CONTENTS July
A Chip Shop in Poznan................................ 2 Waiting for War .......................................... 4 Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future ........ 6 Indecent Advances...................................... 8 Hitler’s British Traitors ................................. 10
August
Saving Mona Lisa ....................................... The Bad Trip .............................................. Dark Matter and Dark Energy..................... 100 Years of Leeds United ........................
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September
Corrupt Bodies........................................... 18 The Ice at the End of the World ............... 20 Fixing Meetings ......................................... 22
101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World 24 Superstar Biographies................................ 26 Frankenstein’s Brain ................................... 28
October
November
Empress of the East ................................... Gender: A Graphic Guide ......................... Fucking Good Manners.............................. Operation Swallow..................................... Outbreaks and Epidemics ......................... Surveillance Valley......................................
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Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon..... 39
2020 Highlights
Live More Think Less ................................. 40
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Travel/Memoir 9781785785580 £12.99 9781785785597 (eBook) £10.99 (eBook) 306pp TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency 2
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JULY
The year of living Polishly – a tale of an unlikely immigrant
A Chip Shop in Poznan My Unlikely Year in Poland
Ben Aitken
Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. He booked the cheapest flight he could find, to a place he had never heard of – Poznan. This candid, funny and off-beat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant. Between peeling potatoes and boning fish, Ben spent time on the road travelling the country. He missed the bus to Auschwitz; stayed with a dozen nuns near Krakow; was offered a job by a Eurosceptic farmer and went to Gdansk to learn how Solidarity rose and communism fell. This is a bittersweet portrait of an unsung country, challenging stereotypes that Poland is a grey, ex-soviet land and little else, and revealing a diverse country, rightfully proud of its colourful identity.
BEN AITKEN was born under Thatcher, grew to six foot then stopped, and is an Aquarius. His first book, Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island (2015), was featured in the Guardian, The Times and on BBC Radio, and described by the Manchester Review as a ‘poignant comment on the state of the nation’ and a ‘highly accomplished homage’.
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History 9781785785481 £20.00 9781785785740 (eBook) £15.99 (eBook) 368pp with 8pp b&w plates TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth/EU TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Johnson & Alcock Literary Agency 4
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JULY
For the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of war in 1939, a new history of the ‘Phoney War’
Waiting for War Britain 1939–1940
Barry Turner
At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed and football matches cancelled, only for the government to realise belatedly that morale was plunging as a result. Thousands of women and children were evacuated to the countryside, only for many to flood back to the cities, preferring the dangers to separation from their families. Censorship of news was heavy-handed and bred widespread resentment. In fact, the period from September 1939 to May 1940 was a time of intense political and military activity – the blitzkrieg on Poland, the start of the U-boat menace, the disastrous Norwegian campaign, the political manoeuvrings that brought Churchill to power. Barry Turner skilfully weaves these events into a compelling home front narrative which evokes the fears and dangers but also the humour and the absurdities of everyday life in the dark days of 1939–1940.
BARRY TURNER is a popular historian whose many books include Suez 1956, When Daddy Came Home (with Tony Rennell), Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich (Icon, 2015) – ‘a pageturning narrative’ (Daily Mail) – and The Berlin Airlift (Icon, 2017) – ‘a fine piece of popular history’ (BBC History).
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Biography/Popular Science 9781785785467 £12.99 9781785785757 (eBook) £10.99 (eBook) 240pp with 8pp b&w plates TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency 6
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JULY
A new biography of electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla, one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in the history of science
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future Iwan Rhys Morus
Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions – a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people’s fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly in its grasp. Then as now, he attracted cranks and visionaries in equal number. His restless speculations and experiments about the way tomorrow would look helped to inaugurate a new way of trying to understand the future. More than just a biography of Tesla, this book takes the inventor as its guide and follows him through the cut-throat entrepreneurial culture of late Victorian and Edwardian electrical invention. Iwan Morus, professor of history at Aberystwyth, explores the electrical future that Tesla helped create and the raw materials from which that future was forged.
IWAN RHYS MORUS is professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and completed his doctorate there in the history and philosophy of science. He has published widely on the history of science. Recent publications include Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Books, 2017) and the Oxford Illustrated History of Science. 7
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JULY
Fifty years after Stonewall, critic James Polchin reveals the hidden history of violence against gay men in America
Indecent Advances The Hidden History of Murder and Masculinity before Stonewall
James Polchin
Indecent Advances is a skilful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. New York University professor and critic James Polchin illustrates how homosexuals were criminalized, and their murders justified, in the popular imagination from 1930s ‘sex panics’ to Cold War fear of Communists and homosexuals in government. He shows the vital role that crime stories played in ideas of normalcy and deviancy, and how those stories became tools to discriminate against and harm gay men. J. Edgar Hoover, Kerouac, Burroughs, Patricia Highsmith, James Baldwin, Alan Ginsberg and Gore Vidal all feature. Published around the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in 1969, Indecent Advances investigates how queer men navigated a society that criminalized them. Polchin shows how this discrimination was ultimately transformed by gay rights activists before Stonewall, and explores its resonances up to and including the policing of Gianni Versace’s death in 1997.
JAMES POLCHIN is a cultural critic and professor at NYU. He’s held faculty appointments in the Princeton Writing Program, the Parsons School of Design, and the New School for Public Engagement, and has given talks on art history, literary journalism and queer history at universities in the US and UK.
Author photo credit: Greg Salvatori
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JULY
Hitler’s British Traitors The Secret History of Spies, Saboteurs and Fifth Columnists
Tim Tate ‘Tim Tate [explores] the entire grimy landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the astonishing rogues’ gallery of traitors working to help Nazi Germany win.’ – Ben Macintyre, The Times Hitler’s British Traitors is the first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the more than 70 British fascists convicted of helping Nazi Germany win the war.
‘Tate reveals the widespread existence of a fifth column in Britain, using hitherto unseen archival material’ – Observer
Tate also reveals MI5’s extraordinary methods to uncover British traitors, and two serious wartime plots by wellconnected fascists to replace the British government with an authoritarian proNazi regime.
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History/Espionage 9781785785610 £10.99 9781785784064 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) 384pp with 16pp b&w plates TERRITORY: UK/Comm TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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AUGUST
Saving Mona Lisa The Battle to Protect the Louvre and its Treasures from the Nazis
Gerri Chanel ‘Fascinating’ – Daily Mail In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world’s most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley as part of the biggest museum evacuation in history. But an evacuation can be planned; a war less so. Throughout the German occupation, the Louvre’s directors and staff would risk their jobs and in many cases their lives to protect the artworks. Saving Mona Lisa is the sweeping, suspenseful narrative of their struggle.
B-format PBK History 9781785785498 £10.99 9781785784170 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) 400pp with b&w images throughout TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
‘Gerri Chanel’s account of how France preserved its art from both the destruction of war and the pillaging of the German occupiers reads like a thriller’ – TLS
GERRI CHANEL is a prize-winning freelance journalist. She lived in France for five years, where she began the research for Saving Mona Lisa. She now divides her time between Paris and New York.
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Cultural History 9781785784538 £14.99 9781785784545 (eBook) £11.99 (eBook) 352pp with 8pp plates TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth, Europe TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Watson, Little 12
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AUGUST
An intriguing cultural history of the dark turn of the 1960s – published on the 50th anniversary of the Manson murders
The Bad Trip Dark Stars, Blown Minds and the Strange End of the Sixties
James Riley
The Sixties, for many, was a time of new ideas, freedom, and renewed hope – from the civil rights movement to Woodstock. But it all seemed to implode towards the end of 1969 and early 1970 amidst the Manson murders, the Zodiac Killer, and the tragic events of the Rolling Stones’ concert at Altamont. With that, the hippie dream died – or so the story goes. In The Bad Trip, James Riley explores the dark side of the counterculture, arguing that a seam of apocalyptic thinking lay just beneath the decade’s psychedelic utopianism all along. This is a magical mystery tour, exploring our concept of ‘the Sixties’ as substantially different from the reality of that period. A brilliant and trenchant cultural history published 50 years after the action – drawing on interviews with key figures from the music, art, and film scenes of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US and UK, including British counterculture figure and photographer John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, filmmaker Peter Whitehead, and Jenny Fabian, author of the autobiographical novel, Groupie (1969).
JAMES RILEY is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. He co-edited The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry.
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AUGUST
New for Icon’s Hot Science series, a thrilling explanation of the mysterious phenomena that could unlock the secrets of the universe
Dark Matter and Dark Energy The Hidden 95% of the Universe
Brian Clegg
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart like clay off a potter’s wheel, but something concealed holds them together. This ‘something’ is dark matter – invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s we also knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, named dark energy, was pushing it to expand faster and faster. Across the universe, this requires enough energy that the equivalent mass would be nearly fourteen times greater than all the known material in existence. Brian Clegg masterfully explains the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced.
BRIAN CLEGG is a science writer whose many books include Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity, both of which were longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has written for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, BBC Focus, The Times and The Observer.
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Football 9781785784309 £18.99 9781785784316 (eBook) £14.99 (eBook) 432pp with 8pp colour plates and 8pp b&w plates TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency 16
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AUGUST
The definitive account of Leeds United’s first century
100 Years of Leeds United 1909–2019
Daniel Chapman
100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its tumultuous relationship with its football team. Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has seen more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 70s, clinching the last Division One title of the pre-Sky Sports era in 1992, before becoming the epitome of financial mismanagement at the start of the 21st century. Despite this demise, United remains one of the best supported – and most divisive – clubs in football, with supporters’ clubs dotted across the globe. In 100 Years of Leeds United, Chapman delves deep into the archives to discover the lesser-known episodes, providing fresh context to the folkloric tales that have shaped the club we know today, painting the definitive picture of the West Yorkshire giants. Published to coincide with the club’s centenary celebrations.
DANIEL CHAPMAN has been the editor of Leeds United fanzine The Square Ball since 2011. During that time, The Square Ball has been shortlisted for the Football Supporters’ Federation Fanzine of the Year award six times, winning on two occasions.
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Memoir/True Crime 9781785785528 £16.99 9781785785535 (eBook) £12.99 (eBook) 288pp TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth, Europe non-exclusively TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency
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SEPTEMBER
A must-read memoir of a morgue manager, dealing with death, murder, chaos, corruption and organised crime
Corrupt Bodies Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue
Peter Everett with Kris Hollington
In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job of Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he’d gone from lowly assistant to running the UK’s busiest murder morgue. He couldn’t believe his luck. What he didn’t know was that Southwark, operating in near-Victorian conditions, was a hotbed of corruption. Attendants stole from the dead, funeral homes paid bribes, and there was a lively trade in stolen body parts and recycled coffins. Set in the fascinating pre-DNA and psychological profiling years of 1985–87, this memoir tells a gripping and gruesome tale, with a unique insight into a world of death most of us don’t ever see. Peter managed pathologists, oversaw post mortems, appeared as an expert witness at the Old Bailey and worked alongside Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad – including on the case of the serial killer, the Stockwell Strangler. This is an extraordinary tale of murder and corruption in the mid-1980s, told with insight and compassion.
PETER EVERETT is the former mortuary superintendent of Southwark Mortuary; he has dealt with over 12,000 deaths, 400 of which were cases of murder. Everett since became a journalist and now runs a TV production company. KRIS HOLLINGTON is a bestselling author and ghostwriter; several of his books have been adapted for TV. 19
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SETPEMBER
A riveting account of the race to understand Greenland’s rapidly melting ice, a dramatic harbinger of climate change
The Ice at the End of the World An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
Jon Gertner
Greenland; a remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock with a population of just 56,000, has evolved from one of earth’s last physical frontiers to earth’s largest scientific laboratory. Locked within that vast ‘white desert’ – an early explorers’ nickname – are some of our planet’s most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Greenland’s ice melts at an accelerating rate, the island is evolving into an economic and climatological hub on which the future of the world may turn. Journalist and historian Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years – on skis, sleds, and now with planes and satellites, utilising every tool available to uncover the secrets in the ice before, thanks to climate change, it’s too late. This is a story of epic adventures, populated by a colourful cast of scientists racing to get a handle on what will become of Greenland’s ice and, ultimately, the world.
JON GERTNER is a journalist, historian and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory (Penguin, 2012) was a New York Times bestseller and described as ‘riveting’ by the New York Times, ‘fascinating’ by Slate, and ‘compelling’ by the Wall Street Journal.
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Business/Self-help 9781785784750 £8.99 9781785784767 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) 304pp with b&w illustrations throughout TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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SEPTEMBER
How often do you find yourself sitting through meetings that should have been an email?
Fixing Meetings A Productivity Ninja Guide
Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts
Too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. They often take place with little planning, effort or thought, and as a result, end up as productivity drains rather than productivity gains. It’s time to think like a Ninja. The author of the bestselling How to be a Productivity Ninja, Graham Allcott, and productivity expert Hayley Watts want to start a meeting revolution. With realistic, practical advice they show how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings, and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done. Whether you’re an office junior or a CEO, learn how to hold meetings where you are focused on the outcome. Understand how to implement the 40–20– 40 Continuum, so that only 20 per cent of your attention for each meeting is spent in the meeting itself – the rest is in the preparation and the followthrough; learn when it might be more appropriate to have a daily huddle, or to do some desk hijacking, and when it’s necessary to say that you won’t be attending.
GRAHAM ALLCOTT is an entrepreneur, keynote business speaker and founder of Think Productive, who run workshops for the public and for staff at a diverse range of organisations. He hosts the popular business podcast, Beyond Busy, and is the author of Work Fuel and How to be a Productivity Ninja. HAYLEY WATTS is a Productivity Ninja at Think Productive. She is also a coach, a mum, a school governor and general organiser of stuff! Her background is in the charity sector where she gained lots of experience with meetings – the good and the bad. This is her first book.
Hayley Watts author photo credit: Claire Reed
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Gift/Self-help 9781785785726 £9.99 9781785785733 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) 176pp with b&w illustrations throughout TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Blake Friedmann Agency
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OCTOBER
Follow-up to the successful 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day focuses on improving your personal, work and wider worlds
101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World Ailbhe Malone
101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World is a book of uplifting tips on how to look after yourself and your world, from your personal relationships, to your working space and relationships, to society and the environment at large. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it can be all too easy to lose sight of what really matters to us, and to take others and our world for granted. Focusing on tiny changes, Ailbhe Malone encourages us to take it step by step – with ideas to nurture our friendships, reduce plastic waste and make ethical choices, and improve our online spaces and our broader social environment. Simple practical tips combine with fun illustrations to create a treasure trove of inspiration, positive encouragement and optimism. Also available: 9781785783944
AILBHE MALONE is Lifestyle Editor at BuzzFeed UK and a founding member of the UK team. She consults on Lifestyle for BuzzFeed internationally and has featured as an industry expert on BBC’s The Apprentice, and for Phaidon’s Where to Eat Pizza (2016). Prior to BuzzFeed, she worked for Nylon (US), the Guardian (UK), Heat and Wired. 25
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OCTOBER
Superstar Biographies
Updated Editions PUBLISHING IN OCTOBER 2019
9781785785849 9781785785801 (eBook)
9781785785832 9781785785849 (eBook)
Fully updated editions of three outstanding football biographies by Luca Caioli
9781785785818 9781785785825 (eBook)
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FOOTBALL BIOGRAPHIES
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9781785784248 9781785784255 (eBook)
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‘Our kids love these books, they’ve sparked hours of debate’ Jasper Kain, founder of Football Beyond Borders 9781785784224 9781785784231 (eBook)
9781785784262 9781785784279 (eBook)
9781785785184 9781785785191 (eBook)
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OCTOBER
Frankenstein’s Brain Puzzles and Conundrums in Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Masterpiece
John Sutherland Two hundred years on from the first publication of Frankenstein, John Sutherland delves into the deepest, darkest corners of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece to see what strange and terrifying secrets lie within. Is Victor Frankenstein a member of the Illuminati? Was Mary Shelley really inspired by spaghetti? Whoever heard of a vegan monster?
A quirky look at Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley’s original text to comic book adaptations and much more
Exploring the lesser-known byways of both the original tale and its myriad film and pop culture spinoffs, from the bolts on Boris Karloff’s neck to the role of Igor in Young Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Brain is a fascinating journey behind the scenes of this seminal work of literature and imagination. Includes a unique digest of Frankenstein by the Guardian’s John Crace. Also available:
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Literary Criticism 9781785785627 £8.99 9781785784095 (eBook) £6.99 (eBook) 256pp TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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NOVEMBER
Empress of the East
How a Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
Leslie Peirce The extraordinary story of a slave girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire’s only queen. Abducted by slave traders, Roxelana was brought to Istanbul from Ruthenia in 1515, and trained in the palace harem as a concubine for Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire and one of the world’s most powerful men. He became besotted with Roxelana, freeing and marrying her. Bold and canny, she used her position to become a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist. Never before given her due credit, acclaimed historian Leslie Peirce now reveals with panache the compelling story of an elusive woman who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.
‘A riveting story of power, patronage and harem politics in 16th-century Istanbul’ – Sarah Gristwood, author of Game of Queens
B-format PBK History 9781785785603 £10.99 9781785783500 (eBook) £8.99 (eBook) 384pp with b&w images throughout TERRITORY: UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Perseus Books/Hachette Books Group
LESLIE PEIRCE was until recently Silver Professor of History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Her work has won her two Fulbrights, two NEH fellowships, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, and other academic distinctions.
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NOVEMBER
From the creators of Queer: A Graphic History – ‘an essential read for us all’ – CN Lester
Gender A Graphic Guide
Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
Join Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele on an illustrated journey through space and time to explore how our understandings of sex and gender developed – and why they matter. We’ll look at how gender has been ‘done’ differently – from patriarchal societies to trans communities – and how it has been viewed differently – from biological arguments for sex difference to cultural arguments about received gender norms. We’ll dive into complex and shifting ideas about masculinity and femininity, look at non-binary, trans and fluid genders, and examine the intersection of experiences of gender with people’s race, sexuality, class, disability and more. Tackling current debates and tensions, which can divide communities and even cost lives, we’ll look to the past and the future to ask how might we approach gender differently, in more socially constructive, caring ways. Praise for Queer: A Graphic History : ‘Opens our hearts as much as it engages our minds’ – Kate Bornstein
‘A handbook to seeing the world from someone else’s point of view’ – Sydney Morning Herald
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‘Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender’ – VICE
MEG-JOHN BARKER is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender and relationships, drawing on their years of academic research and therapeutic practice in these areas. JULIA SCHEELE is an illustrator, graphic facilitator and comic book artist. Scheele runs One Beat Zines, a feminist zine collective and distributor. 31
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Humour 9781785785511 £9.99 9781785785573 (eBook) £7.99 (eBook) 192pp TERRITORY: World TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Icon Books/Marsh Agency
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NOVEMBER
The author of Fucking Apostrophes takes on another of life’s biggest irritations
Fucking Good Manners Simon Griffin
Manners are a minefield. Remembering which behaviours are appropriate for which situation (who it is okay to swear in front of, and for who that is a definite no), can leave even the most laid back exasperated. Enter Simon Griffin, and his no-nonsense guide to getting it fucking right. Whether you’re at work, on an airplane, out for dinner or on your phone, learn right from wrong in this furiously hilarious gift book. Fucking Good Manners is the perfect stocking-filler for a manners enthusiast, those who could do with a few polite behavioural tips, or anyone who just loves anything a bit sweary. This is the essential guide to fucking good manners.
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‘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 author of Fucking Apostrophes (2016), an international bestseller, featured in the Guardian, BBC Radio 5Live and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Leeds, where he uses slightly less vulgar words to earn a living as a freelance copywriter. 33
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Military History 9781785785771 £20.00 9781785785788 (eBook) £11.99 (eBook) 320pp with 8pp b&w plates TERRITORY: UK/Commonwealth TRANSLATION RIGHTS: Andrew Lownie Agency
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NOVEMBER
How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of the Second World War
Operation Swallow American Soldiers’ Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp
Mark Felton
Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into concentration camp slaves. It begins in the snowy forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the charnel house of Buchenwald concentration camp in spring 1945. It is a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into a leadership position he didn’t want and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders. Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair and salvation. Even more remarkably, it is a story that has barely been told before, a chapter of US military history that the American government tried to suppress for decades – and an uplifting story that deserves to be widely known.
MARK FELTON is the author of numerous books on military history, including Castle of the Eagles (‘an extraordinary and largely forgotten wartime story, brought back to life in this Boys’ Own account’ – Daily Mail) and Zero Night (‘a thundering good read’ – History of War), both of which are in development as Hollywood movies.
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NOVEMBER
A journey through the history and science of epidemics and pandemics – from AIDS to Zika
Outbreaks and Epidemics Battling Infection in the Modern World
Meera Senthilingam
For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet only one human disease – smallpox – has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection, and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite. But while we chase diseases we are already aware of, new ones are constantly emerging. At the same time, antimicrobial resistance is harnessing infections that we once knew how to control, enabling them to thrive once more. Meera Senthilingam presents a timely look at humanity’s ongoing battle against infection, examining the successes and failures of the past, along with how we are confronting the challenges of today, and our chances of eradicating disease in the future.
MEERA SENTHILINGHAM is a journalist, editor and public health researcher specialising in global health and infectious disease. She has worked with media outlets including the BBC and the New York Times and research institutions including the LSHTM and the Wellcome Trust. She is currently the International Health Editor for CNN.
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NOVEMBER
Surveillance Valley
The Secret Military History of the Internet
Yasha Levine
As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives. But the internet was developed from the outset – initially as a surveillance tool by the US Defense Department to control insurgents in the Vietnam War – as a weapon.
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Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, investigative journalist Yasha Levine powerfully shows that its perniciousness is a function, not a bug, of the online experience, and reveals the troubling truth of its history, and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it.
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Brian Clegg Maxwell explained how we perceive colour, and how gases behave. And, he transformed physics with his explanation of the interaction of electricity and magnetism, revealing the nature of light and laying the groundwork for everything from Einstein’s special relativity to modern electronics. He also established one of physics’ most enduring challenges: ‘Maxwell’s demon’, a tiny but disruptive thought experiment that suggests the second law of thermodynamics, governing the flow of time itself, can be broken. Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg presents the story of a groundbreaking scientist and his duplicitous demon.
James Clerk Maxwell, an unassuming Victorian Scotsman, is often considered the physicist’s physicist
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