ICON BOOKS July – December 2016
WELCOME
This is a list packed with books to make you think and books to make you smile. We have poet Molly Brodak’s incomparable memoir of her wayward father, Bandit, and Michael Bess’s eye-opening tour of human bio-enhancement in Make Way for the Superhumans.
Along with Brodak, we introduce two brand-new American authors with comedian Julia Edelman’s hilarious Love Voltaire Us Apart, which imagines relationship advice from history’s greatest minds, and the enigmatic party girl behind feisty advice blog Dear Coquette.
to Icon’s July–December 2016 catalogue Helena Kelly reveals a Jane Austen we never knew existed, and Simon Loveday a reading of the Bible that will fascinate believers and non-believers alike. M.J. Barker and Julia Scheele present Queer: A Graphic History, a unique non-fiction comic book on the history of being different.
Finally, we have the riotous Fucking Apostrophes, the perfect stocking filler for the incensed pedant and, published just weeks after the final game of the season, the essential book on Leicester City FC’s metoric rise to Premiership glory. @iconbooks
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ICON BOOKS
9781848310353 £10.99 B format PBK 464 pages
9781848316614 £9.99 B format PBK 480 pages
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9781848311329 £8.99 US $12.95 B format PBK 256 pages
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GREATEST HITS
9781785780233 £8.99 US $12.95 B format PBK 320 pages
9781848316546 £8.99 B format PBK 336 pages
9781848312203 £8.99 B format PBK 368 pages
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9781785780325 £12.99 US $16.95 Demy PBK 304 pages
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A timely tour through the current state of human bio-enhancement
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 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. From robotic implants that restore sight to the blind, to performance enhancing drugs that build muscles, improve concentration, and maintain erections, bio-enhancement has already made massive advances. Humans have already developed the technology to transmit thoughts and actions brain-to-brain using only a computer interface. By the time our grandchildren are born, they will be presented with the option to significantly alter and redesign their bodies. Make Way for the Superhumans is the only book that poses the questions that need answering now: suggesting real, practical ways of dealing with this technology before it reaches a point where it can no longer be controlled.
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 (University of 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.
7th July 2016 Popular Science 9781785781018 ÂŁ14.99 US $19.95 9781785781025 (eBook) ÂŁ11.99 (eBook) Demy PBK with flaps 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Mildred Marmur Associates Ltd
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The first book on Leicester City FC’s incredible year in the Premier League
5000-1: The Leicester City Story Hope and Disbelief in the Premier League’s Greatest-Ever Season
Rob Tanner
The essential book on Leicester City FC’s incredible 2015-16 season, from the Leicester Mercury’s chief football writer. Leicester City – a team facing relegation a year ago, priced at 5000-1 to finish top at the start of this season – are currently Premier League leaders. From the Leicester Mercury’s chief football writer Rob Tanner, and with unrivalled access to players, staff and fans, 5000-1: The Leicester City Story is Tanner’s diary of this astonishing season as it happened, recounting the growing sense of hope and disbelief as the Foxes close in on glory. The story begins with the explosive end of Nigel Pearson’s tenure as manager and the surprise appointment of Claudio Ranieri. From the loss of their talismanic midfielder Esteban Cambiasso to the 89th-minute winner against Norwich in February 2016, and the slaying of Tottenham and Manchester City with an unfancied team whose star man Riyad Mahrez cost less than Wayne Rooney earns in a month, it shouldn’t have been possible. With incredible insider access, Tanner’s book tells the full tale of the Premier League’s most remarkable story to date – the dream of anyone who has ever supported an underdog.
ROB TANNER is the Leicester Mercury’s chief football writer and has been Leicester City FC correspondent for the past seven seasons. He lives in Tamworth, Staffordshire.
7th July 2016 Sport 9781785781513 £8.99 US $12.95 9781785781520 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 240 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A practical and empowering guide that will improve anyone’s negotiating skills
Negotiation How to craft agreements that give everyone more
Gavin Presman
We all need to negotiate in our professional and personal lives – whether it’s devising agreements with clients or solving issues with our family. In Negotiation, Gavin Presman shares his strategy, developed from over 25 years of experience, research and training. With an ethical and mutually-beneficial approach, he shows you how to prepare for and engage in every negotiation to achieve better results for yourself and others. With step-by-step guidance, illustrative examples and checklists to refer back to, this is a practical and empowering guide that will improve the negotiating skills of any reader, enhancing personal and professional relationships in the process.
GAVIN PRESMAN delivers
negotiation and influence training around the world with his company, Inspire. He is a master practitioner of NLP, the European lead trainer for Microsoft’s Catalyst programme, and the chair of governors at Eden Primary – a free school he helped found.
4th August 2016 Self-Help 9781848319370 £7.99 US $9.95 9781848319387 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A startling new look at the Bible that is ‘fascinating & persuasive’ (Matthew Parris)
The Bible for Grown-Ups A New Look at the Good Book
Simon Loveday
The Bible for Grown-Ups neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible – a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our history and culture to spit out. Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew’s account of the birth of Jesus so different from Luke’s? Why was St Paul so rude about St Peter? Every Biblical author wrote for their own time, and their own audience. In short, nothing in the Bible is quite what it seems. Literary critic Simon Loveday’s book – a labour of love that has taken over a decade to write – is a thrilling read, for Christians and anyone else, which will overturn everything you thought you knew about the Good Book. ‘Loveday’s case is that the mantle of historical truth and divine authority has placed upon the Bible an intolerable weight, crushing it as a creative work of immense imaginative and inspirational power. His argument is both fascinating and persuasive.’ Matthew Parris
SIMON LOVEDAY trained as an anthropologist and a literary critic, teaching at UEA and Oxford. He also edited the psychological journal Typeface and wrote The Romances of John Fowles. He now lectures at Keele University and lives in Wells, Somerset. (He enjoys long train journeys.) He is a keen cyclist and former Chair of the Wells Festival of Literature.
4th August 2016 Religion 9781785781315 £12.99 US $16.95 9781785781322 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B-format HBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A unique non-fiction graphic novel exploration of gender and sexuality
Queer: A Graphic History Dr Meg-John Barker illustrated by Julia Scheele
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’ – Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media. Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.
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). @megjohnbarker
JULIA SCHEELE is an illustrator, graphic facilitator and comic book artist. She runs One Beat Zines, a feminist zine collective and distributor. @juliascheele
8th September 2016 Graphic Non-Fiction 9781785780714 £11.99 US $17.95 9781785780721 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) 254 x 177mm PBK w/ illustrations throughout 176 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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Explosive advice from mysterious online columnist, the Coquette
Dear Coquette Shady advice from a raging bitch who has no business answering any of these questions
The Coquette
With her merciless and razor-sharp wit, bolted to one of the most finely tuned moral compasses out there, the Coquette has been dispensing anonymous advice to her legion of fans on the internet for the last five years. Here, for the first time in print, is the best of the Coquette’s advice: on relationships, breakups, breakdowns, sex, politics, and the correct etiquette for threesomes, with plenty more in between. Always honest, always outspoken, the Coquette’s anonymity, cloaking a real-life identity as an LA party girl with a high-powered job, allows her a brutal frankness that you will not experience from any other agony aunt. Admirers from all over the world have journeyed to her website to seek her practical and empowering advice: now, in the safety of your own home, you can too.
THE COQUETTE, described by Jezebel as ‘beloved anonymous tumblr user’ is the author of the hugely successful blogs DearCoquette. com anddearcoquette.blogspot.com. She is the author of the book Notes to My Future Husband (Sourcebooks, 2012), and writes for Playboy, the Nerve, and the Daily, among others. @Coketalk
8th September 2016 Self-help 9781785780950 £16.99 9781785781353 (eBook) £12.99 (eBook) Demy HBK 304 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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Expanding the hit New Yorker article, hilarious relationship advice from history’s greatest minds
Love Voltaire Us Apart A Philosopher’s Guide to Relationships
Julia Edelman illustrated by Hallie Bateman
‘One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.’ Friedrich Nietzsche
What would Kant’s sexts look like? How would Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir break up? What would Confucius think of Tinder? Comedy writer Julia Edelman’s New Yorker article ‘Excerpts from Philosophers Breakup Letters’ was a viral hit in 2015. From that same font of wisdom comes a hilarious spoof relationship guide with a philosophical edge … Including essential information in chapters like ‘Getting (Meta)physical’ and ‘5 Ways To Know Your Man is Writing a Manifesto’ – which gives the advice you need to avoid losing a relationship to revolution – Love Voltaire Us Apart is funny, smart, refreshingly original, and brought to life with charming illustrations from Hallie Bateman.
JULIA EDELMAN is a comedy writer, and a graduate of McGill University. She has written for the New Yorker, Playboy, the Atlantic, CollegeHumour, Funny or Die, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and the Believer. She lives in New York.
HALLIE BATEMAN is a freelance writer and illustrator based in Brooklyn. Her work has been published by the New Yorker, The New York Times magazine, Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter and many others.
6th October 2016 Humour 9781785780998 £9.99 US $16.95 9781785781360 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) B-format HBK 208 pages w/ illustrations throughout TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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A touching and unforgettable memoir of childhood, by the daughter of a serial bank robber
Bandit A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Brodak
Aged thirteen, Molly Brodak arrived home to discover that her father had been arrested for pulling over a dozen bank robberies in the Detroit area. After seven years in jail, he set up a new home with her older sister and remarried. A couple of years went by before he defrauded his older daughter and began robbing banks again. With her father currently serving a 25 year sentence, Brodak’s memoir – the first section of which appeared in Granta’s Summer 2015 issue – tackles the most fundamental relationship of all: the one between parents and children. In cinematic prose, Brodak takes the reader back through the maze of childhood and youth, carefully investigating its significant twists, and asks: how do we navigate that most formative of relationships once the bonds of respect and trust have been severed? What moments in childhood come back to shape us as adults? And how can so much distance insinuate itself into what should be the closest attachment of all? Confronted with the results of utter recklessness, she finds there can still be space for forgiveness.
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.
6th October 2016 Memoir 9781785781032 £14.99 9781785781049 (eBook) £9.99 (eBook) Demy HBK 288 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: The Clegg Agency
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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.
6th October 2016 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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A radical re-evaluation of one of English literature’s most celebrated novelists
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; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects – feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution – at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Uncovering a radical, spirited and political engaged Austen, Jane Austen, The Secret Radical will encourage you to read Jane, all over again.
HELENA KELLY holds degrees in Classics and English from Oxford and King’s College London. She teaches Austen at an Oxford summer school, and for 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.
3rd November 2016 Literature / History 9781785781162 £20 US $29.95 9781785781179 (eBook) £16.00 (eBook) Royal Hardback 352 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Felicity Bryan Associates
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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 Colchester.
3rd November 2016 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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Fucking Apostrophes
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English
Simon Griffin
Apostrophes are a fucking pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers – wont to insert and remove apostrophes at will, for visual effect – this is a lighthearted pocket-sized guide to getting the fucking things right. Simon Griffin lets off steam so that we don’t have to, showing precisely why ‘Rhianna and Jennifer’s photos were all over the internet’ is quite different to ‘Rhianna’s and Jennifer’s photos’ or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as ‘He’d like you to buy him some cocaine’, or ‘They’ve got it all on camera.’ Elegantly produced, this is the perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our moments of grammar-related frustration.
‘At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe ... funny and useful, the perfect stocking filler.’ David Marsh, Guardian
SIMON GRIFFIN is the founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and lives with his wife and two children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to learn how to touch type and can happily write whole paragraphs without realising he’s left caps lock on.
3rd November 2016 Humour / Language 9781785781414 £6.99 9781785781421 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) 158 x 104 mm HBK 64 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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In the year of Charlotte’s bicentenary, a lighthearted miscellany on all things Brontë
The Brontësaurus An A–Z of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë (& Branwell)
John Sutherland
Was Rochester a murderer? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What,precisely, does ‘Wuthering’ mean? Did the Brontës all have tiny feet? To celebrate the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, eminent Victorian scholar John Sutherland takes us on an A to Z ramble through the world of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (and not forgetting their dissolute brother Branwell). For fans of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, here is a light-hearted miscellany freighted with a working lifetime’s scholarly expertise. With his reputation for intensely close reading of Victorian literature, John Sutherland explores the Brontës’ lives, their characters, their novels and poems, and the ways in which we interpret them today – and above all he digs out those unexpected nuggets of fact that illuminate their perennially popular works.
JOHN SUTHERLAND is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London andan eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction, author of many works including The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. He has also written the bestselling popular titles Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and such scholarly jeux d’esprit as Curiosities of Literature. His most recent books include How Good is Your Grammar?, Stars, Cars, and Crystal Meth and Orwell’s Nose.
3rd November 2016 Literature / Humour 9781785781438 £9.99 US $12.95 9781785781445 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format HBK 176 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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What Colour is the Sun? Incredible facts and Mind-Bending Science Facts In The mind-bending science Solar System’s Brightest Quiz quiz questions to keep Brian Clegg any science geek happy
Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? How long can a goldfish remember things? Who thought up Newton’s First Law? Science is all about finding answers to mind-boggling questions – so following the hugely successful How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?, here are another 100 brain-teasers to test yourself, discover some amazing answers, and learn a lot of stuff along the way. Where does brown belong in the spectrum? What is a Zener card? And what colour is the sun? With Brian Clegg, science has never been so much fun … Also available: ISBN: 9781848319288
Science writer BRIAN CLEGG studied physics at Cambridge University and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe, from infinity to time travel and quantum theory, accessible to the general reader. He is editor of www.popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You, Dice World, The Quantum Age and Introducing Infinity: A Graphic Guide.
3rd November 2016 Popular Science / Trivia 9781785781223 £7.99 US $12.95 9781785781230 (eBook) £5.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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The first-ever biography of Manchester United’s teenage superstar striker
Martial The Making of Manchester United’s New Teenage Superstar
Luca Caioli
On September 1st 2015, Anthony Martial completed his transfer from Monaco to Manchester United. At just 19 years of age, the fee of £36m (potentially rising to £58m) made him the most expensive teenager of all time. He had caught the eye of many with his performances for Monaco in he previous season’s Champions League, but eyebrows were raised when the price was revealed. A debut goal against bitter rivals Liverpool helped get the home support onside, whilst a return of four goals and an assist in his first six games subdued his critics as he became integral to Manchester United’s attack. Renowned sports biographer Luca Caioli talks coaches, teammates and even Martial himself, to provide an unrivaled behind-the-scenes look at the life of the teenage superstar.
LUCA CAIOLI is the bestselling author of Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Suárez. A renowned Italian sports journalist, he lives in Spain corresponding for SKY Italia and Corriere della Sera.
8th September 2016 Sport 9781785780974 £7.99 US $12.95 9781785781377 (eBook) £5.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 224 pages TERRITORY: World English TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Roberto Domininguez Literary Agency
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Messi 2017 Updated Edition
Luca Caioli
Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d’Or for a record fifth time, further emphasizing his status as the greatest footballer in the world today, and possibly ever.
The updated edition of Luca Caioli’s brilliant biography of the Barcelona star
Messi is Luca Caioli’s classic portrait of modern football’s undisputed superstar, now fully updated to include all the action from 2015/16. Featuring exclusive testimony from those who know him best, including coaches, teammates and even Messi himself, it offers an unrivalled behind-the-scenes look at the life of a football superstar.
‘It is the first book I have actually enjoyed reading’ Mehrshad, aged 13 on Messi vs. Ronaldo
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4th August 2016 Sport 9781785780905 £7.99 US $12.95 9781785781384 (eBook) £5.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 336 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Roberto Domininguez Literary Agency
AUGUST
Ronaldo 2017 Updated Edition
Luca Caioli
Season after season, Cristiano Ronaldo continues to prove that he is one of soccer’s true greats. A three-time winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or and the man whose astonishing goalscoring feats have fired much of Real Madrid’s recent success, he is driven by an insatiable desire to succeed and to improve himself year after year. Here Madrid-based journalist Luca Caioli tells the inside story of the global superstar, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself. Updated to include all the action from 2015/16, Ronaldo lays bare the career of a modern soccer icon.
4th August 2016 Sport 9781785780929 £7.99 US $12.95 9781785781407 (eBook) £5.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 304 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Roberto Domininguez Literary Agency
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A fully updated biography of Real Madrid’s iconic superstar
‘Our kids love these books, they’ve sparked hours of debate’ Jasper Kain, founder of Football Beyond Borders ‘The book is so interesting, it has given me lots of evidenceto argue that Ronaldo is the better player but also has meant I respect Messi a lot more now’ Cameron, aged 13
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The 50 Greatest Road Trips Sarah Woods
If you’ve ever dreamed of completing an epic car journey, The 50 Greatest Road Trips is for you. Packed full of the most exotic, exciting and iconic road trips across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa, it showcases the ultimate in car adventures.
The best car journeys from Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coastal Route to the Oman Circle
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’. 38 38
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Sarah Woods is a veteran of road-tripping, having driven the iconic 19,000-mile route from North America to South America’s tip, completed several dusty voyages in the Australian outback and scaled towering Saharan sand dunes in a 4x4. Readers are sure to feel the urge to climb into an old Chevrolet, crank up the tunes on the stereo, flick the sunroof open and settle back for one heck of a ride on the open road.
7th July 2016 Travel 9781785780264 £8.99 9781785780271 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 304 pages with b/w illustrations TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
JULY
The 50 Greatest Westerns Barry Stone
Author Barry Stone has served his apprenticeship as a western movie geek and aficionado and has watched films like The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Red River more times than he would care to count He has written on the history of cinema for the illustrated reference book Historica, is a regular attendee to western premieres for FOX Studios Australia, and was recently a guest of the Museum of Western Film History in Independence, California. Intrigued by the idea of frontier wilderness, of law and order vs lawlessness, and a firm belief that ‘the better the bad guy, the better the film’, he goes beyond the American south-west to pay homage to the Italian and even Australian western – and, after much deliberation, he ranks them in order…
4th August 2016 Film 9781785780349 £8.99 9781785780356 (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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A celebration of the Western from 1903’s The Great Train Robbery to 2016’s The Hateful Eight
BARRY STONE is a an established travel writer and author of eight books on subjects ranging from religious hermits to mutinies in the age of sail and military history titles, for publishers including Hardie Grant, Allen & Unwin and HarperCollins. He is currently writing a history of the early growth of colonial Australia’s outback pastoral stations. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
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The 50 Greatest Beers Tim Hampson
From English ale to Czech lager, Belgian sour to American pale ale, German Berliner Weisse to Australian Adelaide sparkling ale, award-winning author Tim Hampson explores beers from four continents to choose his 50 favourite brews.
A tasting of the best long drink on the planet
He discovers dark beers, light beers, sour beers, imperial stouts, beers flavoured with honey, herbs and spices, and beers that have been matured in wooden barrels that once stored some of the world’s best whiskies. The world of beer is undergoing a revolution. More beers and more beer styles are being brewed than ever before in the history of the best long drink on the planet. So it was no easy choice. What will make the top 50, and will your favourite brew be included?
TIM HAPMSON has travelled the world in search of the perfect beer, a quest he hopes will continue for many more years. His previous books include World Beer, The Beer Book, the Haynes Beer Manual, London’s Best Pubs, 101 Beer Days Out and Great Beers. He is the Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers, and in 2015 he was knighted by the Belgian Brewers’ Guild for services to beer culture. Tim lives in Oxford together with his family, three dogs and a parrot. 40 40
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8th September 2016 Food / Drink 9781785780264 £8.99 9781785780271 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 304 pages with b/w illustrations TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
SEPTEMBER
The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World Aaron Miller
Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar reveals the greatest wonders of the world and the insider secrets on how to see them at their aweinspiring best. Featuring selections from around the globe, and a number of new and neverseen-before entries, this compendium of bucket-list experiences is designed for wonder-seekers young and old. From where to catch the perfect sunrise over the Grand Canyon to how to have the Pyramids of Giza all to yourself, this is more than just a list of jaw-dropping sights – it’s a road map for discovering the greatest experiences of your life.
The most show-stopping sights on the planet to visit
The 50 Greatest Wonders of the World reminds us how fantastically inspiring and teeming with amazement our planet really is, and how we’re a part of it.
3rd November 2016 Travel 9781785780349 £8.99 9781785780356 (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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AARON MILLER is an award-winning travel writer. He contributes regularly to The Times, the Guardian, the Independent and many other national and international publications. He has presented travel documentaries for National Geographic and is the 2014 British Guild of Travel Writers, Travel Writer of the Year. He grew up in Brighton, England and is currently hiding out in the Rocky Mountains of Boulder, Colorado
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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 influencial, of most infamous, notorious, inspiring examples in each field. Each entry, of around 1000 words on average, is accompanied by a b/w photo.
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Sociology: A Graphic Guide John Nagle illustrated by Piero
Sociology is interested in the way citizens shape a society and the way a society shapes its citizens. Simply, it is the study of how society functions, or how it doesn’t. In the series’ inimitable style, Sociology: A Graphic Guide traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism and the fear of nationalism – introducing you to key thinkers, movements and concepts along the way. You will develop insight into the world around you, as you engage your ‘sociological imagination’ and explore studies of the city, theories of power and knowledge, concepts of national, racial and sexual identity, and much more. Ideal for fans of:
JOHN NAGLE is a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he researches conflict and peace processes, multiculturalism and social movements. His work is widely published in the academic and popular press, and he has provided research consultancy for both the media and international public policy bodies.
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4th November 2016 Sociology 9781785780738 £6.99 US $9.95 9781785780745 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) 118 x 168 mm PBK 176 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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Building Self-Esteem A five point plan to valuing yourself more
David Bonham-Carter
Building Self-Esteem brings you easy-to-follow techniques for improving your self-image.
Believe in yourself and feel better
By building positive self-esteem, you can create a “virtuous circle”: when you feel better you achieve more, and when you achieve more you feel better. A positive self-image can also help you to improve your relationships and to focus on what matters to you, whether that’s dealing with feelings of inadequacy, to exploring your creativity, to improving physical fitness. Based on psychological assessments and practical journaling exercises, Building SelfEsteem enables you to uncover your needs, wants, preferences, dislikes and concerns, and to move away from whatever’s holding you back.
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7th July 2016 Self-Help 9781848319608 £6.99 US $9.95 9781848319615 (eBook) £4.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 288 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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Platform Souls The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero
Nicholas Whittaker
Nicholas Whittaker’s much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when, notepad in hand, jam sandwiches in the duffel bag, he happily spent his time jotting down train numbers during the Indian summer of steam and the heyday of diesel
‘Destined to become the Fever Pitch of the sidings and embankments’ Publishing News
Whittaker returns to his roots in this updated edition, casting a sceptical eye over recent developments, catching up with old acquaintances and considering the toll that half a century of ridicule and a couple of decades of privatisation have wrought upon his beloved pastime. ‘Whittaker writes with humour and considerable evocative power … For anyone who will admit to having a childhood brush with this now derided hobby, Platform Souls brings it all rushing back.’ Independent
NICHOLAS WHITTAKER is the author of well-received histories of confectionery (Sweet Talk) and toys (Toys Were Us), as well as an account of life in the offices of Fiesta and Razzle magazines in the 1980s (Blue Period). He has written for the Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. He lives in London. 54
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7th July 2016 Travel 9781785780257 £9.99 US $15.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 400 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
JULY
How to Sound Cultured Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation
Thomas W. Hodgkinson & Hubert van den Bergh Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which n ovelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre? How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside the mirrored palaces of high culture.
‘Terrific. With almost miraculous concision, they combine biographical information and often quite bracing judgments with jokes, some great quotations and lots of arresting little facts.’ Daily Mail
4th August 2016 Humour / Reference 9781785780240 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848318236 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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‘Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form’ Stephen Fry
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.
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The Persuaders The Hidden Industry That Wants to Change Your Mind
James Garvey
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.
‘A boisterous dissection of the forces jellyfying our minds’ Sunday Times
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 which 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. ‘Fierce and timely’ Daily Mail
JAMES GARVEY works for the Royal
Institute of Philosophy and edits The Philosophers’ Magazine. 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 and is an enthusiastic cyclist. James was born in California, grew up in West Virginia and he now lives on a canal boat in London, UK
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8th September 2016 Popular Philosophy / Psychology 9781785780257 £9.99 US $15.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 400 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
SEPTEMBER
13.8 The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything
John Gribbin
The refusal of the Universe to reveal an equation that combines both relativity and quantum theory has caused some people to doubt our whole understanding of physics. John Gribbin here tells the dramatic story of the quest that has led us to discover the true age of the Universe (13.8 billion years) and the stars (just a little bit younger). This discovery, Gribbin argues, is one of humankind’s greatest achievements and shows us that physics is on the right track to finding the ‘Theory of Everything’. 13.8 provides an eye-opening look at this cutting-edge area of modern cosmology and physics, and tells the compelling story of what modern science has achieved – and what it can still achieve.
8th September 2016 Popular Science 9781785780240 £8.99 US $15.95 9781848318236 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: David Higham Literary Agency
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A thrilling journey into the very biggest question modern science has to answer
JOHN GRIBBIN‘s numerous bestselling books include In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat, Science: A History and The Universe: A Biography. He is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was described as ‘one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around’ by the Spectator.
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Restless Creatures The Story of Life in Ten Movements
Matt Wilkinson
Restless Creatures is the first book for a general audience telling the incredible story of locomotion in human and animal evolution. Evolutionary biologist Matt Wilkinson shows why our ancestors became twolegged, why we have opposable thumbs, why the backbone appeared, how fish fins became limbs, how even trees are locomotion-obsessed, and how movement has shaped our minds as well as our bodies.
A billion-year history of movement, from bacteria to Olympic athletes.
He explains why there are no flying monkeys or biological wheels, how dinosaurs took to the air, how Mexican waves began in the animal kingdom, and why moving can make us feel good. Restless Creatures argues that, in fact, nothing in the history of evoliton makes sense except in the light of movement.
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science communicator at the University of Cambridge. His work has been covered in the Telegraph, Metro, New Scientist and Nature. He has been a runner-up in the Daily Telegraph/BASF science writer competition, and reached second place in the first Cheltenham Science Festival FameLab competition. Restless Creatures is his first book. 58
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6th October 2016 Popular Science 9781785781155 ÂŁ9.99 9781848318236 (eBook) ÂŁ6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 352 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Basic Books
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Adrift A Secret Life of London’s Waterways
Helen Babbs
After ten years renting expensive rooms in small flats, Helen Babbs swapped bricks and mortar for a boat called ‘Pike’. From deep winter to late autumn, we travel with Helen as she takes us on a tour of London’s canal and river flora, fauna, people and history, revealing intricate details and taking us to places only accessible by boat. Adrift also explores issues relevant to city dwellers across the world: the pressures of urban life, alternative ways of living and the age-old experience of setting up a first home. Blending autobiography, nature writing and documentary, Adrift invites the reader on an eye-opening journey into a different side of the city.
3rd November 2016 Nature / Memoir 9781785781278 £8.99 9781848318236 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: UK & British Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Bell Lomax Moreton Literary Agency
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‘Babbs is an excellent nature writer, evoking the lives and emotions tied to the water. Charming’ The Bookseller
HELEN BABBS is a a writer and
journalist. Her work has been published by the BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, New Statesman and Time Out, among others. Helen’s first book – My Garden, the City and Me, about urban nature and the glory of growing things – was published in 2011 and nominated for two garden writing awards.
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Monsieur le Vet My Life With Animals in Rural France
Sylvain Balteau
Sylvain Balteau works as a village vet in the Pyrenees. Equally at home with a sick hamster as with a pregnant Charolais cow, he is permanently on call, immersed in the dramas of his patients and their owners.
The hilarious, poignant and sometimes bizarre stories of an extraordinary vet
Since 2007 he has kept diary, revealing the hidden side of a vet’s life and the richness of his surroundings: a piglet that has become a disadvantaged person’s only reason for living; a cat that arrives on Christmas Eve to be destroyed and leaves the next day in full health; the farmer’s wife on the verge of a heart attack who insists that the vet see her sick cow first … In this profound and unsentimental book, he discovers that, in order to love animals, you can’t help but love people as well
SYLVAIN BALTEAU 36, has
lived in a French village in the Haute-Garonne, at the foot of the Pyrenees, all of his life . He trained as a vet in Toulouse and started keeping a blog of his life in 2007. This is his first book. He speaks English fluently.
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3rd November 2016 Travel / Animals 9781785781261 £7.99 US $12.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 232 pages TERRITORY: World English TRANSLATION RIGHTS: St Mark’s Literary Agency
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Ride! Ride! Ride! Herne Hill Velodrome and the Story of British Track Cycling
Mark Wellings Foreword by Graeme Obree The story of British track cycling – which with Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy, Laura Trott and more rules the world – through the history of the iconic 1948 Olympic venue Herne Hill Velodrome, which opened 125 years ago. From Lyons Tea House ladies’ teams in the 1930s to the medals of 1948; from the huge Italian crowd which greeted Fausto Coppi in Herne Hill in 1958, to Red Harris’ men’s track record at 53; from Tom Simpson and Barry Hoban in the 1960s to Gramae Obree and Bradley Wiggins – who started racing at Herne Hill at 12 – Wellings, with an eye for incredible detail and anecdote, tells for the first time a picturesque story, packed with many previously unpublished photographs, of track cycling in Britain. ‘Herne Hill is simply a wonderful cycling venue. Mark Wellings’ new book brings back so many fantastic memories of it, both as a spectator and competitor’ Rob Hayles
8th December 2016 Cycling 9781785781285 £9.99 US $15.95 9781848318199 (eBook) £8.99 (eBook) B-format PBK 320 pages TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books / Marsh Agency
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The unmissable history of a south London velodrome and track cycling’s British history
MARK WELLINGS is a publisher, writer and historian
who lives in south-east London - a short ride from Herne Hill Velodrome. A life-long cyclist, he fell in love with the track the first time he took his young son there and has not looked back. He loves taking his Italian road bikes on iconic rides around Europe, but is usually to be found at the back of the pack on Sunday rides with VC Londres. A brazen wheelsucker, he still dreams of having a doublejump like Reg Harris.
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John Sutherland David Bonham-Carter Jeremy Clay Peter Baxter Adrian Monck & Mike Hanley Christopher Aslan Alexander Mark Felton Elaine Iljon Foreman & Clair Pollard Henrik Svensmark & Nigel Calder Marc Allum Jon Agar James Davies Peter Pugh & Bruce Critchley Nicholas Tucker David Gower Kim Sterelny David E. Hoffman The Coquette Cordelia Fine Loretta Loach Lisa Sanders Brian Clegg John Farndon and Libby Purves Richard Wilson David Orrell John Gribbin John Gribbin Mark Fosyth Michael Steen Nessa Carey Mark Forsyth Michael Calvin Patricia Fara Emily Dugan Gretchen Reynolds James Steen Gary Rimmer Martin Bell Greg Grandin Michael Scott Simon Griffin David Shenk and Mark Frary Sir Geoff Hurst Philip Houston, Michael Floyd & Susan Carnicero Tanith Carey Jean Baggott James Hannam Rasmus Ankersen Anthony O’Hear Michael Steen Michael Sells Nick Powdthavee Harry Leslie Smith Peter Padfield Peter Pugh Jeff Gordinier & Marc Weingarten John Timpson Peter Pugh Jane Goodall Mark Forsyth Tetsuya Ishikawa Brian Clegg Graham Allcott Graham Allcott Hubert van der Burgh & Thomas Hodgkinson
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How to Win a Roman Chariot Race In Harm’s Way I, Superorganism In the Red Inflight Science The Invisible Woman It’s Not About the Shark Iran Isabel’s World Issigonis Jane Austen, The Secret Radical Jilted Generation July 1914 Junk DNA Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich 9781848318281 A King in Hiding 9781848319462 9781848313880 9781785780240 9781848310230 9781848313057 9781785780523 9781848318243 9781840467765 9781848310483 9781840467789 9781785781162 9781848316232 9781848316577 9781848319158 9781785780547
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