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Acclaimed negotiation expert Natalie Reynolds reveals the secrets to getting what you want

We Have a Deal How to negotiate with intelligence, flexibility and power

Natalie Reynolds Manuscript Available: November

Negotiation is the most important skill you can develop to get what you want in business and life. But we often struggle to do it effectively. We fail to recognise opportunities, we prepare poorly or we let ourselves be led by others or by our own fear.

Natalie Reynolds, negotiation expert and CEO of negotiation consultancy advantageSPRING – who count the United Nations, BBC News, JP Morgan and Human Rights Watch among clients – will teach you how to avoid these pitfalls, keep cool and in control, and achieve what you want, every time – whether you’re responsible for large deals at work or simply renegotiating your phone contract.

We Have a Deal also explains why good negotiation matters, and why others react the way they do. From being flexible to overcoming obstructive behaviour, this book will help you to understand the underlying motivations and get the best out of every deal.

NATALIE REYNOLDS specialises in negotiation, commercial dispute resolution and governance, and is the founder of advantageSPRING, where she works with global companies such as Goldman Sachs, the NSPCC and Channel 4 to develop negotiation coaching and training, and to design and execute negotiation strategies. In addition to her core training, she runs a hugely popular gender workshop, ‘Is Negotiation a Man’s Game?’, and has published articles in the Guardian and the Huffington Post. She lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

3rd March 2016 Business / Self-Help 9781785780325 £12.99 US $16.95 9781785780332 (eBook) £8.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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An eye-opening exposé of the men and women who change our minds

The Persuaders The hidden industry that wants to change your mind

James Garvey

Manuscript Available: November

Almost every hour of every day, people will try to change your mind – and they don’t want you to notice, because none of it consists in giving you good reasons.

You are nudged, anchored, and incentivised. Products are designed with the help of neuromarketing to appeal to unconscious minds; the taste of food is ‘improved’ merely by brand association. Covert PR can start wars: the emotional testimony of fifteen year-old Nayirah that helped the case for the first Gulf War was assembled by PR firm Hill & Knowlton. Book covers adorned with favourable quotes are a powerful ‘social proof’, whether the quotes are real or bogus.

These hidden techniques for changing our minds are everywhere, once we know how to spot them. It’s a profound shift in the way human beings interact with one another. Philosopher James Garvey presents not just a requiem for rationality, but a call to think again about the way we think now.

JAMES GARVEY works for the Royal Institute of Philosophy and edits The Philosophers’ Magazine. He is the author of a number of books, including The Story of Philosophy (with Jeremy Stangroom) and The Ethics of Climate Change. He has written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, and the Times Higher Education Supplement, does voluntary work for Thames Reach and Crisis, teaches jiu jitsu, and is an enthusiastic cyclist. He lives on a canal boat in London.

4th Feb 2016 Popular Philosophy 9781848316607 £12.99 US $16.95 9781848316980 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy Paperback 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The mind-bending quiz book that every science geek needs in their Christmas stocking.

How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?

The Ultimate Science Quiz Book

Brian Clegg Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black?

What is spaghettification?

There’s a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip – and not nearly enough science.

How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. Test your knowledge to the limit with a sizzling collection of brain-stretching, sciencebased questions in two eight-round quizzes.

Turn the page to get the answer immediately – and as each answer explores the subject in more depth, this is the only quiz that’s just as entertaining to read from beginning to end as it is to play competitively.

Where was the Big Bang? What links the elephant Tusko and Timothy Leary?

What is the significance of 6EQUJ5? Science explainer extraordinaire Brian Clegg tells all...

Science writer BRIAN CLEGG studied physics at Cambridge and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the Universe accessible to the general reader. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You and Science for Life.

Popular Science 9781848319288 £6.99 US $12.95 9781848319295 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 208 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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A reference tool for informed modern living that separates scientific truth from media myth.

Science for Life

A Manual for Better Living

Brian Clegg Rights sold: Korea AVAILABLE NOW

In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture of what science is telling us right now about changing our lives for the better.

Discover the much-advertised antioxidants that aren’t good for you, the truth about fat and sugar and why one of the healthiest foods contains carcinogens and 21 E-numbers. Find out what does and what doesn’t enhance brainpower – from the failure of playing Mozart to babies to the surprising abilities of caffeine and nicotine. Understand the tools that advertisers use to persuade us and how to turn the psychological pressure back on them.

From the shortcomings of the five second rule to the truth about phone masts and nuclear power, kept up-to-date on a partnering website, Science for Life is your guide to surviving and thriving in the modern world.

Light Years The Extraordinary Story of Mankind’s Fascination with Light Brian Clegg Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW A new edition of one of Brian Clegg’s bestloved books – the story of light and the people who were determined to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest puzzles of the Universe.

Popular science/9781848318144/£8.99 US $15.95 9781848318151 (eBook)/£7.99 (eBook) B-format, paperback/288 pages Rights Available: World

Popular science / health 9781848318182 £16.99 US $29.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy hardback 400 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Inflight Science

A Guide to the World From Your Airplane Window

Brian Clegg Rights sold: Germany, Turkey, Chinese Mainland, Italy, Denmark, French, The Netherlands, Taiwanese ‘An eye-spy book for adults … [its great strength] is its ability to pull out from the mundane experiences of modern air travel – the contrails and cumulonimbus, the security scanners and salted snacks – to explain a wider technical point.’ Times 9781848313057

The Universe Inside You

The Extreme Science of the Human Body

Brian Clegg Rights sold: Korea, Germany, Italy, Russia AVAILABLE NOW

‘Explains the inner workings of your body in order to explore the outermost workings of the universe.

I’m completely gripped.’ Top Sante 9781848315044 10 NEW TITLES

The Quantum Age

How the Physics of the Very Small Has Transformed Our Lives

Brian Clegg Rights sold: Turkey, Chinese Mainland, The Netherlands AVAILABLE NOW

‘Brian Clegg does a superb job of explaining complicated scientific concepts in easily understood language. The Quantum Age is his best book yet.’ John Gribbin 9781848318465

Dice World

Science and Life in a Random Universe

‘Methodical, clear, entertaining and just a bit mind-boggling.’ Irish Times Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 9781848316522

All B-format paperbacks • £8.99

Brian Clegg Rights sold: Japan AVAILABLE NOW

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Worried by Wittgenstein?

Confused by Chomsky?

Thrown by Thoreau?

Worry no longer!

How to Sound Cultured Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation

Hubert Van Den Bergh & Thomas Hodgkinson Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

When you hear the name Rimbaud, do you think of Sylvester Stallone?

Covering such inscrutable characters as Heidegger, Montaigne, Popper and Lévi-Strauss (apparently not just a designer of jeans), writer Hubert Van Den Bergh – author of the bestselling How to Sound Clever – and journalist Thomas W. Hodgkinson offer you a wry look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture.

Read this book and you’ll never again mistake Hegel for Engels, you’ll know when precisely to drop Foucault’s name into a conversation and how to pronounce ‘Borgesian’, and you’ll learn many more essential pointers for the intellectual life.

HUBERT VAN DEN BERGH is the author of How to Sound Clever (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has written for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian and appeared on Vanessa Feltz’s BBC Radio 2 show.

THOMAS HODGKINSON is the author of the novel Memoirs of a Stalker (Silvertail, 2015). He writes regularly for The Spectator and the Daily Mail, and is a contributing editor at The Week.

Humour / Reference 9781848319301 £12.99 US $22.95 9781848319318 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B format HBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Introducing Literary Criticism A Graphics Guide

Owen Holland & Piero Rights available: World Manuscript Available: December

A brand new literary in the renowned graphic novel-style of the Introducing Graphic Guide series From Plato to Virginia Woolf, Structuralism to Practical Criticism, Introducing Literary Criticism charts the history and development of literary criticism into a rich and complex discipline.

Tackling disputes over the value and meaning of literature, and exploring theoretical and practical approaches, this unique illustrated guide will help readers of all levels to get more out of their reading.

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Get Your Inbox Down to Zero 7th January 2016 Business / Self-Help 9781785780592 £1.99 US $2.95 9781848319974 (eBook) £1.99 (eBook) A6 PBK / 48 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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JANUARY

The bestselling guide to working smarter, not harder

How to be a Productivity Ninja Worry Less, Achieve More and love What You Do

Graham Allcott Rights sold: Russia, the Netherlands, Turkey AVAILABLE NOW

In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don’t cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings.

Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.

Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage, you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention and beat procrastination.

Make your email inbox work for you – and not the other way around!

Get Your Inbox Down to Zero Graham Allcott Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

Is your inbox overloaded? Feel like your email is controlling your life?

You need the ninja way of email management!

In this short book, an edited extract from Graham Allcott’s acclaimed How to be a Productivity Ninja, you’ll learn the simple skills to get your inbox down to zero – and keep it there, day after day.

GRAHAM ALLCOTT is the author of How to be a Productivity Ninja, How to be a Knowledge Ninja and Introducing Productivity. He is the founder of Think Productive, one of the world’s leading productivity training companies, whose diverse list of clients include eBay, the British Library and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He lives in Brighton.

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How to Be a Productivity Ninja 7th January 2016 Business / Self-Help 9781785780288 £8.99 US $14.95 9781848316843 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B format PBK 304 pages with b/w illustrations TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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How to be a Knowledge Ninja Learn to study better, Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more. retain knowledge and Graham Allcott Rights sold: Russia beat procrastination with AVAILABLE NOW Graham ‘Productivity Ninja’ Allcott

Fed up with procrastinating? Studying hard, but not getting anywhere?

Overwhelmed by everything you have to learn? Whether you’re studying for exams, trying to get essays done or simply need to improve how you absorb knowledge in your day-to-day life, it’s time to think like a Ninja!

Let bestselling author and productivity expert Graham Allcott show you how to: -

HARNESS NINJA TECHNIQUES FROM AGILITY TO ZEN CUT OUT PROCRASTINATION WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER CONTROL EXAM NERVES LOVE LEARNING AGAIN

‘It’s fun, easy to follow and practical – and may just be the kick up the bottom you need. ’ Closer, on How to be a Productivity Ninja

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GRAHAM ALLCOTT is author of How to be a Productivity Ninja, and founder of Think Productive, whose diverse list of clients includes eBay, the British Library and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the author of Introducing Productivity (Icon, 2014) and lives in Brighton.

Self-help / Learning 9781848318168 £12.99 US $25.95 9781848318175 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 288 pages with occasional b/w illustration TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The sequel to the 50,000+ copy-selling Do You Think You’re Clever? featuring even more brainmelting Oxbridge interview questions

So, You Think You’re Clever?

Taking on the Oxford and Cambridge Interview questions!

John Farndon Rights sold: Japan, Korea, Germany AVAILABLE NOW

From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions.

How would you poison someone without the police finding out?

What makes a strong woman?

Instead of politicians, why don’t we let the managers of IKEA run the country?

How do you organise a successful revolution?

Also available: ISBN: 9781848311329

JOHN FARNDON is the author of numerous bestsellers on science, ideas and the natural environment, as well as being a playwright, composer and poet. He has been shortlisted a record five times for the Royal Society Junior Science Book Prize.

Do You Think You’re Clever? was shortlisted for the Society of Authors Education Award.

Humour / Reference 9781848319325 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848316300 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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A cutting-edge despatch from human science, revealing that we are all veritable walking Noah’s Arks of micro-species.

I, Superorganism

Learning to love your inner ecosystem

Jon Turney Rights sold: Russia AVAILABLE NOW

Every human body carries a secret cargo: a huge population of micro-organisms that lives in your mouth and nose, on your skin, in your guts. This is the human microbiome and it has in the last few years become biologists’ most thrilling research interest.

Vastly outnumbering human cells, our invisible passengers are vital to life.

They help us digest food, make essential nutrients, and combat disease.

They help regulate allergies and inflammation, via the immune system. They influence bowel disease, heart disease and cancer. They may even have a role in developing behaviour. We are not just isolated humans, but superorganisms.

And that calls into question our obsession with disinfection and sterilisation, and our antibiotic addiction, which is like managing a complex ecosystem with napalm.

Acclaimed science communicator and editor Jon Turney presents the first booklength account of a new realm of human biology that will make you think again about this machine we call ourselves.

JON TURNEY is a science writer and former features editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement.

He was popular science editor at Penguin Press and is the author, among much else, of The Rough Guide to the Future (2010) and Lovelock and Gaia (Icon, 2003) and editor of A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (Faber, 2000). jonturney.co.uk

Popular science 9781848318229 £12.99 US $25.95 9781848318236 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 304 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia

The Time In Between A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

Nancy Tucker Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia nervosa.

When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn’t know why, she wrote: I want to be thin.

Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was hospitalised, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa. She left school, rejoined school; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall by hunger.

Told with remarkable insight, dark humour and acute intelligence, The Time in Between is a profound, important window into the workings of an unquiet mind – a Wasted for the 21st century.

NANCY TUCKER is a 20-year-old author and nanny. She suffered from both anorexia and bulimia nervosa throughout her teens, but is now on the road to recovery and has gained a place at Oxford to study Experimental Psychology in 2015. She lives in London.

Memoir / Health 9781848318304 £12.99 US $26.95 9781848318311 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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‘James Steen has made a comedy of gastronomy – I love this book!’

Marco Pierre White

The Foodie Curiosities, Stories and Expert Tips from the Culinary World

James Steen Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

Join award-winning writer James Steen for a feast of food and drink facts and culinary curiosities.

Delving into forgotten corners of gastronomic history, Steen reveals what Parmesan has to do with broken bones and why John Wayne kept a cow in a hotel. Laying bare the secrets of the kitchen, he concocts the ultimate hangover cure and explains how to cook perfect rib of beef with the oven off.

With much-loved cooks including Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood sharing passion and know-how, this mouth-watering miscellany will sate the appetite of every kitchen dweller, from the masterful expert to the earnest apprentice. ‘[A] very funny, richly rewarding, happy celebration of food’ Raymond Blanc

JAMES STEEN is an award-winning journalist, food writer, author and ghostwriter. He has a deep fascination for both the cook and cooking, and collaborates with great chefs. He ghosted the autobiographies of Marco Pierre White (The Devil in the Kitchen), Raymond Blanc (A Taste of My Life) and Keith Floyd (Stirred But Not Shaken).

Food & Drink 9781848319882 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848319875 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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A brilliant miscellany from BBC Antiques Roadshow specialist Marc Allum.

The Collector’s Cabinet Tales, Facts and Fictions from the World of Antiques

Marc Allum Rights sold: Japan AVAILABLE NOW

Explore the wonderful world of antiques and collectables with Antiques Roadshow regular, Marc Allum.

Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the secrets of the forgers, track down Napoleon’s toothbrush and meet the garden gnome insured for £1 million.

Eclectic, eccentric and brimming with remarkable tales from history, The Collector’s Cabinet is for all those who are fascinated by the relics of the past.

‘A delightful nest of insights’ Philip Mould ‘An amusing romp through some of the most coveted antiques. Full of facts and surprising anecdotes, it’s a compelling read that should raise a smile from both the enthusiastic amateur and the seasoned collector.’ House & Garden

MARC ALLUM is a freelance art and antiques writer, broadcaster, consultant and lecturer based in Wiltshire. He has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow since 1998.

He writes regularly for magazines, has contributed to numerous books and is the author of Allum’s Antiques Almanac (Icon, 2014).

Antiques 9781848319110 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848319127 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B format PBKs 224 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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A miscellany that shakes the dust off the ancient world.

How to Win a Roman Chariot Race Lives, Legends and Treasures from the Ancient World

Jane Hood Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the ‘wandering womb’?

Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments and quotable nuggets from a lost world.

From ancient cosmetics to the earliest known computer, from the deciphering of ancient languages to the amazing things the Romans did with concrete, this is the essential miscellany for all curious minds, whether you learned the Classics at school or not.

JANE HOOD has been a lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, and in Philosophy, ending up as a Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Oxford specialising in Aristotle and Ancient Medicine.

She has held Research Fellowships in Philosophy in Paris and in Ancient Medicine with the Wellcome Institute in London.

Classics 9781848319462 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848319479 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B format PBK 224 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The acclaimed history of the birth and growth of Britain’s most famous luxury brand.

Rolls-Royce: The Magic of a Name The first forty years of Britain’s most prestigious company, 1904-1944

Peter Pugh Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain’s most prestigious manufacturer – Rolls-Royce.

Beginning with the historic meeting in 1904 of Henry Royce and the Honourable C.S. Rolls, and the birth in 1906 of the legendary Silver Ghost, Peter Pugh tells a story of genius, skill, hard work and dedication which gave the world cars and aero engines unrivalled in their excellence.

With exclusive access to the company’s archives, this is a unique portrait both of an iconic name and of British industryat its best.

‘A thoroughly British and thoroughly cheering story. The facts are remarkable and they are supported by a lavish array of photographs’ Sir Geoffrey Owen, Sunday Telegraph

PETER PUGH is Peter Pugh was educated at Oundle and Cambridge.

He has written about 50 company histories, the latest being The Heart of the Matter, on Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire. He lives in Cambridge and Brancaster, Norfolk.

Business 9781848319240 £10.99 US $15.95 9781848319257 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B format paperback 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The new essential Almanac from BBC’s Antiques Roadshow regular Marc Allum.

Allum’s Antiques Almanac 2016 An Annual Compendium of Stories and Facts From the World of Art and Antiques

Marc Allum Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

From BBC Antiques Roadshow specialist and author Marc Allum comes the second instalment of his annual almanac, revealing the current news, tall tales and tasty titbits from the year in art, antiques and collectables:

• What do London Bridge and a £40,000 corkscrew have in common?

• Which famous pop star depicted by Andy Warhol realised £51.6 million at a recent auction?

• How much did Oliver Cromwell’s coffin plate sell for, and what happened to his famous wart?

• Which Hollywood film lead to the recovery of a Hungarian avant garde masterpiece?

• What would a collector pay for the real Batmobile?

• Why did a tiny portrait of Mozart – only four centimetres high – sell for £218,500?

Answers to these and many other fascinating questions make this the essential guide this autumn for all ardent fans of art, antiques and collectables.

MARC ALLUM is a freelance art and antiques writer, broadcaster, consultant and lecturer based in Wiltshire. He has been a miscellaneous specialist in the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow since 1998. He writes regularly for magazines, has contributed to numerous books and is the author of Allum’s Antiques Almanac 2015 (Icon, 2014) and The Collector’s Cabinet (Icon, 2015).

Also available: Antiques / Art History 9781848319356 £16.99 US $27.99 9781848319363 (eBook) £12.99 (eBook) Demy HBK 272 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Mindfulness Your step-by-step guide to a happier life

Tessa Watt Rights sold: Catalan AVAILABLE NOW

Mindfulness is the popular practice that helps you appreciate your life, and live with more joy and less stress.

An easy-to-follow guide to a calmer, happier life

You’ll learn how to bring mindfulness into everyday actions, by listening to your body, becoming more aware of what’s happening in the present moment and letting go of negative thoughts and emotions. In this way, you can reduce stress and anxiety, focus better at work, find your own source of calm and discover genuine contentment.

Mindfulness introduces you to new techniques with straightforward advice, case studies and lots of practical exercises for newcomers to get their teeth into right away. It also gives a sense of the depth of mindfulness practice for those who wish to take it further.

TESSA WATT is a mindfulness teacher and consultant and founding director of Being Mindful. She is the author of Mindful London and is part of the Mindfulness Initiative, supporting the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mindfulness at Westminster.

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7th January 2016 Self-Help 9781848319547 £6.99 US $9.95 9781848319554 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

SELF-HELP JANUARY

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Your roadmap to happiness, confidence and success

Neil Shah Rights sold: Thailand, Catalan, Arabic AVAILABLE NOW Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) involves a range of psychological techniques that help you to ‘reprogram’ your brain – replacing the negative attitudes that hold you back with positive thought patterns that will enable you to be more effective, confident and successful.

In just under twenty simple steps, Neil Shah shows you how to use NLP to develop new habits of behaviour and thought that will help you succeed in all areas of life, from influencing others and understanding how they influence you, to achieving your goals, to managing stress.

4th Feb 2016 Self-Help 9781848319523 £6.99 US $9.95 9781848319530 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Rewire your brain for success with this motivational guide

NEIL SHAH is a licensed practitioner of NLP, stress management consultant, success coach and motivational speaker.

He is the founder and director of the Stress Management Society and MD of Praesto Training and Development.

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Positive Psychology A toolkit for happiness, purpose and well-being

Bridget Grenville-Cleave Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

Positive Psychology takes the findings of this popular academic discipline to show how you can enjoy and engage with life, and find your place in the world around you.

Learn to look on the bright side and start loving life

BRIDGET GRENVILLE-CLEAVE is a qualified positive psychologist and a founder member of the International Positive Psychology Association. She specialises in applying positive psychology through training, consulting and coaching.

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With expert encouragement and guidance, you will set out your own positive psychology experiment, to discover your strengths, overcome negative attitudes, focus on what gives you purpose, and take control of your life choices.

From savouring positive emotions to building better relationships and developing resilience, you will learn how to boost your mental and physical well-being and to find fulfilment in everyday life. This is the perfect concise start to making your life better.

3rd March 2016 Self-Help / Psychology 9781848319561 ÂŁ6.99 US $9.95 9781848319578 (eBook) ÂŁ4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

SELF-HELP MARCH

Body Language The signals you don’t know you’re sending, and how to master them

Glenn Wilson

Rights available: World AVAILABLE NOW

From interviews to dates, the boardroom to the stage, being aware of the non-verbal signals you, and others, send can have a huge impact on your relationships and success in life – for better or worse.

This fun and friendly guide will show you how to ‘read’ the body language of others, and how to project the right signals, so you can manage the impression you give to others.

Full of real-world and pop-cultural examples, practical tips and strategies, and underpinned by principles from psychological and social experiments, you’ll learn how to use and interpret non-verbal messages to put your best face, and body, forwards.

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SELF-HELP

Whether we’re aware of it or not, our bodies say a lot about us

GLENN WILSON is Visiting Professor of Psychology at Gresham College, London. Previously he was Reader in Personality at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He specialises in personality, interpersonal attraction and reading body language.

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Psychology of Success Your A-Z Map to Achieving Your Goals and Enjoying the Journey

Alison Price & David Price Rights sold: Catalan AVAILABLE NOW

Struggle to stick to your goals, making new resolutions that always end up broken? This time, make them stick.

Identify your dreams.

Achieve your goals.

Enjoy the process.

You’ll start by identifying what success means to you, building goals around what you really want and what you have the potential to achieve. With the benefit of expert insights, real-life case studies and powerful techniques, you’ll build day-to-day strategies to help define and reach your goals, overcome obstacles and succeed in the face of adversity.

ALISON PRICE is a chartered occupational psychologist, facilitator and peak performance coach, specialising in leadership, management, success and motivation. DAVID PRICE combines qualifications in life coaching, sports psychology, positive psychology, peak performance coaching and NLP practice. Together they have written Introducing Entrepreneurship, Introducing Leadership, and Introducing Management.

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If you’re looking to reach your full potential – whether it’s making a personal change, achieving a sporting goal, or putting a business plan into practice – this book will give you the map to changing your life, and enjoying the journey.

5th May 2016 Self-Help 9781785780219 £6.99 US $9.95 9781785780226 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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CBT Your toolkit to modify mood, overcome obstructions and improve your life

Elaine Iljon Foreman & Clair Pollard Rights sold: Arabic AVAILABLE NOW Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a simple, effective treatment that will help you to change how you think and act and how you see yourself.

You can overcome fears, manage negative moods, put worries into perspective, and improve your enjoyment of life. With guidance from two CBT experts, you’ll recognise the behaviours and thoughts that hold you back, and will develop skills to think more positively, act more calmly and feel better about yourself.

This book will equip you with the same tools used by CBT practitioners, and is full of activities and experiments to explore and challenge, stories and exercises to provide perspective, and a clear framework to encourage and guide you.

2nd June 2016 Self-Help 9781848319509 £6.99 US $9.95 9781848319516 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

SELF-HELP

Overcome your fears and change how you think, for good.

ELAINE ILJON FOREMAN and CLAIR POLLARD are Chartered Clinical Psychologists with expertise in cognitive behavioural therapies.

Elaine’s focus is in clinical research into CBT techniques and anxiety, while Clair works with people with mental health issues, and spinal cord injuries, with the NHS and The Back-Up Trust.

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