Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book: Discover how the universe began Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 56pp h178mm x w119mm x s8mm 128g ISBN13: 9780718187842 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8784-2 ISBN10: 0718187849 EAN: 9780718187842 x Description: Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. The greatest discovery in the history of science is that the universe has not existed forever but was born. There was a day without a yesterday . . . The Big Bang is an accessible, authoritative introduction for anyone looking to understand how the universe came to be. Written by award-winning writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown, The Big Bang details how 13.82 billion years ago all matter, energy, space and even time - erupted into being in a titanic fireball. This mind-bending book addresses the big questions: What was the Big Bang? What drove the Big bang? And what happened before the Big Bang? The evidence for the Big Bang, it turns out, is all around us... Inside you'll discover . . . -
What Einstein missed Why the universe it expanding The elements that made up the Big Bang Where the universe came from And much more . . .
Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2019 Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h305mm x w235mm x s23mm 1459g ISBN13: 9781847948335 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-833-5 ISBN10: 1847948332 EAN: 9781847948335 x Description: Ripley's is back with another compendium of mind-boggling facts that will delight anyone drawn to the weirder side of life on Earth. Read about the scariest, grossest and funniest stories from around the world, including: EEK! The huge spider that spins webs that are stronger than steel. WOW! The woman who can smash 920 roof tiles every minute - with her bare hands. YUCK! The Japanese crab that grows as much as six metres long. . . . and much, much more.
Crammed with incredible photos and fascinating stories, and complete with an out-of-this-world 3D-effect cover, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2019 is the perfect Christmas gift for kids who are fascinated by the disgusting, the scary and the peculiar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tasty Ultimate Cookbook Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h254mm x w197mm x s24mm 1154g ISBN13: 9781785039447 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-944-7 ISBN10: 178503944X EAN: 9781785039447 x Description: Cook amazing food for every occasion and eating eventuality with Ultimate. This is the cooking bible from the food magicians at Buzzfeed's Tasty. Because this is Tasty, you know you can trust that the 150 recipes in this book are all fun to make, inventive, simple to follow and extremely delicious. Find two sections to choose from: Impress Yourself and Impress Your Friends. Cook both fast and authentic recipes for your favourite classic dishes. Turn to Tasty for inspiration for special occasions like Christmas, birthday, Valentine's, date night, parties... What ever you fancy, you'll find an amazing recipe here. Includes: Garlic Butter Steak, The Best Crispy Chicken Parmesan, Slow-cooked Honey and Spice Lamb Shanks, Sweet and Sour Sunday Brisket, Ultimate Roast Turkey, Scalloped Potatoes, Fancy Party Nachos, Molten Lava Brownies, Perfect Fluffy Pancakes, Easy Brunch Bake, Latte Coffee Cake and so much more. The second official cookbook from Buzzfeed's Tasty. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Would Arnie Do? Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pop Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp h167mm x w113mm ISBN13: 9781785038778 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-877-8 ISBN10: 178503877X EAN: 9781785038778 x Description: Do you revere the legend that is Arnie? Do you agree that the best activities for your health are pumping and humping? Do you trust that if it bleeds, you can kill it? Then this is the book for you. What Would Arnie Do? is a collection of the wit and wisdom of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Whether you're looking for inspiration in the gym, in your career, or for fighting deranged cyborgs, Arnie has just the right phrase to spur you to greater success. And remember: Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs): The Failed King Richard Abels (Author) Series:
Penguin Monarchs
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp ISBN13: 9780141979496 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197949-6 ISBN10: 0141979496 EAN: 9780141979496 x Description: A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in the Penguin Monarchs series, Richard Abels examines the long and troubled reign of Aethelred II the 'Unraed', the 'IllAdvised'. It is characteristic of Aethelred's reign that its greatest surviving work of literature, the poem The Battle of Maldon, should be a record of heroic defeat. Perhaps no ruler could have stemmed the encroachment of wave upon wave of Viking raiders, but Aethelred will always be associated with that failure. Richard Abels is Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in AngloSaxon England and Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day Peter Ackroyd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w135mm x s18mm 254g ISBN13: 9780099592945 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959294-5 ISBN10: 0099592940 EAN: 9780099592945 x Description: *** A Sunday Times Bestseller ***
In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria (`wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating permissiveness and censure. Ackroyd takes us right into the hidden history of the city; from the notorious Normans to the frenzy of executions for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. He journeys through the coffee bars of sixties Soho to Gay Liberation, disco music and the horror of AIDS. Today, we live in an era of openness and tolerance and Queer London has become part of the new norm. Ackroyd tells us the hidden story of how it got there, celebrating its diversity, thrills and energy on the one hand; but reminding us of its very real terrors, dangers and risks on the other. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sky at Night: Book of the Moon - A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
BBC Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp h204mm x w135mm x s25mm 299g ISBN13: 9781785943515 ISBN13: 978-1-78594-351-5 ISBN10: 1785943510 EAN: 9781785943515 x Description: How well do you know our closest neighbour? The moon has fascinated humankind since the beginning of history. But far from being just a big rock out in space, the Moon has a phenomenal power over the earth, with it`s ability to create great waves, dictate the length of the day and summon the seasons. It is a key player in the story of our planet. In this unique celebration of the Moon, lunar expert and space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin Pocock takes readers on a journey through the Moon's past, present and future. She uncovers the way the Moon has captured our imaginations, contemplates how it was formed, and uncovers why we need the Moon to protect our fragile earth. Drawing on the latest scientific research, she then looks forward to what might be to come - will we return to the moon or will it become a launch pad to go into the great unknown? Filled with fascinating facts and anecdotes, and written with warmth and passion, The Book of the Moon is for scientists and stargazers alike. You'll never look at our closest neighbour in the same way again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Canto Bight (Star Wars): Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi Saladin Ahmed (Author) Rae Carson (Author) Mira Grant (Author) John Jackson Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
29 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 277g ISBN13: 9781787460546 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-054-6 ISBN10: 1787460541 EAN: 9781787460546 x Description: As seen in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, welcome to the casino city of Canto Bight. A place where exotic aliens, captivating creatures, and other would-be high rollers are willing to risk everything to make their fortunes. Set across one fateful evening, these four original novellas explore the deception and danger of the lavish casino city. An honest salesman meets Dreams and schemes
a career criminal as a dream vacation turns into the worst nightmare
collide when a deal over a priceless bottle of wine becomes a struggle for
Old habits die hard when
a servant is forced into the mad struggle for power among Canto Bight's
A deadbeat gambler has
one last chance to turn his luck around, all he has to do is survive one
imaginable in a story by Saladin Ahmed. survival as told by Mira Grant. elite in a tale by Rae Carson. wild night as told by John Jackson Miller.
In Canto Bight, one is free to revel in excess, untouched from the problems of a galaxy once again descending into chaos and war. Dreams can become reality, but the stakes have never been higher-for there is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Shadow Guests Joan Aiken (Author) Series:
A Puffin Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241337363 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33736-3 ISBN10: 0241337364 EAN: 9780241337363 x Description: A lonely boy haunted by an ancient family curse, The Shadow Guests is a classic supernatural mystery from the master-storyteller, Joan Aiken. After the strange disappearance of his mother and older brother, Cosmo is sent from Australia to live with his cousin in England. Lost and lonely at his new school, Cosmo escapes at weekends to the peace of his cousin's ancient mill house, and the shadowy companions only he can see. When he learns about the family curse, he realises his ghostly visitors from the past have a message for him - but are these new companions friends or enemies? 'What a marvellous writer Joan Aiken is!' - Leon Garfield _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Changing of the Guard: Soldiers at War in the Twenty-First Century Simon Akam (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp ISBN13: 9781785150708 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-070-8 ISBN10: 1785150707 EAN: 9781785150708 x Description: Constructed from extensive research, on-the-ground reporting and exclusive interviews with hundreds of members of the British military, as well as the politicians who directed them, the allies who fought with them and the family members who loved - and on occasion - lost them, The Changing of the Guard is a bold and panoramic account of the British army and its role in recent wars. Moving from tours in Iraq to the deconstruction of Camp Bastion to the murder of Lee Rigby and beyond, it explores how the modern military works and why. It examines the relevance of the armed forces in peacetime Britain, in terms of their social, economic, political and cultural impact - and asks what they can offer to a new generation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hazel Wood Melissa Albert (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 255g ISBN13: 9780141388663 ISBN13: 978-0-14-138866-3 ISBN10: 0141388668 EAN: 9780141388663 x
Description: Fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and The Children of Blood and Bone have been getting lost in The Hazel Wood... "The Hazel Wood kept me up all night. I had every light burning and the covers pulled tight around me as I fell completely into the dark and beautiful world within its pages. Terrifying, magical, and surprisingly funny, it's one of the very best books I've read in years". -Jennifer Niven, author of All The Bright Places ----Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get. Her mother is stolen, by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world from her grandmother's stories. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOOD. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began . . . ----"This book will be your next obsession. Welcome to the Hazel Wood, where bad luck is a living thing, princesses are doomed, and every page contains a wondrously terrible adventure - it's not safe inside these pages, but once you enter, you may never want to leave." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Melissa Albert has created a world as dark, twisted and magical as Alice in Wonderland or Harry Potter. Will you escape the Hazel Wood? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Leah on the Offbeat Becky Albertalli (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 255g ISBN13: 9780241331057 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33105-7 ISBN10: 0241331056 EAN: 9780241331057 x Description: You've seen Leah in the groundbreaking major motion picture Love Simon (based on the amazing Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). Now it's her turn to take centre stage. ---------When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat- but real life isn't always so rhythmic. The only child of a single mum, and her life is less privileged than her friends. Her mum knows she's bisexual, but Leah hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends. Not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. Prom and college are on the horizon, and tensions are running high. Can Leah still strike the right note, when the people she loves are fighting? And how can she cope knowing that she might love one of her friends more than she ever intended? ----------
Praise for Becky Albertalli: 'The love child of John Green and Rainbow Rowell' Teen Vogue 'I love you, Simon. I love you! And I love this fresh, funny, live-out-loud book.' Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places 'A remarkable gift of a novel.' Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle 'Both hilarious and heartbreaking . . . Readers will fall madly in love with Simon' Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'A brilliant beacon of optimism and cuteness for LGBTQA+ youth in a genre often bogged down with tragedy and heartbreak. Books like SIMON do change people's lives' Waterstones Darlington Bookseller 'A wonderfully charismatic story about coming-of-age and coming out'. Bookseller 'Funny, moving and emotionally wise' Kirkus Reviews (starred) 'It made me laugh, cry and all the fifty shades of emotions I can think of right now. There is literally no adjectives that would be suffice to describe how brilliant this book is' Goodreads (5 star review) 'I think I just felt my heart explode in my chest' Goodreads (5 star review) 'One of the most electric, authentic characters I've ever read. . . I LOVE this book. LOVE it. Five freaking stars.' Goodreads (5 Stars) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love Simon: Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda Official Film Tie-in Becky Albertalli (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780241330135 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33013-5 ISBN10: 0241330130 EAN: 9780241330135 x Description: The beloved, award-winning novel is now a major motion picture starring 13 Reasons Why's Katherine Langford and Everything, Everything's Nick Robinson. ---------Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of complicated. Because, for Simon, falling for Blue is a big deal ... It's a holy freaking huge awesome deal. ---------Praise for Love, Simon: 'Worthy of Fault in Our Stars-level obsession.' Entertainment Weekly 'I love you, SIMON. I LOVE YOU! And I love this fresh, funny, live-out-loud book." Jennifer Niven, bestselling author of All the Bright Places
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Disobedience: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Naomi Alderman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp 202g ISBN13: 9780241984802 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98480-2 ISBN10: 0241984807 EAN: 9780241984802 x Description: From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man. But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind. The orthodox Jewish suburb of Hendon, north London is outraged by Ronit and her provocative ways. But Ronit is shocked too by the confrontation with her past. And when she meets up with her childhood girlfriend Esti, she is forced to think again about what she has left behind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories Naomi Alderman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 624pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241356173 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35617-3 ISBN10: 0241356172 EAN: 9780241356173 x Description: A new version of this much-loved anthology, with a brand-new story featuring the brand-new Thirteenth Doctor from literary sensation Naomi Alderman! Twelve wonderful tales of adventure, science, magic, monsters and time travel - featuring all twelve Doctors - are waiting for you in this very special Doctor Who book. And now they're joined by a very exciting, and very exclusive, new tale - written by Naomi Alderman, author of The Power - that will star the Thirteenth Doctor, as she battles to save the universe with her three close and trusted friends. Other authors featured are: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman, and Holly Black. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future Svetlana Alexievich (Author) Anna Gunin (Translated by) Arch Tait (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
21 Apr 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Russian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp 224g ISBN13: 9780241270530 ISBN13: 978-0-241-27053-0 ISBN10: 0241270537 EAN: 9780241270530 x Description: 'A beautifully written book, it's been years since I had to look away from a page because it was just too heart-breaking to go on' Arundhati Roy, Elle 'One of the most humane and terrifying books I've ever read' - Helen Simpson, Observer The devastating history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature - A new translation by Anna Gunin and Arch Tait based on the revised text In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years collecting testimonies from survivors - clean-up workers, residents, firefighters, resettlers, widows, orphans - crafting their voices into a haunting oral history of fear, anger and uncertainty, but also dark humour and love. A chronicle of the past and a warning for our nuclear future, Chernobyl Prayer shows what it is like to bear witness, and remember in a world that wants you to forget. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Forgiveness Hana Yasmeen Ali (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 480pp h234mm x w153mm x s36mm 704g ISBN13: 9780593078358 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07835-8 ISBN10: 0593078357 EAN: 9780593078358 x Description: At Home with Muhammad Ali is an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age, written by Ali's daughter Hana. As Muhammad Ali approached the end of his astonishing boxing career, he strove to embrace a new purpose and role in life beyond the ring. It was a role that would see him take centre stage as an ambassador for peace and friendship, whilst at the same time attempting to find balance and harmony with his many commitments and responsibilities as a husband, devoted father, son and friend. In the 1970s Ali began recording a series of audio diaries, mostly in his LA home. Through these private tapes, as well as personal journals, love lettersand many never-before-seen photographs, we discover Ali the family man and see how, despite the complexities of his personal life, he went to extraordinary lengths to keep all of his nine children united and to help others - be they family, friend or stranger. We also hear of the everyday adventures the family experienced, with visitors such as Michael Jackson, Clint Eastwood and John Travolta dropping by. Candid and revealing, At Home with Muhammad Ali is more than Hana's family memoir. It is a moving and poignant letter of love and affection from a daughter to a father.
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Cuz Danielle Allen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 207g ISBN13: 9781784708122 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-812-2 ISBN10: 1784708127 EAN: 9781784708122 x Description: 'Devastating' J. M. Coetzee, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature Aged 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to thirteen years behind bars. After growing up in prison Michael was then released aged 26, only to be murdered three years later. In this deeply personal yet clear-eyed memoir, Danielle Allen reconstructs her cousin's life to try and understand how this tragedy was the end result. We become intimate with Michael's experience, from his first steps to his first love, and with the events of his arrest, his coming of age in prison, and his attempts to make up for lost time after his release. We learn what it's like to grow up in a city carved up by invisible gang borders; and we learn how a generation has been lost. With breathtaking bravery and intelligence, Cuz circles around its subject, viewing it from all angles to expose a shocking reality. The result is both a personal and analytical view of a life that wields devastating power. This is the new American tragedy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Riot Days Maria Alyokhina (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141986616 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198661-6 ISBN10: 0141986611 EAN: 9780141986616 x Description: From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in. 'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom' Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick 'A women's prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!' @MargaretAtwood 'Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page' Marina Abramovic People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere. When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn't just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them. It's inevitable that the prison gates will open at some point. But this doesn't mean that you leave the 'prisoner' category and go straight into the category of 'the free'.
Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day. This is the story about how I made a choice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 Martin Amis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 277g ISBN13: 9780099488729 ISBN13: 978-0-09-948872-9 ISBN10: 0099488728 EAN: 9780099488729 x Description: Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport, Las Vegas, John Travolta and the pornography industry. The collection includes his essay on Princess Diana and a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens, but at the centre of the book, perhaps inevitably, are essays on politics, and in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 and 2016. One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Kurt Andersen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w126mm x s29mm 322g ISBN13: 9781785038679 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-867-9 ISBN10: 1785038672 EAN: 9781785038679 x Description: You're entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts Fantasy is the USA's primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of America's current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling. So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isn't exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trump's America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-believe from Salem to Scientology. Fantasyland is a journey that connects the dots between crazed franchises of true believers - a rich freak show tapestry from Mormons to Flat-Earthers and satanic panic, new age quacks to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists of every stripe, creationists to climate change deniers, UFO-obsessives to gun-toting libertarians, showmen hucksters from P T Barnum to Trump himself, all topped off with a dangerous dose of anti-government paranoia and pseudoscience. Along the way, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen has created a unique and raucous history of America and a new paradigm for understanding our post-factual world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence Christopher Andrew (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 960pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780713993660 ISBN13: 978-0-7139-9366-0 ISBN10: 0713993669 EAN: 9780713993660 x Description: 'Almost every page includes a sizzling historical titbit ... captivating, insightful and masterly' (Edward Lucas, The Times) The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.'God sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. From there, Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from divination to what we would recognize as attempts to gather real intelligence in the conduct of military operations, and considers how far ahead of the West - at that time - China and India were. He charts the development of intelligence and security operations and capacity through, amongst others, Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Revolutionary America, Napoleonic France, right up to sophisticated modern activities of which he is the world's best-informed interpreter. What difference have security and intelligence operations made to course of history? Why have they so often forgotten by later practitioners? This fascinating book provides the answers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine Anne Applebaum (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 386g ISBN13: 9780141978284 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197828-4 ISBN10: 0141978287 EAN: 9780141978284 x Description: Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account yet published of these terrible events. The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union, as well as the work of Ukrainian scholars all over the world. It includes accounts of the famine by those who survived it, describing what human beings can do when driven mad by hunger. It shows how the Soviet state ruthlessly used propaganda to turn neighbours against each other in order to expunge supposedly 'anti-revolutionary' elements. It also records the actions of extraordinary individuals who did all they could to relieve the suffering. The famine was rapidly followed by an attack on Ukraine's cultural and political leadership - and then by a denial that it had ever happened at all. Census reports were falsified and memory suppressed. Some western journalists shamelessly swallowed the Soviet line; others bravely rejected it, and were undermined and harassed. The Soviet authorities were determined not only that Ukraine should abandon its national aspirations, but that the country's true history should be buried along with its millions of victims. Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and that history. At a moment of crisis between Russia and Ukraine, it also shows how far the present is shaped by the past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Down to the Woods: DI Helen Grace 8 M. J. Arlidge (Author) Series:
Detective Inspector Helen Edition: Grace
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718183882 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8388-2 ISBN10: 0718183886 EAN: 9780718183882 x Description: THE EIGHTH DI HELEN GRACE THRILLER BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M. J. ARLIDGE There is a sickness in the forest. First, it was the wild horses. Now it's innocent men and women, hunted down and murdered by a faceless figure. Lost in the darkness, they try to flee, they try to hide. In desperation, they call out for help. But there is no-one to hear their cries here... DI Helen Grace must face down a new nightmare. The arrow-ridden victims hang from the New Forest's ancient oaks, like pieces of strange fruit. Why are helpless holidaymakers being targeted in peak camping season? And what do their murders signify? Is a psychopath stalking the forest? Is there an occult element to the killings? Could the murders even be an offering to the Forest itself? Helen must walk into the darkness to discover the truth behind her most challenging, most macabre case yet. *** PRAISE FOR M.J. ARLIDGE: 'Helen Grace is one of the greatest heroes to come along in years' JEFFERY DEAVER 'The new Jo Nesbo' JUDY FINNIGAN 'Fast paced and nailbitingly tense ... gripping' SUN 'DI Helen Grace is a genuinely fresh heroine ... MJ Arlidge weaves together a tapestry that chills to the bone'Daily Mail 'Chilling stuff' Fabulist 'A chilling read' My Weekly 'A grisly, gripping thriller' Sunday Mirror 'Gruesomely realistic, intriguing and relentless. Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow' Sunday Sport 'Eeny Meeny debuts one of the best new series detectives, Helen Grace. Determined, tough and damaged, she must unravel a terrifying riddle of a killer kidnapping victims in pairs. Mesmerizing!' Lisa Gardner 'Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn, interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet' Will Lavender _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
God: A Human History Reza Aslan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w127mm x s20mm 252g ISBN13: 9780552174992 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17499-2 ISBN10: 0552174998 EAN: 9780552174992
x Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on the history of faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god arose in human evolution, was gradually personalized, endowed with human traits and emotions, and eventually transformed into a single Divine Personality: the God known today by such names as Yahweh, Father, and Allah. Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, God challenges everything we thought we knew about the origins of religious belief, and with it our relationship with life and death, with the natural and spiritual worlds, and our understanding of the very essence of human existence. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Transcription Kate Atkinson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 425g ISBN13: 9780857525895 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-589-5 ISBN10: 0857525891 EAN: 9780857525895 This Product Replaces: 9780385618731 x Description: THE MAGNIFICENT NEW NOVEL BY BESTSELLING AWARD-WINNING KATE ATKINSON `Think of it as an adventure, Perry had said right at the beginning of all this.And it had seemed like one. A bit of a lark, she had thought. A Girl's Own adventure.' In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence. Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country's most exceptional writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market Philip Augar (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h240mm x w162mm x s39mm 766g ISBN13: 9780241335970 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33597-0 ISBN10: 0241335973 EAN: 9780241335970 x Description: Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies and their adherents, Philip Augar gives a riveting account of Barclays' journey from an old Quaker bank to a full-throttle capitalist machine. The disagreement between those ambitious for Barclays to join the top table of global banks, and those preferring a smaller domestic role more in keeping with the bank's traditions, cost three chief executives their jobs and continues to divide opinion within Barclays, the City and beyond.
This is an extraordinary corporate thriller, which among much else describes how Barclays came to buy Lehman Brothers for a bargain price in 2008, why it was so keen to avoid taking government funding during the financial crisis, and the price shareholders have paid for a decade of barely controlled ambition. But Augar also shows how Barclays' experiences are a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life over thirty years, which saw the City move from the edge of the economy to its very centre. These decades created unprecedented prosperity for a tiny number, and made the reputations of governments and individuals but then left many of them in tatters. The leveraged society, the winner-takes-all mentality and our present era of austerity can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book tells this rollercoaster story from the perspective of many of its participants - and also of those affected by the grip they came to have on Britain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Deal Of A Lifetime Fredrik Backman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Swedish Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 80pp h181mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9780241359518 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35951-8 ISBN10: 0241359511 EAN: 9780241359518 x Description: It is Christmas Eve and a father and son are meeting for the first time in years. The father has a story he needs to share before it's too late. As he tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away, he reveals even more about himself; his triumphs in business, his failures as a parent, his past regrets, his hopes for the future. Now, on this night before Christmas, the father has been given the unexpected chance to do something remarkable that could change the destiny of a little girl he hardly knows. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he must find out what his own life has actually been worth, and only his son can reveal the answer. With humour and compassion, Fredrik Backman's The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our legacies rest in how we share that gift with those we love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Us Against You: From The New York Times Bestselling Author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown Fredrik Backman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h234mm x w153mm x s31mm 577g ISBN13: 9780718186609 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8660-9 ISBN10: 0718186605 EAN: 9780718186609 x Description: Beartown is dying . . . Tucked in a forest in the frozen north, Beartown's residents are tough and hardworking. They don't expect life to be easy, but they do expect it to be fair. Which is why the sudden loss of their hockey players to the rival town of Hed hurts. Everyone needs something to cheer for in the long winter nights. Now they have nothing.
So when a new star player arrives, Coach Peter sees an opportunity to rebuild the team - to take on Hed and restore Beartown's fortunes. But not everyone in town sees it his way. As the big game between both towns approaches, the rivalry turns bitter and all too real. Once the stands rumbled with threats to 'kill' and 'ruin' each other, but the residents didn't mean it. Now they do. By the time the last goal is scored, someone in Beartown will be dead . . . Us Against You is the story of two towns, two teams and what it means to believe in something bigger than yourself. It's about how people come together - sometimes in anger, often in sorrow, but also through love. And how, when we stand together, we can bring a town back to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Desperately Seeking Summer: The perfect feel-good Greek romantic comedy to read on the beach this summer Mandy Baggot (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp 291g ISBN13: 9781785039249 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-924-9 ISBN10: 1785039245 EAN: 9781785039249 x Description: A Greek getaway you won't forget... Escape to Greece with the perfect feel-good book to read on the beach this summer. If you love Kat French and Sarah Morgan, you'll love Mandy Baggot's sizzling summer romantic comedies. Abby Dolan is having a very bad day... In twenty-four hours, she's lost her job and her boyfriend. Single and with nothing left to lose, she's headed for a Corfu escape to spend time with her family while she heals her broken heart. Only her mum and sister's estate agency 'Desperately Seeking' is just that, desperate! Instead of the relaxing, sunshine holiday she'd hoped for, Abby finds herself spending her break helping get the business back on its feet. Determined to attract new clients and give her family a second chance at success, she finds the perfect property to sell in Villa Pappas complete with gorgeous gardener, Theo. Perhaps working this summer could be a welcome distraction after all. But Theo has his own secrets and Abby isn't the only thing he wants to take off the market... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One New York Christmas Mandy Baggot (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp ISBN13: 9781785039256 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-925-6 ISBN10: 1785039253 EAN: 9781785039256 x Description: Will this Christmas romance be just for the holidays? A fun, festive romantic comedy to curl up with this winter. If you love Heidi Swain and Sarah Morgan, you'll love Mandy Baggot's heart-melting Christmas romantic comedies. Lara Weeks is heading to New York with best friend Susie for the Christmas trip of a lifetime. A festive break in the snowy Big Apple visiting the tourist hotspots, not to mention the shopping, seems like the perfect way for Lara to get over her ex-
boyfriend. Or maybe make him so jealous he begs for a second chance. Enlisting the help of gorgeous actor, Seth Hunt, doesn't quite go to plan, but there's something about him that has Lara wishing for a different kind of happy ever after... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked The World Penelope Bagieu (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
08 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h225mm x w160mm x s30mm 787g ISBN13: 9781785039034 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-903-4 ISBN10: 1785039032 EAN: 9781785039034 x Description: 'Penelope Bagieu ... is a kind of genius. This book already feels like a classic, one to be loved by every girl who reads it from now until the end of time.' Rachel Cooke, The Observer Immerse yourself in the captivating adventures of some of history's unsung heroines, whose stories are told through engaging voices, dazzling drawings and with startling wit. Discover the life of an apache warrior dubbed "strong as a man and braver than most of them", the only female Empress of China, three rebel sisters who toppled a fascist regime, a dancer who escaped poverty in America to become the darling of the Paris jazz scene and a resistance fighter, and a little girl who grew up to realise that being a witch is better than being a princess. Take in the stories of volcanologists, astronauts, animal whisperers, activists and explorers and feel ready to take on the world. Illustrated by award-winning Parisian artist Penelope Bagieu, humorous dialogue and uncommon true tales make Brazen an ideal book for anyone who loves trail blazers and courageous women, from Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls to The Handmaid's Tale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mary and Frankenstein: The true story of Mary Shelley Linda Bailey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 48pp 450g ISBN13: 9781783446797 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-679-7 ISBN10: 178344679X EAN: 9781783446797 x Description: It began with a girl named Mary. She liked to daydream and imagine. And she grew up to write Frankenstein. The inspirational true story of the great writer Mary Shelley, brought to life for children in this stunning picture book by multi-award winning author Linda Bailey and with beautiful illustrations from Julia Sarda. Mary loves stories, but the stories in her daydreams are far more thrilling than those in any book. After a troubled childhood, eighteen-year-old Mary runs away to Switzerland with the famous poet Percy Bysse Shelley, her step-sister in tow. One dark and stormy night at his house by the lake, they huddle around the fire, telling ghost stories. But Mary can imagine better than those! After learning about electricity that can make dead frogs twitch, she has a nightmare that triggers the birth of one of the greatest scary stories of all time: Frankenstein... A perfect read for the very youngest aspiring writers, and for fans of Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell's The Sleeper and the Spindle. Praise for the illustrator: "Julia Sarda's illustrations are dark, dream-like, detailed" THE TIMES
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The Accidental President A. J. Baime (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 350pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9780857503275 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-327-5 ISBN10: 0857503278 EAN: 9780857503275 x Description: Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President for his admired work ethic, good judgement and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman was the prototypical ordinary man from small-town America. That is, until he was thrust in over his head following the sudden death of Roosevelt. With the world still caught up in the inferno of the Second World War, Truman found himself playing the roles of both judge and jury during the founding of the UN, the Potsdam Conference, the Manhattan Project, the German surrender, the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the decision to drop the Bomb and bring the war to the end. Tightly focused, meticulously researched and drawing on documentation not available to previous biographers, The Accidental President escorts readers into the situation room with Truman during this tumultuous, history-making four months - when the stakes were high and the challenges even higher . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stone Clock: (The Spin Trilogy 3) Andrew Bannister (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 407g ISBN13: 9780593076538 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07653-8 ISBN10: 0593076532 EAN: 9780593076538 x Description: It is a hundred millennia after Iron Gods. The Spin is at the end of its life and its diminished inhabitants are divided between those who live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities - 'vrealities' - and those who scrape a living in what remains of the real world. But running the increasingly huge servers needed to maintain the vrealities is draining the last resources of the Spin, leading to conflict between those who tend the servers and those who believe they should simply be switched off, and so killing millions. There is one individual who divides his time between the real and the vrealities, finds himself caught up in this escalating and seemingly futile war. Meanwhile, in a remote star system, an ancient insectoid called Skarbo the Horologist observes The Spin. He has been doing so for several lifetimes. But now he notes the accelerating signs of decline in what he unfashionably considers to be a giant complex clock. And Skarbo too is about to die for the very last time. He had resigned himself to never visiting the object of his studies, but decides to make a last journey - travelling across a war-torn galaxy to what will be his final destination: the Spin. There he will learn of the artificial system's past - and its future - while there is one who will discover the real nature of the vrealities - and the part he has to play in their future . . . Returning to the extraordinarily-envisioned artificial planetary cluster called the Spin - Stone Clock is the third thrilling work of space opera from the acclaimed author of Creation Machine. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Osmond John Banville (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9780241977132 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97713-2 ISBN10: 0241977134 EAN: 9780241977132 x Description: A MASTERFUL TALE OF BETRAYAL AND CORRUPTION BY THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SEA 'Banville is one of the writers I admire the most' Hanya Yanahigara, author of A Little Life 'A brilliant feat of literary ventriloquism' The Times Having fled Rome and a stultifying marriage, Isabel Osmond is in London, brooding on the recent disclosure of her husband's shocking, years-long betrayal of her. What should she do now, and which way should she turn, in the emotional labyrinth where she has been trapped for so long? Reawakened by grief and the knowledge of having been grievously wronged, she determines to resume her youthful quest for freedom and independence. Soon Isabel must return to Italy and confront her husband, and seek to break his powerful hold on her. But will she succeed in outwitting him, and securing her revenge? Mrs Osmond is a masterly novel of betrayal, corruption and moral ambiguity, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. 'A worthy sequel ... His book is not only an impressive recreation of James's atmospheres and pacing, but also full of minor cliff-hangers and pageturning suspenses that keep you guessing' Observer 'John Banville is one of the best novelists in English, and an expert ventriloquist, among other things ... Mrs Osmond is both a remarkable novel in its own right and a superb pastiche' Guardian 'John Banville is simply the finest writer at work today, a prolific prose stylist whose work has only deepened in quality throughout his career' John Boyne _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Minecraft: The Crash: An Official Minecraft Novel Tracey Baptiste (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
10 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 307g ISBN13: 9781780897776 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-777-6 ISBN10: 1780897774 EAN: 9781780897776 x Description: The brand-new official Minecraft novel is an action-packed thriller! When a new virtual-reality version of the game brings her desires-and doubts-to life, one player must face her fears. Bianca has never been good at following the plan. She's more of an act-now, deal-with-the-consequences-later kind of person. But consequences can't be put off forever, as Bianca learns when she and her best friend, Lonnie, are in a terrible car crash. Waking up in the hospital, almost paralyzed by her injuries, Bianca is faced with questions she's not equipped to answer. She chooses instead to try a new virtual-reality version of Minecraft that responds to her every wish, giving her control over a world at the very moment she thought she'd lost it. As she explores this new realm, she encounters Esme and Anton, two kids who are also playing on the hospital server. The trio teams up to play through to the End, and hopefully to find Lonnie along the way.
But the road to recovery isn't without its own dangers. The kids are swarmed by mobs seemingly generated by their fears and insecurities, and now Bianca must deal with the uncertainties that have been plaguing her: Is Lonnie really in the game? And can Bianca help him to return to reality with her? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sir Matt Busby: The Definitive Biography Patrick Barclay (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w126mm x s25mm 283g ISBN13: 9781785032080 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-208-0 ISBN10: 1785032089 EAN: 9781785032080 x Description: The Man Who Made A Football Club Sir Matt Busby, who took Manchester United to unprecedented glory before seeing the club through profound tragedy, created the global entity that spreads from Old Trafford today. A player with Manchester City and Liverpool before the Second World War, Busby remained at the forefront of football through four decades and made an extraordinary contribution to the game in terms of both style and substance. In this definitive biography, Patrick Barclay looks back at Busby's phenomenal life and career, including the rise of the Busby Babes in the 1950s, the Munich disaster that claimed 23 lives and the Wembley victory ten years on that made United the first English team to win the European Cup. Denis Law, Pat Crerand and such other members of that great side as Alex Stepney, David Sadler and John Aston are among the host of voices testifying to the qualities that set Sir Matt apart. This is the story of one of the greatest figures in football history, and of the making of a legacy that will last for ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shine: How To Survive And Thrive At Work Chris Barez-Brown (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h181mm x w122mm ISBN13: 9780241257388 ISBN13: 978-0-241-25738-8 ISBN10: 0241257387 EAN: 9780241257388 x Description: We all have good days and bad days at work. Some days you feel bullet proof. People listen to you, your meetings run like clockwork, and you keep having new ideas. Other days are like wading through quick sand. You can't get anything done, and when the printer jams (again) you want to quit. Wouldn't it be great if every day went your way? If you jumped out of bed every morning ready for anything? You can stand out, break the rules and make things happen. You can be a bit more 'Elvis'. You can love every minute. The only limit is you: your energy, your belief, your perspective. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do John Bargh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780099592464 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959246-4 ISBN10: 0099592460 EAN: 9780099592464 x Description: `John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and Goliath How much of what we say, feel and do is under our conscious control? How much is not? And most crucial of all: if we understood how our unconscious worked - if we knew why we do what we do - could we finally, fundamentally, know ourselves? From checking a dating app to holding a cup of coffee or choosing who to vote for, our unconscious secretly governs everything we feel, think and do. In Before You Know It, Dr John Bargh - the world's leading expert on the unconscious mind - reveals the psychological forces that are at work behind the scenes as we go about our daily lives, and offers simple steps to improve your sleep, boost your memory and live better. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Only Story Julian Barnes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp 404g ISBN13: 9781787330696 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-069-6 ISBN10: 1787330699 EAN: 9781787330696 x Description: **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn't know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he's proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen. Tender and wise, The Only Story is a deeply moving novel by one of fiction's greatest mappers of the human heart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Truth and Lies of Ella Black Emily Barr (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 250g ISBN13: 9780141367002 ISBN13: 978-0-14-136700-2 ISBN10: 0141367008 EAN: 9780141367002
x Description: Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for . . . Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things. And realises her life has been a lie. Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas. But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The People Vs Tech: How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) Jamie Bartlett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w126mm x s18mm 236g ISBN13: 9781785039065 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-906-5 ISBN10: 1785039067 EAN: 9781785039065 x Description: `This book could not have come at a better moment... The People Vs Tech makes clear that there is still time - just - for us to take back control.' - Camilla Cavendish, Sunday Times The internet was meant to set us free. Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and venture capitalists? And, in light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that mean for democracy, our delicately balanced system of government that was created long before big data, total information and artificial intelligence? In this urgent polemic, Jamie Bartlett argues that through our unquestioning embrace of big tech, the building blocks of democracy are slowly being removed. The middle class is being eroded, sovereign authority and civil society is weakened, and we citizens are losing our critical faculties, maybe even our free will. The People Vs Tech is an enthralling account of how our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution. Bartlett explains that by upholding six key pillars of democracy, we can save it before it is too late. We need to become active citizens; uphold a shared democratic culture; protect free elections; promote equality; safeguard competitive and civic freedoms; and trust in a sovereign authority. This essential book shows that the stakes couldn't be higher and that, unless we radically alter our course, democracy will join feudalism, supreme monarchies and communism as just another political experiment that quietly disappeared. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain Damian Le Bas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp 461g ISBN13: 9781784741037 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-103-7 ISBN10: 1784741035 EAN: 9781784741037 x
Description: *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* 'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.' Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in the ancient Romani language; the places her family stopped and worked, the ways they lived, the superstitions and lores of their people. But his own experience of life on the road was limited to Ford Transit journeys from West Sussex to Hampshire to sell flowers. In a bid to better understand his Gypsy heritage, the history of the Britain's Romanies and the rhythms of their life today, Damian sets out on a journey to discover the atchin tans, or stopping places - the old encampment sites known only to Travellers. Through winter frosts and summer dawns, from horse fairs to Gypsy churches, neon-lit lay-bys to fern-covered banks, Damian lives on the road, somewhere between the romanticised Gypsies of old, and their much-maligned descendants of today. In this powerful and soulful debut, Damian le Bas brings the places, characters and stories of his to bold and vigorous life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Idiot Elif Batuman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 298g ISBN13: 9780099583172 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958317-2 ISBN10: 0099583178 EAN: 9780099583172 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about what language - and languages - can and cannot do. Along the way she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary. Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is. At once clever and clueless, Batuman's heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid Belinda Bauer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 457g ISBN13: 9780593075548 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07554-8 ISBN10: 0593075544 EAN: 9780593075548 x Description: 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMID SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite
suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother. . . 'Snap is the best kind of crime novel. It gives you chills, it makes you think and it touches your heart. I loved it!' SARAH PINBOROUGH, No.1 bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes 'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You Go 'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C. L. TAYLOR, bestselling author of The Missing 'Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing.' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror 'Belinda Bauer's plots are never anything less than original and unsettling, and Snap is no exception.' Sunday Times 'Spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper.' Woman and Home 'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Driving Miss Norma Tim Bauerschmidt (Author) Ramie Liddle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w127mm x s19mm 233g ISBN13: 9780552174251 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17425-1 ISBN10: 0552174254 EAN: 9780552174251 x Description: 'A life-affirming book' Daily Mail 'An uplifting personal story of a year lived like no other' Daily Express Two days after her husband of sixty-seven years dies, nonagenarian Miss Norma is diagnosed with cancer. When given her treatment options surgery, chemo and radiotherapy - she rises to her full five feet and says in the strongest voice she can muster: 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road!' Driving Miss Norma is the story of her inspirational road trip across the US in a thirty-six-foot motorhome with her son, Tim, his wife, Ramie and their Poodle, Ringo - showing us that it's never too late to begin an adventure, inspire hope or become a trailblazer. As the journey unfolds, Miss Norma finally spreads her wings and lives life on her own terms for the very first time. With each adventure a once timid Miss Norma says YES to living in the face of death - whether it's experiencing her very first pedicure or taking the hot air balloon ride her late husband never found time for. With each passing mile - and one hilarious visit to a cannabis dispensary - Miss Norma's health improves and conversations that had once been taboo begin to unfold. Norma, Tim and Ramie bond in ways they could never have anticipated and their definitions of home, family and friendship are rewritten as strangers become friends and shower them with kindness. Bursting with Miss Norma's generous spirit, Driving Miss Norma ignites a renewed sense of life, family, fun and self-discovery - at any age. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Here and Gone Haylen Beck (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp 224g ISBN13: 9781784705855 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-585-5 ISBN10: 1784705853 EAN: 9781784705855 x Description: `The best thriller I've read this year' LISA JEWELL `A fantastic thriller... It doesn't get better than this' LEE CHILD Her fresh start is about to turn into a nightmare... Audra has finally left her abusive husband. She's taken the family car and her young children, Sean and Louise, are buckled up in the back. This is their chance for a fresh start. Audra keeps to the country roads to avoid attention. Then she spots something in her rear-view mirror. A police car is following her and the lights are flickering. Blue and red. As Audra pulls over she is intensely aware of how isolated they are. Her perfect escape is about to turn into a nightmare beyond her imagining... `A rollercoaster...complete with agonising tension and a heroine you can't help rooting for' Daily Mail `Almost unbearably tense... Cancel all your plans and settle in for the ride' Ruth Ware _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller Antony Beevor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp 696g ISBN13: 9780241326763 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32676-3 ISBN10: 0241326761 EAN: 9780241326763 x Description: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox, Evening Standard 'The eye for telling detail which we have come to expect from Antony Beevor. . . this time, though, he turns his brilliance as a military historian to a subject not just of defeat, but dunderhead stupidity' Daily Mail On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the
Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle. It looks into the very heart of war. 'In Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study of national character' - Ben Macintyre, The Times 'Superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written' - Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources' - Keith Lowe, Literary Review 'Another masterwork from the most feted military historian of our time' - Jay Elwes, Prospect Magazine 'The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic' - Giles Milton, Sunday Times 'He is a master of his craft . . . we have here a definitive account' - Piers Paul Read, The Tablet _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Exhibit Alexandra: This is no ordinary psychological thriller Natasha Bell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780718187057 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8705-7 ISBN10: 0718187059 EAN: 9780718187057 x Description: '2018's most gripping psychological thriller' Stylist ALEXANDRA SOUTHWOOD HAS VANISHED . . . AND SHE KNOWS THEY WILL NEVER FIND HER . . . THIS IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER THRILLER YOU'VE READ. 'This story I have to tell is more than a collection of facts. I have no reason to paint a better or worse picture than what really happened. I've already lost everything.' Alexandra Southwood is missing. Her husband is beside himself, or at least he appears to be. She has vanished into thin air; the only traces left are her bloodied clothes by the riverside. It isn't long before the police are searching for a body. But we know that she is alive. That she is being kept somewhere far from her family. That perhaps this wife and mother wasn't quite what she seemed ... Be warned: this isn't another missing-woman thriller. This is something far more shocking . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Speak Science: Gravity, relativity and other ideas that were crazy until proven brilliant Bruce Benamran (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h216mm x w135mm x s24mm 333g ISBN13: 9780753548806 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4880-6 ISBN10: 0753548801 EAN: 9780753548806 x Description: How do magnets work? What is the theory of relativity all about? Is light made of waves or particles? And how on earth can a levitating goat teach us about atomic structure? In this age of smartphones, artificial intelligence, supercolliders, supercomputers and other cutting-edge technology, we've lost touch with many of the most basic science concepts that launched our information age. For Bruce Benamren, science is about stories and characters. Why, for instance, did pirates wear eye patches? That's all to do with how the retina processes light. Pirates running down to the gun deck would have no time to let their eyes get used to the dark, so they kept one eye gun-deck ready. Bruce isn't pretending that science isn't tricky, but in simple, maths-free explanations and just-the-good-parts historical recaps, he shows us that the greatest scientific discoveries and theories don't have to remain beyond our grasp. Whether you haven't picked up a test tube since school and feel like you're missing out on something marvellous, or you're a professor who wants to look at the world with starry-eyed wonder again, How to Speak Science is a witty yet deeply revelatory exploration of the essential mysteries of the universe. Because if a goat can explain scientific theory, you can too. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Play On: How to Get Better With Age Jeff Bercovici (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 307g ISBN13: 9780241976289 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97628-9 ISBN10: 0241976286 EAN: 9780241976289 x Description: Sports are about challenging our physical limits. But the greatest limit of all remains undefeated: age. We're taught to believe that ageing thwarts effort and grace, talent and grit, outstanding teamwork and individual brilliance. But a new breed of top professionals - the likes of Roger Federer, Jo Pavey and Tom Brady - are overturning long-held assumptions about the duration of primetime in a sporting career. It's not that aging causes a decline in fitness; rather, a decline in fitness causes aging. Jeff Bercovici steps inside the lives of such ageless athletes, following them as they train, compete, and recover, to dispel conventional wisdom about longevity. Full of cutting-edge science, technology and practical tips, Play On empowers you to reverse the ageing process, and extend your peak years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Very Human Ending: How suicide haunts our species Jesse Bering (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp 286g ISBN13: 9780857524522 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-452-2 ISBN10: 0857524526 EAN: 9780857524522 x Description: We are the only species on the face of the planet that deliberately ends its own life. More often than not, it is negative social evaluations real or imagined - that drive us to it. But what is it about the human brain that means that we may not only entertain suicidal thoughts but, in some cases, actually act upon them? Combining cutting-edge scientific research with investigative journalism, psychologist Jesse Bering takes a long hard look at the human fascination with self-slaughter. From the sprawling woods of Aokigahara, better known as the Japanese 'suicide forest' that lies in the shadow of Mount Fuji, to a parasitology lab in New Zealand where researchers are studying how invisible organisms hijack the brains of their rodent hosts and steer them in the path of hungry cats, we go on a sobering search for the scientific bases of suicide. In dealing with a volatile subject that simultaneously attracts and repulses, This Fatal Game is guaranteed to jump-start a new conversation about a perennial problem that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Personal Impressions Isaiah Berlin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pimlico
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 528pp 633g ISBN13: 9781845952495 ISBN13: 978-1-84595-249-5 ISBN10: 1845952499 EAN: 9781845952495 x Description: The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressions collects the essayist and intellectual historian's most remarkable portraits of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, writers and politicians. For this third, enlarged edition, ten new pieces have been added, including portraits of David Ben-Gurion, Maynard and Lydia Keynes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Berlin's autobiographical reflections on Jewish Oxford and his Oxford undergraduate years. Rich and enlightening, Personal Impressions is a vibrant demonstration of Berlin's belief that ideas truly live only through people. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anxiety Cure: Live a Life Free From Panic in Just a Few Weeks Klaus Bernhardt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vermilion
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 208pp h198mm x w126mm x s13mm 145g ISBN13: 9781785041938 ISBN13: 978-1-78504-193-8 ISBN10: 1785041932 EAN: 9781785041938 x Description: The highly effective guide to finding the calm within yourself Everyone worries, but if worry has taken over your life and has taken the form of anxiety and panic, it's time to take control and claim your life back. Pioneering psychotherapist Klaus Bernhardt's proven anxiety cure has helped thousands of sufferers lead a calmer, happier life fast. Whether you suffer from general anxiety, panic attacks or social anxiety, The Anxiety Cure will rid you of your fears once and for all. Using the latest research in neuroscience combined with the most useful elements of therapies such as CBT, hypnotherapy and positive psychology, The Anxiety Cure will introduce you to a powerful approach to stop anxiety in its tracks. Within just a few weeks, using tried and tested mind training and pattern breaker techniques, you will discover the real cause of your anxiety, learn to rewire negative thinking and completely transform your response to anxiety-inducing situations and thoughts. Klaus Bernhardt's methods have already been used by thousands of people worldwide to turn their lives around, and now this practical and easy-toaction book is your chance to take control, regain your confidence and live your life free of fear and worry. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
So Much Life Left Over Louis de Bernieres (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm x s20mm 379g ISBN13: 9781911215622 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-62-2 ISBN10: 1911215620 EAN: 9781911215622 x Description: Rosie and Daniel have moved to Ceylon with their little daughter to start a new life at the dawn of the 1920s, attempting to put the trauma of the First World War behind them, and to rekindle a marriage that gets colder every day. However, even in the lush plantation hills it is hard for them to escape the ties of home and the yearning for fulfilment that threatens their marriage. Back in England, Rosie's three sisters are dealing with different challenges in their searches for family, purpose and happiness. These are precarious times, and they find themselves using unconventional means to achieve their desires. Around them the world is changing, and when Daniel finds himself in Germany he witnesses events taking a dark and forbidding turn. By turns humorous and tragic, gripping and touching, So Much Life Left Over follows a cast of unique and captivating characters as they navigate the extraordinary interwar years both in England and abroad. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Worm and the Bird Coralie Bickford-Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 64pp 341g ISBN13: 9781846149238 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-923-8 ISBN10: 1846149231 EAN: 9781846149238 x Description: This is the story of a worm in the earth, a bird in the trees, and the joy to be found in life's smallest moments, from the award-winning creator of The Fox and the Star. 'Gorgeous' The Times 'The loveliest offering for small readers' Amanda Craig, 'Best Children's Books of 2017' 'Absolutely stunning. A very sweet story with a touch of dark humour too. Wonderful' Chris Haughton, author of A Bit Lost _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web Nick Bilton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm x s22mm 251g ISBN13: 9780753547007 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4700-7 ISBN10: 0753547007 EAN: 9780753547007 x Description: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom - and almost got away with it. In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything - drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons - free of the government's watchful eye. While the federal government were undertaking an epic two-year manhunt for the site's elusive proprietor, the Silk Road quickly ballooned into a $1.2 billion enterprise. Ross embraced his new role as kingpin, taking drastic steps to protect himself - including ordering a hit on a former employee. As Ross made plans to disappear forever, the Feds raced against the clock to catch a man they weren't sure even existed, searching for a needle in the haystack of the global Internet. Drawing on exclusive access to key players and two billion digital words and images Ross left behind, New York Times bestselling author Nick Bilton offers a tale filled with twists and turns, lucky breaks and unbelievable close calls. It's a story of the boy next door's ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralised Web advocates and the old world of government control, order and the rule of law. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Boy in the Headlights: (Munch and Kruger Book 3) Samuel Bjork (Author) Series:
Munch and Kruger
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp ISBN13: 9780857522559 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-255-9 ISBN10: 0857522558 EAN: 9780857522559 x Description: The bestselling series, a former Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with another chilling case. Munch and Kruger. An unexpected pairing. A brilliant team. Winter 1999. An old man is driving home. It is dark and cold, and his is the only car on the road. Suddenly his headlights catch an animal up ahead. He hits the breaks furiously. Just in front of his bonnet he finds a young boy with a set of deer antlers on his head. Fourteen years later, a woman is found brutally murdered. Her body hidden in the boot of a car. She is the first but she won't be the last. Holger Munch is glad for the work; his personal life is anything but simple and escape is sweet. Mia Kruger is a woman on a mission. For the first time in a long time, she is clean. As more victims are reported, each crime scene is a little different to the last. There's an uncanny resemblance to cases from Mia's past. And then one day she sees a familiar face on the bus. It is her sister Sigrid, but she knows that's not possible, she's got the death certificate to prove it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prague Nights Benjamin Black (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9780241197387 ISBN13: 978-0-241-19738-7 ISBN10: 0241197384 EAN: 9780241197387 x Description: 'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head' Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow. The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress, and there's no shortage of suspects. Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder. In the search to find the culprit, Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court - unspoken affairs, letters written in code, and bitter rivalries. But there's no turning back now... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 Ian Black (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 640pp ISBN13: 9780141979144 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197914-4 ISBN10: 0141979143 EAN: 9780141979144 x Description: ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral testimonies and his own decades of reporting - Enemies and Neighbours brings much-needed perspective and balance to the long and unresolved struggle between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. Beginning in the final years of Ottoman ruleand the British Mandate period, when Zionist immigration transformed Palestine in the face of mounting Arab opposition, the book re-examines the origins of what was a doomed relationship from the start. It sheds fresh light on critical events such as the Arab rebellion of the 1930s; Israel's independence and the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba in Arabic) of 1948; the watershed of the 1967 war; two Intifadas; the Oslo Accords and Israel's shift to the right. It traces how - after five decades of occupation, ever-expanding Jewish settlements and the construction of the West Bank 'separation wall' - hopes for a two-state solution have all but disappeared, and explores what the future might hold. Yet Black also goes beyond the most newsworthy events - wars, violence and peace initiatives - to capture thereality of everyday life on the ground in Jerusalem and Hebron, Tel Aviv,Ramallah, Haifa and Gaza, for both sides of an unequal struggle. Lucid, timelyand gripping, Enemies and Neighbours illuminates a bitter conflict that shows no sign of ending - which is why it is so essential that we understand it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h234mm x w153mm x s18mm 336g ISBN13: 9780857523716 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-371-6 ISBN10: 0857523716 EAN: 9780857523716 x Description: The brain creates every feeling, emotion and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed in childhood. Now, thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages, we know that this isn't so - that the brain goes on developing and changing right through adolescence into adulthood. So what makes the adolescent brain different? What drives the excessive risk-taking or the need for intense friendships common to this age group? Why does an easy child become a challenging teenager? And why is it that many mental illnesses - depression, addiction, schizophrenia - begin during these formative years. Drawing upon her cutting-edge research in her London laboratory, award-winning neuroscientist, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains what happens inside the adolescent brain, and what her team's experiments have revealed about our behaviour, and how we relate to each other and our environment as we ?go through this period of our lives. She shows that while adolescence is a period of vulnerability, it is also a time of enormous creativity - one that should be acknowledged, nurtured and celebrated.
Our adolescence provides a lens through which we can see ourselves anew. It is fundamental to how we invent ourselves. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Meaning of Rice: And Other Tales from the Belly of Japan Michael Booth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784704230 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-423-0 ISBN10: 1784704237 EAN: 9781784704230 x Description: **Shortlisted for the 2017 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards** **Shortlisted for the 2018 Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award** 'The next Bill Bryson.' New York Times Food and travel writer Michael Booth and his family embark on an epic journey the length of Japan to explore its dazzling food culture. They find a country much altered since their previous visit ten years earlier (which resulted in the award-winning international bestseller Sushi and Beyond). Over the last decade the country's restaurants have won a record number of Michelin stars and its cuisine was awarded United Nations heritage status. The world's top chefs now flock to learn more about the extraordinary dedication of Japan's food artisans, while the country's fast foods - ramen, sushi and yakitori - have conquered the world. As well as the plaudits, Japan is also facing enormous challenges. Ironically, as Booth discovers, the future of Japan's culinary heritage is under threat. Often venturing far off the beaten track, the author and his family discover intriguing future food trends and meet a fascinating cast of food heroes, from a couple lavishing love on rotten fish, to a chef who literally sacrificed a limb in pursuit of the ultimate bowl of ramen, and a farmer who has dedicated his life to growing the finest rice in the world... in the shadow of Fukushima. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together - and Why It Could Drive Us Apart Rachel Botsman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241296189 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29618-9 ISBN10: 0241296188 EAN: 9780241296189 x Description: Nominated for the Business Book Awards 'Embracing Change' category ----A ground-breaking exploration of how the digital era is revolutionising human trust If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn't the age of distrust - far from it. In this revolutionary and widely praised book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history. We might have lost faith in institutions and leaders, but millions of people travel in cars with total strangers, exchange digital currencies, or find themselves trusting a bot. This is the age of "distributed trust", a paradigm shift driven by innovative
technologies that are rewriting the rules of an all-too-human relationship. If we are to benefit from this radical shift, we must understand the mechanics of how trust is built, managed, lost and repaired in the digital age. In the first book to explain this new world, Botsman provides a detailed map of this uncharted landscape - and explores what's next for humanity. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anniversary Hilary Boyd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 287g ISBN13: 9781405934855 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3485-5 ISBN10: 1405934859 EAN: 9781405934855 x Description: A deeply emotional new novel from the bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park Is the one you tried to forget the one you can't live without? Stella once thought that if she never saw Jack again, it would be too soon. But life has other plans for her and her stubborn, handsome ex-husband. Looking after their daughter in a time of need, Stella finds herself unwillingly reunited with the man she shared the best years of her life with - followed by the worst. Where tragedy once tore them apart, now Stella and Jack are being drawn back together. But each of them has a new partner and a new life. Should they fight temptation? Should the past remain the past? Or are some loves simply meant to be?
Praise for Hilary Boyd 'As canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life - and better at jokes' Daily Mail 'Terrific at cutting to the quick of modern relationships' Woman & Home 'Poignant, well-observed and wonderfully written' Closer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Any Human Heart William Boyd (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp 276g ISBN13: 9780241981450 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98145-0 ISBN10: 024198145X EAN: 9780241981450 x Description: Any Human Heart is William's Boyd's classic, bestselling novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war and as an art-dealer in '60s New York, Logan mixes with the movers and shakers of his times. But as a son, friend, lover and husband, he makes the same mistakes we all do in our search for happiness. Here, then, is the story of a life lived to the full - and a journey deep into a very human heart. Any Human Heart will be enjoyed by readers of Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel, as well as lovers of the finest British and historical fiction around the world. It was recently adapted for a major Channel 4 four-part drama series scripted by William Boyd and starring Kim Cattrall, Gillian Anderson, Jim Broadbent and Tom Hollander. This edition features beautiful cover artwork from the television series.
'Astonishing, touching, extremely funny. A brilliant evocation of a past era and an immensely readable story' Sunday Telegraph 'Superb, wonderful, enjoyable' Guardian 'A terrific journey through the twentieth century. Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable' Jeremy Paxman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Love is Blind William Boyd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp ISBN13: 9780241295946 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29594-6 ISBN10: 0241295947 EAN: 9780241295946 x Description: Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in his life. In Paris, a fateful encounter with a famous pianist irrevocably changes his future - and sparks an obsessive love affair with a beautiful Russian soprano, Lika Blum. Moving from Paris to St Petersburg to Edinburgh and back again, Brodie's love for Lika and its dangerous consequences pursue him around Europe and beyond, during an era of overwhelming change as the nineteenth century becomes the twentieth. Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away. At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth William Boyd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241979761 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97976-1 ISBN10: 0241979765 EAN: 9780241979761 x Description: A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably
shape a life; and the endless hesitations and loss-of-nerve that wickedly complicate it. These funny, surprising and moving stories are a resounding confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original and compelling storytellers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Break Line: Ant Middleton meets Capture or Kill, Tom Marcus James Brabazon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp 463g ISBN13: 9781405929431 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2943-1 ISBN10: 140592943X EAN: 9781405929431 x Description: 'BREATHLESS, COMPLEX, AND SERIOUSLY HARDCORE - DON'T PLAN TO SLEEP TONIGHT' Lee Child 'A RIVETING PAGE-TURNER, A GRUESOME DELIGHT, AND A STUDY OF WHAT LIES IN THE SHADOWED CORNERS OF THE HUMAN HEART' Gregg Hurwitz, author of ORPHAN X Officially, Max McLean doesn't exist. The British government denies all knowledge of the work he does on their behalf to keep us safe. But Max and his masters are losing faith in each other. And they've given him one last chance to prove he's still their man. Sent to a military research facility to meet a former comrade-in-arms, Max finds the bravest man he ever knew locked up for his own protection. His friend lost his mind during an operation in West Africa. The reason? Absolute mortal terror. Max is determined to find out why. Ahead lies a perilous, breathtaking mission into the unknown that will call into question everything that Max once believed in. Acting alone, without back-up, Max lands in Sierra Leone with his friend's last words ringing in his ears: 'They're coming, Max. They're coming . . .' The Break Line is a debut dripping with authenticity and menace. Smart, unputdownable and packed with irresistible set pieces and jaw-dropping plot twists, this is a thriller like no other. 'A taut, razor-edged thriller, packed with granular detail and authenticity' JAMES SWALLOW, author of NOMAD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Chrysanthemum Mary Lynn Bracht (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 223g ISBN13: 9781784705459 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-545-9 ISBN10: 1784705454 EAN: 9781784705459 x Description: 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' Hana and her little sister Emi are part of an island community of haenyo, women who make their living from diving deep into the sea off the southernmost tip of Korea. One day Hana sees a Japanese soldier heading for where Emi is guarding the day's catch on the beach. Her mother has told her again and again never to be caught alone with one. Terrified for her sister, Hana swims as hard as she can for the shore. So begins the story of two sisters suddenly and violently separated by war. Moving between Hana in 1943 and Emi as an old woman today, White
Chrysanthemum takes us into a dark and devastating corner of history - and two women whose love for one another is strong enough to triumph over the evils of war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Have You Eaten Grandma? Gyles Brandreth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241352649 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35264-9 ISBN10: 0241352649 EAN: 9780241352649 x Description: It can be much harder than it seems; commas, colons, semi-colons and even apostrophes can drive us all mad at times, but it riles no one more than the longest-serving resident of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, grammar guru Gyles Brandreth. In this brilliantly funny tirade on grammar, Gyles anatomises the linguistic horrors of our times, tells us where we've beengoing wrong (and why) and shows us how, in future, we can get it right everytime. Is 'alright' all right? You'll find out right here. From dangling clausesto gerunds, you'll also discover why Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses. In Have You Eaten Grandma? he waxes lyrical about the importance of language as, after all, it is what we use to define ourselves and is ultimately what makesus human. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography Sir Richard Branson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 544pp h198mm x w126mm x s35mm 433g ISBN13: 9780753556139 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-5613-9 ISBN10: 0753556138 EAN: 9780753556139 x Description: PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHAPTERS After creating 12 different billion-dollar businesses and breaking dozens of world records, wouldn't you think you'd done it all? Not Sir Richard Branson. Having brought the Virgin brand to all corners of the globe, he's now reaching out to the stars as he prepares to launch commercial space travel with Virgin Galactic. In this non-stop memoir, Richard takes you inside his whirlwind life: from reinventing his companies in the midst of the financial crisis and devastating personal losses, to tackling the planet's biggest challenges, to the joys of becoming a `grand-dude' at 64.Discover the irrepressible spirit, ingenious vision and relentless drive that has made Richard the ultimate entrepreneur. The iconoclastic Virgin founder is still changing the world. Next comes outer space. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Paul Broks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h240mm x w162mm x s30mm 565g ISBN13: 9781846145360 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-536-0 ISBN10: 1846145368 EAN: 9781846145360 x Description: '[A] beautifully written investigation of grief ... As an exploration of love and loss, as a portrait of a person and of the nature of personhood, this book is about as true as any I have read' James McConnachie, Sunday Times An audacious and beautiful account of grief and who we are. Memoir, neuroscience and myth interweave to create a book unlike any other When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks' wife died of cancer, he found himself plunged into the world of the bereaved. As he experienced the pain, alienation and suffering that make us human, his clinician-self seemed to watch on with keen interest. He embarked upon a voyage of experience: a journey through grief, philosophy, consciousness, humanity and magical thinking - seen through the prism of a lifetime's work in neuroscience. Fusing an account of living with and recovering from loss with thought-provoking meditations on the nature of the mind and the self, The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars is an audacious and beautiful work by a writer of astonishing wisdom and compassion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Start in Life Anita Brookner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp 100g ISBN13: 9780241981498 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98149-8 ISBN10: 0241981492 EAN: 9780241981498 x Description: Anita Brookner's first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.' Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment. Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5) Dan Brown (Author) Series:
Robert Langdon
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 560pp h178mm x w110mm x s33mm 294g ISBN13: 9780552175692 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17569-2 ISBN10: 0552175692 EAN: 9780552175692
x Description: Sunday Times #1 Bestseller New York Times #1 Bestseller The spellbinding new Robert Langdon novel from the author of The Da Vinci Code. 'Fans will not be disappointed' The Times Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence. But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch's precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum's director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret. In order to evade a tormented enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate labyrinthine passageways of hidden history and ancient religion. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal uncover the clues that will bring them face-to-face with a world-shaking truth that has remained buried - until now.
`Dan Brown is the master of the intellectual cliffhanger' Wall Street Journal `As engaging a hero as you could wish for' Mail on Sunday `For anyone who wants more brain-food than thrillers normally provide' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Stop Tokyo James Buckler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 352pp h178mm x w110mm x s22mm 188g ISBN13: 9781784163006 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-300-6 ISBN10: 1784163007 EAN: 9781784163006 x Description: The funny thing with suffering is just when you think you've suffered enough, you realize it's only the beginning. Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he's made and the people he's hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex. The bright lights and dark corners of this alien and fascinating city intoxicate him, and he finds himself transfixed by this country, which feels like a puzzle that no one can quite explain. And when Alex meets the enigmatic and alluring Naoko, the peace he sought slips ever further from his grasp. After all, trust is just betrayal waiting to happen and Alex is about to find out that there's no such thing as rock bottom. There's always the chance it'll get worse . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Witch Melvin Burgess (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h222mm x w144mm x s32mm 453g ISBN13: 9781783446902 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-690-2 ISBN10: 1783446900 EAN: 9781783446902 x Description: Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the rare powers of a witch. They warn her she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. All Bea wants to do is get on with her life, and to get closer to Lars, the mysterious young man she has met at the skate park. But her life is in danger, and she must break free. The question is - who can she trust? Carnegie Medal-winner Melvin Burgess returns with a powerful, thrilling fantasy for young adults about magic, myth and following your instincts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Map of the Invisible: Journeys into Particle Physics Jonathan Butterworth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 283g ISBN13: 9780099510826 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951082-6 ISBN10: 0099510820 EAN: 9780099510826 x Description: A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A magnificent, compelling and insightful voyage to the frontier of knowledge from a great writer with a deep understanding.' Brian Cox What is the universe really made of? How do we know? Follow the map of the invisible to find out... Over the last sixty years, scientists around the world have worked together to explore the fundamental constituents of matter, and the forces that govern their behaviour. The result, so far, is the `Standard Model' of elementary particles: a theoretical map of the basic building blocks of the universe. With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, the map as we know it was completed, but also extended into strange new territory. A Map of the Invisible is an explorer's guide to the Standard Model and the extraordinary realms of particle physics. After shrinking us down to the size of a sub-atomic particle, pioneering physicist Jon Butterworth takes us on board his research vessel for a journey in search of atoms and quarks, electrons and neutrinos, and the forces that shape the universe. Step by step, discovery by discovery, we journey into the world of the unseen, from the atom to black holes and dark matter, and beyond, to the outer reaches of the cosmos and the frontiers of human knowledge. Beautifully illustrated, with gradually evolving maps offering an inventive visual glossary as the journey progresses, A Map of the Invisible provides an essential introduction to our world, and to particle physics. It is a landmark work of non-fiction by one of the great scientists and science writers of today. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything Is Lies: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Amy Helen Callaghan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781405923439 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2343-9 ISBN10: 1405923431 EAN: 9781405923439 x Description: From the author of the thrilling Sunday Times bestseller Dear Amy ______________ What if your parents had been lying to you since the day you were born? Sophia's parents lived quiet, ordinary lives. At least she thought so, until she came home to discover her mother hanged, and her father in a pool of blood. Sophia is certain her mother didn't try to kill her father - but clearing her name will draw Sophia deep into a past she never imagined. A past that hides a dark and twisted secret . . . Because if everything you've been told is lies, then how dangerous is the truth? ______________
Praise for Helen's breakout thriller, Dear Amy 'Riveting' Sunday Times 'An accomplished psychological twister' Daily Mail 'A brilliant book . . . superb' Rachel Abbott 'The most exciting and terrifying thing I have read in a very long time' Elizabeth Haynes 'A tense plot, imaginative twists and smart writing' Julia Heaberlin 'Thrilling' Sun 'You'll be hooked' Fabulous _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 Mr David Cannadine (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 624pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 449g ISBN13: 9780141019130 ISBN13: 978-0-14-101913-0 ISBN10: 0141019131 EAN: 9780141019130 x
Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the definitive history, and will remain so for generations' A.N. Wilson To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing series of changes, of a kind for which there was simply no precedent in the human experience. There were revolutions in transport, communication, work; cities grew vast; scientific ideas made the intellectual landscape unrecognizable. This was an exhilarating time, but also a horrifying one. In his dazzling new book David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of the British nineteenth century in all its energy and dynamism, darkness and vice. This was a country which saw itself at the summit of the world. And yet it was a society also convulsed by doubt, fear and introspection. Victorious Century reframes a time at once strangely familiar and yet wholly unlike our own. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Line Becomes A River Francisco Cantu (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 276g ISBN13: 9781847925220 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-522-0 ISBN10: 1847925227 EAN: 9781847925220 x Description: How does a line in the sand become a barrier that people will risk everything to cross? Francisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. He worked the desert along the Mexican border, at the remote crossroads of drug routes and smuggling corridors, tracking humans through blistering days and frigid nights across a vast terrain. He detains the exhausted and the parched. He hauls in the dead. He tries not to think where the stories go from there. He is descended from Mexican immigrants, so the border is in his blood. But the line he is sworn to defend is dissolving. Haunted by nightmares, he abandons the Patrol for civilian life. And when an immigrant friend is caught on the wrong side of the border, Cantu faces a final confrontation with a world he believed he had escaped. The Line Becomes a River is timely and electrifying. It brings to life this landscape of sprawling borderlands and the countless people who risk their lives to cross it. Yet it takes us beyond one person's experience to reveal truths about life on either side of an arbitrary line, wherever it is. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eric Carle's Book of Many Things: Over 200 First Words Eric Carle (Author) Eric Carle (Illustrated by) Eric Carle (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 80pp h285mm x w209mm x s13mm 589g ISBN13: 9780141374369 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137436-9 ISBN10: 0141374365 EAN: 9780141374369 x Description: Learn over 200 words with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and friends! As your little one is learning to speak, introduce them to the colourful, iconic world of Eric Carle. From food and clothes to animals and feelings, this is the perfect way for little ones to learn the words they need to navigate their busy worlds. With the bright and beautiful artwork from Eric Carle and clear font, this book makes learning lots of fun! There is even a spread at the end so little
readers can try to remember all the words they have read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Robert A. Caro (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 1312pp ISBN13: 9781847923653 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-365-3 ISBN10: 1847923658 EAN: 9781847923653 x Description: The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is a riveting and timeless account of power, politics and the city of New York by `the greatest political biographer of our times' (Sunday Times) - chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time and by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one. First published in the USA in 1974, this monumental classic was a Sunday Times bestseller when published in the UK in 2015 and is now widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest books of its kind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Legacy of Spies John Le Carre (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 317g ISBN13: 9780241981610 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98161-0 ISBN10: 0241981611 EAN: 9780241981610 x Description: Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement, the Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times 'A brilliant novel of deception, love and trust to join his supreme cannon' Evening Standard 'Vintage le Carre. Immensely clever, breathtaking. Really, not since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold has le Carre exercised his gift as a storyteller so powerfully and to such thrilling effect' John Banville, Guardian Peter Guillam, former disciple of George Smiley in the British Secret Service, has long retired to Brittany when a letter arrives, summoning him to London. The reason? Cold War ghosts have come back to haunt him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of the Service are to be dissected by a generation with no memory of the Berlin Wall. Somebody must pay for innocent blood spilt in the name of the greater good . . . 'Utterly engrossing and perfectly pitched. There is only one le Carre. Eloquent, subtle, sublimely paced' Daily Mail 'Splendid, fast-paced, riveting' Andrew Marr, Sunday Times 'Remarkable. Vintage John le Carre. It gives the reader, at long last, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been missing for 54 years. Like wine, le Carre's writing has got richer with age. Don't wait for the paperback' The Times 'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. He's in the first rank' Ian McEwan
'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Drummer Girl: Soon to be a Major BBC TV Series John le Carre (Author) Series:
The Penguin John le Carre Hardback Collection
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 656pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241322376 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32237-6 ISBN10: 0241322375 EAN: 9780241322376 x Description: 'Wonderful' The New York Times Charlie, a jobbing young English actress, is accustomed to playing different roles. But when the mysterious, battle-scarred Joseph recruits her into the Israeli secret services, she enters the dangerous 'theatre of the real'. As she acts out her part in an intricate, high-stakes plot to trap and kill a Palestinian terrorist, it threatens to consume her. Set in the tragic arena of the Middle East conflict, this compelling story of love and torn loyalties plays out against the backdrop of an unwinnable war. 'The Little Drummer Girl is about spies as Madame Bovary is about adultery or Crime and Punishment about crime' The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Naive and Sentimental Lover John le Carre (Author) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 351g ISBN13: 9780241322444 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32244-4 ISBN10: 0241322448 EAN: 9780241322444 x Description: 'Splendid ... le Carre shows how endowed he is with the gift of storytelling' The Times Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his soothing existence is upended when he meets Shamus and Helen - a dazzling, bohemian couple who are everything he is not. As he is drawn into their reckless and unpredictable orbit, all that Cassidy thought he understood about his orderly life begins to unravel. Told with le Carre's lacerating wit and penetrating observation, The Naive and Sentimental Lover is an acerbic satire of middle-class hypocrisies. 'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy: 'Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane Moriarty B M Carroll (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780718186715 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8671-5 ISBN10: 0718186710 EAN: 9780718186715 x Description: 'Intriguing, compelling. Impossible to put down and irresistibly good' Liane Moriarty She's the victim. But is she so innocent? Sophie McCarthy is known for her determination, ambition and brilliance at work. She's tough, but only because she wants to get the best out of people. Aidan Ryan is strong, honourable, and a family man. He's tough too; the army requires it. When these two strangers are brought together in a devastating incident, Sophie's life is left in ruins. Her family wants to see Aidan pay for what he did. Aidan's prepared to sacrifice everything - including his marriage and his child - to fix the mess he's made. But some things can't be fixed, and Sophie is not at all what she first appeared . . . The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy is a gripping, impossible-to-put-down exploration of betrayal and revenge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sami's Silver Lining (The Lost and Found Book Two) Cathy Cassidy (Author) Erin Keen (Illustrated by) Series:
The Lost and Found
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp 300g ISBN13: 9780241334461 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33446-1 ISBN10: 0241334462 EAN: 9780241334461 x Description: The must-have second book in the brilliant Lost and Found series from Cathy Cassidy, bestselling author of the Chocolate Box Girls. Forced to flee his home in Syria for safety in England, Sami attempts to begin a new life but struggles to overcome the pain of the past. Memories of the long and dangerous journey across icy waters, armed with only his dad's old coat, a flute and the hope of a brighter future, are never far away. Can his new friends in the Lost and Found band and a blossoming romance with the girl of his dreams melt his frozen heart or is it too late to find a silver lining? Praise for Cathy's books: Touching, tender and unforgettable. Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler (Author) Raymond Chandler (Author) Raymond Chandler (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp 159g ISBN13: 9780241978931 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97893-1 ISBN10: 0241978939 EAN: 9780241978931 x Description: The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . . 'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works Ram Charan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Business Publisher: Books
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Forthcoming
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 127g ISBN13: 9781847942180 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-218-0 ISBN10: 1847942180 EAN: 9781847942180 x Description: `The most influential consultant alive.' Fortune Have you ever noticed that the best CEOs seem to have a special kind of intelligence, an ability to sense where the opportunities in their industries are and how to take advantage of them? The best have a knack for simplifying the most complex business practices down to the fundamentals - the same fundamentals of the small family business. In What the CEO Wants You To Know, Ram Charan explains in clear, simple language how to do what great CEOs do instinctively and persistently understand the basic building blocks of a company and use them to figure out how to make it work as a total business. Being able to decide what to do when, despite the clutter of day-to-day to-do lists and the complexity of the real world, takes the mystery out of business and offers a clear road map of organisational success. First published in 2001 (with over 300,000 copies sold worldwide) but never before published in the UK, this business classic has been completely rewritten and updated with new stories from today's market leaders and companies, and the latest insights from the cutting edge of management research. `One of the world's most renowned management consultants and authors.' Fast Company _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde: 'One of the most ENTHRALLING NOVELISTS OF THE MOMENT' LISA JEWELL Eve Chase (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 280g ISBN13: 9781405919340 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1934-0 ISBN10: 1405919345 EAN: 9781405919340 x Description: 'An enthralling story of secrets, sisters and an unsolved mystery' Kate Morton In the middle of a heatwave, four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to relive their memories of hazy Cotswolds summers. They find their uncle and aunt still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. An undercurrent of dread runs through the house. Why did Audrey vanish? Who is keeping her fate secret? As the sisters are lured into the mystery of their missing cousin, the stifling summer takes a shocking, deadly turn. One which will leave blood on their hands, and put another girl in danger decades later . . .
'Evocative and filled with intrigue' Clare Mackintosh 'One of the most enthralling novelists of the moment' Lisa Jewell 'Exquisite and evocative - the pace and suspense are handled expertly' Sarah Vaughan _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stress Solution: The 4 Steps to Reset Your Body, Mind, Relationships and Purpose Dr Rangan Chatterjee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp ISBN13: 9780241317945 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31794-5 ISBN10: 0241317940 EAN: 9780241317945 x Description: **From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling The 4 Pillar Plan** "It's thought that between 70 and 90% of GP consultations are related to stress" This has to change. Dr Rangan Chatterjee knows this better than anyone. As a practising GP he's seen first-hand how stress affects his patients and has found simple but effective methods to help them. Now he's on a mission to show that combatting stress is easier than you think. He shows how a small change in the way you approach your BODY
MIND RELATIONSHIPS PURPOSE can help you lead a more fulfilled, calmer life. In The Stress Solution, Rangan offers simple and achievable interventions to help you re-set your life, offering simple tools for how to cope with modern-life, including: * * * *
How to design your morning routine effectively How to keep a touch diary How to mute your digital world and make maoi mates How to eat the alphabet
Packed with personal accounts and patient cases, this book will become your blueprint on how to live stress-free in the modern world. "Rangan's easy, common-sense plan can help everyone live a happier, healthier life" - Jamie Oliver on The 4 Pillar Plan _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Queen of the Night Alexander Chee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 394g ISBN13: 9780718185091 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8509-1 ISBN10: 0718185099 EAN: 9780718185091 x Description: Recommended by The Observer . . . 'One doesn't so much read it, as one is bewitched by it. Epic, gorgeous, haunting' HANYA YANAGIHARA, author of A Little Life When it begins, it begins as an opera should begin: in a palace, at a ball, in an encounter with a stranger, who you discover has your fate in his hands . .. She is Lilliet Berne. And she is the soprano. 1882. One warm autumn evening in Paris, Lilliet is finally offered an original role, though it comes at a price. The part is based on her deepest secret. Only four people could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her still, one wants only to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. In taking this role Lilliet is forced to confront her darkest lies but will the truth save Lilliet - or destroy her? 'Brilliantly extravagant' VOGUE 'Terrific' NEW YORKER _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where The Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics James Cheshire (Author) Oliver Uberti (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 174pp h277mm x w246mm x s13mm 829g ISBN13: 9780141982229 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198222-9 ISBN10: 0141982225 EAN: 9780141982229 x Description: 'Turn the pages to revel in the techno-tracking that is revealing the secrets of animal lives. This is science at its best, the art of understanding truth and beauty' Chris Packham Once tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers allow us to see the natural world as never before. For the first time, this book lets you follow the journeys of seals, sharks, elephants, bumble bees, owls and wolves all over the world. Open it, and go where the animals go. 'This is a special kind of detective story' New Scientist 'This book is beautiful as well as informative and inspiring. There is no doubt it will help in our fight to save wildlife and wild habitats' Dr Jane Goodall 'Beautiful and thrilling ... a joy to study cover to cover' E. O. Wilson _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wish Child Catherine Chidgey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 305g ISBN13: 9781784704339 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-433-9 ISBN10: 1784704334 EAN: 9781784704339 x Description: 'A wonderful new talent' Nick Hornby Germany, 1939. Sieglinde lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin. Erich is an only child living a lush rural life, aware that he is shadowed by strange, unanswered questions. Both children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Drawn together as Germany's hope for a glorious future begins to collapse, the children find temporary refuge in an abandoned theatre amidst the rubble of Berlin. The days they spend there together will shape the rest of their lives. Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Past Tense: (Jack Reacher 23) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp ISBN13: 9780593078204 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07820-4 ISBN10: 0593078209 EAN: 9780593078204 x Description: The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most stomach-clenching, hair-raising,blood-curling ticking-time- bomb of an adventure yet. Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what's one extra day? He takes the detour. At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It's a strange place ... but it's all there is. The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He's told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place? So begins another nailbiting, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That's for damn sure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Midnight Line: (Jack Reacher 22) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 496pp 335g ISBN13: 9780857503619 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-361-9 ISBN10: 0857503618 EAN: 9780857503619 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER/A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. Best advice: stay out of his way. Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me.
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The Midnight Line: (Jack Reacher 22) Lee Child (Author) Series:
Jack Reacher
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 496pp 261g ISBN13: 9780857503954 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-395-4 ISBN10: 0857503952 EAN: 9780857503954 x Description: THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER/A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. Best advice: stay out of his way. Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters Deepak Chopra, M.D. (Author) Menas Kafatos (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp 197g ISBN13: 9781846045318 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-531-8 ISBN10: 1846045312 EAN: 9781846045318 x Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this book, that combines cutting edge science with real world applications, Chopra and Kafatos redefine our nature of reality and what is possible. Here they ask 9 questions: What Came Before the Big Bang? Why Does the Universe Fit Together So Perfectly? Where Did Time Come From? What Is the Universe Made Of? Is There Design in the Universe? Is the Quantum World Linked to Everyday Life?
Do We Live in a Conscious Universe? How Did Life First Begin? Does the brain create the mind? You Are The Universe offers answers that open up new possibilities for all of us to lead more fruitful, peaceful and successful lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything David Christian (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp 479g ISBN13: 9780241338377 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33837-7 ISBN10: 0241338379 EAN: 9780241338377 x Description: How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. This last mega-innovation gave us an energy bonanza that brought huge benefits to mankind, yet also threatens to shake apart everything we have created. This global origin story is one that we could only begin to tell recently, thanks to the underlying unity of modern knowledge. Panoramic in scope and thrillingly told, Origin Story reveals what we learn about human existence when we consider it from a universal scale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lifting the Veil: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie Ismat Chughtai (Author) Series:
Penguin Women Writers
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 181g ISBN13: 9780241346433 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34643-3 ISBN10: 0241346436 EAN: 9780241346433 x Description: 'Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern' Kamila Shamsie, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018, from the introduction Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories celebrate life in all its complexities: from a woman who refuses marriage to a man she loves to preserve her freedom, to a Hindu and a Muslim teenager pulled apart by societal pressures, to eye-opening personal accounts of the charges of obscenity the author faced in court for stories found in this book. Wickedly funny and unflinchingly honest, Lifting the Veil explores the power of female sexuality while slyly mocking the subtle tyrannies of middle-class life. In 1940s India, an unlikely setting for female rebellion, Ismat Chughtai was a rare and radical storyteller born years ahead of her time. 'Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives' Huffington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pomodoro Technique: The Life-Changing Time-Management System Francesco Cirillo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 160pp 114g ISBN13: 9780753548387 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4838-7 ISBN10: 0753548380 EAN: 9780753548387 x Description: Available in bookshops for the first time, the internationally acclaimed time management system that has been used by millions, written by Francesco Cirillo, creator of the Pomodoro Technique. We all face the same problem: we're constantly busy but we never seem to get anything done. We know we should focus on the task in hand, but it feels impossible with so many distractions and demands on our time. We all need The Pomodoro Technique. This deceptively simple tool, now being used by more than 2 million people around the world, helps us regain control and achieve our goals. It transforms both work and home life by splitting days into 25-minute `pomodoros', which focus our minds and make us far more productive. Drawing on more than two decades of refinement and thinking, this powerful little book will teach you how to . . . -Work with time -Eliminate burnout -Manage distractions -Create a better work/life balance . . . all using only a pen, some paper and a timer. Start now - and join the Pomorodo revolution. Fully updated edition with exclusive material on teamwork - to make you and your team more dynamic than ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong Stephen Clarke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 592pp h234mm x w153mm x s42mm 794g ISBN13: 9781780895529 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-552-9 ISBN10: 1780895526 EAN: 9781780895529 x Description: Legend has it that, in a few busy weeks in July 1789, a despotic king, his freeloading wife, and a horde of over-privileged aristocrats, were displaced and then humanely dispatched. In the ensuing years, we are told, France was heroically transformed into an idyll of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite. In fact, as Stephen Clarke argues in his informative and eye-opening account of the French Revolution, almost all of this is completely untrue. In 1789 almost no one wanted to oust King Louis XVI, let alone guillotine him. While the Bastille was being stormed by out-of-control Parisians, the true democrats were at work in Versailles creating a British-style constitutional monarchy. The founding of the Republic in 1792 unleashed a reign of terror that caused about 300,000 violent deaths.
And people hailed today as revolutionary heroes were dangerous opportunists, whose espousal of Liberte, Egalite and Fraternite did not stop them massacring political opponents and guillotining women for demanding equal rights. Going back to original French sources, Stephen Clarke has uncovered the little-known and rarely told story of what was really happening in revolutionary France, as well as what went so tragically and bloodily wrong. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones James Clear (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Business Publisher: Books
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Forthcoming
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781847941831 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-183-1 ISBN10: 1847941834 EAN: 9781847941831 x Description: `A supremely practical and useful book. James Clear distils the most fundamental information about habit formation, so you can accomplish more by focusing on less.' Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck ________________________________ People say when you want to change your life, you need to set big goals. But they're wrong. World-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered a simpler system for transforming your life. He knows that lasting change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single short phone call. He calls them atomic habits. In this ground-breaking book, Clear reveals how these tiny changes will help you get 1 percent better every day. He uncovers a handful of simple life hacks (the forgotten art of Habit Stacking, the unexpected power of the Two Minute Rule, or the trick to entering the Goldilocks Zone), and delves into cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain why they matter. Along the way, he tells inspiring stories of Olympic gold medalists, leading CEOs, and distinguished scientists who have used the science of small habits to stay productive, motivated, and happy. These small changes will have a revolutionary effect on your career, your relationships and your life. ________________________________ `James Clear has spent years honing the art and studying the science of habits. This engaging, hands-on book is the guide you need to break bad routines and make good ones.' Adam Grant, author of Originals `A special book that will change how you approach your day and live your life.' Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is the Way _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don't Let Go Harlan Coben (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 266g ISBN13: 9781784751159 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-115-9 ISBN10: 1784751154 EAN: 9781784751159 x Description: ***THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLER*** __________________________
A SMALL TOWN IS HIDING BIG SECRETS ... Fifteen years ago in New Jersey, a teenage boy and girl were found dead. Most people concluded it was a tragic suicide pact. The dead boy's brother, Nap Dumas, did not. Now Nap is a cop - but he's a cop who plays by his own rules, and who has never made peace with his past. And when the past comes back to haunt him, Nap discovers secrets can kill... __________________________ From the international bestselling author of Home and Fool Me Once, and the creator of the Netflix hit Safe. __________________________ 'The modern master of the hook and twist, luring you in on the first page only to shock you on the last' - Dan Brown 'Coben is a phenomenon - the most reliable of American thriller-writers, the least likely to disappoint ... the true mystery is Coben's extraordinary capacity to keep writing such wonderful thrillers' - The Times 'As moreish as ever' - Sunday Times 'Simply one of the all-time greats - pick up any one of his thrillers and you'll find a riveting, twisty, surprising story with a big, beating heart at its core.' Gillian Flynn 'Harlan Coben is a folk poet of the suburbs and his well-tuned new mystery, Don't Let Go shows why ... This kind of writing is what we call poetry.' New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? Mark Cocker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp 573g ISBN13: 9780224102292 ISBN13: 978-0-224-10229-2 ISBN10: 022410229X EAN: 9780224102292 x Description: Environmental thought and politics have become parts of mainstream cultural life in Britain. The wish to protect wildlife is now a central goal for our society, but where did these `green' ideas come from? And who created the cherished institutions, such as the National Trust or the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that are now so embedded in public life with millions of members? From the flatlands of Norfolk to the tundra-like expanse of the Flow Country in northern Scotland, acclaimed writer on nature Mark Cocker sets out on a personal quest through the British countryside to find the answers to these questions. He explores in intimate detail six special places that embody the history of conservation or whose fortunes allow us to understand why our landscape looks as it does today. We meet key characters who shaped the story of the British countryside - Victorian visionaries like Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust, as well as brilliant naturalists such as Max Nicholson or Derek Ratcliffe, who helped build the very framework for all environmental effort. This is a book that looks to the future as well as exploring the past. It asks searching questions like who owns the land and why? And who benefits from green policies? Above all it attempts to solve a puzzle: why do the British seem to love their countryside more than almost any other nation, yet they have come to live amid one of the most denatured landscapes on Earth? Radical, provocative and original, Our Place tackles some of the central issues of our time. Yet most important of all, it tries to map out how this overcrowded island of ours could be a place fit not just for human occupants but also for its billions of wild citizens. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Age of Iron J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp 117g ISBN13: 9780241983935 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98393-5 ISBN10: 0241983932 EAN: 9780241983935 x Description: Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in Age of Iron. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors: the hounding by the police of her servant's son, the burning of a nearby black township, the murder by security forces of a teenage activist who seeks refuge in her house. Through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man who one day appears on her doorstep. In Age of Iron, J. M. Coetzee brings his searing insight and masterful control of language to bear on one of the darkest episodes of our times. 'Quite simply a magnificent and unforgettable work' Daily Telegraph 'A superbly realized novel whose truth cuts to the bone' The New York Times 'A remarkable work by a brilliant writer' Wall Street Journal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Late Essays: 2006 - 2017 J. M. Coetzee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9781784705657 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-565-7 ISBN10: 1784705659 EAN: 9781784705657 x Description: A fascinating collection of essays on literary subjects ranging from Daniel Defoe to Samuel Beckett by a Nobel and Booker Prize-winning writer Late Essays gathers together J.M. Coetzee's literary essays from 2006 to 2017. The subjects covered in this stunning collection range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had a long-standing interest in German literature and here he engages with the work of Goethe, Hoelderlin, Kleist and Walser. There are four fascinating essays on fellow Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett and he looks at the work of three Australian writers: Patrick White, Les Murray and Gerald Murnane. There are essays too on Tolstoy's great novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich, on Flaubert's masterpiece Madame Bovary, and on the Argentine modernist Antonio Di Benedetto. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Summer of Impossible Things: An uplifting, emotional story as seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club Rowan Coleman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp 291g ISBN13: 9781785032431 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-243-1 ISBN10: 1785032437 EAN: 9781785032431 x Description: If you could change the past, would you? *As seen on ITV in The Zoe Ball Book Club* 'Beautiful, well-written...I got goosebumps' Alex Jones 'Portrayed 1977 so brilliantly...it would make an amazing movie' Zoe Ball ----------------------------------------------How far would you go to save the person you love? Luna is about to do everything she can to save her mother's life. Even if it means sacrificing her own. A beautiful novel about family, courage, sacrifice and love in all its guises from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Memory Book ----------------------------------------------With over 150 5* reviews, this is what readers are saying about this irresistible page-turner: 'Best book of the year for me' 'It's a poignant but ultimately life-affirming journey' 'A wonderful novel, full of love and friendship and vitality' 'This story was magical and I loved it' 'Truly outstanding storytelling' 'A book that really stayed with me' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties Paul Collier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s26mm 395g ISBN13: 9780241333884 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33388-4 ISBN10: 0241333881 EAN: 9780241333884 x Description: From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts - economic, social and cultural - with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervour of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world's most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself - and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the 20th century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World Lizzie Collingham (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 329g ISBN13: 9780099586951 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958695-1 ISBN10: 0099586959 EAN: 9780099586951 x Description: 'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader... Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit... Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry... In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes. The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe's edible resources from cod fish and salt beef to spices, tea and sugar. Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change Beth Comstock (Author) Tahl Raz (Contributions by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 416pp 502g ISBN13: 9780753545720 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4572-0 ISBN10: 0753545721 EAN: 9780753545720 x Description: Change is the only constant. Learn to be a change-maker. In Imagine It Forward, Beth Comstock, the former vice chair of GE, describes her twenty-five year efforts to be an instigator of change at every level of
business. When she first moved from NBC to parent company GE in 1998, she was ignored as a woman in a man's world, treated as an outsider because she didn't have a business background, and ignored as a mere PR person. But CEO Jeff Immelt realized even then that the industrial giant, like so many businesses, had to change fast in order to stay relevant in a world where Google, Facebook, and an explosion of internet companies were transforming how goods and services were marketed, made, and sold. In a deeply personal journey filled with practical takeaways from two plus decades of initiating change at the top levels of one of the largest corporations in the world, Comstock lays out the challenges, opportunities, tools, and practices needed to embrace change, whatever industry you are in, and make it part of every management decision. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h181mm x w111mm x s14mm 125g ISBN13: 9780241984352 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98435-2 ISBN10: 0241984351 EAN: 9780241984352 x Description: 'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes. As rumours of a legendary hound said to haunt the Baskerville family circulate, Holmes and Watson are asked to ensure the protection of Sir Charles' only heir, Sir Henry - who has travelled all the way from America to reside at Baskerville Hall in Devon. And it is there, in an isolated mansion surrounded by mile after mile of wild moor, that Holmes and Watson come face to face with a terrifying evil that reaches out from centuries past . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fall of the House of Fifa David Conn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9780224100458 ISBN13: 978-0-224-10045-8 ISBN10: 0224100459 EAN: 9780224100458 x Description: The Fall of the House of Fifa is the definitive story of Fifa's rise - and the most spectacular fall sport has ever seen. 1904: 'No person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' - Fifa congress A century later: 'Fifa is a Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organisation (RICO) enterprise' - A judge in Brooklyn, using a term originally coined for the mafia For forty years Joao Havelange and then Sepp Blatter presided over a Fifa now plagued with scandal - dawn raids, FBI investigations, allegations of money laundering, industrial-scale bribery, racketeering, tax evasion, vote-buying and theft. Now David Conn, football's most respected investigative journalist, chronicles the extraordinary history and staggering scale of corruption. He paints revealing portraits of the men at the centre of Fifa - the power brokers, the indicted, the legends like Franz Beckenbauer and Michel Platini - and puts the allegations to Blatter himself in an extended interview. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Find The Girl Lucy Connell (Author) Lydia Connell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp 375g ISBN13: 9780241340271 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34027-1 ISBN10: 0241340276 EAN: 9780241340271 x Description: Falling for your best friend's love interest is bad...Falling for your twin's is catastrophic. As kids, Nina and Nancy were inseparable. As teenagers, not so much... Where Nancy is popular, an Instagram star, and obsessed with boy band heartthrob Chase, Nina is shy, a talented classical musician, and shuns the spotlight that her sister thrives in. But when the wrong twin unwittingly ends up at the centre of a romantic social media storm, the bonds of twin-ship will be tested like never before... Written in collaboration with Katy Birchall, #FINDTHEGIRL is a very modern twist on a Cinderella story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win Sam Conniff Allende (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h178mm x w129mm x s19mm 202g ISBN13: 9780241307885 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30788-5 ISBN10: 0241307880 EAN: 9780241307885 x Description: FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH - MAY 'Ask forgiveness, not permission! A unique approach...reminds me of the fun we've had with our airlines' - Sir Richard Branson 'I'd rather be a pirate than join the navy' Steve Jobs 'Totally compelling' Ed Miliband, Reasons to be Cheerful podcast 'A model for how to break the system and create radical change' Joy Lo Dico, Evening Standard 'Be More Pirate feels so important as it looks to history to help us grip the future' Martha Lane Fox CBE, Founder of Lastminute.com 'This isn't a book, it's the beginning of a movement. Be More Pirate should come with a health warning' Tom Goodwin, author of Digital Darwinism 'A refreshing, entertaining and inspiring perspective on work, leadership and why we do what we do' Bruce Daisley, VP, Twitter 'A controversial call to arms, this contrarianism is exactly what we need to course correct 'the corporation'' Arlo Brady, CEO of Freud Communications ----Pirates didn't just break the rules, they rewrote them. They didn't just reject society, they reinvented it. Pirates didn't just challenge the status-quo, they changed everyfuckingthing. Pirates faced a self-interested establishment, a broken system, industrial scale disruption and an uncertain future. Sound familiar?
Pirates stood for MISCHIEF, PURPOSE and POWER. And you can too. In Be More Pirate, Sam Conniff Allende unveils the innovative strategies of Golden Age pirates, drawing parallels between the tactics and teachings of legends like Henry Morgan and Blackbeard with modern rebels, like Elon Musk, Malala and Banksy. Featuring takeaway sections and a guide to build you own pirate code 2.0, Be More Pirate will show you how to leave your mark on the 21st century. Whatever your ambitions, ideas and challenges, Be More Pirate will revolutionize the way you live, think and work today, and tomorrow. So what are you waiting for? Order now and join the rebellion. ----Sam Conniff Allende is the founder and former CEO of Livity, a multi-award-winning youth marketing agency. Sam has led the unlikeliest collaborations between brands and bright young people on the edges of society, resulting in real innovation. He has worked with Google, Unilever, PlayStation and Dyson, and regularly speaks and runs Be More Pirate workshops at these industry-leading companies. Sam believes in the power of professional rulebreaking and is on a mission to instigate modern mutinies in organisations around the world, where the teams takeover the running of the ship to ultimately become more accountable, motivated and rebellious. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After the Party Cressida Connolly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp 334g ISBN13: 9780241327722 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32772-2 ISBN10: 0241327725 EAN: 9780241327722 x Description: 'Had it not been for my weakness, someone who is now dead could still be alive. That is what I believed and consequently lived with every day in prison.' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences. Years later, Phyllis, alone and embittered, recounts the dramatic events which led to her imprisonment and changed the course of her life forever. Powerful, poignant, and exquisitely observed, After the Party is an illuminating portrait of a dark period of British history which we are yet to fully acknowledge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Unexpected Truth About Animals: Brilliant natural history, starring lovesick hippos, stoned sloths, exploding bats and frogs in taffeta trousers... Lucy Cooke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp 373g ISBN13: 9781784161903 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-190-3 ISBN10: 178416190X EAN: 9781784161903 x
Description: Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize 'Endlessly fascinating.' - Bill Bryson 'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham 'Well-informed and downright funny' - Richard Dawkins
History is full of strange animal stories invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney. But when it comes to understanding animals, we've got a long way to go. Whether we're watching a viral video of romping baby pandas or looking at a picture of penguins `holding hands', we often project our own values innocence, abstinence, hard work - onto animals. So you've probably never considered that moose get drunk and that penguins are notorious cheats. In The Unexpected Truth About Animals Zoologist Lucy unravels many such myths - that eels are born from sand, that swallows hibernate under water, and that bears gave birth to formless lumps that are licked into shape by their mothers - to show that the stories we create reveal as much about us as they do about the animals. Astonishing, illuminating and laugh-out-loud funny. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings: Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women Sarah Cooper (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Square Peg
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 216pp ISBN13: 9781910931202 ISBN13: 978-1-910931-20-2 ISBN10: 1910931209 EAN: 9781910931202 x Description: The unspoken rules for how women should behave in the workplace are as numerous as they are confusing. Ask for a pay rise? Pushy. Take credit for an idea? Arrogant. Admit a mistake? Weak. Successfully juggle work and family? Unpromotable. In How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men's Feelings, Sarah Cooper, author of the bestselling 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, illustrates how women can achieve their dreams, succeed in their careers and become leaders, without harming the fragile male ego. This wickedly funny tongue-in-cheek guide includes chapters on `How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It', `9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women', and `Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likeable or Successful?'. It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish explaining things. When all else fails, there is a set of cut-outable moustaches inside to allow women to seem more man-like, which will probably lead to a quick promotion! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Boggart Susan Cooper (Author) Series:
A Puffin Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241326817 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32681-7 ISBN10: 0241326818 EAN: 9780241326817
x Description: Accidentally transported from his remote Scottish castle to the bright, fast-moving, hi-tech city of Toronto, the highly mischievous Boggart simply can't resist the opportunity for pranks, and wreaks havoc for the Volnik family, inheritors of his distant castle home. But the Boggart doesn't mean any real harm, and when he begins to pine for the rolling Scottish mists and the sound of bagpipes, he turns to his two young friends, Emily and Jessup Volnik, for help. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Boggart And the Monster Susan Cooper (Author) Series:
A Puffin Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9780241326800 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32680-0 ISBN10: 024132680X EAN: 9780241326800 x Description: Emily and Jess Volnik have returned for another Scottish adventure, joining their old friend Tommy and Mr Maconochie, the new owner of Castle Keep, on a trip to Loch Ness, where a new expedition is determined to find the fabled monster. The fun-loving Boggart - a mischievous shape-shifting spirit who has lived in the castle for centuries -comes along for the ride, but this time the Boggart has a serious mission. His cousin Nessie is trapped in the monster shape he took on long ago, and it's up to the Boggart to keep Nessie from being discovered by the expedition's high-tech equipment. Is modern science any match for the Boggart's ancient magic? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Boggart Fights Back Susan Cooper (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780241327135 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32713-5 ISBN10: 024132713X EAN: 9780241327135 x Description: A brand new, funny Boggart mystery from Susan Cooper, renowned author of the Dark is Rising sequence. Once again, there's magic afoot in Scotland when Allie and Jay visit their grandfather and are eagerly greeted by the Boggart, an ancient sprite, and his cousin Nessie, formerly known as the Loch Ness Monster. Things are rarely peaceful with two boggarts around, but this time a real estate developer is the one causing a disturbance - a man named Trout. Trout is building a luxury resort, and is desperate to buy up everything in town - including Allie and Jay's grandfather's shop. He's willing to do almost anything to raze the store to the ground, but with his beloved family under attack, the Boggart doesn't stay silent for long: soon bulldozers are mysteriously driving themselves into the loch, and surveying flags are floating off into the sky, but Trout is unmoved. When Nessie tries to scare him by transforming into the Loch Ness Monster, Trout is delighted - what a sensational tourist attraction he's found! Allie, Jay, and the boggarts will have to use all of their wits to outsmart the developers and save their home - even if it means waking up all the Old Magic creatures. Even the deadly ones... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dead Ex: The unputdownable summer 2018 bestselling thriller Jane Corry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp 298g ISBN13: 9780241981740 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98174-0 ISBN10: 0241981743 EAN: 9780241981740 x Description: 'Compulsive, edgy and fabulous twists!' B A Paris 'Few writers can match Jane Corry' Cara Hunter HE CHEATED. HE LIED... HE DIED. Vicki's husband David once promised to love her in sickness and in health. But after a brutal attack left her suffering with epilepsy, he ran away with his mistress. So when Vicki gets a call one day to say that he's missing, her first thought is 'good riddance'. But then the police find evidence suggesting that David is dead. And they think Vicki had something to do with it. What really happened on the night of David's disappearance? And how can Vicki prove her innocence, when she's not even sure of it herself? For anyone who loved The Couple Next Door, Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone and Cara Hunter's Close To Home, this book has everything you need for the perfect summer read - gripping twists and turns, brilliant characters and a story you can't put down. What people are saying about Jane Corry: 'A fearsomely good thriller' Nicci French 'Few writers can match Jane Corry in her compelling portrayals of damaged women and their dangerous liaisons' Cara Hunter, author of Close To Home 'Compulsive, edgy and with some fabulous twists that I didn't see coming!' B A Paris, author of Behind Closed Doors 'Beautifully written...The Dead Ex totally hooked me' Peter James 'The Dead Ex is compelling, twisty and utterly gripping. I couldn't put it down' Emma Curtis 'Suspense, thrills and intelligent storytelling. I highly recommend it!' LJ Ross 'A compelling and deftly plotted thriller, with echoes of Apple Tree Yard, The Dead Ex kept me guessing right until the (shocking) end' Nuala Ellwood 'Fans of psychological thrillers will be hooked after the first page' Closer 'Psychological thriller writing at its very best' SD Sykes 'A powerful and addictive read' Kate Furnivall 'This twisty tale of love and revenge is a compulsive read' Kate Hamer 'I loved The Dead Ex! Full of twists & turns that come together in the most unexpected fashion.' Louise Jensen, author of The Sister Jane Corry takes you to places you'd never want to go and marshals her plot lines expertly - by the time I finished I had twisted blood' T.A Cotterell 'Jane Corry's writing grabs you at the first page and doesn't let go' Sue Fortin
'Jane Corry explores the dark underbelly of the prison...an intricately plotted thriller with a surprising twist' Sanjida Kay 'Jane Corry hooks us from page one' Jane Holland 'Jane Corry's experiences working with prisoners adds a unique authenticity to this twisty thriller' Emily Elgar 'A complex thriller with so many twists that you will be desperate to get to the end to find out the truth! A great summer read' Katerina Diamond _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Full Gas: How to Win a Bike Race - Tactics from Inside the Peloton Peter Cossins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h222mm x w144mm x s31mm 477g ISBN13: 9781787290198 ISBN13: 978-1-78729-019-8 ISBN10: 1787290190 EAN: 9781787290198 x Description: Riding as fast as you could for as long as you could was the main tactic in the early days of road racing when Grand Tours could be won by hours. Now a minute's delay thanks to a puncture could ruin a rider's chances over a three-week race and the sport is described as nothing less than chess on wheels. The intricacies and complexities of cycling are what makes it so appealing: an eye for opportunity and a quick mind are just as crucial to success as a 'big engine' or good form. So how do you win a bike race? How do you cope with crosswinds, cobbles, elbows-out sprints, weaving your way through a teeming peloton? Why are steady nerves one of the best weapons in a rider's arsenal and breakaway artists to be revered? Where do you see the finest showcase of tactical brilliance? Peter Cossins takes us on to the team buses to hear pro cyclists and directeurs sportifs explain their tactics: when it went right, when they got it wrong - from sprinting to summits, from breakaways to bluffing. Hectic, thrilling, but sometimes impenetrable - watching a bike race can baffle as much as entertain. Full Gas is the essential guide to make sense of all things peloton. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence Trevor Cox (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 476g ISBN13: 9781847924261 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-426-1 ISBN10: 1847924263 EAN: 9781847924261 x Description: Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others - and whether we trust them - not just by their words but by the way they talk: their intonation, their pitch, their accent. Now You're Talking explores the full range of our voice - how we speak and how we sing; how our vocal anatomy works; what happens when things go wrong; and how technology enables us to imitate and manipulate the human voice. Trevor Cox talks to vocal coaches who help people to develop their new voice after a gender change; to record producers whose use of technology has transformed the singing voice; and to computer scientists who replicate the human voice in their development of artificial intelligence. Beginning with the Neanderthals, Now You're Talking takes us all the way to the digital age - with the frightening prospect that we may soon hear
`Unexpected item in the bagging area' more frequently than a friendly `Hello, how are you?' in the street. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lost Letters of William Woolf Helen Cullen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp 407g ISBN13: 9780718189150 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8915-0 ISBN10: 0718189159 EAN: 9780718189150 x Description: Lost letters have only one hope for survival . . . Inside the Dead Letters Depot in East London, William Woolf is one of thirty letter detectives who spend their days solving mysteries: Missing postcodes, illegible handwriting, rain-smudged ink, lost address labels, torn packages, forgotten street names - they are all the culprits of missed birthdays, broken hearts, unheard confessions, pointless accusations, unpaid bills and unanswered prayers. When William discovers letters addressed simplyto 'My Great Love' his work takes on new meaning. Written by a woman to a soulmate she hasn't met yet, the missives stir William in ways he didn't know were possible. Soon he begins to wonder: Could William be her great love? William must follow the clues in Winter's letters to solve his most important mystery yet: the human heart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the Fword means to them Scarlett Curtis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 465g ISBN13: 9780241364451 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36445-1 ISBN10: 0241364450 EAN: 9780241364451 x Description: What does the F word mean to you? The must-read book for 2018. Follow @feminists on Instagram for updates. A collection of writing from extraordinary women, from Hollywood actresses to teenage activists, each telling the story of their personal relationship with feminism, this book explores what it means to be a woman from every point of view. Often funny, sometimes surprising, and always inspiring, this book aims to bridge the gap between the feminist hashtag and the scholarly text by giving women the space to explain how they actually feel about feminism. Published in partnership with Girl Up, the UN's women's foundation, royalties will benefit the charity. Curated by STYLE columnist and Pink Protest founder Scarlett Curtis, with some names still to be announced, contributors include: Bridget Jones (by Helen Fielding) - Saoirse Ronan - Dolly Alderton - Karen Gillan - Alicia Garza - Jameela Jamil - Kat Dennings - Nimco Ali - Beanie Feldstein - Olivia Perez - Amika George - Evanna Lynch - Akilah Hughes - Tanya Burr - Grace Campbell - Alison Sudol - Kiernan Shipka - Elyse Fox Charlie Craggs - Rhyannon Styles - Skai Jackson - Tasha Bishop - Lolly Adefope - Bronwen Brenner - Dr Alaa Murabit - Trisha Shetty - Jordan Hewson - Amy Trigg - Em Odesser - Emi Mahmoud - Lydia Wilson - Swati Sharma _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nighthawk: NUMA Files #14 Clive Cussler (Author) Graham Brown (Author) Series:
The NUMA Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp 260g ISBN13: 9781405923866 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2386-6 ISBN10: 1405923865 EAN: 9781405923866 x Description: Clive Cussler the UK NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR introduces yet another action-packed adventure to the gripping NUMA Files series ... When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, NUMA operatives Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't-that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster . . . will they get caught in a race that no one can win? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Grey Ghost: Fargo Adventures #10 Clive Cussler (Author) Robin Burcell (Author) Series:
Fargo Adventures
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp 481g ISBN13: 9780241349502 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34950-2 ISBN10: 0241349508 EAN: 9780241349502 x Description: The search for a legendary automobile almost puts an end to both the careers and the lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, in the thrilling new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling master of adventure In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Jonathon Payton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives. Men with everything to gain and a great deal to lose have a desperate plan to find it - and if anybody gets in their way? They have a plan for that, too. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Romanov Ransom: Fargo Adventures #9 Clive Cussler (Author) Robin Burcell (Author) Series:
Fargo Adventures
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9781405927734 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2773-4 ISBN10: 1405927739 EAN: 9781405927734 x Description: The discovery of a long-lost airliner . . . A modern-day kidnapping . . . And the return of the most terrifying evil the world has ever seen. When a kidnapping captures the attention of treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo, they find themselves on the trail of the legendary Romanov Ransom - a Russian fortune stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Hunting a neo-Nazi faction across Europe, North Africa and South America is their greatest quest yet. They must prevent the rise of a Fourth Reich, or witness the resurgence of the greatest evil of the modern world. From the finest adventure writer alive, Clive Cussler's dark and thrilling mystery will keep you turning the pages late into the night. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shadow Tyrants: Oregon Files #13 Clive Cussler (Author) Boyd Morrison (Author) Series:
The Oregon Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
11 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241349533 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34953-3 ISBN10: 0241349532 EAN: 9780241349533 x Description: Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding a body of knowledge and secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind.They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men - and now two rival factions of the descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but one of them is willing to use horrifying means to accomplish its goals. Now it is up to Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives to stop both of them from the destructive path they're on, and save the earth from a dynasty of terror. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hunted Arne Dahl (Author) Series:
Sam Berger Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp ISBN13: 9781911215523 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-52-3 ISBN10: 1911215523 EAN: 9781911215523 x Description: 'Arne Dahl is one of the true greats of Scandinavian crime fiction' MARK BILLINGHAM What happens when the cops become the prey? It starts when Desire Rosenqvist of Stockholm Police receives a letter. Two things are immediately clear: the letter she holds in her hands was written in a state of utter desperation and paranoia. And it contains details of one of her old murder cases, which only the murderer could know. Desiree contacts private investigator Sam Berger, who sets off to the remote north of Sweden with his colleague Molly Blom to find the author of the letter and to stop them in their tracks. But someone wants to keep them from getting to the bottom of the mystery at any cost and is watching their every move. What happens when the cops become the prey? A dark and gripping Scandi-thriller set in the snowy tundra of rural Sweden, from international bestseller Arne Dahl. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Watching You Arne Dahl (Author) Neil Smith (Translated by) Series:
Sam Berger Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp ISBN13: 9781784705725 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-572-5 ISBN10: 1784705721 EAN: 9781784705725 x Description: `Brilliant visceral writing with terrific pace, this book grips you like a vice from the very first line and never lets you go' PETER JAMES Someone is watching. At each abandoned crime scene there's a hidden clue: a tiny metal cog. Someone is sending Detective Sam Berger a message, someone who knows that only he will understand the cryptic trail. Someone knows. When another teenage girl disappears without trace, Sam must convince his superiors that they're dealing with a serial killer. As the police continue the hunt to find the latest victim, Sam is forced to unearth long-buried personal demons. He has no choice if he is to understand the killer's message before time runs out. Somebody is killing just for him. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake) Roald Dahl (Author) Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Quentin Blake (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s9mm 117g ISBN13: 9780141377520 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137752-0 ISBN10: 0141377526 EAN: 9780141377520 x Description: A BRAND-NEW EDITION, ILLUSTRATED BY QUENTIN BLAKE FOR THE FIRST TIME. Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's exactly what he does! There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER. Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Terrible Yrsa Daley-Ward (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 197g ISBN13: 9781846149825 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-982-5 ISBN10: 1846149827 EAN: 9781846149825 x Description: 'A major literary talent . . . speaks about the power and powerlessness that young women are subject to in a wholly fresh, clear-eyed way . . . you'll find it hard to come away from The Terrible without a stab of recognition in your chest' Stylist 'You may not run away from the thing that you are because it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.' This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened - 'even the Terrible Things (and God, there were Terrible Things)'. It's about her childhood in the north-west of England with her beautiful, careworn mother and her little brother who sees things written in the stars. It's also about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality, about pitch grey days of pills and powder: going under, losing yourself, and finding your voice. 'Yrsa's work is like holding the truth in your hands' Florence Welch _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life Robert Dallek (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 704pp h198mm x w129mm 32pp b/w ISBN13: 9780141986593 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198659-3 ISBN10: 014198659X EAN: 9780141986593 x Description: From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study' Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post 'Assuredly the best single-volume Roosevelt biography' Eric Rauchway, The Times Literary Supplement 'Essential ... a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt's compassion and sense of solidarity' Greg Grandin, Guardian 'An insightful, incisive and intelligent one-volume work - and a pointed primer on how things in Washington get done. In a period defined by division, Dallek crafts a pointillist portrait of the four-term president, who knew almost intuitively how to reach consensus' Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Open Your Eyes Paula Daly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm x s21mm 241g ISBN13: 9780552174237 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17423-7 ISBN10: 0552174238 EAN: 9780552174237 x Description: 'An electrifying plot that keeps you guessing to the last' Fiona Barton 'Yet another gripping, heartbreaking read from a brilliant writer' Jill Mansell 'Thrilling, compelling, clever and hugely entertaining. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' C L Taylor ********* Haven't we all wanted to pretend everything is fine? Jane doesn't like confrontation. Given the choice, she'd prefer to focus on what's going well, the good things in life. But when her husband, Leon, is brutally attacked in the driveway of their home, in front of their two young children, Jane has to face reality. As he lies in a coma, Jane must open her eyes to the problems in her life, and the secrets that have been kept from her, if she's to find out who hurt her husband - and why. Maybe it's time to face up to it all. Who knows what you might find . . . ********* PRAISE FOR PAULA DALY:
`The UK's answer to Liane Moriarty. Amazing.' Claire McGowan `Thoroughly enjoyable - a big-hearted, empathetic novel about ordinary lives and the tremors that can rock them.' Guardian `Kept me guessing right until the end. I devoured it.' Claire Douglas `Deliciously dark and addictive. I defy anyone starts it not to race through the pages until they reach the final, brilliant twist.' Colette McBeth `She writes with a singular voice and a fierce passion that roars off the page.' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Origins: How The Earth Made Us Lewis Dartnell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp ISBN13: 9781847924360 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-436-0 ISBN10: 1847924360 EAN: 9781847924360 x Description: Why do so many of us eat cereal for breakfast? Is it because we like the taste? Or because 20 millions years ago, a certain species of plant colonised the same hospitable land that humanity did? Why is the world the way it is? If we follow chains of explanation as far back as they go - and keep asking, like a curious child, `Why? Why? But WHY?' - the answers become more and more amazing. We reach the point where history becomes science. In this ultimate origin story, Professor Lewis Dartnell investigates how the fabric and activity of our planet have governed our evolution, influenced civilisations over millennia, and continue to shape our lives today. Plate tectonics and ancient climate change, atmospheric circulation and ocean currents - Origins unravels the human story by exposing vast webs of connections that stretch deep into the past, underwrite our modern world and help us face the challenges of the future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History Norman Davies (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 768pp ISBN13: 9780141976983 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197698-3 ISBN10: 0141976985 EAN: 9780141976983 x Description: Human history is a tale not just of constant change, but of perpetual restlessness. In Beneath Another Sky the esteemed historian Norman Davies embarks upon a journey round the world to show the layers of experience that underpin our present - and brilliantly complicate our view of the past. 'If you are someone, or know someone, who is romanced by stamps, or maps, or names, or journeys, or plaques, then I recommend this book to you. I loved it. It deserves a shelf of its own' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Rich, thought-stirring and deeply engaging' John Gray, New Statesman
'Gripping, enthralling, a great read ... a fragrant stew of history, literature and travel spiced with digression, detective work and dabs of humour' Sarah Wheeler, Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On the Edge: What Life in the World's Most Extreme Economies Tells Us About Our Own Future Richard Davies (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp ISBN13: 9780593079478 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07947-8 ISBN10: 0593079477 EAN: 9780593079478 x Description: To understand how humans react and adapt to change we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From the death-row prisoners trading in prisons where money is banned to the stateless ethnic Russians shut out of Estonia's hyper-modern economy, every life in this book has been hit by a seismic shock, violently broken or damaged in some way. People living in these odd and marginal places are ignored by number crunching economists and political pollsters alike. Science suggests this is a mistake. This book tells the personal stories of humans living in extreme situations. 'Extreme' does not mean the familiar stock market crashes, housing crises, or banking scandals of the financial pages. The book takes the reader to really odd places, the places that no-one visits. Places where part of the economy has been repressed, removed, destroyed or turbocharged. By travelling to each of them and discovering what life is really like, On the Edge tells small stories that shed light on today's biggest economic questions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World William Davies (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s20mm 334g ISBN13: 9781787330115 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-011-5 ISBN10: 1787330117 EAN: 9781787330115 x Description: Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years? How can the history of ideas help us understand our present? In this bold and far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing deep on history, philosophy, psychology and economics, he shows how some of the fundamental assumptions that defined the modern world have dissolved. With advances in medicine and the spread of digital and military technology, the divisions between mind and body, war and peace are no longer so clear-cut. In the murky new space between mind and body, between war and peace, lie nervous states: with all of us relying increasingly on feeling rather than fact. In a book of profound insight and astonishing breadth, William Davies reveals the origins of this new political reality. Nervous States is a compelling and essential guide to the turbulent times we are living through. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp 304g ISBN13: 9781784162016 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-201-6 ISBN10: 1784162019 EAN: 9781784162016 x Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Richard Dawkins - author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and The God Delusion - is one of science's greatest communicators. This anthology of more than forty pieces is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, these essays, journalism, lectures and letters make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for the practical necessity of scientific endeavour to society; and for the importance of the scientific way of thinking - particularly in today's `post-truth' world. With an introduction and new commentary by the author, subjects range from evolution and Darwinian natural selection to the role of scientist as prophet, whether science is itself a religion, the probability of alien life in other worlds, and the beauties, cruelties and oddities of earthly life in this one. Alongside the explications, the celebrations and the controversies are wonderfully funny ventures into satire and parody, and moving personal reflections in memory and honour of others. Science in the Soul is a sparkling showcase for Professor Dawkins' rapier wit, the clarity, precision and vigour he brings to an argument, the beauty of his prose, the depth of his feeling and his capacity for joy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cat in the Treble Clef Louis de Bernieres (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp h204mm x w132mm ISBN13: 9781787300187 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-018-7 ISBN10: 1787300188 EAN: 9781787300187 x Description: A beautiful collection of poems from bestselling author Louis de Bernieres. From the very start of his writing career Louis de Bernieres has loved poetry. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli's Mandolin returns to this first love with his third collection. The Cat in the Treble Clef focuses on family and the connections we make, and break, with other people. There are moving poems to and about his family: his great grandmother, his mother and father and his children. There are poems about places near and far, about the passing of time, music and about love in its various forms. In this collection, de Bernieres shares his passion with his readers, in a beautifully illustrated gift edition. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Conflicts: A Better Way to Resolve Them Edward de Bono (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vermilion
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 287g ISBN13: 9781785041891 ISBN13: 978-1-78504-189-1 ISBN10: 1785041894 EAN: 9781785041891 x Description: Think, don't fight. In today's world we use an out of date thinking system to navigate our way through modern society, especially when it comes to conflicts and disagreements. Conflicts argues that instead of our age old system of debate we should adopt what de Bono calls a `design idiom' and use lateral thinking to navigate a feud. If two parties think their argument is best, we should be introducing a third party role. De Bono explains how this concept of triangular thinking and map making is the way forward. By highlighting how the current system holds us back and offering practical alternatives De Bono paves the way for a fundamental shift in conflict resolution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sur/petition: Going beyond competition Edward De Bono (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vermilion
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781785041914 ISBN13: 978-1-78504-191-4 ISBN10: 1785041916 EAN: 9781785041914 x Description: Don't chase the market leader, be the market leader. Edward de Bono, the bestselling author of Serious Creativity and inventor of lateral thinking teaches you how to move beyond the baseline of competition and find success with sur/petition. It's simple. If you want to survive in the global marketplace a competitive streak is essential. But what if you want to do more than just survive? In Sur/petition de Bono explains how choosing to run in your own race instead of alongside others will give you the edge over other businesses and creating value monopolies will allow your business to not only survive but become successful. Broken down into 3 sections Sur/petition will explain: 1. 2. 3.
Why most fundamental habits of management thinking maybe inadequate and even dangerous for your business The difference between traditional competition and sur/petition The meaning of `valufacture' and how to create value for your business
Drawing from his immense experience consulting the top corporations in the world, de Bono shows you how to go 'beyond competition' and create a new winning game. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Doctor Who: The Women Who Lived: Amazing Tales for Future Time Lords Christel Dee (Author) Simon Guerrier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
BBC Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp 869g ISBN13: 9781785943591 ISBN13: 978-1-78594-359-1 ISBN10: 1785943596 EAN: 9781785943591 x Description: Meet the women who run the Whoniverse. From Sarah Jane Smith to Bill Potts, from Susan Foreman to the Thirteenth Doctor, women are the beating heart of Doctor Who. Whether they're facing down Daleks or thwarting a Nestene invasion, these women don't hang around waiting to be rescued - they roll their sleeves up and get stuck in. Scientists and soldiers, queens and canteen workers, they don't let anything hold them back. Featuring historical women such as Agatha Christie and Queen Victoria alongside fan favourites like Rose Tyler and Missy, The Women Who Lived tells the stories of women throughout space and time. Beautifully illustrated by a team of all-female artists, this collection of inspirational tales celebrates the power of women to change the universe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane James Delbourgo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 544pp 408g ISBN13: 9780718194437 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-9443-7 ISBN10: 0718194438 EAN: 9780718194437 x Description: Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physician to London's wealthiest residents. In 1687 he travelled to Jamaica, then at the heart of Britain's commercial empire, to survey its natural history, and later organised a network of correspondents who sent him curiosities from across the world. He became one of the eighteenth century's preeminent natural historians and assembled an astonishing collection of specimens, artefacts and oddities - the most famous curiosity cabinet of the age. Shortly after his death, Sloane's vast collection was then acquired - as he had hoped - by the nation. It became the nucleus of the world's first national public museum, the British Museum. This is the first biography of Sloane in over sixty years and the first based on his surviving collections. Early modern science and collecting are shown to be global endeavours intertwined with empire and slavery but which nonetheless produced one of the great public institutions of the Enlightenment, as the cabinet of curiosities gave way to the encyclopaedic museum. Collecting the World describes this pivotal moment in the emergence of modern knowledge, and brings this totemic figure back to life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Libra Don DeLillo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h181mm x w111mm x s28mm 251g ISBN13: 9780241984536 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98453-6 ISBN10: 024198453X EAN: 9780241984536 x Description: 'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, prayers, out of the deepest levels of the self.' A troubled adolescent endlessly riding New York's subway cars, Lee Harvey Oswald enters adulthood believing himself to be an agent of history. This makes him fair game to a pair of discontented CIA operatives convinced that a failed attempt on the life of the US president will force the nation to tackle the threat of communism head on. Libra is a gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, laying bare the wounded American psyche and the dark events that still torment it. 'An audacious blend of fiction and fact' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Stories Anita Desai (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 355g ISBN13: 9781784706647 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-664-7 ISBN10: 1784706647 EAN: 9781784706647 x Description: The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 T. M. Devine (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 496pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241304105 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30410-5 ISBN10: 0241304105 EAN: 9780241304105 x Description: Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change:
traditional and customary relationships were overturned and replaced by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old society of the Highlands. Based on an extensive use of original sources, this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency. The result created the landscape of Scotland as we know it today, but that came at a price. This is a story of forced clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large-scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who lost everything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Where The Light Gets In Lucy Dillon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 464pp h234mm x w153mm x s32mm 597g ISBN13: 9780593077658 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07765-8 ISBN10: 0593077652 EAN: 9780593077658 x Description: `You know those cracks in your heart, Lorna, where things didn't work out, but you picked yourself up and carried on? That's where the fear gets out. And where the light gets in.' It was Betty, defiant to the end, who sent Lorna back to Longhampton. If Lorna's learned one thing from Betty it's that courage is something you paint on like red lipstick, even when you're panicking inside. And right now, with the keys to the town's gallery in her hand, Lorna feels about as courageous as Betty's anxious little dachshund, trembling beside her. Lorna's come home to Longhampton to fulfil a long-held dream, but she knows, deep down, there are ghosts she needs to lay to rest first. This is where her tight-knit family shattered into silent pieces. It's where her unspoken fears about herself took root and where her own secret, complicated love began. It's not exactly a fresh start. But as Lorna - and the little dog - tentatively open their cracked hearts to old friends and new ones, facing hard truths and fresh promises, something surprisingly beautiful begins to grow around the gallery, something so inspirational even Lorna couldn't have predicted the light it lets into her world . . . An inspiring, life-enhancing novel that will make you see your life afresh . . . Fans of Jojo Moyes, Lucy Diamond and Veronica Henry will love it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Toymakers Robert Dinsdale (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Del Rey
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w126mm x s29mm 322g ISBN13: 9781785036354 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-635-4 ISBN10: 1785036351 EAN: 9781785036354 x Description: Do you remember when you believed in magic? An enchanting, magical novel set in a mysterious toyshop - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Stephanie Garber's Caraval by way of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment.
The Emporium sells toys that capture the imagination of children and adults alike: patchwork dogs that seem alive, toy boxes that are bigger on the inside, soldiers that can fight battles of their own. Into this family business comes young Cathy Wray, running away from a shameful past. The Emporium takes her in, makes her one of its own. But Cathy is about to discover that the Emporium has secrets of its own... An EBook Number 1 bestseller with over 100 5* reviews - readers are enchanted by this magic tale: 'If you only buy one book this year - buy this one' 'As if Terry Pratchett has come back to life Disney Toy Story style' 'Best book I've read for many years' 'A book to lose yourself in' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth John Doerr (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp 388g ISBN13: 9780241348482 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34848-2 ISBN10: 024134848X EAN: 9780241348482 x Description: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'I'd recommend John's book for anyone interested in becoming a better manager', Bill Gates 'Management magic....Measure What Matters is a must read for anyone motivated to improve their organization' - Former Vice President Al Gore, chairman of the Climate Reality Project 'Measure What Matters shows how any organization or team can aim high, move fast, and excel' , Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of Leanln.org and OptionB.org 'Measure What Matters deserves to be fully embraced by every person responsible for performance in any walk of life' - Jim Collins, author of Good to Great 'In this indispensable book, the most important venture capitalist of our era reveals a key to business innovation and success - Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The Innovators 'Measure What Matters takes you behind the scenes for the creation of Intel's powerful OKR system - one of Andy Grove's finest legacies' - Gordon Moore, cofounder and former chairman of Intel -------The revolutionary movement behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber. With a foreword by Larry Page, and contributions from Bono and Bill Gates. Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, to make tough choices in business. In 1999, legendary venture capitalist John Doerr invested nearly $12 million in a startup that had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and skyhigh ambitions, but no real business plan. Doerr introduced the founders to OKRs and with them at the foundation of their management, the startup grew from forty employees to more than 70,000 with a market cap exceeding $600 billion. The startup was Google.
Since then Doerr has introduced OKRs to more than fifty companies, helping tech giants and charities exceed all expectations. In the OKR model objectives define what we seek to achieve and key results are how those top- priority goals will be attained. OKRs focus effort, foster coordination and enhance workplace satisfaction. They surface an organization's most important work as everyone's goals from entry-level to CEO are transparent to the entire institution. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will show you how to collect timely, relevant data to track progress - to measure what matters. It will help any organization or team aim high, move fast, and excel. -------John Doerr joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980 and has since backed some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and companies, such as Google, Zynga and Amazon. John serves on the boards of Google, Zynga and Amyris. He also led KPCB's investment in Twitter. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was a member of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He has 291K followers on Twitter. His TED Talk on greentech has 896K views. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution Jennifer Doudna (Author) Samuel Sternberg (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp 244g ISBN13: 9781784702762 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-276-2 ISBN10: 1784702765 EAN: 9781784702762 x Description: Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, `one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times), describes its power to reshape the future of all life and warns of its use. A handful of discoveries have changed the course of human history. This book is about the most recent and potentially the most powerful and dangerous of them all. It is an invention that allows us to rewrite the genetic code that shapes and controls all living beings with astonishing accuracy and ease. Thanks to it, the dreams of genetic manipulation have become a stark reality: the power to cure disease and alleviate suffering, to create new sources of food and energy, as well as to re-design any species, including humans, for our own ends. Jennifer Doudna is the co-inventor of this technology - known as CRISPR - and a scientist of worldwide renown. Writing with fellow researcher Samuel Sternberg, here she provides the definitive account of her discovery, explaining how this wondrous invention works and what it is capable of. She also asks us to consider what our new-found power means: how do we enjoy its unprecedented benefits while avoiding its equally unprecedented dangers? The future of humankind - and of all life on Earth - is at stake. This book is an essential guide to the path that now lies ahead. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Swift Pure Cry Siobhan Dowd (Author) Series:
The Originals
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 246g ISBN13: 9780241331200 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33120-0 ISBN10: 024133120X EAN: 9780241331200
x Description: Reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS series of iconic teen fiction. After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness of everyday life comes from her budding spiritual friendship with a naive young priest, and most importantly, her developing relationship with childhood friend, Declan, charming, eloquent and persuasive. But when Declan suddenly leaves Ireland to seek his fortune in America, Shell finds herself pregnant and the centre of a scandal that rocks the small community in which she lives, with repercussions across the whole country. The lives of those immediately around her will never be the same again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Millstone Margaret Drabble (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp 100g ISBN13: 9780241979174 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97917-4 ISBN10: 024197917X EAN: 9780241979174 x Description: A celebration of the drama and intensity of the mother-child relationship, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show of independence, and becomes pregnant as a result of a one night stand. Although single parenthood is still not socially acceptable, she chooses to have the baby rather than to seek an illegal abortion, and finds her life transformed by motherhood. 'Rosamund is marvellous, a true Drabble heroine . . . what spirit is here' Sunday Times 'One of our foremost women writers' Guardian 'The novelist who will have done for late twentieth-century London what Dickens did for Victorian London' The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pug Shots Jim Dratfield (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pop Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 96pp h146mm x w143mm ISBN13: 9781785038815 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-881-5 ISBN10: 1785038818 EAN: 9781785038815 x Description: The good, the bad and the pugly. Stubborn, affectionate, seriously cute - and small enough to cuddle in one hand - who doesn't love PUGS! From Pugs Bunny to Pugsy Malone, Dune Puggies and Litter Pugs, Pug Shots captures the adorable and hilarious life of those much-loved little dogs with big personalities. Features original images by celebrity pet photographer Jim Dratfield, alongside witty captions and words of puggy wisdom. Looking Pawgeous! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Crystal Code: Balance Your Energy, Transform Your Life Tamara Driessen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp ISBN13: 9780241346976 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34697-6 ISBN10: 0241346975 EAN: 9780241346976 x Description: Our lives are pretty stressful, from the mountains of work emails to the never-ending life admin, finding time to see friends and family whilst still getting in those gym workouts, and why does everyone on Instagram have all this figured out. Working with crystals is a way to slow that frenetic world down, realign your intentions and find the inner calm we all seek. Some say that crystals are magic, but they're more than just magic. They have the power to reveal your truest self, the version of you that's been waiting to be seen and acknowledged. The Crystal Code explains how to the harness the power of these awesome rocks, introducing us to seventy stones and their unique personalities. It will show you how to find the perfect crystals to empower and energize you and will teach you some easy rituals, meditations and crystallized self-care routines. Whether it's peacock ore to give you more confidence on that nerve-racking first date, white celestite to conquer anxiety or purple amethyst to you help you feel centred, this is the ultimate guide to regaining control of your life and to feeling happier, healthier and more grounded. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There Are No Grown-Ups: A midlife coming-of-age story Pamela Druckerman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp 407g ISBN13: 9780857522955 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-295-5 ISBN10: 0857522957 EAN: 9780857522955 x Description: *MUCH RAVED ABOUT BY CHRIS EVANS ON HIS BBC RADIO 2 BREAKFAST SHOW* AUTHOR OF THE NO.1 BESTSELLER FRENCH CHILDREN DON'T THROW FOOD REVEALS THE THINGS IT TOOK HER FORTY YEARS TO LEARN: There are no grown-ups. Everyone else is winging it too. Does it ever feel like everyone - except you - is a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously capable and wise? When she turns 40, Pamela Druckerman wonders whether her mind will ever catch up with her face. With frank personal stories and witty maxims, Druckerman hilariously navigates the unexplored zone between young and not-so-young. There Are No Grown-Ups is a midlife coming-of-age story, a quest for wisdom, self-knowledge and the right pair of pants. It's a book for readers of all ages about finally - becoming yourself. You know you're in your forties when... *
You become impatient while scrolling down to your year of birth.
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Your parents have stopped trying to change you.
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You don't want to be with the cool people anymore; you want to be with your people.
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You know that 'Soul mate' isn't a pre-existing condition. It's earned over time.
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You know there are no grown-ups. Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
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Purposeful: Are You a Manager ... or a Movement Starter? Jennifer Dulski (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 290g ISBN13: 9780753548356 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4835-6 ISBN10: 0753548356 EAN: 9780753548356 x Description: Managers accept the world as it is; movement starters push the boundaries to make it more just, compassionate and even joyful. We all need to decide: Are we managers or movement starters? Jennifer Dulski, the head of Groups & Community at Facebook, and former president of Change.org, explains how you can turn your mission into a movement that creates change - whether you're at a startup or a political campaign, a Fortune 500 company or a local community group, as an intern or a CEO. Anyone can spark change if they believe in the power of taking action, no matter where, or how small, they start. Dulski explains how to create a clear vision, inspire supporters, persuade decision-makers, navigate criticism and more. She pairs her own experience as a startup founder, tech executive and social change leader with powerful stories of movement leaders from both business and activism. Our world needs movement starters more than ever. Packed with practical advice and the inspiring true stories of movement starters from all walks of life, Purposeful will empower you to start your own movement, and make your mark on the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Universe: An Astronomer's Guide Jo Dunkley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp ISBN13: 9780241235874 ISBN13: 978-0-241-23587-4 ISBN10: 0241235871 EAN: 9780241235874 x Description: For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astronomy - steps which have let us venture ever further across space and time, with telescopes that let us see, in ever greater detail, those distant parts of the universe that lie far beyond our Solar System's planets, and even give us a glimpse of the first moments of the Universe. Yet these extraordinary advances in our understanding of the wider Universe have led us to even greater mysteries. What happened in the first moments after the Big Bang? What are the mysterious 'dark' parts of the Universe? And, what happens in those parts of space where conditions are so intense that our laws of physics break down? In this new Pelican book, practising cosmologist and Professor of Astrophysics Jo Dunkley guides us through the history of our Universe as we know it, taking us to the heart of these many unsolved questions. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Girl, Balancing & Other Stories Helen Dunmore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
18 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s27mm 499g ISBN13: 9781786331496 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-149-6 ISBN10: 1786331497 EAN: 9781786331496 x Description: Haunting, uplifting, beautiful: the final work from Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore passed away in June 2017, leaving behind this remarkable collection of short stories. With her trademark imagination and gift for making history human, she explores the fragile ties between passion, love, family, friendship and grief, often through people facing turning points in their lives: A girl alone, stretching her meagre budget to feed herself, becomes aware that the young man who has come to see her may not be as friendly as he seems. Two women from very different backgrounds enjoy an unusual night out, finding solace in laughter and an unexpected friendship. A young man picks up his infant son and goes outside into a starlit night as he makes a decision that will inform the rest of his life. A woman imprisoned for her religion examines her faith in a seemingly literal and quietly original way. This brilliant collection of Helen Dunmore's short fiction, replete with her penetrating insight into the human condition, is certain to delight and move all her readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Silver & Salt Elanor Dymott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp 293g ISBN13: 9780099563624 ISBN13: 978-0-09-956362-4 ISBN10: 0099563622 EAN: 9780099563624 x Description: 'With the tension of a Nicci French thriller, the intellectual fizz of Donna Tartt's The Secret History and the very best of Maggie O'Farrell's unnerving readability, Dymott is a classy storyteller' Elle From the author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace comes a story of family and the lies we tell in order to survive Following the death of her famous father, Ruthie returns to the family villa in remote, wild Greece. After fifteen years in exile she is welcomed by her older sister, Vinny. They build a fragile happiness in their haven above the sea, protecting one another from the dark secrets of their childhood. But the arrival of an English family at a neighbouring cottage, and one young girl in particular, triggers a chain of events that will plunge both women back into the past, with shocking and fatal consequences. ---'I read Silver and Salt as if in a trance. Elanor Dymott is a master of delicate psychological suspense' Elena Lappin, author of What Language Do I Dream in?
'Beautifully detailed with a profound sense of place and the intricate clues woven through the fabric of the novel build up to a tragic finale' Daily Express 'A beautifully observed and shattering exploration of grief as their family's tragic past is revealed' Woman & Home _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy Roger Eatwell (Author) Matthew Goodwin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780241312001 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31200-1 ISBN10: 0241312000 EAN: 9780241312001 x Description: A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of these voters are turning to national populist movements, which have begun to change the face of Western liberal democracy, from the United States to France, Austria to the UK. This radical turn, we are told, is a last howl of rage from an aging electorate on the verge of extinction. Their leaders are fascistic and their politics antidemocratic; their existence a side-show to liberal democracy. But this version of events, as Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin show, could not be further from the truth. Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise of national populism, this lucid and deeply-researched book is a vital guide to our transformed political landscape. Challenging conventional wisdoms, Eatwell and Goodwin make a compelling case for serious, respectful engagement with the supporters and ideas of national populism - not least because it is a tide that won't be stemmed anytime soon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chronicles of a Liquid Society Umberto Eco (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp ISBN13: 9781784705206 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-520-6 ISBN10: 1784705209 EAN: 9781784705206 x Description: Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. A celebrated essayist as well as novelist, in this, his last collection, he explores many aspects of the modern world with irrepressible curiosity and wisdom written in his uniquely ironic voice. Written by Eco as articles for his regular column in l'Espresso magazine, he brings his dazzling erudition, incisiveness and keen sense of the everyday to bear on topics such as popular culture and politics, unbridled individualism, conspiracies, the old and the young, mobile phones, mass media, racism, good manners and the crisis in ideological values. It is a final gift to his readers - astute, witty and illuminating. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History David Edgerton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 720pp 1233g ISBN13: 9781846147753 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-775-3 ISBN10: 1846147751 EAN: 9781846147753 x Description: From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century. It is usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in an otherwise convulsed and unstable Europe; its political history a smooth sequence of administrations, from building a welfare state to coping with decline. Nobody would dream of writing the history of Germany, say, or the Soviet Union in this way. David Edgerton's major new history breaks out of the confines of traditional British national history to redefine what it was to British, and to reveal an unfamiliar place, subject to huge disruptions. This was not simply because of the world wars and global economic transformations, but in its very nature. Until the 1940s the United Kingdom was, Edgerton argues, an exceptional place: liberal, capitalist and anti-nationalist, at the heart of a European and global web of trade and influence. Then, as its global position collapsed, it became, for the first time and only briefly, a real, successful nation, with shared goals, horizons and industry, before reinventing itself again in the 1970s as part of the European Union and as the host for international capital, no longer capable of being a nation. Packed with surprising examples and arguments, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation gives us a grown-up, unsentimental history which takes business and warfare seriously, and which is crucial at a moment of serious reconsideration for the country and its future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Living: Life's greatest lessons and last thoughts from the dying Kerry Egan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780241297292 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29729-2 ISBN10: 024129729X EAN: 9780241297292 x Description: "A brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them" - Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love What are the greatest regrets of the dying? At her patients' bedside, witnessing their final moments, this is what Kerry Egan discovers. How do the dying seek to making meaning of their lives, the people and moments that have shaped them; and what are those things above all else that they wish they could have done differently? From stories of families torn apart by war, to making peace with the shame of a long-hidden secret, these are the tales of people who wished they had loved their partners more, cherished their children more, forgiven feuds and betrayals, and those who simply wish they had danced more. This isn't a book about dying - it's a book about living. Each of Egan's patients taught her something: how to find courage in the face of fear, how to make amends whilst you still can, how to see that the world is not just black and white, and that there can be beauty in the grey. In this deeply moving and illuminating book, Kerry captures the fragility of the human experience, imparting the poignant and profound lessons from the dying, on how to live a life without regrets.
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The Choice Edith Eger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 260g ISBN13: 9781846045127 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-512-7 ISBN10: 1846045126 EAN: 9781846045127 x Description: THE AWARDWINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'One of those rare and eternal stories you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' - Desmond Tutu 'A masterpiece of holocaust literature. Her memoir, like her life, is extraordinary, harrowing and inspiring in equal measure' - The Times Literary Supplement `I can't imagine a more important message for modern times. Eger's book is a triumph' - The New York Times
'Little dancer', Mengele says, `dance for me' In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Separated from her parents on arrival, she endures unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. When the camp is finally liberated, she is pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive. The horrors of the Holocaust didn't break Edith. In fact, they helped her learn to live again with a life-affirming strength and a truly remarkable resilience. The Choice is her unforgettable story. It shows that hope can flower in the most unlikely places. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Circle Dave Eggers (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp 276g ISBN13: 9780241981221 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98122-1 ISBN10: 0241981220 EAN: 9780241981221 x Description: Fast, thrilling, compulsively addictive - The Circle is Dave Eggers's timely novel about our obsession with the internet, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ... 'Tremendous. Inventive, big hearted and very funny. Prepare to be addicted' Daily Mail 'Prescient, important and enjoyable . . . a deft modern synthesis of Swiftian wit with Orwellian prognostication' Guardian 'A gripping and highly unsettling read' Sunday Times
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Scribble Yourself Feminist Chidera Eggerue (Author) Manjit Thapp (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp 185g ISBN13: 9780241347737 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34773-7 ISBN10: 0241347734 EAN: 9780241347737 x Description: This is the dream journal for every feminist babe out there! This book is dedicated to the woman who wants a better world. The woman who's a lover, a learner but most importantly, a leader. -----Finally, here's your chance to scribble yourself feminist with this AMAZING journal, designed to empower, inspire and entertain. From Chidera Eggerue, the woman behind The Slumflower and #saggyboobsmatter, and illustrated by Manjit Thapp, it's BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, and FEMINIST. What's included in this BRILLIANT journal?? ALL THIS: *Colouring pages featuring Manjit's beautiful illustrations of inspirational quotes and feminist heroines from around the world. *Witty comebacks for everyday sexism- 'cos the world needs to hear your sass! *Design your feminist wardrobe- design your outfit for the next march; t shirts, badges, sashes and power panties you can make as fabulous as you are. *Make your own 'Galentine's Day' card for the ladies you love *Rewrite your favourite FEMI-CLASSICS- why can't the girl save the day for once?? *Create your own FEMINIST HALL OF FAME: draw your feminist heroes- imagine if every gallery had a feminist babes wing! . . . AND MUCH MORE! ELLE - "The millennial mastermind" (2018) THE DRUM - 50 of the Best Female Speakers (2018) DAZED - "The Peckham native is this generation's agony aunt" (2018) GLAMOUR - "The woman behind rising movement, #SAGGYBOOBSMATTER" (2018) HARPERS BAZAAR - "Her influence has received an overwhelmingly warm, amazing response" (2018) TEEN VOGUE - "Chidera is most focused on getting a message of body positivity across to women" (2018) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jagua Nana Cyprian Ekwensi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 145g ISBN13: 9780241334997 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33499-7 ISBN10: 0241334993 EAN: 9780241334997 x Description: Bold, moving, entertaining and controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life - with one of the most unforgettable heroines in literature. Jagua Nana, no longer young but still irresistible, lives a life of hedonism in Lagos: men, parties, fights, wild nights in the Tropicana with her handsome young boyfriend Freddie. Rushing from one experience to the next in search of something she can't quite grasp, Jagua finds herself embroiled in shady politics, caught up in village feuds and a source of drama wherever she goes. In this vivid depiction of 1960s Nigeria, everyone is hustling and everyone is on the make - and a woman like Jagua must find her own unconventional path to fulfilment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Letters to Change the World: From Pankhurst to Orwell Travis Elborough (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h222mm x w144mm x s27mm 379g ISBN13: 9781785039478 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-947-8 ISBN10: 1785039474 EAN: 9781785039478 x Description: `We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed' Martin Luther King In an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change the World is a collection of inspiring letters offering reminders from history that standing up for and voicing our personal and political beliefs is not merely a crucial right but a duty if we want to change the world. Edited by Travis Elborough, the collection includes George Orwell's warning on totalitarianism, Martin Luther King's 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail', Albert Camus on the reasons to fight a war, Bertrand Russell on peace, Emmeline Pankhurst rallying her suffragettes, Nelson Mandela's letter to his children from prison and Time's Up on the abuse of power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Social Mobility: And Its Enemies Lee Elliot Major (Author) Stephen Machin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h181mm x w111mm x s16mm 160g ISBN13: 9780241317020 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31702-0 ISBN10: 0241317029 EAN: 9780241317020
x Description: What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances? Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in the Western world. The lack of movement in who gets where in society - particularly when people are stuck at the bottom and the top - costs the nation dear, both in terms of the unfulfilled talents of those left behind and an increasingly detached elite, disinterested in improvements that benefit the rest of society. This book analyses cutting-edge research into how social mobility has changed in Britain over the years, the shifting role of schools and universities in creating a fairer future, and the key to what makes some countries and regions so much richer in opportunities, bringing a clearer understanding of what works and how we can better shape our future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Day of the Accident Nuala Ellwood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241977347 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97734-7 ISBN10: 0241977347 EAN: 9780241977347 x Description: 'Gripping, poignant...I read it in one sitting' ROSAMUND LUPTON 'Brilliantly compulsive and with one hell of a twist!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Makes you question everything you thought you knew' EMMA KAVANAGH Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart. The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When Maggie begs to see her husband Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of her daughter's funeral. What really happened that day at the river? Where is Maggie's husband? And why can't she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow, her daughter is still alive? A page-turner for fans of Clare Mackintosh's I Let You Go and Lisa Jewell's Watching You, this gripping story will draw you in and shock you at every turn. WHAT AUTHORS AND READERS ARE SAYING: 'A clever, twisty plot that takes psychological mind games to a new level. Nuala Ellwood has done it again!' Jane Corry 'You will be up all night finishing this dark, haunting and complex thriller' Katherine S, Netgalley Reviewer 'Compelling and intriguing, right from the very first page' Sharon Bolton 'Nuala Ellwood has such a special way of writing that it draws you into the pages and you can't put it down' Emma L, Netgalley Reviewer 'A raw, shocking, and serpentine mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end' Nicolas Obregon, author of Blue Light Yokohama 'An accomplished and page-turning thriller...it's impossible to guess where it's going next' Nicholas Searle 'A stunning book. Compelling, unsettling and powerful this is a book that will stay with me for a long time' C. L. Taylor 'A must read for all thriller fans this book is a 5 star read' River S, Netgalley Reviewer
'Rivals The Girl on the Train (and beats it for style)' The Guardian 'Twisty and unpredictable. Kept me guessing until the end' Karen Cleveland, author of Need to Know 'This clever, multi- layered novel is simply stunning' Dinah Jefferies 'Wow! What a fantastic book that completely sucked me in. 5 stars' Angela G, Netgalley Reviewer 'A gripping rollercoaster ride of a thriller. Keeps you in there right to the last page' Christobel Kent 'A twisty psychological thriller. I raced through it in one sitting!' Lucy Atkins 'A dark, intense, multi-layered thriller that twists and turns until the last page' Tammy Cohen Memorable, jaw-dropping' Sunday Times 'Well-written ... an elegant, punchy thriller with a dark heart' Observer Thriller of the Month 'Full of really clever twists, this stylish thriller really grabs you' Sunday Mirror _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Terrorist Hunter Tamer Elnoury (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w127mm x s22mm 251g ISBN13: 9780552174923 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17492-3 ISBN10: 0552174920 EAN: 9780552174923 x Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorism Their aim was to kill as many people as possible. His mission was to stop them. A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people. An undercover agent posing as a wealthy Al-Qaeda sympathiser. A race against time to gain the terrorists' trust and bring them down. Before it's too late... In the aftermath of 9/11, long-time undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit. Its mission: to infiltrate terror cells, gain detailed knowledge of their networks and bring them successfully to justice. Writing under a pseudonym, Tamer Elnoury here tells the hair-raising true story of life undercover, risking his life to keep us safe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Zero Marc Elsberg (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 457g ISBN13: 9780857525567 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-556-7 ISBN10: 0857525565 EAN: 9780857525567 x
Description: Welcome to Freemee They can give you confidence, power, fame and all the friends in the world. But what will they take in return? For fans of BLACK MIRROR and Dave Eggers' THE CIRCLE When a teenager is shot dead after chasing a criminal in the street, investigating journalist Cynthia Bonsant is led to the popular social media platform Freemee, a competitor to Facebook whose lifestyle app claims to give you everything you need to succeed in life. But there is someone who warns against its evils: Zero, the world's most-wanted activist, known for exposing the toxic truths behind social media giants and their pursuit of total control. As Cynthia gets closer to unravelling the evil mastermind behind the Freemee site, she herself becomes a target. But in this world of hidden cameras, data glasses and intelligent smart phones there is nowhere to hide . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 19171924 Charles Emmerson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 528pp ISBN13: 9781847923974 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-397-4 ISBN10: 1847923976 EAN: 9781847923974 x Description: What comes first: the character of the times, or the characters who give it theirs? Crucible charts the trajectories of the characters who fell from power in the bloody breakdown of Europe's old order between 1917 and 1924, and those who for whom the restless chaos marked the beginning of an unlikely rise to fame. Year by year, we follow Kaiser Wilhelm into his wood-chopping Dutch exile, and Lenin from his Swiss library-desk to his muddled end as an invalid in revolutionary Russia gone stale. Ernest Hemingway criss-crosses the Atlantic in search of himself: soldier, hack journalist, writer, fisherman. Surrealism is born in a Paris attic. Europe suffers a nervous collapse, alternating between revolution and reaction. America takes fright. A Viennese doctor of eclectic tastes becomes an intellectual celebrity. An Austrian ex-soldier touts himself as the tribune of the German people. Outside the classic frames of war and peace, these all-too-human tales - funny, tragic and fateful - tell a wider story of the exuberant dreams, dark fears, grubby ambition and sheer chance which marked Europe's post-war metamorphosis, and the century to come. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ivy and Abe: The Epic Love Story You Won't Want To Miss Elizabeth Enfield (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 257g ISBN13: 9780718185015 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8501-5 ISBN10: 0718185013 EAN: 9780718185015 x Description: 'If you liked Jojo Moyes' Me Before You this is the perfect new read for you . . . a story for anyone who has ever wondered what if . . . ?' Woman's Weekly
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Ivy is always destined to meet Abe. But when is the RIGHT time? At school, as a free spirit in her twenties or when she is married . . . to someone else? Perhaps they meet when she is a widow in her sixties? Or maybe he remains a stranger, glimpsed only fleetingly. Ivy and Abe are soulmates. But what if they meet at the WRONG time, and fate and circumstance stand in Ivy's way? Told over Ivy's lifetime, across a series of alternate realities, Ivy & Abe is a story for anyone who has ever wondered 'what if?' _________ 'Think 'Sliding Doors' meets One Day and wonder if there's a right person for everyone or just a right time' Red 'An epic love story' Araminta Hall _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uncle Oscar's Chairs: From A to Z Magnus Englund (Author) Daniel Frost (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Particular Books
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 64pp 403g ISBN13: 9781846149450 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-945-0 ISBN10: 1846149452 EAN: 9781846149450 x Description: It's a rainy day in Uncle Oscar's house. What are Jack and Molly going to do? Explore the alphabet through the world of chairs, of course! A is for Ant ... designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1952 B is for Ball ... designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 C is for Coconut ... designed by George Nelson in 1955 And even more inside... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach: Three Short Novels of the Malazan Empire Steven Erikson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp 481g ISBN13: 9780593063972 ISBN13: 978-0-593-06397-2 ISBN10: 059306397X EAN: 9780593063972 x
Description: The necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slayers of the innocent and modest personifications of evil - have a lot to answer for and answer they will, but first they must lie, murder and cheat their way through three more escapades in some of the deprived fringes and impoverished communities of the Malazan Empire. Much to the shame of their long-suffering general factotum, Emancipoor Reese... Here then - for readers' delectation and entertainment - are those escapades, namely the novellas The Wurms of Blearmouth, The Crack'd Pot Trail and The Fiends of Nightmaria . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found Bart van Es (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fig Tree
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp 353g ISBN13: 9780241285008 ISBN13: 978-0-241-28500-8 ISBN10: 0241285003 EAN: 9780241285008 x Description: 'Luminous, elegant, haunting, - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street The enthralling story of a man's search for the truth about his family's past The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her side of the story, Bart van Es - a grandson of the couple who looked after Lien - wondered? What really happened during the war, and after? So began an investigation that would consume and transform both Bart van Es's life and Lien's. Lien was now in her 80s and living in Amsterdam. Reluctantly, she agreed to meet him, and eventually they struck up a remarkable friendship. The Cut Out Girl braids together a powerful recreation of Lien's intensely harrowing childhood story with the present-day account of Bart's efforts to piece that story together. And it embraces the wider picture, too, for Holland was more cooperative in rounding up its Jews for the Nazis than any other Western European country; that is part of Lien's story too. This is an astonishing, moving reckoning with a young girl's struggle for survival during war. It is a story about the powerful love and challenges of foster families, and about the ways our most painful experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined. 'Remarkable, deeply moving' Penelope Lively 'An awe-inspiring account of the tragedies and triumphs within the world of the Holocaust's "hide-away" children, and of the families who sheltered them' Georgia Hunter 'A complex and uplifting tale' Kirkus _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bad: 'Perfect for the beach. The most fun you'll have with a book this summer' Chloe Esposito (Author) Series:
Mad, Bad and Dangerous Edition: to Know Trilogy
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp 497g ISBN13: 9780718185725 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8572-5 ISBN10: 0718185722 EAN: 9780718185725 x
Description: Coming soon - Book 2 in the Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know trilogy featuring Alvie Knightly. Available for pre-order now Alvie Knightly is back . . . and she's hungover. When Alvie discovers that her hit man boyfriend has driven off with the Lamborghini and two million euros, she does what any heartbroken, deserted, amateur assassin would do - she drinks everything in the mini-bar and trashes her hotel room. And then she gets to work. A perilous cat-and-mouse game takes the pair across Rome, leaving a trail of collateral damage in their wake. But as she wholeheartedly embraces her dark side Alvie will have to figure out if Nino is her nemesis . . . or the only man bad enough to handle her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mad: 2018's Hottest Beach Read Chloe Esposito (Author) Series:
Mad, Bad and Dangerous Edition: to Know Trilogy
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781405928793 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2879-3 ISBN10: 1405928794 EAN: 9781405928793 x Description: Seven days of sin. Seven days of secrets. Seven days to steal her sister's life. Beth has always been the golden girl, leaving her identical twin, Alvie, in her shadow. She has everything Alvie ever wanted - the money, the hot husband, the cute baby, the fast car. So when she invites Alvie for seven sun-drenched days at her luxury villa in Sicily, Alvie accepts. Just because Alvie can't stand Beth doesn't mean she can't enjoy a slice of her decadent lifestyle. But her usually goody-two-shoes twin has a hidden agenda. And when the sisters swap identities for a day, it ends badly for Beth. Very badly. It's Alvie's chance to steal the life that she deserves . . . If she can get away with it.
'The must-have beach read' Telegraph 'Sizzlingly glamorous' Guardian 'A fast-paced tale of sex, lies and murder' Stylist ________________ Can't get enough of Alvie? Why not read her next book, Bad? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deadhouse Landing: Path to Ascendancy Book 2 Ian Cameron Esslemont (Author) Series:
Path to Ascendancy
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 496pp 261g ISBN13: 9780857503831 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-383-1 ISBN10: 0857503839 EAN: 9780857503831 x Description: Returning readers to the turbulent early history of what would become the Malazan Empire, the second chapter in Ian C. Esslemont's thrilling new epic fantasy sequence . . . After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island named Malaz. Immediately, of course, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do so they join forces with a small band of Napans who have fled a civil war on their own home island. The plan, however, soon goes awry as Kellanved develops a strange and dangerous fascination for a mysterious ancient structure found on the island. The chaos in the region extends to the metaphysical planes also as a young priest of D'rek starts to question the rot at the heart of the worship of the god of decay. And back in Li Heng, Dassem, now the proclaimed Sword of Hood, finds himself being blamed for a plague which leads him to a crisis of faith - and searching for answers. During all this, war with the neighbouring island of Nap threatens, recruited allies wonder at Kellanved's sanity, and powerful entities take more of an interest in the little mage from Dal Hon. Dancer faces a hard choice: should he give up on his partnership? Especially when the fellow's obsession with shadows and ancient artefacts brings the both of them alarmingly close to death and destruction. After all, who in his right mind would actually wish to enter an Elder mystery known to everyone as the 'Deadhouse'? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Old Baggage Lissa Evans (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w127mm ISBN13: 9781784161217 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-121-7 ISBN10: 1784161217 EAN: 9781784161217 x Description: 'Essential . . . Evans is a brilliant storyteller' Stylist What do you do next, after you've changed the world? It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a small wooden club - an old possession of hers, unseen for more than a decade. Mattie is a woman with a thrilling past and a chafingly uneventful present. During the Women's Suffrage Campaign she was a militant. Jailed five times, she marched, sang, gave speeches, smashed windows and heckled Winston Churchill, and nothing - nothing - since then has had the same depth, the same excitement. Now in middle age, she is still looking for a fresh mould into which to pour her energies. Giving the wooden club a thoughtful twirl, she is struck by an idea - but what starts as a brilliantly idealistic plan is derailed by a connection with Mattie's militant past, one which begins to threaten every principle that she stands for. Old Baggage is a funny and bittersweet portrait of a woman who has never, never given up the fight. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal Jack Ewing (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w127mm x s27mm 316g ISBN13: 9780552173100 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17310-0 ISBN10: 055217310X EAN: 9780552173100 x Description: A shocking expose of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal. Updated with a New Afterword by the Author. When news of Volkswagen's clean diesel fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability and trust became a universal symbol of greed and deception. Consumers were outraged, investors panicked, the company embarrassed and facing bankruptcy. As lawsuits and criminal investigations piled up, by August 2016 VW had settled with American regulators and car-owners for $15 billion, with additional fines and claims still looming. In Faster, Higher, Farther, Jack Ewing rips the lid off the scandal. He describes VW's rise from "the people's car" during the Nazi era to one of Germany's most prestigious and important global brands, touted for being "green." He paints vivid portraits of Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech and chief executive Martin Winterkorn, arguing that their unremitting ambition drove employees, working feverishly in pursuit of impossible sales targets, to illegal methods. With unprecedented access to key players and a ringside seat during the course of the legal proceedings, Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs culture prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate history's farthest-reaching cases of fraud-with potentially devastating consequences. As the future of one of the world's biggest companies remains uncertain, this is the extraordinary story of Volkswagen's downfall. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Waiter Matias Faldbakken (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp ISBN13: 9780857525857 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-585-7 ISBN10: 0857525859 EAN: 9780857525857 x Description: 'As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis . . . brilliantly exquisite . . . This book is a meal you won't want to finish.' J. Ryan Stradal Welcome to The Hills, Oslo's most esteemed restaurant, an institution stewed in tradition and clinging to the faded grandeur of old Europe. A neurotic waiter tends to the desires of his regular - and irregular - clientele. Aristocrats and artistes, wealthy widows and roguish entrepreneurs, he observes all their dramas with a wit as sharp as a filleting knife. At table ten sits the impeccable Mr Graham, the most demanding of them all, impatiently awaiting a special guest. When at last she arrives - young, beautiful, mysterious - she will prove a challenging new flavour, throwing into disarray our waiter's nerves, and the delicately balanced ingredients of the room.
Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either side of the service. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Moonfleet John Meade Falkner (Author) F. Exell (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h178mm x w129mm x s20mm 210g ISBN13: 9780141377629 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137762-9 ISBN10: 0141377623 EAN: 9780141377629 x Description: A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. Everyone in the tiny village of Moonfleet lives by the sea one way or another, so it's no surprise when young John Trenchard gets involved in the smuggling trade. Forced to flee England with a price on his head, John little guesses the adventures and trials he will have before he sees Moonfleet again or the change in his fortunes when he does. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alone in Berlin: (Film Tie-in) Hans Fallada (Author) Michael Hofmann (Translated by) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 404g ISBN13: 9780241277027 ISBN13: 978-0-241-27702-7 ISBN10: 0241277027 EAN: 9780241277027 x Description: A tie-in edition of Fallada's best-selling WW2 novel, to accompany the major new film starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson. Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich in Fallada's desperately tense and heartbreaking exploration of resistance in impossible circumstances. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unwinnable: Britain's War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Theo Farrell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s34mm 453g ISBN13: 9781784701321 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-132-1 ISBN10: 1784701327 EAN: 9781784701321
x Description: A Sunday Times Book of the Year It could have been a very different story. British and US forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having done the job they set out to do: to defeat al-Qaeda and stop it from launching further terrorist attacks against the West. Instead, in the years that followed, the British paid a heavy price for their presence in Helmand province; and when Western troops departed from Afghanistan in 2014, they had failed to stop a Taliban resurgence. Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell demonstrates conclusively that the West's failure to understand the dynamics of local conflict in the country, and to tackle Afghan government corruption, meant that the war was unwinnable. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paris Echo Sebastian Faulks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 390g ISBN13: 9781786330222 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-022-2 ISBN10: 1786330229 EAN: 9781786330222 x Description: `Faulks is beyond doubt a master' Financial Times Here is Paris as you have never seen it before - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. American postdoctoral researcher Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both are susceptible to the daylight ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of women who were present under the German Occupation; in her desire to understand their lives and through them her own, she finds a city bursting with clues and connections. Out in the migrant suburbs, Tariq is searching for a mother he barely knew. For him in his innocence each boulevard, Metro station and street corner is a source of surprise. In this urgent and deeply moving novel, Faulks deals with questions of empire, grievance and identity. With great originality and a dark humour, Paris Echo asks how much we really need to know if we are to live a valuable life. `Faulks captures the voice of a century' Sunday Times `The most impressive novelist of his generation' Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Small Country Gael Faye (Author) Sarah Ardizzone (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h222mm x w144mm x s21mm 329g ISBN13: 9781784741594 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-159-4 ISBN10: 1784741590 EAN: 9781784741594 x Description: 'A luminous debut novel... This is a book that demanded to be written... With a light touch, Faye dramatises the terrible nostalgia of having lost not only a childhood but also a whole world to war' Guardian Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes and stealing mangoes,
swimming in the river and riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi and neighbouring Rwanda are brutally hit by war and genocide. A haunting and luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history. It is a stirring tribute not only to a time of tragedy, but also to the bright days that came before it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power Niall Ferguson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 608pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 438g ISBN13: 9780141984810 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198481-0 ISBN10: 0141984813 EAN: 9780141984810 x Description: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric Schmidt Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares? Niall Ferguson, the international bestselling author of Empire, The Ascent of Money and Civilization, brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks. 'Provocative, snappy, a rare book ... fasten your seatbelts' Peter Frankopan, Daily Telegraph 'Immensely stimulating, absorbing, illuminating ... sends ideas blazing all over the place ... one of the best popular historians of our time' David Goodhart, Prospect 'Powerful, fast-paced ... a pull-yourself-together warning to the present by way of arresting historical precedent' Andrew Anthony, Guardian 'Captivating and compelling' Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories Katie Fforde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 298g ISBN13: 9781784757274 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-727-4 ISBN10: 1784757276 EAN: 9781784757274 x Description: Delve inside this CHRISTMAS STOCKING choc-full of perfectly themed, never-before-published seasonal short stories perfect for anyone who loves romance, humour and happy-ever-after endings. By the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author, Katie Fforde. 'A lovely, warm read to sink your teeth into' Heat 'Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches' Sunday Times 'A perfect match for an afternoon curled up on the sofa!' Sun THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING: Romy is all set to join her boyfriend and his family in France for Christmas, though truth be told she isn't looking forward to it very much. And then she meets Felix - and her plans for the big day suddenly become a lot more interesting.
CANDLELIGHT AT CHRISTMAS: It was meant to be the perfect Christmas - surrounded by friends and family in their beautiful home in the country. But then the lights go out, and Fenella knows she will have to work very hard to keep everyone happy ... THE CHRISTMAS FAIRY: It's Christmas Eve in Crinan, and a young man is on his own with only his nephew and niece for company. Then Ella arrives. Dressed as a fairy, she is determined to wave her wand and give them all the best Christmas ever. And many more! Guaranteed to make this your happiest Christmas ever! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Tulip Touch Anne Fine (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 129g ISBN13: 9780241331194 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33119-4 ISBN10: 0241331196 EAN: 9780241331194 x Description: Reissued for the Originals series of powerful teen fiction. Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling awful lies. None of this matters to Natalie who finds Tulip exciting. At first she doesn't care that other people are upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games, but as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far. Much too far. Racing, in fact, to the novel's shocking ending. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All the Good Things Clare Fisher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 240pp 170g ISBN13: 9780241978115 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97811-5 ISBN10: 0241978114 EAN: 9780241978115 x Description: What if you did a very bad thing... but that wasn't the end of the story? Twenty-one year old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks Beth to make a list of all the good things in her life. So Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with Foster Dad No. 1, to flirting in the Odeon on Orange Wednesdays, to the very first time she sniffed her baby's head. But at the end of her story, Beth must confront the bad thing. What is the truth hiding behind her crime? And does anyone - even a 100% bad person - deserve a chance to be good?
'Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and genuinely joyous' Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Lindsey Fitzharris (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141983387 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198338-7 ISBN10: 0141983388 EAN: 9780141983387 x Description: DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Shortlisted for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson Prize The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human history In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, when surgeons often lacked university degrees, and were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. While the discovery of anaesthesia somewhat lessened the misery for patients, ironically it led to more deaths, as surgeons took greater risks. In squalid, overcrowded hospitals, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more dangerous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: Joseph Lister, a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon. By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever. With a novelist's eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britain's greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Found My Tribe Ruth Fitzmaurice (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp 159g ISBN13: 9781784705466 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-546-6 ISBN10: 1784705462 EAN: 9781784705466 x Description: Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth's other `tribe' are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, and regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. `The Tragic Wives' Swimming Club', as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon.
An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, and live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent and uplifting letter to a husband, family, friends, the natural world and the brightness of life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Person Richard Flanagan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781784707477 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-747-7 ISBN10: 1784707473 EAN: 9781784707477 x Description: Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks. Kehlmann accepts but soon begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl. Is he ghostwriting a memoir, or is Heidl is rewriting him? As the deadline draws closer everything that is certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Ziggy Heidl - and who is Kif Kehlmann? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House Swap Rebecca Fleet (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 416g ISBN13: 9780857525482 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-548-2 ISBN10: 0857525484 EAN: 9780857525482 x Description: `A fantastic thriller - dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it.' Lee Child `An enthralling thriller that lives up to its chilling premise.' Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer ********** `No one lives this way unless they want to hide something.' When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap, they jump at the chance for a week away from home. After the difficulties of the past few years, they've worked hard to rebuild their marriage for their son's sake; now they want to reconnect as a couple. On arrival, they find a house that is stark and sinister in its emptiness - it's hard to imagine what kind of person lives here. Then, gradually, Caroline begins to uncover some signs of life - signs of her life. The flowers in the bathroom or the music in the CD player might seem innocent to her husband but to her they are anything but. It seems the person they have swapped with is someone she used to know; someone she's desperate to leave in her past. But that person is now in her home - and they want to make sure she'll never forget . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Some Kind of Wonderful Giovanna Fletcher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781405932660 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3266-0 ISBN10: 140593266X EAN: 9781405932660 x Description: Happiness can be found where you least expect it . . . ________ When the love of your life says you're not The One, what next? After celebrating a decade together, everyone thinks Lizzy and Ian are about to get engaged. Instead, a romantic escape to Dubai leaves Lizzy with no ring, no fiance and no future. Lizzy is heartbroken - but through the tears, she sees an opportunity. This is her moment to discover what she's been missing while playing Ian's 'better half'. But how much has Ian changed her, and who is she without him? Lizzy sets out to rediscover the girl she was before - and, in the meantime, have a little fun . . . ________ A WATERSTONES TOP TEN READ 'Her funniest, freshest and best yet' Heat 'Engaging, witty and heartbreaking' i 'A fun read with a big dose of girl power' Sun 'A must-read' Closer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Christmasaurus Tom Fletcher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp 277g Black and white a/w throughout ISBN13: 9780141373348 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137334-8 ISBN10: 0141373342 EAN: 9780141373348 x Description: The Christmasaurus is a story about a boy named William Trundle, and a dinosaur, the Christmasaurus. It's about how they meet one Christmas Eve and have a magical adventure. It's about friendship and families, sleigh bells and Santa, singing elves and flying reindeer, music and magic. It's about discovering your heart's true desire, and learning that the impossible might just be possible . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There's a Monster in Your Book Tom Fletcher (Author) Greg Abbott (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 32pp 189g ISBN13: 9780141376103 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137610-3 ISBN10: 0141376104 EAN: 9780141376103 x Description: From the bestselling author of The Dinosaur That Pooped and The Christmasaurus. A monster has invaded the pages of this original and super-fun bedtime picture book! Children need to read aloud and follow the interactive instructions to help free the pesky monster by tilting, spinning and shaking their book. After all that fun, there is a calming wind down end- perfect to send your own little monster off to sleep. Perfect for little fans of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Julia Donaldson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There's a Dragon in Your Book Tom Fletcher (Author) Greg Abbott (Illustrated by) Greg Abbott (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 32pp 440g ISBN13: 9780141376127 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137612-7 ISBN10: 0141376120 EAN: 9780141376127 x Description: OH LOOK, there's an EGG in your book! But this isn't any old egg - there's a dragon in it . . . And pretty soon she has set your book ON FIRE. OH NO! Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott have created a fantastically interactive sequel to their bestselling There's a Monster in Your Book. Children will love stroking, poking and flapping the book to make magic happen as they turn the pages. Can they help Little Dragon find a way to stop the fire and fly off on her own adventure? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eve of Man: Eve of Man Trilogy, Book 1 Tom Fletcher (Author) Giovanna Fletcher (Author) Series:
Eve of Man Trilogy
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp 542g ISBN13: 9780718184131 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8413-1 ISBN10: 0718184130 EAN: 9780718184131
x Description: ***PRE-ORDER EVE OF MAN, THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND-NEW TRILOGY, JOINTLY WRITTEN BY BESTSELLING AUTHORS GIOVANNA & TOM FLETCHER*** AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE. All her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the truth of her past. But at sixteen it's time for Eve to face her destiny. Three potential males have been selected for her. The future of humanity is in her hands. She's always accepted her fate. Until she meets Bram. Eve wants control over her life. She wants freedom. But how do you choose between love and the future of the human race? EVE OF MAN is the first in an explosive new trilogy by bestselling authors Giovanna & Tom Fletcher. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
World Without Mind Franklin Foer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 192g ISBN13: 9781784707347 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-734-7 ISBN10: 1784707341 EAN: 9781784707347 x Description: The early twenty-first century has seen a revolution in the control of knowledge and information. Without pausing to consider the cost, we have allowed four titanic corporations to become the most powerful gatekeepers the world has ever known. We shop with Amazon; socialise on Facebook; turn to Apple for entertainment; and rely on Google for information. But what do these companies really want, and what will be the lasting effects of their monopolies for our culture? As Franklin Foer so convincingly argues in this brilliant polemic, they have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation. They have set us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection - a world without mind. At stake is nothing less than who we are, and what we will become. World Without Mind makes a passionate, deeply informed case for the need to reclaim our intellectual culture before it is too late. It's a message that could not be more timely. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Monaco: Inside F1's Greatest Race Malcolm Folley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp 316g ISBN13: 9781784755720 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-572-0 ISBN10: 1784755729 EAN: 9781784755720 x Description: **THE ONLY DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST RACE - FULL OF EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH NIKI LAUDA, ROSS BRAWN, DAMON HILL, DAVID COULTHARD, SIR JACKIE STEWART, OLIVER PANIS AND 2016 WORLD CHAMPION NICO ROSBERG**
Circuit de Monaco. Monte Carlo. The ultimate race in the Formula One calendar. When you think of Formula One, you think of Monaco. Once a year, yachts jam the harbour, celebrities fill the stands and luxury sports cars litter the streets as of thousands of people gather from across the world to watch the greatest, and one of the oldest, races in motorsport. Monaco is glamorous, prestigious and seductive. But for the drivers, it is the most demanding race of the year. The narrow streets, tight corners and sharp elevations make it the ultimate test of driving skill. It is physically draining and mentally exhausting. Proposed today, the race would not exist but it remains the jewel in the crown for every Formula One driver. There is simply no other race like it. Win at Monaco and your name is etched in history. You will join the likes of Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton. With exclusive interviews and insight from drivers and a wealth of F1 insiders, award-winning sportswriter Malcolm Folley goes behind the scenes to discover what it's really like to drive and live and breathe this iconic circuit. He reveals along the way a unique and definitive portrait of the circuit, and recreates in thrilling detail its most extraordinary weekend, when only three cars finished. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fox Frederick Forsyth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 388g ISBN13: 9780593080597 ISBN13: 978-0-593-08059-7 ISBN10: 0593080599 EAN: 9780593080597 x Description: The master storyteller is back with a classic race-against-time thriller with a modern edge. Most weapons do what you tell them. Most weapons you can control. But what if the most dangerous weapon in the world isn't a smart missile or a stealth submarine or even an AI computer programme?What if it's a 17year-old boy with a blisteringly brilliant mind, who can run rings around the most sophisticated security services across the globe, who can manipulate that weaponry and turn it against the superpowers themselves?How valuable would he be? And what wouldn't you do to get hold of him? The Fox is a race-against-time thriller across continents to find and capture, or protect and save, an asset with the means to change the balance of world power. Whatever happens he must not fall into the wrong hands. Because what follows after that is unthinkable... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Zidane Patrick Fort (Author) Jean Philippe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp 475g ISBN13: 9781785038488 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-848-8 ISBN10: 1785038486 EAN: 9781785038488 x Description: Get inside the mind of football's most enigmatic icon `Zidane is the master' Pele One of modern football's most brilliant players - and one of its most iconic and mysterious figures - Zinedine Zidane's football career is the stuff of legend. A World Cup-winner with France, he became the world's most expensive player in 2001 when he moved from Juventus to Real Madrid for GBP46million, where his exceptional talent earned him a reputation as one of the greatest players of all-time. His playing career concluded explosively
when he retired after being sent off for head-butting Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup final. But his football career was far from over. After a spell coaching in Spain, he was appointed manager of Real Madrid in 2015 and immediately demonstrated that his skill as a manager matched his talent on the pitch, leading the team to successive Champions League victories and establishing him as one of the new managerial greats. Rarely speaking to the press, Zidane is known as a man who `speaks only with the ball'. In this definitive biography, Patrick Fort and Jean Philippe take us behind the scenes of his exceptional career, revealing the man behind the legend. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eden Candice Fox (Author) Series:
Archer & Bennett Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 464pp 319g ISBN13: 9781784758356 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-835-6 ISBN10: 1784758353 EAN: 9781784758356 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Redemption Candice Fox (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 298g ISBN13: 9781784758080 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-808-0 ISBN10: 1784758086 EAN: 9781784758080 x Description: From the Sunday Times #1 bestselling author - if you liked THE DRY, you'll love this! `Gritty and compulsive ... classic, compelling page-turners with a distinctly Australian twist.' - Jane Harper, author of THE DRY ______________________ When former detective Ted Conkaffey is wrongly accused of abducting a teenage girl, he hopes the Queensland town of Crimson Lake will be the perfect place to disappear. But nowhere is safe from the girl's devastated father. Dale Bingley plans to take brutal revenge - and if Ted can't find the real abductor, he'll be the first casualty. Meanwhile, on the beer-soaked floor of a nearby roadside shack, two young bartenders lie dead. As the homicide investigation unravels, Ted and his unlikely ally private detective Amanda Pharrell are brought in to assist on the case. While Ted fights to clear his own name, their hunt for the killer draws them into a violent dance with evil. They have one shot at redemption. It just might cost them their lives... ______________________ Steeped in tension, REDEMPTION is an absorbing crime thriller from an award-winning writer which will hold you in its grip to the final page. 'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox!' - Lee Child _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mine: Someone's stolen your baby. But no one believes you. The edge-ofyour-seat psychological thriller you don't want to miss Susi Fox (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp 245g ISBN13: 9781405934640 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3464-0 ISBN10: 1405934646 EAN: 9781405934640 x Description: They've stolen your baby. After waking from an emergency caesarean, you're dying to see your new baby. But when you're introduced something is wrong. This is not your child. The nurses assure you that the baby is yours. Your husband believes them. And so does your father. But how can you be wrong? You're a doctor. You know how easily mistakes are made. When everyone is against you, do you trust your instincts? You know only one thing . . . You must find your baby. __________________ 'Taps into deep, subliminal fear. I was so absorbed that when a friend tapped me on the shoulder, I jumped out of my skin' Jane Shemilt, bestselling author of DAUGHTER 'I raced through, unable to stop reading until I found out what was really going on. Gripping and thought provoking about motherhood and mental health. I loved it' LAURA MARSHALL, bestselling author of FRIEND REQUEST 'Digs deep to examine the dark side of motherhood - mental illness, failure, violent thoughts - and refuses to look away. Mine throws into question the sanity of the narrator, the trustworthiness of doctors and the reader's understanding of right and wrong' THE GUARDIAN _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h260mm x w180mm x s10mm 506g ISBN13: 9780241978641 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97864-1 ISBN10: 0241978645 EAN: 9780241978641 x Description: The First Graphic Adaptation of the Multi-Million Bestseller '12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.'
In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death. Adapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of the beloved diary of Anne Frank. 'Astonishing and excruciating. Its gnaws at us still' New York Times Book Review 'A modern classic' The Times 'Mesmerizing... Polonsky creates unforgettable panels that enable us to see Anne Frank's writing in a fresh light' Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mayflower Generation: The Winslow Family and the Fight for the New World Rebecca Fraser (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 329g 16 ISBN13: 9780099477686 ISBN13: 978-0-09-947768-6 ISBN10: 0099477688 EAN: 9780099477686 x Description: Selected by The Times as a History Book of the Year 2017 and The Tablet as a Book of the Year 2017 The voyage of the Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history. But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend. They had eighty casks of butter and two dogs but no cattle for milk, meat, or ploughing. They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey and the new land that few of them could comprehend. But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers. Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family and their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America. Edward Winslow, an apprentice printer born in Worcestershire, fled England and then Holland for a life of religious freedom and opportunity. Despite the intense physical trials of settlement, he found America exotic, enticing, and endlessly interesting. He built a home and a family, and his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit, Chief of the Wampanoags, is part of the legend of Thanksgiving. Yet, fifty years later, Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit's son in King Philip's War. The Mayflower Generation is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic. Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century, the histories of brave and vocal Puritan women and the contradictions between generations as fathers and sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Peter Rabbit: Based on the Major New Movie Frederick Warne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w128mm x s11mm 110g ISBN13: 9780241330722 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33072-2 ISBN10: 0241330726 EAN: 9780241330722 x
Description: Paws up- who loved the Peter Rabbit Movie? This is the perfect chapter book for all little Peter Rabbit fans!
Peter Rabbit is always breaking into Old Mr McGregor's garden and stealing his vegetables. And it's always getting him into trouble! But everything is about to change . . . Will Peter finally be able to take control of the vegetable patch, or will someone stand in his way? Peter Rabbit (TM) is a live action / CGI animated adventure comedy, starring James Corden (the voice of Peter Rabbit), Domhnall Gleeson (Mr. McGregor) and Rose Byrne (McGregor's animal loving neighbour, Bea). Bigger and better than ever, this heart-warming tale of adventure will capture the hearts of fans old and new. Also look out for the Peter Rabbit Sticker Activity book. Perfect for keeping younger Peter Rabbit fans busy for hours!
PETER RABBIT and all associated characters (TM) & (c) Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 2018. PETER RABBIT (TM) , the Movie (c) 2018 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Images from the film PETER RABBIT (TM), the Movie (c) 2018 CTMG. All Rights Reserved. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Future of War: A History Sir Lawrence Freedman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp ISBN13: 9780141975603 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197560-3 ISBN10: 0141975601 EAN: 9780141975603 x Description: For as long as there have been wars there have been fears about the next war. Where are the new dangers? What is the best defence? How might peace come about? This is the history of how over the last 150 years we have tried - rightly and wrongly - to predict war's future. 'Britain's leading academic strategist ... read this book' Economist 'Insightful and opinionated ... expertly covers centuries of evolving mayhem' Gary J. Bass, The New York Times 'A bonfire of predictions ... Freedman's purpose in this wise book is to discern patterns in the way we have thought about war's future' Shashank Joshi, Financial Times 'It reflects the author's immense knowledge and wisdom. It should feed our humility, because it reminds us of mankind's unlimited capacity for folly' Max Hastings, The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Poison Bed: 'Gone Girl meets The Miniaturist' E C Fremantle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp 537g ISBN13: 9781405920087 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2008-7 ISBN10: 1405920084 EAN: 9781405920087 x Description: E.C. Fremantle's THE POISON BED is a chilling, unputdownable thriller ripped straight from the headlines. -------------
'A Jacobean GONE GIRL Dark and deeply satisfying, THE POISON BED is a tale of monstrous intrigue and murder' M J Carter A king, his lover and his lover's wife. One is a killer. In the autumn of 1615 scandal rocks the Jacobean court when a celebrated couple are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. She is young, captivating and from a notorious family. He is one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom. Some believe she is innocent; others think her wicked or insane. He claims no knowledge of the murder. The king suspects them both, though it is his secret at stake. Who is telling the truth? Who has the most to lose? And who is willing to commit murder? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Day of the Dead: A Frieda Klein Novel (8) Nicci French (Author) Series:
Frieda Klein
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp 497g ISBN13: 9780718179694 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-7969-4 ISBN10: 0718179692 EAN: 9780718179694 x Description: At long last, a final reckoning is coming for Frieda Klein... On a north London high street, a runaway vehicle crashes to a halt. The man in the driving seat was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes: in the flames lies the next victim. As autumn leaves fall, a serial killer runs amok in the capital, playing games with the police. The death toll is rising fast, and the investigation is floundering. But this is no ordinary killer, and every new victim is intended as a message to just one woman. Because psychologist Frieda Klein is in hiding. And someone is coming to find her . . . After seven stunning novels, Frieda Klein's duel with her dark nemesis finally comes to a climax - and only one can make it out alive.
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Friday on My Mind: A Frieda Klein Novel (Book 5) Nicci French (Author) Series:
Frieda Klein
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Feb 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h199mm x w132mm x s31mm 308g ISBN13: 9781405918596 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1859-6 ISBN10: 1405918594 EAN: 9781405918596 x Description: Rich in intrigue, intensity and atmosphere, Friday on my Mind is classic Nicci French - a dark, gripping and sophisticated masterclass in psychological suspense in which nothing is quite what it seems . . .
'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah *** When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein . . . But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect. Unable to convince the police of her innocence, Frieda is forced to make a bold decision in order to piece together the terrible truth before it's too late either for her or for those she loves. Friday on my Mind is the fifth addictive and intriguing novel in the Frieda Klein series by the bestselling author Nicci French. Praise for Nicci French: 'French leads the field' Sunday Express 'Brilliantly crafted . . . masterly control of suspense' Daily Mirror 'Tense, frightening, gripping' Easy Living 'Dark, nerve-tingling and addictive' Daily Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sunday Morning Coming Down: A Frieda Klein Novel (7) Nicci French (Author) Series:
Frieda Klein
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h181mm x w111mm x s25mm 226g ISBN13: 9781405936552 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3655-2 ISBN10: 140593655X EAN: 9781405936552 x Description: 'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah It's always darkest before the light comes. In the chilling seventh instalment of the bestselling, critically acclaimed Frieda Klein series, evil looms but this time it's far too close to home . . . 'There's a body in Saffron Mews . . .' *** Psychotherapist Frieda Klein's home is her refuge until she returns to find it has become a disturbingly bloody crime scene. Beneath the floorboards the police have found the body of a man she had hired to help protect her. The killer's message is all too clear: you're mine. When those closest to Frieda begin to be targeted, the picture becomes more skewed: the patterns unclear. Unless Frieda can find and stop whoever is threatening her friends and family, her love and loyalty could come at a truly fatal cost . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday's Gone: A Frieda Klein Novel (2) Nicci French (Author) Series:
Frieda Klein
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Jan 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h181mm x w111mm x s28mm 251g ISBN13: 9781405909167 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-0916-7 ISBN10: 1405909161 EAN: 9781405909167 x Description: Nicci French, the bestselling author of What to do When Someone Dies and Losing You, returns with the second book in the gripping new series that began with Top Ten Bestseller Blue Monday. Fans of Peter James' Roy Grace series and Peter Robinson's DCI Banks series will love central character psychotherapist Frieda Klein, who is consulted on a grisly and seemingly unsolvable crime. For Frieda Klein the days get longer, the cases darker . . . Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man's decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce, a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is, how he got there or what happened - and Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly, Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole, a jack of all trades and master conman. But the deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig into Poole's past, the more of his victims they encounter - and the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile, violent ghosts from Frieda's own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth and who is lying, they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free - and anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate. A gritty heroine, a gruesome crime and a terrifying hunt for a psychotic killer, Tuesday's Gone is not to be missed by fans of psychological thrillers. 'Nicci French knows just how to play on our worst fears' Daily Mail Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk and have written twelve other bestselling novels including Beneath the Skin and Blue Monday, the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine Hannah Fry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h234mm x w153mm x s19mm 313g ISBN13: 9780857525253 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-525-3 ISBN10: 0857525255 EAN: 9780857525253 x Description: You are accused of a crime? Who would you rather decides your future - an algorithm or a human? Before making your decision, bear in mind that the algorithm will always be more consistent, and far less prone to an error of judgement. Then again, at least the human will be able to look you in the eye before determining your fate. How much fairness would you be willing to sacrifice for that human touch? This is just one of the dilemmas we face in the age of the algorithm, where the machine rules supreme, telling us what to watch, where to go, even who to send to prison. As increasingly we rely on them to automate big, important decisions - in crime, healthcare, transport, money - they raise questions that cut to the heart of what we want our society to look like, forcing us to decide what matters most. Is helping doctors to diagnose patients more or less important than preserving our anonymity? Should we prevent people from becoming victims of crime, or protect innocent people from being
falsely accused? Hannah Fry takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. In Hello World she lifts the lid on their inner workings, demonstrates their power, exposes their limitations, and examines whether they really are an improvement on the human systems they replace. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Stephen Fry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 343g ISBN13: 9781405934138 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3413-8 ISBN10: 1405934131 EAN: 9781405934138 x Description: The Greek Myths retold . . . ___________ No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. We shiver when Pandora opens her jar of evil torments and watch with joy as the legendary love affair between Eros and Psyche unfolds. Mythos captures these extraodinary myths for our modern age - in all their dazzling and deeply human relevance. ___________
'Ebullient and funny' The Times 'Entertaining and edifying' Daily Telegraph 'A rollicking good read' Independent 'Fry exhibits enormous erudition and enthusiasm' Mail on Sunday 'Fry takes us from Zeus to Athena with humour. The Greek gods of the past become relatable as pop culture, modern literature and music are woven throughout. Joyfully informal yet full of the literary legacy' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swimming Lessons Claire Fuller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780241976371 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97637-1 ISBN10: 0241976375 EAN: 9780241976371 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2018*** The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick. 'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.'
Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years. A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children? 'Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense...more than matches the power of Fuller's debut... Powerful, pleasing and pleasurable.' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seven Stones to Stand or Fall: A Collection of Outlander Short Stories Diana Gabaldon (Author) Series:
Outlander
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 544pp 373g ISBN13: 9781784751098 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-109-8 ISBN10: 178475109X EAN: 9781784751098 x Description: Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Featuring all the characters you've come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of Outlander. Includes previously published Virgins, The Space Between, Plague of Zombies, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows and The Custom of the Army, plus two never seen before works - Besieged and A Fugitive Green. A must-read for all Outlander fans! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h240mm x w162mm x s34mm 645g ISBN13: 9780241333129 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33312-9 ISBN10: 0241333121 EAN: 9780241333129 x Description: John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian and acclaimed author of The Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught the grand strategy seminar at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects with insight and wit on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, Saint Augustine, Machiavelli,Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy,Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Football in Sun and Shadow Eduardo Galeano (Author) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Portuguese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp 168g ISBN13: 9780241355350 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35535-0 ISBN10: 0241355354 EAN: 9780241355350 x Description: 'Football is a pleasure that hurts' This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic. 'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian 'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes 'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Scott Galloway (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w127mm x s20mm 230g ISBN13: 9780552173438 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17343-8 ISBN10: 0552173436 EAN: 9780552173438 x Description: For all that's been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these compa-nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they're almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world's first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal-lenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world's most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can't match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time Allen Gannett (Author) (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
W H Allen
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 308g ISBN13: 9780753548738 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4873-8 ISBN10: 0753548739 EAN: 9780753548738 x Description: A great idea isn't a sudden light-bulb moment. It's taking something familiar and making it feel new. We've been told a lie about the nature of creativity. We're told stories about creative geniuses - the young Mozart who effortlessly overshadows the hardworking Salieri; Paul McCartney coming up with the tune for Yesterday in a dream one morning; JK Rowling finding inspiration for Harry Potter sitting on a train to London. What we aren't told is the actual story behind such hits. In fact there is a science and method for mainstream success, whether writing a popular novel, starting a company or creating an effective marketing campaign, and in this book Allen Gannett - data wizard and successful entrepreneur - reveals the four laws of creativity that are proven to work. New ideas are surprising at first, and slowly become familiar as we get used to them. Allan Gannett reveals there's a sweet spot between what feels familiar and safe to us, and what is innovative and new: the point of optimal tension between safety and surprise, similarity and difference. The people we think of as creative geniuses are people who understand this sweet spot instinctively; they know what people find familiar and reassuring, and they find ways to reinvent it fresh. Packed with stories and insights ranging from the team behind Dear Evan Hansen to the founder of Reddit, from the Chief Content Officer of Netflix to Michelin starred chefs, The Creative Curve will help you spend less time on ideas destined to fail and more time on ideas that really break out. This book is for everyone, whether you're a business leader, a creative artist or a budding entrepreneur - and will teach you the secret to conceiving great ideas that can achieve major success. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ultimatum Frank Gardner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 517g ISBN13: 9780593075821 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07582-1 ISBN10: 059307582X EAN: 9780593075821 x Description: SIS agent Luke Carlton returns in the explosive, action-packed and unerringly authentic new thriller from BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, author of the acclaimed No.1 bestseller Crisis . . . Deep within a cave system at the Iranian military complex of Parchin, south-east of Tehran, and hidden from the prying eyes of Western satellites, scientists are working round-the-clock on a banned device. Acting on the orders of a renegade cell within the ultra-conservative Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, their intention is to propel Iran into the elite club of nuclear-armed nations - and seal its domination of the Middle East. Britain's intelligence agencies know something is up - they have a mole inside the programme. Ready to hand over the information, he must first get out of Iran. Crossing the mountainous border into Armenia, he was due to rendezvous with MI6 agent Luke Carlton at a remote, snowbound monastery. But the mission goes bloodily wrong and Carlton has to be extracted. And fast. On the back foot after that fiasco, MI6 is suddenly presented with an opportunity - to recruit an individual with unique access to the leader of the IRGC hardliners. And Luke is chosen to reel them in. Going into Iran undercover is dangerous enough, but the real nightmare begins when a senior British government minister on an official visit is kidnapped, his close protection officer killed and Britain is presented with a terrifying ultimatum. And as the
only agent inside Iran, it falls to Luke Carlton to head off what could lead to a catastrophic confrontation in the Gulf . . . and the clock is ticking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Look For Me Lisa Gardner (Author) Series:
Detective D.D. Warren
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 287g ISBN13: 9781784758615 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-861-5 ISBN10: 1784758612 EAN: 9781784758615 x Description: BY THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR `Lisa Gardner is one of my favourite authors. Her fast-paced and exciting novels twist when you expect a turn and turn when you expect a twist. I cannot recommend her more' Karin Slaughter 'Terror, twists, and trepidation. Look for Me is a triple-salvo thriller.' Kathy Reichs 'A complex crime scene, a missing girl, a ticking clock: no one writes a more page-turning, gut-wrenching, edgy thriller. Look For Me is a page turner par excellence.' Tess Gerritsen 'Starts with a bang and never lets up! An utterly absorbing story about troubled families and twisted fates.' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door ____________________ Detective DD Warren and Flora Dane are in a race against time to save a young girl's life - or bring her to justice. A family home has become a crime scene. Four are dead, savagely murdered. One - a sixteen-year-old girl - is missing. Did she have a lucky escape? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case, as is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who could be victim or suspect. All they know is that the girl is silently pleading: Look for me... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kites Romain Gary (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h216mm x w135mm x s23mm 341g ISBN13: 9780241345610 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34561-0 ISBN10: 0241345618 EAN: 9780241345610 x Description: 'A rebel French writer ... a brilliant storyteller, a master craftsman and one of France's most original writers' Independent 'The Kites is a novel touched from beginning to end with grace, a great saga about the innate dignity of love that succeeds in the feat of being funny and poetic, tender and sharp, committed and fierce, with a touch of brilliance in the art of dialogue' Muriel Barbery, author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his uncle, a kindly, eccentric creator of elaborate kites. One day, sitting in a
strawberry field, Ludo meets the beautiful young Polish aristocrat Lila. And so begins Ludo's lifelong adventure of love and longing for Lila, who only begins to return his feelings just as Europe descends into the devastation of World War 2. After Poland and France fall, Lila and Ludo are separated. Ludo's friends in the village must find their own ways of resisting: the local restaurateur who is dedicated above all to France's haute cuisine, a Jewish brothel madam who sleeps with her unwitting enemies and Ludo, who cycles past the Nazis every day, passing on messages for the French Resistance - thinking always of Lila. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The GCHQ Puzzle Book II GCHQ (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241365434 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36543-4 ISBN10: 0241365430 EAN: 9780241365434 x Description: Pre-order the long-awaited and brain-busting sequel from the UK's finest codebreakers and puzzle-solvers at GCHQ. With their first bestselling book, The GCHQ Puzzle Book, the UK's intelligence and security experts tested us with puzzles, codes and real-life entrance tests from their archives. Now, they are back with a new collection of head-scratching, mind-boggling and brain-bending puzzles that will leave you pondering for hours. For those who often found themselves stumped with the first book, there will be even more starter puzzles to get those brains warmed up. Puzzle aficionados needn't worry though, as there will also be an 'Even Harder' section to test everyone to their limits. Not only that, but in celebration of GCHQ's centenary, the puzzles in this new book will sit alongside stories, facts and photos from the organisation's first 100 years at the heart of the nation's security. From the Government Code & Cipher School, to Bletchley Park, through to protecting against cyberattacks, the security of our country is in the hands of GCHQ. With this book, you'll get exclusive snapshots into the organisation that keeps us all safe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State Barton Gellman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp ISBN13: 9781847923110 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-311-0 ISBN10: 1847923119 EAN: 9781847923110 x Description: Barton Gellman's informant called himself `Verax' - the truth-teller. It was only later that Verax unmasked himself as Edward Snowden. By that point he had already shared thousands of files with Gellman. Dark Mirror is the ultimate inside account of the vast, global surveillance network that now pervades all our lives. Gellman's primary role in bringing Snowden's revelations to light, for which he shared the Pulitzer prize, is only the beginning of this gripping real-life spy story. Snowden unlocked the door: here Gellman describes what he found on the other side over the course of a years-long journey of investigation. It is also the story of his own escalating battle against unknown digital adversaries after he discovered his own name on a file in the NSA document trove and realised that he himself was under attack. Through a gripping narrative of paranoia, clandestine operations and jaw-dropping revelations, Dark Mirror delineates in full for the first time the hidden superstructure that connects government espionage with Silicon Valley and the most powerful corporation whose name you've never heard. Who is spying on us and why? Here are the answers.
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I Know a Secret: (Rizzoli & Isles 12) Tess Gerritsen (Author) Series:
Rizzoli & Isles
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 283g ISBN13: 9780857502155 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-215-5 ISBN10: 0857502158 EAN: 9780857502155 x Description: 'Expect a white-knuckle ride to very dark places' Paula Hawkins When a young woman is found dead, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles are called to the scene of the murder. Though the body bears startling wounds, the actual cause of death is not immediately clear. A few days later, another body is discovered - a seemingly unrelated crime, but the lack of an obvious cause of death shows they have more in common than it would first appear. As Rizzoli and Isles race to discover the link between the victims before the killer can strike again, a mysterious person watches from the sidelines. She has the answers they're looking for. But she knows she has to stay quiet, if she wants to stay alive . . . 'A fast-paced, dark, edgy mystery/thriller filled with unremitting suspense.' Huffington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Agency William Gibson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241237229 ISBN13: 978-0-241-23722-9 ISBN10: 024123722X EAN: 9780241237229 x Description: A thrilling dystopian novel imagining a world where Trump lost the election, from the master of science fiction San Francisco, 2017. In an alternate time track, Hillary Clinton won the election and Donald Trump's political ambitions were thwarted. London, 22nd century. Decades of cataclysmic events have killed 80 per cent of humanity. A shadowy start-up hires a young woman named Verity to test a new product: a 'cross-platform personal avatar' that was developed by the military as a form of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, characters in the distant future are using technological time travel to interfere with the election unfolding in 2017... 'One of our greatest science-fiction writers' New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience David Gilmour (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 640pp h240mm x w162mm x s43mm 1141g 32pp b/w ISBN13: 9780241004524 ISBN13: 978-0-241-00452-4 ISBN10: 0241004527 EAN: 9780241004524 x Description: The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live? This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not fit in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib. David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who have never been written about before, to create a magnificent tapestry of British life in India. It is exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Undercover Princess Connie Glynn (Author) Series:
The Rosewood Chronicles
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9780141379890 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137989-0 ISBN10: 0141379898 EAN: 9780141379890 x Description: Loved The Princess Diaries, Once Upon a Time and Girl Online? Then you'll love Undercover Princess! Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who longs to be a princess, attending Rosewood Hall on a scholarship. Ellie Wolf is a princess who longs to be ordinary, attending Rosewood Hall to avoid her royal duties in the kingdom of Maradova. When fate puts the two fourteen-year-olds in the same dorm, it seems like a natural solution to swap identities: after all, everyone mistakenly believes Lottie to be the princess anyway. But someone's on to their secret, and at Rosewood nothing is ever as it seems... From YouTube personality Connie Glynn, AKA Nooderella, comes her debut novel, the first in The Rosewood Chronicles series. The perfect book for teenage girls, join Lottie and Ellie at the mystical and magical Rosewood Hall. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Panic Room Robert Goddard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w127mm x s23mm 262g ISBN13: 9780552172608 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17260-8 ISBN10: 055217260X EAN: 9780552172608 x Description: `Is this his best yet?...Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting' Lee Child WHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN? High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of mysterious background, currently acting as housesitter. The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable - and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn't know it's there. She's too busy being on the run from life, from a story she thinks she's escaped. But her remote existence is going to be threatened when people come looking for the house's owner, rogue pharma entrepreneur, Jack Harkness. Soon people with questionable motives will be asking Blake the sort of questions she can't - or won't - want to answer. WILL THE PANIC ROOM EVER GIVE UP ITS SECRETS? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body Daniel Goleman (Author) Richard Davidson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 236g ISBN13: 9780241975695 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97569-5 ISBN10: 0241975697 EAN: 9780241975695 x Description: A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research Drawing on cutting-edge research, friends and Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson expertly reveal what we can learn from a one-of-a-kind data pool that includes world-class meditators. They share for the first time remarkable findings that show how meditation - without drugs or high expense - can cultivate qualities such as selflessness, equanimity, love and compassion, and redesign our neural circuitry. Demonstrating two master thinkers at work, The Science of Meditation explains precisely how mind training benefits us. More than daily doses or sheer hours, we need smart practice, including crucial ingredients such as targeted feedback from a master teacher and a more spacious worldview. These two bestselling authors sweep away the misconceptions around these practices and show how smart practice can change our personal traits and even our genome for the better. Gripping in its storytelling and based on a lifetime of thought and action, this is one of those rare books that has the power to change us at the deepest level. 'This is a book that really can change your life.' - Arianna Huffington, author of the 'New York Times' best seller 'The Sleep Revolution' 'A happy synthesis of the authors' remarkable careers' - Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of 'Full Catastrophe Living' and 'Mindfulness for Beginners' The definitive book on the science of meditation. Rigorously researched and deeply illuminating' - Daniel Gilbert, PhD, author of the New York Times
bestseller 'Stumbling on Happiness' 'This exquisite duet between a down-to-earth science writer and path-breaking neuroscientist is a tour-de-force, revealing how training the mind can transform the brain and our sense of self, inspiring us to create a greater sense of well-being, meaning, and connection in our world. Bravo!' - Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., author of the 'New York Times' best sellers, 'Mind' and 'Brainstorm' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h240mm x w162mm x s33mm 625g ISBN13: 9780241263884 ISBN13: 978-0-241-26388-4 ISBN10: 0241263883 EAN: 9780241263884 x Description: 'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones 'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This book shows why, and what we can do about it. In the early twentieth century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working fifteen-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it. This book is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Little Liar Julia Gray (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 307g ISBN13: 9781783446919 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-691-9 ISBN10: 1783446919 EAN: 9781783446919 x Description: Nora has lied about many things. But has she told her most dangerous lie of all? There's a new art assistant at Nora's school, and he's crossed a line. Nora decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget. But not everything goes quite to plan, and Nora needs an escape. She befriends the rich and talented Bel, who longs for a part in a remake of a famous film. Bel is unpredictable, jealous and crazy, but she opens up a new world for Nora, and that makes her irresistible. As events start to spin wildly out of control, Nora must decide where her loyalties lie - and what deceits she can get away with. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Turtles All the Way Down John Green (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w144mm x s29mm 444g ISBN13: 9780241335437 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33543-7 ISBN10: 0241335434 EAN: 9780241335437 x Description: John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars is back, with a book hailed by the Guardian as 'a new modern classic'. 'It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.' Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred thousand dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the evertightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship. First edition includes an exclusive jacket poster featuring some of John's most brilliant and memorable quotes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Smoke Thieves Sally Green (Author) Series:
The Smoke Thieves
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 351g ISBN13: 9780141375397 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137539-7 ISBN10: 0141375396 EAN: 9780141375397 x Description: **The first book in the new fantasy series from the author of Half Bad** This is the perfect story for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Laini Taylor. ------------A princess, a traitor, a soldier, a hunter and a thief. Five teenagers with the fate of the world in their hands. Five nations destined for conflict. In Brigant, Princess Catherine prepares for a political marriage arranged by her brutal and ambitious father, while her true love, Ambrose, faces the executioner's block. In Calidor, downtrodden servant March seeks revenge on the prince who betrayed his people. In Pitoria, feckless Edyon steals cheap baubles for cheaper thrills as he drifts from town to town. And in the barren northern territories, thirteen-year-old Tash is running for her life as she plays bait for the gruff demon hunter Gravell.
As alliances shift and shatter, and old certainties are overturned, our five heroes find their past lives transformed and their futures inextricably linked by the unpredictable tides of magic and war. Who will rise and who will fall? And who will claim the ultimate prize? ****** If you couldn't get enough of The Children of Blood and Bone or The Red Queen, then you need to dive into the world of Brigant. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swan Song Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 480pp h234mm x w153mm x s33mm 620g ISBN13: 9781786331069 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-106-9 ISBN10: 1786331063 EAN: 9781786331069 x Description: 'A completely fascinating novel and a marvellously skillful re-imagining of real people, times and places. Outstanding.' -William Boyd They told him everything. He told everyone else. Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean, on private jets streaming towards Jamaica, on Yucatan beaches in secluded bays, they gossiped about sex, power, money, love and fame. They never imagined he would betray them so absolutely. In the autumn of 1975, after two decades of intimate friendships, Truman Capote detonated a literary grenade, forever rupturing the elite circle he'd worked so hard to infiltrate. Why did he do it, knowing what he stood to lose? Was it to punish them? To make them pay for their manners, money and celebrated names? Or did he simply refuse to believe that they could ever stop loving him? Whatever the motive, one thing remains indisputable: nine years after achieving wild success with In Cold Blood, Capote committed an act of professional and social suicide with his most lethal of weapons . . . Words. A dazzling debut about the line between gossip and slander, self-creation and self-preservation, SWAN SONG is the tragic story of the literary icon of his age and the beautiful, wealthy, vulnerable women he called his Swans. `Writers write. And one can't be surprised if they write what they know.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp ISBN13: 9780099587224 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958722-4 ISBN10: 009958722X EAN: 9780099587224 x Description: Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex? The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book,
it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires. In a quest that begins at the dawn of time, Stephen Greenblatt takes us from ancient Babylonia to the forests of east Africa. We meet evolutionary biologists and fossilised ancestors; we grapple with morality and marriage in Milton's Paradise Lost; and we decide if the Fall is the unvarnished truth or fictional allegory. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tyrant: Shakespeare On Power Stephen Greenblatt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp 362g ISBN13: 9781847925046 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-504-6 ISBN10: 1847925049 EAN: 9781847925046 x Description: 'Brilliant' - Sunday Times How does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant hold on to power? And what goes on in the hidden recesses of the tyrant's soul? For help in understanding our most urgent contemporary dilemmas, William Shakespeare has no peer. As an ageing, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social and psychological roots and the twisted consequences of tyranny. What he discovered in his characters remains remarkably relevant today. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues and imagined how they might be stopped. In Tyrant, Stephen Greenblatt examines the themes of power and tyranny in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays -- from the dominating figures of Richard III, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Coriolanus to the subtle tyranny found in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale. Tyrant is a highly relevant exploration of Shakespeare's work that sheds new light on the workings of power. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nightfall Berlin: 'The new Le Carre' BBC Radio 2 The Sara Cox Show Jack Grimwood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h234mm x w153mm x s32mm 597g ISBN13: 9780718181581 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8158-1 ISBN10: 0718181581 EAN: 9780718181581 x Description: In 1986, news that East-West nuclear-arms negotiations are taking place lead many to believe the Cold War may finally be thawing. For British intelligence officer Major Tom Fox, however, it is business as usual. Ordered to arrange the smooth repatriation of a defector, Fox is smuggled into East Berlin. But it soon becomes clear that there is more to this than an old man wishing to return home to die - a fact cruelly confirmed when Fox's mission is fatally compromised. Trapped in East Berlin, hunted by an army of Stasi agents and wanted for murder by those on both sides of the Wall, Fox must somehow elude capture and get out alive.
But to do so he must discover who sabotaged his mission and why... Nightfall Berlin is a tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that drops you deep into the icy heard of the Cold War. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On the Bright Side: The new secret diary of Hendrik Groen Hendrik Groen (Author) Hester Velmans (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Dutch; Flemish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 287g ISBN13: 9781405930307 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3030-7 ISBN10: 1405930306 EAN: 9781405930307 x Description: Eighty-five-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo. __________ Along with fellow members of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club, he embarks on a wild spree of octogenarian anarchy. But the home's director will not stand for any more drunken bar crawls, illicit fireworks or geriatric romance. The good name of the care home will not be disgraced. But when Hendrik learns of a plan to close the home down he realises life outside it could be much worse. He and the gang must stop the closure before it's too late. Or drop dead trying . . . __________ 'A joy to read. An entertaining and uplifting story of a man in the winter of his days' John Boyne, Irish Times 'Highly entertaining, utterly convincing. A delightful and touching saga of one man's way of coping with old age'Daily Express 'Terrific. This geriatric Adrian Mole made me laugh' Fanny Blake, Woman and Home 'A funny but also touching diary praised for its wit and realism' BBC Radio 4 Front Row _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Florida Lauren Groff (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s21mm 308g ISBN13: 9781785151897 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-189-7 ISBN10: 1785151894 EAN: 9781785151897 x Description: `Florida is a magnificent collection, executed with tremendous depth and precision, unsettling in the best possible way. Lauren Groff is a virtuoso.' Emily St John Mandel, author of Station Eleven In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character a steely and conflicted wife and mother.
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida - its landscape, climate, history, and state of mind - becomes its gravitational centre: an energy, a mood, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit, a wave of sadness, a flash of cruelty, as she writes about loneliness, rage, family and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury - the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature Viv Groskop (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 161g ISBN13: 9780241981276 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98127-6 ISBN10: 0241981271 EAN: 9780241981276 x Description: 'Wonderfully entertaining, hilarious. Contains the distilled wisdom of some of the greatest writers who ever lived' Allison Pearson, Sunday Telegraph What should I do with my life? What if my love is not returned? Why do bad things happen? The answers to some of life's biggest questions are found not in trite self-help manuals but in the tough-love lessons explored in Russian literature. Here, Viv Groskop delves into the novels of history's deepest thinkers to discover enduring truths about how we should live. Whether you're new to the Russian classics or returning to old favourites, The Anna Karenina Fix will help salve your heartache by exploring the torments of a host of famous and infamous literary heroes and heroines. Think of it like this: they have suffered so that you don't have to . . . 'Enchanting. Groskop falls in love with the literature, her impressive knowledge of which she conveys with a charmingly breezy tone' Observer 'A beguiling tasting menu of some of the finest reading experiences of my life. Witty, likeable, and lighthearted, Viv Groskop invites us to embrace the work of these august Russian dead souls as belonging to us all' Lionel Shriver _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World Ramachandra Guha (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1152pp h240mm x w162mm x s52mm 1440g ISBN13: 9781846142673 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-267-3 ISBN10: 1846142679 EAN: 9781846142673 x Description: The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with nothing more than his arguments and example. This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan
sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, varied Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics, Gandhi is a major reappraisal of the crucial years in this titanic figure's story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of a Marriage Geir Gulliksen (Author) Deborah Dawkin (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp h204mm x w138mm x s20mm 275g ISBN13: 9781784741600 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-160-0 ISBN10: 1784741604 EAN: 9781784741600 x Description: 'Brilliant and breathtaking...sexy and sad' A.M. Homes In his struggle to understand what has happened to his family, how his wife could fall in love with another man after twenty happy years, Jon attempts to tell the story of the painful collapse of his marriage, but from her point of view. He tries to get inside her head, to see it all as she did, all the while knowing that he can never really achieve this, and that his efforts reveal more projection than insight. How can one truly know another person? How much of what we think is love, is just a construct? Is it possible to find - and maintain - the great love we long for? Gulliksen explores these questions, turning them over again and again till they crack, revealing hollowness - or possible new meanings. Intense, erotic, dramatic, raw - Story of a Marriage examines two people's inner lives with devastating and fearless honesty. It is a gripping but slippery narrative of obsession and deceit, of a couple striving for happiness and freedom and intimacy, but ultimately falling apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gwynne's Kings and Queens: The Indispensable History of England and Her Monarchs N.M. Gwynne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h204mm x w138mm x s32mm 422g ISBN13: 9781785037849 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-784-9 ISBN10: 1785037846 EAN: 9781785037849 x Description: Do you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate educator Mr Gwynne is back - and this time he is taking on the entirety of British history - so you will never be in the dark again. Within the pages of this little gem - bursting with our small island's rich past - he teaches us the history of England through her remarkable monarchs. It is Mr Gwynne's belief that a certain amount of what you might read in other history books may well be wrong. It is his aim to show you why. Concise, thorough and utterly fascinating, this is the perfect book to be enjoyed by young and old, to be read at a time when, for many, harking back to our rich past seems much more preferable than living in the dreary present. And when it comes to the benefits of education, Mr Gwynne is never wrong! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Jonathan Haidt (Author) Greg Lukianoff (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h240mm x w162mm x s33mm 573g ISBN13: 9780241308356 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30835-6 ISBN10: 0241308356 EAN: 9780241308356 x Description: What doesn't kill you makes you weaker Always trust your feelings Life is a battle between good people and evil people These three Great Untruths contradict basic psychological principles about well-being, as well as ancient wisdom from many cultures. And yet they have become increasingly woven into education, culminating in a stifling culture of "safetyism" that began on American college campuses and is spreading throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking world. In this book, free speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt investigate six trends that caused the spread of these untruths, from the decline of unsupervised play to the corporatization of universities and the rise of new ideas about identity and justice. Lukianoff and Haidt argue that well-intended but misguided attempts to protect young people can hamper their development, with devastating consequences for them, for the educational system and for democracy itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Kind of Cruelty: The most addictive psychological thriller of 2018, tipped by Gillian Flynn and Lisa Jewell Araminta Hall (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 479g ISBN13: 9781780898254 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-825-4 ISBN10: 1780898258 EAN: 9781780898254 x Description: Passion. Obsession. Murder. `Simply one of the most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line' - Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL _________________________________ Mike and Verity have a special game. The Crave. They play it to prove what they already know: that Verity loves Mike. That she needs Mike. Even though she's marrying another man. Now Mike knows that the stakes of their private game are rising. This time, someone has to die... _________________________________ 'A propulsive and addictive study of the darkness of obsessive love. I was completely gripped from the first word to the last.' LISA JEWELL
'As merciless a thriller as I've ever read. Astonishingly dark and sensationally accomplished.' AJ FINN, author of The Woman in the Window `A tense intelligent thriller that kept me gripped and guessing until the last page - and thinking long after that.' ERIN KELLY 'A searing, chilling sliver of perfection... may well turn out to be the year's best thriller.' NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING ISSUE 'Readers of weary of domestic noir should pick up Our Kind of Cruelty, a splendidly written novel that gives the genre a shot in the arm ... pacily written and hugely involving... I was gripped until the last pages.' DAILY EXPRESS `A taut, fascinating psychological thriller. Original and powerful. Be prepared for questions to linger in your head for a long time afterward.' JULIA HEABERLIN `Toxic love, obsession, and the unflinching unravelling of a mind. Scarily plausible, a great read.' ALI LAND 'Chilling. Disturbing. Addictive. I couldn't put this down.' EMMA FLINT 'Like watching a slow motion car-crash through splayed fingers' TAMMY COHEN `An addictive dive into dangerous, extreme obsession. A must-read' JULIA CROUCH 'the orchestration of suspense is masterly' FINANCIAL TIMES 'disturbing and thrilling' DAILY MAIL 'This brilliant, thought-provoking thriller will keep you up at night' BEST MAGAZINE 'Darkly addictive, this is set to be one of the most talked-about thrillers of the year' HEAT MAGAZINE 'I devoured this gripping, unsettling, and brilliantly constructed thriller in one gulp' WOMAN AND HOME _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life Edith Hall (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s21mm 407g ISBN13: 9781847924087 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-408-7 ISBN10: 1847924085 EAN: 9781847924087 x Description: `Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all be happy in a meaningful, sustained way - and he led by example. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don't know your Odyssey from your Iliad. In ten practical lessons we come to understand more about our own characters and how to make good decisions. We learn how to do well in an interview, how to choose a partner and life-long friends, and how to face death or bereavement. Life deals the same challenges - in Ancient Greece or the modern world. Aristotle's way is not to apply rules - it's about engaging with the texture of existence, and striding purposefully towards a life well lived. This is advice that won't go out of fashion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 125g ISBN13: 9780241981382 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98138-2 ISBN10: 0241981387 EAN: 9780241981382 x Description: The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland
'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . . Challenging, mysterious and thrillingly tense, Mohsin Hamid's masterly The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a vital read teeming with questions and ideas about some of the most pressing issues of today's globalised, fractured world.
'Masterful . . . A multi-layered and thoroughly gripping book, which works as a poignant love story, a powerful dissection of how US imperialist machinations have turned so many people against the world's superpower - and as a thriller that subtly ratchets up the nerve-jangling tension towards an explosive ending' Metro 'Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman 'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai 'Admirably spare and amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke, New Statesman Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uncommon Type: Some Stories Tom Hanks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 330g ISBN13: 9781784759438 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-943-8 ISBN10: 1784759430 EAN: 9781784759438 x
Description: A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocket ship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life. These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humour and insight, the human condition and all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In his stories, Mr Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level. Known for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Mr Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love and normal, everyday behaviour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Resilient: 12 Tools for transforming everyday experiences into lasting happiness Rick Hanson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 301g ISBN13: 9781846045813 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-581-3 ISBN10: 1846045819 EAN: 9781846045813 x Description: Your key to lasting happiness, self-love and inner peace '[Hanson is] a master of his craft' - Prof Mark Williams, bestselling author of Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world Rick Hanson, author of the New York Times bestselling Hardwiring Happiness, is known for his trademark blend of neuroscience, positive psychology and contemplative practices. In Resilient, he explains how to build the very foundations of well-being by harnessing the power of positive experiences to build an unshakeable core. Dr. Hanson poses that anyone can build up resilience, the key to a positive mindset, unshakeable sense of self and the ability to get back up again and withstand anything life throws your way. He has distilled 40 years of clinical work and teaching into 12 practical, highly effective tools to help you build your resilience. Working with these tools allows you to enter a positive feedback cycle, which creates a sense of well-being, which in turn establishes resilience, and ultimately powers itself to strengthen you. Developed from his incredibly popular online course called The Foundations of Well-Being, here is the groundwork you need to meet any challenge in life head on and to live with an open heart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp 364g ISBN13: 9781787330870 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-087-0 ISBN10: 1787330877 EAN: 9781787330870
x Description: **FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER SAPIENS** Yuval Noah Harari returns in August 2018 with a new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. In bringing his focus to the here and now, Harari will help us to grapple with a world that is increasingly hard to comprehend, encouraging us to focus our minds on the essential questions we should be asking ourselves today. Employing his trademark entertaining and lucid style, Harari will examine some of the world's most urgent issues, including terrorism, fake news and immigration, as well as turning to more individual concerns, from resilience and humility to meditation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Money: Vintage Minis Yuval Noah Harari (Author) Series:
Vintage Minis
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 144pp h178mm x w110mm x s8mm 81g ISBN13: 9781784874025 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-402-5 ISBN10: 1784874027 EAN: 9781784874025 x Description: Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century economics and shows us how we are all on the brink of a revolution, whether we like it or not. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Home by Salman Rushdie Babies by Anne Enright Eating by Nigella Lawson Drinking by John Cheever _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present Christopher Harding (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 512pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241296486 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29648-6 ISBN10: 024129648X EAN: 9780241296486 x Description: This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, distress. We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the bad guy; surrealist and avantgarde artists sketching their escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties that wreathed, probed and
sometimes penetrated the new structures of mainstream Japan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood on the Page Thomas Harding (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 279g ISBN13: 9780099510925 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951092-5 ISBN10: 0099510928 EAN: 9780099510925 x Description: 'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations about a singular act of murder, and the national security state which we call home' Philippe Sands, author of East West Street ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD*** A groundbreaking examination of a terrifying murder and its aftermath by the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake. In June 2006, police were called to number 9 Downshire Hill in Hampstead. The owner of the house, Allan Chappelow, was an award-winning photographer and biographer, an expert on George Bernard Shaw, and a notorious recluse, who had not been seen for several weeks. Someone had recently accessed his bank accounts, and attempted to withdraw large amounts of money. Inside the darkened house, officers found piles of rubbish, trees growing through the floor, and, in what was once the living room, the body of Chappelow, battered to death, partially burned and buried under four feet of paper. The man eventually arrested on suspicion of his murder was a Chinese dissident named Wang Yam: a man who claimed to be the grandson of one of Mao's closest aides, and a key negotiator in the Tiananmen Square protests. His trial was the first in modern British history to be held `in camera': closed, carefully controlled, secret. Wang Yam was found guilty, but has always protested his innocence. Thomas Harding has spent the past two years investigating the case, interviewing key witnesses, investigating officers, forensic experts and the journalists who broke the story, and has unearthed shocking and revelatory new material on the killing, the victim and the supposed perpetrator. It is a crime that has been described in the press and by the leading detective as 'the greatest whodunnit' of recent years: an extraordinary tale of isolation, deception and brutal violence, stretching from the quiet streets of north London to the Palace of Westminster and beyond. It is an explosive new work of non-fiction from an author working at the height of his powers. www.bloodonthepage.com _________________ 'An In Cold Blood for our time - a brilliant and unflinching anatomy of a murder that is both brutal true crime and heartbreaking human tragedy' Tony Parsons 'A fine and fascinating read, bolstered by exemplary research and nuanced insights.' Observer `A real-life procedural... which might have important implications for us all.' Guardian 'Reads like a thriller... a rigorous investigation... a revealing piece of social history.' Sunday Times 'Detailed, painstaking and fascinating.' Evening Standard _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Queen of the World Robert Hardman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 592pp 757g ISBN13: 9781780898193 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-819-3 ISBN10: 1780898193 EAN: 9781780898193 x Description: `Dazzling, poignant and full of delicious surprises; the true story of how Elizabeth II took on the world - and won. The Crown is fiction. Here is the real thing.' - Andrew Roberts _____________________________ Written by the renowned royal biographer, Robert Hardman, and with privileged access to the Royal Family and the Royal Household, a brilliant new portrait of the most famous woman in the world and her place in it. On today's world stage, one leader stands apart. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state, and has engaged with them like no other monarch in British history.Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer and peace-broker. She has transformed her father's old empire into the Commonwealth, her `family of nations', and has come to know its leaders better than anyone. In 2018, they would gather in her own home to endorse her eldest son as her successor. With unprecedented access to the Queen's family and staff, Hardman tells a true story full of drama, intrigue, exotic and even dangerous situations, heroes, rogues, pomp and glamour - and, at the centre of it all, the woman who has genuinely won the hearts of the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gnomon Nick Harkaway (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 704pp 479g ISBN13: 9781786090096 ISBN13: 978-1-78609-009-6 ISBN10: 1786090090 EAN: 9781786090096 x Description: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gnomon is an extraordinary novel, and one I can't stop thinking about some weeks after I read it. It is deeply troubling, magnificently strange, and an exhilarating read.' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven 'Nick Harkaway's most ambitious novel yet. [A] story of near-future mass surveillance, artificial intelligence and human identity ... An amazing and quite unforgettable piece of fiction.' Guardian 'Harkaway dazzles.' Daily Mail 'Wonderfully good.' Sunday Times Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche.
Embedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. The staggering consequences of what she finds will reverberate throughout the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime Claire Harman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241315224 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31522-4 ISBN10: 0241315220 EAN: 9780241315224 x Description: Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the head was almost severed. The whole of London, from monarch to street urchins, was gripped by the gory details of the Russell murder, but behind it was another story, a work of fiction, and a fierce debate about censorship and morality. Several of the key literary figures of the day, including Dickens and Thackeray, were drawn into the controversy, and when Lord William's murderer claimed to having been inspired by the season's most sensational novel, it seemed that a great deal more was on trial than anyone could have guessed. Bringing together much previously unpublished material from a wide range of sources, Claire Harman reveals the story of the notorious Russell murder case and its fascinating connections with the writers and literary culture of the day. Gripping and eye-opening, Murder by the Book is the untold true story of a surprisingly literary crime. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Munich Robert Harris (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 309g ISBN13: 9781784751852 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-185-2 ISBN10: 1784751855 EAN: 9781784751852 x Description: MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace? `A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer `Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday Imperium, the acclaimed play cycle based on Robert Harris's Cicero novels, is running in the West End in summer 2018 - tickets now on sale!
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Body and Soul John Harvey (Author) Series:
Frank Elder
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 399g ISBN13: 9781785151811 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-181-1 ISBN10: 1785151819 EAN: 9781785151811 x Description: Frank Elder has become estranged from his troubled daughter. Up until now, Katherine has been unable to come to terms with the terrible events of her past and her father has been powerless to help her. So when Katherine suddenly appears on his doorstep, Elder knows that something is wrong. Katherine has become involved with an older man; a controversial artist known as much for his pornographic paintings as the public's suspicion that for him, life imitates art. But the breakdown of their relationship has sent Katherine into a self-destructive tailspin, made worse when the artist is found murdered in his studio. As a damaged young woman, Katherine had made the perfect muse. But now that he's dead, should that make her the prime suspect? Elder must solve the case if he has any hope of saving his daughter. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War Oona Hathaway (Author) Scott J. Shapiro (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 608pp h198mm x w129mm 24pp ISBN13: 9780141981864 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198186-4 ISBN10: 0141981865 EAN: 9780141981864 x Description: 'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker 'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands 'A fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The Internationalists has come along at the right moment' Margaret MacMillan, Financial Times Since the end of the Second World War, we have moved from an international system in which war was legal, and accepted as the ultimate arbiter of disputes between nations, to one in which it was not. Nations that wage aggressive war have become outcasts and have almost always had to give up their territorial gains. How did this epochal transformation come about? This remarkable book, which combines political, legal, and intellectual history, traces the origins and course of one of the great shifts in the modern world. 'Sweeping and yet personable at the same time, The Internationalists explores the profound implications of the outlawry of war. Professors Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro enrich their analysis with vignettes of the many individuals (some unknown to most students of History) who played such important roles in this story. None have put it all together in the way that Hathaway and Shapiro have done in this book' Paul Kennedy _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent Owen Hatherley (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h181mm x w111mm ISBN13: 9780141985954 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198595-4 ISBN10: 014198595X EAN: 9780141985954 x Description: Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, super modernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnectedby high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere. In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, from Dniepropetrovsk to Madrid, Edirne to Reykjavik, and to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. He also discovers another EU, where rail systems can't function, nationalism is on the rise, retail parks and tourists engulf cities and the deregulated public sphere rivals anything in Brexit Britain. And that's just the part of the continent allowed in the club, which resembles nothing so much as a rebranding of something much older: Christendom. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it: the difference between Chisinau and Stockholm is so vast that it makes little sense to call them both European capitals. Trans-Europe Express is a striking picture of a continent that has managed to create urban environments more pleasant, comfortable and attractive than any created anywhere else in human history, and which is now in profound crisis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 112pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 103g ISBN13: 9780141989112 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198911-2 ISBN10: 0141989114 EAN: 9780141989112 x Description: The black poet would love to say his century began With Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset Bridges & windows. In a second I'll tell you how little Writing rescues. So begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. Over 70 poems, each titled 'American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin' and shot through with the vernacular energy of popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his way between touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and creation, tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of the enemies of the good. American Sonnets builds a living picture of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression which define the early 21st Century. It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Paper Ghosts: The unputdownable chilling thriller from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans Julia Heaberlin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781405921305 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2130-5 ISBN10: 1405921307 EAN: 9781405921305 x Description: 'Gripping' The Times ____________ Long ago, Carl Feldman was acquitted of murder. Now he lives alone in Texas with a few fading memories. Until the day his daughter arrives and takes him away. Only she's not his daughter . . . This woman is sure Carl's a murderer, and that he's killed others. Including her sister Rachel. Now they're visiting old crime scenes to see if Carl remembers any of it. To discover what happened to Rachel. Has Carl really forgotten what he did or is he only pretending? Has this young woman made a terrible mistake? Because if Carl really is a serial killer, she's in a very bad place . . . ____________ 'Wonderful . . . creepy . . . a work of art' Sunday Express 'A beautifully written and extraordinary book' Sophie Hannah 'Strong characterisation, haunting images, a wonderful sense of place . . . well worth the read' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whistle in the Dark: From the bestselling author of Elizabeth is Missing Emma Healey (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 439g ISBN13: 9780241327647 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32764-7 ISBN10: 0241327644 EAN: 9780241327647 x
Description: In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud's attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia. Now, in her dazzling follow-up Whistle in the Dark, we meet Jen, mother to 15-year-old Lana - who has just been found after going missing for four desperate days. Lana can't talk about the missing days. As her daughter's life falls apart, Jen turns detective to discover what happened . . . How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen's fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police think the case is closed. The once-happy, loving family returns to London, where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely: refusing to go to school, and sleeping with the light on. With her daughter increasingly becoming a stranger, Jen is sure the answer lies in those four missing days. But will Lana ever reveal what happened? 'A psychological thriller that meshes the homely with the Gothic' Literary Review 'Oozing with tension and written with captivating brilliance' Heat 'As gripping as its predecessor' Elle 'Gripping, deeply affecting' Irish Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 Simon Heffer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 912pp 678g ISBN13: 9780099592242 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959224-2 ISBN10: 009959224X EAN: 9780099592242 x Description: `A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times `A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.' Jonathan Meades, Literary Review The folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil liberties their grandparents only dreamt of, and enjoying an expanding range of comforts and pastimes. The mood of pride and self-confidence is familiar from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches, newsreels of George V's coronation and the London's great Edwardian palaces. Yet things were very different below the surface. In The Age of Decadence Simon Heffer exposes the contradictions of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He explains how, despite the nation's massive power, a mismanaged war against the Boers in South Africa created profound doubts about her imperial destiny. He shows how attempts to secure vital social reforms prompted the twentieth century's gravest constitutional crisis and coincided with the worst industrial unrest in British history. He describes how politicians who conceded the vote to millions more men disregarded women so utterly that female suffragists' public protest bordered on terrorism. He depicts a ruling class that fell prey to degeneracy and scandal. He analyses a national psyche that embraced the motor-car, the sensationalist press and the science fiction of H. G. Wells, but also the Arts and Crafts of William Morris and the nostalgia of A. E. Housman. And he concludes with the crisis that in the summer of 1914 threatened the existence of the United Kingdom - a looming civil war in Ireland. He lights up the era through vivid pen-portraits of the great men and women of the day - including Gladstone, Parnell, Asquith and Churchill, but also Mrs Pankhurst, Beatrice Webb, Baden-Powell, Wilde and Shaw - creating a richly detailed panorama of a great power that, through both accident and arrogance, was forced to face potentially fatal challenges.
`A devastating critique of prewar Britain . . . disturbingly relevant to the world in which we live.' Gerard DeGroot, The Times `You won't put it down . . . A really riveting read.' Rana Mitter, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking
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Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop David Hepworth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 240pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781787630086 ISBN13: 978-1-78763-008-6 ISBN10: 1787630080 EAN: 9781787630086 x Description: Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer? What's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. This relationship gets more complicated the longer it goes on. It's been going on now for 50 years. David Hepworth is interested in the human side of pop. He's interested in how people make the stuff and, more importantly, what it means to us. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, he shows how it is possible to take music seriously and, at the same time, not drain the life out of it. From the legacy of the Beatles to the dramatic decline of the record shop, from top tips for bands starting out to the bewildering nomenclature of musical genres, with characteristic insight and humour, he explores the highways and byways of this vast multiverse where Nothing Is Real and yet it is, emphatically and intrinsically so. Along the way he asks some essential questions about music and about life: is it all about the drummer; are band managers misunderstood; and is it appropriate to play `Angels' at funerals? As Pope John Paul II said `of all the unimportant things, football is the most important'. David Hepworth believes the same to be true of music and this selection of his best writing, covering the music of last fifty years, shows you precisely why. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Don't Be a Dick Pete Stuart Heritage (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 194g ISBN13: 9781784705213 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-521-3 ISBN10: 1784705217 EAN: 9781784705213 x Description: Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. He is, in short, a model citizen. The favourite son. His younger brother Pete is quick-tempered, peevish and aggressively pig-headed and, for a while, known to his friends as 'Shagger'. But now, Stu has returned to his hometown to discover that Pete has taken his place. Don't Be A Dick, Pete is a hilarious examination of home and family; sons, fathers, fatherhood, sibling relationships and how hard it is to move on in a system that's loaded with several decades of preconceived ideas about you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M. Hersh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h240mm x w162mm x s35mm 641g ISBN13: 9780241359525 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35952-5 ISBN10: 024135952X EAN: 9780241359525 x Description: 'Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le Carre In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, and no small amount of controversy. Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity and defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times and the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military and political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, and the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington and New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr., from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad. Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh's life and career, Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement and darkness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Motherhood Sheila Heti (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h222mm x w144mm x s29mm 444g ISBN13: 9781846558375 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-837-5 ISBN10: 1846558379 EAN: 9781846558375 x Description: A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be? Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim. Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice. In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how - and for whom - to live. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Jason Hickel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp 340g ISBN13: 9781786090034 ISBN13: 978-1-78609-003-4 ISBN10: 1786090031 EAN: 9781786090034 x Description: ***As seen on Sky News All Out Politics*** `There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all.' - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. Today, 60 per cent of the world's population lives on less than $5 a day. Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty. For decades we have been told a story: that development is working, that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030. But just because it is a comforting tale doesn't make it true. Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this. Drawing on pioneering research and years of first-hand experience, The Divide tracks the evolution of global inequality - from the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present day - offering revelatory answers to some of humanity's greatest problems. It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Comforts of Home: Simon Serrailler Book 9 Susan Hill (Author) Series:
Simon Serrailler
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 390g ISBN13: 9780701187675 ISBN13: 978-0-7011-8767-5 ISBN10: 0701187670 EAN: 9780701187675 x Description: DC Simon Serrailler's last, devastating case was nearly the death of him and left him confronting a new reality Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long. He is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police. A newcomer, popular with the islanders, has died in perplexing circumstances. The community's reactions are complicated and fragile. It's good to be back on the job. And when Simon returns to Lafferton, an arsonist is on the rampage and a woman whose daughter disappeared some years before is haunting the police station seeking closure. She will not let it rest, and Simon is called in to do a cold-case review. At home, Simon is starting to get used to having a new brother-in-law - in the form of his Chief Constable Kieron Bright. His sister Cat has embarked on a new way of practising medicine, and his nephew Sam is trying to work out what to do with his life. And then their tricky father, Richard, turns up again like a bad penny. In this gripping new Serrailler thriller, Simon's personal and professional lives intertwine in more complex and demanding ways than ever before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Susan Effect Peter Hoeg (Author) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Danish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9781784702267 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-226-7 ISBN10: 1784702269 EAN: 9781784702267 x Description: You'll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two James Holland (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp 552g ISBN13: 9780593077986 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07798-6 ISBN10: 0593077989 EAN: 9780593077986 x Description: 'James Holland is a master' BBC History It was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all . . . During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces based in Britain and Italy launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The aim was to smash the main factories and production centres of the Luftwaffe and at the same time draw the German fighter force up into the air and into battle. Officially called Operation ARGUMENT, this monumental air assault was very quickly became known simply as Big Week. In the six months up to its launch, for the Allies, the bomber war was not turning out as planned. Raids by the US Eighth Air Force and the RAF deep into Germany were being decimated and falling far short of its purpose. With D-Day drawing ever-closer, that was a massive problem. The Allies needed clear skies to invade. The clock was ticking inexorably. Yet the Luftwaffe was also in crisis. Short of resources, of fuel, and on properly trained pilots, the strain on those still flying was immense, their losses severe. And despite the chaos of their leadership, they were achieving far more than should have been reasonably expected against the superior numbers of the Allied planes. Big Week is the knife-edged story of bomber against flak gun and fighter, but also, crucially, fighter against fighter, as the stakes rose higher and higher. Following the fortunes of pilots, aircrew and civilians from both sides, this is a blistering narrative of one of the most critical periods of the entire war, one that culminated in the largest air battle ever witnessed. It is also one that has been largely forgotten, but which has been brilliantly brought back to life by award-winning historian, James Holland. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Battle of the Atlantic: Book 3 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War James Holland (Author) Keith Burns (By (artist)) Series:
The Ladybird Expert Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 56pp h180mm x w120mm x s6mm 130g ISBN13: 9780718186319 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8631-9 ISBN10: 0718186311 EAN: 9780718186319 x Description: Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. Understand the longest battle of World War Two. This is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the naval campaign that kept supply lines open and enabled Britain to continue to fight. Historian, author and broadcaster James Holland draws on the latest research and interviews with participants to bring colour, detail and a fresh perspective to the story of how the siege of Europe was broken. Inside, you'll discover exactly what happened in the Battle of the Atlantic. Ships, submarines and aircraft fought a bitter war that saw the deaths of over 100,000 servicemen and civilians. What's inside? -
The tragic demise of SS Athenia The power of U-boats Advantages of Britain's naval experience German naval Enigma codes The rapid development of advancing weaponry And much more . . .
Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Homesick Songs Emma Hooper (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fig Tree
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp 407g ISBN13: 9780241273838 ISBN13: 978-0-241-27383-8 ISBN10: 0241273838 EAN: 9780241273838 x Description: 'A Wes Anderson-esque tale to fall for' Stylist 'Warm-hearted and winsomely imaginative' Sunday Times 'Elegant and musical' The List Newfoundland, Canada, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters, and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to
disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, 10-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. There's no school, no friends and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. And then Finn's parents announce that they too must separate if their family is to survive. But Finn still has his sister, Cora, with whom he counts the dwindling boats on the coast at night, and Mrs Callaghan, who teaches him the strange and ancient melodies of their native Ireland. That is until his sister disappears, and Finn must find a way of calling home the family and the life he has lost. This is a haunting, enchanting tale about a fading town and a boy who would do anything to save his family _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
High Fidelity Nick Hornby (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 142g ISBN13: 9780241981214 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98121-4 ISBN10: 0241981212 EAN: 9780241981214 x Description: Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do. A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come. 'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature' Independent on Sunday 'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true' Independent 'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving' Financial Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Word Is Murder: The bestselling mystery from the author of Magpie Murders - you've never read a crime novel quite like this Anthony Horowitz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
19 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 277g ISBN13: 9781784757236 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-723-6 ISBN10: 1784757233 EAN: 9781784757236 x Description: SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.
Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer? Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, together with his reluctant side-kick - a man completely unaccustomed to the world of crime. But even Hawthorne isn't prepared for the twists and turns in store - as unexpected as they are bloody... _________________ Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC's Sherlock, you'll LOVE The Word is Murder. Chosen as one of Crime Time's books of the year 'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' - Guardian Books of the Year 'A real page-turner. I loved it!' - ALED JONES (ITV, Weekend) 'The beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic elan as Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction' - Financial Times 'Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character' - Daily Express 'Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree' - Kirkus Reviews 'Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more' - Publishers Weekly _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Katharina Code: You loved Wallander, now meet Wisting. Jorn Lier Horst (Author) Anne Bruce (Translated by) Series:
The Cold Case Quartet
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405938068 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3806-8 ISBN10: 1405938064 EAN: 9781405938068 x Description: A gripping thriller from the international bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too. As Wisting prepares to investigate another missing persons case he's visited by a detective from Oslo. Adrian Stiller is convinced Martin's involved in another disappearance of a young woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin. But is Wisting playing cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot lay the past to rest? Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway, The Katharina Code is a heart-stopping story of one man's obsession with his coldest case.
Atmospheric, gripping and suspenseful; this is Nordic Noir at its very best. 'Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' Joan Smith, Sunday Times 'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' Marcel Berlin, The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Misfit Charli Howard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s19mm 356g ISBN13: 9780241328828 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32882-8 ISBN10: 0241328829 EAN: 9780241328828 x Description: A beautiful and brave book - Emma Gannon Everyone should read this book - ModelTypeFace A thoughtful, honest and articulate voice - The Observer Witty - The Sun Packed full of honesty and insight - Dr Radha
So, how did a slightly bonkers misfit with anorexia, bulimia and anxiety decide to solve their problems? I became a model. As you do. Charli Howard had always wanted to be normal - but for some reason, she couldn't quite find out how to do it. As a teenager, she felt like the only one who struggled with anxiety and self-esteem issues when everyone around her seemed to fit in. So she tried to embrace standing out: by becoming a model. Believing it would make her happy and envied, she set out single-mindedly to make it - and she achieved her dream. But the reality wasn't quite as glamorous as she'd hoped. The pressure on Charli to look a certain way took an extreme toll on her body and self-image, and no matter how thin she got, she was never thin enough.
When Charli, though medically underweight, was fired by her modelling agency for being too big, she decided she'd had enough. She used her platform for good and spoke out about the insane standards of the modelling industry, whose images influence young women and girls all over the world. Now, Charli is comfortable in her skin for the first time ever, working happily as a plus sized model in New York. Here, she shares her journey, from anorexic and bulimic teenager to happy, healthy twenty-something. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In The Dark: the #1 bestselling thriller from the author of the Richard and Judy pick 'Close to Home' (DI Fawley Thriller, Book 2) Cara Hunter (Author) Series:
DI Fawley
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 309g ISBN13: 9780241283202 ISBN13: 978-0-241-28320-2 ISBN10: 0241283205 EAN: 9780241283202 x Description: 'Your next riveting, twisty read!' SHARI LAPENA 'Reminded me of Hitchcock at his finest, where twist follows twist at a breath-taking pace' Daily Mail
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE HIDING IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR? From the HOTTEST new crime writer of 2018 comes a new UNPUTDOWNABLE thriller... A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive. No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The inhabitants of the quiet Oxford street are in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? But DI Adam Fawley knows that nothing is impossible. And that no one is as innocent as they seem . . . WHAT AUTHORS AND READERS ARE SAYING: 'Cancel everything. You're not going anywhere until you finish reading In The Dark' EMILY KOCH 'A classy, agile, fresh, unpredictable and utterly compelling gift of a book: hats off!' NICCI FRENCH 'Cara Hunter is the new queen of the cliffhanger: fans of Close To Home are not going to be disappointed' JOHN MARRS 'A real gripper of a read' PETER JAMES 'One of the best crime thrillers I have ever read' KATHRYN CROFT 'In the Dark kept me up into the late hours. Clever and wonderfully complex!' JANE CORRY 'Cara Hunter is a brilliant plotter, but it's her masterfully drawn characters that really make her novels stand out' RACHEL ABBOTT 'A twisty, utterly compulsive read with an ending you won't see coming. I gobbled it up in one satisfying sitting' EMMA KAVANAGH 'Gritty, compelling and very real. I loved it' MEL SHERRATT 'A mazey, gripping read' IAN RANKIN 'I finished it in one sitting!' NUALA ELLWOOD 'Disturbingly real, highly clever and it totally kept me guessing. I loved it' CJ SKUSE 'It had me so gripped, I couldn't put this chilling book down. Cara Hunter is a masterful storyteller' SARAH WARD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hellbent: A Dark Conspiracy. An Innocent Victim Gregg Hurwitz (Author) Series:
An Orphan X Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 351g ISBN13: 9781405928540 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2854-0 ISBN10: 1405928549 EAN: 9781405928540 x Description: A dark conspiracy. An innocent victim. And one man hellbent on making it right. The explosive new Orphan X thriller from bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. _______________ 'Do you need my help?' They called him Orphan X. Evan Smoak used to be a government secret weapon.
Then he ran and became the man you call on when you've nowhere else to turn. This time it's a teenage runaway called Joey. Like Evan she's no innocent: she was brought up inside the same programme that raised him. Now Evan must find Joey before those hunting her do. Which is where the trouble begins. Because this might not be about Joey at all. And if it's not, then it must be about Evan. But finding out why could kill them both ... _______________ 'A masterpiece of suspense and thrills' Daily Mail 'The page-turner of the season' The Times 'A rival to Reacher' Independent _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Chance Gregg Hurwitz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405938303 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3830-3 ISBN10: 1405938307 EAN: 9781405938303 x Description: THE SECOND BREAKNECK PACED YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER IN THE RAINS BROTHERS SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. Chance, that's me, the youngest Rain brother - and right now I'm kind of stuck between a rock and hard place.... Or more specifically, tied up and kidnapped. My captors? We call them Drones, and they serve the Harvesters that have infected all the adults in our town of Creek's Cause with parasites, turning them into mindless rage zombies that have only two objectives: capture or kill. What we know so far is that there are two factions of Drones, one that wants my big brother Patrick and me to save the world, and the other that is taking kids and using them to hatch something... otherworldly. I don't want to know what they are, but I'm pretty sure I'm about to find out. What I do know is that Patrick and his girlfriend Alex are out there, they aren't dead and they won't let me die at the hands of the Harvesters. Not when we have things to do: because come on, the world isn't going to save itself. Last Chance is the relentlessly action-packed sequel to The Rains. Fans of The Hunger Games and Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave will love this thrilling adventure from the bestselling author of Orphan X and comics in the Batman, Wolverine and Punisher universes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Rains Gregg Hurwitz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp ISBN13: 9781405938280 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3828-0 ISBN10: 1405938285 EAN: 9781405938280 x Description: THE FIRST BOOK IN THE HIGH-OCTANE YOUNG ADULT ADVENTURE THRILLER SERIES FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR GREGG HURWITZ. It's never really been my thing to be the brave one - that's always been my older brother Patrick - but something world-changing is happening in our small town of Creek's Cause. Parasites have infected everyone over the age of eighteen, making them violent, and if they even sniff a kid they either bash our brains in or take us back to their creepy lair. We're trapped at the school with the other remaining survivors, including Patrick's girlfriend Alex, and we don't know how long we'll last. The school is surrounded by infected adults, and we're sure that there is something else out there, something controlling the people that used to be our parents, our guardians. But here's the real problem, Patrick is turning eighteen in a few days, so it's up to me - Chance Rain - to find a way to save him. And maybe, just maybe if we survive the next few weeks then we can help save humanity. From the New York Times bestselling author of Orphan X and comics in the Batman, Wolverine, and Punisher universes comes The Rains, a thrilling adventure as relentless as The Hunger Games and as page-turning as Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Darien: Twelve Families. One Throne. Empire of Salt Book I C. F. Iggulden (Author) Series:
Empire of Salt
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780718186470 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8647-0 ISBN10: 0718186478 EAN: 9780718186470 x Description: Discover your new favourite fantasy series . . . _______________ The city of Darien lies at the heart of a dying empire. Twelve families spoil for a throne soon to be made vacant - by murder or civil war. Into this fevered, hungry city come six strangers: An orphan and an old swordsman. A hunter and a pitiless killer. A young thief and a cynical chancer. As the sun sinks the city will know no slumber. For long dormant passions have awoken. Fortunes will be won and lost. Lives will be staked and claimed. And a story long waiting to be told will catch fire in the telling . . .
_______________ What readers think . . . 'One of the best fantasy novels I've read' ***** 'I'm a huge fan of Iggulden, but this takes it to another level' ***** 'A must-read and a very welcome addition to the genre' ***** 'Enough machinations, conspiracies and controversies to rival Game of Thrones' ***** 'If you love David Gemmel, you will love this' ***** _______________ Darien is the first book in the Empire of Salt, THE epic fantasy series of spellbinding imagination . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shiang: Two Ancient Cities. One Final War. Empire of Salt Book II C. F. Iggulden (Author) Series:
Empire of Salt
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718186784 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8678-4 ISBN10: 0718186788 EAN: 9780718186784 x Description: From the daring and critically-acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, SHIANG is the second book in the Empire of Salt, an epic fantasy series of spellbinding imagination . . . IF THESE STONES COULD SPEAK, THEY WOULD CALL FOR WAR. In Shiang, the young king rules without dissent. Mazer swordsmen stand watch on every corner, looking for the first sign of rebellion. This city is a place of quiet and slow dignity, like a man eating rice with a razor pressed against his throat. Yet with one sharp movement, order is overturned. The balance of centuries is undone in the sudden spill of blood - and in the darkness, something terrible returns to Shiang. Far to the west, four Shiang masters approach the city walls of Darien. The sword saint and his companions have crossed a continent to bring an old man home for punishment. They will not be denied, even if the whole city stands in their way. TWO ANCIENT CITIES. ONE FINAL WAR. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Falcon of Sparta: The bestselling author of the Emperor and Conqueror series' returns to the Ancient World Conn Iggulden (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp 577g ISBN13: 9780718181475 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8147-5 ISBN10: 0718181476 EAN: 9780718181475 x
Description: In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. The sons of Sparta, those whose fathers and grandfathers fell at Thermopylae and perished in the Peloponnesian Wars, work as mercenaries for Persian princes eager to play the game of thrones. When Cyrus the younger, brother to the Great King, lays claim to his father's crown, he does so with an elite army of Spartans at his side. Yet battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors. Drawing on one of history's most epic stories of adventure, The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed that was the ancient World. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens Eddie Izzard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 300g ISBN13: 9781405922012 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2201-2 ISBN10: 140592201X EAN: 9781405922012 x Description: "Don't get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible" Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie Izzard. This is the story of how he broke through. His relentless optimism has led him to always do things his own way, even if it didn't work first time, and his incredible self-belief has pushed him to keep on trying, even if it didn't work the second or third time either. Whether he was putting on teddy bear shows on boarding school beds or swordfighting on the streets of London, Eddie never stopped trying to achieve his dreams of becoming a performer. Brimming with his distinctively surreal humour and disarming candour, Believe Me tells the story of a boy who never took no for an answer. "This book is a raw, honest exploration of what it means to live your truth, to be unapologetically ambitious. It's about being brave. And hilarious." Chelsea Handler 'King of the Universe . . . Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate' Telegraph "Laughter trumps sorrow in candid comedian Eddie Izzard's Believe Me" Vanity Fair _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners Rukmini Iyer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Square Peg
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp 806g ISBN13: 9781910931899 ISBN13: 978-1-910931-89-9 ISBN10: 1910931896 EAN: 9781910931899 x Description: `This book will earn a place in kitchens up and down the country' Nigella Lawson Seventy-five one-tin recipes: half vegan, half vegetarian, all delicious. With all seventy-five recipes in this book, you simply pop your ingredients in a tin and let the oven do the work. From flexitarians to families, this book is for anyone who wants to eat easy veg-based meals that fit around their busy lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Glory of Rome: (Gaius Valerius Verrens 8) Douglas Jackson (Author) Series:
Gaius Valerius Verrens
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w127mm x s31mm 357g ISBN13: 9780552172295 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17229-5 ISBN10: 0552172294 EAN: 9780552172295 x Description: 77AD. Gaius Valerius Verrens is an honoured member of Emperor Vespasian's inner circle, but the enmity between him and Vespasian's son Domitian means that, even in Rome, danger is never far away. Meanwhile, in the outer reaches of the Empire, in Britannia, trouble is brewing. The governor, Gnaeus Julius Agricola is preparing to march his legions north and Valerius is Agricola's chief legal adviser and deputy governor. It's the opportunity he seeks to move his wife and son out of reach of Domitian's wrath. But Britannia is where Valerius cut his military teeth and whetted his sword - and he will soon discover that the ghosts of his past are never far away and are more dangerous perhaps than Domitian. The massacre of a Roman garrison and suspicious death of the legate of the Ninth Legion throw Agricola's preparations into confusion. Now his eyes turn west to Mona, the Druids Isle, where the Celtic priesthood still harbours hopes of ridding Britannia of Roman rule. But to deal with the druids and their savage Ordovice protectors Agricola needs a soldier he can trust at the head of the `unlucky' Ninth. Only one man in the province has the experience and the ability . . . So a reluctant Valerius must put aside his scrolls and pick up his sword once more and march beside the eagle of the Ninth. It's only as he stands on the shoreline opposite Mona that he understands any glory his new legion wins is likely to be fleeting and tainted - and that he has placed his family in deadly peril. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hammer of Rome: Gaius Valerius Verrens 9 Douglas Jackson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 480pp h234mm x w153mm x s34mm 575g ISBN13: 9780593076187 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07618-7 ISBN10: 0593076184 EAN: 9780593076187
x Description: AD 80 Gaius Valerius Verrens is back where he belongs, at the head of a legion. But this is no ordinary legion. His command is the `unlucky' Ninth, tainted by four decades of ill fortune and poor leadership. A unit regarded as expendable by Valerius's superior, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, governor of Britannia. Yet all that can be swept aside by a single moment of glory, and the long heralded invasion of the north of the province provides the perfect opportunity. Valerius leads his men to a devastating victory against the recalcitrant Brigantes, infuriating Agricola in the process. Soon, even greater honours beckon with the death of Emperor Vespasian and the succession of Valerius's friend, Titus. But, back in Rome, the new emperor faces his own challenges, not least from his own brother, Domitian, a man with an insatiable ambition for power and a deadly hatred of Valerius. All Valerius can do is forget the great prizes on offer, concentrate on defeating the savage tribes who lie in the path of the Ninth, and ignore Agricola's intrigues. But watching his every move is the most formidable enemy he has ever faced: mighty Calgacus, war chief of the Northern alliance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Julian Jackson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 928pp h241mm x w161mm x s58mm 1544g ISBN13: 9781846143519 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-351-9 ISBN10: 1846143519 EAN: 9781846143519 x Description: 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Petain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloodymindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sticks and Stones Jo Jakeman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 479g ISBN13: 9781787300323 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-032-3 ISBN10: 1787300323 EAN: 9781787300323 x
Description: How far would you go for revenge on your ex? Imogen's husband is a bad man. His ex-wife and his new mistress might have different perspectives but Imogen thinks she knows the truth. And now he's given her an ultimatum: get out of the family home in the next fortnight or I'll fight you for custody of our son. In a moment of madness, Imogen does something unthinkable. Something that puts her in control. But how far will she go to protect her son and punish her husband? And what will happen when his ex and his girlfriend get tangled up in her plans? Sticks and Stones is a deliciously twisting psychological thriller from an exciting new voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Sapphire Widow: The Enchanting Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 2018 Dinah Jefferies (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9780241303771 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30377-1 ISBN10: 024130377X EAN: 9780241303771 x Description: *A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 2018* *A Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller* A sweeping, breath-taking story of love and betrayal from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child. While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot is increasingly absent, spending much of his time at a nearby cinnamon plantation, overlooking the Indian ocean. After his sudden death, Louisa is left alone to solve the mystery he left behind. Revisiting the plantation at Cinnamon Hills, she finds herself unexpectedly drawn towards the owner Leo, a rugged outdoors man with a chequered past. The plantation casts a spell, but all is not as it seems. And when Elliot's shocking betrayal is revealed, Louisa has only Leo to turn to... 'A sweeping tale, beautifully written in a wonderful setting, heartrending yet ultimately uplifting. Gorgeous.' Katie Fforde 'The sights, smells and atmosphere of Ceylon are beautifully depicted. This is Dinah Jefferies at her best' Lucinda Riley 'Dinah Jefferies has a remarkable gift for conjuring up another time and place with lush descriptions, full of power and intensity' Kate Furnivall _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin Simon Jenkins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241352519 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35251-9 ISBN10: 0241352517 EAN: 9780241352519 x Description: The first short, single-volume history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe has for two millennia been a remarkably successful continent. In this dazzling new history, bestselling author Simon Jenkins tells the story of its evolution from a battlefield of warring tribes to peace, wealth and freedom - a story that twists and turns from Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, Reformation and French Revolution, to the two World Wars and the present day.
Jenkins embraces individuals from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, to Wellington and Angela Merkel, as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso. Tracing themes down the ages, from youthful ambition and religious conflict to geographical constraints and invasion, he brings together the key forces and dominant periods into one chronological narrative - all with his usual insight, colour and authority. While experiencing almost constant turbulence, Europe has left an indelible mark on the world. How did one small continent become so powerful? How did these diverse peninsulas and islands, over time, develop a collective consciousness? How did diplomacy so often collapse into bloodshed, and what are the implications of this today? Despite the importance of Europe's politics, economy and culture, there has not been - until now - a concise book to tell this story. Covering the key events, eras and individuals, Jenkins' portrait of the continent could not be more timely - or more masterful. 'Full of stand-out facts ... absolutely fascinating' - Richard Bacon, BBC Radio 2, on A Short History of England 'Masterly, perhaps a masterpiece' - Independent, Books of the Year on England's Thousand Best Churches 'Jenkins is, like all good guides, more than simply informative: he can be courteous and rude, nostalgic and funny, elegant, convincing and relaxed' Adam Nicolson on England's Thousand Best Houses, Evening Standard 'Full of the good judgements one might hope for from such a sensible and readable commentator, and they alone are worth perusing for pleasure and food for thought' - Michael Wood on A Short History of England, New Statesman 'Any passably cultured inhabitant of the British Isles should ask for, say, three or four copies of this book' - Max Hastings on England's Thousand Best Houses, Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Watching You: Brilliant psychological crime from the author of THEN SHE WAS GONE Lisa Jewell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 496pp h234mm x w153mm x s34mm 640g ISBN13: 9781780896441 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-644-1 ISBN10: 1780896441 EAN: 9781780896441 x Description: You're not the only one watching. _____________ `Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama. Stellar.' - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window _______________ You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow. You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room. That's when you meet the man next door. He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him. All the time. But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession. Or that someone is watching you. _______________ Family secrets, illicit passion and an unexplained murder? It can only be the gripping new novel from Lisa Jewell, #1 bestselling author of Then She
Was Gone. _______________ 'If you only pick one summer read this year, make it Watching You. I inhaled it in one sitting. A gripping plot, characters you love but can't trust, and a thumping emotional heart, Lisa Jewell has done it again.' - Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes and 13 Minutes 'Then She Was Gone was my favourite thriller last year and this is even better. Brilliantly plotted and impossible to put down, it kept me guessing until the very end.' - Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie 'She's done it again! Lisa Jewell has penned the page-turner of the summer. Emotionally-engrossing and utterly compelling, with a mystery that keeps you gripped until the last heart-wrenching page.' - Tammy Cohen, author of They All Fall Down _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
China Dream Ma Jian (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp ISBN13: 9781784742492 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-249-2 ISBN10: 178474249X EAN: 9781784742492 x Description: A poetic and unflinching fable about tyranny, guilt, and the erasure of history, by the banned Chinese writer hailed as `China's Solzhenitsyn'. In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian charts the psychological disintegration of a Chinese provincial leader who is haunted by nightmares of his violent past. From exile, Ma Jian shoots an arrow at President Xi Jinping's `China Dream' propaganda, creating a biting satire of totalitarianism that reveals what happens to a nation when it is blinded by materialism and governed by violence and lies. Blending tragic and absurd reality with myth and fantasy, this dystopian novel is a portrait not of an imagined future, but of China today. PRAISE FOR MA JIAN'S WORK `A landmark work of fiction' Daily Telegraph `Worthy of Swift or Orwell' Observer `A modern literary masterpiece' Sunday Express `Monumental . . . Riveting . . . A mighty gesture of remembrance against the encroaching forces of silence' Guardian `A born storyteller who has the artistry and intellect to evoke a staggeringly large and densely peopled world. His language is precise and sublimely visual; it is painfully funny' Madeleine Thien `In scene after scene of black satire, lyric tenderness and desolating tragedy . . . this fearless epic of history and memory establishes Ma Jian as the Solzhenitsyn of China's forgetful drive towards world domination' Independent `Ma Jian has accomplished something extremely difficult. That is, he has created a work of art that functions simultaneously as literature and call to action' New York Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Star of the North: An explosive thriller set in North Korea D. B. John (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 448pp h234mm x w153mm x s31mm 580g ISBN13: 9781787300484 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-048-4 ISBN10: 178730048X EAN: 9781787300484 x Description: 'Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North.' LEE CHILD `Tense and compelling.' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war A young American woman disappears without trace from a South Korean island. The CIA recruits her twin sister to uncover the truth. Now, she must go undercover in the world's most deadly state. Only by infiltrating the dark heart of the terrifying regime will she be able to save her sister...and herself. Star of the North is the most explosive thriller of the year - you won't be able to put it down. `A superior thriller...steeped in the intrigue, culture and family of a closed regime' Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author 'Not only brilliantly plotted, with espionage, secrecy, and obsession, it's a story about survivors, told by three complex and fully realised characters, each battling their own personal demons.' Chevy Stevens, bestselling author of Never Let You Go `Brims with marvellous characters and delivers heart-in-your-throat action' Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author `The timeliest thriller of 2018. An intricately constructed puzzle box of spies and tradecraft' Matthew Fitzsimmons, bestselling author of The Short Drop _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everything Under Daisy Johnson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h222mm x w144mm x s27mm 392g ISBN13: 9781910702345 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-34-5 ISBN10: 191070234X EAN: 9781910702345 x Description: **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** 'Daisy Johnson is a new goddamn swaggering monster of fiction.' Lauren Groff Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn't seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though - almost a lifetime ago - and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.
A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water - a canal thief? - swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back. Daisy Johnson's debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Out of the Maze: A Simple Way to Change Your Thinking & Unlock Success Dr Spencer Johnson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vermilion
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 96pp ISBN13: 9781785042119 ISBN13: 978-1-78504-211-9 ISBN10: 1785042114 EAN: 9781785042119 x Description: Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its longawaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt their beliefs and achieve better results in any field. Johnson's theme is that all of our accomplishments are due to our beliefs: whether we're confident or insecure, cynical or positive, open-minded or inflexible. But it's difficult to change your beliefs - and with them, your outcomes. Find out how Hem, Haw, and the other characters from Who Moved My Cheese? deal with this challenge. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How Many Miles to Babylon? Jennifer Johnston (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp 92g ISBN13: 9780241978979 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97897-9 ISBN10: 0241978971 EAN: 9780241978979 x Description: The classic World War One novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. On the fields of Flanders they find themselves standing together, but once again divided: as officer and enlisted man. And it is there, surrounded by mud and chaos and death, that one of them makes a fateful decision whose consequences will test their friendship and loyalty to breaking point. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Darkness: If you like Saga Noren from The Bridge, then you'll love Hulda Hermannsdottir Ragnar Jonasson (Author) Series:
Hidden Iceland
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Icelandic Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405930802 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3080-2 ISBN10: 1405930802 EAN: 9781405930802 x Description: 'Superb . . . chilling . . . one of the greatest tragic heroines of contemporary detective fiction' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month ____________ A body is found off the coast of Iceland. A young Russian woman, Elena, hoped to find a fresh start. Instead she found death. A cursory police investigation calls it suicide. Another statistic, she's soon forgotten . . . But not by Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir. Difficult and unconventional, Hulda is being forced into early retirement. Offered one last cold case to investigate she chooses Elena's. On discovering another woman has vanished, she believes a killer roams free. Her colleagues, however, think she's out to cause trouble. With days before she's stripped of her badge, can Hulda catch the killer alone? ____________ 'Expertly plotted, with an ending that's a true shocker' Guardian 'Magnificently dark and twisted and that ending - blimey!' C. J. Tudor, bestselling author of The Chalk Man _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Music Shop Rachel Joyce (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 368pp h178mm x w110mm x s23mm 196g ISBN13: 9781784163839 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-383-9 ISBN10: 178416383X EAN: 9781784163839 x
Description: BBC Radio 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME from 17-28 July. From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel; and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all ... 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann. Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman with her peagreen coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to re-open and a past he will never leave behind ... LISTEN WHILE YOU READ! You can find specially collated The Music Shop playlists for Father Anthony, Kit, Maud and Hector on Spotify. This hardback edition is beautifully produced, with stunning decorated insides. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Silence: In the Age of Noise Erling Kagge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h175mm x w125mm x s13mm 224g ISBN13: 9780241309889 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30988-9 ISBN10: 0241309883 EAN: 9780241309889 x Description: From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world Behind a cacophony of traffic noise, iPhone alerts and our ever-spinning thoughts, an elusive notion - silence - lies in wait. But what really is silence? Where can it be found? And why is it more important now than ever? Erling Kagge, the Norwegian adventurer and polymath, once spent fifty days walking solo in Antarctica with a broken radio. In this meditative, charming and surprisingly powerful book, he explores the power of silence and the importance of shutting out the world. Whether you're in deep wilderness, taking a shower or on the dance floor, you can experience perfect stillness if you know where to look. And from it grows self-knowledge, gratitude, wonder and much more. Take a deep breath, and prepare to submerge yourself in Silence. Your own South Pole is out there, somewhere. 'As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class; as a writer he is equally gifted. This breathtaking, inspiring little book teaches us how to find precious moments of silence - whether we are crossing the Antarctic, climbing Everest, or on the train at rush hour' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'Silence braces a space within which we can hear ourselves think. Quietly, wisely, it makes a case for dumbing the din of modern life, and learning to listen again. Drawing on the experiences of Kagge's extraordinary life in wild places, this is a book of great concentration' - Robert Macfarlane 'Erling Kagge is a philosophical adventurer - or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' - New York Times 'A breathtakingly beautiful, quietly life-changing book by the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, that shows us how to find perfect silence in our daily lives - however busy we are' - Publisher's description _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Michio Kaku (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h240mm x w162mm x s33mm 625g ISBN13: 9780241304846 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30484-6 ISBN10: 0241304849 EAN: 9780241304846 x Description: The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning new vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth. More than a possibility, it is becoming a necessity: whether our hand is forced by climate change and resource depletion or whether future catastrophes compel us to abandon Earth, one day we will make our homes among the stars. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores in rich, accessible detail how humanity might gradually develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. With his trademark storytelling verve, Kaku shows us how science fiction is becoming reality: mind-boggling developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology could enable us to build habitable cities on Mars; nearby stars might be reached by microscopic spaceships sailing through space on laser beams; and technology might one day allow us to transcend our physical bodies entirely. With irrepressible enthusiasm and wonder, Dr. Kaku takes readers on a fascinating journey to a future in which humanity could finally fulfil its longawaited destiny among the stars - and perhaps even achieve immortality. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities Eric Kaufmann (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 624pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241317105 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31710-5 ISBN10: 024131710X EAN: 9780241317105 x Description: Whiteshift tells the most important political story of the 21st century: how demographic change is transforming Western politics and how to think about the future of white majorities This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority in the UK and other countries. The early stages of this transformation have led to a populist disruption, tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. One of the most crucial challenges of our time is to enable conservatives as well as cosmopolitans to view whiteshift as a positive development. In this groundbreaking book, political scientist Eric Kaufmann examines the evidence to explore ethnic change in Western Europe and North America. Tracing four ways of dealing with this transformation - fight, repress, flight and join - he charts different scenarios and calls for us to move beyond empty talk about national identity. If we want to avoid more radical political divisions, he argues, we have to open up debate about the future of white majorities. Deeply thought provoking, Whiteshift offers a wealth of data to redefine the way we discuss race in the twenty-first century. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of The Air Around Us Sam Kean (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 262g ISBN13: 9781784162931 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-293-1 ISBN10: 1784162930 EAN: 9781784162931 x Description: ** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** `Popular science at its best' Mail on Sunday `Eminently accessible and enjoyable' Observer With every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the sextillions of molecules entering or leaving your lungs at this moment, some might also bear traces of Cleopatra's perfumes, German mustard gas, particles exhaled by dinosaurs or emitted by atomic bombs, even remnants of stardust from the universe's creation. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe and across time to tell the epic story of the air we breathe. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery Scott Kelly (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp 348g ISBN13: 9781784162658 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-265-8 ISBN10: 1784162655 EAN: 9781784162658 x Description: *As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2* From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station - what it's like out there and what it's like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently. As soon as you realize you aren't going to die, space is the most fun you'll ever have... The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for most consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few of us ever have and very few of us ever will. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humour, and passion shine as he describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal. He touches on what's happened to his body, the sadness of being isolated from everyone he loves; the pressures of constant close cohabitation; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk, and the still more haunting threat of being absent should tragedy strike at home. From a natural storyteller Endurance is one of the finest examples the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the boundless wonder of the galaxy. *
What readers are saying... 'Takes you up into space and lets you be a part of astronaut life' 'Tough to put down! Tells a side you don't often hear or read about for that matter' 'Mind blowing . . . up there with Ernest Shackleton for me' 'My husband said it is the next best thing to going into space yourself' 'Six stars!' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Puffin Book of Ghosts And Ghouls Gene Kemp (Edited by) Nick Harris (Edited by) Gene Kemp (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9780241353028 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35302-8 ISBN10: 0241353025 EAN: 9780241353028 x Description: In this eerie and unnerving collection, you will find some eerily chilling tales of the supernatural. Distinguished authors Joan Aiken, Robert Westall, Susan Price and Michael Morpurgo are just a few of the highly acclaimed writers who have contributed stories to this spooky collection. We meet a baby ghost in Ursula Moray Williams' 'A Ghost of One's Own', a cheeky modern boy ghost in Marjorie Darke's 'Hi, It's Me', a Victorian girl ghost with disturbing powers in Jane Gardam's 'Bang, Bang - Who's Dead?' and even a cat ghost in Gene Kemp's 'The Passing of Puddy'. Each one makes the unexplainable and unbelievable so real it will send tingles down your spine and scare you witless! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Contagious Commandments: Ten Steps to Brand Bravery Paul KempRobertson (Author) Chris Barth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241328965 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32896-5 ISBN10: 0241328969 EAN: 9780241328965 x Description: Contagion may alarm doctors but marketers thrive on it. Some concepts are so compelling you have to share them. But what makes an idea so infectious you can't keep it to yourself? And how can brands produce these kinds of ideas intentionally rather than by chance? Contagious, the globally renowned intelligence resource for the marketing industry, is dedicated to identifying and interrogating the world's most exceptional creative trends. And in The Contagious Commandments, Paul Kemp-Robertson and Chris Barth condense this valuable research into ten strategic takeaways for your own marketing revolution. Taking inspiration from disruptive campaigns from the likes of Patagonia, Nike, Safaricom, BrewDog, LEGO, Kenco, and dozens more, The Contagious Commandments explores how companies fuse creativity, technology and behavioural psychology to achieve truly original marketing ideas that have a positive impact on society and profits - and how your brand can too. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Wide Open Douglas Kennedy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
24 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 496pp ISBN13: 9780091953737 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195373-7 ISBN10: 0091953731 EAN: 9780091953737 x Description: All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules, regulations, boundaries, frontiers. Rules which often make no sense to those outside its borders. It's autumn in New York and Alice Burns, a young ambitious editor is reading a manuscript. The writer's words hit close to home to conjure ghosts from her past, memories of her childhood, and thoughts of her brother who is serving time in a prison cell. It's 1961. The Burns family is celebrating yet another disastrous Thanksgiving and a 17 year-old Alice can't take it anymore. After years spent chasing the affections of the people who are supposed to love her unconditionally, Alice is beginning to realise that, though you can't choose your family, you can choose your future, and Alice sees her future far away from her dysfunctional family and the doldrums of small-town life. As she embarks on a journey that will take her through college, heartbreak, and self-discovery, Alice must learn to stand on her own two feet in the great wide open... But no matter how much distance she covers, the past is never far behind. And after years of running, Alice must stand and face the truth. Because sometimes, to move forward, we have to go back... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women Helena Kennedy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp ISBN13: 9781784742225 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-222-5 ISBN10: 1784742228 EAN: 9781784742225 x Description: What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new evidence that women are still being discriminated against throughout the legal system, from the High Court (where only 21% of judges are women) to female prisons (where 84% of inmates are held for non-violent offences despite the refrain that prison should only be used for violent or serious crime). In between are the so-called `lifestyle' choices of the Rotherham girls; the failings of the current rules on excluding victims' sexual history from rape trials; battered wives being asked why they don't `just leave' their partners; the way statistics hide the double discrimination experienced by BAME and disabled women; the failure to prosecute cases of female genital mutilation... the list goes on. The law holds up a mirror to society and it is failing women. The #MeToo campaign has been in part a reaction to those failures. So what comes next? How do we codify what we've learned? In this richly detailed and shocking book, one of our most eminent human rights thinkers and practitioners shows with force and fury that change for women must start at the heart of what makes society just.
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Dead Man's Gift and Other Stories Simon Kernick (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
27 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp ISBN13: 9781787460058 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-005-8 ISBN10: 1787460053 EAN: 9781787460058 x Description: One book. Five thrillers. No holds barred. including: DEAD MAN'S GIFT MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven-year-old son has been abducted - and the nanny brutally murdered. The kidnapping gang's demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life to save his son's. A dead man's gift...
ONE BY ONE Six former school-friends have been reunited on a remote island. Separated since a fateful night twenty-one years ago, when their friend Rachel was killed, they're afraid for their lives - because the man arrested for Rachel's murder has been released. They think he's coming for them. They're almost right. Plus three more thrillers guaranteed to keep you gripped to the page. Can you withstand five full-strength doses of Simon Kernick? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We Can See You Simon Kernick (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp ISBN13: 9781780894508 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-450-8 ISBN10: 1780894503 EAN: 9781780894508 x Description: We have your daughter. We know your secrets. We can see you. The new high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick ________________________ You have it all. Success, a beautiful home, a happy family. Until, in a heartbeat, it's gone. We've kidnapped your daughter, and we know everything about you. Including the dark secrets from your past you thought were forgotten.
We tell you not to contact the police - and that we'll know if you do. Because we can see you. And now you know this is no ordinary abduction. It's worse. Within hours you're on the run, with only one thought in your head: That you will stop at nothing to get your daughter back. Even murder... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Another Kyoto Alex Kerr (Author) Kathy Arlyn Sokol (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 247g ISBN13: 9780141988337 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198833-7 ISBN10: 0141988339 EAN: 9780141988337 x Description: Another Kyoto is an insider's meditation on the hidden wonders of Japan's most enigmatic city. Drawing on decades living in Kyoto, and on lore gleaned from artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Alex Kerr illuminates the simplest things - a temple gate, a wall, a sliding door - in a new way. 'A rich book of intimate proportions ... In Kyoto, facts and meaning are often hidden in plain sight. Kerr's gift is to make us stop and cast our eyes upward to a temple plaque, or to squint into the gloom of an abbot's chamber' Japan Times 'Kerr and Sokol have performed a minor miracle by presenting that which is present in Kyoto as that which we have yet to see. I know that I will never pass a wall, or tread a floor, or sit on tatami the same way again' Kyoto Journal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 Ian Kershaw (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 704pp h240mm x w162mm x s47mm 1247g ISBN13: 9780241187166 ISBN13: 978-0-241-18716-6 ISBN10: 0241187168 EAN: 9780241187166 x Description: From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'rollercoaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them by the Cold War. There were striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across the continent, Roller-Coaster will make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European.
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Gigged: The Gig Economy, the End of the Job and the Future of Work Sarah Kessler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Business Publisher: Books
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
08 Jun 2018
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp 399g ISBN13: 9781847941732 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-173-2 ISBN10: 1847941737 EAN: 9781847941732 x Description: *Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award* *Financial Times Book of the Month* The full-time job is disappearing. Today more workers than ever are going freelance - driving for Uber or cycling for Deliveroo, developing software or consulting for investment banks. Welcome to the gig economy. In Gigged, Sarah Kessler meets the people forging this new world of unorthodox employment: from the computer programmer who chooses exactly which hours he works each week, via the Uber driver who is trying to convince his peers to unionise, to the charity worker who thinks freelance gigs might just transform the fortunes of a declining rural town. Their stories raise crucial questions about the future of work. What happens when job security, holidays and benefits become a thing of the past? How can freelancers find meaningful, well-paid employment? And could the gig economy really change the world of work for ever?
Praise for Gigged `Essential reading for anyone who is interested in understanding the future of our economy and society.' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism `Sarah Kessler's wonderful book offers unprecedented illumination of the promise, and the peril, of the gig economy.' Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots `Well crafted . . . a multitude of anecdotes supported by data and extensive reporting.' Forbes `If you want to know how work is changing and how you too must change to keep up, you must read this book.' Dan Lyons, author of Disrupted `Kessler's timely book explores the personal, corporate and societal stories behind a massive tech-driven shift away from permanent office-based employment.' Books of the Month, Financial Times `Deep reporting and graceful storytelling . . . Kessler's analysis is both astute and nuanced.' Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Break Marian Keyes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 672pp 360g ISBN13: 9781405918763 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-1876-3 ISBN10: 1405918764 EAN: 9781405918763 x
Description: **The Break is the brand new novel from Marian Keyes, out on September 7th 2017 - preorder it now** 'Myself and Hugh . . . We're taking a break.' 'A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?' If only. Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in south-east Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it. Yes, it's a mid-life crisis, but let's be clear: a break isn't a break up - yet . . . However, for Amy it's enough to send her - along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers - teetering over the edge. For a lot can happen in six-months. When Hugh returns if he returns, will he be the same man she married? And will Amy be the same woman? Because if Hugh is on a break from their marriage, then isn't she? The Break isn't a story about falling in love but about staying in love. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best. 'A born storyteller' Independent on Sunday 'When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own' Daily Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Light Between Us Katie Khan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp 416g ISBN13: 9780857524010 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-401-0 ISBN10: 0857524011 EAN: 9780857524010 x Description: A classic 'will they, won't they' love story - with a difference. Perfect for fans of Sliding Doors, The Versions of Us and The Summer of Impossible Things. * Thea and Isaac first met at University. Theirs was an instant connection but it never went further than friendship. Because, then and now, Thea only has eyes for her work. Not just her course, but also a private project - Thea is determined to prove that time travel is not just the stuff of science fiction. And she has never told anyone the reason why. When one of their friends goes missing in an experiment, Isaac and Thea must work together to find her - forcing them to re-examine their own friendship. Is it really as platonic as they used to think? The Light Between Us is a story of unrequited love and second chances. It begs the dangerous question that we all ask ourselves - what could have been? * Katie Khan's writing... 'Will give you all the feels' Heat 'Breaks your heart then kicks it again for good measure in the most beautiful way possible' The Pool
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Women are the Future of Islam Sherin Khankan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s26mm 395g ISBN13: 9781846045875 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-587-5 ISBN10: 1846045878 EAN: 9781846045875 x Description: The future of Islam is female Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016, and the subject of interviews in both The Times and the Guardian, Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In this urgent manifesto this remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defined by masculinity and conservatism. In her revelatory book, she addresses urgent contemporary issues, such as the place for modern women in Islam, fundamentalism, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, Sufism, and describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist. Women Are The Future of Islam shines a feminist light on a gentler, more inclusive, more liberal - but also fully engaged - side of Islam that we rarely see in the West. It's an eye-opening, highly topical read. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Swedish Kitchen Rachel Khoo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h254mm x w197mm x s29mm 1386g ISBN13: 9780718188917 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8891-7 ISBN10: 0718188918 EAN: 9780718188917 x Description: 'A joy to behold' Yotam Ottolenghi Join Rachel Khoo on a delicious journey through the Swedish year . . . From spring picnics on the archipelago and barbecues at the summer cabin, to cosy autumnal suppers and dark snowy winters filled with candlelight, gingerbread and gloegg. Complete with stunning location and food photography, Rachel's new cookbook lets you in on what the Swedish like to call Lagom . . . the art of not too little, not too much but just the right amount. Learn how to cook beautiful, fuss-free food . . . With over 100 recipes, Rachel explores Sweden's simple and balanced approach to cooking, celebrates their best-loved ingredients and reveals a must-try cuisine that is about far more than just meatballs, fika and cinnamon buns . . . _________________ Inside you'll discover recipes from the Swedish summer, perfect for yours, food for autumn, through to winter, taking you all the way to spring . . . * POACHED CHICKEN WITH QUICK PICKLED STRAWBERRY SALAD. Or replace the chicken with grilled halloumi cheese for a delicious vegetarian alternative. This is the ultimate barbeque salad. *
PEAS, POTATOES AND CHICKEN IN A POT. The one dish delight: the summer comfort food that's perfect for midweek.
* MIDSUMMER MERINGE CROWNS. The Swedes have been wearing flower crowns long before the festivals, so why not make the edible kind for parties or puddings? * PLUM TOSCA CAKE. This Swedish favourite, named after Puccini's opera is filled with tart plums and sweet almonds. _________________ 'I am so ready to race home and devour these fun, effortless and beautiful recipes that just beg to be cooked' Melissa Hemsley 'The magic of Sweden's beautiful seasons comes alive . . . a real celebration of seasonal Swedish home cooking and tradition with Rachel's trademark inspirational twists!' Donal Skehan _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tradition Brendan Kiely (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780241362808 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36280-8 ISBN10: 0241362806 EAN: 9780241362808 x Description: "Tradition is a deeply felt, powerful, devastating and, ultimately, hopeful look at toxic rape culture and its destructive effects." - Nicola Yoon, author of Everything Everything "... a startling portrait of privilege and rape culture, but also a ultimately a book about resistance and hope... and the courage to do the right thing even when everyone else seems to be doing wrong"- Amy Reed, author of The Nowhere Girls ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tradition explores the dangers of toxic masculinity and rape culture. The ideal read for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Moxie and One of Us Is Lying. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------'This very good school is nothing but a fancy promise, a broken one. A big lie.' The powerful, glamorous and privileged students of Fullbrook Academy gather for a secret party in the woods. A party that ends in disaster. The Fullbook traditions are sacred. But they can hide dark and dangerous secrets. Jules is in her senior year with one goal: to get out and start her life at college. Jamie is a sports star on a scholarship; Fullbrook is his chance to escape his past. Can they both stand together against Fulbrook's most toxic traditions? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism Paul Kildea (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp h240mm x w162mm x s34mm 592g ISBN13: 9780241187944 ISBN13: 978-0-241-18794-4 ISBN10: 024118794X EAN: 9780241187944 x Description: In November 1838 Frederic Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of musical Romanticism - his 24 Preludes. There was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, which remained in their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left. This brilliant and unclassifiable book traces the history of Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan pianino, which during the Second World War assumed an astonishing cultural potency as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. The unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska, who rescued the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth century. Kildea shows how her story - a compelling account based for the first time on her private papers - resonates with Chopin's, while simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political history of Europe and the United States in the central decades of the century. Kildea's beautifully interwoven narratives, part cultural history and part detective story, take us on an unexpected journey through musical Romanticism and allow us to reflect freshly on the changing meaning of music over time. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway (book 12) Jeff Kinney (Author) Series:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 163g ISBN13: 9780241344279 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34427-9 ISBN10: 0241344271 EAN: 9780241344279 x Description: Get ready, Book 12 in the phenomenally bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is coming in paperback! Join Greg on a family holiday he'll never forget! To escape the stress of the holidays, the Heffleys decide to get out of town and go to a resort instead of celebrating Christmas at home. But what's billed as a stress-free vacation becomes a holiday nightmare. The funniest books you'll EVER read. Praise for Jeff Kinney: 'The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Sun 'Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet' - Independent 'The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid' - Big Issue 'Hilarious' - Telegraph
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown (book 13) Jeff Kinney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp ISBN13: 9780141378206 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137820-6 ISBN10: 0141378204 EAN: 9780141378206 x Description: The 13th hilarious book in Jeff Kinney's bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. When snow shuts down Greg Heffley's middle school, his neighbourhood transforms into a wintry battlefield. Rival groups fight over territory, build massive snow forts, and stage epic snowball fights.
And in the crosshairs are Greg and his trusty best friend, Rowley Jefferson. It's a fight for survival as Greg and Rowley navigate alliances, betrayals, and warring gangs in a neighbourhood meltdown.
When the snow clears, will Greg and Rowley emerge as heroes? Or will they even survive to see another day?
With millions of books sold around the world in 65 editions and 56 languages, Wimpy Kid has turned millions of kids into readers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Surprise Me Sophie Kinsella (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 273g ISBN13: 9781784160432 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-043-2 ISBN10: 1784160431 EAN: 9781784160432 x Description: ------------------------------------------------------THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Surprise Me is Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . . After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for another sixty-eight years... and panic sets in. They quickly decide to create little surprises for each other, to keep their relationship fresh and fun. But in their pursuit of Project Surprise Me - anything from unexpected gifts to restaurant dates to photo shoots - mishaps arise with disastrous and comical results. Gradually, the surprises turn to shocking discoveries. And when a scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all... ***** EVERYBODY LOVES SOPHIE KINSELLA: ***** 'Left me giddy with laughter. I loved it' JOJO MOYES
'One of the most relatable books I've read in a long time, I couldn't put it down.' LOUISE PENTLAND (SprinkleofGlitter) 'Life doesn't get much better than a new Sophie Kinsella novel' RED _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling (Author) Jonathan Stroud (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h184mm x w138mm x s21mm 250g b & w line ISBN13: 9780141329796 ISBN13: 978-0-14-132979-6 ISBN10: 0141329793 EAN: 9780141329796 x Description: A Puffin deluxe hardback classics edition. The delightful tales of whales and cats and kangaroos and crabs - everything from how the camel got in a humph (and got his hump!) to how the alphabet was invented. Enchanting and funny, these fantastical stories continue to delight each and every generation. With an introduction by Jonathan Stroud. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All These Beautiful Strangers Elizabeth Klehfoth (Author) N/A (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 512pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 351g ISBN13: 9780241329498 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32949-8 ISBN10: 0241329493 EAN: 9780241329498 x Description: Beneath the glittering heights of the rich and powerful, lie secrets that can destroy them all... The perfect summer read, for fans of Cruel Intentions, Gossip Girl and One of Us is Lying. 'It is the perfect book to read at the beach. But be warned: you will get a sunburn, because you won't want to put it down.' - Cecily von Ziegesar, author of Gossip Girl ---------Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for. With her wealthy family's pedigree, a loyal set of friends, and a fast-track to whichever college she chooses, she's all-but untouchable at her exclusive East Coast boarding school. But Charlie isn't interested in what most people want. She's a Calloway. She's been taught to want more. So when she's invited to join her school's exclusive secret society- the A's - her determination to get in is matched only by her conviction that she belongs there. But behind their mysterious facade is a history of lies and cruel games which threatens to unravel everything Charlie thought she knew about herself...
including the story behind her mother's disappearance ten years ago. ---------Praise for All These Beautiful Strangers: 'There's real menace in this elegantly written thriller and Klehfoth is one to watch' - Daily Mail 'This is a must for anyone who loves a pacy, page-turning thriller' - S Magazine (Sunday Express) 'S.T.A.G.S meets The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks in this high society thriller' - Lauren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe 'Juicy, clever and beguiling. An exceptional debut novel, deftly crafted and written with style. It is the perfect book to read at the beach. But be warned: you will get a sunburn, because you won't want to put it down.' - Cecily von Ziegesar, author of Gossip Girl 'A gripping thriller where secrets of the past and present stir in the shadows. I was drawn in from the start and couldn't wait to discover the truth. A real page-turner!' - Kate Ormand, author of The Wanderers 'What you would get if you combined The Secret History with Cruel Intentions with Luckiest Girl Alive...this is going to be big' - Entertainment Weekly 'A proper beachy thriller' - Elle Magazine _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics Naomi Klein (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 213g ISBN13: 9780141986791 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198679-1 ISBN10: 0141986794 EAN: 9780141986791 x Description: **The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones 'A genuine page turner' Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. 'This is a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can flip the script.' Remember when love was supposed to Trump hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and our security. That extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times. From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it. 'Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us find a way out? A top-of-the-stack must read' Michael Stipe 'Naomi Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis 'Magnificent ... a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz
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Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day Jake Knapp (Author) John Zeratsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 688g ISBN13: 9780593079584 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07958-4 ISBN10: 0593079582 EAN: 9780593079584 x Description: 'If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.' Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? As creators of Google Ventures' renowned 'design sprint', Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products like Gmail and YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own personal habits and routines, looking for ways to help individuals optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction. Make Time is a must-read for anyone who has ever thought 'if only there were more hours in the day...' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The End: My Struggle Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Don Bartlett (Translated by) Martin Aitken (Translated by) Series:
Knausgaard
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 1168pp 1104g ISBN13: 9781846558306 ISBN13: 978-1-84655-830-6 ISBN10: 1846558301 EAN: 9781846558306 x Description: The extraordinary final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental My Struggle series, `perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian) The End is the sixth and final book in the monumental My Struggle cycle. Here, Karl Ove Knausgaard examines life, death, love and literature with unsparing rigour and begins to count the cost of his project. This last volume reflects on the fallout from the earlier books, with Knausgaard facing the pressures of literary acclaim and its often shattering repercussions. The End is at once a meditation on writing and its relationship with reality, and an account of a writer's relationship with himself - his ambitions, his doubts and frailties. My Struggle depicts life in all its shades, from moments of great drama to seemingly trivial everyday details. It is a project freighted with risk, where the bounds between private and public worlds are tested, not without penalty for the author himself and those around him. The End is the capstone on an unparalleled achievement. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4) Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Ingvild Burkey (Translated by) Anselm Kiefer (Illustrated by) Series:
Seasons Quartet
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 416pp h213mm x w140mm x s36mm 817g ISBN13: 9781910701690 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-69-0 ISBN10: 1910701696 EAN: 9781910701690 x Description: Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you were lying in our bed. You smiled at me and began talking. I made coffee and had a smoke in the office before I ate breakfast with you, and when your mother got up, I came in here to write a new piece. In Summer, Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice cream with his children, lawn sprinklers and ladybirds. He experiments with the beginnings of a novel and keeps a diary in which the small events of his family's life are recorded. Against a canvas of memories, longings, and experiences of art and literature, he searches for the meaning of moments as they pass us by. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Meaning Revolution: Leading with the Power of Purpose Fred Kofman (Author) Reid Hoffman (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
W H Allen
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 479g ISBN13: 9780753548585 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4858-5 ISBN10: 0753548585 EAN: 9780753548585 x Description: 'One of the most extraordinary thinkers on leadership and management I have ever encountered' - Sheryl Sandberg
Forget the standard practices of leadership taught in business school -- all about compensation, command and control. This is a new model for how to inspire -- through purpose, principle and people. The Meaning Revolution is Fred Kofman's call to arms for anyone who has ever felt unengaged at work and offers actionable advice for how we can all find more meaning and dignity whatever we do. Bringing together economics and conflict resolution, counselling and mindfulness, Kofman explains how our most deep-seated anxiety is that we are wasting our lives. The things that we think matter -- salaries and job titles -- actually only account for 15% of our motivation at work. The other 85% is about how we belong, feeling we make a difference, that we serve a purpose larger than ourselves. Transformative leadership is about helping employees feel connected to a great mission or purpose, and discovering the 'immortality project' at the core of your business. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Brighton Mermaid Dorothy Koomson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 496pp h234mm x w153mm x s34mm 640g ISBN13: 9781780896014 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-601-4 ISBN10: 1780896018 EAN: 9781780896014 x Description: Brighton Beach, 1993 Teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman and when no one comes to claim her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid. Nell is still struggling to move on when, three weeks later, Jude disappears. Twenty-five years on, Nell is forced to quit her job to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer. But as Nell edges closer to the truth, dangerous things start to happen. Someone seems to be watching her every move, and soon she starts to wonder who in her life she can actually trust... Fast-paced and thrilling, The Brighton Mermaid explores the deadly secrets of those closest to you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 Stephen Kotkin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 1184pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141027951 ISBN13: 978-0-14-102795-1 ISBN10: 0141027959 EAN: 9780141027951 x Description: A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard 'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age ... The War and Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, and what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building and running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation and death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. By 1934, when the situation had stabilized and socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot and never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military. But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies and enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned. The lives of Stalin and Hitler, and the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision.
Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin's desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer's art. Kotkin's portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, and the intimate details of decision-making. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What Are You Doing With Your Life? J. Krishnamurti (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w126mm x s17mm 187g ISBN13: 9781846045851 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-585-1 ISBN10: 1846045851 EAN: 9781846045851 x Description: `One of the greatest thinkers of the age' The Dalai Lama 'One of the five saints of the 20th century' - TIME magazine 'Krishnamurti influenced me profoundly' - Deepak Chopra
Who are you? What are you? What do you want from life? One of the world's great philosophical teachers, Krishnamurti, offers his inspiring wisdom on many of life's hurdles from relationships and love, to anxiety and loneliness. He answers such questions as `What is the significance of life?' and 'How do I live life to the full?' to reveal the best way of being true to yourself. Read by millions from all walks of life, Krishnamurti shows us there is no path, no higher authority, no guru to follow, and that ultimately it is our own responsibility as to how we live our lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lancelot Giles Kristian (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 512pp h234mm x w153mm x s36mm 658g ISBN13: 9780593078563 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07856-3 ISBN10: 059307856X EAN: 9780593078563 x Description: Conn Iggulden has called it 'a masterpiece' while The Times has hailed it 'a gorgeous, rich retelling of the Arthurian tale' . . . The legions of Rome are a fading memory. Enemies stalk the fringes of Britain. And Uther Pendragon is dying. Into this fractured and uncertain world the boy is cast, a refugee from fire, murder and betrayal. An outsider whose only companions are a hateful hawk and memories of the lost. Yet he is gifted, and under the watchful eyes of Merlin and the Lady Nimue he will hone his talents and begin his journey to manhood. He will meet Guinevere, a wild, proud and beautiful girl, herself outcast because of her gift. And he will be dazzled by Arthur, a warrior who carries the hopes of a people like fire in the dark. But these are times of struggle and blood, when even friendship and love seem doomed to fail. The gods are vanishing beyond the reach of dreams. Treachery and jealousy rule men's hearts and the fate of Britain itself rests on a sword's edge. But the young renegade who left his home in Benoic with just a hunting bird and dreams of revenge is now a lord of war. He is a man loved and hated, admired and feared. A man forsaken but not forgotten. He is Lancelot.
Set in a 5th century Britain besieged by invading bands of Saxons and Franks, Irish and Picts, Giles Kristian's epic new novel tells - in Lancelot's own words - the story of the most revered yet reviled of all Arthur's knights, the warrior who fought at his lord's side - yet stole his wife. This is the story of the of one of the great figures of British myth and legend - a story ready to be re-imagined for our times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mars Room Rachel Kushner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 459g ISBN13: 9781910702680 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-68-0 ISBN10: 1910702684 EAN: 9781910702680 x Description: **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers.' STYLIST 'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]... so powerful.' NEW YORK TIMES 'Breathtaking.' VOGUE Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of Romy's estranged mother. Inside is a new reality to adapt to: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive. The relentlessly deadpan absurdities of institutional living, which Kushner details with humour and precision. Daily acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike. Allegiances formed over liquor brewed in socks, and stories shared through sewage pipes. Romy sees the future stretch out ahead of her in a long, unwavering line - until news from outside brings a ferocious urgency to her existence, challenging her to escape her own destiny and culminating in a climax of almost unbearable intensity. Through Romy - and through a cast of astonishing characters populating Mars Room - Rachel Kushner presents not just a bold and unsentimental panorama of life on the margins of contemporary America, but an excoriating attack on the prison-industrial complex. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ladybird Tales of Adventurous Girls Ladybird (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ladybird
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 96pp h260mm x w180mm x s17mm 588g Colour ISBN13: 9780241355893 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35589-3 ISBN10: 0241355893 EAN: 9780241355893 x Description: 'All power to Gretel and Tamasha and Tokoyo and Chandra and Sea Girl and Gerda! They come from different countries and traditions but they're all such marvellous spirited girls I wish each one could be my best friend' - Jacqueline Wilson Girls can save the day too, and they always have . . . Join six adventurous girls from around the world as they use their wits, courage and strength to overcome the odds in this colourful, illustrated collection of Ladybird Tales. Gretel and Hansel Tamasha and the Troll Tokoyo and the Sea Serpent Chandra and the Elephants Sea Girl and the Golden Key
The Snow Queen Perfect for bedtime, to read aloud or enjoy alone, these empowering tales show that girls can be the heroes of any story. Includes a special Introduction from award-winning author Jacqueline Wilson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Call for Revolution The Dalai Lama (Author) Sofia Stril-Rever (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h161mm x w110mm x s6mm 67g ISBN13: 9781846045899 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-589-9 ISBN10: 1846045894 EAN: 9781846045899 x Description: A RALLYING CRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD, BY ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED LEADERS OF OUR TROUBLED TIMES.
This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message The Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic, aggressive, divided times: no less than a call for revolution. Are we ready to hear it? Are we ready to act? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 293g ISBN13: 9781784701536 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-153-6 ISBN10: 178470153X EAN: 9781784701536 x Description: Jaron Lanier, `the father of Virtual Reality ... a high-tech genius' (Sunday Times), tells the extraordinary story of how in just over three decades Virtual Reality went from being a dream to a reality - and how its power to turn dreams into realities will transform us and our world. Virtual Reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now Virtual Reality is a reality: those big headsets that make people look ridiculous, even while radiating startled delight; the place where war veterans overcome PTSD, surgeries are trialled, aircraft and cities are designed. But VR is far more interesting than any single technology, however spectacular. It is, in fact, the most effective device ever invented for researching what a human being actually is - and how we think and feel. More than thirty years ago, legendary computer scientist, visionary and artist Jaron Lanier pioneered its invention. Here, in what is likely to be one of the most unusual books you ever read, he blends scientific investigation, philosophical thought experiment and his memoir of a life lived at the centre of digital innovation to explain what VR really is: the science of comprehensive illusion; the extension of the intimate magic of earliest childhood into adulthood; a hint of what life would be like without any limits. As Lanier shows, we are standing on the threshold of an entirely new realm of human creativity, expression, communication and experience. While we can use VR to test our relationship with reality, it will test us in return, for how we choose to use it will reveal who we truly are. Welcome to a mind-expanding, life-enhancing, world-changing adventure.
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A Stranger in the House: From the author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR Shari Lapena (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 384pp h178mm x w110mm x s23mm 204g ISBN13: 9780552174978 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17497-8 ISBN10: 0552174971 EAN: 9780552174978 x Description: The electrifying new thriller from Shari Lapena, author of the bestselling novel of the year, The Couple Next Door. `Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please . . .' FIONA BARTON `So many dizzying twists you'd better not drive after reading' LINWOOD BARCLAY `Smart, twisty thriller . . . It's taut, intelligent and compelling' Heat ***** Why would you run scared from a happy home? You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work. You're making dinner, looking forward to hearing about his day. That's the last thing you remember. You wake up in hospital, with no idea how you got there. They tell you that you were in an accident; you lost control of your car whilst driving in a dangerous part of town. The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it. Your best friend isn't so sure. And even you don't know what to believe . . . ***** Praise for Shari Lapena: 'I thought the read-it-in-one-sitting thing was a cliche. Not any more.' LINWOOD BARCLAY 'Entirely compelling, utterly realistic. You will not see the twists coming.' Daily Mail 'Meticulously crafted and razor sharp.' HARLAN COBEN 'A twisty, utterly riveting tale.' TESS GERRITSEN 'Shari Lapena furnishes a clever array of motives and suspects. The tension is high and remains to the last, stunning page.' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An Unwanted Guest Shari Lapena (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp 396g ISBN13: 9780593079652 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07965-2 ISBN10: 0593079655 EAN: 9780593079652 x Description: The new page-turner from the author of the phenomenal bestseller, THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR, and A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE. ********** We can't choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell's Inn, they're all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere. They watch their fellow guests with interest, from a polite distance. Usually we can avoid the people who make us nervous, make us afraid. With a violent storm raging, the group finds itself completely cut off from the outside world. Nobody can get in - or out. And then the first body is found . . . and the horrifying truth comes to light. There's a killer among them - and nowhere to run. Until we find ourselves in a situation we can't escape. Trapped. ********** Readers love Shari Lapena: `Best book I've read in ages' `5* fast paced, twisting thriller' `The pace never let up' `On the edge of my seat to the end' `I haven't picked up a book in 9 years and I'm so glad that I picked this up! I loved it.' `Incredibly readable and unputdownable' `Very clever, well written, intriguing and suspenseful' `Had me hooked from start to finish' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Deception Island Chris Larsson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718185121 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8512-1 ISBN10: 0718185129 EAN: 9780718185121
x Description: A photograph found in the effects of a murdered polar explorer reveals evidence of something that should not be there. A military team from a top-secret unit is dispatched. But the South Atlantic in winter is about the most hostile environment on earth. And before you can fight, first you have to survive . . . Complex, rocket-paced, and dripping with authenticity, Deception Island is a unique thriller that conveys the details of the intelligence world, survival techniques, combat tactics and military hardware so convincingly that there will be questions asked in the MoD about just who it is that might have written this book . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lady and the Little Fox Fur Violette Leduc (Author) Series:
Penguin European Writers
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp h198mm x w129mm x s6mm 74g ISBN13: 9780241357453 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35745-3 ISBN10: 0241357454 EAN: 9780241357453 x Description: 'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introduction An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages to feel the warmth of other bodies, and watches the hot batter of pancakes drip from the hands of street-sellers. One morning she awakes with an urgent need to taste an orange; but when she rummages in the bins she finds instead a discarded fox fur scarf. The little fox fur becomes the key to her salvation, the friend who changes her lonely existence into a playful world of her own invention. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur is a stunning portrait of Paris, of the invisibility we all feel in a big city, and ultimately of the hope and triumph of a woman who reclaims her place in the world. 'A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.' John Banville, Booker prize-winning author of The Sea 'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness Ingrid Fetell Lee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h216mm x w153mm x s27mm 412g ISBN13: 9781846045448 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-544-8 ISBN10: 1846045444 EAN: 9781846045448 x Description: `This book has the power to change everything' Susan Cain `A completely original treatment of a completely new and original idea' Arianna Huffington
Find joy in the space around you When did you last feel joy? Changing your surroundings is the most easily accessible source in finding joy, says Ingrid Fetell Lee, former Design Director of IDEO New York. In Joyful, she explains it's time to open our eyes to the physical world. By making small but powerful changes to the things around us, we can live happier, healthier lives. Her TED talk has been viewed over 10 million times. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Liar's Room: The addictive new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of THE HOUSE Simon Lelic (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g ISBN13: 9780241296561 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29656-1 ISBN10: 0241296560 EAN: 9780241296561 x Description: 'BRILLIANTLY CHILLING' Cara Hunter, author of In the Dark 'YOU'LL TRY TO OUTGUESS THE PLOT BUT ALWAYS BE ONE STEP BEHIND' C J Tudor One Room. Two Liars. Who will make it out alive? FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HOUSE, COMES THE NEW SPINE-TINGLING THRILLER YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing herself as a counsellor and starting a new life. It was the only way to keep her daughter safe. But everything changes when Adam Geraghty walks into her office. She's never met this young man before - so why does she feel like she knows him? Then Adam starts to tell her about a girl. A girl he wants to hurt. And Susanna realises she was wrong. She doesn't know him. BUT HE KNOWS HER. AND THE GIRL HE PLANS TO HURT IS HER DAUGHTER... The addictive new thriller with an ending you'll never guess, The Liar's Room is perfect for readers of Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door and A J Finn's The Woman in the Window.
SIMON LELIC - THRILLERS TO KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT: 'Had me in a headlock from the start and wouldn't loosen its grip till the last page' John Marrs 'Deliciously dark and clever' Mark Edwards 'Taut, unsettling and brilliantly done' Tim Logan 'Tense and unputdownable as anything. A fantastic read' Luca Veste 'A superbly written and well-crafted thriller. It will have you up all hours of the night!' Kathryn Croft
'The Liar's Room is a book you can't walk away from' Emma Kavanagh 'A wonderfully claustrophobic read exposing the fault lines in families and the terrible danger of secrets' Cath Staincliffe 'Brilliant ... complex characters that draw you in and won't let you go' Amy Lloyd 'Hugely gripping and spooky as hell' Mark Billingham 'Taught, tense and terrifying, I loved it!' Sharon Bolton 'A darkly disturbing thriller that hooked me from the first page. Highly recommended!' Nuala Ellwood, author of My Sister's Bones 'This terrifying thriller sent shivers through me' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle (Author) Series:
A Puffin Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9780241331163 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33116-3 ISBN10: 0241331161 EAN: 9780241331163 x Description: Disney takes the classic sci-fi adventure, A Wrinkle in Time to the silver screen! With an all-star cast that includes Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and newcomer Storm Reid, the major motion picture brings the world of Wrinkle to life for a new generation of fans. Meg always felt she was different and when she and her little brother Charles Murry go searching for their lost father, they find themselves travelling on a dangerous journey through a 'wrinkle in time'. As the cosmic evil forces of darkness threaten to swallow the universe, Meg must overcome her insecurities and channel all her inner strengths - her stubbornness, anger and ultimately her love - to save her family. An exciting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, which all the way through is dominated by the funny and mysterious trio of guardian angels known as Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which, A Wrinkle in Time is an empowering story about the battle between good and evil and the power of love. This movie tie-in edition of the timeless novel features the complete, unabridged original text, and an introduction by the film's director, Ava DuVernay. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Temptation of Forgiveness Donna Leon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp 223g ISBN13: 9781787461093 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-109-3 ISBN10: 1787461092 EAN: 9781787461093 x Description: Important information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido Brunetti is tasked with uncovering the culprit. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, a friend of his wife's comes asking for his help, fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, the woman's husband is found unconscious at the foot of a bridge. Following various contradictory leads, Brunetti navigates his way through Venice's underworld in an attempt to understand who is responsible for the vicious attack. But as he gets closer to discovering what happened, Brunetti is faced with a difficult truth: sometimes, it's the best intentions that lead to the darkest of consequences . . .
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Higher Calling: Road Cycling's Obsession with the Mountains Max Leonard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9780224100366 ISBN13: 978-0-224-10036-6 ISBN10: 022410036X EAN: 9780224100366 x Description: Why do road cyclists go to the mountains? Many books tell you where the mountains are, or how long and how high. None of them ask `Why?' After all, cycling up a mountain is hard - so hard that, to many non-cyclists, it can seem absurd. But, for some, climbing a mountain gracefully (and beating your competitors up the slope) represents the pinnacle of cycling achievement. The mountains are where legends are forged and cycling's greats make their names. Why are Europe's mountain ranges professional cycling's Wembley Stadium or its Colosseum? Why do amateurs also make a pilgrimage to these high, remote roads and what do we see and feel when we do? Why are the roads there in the first place? Higher Calling explores the central place of mountains in the folklore of road cycling. Blending adventure and travel writing with the rich narrative of pro racing, Max Leonard takes the reader from the battles that created the Alpine roads to the shepherds tending their flocks on the peaks, and to a Grand Tour climax on the `highest road in Europe'. And he tells stories of courage and sacrifice, war and love, obsession and elephants along the way. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene Simon Lewis (Author) Mark A. Maslin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h181mm x w111mm x s21mm 261g ISBN13: 9780241280881 ISBN13: 978-0-241-28088-1 ISBN10: 0241280885 EAN: 9780241280881 x Description: 'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion year history a single species is dictating Earth's future. To some the Anthropocene symbolises a future of superlative control of our environment. To others it is the height of hubris, the illusion of our mastery over nature. Whatever your view, just below the surface of this odd-sounding scientific word, the Anthropocene, is a heady mix of science, philosophy, religion and politics linked to our deepest fears and utopian visions. Tracing our environmental impact through time to reveal when humans began to dominate Earth, scientists Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin masterfully show what the new epoch means for all of us.
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It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis (Author) Series:
Penguin Modern Classics Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 281g ISBN13: 9780241310663 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31066-3 ISBN10: 0241310660 EAN: 9780241310663 x Description: 'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian 'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New Yorker A vain, outlandish, anti-immigrant, fearmongering demagogue runs for President of the United States - and wins. Sinclair Lewis's chilling 1935 bestseller is the story of Buzz Windrip, 'Professional Common Man', who promises poor, angry voters that he will make America proud and prosperous once more, but takes the country down a far darker path. As the new regime slides into authoritarianism, newspaper editor Doremus Jessup can't believe it will last - but is he right? This cautionary tale of liberal complacency in the face of populist tyranny shows it really can happen here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Believe In Me Susan Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 287g ISBN13: 9781784755614 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-561-4 ISBN10: 1784755613 EAN: 9781784755614 x Description: Do you believe in second chances? Leanne and her family have many issues, but they're still family. Their crazy but idyllic home in the rural hamlet of Ash Morley is a place where friends can drop in at will, and outsiders whose lives have been shattered can find shelter. When the opportunity arises to foster a child, ten-year-old Daniel Marks, Leanne is quick to open her doors. But her generosity is about to be put to the ultimate test. Because Daniel's father is in prison for a gruesome murder. Everyone deserves a place to call home, and a family to care for them, but will Ash Morley still be safe once Daniel enters their lives? _________________________ Praise for Susan Lewis 'A master storyteller' Diane Chamberlain 'Utterly compelling' The Sun 'Spellbinding' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Keeper Susan Lewis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
08 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp 479g ISBN13: 9781780896113 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-611-3 ISBN10: 1780896115 EAN: 9781780896113 x Description: You never forget your first love. 18 years ago, Olivia learned to live without Sean Kenyon. She moved on, building a life with her husband Richmond and their two children in the picturesque town Kesterley-on-Sea. But when Sean unexpectedly appears on Olivia's doorstep, her world is turned upside down once more. As old feelings resurface, and new truths come to light, Olivia finds herself questioning everything. Is her husband really the person she thought he was? The past and present collide, and Olivia must uncover the truth before it's too late. But if everyone is keeping secrets, how will she know who to trust? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Things I Don't Want to Know Deborah Levy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s11mm 129g ISBN13: 9780241983089 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98308-9 ISBN10: 0241983088 EAN: 9780241983089 x Description: 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly... Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers. 'Superb sharpness and originality of imagination. An inspiring work of writing' Marina Warner _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing Dr Qing Li (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp 745g ISBN13: 9780241346952 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34695-2 ISBN10: 0241346959 EAN: 9780241346952 x Description: Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time in the forest for better health, happiness and a sense of calm. A pillar of Japanese culture for decades, Shinrin-Yoku is a way to reconnect with nature, from walking mindfully in the woods, to a break in your local park, to walking barefoot on your lawn. Forest Medicine expert, Dr Qing Li's research has proven that spending time around trees (even filling your home with house plants and vaporising essential tree oils) can reduce blood pressure, lower stress, boost energy, boost immune system and even help you to lose weight. Along with his years of ground-breaking research, anecdotes on the life-changing power of trees, Dr Li provides here the practical ways for you to try Shinrin-Yoku for yourself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Day the Sun Died Yan Lianke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h216mm x w135mm x s25mm 374g ISBN13: 9781784741617 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-161-7 ISBN10: 1784741612 EAN: 9781784741617 x Description: The reality of life in China today contrasts with the sunny optimism of the 'Chinese dream' in this gripping, gruesome dystopia from 'one of the masters of modern Chinese literature' (Jung Chang) One dusk in early June, in a town deep in the Balou mountains, fourteen-year-old Li Niannian notices that something strange is going on. As the residents would usually be settling down for the night, instead they start appearing in the streets and fields. There are people everywhere. Li Niannian watches, mystified. But then he realises the people are dreamwalking, carrying on with their daily business as if the sun hadn't already gone down. And before too long, as more and more people succumb, in the black of night all hell breaks loose. Set over the course of one night, The Day the Sun Died pits chaos and darkness against the sunny optimism of the `Chinese dream' promoted by President Xi Jinping. We are thrown into the middle of an increasingly strange and troubling waking nightmare as Li Niannian and his father struggle to save the town, and persuade the beneficent sun to rise again. Praise for Yan Lianke's books `Nothing short of a masterpiece' Guardian `A hyper-real tour de force, a blistering condemnation of political corruption and excess' Financial Times `Mordant satire from a brave fabulist' Daily Mail `Exuberant and imaginative' Sunday Times
`I can think of few better novelists than Yan, with his superlative gifts for storytelling and penetrating eye for truth' New York Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life in the Garden Penelope Lively (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 149g ISBN13: 9780241982181 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98218-1 ISBN10: 0241982189 EAN: 9780241982181 x Description: 'Rich and unusual, a book to treasure. Few recent gardening books come anywhere close to its style, intelligence and depth. Moves between Lively's own horticultural life and a broad history of gardening' Observer 'Wonderful. A manifesto of horticultural delight' Literary Review 'Beautiful. Perfect for literary garden lovers' Good Housekeeping 'Exquisite and original' Daily Telegraph 'Enchanting. Reading this book is like walking with a wise, humorous guide through a series of garden rooms . . . and finding that vistas suddenly open out, on to history, fashion, politics, reflections on time and the taming of nature' Tablet 'A perfect bedside book. In part it's a memoir of the gardens in Lively's life, starting with the exotic Egyptian garden of her childhood and continuing up to her small present-day garden in a north London square' Sunday Express 'A gentle survey of the garden's place in Western culture, which morphs into a personal meditation on time, memory and a life well lived' i 'Scholarly bedtime reading' The Times, Books of the Year _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Road To Lichfield Penelope Lively (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 125g ISBN13: 9780241981405 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98140-5 ISBN10: 0241981409 EAN: 9780241981405 x Description: The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated. 'A searing study of the peculiar state of being in love . . . there are few contemporary novelists to match her on this subject' Sunday Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Innocent Wife: The breakout psychological thriller of 2018, tipped by Lee Child and Peter James Amy Lloyd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9781784757106 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-710-6 ISBN10: 1784757101 EAN: 9781784757106 x Description: How do you confront your husband when you don't want to know the truth? __________________________ 'This book had me hooked from the first page to the last.' Lisa Jewell NOW A TOP TEN BESTSELLER __________________________ You're in love with a man on Death Row in Florida, convicted of a brutal murder twenty years ago. You're convinced he didn't do it, and you're determined to prove it. Now you're married to him, and he's a free man, his conviction overturned. You're overjoyed. After all, he's innocent. Isn't he? __________________________ Amy's readers are raving about the book they 'just couldn't put down': "I picked up The Innocent Wife this morning on my subway commute to work and couldn't put it down! I read it during my lunch break, commute home, on the stair master... It was just that addicting!" "Absolutely fantastic book... couldn't put it down" "a superb rendering of sustained storytelling that grips you from the off" "I read the book in two days, couldn't wait to find out what happened next" "Fantastic, gripping, page turning... Drew you in and kept you there until the very end" "A fantastic debut! ... It gets you hooked from the very beginning, and yet it's never predictable, you're in for some surprises until the very last page" "The Innocent Wife was gripping. I read with heart racing" "I literally couldn't wait to steal five minutes with it during the day and loved my evenings completely immersed in the tension" "I couldn't put this down... thriller fans, you're in for a treat" "complex and fascinating... very clever and very well executed" "original and utterly compelling ... I honestly feel bereft now that I've finished it and can't wait to spend 2018 talking about this fantastic novel" _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Curiocity: In Pursuit of London Matt Lloyd-Rose (Author) Henry Eliot (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp 1472g ISBN13: 9780141980799 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198079-9 ISBN10: 0141980796 EAN: 9780141980799 x Description: 'The most ingenious, informative, inimitable, individual, innovative, insightful, inspiring, instructive, intelligible, intoxicating, intricate guide to the great city that I have ever seen. Bravo!' Philip Pullman Curiocity is a London book unlike any other. Its 26 chapters weave together facts, myths, stories, riddles, essays, diagrams, illustrations and itineraries to explore every aspect of life in the capital. At the heart of each chapter is a hand-drawn map, charting everything from thecity's islands and underground spaces, to its erogenous zones and dystopian futures. Taking you from Atlas to Zones, via Congestion, Folkmoot, Pearls and Xenophilia, Curiocity will transform the way you see London. 'The greatest book about London published in modern times ... an illuminated manuscript for the 21st century city' Londonist 'Here is something different ... the literary equivalent of Sir John Soane's Museum ... quite breathtaking' The Times Literary Supplement 'Remarkable ... a nerdy Londoner's paradise ... an exquisite 450-page cross between an encyclopaedia and an artwork' Evening Standard 'Utterly extraordinary' Tom Holland 'However well you think you know London, you will discover something newon virtually every page, and the things you know well will be seen completely differently' The London Society _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Priestdaddy: A Memoir Patricia Lockwood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 258g ISBN13: 9780141984599 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198459-9 ISBN10: 0141984597 EAN: 9780141984599 x Description: 'Glorious' Sunday Times 'Laugh-out-loud funny' The Times 'Extraordinary' Observer 'Exceptional' Telegraph 'Electric' New York Times 'Snort-out-loud' Financial Times 'Dazzling' Guardian 'Do yourself a favour and read this memoir!' BookPage The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed' The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange riddles and warnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting, guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a wife and children.
When an unexpected crisis forces Lockwood and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, she must learn to live again with the family's simmering madness, and to reckon with the dark side of her religious upbringing. Pivoting from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the serious, Priestdaddy is an unforgettable story of how we balance tradition against hard-won identity - and of how, having journeyed in the underworld, we can emerge with our levity and our sense of justice intact. 'Destined to be a classic . . . this year's must-read memoir' Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club 'Irrepressible . . . joyous, funny and filthy . . . Lockwood blows the roof off every paragraph' Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine 'Beautiful, funny and poignant. I wish I'd written this book' Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy 'A revelatory debut . . . Lockwood's prose is nothing short of ecstatic . . . her portrait of her epically eccentric family is funny, warm, and stuffed to bursting with emotional insight' Joss Whedon 'Praise God, this is why books were invented' Emily Berry, author of Dear Boy and Stranger, Baby _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Consciousness And The Novel David Lodge (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 268g ISBN13: 9780099554493 ISBN13: 978-0-09-955449-3 ISBN10: 0099554496 EAN: 9780099554493 x Description: 'The professor, the critic and the novelist work in harmony to provide a valuable tutorial on modern fiction' Observer How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page? In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the last 200 years - from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis, Henry James to Philip Roth David Lodge pursues this question with characteristic verve and wit. One of the best novelists and critics of his generation, Lodge is the perfect guide to look afresh at the mysterious workings of the creative mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fugitive Six: Lorien Legacies Reborn Pittacus Lore (Author) Series:
Lorien Legacies Reborn
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h230mm x w150mm x s35mm 544g ISBN13: 9780718188801 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8880-1 ISBN10: 0718188802 EAN: 9780718188801 x Description: After I Am Number Four came Generation One . . . It's a year since John Smith and the Lorien Garde helped defeat the Mogadorian invasion of Earth. Now all over the planet teenagers are developing new powers - new Legacies. But this terrifies everyone else. Those with Legacies are forced to register themselves. They are cast out of families. Hunted. Some are murdered. So the Garde create an Academy. A place where the gifted may come and learn. They will be trained to use their powers to help protect humankind. But some believe there's a better use of their talents. They have other plans. And they don't care who dies to bring them about . . .
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Generation One: Lorien Legacies Reborn Pittacus Lore (Author) Series:
Lorien Legacies Reborn
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w128mm x s28mm 116g ISBN13: 9781405934220 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3422-0 ISBN10: 1405934220 EAN: 9781405934220 x Description: THE FIRST BOOK IN AN ELECTRIFYING NEW SERIES set in the world if the number one New York Timesbestselling I AM NUMBER FOUR ______________ The Loric didn't make us monsters and they didn't make us heroes. We choose what happens next. Taylor Cook thought of the invasion as just a bad dream. It had ended over a year ago, and none of the fighting happened anywhere near her small town. She'd heard about teens who were suddenly developing incredible abilities, but she had never really believed it. Not until the day she discovered she was one of them - a human with Legacies. Now Taylor is being sent off to the Human Garde Academy. A place where teens from across the globe can learn to control their new powers and discover what they are truly capable of. There they will be trained by the Loric - the very same people who helped win the war and who are also responsible for unleashing the Legacies on the planet. As part of this new generation of Garde, Taylor and the others will one day be able to use their gifts to protect mankind. But not everyone thinks that's the best use for their talents. There are people who have different plans for the students and who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Generation One is the first book in a thrilling new series set in the world of the bestselling I Am Number Four series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Improbable Destinies: How Predictable is Evolution? Jonathan Losos (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp 281g ISBN13: 9780141981192 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198119-2 ISBN10: 0141981199 EAN: 9780141981192 x Description: 'One of the best books on evolutionary biology for a broad readership ever written' Edward O. Wilson A dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debates in science The natural world is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. Convergence suggests that evolution is predictable, and if we could replay the tape of life, we would get the same outcome. But there are also many examples of contingency, cases where the tiniest change - a random mutation or an ancient butterfly sneeze caused evolution to take a completely different course. In Improbable Destinies, renowned researcher Jonathan Losos reveals what the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary biology tell us about one of the greatest ongoing debates in science. Evolution can occur far more rapidly than Darwin expected, which has opened the door to something that was previously thought impossible: experimental studies of evolution in nature. Drawing on his own work with anole lizards on the Caribbean islands, as well as studies of guppies, foxes, field mice and others being conducted around the world, Losos reveals just how rapid and predictable evolution can
be. By charting the discoveries of the scientists who are rewriting our understanding of evolutionary biology, Improbable Destinies will change the way we think and talk about evolution. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reborn Sarah Lotz (Author) Series:
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Michael Joseph Ltd
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2017
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718187491 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8749-1 ISBN10: 0718187490 EAN: 9780718187491 x Description: A BRAND NEW NOVEL BASED ON THE SMASH-HIT COMIC BOOK SERIES CREATED BY MARK MILLAR AND GREG CAPULLO, WRITTEN BY CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED AUTHOR SARAH LOTZ. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
History of Violence Edouard Louis (Author) Lorin Stein (Translated by) Series:
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Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 208pp h216mm x w135mm x s15mm 226g ISBN13: 9781787300392 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-039-2 ISBN10: 1787300390 EAN: 9781787300392 x Description: The radical and urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began. History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, dispossession, racism, misery, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand, and to outline a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters Keith Lowe (Author) Series:
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 406g ISBN13: 9780241966488 ISBN13: 978-0-241-96648-8 ISBN10: 0241966485 EAN: 9780241966488
x Description: The bestselling, prize-winning author explores the impact of the Second World War - for nations, cities and families around the world. How does the experience and memory of the Second World War - one of the most catastrophic events in human history - affect our lives today? The years after 1945 were a time of both terror and wonder, whose impact still dominates our lives. Out of the ashes of war came the superpowers and nations of the modern world. From the new technologies delivered by scientists came the possibility of nuclear war. Politicians fantasized about overhauled societies, with some arguing for global government, others for independence, leading to the arguments about nationalism, immigration and globalisation that exist today. As well as analyzing the major changes and the myths that emerged, The Fear and the Freedom uses individual stories to examine the philosophical and psychological impact of the war, by showing how leaders and ordinary people coped with the post-war world and turned one of the greatest traumas in history into an opportunity for change. This is the definitive exploration of the aftermath of WWII - and the impact it still has. 'Richly-documented and wide-ranging . . . I wish schools would use books like this to introduce pupils to the complexity of the problems that face them' - Theodore Zeldin, author of 'The Hidden Pleasures of Life' and 'An Intimate History Of Humanity' 'Provocative, insightful and at times profoundly moving . . . I hope everyone - and our politicians especially - will read it and learn its vitally important lessons' - James Holland 'Insightful and panoramic . . . no myth goes unchallenged. Thoroughly compelling' - Sunday Times 'A masterpiece of historical inquiry: painstakingly researched, cleverly constructed and elegantly written. In surveying such a diverse panorama, Lowe displays a sensitivity to the human condition - how we got to where we are now - that is as unusual as it is welcome' - Saul David, Daily Telegraph 'The Fear and The Freedom is a deft blend of historical research, moving interviews, and challenging psychological insights. Lowe writes with elegance and perception. A truly illuminating read' - Jonathan Dimbleby 'Keith Lowe has written an eloquent meditation on the aftermath and the long psychological tentacles of the Second World War. Beautifully written and profoundly perceptive, The Fear and the Freedom confirms Lowe as one of our finest historians' - Antony Beevor _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives Annie Lowrey (Author) Series:
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W H Allen
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
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Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp 290g ISBN13: 9780753545775 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4577-5 ISBN10: 0753545772 EAN: 9780753545775 x Description: Selected as an Editor's Pick in the New York Times bestseller list!
Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it? Imagine if every month the government deposited GBP1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy, but Universal Basic Income (UBI) has become one of the most influential policy ideas of our time, backed by thinkers on both the left and the right. The founder of Facebook, Obama's chief economist, governments from Canada to Finland are all seriously debating some form of UBI. In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey looks at the global UBI movement. She travels to Kenya to see how UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, and India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor. She visits South Korea to interrogate UBI's intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in the face of advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labour. She also examines at the challenges the movement faces: contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. The UBI movement is not just an economic policy -- it also calls into question our deepest intuitions about what we owe each other and what activities we should reward and value as a society.
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Warcross Marie Lu (Author) Series:
Warcross
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Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp 255g ISBN13: 9780241321447 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32144-7 ISBN10: 0241321441 EAN: 9780241321447 x Description: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu - when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game - it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. When Emika hacks into the game illegally, she's convinced she'll be arrested, and is shocked when she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year's tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. In this sci-fi thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu conjures an immersive, exhilarating world where choosing who to trust may be the biggest gamble of all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Wildcard (Warcross 2) Marie Lu (Author) Series:
Warcross
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241342435 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34243-5 ISBN10: 0241342430 EAN: 9780241342435 x Description: Return to the immersive, action-packed world of Warcross in this thrilling sequel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side. Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn't all that he seems--and his protection comes at a price. Caught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves? In this explosive sequel to the New York Times bestselling Warcross, Marie Lu delivers an addictive finale that will hold you captive till the very last page. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Angel in the Shadows: The Heartland Trilogy, Book Two Walter Lucius (Author) Series:
Heartland Trilogy
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
18 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405921435 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2143-5 ISBN10: 1405921439 EAN: 9781405921435 x Description: 'Ambitious, intricate, riveting' The Times Farah Hafez raised her head and stared into the camcorder's reflective black hole. 'Now say what I want you to say. And do it convincingly. You can save this girl's life.' That's when the words came. Unexpected and forceful. Like vomit. 'I, Farah Hafez, support the jihad against President Potanin's criminal regime.' He smiled coldly and pulled the trigger anyway. After investigating what appeared to be a simple hit-and-run, journalist Farah Hafez became caught up in a web of crime and corruption that led to her kidnap. Detained in Russia, she was forced to pledge her allegiance to a terrorist group on camera. Now sought by international security and members of the criminal class alike, Farah flees to Jakarta to continue her investigation while her friends and allies attempt to clear her name from across the globe. If Farah is ever going to regain her freedom, she needs to discover the root of the evil that bought her here. The problem is that discovering this might cost her her life. Following Butterfly on the Storm, Angel in the Shadows is a fast-paced, tense and explosive thriller for lovers of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. You won't want to put this down. Praise for Walter Lucius 'Disturbing, apocalyptic, gripping' Dutch Daily De Limburger 'Riveting until the very end' AD Weekend [Dutch Newspaper] 'The Dutch answer to the tsunami of Scandinavian thrillers' BB Boekblad _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Catwoman: Soulstealer (DC Icons series) Sarah J Maas (Author) Series:
DC Icons
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp 270g ISBN13: 9780141386898 ISBN13: 978-0-14-138689-8 ISBN10: 0141386894 EAN: 9780141386898 x Description: The highly anticipated coming-of-age story of kick-ass super hero: CATWOMAN by international bestselling author Sarah J. Maas. When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. . . .
Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Batwing is left to hold back the tide of notorious criminals. Gotham City is ripe for the taking. Meanwhile, Luke Fox wants to prove he has what it takes to help people in his role as Batwing. He targets a new thief on the prowl who seems cleverer than most. She has teamed up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, and together they are wreaking havoc. This Catwoman may be Batwing's undoing. In this third DC Icons book--following Leigh Bardugo's Wonder Woman: Warbringer and Marie Lu's Batman: Nightwalker--Selina is playing a desperate game of cat and mouse, forming unexpected friendships and entangling herself with Batwing by night and her devilishly handsome neighbor Luke Fox by day. But with a dangerous threat from the past on her tail, will she be able to pull off the heist that's closest to her heart? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Thomas Cromwell: A Life Diarmaid MacCulloch (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 752pp h240mm x w162mm x s49mm 1302g ISBN13: 9781846144295 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-429-5 ISBN10: 1846144299 EAN: 9781846144295 x Description: 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' Hilary Mantel Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King. That decade was one of the most momentous in English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all monasteries. Cromwell was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision, at a distance of nearly five centuries and after the destruction of many of his papers at his own fall, has been notoriously difficult. Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is much the most complete and persuasive life ever written of this elusive figure, a masterclass in historical detective work, making connections not previously seen. It overturns many received interpretations, for example that Cromwell was a cynical, 'secular' politician without deep-felt religious commitment, or that he and Anne Boleyn were allies because of their common religious sympathies - in fact he destroyed her. It introduces the many different personalities of these foundational years, all conscious of the 'terrifyingly unpredictable' Henry VIII. MacCulloch allows readers to feel that they are immersed in all this, that it is going on around them. For a time, the self-made 'ruffian' (as he described himself) - ruthless, adept in the exercise of power, quietly determined in religious revolution - was master of events. MacCulloch's biography for the first time reveals his true place in the making of modern England and Ireland, for good and ill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples Neil MacGregor (Author) Series:
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Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 512pp 1250g ISBN13: 9780241308295 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30829-5 ISBN10: 0241308291 EAN: 9780241308295 x Description: A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. Available for pre-order now. One of the central facts of human existence is that every society shares a set of beliefs and assumptions - a faith, an ideology, a religion - that goes far beyond the life of the individual. These beliefs are an essential part of a shared identity. They have a unique power to define - and to divide - us, and are a driving force in the politics of much of the world today. Throughout history they have most often been, in the widest sense, religious.
Yet this book is not a history of religion, nor an argument in favour of faith. It is about the stories which give shape to our lives, and the different ways in which societies imagine their place in the world. Looking across history and around the globe, it interrogates objects, places and human activities to try to understand what shared beliefs can mean in the public life of a community or a nation, how they shape the relationship between the individual and the state, and how they help give us our sense of who we are. For in deciding how we live with our gods, we also decide how to live with each other. 'The new blockbuster by the museums maestro Neil MacGregor ... The man who chronicles world history through objects is back ... examining a new set of objects to explore the theme of faith in society' Sunday Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War Ben Macintyre (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241186664 ISBN13: 978-0-241-18666-4 ISBN10: 0241186668 EAN: 9780241186664 x Description: 'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRE A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other Soviet citizen. The bag alone was mildly conspicuous, printed with the red logo of Safeway, the British supermarket. The man was a spy for MI6. A senior KGB officer, for more than a decade he had supplied his British spymasters with a stream of priceless secrets from deep within the Soviet intelligence machine. No spy had done more to damage the KGB. The Safeway bag was a signal: to activate his escape plan to be smuggled out of Soviet Russia. So began one of the boldest and most extraordinary episodes in the history of espionage. In The Spy and the Traitor Ben Macintyre reveals a tale of betrayal, duplicity and raw courage that changed the course of the Cold War forever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
So Happy It Hurts Anneliese Mackintosh (Author) Series:
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Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp 268g ISBN13: 9781784703165 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-316-5 ISBN10: 1784703168 EAN: 9781784703165 x Description: `This lovely, quirky novel will appeal to fans of Miranda July and Sheila Heti' Red Ottila McGregor is thirty years old and has decided it's time to sort her life out. She's going to quit drinking, stop cheating and finally find true happiness. Easy, right? Getting in the way of this plan are: 1. Grace, her best friend, who believes self-improvement is for people in their forties. 2. Mina, her sister, who is mentally ill, and it might be Ottila's fault. 3. Thales, the Greek guy who works in the hospital cafeteria - probably the best, most dangerous person Ottila's ever met.
Told through a scrapbook of emails, receipts, therapy transcripts and other ephemera, this is an infectious one-off of a novel that makes you wince and laugh in equal measure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Water Cure: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 Sophie Mackintosh (Author) Series:
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Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 336g ISBN13: 9780241337349 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33734-9 ISBN10: 0241337348 EAN: 9780241337349 x Description: THE LITERARY DEBUT OF THE SUMMER 2018 'An extraordinary debut novel. Otherworldly, luminous, precise... She is writing the way that Sofia Coppola would shoot the end of the world' Guardian 'Bold, inventive, haunting... With shades of Margaret Atwood and Eimear McBride, you'll be bowled over by it' Stylist 'Visceral, hypnotic... with one of my favourite endings I've read in a long while' The Pool Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them - three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake. The Water Cure is a fever dream, a blazing vision of suffering, sisterhood and transformation. 'Immensely assured, calmly devastating' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered 'A work of cool, claustrophobic beauty' Eli Goldstone, author of Strange Heart Beating 'Eerily beautiful, strange [and] unsettling' Paula Hawkins, author ofThe Girl on the Train 'Otherworldly, brutal and poetic: a feminist fable set by the sea, a female Lord of the Flies. It felt like a book I'd been waiting to read for a long time' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse Peter Macmillan (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Japanese Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 224g ISBN13: 9780141395937 ISBN13: 978-0-14-139593-7 ISBN10: 0141395931 EAN: 9780141395937 x
Description: A new edition of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seventh century, these elegant, precisely observed waka poems (the precursor of haiku) express deep emotion through visual images based on a penetrating observation of the natural world. Peter MacMillan's new translation of his prize-winning original conveys even more effectively the beauty and subtlety of this magical collection. Translated with an introduction and commentary by Peter MacMillan. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alaskan Holiday: A Christmas Novel Debbie Macomber (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9781784758752 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-875-2 ISBN10: 1784758752 EAN: 9781784758752 x Description: An uplifting tale of finding unexpected love in the Alaskan wilderness from bestselling author, Debbie Macomber. Before beginning her new job as sous chef at one of Seattle's finest restaurants, Josie Stewart takes on a six-month position cooking at a lodge in an Alaskan lake town. It's only temporary--or so she thinks, as she becomes a valued part of the local community, falling in love with the people who call the Klutina Lake home. But one man, in particular, stands out among the rest of Josie's new friends: an intriguing swordsmith whose very existence forces her to question whether her heart wants to return to Washington at all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cottage by the Sea Debbie Macomber (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 277g ISBN13: 9781784758745 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-874-5 ISBN10: 1784758744 EAN: 9781784758745 x Description: `Warm-hearted fiction at its best' - Sun A seaside town helps one young woman rediscover hope and healing in a brand-new novel from bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Rocked by tragedy, Annie Marlow returns to the one place she knows she can heal: the cottage by the sea where she spent many happy childhood holidays with her family. There, Annie meets Keaton, a local painter with a big heart; Mellie, the reclusive landlord Annie is determined to befriend; and Britt, a teenager with a terrible secret. With them her broken spirit starts to heal. Then events threaten Annie's new idyll. And when the opportunity of a lifetime lands in her lap, she is torn between the excitement of a new journey and the pull of the haven - and the man - she has come to call home. Will she be able to make her new-found happiness last? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
After the Fire Henning Mankell (Author) Marlaine Delargy (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 287g ISBN13: 9781784703394 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-339-4 ISBN10: 1784703397 EAN: 9781784703394 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Embers Sandor Marai (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Hungarian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 142g ISBN13: 9780241978948 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97894-8 ISBN10: 0241978947 EAN: 9780241978948 x Description: The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in forty-one years. They have spent their lives waiting for this moment.
Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event - something to do with a betrayal, and a woman - led to their sudden separation. Now, as their lives draw to a close, the devastating truth about that moment will be revealed. Embers is a masterpiece - an unforgettable story of passion, fidelity, truth and deception. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Between Eternities: and Other Writings Javier Marias (Author) Margaret Jull Costa (Translated by) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241975770 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97577-0 ISBN10: 0241975778 EAN: 9780241975770 x Description: 'A Marias sentence is a place of infinite richness and surprises, full of fascinating byways and glimpses of a distant landscape that hoves into view and then fades away' Independent 'No one else, anywhere, is writing quite like this' Daily Telegraph A new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author ofThe Infatuations andA Heart So White Internationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath. This new collection of essays shows the full extent of his curiosity and wit, ranging from the literary to the philosophical to the autobiographical, from football to cinema, comic books to mortality to 'Why Almost No One Can Be Trusted'. Trenchant and wry, subversive and penetrating, Marias demonstrates a dazzling intellectual vigour, showing with exhilarating verve why he is so often said to be Spain's greatest living writer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House with Only an Attic and a Basement Kathryn Maris (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 80pp h198mm x w129mm x s5mm 82g ISBN13: 9780141986579 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198657-9 ISBN10: 0141986573 EAN: 9780141986579 x Description: A neurotically funny collection that looks under the hood of adult life As in life, she was a pain in the arse in death. He could hear her roaring all the way from the fifth circle, 'Why the hell do you get to be in a better circle than me, I'm wrathful because of your lust -' Deploying a chorus of voices both ancient and modern to explore a world of sexual politics and singles cruises, dysfunctional families and psychoanalysis, awkward cohabitations and self-help guides for the would-be Dream Girl, this is the third collection from a unique poetic talent: observant, obsessive and wickedly witty. 'The funniest book I've read in years. Maris flexes her wit and wisdom to create a litany of nervous characters in a style that's mordant, sarcastic, satiric yet often compassionate . . . a poet of risk, she is dark, deep and often laugh out loud' DALJIT NAGRA
'Her dry, droll, clinically deadpan manner is all her own; but her themes - obscure hurts, implacable dissatisfactions, hardwired propensity for victimhood and suffering - reflect the experience of humanity at large' CHRISTOPHER REID _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I'm Not Here to Give a Speech Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Spanish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h178mm x w129mm x s9mm 105g ISBN13: 9780241360880 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36088-0 ISBN10: 0241360889 EAN: 9780241360880 x Description: Penguin presents I'm Not Here to Give a Speech, the complete speeches of Nobel laureate and beloved novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez collected and published in English for the first time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has charmed generations of readers with his distinctive and richly expressive style. His talent for language is seen here as never before, in the public speeches he gave throughout his extraordinary life. These speeches chart Marquez's growth as a writer and orator, from an early talk given as a teenager graduating high school to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize. They offer new insight into the workings of the author's mind, drawing a portrait of Marquez as a writer and as a man. This is a rare gem from a writer who touched readers across the globe. I Am Not Here to Give a Speech is a must-buy for anyone who ever fell in love with Macondo or cherished a battered copy of Love in the Time of Cholera. Praise for Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 'The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years' Salman Rushdie on One Hundred Years of Solitude 'Should be required reading for the entire human race' New York Times on One Hundred Years of Solitude 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard on Chronicle of a Death Foretold 'As a reading experience it is completely magical' Observer on Living to Tell the Tale 'It asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling' Observer on The Autumn of the Patriarch 'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rusdhie on Collected Stories _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx (Author) Friedrich Engels (Author) David Aaronovitch (Introduction by) Series:
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Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 128pp 74g ISBN13: 9781784873691 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-369-1 ISBN10: 1784873691 EAN: 9781784873691 x
Description: WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YANIS VAROUFAKIS The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever written. Maintaining that the history of all societies is a history of class struggle, the manifesto proclaims that communism is the only route to equality, and is a call to action aimed at the proletariat. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand our modern political landscape. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth, this pocket edition includes a new introduction by the economist and bestselling author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home Mark Mazower (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 292g ISBN13: 9780141986845 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198684-5 ISBN10: 0141986840 EAN: 9780141986845 x Description: SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' Guardian Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British father was the lucky one, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who settled in London after escaping the civil war and revolution. Max, the grandfather, had started out as a socialist and manned the barricades against tsarist troops, but never spoke of it. His wife, Frouma, came from a family ravaged by the Great Terror yet somehow making their way in Soviet society. In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, What You Did Not Tell recounts a brand of socialism erased from memory - humanistic, impassioned, and broad-ranging in its sympathies. But it also explores the unexpected happiness that may await history's losers, the power of friendship, and the love of place that allowed Max and Frouma's son to call England home. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kremlin's Candidate: Discover what happens next after THE RED SPARROW, starring Jennifer Lawrence . . . Jason Matthews (Author) Series:
Red Sparrow Trilogy
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 640pp ISBN13: 9781405920858 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2085-8 ISBN10: 1405920858 EAN: 9781405920858 x Description: Urgent, topical and shot through with insider knowledge, the final thriller in the Red Sparrow trilogy is writing on a grand scale. Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been an asset of the CIA for over seven years. She has also been in a forbidden and tumultuous love affair with her handler Nate Nash, mortally dangerous for them both, but irresistible.
In Washington, a newly installed administration is selecting its cabinet members. Dominika hears whispers of a Russian operation to place a mole in a high intelligence position. If the candidate is confirmed, the Kremlin will have access to the identities of CIA assets in Moscow, including Dominika. Dominika recklessly immerses herself in the palace intrigues of the Kremlin, searching for the mole's identity and stealing secrets before her time runs out. With a plot ripped from tomorrow's headlines, The Kremlin's Candidate is a riveting read and a thrilling conclusion to the trilogy than began with Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Logical Family: A Memoir Armistead Maupin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp 276g ISBN13: 9781784161040 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-104-0 ISBN10: 1784161047 EAN: 9781784161040 x Description: In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, one of the world's best-loved storytellers explains how he evolved from a conservative son of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels inspired millions to claim their own lives. It is a journey that leads him from the racism and misogyny of mid-century North Carolina to a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam to an awkward conversation about girls with President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office of the White House. After losing his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired', Maupin packs his earthly belongings into his Opel GT (including a portrait of a Confederate ancestor) and heads west to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970's. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Further Questions: You'd trust your sister with your life. But should you? The compulsive thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Gillian McAllister (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405934602 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3460-2 ISBN10: 1405934603 EAN: 9781405934602 x Description: PRE-ORDER NOW: The compulsive thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything but the Truth and Anything You Do Say. You'd trust your sister with your life. But should you? The police say she's guilty. She insists she's innocent. She's your sister. You loved her. You trusted her. But they say she killed the person you care about most. Martha last saw her sister when she left her babysitting. Now, she's watching Becky stand trial for murder. They are on opposite sides of the
courtroom, hearing evidence that's meant to finally bring the truth to light. What happened that night? And does Martha really want to know? _________________ 'I read it in a breathless day and a half - I loved every page, every character, every twist and turn' Lisa Jewell (Then She Was Gone) 'A perfectly plotted courtroom drama and an emotional roller-coaster in one book' Grazia 'I loved this gripping and thought-provoking read' B A Paris (Behind Closed Doors) 'I'm still wrestling with the brilliantly written dilemma at its heart' Fiona Barton (The Child) 'Intelligent. Compulsive. Heart-wrenching' Jane Corry (The Dead Ex) 'Ingeniously constructed, with cliff-hanging suspense' Louise Candlish (Our House) 'The verdict - lock me up so I can read it again! Unforgettable' Liz Lawler (Don't Wake Up) 'One of the most gripping and moving books I've ever read' Holly Seddon (Try Not to Breathe) 'Original, beautifully written and moving. Perfect' Claire Douglas (Last Seen Alive) 'A truly original thriller you won't be able to put down' Paula Daly (The Mistake I Made) 'Grippy and compelling but also nuanced, insightful and sad' Tammy Cohen (They All Fall Down) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time. From the Head of Oceans at Greenpeace and spokesperson for their anti-plastic campaign Will McCallum (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h204mm x w138mm x s21mm 278g ISBN13: 9780241363218 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36321-8 ISBN10: 0241363217 EAN: 9780241363218 x Description: As read by James Corden, Fearne Cotton, Jim Chapman and Dougie Poytner. 'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight. Plastic pollution is the environmental scourge of our age, but how can YOU make a difference? This accessible guide, written by the campaigner at the forefront of the anti-plastic movement, will help you make the small changes that make a big difference, from buying a reusable coffee cup to running a clean-up at your local park or beach. Tips on giving up plastic include: * * * * *
Washing your clothes within a wash bag to catch plastic microfibers (the cause of 30% of plastic pollution in the ocean) Replacing your regular shampoo with bar shampoo How to lobby your supermarket to remove unnecessary packaging How to throw a plastic-free birthday party How to convince others to join you in giving up plastic
Plastic is not going away without a fight. We need a movement made up of billions of individual acts, bringing people together from all backgrounds and all cultures, the ripples of which will be felt from the smallest village to the tallest skyscrapers. This is a call to arms - to join forces across the world and to end our dependence on plastic.
#BreakFreeFromPlastic Plastic is not going away without a fight. We need a movement made up of billions of individual acts, bringing people together from all backgrounds and all cultures, the ripples of which will be felt from the smallest village to the tallest skyscrapers. 'Plastic waste is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world' Theresa May 'As Head of Oceans at Greenpeace, Will is on the front line of humanity's global fight against plastic. This timely book not only explains how we got into this mess, but most importantly offers an optimistic and proactive approach as to how we can get out of it'. - Richard Walker, Managing Director at Iceland _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought us Back from the Brink Anthony McCarten (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Sep 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 246g ISBN13: 9780241327104 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32710-4 ISBN10: 0241327105 EAN: 9780241327104 x Description: From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-scenes account of a crucial moment which takes us inside the mind of one of the world's greatest leaders - and provides a revisionist, more rounded portrait of his leadership. May, 1940. Britain is at war, European democracies are falling rapidly and the public are unaware of this dangerous new world. Just days after his unlikely succession to Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faces this horror - and a sceptical King and a party plotting against him. He wonders how he can capture the public mood and does so, magnificently, before leading the country to victory. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched, gripping day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative. In doing so he revises the familiar view of Churchill - he made himself into the iconic figure we remember and changed the course of history, but through those turbulent and dangerous weeks he was plagued by doubt, and even explored a peace treaty with Nazi Germany. It's a scarier, and more human story, than has ever been told. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Birds of America: Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively Mary McCarthy (Author) Series:
Penguin Women Writers
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp 223g ISBN13: 9780241983416 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98341-6 ISBN10: 024198341X EAN: 9780241983416 x Description: 'This funny, grumpy, coming-of-age tale still strikes a chord' The Times Peter Levi, a shy and sensitive American teenager, moves to Paris to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War, where he is determined to live a life in harmony with his own idealistic views. But the world is changing at breakneck pace, with nuclear war looming abroad and racial tensions simmering at home. Before long, Peter's naive illusions are shattered, as he finds himself an unwilling participant in an era of extraordinary change. Birds of America is an unforgettable and deeply moving story of personal and political turmoil; of the strange and surprising nature of growing up; and of the questions we face when we examine who we really are.
'A writer known for her wit, her glamour, and the shocking candour of her fiction' New Yorker 'An absorbing novel about a young man's voyage into adulthood, enlivened by Mary McCarthy's needling wit' Hilary Mantel, Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies 'Fiercely intelligent, insatiably combative, McCarthy's novels invite controversy' Penelope Lively, from the introduction _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Book Will Send You to Sleep Professor K. McCoy (Author) Dr Hardwick (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h204mm x w138mm x s18mm 303g ISBN13: 9781785038310 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-831-0 ISBN10: 1785038311 EAN: 9781785038310 x Description: Sleep smarter `The indispensable bedside classic' Leland Carlson, Assistant Vice President of the Dull Men's Club This Book Will Send You to Sleep makes no claims to be fun or interesting. It is a book you can read in full confidence that you will find absolutely nothing to stimulate your brain. A book, like any other, that will afford you much sleep and copious amounts of pointless knowledge. Where else will you read about the political crisis in Belgium 2007-2011 or the recent developments in the taxonomy of molluscs? And where else can you find, in one place: a summary of the administrative bureaucracy of the Byzantine Empire? A world almanac of pickled cucumbers? The measurement of the linear density of fibre? 'Prepare to fall fast asleep with the most boring book ever published' Tim Jones, sleep specialist _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Film Tie-In
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 168g ISBN13: 9781784705565 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-556-5 ISBN10: 178470556X EAN: 9781784705565 x Description: It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America Michael McFaul (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
08 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 528pp h240mm x w162mm x s36mm 937g ISBN13: 9780241351017 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35101-7 ISBN10: 0241351014 EAN: 9780241351017 x Description: A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations, from a former US ambassador and 'Obama's top White House advisor on Russia policy' (The New York Times) In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect Barack Obama's national security team, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of one of today's most contentious international relationships. McFaul had been studying and visiting Russia for decades, becoming one of America's preeminent scholars on the country during the first Putin era. During President Obama's first term, McFaul helped craft the policy known as "Reset," which fostered unprecedented collaboration between the two countries under Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. Later, as U.S. ambassador from 2012 to 2014, he witnessed firsthand how Vladimir Putin's new rise interrupted this era of cooperation and returned Russian-American relations to a level of hostility not known since the darkest days of the Cold War. From the outset of his ambassadorship, the Kremlin accused McFaul of being sent by Obama to foment revolution against Putin's regime. This resulting insider's account - uniquely combining history, politics and intimate personal knowledge of the corridors of power - takes us from Putin's dacha to ornate Kremlin chambers and the Oval Office, to explain how Russia really works, and why the world has entered a dangerous new era of confrontation. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Wardrobe Mistress Patrick McGrath (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp 223g ISBN13: 9781786090003 ISBN13: 978-1-78609-000-3 ISBN10: 1786090007 EAN: 9781786090003 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION*** From the bestselling author of Asylum, Trauma and Spider 'Ghosts of the theatre and the spectre of fascism haunt cold and grimy London in this atmospheric tale from a master of the grotesque.' Guardian JANUARY 1947. London is in ruins, there's nothing to eat, and it's the coldest winter in living memory. To make matters worse, Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the day, has suddenly died. His widow Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is beside herself with grief. Then one night she discovers Gricey's secret. Plunged into a dark new world, Joan realises that though fascism might hide, it never dies. Her war isn't over after all. Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
'McGrath is one of the age's most elegantly accomplished divers into the human psyche . . . a master writer.' John Banville `McGrath is that rare yet essential thing, a writer who can expose our darkest fears without making us run away from them.' New Statesman 'Wonderfully sinister ... a delight ... you are in for a thrilling ride.' Spectator 'A brilliant evocation of the theatrical world's seedy glamour, The Wardrobe Mistress is also a moving portrait of a woman struggling to make sense of her past and imagine a future for herself.' Sunday Times '[A] rich and highly spiced feast of a novel, even before it reaches its classically gothic McGrath climax.' Reader's Digest _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Asia's Reckoning: The Struggle for Global Dominance Richard McGregor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp 327g ISBN13: 9780141982854 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198285-4 ISBN10: 0141982853 EAN: 9780141982854 x Description: 'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017 A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal 'A compelling and impressive read.' The Economist 'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times 'An excellent modern history. . . . provides the context needed to make sense of the region's present and future.' Joyce Lau, South China Morning Post The dramatic story of the relationship between the world's three largest economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east Asia For more than half a century, American power in the Pacific has successfully kept the peace. But it has also cemented the tensions in the toxic rivalry between China and Japan, consumed with endless history wars and entrenched political dynasties. Now, the combination of these forces with Donald Trump's unpredictable impulses and disdain for America's old alliances threatens to upend the region, and accelerate the unravelling of the postwar order. If the United States helped lay the postwar foundations for modern Asia, now the anchor of the global economy, Asia's Reckoning will reveal how that structure is now crumbling. With unrivalled access to archives in the US and Asia, as well as many of the major players in all three countries, Richard McGregor has written a tale which blends the tectonic shifts in diplomacy with the domestic political trends and personalities driving them. It is a story not only of an overstretched America, but also of the rise and fall and rise of the great powers of Asia. The confrontational course on which China and Japan have increasingly set themselves is no simple spat between neighbors. And the fallout would be a political and economic tsunami, affecting manufacturing centers, trade routes, and political capitals on every continent. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling Emer McLysaght (Author) Sarah Breen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 477g ISBN13: 9780241361733 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36173-3 ISBN10: 0241361737 EAN: 9780241361733 x Description: Everyone knows an Aisling: Loves going Out Out, but secretly scared of liquid eyeliner. Happy to drink the bar dry, but will bring her own coaster if necessary. Would rather die than miss a cooked hotel breakfast, but can calculate the Points in a Snickers at fifty paces. Aisling's the girl with a heart of gold, but a boyfriend who still hasn't made a peep about their Big Day even after seven years. But then a disastrous romantic getaway shows Aisling that it's time to stop waiting around and leave John behind for the bright lights of Dublin. After she's wailed her way through Adele's Greatest Hits, that is. Between glamorous new flatmates, a scandal at work and finding herself in a weird love square, Aisling is ready to take on the big city. So long as she has her umbrella with her. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Line of Fire: (Nick Stone Thriller 19) Andy McNab (Author) Series:
Nick Stone
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w127mm x s25mm 283g ISBN13: 9780552174275 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17427-5 ISBN10: 0552174270 EAN: 9780552174275 x Description: 'Like the best action films in book form' FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK. And for the first time in a long time, he's not operating alone. But Stone and his team don't find just anyone. They find a world-class hacker, so good that her work might threaten the stability of the western world as we know it. These are dangerous waters and Stone is quickly in over his head. Before he finally knows which way to turn, the choice is ripped out of his hands. Most people might think of home as safety but Nick Stone isn't most people. For him and his team, it's just another place to get caught in the line of fire... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone Brian Merchant (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w127mm x s30mm 335g ISBN13: 9780552173742 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17374-2 ISBN10: 0552173746 EAN: 9780552173742 x Description: The secret history of the invention that changed everything and became the most profitable product in the world. Odds are that as you read this, an iPhone is within reach. But before Steve Jobs introduced us to 'the one device', as he called it, a mobile phone was merely what you used to make calls on the go. How did the iPhone transform our world and turn Apple into the most valuable company ever? Veteran technology journalist Brian Merchant reveals the inside story you won't hear from Cupertino - based on his exclusive interviews with the engineers, inventors and developers who guided every stage of the iPhone's creation. This deep dive takes you from inside 1 Infinite Loop to nineteenth-century France to WWII America, from the driest place on earth to a Kenyan pit of toxic e-waste, and even deep inside Shenzhen's notorious 'suicide factories'. It's a first-hand look at how the cutting-edge tech that makes the world work - touch screens, motion trackers and even AI - made its way into our pockets. The One Device is a road map for design and engineering genius, an anthropology of the modern age and an unprecedented view into one of the most secretive companies in history. This is the untold account, ten years in the making, of the device that changed everything. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab Carl Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp 519g ISBN13: 9781785151347 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-134-7 ISBN10: 1785151347 EAN: 9781785151347 x Description: 'Magisterial... a tour de force.' Anthony Giddens 'Essential reading.' Jamie Bartlett 'Prepare to be terrified, exhilarated and occasionally inspired.' Catherine Mayer 'Timely and incisive.' Greg Williams, Wired
A groundbreaking examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century. The old gods are dying. Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet. Governments are losing control. The old familiarities are tumbling down and a strange new social order is rising in their place. More crime now happens online than offline. Facebook has grown bigger than any state, bots battle elections, technologists have reinvented democracy and information wars are breaking out around us. New mines produce crypto-currencies, coders write policy, and algorithms shape our lives in more ways than we can imagine. What is going on? For centuries, writers and thinkers have used power as a prism through which to view and understand the world at moments of seismic change. The Death of the Gods is an exploration of power in the digital age, and a journey in search of the new centres of control today. From a cyber-crime raid in
suburbia to the engine rooms of Silicon Valley, and from the digital soldiers of Berkshire to the hackers of Las Vegas, pioneering technology researcher Carl Miller traces how power - the most important currency of all - is being transformed, fought over, won and lost. As power escapes from its old bonds, he shows us where it has gone, the shape it now takes and how it touches each of our lives. Astounding opportunities are at our fingertips. But are we more powerful as individuals than ever before? Or more controlled? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Lethal Frost Danny Miller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Corgi Books
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780552175050 ISBN13: 978-0-552-17505-0 ISBN10: 0552175056 EAN: 9780552175050 x Description: Denton, 1984. After a morning's betting at the races, bookmaker George Price is found in his car, barely alive with a bullet in his head. As he's rushed to hospital, Detective Inspector Jack Frost and the Denton police force start their hunt for the would-be murderer. But with a long list of enemies who might want the bookie dead, the team have got their work cut out for them. And with a slew of other crimes hitting the area, from counterfeit goods to a violent drugs gangs swamping Denton with cheap heroin, the stakes have never been higher. Will Frost find the answers he's looking for before things go from bad to worse? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives Mark A. Miodownik (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241977309 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97730-9 ISBN10: 0241977304 EAN: 9780241977309 x Description: Sometimes explosive, often delightful, occasionally poisonous, but always fascinating: the secret lives of liquids, from one of our bestknown scientists A series of glasses of transparent liquids is in front of you: but which will quench your thirst and which will kill you? And why? Why does one liquid make us drunk, and another power a jumbo jet? From the bestselling author of Stuff Matters comes a fascinating tour of the world of these surprising or sinister substances - the droplets, heartbeats and ocean waves we all encounter every day. Structured around a plane journey which sees encounters with water, wine, oil and more, Miodownik shows that liquids are agents of death and destruction as well as substances of wonder and fascination, and - just as in Stuff Matters - his unique brand of scientific storytelling brings them and their mysterious properties alive in a captivating new way. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Place for Us Fatima Farheen Mirza (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hogarth
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 519g ISBN13: 9781781090701 ISBN13: 978-1-78109-070-1 ISBN10: 178109070X EAN: 9781781090701 x Description: A Place for Us catches an Indian Muslim family on the eve of the eldest daughter's wedding. As Hadia's marriage -- one chosen of love, not tradition -- gathers the family back together, her parents Rafiq and Layla must come to terms with the choices that their two daughters, and their estranged son Amar, have made. Weaving through time, we see the detail of family life, all the crucial and tiny moments, through the eyes of each family member. And as Hadia, Huda and Amar attempt to carve out a life for themselves, they must reconcile their present culture with their parent's faith, tread a path between the old world and the new and learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest betrayals. This is the story of one family, but all family life is here. It is a novel for our times: a deeply moving examination of love, identity and belonging. It announces Fatima Farheen Mirza as a major new literary talent.
'To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza's heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure. It allows her reader to better understand what it means to reconcile one's love of family and culture with a desire to find one's own path, and one's own faith. Ms Mirza painstakingly details the life of an Indian Muslim family in America and their children's search to feel whole, fulfilled, and content. She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book' - Sarah Jessica Parker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford (Author) Zoe Heller (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 125g ISBN13: 9780241984079 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98407-9 ISBN10: 0241984076 EAN: 9780241984079 x Description: Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'He was the great love of her life you know.' 'Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.' Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and let's not even mention the mysteries of sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the hunt for the ideal lover. But finding the perfect match is much harder than any of the sisters had ever dreamed. Linda is first courted by a Tory MP and then becomes embroiled with a handsome but humourless communist, before she risks everything on a chance at real, head-over-heels love in war-torn Paris . . . 'Peerless' Zoe Heller _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Little Book of Pocket Spells: Everyday Magic for the Modern Witch Akasha Moon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h167mm x w119mm x s21mm 193g ISBN13: 9781846045806 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-580-6 ISBN10: 1846045800 EAN: 9781846045806 x Description: Bring a little magic into your life Conjuring up love, success, health and happiness, The Little Book of Pocket Spells has a spell for every occasion. It offers an array of practical tips for bringing those magic essentials into your life, including: - Aphrodite's Refresher for adding zing to your love life -The Karmic Calmer for dealing for annoying situations - Wintergreen oil to keep your lover faithful - Candle Magic and Bathtime Brews to lift the blues - Astral Armour for times of crisis - Patchouli, cypress and mimosa to banish jealousy With its sparkling spells and creative charms, this magical gem of a book will have you and others spellbound. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Another Fine Mess Tim Moore (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp ISBN13: 9781787290235 ISBN13: 978-1-78729-023-5 ISBN10: 1787290239 EAN: 9781787290235 x Description: Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman - switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford. Lacking any mechanical knowledge or intuition, he sets off to bully a car from East to West armed only with a top speed of 25 mph, a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels (again) and a truckload of 'wise-ass Limey liberal gumption'. His route takes him exclusively through Trump-voting counties as he travels the nation meeting the everyday folk who voted red, or rather orange. Along the way he drives through the disintegrating rust belt, Detroit - the spiritual home of the Model T, through the mid-west, cowboy country and finally threading he way through a lonely stretch of Oregon, 'where everyone is either a lumberjack or a prison officer'. And he needs to do it in three months before the wall goes up and he's booted back to Blighty. With his trademark blend of humour, perceptive insight and peril, Tim Moore gives us a unique vantage point into Trump's America. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini Caroline Moorehead (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 355g ISBN13: 9780099590156 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959015-6 ISBN10: 0099590158 EAN: 9780099590156 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy, and antifascist resistance was born. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family - their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to be Famous Caitlin Moran (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h216mm x w135mm x s23mm 341g ISBN13: 9780091956721 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195672-1 ISBN10: 0091956722 EAN: 9780091956721 x Description: Life is always better backstage, isn't it? 'Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump' - Helen Fielding, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary A funny, riotous novel about a young women making it in a world where men hold all the power from the Sunday Times bestselling author of HOW TO BUILD A GIRL ---------------------------------------------------I'm Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be nineteen, but I'm wise enough to know that everyone around me is handling fame very, very badly. My unrequited love, John Kite, has scored an unexpected Number One album, then exploded into a Booze And Drugs HellTM - as rockstars do. And my new best friend - the maverick feminist Suzanne Banks, of The Branks - has amazing hair, but writer's block and a rampant pill problem. So I've decided I should become a Fame Doctor. I'm going to use my new monthly column for The Face to write about every ridiculous, surreal, amazing aspect of a million people knowing your name. But when my two-night-stand with edgy comedian Jerry Sharp goes wrong, people start to know my name for all the wrong reasons. `He's a vampire. He destroys bright young girls. Also, he's a total dick' Suzanne warned me. But by that point, I'd already had sex with him. Bad sex. Now I'm one of the girls he's trying to destroy. He needs to be stopped. But how can one woman stop a bad, famous, powerful man? ----------------------------------------------------
'A deliciously funny sequel to How to Build a Girl' - Red Magazine 'This is funny, philosophical, and poignant in equal measure. Glorious and life-enhancing' - Nina Stibbe 'A filthy, gutsy, exhilarating call to arms' - Emma-Jane Unsworth _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Big Little Lies: Now an HBO limited series Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 341g ISBN13: 9781405931564 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3156-4 ISBN10: 1405931566 EAN: 9781405931564 x Description: DISCOVER the NO.1 BESTSELLING novel behind the EMMY WINNING, GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD WINNING HBO TV series. GET READY for the HIGHLY ANTICIPATED second series of Big Little Lies, by reading the first book . . . ----------------------------Perfect families, perfect houses, perfect lives. Three mothers, Jane, Madeline and Celeste appear to have it all . . . but do they? They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control. ----------------------------Single mum Jane has just moved to town. She's got her little boy in tow - plus a secret she's been carrying for five years. On the first day of the school run she meets Madeline - a force to be reckoned with, who remembers everything and forgives no one - and Celeste, the kind beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare, but is inexplicably ill at ease. They both take Jane under their wing - while careful to keep their own secrets under wraps. But a minor incident involving the children of all three women rapidly escalates: playground whispers become spiteful rumours until no one can tell the truth from the lies. It was always going to end in tears, but how did it end in murder? If you loved Big Little Lies and want other readers like you to discover the unbelievable twist, then leave a review below . . . -------------------------'Blame and guilt, forgiveness and retribution, love and betrayal. A tense, page-turning story . . . a great read' Mail on Sunday 'Blending romance, comedy and mystery, this is a wonderful book - full of brains, guts and heart' Sunday Mirror 'A hell of a good book. Funny and scary' Stephen King 'Brilliant, standout, superbly clever. Moriarty writes vividly, wittily and wickedly' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718180300 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8030-0 ISBN10: 0718180305 EAN: 9780718180300 x Description: The eagerly-anticipated new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind Emmy-award-winning HBO series Big Little Lies and smash-hit novel The Husband's Secret Praise for Liane Moriarty: 'One of the few writers I'll drop anything for' Jojo Moyes 'Staggeringly brilliant' Sophie Hannah 'Fascinating and compassionate' Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Those Other Women Nicola Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 309g ISBN13: 9781405927093 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2709-3 ISBN10: 1405927097 EAN: 9781405927093 x Description: Poppy never thought her husband wanted children - especially not with her best friend. When Poppy arrives home to find her husband and best friend sitting side by side at her kitchen table, she thinks they're planning her a birthday surprise . . . Little does she know, they're waiting to tell her about their affair. And worse, that they're having a baby. Now everywhere she goes, mothers are reminding her of their betrayal. So when Poppy meets a woman who wants to help her fight back, it seems like a good idea. But how well does she know her? Is she there to help . . . or does she have an agenda of her own?
What readers are saying: 'I stayed up late reading this . . . it was brilliant' 'An evocative, exciting story filled with a dark humour' 'Just as compelling and moreish as I'd expected'
'I was hooked and raced through' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Secrets and Lies Sinead Moriarty (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w129mm x s27mm 309g ISBN13: 9780241981061 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98106-1 ISBN10: 0241981069 EAN: 9780241981061 x Description: 'Moriarty [tackles] uncomfortable and painful subjects, weaving them into compelling thought-provoking stories ... heartfelt and deeply moving' Irish Independent The new novel from the Richard and Judy Book Club author and Number One Bestseller! When her children are offered a scholarship to a prestigious school Lucy Murphy is ecstatic. Her plan for a glittering future ended when she became pregnant. But there will be no limit to what her twins can achieve. Stuck in her dreams for their imaginary lives, Lucy doesn't see what is right in front of her - that she is thinking of her own ambitions, not her children's. And that life can be challenging for seventeen-year-olds, especially in the era of social media. Until catastrophe strikes, Lucy remains blind to the cost of forcing her wishes on the twins, particularly her sensitive daughter. To have any hope of surviving as a family, all three will have to face up to some surprising and difficult truths . . . 'Both heart-breaking and heart-warming ... a joy to read' Woman's Way Praise for Sinead Moriarty's novels 'A fascinating exploration of difficult subjects ... Moriarty writes with compelling authority' Irish Times 'There is warmth and heart aplenty in this delicately told story' Daily Mail 'OMG! I'm an emotional wreck after reading this novel, probably not helped by the fact that I pulled an all-nighter to finish it ... I just could not put it down' Eileen Dunne, RTE 'Heartfelt and deeply moving ... I couldn't put it down.' Susan Lewis 'We ate this fabulous story up - 4 stars' Heat magazine 'Beautifully written and sensitive' Woman's Way 'Intriguing and thought provoking ... a great read.' Katie Fforde 'Gripping and thought-provoking - I was desperate to discover how it would pan out!' Paige Toon _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations Thomas Morris (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 310g ISBN13: 9781784703257 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-325-7 ISBN10: 1784703257 EAN: 9781784703257 x Description: 'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie, Sunday Times For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing `blue baby' procedure to the first human heart transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the surgeon's shoulder, showing us the heart's inner workings and failings. It describes both a human story and a history of risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London Ian Mortimer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s29mm 355g ISBN13: 9780099593393 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959339-3 ISBN10: 0099593394 EAN: 9780099593393 x Description: The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook. If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It is the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London; bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II - the civil wars are over and a magnificent new era has begun. But what would it really be like to live in Restoration Britain? Where would you stay and what would you eat? How much should you pay for one of those elaborate wigs? Should you trust a physician who advises you to drink fresh cow's urine to cure your gout? Why are boys made to smoke in school? And why are you unlikely to get a fair trial in court? The third volume in the series of Ian Mortimer's bestselling Time Traveller's Guides answers these crucial questions and encourages us to reflect on the customs and practices of daily life. This unique guide not only teaches us about the seventeenth century but makes us look with fresh eyes at the modern world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trust No One Anthony Mosawi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9780718186388 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8638-8 ISBN10: 0718186389 EAN: 9780718186388 x Description: My name is Sara Eden This is all I can remember. There are government agents pursuing me. They think I know something they want. They will never stop.
I could be a danger. I could be a weapon. I could be a victim. The only thing I know for certain is, I must . . . TRUST NO ONE. ___________ I Am Pilgrim meets Orphan X in TRUST NO ONE, a high-concept read that grips and entertains like a Hollywood thriller . . . 'Will have you guessing till the very last page. Explosively exciting, Trust No One is an instant spy classic' Tom Marcus, former MI5 agent and bestselling author of Soldier Spy 'Furiously paced' Observer _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp 275g ISBN13: 9781787330412 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-041-2 ISBN10: 1787330419 EAN: 9781787330412 x Description: A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman's experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn't just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us
how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate - dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 - this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America's major young writers working at the height of her powers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dynasties: The Rise and Fall of Animal Families Stephen Moss (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
BBC Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp ISBN13: 9781785943010 ISBN13: 978-1-78594-301-0 ISBN10: 1785943014 EAN: 9781785943010 x Description: Family isn't just important. It's everything. From lions hunting as a pride to penguins huddling together to keep from freezing in the bitter Antarctic winter, many animals are dependent on complex social relationships for their survival. Powerful dynasties lay claim to vast swathes of territory, fighting off rivals and securing their hunting grounds for generations to come. Dynasty offers an immersive insight into the shifting hierarchies of animal families. Each chapter follows a different dynasty, from the Marsh Lions of the Masai Mara to rival packs of painted wolves, from a tiger protecting her newborn cubs to a chimpanzee troop and the penguin colonies of the Antarctic. Alongside tender moments when bonds are strengthened through grooming and play, the book charts the rivalries that tip the balance of power, when family members turn against each other and younger animals grow strong enough to challenge for control. With over 200 stunning photographs and insights from the crew of the BBC series, Dynasty reveals in astonishing detail the intricate social lives of our planet's most fascinating animals. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ageless Beauty: Discover the best-kept beauty secrets from the editors at Vogue Paris Clemence von Mueffling (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s27mm 392g ISBN13: 9780718188542 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8854-2 ISBN10: 0718188543 EAN: 9780718188542 x Description: Discover the best-kept beauty secrets from three generations of editors and experts at Vogue Paris . . . ------------Your guide to French beauty lets you in on . . . * Essential advice on how to make simple changes to your beauty habits, from the correct way to wash your hair to the vital items no make-up bag should be without. *
How to give your skin a healthy glow in just a few simple steps.
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Advice for women of all ages, Jeunesse, Plenitude and Maturite, to ensure energy, confidence and happiness.
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Which self-tanners to use and how to apply for a beautiful, healthy, summer tan.
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The four pillars of French wellness: food, posture, exercise and movement you need and dormez-vous.
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And much more . . .
Clemence Von Mueffling draws on her family's wisdom and passion to show how you can achieve effortless French beauty at any age. Filled with tips, intimate anecdotes and expert interviews, Ageless Beauty is sure to become every woman's definitive beauty guide. ------------'A delicious dose of effortless chic, timeless glamour, priceless beauty secrets, self-care and self-confidence' Sarah Brown, former Beauty Director, Vogue 'This book is a magical guide, with expert advice in three categories so women of all ages will feel it is specifically tailored to them' Aerin Lauder, Style and Image Director of Estee Lauder _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Smoke and Ashes Abir Mukherjee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s25mm 459g ISBN13: 9781911215158 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-15-8 ISBN10: 1911215159 EAN: 9781911215158 x Description: `Smoke and Ashes is Abir Mukherjee's best book yet; a brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil beautifully crafted.' CJ SANSOM **From the winner of the 2017 CWA Historical Dagger Award** India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate a grisly murder, he is stunned at the sight of the body: he's seen this before. Last night, in a drug addled haze, he stumbled across a corpse with the same ritualistic injuries. It seems like there's a deranged killer on the loose. Unfortunately for Sam, the corpse was in an opium den and revealing his presence there could cost him his career. With the aid of his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, Sam must try to solve the two murders, all the while keeping his personal demons secret, before somebody else turns up dead. Set against the backdrop of the fervent fight for Indian independence, and rich with the atmosphere of 1920s Calcutta, Smoke and Ashes is the brilliant new historical mystery in this award-winning series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A State of Freedom Neel Mukherjee (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9781784701734 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-173-4 ISBN10: 1784701734 EAN: 9781784701734 x Description: What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more.
Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Killing Commendatore Haruki Murakami (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 704pp h240mm x w156mm ISBN13: 9781787300194 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-019-4 ISBN10: 1787300196 EAN: 9781787300194 x Description: The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84. In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Men Without Women: Stories Haruki Murakami (Author) Philip Gabriel (Translated by) Ted Goossen (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h198mm x w129mm x s15mm 170g ISBN13: 9781784705374 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-537-4 ISBN10: 1784705373 EAN: 9781784705374 x Description: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story Judy Murray (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 226g ISBN13: 9781784706494 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-649-4 ISBN10: 1784706493 EAN: 9781784706494 x Description: The Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award What happens when you find you have exceptional children? Do you panic? Put your head in the sand? Or risk everything and jump in head first? As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round can-do woman of wonder, Judy Murray is the ultimate role model for believing in yourself and reaching out to ambition. As a parent, coach, leader, she is an inspiration who has revolutionised British tennis. From the soggy community courts of Dunblane to the white heat of Centre Court at Wimbledon, Judy Murray's extraordinary memoir charts the challenges she has faced, from desperate finances and growing pains to entrenched sexism. We all need a story of `yes we can' to make us believe great things are possible. This is that story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet Tom Nancollas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Particular Books
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h222mm x w144mm x s26mm 385g ISBN13: 9781846149375 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-937-5 ISBN10: 1846149371 EAN: 9781846149375 x Description: Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitarian than that. Today we still depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland which form a ring of twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, socalled because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Lark: Introduction by Booker Prize-Winning Author Penelope Lively E. Nesbit (Author) Series:
Penguin Women Writers
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp 191g ISBN13: 9780241983485 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98348-5 ISBN10: 0241983487 EAN: 9780241983485 x Description: 'A charming and brilliantly entertaining novel... shot through with the light-hearted Nesbit touch' Penelope Lively, from the introduction "When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got - to have a lark entirely on our own? No chaperone, no rules, no..." "No present income or future prospects," said Lucilla. It's 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English countryside. In an attempt to earn their living, the orphaned cousins embark on a series of misadventures - cutting flowers from their front garden and selling them to passers-by, inviting paying guests who disappear without paying - all the while endeavouring to stave off the attentions of male admirers, in a bid to secure their independence. 'To come upon any Nesbit today, hitherto unread... is like receiving a letter from a friend whom you have believed dead' New York Times 'A wry, charming delight of a book' The Pool _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Railway Children: With an Introduction From Jacqueline Wilson E. Nesbit (Author) Series:
Puffin Classics
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp h184mm x w138mm x s26mm 306g ISBN13: 9780241347904 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34790-4 ISBN10: 0241347904 EAN: 9780241347904 x Description: Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live a lovely life in a lovely London villa with their lovely mother and father. But all that will change. When Father is taken away unexpectedly, they have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. Each day, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to Father. Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father's disappearance. ----------One of the best-loved classics of all time published in hardback with a wonderful introduction by Jacqueline Wilson. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Story of the Amulet E. Nesbit (Author) H. R. Millar (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h178mm x w129mm x s21mm 220g ISBN13: 9780141377605 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137760-5 ISBN10: 0141377607 EAN: 9780141377605 x Description: At the end of Five Children and It the five children promised not to ask the Psammead for another wish as long as they lived, but expressed a half wish to see it again some time. They find 'it' again in a pet shop in Camden Town, and their magic adventures start over again. 'It' leads them to a magic amulet - half of it actually - which they use it to try and find the other half. It takes them back to ancient Egypt and Babylon. The Queen of Babylon visits them in London, bringing all her ancient customs with her - which is awkward. They visit the lost continent of Atlantis. They see Julius Caesar in the flesh. But none of these adventures run smoothly, and if they forget the 'word of power' or lose the amulet, what in the world will happen to them? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Macbeth Jo Nesbo (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 624pp 426g ISBN13: 9780099598060 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959806-0 ISBN10: 009959806X EAN: 9780099598060 x Description: JO NESBO: #1 Sunday Times bestseller, #1 New York Times bestseller, 40 million books sold worldwide He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's rewarded for his success. Power. Money. Respect. They're all within reach. But a man like him won't get to the top. Plagued by hallucinations and paranoia, Macbeth starts to unravel. He's convinced he won't get what is rightfully his. Unless he kills for it. `The king of all crime writers' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry Randolph M. Nesse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Feb 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241291085 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29108-5 ISBN10: 0241291089 EAN: 9780241291085 x Description: One of the world's most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illness With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us with fragile minds at all. Drawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can become excessive. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. Other mental disorders, such as addiction and anorexia, result from the mismatch between modern environments and our ancient human past. Taken together, these insights and many more help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering, and show us new paths for relieving it. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings will fascinate anyone who wonders how our minds can be so powerful, yet so fragile, and how love and goodness came to exist in organisms shaped to maximize Darwinian fitness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only Human: Themis Files Book 3 Sylvain Neuvel (Author) Series:
Themis Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp 457g ISBN13: 9780718189549 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8954-9 ISBN10: 071818954X EAN: 9780718189549 x Description: We always thought the biggest threat to humanity would come from the outside. We were wrong. As the human race picks up the pieces of destruction left behind, a new world order emerges. New alliances are formed. Old divisions are strengthened. And, with a power struggle fuelled by the threat of mutually assured destruction, nothing is certain. At a time when the world's nations should have been coming together, they have never been more divided. With the human race teetering on the brink of total war, Rose, Vincent and Eva must choose sides. But doing the right thing might mean making the ultimate sacrifice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Waking Gods: Themis Files Book 2 Sylvain Neuvel (Author) Series:
Themis Files
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 234g ISBN13: 9781405921916 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2191-6 ISBN10: 1405921919 EAN: 9781405921916 x Description: 'Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z' PIERCE BROWN A twenty-story-tall metallic figure appears in the middle of Regent's Park. The caretakers at London Zoo notice it first at around 4am. The figure, or robot, bears a great resemblance to the UN robot known as Themis . . . Who made Themis? It's been ten years since Themis - a giant alien metal robot - was revealed to the world by Dr Rose Franklin. It now stands at the heart of the Earth Defense Corps - in case the makers of Themis return to claim it. Why did they leave it here? Rose and her team are still seeking answers to Themis's origins when a second and even bigger robot appears in London's Regent's Park. A military response backfires, reducing half the city to bare earth. And what if they come back? As more robots appear across the world, Rose knows it's a race against time to discover where they've come from, what they want and - most importantly - how to stop them . . .
'Captivating' BUZZFEED 'A sheer blast from start to finish. I haven't had this much fun reading in ages' BLAKE CROUCH 'Non-stop action and adventure. In a word: unputdownable' KIRKUS _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Messed-Up Life Susin Nielsen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp 211g ISBN13: 9781783445523 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-552-3 ISBN10: 1783445521 EAN: 9781783445523 x Description: Violet is not impressed with her TV director dad: he's decided to abandon his family in Vancouver to start over with a new younger wife in LA. To Violet, it's like he's traded his old life for a better one - complete with new and improved children. To make matters worse, her mom has taken up with a dorky new man called Dudley Wiener. Violet decides to take control. She needs a new stepfather who is perfect, charming and will show Dad what he's missing: she needs George Clooney, Hollywood superstar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Fixed Address Susin Nielsen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s18mm 266g ISBN13: 9781783447442 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-744-2 ISBN10: 1783447443 EAN: 9781783447442 x Description: Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. So far, pretty normal. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Astrid promises it's only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn't have enough to eat. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse. But Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid's lives around: he's going to go on his favourite game show Who, What, Where, When and win the cash prize. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power . . . Susin Nielsen deftly combines humor, heartbreak, and hope in this moving story about people who slip through the cracks in society, and about the power of friendship and community to make all the difference. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories Audrey Niffenegger (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 319g ISBN13: 9781784870072 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-007-2 ISBN10: 1784870072 EAN: 9781784870072 x Description: EDITED, INTRODUCED AND ILLUSTRATED BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Haunted houses, spectral chills, and of course, the odd cat. . . In this volume, Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, has brought together her selection of the very creepiest, weirdest and wittiest ghost stories around. Scare yourself silly with old favourites by Edgar Allan Poe and M. R. James. Entertain the unnerving with tales from Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link and Audrey Niffenegger herself. And as bedtime nears, allay your fears with funny new writing from Amy Giacalone and the classic wit of Saki. When the nights draw in and the fire burns low, enjoy the eeriness, the dread and the comedy of all things ghostly. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kill 'Em All John Niven (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp 348g ISBN13: 9781785151583 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-158-3 ISBN10: 1785151584 EAN: 9781785151583 x Description: The long-awaited sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS - preorder now! It is 2017 - the time of Trump, Brexit and fake news. And time for the return of Steven Stelfox, exactly twenty years on from his Britpop heyday. Now forty-seven and rich beyond the dreams of avarice, Stelfox works only occasionally as a music industry `consultant'. A fixer. A problem solver. He's had a call from his old friend James Trellick, now president of Unigram, one of the largest record companies in America. Trellick has a huge headache on his hands in the shape of... Lucius Du Pre. The biggest pop star on earth. Well, once the biggest pop star on earth. Now he's a helpless junkie and a prolific, unrepentant sexual predator. Through a programme of debt restructuring so complex even Trellick can barely understand it, Du Pre is massively in hock to the record company. The only way he can possibly pay it off is to embark on a worldwide comeback tour he's in no shape to do. The picture is further complicated when the parents of one of Du Pre's `special friends' begin blackmailing him. If their video gets out, Du Pre's brand will be utterly toxic and will take Unigram down with it. Enter Stelfox stage right. Only he has the lack of morality to spin this one. With stealth and cunning he begins to chart a road out of the nightmare and to make a killing in the process. For this age of `American carnage' - of populism, of the lowest common denominator, of the Big Lie - is truly Stelfox's time to shine. But in this time of uncertainty, nothing is a given. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
No Good Deed John Niven (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 213g ISBN13: 9780099592174 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959217-4 ISBN10: 0099592177 EAN: 9780099592174 x Description: ***Now available for preorder: KILL 'EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS*** The viciously funny novel by John Niven, bestselling author of Kill Your Friends and Straight White Male. What do you do when a homeless man knows your name? How about when he turns out to be a friend you haven't seen in twenty years? Do you treat him to a hot meal and see him on his way? Give him a wad of middle-class guilt money? Or take him in and get him back on his feet? For Alan, there's no question - only natural that he'd want to see his old mate Craig off the streets, even if only for a few nights, and into some clean clothes. But what if the successful life you've made for yourself - good job, happy marriage, lovely kids, grand Victorian house (you did well out of the property boom, thank you very much) - is one that that your old pal would quite like to have too?
Even if it means taking it from you? Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, No Good Deed is a funny and painful examination of friendship, the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades, and of men getting older as they fail and succeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Letters to Iris: The most uplifting book you will read this year, from the Number One bestselling author Elizabeth Noble (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780718155407 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-5540-7 ISBN10: 0718155408 EAN: 9780718155407 x Description: A gloriously uplifting story about love in all its forms from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author of The Reading Group and Things I Want My Daughters to Know Tess has a secret - one which is going to turn her life upside down in just nine months' time. The only person she can confide in is her beloved grandmother. But Iris is slipping further away each day. Then chance brings a stranger into Tess's life. Gigi's heart goes out to Tess, knowing what it's like to feel alone. She's determined to show her that there's a silver lining to every cloud. As their unlikely friendship blossoms, Tess feels inspired to open up. But something still holds her back - until she discovers Iris has a secret of her own. A suitcase of letters from another time, the missing pieces of a life she never shared. Could the letters hold the answers that Tess thought lost for ever? An uplifting, unforgettable story about keeping secrets, taking chances and finding happiness where you least expect it.
Praise for Elizabeth Noble 'A great writer. You'll be rooting for Noble's protagonists as soon as you meet them' Daily Mail 'Noble is the mistress of the tearjerking message of love' Express 'Deliciously readable' Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slow Motion Ghosts Jeff Noon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
23 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp ISBN13: 9780857525628 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-562-8 ISBN10: 085752562X EAN: 9780857525628
x Description: A dark and labyrinthine thriller from a bold new voice in crime fiction It is 1981. London is bruised by austerity, social unrest and racial tension, and the police are at war. Anger has erupted in the Brixton Riots and is finding expression in protest, anarchy and punk. For Detective Inspector Hobbes, the battle lines are being redrawn within his own ranks as right and wrong are clouded by prejudice. Into this mess comes a murder. A promising young singer has been maimed and killed and the artistry of the crime is disturbing. On the hunt for the killer, Hobbes begins an investigation that will lead him deep into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday. A cult of personality that hides from the problems of the city and escapes to a world of its own, a world that is at once seductive and devastating. How far will Hobbes have to go to learn the truth? And how many more must die before he does? Bringing the trademark imagination of his acclaimed early novels, Jeff Noon has delivered a police procedural with a difference - an intricate, twisting crime novel that pulls you in and doesn't let go. Jeff Noon is the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars, as well as two collections of short fictions, and is also the crime fiction reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in Brighton. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Complete Borrowers Mary Norton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 944pp h198mm x w129mm x s56mm 654g black and white line ISBN13: 9780241340370 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34037-0 ISBN10: 0241340373 EAN: 9780241340370 x Description: The complete collection of the classic Borrowers stories by Mary Norton. Arietty Clock isn't your typical little girl. Although she is little. Very little, in fact. She's a Borrower. She lives with her family in a large house that isn't technically theirs- it belongs to the 'human beans'. Arietty and her father, Pod, spend their days borrowing the human beans' possessions- her father is very good at borrowing. He can scale curtains using a hatpin and bring back a doll's teacup without breaking it! The Borrowers are very happy with their life and borrowing ways. Until Arietty makes friends with a boy. A human bean boy. And from that moment, danger is never far away. Can they avoid the great disaster of 'being seen'? In this complete collection, you can join Arietty on all of her adventures! The Borrowers Afield: The Clock family escape to the fields where their cousins live, but it's a long and dangerous journey. At last they find a new home and adapt to country life. The Borrowers Afloat: Homeless again, Arrietty looks forward to a life away from the dark country cottage, to one full of sunshine. The Borrowers Aloft: The family are now living in the model village of Little Fordham - a complete village tailored to their size. All they have to do is avoid being seen by the visitors, but one night the owner of a rival village comes with a cardboard box ready to catch them . . . The Borrowers Avenged: Pod, Homily and Arrietty have managed to escape with the help of Spiller. They move into the old rectory where they live happily until the Potters come looking for them. After a horrifying encounter in the church, the Potters get their just desserts and the Borrowers can live peacefully once and for all. Poor Stainless: Young Stainless, a Borrower boy, goes missing on a mission to borrow some parsley and an enormous search ensues.
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Skin Deep: The most gripping thriller of 2018 Liz Nugent (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp ISBN13: 9780241979730 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97973-0 ISBN10: 0241979730 EAN: 9780241979730 x Description: 'Perfect summer read for those who like their escapism on the darker side' Ian Rankin The deliciously sinister new novel from the No 1 bestselling author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, Lying in Wait' 'I could probably have been an actress. It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else. Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?' Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out. The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia. She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party. As dawn breaks she stumbles home through the back streets. Even before she opens her door she can hear the flies buzzing. She did not expect the corpse inside to start decomposing quite so quickly . . . 'Bloody brilliant!' Denise Mina 'An extraordinary writer - Liz Nugent maps the human mind as a cartographer charts new worlds: She's boundlessly curious and totally unflinching' A.J. Finn 'The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work - no one gets under the skin of monstrous characters like she does' Tammy Cohen 'A wonderful feat of imagination, totally gripping, with a fascinating character at its heart' Sabine Durrant 'Dark, brutal and brilliant' Colette McBeth 'A triumph, from first page to last!' Sarah Hilary 'Monumentally good. Liz Nugent is a beautiful writer and among the very best storytellers in the world' Donal Ryan 'I loved, loved, loved Skin Deep - the compassion of it, the beauty of the language, how glamour and horror intersect, how the tension twists tighter and tighter and is brilliantly done' Marian Keyes 'Dazzling ... chilling, mesmerising and, ultimately, devastating. Pure storytelling genius' Mark Edwards 'Her darkest book yet - a compelling one-sitting read' Sinead Crowley 'Utterly gripping, fast paced, and featuring my favourite sociopathic female character since Lady Macbeth' Louise O'Neill 'Incredibly dark, twisting and utterly mesmerising - you will not be able to put this down' Sinead Moriarty 'Pitch dark and thrillingly original' Jane Casey _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Becoming Michelle Obama (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 448pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241334140 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33414-0 ISBN10: 0241334144 EAN: 9780241334140 x Description: An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations - and whose story inspires us to do the same. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp ISBN13: 9781787300750 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-075-0 ISBN10: 1787300757 EAN: 9781787300750 x Description: A compelling and surreal mystery story by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from one of Japan's greatest writers. For readers of The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Possible World Liese O'Halloran Schwarz (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
09 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 479g ISBN13: 9781786331199 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-119-9 ISBN10: 1786331195 EAN: 9781786331199 x Description: 'Every now and then I come across a book I wish I'd written. The Possible World is one of those... A gorgeously wrought exploration of who gets to tell the story of our lives, and who gets to inhabit that story with us' Jodi Picoult Ben is the sole survivor of a crime that claims his mother and countless others. He is just six years old, and already he must find a new place for himself in the world. Lucy, the doctor who tends to Ben, is grappling with a personal upheaval of her own. She feels a profound connection to the little boy who has lived through the unthinkable. Will recovering his memory heal him, or damage him further? Clare has long believed that the lifetime of secrets she's been keeping don't matter to anyone anymore, until an unexpected encounter prompts her to tell her story. As they each struggle to confront the events - past and present - that have defined their lives, something stronger than fate is working to bring them together... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The New York Stories John O'Hara (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 318g ISBN13: 9781784873738 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-373-8 ISBN10: 178487373X EAN: 9781784873738 x Description: `Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons... O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society' Wall Street Journal John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the tragic edge of epiphany, the stories collected here are among O'Hara's finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of the New Yorker. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Bandit Queen Natalia O'Hara (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 32pp h287mm x w217mm x s12mm 405g ISBN13: 9780141374031 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137403-1 ISBN10: 0141374039 EAN: 9780141374031
x Description: "O Bandit Queen!" the bandits cried. "Little horror! Poison weed! We'll give you everything a queen could ever need..." The bandits give their queen treasure, tigers, mischief and mayhem. But sometimes a little girl needs something more... A book about finding family in unexpected places, from the creators of Hortense and the Shadow. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jamie Cooks Italy Jamie Oliver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 408pp h251mm x w197mm x s37mm 1380g ISBN13: 9780718187736 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8773-6 ISBN10: 0718187733 EAN: 9780718187736 x Description: Escape to Italy with Jamie's new cookbook . . . Jamie returns to cooking the food he loves the most, getting right to heart of the Italian kitchen in his ultimate go-to Italian cookbook. He shows you that truly authentic Italian cooking is simple, beautiful and achievable. Jamie's Channel 4 series Jamie Cooks Italy is on every Monday at 8:30pm . . . find all of the recipes and more inside. _____________ This wonderful, best-ever collection of recipes, deliver on big flavours and comfort; a celebration of truly great Italian food you'll want to cook for yourself, your friends and your family. From this week's episode . . . * PIZZA FRITTA is one of the oldest forms of pizza and the classic, ultimate street food of Naples, stuffed with gorgeous ricotta, Parmesan, mozzarella and basil. *
NEAPOLITAN STYLE PIZZA BASE, authentic, crispy, thin, fluffy and delicate.
* BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE DELICOUS TOMATO SAUCE with NEAPOLITAN TOPPING . . . AND JAMIE'S FAVOURITE BROCCOLI, CHILLI AND SPICY SAUSAGE PIZZA TOPPING. *
TUNA FETTUCINE found on the pastel painted island of Procida with baby courgettes, sweet cherry tomatoes, pecorino and crushed almonds.
* FISH IN CRAZY WATER. A true seafood celebration and showstopper, aqua pazza is the ultimate island fish dish. Whole fish poached in what the locals like to call crazy water. Simple, super tasty seafood. _____________ Featuring 140 recipes in Jamie's fuss-free and easy-to-follow style, the book has chapters on Antipasti, Salads, Soups, Pasta, Rice & Dumplings, Meat, Fish, Sides, Bread & Pastry, Dessert and all of the Italian basics you'll ever need to know. Jamie fell in love with Italian food 25 years ago. Now he's sharing his ultimate recipes, a mixture of fast and slow cooking, famous classics with a Jamie twist, simple everyday dishes and more indulgent labour-of-love choices for weekends and parties. VIVA L'ITALIA! Don't wait, order Jamie Cooks Italy now, and be the first to try food that will transport you straight to the landscapes of Italy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Warlight Michael Ondaatje (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm x s22mm 325g ISBN13: 9781787330726 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-072-6 ISBN10: 1787330729 EAN: 9781787330726 x Description: In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Red Rebels: The Glazers and the FC Revolution John-Paul O'Neill (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781787290105 ISBN13: 978-1-78729-010-5 ISBN10: 1787290107 EAN: 9781787290105 x Description: When the biggest club in the world is stolen from you, it's time to start again. In 2004, Manchester United was the richest football club in the world, with global commercial success to match its dominance on the pitch. By the end of 2005 the club had been plundered into record levels of debt, as Malcolm Glazer took over. To this day, the debt is estimated to be well in excess of 300m. The fans were furious. The club they loved was being used as an asset to secure huge loans. It was an insult to the achievements of their magnificent club - to the traditions andheritage that United represented. But whilst the fanbase was united in concern, one group took matters a step further. They were the Red Rebels. And if the club they loved was being stripped from them, they would walk away and build their own. This is the story of FC United of Manchester, the new club born out of a supporter revolution. It is a club built against all odds, with a transparent manifesto designed to protect their passionate fans. But, as generations that have gone before will testify, football today is a very different game. How long can a modern British club stay true to its principles? And in a noble attempt to do so, could it ultimately tear itself apart? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
There There Tommy Orange (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 399g ISBN13: 9781787300361 ISBN13: 978-1-78730-036-1 ISBN10: 1787300366 EAN: 9781787300361 x Description: Described as the moral heir to George Saunders, Tommy Orange is writing from the urban Native American community in Oakland, California. There There takes us into this community as its characters prepare a celebration of their culture in the face of poverty, violence, addiction and lack of representation. The story is told from the points of view of a dozen different characters involved in putting together a powwow in the city stadium. Early in the book we intuit that something terrible will happen there. Much of the novel's emotional power comes from reading against this intuition, and connecting with the unique voices - male and female, old and young - from around the community as the clock ticks down. Like the best fiction, this is vivid and real in its setting but universal enough to be speaking about a disenfranchised community anywhere. It could not be more timely. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ricochet: David Bowie 1983: An Intimate Portrait Denis O'Regan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Particular Books
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 328pp ISBN13: 9781846149726 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-972-6 ISBN10: 184614972X EAN: 9781846149726 x Description: A breathtaking, never-before-seen glimpse into life on tour with David Bowie, by the late singer's official tour photographer In 1983 David Bowie set out on the Serious Moonlight Tour, his biggest ever. On the road with him was his official photographer, Denis O'Regan. Few artists and photographers have had such a close touring relationship. This book is the result: a never-before-seen photographic portrait of a year with Bowie, from the theatre of performance to his most unguarded moments. Introduced by O'Regan and with every single image personally approved by Bowie, this is an intimate view of an icon at the height of his fame. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Beautiful Animals Lawrence Osborne (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 213g ISBN13: 9781784700379 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-037-9 ISBN10: 1784700371 EAN: 9781784700379 x Description: The best intentions can be deadly During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another's lives to devastating effect.
When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Only to Sleep Lawrence Osborne (Author) Series:
Philip Marlowe
Edition:
Imprint:
Hogarth
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h216mm x w135mm x s19mm 292g ISBN13: 9781781090589 ISBN13: 978-1-78109-058-9 ISBN10: 1781090580 EAN: 9781781090589 x Description: The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers. With a case that has his name written all over it. At last Marlowe is back where he belongs. His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn - supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowe's speciality. But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne's resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon. Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and ebook from Penguin Books. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gathering Dark: New in the series, Inspector McLean 8 James Oswald (Author) Series:
Inspector McLean
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 319g ISBN13: 9781405925310 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2531-0 ISBN10: 1405925310 EAN: 9781405925310 x Description: The gripping new crime thriller in the highly acclaimed Inspector McLean series A truck driver loses control in central Edinburgh, ploughing into a crowded bus stop and spilling his vehicle's toxic load. The consequences are devastating. DI Tony McLean witnesses the carnage. Taking control of the investigation, he soon realises there is much that is deeply amiss - and everyone involved seems to have something to hide. But as McLean struggles to uncover who caused the tragedy, a greater crisis develops: the new Chief Superintendent's son is missing, last seen in the area of the crash... Brilliantly plotted and utterly compelling, this is the gripping new novel in the bestselling Inspector McLean series.
PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR McLEAN SERIES 'Crime fiction's next big thing' Sunday Telegraph 'Oswald's writing is in a class above most' Daily Express 'Creepy, gritty and gruesome' Sunday Mirror 'The new Ian Rankin' Daily Record 'Hugely enjoyable' Mirror 'Oswald is among the leaders in the new batch of excellent Scottish crime writers' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ottolenghi SIMPLE Yotam Ottolenghi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h277mm x w202mm x s30mm 1396g ISBN13: 9781785031168 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-116-8 ISBN10: 1785031163 EAN: 9781785031168 x Description: Everything you love about Ottolenghi, made simple. Yotam Ottolenghi's award-winning recipes are always a celebration: an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinations that Ottolenghi is loved for, but with minimal hassle for maximum joy. Bursting with colourful photography, Ottolenghi SIMPLE showcases Yotam's standout dishes that will suit whatever type of cooking you find easy whether that's getting wonderful food on the table in under 30 minutes, using just one pot to make a delicious meal, or a flavoursome dish that can be prepared ahead and then served when you're ready. These brilliant, flavour-forward dishes are all SIMPLE in at least one (but very often more than one) way: S - short on time: less than 30 minutes I - 10 ingredients or less M - make ahead P - pantry Llazy E - easier than you think Ottolenghi SIMPLE is the stunning new cookbook we have all been wishing for: Yotam Ottolenghi's vibrant food made easy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Walls Hollie Overton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 287g ISBN13: 9781784753474 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-347-4 ISBN10: 1784753475 EAN: 9781784753474 x Description: From the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club pick, Baby Doll, comes a riveting thriller with domestic violence, murder and how far one woman will go to protect her family at its core. 'Every bit as gripping as her best-selling debut Baby Doll ... an addictive and suspenseful thriller' Sunday Mirror 'Stunning... Dark tale' Heat 'Will keep you gripped' Fabulous, The Sun on Sunday 5 stars 'From the author of the stunning Baby Doll comes this dark tale' HEAT magazine 'A suspense-fuelled read, offering a unique insight into domestic violence' i Paper 'Baby Doll was dark, twisty and magnificent and [this] builds on her ability to place her female characters in the darkest of situations, only to see them fight their way to a world of survival' Stylist.co.uk *********************************************************************** What if murder is your only way out? Single mom Kristy Tucker works as a press agent for the Texas Department of Corrections handling everything on death row from inmate interviews, to chronicling the last moments during an execution. Her job exposes Kristy to the worst of humanity and it's one that's beginning to take its toll. So when Kristy meets Lance Dobson, her son's martial arts instructor, she believes she's finally found her happy ending. She's wrong. Kristy soon discovers that Lance is a monster. Forced to endure his verbal and physical abuse, Kristy is serving her own life sentence . . . unless she's willing to take matters into her own hands. Perfectly poised to exploit the criminal justice system she knows so well, Kristy sets out to get rid of Lance permanently. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Emerald Ruth Padel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 80pp 94g ISBN13: 9781784741075 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-107-5 ISBN10: 1784741078 EAN: 9781784741075
x Description: An elegy to a lost mother, Emerald is the moving new collection from prize-winning poet Ruth Padel `Here in deep earth, the black blossom of mourning still sifting within me I remembered that emerald was my birthstone ...'
Prize-winning poet Ruth Padel's heartfelt new collection is a grief observed: an elegy for her mother on her death at the age of ninety-seven. Exploring the riches of emerald lore, Padel follows the glint of green - `green for awakening / for bringing life back from the dead' - from memories of her mother, a naturalist, to the black honeycomb of a Colombian emerald mine and sunset-pink of the Emerald City, Jaipur. Beneath everything shines the jewel itself, `the only stone in which the flaws are prized'. Beautifully carved and cadenced, Emerald is a moving chronicle of value and loss, and a celebration of all that is precious in the life that remains. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adjustment Day Chuck Palahniuk (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
18 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h234mm x w153mm x s24mm 439g ISBN13: 9781787330962 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-096-2 ISBN10: 1787330966 EAN: 9781787330962 x Description: People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They've been reading a mysterious blue-black book and memorising its directives. They are ready for the reckoning. In this ingeniously comic work, Chuck Palahniuk's first novel in four years, he does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives, Adjustment Day inaugurates a new, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel, Palahniuk fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Erebus: The Story of a Ship Michael Palin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 555g ISBN13: 9781847948137 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-813-7 ISBN10: 1847948138 EAN: 9781847948137 x Description: HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships, a veteran of groundbreaking expeditions to the ends of the Earth. In 1848, it disappeared in the Arctic, its fate a mystery. In 2014, it was found. This is its story. ____________________________________ `Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end.' - Bill Bryson ____________________________________
Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter - brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the `Great Southern Barrier'; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus's final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist - when he wasn't shooting the local wildlife dead. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarctica's Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller. ____________________________________ 'This is an incredible book. I couldn't put it down. The Erebus story is the Arctic epic we've all been waiting for.' - Nicholas Crane `One robust little tub of a boat, two death-defying voyages to the ends of the earth. Palin has given us a fascinating account of extraordinary courage' Charlotte Gray, author of The Promise of Canada: People and Ideas that Shaped Our Country `What more could a reader ask for? Fascinating mystery, chilling adventure, compelling characters ... simply terrific writing by Michael Palin.' - Roy MacGregor, author of Original Highways: Travelling the Great Rivers of Canada `Michael Palin is a cracking good companion on this journey of ambition, longing, triumph and tragedy... the age of adventure lives on' - Alanna Mitchell, author of The Spinning Magnet: The Force that Created the Modern World and Could Destroy It _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Matt Parker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp ISBN13: 9780241360194 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36019-4 ISBN10: 0241360196 EAN: 9780241360194 x Description: We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' - it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill the gaps in what our brains can do naturally. Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, we love to read about what happens when maths errors make the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster stories with a happy ending. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness Tim Parks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp 461g ISBN13: 9781911215714 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-71-4 ISBN10: 191121571X EAN: 9781911215714 x Description: Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks. Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether
mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representation of a quite different reality outside. Colour, smell and sound, they tell us, occur only in our heads. Yet when neuroscientists look inside our brains to see what's going on, they find only billions of neurons exchanging electrical impulses and releasing chemical substances. Out of My Head tells the gripping, highly personal, often surprisingly funny, story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about this fascinating topic. It frames complex metaphysical considerations and technical laboratory experiments in terms we can all understand. Above all, it invites us to see space, time, colour and smell, sounds and sensations in an entirely new way. The world will feel more real after reading it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper Helen Parr (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h240mm x w162mm x s36mm 629g ISBN13: 9780241288948 ISBN13: 978-0-241-28894-8 ISBN10: 0241288940 EAN: 9780241288948 x Description: 'This is an extraordinary book. It is partly about the Falklands War itself and the terrible things that the Paras endured, and the terrible things that some of them did, but it is also about the white working class of the 1970s and why some men born into this class ended up marching across an island that most of them had never heard of. Thoughtful and sometimes heart-breaking' Richard Vinen, author of National Service Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands War, and examines the long aftermath of that conflict. It is a first in many ways - a history of the Parachute Regiment, a group with an elite and aggressive reputation; a study of close-quarters combat on the Falkland Islands; and an exploration of the many legacies of this short and symbolic war. Told unflinchingly through the experiences of people who lived through it, Our Boys shows how the Falklands conflict began to change Britain's relationship with its soldiers, and our attitudes to trauma and war itself. It is also the story of one particular soldier: the author's uncle, who was killed during the conflict, and whose fate has haunted both the author and his fellow paratroopers ever since. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone Richard Lloyd Parry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 244g ISBN13: 9781784704889 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-488-9 ISBN10: 1784704881 EAN: 9781784704889 x Description: **WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE** `The definitive book on the quake which killed more than 15,000 people.' Mail Online `You will not read a finer work of narrative non-fiction this year.' Economist `A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction.' Times Literary Supplement `A future classic of disaster journalism.' Observer On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,500 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. He met a priest who performed exorcisms on people possessed by the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a
village which had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the school playground in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a classic of literary non-fiction, a heart-breaking and intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the personal accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the bleak struggle to find consolation in the ruins. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
First Confession: A Sort of Memoir Chris Patten (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 259g ISBN13: 9780141983875 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198387-5 ISBN10: 0141983876 EAN: 9780141983875 x Description: Most politicians write autobiographies to 'set the record straight'. This is a different sort of memoir. Following his life as a self-confessed 'wet European' from parliament to Hong Kong and beyond, Chris Patten creates a meditation on personal and political identity which, in an age of simplification, shows the complexities of both. 'A defence of liberal conservatism ... If old-style centrism is to stage a comeback and reason to supplant stridency and authoritarianism, be it in west or east, the moderates can wave Patten's book on their way to their barricades' Jonathan Fenby, Financial Times 'Vivid, very well-written, First Confession joins the highest tier of recent works by British politicians' Paschal Donohoe, Irish Times 'Draws on his experience of four controversial institutions - the Tory party, the Vatican, the Chinese government and the BBC - to swell the tiny list of intelligent and cultured memoirs by front-line politicians' Mark Lawson, New Statesman, Books of the Year _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
17th Suspect: (Women's Murder Club 17) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Women's Murder Club
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s27mm 499g ISBN13: 9781780895222 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-522-2 ISBN10: 1780895224 EAN: 9781780895222 x Description: The bestselling 17th novel in the Women's Murder Club series A KILLER WITH A PLAN Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case of a series of shootings of the homeless in San Francisco, where the killer is methodical yet unpredictable. An encounter with a confidential informer leads her to disturbing conclusions - something has gone very wrong inside the police department itself. A DETECTIVE IN TOO DEEP The hunt for the killer lures Lindsay out of her jurisdiction, and Lindsay's friends in the Women's Murder Club are concerned that she's taking the crimes too much to heart. A PATH TO DANGER But with lives on the line, Lindsay can't stop herself from following the case into ever more terrifying terrain - even though the killer could cost her
everything... HOW FAR IS TOO FAR? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
All-American Murder James Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s29mm 552g ISBN13: 9781780898735 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-873-5 ISBN10: 1780898738 EAN: 9781780898735 x Description: `The man behind the hugely popular Alex Cross series has interviewed those closest to Hernandez to get the full, winding story on the NFL star turned murderer.' Sun `Patterson unravels Hernandez's complicated and troubling story.' CBS News 'This disturbing true-crime thriller is another fast and captivating Patterson read.' USA Today Aaron Hernandez was a college football All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. He was a star on the league-dominant New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record $40 million. Hernandez's every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life - one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go so wrong, so fast? Hernandez was the best athlete Connecticut's Bristol Central High had ever produced. But by the time he arrived at University of Florida, he was already courting trouble. As his fame grew and he joined the NFL, trouble followed him. Between the summers of 2012 and 2013, Hernandez was linked to a series of violent incidents culminating in the death of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro American football player who dated the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. All-American Murder is the first book to fully investigate the shocking story of Aaron Hernandez - from his meteoric rise in the world of American football to his first-degree murder conviction and the mystery of his own untimely death. Drawing on original, in-depth reporting, this is an explosive account of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crazy House James Patterson (Author) Series:
Crazy House
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow (Young)
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp 255g ISBN13: 9781784758523 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-852-3 ISBN10: 1784758523 EAN: 9781784758523 x Description: There were no charges. There was no trial. There will be no escape. Becca Greenfield, 17, disappeared one morning on her way to school. Her whole town, including her twin sister Cassie, is desperately searching for her. They won't find her. Becca's being held prisoner in the maximum-security crazy house, where she's on Death Row with other kids her age. And she's completely innocent. Until her execution, Becca's told to fit in and shut her mouth... but she's never been very good at either. Her sister Cassie was always the perfect twin.
Becca's only hope is that her twin sister will find her. That perfect little Cassie will stop following the rules and start breaking them, before it's too late. Because her jailers made a mistake that could get them both killed: They took the wrong twin. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Home Sweet Murder: (Murder Is Forever: Volume 2) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Murder Is Forever
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
22 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp 213g ISBN13: 9781787460805 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-080-5 ISBN10: 1787460800 EAN: 9781787460805 x Description: Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is Forever HOME SWEET MURDER: Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings at their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be shot, stabbed and tortured. And two others will fare worse . . . MURDER ON THE RUN: The middle-aged housekeeper found dead with a knife in her throat was bad. But the little boy was worse. After a bloody double homicide that puts Omaha, Nebraska, on the map, Detective Derek Mois promises the boy's parents he will catch the killer, no matter how long or far he runs . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Instinct James Patterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781787461307 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-130-7 ISBN10: 1787461300 EAN: 9781787461307 x Description: NOW A TV SERIES STARRING ALAN CUMMING Previously published as Murder Games A serial killer is loose on the streets of Manhattan. His victims appear to be total strangers. The only clue that links the crimes is the playing card left behind at each scene that hints at the next target. The killer, known in the tabloids as The Dealer, is baiting cops into a deadly guessing game that has the city increasingly on edge. Elizabeth Needham, the tenacious cop in charge of the case, turns to an unlikely ally - Dylan Reinhart, a brilliant professor whose book turned up in connection with the murders. As the public frenzy over The Dealer reaches a fever pitch, Dylan and Elizabeth must connect the clues to discover what the victims have in common before The Dealer runs through his entire deck. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Murder Beyond the Grave: (Murder Is Forever: Volume 3) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Murder Is Forever
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
06 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp 213g ISBN13: 9781787460812 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-081-2 ISBN10: 1787460819 EAN: 9781787460812 x Description: Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is Forever MURDER BEYOND THE GRAVE: Stephen Small has it all - a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking . . . MURDER IN PARADISE: High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, developers Jim and Bonnie Hood excitedly tour Camp Nelson Lodge. They intend to buy and modernise this beautiful rustic property, but the locals don't like rich outsiders changing their way of life. After a grisly shooting, everybody will discover just how you can make a killing in real estate . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Murder, Interrupted: (Murder Is Forever: Volume 1) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Murder Is Forever
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
25 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp 223g ISBN13: 9781787460799 ISBN13: 978-1-78746-079-9 ISBN10: 1787460797 EAN: 9781787460799 x Description: Two true-crime cases from the hit TV series Murder is Forever MURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. But when the bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives . . . MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS. Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically ill daughter. But when Gypsy Rose realises she isn't actually sick and Dee Dee has lied all these years, the daughter exacts her revenge . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Target: Alex Cross: (Alex Cross 26) James Patterson (Author) Series:
Alex Cross
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781780895185 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-518-5 ISBN10: 1780895186 EAN: 9781780895185
x Description: From the writer of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller, The President is Missing. TARGET: HEAD OF STATE A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire career. The Secret Service and the FBI deploy as well in the race to find the shooter. Alex is tasked by the new President to take a personal role with the FBI, leading an investigation unprecedented in scale and scope. TARGET: ALEX CROSS Alex has a horrible premonition: is the sniper's strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation? It isn't long before his fears explode into life, and the nation plunges into a full-blown Constitutional crisis. His ingenuity, his training, and his capacity for battle are tested beyond limits in the most far-reaching and urgently consequential case of his life. As the rule of law is shattered by chaos, and Alex fights to isolate a suspect, Alex's loyalty may be the biggest danger of all. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The People vs. Alex Cross: (Alex Cross 25) James Patterson (Author) Andre Blake (Read by) Series:
Alex Cross
Edition:
Imprint:
Arrow Books Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback A-format paperback 432pp 229g ISBN13: 9781784753641 ISBN13: 978-1-78475-364-1 ISBN10: 1784753645 EAN: 9781784753641 x Description: 'It is told with a ferocious power and emotion that is quite impossible to ignore' Daily Mail
'Fast-paced and action-packed' i paper
The charges: explosive Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defence. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking As Cross fights for his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome video tied to the mysterious disappearances of several young girls. Despite his suspension from the department, Cross can't say no to Sampson. The illicit investigation leads them to the darkest corners of the Internet, where murder is just another form of entertainment. The People vs. Alex Cross: the trial of the century As the prosecution presents its case, and the nation watches, even those closest to Cross begin to doubt his innocence. If he can't convince his own family, how can he hope to persuade a jury? Although he has everything on the line, Cross will do whatever it takes to stop a dangerous criminal... even if he can't save himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect Judea Pearl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h210mm x w130mm x s30mm 72g ISBN13: 9780241242636 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24263-6 ISBN10: 0241242630 EAN: 9780241242636 x Description: A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world 'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The House Across the Street Lesley Pearse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780718189259 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8925-9 ISBN10: 0718189256 EAN: 9780718189259 x Description: The 10-million-copy, number 1 bestselling author is back with another beautifully-written, heartwarming and passionate epic. 'Heart-warming and evocative, a real delight to read' Sun 'A narrative that gallops along, this is quintessential Pearse that will delight her army of readers' Daily Mail 'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Woman in the Wood: A missing teenager. An outcast woman in the woods. And a girl determined to find the truth. From The Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley Pearse (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp 289g ISBN13: 9781405921084 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2108-4 ISBN10: 1405921080 EAN: 9781405921084 x Description: 'A gripping new novel' HELLO! Magazine _______________ London, 1960 The lives of teenage twins Maisy and Duncan change forever the night their sick mother is taken to an asylum. Sent to live in the New Forest with their cold-hearted grandmother, Mrs Mitcham, they feel unloved and abandoned. And when one day Duncan doesn't come home from exploring in the forest, no one - least of all his grandmother - appears to care about his disappearance. The police, who've found the bodies of other missing boys, offer little hope of finding Duncan alive. Yet Maisy refuses to give up. Though she doesn't know the woods well, she knows someone who does. The strange old woman who lives at their heart. Dare Maisy enlist the help of the woman in the wood? _______________ 'A real page-turner, a family story that is multi-layered just as you'd expect from Lesley Pearse, who is deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers' My Weekly 'Characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England Thomas Penn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Jul 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141986609 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198660-9 ISBN10: 0141986603 EAN: 9780141986609 x Description: Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE SPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carre ... gripping ... a rare achievement' Tom Holland, Guardian It is 1501. Henry VII has won the throne of England through luck, guile and ruthlessness. But for many he remains a usurper. Now, his elder son is to marry, in a wedding upon which the fate of the country, and the entire Tudor dynasty, will hang ...
'A masterpiece. Rich, resonant and utterly compelling' Helen Castor, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year 'Gripping ... brilliant ... The enigmatic Henry is brought thrillingly to life as one of the most unlikely but tenacious kings ever to wear the English crown' Dan Jones, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'Thrilling and sinister' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year 'Enthralling ... Penn captures the weirdness, the ferocity, and a glint of unexpected tenderness' The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took over the world John Perkins (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w126mm x s24mm 260g ISBN13: 9781785033858 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-385-8 ISBN10: 1785033859 EAN: 9781785033858 x Description: ***THE WORD OF MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED WITH 15 EXPLOSIVE NEW CHAPTERS*** False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the `corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals - to ensure that they retain and expand their wealth and influence, growing richer and richer as the poor become poorer. In his original, post 9/11 book, John Perkins revealed how he was recruited as an economic hit man in the 1970s, and exposed the corrupt methods American corporations use to spread their influence in the developing world, cheating countries out of trillions of dollars. In this new, extensively updated edition he lays bare the latest, terrifying evolution of the economic hit man, and how the system has become even more entrenched and powerful than ever before. In New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins provides fresh and chilling evidence of how the corporatocracy has grown its influence to every corner of the globe, making us all unwitting slaves to their regime. But he also provides advice on how we can end our unconscious support of the system and its self-serving, lethal economy. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Perkins has, once again, made a substantial contribution to a world that needs whistle-blowers to open its eyes to the true sources of political, social, and economic power" - Yanis Varoufakis "It comes from the heart. I highly recommend it." - Michael Brownstein "it's all here in toe-curling detail' - Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Now You See Her: The compulsive thriller you need to read Heidi Perks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 416pp 539g ISBN13: 9781780898841 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-884-1 ISBN10: 1780898843 EAN: 9781780898841
x Description: She was your responsibility. And now she's missing. `A gripping tale of friendship and deceit, where nothing is what it seems' - Laura Marshall, bestselling author of FRIEND REQUEST ____________________________ Charlotte is looking after her best friend's daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second. Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable: tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing. The child she was meant to be watching. Devastated, Harriet can no longer bear to see Charlotte. No one could expect her to trust her friend again. Only now she needs to. Because two weeks later Harriet and Charlotte are both being questioned separately by the police. And secrets are about to surface. Someone is hiding the truth about what really happened to Alice. Unputdownable psychological suspense from an exciting new talent, perfect for fans of Shari Lapena's THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and Claire Mackintosh's I LET YOU GO. ____________________________ What everyone's saying about 'the best book of the summer': `Totally hooked from the first page. Such an accomplished thriller!' Amy Lloyd, author of The Innocent Wife 'I read this book in one tension-filled evening and couldn't go to bed until I knew how it ended.' - Jenny Blackhurst, author of The Foster Child and How I Lost You `Loved the female friendships and the constant twists and turns - a definite must-read for summer!' - Hollie Overton, author of Baby Doll and The Walls `This book was beyond amazing and I read it in the one sitting... I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!' - real 5-star reader review 'Absolutely brilliant. Couldn't put this book down. Right from the very start you are gripped' - real 5-star reader review 'A chilling tale of friendships, deceit, manipulation and secrets that had me hooked in from the very first page.' - real 5-star reader review `I instantly needed to know what happened [...] the wait was agonising but absolutely worth it' - real 5-star reader review `It's just one of those books you can't wait to get back to.' - real 5-star reader review 'such a gripping story that I read the rest of the book in one sitting. I just had to know what was going to happen' - real 5-star reader review 'An intense, chilling read that kept me gripped throughout' - real 5-star reader review 'Heidi Perks writes with an instinctive knowledge of how to keep the reader enthralled' - real 5-star reader review 'This is a taut thriller that reads like a TV drama in-the-making. It'll make you wary of those around you, past and present.' - real 5-star reader review 'Brilliant book to have for summer reading' - real 5-star reader review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Your Closest Friend: She found you. Now she won't let you go. The unputdownable thriller you won't be able to resist Karen Perry (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405936651 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3665-1 ISBN10: 1405936657 EAN: 9781405936651
x Description: She saved your life. One hot, humid night in London, Cara is caught up in a wave of terror and chaos. Until a hand reaches out - and a stranger pulls her to safety. She knows your darkest secrets. Taking refuge with her unlikely rescuer, Cara shares more of herself with Amy than she ever has with anyone, including her husband. But after the hours of darkness are over, she can't remember exactly what secrets she revealed. Cara attempts to put it all behind her. But cracks begin to show in her life and marriage, and she starts to receive anonymous threats. She's your closest friend. As Cara's life begins to skid out of control, Amy reappears, offering to help. Amy is only person Cara can turn to, who knows her hidden side. Amy saved her that night. But what if the biggest threat to Cara is the stranger she's invited into her home? She's your worst nightmare.
What readers are saying: 'Sizzles with tension and menace . . . a stunning read, better than Gone Girl' 'A riveting plot, entirely believable characters, and suspense of the subtlest kind' 'It held my attention right to the final page and the final twist took my breath away' 'Probably my favourite book so far of 2018' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B. Peterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
16 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp 502g ISBN13: 9780241351642 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35164-2 ISBN10: 0241351642 EAN: 9780241351642 x Description: The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times) What are the most valuable things that everyone should know? Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics from the Bible to romantic relationships to mythology drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of unprecedented change and polarizing politics, his frank and refreshing message about the value of individual responsibility and ancient wisdom has resonated around the world. In this book, he provides twelve profound and practical principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Happiness is a pointless goal, he shows us. Instead we must search for meaning, not for its own sake, but as a defence against the suffering that is intrinsic to our existence. Drawing on vivid examples from the author's clinical practice and personal life, cutting edge psychology and philosophy, and lessons from humanity's oldest myths and stories, 12 Rules for Life offers a deeply rewarding antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems.
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How to Wear Glitter: 30 Ways to Sparkle in Style Naomi Pike (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pop Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp 275g ISBN13: 9781785039379 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-937-9 ISBN10: 1785039377 EAN: 9781785039379 x Description: Live life with a little more sparkle. This is your one-stop guide to glitter and how to wear it. Includes only the best biodegradable and ethical brands (please glitter responsibly!). Features 30 gorgeous step-by-step looks from all-sparkle lips to intricate eye make-up, glitter braids and beards, to full-on body art or a perfectly simple glitter lash line. Halloween, Christmas or festival season just isn't the same without a little sparkle and shimmer. Also includes glitter inspiration from the runway to Instagram, your basic eco-glitter beauty kit, fashion and accessories to complete the look, sparkling stockists and top tips from the experts, including make-up artists, drag queens, celebs, stylists and fashion designers. Grab your glitter, because you deserve to shine! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China Rao Pingru (Author) Nicky Harman (Translator) (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Square Peg
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 368pp 853g ISBN13: 9781910931752 ISBN13: 978-1-910931-75-2 ISBN10: 1910931756 EAN: 9781910931752 x Description: A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose. WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD Rao Pingru was a twenty-six-year-old soldier when he first saw the beautiful Mao Meitang. One glimpse of her through a window as she put on lipstick was enough to capture Pingru's heart. It was a moment that sparked a union that would last almost sixty years. But when Meitang passed away in 2008, Pingru realised that their marriage and all the small moments and memories of a life together, would be lost to history. And so at the age of eighty-eight, in an outpouring of love and grief, Pingru began to paint. Our Story is a memorial to Pingru and Meitang's epic romance, told through Pingru's exquisitely detailed paintings and handwritten notes. We see Pingru and Meitang through the decades, through both poverty and good fortune, and as they grow so too does China: the nation undergoing political turmoil and seismic cultural change. A tale both tragic and inspiring, of enduring love and simple values, Our Story is an old-fashioned romance that unfolds within the rush of a rapidly changing nation. A love letter, a work of folk art and a historical testament, Our Story is a truly unique graphic memoir. 'A beautifully warm, personal, human story of life, love and family' Forbidden Planet
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Steven Pinker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
13 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 576pp h234mm x w153mm x s32mm 637g ISBN13: 9780241337011 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33701-1 ISBN10: 0241337011 EAN: 9780241337011 x Description: Oneof the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of The Better Angels of Our Nature (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking intochaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is an illusion - a symptom of historical amnesia and statistical fallacies. If you follow the trendlines rather than the headlines, you discover that our lives have become longer, healthier, safer, happier, morepeaceful, more stimulating and more prosperous - not just in the West, but worldwide. Such progress is no accident: it's the gift of a coherent and inspiring value system that many of us embrace without even realizing it. These are the values of the Enlightenment: of reason, science, humanism and progress. The challenges we face today are formidable, including inequality, climate change, Artificial Intelligence and nuclear weapons. Butthe way to deal with them is not to sink into despair or try to lurch back to a mythical idyllic past; it's to treat them as problems we can solve, as we have solved otherproblems in the past. In making the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how we can use our faculties of reason and sympathy to solve the problems that inevitablycome with being products of evolution in an indifferent universe. We will never have a perfect world, but - defying the chorus of fatalism and reaction - we can continue to make it a better one. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Futures: A New York love story Anna Pitoniak (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 287g ISBN13: 9781405927475 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2747-5 ISBN10: 140592747X EAN: 9781405927475 x Description: *A completely original, heartwarming and unforgettable love story* Evan and Julia are in love. In love with each other, in love with New York. New York is where they plan to build the life they've dreamt about. New York is where Evan will be drawn into the high stakes of finance, right before the crash. New York is where Julia, shut out of Evan's new world, will turn to someone from her past. They'll take chances and make mistakes in pursuit of their futures. But will New York bring them together, or tear them apart?
'An emotional page-turner' Cosmopolitan 'A story that feels familiar yet wholly original, like every heartbreak ever' Marie Claire 'I absolutely loved it' Jane Fallon _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tell Me the Planets: Stories of Brain Injury and What It Means to Survive Ben Platts-Mills (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fig Tree
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h240mm x w162mm x s25mm 466g ISBN13: 9780241257210 ISBN13: 978-0-241-25721-0 ISBN10: 0241257212 EAN: 9780241257210 x Description: 'An absorbing and moving account of what it is like to live with brain injury' Penelope Lively 'Heartbreaking and uplifting' Robert Newman Matthew has a meticulously logical mind. He is intelligent, compassionate and fiercely loyal. He also has a brain injury. When Matthew underwent surgery to remove a life-threatening cyst in the middle of his brain, he was left with extreme fatigue, a difficulty forming new memories and with a tendency to confabulate - to 'remember', with absolute conviction, events that have not occurred. In Tell Me the Planets, Ben Platts-Mills tells stories about his work with survivors of brain injury, offering a rare glimpse into the world as seen through their eyes: charismatic Danny, whose criminal past has left him paralysed down one side, but who now helps others worse off than himself; Sid, whose memory for the present lasts only moments; and Liah, who is caught in a battle with the care system threatening to make her homeless. But above all this is the story of the extraordinary friendship between Ben and Matthew, following their attempts to discover what has happened to Matthew's brain and how he might begin to rebuild his life. It is a journey that takes them to the frontiers of science and to the limits of human resilience: when they discover that the cyst is growing again, Matthew is left with an impossible decision to make. 'Platts-Mills writes with truth and eloquence about his relationships with brain injury survivors' Julia Samuel _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy Serhii Plokhy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 432pp h240mm x w162mm x s38mm 705g ISBN13: 9780241349021 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34902-1 ISBN10: 0241349028 EAN: 9780241349021 x Description: 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, Observer The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep. While it is clear that the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, Plokhy shows how the deeper roots of Chernobyl lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable communist ideology and the dysfunctional managerial and economic systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster. A poignant, fast paced account of the drama of heroes, perpetrators, and victims, Chernobyl is the definitive history of the world's worst nuclear disaster. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin Serhii Plokhy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 315g ISBN13: 9780141983134 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198313-4 ISBN10: 0141983132 EAN: 9780141983134 x Description: 'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism chronicling Russia's yearning for Empire and how it has affected its politics for centuries In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this violation of national sovereignty was in fact only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nation. In Lost Kingdom, awardwinning historian Serhii Plokhy argues that we can only understand the merging of imperialism and nationalism in Russia today by delving into its history. Spanning over two thousand years, from the end of the Mongol rule to the present day, Plokhy shows how leaders from Ivan the Terrible to Joseph Stalin to Vladimir Putin have exploited existing forms of identity, warfare and territorial expansion to achieve imperial supremacy. A strikingly ambitious book, Lost Kingdom chronicles the long and belligerent history of Russia's empire and nation-building quest. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are Robert Plomin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241282076 ISBN13: 978-0-241-28207-6 ISBN10: 0241282071 EAN: 9780241282076 x Description: 'A clear and engaging explanation of one of the hottest fields in science' Steven Pinker One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences.
In Blueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we are. Our families, schools and the environment around us are important, but they are not as influential as our genes. This is why, he argues, teachers and parents should accept children for who they are, rather than trying to mould them in certain directions. Even the environments we choose and the signal events that impact our lives, from divorce to addiction, are influenced by our genetic predispositions. Now, thanks to the DNA revolution, it is becoming possible to predict who we will become, at birth, from our DNA alone. As Plomin shows us, these developments have sweeping implications for how we think about parenting, education, and social mobility. A game-changing book by a leader in the field, Blueprint shows how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin our lives can impact our behaviour as adults. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics Michael Pollan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 480pp h240mm x w162mm x s42mm 723g ISBN13: 9780241294222 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29422-2 ISBN10: 0241294223 EAN: 9780241294222 x Description: The No.1 New York Times Bestseller 'Gripping and surprising ... Pollan makes losing your mind sound like the sanest thing a person could do' The New York Times Book Review Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to researchers, scientists and doctors as if the world might be on the cusp of psychological revolution. It promised to shed light on the deep mysteries of consciousness, as well as offer relief to addicts and the mentally ill. But in the 1960s, with the vicious backlash against the counter-culture, all further research was banned. In recent years, however, work has quietly begun again on the amazing potential of LSD, psilocybin and DMT. Could these drugs in fact improve the lives of many people? Diving deep into this extraordinary world and putting himself forwardas a guinea-pig, Michael Pollan has written a remarkable history of psychedelics and a compelling portrait of the new generation of scientists fascinatedby the implications of these drugs. How to Change Your Mind is a report from what could very well be the future of human consciousness. 'His approach is steeped in honesty and self-awareness. His cause is just, his thinking is clear, and his writing is compelling' - Washington Post
'An easy-going humane generosity ... mischievous self-regard ... as if Henry David Thoreau had had an encounter with Woody Allen and never been quite the same since' - Simon Schama _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world Nick Polson (Author) James Scott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
14 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp h234mm x w153mm x s19mm 356g ISBN13: 9780593079782 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07978-2 ISBN10: 0593079787 EAN: 9780593079782 x
Description: Dozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world of the 21st century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world of the 19th century. In the face of all these changes, we believe that there is a simple premise worth keeping in mind. If you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. Our book will teach you that language-but in an unconventional way, anchored around stories rather than mathematics. You will meet a fascinating cast of historical characters who have a lot to teach you about data, probability, and better thinking. Along the way, you'll see how these same ideas are playing out in the modern age of big data and intelligent machines-and how these technologies will soon help you to overcome some of your built-in cognitive weaknesses, giving you a chance to lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment TV Tie-In John Preston (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 256g ISBN13: 9780241983898 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98389-8 ISBN10: 0241983894 EAN: 9780241983898 x Description: The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons, men with cut-glass accents and gold signet rings are conspiring to murder. It's the late 1960s and homosexuality has only just been legalised, and Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal party, has a secret he's desperate to hide. As long as Norman Scott, his beautiful, unstable lover is around, Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk. With the help of his fellow politicians, Thorpe schemes, deceives, embezzles - until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Popular: Why being liked is the secret to greater success and happiness Mitch Prinstein (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vermilion
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
02 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w126mm x s19mm 218g ISBN13: 9781785040559 ISBN13: 978-1-78504-055-9 ISBN10: 1785040553 EAN: 9781785040559 x Description: Who doesn't want to be more popular? Popularity expert Professor Mitch Prinstein shows that perhaps we should be careful what we wish for ... Surely a person's popularity, be it at school, work or on social media, is the best predictor of how happy and successful they will be? The truth is actually much more complex and is based on millennia of human evolution. In this impeccably researched and highly entertaining book, Professor Mitch Prinstein reveals that there are two very distinct types of popularity: the first based on status and the second based on likeability. Whilst we may be hardwired to crave status, only one of these types will really get you where you want. Based on two decades of research into the human psyche and genetic make-up, The Popularity Illusion reveals the science behind what popularity is and why we care about it so much - even if we don't think we do. Investigating social media phenomena, playground cliques and work place politics, Professor Mitch Prinstein explores how popularity taps into our basic need to survive and examines the surprising links to our health and lifespan, offering important insights for all of us about how we can cultivate the right kind of popularity of ourselves and our children. An enlightening read on a topic that has fascinated us for centuries, The Popularity Illusion will show you how popularity influences your life in unexpected ways.
First published in hardback as Popular: Why Being Liked is the Secret to Greater Success and Happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mrs Pepperpot Stories Alf Proysen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241340394 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34039-4 ISBN10: 024134039X EAN: 9780241340394 x Description: A compilation of 20 classic Mrs Pepperpot tales. Mrs Pepperpot can't choose when she will shrink to the size of a pepperpot - it just happens. But whatever she encounters, whether it be a mountain of pancakes, a crafty fox or a monstrous mousetrap, little Mrs Pepperpot will always come out on top. The Mrs Pepperpot tales are delightful short stories for children, perfect for fans of Dick King Smith and Enid Blyton. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One Philip Pullman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin and David Fickling Books
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 592pp h198mm x w129mm x s35mm 465g Chris Wormell ISBN13: 9780241365854 ISBN13: 978-0-241-36585-4 ISBN10: 0241365856 EAN: 9780241365854 x Description: WINNER- AUTHOR OF THE YEAR, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS Philip Pullman's magnificent bestseller is now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. A coming of age story like no other . . . Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far from ordinary. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life and to make a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra for ever . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Clockwork or All Wound Up Philip Pullman (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w129mm x s7mm 96g mono ISBN13: 9780241326312 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32631-2 ISBN10: 0241326311 EAN: 9780241326312 x Description: Tick, tick, tick, tock. Once you've wound some things up nothing can stop them . . . It is a cold winter's night when Karl enters the White Horse Tavern looking like he's swallowed a thundercloud. His final task as a clockmaker apprentice is to make a new figure for the great clock of Glockenheim. He has not made the figure - or got any idea of what it could be, and the unveiling is tomorrow. Fritz is also in the tavern; there to read aloud his new spooky story. Like Karl, he hasn't finished. Well, he knows how the story starts and he knows it's called Clockwork - so, with the snow swirling down outside, he sets his story going and just has to hope that the ending will come to him as he tells it. Suddenly, Fritz's story and real life merge in a completely sinister way - and just like clockwork it can't be stopped . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Firework-Maker's Daughter Philip Pullman (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h198mm x w129mm x s8mm 106g mon0 ISBN13: 9780241326336 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32633-6 ISBN10: 0241326338 EAN: 9780241326336 x Description: From the author the His Dark Materials trilogy and La Belle Sauvage. Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey this beautiful fairytale is perfect for readers young and old. Lila doesn't just want to be a Firework-Maker's daughter, she wants to be a Firework Maker herself. But although she's learned a lot she still must get through the most difficult and dangerous part of her apprenticeship - and her father won't tell her what it is. In search of this final Firework-Making secret, Lila heads off alone on a journey. It is a journey filled with dangers beyond anything she could have imagined, a journey on which she will learn so much more than the one secret she set out to find . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Scarecrow and His Servant Philip Pullman (Author) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Peter Bailey (Illustrated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241326299 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32629-9 ISBN10: 024132629X EAN: 9780241326299 x Description: Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this brilliantly funny and moving tale by multi-award winning Philip Pullman, is perfect for readers young and old. One night, during a terrible thunderstorm, a boy named Jack shelters in a barn. The following morning he is confused to find a scarecrow with a turnip head calling out to him. For a moment he thinks he is imagining it. But he isn't, the scarecrow has been struck by lightning in exactly the right way to bring him completely to life. Jack becomes the scarecrow's personal servant and together they decide to set out and see the world. It is a journey that neither of them could have possibly imagined, filled with adventure - and it will change them both in ways they never expected . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Eureka Anthony Quinn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 480pp 330g ISBN13: 9781784703134 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-313-4 ISBN10: 1784703133 EAN: 9781784703134 x Description: 'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn's effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' Guardian Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film - Eureka - is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can't see straight for all the acid he's dropping. Fledgling actress Billie Cantrip is hoping for her big break but can't find a way out of her troubled relationship with an older man. And journalist Freya Wyley wants to know why so much of what Kloss touches turns to ash in his wake. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Helen Rappaport (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp 698g ISBN13: 9781786331045 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-104-5 ISBN10: 1786331047 EAN: 9781786331045 x Description: The Race to Save the Romanovs will completely change the way we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family. On 17 July 1918, the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous escapes. The former Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their children - Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey - were all tragically gunned down in a blaze of bullets. On the 100-year-anniversary of these brutal murders, historian Helen Rappaport set out to uncover why the Romanovs' European royal relatives and the Allied governments failed to save them. It was not, ever, a simple case of one British King's loss of nerve. In this race against time, many other nations and individuals were facing political and personal challenges of the highest order. In this incredible detective story, Rappaport draws on an unprecedented range of unseen sources, tracking down missing documents, destroyed papers and covert plots to liberate the family by land, sea and even sky. Through countless twists and turns, this revelatory work unpicks many false claims and conspiracies, revealing the fiercest loyalty, bitter rivalries and devastating betrayals as the Romanovs, imprisoned, awaited their fate. A remarkable new work of history from Helen Rappaport, author of Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mayhem: A Memoir Sigrid Rausing (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 162g ISBN13: 9780241977064 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97706-4 ISBN10: 0241977061 EAN: 9780241977064 x Description: A Sunday Times Book of the Year 'Riveting, clear-sighted and exceptionally articulate... Her literary and psychoanalytic fluency gives the book an impact that feels arrestingly honest... Heartbreaking' Daily Telegraph 'An unsparing account of a family destroyed by drugs. Unique and haunting' Sunday Times 'What gives this book its astonishing power is not the guilt, but the intelligence and literary skill' Guardian 'I write, knowing that writing at all may be seen as a betrayal of family; a shaming, exploitative act. Anyone reading this who thinks so, please know that I thought it before you' For years Sigrid Rausing watched helplessly as her brother Hans and his wife Eva succumbed to drug addiction. It afflicted a terrible toll on their family, culminating in Eva's tragic early death. As this death led to inquest and media circus, the world looked on in horror, but few understood the suffering endured by the Rausing family. In Mayhem, Sigrid explores the collateral damage addiction wreaks on loved ones. Telling her family's story, she examines painful and rarely discussed questions. What is it like to live with addiction in the family? How can you help without hurting the one you love? And what does it mean to survive
another's addiction? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Nyxia: The Nyxia Triad Scott Reintgen (Author) Series:
The Nyxia Triad
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9780718186876 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8687-6 ISBN10: 0718186877 EAN: 9780718186876 x Description: 'Brilliant concept meets stellar execution in this fast-paced deep space adventure. I was hooked from page one' Victoria Schwab, No.1 New York Times Bestselling Author
'And just like that, I'm leaving Earth behind . . .' Emmett Atwater is just a poor kid plucked from the streets of Detroit. But now he and nine teenagers like him are travelling to a distant planet aboard the Babel corporation's lightship. Before they get there, they are told, two of them will be eliminated. The eight who make it will land on an alien world, where they will hunt for Nyxia, the most extraordinary substance in the universe. But first Emmett must endure frightening tests, rivalry with his fellow chosen ones and the fear that Babel aren't telling the truth. Because if Babel aren't, they'll be trapped, light years from home. And all alone . . .
'A high-octane thriller . . . Nyxia grabs you from the first line and never lets go.' Marie Lu,#1 New York Timesbestselling author of the Young Elites series _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shortcut Your Startup: Ten Ways to Speed Up Entrepreneurial Success Courtney Reum (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Business Publisher: Books
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
29 Jan 2018
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp 338g ISBN13: 9781847942302 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-230-2 ISBN10: 184794230X EAN: 9781847942302 x Description: `Shortcut Your Startup shows you how to launch a sustainable startup so that both you and your business can thrive.' Arianna Huffington The world of startups is more competitive than ever: what will make yours stand out from the crowd? Shortcut Your Startup has the answers you need. Star entrepreneurs Courtney and Carter Reum have invested in such global successes as Lyft, Pinterest and SpaceX, as well as launching a multimillion-dollar business of their own - they have the hands on experience, insights and tips that will make all the difference. The first step is to rip up the rule book. Convinced that only killer new ideas will work? No, sometimes it makes more sense to capitalise on others'
innovations. Have people advised you to manage everything yourself? They should have told you to outsource all but your venture's key strengths. Moving from initial idea to exist strategy, the Reum brothers take received wisdom, turn it on its head, and give you the real low-down on what works. Whether you're a business veteran looking for new ways to boost performance and reinvent your brand, or an aspiring entrepreneur ready to take a leap of faith, Shortcut Your Startup is an essential guide that will speed up your journey to success. `Courtney and Carter Reum have generously pulled back the curtain to reveal the tools and tactics that many of the most successful startups use to disrupt, scale and succeed.' Tony Robbins _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House Ben Rhodes (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 480pp h234mm x w153mm x s36mm 722g ISBN13: 9781847925183 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-518-3 ISBN10: 1847925189 EAN: 9781847925183 x Description: This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes. The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really functions; and of what it is to have a partnership, and ultimately a friendship, with a historic president. A young writer and Washington outsider, Ben Rhodes was plucked from obscurity aged 29. Chosen for his original perspective and gift with language, his role was to help shape the nation's hopes and sense of itself. For nearly ten years, Rhodes was at the centre of the Obama Administration - first as a speechwriter, then a policymaker, and finally a multi-purpose aide and close collaborator. Rhodes puts us in the room at the most tense and poignant moments in recent history: starting every morning with Obama in the Daily Briefing; waiting out the bin Laden raid in the Situation Room; reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran; leading secret negotiations with the Cuban government; confronting the resurgence of nationalism that led to the election of Donald Trump. This is the most vivid portrayal yet of Obama's presidency. It is an essential record of the last decade. But it also shows us what it means to hold the pen, and to write the words that change our world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fatal Inheritance Rachel Rhys (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp 517g ISBN13: 9780857524737 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-473-7 ISBN10: 0857524739 EAN: 9780857524737 x Description: 1948: an English housewife trapped in a dull marriage escapes to the South of France to claim a mystery inheritance. But rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge, and now they want her out of the way ... She didn't have an enemy in the world... until she inherited a fortune
London 1948: Eve Forrester is trapped in a loveless marriage, in a gloomy house, in a grey suburb. Out of the blue, she received a solicitor's letter. A wealthy stranger has left her a mystery inheritance but in order to find out more, she must travel to
the glittering French Riviera.
Eve discovers her legacy is an enchanting villa overlooking the Mediterranean sea and suddenly, life could not be more glamorous. But while she rubs shoulders with film-stars and famous writers, under the heat of the golden sun, rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge. Rivals who want her out of the way. Alone in paradise, Eve must unlock the story behind her surprise bequest - before events turn deadly... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles 13) Anne Rice (Author) Series:
The Vampire Chronicles
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp 334g ISBN13: 9781784742065 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-206-5 ISBN10: 1784742066 EAN: 9781784742065 x Description: FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his meticulously restored ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick blood-drinkers. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who despise his rule over the blood-drinking realm, and who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence? An enthralling, spellbinding adventure that sweeps from the snowy French mountains to the verdant wilds of Louisiana, on to the far reaches of the Pacific's untouched islands and back to 18th-century St. Petersburg. Blood Communion is not just a compelling tale of a troubled leader, but a novel about the power of ambition, as well as a timely reflection on the struggle of individuals to find and defend their place in the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row Lance Richardson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp 735g 170 b&w ISBN13: 9781784741242 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-124-2 ISBN10: 1784741248 EAN: 9781784741242 x Description: The dazzling story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who reshaped the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up above an Edgware cafe, the boys seemed destined to lead humble lives in post-war London yet the strength of their imagination transformed them instead into unlikely protagonists of a swinging cultural revolution. In 1969, at the age of twenty-six, Tommy opened an unusual new boutique on the `golden mile' of bespoke tailoring. While shocking a haughty
establishment resistant to change, `Nutters of Savile Row' became an immediate sensation among the young, rich, and beautiful, beguiling everyone from Bianca Jagger to the Beatles - who immortalised Tommy's designs on the album cover of Abbey Road. Meanwhile, David's talent with a camera vaulted him across the Atlantic to New York City, where he found himself amongst a parallel constellation of stars (including Freddie Mercury and Elton John) who enjoyed his dry wit almost as much as his photography. House of Nutter tells the glamorous true story of two gay men who influenced some of the most iconic styles and pop images of the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy people - and taking advantage of unparalleled access to never-before-seen pictures, letters, sketches, and diaries - Lance Richardson presents a dual portrait of brothers improvising their way through five decades of extraordinary events, their personal struggles playing out against vivid backdrops of the Blitz, the birth of disco and the devastation of the AIDS crisis. A propulsive, deftly-plotted narrative filled with surprising details and near-operatic twists, House of Nutter takes readers on a wild ride into the minds and times of two brilliant dreamers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ethical Capitalist: How to Make Business Work Better for Society Julian Richer (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Random House Business Publisher: Books
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 192pp h216mm x w135mm x s14mm 210g ISBN13: 9781847942203 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-220-3 ISBN10: 1847942202 EAN: 9781847942203 x Description: Capitalism has lost its way. Every week brings fresh news stories about businesses exploiting their staff, avoiding their taxes, and ripping off their customers. Every week, public anger at the system grows. Now, one of Britain's foremost entrepreneurs intervenes to make the case for putting business back firmly in the service of society, and setting out on a new path to a kinder, fairer form of capitalism. Drawing on four decades of hands-on management experience, the founder of Richer Sounds argues that ethically run businesses are invariably more efficient, more motivated and more innovative than those that care only about the bottom line. He uncovers the simple tools that the best leaders use to make their businesses fair, revealing how others can follow suit. And he also delves into the big questions that modern capitalism has to answer if it is to survive and to thrive. When should - and shouldn't - the state intervene in the workings of commercial enterprises? What does business as a whole owe back to the wider community? Is the relationship between leaders of big corporations and politicians too cosy, and, if so, what is to be done about it? At heart, The Ethical Capitalist is a plea for a new sense of moral purpose in business. If that takes hold, Julian Richer believes, we might just save capitalism from itself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation in the Coming Chaos James Rickards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp ISBN13: 9780241304082 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30408-2 ISBN10: 0241304083 EAN: 9780241304082 x Description: In his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artificially inflated and what smart investors can do to protect their assets. What goes up must come down. As any student of financial history knows, the dizzying heights of the stock market can't continue indefinitely. In
turbulent times, the elites are prepared but what should the average investor do? James Rickards lays out the true risks to our financial system and offers invaluable advice on how best to weather the storm. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis James Rickards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp ISBN13: 9780241340943 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34094-3 ISBN10: 0241340942 EAN: 9780241340943 x Description: 'Let's hope he's wrong' Financial Times Currency wars are one of the most destructive and feared outcomes in international economics. At best, they result in countries stealing growth from their trading partners. At worst, they degenerate into inflation, recession and real violence. In this fifth anniversary edition, James Rickards concludes that currency wars are as problematic now as they were in 1971 when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. Headlines about the debasement of the dollar, bailouts in Europe and Chinese and currency manipulation are all indicators that we're entering an even more dangerous phase. In this post-Trump, post-Brexit world of political uncertainty, James Rickards, New York Times bestseller and Strategic Adviser to the US intelligence community, argues that this is more than just a concern for economists and investors. The world is facing growing threats to its national security - from clandestine gold purchases by China to the hidden agendas of sovereign wealth funds. Left unchecked, the next currency war could end with massive casualties on all sides. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Map of Days: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 496pp ISBN13: 9780141385914 ISBN13: 978-0-14-138591-4 ISBN10: 014138591X EAN: 9780141385914 x Description: Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery - a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited - truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop. Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom - a world with few ymbrynes, or rules - that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children. Their story is again fully illustrated by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure - full colour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Stranger: A gripping story of secrets and lies for fans of Rachel Hore's Last Letter Home, a Richard and Judy pick Kate Riordan (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 416g ISBN13: 9780718189518 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8951-8 ISBN10: 0718189515 EAN: 9780718189518 x Description: When you're the outsider, who do you trust? Cornwall, 1940. For decades, Penhallow Hall has stood frozen in time, protecting the secrets of its isolated inhabitants. But the far corners of England are no shelter from the war, and Penhallow must finally open its doors to strangers. Three newcomers arrive, each looking to escape their past. They adjust easily to the routine - nightly blackouts, the threat of invasion - but tensions mount and secrets are forced into the open. For one of them is not there by choice. And then, in the hushed hours of deepest night, a young woman is taken by the sea. Was it simply a tragic accident? Or should the inhabitants of Penhallow have been more careful about whom they invited in? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
9 From the Nine Worlds: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard Rick Riordan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp h204mm x w138mm x s21mm 256g ISBN13: 9780241359440 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35944-0 ISBN10: 0241359449 EAN: 9780241359440 x Description: An all-new collection of short stories from the world of Magnus Chase. With an exclusive fold-out illustration of the world tree! Travel the Nine Worlds with your favourite characters from the world of Magnus Chase in a brand-new series of adventures. Find out why Amir Fadlan hates clothes shopping in Midgard, see how Mallory Keen learns in icy Niflheim that insulting a dragon can be a good idea, and join Alex Fierro as they play with fire (and a disco sword) in the home of the fire giants, Muspellheim. But watch out for Thor, who is jogging through all Nine Worlds so he can log his million steps - and is raising quite a stink . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Book 3) Rick Riordan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h198mm x w127mm x s25mm 310g ISBN13: 9780141342603 ISBN13: 978-0-14-134260-3 ISBN10: 0141342609 EAN: 9780141342603 x Description: Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award 2017 for Best Middle Grade & Children's! Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Now he's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, armed with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Norse gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. It's up to Magnus Chase and his friends to stop Loki's plans. Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants, and an evil fire-breathing dragon. But Magnus's biggest challenge will be facing his own inner demons . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo Book 2) Rick Riordan (Author) Series:
The Trials of Apollo
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm x s26mm 298g ISBN13: 9780141363967 ISBN13: 978-0-14-136396-7 ISBN10: 0141363967 EAN: 9780141363967 x Description: The second title in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series - set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson. The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, must set off on the second of his harrowing (and hilarious) trials. He and his companions seek the ancient oracles - restoring them is the only way for Apollo to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus - but this is easier said than done. Somewhere in the American Midwest is a haunted cave that may hold answers for Apollo in his quest to become a god again . . . if it doesn't kill him or drive him insane first. Standing in Apollo's way is the second member of the evil Triumvirate - a Roman emperor whose love of bloodshed and spectacle makes even Nero look tame. To survive the encounter, Apollo will need the help of a now-mortal goddess, a bronze dragon, and some familiar demigod faces from Camp HalfBlood. With them by his side, can Apollo face down the greatest challenge of his four thousand years of existence? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brooklyn House Magician's Manual Rick Riordan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h204mm x w138mm x s21mm 278g ISBN13: 9780141377711 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137771-1 ISBN10: 0141377712 EAN: 9780141377711 x Description: Greetings, initiate! Carter Kane, here. Congratulations on reaching Brooklyn House in one piece. You are quite clearly descended from Egyptian royalty, with magical powers gifted from the gods. But what good is power without knowing how to use it? That's where this training manual comes in. It's packed with quizzes, stories and inside info on the Ancient Egyptian deities. For those with the blood of the pharaohs, this is your first step down the path of the gods. But beware, anything can happen in the world of Egyptian magic . . . Forming a trio with HOTEL VALHALLA and CAMP HALF-BLOOD CONFIDENTIAL, this companion guide gives readers the inside scoop on Brooklyn House - the safe haven in New York for magicians like Carter and Sadie Kane. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo Book 3) Rick Riordan (Author) Series:
The Trials of Apollo
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp 597g ISBN13: 9780141364001 ISBN13: 978-0-14-136400-1 ISBN10: 0141364009 EAN: 9780141364001 x Description: I WAS A GOD, ONCE. UNTIL I WAS CAST OUT BY MY FATHER, ZEUS. NOW I'M AN AWKWARD MORTAL TEENAGER CALLED LESTER. My way out? A series of scary and dangerous trials, of course. For my third mission, I must: Journey through the Labyrinth to free an Oracle who only speaks in puzzles. Defeat a vicious and bloodthirsty Roman Emperor - the most vicious of three very vicious and bloodthirsty Roman Emperors. Is that all? No, I've to do everything without any of my godly powers. Wonderful. Looks like I'll be needing all the help I can get. From new friends, and old . . . This edition includes a Percy Jackson short story! Clarisse, daughter of Ares, the Greek god of war, needs Percy Jackson's help. Her father's chariot has been stolen and she has to get it back by sunset.
The only hitch? The chariot-jackers are none other than her terrifying immortal brothers Phobos and Deimos. Can Percy and Clarisse get the chariot back before it's too late? Find out in: PERCY JACKSON AND THE STOLEN CHARIOT _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bonfire: The debut thriller from the star of Jessica Jones Krysten Ritter (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp 202g ISBN13: 9781786090164 ISBN13: 978-1-78609-016-4 ISBN10: 1786090163 EAN: 9781786090164 x Description: 'A phenomenal, haunting debut.' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl Kaycee Mitchell died. And everyone has been lying about it. For years. Ten years ago, Abby Williams left her hometown behind. Ever since, she has tried her best to forget the past. The sinister `Game'; the merciless bullying; the night of the bonfire, when The Game stopped. Most of all, she wants to forget Kaycee Mitchell. But now Abby must return home. Her task at hand: to investigate Optimal Plastics, the corporation that forms the backbone of the small town. A successful environmental lawyer, she swears things will be different. She is older. Sophisticated. Confident. But once she begins digging, the memories start creeping back and as past and present collide, the investigation turns deadly. How far would you go to keep the past hidden? 'Packed with suspense ... This portrait of small-town life by Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones actress is spot on.' Daily Mail 'Excellent ... an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroine.' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Churchill: Walking with Destiny Andrew Roberts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 1152pp h234mm x w153mm 32 pp b/w inset ISBN13: 9780241205631 ISBN13: 978-0-241-20563-1 ISBN10: 0241205638 EAN: 9780241205631 x Description: A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and
drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present. During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally such supermen exist on this earth.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World Dr. Alice Roberts (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp 317g ISBN13: 9781786090010 ISBN13: 978-1-78609-001-0 ISBN10: 1786090015 EAN: 9781786090010 x Description: **'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX** **'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday ** The extraordinary story of the species that became our allies. Dogs became our companions Wheat fed a booming population Cattle gave us meat and milk Maize fuelled the growth of empires Potatoes brought us feast and famine Chickens led us to wonder about tomorrow Rice promised us a golden future Horses gave us strength and speed Apples travelled with us HUMANS TAMED THEM ALL For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals to stay alive - until they began to tame them. Combining archaeology and cutting-edge genetics, Tamed tells the story of the greatest revolution in human history and reveals the fascinating origins of ten crucial domesticated species; and how they, in turn, transformed us. In a world creaking under the strain of human activity, Alice Roberts urges us to look again at our relationship with the natural world - and our huge influence upon it. AN ECONOMIST AND MAIL ON SUNDAY 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 2017 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death Olivier Rolin (Author) Ros Schwartz (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm x s13mm 181g ISBN13: 9781784701758 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-175-8 ISBN10: 1784701750 EAN: 9781784701758 x Description: Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018 The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in English. One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim - a celebrated meteorologist - had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a gulag, forced to spend his remaining years on an island in the frozen north, along with thousands of other political prisoners. Stalin's Meteorologist is the thrilling and deeply moving account of an innocent man caught up in the brutality of Soviet paranoia. It's a timely reminder of the human consequences of political extremism. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Readymade Thief Augustus Rose (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Windmill Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 305g ISBN13: 9780099510864 ISBN13: 978-0-09-951086-4 ISBN10: 0099510863 EAN: 9780099510864 x Description: An addictive literary puzzle that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society with a dark agenda. Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia. A fugitive with no money, no home and nowhere to go, Lee finds refuge in a deserted building known as the Crystal Castle. But the Castle conceals a sinister agenda, one master-minded by a society of fanatical men set on decoding a series of powerful secrets hidden in plain sight. And they believe Lee holds the key to it all. Aided by Tomi, a mysterious young hacker, Lee escapes into the unmapped corners of the city. But the deeper she goes underground, the more tightly she finds herself bound in the strange web of the men she's trying to elude. Aware that the lives of those she cares for are in increasing danger, it is only when Lee steps from the shadows to confront who is chasing her that she discovers what they're really after, and why. Part literary detective novel, part art history, part conspiracy thriller, The Readymade Thief introduces a singular, indomitable heroine and the arrival of a spellbinding and original new talent in fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems Michael Rosen (Edited by) Shoo Rayner (Illustrated by) Michael Rosen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 64pp 55g ISBN13: 9780241354575 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35457-5 ISBN10: 0241354579 EAN: 9780241354575 x Description: Let your imagination run riot and laughter fill your belly as you explore traditional poems, rhymes with a twist, and subversive playground favourites in this playful treasure chest of verse. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Alone Time: Four seasons, four cities and the pleasures of solitude Stephanie Rosenbloom (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h234mm x w153mm x s20mm 376g ISBN13: 9780593076774 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07677-4 ISBN10: 059307677X EAN: 9780593076774 x Description: Travelling with friends and family is usually thought of as a privilege. In theory, anyway. In practice, it's more often about debating which sights to see, panicking over diminishing phone batteries and bickering over what to eat. Not much joy in that. But alone you can do as you please. You can wander markets, relish silence, go to a park. Go to Paris. Why not? In Alone Time, New York Times travel columnist Stephanie Rosenbloom travels alone in four seasons to four remarkable cities - Paris, Istanbul, Florence and New York - exploring the sensory experience of solitude. Along the way she illuminates the psychological arguments for alone time, revealing that whether you recognize it or not, it's good to be alone now and then. This is a book about the pleasures and benefits of savouring the moment, examining things closely, using all your senses to take in your surroundings, whether travelling to faraway places or walking the streets of your own city. Through on-the-ground observations and anecdotes, and drawing on the thinking of artists, writers and innovators who have cherished solitude, Alone Time lays bare the magic of going solo. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians Derek Rowntree (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 208pp h198mm x w129mm x s12mm 157g ISBN13: 9780141987491 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198749-1 ISBN10: 0141987499 EAN: 9780141987491 x Description: THE CLASSIC GUIDE, NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
Why do we need Statistics? What do terms like 'dispersion', 'correlation', 'normal distribution' and 'significance' actually mean? How can I learn how to think statistically? This bestselling introduction is for anyone who wants to know how statistics works and the powerful ideas behind it. Teaching through words and diagrams instead of requiring you to do complex calculations, it assumes no expert knowledge and makes the subject accessible even to readers who consider themselves non-mathematical. This clear and informative 'tutorial in print' includes questions for you to respond to in the light of what you have read so far, ensuring your developing ability to think statistically. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: `The Literary Read of the Summer' - Time Arundhati Roy (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s28mm 321g ISBN13: 9780241980767 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98076-7 ISBN10: 0241980763 EAN: 9780241980767 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 'A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable' Guardian, Book of the Year * 'A dazzling return to form' Independent THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER FROM THE BOOKER-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS 'An astonishing intimate epic. This is the novel one hoped Arundhati Roy would write about India' Daily Telegraph 'At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guesthouse in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. We meet Tilo, an architect, who, although she is loved by three men, lives in a 'country of her own skin'. When Tilo claims an abandoned baby as her own, her destiny and that of Anjum become entangled as a tale that sweeps across the years and a teeming continent takes flight . . . 'Glorious, colourful and compelling. Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first' Financial Times 'The book filled me with awe. Propulsive, playful, gorgeous' New York Times Book Review 'The unmissable literary read of the summer. With its insights into human nature, its memorable characters and its luscious prose, Ministry is well worth the wait' Time 'Staggeringly beautiful - a fierce, fabulously disobedient novel. Roy is writing at the height of her powers. Urgent, intimate ecstatic' Boston Globe 'A searing portrait of modern India' Tatler 'This vast novel will leave you awed by the heat of its anger and the depth of its compassion' Washington Post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The 8Greens Cookbook: The Simple Way to Get Your Greens Dawn Russell (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Preface Publishing
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
27 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 144pp h246mm x w189mm ISBN13: 9781848095076 ISBN13: 978-1-84809-507-6 ISBN10: 1848095074 EAN: 9781848095076 x Description: Dawn Russell had a family that did not want to eat its greens (sound familiar?). So she developed 8GREENS: a blend of spinach, kale, spirulina, blue-green algae, barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella and aloe vera that tastes great and passed the test of her husband and two children. She worked with five chemists, three manufacturers and 263 prototypes to get this thumbs up from this very picky, but very normal, focus group sitting in her own kitchen. The 8G cookbook contains more than 40 delicious recipes that all incorporate this blend of greens to make everyday cooking taste fantastic and ensure that you, and those you love, are getting the most important green ingredients into your diet. It also features Dawn's own inspiring story and the hardearned knowledge she gathered along the way. Diagnosed with stage 3 lymphatic cancer at 25, Dawn traveled the world meeting medical and nutritional experts on her journey back to health. It was this research and personal experience that led her to develop this mix of what she found to be the most important greens for internal health, but a family that didn't want to drink `mom's mixture' to find the way to make it an easy, fun and tasty addition to normal life and cooking. Dawn is on a mission to get more greens into everyone. The 8Greens Cookbook is the easy and delicious way to get everyone on the path to a green, happy and healthy life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Plus+ Bethany Rutter (Edited by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
15 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp h200mm x w150mm x s22mm 491g ISBN13: 9781785038570 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-857-0 ISBN10: 1785038575 EAN: 9781785038570 x Description: Style inspiration for everyone, no matter your size. Be inspired by 100 of the very best plus-size street style images from around the world. Plus-size fashion is daring, experimental and deeply personal. There's no longer any shame in not fitting the traditional ideals of beauty, as proven by Gabi Gregg, Tess Holliday, Beth Ditto and thousands of bloggers and models acround the world. The online plus-size fashion community is loud, international and confident. Millions of #ootd photos are shared everyday, showing off amazing style and beautiful people. Plus+ gathers together the very best, and celebrates all shapes, sizes and aesthetics - a beautiful, sharply designed, glossy collection to inspire everyone, plus-size or otherwise. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Time I Lied Riley Sager (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s26mm 479g ISBN13: 9781785038402 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-840-2 ISBN10: 1785038400 EAN: 9781785038402 x Description: 'Breathtaking. This swift, red-blooded thriller set my pulse thrumming' - A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window -----------------------------------------------------Have you ever played two truths and a lie? It was Emma's first summer away from home. She made friends. She played games. And she learned how to lie. Then three of her new friends went into the woods and never returned. . . Now, years later, Emma has been asked to go back to the newly re-opened Camp Nightingale. She thinks she's laying old ghosts to rest but really she's returning to the scene of a crime. Because Emma's innocence might be the biggest lie of all. . . A gripping new thriller that you won't be able to put down with a plot that will keep you guessing. If you enjoyed A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Window, you'll love Last Time I Lied -----------------------------------------------------What readers are saying: 'I absolutely loved this unputdownable, gripping mystery, full of jaw-dropping twists' - Nicki on Netgalley, 5 stars 'Had me guessing right until the end, fantastic read!' - Gemma on Netgalley, 5 stars 'A brilliantly plotted and twisted character driven story, chilling, scary and absolutely compelling. Highly recommended!' - Paromjit on Netgalley, 5 stars 'Written like an old school horror movie - I love it' - Stacie on Netgalley, 5 stars 'Brilliant book with a final twist I wasn't expecting' - Lucy on Netgalley, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 Simon Schama, CBE (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 800pp h198mm x w129mm x s50mm 662g 3 plate sections ISBN13: 9780099590064 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959006-4 ISBN10: 0099590069 EAN: 9780099590064 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army.
The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan: A revolutionary guide to pregnancy, birth and the weeks that follow Rebecca Schiller (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s27mm 497g ISBN13: 9780241315804 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31580-4 ISBN10: 0241315808 EAN: 9780241315804 x Description: ** As seen on the Victoria Derbyshire show ** Providing you with everything you've ever wanted to know about pregnancy, this is the definitive guide from conception to the first few weeks' at home with your newborn *** 'I wish there'd been a book like this when I was pregnant. It almost makes me want to have another child. Almost' Bryony Gordon *** Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and childbirth that puts the power firmly in your hands. It won't tell you what fruit your baby resembles week-by-week, but it will cover the huge shifts happening in your relationships, body, work and emotional life right now, giving you practical tools, tips and real stories to help you make a plan that is uniquely yours yet flexible enough to accommodate whatever your pregnancy, birth and life throw at you. ***Further Praise for Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan*** 'The book has everything a pregnant woman needs ... I'm sure this will be the go-to book for women in years to come' - Helen Thorn host of the Scummy Mummies podcast 'Rebecca is a living, breathing Wonder Woman heroine. In a sea of complicated, important and sometimes angry debate around childbirth, she is a mast to hold onto.' - Cherry Healey, presenter and author of Letters to My Fanny I can't think of a panicky question I had thought of through either of my pregnancies (and I thought of them at a rate of five per second) that wouldn't have been answered by this book. I wish I had had it, in fact. A very empowering guide to becoming a mother.' - Robyn Wilder, The Pool _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jeeves and the King of Clubs Ben Schott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781786331441 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-144-1 ISBN10: 1786331446 EAN: 9781786331441
x Description: Building on Wodehouse's incalculable legacy, JEEVES AND THE KING OF CLUBS reimagines Bertie Wooster as a British spy, and the Junior Ganymede - the club for the gentleman's gentleman - as a branch of the British Secret Service. Full of intrigue, exploits, comedy and wit, Schott and Wodehouse make for a harmonious, hilarious pair. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality Laurence Scott (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
William Heinemann Ltd
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 304pp 544g ISBN13: 9781785151118 ISBN13: 978-1-78515-111-8 ISBN10: 1785151118 EAN: 9781785151118 x Description: **A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** 'A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world.' Guardian, 'Book of the Week' 'A report from the front line of the digital generation by someone superbly well-equipped to read and decode the signals.' Sunday Times 'A bravura investigation of our turbulent times.' New Scientist 'Clever, funny and deeply moving... an engaging and thought-provoking journey through the fakery of modern life.' Mail on Sunday A spellbinding examination of the nature of reality, by one of the brightest thinkers of today. Cognitive science proposes that we have evolved to build mental maps of the world not according to its actual, physical nature, but according to what allows us to thrive. In other words, our individual and collective realities are fictions - carefully constructed to enable us to maintain our particular perspectives. It used to be that our fictions were rooted to reasonably solid things: to people, places and memories. Today, in an age of online personas, alternative truths, constant surveillance and an increasingly hysterical news cycle, our realities are becoming more flimsy and more vulnerable than ever before. Ours is now a zoomed-in perspective, where the backstage is centre stage. We are both camera person and subject, with new powers and new weaknesses. Our personal and political spheres are dangerously merging. How will the form and grammar of our feelings have to change in this over-exposed environment? Should any of our stories remain secret? How are these phenomena changing the way we live? How do we maintain a sense of reality in an increasingly fantastic world? Picnic Comma Lightning is an innovative examination of the nature of reality in the twenty-first century, one that explores the key ethical, political and neurological forces contouring our inner selves, but also the old influences of grief and desire, memory and imagination. In it, award-winning author Laurence Scott provides a lively and accessible new philosophy for this epoch in Western civilisation, one that will change the way you see the world, and your place within it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers Bobby Seagull (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9780753552810 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-5281-0 ISBN10: 0753552817 EAN: 9780753552810
x Description: Hack your life with maths! Once you know how to see them, numbers are all around us - buried in the dimensions of buildings and encoding the data on our favourite gadgets. They're a beautiful system of patterns and codes, but also an essential tool that can guide our daily decisions, change our behaviour, and even predict the future-if we can just learn how to use them right. Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked of the randomness of football results, helped him organise his time, directed his social life and opened up the world of music. Told through stories from his life, Bobby illuminates the world of numbers and brings his infectious enthusiasm to everything from the mystery of magic numbers, the improbability of probability, the right number of friends to have, and how prime numbers control everything from credit card encryption to cicada hibernation habits. The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers will fill you with wonder, change how you see the world around you, and help you make better choices and decisions every day. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Traitor in the Family Nicholas Searle (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 255g ISBN13: 9780241979907 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97990-7 ISBN10: 0241979900 EAN: 9780241979907 x Description: FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GOOD LIAR, SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM 'Unbearably tense' Daily Telegraph 'While her husband prepared to murder a young man he had never met, Bridget O'Neill completed her packing for Christmas with her in-laws.' Francis O'Neill is a terrorist, trained to kill for his cause. Bridget is his wife, expected to be loyal and stand by her husband. She has learned not to hope for much more, until the day she glimpses, for the first time, the chance of a new life. A life without violence, without secrets, and without knocks on the door in the dead of night. A life without her husband. But what if freedom for Bridget means grave danger for Francis? In A Traitor in the Family, bestselling author, Nicholas Searle, tells a story of shocking, intimate betrayal. Can a treacherous act of the most personal kind ever be, in this darkly violent world, an act of mercy? 'It reminded me strongly of John le Carre ... this is high praise' Daily Mail "The Good Liar was excellent ... this is even better' Sunday Express _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Austerlitz W. G. Sebald (Author) Anthea Bell (Translated by) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: German Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp h181mm x w111mm x s27mm 243g ISBN13: 9780241984482 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98448-2 ISBN10: 0241984483 EAN: 9780241984482 x Description: In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Awkward Age Francesca Segal (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp 266g ISBN13: 9780099569534 ISBN13: 978-0-09-956953-4 ISBN10: 0099569531 EAN: 9780099569534 x Description: 'A very smart, soulful, compelling novel' Nick Hornby What does it take to be a family? Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything she never knew she wanted. It's perfect but for two things: their children. Julia's beloved daughter Gwen loathes James and James's son Nathan takes pleasure in antagonising his new stepsister. Uniting two households is never easy, but the teenagers' unexpected actions will eventually threaten everyone's hard-won happiness. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Once Upon a River Diane Setterfield (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780857525666 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-566-6 ISBN10: 0857525662 EAN: 9780857525666 x Description: A dark midwinter?s night in an ancient inn on the Thames. The regulars are entertaining themselves by telling stories when the door bursts open on an injured stranger. In his arms is the drowned corpse of a little child. Hours later the dead girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is
it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can it be explained by science? Replete with folklore, suspense and romance, as well as with the urgent scientific curiosity of the Darwinian age, Once Upon a River is as richly atmospheric as Setterfield?s bestseller The Thirteenth Tale. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, the Collapse of BHS and the Death of the High Street (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller) Oliver Shah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp 388g ISBN13: 9780241341216 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34121-6 ISBN10: 0241341213 EAN: 9780241341216 x Description: 'Superb' Evening Standard 'From the glitzy parties to the threatening phone calls, the larger-than-life characters to the speedy downfall, this real-life tale of hubris has all the elements of a Greek tragedy' City AM 'Entertaining stuff, pacily written. Filled with colourful characters - and expletives' The Times 'Shah has written a hard-hitting, often funny, ultimately sobering tale of how fortunes were made and lost in late 20th and early 21st century Britain' Financial Times 'A detailed and entertaining dismantling of the 'king of the high street'' Guardian 'Some stupid f*cking book' Sir Philip Green In this jaw-dropping expose, Oliver Shah uncovers the truth behind one of Britain's biggest business scandals, following Sir Philip Green's journey to the big time, the wild excesses of his heyday and his dramatic demise. Sir Philip Green was once hailed one of Britain's best businessmen. As chairman of Arcadia Group, home to brands such as Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, Green had prime ministers and supermodels on speed dial. But the retail magnate's reputation came crashing down when Shah, a Sunday Times journalist, uncovered the methods Green used to amass his gigantic offshore fortune, and the desperation that drove his doomed BHS deal. In 2015, Green sold British Home Stores for GBP1 to Retail Acquisitions, owned by Dominic Chappell, a charlatan who siphoned off BHS's remaining millions before filing for administration. By the time it went under in April 2016, BHS had debts of GBP1.3bn, including a pension deficit of GBP571m. Its collapse left 11,000 employees without jobs and 20,000 pension fund members facing the loss of their benefits, prompting the government to launch an inquiry into Green's sale of the company. While one of Britain's oldest department stores boarded up its shop fronts, former employees and shoppers protested in the streets and MPs rallied in parliament, demanding Green be stripped of his knighthood. The furore over the sale subsided in 2017 when Green agreed a GBP363m deal with the Pensions Regulator, but with revelations surrounding Topshop's pension deficit now surfacing, could tragedy strike again? Oliver Shah is the award-winning Business Editor of the Sunday Times and one of the most respected national commentators on business and the high street. He was named business journalist of the year at both the Press Awards and London Press Club Awards in 2017 for his investigation into Sir Philip Green. Shah studied English at Cambridge University and journalism at City University before joining City AM in 2009 and the Sunday Times in 2010. Aged 34, Shah lives in east London. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Swimming Studies Leanne Shapton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 354g ISBN13: 9780141987712 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198771-2 ISBN10: 0141987715 EAN: 9780141987712 x Description: 'Pure genius, gliding lyricism ... It is, simply, a delight' Independent on Sunday 'Vivid with chlorine-bleached swimsuits, and post-match sorrow' Caitlin Moran, Observer, Books of the Year As a teenager, Leanne Shapton trained for the Olympic swimming trials; now an artist, she is still drawn inexorably to swimming, in pools and the sea. What do you do with an all-absorbing activity once it is past its relevance, and yet you can't quite give it up? Swimming Studies is a lyrical, playful work that explores what it is like to move from a world of competition to one of recreation and introspection, giving a sideways glimpse into memory, adolescence, swimming, drawing, obsession and solitude. 'Exquisite ... brilliant, eccentric and moving - an immersion in life ... this enigmatic book is written out of what cannot be fathomed' Observer 'A rich account ... told with the originality and playfulness of an artist ... Shapton shares Dave Eggers' talent for taking the mundane and making it viscerally new' The Times 'Captures a bittersweet part of the writer's past as completely as a scent trapped in a bottle' John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead 'If there is a more beautifully observed examination of the weightlessness, silence, rigour and delight of what it means to swim, I've never read it' David Rakoff, author of Half Empty _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Finance Curse: How global finance is making us all poorer Nicholas Shaxson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp ISBN13: 9781847924216 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-421-6 ISBN10: 1847924212 EAN: 9781847924216 x Description: Global finance is a system that works for the few and against the many. We need finance - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources; it sucks talent out of every sphere, it siphons wealth and hoovers up government time. Yet to be `competitive', we're told we must turn a blind eye to moneylaundering and appease big business with tax cuts. We are told global finance is about wealth creation; the reality is wealth extraction. Tracing the curse back through economic history, Shaxson uncovers how we got to this point. He exposes offshore tax havens; the uncontrolled growth of monopolies; the myths around the Celtic Tiger and its low corporate tax rate; the bizarre industry of wealth management; the destructive horrors of private equity; and the sinister `Competitiveness Agenda'. Nicholas Shaxson revealed the dark heart of tax havens long before the Panama and Paradise Papers. Now he tells the explosive story of how finance established a stranglehold on society and points us towards a way out. This is a book that none of us can afford to ignore. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Parenting the First Twelve Years: What the Evidence Tells Us Victoria L. Cooper, Heather Montgomery, Kieron Sheehy (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h181mm x w111mm x s20mm 204g ISBN13: 9780241270509 ISBN13: 978-0-241-27050-9 ISBN10: 0241270502 EAN: 9780241270509 x Description: Concrete, research-driven advice on humanity's oldest, hardest job Why is parenting so fraught and so difficult in today's society? There has never been a time when advice was so readily available, and yet there is also a prevailing sense that parents are getting it wrong. This book examines the arguments and counter-arguments supported by research on how best to parent children, from birth to twelve years. By taking an impartial approach to the evidence and, by discussing case studies from across the world and from a number of academic disciplines, this book is designed to show how good parenting comes in many shapes and forms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How Far We Fall: The perfect marriage. The perfect murder? Jane Shemilt (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 266g ISBN13: 9780718180904 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8090-4 ISBN10: 0718180909 EAN: 9780718180904 x Description: FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON DAUGHTER A wife who must keep her affair secret. A husband who has the power to bring her lover down. A marriage that could end in murder. Beth was still reeling from the end of her affair the night she met Albie - a man who knows her ex better than anyone, but has no idea of their history. He's perfectly placed to give Beth the revenge she craves - if only she can keep her secret safe. But how far is she willing to go? 'Instantly intriguing, chilling' Daily Mail 'A breathtaking dissection of a marriage' Woman & Home 'A brilliant exploration of power and responsibility, jealousy and vengeance, set against the fascinating backdrop of the world of neurosurgery' Daily Express 'A modern Macbeth, with a compelling sense of place, good twists, and a tense, intense ending' Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Unnatural Causes: 'Heart-wrenchingly honest' Professor Sue Black, author of All That Remains Richard Shepherd (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
17 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 400pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781405923545 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-2354-5 ISBN10: 1405923547 EAN: 9781405923545 x Description: The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak ... Dr Richard Shepherd is the UK's foremost forensic pathologist, his job to understand the deaths which may have no natural cause. From crime scene to court room, his findings are crucial to the pursuit of justice. His work has seen killers put behind bars, exonerated the innocent, and turned open and shut cases on their heads. Shepherd's obsession with revealing the secrets of the dead is personal. At medical school, while performing his first autopsy, he held the heart of the patient in his hand and thought of his late mother, taken too early by heart disease. He became driven by the challenge of finding the truth, of seeing justice, and by compassion: sometimes for the dead, but always for those they have left behind. Thoughtful, revealing, chilling, sometimes bizarre and always unputdownable, Unnatural Causes is the true crime book of the year. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare Gabourey Sidibe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm x s16mm 181g ISBN13: 9781784708443 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-844-3 ISBN10: 1784708445 EAN: 9781784708443 x Description: The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny. This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe's life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted mother who fed the family by busking on the subway, and the psychic who told her she'd one day be `famous like Oprah'. Gabby shows us round the Harlem studio apartment where she grew up, relives the debilitating depression that hit her at college, and reminisces about her first ever job as a phone sex `talker' (less creepy than you'd think). With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight, This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different - and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true. 'Frank, funny, and insanely charming' Lena Dunham 'A read that lives up to the unforgettable attitude of its name' Glamour 'You're the BOMB, girl!' President Barack Obama _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
One Day in December: 'Gorgeous' Marian Keyes (The Most Heart-Warming Read of Autumn 2018) Josie Silver (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
31 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241982273 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98227-3 ISBN10: 0241982278 EAN: 9780241982273 x Description: 'THE SWEETEST LOVE STORY...YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT!' MARIAN KEYES Prepare to be swept away by the love story that everyone's talking about this Autumn... Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist. After all, life isn't a scene from the movies, is it? But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Laurie thinks she'll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus. Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans? Following Laurie, Sarah and Jack through ten years of love, heartbreak and friendship, ONE DAY IN DECEMBER is an uplifting, heart-warming and immensely moving love story that you'll want to escape into forever, for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lucy Diamond and Nicholas Sparks. 'Sucked me in and didn't let go. It made me laugh, cry, ache and shout at the characters. Utterly captivating...one of my favourite books' Holly Martin 'The number one feel-good read of 2018' Dinah Jefferies 'The novelistic equivalent to Love Actually' The Bookseller 'The love story you've been waiting for ... I loved it!' Miranda Dickinson 'A feel-good, heart-wrenching tribute to the female friends we cannot do without, as well as the men that we fall for. Josie Silver is one to watch.' Stephanie Butland WHAT REAL READERS ARE SAYING ***** 'Devastatingly good' Johnny, Netgalley ***** 'I LOVE LOVE LOVED this book' Vicki, Netgalley ***** 'Wow! What a book!' Jen, Netgalley ***** 'This kept me turning pages long into the night. I'd highly recommend it' Christine, Netgalley ***** 'I can't wait to reread it over and over' Nikita, Netgalley
***** 'Beautifully written' Helen, Netgalley ***** 'I just didn't want this book to end ... I shall be singing its praises from the rooftops' Cassie, Netgalley ***** 'The perfect book to read this winter' Rebecca, Netgalley ***** 'I really loved this little gem of a book. I'd recommend it to all' L.J, Netgalley ***** 'I devoured this book' Amanda, Netgalley ***** 'I absolutely loved this book!' Jess, Netgalley _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Terror Dan Simmons (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 944pp 629g ISBN13: 9780857503916 ISBN13: 978-0-85750-391-6 ISBN10: 085750391X EAN: 9780857503916 x Description: Stephen King hailed Dan Simmons' bestselling novel as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror' and it's now a chilling 10-part AMC Original TV series from Ridley Scott. The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph. But for almost two years his ships HMS Terror and Erebus have been trapped in the Arctic ice. Supplies of fuel and food are running low. Scurvy, starvation and even madness beging to take their toll. And yet the real threat isn't from the constantly shifting, alien landscape, the flesh-numbing temperatures or being crushed by the unyielding, frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness. It stalks the ships and snatches men. It is a nameless thing. At once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Infinite Game Simon Sinek (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Dec 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780241295595 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29559-5 ISBN10: 0241295599 EAN: 9780241295595 x Description: The New York Times-bestselling author of Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, and Together Is Better offers a bold new approach to business strategy by asking one question: are you playing the finite game or the infinite game? In The Infinite Game, Sinek applies game theory to explore how great businesses achieve long-lasting success. He finds that building long-term value and healthy, enduring growth - that playing the infinite game - is the only thing that matters to your business. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life Lilly Singh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405934985 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3498-5 ISBN10: 1405934980 EAN: 9781405934985 x Description: The official debut book from YouTube phenomenon Lilly Singh. 'The ultimate no-nonsense manual for millennials how how to make it to the top' Marie Claire From actress, comedian and YouTube sensation Lilly Singh (aka Superwoman) comes the definitive guide to being a BAWSE - a person who exudes confidence, reaches goals, gets hurt efficiently, and smiles genuinely because they've fought through it all and made it out the other side. Told in her hilarious, bold voice that's inspired over 9 million fans, and using stories from her own life to illustrate her message, Lilly proves that there are no shortcuts to success. WARNING: This book does NOT include hopeful thoughts, lucky charms, and cute quotes. That's because success, happiness and everything else you want in life needs to be fought for - not wished for. In Lilly's world, there are no escalators. Only stairs. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pelican
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h181mm x w111mm x s17mm 178g ISBN13: 9780141983110 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198311-0 ISBN10: 0141983116 EAN: 9780141983110 x Description: A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online course
Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the other side is widespread today. What can we do to change this? In Think Again philosopher Walter Sinnott-Armstrong draws on a long tradition of logic to show why we should stop focusing on winning arguments and instead argue in a more constructive way. Based on a hugely popular online course with more than a million followers around the world, Think Again explains how to analyse, evaluate and make better arguments while also spotting bad reasoning and avoiding certain fallacies. Through lively, practical examples from everyday life, politics and popular culture, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong offers brilliantly straightforward, wise advice that we can all use at work, at home and online. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Money and Government: A Challenge to Mainstream Economics Robert Skidelsky (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 512pp h241mm x w161mm x s33mm 885g ISBN13: 9780241352823 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35282-3 ISBN10: 0241352827 EAN: 9780241352823 x Description: The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money and government essential features of any market economy. One reason we need money is because we don't know what the future will bring. Government - good government - makes the future more predictable and therefore reduces this kind of demand for money. After Adam Smith orthodoxy persistently espoused non-intervention, but the Great Depression of 1929-32 stopped the artificers of orthodox economics in their tracks. A precarious balance of forces between government, employers, and trade unions enabled Keynesian economics to emerge as the new policy paradigm of the Western world. However, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the rejection of Keynesian policy and a return to small-state neoclassical orthodoxy. Thirty years later, the 2008 global financial crash was severe enough to have shaken the re-vamped classical orthodoxy, but, curiously, this did not happen. Once the crisis had been overcome - by Keynesian measures taken in desperation - the pre-crash orthodoxy was reinstated, undermined but unbowed. Since 2008, no new 'big idea' has emerged, and orthodoxy has maintained its sway, enacting punishing austerity agendas that leave us with a still-anaemic global economy. This book aims to familiarise the reader with essential elements of Keynes's 'big idea'. By showing that much of economic orthodoxy is far from being the hard science it claims to be, it aims to embolden the next generation of economists to break free from their conceptual prisons and afford money and government the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kingdom of Carbonel Barbara Sleigh (Author) Series:
A Puffin Book
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 245g b & w line drawings ISBN13: 9780241321683 ISBN13: 978-0-241-32168-3 ISBN10: 0241321689 EAN: 9780241321683 x Description: Rosemary and John are proud to be entrusted with Carbonel's royal kittens while he is away from his kingdom, but it is a task that leads them into all sorts of unexpected and exciting magical adventures. A classic, timeless sequel to Carbonel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Winter: from the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith (Author) Series:
Seasonal
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241973332 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97333-2 ISBN10: 0241973333 EAN: 9780241973332 x Description: BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, New York Times . . . 'Capacious, surprising, generous . . . A book with Christmas at its heart' Guardian 'Dazzling. Grief and pain are transfigured by luminous moments of humour, insight and connection . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen' Daily Telegraph 'Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope' Independent 'A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful' Observer From the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and How to be both . . . The unmissable second novel in Ali Smith's acclaimed 'Seasonal' quartet -- a Christmas story like no other Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer's leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there's ice, there'll be fire. In Ali Smith's Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith's shape-shifting quartet of novels casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It's the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Calm: Calm the Mind. Change the World Michael Acton Smith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h210mm x w149mm x s18mm 451g ISBN13: 9780241309018 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30901-8 ISBN10: 0241309018 EAN: 9780241309018 x Description: Join the Calm revolution. Modern life is hectic and relentless: trains delayed, endless emails filling the inbox, kids squabbling before bedtime... There has never been a more important time to rediscover your pause button. Calm is the book that will show you how to take back a little bit of peace, space and all-important calm. This book contains the simple tools, tricks and habits that will change the rest your life. It is a practical and pleasurable guide to twenty-first century mindfulness.
Regular meditation is medically proven to be good for you - it increases focus and creativity, productivity and job satisfaction, mental and even physical health. But in reality most of us don't have time to sit on a cushion with our eyes closed for half an hour every day. And many people associate meditation with hard work and huge lifestyle shifts: you might be imagining Buddhist monks locked in a mountain retreat and living off gruel...
This is where Calm comes in. Calm is about simple, achievable habits that work with the demands of your busy life instead of pretending those demands don't exist. Calm does not require specialist training: it uses abilities that every single one of us is born with, like creativity, spontaneity and simply noticing the world around you. Calm is not a set of rules that you need to worry about following or breaking. It is inspirational, practical and nonprescriptive. Onerous, time-consuming meditation might seem out of reach but everyone can achieve calm - including you. Calm combines extracts from fascinating neurological research with wisdom from history's great thinkers and the real-life experiences of individuals across the globe. It demystifies mindfulness and shows you the many simple ways to be mindful while carrying on with your life. It is also a beautifully crafted object, filled with artwork and artistry, that will change your perspective by showing you the pleasures of the world anew. Take a walk with nowhere to go, savour a chocolate on the tip of your tongue, plant a seed, doodle aimlessly, turn off your mobile phone for five short minutes. Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Calm is divided into eight sections that everyone should have in their life: * Nature * Work * Creativity * Children * Travel * Relationships * Food * Sleep Each section contains a mixture of fascinating research, creative prompts, activities and instructions, sensory stimuli and inspiration. Pick up Calm whenever you need it, dip in and out, read it and choose which bits work best for you.
Join the Calm revolution. Calm your mind; change your world. Calm.com @calm _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
White Teeth Zadie Smith (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 560pp 302g ISBN13: 9780241981399 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98139-9 ISBN10: 0241981395 EAN: 9780241981399 x Description: Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book. 'Funny, clever ... and a rollicking good read' Independent 'An astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious ... I was delighted' Salman Rushdie 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the first pages' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Quirky, sassy and wise ... a big, splashy, populous production reminiscent of books by Dickens and Salman Rushdie ... demonstrates both an
instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time' New York Times 'Smith writes like an old hand, and, sometimes, like a dream' New Yorker 'Outstanding ... A strikingly clever and funny book with a passion for ideas, for language and for the rich tragic-comedy of life' Sunday Telegraph 'Do believe the hype' The Times 'Relentlessly funny ... idiosyncratic, and deeply felt' Guardian Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her debut novel, White Teeth, won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Commonwealth Writers' First Book Prize, and was included in TIME 100 Best Englishlanguage Novels from 1923 to 2005. Her second novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has written two further novels, The Autograph Man and NW, a collection of essays, Changing My Mind, and also edited a short-story anthology, The Book of Other People. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football Rob Smyth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp 246g ISBN13: 9781787290259 ISBN13: 978-1-78729-025-9 ISBN10: 1787290255 EAN: 9781787290259 x Description: 1980s Rio de Janeiro. There's only one king in this city and he's got the mullet, swagger and fake ID to prove it. Introducing Carlos Henrique Raposo, known to all as KAISER. This guy's got more front than Copacabana beach. He's the most loveable of rogues with the most common of dreams: to become a professional footballer. And he isn't about to let trivial details like talent and achievement stand in his way. . . not when he has so many other ways to get what he wants. In one of the most remarkable football stories ever told, Kaiser graduates from abandoned slumdog to star striker, dressing-room fixer, superstar party host and inexhaustible lover. And all without kicking a ball. He's not just the king... he's the Kaiser. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Things We Thought We Knew Mahsuda Snaith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Black Swan
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w127mm x s18mm 209g ISBN13: 9781784162573 ISBN13: 978-1-78416-257-3 ISBN10: 1784162574 EAN: 9781784162573 x Description: Ten years ago, two girls' lives changed forever. Now one of them is ready to tell their story.
*** 'A quirky lovable mystery and a brilliant, heartbreaking debut' Stylist 'A new face of fiction [and] an original coming of age novel' Observer *** The first memory I have of you is all knickers and legs. You had flipped yourself into a handstand and couldn't get back down. We became best friends, racing slugs, pretending to be spies - all the things that children do. Ten years later, eighteen-year-old Ravine Roy spends every day in her room. Completing crosswords and scribbling in her journal, she keeps the outside world exactly where she wants it; outside. But as the real world begins to invade her carefully controlled space, she is forced to finally confront the questions she's been avoiding. Who is her mother meeting in secret? Who has moved in next door? And why, all those years ago, when two girls pulled on their raincoats and wellies and headed out into the woods did only one of them return? `A breakout book from an incredibly talented debut writer. Read, weep and laugh' Stylist `An original heartfelt read by a new British talent' Independent `A delightfully fresh voice' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America Timothy Snyder (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 368pp h234mm x w153mm x s27mm 545g ISBN13: 9781847925275 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-527-5 ISBN10: 1847925278 EAN: 9781847925275 x Description: 'A brilliant and disturbing analysis, which should be read by anyone wishing to understand the political crisis currently engulfing the world' YUVAL NOAH HARARI author of SAPIENS
The past is another country, the old saying goes. The same might be said of the future. But which country? For Europeans and Americans today, the answer is Russia. Today's Russia is an oligarchy propped up by illusions and repression. But it also represents the fulfilment of tendencies already present in the West. And if Moscow's drive to dissolve Western states and values succeeds, this could become our reality too. In this visionary work of contemporary history, Timothy Snyder shows how Russia works within the West to destroy the West; by supporting the far right in Europe, invading Ukraine in 2014, and waging a cyberwar during the 2016 presidential campaign and the EU referendum. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the creation of Donald Trump, an American failure deployed as a Russian weapon. But this threat presents an opportunity to better understand the pillars of our freedoms, confront our own complacency and seek renewal. History never ends, and this new challenge forces us to face the choices that will determine the future: equality or oligarchy, individualism or totalitarianism, truth or lies. The Road to Unfreedom helps us to see our world as if for the first time. It is necessary reading for any citizen of a democracy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
House of Gold Natasha Solomons (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
30 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h234mm x w153mm x s30mm 560g ISBN13: 9781786330093 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-009-3 ISBN10: 1786330091 EAN: 9781786330093 x Description: 'Such is the power and wealth of the Goldbaums that on dull days, it's said, they hire the sun just for themselves.' The Goldbaums' influence reaches across Europe. They are the confidants and bankers of governments and emperors. Little happens without their say-so and even less without their knowledge. But Greta Goldbaum has no say at all in who she'll marry. While power lies in wealth, strength lies in family. Greta's union with cousin Albert will strengthen the bond between the Austrian and the English branches of the dynasty. It is sensible and strategic. Greta is neither. Defiant and unhappy, she is desperate to find a place that belongs to her, free from duty and responsibility. But just as she begins to taste an unexpected happiness, the Great War is looming and even the Goldbaums can't alter its course. For the first time in two hundred years, the family will find themselves on opposing sides. The House of Goldbaum, along with Europe herself, is about to break apart. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
T Singer Dag Solstad (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 272pp h204mm x w138mm x s27mm 361g ISBN13: 9781910701553 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-55-3 ISBN10: 1910701556 EAN: 9781910701553 x Description: `A kind of surrealist writer' (Haruki Murakami), who `doesn't write to please other people' (Lydia Davis). T Singer is the new novel in English from one of Norway's most celebrated writers, proving `good literature makes us wiser about life, ourselves and other people' (Dagbladet). Singer, a thirty-four-year-old recently trained librarian, arrives by train in the small town of Notodden to begin a new and anonymous life. He falls in love with Merete, a ceramicist, and moves in with her and her young daughter. After a few years together, the relationship starts to falter, and as the couple is on the verge of separating a car accident prompts a dramatic change in Singer's life. T Singer is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about indomitable loneliness, laying bare the existential questions of life in Solstad's classic, bleakly comic style. Winner of the Norwegian Critics Prize _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stop Looking at Your Phone: A Helpful Guide Son of Alan (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Pop Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 128pp 188g ISBN13: 9781785039096 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-909-6 ISBN10: 1785039091 EAN: 9781785039096 x Description: Haven't you got something better to do? Our streets are filled with down-facing zombies, blocking up the pavements. We'd rather Instagram our food than eat it. We've forgotten how to have real actual conversations . And in the bedroom... well, that's no place for Candy Crush Saga. It's time we all repeated the life-changing maxim: STOP LOOKING AT YOUR PHONE. In his wonderfully deadpan instruction manual for our increasingly tunnel-visioned lives, illustrator Son of Alan taps into the strange truth of our obsession with the tiny screen. Revealing how ludicrous we've all become, and what wonders lie in stall for us a whole metre from our faces, this book will make you want to reclaim your life, your friends and your family from the tyranny of the backlit screen. You'll laugh, sure, but it might also change your life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Stories: Collected Stories Susan Sontag (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp 234g ISBN13: 9780241982716 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98271-6 ISBN10: 0241982715 EAN: 9780241982716 x Description: 'Magnificent... Her famous seriousness pervades throughout... What's striking is the astonishing scope, potential and possibility Sontag saw in short fiction' Financial Times The complete collected short stories of Susan Sontag, one of the most brilliant and influential writers of the twentieth century Susan Sontag is most often remembered as a brilliant essayist - inquisitive, analytical, fearlessly outspoken. Yet all throughout her life, she also wrote short stories: fictions which wrestled with those ideas and preoccupations she couldn't address in essay form. These short fictions are allegories, parables, autobiographical vignettes, each capturing an authentic fragment of life, dramatizing Sontag's private griefs and fears. Stories collects all of Sontag's short fiction for the first time. This astonishingly versatile collection showcases its peerless writer at the height of her powers. For any Sontag fan, it is an unmissable testament to her creative achievements. 'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
If Only They Didn't Speak English: Notes From Trump's America Jon Sopel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
BBC Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
31 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp 270g ISBN13: 9781785942273 ISBN13: 978-1-78594-227-3 ISBN10: 1785942271 EAN: 9781785942273 x Description: 'You see, if only they didn't speak English in America, then we'd treat it as a foreign country - and probably understand it a lot better' `the sanest man in America' - Bill Bryson `Jon Sopel nails it' - Emily Maitlis **With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first year in power** As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the time it's taken for a reality star to go from laughing stock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as `a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump. Through music, film, literature, TV and even through the food we eat and the clothes that we wear we all have a highly developed sense of what America is and through our shared, tangled history we claim a special relationship. But America today feels about as alien a country as you could imagine. It is fearful, angry and impatient for change. In this fascinating, insightful portrait of American life and politics, Jon Sopel sets out to answer our questions about a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams, but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired Benjamin Spall (Author) Michael Xander (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp 182g ISBN13: 9780241315415 ISBN13: 978-0-241-31541-5 ISBN10: 0241315417 EAN: 9780241315415 x Description: FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH - MAY 'This small book carries the irresistible implicit promise that if you follow the morning routines of famous, important and successful people, you will become famous, important and successful yourself.' Financial Times How are you spending your most valuable hours? The first few choices you make each morning can unlock greater productivity, creativity, and calm or bring out your worst self. - Marie Kondo performs a quick tidying ritual to quiet her mind before leaving the house. - The president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Ed Catmull, mixes three shots of espresso with three scoops of cocoa powder and two sweeteners. - Retired U.S.Army Four-Star General Stanley McChrystal works out at 4:00 AM every day for at least an hour. Part instruction manual, part someone else's diary, My Morning Routine interviews sixty-four of today's most successful people - including Biz Stone,
the co-founder of Twitter; Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post; and Michael Acton Smith, the CEO of Calm - and offers advice on creating a routine of your own. Some routines are all about early-morning exercise and spartan living; others are more leisurely and self-indulgent. Whether you want to boost your productivity, implement a workout or meditation routine, or learn to roll with the punches in the morning, this book has you covered. Once you land on the right routine, you'll look forward to waking up. ----From inside the book: 'A big part of my morning routine is about what I don't do: when I wake up, I don't start the day by looking at my phone' - ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, founder of the Huffington Post and Thrive Global 'I travel a lot for work, so my days are always different. Having a morning routine really means fitting things in around everything else' - CAMERON RUSSELL, fashion model and cultural activist I 'if I don't get a chance to play with my son in the morning I feel like I missed something that I'll never get back' - BIZ STONE, cofounder of Twitter 'Find certain things you know you should do, don't like to do, or make excuses to avoid, and then do them every day' - STANLEY McCHRYSTAL, retired U.S. Army four-star general
-----BENJAMIN SPALL AND MICHAEL XANDER are the founders of mymorningroutine.com. Spall has written for outlets including The Huffington Post, 99U, and The Next Web. Xander is a product designer and engineer. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating Charles Spence (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 268g ISBN13: 9780241977743 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97774-3 ISBN10: 0241977746 EAN: 9780241977743 x Description: A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food 'Popular science at its best' - Daniel Levitin Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home? These are just some of the ingredients of Gastrophysics, in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways, and reveals the importance of all the 'off-the-plate' elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the placing on the plate, the background music and much more. Whether dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience. Mealtimes will genuinely never be the same again. 'Truly accessible, entertaining and informative. On every page there are ideas to set you thinking and widen your horizons' - Heston Blumenthal, OBE 'His delight in weird food facts is infectious...fascinating' - James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'Gastrophysics is packed with such tasty factual morsels that could be served up at dinner parties. If Spence can percolate all these factual morsels to
the mainstream, the benefits to all of us would be obvious' - Nick Curtis, Daily Telegraph 'Spence allows people to appreciate the multisensory experience of eating' - New Yorker 'The scientist changing the way we eat' - Guardian _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp 303g ISBN13: 9781784702403 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-240-3 ISBN10: 1784702404 EAN: 9781784702403 x Description: 'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past' Guardian With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I. In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test. Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant - if not more so - as two world wars in shaping the modern world; in disrupting, and often permanently altering, global politics, race relations, family structures, and thinking across medicine, religion and the arts. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dunbar Edward St. Aubyn (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp 211g ISBN13: 9781784701697 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-169-7 ISBN10: 1784701696 EAN: 9781784701697 x Description: From the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, now a major Sky Atlantic television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan. But relations quickly soured, leaving him to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. Who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bad Apple Zoje Stage (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Bantam Press
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
09 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp 388g ISBN13: 9780593079867 ISBN13: 978-0-593-07986-7 ISBN10: 0593079868 EAN: 9780593079867 x Description: Your husband thinks your daughter's an angel. You know different. Seven-year-old Hanna has never said a word. Although she knows her daddy loves and understands her - and she loves him with all her heart - she doesn't feel she can trust her mummy. Wilful and clever, she chooses not to speak, making her thoughts clear in other ways. But her silence is putting a huge strain on her family. Suzette loves her daughter, but after years of tantrums, difficulties with babysitters and schools, and Hanna's markedly different behaviour towards her and her husband, she starts to fear the strained time alone with her. Suzette's health problems - precarious at the best of times - start to play up. But while her husband is sympathetic, he can't see that his beautiful wife and adorable daughter are engaged in a silent battle. Then Hanna speaks for the first time, alone, to Suzette. But what she says is chilling. Suzette wants to write it off as a scary joke, but Hanna's tricks seem to become increasingly sophisticated. With her husband blind to what his daughter may be capable of, could she be in danger from her own child? Fans of Jane Shemilt, Gillian McAllister or Jane Corry will love this page-turning story of dark domestic suspense... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Auschwitz: A History Sybille Steinbacher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 176pp h198mm x w129mm x s10mm 134g ISBN13: 9780141987484 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198748-4 ISBN10: 0141987480 EAN: 9780141987484 x Description: At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to any European in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the world war. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Thriving Child: The Science Behind Reducing Stress and Nurturing Independence Dr William Stixrud (Author) Ned Johnson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
14 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 463g ISBN13: 9780241298107 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29810-7 ISBN10: 0241298105 EAN: 9780241298107 x Description: ** Published in the U.S. as The Self-Driven Child**
A hands-off parenting guide to nurture independent thinking and collaboration for happier, smarter and stress-free kids. 'Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do as parents is to parent our children a little less. This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents on how to pull back, when to engage and when to let go. Read it. Your children will thank you.' Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling author of How Children Succeed As parents we all want the best for our child, but so often we give in to societal pressures which can result in us over-managing every aspect of their lives leaving them overwhelmed, over-scheduled and lacking motivation. This can terrifyingly lead to mental health problems as adolescents and adults. How can we prevent this happening to our child? Over their combined sixty years of practice, William Stixrud, a clinical neuropsychologist, and Ned Johnson, the founder of an elite tutoring agency, have worked with thousands of children all facing this problem. Together they discovered that the best antidote to stress is to give kids more of a sense of control over their lives. In this ground-breaking book they reveal how you can actively help your child to sculpt a brain that is resilient, stress-proof and ready to take on new challenges. The Thriving Child offers a combination of cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioural therapy, and case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens Bill and Ned have helped over the years. They will teach you how to set your child on the real road to success and share their successful techniques to show you the best ways of helping your child to: * * * * * *
Reduce their stress and anxiety Foster independent thinking Find their internal motivation Achieve their full potential Transform defiance into decision making Tame rebellious tendencies
The Thriving Child is essential reading for every parent and demonstrates precisely how nurturing independent thinking, and collaborating with your child rather than micro-managing them, will lead to happier, smarter and stress-free kids. 'This serious and probing look at how to give our children the right kinds of independence shows us how much power we have to ensure they can function optimally. It is a book about how to make our children more meaningfully independent, and to set ourselves free in the process.' Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree 'Compelling, revolutionary, and wise, The Thriving Child empowers parents with the courage, the tools, and the mindset to reduce toxic stress, and to foster our child's capacity for resilience, success, and optimal development. Its message-that we should trust kids to have more control over their own lives-is one every parent needs to hear.' Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, co-author of The Whole Brain Child and The Yes Brain _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Help Kathryn Stockett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Media tie-in
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp 251g ISBN13: 9780241978900 ISBN13: 978-0-241-97890-0 ISBN10: 0241978904 EAN: 9780241978900 x Description: The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver . . . There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age Jason Stockwood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 256pp h216mm x w135mm x s19mm 257g ISBN13: 9780753552728 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-5272-8 ISBN10: 0753552728 EAN: 9780753552728 x Description: The tech revolution will hit us all soon. How can any organisation survive and thrive? Headlines predict that whole industries will be decimated by Artificial Intelligence and automation. Some bosses and bankers are rubbing their hands at the prospect of cost savings and staff cuts. But there is another way. New technology can also empower teams, fuel creativity and make people happier. At Simply Business, twice voted the UK's best company to work for, big data and automated systems are being harnessed to generate positive growth, staff are currently trialling a four-day week in their Northampton office. In this bold blueprint, CEO Jason Stockwood - named by the Sunday Times as the UK's best leader - shows how any organisation can think freshly and benefit from technology by putting its people first. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean Morten Stroksnes (Author) Tiina Nunnally (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: Norwegian Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h190mm x w134mm x s23mm 296g ISBN13: 9781784704346 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-434-6 ISBN10: 1784704342 EAN: 9781784704346 x Description: ** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ** Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of obsession, enchantment and adventure. A love song to the sea, in all its mystery, hardship, wonder and life-giving majesty. In the great depths surrounding the remote Lofoten islands in Norway lives the Greenland shark. Twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a tonne, it can live for 200 years. Its fluorescent green, parasite-covered eyes are said to hypnotise its prey, and its meat is so riddled with poison that, when consumed, it sends people into a hallucinatory trance. Armed with little more than their wits and a tiny rubber boat, Morten Stroksnes and his friend Hugo set out in pursuit of this enigmatic creature. Together, they tackle existential questions, experience the best and worst nature can throw at them, and explore the astonishing life teeming at the ocean's depths. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 196g ISBN13: 9780241248799 ISBN13: 978-0-241-24879-9 ISBN10: 0241248795 EAN: 9780241248799 x Description: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Man Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Anything is Possible tells the story of the inhabitants of rural, dusty Amgash, Illinois, the hometown of Lucy Barton, a successful New York writer who finally returns, after seventeen years of absence, to visit the siblings she left behind. Reverberating with the deep bonds of family, and the hope that comes with reconciliation, Anything Is Possible again underscores Elizabeth Strout's place as one of America's most respected and cherished authors. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Meatless Days: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie Sara Suleri (Author) Series:
Penguin Women Writers
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp 138g ISBN13: 9780241342466 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34246-6 ISBN10: 0241342465 EAN: 9780241342466 x Description: 'Some of the more heart-shaking writing about love and grief I've ever read' Kamila Shamsie, winner fo the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, from the introduction Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author's family two years apart, her personal crisis spirals into a wider meditation on universal questions: about being a woman when you're too busy being a mother or a sister or a wife to consider your own womanhood; about how it feels to begin life in a new language; about how our lives are changed by the people that leave them. This is a heart-breaking, hopeful and profound book that will get under your skin. 'Extraordinary... as an evocation of family love, with all its sharpness, pain and need, Meatless Days is almost faultless' New Statesman _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World Haemin Sunim (Author) Chi-Young Kim (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Life
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
08 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 288pp h178mm x w128mm x s24mm 401g ISBN13: 9780241340660 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34066-0 ISBN10: 0241340667 EAN: 9780241340660 x Description: The Times Top 10 Bestseller THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD 'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?' The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Haemin Sunim's simple messages - which he first wrote when he responded to requests for advice on social media - speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life and remind us of the strength and joy that come from slowing down. Hugely popular in Korea, Haemin Sunim is a Zen meditation teacher whose teachings transcend religion, borders and ages. With insight and compassion drawn from a life full of change, the bestselling monk succeeds at encouraging all of us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory Leonard Susskind (Author) Art Friedman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 448pp 323g ISBN13: 9780141985015 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198501-5 ISBN10: 0141985011 EAN: 9780141985015 x Description: The third volume in Leonard Susskind's one-of-a-kind physics series cracks open Einstein's special relativity and field theory In the first two books in his wildly popular The Theoretical Minimum series, world-class physicist Leonard Susskind provided a brilliant first course in classical and quantum mechanics, offering readers not an oversimplified introduction, but the real thing - everything you need to start doing physics, and nothing more. Now, thankfully, Susskind and his former student Art Friedman are back, this time to introduce readers to special relativity and classical field theory. At last, waves, forces and particles will be demystified. Using their typical brand of relatively simple maths, enlightening sketches and the same fictional counterparts, Art and Lenny, Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory takes us on an enlightening journey through a world now governed by the laws of special relativity. Starting in their new watering hole, Hermann's Hideaway, with a lesson on relativity, Art and Lenny walk us through the complexities of Einstein's famous theory. Combining rigor with humour, Susskind and Friedman guarantee that Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory will become part of the reader's physics toolbox. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Are You Experienced? William Sutcliffe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp 147g ISBN13: 9780241981207 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98120-7 ISBN10: 0241981204 EAN: 9780241981207 x Description: The gap year classic, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time in the year of its 20th anniversary. A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Dave travels to India with Liz because he thinks he might be able to get her into bed. Liz travels to India with Dave because she wants a companion for her voyage of spiritual discovery. She loves it. He dreams of frosty mornings, pints of lager and restaurants where vegetable curry is only a side-dish . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt Robert I. Sutton (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 159g ISBN13: 9780241299005 ISBN13: 978-0-241-29900-5 ISBN10: 0241299004 EAN: 9780241299005 x Description: From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes 'With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking and often hilarious, this is an indispensable resource' Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project 'At last someone has provided clear steps for rejecting, dejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives. Better still, that someone is the great Bob Sutton, which ensures that the information is useful, evidence-based, and fun to read' Robert Cialdini, author of Influence and Pre-Suasion 'If only Bob Sutton's book had been available to help me deal with the full complement of 1st-class assholes I've encountered in my 50-year professional life. No names shall be mentioned' Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence Being around assholes, whether at work or elsewhere, can damage performance and affect wellbeing: having one asshole in a team has been shown to reduce performance by 30 to 40%, and research shows that rudeness spreads like a common cold. In The Asshole Survival Guide, Stanford professor Robert Sutton offers practical advice on identifying and tackling any kind of asshole - based on research into groups from uncivil civil servants to French bus drivers, and 8,000 emails that he has received on asshole behaviour. With expertise and humour, he provides a cogent and methodical game-plan to fight back. First, he sets out the asshole audit, to find out what kind of asshole needs dealing with, and asshole detection strategies. Then he reveals field-tested, sometimes surprising techniques, from asshole avoidance and asshole taxes, to mind-tricks and the art of love bombing. Finally, he explains the dangers of asshole blindness - when the problem might be yours truly. Readers will learn how to handle assholes - in the workplace and beyond - once and for all! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This Cruel Design Emily Suvada (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 480pp h198mm x w129mm x s25mm 326g ISBN13: 9780141379289 ISBN13: 978-0-14-137928-9 ISBN10: 0141379286 EAN: 9780141379289 x Description: Where can you hide when you're running from yourself? Catarina thought they'd stopped the Hydra virus. She was wrong. After laying everything on the line to decrypt the vaccine, Cat realises that Lachlan's daemon code is in the panel of every person on the planet. With it, he can reprogram humanity. She, Cole and Leoben set out to stop him, but they're on a timer. Cartaxus - the shadowy corporation that's both helped and hindered them - has a deadly end game in play. The virus is evolving, the vaccine is dying, and if Cat can't find Lachlan in three days, they'll use lethal code to wipe out
everyone. Their path takes them to Entropia, an underground city deep in the desert and home to the most extreme gene hackers, run by the queen of coding, Regina. Struggling with the revelations about her past, and plagued by strange visions, what Cat finds in Entropia is more than just a trail to Lachlan. Because in the vaulted chambers of Regina's kingdom, Cat is forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts, and discovers that the biggest threat of all may be buried in her own mind. 'With a backdrop of amazing science and technology, This Mortal Coil is a smart, page-turning thriller that gave me chills. I couldn't put this book down.' - Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone.
'I can't remember the last time I was so hooked by a book. Relentlessly paced, expertly plotted, and with a romance as tense and as captivating as her wicked twists, Emily Suvada has crafted an unputdownable story. I loved every terrifying page.' - Stephanie Garber, bestselling author of Caraval. 'This Mortal Coil redefines "unputdownable." A thrilling, exhilarating read that's crackling with intelligence. Compelling characters and and incredible twists come together perfectly - I loved this book.' - Amie Kaufman, bestselling author of Illuminae. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brother in the Land Robert Swindells (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 161g ISBN13: 9780241331231 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33123-1 ISBN10: 0241331234 EAN: 9780241331231 x Description: An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Funky Chickens Benjamin Zephaniah (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 96pp 74g ISBN13: 9780241354568 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35456-8 ISBN10: 0241354560 EAN: 9780241354568 x Description: Enter the crazy world of rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah! A reissue of the wonderfully irreverent collection of poetry for young people, touching on anything from vegetables to the Queen and from sewage to the sun. There's plenty of humour as well as poems on racism, pollution and the murder of a cat. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously Slavoj Zizek (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 336pp 247g ISBN13: 9780141986098 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198609-8 ISBN10: 0141986093 EAN: 9780141986098 x Description: The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possible In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Zizek, it is only when we have admit to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us from the opposite direction - that fundamental change can be brought about. Surveying the various challenges in the world today, from mass migration and geopolitical tensions to terrorism, the explosion of rightist populism and the emergence of new radical politics - all of which, in their own way, express the impasses of global capitalism - Zizek explores whether there still remains the possibility for genuine change. Today, he proposes, the only true question is,or should be, this: do we endorse the predominant acceptance of capitalism as fact of human nature, or does today's capitalism contain strong enough antagonisms to prevent its infinite reproduction? Can we, he asks, move beyond the failure of socialism, and beyond the current wave of populist rage, and initiate radical change before the train hits? 'Zizek is a thinker who regards nothing as outside his field: the result is deeply interesting and provocative' - Guardian 'Zizek leaves no social or cultural phenomenon untheorized, and is master of the counterintuitive observation' -New Yorker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Bridge of Clay Markus Zusak (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
11 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 592pp ISBN13: 9780857525956 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-595-6 ISBN10: 0857525956 EAN: 9780857525956 x Description: THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF *********************** Here is a story told inside out and back to front Five Dunbar brothers are living - fighting, loving, grieving - in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups. Today, the father who left them has just walked right back in. He has a surprising request: Who will build a bridge with him? It is Clay, a boy tormented by a long-buried secret, who accepts. But why is Clay so broken? And why must he fulfil this extraordinary challenge? Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in a current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become everything he needs to be. Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself.
It will be a miracle and nothing less.
At once an existential riddle and a search for redemption, this tale of five brothers coming of age in a house with no rules brims with energy, joy and pathos. Written in Markus Zusak's distinctive style, it is a tour de force from a master storyteller of the heart. Markus Zusak's epic new novel BRIDGE OF CLAY is due out this October 2018 ***************************** 'A captivating book with a mighty, fearless heart, BRIDGE OF CLAY is filled with characters to believe in and care about ... achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.' M L STEDMAN, bestselling author of The Light Between Oceans _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I Can't Breathe: The Killing that Started a Movement Matt Taibbi (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
W H Allen
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 304pp h198mm x w126mm x s20mm 229g ISBN13: 9780753548691 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-4869-1 ISBN10: 0753548690 EAN: 9780753548691 x Description: `A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction' - Booklist `Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power' - Bernie Sanders `A searing expose' - Kirkus Review `Taibbi may be the only political writer in America that matters' - Hartford Advocate
The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people. On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died in New York after a police officer put him in a "chokehold" during an arrest for selling bootleg cigarettes. The final moments of his life were captured on video and seen by millions - his agonised last words, "I can't breathe," becoming a rallying cry for the nascent Black Lives Matter protest movement. Matt Taibbi, bestselling author and "the best polemic journalist in America", tells the full story of the man who inspired a movement - neither villain nor victim, but a fiercely proud individual determined to do the best he could for his family. Featuring vivid vignettes of life on the street, this powerful narrative of urban America is a riveting work of literary journalism and a scathing indictment of law enforcement in the twenty-first century. I Can't Breathe tells the story of one man to tell the story of countless others, and the power of people to rise up against injustice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 399g ISBN13: 9780241300657 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30065-7 ISBN10: 0241300657 EAN: 9780241300657 x Description: The bestselling author of The Black Swan and 'the hottest thinker in the world' (Sunday Times) is back with a book challenging many of our long-held beliefs about risk, reward, politics, religion and finance
How can a stubborn minority easily end up ruling? Should you take advice from a salesperson? Is the pope atheist? More than the foundation of risk management, skin in the game is an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this provocative book, applies to all aspects of our lives and drives history. In his inimitable style, he draws on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to how to buy a used car, to create a jaw-dropping tapestry for understanding this idea in a brand new way. Full of philosophical tales and practical stories, Skin in the Game offers a key rule to live by: do not do to others what you don't want them to do to you, with its practical extension: never take advice from someone who gives advice for a living. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h198mm x w129mm x s22mm 281g ISBN13: 9780141981802 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198180-2 ISBN10: 0141981806 EAN: 9780141981802 x Description: 'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen Hawking THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god? Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to explore the next phase of our existence. How can we grow our prosperity through automation, without leaving people lacking income or purpose? How can we ensure that future AI systems do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will AI help life flourish as never before, or will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, and even, perhaps, replace us altogether? 'This is a rich and visionary book and everyone should read it' The Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Cravings: Hungry for More Chrissy Teigen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 256pp h254mm x w203mm Fully illustrated ISBN13: 9780718187989 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8798-9 ISBN10: 0718187989 EAN: 9780718187989 x Description: Welcome back to Chrissy's kitchen . . . Introducing the food that makes her tick. Pre-order now for food you simply can't resist. After two years of parenthood, falling in love with different flavours, and relearning the healing power of comfort food, this book is like Chrissy's new edible diary: recipes for quick-snap meals; recipes for lighter, brighter healthier-ish living; and recipes that, well, are gonna put you to bed, holding your belly. Chrissy's is a life of . . . *
CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS. The ultimate quick and easy comfort food. A creamy one-pot wonder: tender chicken breast and doughy delicious
dumplings. * GARLIC HONEY PRAWNS. A 15-minute meal that's worthy of any Chinese restaurant, made with soy sauce, honey and orange, served with fluffy white rice. *
BANANA BREAD. Yes. This is THE banana bread that launched a million tweets and a hundred thousand Instagram tags . . . Delicious.
Most will satisfy your cravings but all will leave you hungry for more. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Figures in a Landscape: People and Places Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
10 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 416pp h234mm x w153mm x s29mm 539g ISBN13: 9780241266496 ISBN13: 978-0-241-26649-6 ISBN10: 0241266491 EAN: 9780241266496 x Description: The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first time Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate personal remembrances; from thrilling adventures in Africa to literary writings from Theroux's rich and expansive personal reading. Collectively these pieces offer a fascinating portrait of the author himself, his extraordinary life, restless and ever-curious mind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mother Land Paul Theroux (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 528pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 382g ISBN13: 9780141048789 ISBN13: 978-0-14-104878-9 ISBN10: 0141048786 EAN: 9780141048789 x Description: 'Downright hilarious... Like watching a slow-motion car crash. Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humour' Stephen King A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed writers Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hard-working, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant -- endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a vice-like hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism. This is an engrossing, hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of a modern family - the bickering, the conspiracies, and the drive to overcome the painful ties that bind. 'Brilliantly depicts characters in pinpoint prickly prose' Guardian 'Funny and wonderfully mean spirited' Saturday Review 'The family dynamic has been rendered exceptionally well' Herald
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Mud Emily Thomas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp 330g ISBN13: 9781783446896 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-689-6 ISBN10: 1783446897 EAN: 9781783446896 x Description: MUD STICKS. AND SO DO LITERARY HEROINES An achingly funny, touching story for anyone who has been thrown in at the deep end. `Smart and funny. It will tug at your heartstrings' Dawn O'Porter It's 1979, and thirteen-year-old Lydia has no idea how she'll cope when her dad announces that the family has to sell up and move onto a Thames sailing barge in Essex. With his girlfriend. And her three kids. Between trying to keep her clothes dry in a leaky cabin, disastrous hair-dye attempts, awkward encounters with local boys, and coping with her suddenly enormous and troublesome family, Lydia fears she'll sink rather than swim . . . At turns heartbreaking and uplifting, through Lydia's innocent and perceptive voice we find out that while the mud may stick, the tide can turn - and in unexpected and joyful ways. Perfect for fans of Louise Rennison, Hilary McKay and Rae Earl _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Aubergine Cookbook Heather Thomas (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 112pp h196mm x w177mm x s14mm 389g ISBN13: 9781785038877 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-887-7 ISBN10: 1785038877 EAN: 9781785038877 x Description: Feed your aubergine obsession! Discover surprising new ways to cook, serve and eat this king of veg. No longer the 'poor man's meat', aubergine can be transformed into impressive dishes with these 60 brand new recipes ranging from Aubergine Fritters with Honey and Goats Cheese, to Sicilian Aubergine Pizza, Persian Stuffed Aubergine, and even Aubergine Chocolate Cake. Whip up exotic yet simple mid-week suppers, impress friends and feed a crowd, and even convert aubergine haters with these creative and delicious recipes, packed with flavour. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Missing Fay Adam Thorpe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp 268g ISBN13: 9780099584124 ISBN13: 978-0-09-958412-4 ISBN10: 0099584123 EAN: 9780099584124 x Description: 'An intricately crafted novel, sharp-eared, current and full of heart' Guardian, Books of the Year A spirited fourteen-year-old, Fay, goes missing from a Lincoln council estate. Is she a runaway, or a victim - another face on a poster gradually fading with time? The story of her last few days before she vanishes is interwoven with the varied lives of six locals - all touched in life-changing ways. David is on a family holiday on the bleak Lincolnshire coast; Howard, a retired steel worker with some dodgy friends; Cosmina, a Romanian immigrant; Sheena, middle-aged and single, running a kiddies' clothes shop; Mike, owner of a second-hand bookshop and secretly in love with Cosmina; and Chris, a TV-producer-become-monk struggling to leave the ordinary world behind. All are involuntary witnesses to the lost girl; paths cross, threads touch, connections are made or lost. Is Fay alive or dead? Or somewhere in between? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
George IV (Penguin Monarchs): King in Waiting Stella Tillyard (Author) Series:
Penguin Monarchs
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 160pp 1 x 8 colour or b/w ISBN13: 9780141978857 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197885-7 ISBN10: 0141978856 EAN: 9780141978857 x Description: George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad. 'The days are very long when you have nothing to do' he once wrote plaintively, but he did his best to fill them with pleasure - women, art, food, wine, fashion, architecture. He presided over the creation of the Regency style, which came to epitomise the era, and he was, with Charles I, the most artistically literate of all our kings. Yet despite his life of luxury and indulgence, George died alone and unmourned. Stella Tillyard has not written a judgemental book, but a very human and enjoyable one, about this most colourful of all British kings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Great Level Stella Tillyard (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 240pp h240mm x w162mm x s25mm 464g ISBN13: 9780701183196 ISBN13: 978-0-7011-8319-6 ISBN10: 0701183195 EAN: 9780701183196 x Description: `I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count.'
In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently. Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Fens, and confront all that was lost there. The Great Level is a dramatic and elemental story about two people whose differences draw them together then drive them apart. Jan and Eliza's journeys, like the century they inhabit, are filled with conflict, hard graft and adventure - and see them searching for their own piece of solid ground. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hindsight: And All the Things I Can't See in Front of Me Justin Timberlake (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Virgin Books
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp ISBN13: 9780753552155 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-5215-5 ISBN10: 0753552159 EAN: 9780753552155 x Description: In his first book, Justin Timberlake creates a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid photographs from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage. Justin discusses many aspects of his childhood, including his very early love of music and the inspiration behind many of his songs and albums. He talks about his songwriting process, offering the back story to many of his hits. He muses on his collaborations with other artists and directors, sharing the details of performances in concert, TV comedy, and film. He also reflects on who he is, examining what makes him tick, speaking candidly about fatherhood, family, close relationships, struggles, and his search to find an inner calm and strength. Living a creative life, observing and finding inspiration in the world, taking risks, and listening to an inner voice-this is Justin Timberlake. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household Adrian Tinniswood (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
27 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp h240mm x w185mm x s35mm 1266g ISBN13: 9781910702826 ISBN13: 978-1-910702-82-6 ISBN10: 191070282X EAN: 9781910702826 x Description: Behind the Throne is a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the drink bills. The great difference is that royal families had more help with their lives than most. Charles I maintained a household of 2,000 people. Victoria's medical establishment alone consisted of thirty doctors, three dentists and a chiropodist. Even in today's more democratic climate, Elizabeth II keeps a full-time staff of 1,200. A royal household was a community, a vast machine. Everyone, from James I's Master of the Horse down to William IV's Assistant Table Decker, was there to smooth the sovereign's path through life while simultaneously confirming his or her status. Behind the Throne uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries,
the tension between duty and desire; the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands, or ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis. Behind the Throne is nothing less than a domestic history of the royal household, a reconstruction of life behind the throne. Readers go on progress with Elizabeth I as she takes her court and her majesty to her subjects. They dance the conga round the state rooms of Buckingham Palace with George VI. They find out what it was like to dine with queens, and walk with kings. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Brooklyn Colm Toibin (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h181mm x w111mm x s16mm 142g ISBN13: 9780241983782 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98378-2 ISBN10: 0241983789 EAN: 9780241983782 x Description: It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
House of Names Colm Toibin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 191g ISBN13: 9780241257692 ISBN13: 978-0-241-25769-2 ISBN10: 0241257697 EAN: 9780241257692 x Description: On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce Colm Toibin (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
25 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780241354414 ISBN13: 978-0-241-35441-4 ISBN10: 0241354412 EAN: 9780241354414 x Description: 'A father...is a necessary evil.' Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde's doctor father, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats' father, an impoverished artist and brilliant letter-writer who could never finish apainting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker and story-teller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work. Colm Toibin illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 720pp h240mm x w162mm x s46mm 1196g ISBN13: 9781846140365 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-036-5 ISBN10: 1846140366 EAN: 9781846140365 x Description: 'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, Observer The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction. In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be about to bring the entire system to its knees. Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our institutions are the many billions of dollars which were conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, as economic analysis and as political horror story. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Modestly Dina Torkia (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
20 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 224pp ISBN13: 9781785035272 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-527-2 ISBN10: 1785035274 EAN: 9781785035272 x Description: **As seen in Vogue** `This is the story of my life. It's about me as a Muslim Brit embracing dual identities, surviving the turbulent teens and transitioning from self-doubt to self-belief. There is a little bit of drama, lots of laughs, plenty of practical advice and a shedload of bold statements. You can't get a Muslim woman in a hijab with no opinion, am I right?!' Dina x Guys, get ready. YouTuber and social media sensation Dina Torkia is giving you a never-seen-before look into her world. From advice on fashion, beauty and style, to frank opinions on family, career and faith, this is everything that Dina has ever wanted to share with you. So let Dina tell you how it really is, living and loving life as a modern Muslim Brit. @dinatokio _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 Sue Townsend (Author) Series:
The Originals
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 214g ISBN13: 9780241331224 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33122-4 ISBN10: 0241331226 EAN: 9780241331224 x Description: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is the first book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series, reissued in Penguin's ORIGINALS collection of iconic teen fiction. Friday January 2nd I felt rotten today. It's my mother's fault for singing 'My Way' at two o'clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a children's home. Meet Adrian Mole, a hapless teenager providing an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into adolescent life. Writing candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, his life as a tortured poet and 'misunderstood intellectual', Adrian's painfully honest diary is still hilarious and compelling reading thirty years after it first appeared. Praise for Adrian Mole (and by extension, Sue Townsend): 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my eyes so that I could go on reading' Tom Sharpe 'A satire of our times. Very funny indeed' Sunday Times 'We laugh both at Mole and with him. A wonderful comic read, that, like all the best comedy, says something rather meaningful' Heat -----
Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, as well as The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 553/4), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She also wrote numerous well-received plays. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Guilty Dead: Twin Cities Book 9 P. J. Tracy (Author) Series:
Twin Cities Thriller
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781405936026 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3602-6 ISBN10: 1405936029 EAN: 9781405936026 x Description: The Guilty Dead is the ninth book in P.J. Tracy's addictive and internationally bestselling Twin Cities series. Gregory Norwood, wealthy businessman and close friend of Minnesota's leading candidate for Governor, is found dead on the first anniversary of his son's drug overdose. It seems clear to Detectives Gino and Magozzi that grief drove him to suicide. Until they realise the left-handed man seems to have used his right hand to pull the trigger. And they find the second body. As the seemingly open-and-shut case becomes a murder enquiry, the detectives begin to delve into the dark secrets of one of the city's most powerful families. It seems the murders are not the first in the Norwoods' tragic story - and they won't be the last . . . PRAISE FOR P. J. TRACY:
'Outrageously suspenseful' Harlan Coben
'A fast-paced gripping read with thrills and devilish twists' Guardian
'A powerful thriller and an ingenious plot' Observer Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Last Stories William Trevor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Viking
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
24 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 298g ISBN13: 9780241337776 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33777-6 ISBN10: 0241337771 EAN: 9780241337776 x Description: *A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth Strout In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is
alive and well; and a piano-teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music. These gorgeous stories - the last that Trevor wrote before his death - affirm his place as one of the world's greatest storytellers. 'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel 'He is one of the great short-story writers, at his best the equal of Chekhov' John Banville 'The greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' New Yorker _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chalk Man: The Sunday Times bestseller. The most chilling book you'll read this year C. J. Tudor (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 352pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 250g ISBN13: 9781405930956 ISBN13: 978-1-4059-3095-6 ISBN10: 1405930950 EAN: 9781405930956 x Description: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR MAKE IT THIS ONE. ____________
It was only meant to be a game . . .
None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning.
Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own?
Was it the terrible accident?
Or when they found the first body? ____________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, ALSO SHORTLISTED FOR THE STEEL DAGGER, BEST THRILLER AWARD . . . 'A must-read' Daily Express 'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times 'Deliciously creepy with a side order of Eighties nostalgia' Good Housekeeping 'Plenty of plot twists and an evocative portrait of small-town-life in the 1980s . . . a riveting read' Guardian 'There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail 'Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck' LEE CHILD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tina Turner: My Love Story (Official Autobiography) Tina Turner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Century
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp ISBN13: 9781780898988 ISBN13: 978-1-78089-898-8 ISBN10: 1780898983 EAN: 9781780898988 x Description: *** The full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina Turner's 60th year in the industry *** Love's got everything to do with it. Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock `n' Roll, a musical icon celebrating her 60th year in the industry. In this dramatic autobiography, she tells the story of a truly remarkable life in the spotlight. From her early years picking cotton in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner, and finally to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest hours to her happiest moments and everything in between. Brimming with her trademark blend of strength, energy, heart and soul, My Love Story is a gripping, surprising memoir, as memorable and entertaining as any of her greatest hits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Clock Dance Anne Tyler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 304pp h234mm x w153mm x s22mm 399g ISBN13: 9781784742447 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-244-7 ISBN10: 1784742449 EAN: 9781784742447 x Description: A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life: when she was eleven and her mother disappeared, being proposed to at twentyone, the accident that would make her a widow at forty-one. At each of these moments, Willa ended up on a path laid out for her by others. So when she receives a phone call telling her that her son's ex-girlfriend has been shot and needs her help, she drops everything and flies across the country. The spur-of-the moment decision to look after this woman - and her nine-year-old daughter, and her dog - will lead Willa into uncharted territory. Surrounded by new and surprising neighbours, she is plunged into the rituals that make a community, and takes pleasure in the most unexpected things. A bittersweet novel of hope and regret, fulfilment and renewal, Clock Dance brings us the everyday life of a woman who decides it's never too late to change direction, and choose your own path. 'She is and always will be my favourite author' Liane Moriarty _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Speeches of Note Shaun Usher (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
14 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp 1466g ISBN13: 9781786331090 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-109-0 ISBN10: 1786331098 EAN: 9781786331090 x Description: From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller Letters of Note, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throughout the ages. Seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else's shoes. Discover speeches that altered the course of history, like Nelson Mandela's on the day he became South Africa's first black President, and outpourings of much-needed change, such as the impassioned, impromptu appeal for women's rights from Sojourner Truth, an African-American woman born into slavery. Expect the gloriously unexpected, as Kermit the Frog takes to the podium, and celebrate lives well-lived, including Tilda Swinton's tribute to `every alien's favourite cousin', David Bowie. While some speeches are heard by millions, some remain unspoken: the secret draft prepared for Queen Elizabeth II during a military exercise for World War III, and President Nixon's chilling public announcement should Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the Moon. Surprising, inspiring and shocking; moving, comforting and enlightening. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F*** You Very Much: The surprising truth about why people are so rude Danny Wallace (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Ebury Press
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h198mm x w126mm x s22mm 239g ISBN13: 9780091919092 ISBN13: 978-0-09-191909-2 ISBN10: 0091919096 EAN: 9780091919092 x Description: You're not imagining it. People are getting ruder. And this is a serious problem. The book that inspired the iTunes Top Ten podcast Did you know that even one rude comment in a life and death situation can decrease a surgeon's performance by as much as 50%? That we say we don't want rude politicians, but we vote for them anyway? Or that rude language can sway a jury in a criminal case? Bestselling writer and broadcaster Danny Wallace (Yes Man, Awkward Situations For Men), is on a mission to understand where we have gone wrong. He travels the world interviewing neuroscientists, psychologists, NASA scientists, barristers, bin men, and bellboys. He joins a Radical Honesty group in Germany, talks to drivers about road rage in LA, and confronts his own online troll in a pub. And in doing so, he uncovers the latest thinking about how we behave, how rudeness, once unleashed, can spread like a virus - and how even one flippant remark can snowball into disaster. As insightful and enthralling as it is highly entertaining, F*** You Very Much* is an eye-opening exploration into the worst side of human behaviour. "A cry for human decency... deliciously hilarious. I politely encourage you to read this book. Immediately." Adam Grant author of Originals, Give and Take, Option B *This book was originally published under the title, I Can't Believe You Just Said That. But we decided it just wasn't rude enough...
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads Clemantine Wamariya (Author) Elizabeth Weil (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 288pp h216mm x w135mm x s20mm 308g ISBN13: 9781786331472 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-147-2 ISBN10: 1786331470 EAN: 9781786331472 x Description: A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save us Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Clare, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries, searching for safety-perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States, where she embarked on another journey, ultimately graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of `victim' and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, and bracingly original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick Chris Van Allsburg (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Andersen Press Ltd
Publisher:
Andersen Press Ltd
Pub Date:
06 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 236pp 458g ISBN13: 9781783446285 ISBN13: 978-1-78344-628-5 ISBN10: 1783446285 EAN: 9781783446285 x Description: This inspired collection of short stories is based on the original illustrations of Chris Van Allsburg in his much-loved picture book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, and features many remarkable best-selling authors from the worlds of both adult and children's literature: Stephen King, Lemony Snicket, Sherman Alexie, M.T. Anderson, Kate DiCamillo, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Tabitha King, Lois Lowry, Gregory Maguire, Walter Dean Myers, Linda Sue Park, Louis Sachar, Jon Scieszka and Chris Van Allsburg himself. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People Vanessa Van Edwards (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Portfolio Penguin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 225g ISBN13: 9780241309933 ISBN13: 978-0-241-30993-3 ISBN10: 024130993X EAN: 9780241309933 x Description: Do you wish you could decode people? Do you want a formula for charisma? Do you want to know exactly what to say to your boss, your date or your networking partner? You need to know how people work. As a human behaviour investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behaviour patterns in her lab - and she's cracked the code. In Captivate she shares a wealth of shortcuts, systems and behaviour hacks derived from her research, to help you take charge of interactions at work and at home. You'll learn how to execute a social game plan to navigate any social situation; how to speed-read faces for 7 universal 'microexpressions' that can be used to predict people's emotions; and much more besides. When you understand the laws of human behaviour you can get along with anyone. With Vanessa's help, you will never interact in the same way again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Death of Mrs Westaway Ruth Ware (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Harvill Secker
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h234mm x w153mm x s28mm 519g ISBN13: 9781911215042 ISBN13: 978-1-911215-04-2 ISBN10: 1911215043 EAN: 9781911215042 x Description: 'The Death of Mrs Westaway is Ruth Ware's best: a dark and dramatic thriller, part murder mystery, part family drama, altogether riveting' AJ FINN, bestselling author of THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she's inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly aggressive: she needs to get her hands on some cash fast. There's just one problem - Hal's real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. The letter has been sent to the wrong person. But Hal knows that the cold-reading techniques she's honed as a seaside fortune teller could help her con her way to getting the money. If anyone has the skills to turn up at a stranger's funeral and claim a bequest they're not entitled to, it's her. Hal makes a choice that will change her life for ever. But once she embarks on her deception, there is no going back. She must keep going or risk losing everything, even her life... The brand new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Accordionist Fred Vargas (Author) Sian Reynolds (Translated by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
16 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 256pp 181g ISBN13: 9781784701604 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-160-4 ISBN10: 1784701602 EAN: 9781784701604 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 When two Parisian women are murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer. As he was seen outside both of the apartments in question, it seems like an open-and-shut case. Desperate for a chance to prove his innocence, Clement disappears. He seeks refuge with old Marthe, the only mother figure he has ever known, who calls in ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler. Louis is soon faced with his most complex case yet and he calls on some unconventional friends to help him. He must show that Clement is not responsible and solve a fiendish riddle to find the killer... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sport Inc.: Why money is the winner in the business of sport Ed Warner (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Yellow Jersey Press
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h240mm x w162mm x s28mm 524g ISBN13: 9781787290129 ISBN13: 978-1-78729-012-9 ISBN10: 1787290123 EAN: 9781787290129 x Description: Why would someone pull the plug on a Premier League match? What prompts an athlete to search for sponsorship on eBay? How can the decision of a drinks brand CEO make or break an entire sport? Why would a sprinter think they can't afford not to dope? Sport Inc. reveals the behind-the-scenes finances that drive sport - who gets rich and who gets left on the bench. Through investigations into a wide range of sports, including how football agents really work, the betting industry and corruption, esports, the NFL's efforts to take over the world and the real cost of hosting events like the World Cup and the Olympics, the financial realities of our obsession with sport are exposed. As spectators our choices make us key players in this game of riches - it's time to find out who's winning and who's losing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment Yanis Varoufakis (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 576pp 394g ISBN13: 9781784705763 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-576-3 ISBN10: 1784705764 EAN: 9781784705763 x Description: 'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) -- The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In this blistering, personal account, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis blows the lid on Europe's hidden agenda and exposes what actually goes on in its corridors of power. Varoufakis sparked one of the most spectacular and controversial battles in recent political history when, as finance minister of Greece, he attempted to re-negotiate his country's relationship with the EU. Despite the mass support of the Greek people and the simple logic of his arguments, he succeeded only in provoking the fury of Europe's political, financial and media elite. But the true story of what happened is almost entirely unknown not least because so much of the EU's real business takes place behind closed doors. In this fearless account, Varoufakis reveals all: an extraordinary tale of brinkmanship, hypocrisy, collusion and betrayal that will shake the deep establishment to its foundations. As is now clear, the same policies that required the tragic and brutal suppression of Greece's democratic uprising have led directly to authoritarianism, populist revolt and instability throughout the Western world. Adults In The Room is an urgent wake-up call to renew European democracy before it is too late. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism Yanis Varoufakis (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 224pp ISBN13: 9781784705756 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-575-6 ISBN10: 1784705756 EAN: 9781784705756 x Description: `Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand why economics is the most important drama of our times. In answering his daughter's deceptively simple questions, Varoufakis disentangles our troubling world with remarkable clarity, while inspiring us to make it a better one. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Linescapes: Remapping and Reconnecting Britain's Fragmented Wildlife Hugh Warwick (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
03 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s17mm 219g ISBN13: 9780099597766 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959776-6 ISBN10: 0099597764 EAN: 9780099597766 x Description: `Glorious... Political, passionate, perceptive' Robert Macfarlane An eye-opening exploration of the lines that cut through our countryside, from hedges to railways, and a passionate manifesto for reconnecting wildlife. Our landscape has been transformed by a vast network of lines, from hedges and walls to railways and power cables. In Linescapes, Hugh Warwick unravels the far-reaching ecological consequences of these changes. As our lives and our land were fenced in and threaded together, wildlife habitats were cut into ever smaller - and increasingly unviable - fragments. Yet as Warwick travels across this linescape, he shows that we can help our flora and fauna to flourish once again. With his fresh and bracing perspective on Britain's countryside, he proposes a challenge and gives ground for hope, for our lines can and do contain a real potential for wildness and for wildlife. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story Christie Watson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Chatto & Windus
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
26 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h216mm x w135mm x s24mm 358g ISBN13: 9781784741983 ISBN13: 978-1-78474-198-3 ISBN10: 1784741981 EAN: 9781784741983 x Description: Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A and E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astonishing account of a profession defined by acts of care, compassion and kindness. We watch Christie with a new mother holding her premature son who has miraculously made it through the night, we stand by her side as she spends many hours watching agonising heart and lung surgery, and we hold our breath as she washes the hair of a child fatally injured in a fire, attempting to remove the toxic smell of smoke before the grieving family arrive. In our most extreme moments, when life is lived most intensely, Christie is there by your side. She is a guide, mentor and friend. And in these dark days of division and isolationism, she encourages you to stretch out your hand. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Mennyms Sylvia Waugh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Puffin
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm x s19mm 223g ISBN13: 9780241340387 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34038-7 ISBN10: 0241340381 EAN: 9780241340387 x Description: A new edition of THE MENNYMS in the A Puffin Book series. From the outside, 5 Brocklehurst Grove looks like an ordinary house - the windows are always clean, and the garden well tended. And from the inside, to hear the voices of the inhabitants, the Mennym family, you would think they were a perfectly ordinary family, too. But you'd be wrong, for the Mennyms are far from ordinary. The whole family shares an astonishing secret behind which it's hidden for forty years; a secret to which nobody has ever come close - until perhaps, now. When a letter arrives from Australia, the whole family is plunged into fear that, for the first time, their secret is about to be exposed . . . _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Fatal Sunset Jason Webster (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp 342g ISBN13: 9780099598251 ISBN13: 978-0-09-959825-1 ISBN10: 0099598256 EAN: 9780099598251 x Description: In the hills above Valencia is a notorious nightclub called Sunset. When its larger-than-life owner, Jose Luis, dies suddenly, everyone assumes it was a heart attack. Meanwhile, all is not well for Max Camara at HQ. His new boss, Rita Hernandez, has it in for him and his idiosyncratic methods. He must abandon a complex investigation to check out what looks like a routine death at Sunset. But an anonymous phone call suggests otherwise, leading him to an unholy network of drug dealers, priests and shady officials protecting a dark government secret. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Gritterman Orlando Weeks (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 80pp h240mm x w170mm ISBN13: 9780141986623 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198662-3 ISBN10: 014198662X EAN: 9780141986623 x Description: FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 'Extraordinary and original' Raymond Briggs
'Sometimes it feels like I might be the only person awake in the whole country. People might find that a lonely thought. Not me...' As the rest of the world sleeps, the Gritterman goes out to work. Through the wind and the snow. Through the blue-black hours when time slips away, he grits the paths and the pavements and the roads. For him, a life without gritting is no life at all... A song for the unsung hero, this is a story about stoicism, dignity and a man leaving behind the work that he loves. It is accompanied by the author's own illustrations. **Listen to or download The Gritterman's companion album featuring 10 new tracks by Orlando Weeks. Available now on all digital and streaming platforms.** _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Alison Weir (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
30 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 496pp h198mm x w129mm x s30mm 364g ISBN13: 9781784701864 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-186-4 ISBN10: 1784701866 EAN: 9781784701864 x Description: Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life. A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year Love, murder, war, betrayal This is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the Norman kings of England rule their dominions. Recognised as equal sharers in the royal authority, their story is packed with tragedy, high drama, even comedy. Heroines, villains, stateswomen, lovers Beginning with Matilda of Flanders, who supported William the Conqueror in his invasion of England in 1066, and culminating in the turbulent life of the Empress Maud, whoc claimed to be queen of England in her own right and fought a bitter war to the end, the five Norman queens are revealed as hugely influential figures and fascinating characters. In Alison Weir's hands, these pioneering women reclaim their rightful roles at the centre of English history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Tudor Christmas Alison Weir (Author) Siobhan Clarke (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
04 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 192pp ISBN13: 9781787330641 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-064-1 ISBN10: 1787330648 EAN: 9781787330641 x Description: Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking `to drive the cold winter away'. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and `disguisings', when even the king and queen dressed up in costume to fool their courtiers. Throughout the festive season, all ranks of subjects were freed for a short time from everyday cares to indulge in eating, drinking, dancing and game-playing. We might assume that our modern Christmas owes much to the Victorians. In fact, as Alison Weir and Siobhan Clarke reveal in this fascinating book,
many of our favourite Christmas traditions date back much further. Carol-singing, present-giving, mulled wine and mince pies were all just as popular in Tudor times, and even Father Christmas and roast turkey dinners have their origins in this period. The festival was so beloved by English people that Christmas traditions survived remarkably unchanged in this age of tumultuous religious upheaval. Beautifully illustrated with original line drawings throughout, this enchanting compendium will fascinate anyone with an interest in Tudor life - and anyone who loves Christmas. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Artemis: A gripping, high-concept thriller from the bestselling author of The Martian Andy Weir (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Del Rey
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
12 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp 218g ISBN13: 9781785030253 ISBN13: 978-1-78503-025-3 ISBN10: 1785030256 EAN: 9781785030253 x Description: Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon... 'Fascinating' Tim Peake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut -----------------------------------------WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon. Population 2,000. Mostly tourists. Some criminals. Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto the moon. But it's not enough. So when she's offered the chance to make a lot of money she jumps at it. But though planning a crime in 1/6th gravity may be more fun, it's a lot more dangerous... -----------------------------------------What everyone's saying about this smart, high concept thriller: 'A smart, fun, fast-paced adventure that you won't be able to put down' Ernest Cline, bestselling author of Ready Player One 'What a page turner!' Milda on Goodreads, 5 stars 'Fast paced, high octane and highly entertaining' Chrys on Netgalley, 5 stars 'Artemis does for the moon what The Martian did for Mars' Guardian 'A first rate thriller, this had me hooked from beginning to end' Robert on Netgalley, 5 stars 'An absolute must read' Lauren on Goodreads, 5 stars 'A clever and action-fuelled story' Culturefly 'For those who loved The Martian, you won't be disappointed' Liz on Netgalley, 5 stars _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry Florence Welch (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Fig Tree
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h224mm x w177mm x s28mm 836g ISBN13: 9780241347935 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34793-5 ISBN10: 0241347939 EAN: 9780241347935 x Description: Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic. 'An elegant collaged scrapbook' Observer 'A treasure . . . beautiful. Generous in its honesty, by the end you feel as though you have climbed into the colourful, and sometimes tortured, world of a passionate artist' iNews _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Dead Men's Trousers Irvine Welsh (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
29 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h234mm x w153mm x s30mm 560g ISBN13: 9781787330788 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-078-8 ISBN10: 1787330788 EAN: 9781787330788 x Description: *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh Franz Werfel (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Classics
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
04 Jan 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 912pp h198mm x w129mm x s38mm 617g ISBN13: 9780241332863 ISBN13: 978-0-241-33286-3 ISBN10: 0241332869 EAN: 9780241332863 x Description: 'Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break' It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his childhood home, an Armenian village on the slopes of Musa Dagh. But things are becoming increasingly dangerous for his people in Turkey, and, as the government orders round-ups and deportations, the villagers of Musa Dagh decide to fight back. The seminal novel of the Armenian genocide, Franz Werfel's bestselling 1933 epic brought the catastrophe to the world's attention for the first time, and has become a talismanic story of resistance in the face of hatred. 'Forty Days will invade your senses and keep the blood pounding. Once read, it will never be forgotten' The New York Times Translated by Geoffrey Dunlop and James Reidel _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Cold War: A World History Odd Arne Westad (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Jul 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 720pp h198mm x w129mm x s31mm 490g ISBN13: 9780141979915 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197991-5 ISBN10: 0141979917 EAN: 9780141979915 x Description: 'Masterly ... a book of resounding importance for appraising our global future as well as understanding our past' Richard DavenportHines, The Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 'A masterful survey that will set the standard for Cold War scholarship for years to come' Jonathan Steele, London Review of Books As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War. For over forty years the demands of the Cold War shaped the life of almost all of us. There was no part of the world where East and West did not, ultimately, demand a blind and absolute allegiance, and nowhere into which the West and East did not reach. Countries as remote from each other as Korea, Angola and Cuba were defined by their allegiances. Almost all civil wars became proxy conflicts for the superpowers. Europe was seemingly split in two indefinitely. Arne Westad's remarkable new book is the first to have the distance from these events and the ambition to create a convincing, powerful narrative of the Cold War. The book is genuinely global in its reach and captures the dramas and agonies of a period always overshadowed by the horror of nuclear war and which, for millions of people, was not 'cold' at all: a time of relentless violence, squandered opportunities and moral failure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Educated: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling memoir Tara Westover (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
20 Feb 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h216mm x w135mm x s28mm 423g ISBN13: 9781786330529 ISBN13: 978-1-78633-052-9 ISBN10: 1786330520 EAN: 9781786330529 x Description: 'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage ... a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' Sunday Times Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey Adam Weymouth (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Particular Books
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 288pp h222mm x w144mm x s28mm 428g ISBN13: 9780241270400 ISBN13: 978-0-241-27040-0 ISBN10: 0241270405 EAN: 9780241270400 x Description: 'The best kind of travel writing ... An outstanding book' Rob Penn, author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees 'Enthralling' Luke Jennings, author of Blood Knots A captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by canoe down the Yukon River. The Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most ruggedly beautiful and remote regions of North America, Adam Weymouth journeyed by canoe on a four-month odyssey through this untrammelled wilderness, encountering the people who have lived there for generations. The Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king salmon who each year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning grounds. Now the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of the modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for ever. Weymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world. Kings of the Yukon is an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Twilight Elie Wiesel (Author) Series:
Penguin Essentials
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
01 Jun 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Language: English Translated From: French Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp 125g ISBN13: 9780241981504 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98150-4 ISBN10: 0241981506 EAN: 9780241981504 x Description: Twilight is the haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric hospital, he is not a patient but rather a visiting professional with a secret, highly personal quest. A Holocaust survivor who has painstakingly rebuilt his life, he has watched, horrified and helpless, as it all started coming apart. He longs for Pedro, the man who rescued him in postwar Poland - who became his mentor, hero, saviour and friend - and taught him truth from falsehood. But Pedro vanished into Stalin's gulags . . . Desperate to explain his own survival, Raphael now seeks among the delusional patients the answers to the mysteries of good, evil and madness. Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Elie Wiesel studied in Paris and later became a journalist. During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, he was persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps. The result was his internationally acclaimed memoir, La Nuit or Night, which has since been translated into more than thirty languages. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing Richard Wilkinson (Author) Kate Pickett (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 352pp h222mm x w144mm x s33mm 468g ISBN13: 9781846147418 ISBN13: 978-1-84614-741-8 ISBN10: 1846147417 EAN: 9781846147418 x Description: Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why are Americans three times more likely than the Dutch to develop gambling problems? Why is child well-being so much worse in New Zealand than Japan? As this groundbreaking study demonstrates, the answer to all these hinges on inequality. In The Spirit Level Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett put inequality at the centre of public debate by showing conclusively that less-equal societies fare worse than more equal ones across everything from education to life expectancy. The Inner Level now explains how inequality affects us individually, how it alters how we think, feel and behave. It sets out the overwhelming evidence that material inequalities have powerful psychological effects: when the gap between rich and poor increases, so does the tendency to defi ne and value ourselves and others in terms of superiority and inferiority. A deep well of data and analysis is drawn upon to empirically show, for example, that low social status is associated with elevated levels of stress, and how rates of anxiety and depression are intimately related to the inequality which makes that status paramount. Wilkinson and Pickett describe how these responses to hierarchies evolved, and why the impacts of
inequality on us are so severe. In doing so, they challenge the conception that humans are innately competitive and self-interested. They undermine, too, the idea that inequality is the product of 'natural' differences in individual ability. This book sheds new light on many of the most urgent problems facing societies today, but it is not just an index of our ills. It demonstrates that societies based on fundamental equalities, sharing and reciprocity generate much higher levels of well-being, and lays out the path towards them. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
WaR: Wizards and Robots will.i.am (Author) Brian David Johnson (Author) Series:
Wizards and Robots
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
27 Feb 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h234mm x w153mm x s23mm 416g ISBN13: 9780141365961 ISBN13: 978-0-14-136596-1 ISBN10: 014136596X EAN: 9780141365961 x Description: An explosive action-adventure novel created by will.i.am and renowned futurist Brian David Johnson. Wizards are real, robots from the future are here, and the fate of our world rests in the hands of one unsuspecting teenager. When a young man breaks into her home claiming her life is in danger, Ada Luring's world changes forever. Geller is a wizard, on the run from his father's hidden clan who want to kill Ada and her mother. Sara Luring is the scientist who will create the first robot, the wizards' age-old foes. But a robot has travelled back in time to find Ada, and will lay everything on the line to protect her, as she may just be the key to preventing the earth's destruction in the future. Ada, Geller and the robots must learn to work together to change the past and secure the future. But they don't have much time before a mysterious enemy launches its attack on Earth... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots Kate Williams (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Hutchinson
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
15 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 384pp ISBN13: 9780091936709 ISBN13: 978-0-09-193670-9 ISBN10: 0091936705 EAN: 9780091936709 x Description: Mary and Elizabeth: cousins, rivals, queens. This thrilling history from bestselling historian and broadcaster, Kate Williams tells the story of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I - of Mary's eventual betrayal, by forces around her, by herself and by her `cousin'. At the end of the Tudor era, two queens ruled one island. But sixteenth-century Europe was a man's world and powerful voices believed that no woman could govern. All around Mary and Elizabeth were sycophants, spies and detractors who wanted their dominion, their favour and their bodies. Elizabeth and Mary shared the struggle to be both woman and queen. But the forces rising against the two regnants, and the conflicts of love and dynasty, drove them apart. For Mary, Elizabeth was a fellow queen with whom she dreamed of a lasting friendship. For Elizabeth, Mary was a threat. It was a schism that would end in secret assassination plots, devastating betrayal and, eventually, a terrible final act. Mary is often seen as a defeated or tragic sovereign, but Rival Queens argues against this, showing instead how she attempted to reinvent queenship and the monarchy - in one of the hardest fights in royal history. Where the Queen of Scots failed, Elizabeth, as Gloriana, would succeed. Yet in doing so, she would lose a part of herself and her power. Kate Williams has examined letters and archives to create an electrifying new perspective on Mary and on Elizabeth and, ultimately, on the great sacrifices a woman must make to be a queen.
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Memo From Turner Tim Willocks (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
02 Aug 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp 459g ISBN13: 9781787330894 ISBN13: 978-1-78733-089-4 ISBN10: 1787330893 EAN: 9781787330894 x Description: What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption? During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town homicide. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns - including the local police and private security force - he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won't be bought and won't be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself... By the time Willocks's tale is finished, fourteen men have died. He shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain Clair Wills (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
05 Apr 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 464pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 319g ISBN13: 9780141974972 ISBN13: 978-0-14-197497-2 ISBN10: 0141974974 EAN: 9780141974972 x Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian 'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today' Piers Brendon, Literary Review 'Lyrical, full of wise and original observations' David Goodhart, The Times The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals' experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians,
Poles, Maltese, Punjabis and Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes. As Britain picked itself up again in the 1950s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism and casual and not so casual violence. Lovers and Strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by 'white strangers' in their new country. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Origins of Creativity Edward O. Wilson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 256pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780141986340 ISBN13: 978-0-14-198634-0 ISBN10: 0141986344 EAN: 9780141986340 x Description: 'An intellectual hero ... A superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations' Ian McEwan 'Darwin's great successor' Jeffrey Sachs The legendary biologist Edward O. Wilson offers his most philosophically probing work to date 'Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,' begins Edward Wilson's sweeping examination of the humanities and their relationship to the sciences. By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age. Chronicling the evolution of creativity from primates to humans, Wilson shows how the humanities, in large part spurred on by the invention of language, have played a previously unexamined role in defining our species. Exploring a surprising range of creative endeavors - the instinct to create gardens; the use of metaphors and irony in speech; or the power of music and song - Wilson proposes a transformational 'Third Enlightenment' in which the blending of science and the humanities will enable us to gain a deeper understanding of the human condition, and how it ultimately originated. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
My Mum Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson (Author) Nick Sharratt (Illustrated by) Nick Sharratt (Designed by) Series:
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Imprint:
Doubleday Children's Books
Publisher:
Random House Children's Publishers UK
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 416pp h216mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9780857535238 ISBN13: 978-0-85753-523-8 ISBN10: 0857535234 EAN: 9780857535238 x Description: A fantastic new story featuring a much-loved old friend, this brilliant new book from Jacqueline Wilson is packed full of illustrations from Nick Sharratt throughout. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies Richard Vinen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Allen Lane
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
15 Nov 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 464pp h240mm x w162mm x s40mm 746g ISBN13: 9780241343425 ISBN13: 978-0-241-34342-5 ISBN10: 0241343429 EAN: 9780241343425 x Description: 1968 saw an extraordinary range of protests across much of the western world. Some of these were genuinely revolutionary - around ten million French workers went on strike and the whole state teetered on the brink of collapse. Others were more easily contained, but had profound longer-term implications - terrorist groups, feminist collectives, gay rights activists could all trace important roots to 1968. Bill Clinton and even Tony Blair are, in many ways, the product of that year. The Long '68 is a striking and original attempt half a century on to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and societies which are in practice now extraordinarily remote from our own time. The book pursues the story into the 1970s to show both the ever more violent forms of radicalization that stemmed from 1968 and the brutal reaction that brought the era to an end. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days Jeanette Winterson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9781784709020 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-902-0 ISBN10: 1784709026 EAN: 9781784709020 x Description: A Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year `Winterson's winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavor to leave you aglow' - Guardian For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the twelve days of Christmas. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Talk to Me James Vlahos (Author) Series:
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Imprint:
Random House Books
Publisher:
Cornerstone
Pub Date:
22 Jan 2019
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 320pp ISBN13: 9781847948069 ISBN13: 978-1-84794-806-9 ISBN10: 1847948065 EAN: 9781847948069 x Description: The next great technological disruption is coming. Each year, the titans of Silicon Valley spend millions competing to build the same device- the world?s first conversationally capable computer. Whichever company gets there soonest will turn our smartphones into our teachers, friends and lovers - and make billions of dollars in the process. Veteran technology journalist James Vlahos has gained astonishing access to the
research teams at Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple who are leading the way. In Talk to Me, he reveals the secrets of the remarkable individuals fighting in the battle for conversational computing- from the little-known software programmers trying to chat with their laptops, right up to the CEOs of the world?s leading tech companies. In the process, he reveals why hand-held artificial intelligence will revolutionise our work and social lives, exploring how conversational computers will spark the most dazzling - and unsettling - changes of our lifetime. Above all, Vlahos explores a single fascinating and troubling question- what happens when our computers become more articulate, more charming and more creative than we are? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Inner Life of Animals: Surprising Observations of a Hidden World Peter Wohlleben (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w129mm x s18mm 202g ISBN13: 9781784705954 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-595-4 ISBN10: 1784705950 EAN: 9781784705954 x Description: Can horses feel shame? Do deer grieve? Why do roosters deceive hens? We tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings but have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? From the leafy forest floor to the inside of a bee hive, The Inner Life of Animals opens up the animal kingdom like never before. We hear the stories of a grateful humpback whale, of a hedgehog who has nightmares, and of a magpie who commits adultery; we meet bees that plan for the future, pigs who learn their own names and crows that go tobogganing for fun. And at last we find out why wasps exist. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things Peter Wohlleben (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
The Bodley Head Ltd
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
13 Sep 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 272pp 272g ISBN13: 9781847925251 ISBN13: 978-1-84792-525-1 ISBN10: 1847925251 EAN: 9781847925251 x Description: 'Peter Wohlleben doesn't merely look, he sees. Let's all learn as much from him as we can, and quickly.' Rosamund Young, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF COWS Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by humans. But it is these connections that maintain nature's finely balanced equilibrium. Drawing on the latest scientific discoveries and decades of experience as a forester and bestselling author, Peter Wohlleben shows us how different animals, plants, rivers, rocks and weather systems cooperate, and what's at stake when these delicate systems are unbalanced. The earth's ecosystems are too complex for us to compartmentalise and draw up simple rules of cause and effect; but The Secret Network of Nature gives us a chance to marvel at the inner workings and unlikely partnerships of the natural world, where every entity has its own distinct purpose. And the more light that is shed on relationships between species, the more fascinating nature's web becomes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs Peter Wohlleben (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Rider & Co
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 176pp 313g ISBN13: 9781846045783 ISBN13: 978-1-84604-578-3 ISBN10: 1846045789 EAN: 9781846045783 x Description: Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with nature As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascinating and beautiful. But we've long forgotten how to recognise them. Peter Wohlleben, bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, invites us to become an expert, to take a closer look and interpret the signs that clouds, wind, plants and animals convey. Chaffinches become weather prophets, bees are live thermometers, courgettes tell us the time. The Weather Detective combines scientific research with charming anecdotes to explain the extraordinary cycles of life, death and regeneration that are evolving on our doorstep, bringing us closer to nature than ever before. A walk in the park will never be the same again. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Tom Wolfe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w129mm x s23mm 255g ISBN13: 9781784873721 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-372-1 ISBN10: 1784873721 EAN: 9781784873721 x Description: Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careened through the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of American counter-culture, its dances, bouffant hairdos, customised cars and rock concerts. Capturing the energy of the age in its portraits of Phil Spector, Cassius Clay, Las Vegas and the Nanny Mafia - as well as asking, why do doormen hate Volkswagens? - Wolfe's flamboyant essay collection remains one of the great, revolutionary landmarks of modern non-fiction. 'Journalism, it is said, is the first draft of history. Nobody exemplifies the dictum better than Wolfe, the cultural observer and social critic par excellence' Daily Telegraph _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp 309g ISBN13: 9781784873714 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-371-4 ISBN10: 1784873713 EAN: 9781784873714
x Description: A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY `What is it' asks Tom Wolfe, `that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle...and wait for someone to light the fuse?' Arrogance? Stupidity? Bravery? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'? A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space program, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making. `Tom Wolfe at his very best... Learned, cheeky, risky, touching, tough, compassionate, nostalgic, worshipful, jingoistic...The Right Stuff is superb' - New York Times Book Review _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe (Author) Jarvis Cocker (Introduction by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Vintage Classics
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Pub Date:
28 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp 298g ISBN13: 9781784873707 ISBN13: 978-1-78487-370-7 ISBN10: 1784873705 EAN: 9781784873707 x Description: Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKER In the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in their day-glo schoolbus, doped up and deep `in the pudding', the Pranksters' arrival on the scene - anarchic, exuberant and acid-infused - would turn on an entire counter-culture, and provide Tom Wolfe with the perfect free-wheeling subject for this, his pioneering masterpiece of New Journalism. 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is not simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book...the pushing, ballooning heart of the matter' New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Artificial Intelligence: Everything you need to know about the coming AI. A Ladybird Expert Book Michael Woolridge (Author) Series:
The Ladybird Expert Series
Edition:
Imprint:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
22 Mar 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 56pp h180mm x w120mm x s8mm 130g ISBN13: 9780718188757 ISBN13: 978-0-7181-8875-7 ISBN10: 0718188756 EAN: 9780718188757 x Description: 'I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' Alan Turing (1950) Part of the ALL-NEW Ladybird Expert series. This book is for everyone living in the age of Artificial Intelligence. And this is an accessible and authoritative introduction to one of the most important conversations of our time . . .
Written by computer scientist Michael Wooldridge, Artificial Intelligence chronicles the development of intelligent machines, from Turing's dream of machines that think, to today's digital assistants like Siri and Alexa. AI is not something that awaits us in the future. Inside you'll learn how we have come to rely on embedded AI software and what a world of ubiquitous AI might look like. What's inside? -
The British mathematician Alan Turing Can machines 'understand'? Logical and Behavioural AI The reality of AI today AI tomorrow And much more . . .
For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Chrysalids John Wyndham (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub Date:
07 Jun 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h181mm x w111mm x s14mm 125g ISBN13: 9780241983928 ISBN13: 978-0-241-98392-8 ISBN10: 0241983924 EAN: 9780241983928 x Description: 'WATCH THOU FOR THE MUTANT!' It is many years since God sent the Tribulation to punish the forebears for their sins, and in the rural settlement of Waknuk David Strorm's father decries any and all blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that David and his cousin Rosalind, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as they grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery, or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands. . . 'An outstanding success' New York Times _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Meet Me at the Museum Anne Youngson (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Doubleday
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pub Date:
17 May 2018
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 224pp h216mm x w135mm x s16mm 243g ISBN13: 9780857525529 ISBN13: 978-0-85752-552-9 ISBN10: 0857525522 EAN: 9780857525529 x Description: The Observer Promising first-time British novelists 2018: 'A novel about self-discovery and second chances' 'Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savour' ANNIE BARROWS, co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
'A quirky, wise and tender novel. Proof that the richest fruits come on the edge of autumn' SARAH DUNANT
'Quietly intriguing, beautifully observed, full of powerful emotions' RUTH HOGAN, Author of The Keeper of Lost Things `Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE `A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' RACHEL JOYCE 'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone looking for a book that makes you think and wonder and quietly hope. I loved it' TAMMY COHEN 'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' Daily Express 'The loveliest short novel of late love you'll ever read. Whenever I talk about it, I simply cry with joy' JAMES HAWES
'Meet Me at the Museum starts so quiet and small like a bud tightly closed against the winter then it unfurls into something so alive and truly beautiful. I was immensely moved by it' TOR UDALL, author of A Thousand Paper Birds
Sometimes it takes a stranger to really know who you are
When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn't expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They're both searching for something, they just don't know it yet. Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. Tina is trapped in a marriage she doesn't remember choosing. Slowly their correspondence blossoms as they bare their souls to each other with stories of joy, anguish and discovery. But then Tina's letters suddenly cease, and Anders is thrown into despair. Can their unexpected friendship survive? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Let Her Fly: A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality Ziauddin Yousafzai (Author) Louise Carpenter (Author) Malala Yousafzai (Foreword by) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
W H Allen
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Pub Date:
08 Nov 2018
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 240pp h216mm x w135mm ISBN13: 9780753552971 ISBN13: 978-0-7535-5297-1 ISBN10: 0753552973 EAN: 9780753552971 x Description: ***Guardian pick as one of the biggest and most interesting books of the year *** The story of the father who inspired the phenomenon For over twenty years, Ziauddin Yousafzai has been fighting for equality - first for Malala, his daughter - and then for all girls throughout the world living in patriarchal societies. Taught as a young boy in Pakistan to believe that he was inherently better than his sisters, Ziauddin rebelled against inequality at a young age. And when he had a daughter himself he vowed that Malala would have an education, something usually only given to boys, and he founded a school that Malala could attend. Then in 2012, Malala was shot for standing up to the Taliban by continuing to go to her father's school, and Ziauddin almost lost the very person for whom his fight for equality began. Let Her Fly is Ziauddin's journey from a stammering boy growing up in a tiny village high in the mountains of Pakistan, through to being an activist for
equality and the father of the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and now one of the most influential and inspiring young women on the planet. Told through intimate portraits of each of Ziauddin's closest relationships - as a son to a traditional father; as a father to Malala and her brothers, educated and growing up in the West; as a husband to a wife finally learning to read and write; as a brother to five sisters still living in the patriarchy Let Her Fly looks at what it means to love, to have courage and fight for what is inherently right. Personal in its detail and universal in its themes, this is a landmark book from the man behind the phenomenon, and shows why we must all keep fighting for the rights of girls and women around the world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________