Icon Books Jan - June 2017 Catalogue

ICON BOOKS January – June 2017

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Welcome to our Spring 2017 catalogue In March 1992 our very first titles were launched at Foyles in central London by what was then a team of four.

In the years since we’ve been privileged to work with brilliantly talented authors, illustrators, designers, booksellers, salespeople and others to bring readers popular books which inform, educate and entertain.

From hard-hitting politics such as Why Do People Hate America? to the wry elegance of Mark Forsyth’s The Etymologicon; from the unique Graphic Guide series – which thrives 25 years on – to our sports list, including 5000-1 on Leicester City’s Premier League victory; from popular science hits like The Epigenetics Revolution or Quantum, to The Year of Living Danishly, we love to publish books which get you thinking.

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF ICON BOOKS

And so it continues this season, with Cordelia Fine’s long-awaited Testosterone Rex; idiosyncratic autobiographies from actor Charlotte Rampling and musician Thomas Dolby; Gwen Oxenham’s pioneering book about women’s soccer, two new series, and much more.

Thank you for your support.

Here’s to the next 25 years of big ideas!

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Heart-rending letters of love gone sour from notable men and women

Yours Always Letters of Longing

Eleanor Bass

This is a collection of passionate, deeply personal letters from well-known figures revealing the painful underside of love.

Witness Winston Churchill ‘growl with anger to be treated with benevolent indifference’, and Edith Piaf reel in the throes of a ‘terrible’ passion. Through the beautifully-expressed letters of such literary icons as Charlotte Brontë, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf, Hollywood stars Loretta Young, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe Yours Always offers an unusually intimate insight into the lives of great men and women.

Love is revealed here in its many shades of disharmony and confusion: unrequited, uncertain, imbalanced, unconventional, thwarted, failed and forbidden. Love is not always rose-tinted, and Yours Always illuminates the sorrows that can accompany falling in, falling out, and staying in love.

‘I’ll just go on loving you in my deepest heart as I have done this very long time already.’ Loretta Young

ELEANOR BASS is a freelance researcher and writer.

She read Theology at the University of Cambridge, and obtained her doctorate in English Literature from King’s College London. Eleanor lives in London with her husband.

5th January 2017 Love & Romance 9781785781681 £9.99 US $16.95 9781785781698 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format HBK 224 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Not your typical sex guide...

Enjoy Sex (How, when and if you want to) A Practical and Inclusive Guide

Dr Meg-John Barker & Justin Hancock

Plenty of books on sex suggest that it has to be done in a certain way, or in a certain kind of relationship, or with certain people.

This isn’t that kind of book.

Enjoy Sex is a truly practical, friendly guide through the confusing, and sometimes alarming, world of sex and sexuality. Its radical approach puts your experience at the heart of the book, and invites you to explore what might be enjoyable to you.

With the authors’ engaging and thoughtful style, the book challenges the messages we receive about ‘normal’ sex, looks at how to understand and care for yourself, delves into ideas of pleasure for different bodies, ages and tastes, explores relationships, and tackles the tricky topics of communication and consent.

So, throw out the rule book and learn to listen to your own desires. This may just be the most helpful book about sex ever.

DR MEG-JOHN BARKER is a writer, therapist and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. A senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and a UKCP accredited psychotherapist, Meg-John is also the author of Rewriting the Rules (Routledge, 2012) and Queer (Icon, 2016). @megjohnbarker

JUSTIN HANCOCK is a sex and relationships educator. His website BISHuk.com is one of the leading sex and relationships advice websites for over-14s and is sponsored by Durex UK. Justin is also involved in running Gender & Sexuality Talks and is a trustee of Sexpression.

5th January 2017 Self-help 9781785780806 £7.99 US $12.95 9781785780813 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The Monuments Men meets The Great Escape in a rip-roaring WW2 prison break history

Castle of the Eagles Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

Mark Felton

High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle – a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini’s personal orders – held thirteen of the most senior British and Commonwealth officers captured during the campaign in North Africa.

Against insuperable odds, these extraordinary middle-aged POWs drove a complex tunnel beneath the castle, and by March 1943 it was ready…

Six men would attempt the impossible: an air marshal, three brigadiers, two lieutenant-generals. Three were knights of the realm and two held the Victoria Cross. One was missing a hand and eye, another suffered a gammy hip. The youngest was 48, the oldest 63.

During that rainswept night, three teams burst out of the earth and slipped away, intent on reaching neutral Switzerland.

Acclaimed historian Mark Felton, author of Zero Night and The Sea Devils, tells the amazing true story of their adventures on the run.

But did any of them make it to freedom?

MARK FELTON has written over a dozen books on World War II, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly. His Zero Night (Icon, 2014) was described as ‘a fitting tribute to the ingenuity of the escapees and of the brave civilians who subsequently assisted them’ by the Good Book Guide.

He lives in Norwich.

2nd February 2017 History / Military 9781785781186 £16.99 9781785781193 (eBook) £12.99 (eBook) Royal Hardback 304 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency

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A landmark new book from the author of the hugely influential Delusions of Gender

Testosterone Rex Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

Cordelia Fine

Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male and female brains.

Testosterone, so we’re told, is the very essence of masculinity, and biological sex is a fundamental force in our development. Not so, says psychologist Cordelia Fine, who shows, with wit and panache, that sex doesn’t create male and female natures. Instead, sex, hormones, culture and evolution work together in ways that make past and present gender dynamics only a serving suggestion for the future – not a recipe.

Testosterone Rex brings together evolutionary science, psychology, neuroscience and social history to move beyond old ‘nature versus nurture’ debates, and to explain why it’s time to unmake the tyrannical myth of Testosterone Rex. Fine’s landmark new book is an upbeat, timely and important contribution to the debate about gender in society.

‘Goodbye beliefs in sex differences disguised as evolutionary facts. Cordelia Fine wittily but meticulously lays bare the irrational arguments that we use to justify gender politics.’ Professor Uta Frith, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

CORDELIA FINE is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. She is the author of muchacclaimed A Mind of Its Own (Icon, 2006) and Delusions of Gender (Icon, 2010).

2nd February 2017 Popular Science 9781785781612 £14.99 9781785781629 (eBook) £11.99 (eBook) Demy HBK 256 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: W.W. Norton & Company

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The first and only autobiography of acclaimed actor, model and chanteuse Charlotte Rampling

Who I Am Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille

Oscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in hit ITV drama Broadchurch, the BBC’s London Spy and HBO’s Dexter, and the feature film 45 Years.

Her career has spanned popular entertainment and arthouse cinema and she has starred in English, French and Italian films from 1966’s Georgy Girl (opposite Lynn Redgrave), to films with French director François Ozon, including 2003’s Swimming Pool.

Having shied away from biographies and autobiographies (“too personal”) Rampling has now written Who I Am (first published in French) a lyrical, and intimate self-portrait via reminiscences. Highly personal, packed with family photographs from her own archive, Rampling recounts her childhood and youth as the daughter of an army officer (who won a gold medal for the 4 x 400 relay in the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics), and the memories and passions that would inspire her life and later work as an actress.

Written in a style that gives a unique insight into her screen persona, it is an idiosyncratic and beguiling portrait of one of the most consistently adventurous and interesting actors.

CHARLOTTE RAMPLING OBE is an acclaimed English actor.

CHRISTOPHE BATAILLE is a novelist and publisher. He is the author, with Rithy Panh, of Elimination (Grasset, 2012) which won the Elle Grand Readers Prize.

2nd March 2017 Memoir 9781785781933 £12.99 US $22.95 9781785781940 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B-format HBK w/ 35 b&w photographs 128 pages TERRITORY: World English TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Grasset

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A feisty celebration of people power in the beautiful game

Groundswell How Fans are Taking Back Football

Michael Sells

At a time when football is awash with talk of brands, customers and soaring prices, there’s a growing sense that football has ceased to be the game of the people.

Groundswell brings together stories of supporter activism from throughout the sport, documenting the impassioned ranks of fans battling to ensure that football remains accessible and enjoyable for all.

Football writer Michael Sells explores the Leeds United supporters targeting a seat in the boardroom, and the volunteers taking football into the classroom at Football Beyond Borders. He reveals how Football Supporters’ Federation caseworkers are battling discrimination against match-going fans, and the clubs – like south London’s Dulwich Hamlet – fighting prejudice from the stands.

Drawing on a vast bank of collective expertise, increased collaboration between rival fans and sheer strength in numbers, Sells brings to life the men and women who refuse to stand passively by – no collection of romantic idealists refusing to let go of the past. This is evidence that the game – their game – is still very much alive.

MICHAEL SELLS is a football writer and long-suffering Leeds fan. He is a shareholder in Leeds Fans United, a member of the Football Supporters Federation and a regular attendee at non-league grounds. He has written four books and worked closely with Sir Geoff Hurst on Geoff Hurst’s Greats (Icon, 2016). He lives in London.

2nd March 2017 Sport 9781785781209 £8.99 US $16.95 9781785781216 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Life, the universe and everything from acclaimed science communicator Brian Clegg

The Reality Frame Relativity and our place in the universe

Brian Clegg

Weaving together the great ideas of science, The Reality Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind.

Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world.

He reveals that underlying it all is not, as we might believe, a system of immovable absolutes, but the ever-shifting, amorphous world of relativity.

From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away many of these certainties, leaving only a handful of unchangeable essentials – such as absolute zero, nothingness, light – leading to better science and a new understanding of the essence of being human.

This is an Ascent of Man for the 21st century, the gripping story of modern science that will fill you with wonder and give you a new insight into our place in the universe.

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.

2nd March 2017 Popular Science 9781785782084 £20.00 US $29.95 9781785782145 (eBook) £16.00 (eBook) Royal HBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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50 essential tips to business success from management maverick John Timpson

Keys to Success 50 Secrets from a Business Maverick

John Timpson

50 essential tips to business success from management maverick John Timpson John Timpson, Chairman of the eponymous British high street chain, knows a thing or two about running a successful business. Over many years he revolutionised how his firm worked, developing his philosophy of upsidedown management, and has reaped the rewards – the Timpson group (which includes the Snappy Snaps and Max Spielmann chains) now has over 1500 branches, 4000 colleagues and a profit last year of £22m.

Timpson, whose weekly Daily Telegraph column and regular media appearances have made him a well-known business commentator, here shares his secrets. Full of practical advice, Keys to Success is a step-by- step MBA for business women and men who need results now.

From encouraging flexible working to having a ‘happy index’ and a great bonus scheme, to the importance of checking the cash on hand every day and planning for disaster scenarios; from why you should never make decisions at meetings to the value of a mentor – even when you’re at the top – these are essential markers on your roadmap to business success, whatever business you’re in.

JOHN TIMPSON CBE was born in 1943 and educated at Oundle and Nottingham University. He is Chairman at the Timpson Group and writes a regular Telegraph column. His previous books include Ask John (Icon, 2014) and High Street Heroes (Icon, 2015). He lives in Cheshire.

6th April 2017 Self-help / Business 9781785781995 £12.99 9781785782008 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 224 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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An evocative biography of the man behind Parkinson’s disease

The Enlightened Mr Parkinson The Pioneering Life of a Forgotten English Surgeon

Cherry Lewis

Parkinson’s disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.

In 1817 – exactly 200 years ago – James Parkinson (1755–1824) defined the disease so precisely that we still diagnose it today by recognising the symptoms he identified. The story of this remarkable man’s contributions to the Age of Enlightenment is told through his three passions – medicine, politics and fossils.

As a political radical Parkinson was interrogated over a plot to kill King George III and revealed as the author of anti-government pamphlets, a crime for which many were transported to Australia. While helping Edward Jenner set up smallpox vaccination stations across London, he wrote the first scientific study of fossils in English, which led to fossil-hunting becoming the nation’s latest craze – just a glimpse of his many achievements.

Cherry Lewis restores this neglected pioneer to his rightful place in history, while creating a vivid and pungent portrait of life as an ‘apothecary surgeon’ in Georgian London.

CHERRY LEWIS is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. A geologist by training, she worked in the oil industry as well as in the press office of the University of Bristol before turning her interests to the history of geology. She is the author of The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

6th April 2017 Biography / Medicine 9781785781780 £20.00 9781785781797 (eBook) £16.00 (eBook) Royal HBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Peter Tallack / The Science Factory

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The tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society

The Other Exile The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of St Helena and the meaning of human solitude

A R Azzam

The first known inhabitant of St Helena – long before Napoleon – was a 16th century Portuguese renegade.

In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country’s minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam, married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured – his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home, he jumped ship at St Helena, becoming the island’s first inhabitant, with only a black cockerel for company.

News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially for him, Lopes so impressed the King, and the Pope in Rome, that he was granted one wish. He requested his return to St Helena.

Based on brand new research by A R Azzam, acclaimed author of the bestselling Saladin (Longman, 2007), The Other Exile is at once a historical adventure story and a meditation on solitude. It is a story about redemption in one of the darkest periods in Europe and the tale of the haunting relationship between man and wild nature.

A R AZZAM has a BA and PhD in History from Oxford University. He is the author of Rumi and the Kingdom of Joy (2000) and the bestselling Saladin (published in English in 2007 by Longman), which was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam.

4th May 2017 Biography / History 9781785781834 £14.99 9781785781841 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy HBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedmann Literary Agency

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Visit the real-life places behind some of the world’s favourite works of literature

Rooms of One’s Own 50 Places that Made Literary History

Adrian Mourby

While some writers, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned his Paris masterpiece Les Misérables in a Guernsey attic and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion.

Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Haworth to the New Orleans of Truman Capote, from Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what remains today of that great moment in literature.

Rooms of One’s Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin and Rome, from New Orleans and New York to Saigon and Bangkok, and unearths the real-life places behind some of our best-loved works of literature.

ADRIAN MOURBY was an awardwinning BBC drama producer and now writes full-time. He has published three novels, two AA travel guides and a book based on his Sony Awardwinning Radio 4 series Whatever Happened To…? Adrian has won two Italian awards for his travel journalism. He also writes extensively on opera for Covent Garden and English National Opera.

4th May 2017 Travel / Literature 9781785781858 £12.99 US $22.95 9781785781865 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B-format HBK 256 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agencyy

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A gripping true story of espionage during the Cold War from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author

The Billion Dollar Spy A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

‘One of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting for being true.’ Washington Post January, 1977. While the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car.

In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West’s most valuable spies. At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, props, and private codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard – until a shocking betrayal put them all at risk.

Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with firsthand participants, The Billion Dollar Spy is a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War. ‘A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.’ Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988–1992

DAVID E. HOFFMAN is a contributing editor at The Washington Post and a correspondent for PBS’s flagship investigative series, Frontline. He is the author of The Dead Hand (Icon, 2011), about the end of the Cold War arms race, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. He lives with his wife in Maryland.

1st June 2017 History / Military 9781785781971 £12.99 9781785781988 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 416 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth, ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM Partners / Curtis Brown

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The ‘engaging, emotional, funny and surprising’ (JJ Abrams) memoir from a music pioneer

The Speed of Sound Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology: A Memoir

Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad, and was even covered by The Muppets...

Based on his meticulous notes and journals, The Speed of Sound chronicles Dolby’s life in the music business during the eighties, in Silicon Valley through the nineties, and at the forefront of the mobile phone revolution around the turn of the millennium – it was Dolby who created the synthesizer installed today on most mobile phones.

With humour and a considerable panache for storytelling, The Speed of Sound is a revealing look behind the curtain of the music industry, as well as a unique history of technology over the past thirty years. From sipping Chablis with Bill Gates to visiting Michael Jackson at his mansion or viewing the Web for the first time on Netscape founder Jim Clark’s laptop, this is both the view from the ultimate insider and from a technology pioneer whose groundbreaking ideas have helped shape the way we live today.

THOMAS DOLBY became one of the most recognizable figures of the synth pop movement of early-’80s new wave. He played synth on Foreigner’s 4, Def Leppard’s Pyromania and Joan Armatrading’s Walk Under Ladders and supported David Bowie at Live Aid. He also wrote the score for Fever Pitch. His last studio album was 2011’s A Map of the Floating City, which featured with guest appearances from Mark Knopfler, Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, and others. He lives in Suffolk.

1st June 2017 Memoir / Music 9781785781957 £14.99 9781785781964 (eBook) £11.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Writers House

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An insider’s look at women’s soccer following players across the world

Under the Lights and In the Dark Inside the World of Women’s Soccer

Gwendolyn Oxenham

In 2004 football author, journalist and award-winning documentary maker Gwendolyn Oxenham played futebol feminino for Santos FC, Brazil’s most celebrated club. The team hitchhiked to practice, shared their field with a horse and wore hand-me-downs from the men’s team.

If this was Brazil, the mecca of futebol, what did the women’s game look like in other countries?

Under the Lights and In the Dark takes us inside the world of women’s soccer, following players across the globe, from Portland Thorns star Allie Long, who trains in an underground men’s league in New York City; to English national Fara Williams, who kept her homelessness a secret from teammates on the English youth national team. Oxenham takes us to the depths of Siberia, where players battle more than just snowy pitches in pursuing their dream of playing pro, and to a refugee camp in Denmark, where Nadia Nadim, now a Danish international star, practised after her family fled from the Taliban.

Whether you’re a newcomer to the sport or a die-hard fan, this is an inspiring book about stars’ beginnings and adventures, struggles and hardship, and, above all, the time-honoured romance of the game.

GWENDOLYN OXENHAM is the author of

Finding the Game: Three Years, Twenty-five Countries and the Search for Pickup Soccer (St Martin’s Press) and the director of Pelada, an award-winning documentary. She has written for Atlantic, Sports Illustrated and Slate, and has an MFA in creative writing. A Duke University soccer alum who played for Santos FC in Brazil, she currently lives in Dana Point, California.

1st June 2017 Sport 9781785781537 £12.99 US $16.95 9781785781544 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy PBK 224 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Frances Goldin Literary Agency

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The 50 Greatest Dishes of the World James Steen

Award-winning journalist and food writer James Steen presents his compendium of 50 of the greatest dishes eaten throughout the world today – and the stories behind the food.

A gastronomic journey around the world from the English breakfast to Peking Duck

JAMES STEEN co-wrote the autobiographies of Marco Pierre White, Raymond Blanc, Keith Floyd and Ken Hom (My Stir-Fried Life, to be published in September 2016). His other collaborations include White Heat: 25, Marco Made Easy, Kitchen Secrets and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons (with Raymond Blanc, to be published in October 2016). He is also author of The Kitchen Magpie (Icon, 2015).

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From why Thai green curry really got its name to the evolution of France’s classic and comforting coq au vin, Steen reveals the rich tapestry of life and history that is part of the recipe for the world’s best food.

There are servings of Italy’s carbonara, the paella of Spain and, of course, Britain’s fish and chips. And please save room for a generous slice of Black Forest gâteau.

Including cooking tips from acclaimed chefs, this is the epicurean’s travel guide to really get your taste buds tingling.

2nd February 2017 Travel / Food 9781785781735 £8.99 US $14.95 9781785781742 (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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The 50 Greatest Bike Rides of the World Sarah Woods

Be it for excitement, necessity, adventure or relaxation, this book has something for every cycling enthusiast.

From freewheeling through tufted French vineyards and scaling the rocky, cloud-topped tracks in the Himalayas to rattling past whitewashed sugar-cube houses in narrow Spanish valleys, surviving the peaks of the Yorkshire Dales to tackling truly hair-rising descents in rural Cuba, the sheer variety of routes in The 50 Greatest Bike Rides of the World will have you reaching for your bicycle clips, helmet and gloves.

Enjoy tales of scenic single tracks, switchback climbs and routes newly discovered. It’s time to get those panniers packed and sprockets checked and climb into the saddle.

6th April 2017 Travel / Cycling 9781785781810 £8.99 US $14.95 9781785781827 (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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The best cycling routes in the world from the Yorkshire Dales to the volcanoes of Colombia

SARAH WOODS is the author of over a dozen travel books, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers. She writes for national newspapers and travel magazines and appears regularly on TV and radio. She has been awarded the BGTW ‘Travel Guide Writer of the Year’.

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Celebrating excellence aross a huge range of fields – sport, transport, the great outdoors, art, business and much more.

Each book, written by an expert in the area, selects a personal – and quite possibly contentious – choice of the 50 greatest, or most influential, or most infamous, or most inspiring examples in each field. Each entry, of around 1,000 words on average, is accompanied by a b/w photo.

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Headline Britons 1921–1925 Peter Pugh As the 1920s progressed and Britain tried to recover from the horrors of war, the country enjoyed a short postwar boom – seeing the development of household gadgets such as dishwashers, sterilisers and cigar lighters – but it did not last and soon unemployment grew. Peter Pugh shows in this book that despite the ‘swinging twenties’ being largely a myth, the decade was enlivened by mouldbreaking characters such as birth control pioneer Marie Stopes, father of the BBC John Reith, and Horatio Bottomley - perhaps the biggest business fraudster of all time.

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A new series revealing the idiosyncratic and passionate individuals whose life and work have radically altered their country and the world.

Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country’s most notable characters.

Each book covers a five-year span, telling the stories of a number of people who, in that time, stood out among their contemporaries.

Headline Britons 1926–1930 Peter Pugh As the General Strike of 1926 starkly illustrated, economic hardship continued to be the lodestone of the decade. An American import, the movies, revolutionised entertainment, while William Morris rapidly developed the motor car in Oxford. Pugh brings these five years vividly to life through the stories of gay author Radclyffe Hall – whose seminal The Well of Loneliness also made people think again about sexual norms – John Logie Baird, whose development of the his television in these years presaged another great revolution in everyday life, and the comedian who captured many hearts, Noel Coward.

1st June 2017 History 9781785782107 9781785782138 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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PETER PUGH is a businessperson and company historian who has written more than 50 company histories on businesses from Rolls-Royce to Iceland. He is also the author of Introducing Thatcherism and Introducing Keynes, and lives by the sea in north Norfolk, and in Cambridge.

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ICON SCIENCE Over Icon’s 25 years as a publisher we have always loved to publish popular science. To celebrate our anniversary, we are republishing some of the best of these books in a new collection.

With both a skill for storytelling and a talent for making the complicated accessible, each of these titles explores a particular moment in scientific history – from the birth of the very idea of science with the ancient Greeks (Andrew Gregory’s Eureka!) to Piers Bizony’s history of the mind-bending physics of the 20th century in Atom – and much more in between.

All titles: B format PBK • £8.99 • (ebook £6.99)

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The Comet Sweeper Caroline Herschel’s Astronomical Ambition

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Claire Brock

The story of Britain’s first female professional scientist Drawing on original sources – including Herschel’s diaries and her fiery letters – Claire Brock tells the story of a woman in the 18th century determined to win independence and satisfy her astronomical ambition in a male-dominated world CLAIRE BROCK is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Leicester. She was recently awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (2012-2014).

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Eureka!

The Birth of Science

Andrew Gregory

‘An excellent summary of why modern science should thank these pioneers’ Focus Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology – science began with the Greeks. Eureka! unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation.

2nd February 2017 9781785781919 9781785781926 (eBook)

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ANDREW GREGORY is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.

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Written in Stone

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The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth

Brian Switek

‘Magisterial ... part historical account, part scientific detective story.’ Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish Written in Stone explores the discoveries that have revolutionised palaeontology, and what their findings might mean for our place on earth.

BRIAN SWITEK is a science writer and researcher who has contributed to The Times and The Guardian as well as the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American.

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Science and Islam A History

Ehsan Masood

‘Fascinating and clearly written’ New Scientist Ehsan Masood tells the amazing story of one of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science, via the scholars, research, and science of the Islamic empires of the middle ages.

6th April 2017 9781785782022 9781848311602 (eBook)

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EHSAN MASOOD is a science writer, journalist and broadcaster. He is the editor of Research Professional News and has taught international science policy at Imperial College London since 2008.

Atom

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Piers Bizony

How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head This ‘insightful, compelling’ book (New Scientist) reveals the mind-bending discoveries that were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force upon the world.

PIERS BIZONY is a science journalist and space historian. His publications include The Man Who Ran the Moon, Starman, and 2001: Filming the Future.

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4th May 2017 9781785782053 9781785782169 (eBook)

An Entertainment for Angels Electricity in the Enlightenment

Patricia Fara

Benjamin Franklin’s world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity Patricia Fara reveals how the study of electricity became intertwined with Enlightenment politics. By demonstrating their control of the natural world, 18th century philosophers hoped to gain authority over society.

1st June 2017 9781785782077 9781785782176 (eBook

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PATRICIA FARA is a Senior Tutor at Clare College at the University of Cambridge.

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Biology’s most cuttingedge field gets the unique graphic guide treatment

Epigenetics: A Graphic Guide Cath Ennis Illustrated by Oliver Pugh

Epigenetics is the most exciting field in biology today, developing our understanding of how and why we inherit certain traits, develop diseases, age and evolve as a species.

This non-fiction comic book introduces us to genetics, cell biology and the fascinating science of epigenetics, which is rapidly filling in the gaps in our knowledge, allowing us to make huge advances in medicine.

We’ll look at what identical twins can teach us about the epigenetic effects of our environment and experiences, why certain genes are ‘switched on’ or off at various stages of embryonic development, and how scientists have reversed the specialization of cells to clone frogs from a single gut cell.

In Introducing Epigenetics, Cath Ennis and Oliver Pugh pull apart the double helix, examining how the epigenetic building blocks and messengers that interpret and edit our genes help to make us, well, us.

Ideal for fans of

CATH ENNIS has a research background in genetics, genomics and cancer, and works as a grant writer and project manager in Vancouver, Canada. She writes about epigenetics and other topics for Guardian, has co-written a textbook on stem cell science, and can be found online at www.enniscath.com.

OLIVER PUGH is a designer and the illustrator of Introducing Infinity and Introducing Particle Physics.

5th January 2017 Science 9781848318625 £6.99 US $9.95 9781848319035 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) 118 x 168 mm PBK 176 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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The patterns and predictions of decision-making

Game Theory: A Graphic Guide Ivan and Tuvana Pastine Illustrated by Tom Humberstone

Why did countries engage in a nuclear arms race? How do we make decisions when we don’t have all the information? What makes international environmental cooperation possible?

Economists Ivan and Tuvana Pastine explore the fascinating area of game theory, which looks beneath the surface of human behaviour – calling upon psychology, evolutionary biology, political science and sociology to explain why, when faced with a decision, we sometimes cooperate, sometimes clash, and sometimes act in a way that seems completely random.

Stylishly brought to life by regular Guardian illustrator Tom Humberstone, the book takes readers on a tour of the key ideas and thinkers, and puts you into a series of games that provide a new perspective on the world we live in.

Cooperation

Thaler’s Guessing Game In 1997 the American behavioural economist Richard Thaler (b. 1945) ran an experiment in the Financial Times, a Guessing Game which is a version of Keynes’ Beauty Contest.

In the Prisoners’ Dilemma, although there is benefit to cooperative behaviour, individual incentives encourage conflict. In the network engineering example, it is possible to overcome this problem if one person controls both routers. But in human interaction achieving cooperation can be more difficult.

Alice and Beth share an apartment. They like a clean kitchen, but neither of them enjoys doing the dishes. Each girl has the choice to clean up or not. They are involved in strategic interaction since Alice’s happiness (payoff) is affected by Beth’s choice of action, and vice versa.

Social psychologists study conflict and cooperation to understand the manner in which individuals’ behaviours are influenced by social groups. Consider an example of the Prisoners’ Dilemma known as the Roommate Game. This game both emphasises the theory’s broad applications and provides a framework to think about how social norms can help to overcome individual incentives for excessive conflict.

Which number would you pick?

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TOM HUMBERSTONE is a comics artist and illustrator.

He is the editor and publisher of UK comics anthology Solipsistic Pop and former cartoonist for New Statesman.

His illustration clients include the Guardian, VICE, Independent, Stylist, OUP, and many more.

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Graphic Guides are the internationally-famous graphic novel-style guides to big ideas, now published by Icon for 25 years.

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We Have a Deal

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How to Negotiate with Intelligence, Flexibility and Power

Natalie Reynolds

No matter how much experience you’ve got, We Have a Deal can help you to improve your negotiation skills – developing an awareness of your habits and abilities, recognising what’s really going on in a deal, and building a flexible approach that is confident and appropriate to each situation.

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

We Have a Deal will help you to overcome obstacles, work with different personalities and in varied cultures, and develop an intelligent and flexible approach that will empower you to get the best deal, every time.

‘Incredibly readable, useful and impactful.

Don’t be an apprentice … negotiate an intelligent deal.’ Tom Pellereau, Winner of BBC’s The Apprentice and Inventor

NATALIE REYNOLDS is the founder of advantageSPRING, where she coaches and trains global companies in negotiation. She is passionate about everyone negotiating better, and runs a hugely popular gender workshop, ‘Is Negotiation a Man’s Game?’, has published articles in Guardian, Financial Times and Huffington Post, and is working with the Stylist and Psychologies on live events and an online course. She lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

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5th January 2017 Business 9781785781650 £8.99 US $14.95 9781785780332 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 304 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency

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Make Way for the Superhumans

How the science of bio-enhancement is transforming our world, and how we need to deal with it

Michael Bess What kind of world will result when people can select ‘desirable’ traits for themselves and their offspring?

Biomedical research is changing the both the format and the functions of human beings. Very soon the human race will be faced with a choice: do we join in with the enhancement or not? Make Way for the Superhumans looks at how far this technology has come and what aims and ambitions it has.

‘One of the better books on the subject….

Bess has read widely, deeply and without prejudice.’ The Times

2nd February 2017 Popular Science 9781785781773 £8.99 9781785781025 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Mildred Marmur Associates Ltd

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An in-depth survey of the evolving science of bio-enhancement

MICHAEL BESS is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. He is the author of three other books, one of which, The Light Green Society (U Chicago Press, 2003) won the George Perkins Marsh prize (2004) of the American Society for Environmental History and an Honorable Mention (2004) from the Pinkney Prize committee of the Society for French Historical Studies.

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Man Up

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Surviving Modern Masculinity

Jack Urwin

Jack Urwin’s father died just before he turned 10. Being male, he never really learned to talk about this with any kind of sincerity. His grief stayed with him through his teens, slowly becoming depression.

Now 24 and a journalist whose recent Vice article ‘A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men’ – described as ‘fabulous’ by Irvine Welsh – became a viral sensation, Urwin explores what it means to be a man now.

‘An engaging and moving call to arms’ Daily Express

Smart, funny and friendly, but with a wisdom that belies the author’s age, Man Up is the start of an essential conversation for men, exploring why we have perpetuated the myth of masculinity – and how we can challenge it, and change it.

‘The brilliant, personal, not-actually-sexist writing by millennials about masculinity and politics that the world has been waiting for’ Laurie Penny

JACK URWIN is a journalist and a

frequent contributor to Vice magazine, among other publications, who writes on pop culture, mental health, and music. His piece for Vice on his father’s death ‘A Stiff Upper Lip is Killing British Men’ was instantly shared tens of thousands of times around the world, and was called ‘fabulous’ by Irvine Welsh. This is Jack’s first book. @JackMerlin 54

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Saving Capitalism For the Many, Not the Few

Robert Reich

Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family?

Robert Reich does – in the 1950s his father sold clothes to factory workers and the family earnt enough to live comfortably.

Today, this middle class is rapidly shrinking: American income inequality and wealth disparity is the greatest it’s been in eighty years. As Reich, who served in three US administrations, shows, the threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability.

‘Reich makes a very good case that widening inequality largely reflects political decisions that could have gone in very different directions... Saving Capitalism is a very good guide to the state we’re in.’ Paul Krugman, The New York Review of Books

2nd February 2017 Economics 9781785781766 £8.99 9781785780684 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Knopf Doubleday

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‘A riveting guide to how our economic and political system has become so badly flawed.’ Joseph Stiglitz

ROBERT REICH is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He is the author of fourteen books, including the bestsellers Supercapitalism and Locked in the Cabinet. He is co-creator of the award-winning 2013 film Inequality for All.

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The Best of Dear Coquette

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Shady Advice From A Raging Bitch Who Has No Business Answering Any Of These Questions

Dear Coquette unleashes the brutal truth about life, love, dating, sex and everything in between.

For nearly a decade, The Coquette has delivered wisdom with a harsh wit and devastating elegance to the hundreds of thousands of readers who know where to come for her practical, no-nonsense advice.

Brilliant and brutal advice on life, love, dating, sex and much, much more

This mysterious online oracle has evolved into one of the most insightful and conscientious voices of her generation, and Dear Coquette is consistently rated amongst the funniest and most beloved blogs on the net by publications ranging from The Guardian to The Huffington Post. Here for the first time between hard covers, is the very best of Dear Coquette.

THE COQUETTE, described by The Daily Dot as ‘witty,

blunt, and beloved,’ is the creator of the hugely successful blog Dear Coquette. She is the author of Notes to My Future Husband and has written pop culture and advice columns for Playboy, Nerve, The Daily, and many others.

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From Bags to Blenders The Journey of a Yorkshire Businessman

Gordon Black

While there are many books about eminent retailers, From Bags to Blenders tells the story from a different angle – from the point of view of a supplier.

Gordon Black’s career at Peter Black spanned over 40 years. He led a team with his brother which built a substantial business with sales of approximately £300 million and 3,000 employees. His revealing book faces up to the difficulties of supplying retailers today, and contrasts that with the close and fruitful relationship the Blacks enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s with their main customer, Marks & Spencer.

How to achieve business success from one of the country’s leading suppliers

This fascinating and amusing book explains why the biggest challenge in building a successful company is the development of a culture of teamwork and passion for the business while, at the same time, avoiding arrogance and taking advice from those with experience.

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GORDON BLACK CBE DL joined

Gordon Black CBE DL was born in 1943 and educated at Bootham School, York and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in History.

He joined Peter Black in 1965 and became Chairman in 1977. Peter Black Holdings was a major supplier of footwear, toiletries, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and logistics to the UK’s leading retailers, with annual sales of £300 million and around 3,000 employees.

It was a plc for 25 years and was then taken private in 2000. The remaining companies were sold to Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based global trading company, in 2007.

Gordon Black now runs Black Family Investments with his brother Thomas, and was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to business and charity. He is married to Louise, with three children and nine grandchildren, and lives in Ilkley, Yorkshire.

Cover Design: Sam Oakes at Design by GOBO Photo: Gordon Black collection

‘I have tried to analyse why I am actually putting pen to paper.

In a way, it is cathartic, in that I am dismayed by some of the goings-on in business today and therefore I have a strong urge to get my views off my chest. … There have been many books published in recent times about eminent retailers. Rarely has anyone written without constraint about the reality of supplying retailers, as they are frightened of the repercussions. …

‘My main motivation is to pass on to my family, friends and anyone who is interested the lessons I have learnt and the observations I have made in a long and action-packed business career.’

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Peter Black in 1965 and became Chairman in 1977. Peter Black Holdings was aObservations major supplier • Compelling • • Lessons Learnt • cosmetics, of footwear, toiletries, • Amusing Anecdotes • pharmaceuticals and logistics to the UK’s leading retailers, with annual sales of £300 million and around 3,000 employees. He now runs Black Family Investments with his brother Thomas, and was awarded a CBE in 2005 for services to business and charity. He is married to Louise, with three children and nine grandchildren, and lives in Ilkley, Yorkshire.

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Bandit

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A Daughter’s Memoir

Molly Brodak

The summer she turned thirteen, Molly Brodak’s father was arrested for robbing eleven banks. In time, the image she held of him would unravel further, as more and more unexpected facets of his personality came to light.

‘Raw, poetic and compulsively readable’ Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help

Bandit is her attempt to discover what, exactly, is left, when the most fundamental relationship of your life turns out to have been built on falsehoods. It is also a scrupulously honest account of learning how to trust again, and to rebuild the very idea of family from scratch.

Refusing to fence off the trickier sides of her father’s character, Brodak tries to find, through crystalline, spellbinding prose, a version of him that does not rely on the easy answers but allows him to be: an unknowable and incomprehensible whole – who is also her father. Unforgettable, moving, and utterly relatable, Bandit is a story of the unpredictable complexity of family.

Selected for the Best American Non-Required Reading 2016 .

MOLLY BRODAK is a poet,

and the author of three books of poetry. She received a BA in English at Oakland University then an MFA in Creative Writing at West Virginia University. The winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, she teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Jane Austen, The Secret Radical Helena Kelly

Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don’t confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers’ enjoyment.

She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don’t read her properly – we haven’t been reading her properly for 200 years. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical puts that right.

In her first, brilliantly original book, Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, this will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.

‘However well you think you know the novels, you’ll be raring to read them again once you’ve read this.’ Caroline Sanderson , The Bookseller’s Book of the Month

1st June 2017 Literature / History 9781785781889 £8.99 9781785781179 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 336 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth, ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan Associates

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A radical re-evaluation of one of English literature’s most celebrated novelists

HELENA KELLY holds degrees in

Classics and English from Oxford and King’s College London. She teaches Austen at various Oxford schools and on a programme for American visiting students in Bath. She has taught Austen to hundreds of people, of all ages, nationalities, and backgrounds. Jane Austen, The Secret Radical is her first book.

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