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Assyria
The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire Eckart Frahm
The masterful non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world’s first empire: Assyria
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen.
Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wideranging conquests have long been known from the Hebrew Bible and later Greek accounts. But nearly two centuries of research now permit a rich picture of the Assyrians and their empire beyond the battlefield: their vast libraries and monumental sculptures, their elaborate trade and information networks, and the crucial role played by royal women.
Although Assyria was crushed by rising powers in the late seventh century BCE, its legacy endured from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond. Assyria is a stunning and authoritative account of a civilisation essential to understanding the ancient world and our own.
Eckart Frahm is professor of Assyriology in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilisations at Yale. One of the world’s foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire, he is the author or co-author of six books on ancient Mesopotamian history and culture. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
The Other Pandemic
How QAnon Contaminated the World James Ball
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist James Ball dives deep into the internet to trace the rise of QAnon, the first digital pandemic
Imagine a deadly pathogen that could infect any person in any part of the globe within seconds; all that's needed is an internet connection. In this gripping investigation, Pulitzer Prize winner James Ball tracks the spread of QAnon, the world’s first digital pandemic.
QAnon began as an internet community dedicated to supporting President Trump and intent on outing a global cabal of human traffickers. A short, cryptic message posted by an anonymous user to a niche internet forum in 2017 was the spark that ignited a global movement.
20 July 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526623812 / £30.00
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Anansi's Gold
The Man Who Swindled the World Yepoka Yeebo
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the twentiethcentury’s longest, most audacious frauds.
When Ghana declared its independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for home-grown opportunists determined to attain whatever assets colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A nationalist military coup ousted the new nation’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of seizing and hiding the country’s gold overseas.
Into the space stepped one of history’s most determined scammers, John Ackah BlayMiezah – a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. BlayMiezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth millions. You, too, could claim a piece, if you help him rescue it – with a small investment. Over the 1970s and ’80s, he grew his scam to epic proportions, amassing hundreds of millions of pounds from thousands of marks.
In Anansi’s Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases the ever-wilder trail of Blay-Miezah revealing the untold story of the grifter who beat the West at its own thieving game.
Yepoka Yeebo’s work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Quartz, among other publications. A graduate of Queen Mary College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism, she divides her time between Ghana, Bristol and New York. Anansi’s Goldis her first book.
03 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781635574739 / £20.00
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In The Other Pandemic Ball takes us into the niche pathways through which these digital pathogens spread, mutate and infect people all across the globe – but he argues that the prognosis doesn’t have to be dire. He shows how it is possible to build up our digital immune systems, and be better prepared to survive the next wave.
James Ball is the Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the author of multiple books, including Post-Truth and The System. He has worked for BuzzFeed,theGuardianand the WashingtonPostand his reporting projects have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Scripps Howard Prize and the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, among others.
Code of Conduct
Why We Need to Fix Parliament Chris Bryant
An MP’s guide to an enduring political issue: politicians breaking the rules and expecting to get away with it.
The extraordinary turmoil we have seen in British politics in the last few years has set records. No wonder people are asking whether ‘parliamentary standards’ is a contradiction in terms.
MP Chris Bryant has been in the thick of the battle over standards in parliament. Cronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct and lying: politicians are engaging in these activities more frequently and more publicly than ever before. Parliament is on trial, just when democracy itself is facing a direct challenge from authoritarian regimes around the world. Yet the vast majority of MPs are diligent, assiduous and intent on changing the world for the better.
Code of Conduct will look at every angle of parliamentary conduct, charting the history of how we got here and suggesting ways in which we might fix the problem. This book arrives at the perfect time to help parliament get its house in order.
Chris Bryant is an acclaimed historian of Parliament and expert on parliamentary procedure. Having been MP for the Rhondda since 2001, he has since 2020 chaired the Committees on Standards and Privileges. His most recent book, The Glamour Boys, won the 2020 Parliamentary Book Award.
20 July 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526642554 / £20.00
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17 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526663597 / £14.99
EBOOK / 9781526663580 / £10.49
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ANZ Pub Date 28 November 2023
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Empires of the Steppes
The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization Kenneth W. Harl
An epic and enthralling narrative history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world
The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth Harl illustrates in this glorious work of narrative history, their deeds still resonate today.
Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of many across the world. From a single region emerged a great many peoples, all of whom went on to profoundly and irrevocably shape the modern world.
In this enthralling new history, Professor Kenneth Harl draws on a lifetime of scholarship to vividly recreate the lives and world of these often-forgotten peoples from their beginnings to the early modern age.
Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University, New Orleans. He is one of the world’s foremost experts on Steppes civilisations, Roman history and numismatics, and has written extensively on Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Viking culture. EmpiresoftheSteppesis his first trade book.
Giacometti in Paris A Life
Michael Peppiatt
An intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our greatest art historians.
Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking prices, but from his early days as an unknown outsider to the end of a dramatic career, Giacometti lived in the same hovel of a studio in Paris.
Arriving from Switzerland in 1922, Giacometti was shaped not only by his relationships with remarkable artists and writers – from Picasso, Breton and Dalí to Sartre, Beauvoir and Beckett – but by the everyday life, prewar and postwar, of Paris itself.
17 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526630407 / £30.00
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Hunting the Falcon
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Made Modern England John Guy & Julia Fox
A landmark history of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage from the married partnership of John Guy and Julia Fox
King Henry VIII: the man whose passion – verging on obsession – for one woman changed the course of history. Anne Boleyn: the woman who risked everything for a crown – and lost.
Their story is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just a fortnight short of three years later. Missing from most accounts is how the turbulent nature of Anne and Henry’s relationship is tied almost completely to the twists and turns of continental politics at one of the great turning points of British and European history.
With access to new archival documents, startling artefactual discoveries and years of meticulous research, John Guy and Julia Fox unearth the truth of these two extraordinary lives and their tumultuous times. Hunting the Falcon is both a major new history and a startling portrait of love, lust, politics and power.
John Guy is a historian, author and broadcaster. The author of 16 books, he is a regular guest on multiple BBC radio shows and a BBC documentary presenter. Julia Fox is a teacher and author. She is the author of two books, Jane Boleyn and Sister Queens.
14 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526631527 / £30.00
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In Giacometti in Paris, Michael Peppiatt, who spent thirty years documenting the Paris art world, brilliantly charts the course of the artist’s life and work. From falling in and out with the Surrealists to years of artistic anguish, from devotion to his mother to intense friendships, tragic love affairs and a fraught marriage, this is an intimate portrait of an outstanding artist in exceptional times.
Michael Peppiatt has written for Le Monde, the New York Times, the Financial Times and Art International. His books include the definitive Francis Bacon biography, Anatomy of an Enigma, as well as the memoir Francis Bacon in Your Blood. He has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ at the Royal Academy of Arts.
The Globemakers
The Curious Story of Their Craft Peter Bellerby
The beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the globes it has inspired, told from the workshop of one of the world's last remaining handcrafted globemakers
Peter Bellerby is an artisan globemaker whose company Bellerby & Co is one of only two handcrafted globemakers in the world. His team of craftspeople make exquisite celestial, terrestrial, historical and planetary globes for customers round the world. The story began when Peter attempted to find a special globe for his father’s 80th birthday but couldn’t. He decided to make one himself which took him on an extraordinary journey of rediscovering this lost craft.
This beautiful and tactile book uses illustration, photography and narrative to tell the story of our globe and many different globes it has inspired. The chapters take us through the journey of how to build a globe and include vignettes on history, art history, astronomy and physics, as well as the day-to-day craftsmanship at the workshop itself.
At the heart of the book are the globes themselves, or ‘earth apples’ as they were first known, whose ‘overview effect’ can’t help but remind us of our individual insignificance.
Peter Bellerby is founder of artisan globemakers Bellerby & Co. Globemakers. After a successful career in television, Peter Bellerby was running a music venuebowling alley in London, when he went on a search for a special globe for his father's 80th birthday. Not finding what he wanted, he set about making a globe himself by hand, which was the start of an arduous and fantastic journey that led to the founding of his company in 2008. Bellerby & Co. have won the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the international trade category twice, in 2018 and 2021. Peter lives in London with his partner, who runs the Bellerby & Co. Globemakers sales, marketing and publicity departments.
31 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526600950 / £30.00
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EBOOK / 9781526600974 / £21.00
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ANZ Pub Date 31 October 2023
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14 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526650870 / £25.00
EBOOK / 9781526650900 / £17.50
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ANZ Pub Date 28 November 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $49.99 / NZ $54.99
Opportunity Britain: A
Northern Wind, 1962-65
David Kynaston
Britain’s early sixties told as only David Kynaston can, this is the anticipated next volume in Kynaston’s landmark series.
How much can change in three short years? In the case of Britain in the early sixties, the answer is: almost everything.
A Northern Wind, the anticipated continuation of David Kynaston’s legendary ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’ series, brings to vivid life the three crucial years of 1962–1965 in Britain. Drawing upon diaries, newspapers and the memories of the people who lived it, Kynaston’s masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events – from the Big Freeze to the assassination of JFK – while simultaneously bringing to light the tales of the everyday people witnessing this history.
This period oversaw the construction of Britain as we know it today. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' has fundamentally altered our perception and understanding of post-war Britain. A Northern Wind intensifies the process, given extra insight by David Kynaston now remembering personally the events under his microscope.
David Kynaston is a professional historian and author. He has written a fourvolume history of the City of London as well as a history of the Bank of England and three more recent books about British history. His continuing history of postwar Britain has so far comprised Austerity Britain, Family Britain, Modernity Britain and On the Cusp.
I Need Art, Reality is Not Enough
An illustrated memoir
Henn Kim
A memoir in images from the iconic South Korean Sally Rooney illustrator and author of Starry Night, Blurry Dreams
Slow Seasons
A Creative Guide to Reconnecting with Nature the Celtic Way
Rosie Steer
Seasonal crafts, recipes and celebrations inspired by the Celtic wheel of the year
In her late-twenties, feeling utterly overwhelmed by the pace of modern city life, Rosie Steer found solace in the traditions she had been brought up with, influenced by her Scottish roots, that celebrated nature and observed the small steady shifts in the seasons.
The Celtic Wheel of the year is an ancient seasonal cycle that aligns with solar events – the solstices and equinoxes – and their rough midpoints. For each miniseason, Rosie shares nature notes for what we can look out for as the days get warmer or cooler, the nights longer or shorter, alongside activities, things to make, flowers or fruit to forage, seasonal recipes to enjoy and a modern take on the traditional celebrations.
By slowing down and paying attention to the ebbs and flows of nature, we can find moments of calm whenever we need them.
Rosie Steer embraced slow-living and found solace in the ancient naturecentric traditions of the Celtic Wheel of the Year after suffering with her mental health. She set up her newsletter and platform on Instagram as a place to track small moments of joy through the seasons and fostered a loyal following in the process. She ives and works in Edinburgh.
28 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526657572 / £30.00
EBOOK / 9781526657558 / £21.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages
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ANZ Pub Date 01 January 2024
HARDBACK / AUS $59.99 / NZ $64.99
Depression and creativity, love and family, books and music: this personal and vulnerable memoir by the iconic South Korean illustrator explores her life from the ages of seventeen to thirty-three through image, text and poetry. From what nearly broke her to what saved her, everyone will find something to comfort them in Henn Kim’s world.
Henn Kim was born and raised in South Korea. After moving to Seoul at 19, she worked as a graphic designer creating cover art for indie bands. She then decided to follow her own path as an illustrator, and her work has been commissioned by the BBC, UNICEF, Bottega Veneta, Snapchat, and featured in GQand Vogue.
Unfinished Woman
Robyn Davidson
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller Tracks
In 1977, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert. What sets a young woman off on a path like this? What had she left behind her that meant that she could not look back?
In Unfinished Woman, Davidson embarks on another journey into uncharted territory: the past. In mesmerising prose, she conjures her postwar Australian childhood –where her father sheared sheep while his daughters stamped it out into the press, where Robyn’s sister rode her horse to school, where green carpet snakes winked down from the rafters while the house rippled with the sounds of her mother’s pianoplaying. And then the deadening suburbia of Moreton – where Robyn returned home from school one afternoon to find that music stopped forever.
12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526662729 / £16.99
EBOOK / 9781526662736 / £11.89
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ANZ Pub Date 31 October 2023
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Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She went to Sydney in the sixties, before going to Alice Springs where this book begins. She has travelled extensively, lived in London, New York and India and migrated with nomads in North West India. She lives in Melbourne, and spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas.
12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526636256 / £16.99
EBOOK / 9781526636249 / £11.89
TERRITORY: World All Languages
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ANZ Pub Date 17 October 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99
12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781408837153 / £18.99
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EBOOK / 9781408837177 / £13.29
TERRITORY: World English/German TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANZ Pub Date 03 October 2023
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Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? Bob
Cryer
A wonderfully witty biography of a father by a son, and a heartwarming insight into a vanishing era of comedy
When the legendary comedian Barry Cryer died in January 2022, there was a vast outpouring of grief, appreciation and anecdotes from the public and fellow comics alike. Now, his son, Bob, is doing what Barry’s humility did not allow: revealing the story of the man behind the jokes.
This book is an ode to both Barry’s incredible life and to the lessons he so generously imparted on the art of comedy. Bob shares a range of exclusive material – including family photos, oral recordings, interviews with friends and colleagues (among them Sandi Toksvig, Rob Brydon and Judi Dench) – as well as Bob’s own personal reflections on living and working with a comedy icon.
Laced with candour, warmth and filled with his trademark humour, Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? isa unique insight into British comedy from Monty Python to the modern day.
Bob Cryer is an actor best known for Coronation Street and Hollyoaks. He contributed to Barry’s book of anecdotes, Butterfly Brain, in 2010. Shortly after, they created the book series Mrs Hudson’s Diaries and Mrs Hudson’s Radio Show soon followed for Radio 4 in 2018. Their joint podcast, Now Where Were We?, launched just before Barry’s death in January 2022.
A Cold Spell
A Human History of Ice Max Leonard
Max Leonard tells the story of humanity through the lens of ice from the Ice Age to the modern day
Humanity came of age in a time when the landscape was cold and coated in ice. During the Ice Age, early humans saw themselves constantly reflected in these planes of ice - and became more reflective themselves, beginning to create works of art, innovate through technology and develop language. In A Cold Spell, Max Leonard takes us from the beginning of our story to the modern day, tracing the ways ice has influenced our development, our economies, our social customs and our lives - and what its rapid disappearance means for us.
Leonard combines history, literature and nature writing to tell our story through a new lens. Exposing the commonalities between an opulently frozen mummy, Winston Churchill's plans for inventive aircraft carriers and mountaineering, A Cold Spell will change how you think about the world around you. Ice has been here since the beginning. Will it be at the end?
The Rebellion of a Dutiful Daughter
The Conflicted Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emer O'Sullivan
A brilliantly revisionist biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning – poet, essayist, critic, dissenter, wife, sister and daughter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning may be best known today for her love sonnets and for her romance with Robert Browning, but in her time she was more celebrated than her husband, considered even the greatest poet of the nineteenth century.
Born into a family that owned slave plantations, she would become an abolitionist, anticolonialist and republican. She wrote about child labour and runaway slaves – and in her verse novel Aurora Leigh created a masterpiece of feminist writing decades ahead of its time.
Yet privately she submitted for decades to her father’s oppressive will. Finally escaping, she married in secret and moved abroad, finding in her husband someone who would devote himself to her and her work.
In The Rebellion of a Dutiful Daughter, Emer O’Sullivan brilliantly charts the personal, political and artistic flowering of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, placing the writer in her rightful position at the forefront of Victorian culture.
Emer O'Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf's literature at the University of East Anglia, where she also lectured in English Literature. She is the author of The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and his Family. She lives in London.
26 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526665317 / £20.00
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Max Leonard is an author and publisher. He received degrees in English and French from Oxford University and has a Masters in Film Studies from Sussex University. He writes about mountains, cycling and travel; his previous books include Higher Calling, Bunker Research and Lantern Rouge. He currently serves as publisher and creative director of Isola Press. He lives in London.
09 November 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526631190 / £20.00
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09 November 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526606921 / £25.00
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COOKERY
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Poppy Cooks: The Actually Delicious Air Fryer Cookbook
Poppy O'Toole
Poppy shares her easy, fool-proof and actually delicious recipes for the air fryer
TikTok superstar and professional chef Poppy O’Toole shows you how to get the most out of your air fryer. With more than 100 recipes for cooking the perfect versions of chips, roast chicken, mac and cheese, brownies and more, she elevates each recipe with fantastic flavours so it becomes something actually delicious.
Why not try:
· The perfect roast potatoes with extra crunch
·Succulent chicken wings with a choice of addictive sauces – buffalo hot sauce, sweet and sticky soy sauce, or lemon and black pepper butter Blondies with fully customisable flavours – ginger, chocolate, cherries and almonds, or all three!
With more of us relying on quick, low-energy cooking than ever before, PoppyCooks is the only companion you need for mastering your air fryer.
Poppy has spent the last decade in professional kitchens – from Michelinstarred restaurants to finedining experiences and tasty everyday food – and since her Covidrelated redundancy she has found a passion for teaching others via TikTok and Instagram. Her educational and entertaining content has amassed over 1.5M followers on social media, and gives us access to the skills she’s learnt from fancy restaurants to inspire and teach people how to cook at home – beginning with the very basics – in a fun and informal way.
River Cottage Great Roasts
Gelf Alderson
In River Cottage Great Roasts, all you will need are good ingredients, an oven and some simple bakeware to create easy weeknight dinners, showstopping Sunday roasts, fuss-free breakfasts, tea-time treats and indulgent puds. Often only requiring one roasting tin and minimal prep, these are recipes that let the oven do the hard work, and leave you with very little washing up:
Spiced whole cauliflower with preserved lemon and yoghurt
Roast mushrooms with beer and dumplings
Pot roast brisket with orange and star anise
Ripped potato oven chips with smoked chilli and roast garlic dip
Creamy fish pie
Roasted cherry and almond crumble
Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook
Sarah Raven
Fresh ideas, inspiration and deliciously simple recipes for eating seasonally.
Taking us through the year in six seasonal chunks of two months each, Sarah Raven introduces us to the best vegetables, fruit and herbs grown in the UK. For each one, there are hosts of simple yet inspiring recipes - over 450 in all - ranging from Warm broad bean salad to Green mayonnaise; Spinach and Gruyère tart to Mint and pea tip risotto; Sweet potato gratin to Celeriac soufflé; and Basil ice cream to Damson and almondpudding.
Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook offers a practical, colourful and delicious repertoire of ideas that put vegetables, herbs and fruit at the centre of every meal, all year round.
Since the publication of her first book The Cutting Garden, Sarah has led the way over the last two and a half decades in introducing a new kind of productive gardening which fuses intense colour, elegance and do-ability, bridging all kinds of gardening from dark rich dahlia glories to subtler smoky modern colours of poppies, roses, sweet peas, and all kinds of vegetable deliciousness. She is a teacher, broadcaster, has a popular gardening podcast Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange with colleague Arthur Parkinson and runs a mail order plant nursery, (with 500,000 customers). She is also the author of many books on gardening and cooking.
31 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526664105 / £20.00
EBOOK / 9781526664112 / £14.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages
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ANZ Pub Date 03 October 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $44.99
Pears with ginger and toffee
Divided into chapters like Breakfast, One-tray Wonders, Sunday Roast, Simple Sides and Puddings, the recipes all harness the power of the oven to transform everyday ingredients into their more deliciously caramelised, roasted counterparts.
Gelf Alderson has been Executive Head Chef of River Cottage for over ten years and, during his time there, has worked with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to create the delicious menus served in all six River Cottage restaurants.
Pub Kitchen
Tom Kerridge
The ultimate pub cookbook for everyday home cooks
Tom Kerridge has spent a lifetime perfecting next-level pub cooking. In Pub Kitchen he distills that knowhow into 100 easy and contemporary pub recipes for home cooks.
Taking inspiration from modern gastropubs, Tom's recipes are simple, modern, easy and delicious.The book includes:
- gastropub favourites like prawn linguine or fishcakes
- twists on classics like a tempura cod for fish and chips
- a chapter on roasts and another on simple ingredient-led veg mains
- and of course loads of indulgent puddings like sticky toffee and apple crumble
PubKitchenis a stunning bible of brilliant pub recipes by Britain's best-loved pub kitchen chef.
31 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526640130 / £35.00
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Tom Kerridge worked as a chef in restaurants across Britain before deciding to set out on his own and take over a rundown pub in the quiet Buckinghamshire town of Marlow. He opened The Hand & Flowers with his wife Beth in 2005, and it went on to become the first (and only) pub in the world to acquire two Michelin stars. In 2014 he opened a second pub in Marlow, The Coach, which was followed by The Butcher's Tap. More recently, he launched Kerridge's Bar & Grill in London and The Bull and Bear in Manchester. His previous books include ProperPubFood,Tom Kerridge'sBestEverDishes,Tom'sTable,TomKerridge'sDopamineDiet,LoseWeight for Good and Tom Kerridge's Fresh Start and his most recent bestseller Outdoor Cooking. In 2021 Tom launched the game-changing Full Time Meals campaign with Marcus Rashford and since 2022 he has been a judge on Great British Menu on BBC2. @ChefTomKerridge / tomkerridge.com
28 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526639134 / £20.00
EBOOK / 9781526639141 / £14.00
TERRITORY: World All Languages
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ANZ Pub Date 31 October 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $44.99 / NZ $49.99
14 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781472981653 / £27.00
EBOOK / 9781472981561 / £18.90
TERRITORY: World All Languages
TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ANZ Pub Date 03 October 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $54.99 / NZ $59.99
The Rice Book
Sri Owen
The definitive book on rice, with more than 140 recipes from around the globe Winner of the André Simon Award 1993
Named one of OFM’s 50 Best Cookbooks of All Time
The Rice Book became an instant classic when it was published almost thirty years ago, and to this day remains the definitive book on the subject.
Rice is the staple food for more than half the world, and the creativity with which people approach this humble grain knows no bounds. From renowned food writer Sri Owen’s extensive travels and years of research come recipes for biryanis, risottos, pilafs and paellas from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Spain, Italy, Brazil and beyond.
In a gorgeous new livery, with a fully updated introduction on the nutrition, history and culture surrounding rice, more than 140 delicious, foolproof recipes and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is an essential book for every kitchen and every cook.
Sri Owen is a renowned Indonesian cook, food writer, and author of several cookbooks including The Indonesian Kitchen, and The Rice Book, which won the André Simon Award. Since publishing her first book in 1976, Sri has become one of the pre-eminent UK-based food writers, and her expertise saw her awarded the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement in 2017.
Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery
Madhur Jaffrey
A beautiful new edition of the beloved classic book on Indian home cooking
by Madhur JaffreyOriginally published in 1982, Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery was the book that accompanied the TV series that inspired a generation to cook real Indian food, not the watered down version of it that had persisted in Britain for years.
Now, this stunning updated edition - featuring 10 new recipes and a foreword celebrating the 40th anniversary - will inspire a new generation of home cooks to make real Indian food at home. Recipes include classic dals, curries, chutneys and breads, as well as countless lesser known traditional recipes and techniques to master Indian cooking for all occasions.
The Core of an Onion
Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes Mark Kurlansky
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world’s most beloved culinary staples featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world.
As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.”
Historically, she’s been right—and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food fixation as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns over Wales to Italy and everywhere in between.
Featuring historical images and his own pen-and-ink drawings, Kurlansky begins with the science behind the only sulfuric acid-spewing plant, then digs through the twenty varieties of onion and the cultures built around them. Among the first domesticated and cultivated crops, onions were seen by the ancient Egyptians as a symbol of eternity, the Greeks as an agent of strength, and the Chinese as a supplement for intelligence. Entering the kitchen, Kurlansky celebrates the raw, roasted, creamed, marinated, and pickled. Including twenty-five recipes from around the world, The Core of an Onion shares the secrets to celebrated Parisian chef Alain Senderens’s onion soup eaten to cure latenight drunkenness; Hemingway’s raw onion and peanut butter sandwich; and the Gibson, a debonair gin martini garnished with a pickled onion.
Just as the smell of sautéed onions will lure anyone to the kitchen, The Core of an Onion is sure to draw readers into their savory stories at first taste.
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times-bestselling and James Beard Awardwinning author of The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing, Cod, Salt, Milk!, Havana,TheBigOyster,TheBasqueHistoryoftheWorld, and Salmon, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appétit's Food Writer of the Year Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com
28 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526621634 / £30.00
EBOOK / 9781526621641 / £21.00
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Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery is a wonderful classic from a trusted and authoritative voice, ready for a new audience to discover these delicious, authentic, failsafe Indian recipes that have stood the test of time.
Now regarded by many as the world authority on Indian food, Madhur Jaffrey is an award-winning actress and bestselling cookery author. Her first book, AnInvitation to Indian Cookery, was published in 1973 and her series for BBC television Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery made her a household name. She has appeared in over 20 films and written over 15 cookery books.
Winter Wellness
Nourishing recipes to keep you healthy when it's cold
Rachel de Thample
In Winter Wellness, Rachel gives us recipes and tools to support our immune system and mental health through the colder months, and makes it feel like a huge treat in doing so. Delving into the various health benefits of spices, vegetables and homemade ferments, she offers recipes packed full of their delicious goodness.
There are broths and soups, such as roasted garlic noodle soup and wild mushroom broth,easy-to-digest one-pot dinners like burnt-aubergine chilli or Sri Lankan lamb curry, teas and tonics like pumpkin pie milkshake, fire cider and Turkish cocoa and healthy treats, like bay leaf roasted pears, and fig crumble with cardamom custard.
Winter Wellness will inspire and empower us with delicious remedies for winter ails, helping us to eat well and stay well through the cold season.
12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526659033 / £20.00
EBOOK / 9781526659026 / £14.00
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12 October 2023
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Rachel de Thample has worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal and Peter Gordon. She is the author of More Veg, Less Meat, FIVE, Tonics & Teas and Gifts from the Modern Larder. She’s served as
Commissioning Editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated and Head of Food for the pioneering organic box scheme Abel & Cole. Rachel is currently runs preserving and fermentation courses at River Cottage in Devon and writes for The Simple Things magazine. She lives in Dorset.
26 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526666871 / £22.00
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson Ferdinand Mount
Caesarism is alive and well in this fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.
In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day.
There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolsonaro, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle, Boris Johnson and Trump.
The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump’s march on the Capitol, and ends with a thoughtprovoking road map of the way back to constitutional government.
Ferdinand Mount was Editor of The Spectator and The Times Literary Review, and was head of Margaret Thatcher’s thinktank – The Number 10 Policy Unit.
His six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, included Of Love And Asthma, which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. His most recent books are Kiss Myself Goodbye and the novel Making Nice.
All She Lost
The Explosion in Lebanon and the Story of a Nation's Collapse
Dalal Mawad
A story of survival, corruption and impunity - Dalal Mawad interviews the victims of the August 2020 explosion in Beirut.
Award-winning journalist Dalal Mawad was in Lebanon when the blast happened on 4th August 2020, and was one of the first journalists to report on the devastating explosion.
She set out to record the stories of those long discriminated against, mothers who lost their children, spouses who lost their partners, refugee women who have fled from the war in Syria – and who now find themselves in another failing state. We hear from the Lebanese grandmother, bankrupted by the small nation's collapse, who remembers Beirut’s glory days of the 1960s.
Their personal stories converged to tell the story of a nation whose glory days are long gone, now riven by protracted violence, lurching from crisis to crisis, and fighting to survive. It tells not only of what these women have lost, but also what Lebanon has lost, and a part of the Middle East that is no more.
Dalal Mawad is an award-winning Lebanese journalist. She is working as freelance producer for CNN in Paris and as a part-time journalism professor at Sciences Po. Mawad was a senior producer with the Associated Press based in Lebanon when twin blasts rocked Beirut on August 4th 2020. She extensively covered the explosion, its aftermath and Lebanon’s economic and financial crisis.
The War Came To Us
Life and Death in Ukraine
Christopher Miller
A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia.
The inside story of Ukraine's bravery and defiance in the face of Russian aggression, from the conflict's leading journalist.
When President Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine, he unleashed a terror that struck at the very heart of Europe and broke the world order that had been in place since the fall of the Soviet Union. This is a story told through the lives of Ukrainians, their fears and struggles. It is Ukraine in all its glory: vast, defiant, resilient, trying to escape the long shadow of its former imperial ruler while fighting to build a new future.
20 July 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399409711 / £25.00
EBOOK / 9781399409735 / £17.50
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Christopher Miller is a writer and journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine and Brooklyn, New York. Since 2022 he has been lead correspondent in Ukraine for the Financial Times. He was previously a reporter for POLITICO and Ukraine correspondent for BuzzFeed News. His coverage of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was Missouri Honor Medal Winner for Distinguished Service in Journalism.
The Gardener of Lashkar Gah
The True Story of the Afghans who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban
Larisa Brown
An Afghan family's tale of building a garden under occupation, fighting the Taliban, and suffering during Britain's withdrawal from Kabul.
The 20-year war in Afghanistan is the longest of the 21st century and resulted in tragedy and opportunity for those who lived through it. The sudden withdrawal of British and American troops in August 2021 allowed the Taliban to recapture the country, leading to turmoil for many Afghans who had served alongside NATO forces.
20 July 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399406857 / £20.00
EBOOK / 9781399406819 / £14.00
TERRITORY: World English
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31 August 2023
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This is the story of one such family. Following the journey of Shaista Gul who built a garden inside a British base in Lashkar Gah. Shaista and his family faced great danger and sacrifice, but also found hope and courage throughout the war.
Larisa Brown - Defence Editor for The Sunday Times, award-winning journalist and a campaigner for the interpreters of Afghanistan – spent years with the family to tell their story and provides a unique insight into one family's bittersweet experience during the end of the ‘War on Terror’.
Larisa Brown is the Defence Editor of The Times and is experienced in reporting from Afghanistan. She led the "Betrayal of the Brave" campaign at the Daily Mail, advocating for Afghan interpreters and others who helped fight the Taliban to receive sanctuary in Britain. She and her colleague won Campaign of the Year at the British Journalism Awards in 2018.
14 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399411028 / £25.00
EBOOK / 9781399410991 / £10.39
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A Very Oxford Scandal
Something Rotten in the English Establishment
Stephen Bates
The scandal surrounding the attempt by Christ Church College, Oxford, to remove and sack Dean Martyn Percy.
This is a story of ambition, deceit, venom and what turned out to be very expensive skulduggery, that has rumbled on in the press since 2018, about the scandal surrounding the attempt by Christ Church, Oxford to remove and sack their then Dean, the Very Reverend Dr Martyn Percy.
Packed with details which most people will deem unbelievable, not least the accusations that publicly flew around about Percy – insanity, sexual misdemeanours and pilfering money for a start. The College spent £2.5 million in legal costs and in addition had to pay Percy £1.5 million in damages on top of his own legal costs.
This is a story that has to be told for the public good because the episode is symptomatic of something rotten in the English establishment, and with consequences for the Church and State as a whole.
Stephen Bates read Modern History at New College, Oxford before working as a journalist for the BBC, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Guardian, where he spent 22 years, successively as a political correspondent, European Affairs Editor in Brussels and religious and royal correspondent. He has also written for the Spectator, New Statesman, Time magazine, Literary Review, and the Tablet.
After Elizabeth II
Can the Monarchy Save Itself?
Ed Owens
The future of the monarchy after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and during the reign of Charles III.
Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday 8th September 2022, and immediately questions arose about the nature and purpose of monarchical, non-elected government. The arguments for Republicanism now increase - is this a monarchy fit for modern Western democratic society? Overall, monarchs and members of Royal families these days get a bad press. So what indeed will happen now that the Queen is dead?
In the post-Elizabethan Age, it is time to ask the question: does Britain retain its new monarch’s reign? It is Ed Owens’ argument that the great advantage of Elizabeth's reign was that people took the monarchy for granted – as something innate to public life. This was due in part to a clever PR exercise by the Royal household. Only by weighing up both sets of arguments - republican and monarchic - will we come to a balanced conclusion as to what will be best for Britain.
The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
When Boomers Hand Over to Gen Z, and How it Will Change Capitalism Ken Costa
An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever.
In the next ten years there will be an unprecedented wealth transfer from the socalled ‘baby boomer’ generation to the young. Never before will so much money – in housing, land, stocks and cash – be shifted so suddenly from one generation to the next, and never before does the next generation feel so differently about the future of the planet and of capitalism. Ken Costa shows how environmental concerns and anxiety about equality and diversity are more than mere slogans; instead they are driving the future of the markets.
For readers of Rebecca Henderson’s Reimagining Capitalism, and Rutger Bregman’s Utopia for Realists, this is what the future of capitalism looks like, how our current systems may be upended, and how boomers must work with the invigorating and inspiring young, who see their mission not just to increase value for shareholders, but to save the planet from humanity’s disastrous last 40 years.
Ken Costa is former chairman of three major global investment institutions, including UBS Investment Bank, and he currently runs a $20 billion investment fund focused on millennials. Ken is also Emeritus Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, the author of four books and contributor to the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The Times, the Telegraph, and the BBC.
14 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399408011 / £25.00
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Ed Owens is the author of The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public. He is a fellow of the School of Advanced Studies at The University of London. He is an historian, royal commentator and public speaker. He is often in demand on radio and television to discuss the subject matter of this book.
Age of Hope
Labour, 1945 and the Birth of Modern Britain
Richard Toye
A comprehensive history of the Labour party from one of the brightest young historians of 20th century Britain.
2024 marks the centenary of the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald. What legacy of the past have they left behind? How far has each Labour administration influenced succeeding administrations? And was the Attlee government of 1945 really the golden period of Labour power?
Professor Richard Toye explores Labour’s exercise of power as a continuum, setting Attlee’s administration in longterm historical context between the first Labour Government of 1924 and the current party under Keir Starmer.
Covering Labour's history all the way up to the present, Age of Hope is an incisive, informative look at a political party that has been fundamental in shaping modern Britain and will be equally instrumental in its future.
28 September 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399406529 / £25.00
EXPORT TPB / 9781399406512 / £14.99
EBOOK / 9781399406505 / £17.50
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12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399407632 / £20.00
EXPORT TPB / 9781399412506 / £14.99
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Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. His books include Winston Churchill: Politics Strategy and Statecraft, Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness and The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s Speeches.
In 2007 The Times Higher Educational Supplement voted him Young Academic Author of the Year.
26 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781472992307 / £30.00
EBOOK / 9781472992291 / £21.00
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Unfit and Proper Persons
An Alternative Guide to Running a Football Club
Kevin Day & Kieran Maguire
A smart and irreverent guide to running a football club from the acclaimed team behind The Price of Football podcast.
Imagine setting up a Sunday League football club and seeing it rise to the lofty heights of the Champions League, taking all the risky, rewarding, sometimes dodgy and increasingly big money decisions along the way. Comedian and financial idiot Kevin Day and Kieran Maguire, a football accountant and financial expert, have imagined just that.
As (the made up) West Park Rovers rise through the divisions, towards the Premier League and Europe, Kevin and Kieran take you on a rollercoaster ride through the often murky – and frequently bizarre – world of football finance.
Their preposterous but somehow believable journey uses examples from football’s rich history of financial chaos and contributions from those in the know, including Gary Lineker, Gary Neville, and Stephen Fry, to follow the money and discover what’s really going on behind the scenes of the beautiful game.
Kevin Day is a comedian and comedy writer with credits for Have I Got News for You and A League of Their Own. He also regularly appears on TalkSport and BBC 5 Live.
Kieran Maguire is a football finance expert. When not appearing on television and radio, he teaches the Football Industries MBA at the University of Liverpool Management School.
Around the World in 80 Minutes
In Search of Rugby Greatness
Robert Kitson
A celebration of rugby’s ‘golden age’ written by one of its leading authorities.
Few sports have had a more eventful last 50 years than rugby union. Even fewer involve such a range of cultures, contrasting characters or diverse geographical settings. With the 2023 Rugby World Cup and the 200th anniversary of the game’s ‘birth’ on the horizon, Around the World in 80 Minutes sets out to find the game’s most inspiring people and places.
Bloody Minded
My Autobiography
Alex Dowsett
Alex Dowsett’s autobiography lifts the lid on life as the world’s only top sportsperson with haemophilia A.
For over a decade Alex Dowsett had been one of Britain’s best cyclists. He has ridden Grand Tours and Classics for elite teams including Sky and Movistar and broke the iconic World Hour Record – the ultimate time trial challenge. With humour, insight and brutal honesty, Alex tells of the challenges he has faced in his struggle to reach the top and his years as a pro-cyclist.
Alex has achieved all this despite being the only top sportsperson in the world with haemophilia A. He describes how the condition – in which falls can be fatal – blighted his young sporting life, and his determination to succeed in cycling., With an all-star cycling cast, including Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, Lance Armstrong and Mark Cavendish, this pulsating book lifts the lid on life in the peloton at the world’s top level.
Alex Dowsett, professional cyclist of Israel Start Up Nation and Team GB athlete, is a six time national time trial champion and former Hour Record Holder. He’s been cycling for over a decade at the world’s top level and now he's ready to tell the inside story of elite cycling.
12 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399407540 / £16.99
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Rugby is approaching something of an existential crossroads. Around the World in 80 Minutes reflects on the modern game’s health and hears from the battered gladiators of yesteryear, considering some pertinent questions: Does rugby still have an identifiable soul? Do traditional perceptions of the game need updating? What does its future look like?
Readers will be transported to the the sport's heyday, as Robert speaks with all the big names along the way, including Gareth Edwards, Gavin Hastings, Liza Burgess, Stuart Barnes, Warren Gatland, Brian O’Driscoll, and many more.
Robert Kitson has been The Guardian's rugby union correspondent since 1999 and is one of the UK's most respected sports writers. He has covered eight Rugby World Cups, five British and Irish Lions tours and in excess of 300 Tests worldwide. He was highly commended in the SJA Rugby Journalist of the Year awards in 2015.
Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1986-1993 (Volume
Two)
Panini
A football fan's dream come true – every UK Panini sticker album 19861993 reproduced as facsimiles for the very first time.
WELCOME TO THE GLORIOUS WORLD OF PANINI FOOTBALL STICKERS.
Collecting PANINI football stickers has always been a joy.
Tearing open those packets and excitedly filling an album is a rite of passage for millions of kids - and adults. It's so popular, it even has its own language'swapsies', 'got, got, need' and 'shinies'.
17 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399403580 / £20.00
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14 September 2023
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Licensed by PANINI, this landmark illustrated book showcases PANINI's UK domestic football 1986-1993. All the great teams of this era feature (Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottingham Forest, Spurs), as do the famous players (Kenny Dalglish, Trevor Francis, Glenn Hoddle, Bryan Robson, Ryan Giggs, Ian Rush) shown in full PANINI sticker album glory.
PANINI was founded in 1961 with the launch of its first Calciatori/Football Players collection. It now has subsidiaries in Europe, Latin America and the United States. In the run-up to a FIFA World Cup, PANINI produces millions of albums, selling them to over 150 territories.
26 October 2023
PAPERBACK / 9781399405287 / £35.00
EBOOK / 9781399405256 / £31.50
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God Is An Octopus
Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature Ben Goldsmith
Struggling to comprehend the death of his teenage daughter, Iris, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by rewilding his Somerset farm.
In 2019, Ben Goldsmith’s beautiful fifteenyearold daughter died in a tragic accident on their family farm in Somerset. Iris was sparkling, charismatic and intelligent, and, like Ben, she had a lifelong love of nature. She was the centre of her family’s world, and her death left them devastated.
In the aftermath of losing Iris, Ben found solace in nature. The time he spent in nature became a vital source of meaning, hope and even joy. In Iris’s honour, he began to rewild their farm, strengthening his connection with the natural world. He restored natural meanders to streams and removed the hedgerows and fences that divided up the farm. Talking to the people championing the benefits of rewilding, he learned what else he can do to return the farm to its more natural state.
As the seasons passed and the world carried on without Iris, Ben sought ways to come to terms with his grief. Struggling to understand his loss, he connected with friends and family who had also lost children. He met Buddhist monks, an orthodox rabbi, his local vicar and a spiritual medium. Ultimately, though, it was the continuous lure of the natural world that allowed Ben to find hope and healing. He came to realise that the overriding meaning of his life, and the most fitting tribute he can make to his nature-loving daughter, is working and campaigning tirelessly for humankind’s harmonious coexistence with nature.
In his first book, Ben tells a powerful, immersive and inspiring story of finding healing, comfort and strength through nature after suffering loss and despair.
Ben Goldsmith is a leading light in the rewilding movement and the field of green investment, working on numerous environmental initiatives, including the Environmental Funders’ Network, Rewilding Britain, the Beaver Trust and the Conservation Collective. He and his wife are rewilding their Somerset farm.
11 May 2023
HARDBACK / 9781399408356 / £20.00
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Books to inspire, inform and empower
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Sounds Like Misophonia
How to Stop Small Noises Causing Extreme Reactions
Dr Jane Gregory
The first self-help step-by-step guide to living with misophonia, written by the UK's leading expert.
You might not have heard of misophonia, but if you are infuriated by the sound of chewing, breathing, snoring, a clock ticking, or any other specific trigger, you may have experienced it. In fact, it’s thought that one in five of us have it.
Sounds Like Misophonia addresses what the condition is, how it manifests, and provides a guide to managing it. Using techniques from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, clinical psychologist Dr Jane Gregory guides readers through evidence-based strategies and step-by-step exercises to review and adjust patterns of reacting to sounds.
Jane is joined by contributor Adeel Ahmad who shares case studies from other sufferers around the world. With humour and understanding, they offer practical ways so you can get on with life in this noisy world.
There is no cure for misophonia, but Sounds Like Misophonia helps provide solutions to living a fulfilling life, instead of fighting against it.
Dr Jane Gregory is a clinical psychologist. She created the website Sounds Like Misophonia and has been living with misophonia since she was 8 years old.
Adeel Ahmad is the host of the popular Misophonia Podcast. Adeel is based in the US and has lived with misophonia since high school.
14 September 2023
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History's Angel
Anjum Hasan
A darkly funny, moving novel about life in contemporary Delhi by 'one of the finest Indian writers alive'
Alif is a middle-aged history teacher living in contemporary Delhi. Though his life's passion is the history he teaches, it's the present that presses down on him: his wife is set on a bigger house and a better car while trying to ace her MBA exams; his teenage son wants to quit school to get rich; his supercilious colleagues are suspicious of a Muslim teaching India's history; and his old friend Ganesh has just reconnected with a childhood sweetheart with whom Alif was always rather enamored himself.
And then the unthinkable happens. While Alif is leading a school field trip, a Hindu student goads him about being Muslim, and in a fit of anger, Alif twists his ear. Suddenly out of a job, Alif finds his life rapidly descending into chaos. Meanwhile, his home city, too, darkens under the spreading shadow of violence.
Anjum Hasan is the author of three novels and two story collections, which have been shortlisted for the Indian Academy of Letters Prize, the Hindu Best Fiction Award, and longlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, ParisReviewand the Los AngelesReviewofBooks.
Lioness
06 July 2023
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The Librarianist
Patrick deWitt
The triumphant new black comic adventure from the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlistedTheSistersBrothers
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior centre that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he’s known since retiring, Bob begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet’s straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child’s runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian’s vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses.
Patrick deWitt is the author of TheSistersBrothers,which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and was adapted for a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix and Riz Ahmed. He also is the author of FrenchExit,which was adapted for a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer and shortlisted for the Giller Prize.
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The
bold new
novel from the Women's Prize Longlisted author
Emily Perkins
A hypnotic portrait of women unravelling and being unravelled from the Women's Prize longlisted, award-winning author of The Forrests
From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swift, and Therese begins to look at her privileged and insular world with new eyes.
In the flat below Therese, something else is brewing. Her neighbour Claire believes she's discovered the secret to living with freedom and authenticity, freeing herself from the mundanity of domesticity. Therese finds herself enchanted by the lure of the permissive zone Claire creates in her apartment – a place of ecstatic release. All too quickly, Therese is forced to confront herself and her choices – just how did she become this person? And what exactly should she do about it?
Emily Perkins is the author of four novels, including The Forrests (longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes cowriting the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton’s novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, and the original play The Made, produced in 2022. She lives in New Zealand.
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
The astonishing new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.
Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize. She is the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the 2002 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
06 July 2023
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The Bone Season
Samantha Shannon
A lavishly reimagined tenth anniversary edition, by the internationally bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree
Welcome to Scion. No safer place.
The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe.
In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion law, she commits treason simply by breathing.
When Paige is arrested for murder, she meets the mysterious founders of Scion, who have designs on her uncommon abilities. If she is to survive and escape, Paige must use every skill at her disposal – and put her trust in someone who ought to be her enemy.
Samantha Shannon is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Bone Season series. Her work has been translated into twenty-six languages. Her fourth novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, was her first outside of The Bone Season series and was an international bestseller. She lives in London.
How to Love Your Daughter
Hila Blum
The unforgettable story of an estranged mother and daughter, and the mistakes that tore their family apart
A woman stands on a dark street, thousands of kilometers from her home in Israel, and peeks through the windows of a home in a city in northern Holland. The two little girls she sees through the window are her granddaughters, whom she has never met, the daughters of her only daughter.
At the center of this brilliant novel is a small family – mother, daughter, and father, in this order, a family whose mistakes, made in the name of love, accumulate gradually to create an unforgettable psychological drama.
With clarity and sharpness, Hila Blum examines the delicate crevices of a mother’s love for her daughter, those that we want to see and those that we would rather deny. Blum draws an intimate road map which exposes the limits of our capacity to direct and to control the fate of our children.
Death Valley Melissa Broder
From the Women’s Prizelonglisted authorofThePiscesand MilkFed, a dark andfunnynovelaboutgriefandsurvivalintheCaliforniadesert
A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow — for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike.
Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.
This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is Death Valley.
Melissa Broder is the author of the novels The Pisces and Milk Fed, the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize for poetry, she has written for the New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut.
22 August 2023
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Hila Blum is a native of Jerusalem, but has also lived in Hawaii, Paris and New York. A former journalist, for the past fourteen years she has worked as an editor at one of Israel’s leading publishing houses. Her first novel, The Visit, was shortlisted for the 2012 Sapir Prize. How to Love Your Daughter won the same prize in 2022.
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
From award-winning author Jesmyn Ward, a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the civil war
Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation.
Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take.
Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet, Let Us Descend is a masterwork for the ages.
22 August 2023
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Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has received the MacArthur Genius Grant among other honours. She is the winner of two National Book Awards for Fiction for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Tulane University and lives in Mississippi.
24 October 2023
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Welcome to the Hyunamdong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum
Translated
by Shanna TanA heart-warming novel set in a South Korean bookshop, about finding acceptance and comfort with the healing power of books.
Yeong-ju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeong-ju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, divorces her husband, and follows her dream. She opens a bookshop.
In a quaint neighbourhood in Seoul, surrounded by books, Yeong-ju and her customers take refuge. From the lonely barista to the unhappily married housewife, and the writer who sees something special in Yeong-ju - they all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-Dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop is a heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life - and the healing power of books.
Hwang Bo-reum studied in Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. Hwang authored several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Welcome to Hyunam-dong Bookshop is her first novel.
Held Anne Michaels
The triumphant new novel from the author of the Orange Prize-winning Fugitive Pieces: a soaring and luminous story of chance and change
1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls.
1920. John has returned from war – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand.
26 October 2023
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So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds. In luminous moments of desire, comprehension, longing, transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later.
AnneMichaels' work has been published in over forty-five countries and has won awards ncluding the Orange Prize, the GuardianFiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was Toronto's Poet Laureate 2015-2019. Her novel FugitivePieceswas adapted as a feature film. She lives in Canada.
09 November 2023
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NEW TITLES • JULY-DECEMBER 2023
FICTION ORIGINALS
West Heart Kill
Dann McDorman
'Every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth'
It's the Fourth of July weekend at the prestigious West Heart country club. Gathered for cocktails on the first evening are just some of the guests. The club president, the treasurer and his pregnant wife, the snooping school boy, the bereaved father, the taciturn caretaker, the prospective member...
And there will also be a body.
And a private detective.
And a fiendish mystery to solve.
But everything else is all to play for.
And you are about to find out that you have a role to play in this mystery too…. West Heart Kill is an outrageously original and imaginative murder mystery that is both a love letter to the greats of classic crime fiction and a fiendishly brilliant puzzle the likes of which you will never have read before.
Dann McDorman is an Emmy-nominated TV news producer who is currently the Executive Producer of 'The Beat with Ari Melber' on MSNBC. He’s also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, management consultant, typist, and cabinet maker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. West Heart Kill is his debut novel.
Gaslight
The second Philip Taiwo investigation Femi Kayode
The sensational new instalment in Femi Kayode's acclaimed crime series starring clinical psychologist, Philip Taiwo
Bishop Jeremiah Dawodu, pastor of a Nigerian megachurch, has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Folsade, the 'First Lady' of the church. The arrest was public, humiliating and sensational - sending shockwaves through Lagosbut throughout it all, Bishop Dawodu maintains his innocence.
24 October 2023
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Philip Taiwo, an acclaimed investigative psychologist, is asked by his sister, a member of the church's congregation, to clear the pastor’s name. With no actual body, it looks to be a simple case and despite Philip’s dislike of organised religion, he agrees to investigate. Then the First Lady's body is found just as Philip’s beloved family come under attack from someone warning him off the case, and he realises that nothing to do with this investigation will be straightforward.
Who can you trust if you can't trust a man of God?
Femi Kayode trained as a clinical psychologist in Nigeria, before starting a career in advertising. He has created and written several prime-time TV shows. His debut novel, Lightseekers, was selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award.
09 November 2023
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'We know you know. Talk and you’re next.'
BLOOMSBURY POETRY
NEW TITLES • JULY-DECEMBER 2023
FICTION ORIGINALS
Mothersong Amy Acre
A debut excavating trauma and healing in early motherhood - from a poet whose work 'fizzes ... levitating openness of song' (Rebecca Tamás)
My child, months from the womb, hung from my teeth. I ferried her by the neck and saw her death everywhere.
Award-winning poet Amy Acre's debut collection Mothersong is a book for our contemporary moment and the moments which follow it, also; an unforgettable, unflinching excavation of motherhood, what it means to be a female artist, and what it means to be a poet with a deeply integrated community.
Amy Acre is a poet, writer, and the editor of Bad Betty Press. Her pamphlets have twice been selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poem ‘every girl knows’ won the 2019 Verve Poetry Competition. She featured on The Last Dinosaur’s track, ‘In The Belly of a Whale’, streamed over 600,000 times on Spotify. She lives in London.
Owed Joshua Bennett
'A rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the US' NewYorker
Owed is a book with celebration at its centre. Its primary concern is how we might mend the relationship between ourselves and the people, spaces, and objects we have been taught to think of as insignificant, as fundamentally unworthy of study, reflection, attention, or care.
Spanning the spectrum of genre and form - from elegy and ode to origin myth - these poems elaborate an aesthetics of repair. What's more, they ask that we turn to the songs and sites of the historically denigrated so that we might uncover a new way of being in the world together, one wherein we can truthfully reckon with the brutality of the past and thus imagine the possibilities of our shared, unpredictable present, anew.
28 September 2023
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Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School — a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College.
09 November 2023
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
Baek Sehee
Translated by Anton Hur
The bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
Recording her conversations with her psychiatrist over 12 weeks, Baek begins to disentangle the knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.
Baek Sehee studied creative writing in university before working for five years at a publishing house. For ten years, she received psychiatric treatment for dysthymia (persistent mild depression), which became the subject of her essays, and I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki. Her favorite food is tteokbokki, and she lives with her rescue dog Jaram.
The Matter of Everything
A History of Discovery Suzie Sheehy
The story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that made the modern world
For millennia, people have asked questions about the nature of matter. In the twentieth century, this curiosity led to an unprecedented outburst of scientific discovery that changed the course of history.
Accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged these ground-breaking experiments. From the physicists who soared in hot air balloons on the trail of new particles, to the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German lab, Sheehy shows how these experiments informed innumerable aspects of how we live today.
Pulling physics down from the theoretical and putting it in the hands of the people, The Matter of Everything is a celebration of human ingenuity, creativity and curiosity: a powerful reminder that progress relies on the desire to know.
The Story of Russia
'An excellent short study' Orlando Figes
A publishing event from one of our most gifted storytellers: the expansive and enthralling history of Russia, from its foundations to the present ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’, George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world.
How the Russians came to tell their story – and to reinvent it as they went along – is not only a vital aspect of their history, but is also the best means we have of understanding the country today. Beginning in the first millennium, when Russia’s lands were first settled by the Slavs, and ending with Putin in the third, The Story of Russia is quintessential Figes: sweeping, suspenseful, masterful.
OrlandoFiges is an award-winning author and historian, who has held teaching posts at Birkbeck College, University of London and Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was born in London in 1959 and studied History at the University of Cambridge. Figes is the bestselling author of nine books on Russian and European history, including Natasha’sDanceandAPeople’sTragedy.His books have been translated into over 30 languages.
06 July 2023
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Dr. Suzie Sheehy is a physicist, academic and science communicator who divides her time between her research groups at the University of Oxford (where she is a Royal Society University Research Fellow) and the University of Melbourne (where she is Senior Lecturer). Her research focuses on developing new particle accelerators for future applications in areas such as medicine and energy.
China After Mao The Rise of a Superpower Frank Dikötter
From the author of Mao's Great Famine, a timely account of China's transformation from the 1970s to the present day
In China After Mao, awardwinning historian Frank Dikötter delves into the history of China from the death of Chairman Mao in 1976 up until the moment when Xi Jinping stepped to the fore in 2012.
It is a fascinating tale of contradictions and illusions, of shadow banking, repeated anti-corruption drives and the existence of extreme state wealth alongside everyday poverty. Dikötter explores the decades of socalled ‘Reform and Opening Up’ and the country's emergence into a postindustrial era. He examines China’s increasing hostility towards perceived Western interference and its development into an entrenched dictatorship with a sprawling security apparatus and the most sophisticated surveillance system in the world.
06 July 2023
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Drawing on hundreds of previously unseen documents, as well as unpublished memoirs, newspaper reports and the secret diaries of Mao’s personal secretary, China
After Mao is a brilliantly researched and mesmerizing account of a country in flux –and in crisis.
Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His books have changed the way historians view China, from the classic The Discourse of Race in Modern China to his awardwinning People's Trilogy documenting the lives of ordinary people under Mao. He is married and lives in Hong Kong.
17 August 2023
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Pretty Young Rebel
The Life of Flora Macdonald
Flora Fraser
An enthralling portrait of the remarkable eighteenth-century Scottish heroine Flora Macdonald from bestselling biographer Flora Fraser
The year is 1746. The Jacobite rebellion has failed and Scotland is reeling in the devastating aftermath of the battle of Culloden. In the Outer Hebrides, twenty-fouryear-old Flora Macdonald is woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence. Bonnie Prince Charlie is outside, begging her for help.
With Flora's assistance, the Stuart prince is disguised as an Irish maid and smuggled to the Isle of Skye, but Flora’s bravery results in her capture and detention in London. On her release, she returns to Skye before emigrating to North Carolina, only then to be caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
InPrettyYoungRebel,award-winningbiographerFloraFrasertellstheremarkablestoryofFlora Macdonald. It is a tale of adventure and daring, wit and charm, struggle and survival, and of a womanwhoshowedextraordinarycourageinthefaceofgreatdanger.
Flora Fraser is the author of Beloved Emma: The Life of Emma Hamilton; The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline; Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte and George & Martha Washington: A Revolutionary Marriage, which won the 2016 George Washington Prize. Flora was named after Flora Macdonald, whose story she tells in Pretty Young Rebel.
Look! We Have Come Through!
Living With D. H. Lawrence Lara Feigel
A spellbinding blend of literary criticism, biography and memoir, and an intimate, pugnacious reassessment of D. H. Lawrence
As the pandemic takes hold in the spring of 2020, Lara Feigel locks down in rural Oxfordshire with her partner, her two children and that most explosive of writersD.H. Lawrence.
The Big Bang of Numbers
How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths Manil Suri
An engaging and imaginative tour through the fundamental mathematical concepts – from arithmetic to infinity – that form the building blocks of our universe.
Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing – no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space – could we create a universe using only maths?
In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and award-winning novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design our world, starting with numbers and continuing through geometry, algebra, and beyond. With evocative and engaging examples ranging from multidimensional crochet to the Mona Lisa’s asymmetrical smile, as well as ingenious storytelling that helps illuminate complex concepts like infinity and relativity, The Big Bang of Numbers proves that we can all fall in love with maths.
Manil Suri was born in Bombay in 1959 and is a distinguished university professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He has written three novels, The Death of Vishnu, The Age of Shiva, and The City of Devi, as well as the non-fiction book, The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Maths. His fiction has been translated into twenty-seven languages, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award, LA Times Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award and the W H Smith Literary Award, and has won the McKittrick Prize and the Barnes & Noble Discover Award. He lives in Maryland, USA.
14 September 2023
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Proceeding month by month through the year, she sets out to start again with Lawrence: to find literary companionship; to use him as a guide to rural living and even childrearing. Tracing the arc of Lawrence’s life, she confronts his anger, his passion, his tumultuous vitality. In the process, she faces some of today’s most urgent dilemmas, from religion to climate, from sexuality to feminism’s ideas about motherhood. And, as she watches the seasons change, Feigel finds the rhythms of her own life shifting in unexpected ways.
Brilliantly interweaving literary criticism, biography and memoir, Look! We Have Come Through! is a captivating exhumation of an author and a compelling manifesto for exposing ourselves to difficult and dangerous views.
Lara Feigel is a Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King’s College London. She is the author of four works of non-fiction, including The Love-charm of Bombs, The Bitter Taste of Victory and Free Woman, as well as one novel, The Group. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian.
Himalaya
Exploring the Roof of the World John Keay
A groundbreaking exploration of Himalaya: one of the world’s most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions
More rugged and elevated than any other zone on the planet, Himalaya embraces all of Tibet, six of the world’s eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. It contains around 50,000 glaciers and the most extensive permafrost outside the polar regions. Over an area nearly as big as Europe, the population is scattered, often nomadic and always sparse. Many languages are spoken, some are written and few are related.
Religious and political affiliations are equally diverse. Borders are disputed, while jealous neighbours shy away from a common strategy for protecting an environment
in which desert meets rainforest and temperatures can fluctuate between 30 and -30° C in the course of a single day.
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In Himalaya, historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast and confounding corner of the planet, and makes the case that it is one of our most essential and endangered wonders.
John Keay’s involvement with Himalaya dates back to the 1960s when he was a foreign correspondent in Kashmir. In the 1970s he published two standard works on the exploration of the Western Himalayas. He has continued to specialise in Asian affairs, writing books on the histories of India and China. Himalaya is the summation of a lifetime’s study.
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In Search of Our Inherited Cities
Amaryllis Gacioppo
An Australian returns to her ancestral home of Italy to investigate the meaning of homecomings, and of home itself.
Our creation stories begin with the notion of expulsion from our ‘original’ home. We spend our lives struggling to return to the place we fit in, the body we belong in, the people that understand us, the life we were meant for. But the places we remember are ever-changing, and ever since we left, they continue to alter themselves, betraying the deal made when leaving.
Australian journalist Amaryllis Gacioppo has been raised on stories of original homes, on the Palermo of her mother, the Turin of her grandmother and the Italian Libya of her greatgrandmother. Weaving memoir and cultural history through Italy’s modern political history, examining notions of citizenship, statelessness, memory and identity and the very notion of home, Motherlands heralds the arrival of a major talent that opens one’s eyes to new ways of understanding belonging and not belonging.
Amaryllis Gacioppo is a journalist and author. In 2015 she won the Lord Mayor of Melbourne Award for Short Story. Her writing has been shortlisted for a number of awards, including the Bristol Short Story Prize and the Scribe Nonfiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Catapult, 3:AM, and elsewhere. This is her first book.
The Apology
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
From the author of the revolutionary The Vagina Monologues comes a powerful examination of abuse and atonement
Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her.
The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear, attempts to transform the abuse she suffered with unflinching truthfulness, compassion and an expansive vision for the future.
V is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.
Tourists
How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves
Lucy Lethbridge
A perceptive and witty history of British tourism across continental Europe from 1815 to 1950.
In the early 1800s, a new social phenomenon was born in Britain. The exploration of continental Europe, previously the preserve of the wealthy, began to be taken up by the British middle classes. The era of the lofty Grand Tour was over; here instead was the advent of tourism as we know it today.
In Tourists, Lucy Lethbridge brings the voices of ordinary British travellers to life. She charts the rise of guidebooks, explores the connection between tourism and mass production, and shines a light on the evolving public attitudes towards leisure.
Brilliantly observed, this is a fascinating portrait of Brits abroad. From the allure of Spanish seaside holidays to the alarming nature of foreign food, from appreciating art and architecture to the drama of finding a proper cup of tea, Tourists serves as a reminder of the always complex, sometimes comic, relationship between the British and their holiday destinations.
Lucy Lethbridge has written for a number of publications and is also the author of several children's books, one of which, Who Was Ada Lovelace?, won the 2002 Blue Peter Award for non-fiction. She is the author of Servants, published to critical acclaim in 2013, and Spit and Polish. She lives in London.
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Settlers
Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London
Jimi Famurewa
Jimi Famurewa journeys into the vibrant world of Black African London. Shortlisted for the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
'A spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism.' ? Stylist Magazine
'Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes. Famurewa's writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed.' ? the Guardian
What is it to be Black, African and British?
In this book Jimi Famurewa, a British-Nigerian journalist, seeks to understand the ties that bind Black African Londoners together and link them with their home countries. He visits their places of worship, markets and restaurants and far-flung grammar schools and listens to stories from shopkeepers and activists, artists and politicians.
But Jimi also uncovers a darker side, of racial discrimination between White and Black communities and, between Black Africans and Afro-Caribbeans. He investigates the troublesome practice of ‘farming’ in which young Black Nigerians were sent to live with White British foster parents and examines historic interaction with the police.
This is a vivid new portrait of London, and of modern Britain.
Jimi Famurewa is a British-Nigerian author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the restaurant critic for the Evening Standard and regular judge on BBC One's MasterChef. In 2021, he won Restaurant Writer of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Awards and Guild of Food Writers Awards. His story ‘Teddybird’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Guardian/4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize.
Cornerstones
Wild Forces That Can Change Our World Benedict Macdonald
Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain, and could again.
Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. But could restoring species that once helped protect our islands help turn this crisis around?
From familiar yet imperilled honeybees and ancient oak woods to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain’s cornerstone species may hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas.
In Cornerstones, we discover how beavers craft wetlands, save fish, encourage otters, and prevent rivers from flooding. We learn how ‘disruptive’ boars are seasoned butterfly conservationists, why whales are crucial for restoring seabird cities and how wolves and lynx could save our trees, help sequester carbon and protect our most threatened birds.
Benedict Macdonald transforms our understanding of the natural world forever, explaining how humans – the most important cornerstone species of all – can become the greatest stewards of the natural world.
Benedict Macdonald is a TV producer, nature writer and conservationist. He has worked on The One Show, Springwatch, Our Planet, Tiny Worlds and Earth at Night. His book, Rebirding, won the Richard Jefferies Prize and the Wainwright Global Conservation Prize. Ben lives in Bristol and is affiliated with the RSPB, The Wildlife Trusts, National Trust, Beaver Trust and Rewilding Britain.
The Magic in the Tin
From the author of the critically acclaimed THE BOY ON THE SHED
Paul Ferris
From the author of The Boy on the Shed comes a tale of resilience, told with humour, openness and bravery.
'Unmissable: please read this extraordinary book.' - Daily Mail
'Genius... A difficult, deeply personal story beautifully told.' – The Athletic
'All men should read this book - important and brilliantly written.' - Alan Shearer
Former Newcastle United winger Paul Ferris was 51. He had forged a post-football career as a physio, barrister and then a CEO, and his award-winning memoir, The Boy on the Shed, was about to be published. Then he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. This honest, brutal and frequently funny book reveals what happened next.
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Paul doesn’t shy away from describing the treatment or its lifechanging consequences – from harrowing surgery, humiliating procedures and excruciating consultations – as he strives to become the man he once was again.
Courageous and beautifully written,The Magic in the Tin is a rare thing: deeply moving yet rich in humour, written by a true sportsman in every sense of the word.
Paul Ferris, a football prodigy, became Newcastle United’s youngestever player in 1982, only for injury to ensure his promise went unfulfilled. He later returned to the club as a physiotherapist before earning a Master’s degree and qualifying as a barrister. Paul's first book, The Boy on the Shed, became a bestseller and won Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year.
The Flow
Rivers, Water and Wildness Amy-Jane Beer
Returning to the river where she lost a cherished friend, Amy-Jane Beer reignites her love of rivers by exploring their nature.
On New Year’s Day 2012, AmyJane Beer’s beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored.
Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration.
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The Flow is a book about water, and, like water, it meanders, cascades and percolates through many lives, landscapes and stories. From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation.
Threading together places and voices from across Britain, The Flow is a profound, immersive exploration of our personal and ecological place in nature.
Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist turned naturalist and writer. She has worked for more than 20 years as a science writer and editor, contributing to more than 40 books on natural history. She is currently a Country Diarist for The Guardian, a columnist for British Wildlife and a feature writer for BBC Wildlife magazine, among others.
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A Revolution Betrayed
How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System Peter Hitchens
Peter Hitchens describes the political misjudgements that led to the increase of class distinction and privilege in our education system.
Peter Hitchens looks carefully at the involvement of politics and politicians in contemporary British education and points out the fundamental errors which have resulted in anxiety for parents all over the country.
The cost of private secondary education is around £50,000 a year and the best comprehensive schools are oversubscribed, leading to parents spending thousands on private tutoring and fee-paying prep schools to get their children into academically excellent schools. Peter Hitchens argues that in trying to bring about an egalitarian educational system, politicians have created a system that is the exact opposite. An indepth look at the British education system and what will happen if things don’t change radically.
Peter Hitchens is a columnist for the Mail on Sunday and a contributor to many other publications. He has published several books, including The Abolition of Britain and The Rage Against God, also published by Bloomsbury Continuum. He has been a journalist for nearly 50 years, has reported from 57 countries and was a resident correspondent in Moscow and Washington.
Aesop’s Animals
The Science Behind the Fables Jo Wimpenny
Turns a critical eye to the fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop’s portrayal of animals.
Despite being conceived over 2,000 years ago, Aesop’s Fables are still passed down today and are embedded in our collective consciousness. The morals we learned from these tales still inform our judgements, but have they influenced our views of the animal protagonists as well? And if so, is there any truth behind the stereotypes?
In Aesop's Animals, zoologist Jo Wimpenny asks whether there is any scientific truth to Aesop’s portrayal of his animals. She brings the tales into the twentyfirst century, introducing the latest scientific research on some of the most fascinating topics in animal behaviour.
BBC Sports Report
A Celebration of the World’s Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme Pat Murphy
This definitive official celebration Sports Report recounts the radio programme’s rich history as well the sporting moments it has covered.
First broadcast in 1948, the BBC’s iconic Sports Report is the longest-running radio sporting programme in the world.
Patrick Murphy has been a reporter on the programme since 1981 and here he sifts through the experiences of his contemporaries, including commentators, reporters, producers, and all those who made their mark on Sports Report in earlier decades.
Through unique access to the BBC Archives Unit, he highlights memorable moments from Sports Report, details the challenges faced in getting live interviews on air from noisy dressing-room areas and celebrates the feat of just a small production team in the studio who, somehow, get the show running every Saturday, with the clock ticking implacably on.
Featuring contributions from John Inverdale, Mark Chapman, Dan Walker and more, this book celebrates Sports Report as a BBC radio institution and Patrick Murphy pays handsome tribute to a programme that is still followed affectionately by millions.
Patrick Murphy is a celebrated BBC journalist and the longest-serving regular contributor to Sports Report. He started in November, 1981, specialising in cricket and football, and is famed for his many jousts with difficult members of the football industry. Murphy has been involved in 44 sports books, including acclaimed biographies of Ian Botham and Brian Clough.
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Jo Wimpenny is a zoologist and writer, with a research background in animal behaviour and the history of science. She is a regular feature writer for BBC Wildlife and a dedicated communicator of science, having previously presented at the BA Festival of Science, Science Oxford, the Royal Society Summer Science Fair and Glasgow Science Fair.
Et tu, Brute?
The Best Latin Lines Ever Harry Mount & John Davie
Unlock the past's wisdom with this light-hearted book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better now.
There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding their background: 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'. And often these phrases are also used in English translation: 'The die is cast'; 'crossing the Rubicon'; 'Rome was not built in a day'.
Many of these phrases are humorous, but they are also a rich source of wisdom: the wisdom of the ancients. The chapters of this book cover such varied topics as gardening, love and growing old gracefully and there are entertaining cartoons and illustrations dotted throughout.
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At a time of great political and social turbulence, more and more people are turning back to ancient wisdom as a guide to life. Here they are in touch with two classical scholars of distinction who have the common touch and can help make Latin accessible to all, not to mention fun!
Harry Mount wrote the top 10 bestseller Amo, Amas, Amat and All That – How to
Become a Latin Lover. He studied classics at Oxford and is editor of The Oldie Magazine.
John Davie was head of classics at St Paul’s School before becoming a lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford. He has published translations of Seneca, Horace, Cicero and Euripides.
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Britain's Jews
Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety
Harry Freedman
Britain’s Jewsis a challenging look at what it is like to be Jewish in 21stcentury Britain.
As a minority, Jews in Britain are confident, their institutions competent and mature. And yet within Jewish life in Britain there is a pervading sense of anxiety.
Jews in Britain have risen to the top of nearly every profession, they sit at the top tables in politics, make their voices heard in the media, are prominent in science and the arts. There is poverty and gross disadvantage as well, just as there is in any community, but on any objective measure, British Jews have done well.
Britain’s Jews is a challenging look at Jewish life in the UK today. Based on conversations with Jews from all walks of life, it depicts, in ways that are at times disturbing, at other times inspiring, what it is like to be Jewish in 21st century Britain, and why Jewish life is still a subject of fascination.
Harry Freedman is Britain’s leading author of popular works of Jewish culture and history. He has published several books with Bloomsbury Continuum, including Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius and Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul, which was particularly successful in the USA. His other titles include The Talmud: A Biography and The Murderous History of Bible Translations.
Wilder
How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World Millie Kerr
Wilder takes readers on a global rewilding journey, exploring innovative and eye-opening projects led by a diverse group of conservationists.
If conservation seeks to preserve what remains and stave off further decline, rewilding goes further, aspiring to restore entire ecosystems through a range of options, from prioritising natural ecological restoration to reintroducing keystone species.
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In this timely and exciting read, wildlife journalist Millie Kerr takes readers on a global journey of discovery. She considers the practicalities and possibilities of ecological restoration around the world, while exploring first-hand some of the most ambitious undertakings occurring today. Wilder details the return of jaguars to an Argentinian national park, the first-ever pangolin reintroduction project in South Africa, and the ways in which giant tortoises are aiding the recovery of ecosystems throughout the Galápagos Islands.
At an urgent moment in the international fight against biodiversity loss, Wilder's message is one of innovation and optimism. By focusing on conservation success stories and showing that there are bands of determined conservationists fighting for a better future, Wilder inspires us all to become part of the solution.
Millie Kerr is a lawyer-turned-writer, and an award-winning wildlife photographer. Her writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including The Economist, the Guardian, National Geographic, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Millie has also worked for Panthera and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and has been retained by African Parks, Elephant Family and Fauna & Flora International as an external consultant.
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Ghost Lover
The electrifying short story collection from the author of THREE WOMEN Lisa Taddeo
Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion, a trio of women compete to win the heart of the slick guest of honor. In a tense hospital waiting room, an inseparable pair of hardpartying friends crash into life’s responsibilities, but the magic of their glory days comes alive again at the moment they least expect it.
In these nine riveting stories, two of which have been awarded the Pushcart Prize, Lisa Taddeo brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of love, and the mania of grief. Featuring Taddeo’s arresting prose that continues to thrill her legions of fans, Ghost Lover dares you to look away.
Lisa Taddeo is the author of bestsellers Three Women and Animal. She has contributed to New York, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her non-fiction has been included in the Best American Sports Writing and Best American Political Writing anthologies, and her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. Lisa lives with her husband and daughter in New England.
Home Cailean Steed
A readinonegulp commercial thriller about coming of age under a cult’s indoctrination – and what it takes to break free
Someone has broken into Zoe’s flat. A man she thought she’d never have to see again. They call him the Hand of God.
He knows about her job in the café, her Dublin flat, her exgirlfriend, even the knife she’s hidden under the mattress. She thought she’d left him far behind, along with the cult of the Children and their isolated compound Home – but now he’s found her, and she knows she must go back to rescue the sister who helped her all those years before.
But returning to Home means going back to the enforced worship and gender roles Zoe has long since moved beyond. Back to the abuse and indoctrination she’s fought hard to overcome.
Going back will make her question everything she believed about her past – and risk her hard-won freedom. Can she break free a second time?
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The Gallows Pole Benjamin Myers
Winner of the 2018 Walter Scott Prize. ‘Historical fiction at its best’ Pat Barker. ‘Phenomenal’ Sebastian Barry. ‘Superb’ The Times
Soon to be a TV series co-produced by the BBC and A24, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose
From his moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and landworkers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley’s empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North.
Born in Durham, Benjamin Myers is an award-winning writer whose work spans fiction, poetry and journalism. His novel Richard was a Sunday Times book of the year, Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron was recipient of the 06 July 2023
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Cailean Steed is a writer, teacher and aspiring dog owner who lives in Helensburgh with their husband and son. They have also resided in Aberdeen and Dublin, and hope one day to live somewhere with less rain.
Cailean’s work has been published by NewWritingScotland,BoudiccaPressand BarrenMagazine. Home is their first novel.
Little Nothings
Julie Mayhew
Tensions between friends spiral towards disaster in this thrilling novel for fans of Adele Parks, Louise Candlish and Liane Moriarty
Liv Travers never knew real friendship until she met fellow mums Beth and Binnie. The three women become soulmates as together they muddle through early parenthood. They understand Liv like no one else does, not even Liv’s husband Pete. Then along comes Ange…
Ambitious, wealthy and somehow able to do it all, under Ange’s guiding presence, the group finds new vigour and fresh aspirations – bigger houses, better schools, dinners at exclusive restaurants. But Liv is struggling to keep up with this expensive new lifestyle.
When the four families holiday together on a beautiful Greek island, Liv seizes the opportunity to reclaim her place at the heart of the group. But she is soon to discover the true, devastating cost of a friendship with Ange.
Julie Mayhew is an actress turned writer. She is an award-winning novelist, an award-nominated radio dramatist and has written short stories and stage plays to critical acclaim. As a participant in the BFI Network x BAFTA Crew scheme, she also writes and directs films.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
The charming, witty, and compulsively readable BBC Radio Two Book Club pick Shelby Van Pelt
A gripping family mystery meets a story of second chances in this warm, feelgood debut
After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped her cope. One night she meets Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium who sees everything, but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors – until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late...
Shelby Van Pelt’s debut novel is a reminder that sometimes taking a hard look at the past can help uncover a future that once felt impossible.
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Shelby Van Pelt lives in the suburbs of Chicago with her family. This is her first novel.
The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami
A new edition of a masterful, multi-award-winning work of historical fiction that imagines the memoirs of the first black explorer of America
In 1527, a conquistador arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers and claimed the region for Spain. Within a year of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indigenous tribes, only four survivors remained. Three were nobleman, whose stories found their way into the official record. The fourth was known only as Estebanico, a vibrant merchant from Barbary forced nto slavery and a new name, reborn as the first African explorer of the Americas.
This is his story: a journey across the great swathes of the New World, where wouldbe conquerors are transformed into humble servants, fearful outcasts into healers, and the silenced into storytellers.
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They're Going to Love You
A captivating drama of betrayal and creative ambition
Meg Howrey
A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles
Carlisle Martin dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer like her mother Isabel. She only gets to see her father Robert, and his brilliant but troubled partner James, for a few weeks a year where James educates her in all that he holds dear in life: literature, music, and most of all, dance. As the years go by, Carlisle is desperate to be asked to stay permanently, even as AIDS brings devastation to their community. Instead, a passionate love affair creates a rift between them, with devastating consequences. Nineteen years later, Carlisle receives a phone call which unravels the fateful events of her life.
They're Going to Love You is a gripping and gorgeously written novel of heartbreaking intensity. With psychological precision and a masterfully revealed secret at its heart, it asks what it takes to be an artist, and the price of forgiveness, of ambition, and of love.
Meg Howrey is the author of TheWanderers,TheCranes and BlindSight. Her writing has appeared in Vogue and The LA Review of Books. Meg was a professional dancer with the City Ballet of Los Angeles. She received the Ovation Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Broadway tour of CONTACT. She lives in Los Angeles.
31 August 2023
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Laila Lalami is the author of four novels, including The Moor’s Account, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and The Other Americans, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
I Walk Between the Raindrops T.C. Boyle
A joyful, freewheeling and profound new collection from one of the most adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today
For one woman, a cross-country train ride becomes a parallel journey into the dark psyche of American manhood. An old man and his neighbour strike up a friendship that might a more sinister battle of wits than he first thinks. A man, waiting for his wife in a bar on Valentine's Day, is plagued by a stranger who claims to be clairvoyant.
In electric prose T. C. Boyle explores myriad facets of society: greed and excess, parenthood and responsibility, the digital world and the way we understand our mortality. Roaming unrestrainedly through the present and near future, he inhabits his characters’ minds with a ventriloquist’s flair, skewering human motivations and revealing us to ourselves with empathy and wry humour.
T. C. Boyle is the bestselling author of seventeen novels and eleven collections of stories. His work has been translated into twenty-six languages. He is the recipient of the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Voice in American Literature Award and the Henry David Thoreau Award. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in California.
17 August 2023
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Illuminations
The Top 5 Sunday Times Bestseller
Alan Moore
From the unparalleled imagination of international bestseller Alan Moore, author of From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, nine stories full of wonder and strangeness, which take us to the fantastical underside of reality.
In his first-ever short story collection, which features many never-before-published pieces, international bestselling author of From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other modern classics, Alan Moore, presents nine stories full of wonder and strangeness.
In Not Even Legend, a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In A Hypothetical Lizard, two concubines in a brothel for fantastical specialists fall in love, with tragic ramifications. And in the monumental novella What We Can Know About Thunderman, which charts the surreal history of the comics industry over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.
From otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination.
Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.
Last House Before the Mountain
Monika Helfer
Translated by Gillian Davidson
For readers of Ian McEwan, Elena Ferrante and Robert Seethaler, a spellbinding story of forbidden love and the hidden wages of war set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria.
Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for the men left behind. But when a red-haired stranger arrives in the village, Maria feels happiness seep back into her life and she faces a choice whose consequences will affect the lives of her family for generations to come.
Liberation Day
From ‘the world’s best short story writer’ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize
George Saunders
‘Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best’ Anne Enright, the Guardian
The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prosewickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned - Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.
Together, these nine subversive, profound, and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear-eyed attention as Saunders does, even in the most absurd of circumstances.
George Saunders' debut novel Lincoln in the Bardo won the 2017 Man Booker Prize. His collection Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.
14 September 2023
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Based on the internationally bestselling and award-winning Austrian novelist Monika Helfer's own family history, Last House Before the Mountain is a propulsive, haunting, multi-layered saga about love, family, and the hidden wages of war.
Monika Helfer is the bestselling author of novels, short stories, and children’s books, including, most recently, Vati [Daddy], Die Bagage [Last House Before the Mountain], and Die Bar im Freien [The Outdoor Bar]. This is her first novel to be translated into English. She lives in Hohenems, Austria.
Gillian Davidson is a literary translator based in London. She greatly admires Monika Helfer’s work and Last House Before the Mountain is her first published work of translation.
09 November 2023
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23 November 2023
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