps Abdullah out of his funk, and saddles him with a ward - Pinto's adolescent grandson Bosco. As Abdullah plays mentor to Bosco, he also attracts the romantic attentions of Jugnu, an enigmatic siren with links to the mob. All the while Abdullah's brothers' plot to evict him from the family estate. Now he must to try to save his home - or face losing his last connection to his familial past. Anarchic, erudite and rollicking, with a septuagenarian protagonist like no other, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack is a joyride of a story set against a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the world's most vibrant cities. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Henry, Himself Stewart O'Nan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h223mm x w147mm x s34mm 530g ISBN13: 9781911630333 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-33-3 ISBN10: 1911630334 EAN: 9781911630333 x Description: Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humour, intelligence, and compassion. In Henry, Himself, he offers an unsentimental, moving life story of a twentieth-century everyman. _________________________________ Henry, Himself is a wry, warm-hearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises. Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honour. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple any more. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife, Emily, and dog, Rufus, stand by him. Once so confident, as Henry's strength and memory desert him, he weighs his dreams against his regrets and is left with questions he can't answer: Is he a good man? Has he done right by the people he loves? And with time running out, what, realistically, can he hope for? Henry, Himself is a wry, warmhearted portrait of an American original - a man who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee Gulwali Passarlay (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main - Re-Issue
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
30 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 386g 2x4pp col. plates ISBN13: 9781786497154 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-715-4 ISBN10: 1786497158 EAN: 9781786497154 x Description: *NOW UPDATED WITH EXTRA MATERIAL* The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times. Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army. He made a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, where he was fostered, sent to school, and won a place at a top university. He was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. One boy's experience is the central story of our times. This powerful memoir celebrates the triumph of courage over adversity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Angel's Mark: A gripping tale of espionage and murder in Elizabethan London S. W. Perry (Author) Series:
The Jackdaw Mysteries
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 311g ISBN13: 9781786494948 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-494-8 ISBN10: 1786494949 EAN: 9781786494948 x Description: Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Historical Fiction Dagger, 2019 A Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Read 2019 'A gorgeous book - rich, intelligent and dark in equal measure... Historical fiction at its most sumptuous.' Rory Clements LONDON, 1590. Amidst a tumultuous backdrop of Spanish plotters, Catholic heretics and foreign wars, Queen Elizabeth I's control over her kingdom is wavering. And a killer is at work, preying on the weak and destitute of London... Idealistic physician Nicholas Shelby becomes determined to end these terrible murders. Joined in his investigations by Bianca, a beautiful but mysterious tavern keeper, the pair find themselves caught in the middle of a sinister plot. With the killer still at large, Bianca finds herself in terrible danger. Nicholas's choice seems impossible - to save Bianca, or save himself... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Serpent's Mark S. W. Perry (Author) Series:
The Jackdaw Mysteries
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h235mm x w165mm x s37mm 720g ISBN13: 9781786494962 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-496-2 ISBN10: 1786494965 EAN: 9781786494962 x Description: From the author of The Angel's Mark, a CWA Dagger longlisted novel and a Walter Scott Prize Academy Recommended Read 2019 'S.W. Perry's ingeniously plotted novels have become my favourite historical crime series.' S G MacLean 'A rattling good read.' William Ryan ____________________ Treason sleeps for no man... London, 1591. Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London's lawless Bankside. But, when spymaster Robert Cecil asks him to investigate the dubious practices of a mysterious doctor from Switzerland, Nicholas is soon embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not just the life of an innocent young patient, but the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth herself. With fellow healer and mistress of the Jackdaw tavern, Bianca Merton, again at his side, Nicholas is drawn into a sinister world of zealots, charlatans and dangerous fanatics... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Stephen R. Platt (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 560pp h198mm x w129mm x s40mm 563g 2 Maps ISBN13: 9781786494870 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-487-0 ISBN10: 1786494876 EAN: 9781786494870 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Financial Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________ 'Entertaining and well-paced... Platt's compelling book is a sobering read that should focus the minds of those who like to talk of the achievements of the Victorian age without thinking about how those were achieved, or how they were funded.' Peter Frankopan, Spectator ________________________________________ In 1839 Britain embarked on the first of its wars with China, sealing the fate of the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Motivated by drug profiteering and free-trade interests, the Opium War helped shaped the China we know today, sparking the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty and the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century. Imperial Twilight is a riveting and revealing account of the end of China's Golden Age and the origins of one of the most unjust wars in history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cornish Lady Nicola Pryce (Author) (Author) Series:
Cornish Saga
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 322g ISBN13: 9781786493859 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-385-9 ISBN10: 1786493853 EAN: 9781786493859 x Description: The fourth novel in a stunning series set in eighteenth-century Cornwall, perfect for fans of Poldark. Educated, beautiful and the daughter of a prosperous merchant, Angelica Lilly has been invited to spend the summer in high society. Her father's wealth is opening doors, and attracting marriage proposals, but Angelica still feels like an imposter among the aristocrats of Cornwall. When her brother returns home, ill and under the influence of a dangerous man, Angelica's loyalties are tested to the limit. Her one hope lies with coachman Henry Trevelyan, a softly spoken, educated man with kind eyes. But when Henry seemingly betrays Angelica, she has no one to turn to. Who is Henry, and what does he want? And can Angelica save her brother from a terrible plot that threatens to ruin her entire family? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wanderer Michael Ridpath (Author) (Author) Series:
A Magnus Iceland Mystery
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 237g ISBN13: 9781782398752 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-875-2 ISBN10: 1782398759 EAN: 9781782398752 x Description: 'Michael Ridpath is trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is international thriller writing at its best.' PETER JAMES _______________ Iceland, 2017: When a young Italian tourist is found brutally murdered at a sacred church in northern Iceland, Magnus Jonson, newly returned to the Reykjavik police force, is called in to investigate. At the scene, he finds a stunned TV crew, there to film a documentary on the life of the legendary Viking, Gudrid the Wanderer. Magnus quickly begins to suspect that there may be more links to the murdered woman than anyone in the film crew will acknowledge. As jealousies come to the surface, new tensions replace old friendships, and history begins to rewrite itself, a shocking second murder leads Magnus to question everything he thought he knew... _______________ Praise for the A Magnus Iceland Mystery series: 'International thriller writing at its best, fine characters, page turning suspense and a great, fresh location.' -- Peter James 'Ingenious and thrilling. Fascinating stuff.' -- Spectator 'A clever blend of murder mystery, myth and up-to-the-minute mayhem...' --The Times 'Entertaining stuff.' -- Daily Telegraph 'Terrific! Great plot and splendid pacing...' -- Simon Brett 'A first class mystery.' -- Booklist _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Confessions of the Fox Jordy Rosenberg (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 261g ISBN13: 9781786496256 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-625-6 ISBN10: 1786496259 EAN: 9781786496256 x Description: Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, 2019 Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award, 2019 A New Yorker Book of the Year, 2018 A Huffington Post Book of the Year, 2018 A Buzzfeed Book of the Year, 2018 'Quite simply extraordinary... Imagine if Maggie Nelson, Daphne du Maurier and Daniel Defoe collaborated.' Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Jack Sheppard - a transgender carpenter's apprentice - has fled his master's house to become a notorious prison break artist, and Bess Khan has escaped the draining of the fenlands to become a revolutionary mastermind. Together, they find themselves at the center of a web of corruption leading back to the dreaded Thief-Catcher General ... ...Or so we are told in a mysterious manuscript unearthed by one Professor R. Voth. Voth traces the origins and authenticity of the manuscript as Jack and Bess trace the connections between the bowels of Newgate Prison and the dissection chambers of the Royal College, in a bawdy collision of a novel about gender, love, and liberation. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Will Tear Us Apart Holly Seddon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 344pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 248g ISBN13: 9781786490551 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-055-1 ISBN10: 1786490552 EAN: 9781786490551 x Description: Shortlisted for the Hearst Big Books Award, 2019 Sometimes a promise becomes a prison. Fearing eternal singledom, childhood friends Kate and Paul make the age-old vow that if they don't find love by thirty, they will marry each other. Years later, with the deadline of their 30th birthdays approaching, the unlikely couple decide to keep their teenage promise. After all, they are such good friends. Surely that's enough to make a marriage? Now, on the eve of their 10th wedding anniversary, they will discover that love between men and women is more complex, and more precarious, than they could ever have imagined. As Kate struggles with a secret that reaches far into their past, will the couple's vow become the very thing that threatens their future? Love Will Tear Us Apart is a moving and heart-breaking exploration of modern love and friendship, from the bestselling author of Try Not to Breathe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dinner List Rebecca Serle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
16 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 195g ISBN13: 9781911630180 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-18-0 ISBN10: 1911630180 EAN: 9781911630180 x Description: 'We've been waiting for an hour.' That's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not, Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed. What if your dream dinner party were to actually happen? For New Yorker Sabrina, fantasy becomes reality when she arrives at her thirtieth-birthday celebration to find not only her best friend but also her long-dead father, her admired philosophy professor, the love of her life - and silver-screen icon Audrey Hepburn. Unbelievable though this may seem, as the wine and conversation start to flow it becomes clear that these individuals have each played a crucial role in the course Sabrina's life has taken - and that they have come together at this moment in time for a reason... Follow Sabrina over one evening and ten years as she grapples with the definition of romance, the expectations of love - and how to navigate her way to happiness in this bittersweet romance for our times. 'wistful, delicious, romantic, magical' Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Grace After Henry Eithne Shortall (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 301g ISBN13: 9781786493194 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-319-4 ISBN10: 1786493195 EAN: 9781786493194 x Description: Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page Turners Shortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book Awards An Irish Independent Book of the Year Grace sees her boyfriend Henry everywhere. In the supermarket, on the street, at the graveyard. Only Henry is dead. He died two months earlier, leaving a huge hole in Grace's life and in her heart. But then Henry turns up to fix the boiler one evening, and Grace can't decide if she's hallucinating or has suddenly developed psychic powers. Grace isn't going mad - the man in front of her is not Henry at all, but someone else who looks uncannily like him. The hole in Grace's heart grows ever larger. Grace becomes captivated by this stranger, Andy - to her, he is Henry, and yet he is not. Reminded of everything she once had, can Grace recreate that lost love with Andy, resurrecting Henry in the process, or does loving Andy mean letting go of Henry? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The One Who Wrote Destiny Nikesh Shukla (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 356g ISBN13: 9781786492807 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-280-7 ISBN10: 1786492806 EAN: 9781786492807 x Description: Evening Standard's Wander List Guide to 2019 Getaways "A beautiful, brilliant modern classic." Sabrina Mahfouz, Guardian, Best Summer Books 2018 Neha has just been diagnosed with the same terminal cancer that killed her mother. Was this her destiny? She codes a computer program to find out, one that intricately maps out her entire life and the lives of those closest to her: her dad, who left Kenya for windblown northern England; her brother, a struggling comedian whose star is finally beginning to rise; her grandmother, who lost the man she loved to racist violence. By understanding the past, Neha hopes to come to terms with her present - and reckon with her family's and her country's future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Improvement Joan Silber (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp h223mm x w147mm x s24mm 385g ISBN13: 9781911630067 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-06-7 ISBN10: 1911630067 EAN: 9781911630067 x Description: 'Improvement is a major work of literature.' - Nick Hornby, The Believer Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honourable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a scheme which violates his probation. When Reyna ultimately decides to remove herself for the sake of her four-year-old child, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them. A novel that examines conviction, connection and the possibility of generosity in the face of loss, Improvement is as intricately woven together as Kiki's beloved Turkish rugs and as colourful as the tattoos decorating Reyna's body, with narrative twists and turns as surprising and unexpected as the lives all around us. The Boston Globe says of Joan Silber 'No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power.' Improvement is Silber's most shining achievement yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Improvement Joan Silber (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h218mm x w140mm x s20mm 270g ISBN13: 9781911630272 ISBN13: 978-1-911630-27-2 ISBN10: 191163027X EAN: 9781911630272
x Description: Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the wrong man. Little does she know that the otherwise honourable Boyd is pulling Reyna into a scheme which violates his probation. When Reyna ultimately decides to remove herself for the sake of her four-year-old child, her small act of resistance sets into motion a tapestry of events that affect the lives of loved ones and strangers around them. A novel that examines conviction, connection and the possibility of generosity in the face of loss, Improvement is as intricately woven together as Kiki's beloved Turkish rugs and as colourful as the tattoos decorating Reyna's body, with narrative twists and turns as surprising and unexpected as the lives all around us. The Boston Globe says of Joan Silber 'No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power.' Improvement is Silber's most shining achievement yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt Emma Sky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h242mm x w162mm x s31mm 675g 2x8pp col plates ISBN13: 9781786495600 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-560-0 ISBN10: 1786495600 EAN: 9781786495600 x Description: Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. In A Time of Monsters bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to reform; the descent of Syria into civil war; the rise of the Islamic State; and the flight of refugees to Europe. With deep empathy for its people and an extensive understanding of the Middle East, Sky makes a complex region more comprehensible. A great storyteller and observational writer, Sky also reveals the ties that bind the Middle East to the West and how blowback from our interventions in the region contributed to the British vote to leave the European Union and to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In A Time Of Monsters: Travels Through a Middle East in Revolt Emma Sky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h234mm x w155mm x s25mm 533g 2x8pp col plates ISBN13: 9781786498632 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-863-2 ISBN10: 1786498634 EAN: 9781786498632 x Description: Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East travelling through a region in revolt. In A Time of Monsters bears witness to the demands of young people for dignity and justice during the Arab Spring; the inability of sclerotic regimes to reform; the descent of Syria into civil war; the rise of the Islamic State; and the flight of refugees to Europe. With deep empathy for its people and an extensive understanding of the Middle East, Sky makes a complex region more comprehensible. A great storyteller and observational writer, Sky also reveals the ties that bind the Middle East to the West and how blowback from our interventions in the region contributed to the British vote to leave the European Union and to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States.
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf Katharine Smyth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h223mm x w145mm x s28mm 525g 10 integrated illustrations ISBN13: 9781786492852 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-285-2 ISBN10: 1786492857 EAN: 9781786492852 x Description: Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death - a calamity that claimed her favourite person she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief. Smyth's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us towards a new vision of Woolf's most demanding and rewarding novel - and crafts an elegant reminder of literature's ability to clarify and console. Braiding memoir, literary criticism and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don't Send Flowers Martin Solares (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
07 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 297g ISBN13: 9781611854893 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-489-3 ISBN10: 161185489X EAN: 9781611854893 x Description: From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Diaz as 'Latin American fiction at its pulpy phantasmagorical finest,' Don't Send Flowers is a riveting novel centred on Carlos Trevino, a retired police detective in northern Mexico who has to go up against the corruption and widespread violence that caused him to leave the force, when he's hired by a wealthy businessman to find his missing daughter. A seventeen-year-old girl has disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend that was interrupted by armed men, leaving the boyfriend on life support and the girl an apparent kidnap victim. It's a common occurrence in the region-prime narco territory-but the girl's parents are rich and powerful, and determined to find their daughter at any cost. When they call upon Carlos Trevino, he tracks the missing heiress north to the town of La Eternidad, on the Gulf of Mexico not far from the U.S. border-all while constantly attempting to evade detection by La Eternidad's chief of police, Commander Margarito Gonzalez, who is in the pockets of the cartels and has a score to settle with Trevino. A gritty tale of murder and kidnapping, crooked cops and violent gang disputes, Don't Send Flowers is an engrossing portrait of contemporary Mexico from one of its most original voices. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Murdoch Method: Notes on Running a Media Empire Irwin Stelzer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 325g 1 x 8pp b&w plate section ISBN13: 9781786494016 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-401-6 ISBN10: 1786494019 EAN: 9781786494016 x Description: Rupert Murdoch is one of the most notorious and successful businessmen of our age. Now, for the first time, an insider within the Murdoch empire reveals the formidable method behind the man. Irwin Stelzer, an adviser to Murdoch for 35 years, reveals what makes Rupert tick from his love of taking risks to his mistrust of the establishment - and how he grew from humble beginnings as the owner of an Adelaide newspaper, to becoming the head of a globe-spanning enterprise worth over $50 billion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Borgias: Power and Fortune Paul Strathern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h240mm x w165mm x s38mm 785g 2x8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781786495440 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-544-0 ISBN10: 1786495449 EAN: 9781786495440 x Description: 'A wickedly entertaining read' The Times A Daily Mail Book of the Week The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici. The Borgias have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of this remarkable family is far more than a tale of sensational depravities, it also marks a decisive turning point in European history. The rise and fall of the Borgias held centre stage during the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and they were the leading players at the very moment when our modern world was creating itself. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of this creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other? From the family's Spanish roots and the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia, to the lives of his infamous offspring, Lucrezia and Cesare - the hero who dazzled Machiavelli, but also the man who befriended Leonardo da Vinci - Paul Strathern relates this influential family to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish, and tells the story of this great dynasty as never before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Borgias: Power and Fortune Paul Strathern (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h230mm x w150mm x s31mm 650g 2x8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781786499646 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-964-6 ISBN10: 1786499649 EAN: 9781786499646 x Description: 'A wickedly entertaining read' The Times A Daily Mail Book of the Week The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici. The Borgias have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the story of this remarkable family is far more than a tale of sensational depravities, it also marks a decisive turning point in European history. The rise and fall of the Borgias held centre stage during the golden age of the Italian Renaissance and they were the leading players at the very moment when our modern world was creating itself. Within this context the Renaissance itself takes on a very different aspect. Was the corruption part of this creation, or vice versa? Would one have been possible without the other? From the family's Spanish roots and the papacy of Rodrigo Borgia, to the lives of his infamous offspring, Lucrezia and Cesare - the hero who dazzled Machiavelli, but also the man who befriended Leonardo da Vinci - Paul Strathern relates this influential family to their time, together with the world which enabled them to flourish, and tells the story of this great dynasty as never before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe Steven Strogatz (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h242mm x w165mm x s35mm 740g ISBN13: 9781786492944 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-294-4 ISBN10: 1786492946 EAN: 9781786492944 x Description: A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's foremost mathematicians. This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a thrilling journey through three millennia, professor Steven Strogatz charts the development of this seminal achievement from the days of Archimedes to today's breakthroughs in chaos theory and artificial intelligence.Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Fourier, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilisation, including science, politics, medicine, philosophy, and much besides. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe Steven Strogatz (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Export/Airside
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h233mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781786492951 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-295-1 ISBN10: 1786492954 EAN: 9781786492951 x Description: This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even death. Taking us on a thrilling journey through three millennia, professor Steven Strogatz charts the development of this seminal achievement from the days of Archimedes to today's breakthroughs in chaos theory and artificial intelligence. Filled with idiosyncratic characters from Pythagoras to Fourier, Infinite Powers is a compelling human drama that reveals the legacy of calculus on nearly every aspect of modern civilisation, including science, politics, medicine, philosophy, and much besides. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It Jo Swinson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 386g ISBN13: 9781786491893 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-189-3 ISBN10: 1786491893 EAN: 9781786491893 x Description: Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian) Why does power remain concentrated in the hands of men? And why do the problems of sexism sometimes feel just too big to solve? In this passionate call to arms, deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats and former Government Minister for Women Jo Swinson outlines the steps we can all take, large and small, to make our businesses, politics and culture truly gender equal. With clear and uncompromising analysis, Swinson shows the stark extent of the inequality around us, arguing that everyone - from students to CEOs - can work together to create a world of Equal Power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life Mark Synnott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Hardback 416pp h245mm x w170mm x s43mm 820g 2 x 8pp colour plates ISBN13: 9781760632724 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-272-4 ISBN10: 1760632724 EAN: 9781760632724
x Description: If you loved watching Free Solo, you'll be enthralled by Mark Synnott's deeply reported, insider perspective on Alex Honnold's impossible climb. One slip, one false move, one missed toehold and you're dead. On June 3rd 2017 Mark Synnott was in Yosemite to witness something that only a handful of people knew was about to occur: the most famous climber in the world, Alex Honnold, was going to attempt to summit one of the world's most challenging ascents, a route called Freerider on the notorious rock formation El Capitan. It is a climb extraordinarily dangerous and difficult, and yet Honnold was going to do it 'free solo'. Meaning no help. No climbing partner. No equipment. No rope. Where a single small mistake would mean certain death. Indeed, to summit El Cap free solo was a feat likened to Neil Armstrong first walking on the moon. In The Impossible Climb, Mark Synnott uses his own career as a professional climber to paint an insider portrait of the elite climbing community, exploring what motivates them, the paradoxical drive to keep the sport pure and at the same time to fund climbs, and the role that awareness of mortality plays in the endeavour. We watch through Mark's eyes as Alex plots, trains and attempts his heart-stopping free-solo ascent. Ultimately this is a story not only about climbing but about what makes us human, how we respond to fear and our drive to transcend the inevitability of death. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pharmacist's Wife Vanessa Tait (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 279g ISBN13: 9781786492739 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-273-9 ISBN10: 1786492733 EAN: 9781786492739 x Description: A dark and thrilling tale of Victorian addiction, vengeance and self-discovery, perfect for fans of Sarah Waters, Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist and Sarah Perry's The Essex Serpent. Love. Desire. Vengeance. A deadly alchemy. Edinburgh, 1869... Newly married, Rebecca longs for the life of a well-heeled gentlewoman. Her husband Alexander, a respected pharmacist, is eager to join pioneering fellow inventors in the history books. But beneath his ordered exterior, Rebecca is horrified to find a world of dark secrets. As she struggles with his infidelity and strange sexual desires, Alexander tries to pacify her so-called hysteria with his magical new wonder-drug, heroin... As Rebecca's forced dependence takes her further from herself, Alexander's desire to profit from his creation leads him along a path that blurs science, passion, and death. Soon, they both learn that addiction, obsession and vengeance make for a deadly alchemy... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perfect Match D. B. Thorne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 237g ISBN13: 9781782395997 ISBN13: 978-1-78239-599-7 ISBN10: 1782395997 EAN: 9781782395997 x Description: Perfect Match is a dark psychological thriller about a serial killer hunting women through dating apps. It's clever, brilliantly plotted and completely unputdownable. ______________________________
'Satisfyingly twisty plot, this intricate thriller ' - Daily Mail 'Crazily gripping, terrifying' - Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls ______________________________ When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an online date, Solomon can't believe this was just a terrible accident. Determined to find out what happened to his sister, and with the police unwilling to help, Solomon begins to investigate on his own. He soon uncovers a rash of similar cases of women who have been found brutally murdered or assaulted after an online date. There is a predator out there working the streets of London, preying on young women. Solomon sets out to bring him to justice, putting him on a collision course with a deadly killer who is fiendishly clever and more twisted than anyone could possibly imagine... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death Sallie Tisdale (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 251g ISBN13: 9781760632717 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-271-7 ISBN10: 1760632716 EAN: 9781760632717 x Description: Award-winning writer and nurse Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking yet practical perspective on death and dying in this frank, direct and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. _______________________________________ From the sublime to the ridiculous, Tisdale leads the reader through the peaks and troughs of death with a calm, wise and humorous hand. More than a how-to manual or a spiritual bible, this is a graceful compilation of honest and intimate anecdotes based on the deaths Tisdale has witnessed in her work and life, as well as stories from cultures, traditions and literature around the world. As Tisdale explores all the heartbreaking, beautiful, terrifying, confusing, absurd and even joyful experiences that accompany the work of dying, she also addresses the meaning of 'a good death', how to communicate with the dying, loved ones, doctors and more, and what to expect, physically and emotionally, from the last months, days and hours of life. Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for the Dying offers the resources and reassurance that we all need for planning the ends of our lives. It is essential reading for all of us. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Neon Bible John Kennedy Toole (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub Date:
02 May 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback 176pp h200mm x w130mm x s10mm 125g ISBN13: 9781611854985 ISBN13: 978-1-61185-498-5 ISBN10: 1611854989 EAN: 9781611854985 x Description: The accomplished and evocative first novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy of Dunces. John Kennedy Toole wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript was finally published twenty years after Toole's death. The Neon Bible opens with the narrator, a young man named David, on a train, leaving the small Southern town he's grown up in for the first time.
What unspools is the tender and tragic coming-of-age story of a lonely child, a story that revolves around David's unorthodox friendship with his greataunt Mae - a former stage performer who is fiercely at odds with the conservative townspeople - and the everyday toll of living in an environment of religious fanaticism. From the opening lines of The Neon Bible, David is fully alive, naive yet sharply observant, drawing us into his world through the sure artistry of John Kennedy Toole. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
House of Stone Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 268g ISBN13: 9781786493187 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-318-7 ISBN10: 1786493187 EAN: 9781786493187 x Description: Winner of the Edward Stanford Prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place, 2019 Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2019 Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 __________ 'Easily the best debut I've read this year, Tshuma's novel is both hilarious and horrifying, filled with compassion, anger and despair. [Her] unreliable narrator [is] of the kind that deserves to be remembered up there with Humbert Humbert' Kim Evans, Culturefly __________ Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has run away, rather than been murdered by government thugs. Only the lodger seems to have any idea... Zamani has lived in the spare room for years now. Quiet, polite, well-read and well-heeled, he's almost part of the family - but almost isn't quite good enough for Zamani. Cajoling, coaxing and coercing Abed and Agnes into revealing their sometimes tender, often brutal life stories, Zamani aims to steep himself in borrowed family history, so that he can fully inherit and inhabit its uncertain future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Till the Cows Come Home: The Story of Our Eternal Dependence Philip Walling (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 384pp h199mm x w130mm x s30mm 380g 2x8pp col plates ISBN13: 9781786493071 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-307-1 ISBN10: 1786493071 EAN: 9781786493071 x Description: 'A vital, thorough and accessible history that everyone who cares about the past or the future should read.' Rosamund Young, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Cows ______________________________________ The story of the relationship between humankind and cattle, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Counting Sheep. To tell the story of the relationship between humankind and cattle is to tell the story of civilisation itself. Since the beginning, cattle have tilled our soils, borne our burdens, fed and clothed us and been our loyal and uncomplaining servants in the work of taming the wilderness and wresting a living from the land.
There has never been a time when we have not depended on cattle. As human societies have migrated from the country to the city, the things they have needed from their cattle may have changed, but the fundamental human dependence remains. Blending personal experience, recollection, interviews with farmers, butchers and cattle breeders and studding the narrative with little-known nuggets of technical detail, Philip Walling entertainingly reveals the central importance of cattle to all our lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Turn of Midnight Minette Walters (Author) Series:
The Last Hours
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Allen & Unwin
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: Australia Paperback / softback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 322g ISBN13: 9781760632182 ISBN13: 978-1-76063-218-2 ISBN10: 176063218X EAN: 9781760632182 x Description: 'Wonderful and sweeping, with a fabulous sense of place and history.' Kate Mosse on The Last Hours As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the desolate wasteland outside? One man has the courage to find out. Thaddeus Thurkell, a free-thinking, educated serf, strikes out in search of supplies and news. A compelling leader, he and his companions quickly throw off the shackles of serfdom and set their minds to ensuring Develish's future - and freedom for its people. But what use is freedom that cannot be gained lawfully? When Lady Anne and Thaddeus conceive an audacious plan to secure her people's independence, neither foresees the life-threatening struggle over power, money and religion that follows... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home Remedies Xuan Juliana Wang (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
06 Jun 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp h216mm x w135mm x s16mm 369g ISBN13: 9781786497413 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-741-3 ISBN10: 1786497417 EAN: 9781786497413 x Description: NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB ____________________ 'Striking, soulful and ablaze with promise.' Observer __________________ The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth, a generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king and life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, and, above all, new beginnings. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success and sexual self-discovery. A Chinese-American girl in Paris finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead person's clothes. And on a winter evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a daughter across an ever-widening gulf of cultures and generations.
From second-generation rich kids and livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, these stories upend the well-worn path of the immigrant experience to reveal a new face of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are and who they will one day become, in a world as vast and various as their ambitions. __________________ 'Dazzling and unclassifiable.... Xuan Juliana Wang has the dark soul of an old poet's inkwell, the deep knowing of an ancient remedy, and linguistic incandescence of a megacity skyline.' Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Perfect Ten: A powerful novel about one woman's search for revenge Jacqueline Ward (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Corvus
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
04 Apr 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 237g ISBN13: 9781786493781 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-378-1 ISBN10: 1786493780 EAN: 9781786493781 x Description: An explosive debut thriller about one woman's search for revenge - and the dangerous chain of events she sets in motion... _________ 'Hugely engrossing - a dark delight.' Catherine Ryan Howard 'Compelling... Wildly entertaining' - Daily Mail __________ Caroline Atkinson is powerless and angry. She has lost more than most - her marriage, her reputation, even her children. Then one day, she receives an unusual delivery: lost luggage belonging to the very man who is responsible, her estranged husband Jack. In a leather holdall, Caroline unearths a dark secret, one that finally confirms her worst suspicions. Jack has kept a detailed diary of all his affairs; every name, every meeting, every lie is recorded. He even marks the women out of ten. Caroline decides it's time to even the score. She will make this man pay, even if it means risking everything... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lot Bryan Washington (Author) Series:
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Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
26 Mar 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback / softback 240pp h220mm x w140mm x s20mm 267g ISBN13: 9781786497840 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-784-0 ISBN10: 1786497840 EAN: 9781786497840 x Description: Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, the heartbreak of ghosts, and the braveries of the human heart. The stories of others living and thriving and dying across Houston's myriad neighbourhoods are woven throughout to reveal a young woman's affair detonating across an apartment complex, a rag-tag baseball team, a group of young hustlers, the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, a local drug dealer who takes a
Guatemalan teen under his wing, and a reluctant chupacabra. Bryan Washington's brilliant, viscerally drawn world leaps off the page with energy, wit, and the infinite longing of people searching for home. With soulful insight into what makes a community, a family, and a life, Lot is about love in all its unsparing and unsteady forms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir Sir Tim Waterstone (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Atlantic Books
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Pub Date:
07 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h243mm x w167mm x s30mm 675g ISBN13: 9781786496300 ISBN13: 978-1-78649-630-0 ISBN10: 1786496305 EAN: 9781786496300 x Description: Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the childhood experiences that led him to become an entrepreneur and outlines the business philosophy that allowed Waterstone's to dominate the bookselling business throughout the country. Tim explores his formative years in a small town in rural England at the end of the Second World War, and the troubled relationship he had with his father, before moving on to the epiphany he had while studying at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstone's and gave birth to the creative strategy that made him a high street name. Candid and moving, The Face Pressed Against a Window charts the life of one of our most celebrated business leaders. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________