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The Study of Human Life

Joshua Bennett

An award-winning collection and novella exploring speculative fiction, addressing abolition, Black ecological consciousness, and the boundless promise of parenthood

Across three sequences, Joshua Bennett’s new book recalls and reimagines social worlds almost but not entirely lost, all while gesturing toward the ones we are building even now, in the midst of a state of emergency, together. Bennett opens with a set of autobiographical poems that deal with themes of family, life, death, vulnerability, and the joys and dreams of youth.

The central section, “The Book of Mycah,” features an alternate history where Malcolm X is resurrected from the dead, as is a young black man shot by the police some fifty years later in Brooklyn.

The final section of The Study of Human Life are poems that Bennett has written about fatherhood, on the heels of his own first child being born.

Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School which was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and several other poetry collections. 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.

January 2025

Paperback 9781526664532 • £10.99

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Good Girl

Aria Aber

An electrifying debut novel about the artist daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery

In Berlin’s underground, where techno rattles buildings still scarred with the violence of the last century, nineteen-year-old Nila can escape – the public housing block packed with refugees and immigrants, where the bathrooms are infested with silverfish and the walls outside are graffitied with swastikas. Here, she tries to outrun the shadow of her dead mother, once a feminist revolutionary; her catatonic, defeated father; and the cab-driver uncles who seem to idle on every corner.

And then Nila meets American writer Marlowe Woods, whose literary celebrity, though fading, imbues her dreams of life as an artist with new possibility. But as she finds herself drawn further into his orbit, everything she hopes for, hates, and believes about herself will be challenged.

Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and New Republic. Good Girl is her first novel.

The Shape of Things Unseen

A New Science of Imagination

Imagination isn’t the exception in our daily lives; it’s our default setting

We use our imagination all the time: in planning, anticipating, daydreaming, reminiscing and being able to enjoy other people’s stories. In fact, we don’t live in the here and now as much as we might think.

From hallucinations to sleepwalking, from REM sleep to delusions, neurologist Adam Zeman brilliantly guides us through the latest scientific discoveries in the world of the imagination. Imagine looking at a cube and your eye will trace the contours of the cube as if you were actually seeing it. Imagine inhaling and the airflow through your nose will increase. And yet some people have no visual imagination at all but still lead fulfilling, even highly creative, lives.

From how infants perceive the world to how we can anticipate the thoughts of other people, The Shape of Things Unseen dazzles and delights in its insights into the workings of the human mind.

Adam Zeman is Honorary Fellow, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh, and Honorary Professor of Neurology at the University of Exeter. He grew up in London and trained in Medicine at Oxford University, after a first degree in Philosophy and Psychology. His earlier books include Consciousness A Portrait of the Brain and Epilepsy and Memory

January 2025

Hardback 9781526609731 • £25.00

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Another Man in the Street

Caryl Phillips

The powerful and evocative story of a young West Indian man's search for home in 1960s London

In the early Sixties, Victor ‘Lucky’ Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist.

Shadowing Victor from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation.

Another Man in the Street is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience – epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate; and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London.

Caryl Phillips is a novelist, playwright and essayist, currently Professor of English at Yale University. Born in St Kitts, he came to Britain at four months old. His literary awards include the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award. His work has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

January 2025

Hardback 9781526678638 • £16.99

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Aria Aber was born in Germany. Her debut poetry collection Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award, and her fellowships include the Wallace

Adam Zeman

The Loves of My Life

A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex.

With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old ‘paterfamilias of queer literature’ (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his life which has inspired so many of his masterpieces: sex.

Documenting everything from covert fumblings in the repressed American Midwest of the 1950’s to the Arcadian gay debauchery of New York in the 1970’s; through the terror of HIV and the age of sex on the apps, White has seen – and experienced – it all.

Unyieldingly honest, outrageously raucous and arrestingly touching, The Loves of My Life can but further cement White’s unquestionable role at the apex of gay canon.

Edmund White is the author of many novels, including A Boy’s Own Story. His nonfiction memoirs, literary biographies and essays. He has received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. He lives in New York.

January 2025

Hardback 9781526686701 • £20.00

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It Comes from the River

Rachel Bower

Infused with Northern English folklore, an unforgettable debut about violence, resilience and hope – and the power of women coming together

From the river it comes. To the river it always returns.

Alex is trying to hold her growing family together with an increasingly difficult husband. Lauren hopes that the new man in her life might present a fresh start for her and her two boys. And Nancy’s son has moved her into a care home where she feels entirely out of place and dreams of escape.

But there is something else at play here. Something lurking in the water or at the end of an unlit street; a shadow in a bag of strangers’ clothing; a chorus of voices calling in the distance. And as each woman’s world spirals from her grasp, they feel it getting closer, revealing the truth of what binds them together, and what must be done to set each of them free . .

Rachel Bower is an award-winning poet and short story writer from Bradford. Her poems and stories have been published in the London Magazine, White Review, Magma and Stand Bower won the London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020. It Comes from the River is her first novel.

The Far Edges of the Known World

A New History of Ancient Civilisations

Rees

A bold revisionist history of the ancient world, shifting focus from Greece and Rome to long-ignored societies on the borders. What was it truly like to live on the edges of the Greco-Roman empires, on the boundaries of the known world?

Thanks to archaeological excavations, we now know that the borders of the empires we consider the ‘heart’ of civilisation were in fact thriving, vibrant cultures – just not ones we might expect. The boundaries of ‘civilised’ and ‘barbarians’ were more nebulous: normally juxtaposed cultures intermarried and nomadic tribes built their own cities.

Taking us along the sandy caravan routes of Morocco to the freezing winters of the northern Black Sea, from Co-Loa in the Red River valley of Vietnam to the rain-lashed forts south of Hadrian’s Wall, Owen Rees explores the powerful empires and diverse peoples in Europe, Asia and Africa beyond the reaches of Greece and Rome. In doing so, he offers us a new, brilliantly rich lens with which to understand the ancient world.

Owen Rees is an ancient historian. He held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham before becoming a Lecturer in Applied Humanities for Birmingham Newman University. He is the founder and lead editor of BadAncient.com, a website bringing together a growing network of specialists to fact-check common claims made about the ancient world. He lives in Manchester.

February 2025

Hardback 9781526653789 • £25.00

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Death Takes Me

Cristina Rivera Garza

The dazzling, award-¬winning novel from one of Mexico’s greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time

When a professor stumbles upon the corpse of a man in a dark alley, she finds a stark warning on the brick wall beside the body, scrawled in coral nail polish: ‘Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.’

The professor soon becomes the lead informant of the case, led by a detective with a newfound obsession with poetry and a long list of failures on her back. But what has the professor really seen? As more bodies of men are found, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems, and the darker stream of violence spreading throughout the city.

Unfolding with the charged logic of a dream, Death Takes Me flips the traditional crime narrative on its head, and explores with masterful imagination the unstable terrains of desire and sexuality.

Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest. Her memoir Liliana’sInvincibleSummer won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair, and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

February 2025

Hardback 9781526649430 • £16.99

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Minority Rule

Adventures in the Culture War

Ash Sarkar

The explosive debut from Ash Sarkar breaks down how the power of ordinary people is under attack by an elite minority – and how we can redirect our energy to the real problem at hand

In this ground-breaking book, Ash Sarkar explores how the Minority Rule project has taken over our politics by stoking fear and panic in our media landscape: how liberal elites are silencing the ‘forgotten’ working class, how the urban young are waging war on the nation’s cultural institutions, and how cancel culture is threatening free speech. She has named this the Minority Rule project.

Powerful, insightful and ultimately hopeful, Minority Rule breaks down how the right has misrepresented true victimhood and aims to redirect outrage to those who deserve it.

Ash Sarkar is a journalist and political commentator. She has written for Novara Media, the Guardian, Independent and Huffington Post, with regular appearances on Question Time, Good Morning Britain and Jeremy Vine. She has been called one of ‘the internet’s best left-wing thinkers’ by the Spectator, and named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019.

February 2025

Hardback 9781526648334 • £18.99

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The Portrait Artist

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue

One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. It’s clearly by Timothy Ponden-Hall, an artist whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty but for the rumours behind them: they were believed to immortalise the soul of their subjects. But the mysterious explorer and artist has been thought dead for the last 50 years – so what does this new portrait mean? The Gallery brings in renowned art historian Solomon Oak to investigate. But as he races against time with his daughter Alice sometimes helping, and sometimes hindering him, they find that exposing Ponden-Hall’s legacy will prove more controversial than they could have imagined for Victorian society.

Set between London and Oxford, The Portrait Artist is a beautiful historical novel exploring race, fame and long-kept secrets.

Dani Heywood-Lonsdale has paternal roots on the tiny island of Molokai, Hawaii –referred to as the Sandwich Islands throughout The Portrait Artist - and maternal roots in the Philippines. She is a Faber Academy alumna and teaches English Literature in Oxfordshire.

33 Place Brugmann

An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels that explores love, resistance and courage in all their forms

‘A work of art stylish, charming and magnetic’ Leila Aboulela 1939. Art student Charlotte Sauvin and her father wake up in their apartment at 33 Place Brugmann to discover that their closest neighbours and friends – the Raphaël family on the fourth floor, and Russian seamstress Masha on the fifth – have vanished overnight without a word.

While the Raphaëls and Masha are flung on their own adventures across the continent, Charlotte and the rest of her neighbours at Place Brugmann have their own choices to make in a city cast under the dark shadow of occupation. Over the course of the war, every member of this accidental community will confront the truth about what, and who, matters to them the most.

Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, 33 Place Brugmann is a novel about beauty, family, friendship and home: and how the courage to resist can be found in the most surprising places.

Alice Austen is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright. She co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was the first American to receive a fellowship to the European Court of Human Rights. Austen studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney and has two films going into production with Alfonso Cuaròn and Steven Soderbergh respectively. This is her debut novel.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526678744 • £16.99

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Spring is the Only Season

How it Works, What it Does and Why it Matters

Simon Barnes

Each year, the period of darkness gracefully yields to a season of light, joy and renewed life. When the Earth tilts at 23.5 degrees and awakens from winter’s slumber, the exhilarating restlessness of spring permeates even the heart of our bustling cities.

In Spring is the Only Season, Simon Barnes deftly marries scientific insights and personal reflections to capture the essence of the season of rebirth and celebrate the universal delight it brings. His prose is rich and considered, reciting the changes that accompany the emergence of spring, ranging from its influence on agriculture and sports to its effects on mental health and the arts. It also challenges conventional perceptions of spring's unbridled joy and addresses the threats posed by climate change.

Spring is the Only Season is an ode to the resilience of life and a call to consider our role in preserving the delicate balance of nature.

Simon Barnes is a journalist and the author of the bestselling Bad Birdwatcher trilogy. He is a council member of World Land Trust, trustee of Conservation South Luangwa and patron of Save the Rhino. Simon was awarded the Rothschild Medal for services to conservation. He lives in Norfolk with his family and horses, where he manages several acres for wildlife.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526667373 • £16.99

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Alice Austen

The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

A terrifying speculative mystery about privacy and freedom, technology and survival – from the Pulitzer Prize and Booker Prize nominated author

Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data from her dreams, their algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. For his safety, she must be transferred to a retention center, and kept under observation for twenty-one days.

But as Sara arrives to be monitored alongside other dangerous dreamers, she discovers that with every deviation from the facility’s strict and ever-shifting rules, their stay can be extended – and that getting home to her family is going to cost much more than just three weeks of good behaviour.

A gripping tale about the technology that puts us in shackles even as it promises to make our lives easier, The Dream Hotel asks: how much must we keep private if we are to remain free? And can even the most invasive forms of surveillance ever capture who we really are?

Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.

Theft

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the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah

A captivating story of three young people in postcolonial East Africa, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

It is the 1990s. Growing up in Zanzibar, three very different young people – Karim, Fauzia and Badar – are coming of age, and dreaming of great possibilities in their young nation. But for Badar, an uneducated servant boy who has never known his parents, it seems as if all doors are closed.

Brought into a lowly position in a great house in Dar es Salaam, Badar finds the first true home of his life – and the friendship of Karim, the young man of the house. Even when a shattering false accusation sees Badar sent away, Karim and Fauzia refuse to turn away from their friend.

But as the three of them take their first steps in love, infatuation, work and parenthood, their bond is tested – and Karim is tempted into a betrayal that will change all of their lives forever.

Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Black African winner for 35 years. He is the author of ten previous novels, and his work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Orwell Prize, the Whitbread Award, the Commonwealthy Writers’ Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He was Professor of English at the University of Kent, and was a Man Booker Prize judge. He lives in Canterbury.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526685193 • £16.99

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Our Beautiful Boys

Sameer Pandya

An incisive, compulsively readable novel about threeteenage boys, their families and the life-changing fallout of one disastrous evening

Revelling in the triumph of a high school football win, MJ, Vikram and Diego find themselves at an ill-fated party, and in the space of one disastrous evening the futures of the three teenage “all stars” are thrown in the balance. As their families gather to assess the damage, each parent is confronted with their own inner turmoil, reacting, judging and finally confronting the crisis at hand.

Our Beautiful Boys is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide. It asks the question that every parent has, at one time or another, contended with: how well can you ever truly know your own child?

Sameer Pandya is the author of Members Only and The Blind Writer, which was longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award. He is also the recipient of the PEN/Civitella Fellowship, and has work in several publications, including the Atlantic and Sports Illustrated. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526678645 • £18.99

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Twist

Colum McCann

A darkly epic novel about connection, disconnection and destruction –from the award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin

Anthony Fennell, a writer, has travelled to Cape Town with a simple aim: to find and board the Georges Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by the mysterious, charismatic Chief of Mission John Conway.

As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell settles into the routines and rituals of life out at sea. But as the mission falters, it becomes clear that Conway is in crisis: and that a terrible, violent tragedy is unfolding in the life he has left behind on land. When Conway disappears, Fennel must set out to find him. His discoveries will bring him face to face with the darkest contradictions of the human heart – and to confront the possibility that the ties that bind us might be better off broken.

Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages. He received the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin in 2009, and TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. His most recent novel, Apeirogon, was an international bestseller, and was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526656933 • £18.99

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The Pretender

Jo Harkin

Wolf Hall meets Demon Copperhead in a sharply ambitious and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, ambition and revenge

Kill the pretender. Do not let it be known that there was a pretender to kill. The year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much-despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. For twelve-year-old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away.

But history has other plans for John. Stolen from his family, exiled, and apprenticed to a series of unscrupulous political operators, he finds himself groomed for power; not as John Collan, but as Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick and rightful heir to the throne.

Seething with revenge, sparkling with wit, and roaring with bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.

Jo Harkin studied literature at university. She daydreamed her way through various jobs in her twenties before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel Tell Me an Ending was a New York Times book of the year. She lives in Berkshire, England.

April 2025

Hardback 9781526678348 • £18.99

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The Sun Rising

James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

Anna Whitelock

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts, and the emergence of the British Empire.

1603. Elizabeth I dies, marking the end to the Tudor dynasty. Arriving in London in an opulent procession from Scotland, James I claims the throne and the first ‘united’ kingdom of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales is born.

The newly established ‘Great Britain’ and its ambitious king strove to catch up with the other European imperial superpowers, which were exploiting the Americas for profit. As the East India Company emerged, ships departed London for America, Russia, Persia, India and Japan, and the seeds to the future British Empire were sown.

The Sun Rising provides a unique global retelling of the reign of the first King of Great Britain, shedding crucial light on the often overshadowed Jacobean period – an epoch of huge cultural, political and global significance.

Anna Whitelock is a historian, broadcaster, and media commentator. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and has written for History Today the Guardian and the New York Times Her debut, Mary Tudor, was published to critical acclaim, and was followed by her prize-winning Elizabeth's Bedfellows. She lives in Cambridge.

Moral Ambition

Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

Rutger Bregman

The life-changing new book from the international bestseller, on how you can join use your talents to change the world

A forty-year, full-time career consists of around 80,000 hours, or 10,000 workdays, or 2,000 work weeks. How you spend that time is the most important moral decision of your life.

In Moral Ambition, Rutger Bregman shows us it is possible to be both successful and idealistic by placing a drive for meaning and change at the centre of our lives. Looking at the impact of several heroes of history, he asks: what qualities do these social pioneers have in common? What made them so persuasive, influential and effective that they could not be ignored? How can we develop those qualities, too? Rutger argues that anyone can dedicate their abilities – and their time – to finding the best solutions to the world’s biggest problems. This book might not make your life easier, but it will make it more meaningful – and, perhaps, you too could become one of history’s heroes.

Rutger Bregman, a historian and writer at the Correspondent is one of Europe’s most prominent young thinkers. He is the author of Utopia for Realists and Humankind, which were bota Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into thirty-two languages.

April 2025

Hardback 9781526680600 • £20.00

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The Wildelings

Lisa Harding

A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in Nineties Dublin – perfect for dark academia fans

Jessica and Linda have been best friends since the first day of school. Now eighteen, the two girls have come to Wilde – an elite university in the heart of Dublin. Jessica thrives immediately, and finds herself at the heart of a new circle of friends.

But then Mark enters the picture. When Linda and Mark start dating, Jessica is disturbed by how quickly she seems to have fallen under this abrasive, charismatic man’s control. And it turns out that Mark’s influence is not limited to Linda alone. Jessica soon finds out that her whole group of friends are keeping secrets for him – culminating in a terrible tragedy that strikes at the end of their first year.

Years later, Jessica is still grappling with what happened at Wilde. And when Mark resurfaces, she knows she owes it to herself – and Linda – to set the record straight once and for all.

Lisa Harding is a writer, actress, playwright and the author of two novels. Her previous book Bright Burning Things was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was named as a book of the year by the Observer, Grazia, Irish Times and the Irish Independent She lives in Dublin.

April 2025

Hardback 9781526672919 • £16.99

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Don't Forget We're Here

A New Generation's Search for Religion

Lamorna Ash

With compassion and luminous prose, Lamorna Ash explores why young people are turning to faith in an age of uncertainty.

Lamorna Ash was raised with as much Christianity as most people in Britain: some knowledge of hymns and prayers received at a Church of England primary school; occasional brushes with religious services. But once she started writing about her two friends’ unexpected conversions, she began encountering a recurring phenomenon: in an age of disconnection and apathy, a new generation was discovering religion for itself.

In Don’tForgetWe’reHereForever, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet those wrestling with Christianity today. Through interviews and her own deeply personal journey with religion, and from Evangelical youth festivals to Quaker meetings, a silent Jesuit retreat along the Welsh coastline to a monastic community in the Inner Hebrides, she investigates what drives young people in the twenty-first century to embrace Christianity.

Written with lyrical beauty and sensitivity, this is a reminder of our universal need for nourishment of the soul.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist based in London. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize.

My Name is Emilia del Valle

Isabel Allende

The spellbinding new historical novel from literary legend Isabel Allende; an unforgettable tale of love and war, discovery and redemption

San Francisco, 1866. Emilia del Valle is born to an Irish nun, and raised by a loving stepfather in place of the Chilean aristocrat father who abandoned them. She grows into self-sufficient young woman and independent thinker, who will do whatever it takes to pursue her passion for writing – even publishing pulp fiction under a man’s name.

When fictional worlds can no longer contain her sense of adventure, she convinces an editor at the Daily Examiner to hire her as a journalist. Emilia is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan, and the two of them seize an opportunity to cover a brewing civil war in Chile.

But the journey offers Emilia more than just a chance to prove herself as a writer. As she delves deeper into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie, she’s given the chance to discover what became of her estranged father – and soon finds herself caught between love, danger and destiny.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including The Wind Knows My Name, Violeta and A Long Petal of the Sea. Her books have been translated into more than forty-two languages and have sold more than eighty million copies worldwide. She lives in California.

Gunk

By

the multi-award-winning author of SEND NUDES

Saba Sams

An electrifying debut exploring love and desire, chaos and control –and family in all its forms

Jules has been divorced from Leon for five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind the bar, as Leon flirts with students on the dancefloor.

But then Leon hires nineteen-year-old Nim to work the bar – and her arrival jolts Jules awake for the rst time in years. When Nim discovers she’s pregnant, Jules agrees to help. As the months pass, and the relationship between the two women grows increasingly intimate and perplexing, it emerges that Nim has her own unexpected gifts to give.

Now, alone in her small flat, Jules is holding a baby, just twenty-four-hours old, who still smells of Nim. But no one knows where Nim is, or if she’s coming back. What could the future – for Jules, Nim and the baby – possibly look like?

Saba Sams was raised in Brighton and lives in East London. She was selected for Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023. Her short story collection Send Nudes won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the University of Swansea International Dylan Thomas Prize 2023: 'Blue 4eva' received the BBC National Short Story Award.

Zbig

The Life and Times of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Cold War Prophet

Edward Luce

An intimate and perceptive biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski –one of America’s greatest and most influential geopolitical thinkers

Zbigniew Brzezinski was a political strategist who rose to prominence as an intellectual architect in US foreign policy during the Cold War. As National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, Brzezinski’s expertise helped shape global strategy at critical moments - most significantly as a key figure in the downfall of the Soviet Union.

Brzezinski’s nuanced understanding of the importance of ‘speaking the enemy’s language’, coupled with his close friendship with Pope John Paul II was instrumental in preventing a Soviet invasion of Poland. Beyond the Cold War, Brzezinski continued to influence foreign policy, notably in shaping the nation’s response to the 9/11 attacks. Yet his legacy remains underreported, leaving gaps in our understanding of Cold War history and its aftermath.

Through a sweeping narrative that spans much of the 20th century, Zbig restores Brzezinski’s rightful place in history and narrates a compelling re-examination of the end of the Cold War.

Edward Luce is the Financial Times’s chief US commentator and columnist. He is the author of three acclaimed books: The Retreat of Western Liberalism Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent and In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India. He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC’s Morning Joe and the BBC.

May 2025

Hardback 9781526637840 • £30.00

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Unknown Enemy

The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich

Charles Dick

Charles Dick tells for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a brutal engineering organisation overseen by Hitler.

Hitler described the Organisation Todt as ‘the greatest construction organisation of all time’. British intelligence credited it with having carried out ‘the most impressive building programme since Roman times’. Hitler enlisted the nation’s leading engineers and architects to build his empire – and to bring about the deaths of millions.

Unknown Enemy reveals for the first time the full extent of the Organisation Todt. Its operations relied mainly on Germany’s slave labour, the largest such exploitation since the end of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, in which millions of civilians, Jews and prisoners of war lost their lives. Charles Dick takes us inside the OT’s vast projects throughout German-occupied Europe, from the Arctic Circle to the Balkans and deep into the Third Reich’s ‘eastern Lebensraum’, demonstrating how engineers and builders perpetrated unimaginable war crimes.

Utilising extensive new research, first-person accounts and survivor testimony, Unknown Enemy unearths the dark story behind the Organisation Todt.

Charles Dick is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He was a journalist for Reuters News Agency (later Thomson Reuters) in North Africa, Bonn, Paris, Vienna and London over a 35-year career.

May 2025

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Aftertaste

Daria Lavelle

An unforgettable, imaginative and darkly comic debut novel about food, ghosts and the New York culinary scene

When dead-end dishwasher Kostya discovers the ability to summon spirits through the food he cooks, he embarks on a journey to open a New York City restaurant that serves closure – something he’s craved for as long as he can remember.

There are just three problems:

1. Kostya has some ghosts of his own.

2. His advancing menu of spirit cuisine is threatening the stability of the Afterlife itself.

3. He’s falling in love with Maura, a party psychic with her own secret connection to the Afterlife – who also happens to be the one person who knows he must be stopped.

A bittersweet cocktail of humour and heart, Aftertaste is an imaginative odyssey through food and love, life and death: the things that sustain us, connect us, transport us, and remind us who we are.

Daria Lavelle writes fiction, most of which features at least one impossible thing. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She was born in Kyiv before immigrating to the US as a child, and currently lives in New Jersey. Aftertaste is her first novel.

The Blood in Winter

A Nation Descends, 1642

Jonathan Healey

A taut, thrilling history about the circumstances that caused the English Civil War, from the author of The Blazing World.

England, 1641. Ostensible peace emerges after a plague-ridden and politically unstable summer. Parliament will continue to sit. Nonetheless, King Charles I is set on revenge.

Evolving ideas about democracy abound and new religious groups seek to gain power. Ireland explodes into revolt. All this spurs Charles to plot a restoration to his absolute rule. So begins England’s winter of discontent. Marching on Westminster, he seeks to arrest and impeach five Members of Parliament – precipitating a series of events that will lead to bloodshed and war, changing England forever.

The Blood in Winter recounts the English people’s great political awakening. Using meticulous archival research, Jonathan Healey recounts the circumstances surrounding Charles’s decision to march on his own government and its aftermath which brought England to the brink. This is a rich tapestry of a society in profound distress as the prospect of civil war looms.

Jonathan Healey is a historian of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He writes history from the bottom up, focusing on ordinary people – their lives, loves, culture and politics. He is Associate Professor in Social History at the University of Oxford. In 2012 he was picked as a winner of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers Competition.

June 2025

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Electric Spark

The Enigma of Muriel Spark

Frances Wilson

Baillie Gifford Prize-longlisted author Frances Wilson decodes one of the best-loved – and most-misunderstood – authors of the twentieth century.

Muriel Spark’s life was both public and elusive, full of weird accidents and unexplained events. The word most commonly used to describe her is ‘puzzling’: Spark is a puzzle, and so too are her books. Electric Spark aims to crack her code.

Spark’s early life has remained in shadow. Biographers have failed to capture her essence; some have even ended up part of Spark’s game themselves. Frances Wilson now provides us with the first truly objective glimpse into her formative years, recounting an escape on a troop ship from a disastrous marriage in Africa, madness, murder, espionage, poverty, skulduggery, blackmail, affairs and a major religious conversion. These years were the seeds that nourished her fiction.

In a journey from the tenements of Glasgow to the stately homes of Rhodesia to a shabby yellow-brick in Camberwell, Electric Spark uses a wealth of archival material to unlock the woman behind the enigma.

Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and author. Her work includes The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, and Burning Man: The Ascent of D.H. Lawrence which won the Plutarch Award and was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize.

June 2025

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Broken Republik

The Inside Story of Germany’s Decline

Chris Reiter & Will Wilkes

A compelling and comprehensive account on how Germany, so long the powerhouse of Europe, is crumbling from the inside out

For many years, the post-war recovery of Germany was an inspirational story; all of Europe looked on with admiration and envy as the nation rebuilt itself and set the standards for the rest to follow. Companies such as Mercedes Benz, Siemens and Bayer were global titans, while the nation’s political leaders were respected around the world.

But now the picture has become clouded. The scandalous revelations of Volkswagen’s emissions fraud tainted its industrial reputation; after a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, Germany became dangerously reliant on Russia for its fuel; and the nation’s decades-long political consensus began to break down with the rise of the farright AfD party.

Chris Reiter and Will Wilkes tell the compelling story of how it all went wrong. As vital elections loom in 2025, Broken Republik is an essential snapshot of a nation at a crossroads that has huge implications for us all.

Chris Reiter is a senior editor in Berlin, reporting on issues that intersect between business, energy, technology and politics. He has a Master’s degree in Social and Political Thought from the University of Warwick. Will Wilkes is a Frankfurt-based reporter covering some of Germany’s biggest corporations. He studied modern foreign languages at UCL and Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

June 2025

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The Single Neighbour

Senta Rich

A new neighbour reveals all the issues in Izzy and Tristan’s marriage, calling into question the integrity of their relationship.

Tristan and Izzy are on the brink of marital breakdown. The arrival of their new neighbour may just be their salvation: or, will she be their undoing?

Viv piques both Tristan and Izzy’s interest, her appearance in their lives offering them diversion from their faltering marriage and a window into the people they might have been.

But as Viv becomes an ever-increasing presence in their lives, the couple are forced to confront the long-ignored truths about themselves, each other and their pasts. At this fork in their marriage, they will face the most difficult decision: to cleave together for the sake of their union, or to walk away.

A story about how the ripples in a relationship can become waves, The Single Neighbour holds a mirror up to the promise of domestic bliss, and asks whether an extinguished spark can ever be relit.

Senta Rich wrote radio plays and magazine articles, before moving into the world of screenwriting. She now writes for film and TV. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son. Hotel 21 her debut novel, was published in 2023 andhas been translated into multiple languages, with TV rights pre-empted by MGM. The Single Neighbour is her second novel.

To the Moon

Jang Ryujin

Translated by Sean Lin Halbert

The South Korean bestselling phenomenon – a compulsive story about friendship, freedom, and what we’ll risk for the future of our dreams

In Seoul, three women in their thirties meet while working mundane office jobs at a snack manufacturer. Eun-sang, the eldest of the group, is always looking for ways to earn extra money, but faces trouble at work after she opens a mini mart at her desk. Jisong dreams of a perfect romance with her Taiwanese boyfriend and spends her low salary on trips to Taipei. Meanwhile, Dahae is struggling to support her injured mother, and searches endlessly for a better apartment she can actually afford.

One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket – to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.

Jang Ryujin has a BA in Sociology from Yonsei University and a MA in Korean Literature from Dongguk University. She worked in Pangyo Techno Valley for seven years before writing full-time. Her story ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’ won the 2018 Changbi Prize for new writers in Korea, and her debut collection went on to sell over 120,000 copies in Korea. To the Moon is her first novel.

June 2025

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Starwatchers

Our Journey of Discovery in the Night Sky

Joanne Baker

An unforgettable journey through space that invites readers to marvel at the universe’s dual nature – both terrifying and enchanting.

What draws us to space and how can we make sense of it? Joanne Baker, driven by a lifelong quest, grapples with these questions, inviting readers to confront the universe’s dual nature – both terrifying and enchanting.

This unique synthesis of science, culture and personal reflection takes readers on an extraordinary journey through space and delves into the heart of our fascination with the cosmos. It charts the evolution of humanity's cosmic perceptions and draws fascinating parallels, for example, between the solitude of stargazing on a remote mountain and the contemplative practices of Tibetan monks and spiritual Hawaiians. Joanne Baker also includes her own first-hand experiences, from watching a total solar eclipse in Idaho to visiting ancient observatories in Poland – unveiling a mosaic of research that transcends borders and traditions.

Vast and captivating, Starwatchers invites us on an unforgettable journey through space that interrogates the boundaries of our earthly existence.

Joanne Baker is a writer and editor based in London. She holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Sydney and master’s degrees in natural sciences and landscape architecture. She has been a NASA Hubble Fellow at the University of California and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

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Strong Roots

A

Olia Hercules

From the bestselling Ukrainian cookery writer comes a profound meditation of the hopes and fears across generations amid political upheaval

Olia Hercules spent a decade travelling across Ukraine collecting precious recipes and traditions from her home country. For nearly as long, she's wanted to share the tales from three generations of her extraordinary family: their resilience and suffering, as well as their joy and food.

Hercules confronts the lineage of Ukrainian history through the perspective of her grandparents who endured near starvation and forced emigration; her own childhood during the collapse of the Soviet Union; and the reality of her career success at a time when Ukraine is fighting to retain its identity in the face of conflict.

Strong Roots brims with hope and fear. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations living with, while attempting to recover from, the burden of political upheaval, but is also an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots.

Olia Hercules was born in the South of Ukraine. She studied Italian language and International Relations at the University of Warwick. After spending a year in Italy, Olia settled in London, pursuing a career in journalism. She would dedicate her life to researching food culture and culinary traditions of countries less explored. Hercules is the author of three award-winning cookbooks.

June 2025

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The Red Brigades

The Terrorists who Brought Italy to its Knees

John Foot

The explosive story of a left-wing terrorist group - the Red Brigadeswho kidnapped the former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and brought Italy to a standstill

In 1978, the Red Brigades shocked the world by kidnapping former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in the heart of Rome, killing his bodyguards and driver in the process. They would go on to hold Moro for 55 days before assassinating him and leaving his body for dead in the boot of a car.

But how did this group rise to become the most formidable post-WW2 left-wing terrorist organisation in Western Europe? Targeting industrialists, politicians, and law enforcement, they left a trail of violence that paralysed Italy’s justice system and instilled fear across the nation. This book delves into the gripping saga of this radical faction, exploring their ascent to power and eventual downfall.

Fascinating and explosive, The Red Brigades sheds light on the shadowy world of the Red Brigades—a group whose actions left a legacy of conspiracy, distrust, and bitterness in Italy and reshaped the political landscape forever.

John Foot is the author of eight books, including Blood and Power and The Archipelago Seven of his books have been translated into Italian. He has written for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday and the TLS and is a regular contributor to the Italian magazine Internazionale. He is Professor of Modern Italian History at the University of Bristol.

A Dress of Locusts

An electrifying debut collection exploring langage and revolution, by an extraordinary new poetic talent

Woven from threads of Aramaic, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Sumerian and Arabic, A Dress of Locusts is an unforgettable song cycle in which the living and dead sing back and forth to one another.

June 2025

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Safwan Khatib

Here, Safa Khatib participates in a poetic tradition Jerome Rothenberg once called the ‘Revolution of the Word’, journeying across the possibilities of language in search of its capacity to render self and world refreshingly anew.

Safa Khatib is a poet, translator and teacher. The trans daughter of South Indian immigrants, she lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Champion Thinking

Get Out of Your Own Way, Find Your Peak

Performance

Simon Mundie

BBC sports reporter Simon Mundie draws on interviews with sporting legends to redefine how we understand – and pursue - success.

As the sports reporter for BBC Radio 1 for the best part of a decade, Simon Mundie was pitch-side at some of the most high-profile sporting events in history. It was often thrilling, but when he went to report on what he had seen, the emphasis always seemed to be on the result.

Drawing on interviews with sporting legends, coaches and psychologists, Simon shares some of the tools and techniques that athletes have embraced to grow and develop – in both their sport and as people. From emotional intelligence to developing togetherness and avoiding burnout, he explores eight universal themes that are highlighted in sport –but that are all too easily overlooked in the favour of simpler, shallower narratives about winning and ‘success’.

Wise and inspiring, Champion Thinking illustrates that whether in sport, at work or in our relationships, worshipping at the altar of success isn’t going to bring us happiness.

Simon Mundie is a broadcaster, coach and motivational speaker. He is the host of the critically acclaimed A New Way of Being, which uses sport as a lens to explore life’s bigger questions. He is also a presenter for BBC TV and BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme. He lives in London.

January 2025

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Rabbit Hole

The first Jennette McCurdy book club pick for 2024

Kate Brody

A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession – by a striking new talent

‘Absolutely unputdownable’ MILA KUNIS ‘Brody is a star’ KATE REED PETTY ‘A mindblowing debut’ HEATHER DARWENT

While Teddy was still a teenager, her older sister Angie disappeared, and has never been found. Now a high school teacher in her small town, Teddy has always avoided trouble.

Then Teddy’s troubled father dies, ten years to the day from Angie’s disappearance. Clearing out his office, Teddy discovers he has been living a double life: and had been conducting a decade-long investigation into wild conspiracies from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie.

Repelled and compelled in equal measure, Teddy finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole. When a stranger enters her life, and offers to help Teddy find out what really happened to Angie, Teddy accepts. But she’s in way over her head before she’s realizes that her new friend might not be all she seems…

Kate Brody received her MFA from NYU and has published stories in the Literary Review, Pif, and 34th Parallel She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

How the World Made the West

In a magisterial history spanning four millennia, Josephine Quinn calls for a new understanding of our past and today’s world.

The West, the story goes, was built on the ideas of Greece and Rome, lost during the Dark Ages and then rediscovered by the Renaissance.

But the true story of how the West came to be is much bigger, and much richer. The West is the product of millennia of meetings, journeys and relationships between different cultures, from the Gobi Desert to the Atlantic Ocean, Scandinavia to the Sahara. It is not a story of civilisation – but of connection.

How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative: one that traces the relationships that built what is now called the West from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. Jo Quinn makes the case that it is contact and cultural appropriation, rather than civilisations, that drive historical change. It is not peoples that make history – people do.

Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor of Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She has degrees from Oxford and Berkeley, has taught in America, Italy and the UK, and co-directs the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica. She lives in Oxford.

February 2025

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James and John

A True Story of Prejudice and Murder

Chris Bryant

Historian and MP Chris Bryant illuminates the experience of being gay in early 19th-century Britain through a landmark trial.

This 'staggering' (TLS), 'must-read' (Keir Starmer) book from Labour minister and Sunday TImes bestselling author Chris Bryant resurrects the lives of the last two men who were hanged in England for being gay.

Newgate Prison, 1835.James Pratt and John Smith. Both were convicted of homosexuality – ‘an unnatural offence’. Both would be hanged at the gallows. And yet the 1830s was a time of great reform, when capital punishment was in decline. Of the jailed men alongside them, why were James and John alone not spared?

Labour MP and bestselling author Chris Bryant delves deep into the public archives, scouring poor law records, workhouse registers, prisoner calendars and private correspondence to recreate the lives of two men whose names are known to history –but whose story has been lost, until now.

Chris Bryant is an acclaimed historian of Parliament, an expert on parliamentary procedure and a Sunday Times-bestselling author. He has been the MP for the Rhondda since 2001 and is currently Minister of State in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Chris Bryant has been the Member of Parliament for Rhondda since 2001. The author of six previous books, he has written regularly for the Guardian and the Independent. He was the first gay MP to celebrate his civil partnership in the Palace of Westminster. Bryant currently serves as the Chair of the Committees on Standards and Privileges.

February 2025

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Hard by a Great Forest

Leo Vardiashvili

In this stand-out literary debut, a man in search of his father uncovers the mysteries of a lost homeland

‘This novel annihilated me. I gasped, laughed, and wept my way through it’ KHALED HOSSEINI

Saba’s father is missing, and the trail leads back to Tbilisi, Georgia.

It’s been two decades since Irakli fled his war-torn homeland with two young sons, now grown men. Two decades since he saw their mother, who stayed so they could escape. At long last, Tbilisi has lured him home. But when Irakli’s phone calls stop, a mystery begins...

Arriving in Tbilisi, Saba must follow the trail of clues that seem to be laid out for him: pages from his father’s unpublished manuscript scattered like breadcrumbs, strange graffiti, bewildering messages transmitted through the radio. And as the voices of those left behind pull at the edges of his world, Saba will discover that all roads lead back to the past, and to secrets swallowed up by the great forests of Georgia.

Leo Vardiashvili came to London with his family as a refugee from Georgia when he was twelve years old. He studied English Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Hard by a Great Forest is his first novel.

February 2025

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American Mother

Colum McCann & Diane Foley

Colum McCann and Diane Foley, whose son Jim was killed by ISIS, explore perseverance in the face of unimaginable pain.

It has been eleven years since Diane Foley’s son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending.

Legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane’s story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death, in which Diane came face to face with one of the men responsible for her son’s kidnapping and torture. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman’s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son’s memory alive.

Colum McCann is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. His work has been published in forty languages and received many international honours.

Diane Foley has a masters in nursing from the University of New Hampshire and worked as a family nurse practitioner before becoming the founder and current president of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.

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Systemic

How Racism Harms Health – and What We Can Do

Layal Liverpool

A blistering, groundbreaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse treatment for everyone.

Layal Liverpool suffered from an undiagnosed skin condition for years, until in early adulthood she saw a doctor with darker skin like her – who finally provided an accurate diagnosis. This led her to think – what other medical conditions go undiagnosed in darkerskinned people because doctors aren’t trained to recognise the diverse ways that symptoms can manifest? Could an ostensibly objective scientific practice like medicine be racist?

In Systemic Liverpool draws on her background in biomedicine and global reporting to determine the ways in which racism affects our health. Race is a social construct, not a biological one, but Liverpool’s research reveals that from the moment of birth, race has a profound impact on health. From cardiovascular disease to viruses, from cancer to mental illness, she delves into the reasons racial health disparities exist and reveals that diseases are not ‘great equalisers’ – not when you live in an unequal society.

Layal Liverpool is a journalist whose work spans diverse science topics with a particular focus on inequalities in science, health and medicine., Layal previously worked as a researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford. She has a PhD in virology and immunology from the University of Oxford.

February 2025

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Vulture Capitalism

Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley exposes how our world is fundamentally broken by capitalism – and how now is the time to rebuild it.

Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.

Free markets aren’t really free. Record corporate profits don’t trickle down to everyone else. And we aren’t empowered to make our own choices – they’re made for us every day.

In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world’s most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It’s not broken, it’s working exactly as planned. From Amazon to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where latestage capitalism has gone wrong.

Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.

Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune magazine and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and The Corona Crash. She previously worked as a research fellow for the Institute for Public Policy Research and as the New Statesman’s economic commentator. She appears regularly in the media as a political and economic commentator.

March 2025

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Anita de Monte Laughs

Last

A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick

Xochitl Gonzalez

Who gets to leave a legacy?

1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn’t. By 1998 Anita’s name has been all but forgotten – certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through life knowing that their futures are secured, Raquel feels herself an outsider. Students of colour, like Raquel, are the minority there, and the pressure to work twice as hard for the same opportunities is no secret.

But when Raquel becomes romantically involved with a well-connected older art student, she finds herself unexpectedly rising up the social ranks. As she attempts to straddle both worlds, she stumbles upon Anita’s story, raising questions about the dynamics of her own relationship, which eerily mirrors that of the forgotten artist.

Moving back and forth through time and told from the perspectives of both women, Anita de Monte Laughs Last is a propulsive, witty examination of power, love and art, daring to ask who gets to be remembered and who is left behind in the rarefied world of the elite.

Xochitl Gonzalez is the New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming. Named a Best of 2022 by the New York Times, TIME, Kirkus, Washington Post, and NPR, Olga Dies Dreaming was the winner of the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction and the New York City Book Award. Gonzalez is a 2021 MFA graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her nonfiction work has been published in Elle Decor, Allure, Vogue, Real Simple and The Cut. Her commentary writing for the Atlantic was recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A native Brooklynite and proud public school graduate, Gonzalez holds a BA from Brown University and lives in her hometown of Brooklyn with her dog, Hectah Lavoe.

England

Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

Tom Baldwin & Marc Stears

England interrogates the myths that form the foundations of England’s history – and the modern struggle of forging a national identity.

Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears take on seven myths that distort our ideas of England and where the country is heading.

England has long been a country steeped in mythology and lore, but these myths can be manipulated for political ends. Debunking seven myths taken up by culture warriors across the political spectrum, bestselling biographer of Keir Starmer,Tom Baldwin, and Marc Stears, an influential think tank head, depict England as her citizens know her, as a new political age unfurls.

March 2025

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Saltblood

An epic historical fiction debut inspired by real life female pirates

Francesca De Tores

An epic literary historical novel set during the Golden Age of Piracy, about the life of female pirate Mary Read.

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mother makes a decision: Mary will become Mark, and Ma will continue to collect his inheritance money.

Mary’s dual existence as Mark will lead to a role as a footman in a grand house, serving a French mistress; to the navy, learning who to trust and how to navigate by the stars; and to the army and the battlegrounds of Flanders, finding love among the bloodshed and the mud. But none of this will stop Mary yearning for the sea.

Drawn back to the water, Mary must reinvent herself yet again, for a woman aboard a ship is a dangerous thing. This time Mary will become something more dangerous than a woman.

She will become a pirate.

Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of four novels, published in more than 20 languages, with film rights optioned by DreamWorks. Saltblood is her first historical novel. She grew up in Lutruwita/Tasmania and, after fifteen years in England, is now living in Naarm/Melbourne.

Traversing the muddy paddocks of the Home Counties, the former industrial powerhouse of the Midlands, and the depleted pleasure beaches of Blackpool, England offers an optimistic way forwards for those who lament the demise of the land of jam and Jerusalem.

Tom Baldwin is a political writer who worked in Westminster and Washington for The Times before becoming director of communications for the Labour Party. He is the author of several books and is the biographer of Keir Starmer.

Marc Stears is the inaugural Director of the UCL Policy Lab. He was previously Director of the Sydney Policy Lab, a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Oxford and chief speechwriter to the Labour Party.

Tom Baldwin is a journalist and former Labour Party advisor. He worked as senior

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How to Be a Citizen

Six Lessons for a Brave New World

C.L. Skach

A groundbreaking book on why the law fails us – and how the solution is empowering ourselves to become better citizens.

Social scientist, C. L. Skach, argues that a good society is not given to us by rules and the state, but is rather something we must create together.

C. L. Skach always believed in the strength of the law – she spent her career in some of the most fractured, war-torn corners of the world, writing constitutions to help fix society. But as she sat alone in a trailer in Baghdad after a rocket attack, she admitted what she’d been denying for years: a good society does not come from governments telling us what to do. It comes from us learning how to be better neighbours to one another.

In How to Be a Citizen Skach lays out six ideas, informed by her ethos of collective responsibility, for how we can be good citizens in a divided age. The result is an optimistic vision for a better future – and a tool for achieving it.

C.L. Skach is Emeritus Professor of Law, King's College London and Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna. She was previously a professor at the University of Oxford and Harvard University. She has taught constitutional law and government, conducted ethnographic and archival research and held visiting professorships on five continents. She divides her time between Oxford and Bologna.

C. L. Skach is Professor of Political and Legal Theory at the University of Bologna. She was previously a professor at King's College London; the University of Oxford, and prior to that, at Harvard University. She has conducted research on six continents and held visiting professorships or fellowships in five countries.

March 2025

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Magic Pill

A Journey Into the World of the New Weight Loss Drugs

Johann Hari

A revelatory, entertaining and compulsively readable looklook at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it

'Hari's storytelling is phenomenal' STEVEN BARTLETT 'Will help you think more clearly about eating, dieting, health and mental health' JONATHAN HAIDT

In January 2023, Johann Hari began injecting himself with Ozempic – one of the new drugs promising significant weight loss, which some predictions suggest one in four people in Britain will be taking in just a few years. But can they be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution, or a magical illusion?

Hari’s investigation takes him from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo as he brings us into the heart of this pharmaceutical revolution, uncovering fascinating benefits and twelve high risks; interviewing the world’s leading experts; and even sharing his own first-hand experiences.

This is what you need to know about the weight-loss drugs set to take over the world.

Johann Hari is a writer and journalist. He has written for the New York Times, Le Monde and other newspapers. His TED talks have over 70 million views, and his work has been praised by a broad range of people, from Noam Chomsky to Joe Rogan. He lives in London.

April 2025

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Private Equity

'A vivid account of a world of excess, power, admiration and status'

Carrie

Sun

A memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an indictment of privilege and work culture.

When we meet Carrie Sun, she can’t shake the feeling that she’s wasting her life. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she knows she can’t say no.

Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm’s billionaire founder. She manages his work life, becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress, she dives headfirst into the firm’s culture, which values return on time above all else. As the world opens up, and Carrie learns that money can solve nearly everything.

Playing the game at the highest levels, amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole by work. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Private Equity illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes

Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Private Equity is her first book

Wild Service

Why Nature Needs You Nick Hayes

Nick Hayes and a host of insightful collaborators present a hopeful manifesto for a new relationship with the natural world.

In May 2022, a study released by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science concluded that without adequate connection to nature, our population would suffer significant mental and physical health decline, which would in turn make us less inclined to protect the environment. Essentially, our health and the well-being of nature are intrinsically dependant on the other.

Wild Service is an all-star ensemble collection of essays from the members of the Right to Roam campaign in collaboration with Nick Hayes’s infamous woodcut illustrations that present a positive framework for a new relationship with the natural world. The book tactfully blends science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, shining a new light on the crisis of ecological destruction and heralding a cultural shift in our approach to nature.

Timely and insightful, Wild Service is a mosaic of art and culture that seeks to undo the damage of ownership, by focusing on belonging.

Briefly Very Beautiful

Roz Dineen

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, and an unforgettable dystopian vision of a familiar world in flames

The world is on fire. And what will you do?

In a land destabilised by a series of interconnected crises, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone to serve as a medic in a war overseas.

But life in the city is becoming increasingly impossible, and Cass knows she can no longer wait for Nathaniel’s return. Packing up their lives, she and the children set off in search of a place of greater safety with his mother in the countryside. But not all sanctuaries are what they seem – especially in a world where the old structures and rituals have been shattered.

An unforgettable portrait of a family at the end of the world, Briefly Very Beautiful is an original and timely debut from a major new talent, interrogating into how and why we parent with the world on fire.

April 2025

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Nick Hayes is an author, illustrator, print-maker and political cartoonist. He has published four graphic novels with Jonathan Cape and has worked for, among others, the Literary Review, Time Out, the British Council, the New Statesman and the Guardian. He has exhibited across the country, including at the Hayward Gallery. He lives in London. April 2025

Roz Dineen was at the Times Literary Supplement for twelve years. Born in Brighton, she studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and received a Masters in International Studies and Diplomacy from SOAS. She was Robert L. Bartley Fellow at the Wall Street Journal, where her writing has also appeared. She lives with her two children in South London.

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I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat

Tteokbokki

further conversations with my psychiatrist. The Sunday Times and internationally bestselling sequel to the hit Korean therapy memoir

Baek Sehee

Translated by Anton Hur

THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER

SEQUEL TO THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER

Baek Sehee could never have predicted how many people I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki would reach across the world. A runaway bestseller in South Korea, Japan, China, Indonesia and the UK, this record of conversations with her therapist demonstrated the realities of anxiety and depression in a uniquely intimate way.

But Baek’s battle with dysthymia did not end there. Grappling with mental health is an everyday struggle. In I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki Baek’s experiences become more complex, as she demonstrates that striving contentment is an ongoing journey.

Baek Sehee studied creative writing in university before working at a publishing house. For ten years, she received psychiatric treatment for dysthymia (persistent mild depression), which became the subject of her essays, and then I Want to Die, but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki books one and two. Her favorite food is tteokbokki, and she lives with her dog, Jaram.

Come and Get It

One of 2024's hottest reads – chosen for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club

Kiley Reid

The bestselling author of Such a Fun Age returns with a fresh, provocative story about money, indiscretion and bad behaviour

It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardised by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.

A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is the highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed and award-winning author Kiley Reid.

Kiley Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal Playboy, Guardian and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.

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Private Revolutions

Coming of Age in a New China

Yuan Yang

Based on hundreds of hours of private conversations, Private Revolutions is a landmark debut exploring life in China today.

When Yuan Yang was four her family moved from Sichuan, China to Yorkshire, England. Growing up, Yang had never considered that her parents had private lives, or had embarked on personal revolutions in their journey to escape inequality in China.

Guided by this idea, Yang documents the private revolutions – the quiet, personal work done to transform one’s life and world – of four women in China today. These women’s stories encapsulate China’s revolutionary cycles from the Communist Revolution in 1949 to the quieter capitalist one thirty years later. They are stories of migrant workers establishing foundations to send children to better schools, university drop-outs facing the class anxiety of the ruling elite, women taking control of their choices in the face of social judgement and rebels fighting for change despite governmental condemnation.

Private Revolutions is a triumph of journalism and storytelling offering unprecedented access to those whose stories often go untold.

Yuan Yang is the Financial Times first Europe-China correspondent, based in London. She was previously its deputy Beijing bureau chief. After the 2020 journalist expulsion in China, she was one of the few English-language foreign journalists left in Beijing. She holds degrees in economics from Oxford University and the LSE.

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May 2025

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The Coast Road

‘A perfect book club read’ Sunday Times

Alan

Murrin

An astonishing debut novel about two women in a small Irish community in 1994, the year before divorce became legal

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley – the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin.

Returning to the community, Colette quickly finds herself caught between her old life and the freedom for which she risked everything, when the man to whom she is still married refuses her access to their children. Desperate to see them, she enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the two women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey – one toward a path of self-discovery, and the other toward tragedy.

From a sharp new literary talent, The Coast Road is a novel about a closed community, the limits placed on women’s lives and the consequences of daring to move against the tide.

Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction writer based in Berlin. Winner of the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize, his work has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, Irish Arts and Writers Festival Short Story Prize and the New Irish Writing in Germany Prize. He has written for the White Review, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement,Spectator and Art Review

May 2025

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Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes

The Story of an Ashes Classic

David Kynaston & Harry Ricketts

The story of the Ashes Test match that encapsulated an age-old rivalry between two nations at the dawn of an era

The Ashes are on the line as England and Australia meet at Old Trafford in July 1961 for the fourth Test. For most of the match, England have their noses ahead – until a dramatic final day of intensely fluctuating fortunes, as the tourists eventually storm to victory.

At the heart of Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes are two strikingly contrasting personalities: England’s captain, the Cambridge-educated, risk-averse, establishmentminded Peter May; and Australia’s captain, the charismatic, risk-taking, open-minded Benaud – a contrast not only between two individuals, but between two cricketing and indeed national cultures.

The sharply observed final chapters take the story up to the present day. They relate the ‘after-lives’ of the match’s key participants, including Ted Dexter, Bill Lawry and Fred Trueman as well as May and Benaud; trace the continuing chequered relationship between English cricket and broader social change; and, after six more decades of fierce Ashes rivalry, wrestle with the perennial conundrum for all England supporters – why do the baggy green caps usually beat us?

David Kynaston is a historian and has written eighteen books, four of which are based on different aspects of cricket history including the award-winning Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket. Harry Ricketts is a critic and poet who, in addition to biographies of Kipling and the War Poets, has written the guide How to Catch a Cricket Match.

Good Nature

The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health

Kathy Willis

A groundbreaking exploration of the causal relationship between nature and health – you’ll experience the world in a new light

Fifteen years ago, Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural world. The study proved that patients recovering from surgery improved three times faster when they looked out of their windows at trees.

Professor Willis has since dedicated her research to proving this link between the amount of green space in our lives and our better health, mood, and longevity Outlining the tangible benefits to our health she and other scientists have discovered, it is full of surprising and practical ways that nature can enhance our lives.

A book with applications to everything from which way we walk to work and choosing where our kids should go to school, Good Nature brings the laboratory to our lives – evoking the thrill of scientific discovery – and out into the natural world, making us see and experience it with new eyes.

Katherine Willis CBE is Professor of Biodiversity and the Principal of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She is also a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords. She was the Director of Science at Kew Gardens, and part of the UK Government’s Natural Capital Committee. In 2015, Kathy was awarded the Michael Faraday Medal from the Royal Society.

May 2025

Paperback 9781526670304 • £9.99

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The Rest is History Returns

An A–Z of Historical Curiosities

Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take us on a dizzying A–Z through the past – from Oppenheimer to history's top ten monkeys.

From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns. Only this time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook will take you on rollicking rollercoaster ride through history’s most interesting moments, from A–Z! Along the way you'll find the answers to questions like:

- Who was Jesus’s wife?

- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her schoolgirl crush, Adolf Hitler?

- What are history's top 10 monkeys?

- Was Henry V’s great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest ‘lad’ in British history?

But that’s not all – this book also includes nine trivia games and a pub quiz to test your knowledge and keep the fun going. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for an alphabetic adventure into the past .

Tom Holland is the author of several books on ancient and early medieval history. He has presented TV documentaries on subjects ranging from dinosaurs to the Islamic State. Dominic Sandbrook is best known for his histories of Britain since the 1950s as well as a series of history books for younger readers.

June 2025

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It Happened Like This

My Testimony

Vicky Foster

A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women’s power through the lens of Vicky’s Foster’s own traumatic background.

Vicky Foster thought she’d finally escaped violence when her ex-partner was murdered. Vicky was 25. She tried to draw a line under the past, get on with her life – but it’s not that simple to escape these things. She had to beat PTSD, try to trust people again, build a career and learn to move with confidence. But, 16 years later, the past came crashing back down on her when one of the men responsible for her ex-partner’s murder hit the headlines as the hero of the 2019 London Bridge terrorist attack.

Part true crime, part experimental memoir, When She Appears is a book about misogyny in all its forms, about heroism and villainy, about class and the climate of neglect, but most importantly it’s a book about women, and their power; all the things they overcome in an unsafe world, explored through the prism of Vicky’s own story.

Vicky Foster is an award-winning writer, performer and poet from Hull who has broadcast extensively across the BBC. She published two collections of writing and is currently working on her first novel whilst studying for a PhD in English and Creative Writing. She is a writer-in-residence for First Story, working with schools to help young people write their own stories.

June 2025

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The Golden Road

How Ancient India Transformed the World

William Dalrymple

A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas: bestselling historian William Dalrymple reinstates India as the great intellectual and philosophical superpower of Ancient Asia

India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world

For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific.

William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. He gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world. From the largest Hindu temple in the world at Angkor Wat to the Buddhism of Japan, from the trade that helped fund the Roman Empire to the creation of the numerals we use today (including zero), India transformed the culture and technology of its ancient world – and our world today as we know it.

William Dalrymple wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller InXanadu when he was twentytwo. Since, he has had many more books published and won numerous awards for his writing. He is the co-founder of the Jaipur Literary Festival and lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

June 2025

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Smart Money

How digital currencies will win the new Cold War –and why the West needs to act now

Brunello Rosa & Casey Larsen

How digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.

A second Cold War is underway. But whereas the Cold War of 1945–90 was dominated by the threat of nuclear conflict, the new front line will be economic.

For decades following the WW2, the US dollar was the global reserve currency, with oil and much international trade paid for in US currency. But no longer. More than a hundred countries are developing Central Bank Digital Currencies, which are programmable, unlike normal money.

China was the first country to recognise the significance of this shift. When China’s President Xi officially launched the digital yuan in February 2022, he also agreed a pact of ‘limitless co-operation’ with Russia. Within days, Russia launched its war on Ukraine, secure in the knowledge it would be able to buy oil without paying in dollars.

Urgent and ground-breaking, Smart Money unmasks how control over the supply of money is going to undoubtedly impact our future.

Brunello Rosa is a macro-economist and strategist. Brunello holds a master’s in finance and economics from LSE. He has previously worked in the Bank of England’s markets division and is an active member of Chatham House and the Chief Economists Advisory Board of the European Investment Bank. Casey Larsen is British–Swiss writer and an Associate Director at Farrant Group.

The Instrumentalist

The international bestseller

Constable

A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, by a major new talent selected for the Observer's debut novelists of 2024

'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist is a marvel' Kiran Millwood Hargrave

'A fascinating story of music, ambition, and womanhood in eighteenth-century Venice' Charmaine Wilkerson 'I was swept away by this searing portrait of ambition and betrayal' Elizabeth Macneal

In 1704 there lived an orphan. A musical prodigy, she was the favourite student of Antonio Vivaldi and became one of the greatest musicians of the eighteenth century. But her story has been lost to history.

From the jewelled palaces of Venice to its murky canals, this is the tale of one woman’s irrepressible ambition and her rise to the top; of loss, triumph, and the fight to be remembered.

It is time to meet the woman we should have been talking about for the last 300 years.

This is Anna Maria della Pietà’s story.

Harriet Constable is a journalist and filmmaker based in London. Her journalism and documentary work has featured in outlets including the BBC, Economist and New York Times. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism summer school, is a Pulitzer Center grantee and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

June 2025

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The Three Lives of Cate

If you loved Taylor Jenkins Reid, you’ll love this

Kate Fagan

For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a debut novel from an amazing new talent.

Who is Cate Kay?

Cate Kay is an infamous author. But it’s just a name. Despite her bestselling novels and the record-breaking film franchise, the writer has remained completely anonymous.

Anne Marie Callahan is the name nobody knows. Only the people she left behind. And there’s no one there anymore who could connect the dots between the girl who ran away all those years ago and the famous novelist.

If you asked, she’d say her name was Cass Ford. That’s what her barista shouts each morning. And it’s how she introduces herself to the woman she’ll eventually call the love of her life.

Three names, three lives. Cate Kay is finally ready to tell you who she really is.

The Three Lives of Cate Kay explores the cost of ambition, the longings of first (and second and third) love, and how it's never too late to go home.

Kate Fagan is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run, which was a semi-finalist for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. She is the author of three further non-fiction titles, a former professional basketball player, and spent seven years with ESPN. Kate currently lives in Charleston with her wife.

The Troubled Deep

A gripping, propulsive and atmospheric crime thriller perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and Peter James

Nobody ever knew what happened to the Brindleys.

Some said the family never made it home from the party; their speeding car thrown off the tracks and the four of them silently buried in the marshes. Others said they had simply moved on. For thirty years, the case remained as cold as the freezing waterways of the Norfolk broads.

Until Cam Killick found the car.

An ex-marine and ex-SBS officer, Cam Killick’s PTSD has made the return to civilian life a living nightmare. The only place he can find peace is underwater, where the world is muffled to white noise. As a cold case diver it is his job to scour the waterways of the country.

Except when Cam throws open the doors to the Brindley car, all four bodies are missing. And Cam will soon learn that some secrets, once submerged, are better off staying that way.

Rob Parker is the author of Far From The Tree, the #1 bestselling thriller for Audible Original and the first instalment in the Thirty Miles trilogy, as well as eight novels for independent publishers. He is the host of both Crime Central Manchester, a monthly showcase of emerging crime writing talent and blockbuster bestsellers, and the Blood Brothers podcast.

January 2025

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The Last Truths We Told

Holly Watt

An unputdownable page-turner about old friends and new betrayals: this is reading group suspense fiction at its very best

It's not the lies that kill you. It's the truth.

They predicted Ivo would become a tycoon. They predicted Ayda would go on to become a hotshot lawyer. They didn’t predict that Lily would be dead.

Twenty years ago, nine university friends predicted what would happen to each of them after college. Now they’ve all gathered together for the weekend. Not for a reunion but for a reveal.

Some of them have gone on to staggering success, others to more mundane lives. And one of them is missing.

Before her death Lily seemed agitated. Even scared. In the weeks before her death, she called Maggie, wanting to talk but then refusing to say what was frightening her. Now Maggie is beginning to realise that not everyone at the house this weekend is who they appeared to be.

And some are prepared to do anything to stop the truth coming out.

Holly Watt is an award-winning investigative journalist who worked at the Sunday Times the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian before moving to Devon with her family to write fiction.

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January 2025

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Spiral

'The best slow burn' *****

Bal Khabra

He’s on edge while she’s en pointe in this fake-dating sports romance from the author of the smash hit Collide

Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for Toronto Thunder, is facing the challenges of fame, a rapidly growing fan base and too many expectations. The tabloids are reporting on his every move, including which woman he was last seen with, but all he wants to do is escape the spotlight.

Sage Beaumont, an aspiring ballerina, dreams of joining the Aurora Ballet Theatre, but her lack of popularity online leaves her at a major disadvantage for securing the lead role. When Sage finds herself with the perfect opportunity to make her dreams come true by fake dating Elias, she takes her shot.

Soon enough, the flimsy fake-dating rules they set in place fall away in the face of their sizzling connection. But before things spiral out of control, Sage and Elias will have to decide if they’re willing to take the leap together or if they'll call it quits.

Bal is a Canadian writer, romance enthusiast, and book lover. Bal has been woven into the fabric of two cultures and finds herself creating characters that represent the beauty of both. Whether it's through language, a box of her favourite sweets, or a cup of chai, we can find hints of her South Asian roots throughout her writing.

January 2025

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The Kitchen Shrink

How the food we eat reveals who we are – and how we love

Andrea Oskis

An enlightening deep dive into how we can understand ourselves and our relationships through what we eat.

Me: ‘When did you know he didn’t love you anymore?’

My patient: ‘It wasn’t when we stopped having sex. No, it was when he stopped eating dinner with me.’

That was the lightbulb moment. That was when I discovered there is no better way to get inside people’s lives than through their personal stories about food.

Did you know that the food we eat reveals a lot about how we love?

Psychologist Dr Andrea Oskis shows us how we connect with each other and how we can change our relationship ‘recipes’ for the better. Along the way, she also reveals her own food story about love and loss.

Inviting us into her therapy room, she tells us:

- the real reason why comfort food comforts

- why dessert isn’t a good idea when you’re stressed

- what makes children feel obliged to eat their greens

- why you should never give a bottle of hot sauce to someone who has been rejected

Be prepared to never look at your plate in the same way again.

Dr Andrea Oskis is a psychologist, a food writer and a professional cook. She is interested in the two things that are crucial for human survival: relationships and food. Her academic expertise is human relationships – how we attach, love and connect, and she has researched, taught and written about this for more than twenty years.

Les Normaux

THE WEBTOON FANTASY ROMANCE PHENOMENON

Janine Janssen

Lore Olympus meets Heartstopper in this queer tale of vampires, werewolves witchesand the most magical phenomenon of all:love

Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more…

A global Webtoon phenomenon and LGBTQ+ graphic novel about friendship, love and magic.

‘Monster is just another word for someone different…’ Sébastien recently moved to supernatural Paris hoping to get away from his troubles at home and live a peaceful life learning magic. But what are you going to do when the really hot vampire you made out with last night (Elia) to forget your troubles turns out to be your new neighbour?

But both boys have insecurities holding them back – with a little help from friends, can they find the courage to give romance a go?

Join Elia, Sébastien and their assorted crew of wonderful friends, as they navigate the ins and outs of dating in a modern and paranormal love story.

Janine has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil, resulting in a BA in illustration and MA in animation. She loves telling stories about oddballs in society, and has been sharing them online as webcomics since 2013. She lives in the south of the Netherlands, but is travelling the world every day in her mind.ling the world every day in her mind.

January 2025

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The Hidden Hand

Stella Rimington

A gripping, timely spy thriller from ex-head of MI5 Stella Rimington, for fans of Charles Cumming and Tom Bradby

A historic institution is hiding a very modern threat.

The student

Li Min, a Chinese student, is forced by her government to transfer from Harvard to Oxford University, where she is recruited to an elite Chinese study centre based out of St Felix’s College.

The scapegoat

Meanwhile, the centre’s newly recruited head stumbles on its more sinister purpose: recruiting Chinese and sympathetic British students to steal high-value research and intellectual property. Unsure who at the university he can trust, he turns to CIA agent Manon Tyler for help.

The spy who might be their only hope... But as Li and another Chinese-American student are drawn deeper into a deadly game, will Manon be able to penetrate the heart of St Felix’s secrets in time to save them?

Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General of MI5 in 1992, the first woman to hold the post.

February 2025

Hardback 9781526678621 • £22.00

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The Unrecovered

Richard Strachan

An unforgettable historical debut inspired by a real life legend which marks the arrival of an outstanding new talent

The gloomy fortress of Gallondean lies on the Scottish coast. Local legend has it that if the heirs to the house hear the howling of the hound, their death will quickly follow.

The current owner of the house is Jacob Beresford. Already haunted by his own demons, he has no need of more ghosts, but as the First World War staggers through its last terrible months and he uncovers unsettling details of his new home’s past, the shadows seem to be growing around him.

Then he meets Esther, a young volunteer nurse serving at nearby Roddinglaw, a country house requisitioned for use as a temporary hospital ward. Esther, a widow, dreams of being a poet as she assists the men around her. But is it a soldier who appears to have only a minor injury, whose life will intersect with both Esther and Jacob in horrifying and unexpected ways.

Richard Strachan is a former bookseller, who lives in Edinburgh with his family. His short fiction has been published in various magazines including The Dark and Interzone, and by Galley Beggar Press in their digital singles list.

February 2025

Hardback 9781526670533 • £16.99

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The Dark Mirror

Samantha Shannon

From the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree – the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series.

Everything is about to change.

Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade –but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.

As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist.

And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories –Arcturus Mesarthim – might also hold the key to saving Italy.

Lyrical, touching and action-packed, The Dark Mirror drives the bestselling Bone Season series forward, showing Samantha Shannon at the height of her powers.

Samantha Shannon is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Season and The Roots of Chaos series. Her work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. She lives in London. samanthashannon.co.uk / @say_shannon

February 2025

Hardback 9781408879443 • £22.00

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The Honesty Box

Lucy Brazier

A powerful and much-needed book about what it is like to be in a relationship with someone who is neurodivergent.

"Heart-breaking and heart-warming, but the ultimate message is one of hope: never give up on the one you love." Veronica Henry

"Lucy’sstoryhighlightsjusthowlifechangingadiagnosiscanbe,andhowitcantruly save relationships." Rich and Rox Pink, @adhd_love_

‘On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough. Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve’s diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation, as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, set out to embrace this new reality. But will my plan to start an amateur honesty box business from our tiny Devon village be the catalyst to bring us together, or drive us further apart?

This is about what it is like to live with someone as they try to accept their neurodiversity. It is a funny, heart-wrenching, uplifting quest for truth, transformation and marrows.

I guess you could call it a love story too.’

Lucy Brazier is a ghostwriter and author. She began her career at the BBC before becoming a talent agent at PFD (now United Agents) representing actors and presenters. After twenty years, she and her young family left London and moved to Dorset where she worked with the broadcaster, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, before becoming a full time ghostwriter six years ago.

Bad Publicity

‘Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Tessa Bailey’

Bianca Gillam

The irresistible bookish enemies-to-lovers, second chance romance from new British author, Bianca Gillam. ‘A beautiful story’ Laurie Gilmore

When Andie lands her dream job as a senior book publicist, she’s ready to take the world of New York publishing by storm.

Until her first day, when she discovers that her biggest author is Jack Carlson – the same Jack who ruined her life in university. Who she hasn’t spoken to in five years. Who is still infuriatingly hot and incredibly successful. And whose campaign she cannot mess up, if she wants to keep her job.

To make matters worse, the central part of this career-defining campaign is a book tour. For a month, Andie will have to travel across Europe with the man who, if she were being totally honest, she’d like to hit with her car.

But she will not lose this opportunity, especially not because of him. One month on tour with Jack, visiting the most romantic spots in Europe. Deep breath. She can do this.

Bianca Gillam is a London-based author and armchair expert on 80s and 90s rom-coms. Her poetry has been published in a variety of publications and she formerly worked in publishing, where she had the joy of editing a wide variety of brilliant authors; she was inspired by the books she published to write her own.

February 2025

Paperback 9781526676443 • £8.99

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Intentional Living

Jayne Wallace

‘The most exceptionally gifted clairvoyant have ever met’ Kim Kardashian ‘Britain’s top psychic’ The Sunday Times

Stop. Assess. Change.

This book is a practical, inspirational and personal guide to living an infinitely fulfilling life by businesswoman and holistic wellbeing expert Jayne Wallace. A great believer in soulful connection, Jayne has a grab-bag of spiritual tools she is sharing for the first time with women who are stressed out, time-poor and want to bring more meaning into their lives.

Through 8 intentions, Jayne shows you how to harness the power of manifestation, tarot, cyclical energy and the natural world to make your aspirations a reality and become the best version of yourself. From 'Find your yoga' to 'Sustain the glow', she teaches us how to harness our intuition, gain self-knowledge and live a life of clarity.

Intentional Living is a soothing guide that celebrates key daily practices and rituals that can help us to restore harmony and transform our lives for the better.

Jayne Wallace is an internationally acclaimed wellness entrepreneur. She is the owner of the wellness brand, Psychic Sisters which is based in Selfridges, London and featured on the BBC’s Dragon’sDen in 2023. Her work has appeared in Marie Claire, New York Times The New Statesman, OK Magazine The Sun and The Mirror

March 2025

Hardback 9781526682833 • £16.99

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The House of Barbary

Isabelle Schuler

A smart historical fiction novel of revenge and power set in seventeenth-century Bern from the author of Lady MacBethad

Beatrice has been lied to her whole life.

Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that while education will set her mind free, there are some questions better left unanswered.

Her life is in disarray.

But when her father, one of the most powerful men in Bern, is brutally murdered in their own home, she is left reeling, unprotected and vulnerable.

Her future uncertain

Plunging head first into the mysteries surrounding her father and her own upbringing, Beatrice discovers The Order of St. Eve and the violent secrets they have been hiding her entire life.

It's time for her to take control.

Will she be able to right the wrongs of her father, or will the Order silence her first?

Isabelle Schuler is a Swiss-American actress, writer and former Waterstones bookseller. She has a BA in Journalism and her screenplay Queen Hereafter was longlisted by the Thousand Films Screenwriting Competition in 2019. In 2020, she adapted Queen Hereafter into her debut novel, Lady MacBethad She lives in Hertfordshire.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526647290 • £16.99

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Summer in the City

'Hotter than the rest of your

TBR' Cosmo

Alex Aster

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark Saga, this is Alex Aster's debut romance novel.

‘Pure, steamy fun’ Ali Hazelwood

Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a bigbudget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.

In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to. It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay … until she realizes her new neighbour is tech 'Billionaire Bachelor' Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.

He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper-glimmering, pizzacrusted, sunlit charms of the city.

It’s all pretend. Until it isn’t.

Alex Aster is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensations Lightlark and Nightbane and the Emblem Island series for children, inspired by her Colombian heritage. Summer in the City is her first romance novel.

10 Marchfield Square

Nicola Whyte

The Maid meets Only Murders in the Building in this cosy mystery set in the smallest residential square in London

Elderly heiress Celeste Van Duren intended Marchfield Square to be a haven. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was the plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and the police trying to pin it on his long-suffering wife, was not.

So Celeste does what anyone with a lot of money, a strong sense of justice and a bad hip would do: she recruits two of her tenants to track down the real killer. Her cleaner, Audrey, knows everyone and is liked by all, while failed crime writer, Lewis, is quite the opposite.

Despite their differences the two soon discover a surprising range of suspects and motives – but have they missed something closer to home? After all, how well do you really know your neighbours?

Nicola Whyte was shortlisted for the 2023 Comedy Women in Print Prize and her work has also been listed in the Cheshire Novel Prize (twice), the BPA First Novel Award, and Mslexia, while 10 Marchfield Square was named as first runner up in the 2023 Daily Mail First Novel Award. Nicola runs a small digital agency and lives near Stonehenge.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526673053 • £14.99

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Coram House

Bailey

Seybolt

A brilliantly atmospheric page-turner that sees a disgraced true crime writer commissioned to write the history of a former orphanage

Everyone has heard the rumours. But who knows the real story of Coram House?

True crime writer Alex Kelly is struggling after her last book tanked her career. Her reputation in tatters, she accepts a commission to ghost-write a book about Coram House, a former orphanage by a lake in Vermont that is now being turned into luxury condos. Could this be the fresh start she needs?

Years before, it was revealed that children at the orphanage were being abused; the church settled the case, but rumours persist about one of the other allegations made, that a small boy was deliberately drowned in the lake by someone in charge. Those in charge insist there was no such murder, but when Alex makes a shocking discovery only days after her arrival she realises that what began in the past is not going to stay there...

Bailey Seybolt is a Vermont-based journalist-turned-tech-writer who holds a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in Creative Writing from Concordia University. Her work has been featured in such publications as Travel + Leisure and Headlight literary anthology. Coram House is her first novel.

April 2025

Hardback 9781526681775 • £16.99

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Julie Chan is Dead

or that's what she needs you to think

Liann Zhang

A thrilling, horrifying, gloriously fun, edge-of-your-seat novel following Julie Chan stealing her wildly successful twin's life

Julie Chan didn’t mean to steal her identical twin’s life. She meant to call the police when she found the body.

Except when she unlocked Chloe’s phone to make that call, she also unlocked Chloe’s emails, gaining access to her estranged sister’s sponsorship deals, her followers, her wealth, her whole life.

And Julie’s not prepared to give it back. Not yet. After years of struggling to pay her rent, and stealing food from her miserable supermarket job to eat, it's time to have anything she wants.

All she has to do is keep her head down and blend in with the beautiful Belladonnas, the tribe of influencers who had welcomed Chloe in to their inner circle before she died.

So Julie's going to curate each post. Filter each picture. Spend whole days filming unboxing videos. Create the perfect caption.

But someone knows that even identical twins have their differences.

Liann Zhang is a writer, plant lover and ex-skincare blogger with a degree in Psychology and Criminology from the University of Toronto. As a Chinese-Canadian, her work is informed by themes of identity, class and race. Though usually heartfelt and humorous, her stories of late verge into horror. Julie Chan is Dead is her debut novel.

A Dance of Lies

Brittney Arena

In this unmissable new romantic fantasy, a dancer-turned-spy must decide how far she will go to secure her freedom as she plunges into a web of deception at the behest of the king she once loved.

Vasalie Moran was once a dancer in King Illian’s court – until he framed her for murder. Barely surviving her two years in the dungeons, she’s suddenly called to face her King. He offers her a deal: become his spy at the month-long royal Gathering and he’ll grant her freedom.

As Illian’s orders grow bloody and dangerous, forcing her to harm and betray those around her, Vasalie discovers the monster she serves may be aligned with a bigger monster –one far closer to home. With her world threatened, Vasalie enlists the help of Illian’s brother and greatest adversary, the King of the East.

As the rivalry between brothers escalates with Vasalie caught in the middle, the truth of her past comes to light. If she wants to survive, she must decide who to trust, who to fight for, and how much of her soul she’s willing to damn in the process.

With a background in design, art direction, and marketing, it wasn’t until Brittney Arena’s health took a nosedive that she developed a fierce love for reading and writing. This became not only a method of coping, but a way to travel and experience new worlds from home. In addition to telling stories, she mentors for Author Mentor Match. @reverieandink

May 2025

Hardback 9781526681843 • £16.99

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Storybook Ending

Moira Macdonald

Moira Macdonald’s debut novel is about a love triangle of sorts – a tribute to love, bookshops and Nora Ephron.

April is lonely. Since her office issued a permanent work from home mandate, she’s lost herself a little. In a bid to break out of the funk, she leaves an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her neighbourhood bookstore.

Laura is a busy single mum. Thanks to the meddling hand of fate, she’s the one who finds April’s note, thinking it’s from the guy who served her at the bookstore. A little flirtation with an attractive man might be just what she needs.

Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie filming at the shop to notice either woman's furtive glances as they leave notes for each other.

April and Laura's continued correspondence will shake all three of these characters out of their mundane routines, sparking a glimmer of hope that they might just get a storybook ending of their own.

Moira Macdonald is the longtime arts critic for the Seattle Times Storybook Ending is her first novel.

June 2025

June 2025

Hardback 9781526681409 • £16.99

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The Break-In

The latest must read from the international bestselling author of Greenwich Park and The Other Mothers

Katherine Faulkner

The latest addictive must-read from international bestselling author of Greenwich Park and The Other Mothers

They're not looking for what you think they are...

The play date started well. The children happy in one room while their mothers relaxed in another.

But then the stranger appeared at the window. And then he was inside the house. And then he grabbed the knife...

Alice only means to stop him. She doesn't mean to hit him so hard. She didn't mean to kill him.

The police conclude that she acted in self-defence, but wracked with guilt, Alice sets out to apologise to Linda, the mother of the young man she killed only to find she is unable to come clean about who she really is. But as Alice learns more about Ezra and why he was at her house, she starts to wonder whether she really has the full picture about what happened that day...

What would you be capable of to protect your family?

Katherine Faulkner is an award-winning journalist turned full-time writer. She wrote her debut novel, Greenwich Park, while on maternity leave with her first daughter and her follow up, The Other Mothers, while juggling family life and work. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

June 2025

Hardback 9781526675439 • £16.99

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BLOOMSBURY GENERAL PAPERBACKS

NEW TITLES • JANUARY – JUNE 2025

The Last Murder at the End of the World

The Number One Sunday Times bestseller

Stuart Turton

The dazzling high concept mystery from the author of the awardwinning, Sunday Times bestseller The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN

Abi keeps them safe.

One hundred and twenty-two islanders and their three beloved scientists live in harmony, kept safe from a poisonous security barrier with the help of Abi's instructions.

Niema keeps the islanders occupied.

Niema is one of the scientists, who remembers what life was like before the fog. She ensures that all of the islanders have a job to do, and everyone loves her. Almost everyone.

Emory can't stop asking questions.

But then one of the scientists is found dead, and their murder triggers the dropping of the security barrier. The only way to reinstate it is to find the killer. But can Emory ask the right questions?

They have 107 hours to solve the murder before the fog sweeps in. Can they stop the end of their world?

Stuart Turton’s debut award-winning novel, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was a Sunday Times bestseller. He lives near London with his family.

Finding Sophie

A heartfelt, page turning thriller that shows how far parents will go for their child

Imran Mahmood

A brilliantly compelling domestic suspense from the man behind BBC/Netflix smash hit, You Don't Know Me

Sophie King is missing.

Her parents, Harry and Zara, are distraught; for the last seventeen years, they've done everything for their beloved only daughter and now she's gone.

The police have no leads, and Harry and Zara are growing increasingly frantic, although they are both dealing with it in very different ways. Increasingly obsessed with their very suspicious neighbour who won't open the door or answer any questions, they are both coming to the same conclusion. If they want answers, they're going to have to take matters into their own hands.

But just how far are they prepared to go for the love of their daughter?

Imran Mahmood is a practising barrister. His previous novels have been highly critically acclaimed: You Don't Know Me was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice and Goldsboro Book of the Month; both this and I Know What I Saw were longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold Dagger.

January 2025

Paperback 9781526634924 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526679246 • £20.00

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The Puzzle Wood

The mesmerising new dark tale from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan

Rosie Andrews

The atmospheric, spell-binding new novel from the author of Sunday Times bestseller, The Leviathan

Deep in the woods, something is stirring…

As Catherine Symonds, newly appointed governess of Locksley Abbey, arrives in the foothills of the Black Mountains, where England bleeds into Wales, she feels apprehensive.

It is not the echoing, near-empty Abbey with its skeleton staff that frightens her, nor the ancient woods that surround the house, or even the dogs that stalk the grounds. It is Catherine herself who fears scrutiny. She has come here under false pretences, determined to secretly investigate the fate of the last governess at the house, her very own sister, Emily, who is reported to have taken her own life out in the woods.

But despite the reports of her sister’s death, Catherine finds herself increasingly drawn to the wood. A place of myth, memory and murder, she soon finds it will not give up its secrets easily, nor offer sanctuary to those who conceal dark deeds...

Rosie Andrews was born and grew up in Liverpool, the third of twelve children. She studied History at Cambridge before becoming an English teacher. Her debut novel, The Leviathan, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and has been shortlisted for the Goldsboro Glass Bell Award, the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Fiction.

February 2025

Paperback 9781526647566 • £8.99

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A Work In Progress

‘I’m not past my prime, and neither are you!’

Sue Cleaver

A straight-talking, funny call-to-arms for women as they age to remember their value and change their lives for the better

'Past my prime? Not a chance...'

A Work in Progress will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced or underestimated. From knowing our worth and looking ahead with excitement and possibility, this book will change lives.

Sue Cleaver shares her experiences, reflects on how they made her feel, what she learned, and offers advice for others. Are you a chronic overthinker, have anxiety, or suffer from self-doubt? Sue has been there, done that, and is still learning from it. Having trained as a therapist, she knows just what to say to help you overcome your crisis.

'I've spent a lifetime feeling that I'm not enough or I don't belong. It's only now that I'm beginning to find my voice. I'm still a work in progress, but for the first time in my life, I have reached a point where I'm no longer hiding, and that feels good.'

Sue Cleaver is a Northern actress best known for playing Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street Her other TV credits include: City Central, Dinnerladies, This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, Casualty and A Touch of Frost. She took part in I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here! in 2022, and is a regular panellist on Loose Women.

March 2025

Paperback 9781526681300 • £9.99

Hardback 9781526678706 • £20.00

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The Grief Doctor

'A thrilling debut' Daily Mail

Jack Anderson

A brilliantly original horror-tinged debut in which a controversial scientific genius believes she can 'cure' one man's grief at the death of his beloved wife.

Genius. Maverick. Monster.

‘Aplacefreeofjudgement…foralifefreeofpain’

Since his beloved wife died, Arthur has lost all hope. He doesn't care about his highpowered job, his increasingly distressed mother, his future... Even his therapist cannot help him to cope with his grief. In desperation, his mother seeks out the only person who can: Dr Elizabeth Codelle.

Controversial genius, Dr Codelle runs the world’s most exclusive clinic. Eye-wateringly expensive, the clinic is located on a small private island and takes only one patient at a time - but it gets results. Codelle doesn’t just treat her clients, she claims to entirely cure them. And she is insistent that Arthur must stay on the island until he is all better.

Whatever that takes.

Jack Anderson is the author of the viral internet serial 'Has Anyone Heard of The Left/Right Game?' which has since been adapted into a hit QCode podcast. He lives with his wife in Sheffield. The Grief Doctor is his debut novel.

The Paris Muse

Louisa Treger

The fictionalised love story between the artist and muse Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso.

Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerised by his dark and intense stare. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn't long before she embarks on a passionate relationship with the Spanish artist that sometimes includes sadism and masochism, and ultimately pushes her to the edge.

The Paris Muse is the fictionalised retelling of this disturbing love story, as we follow Dora on her journey of self-discovery and expression. Set in Paris and the French Riviera, where Dora and Pablo spent their holidays, it provides a fascinating insight into how Picasso was a genius who side-stepped the rules in his human relationships as he did in his art.

Atmospheric, intense and moving, The Paris Muse is an astonishing read that ensures that this talented, often overlooked woman who gave her life to Picasso is no longer a footnote.

Louisa Treger is the author of three novels, The Lodger, The Dragon Lady and Madwoman, which was a historical fiction Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times, and a Book of the Month in the Independent. She has written for The Times, The Telegraph, Tatler, BBC History Magazine and English Heritage

March 2025

Paperback 9781526667519 • £8.99

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Here in the Dark

Alexis Soloski

Sharp, witty and messed up. A biting literary thriller perfect for readers of Gillian Flynn, Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith.

By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan's sharpest literary critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb.

Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an enigmatic graduate student. When he later disappears, Vivian soon learns from his devastated fiancée that Vivian was the last person to have seen him alive. The police refuse to investigate his disappearance and Vivian finds herself obsessed with what happened, assuming the role of amateur investigator.

But as she gets closer to the truth about David Adler, she finds that the boundaries between theatre and reality are more tenuous than even she could have believed.

Alexis Soloski is a prize-winning New York Times culture critic and a former lead theater critic at the Village Voice. She has taught at Barnard College and at Columbia University, where she earned her PhD in Theater. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Here in the Dark is her first novel.

March 2025

A Case of Mice and Murder

The Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Sally Smith

First in a delightful new mystery series featuring Edwardian barrister Gabriel Ward KC

When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case – the disputed authorship of bestselling children’s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse – that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.

But even he cannot fail to notice the judge’s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest.

The police can enter the Inner Temple only by consent, so who better to investigate this tragic breach of law and order than a man who prizes both above all things? But murder doesn’t answer to logic or reasoned argument, and Gabriel soon discovers that the Temple’s heavy oak doors are hiding more surprising secrets than he’d ever imagined.

Sally Smith spent all her working life as a barrister and later KC in the Inner Temple. After writing a biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, she retired from the bar to write full time. A Case of Mice and Murder, her first novel, was inspired by the Inner Temple's rich archives and historic surroundings.

May 2025

Paperback 9781526668721 • £8.99

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The Getaway

Nicola Martin

Bella Mackie meets Below Deck in this dark thriller exposing the underbelly of a picture-perfect Caribbean resort

Welcome to Keeper Island, the private Caribbean paradise where the cocktails are chilled, the guests are not, and new manager Lola is hoping nothing messes up her badly needed fresh start.

Her previous job in Hong Kong ended in tears – and quite a lot of blood – so she’s come to Keeper to lie low, as well as to provide the gold-star service the resort’s spoiled onepercenters expect. Her only connection to her previous life now is her old mentor and new boss, Mike Moxham.

But nothing is that simple, and no secret is truly safe forever. When Moxham is found dead less than a day after her arrival on the island, the rules Lola uses for working with the super-rich quickly become rules for survival:

Be prepared for anything. Trust no one.

Because she might be next…

Nicola Martin studied at the University of East Anglia and the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Bristol, where she works as a marketing manager and freelance writer. Her first novel, Dead Ringer, published by Saraband, won the Fiction Prize at the 2021 Lakeland Book of the Year Awards.

May 2025

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9781526672445 • £8.99

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The Stranger at the Wedding

A. E. Gauntlett

Addictive, compulsive, entertaining, a brilliantly dark and messy thriller for fans of How to Kill Your Family

Annie never believed in true love. Not until she met Mark.

It’s a whirlwind romance and Annie has never felt surer about anything in her life. Even if she isn't the first woman Mark has fallen head over heels in love with.

But as she stands at the altar, casting her eyes over the rows of well-wishers, she spots an unknown face in the crowd.

Who is the stranger at the wedding? What really happened to Mark’s first wife?

And was Annie and Mark’s initial meet cute as random as it first appeared, or was there something more at work?

The stranger at the wedding: whose side are you on?

A. E. Gauntlett completed an MA in English Literature at King's College, London in 2010, before joining the publishing industry as a literary agent. The Stranger at the Wedding is his debut thriller, written in secret while agenting the work of numerous bestselling authors of his own.

Seriously British

A Frenchman’s love letter to Britain

Fred Sirieix

An ode to the beauty, uniqueness and heritage of Britain, by the UK’s favourite Frenchie, Fred Sirieix.

This is what (a lot of) the French think about the UK and the British: the food is bland and boring the wine is undrinkable it's always raining and grey they don't have sex they've got no sense of style

And anyway, who would want to swap a juicy steak au poivre for deep fried cod and chips?

Fred Sirieix would. Ever since he boarded a P&O ferry bound for Dover with a one-way ticket and just two suitcases, he has been in love with the UK. Working as a waiter at the famous three-Michelin-starred restaurant La Tante Claire in Chelsea aged just 20, he learned English, met people from all walks of life, and went dancing until dawn. It was glorious madness. His appetite for life propelled him to sample everything this country could offer: culture, travel, drink and food… always food.

This is his love letter to Britain.

Fred Sirieix moved to the UK in the summer of 1992. He worked in senior front-of-house positions in landmark London restaurants. In the last decade, Sirieix has been a constant presence on our screens across a variety of channels. Sirieix set up the charity The Right Course, an initiative to adapt prisons’ canteens into professional kitchens run by inmates.

June 2025

Paperback 9781526679192 • £9.99

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Wives Like Us

'Brilliantly satirical' Daily Mail

Plum Sykes

The impossibly funny and wickedly sharp new novel from the bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes. ‘Brilliantly satirical’ Daily Mail

‘Wickedly Funny’ Citizen Femme

Welcome to the tiny rose-strewn Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom.

Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor taking her daughter and Executive Butler Ian with her, decamping to The Old Coach House to teach her husband, Bryan, a lesson. Ian knows the only way to restore order to his - and Tata's life is to get his employers back together.

But nothing goes to plan. Mr Hawkins disappears with a bikini designer; a glamorous American divorcée has inherited the beautiful estate next door and won't be pinned down; Tata’s best friends are distracted by their own problems; worst of all, Ian simply cannot find the space for his collection of vintage Gucci loafers.

With the help of an eclectic group of unsuspecting aides, is there any hope that Ian can restore harmony to The Bottoms?

Plum Sykes was born in London and educated at Oxford. She is the author of the novels Bergdorf Blondes, TheDebutanteDivorcée, and Party Girls Die in Pearls. She is a contributing editor at World of Interiors and American Vogue. She lives in the English countryside with her daughters.

June 2025

Paperback 9781408888537 • £9.99

Hardback 9781408888575 • £18.99

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NEW TITLES • JANUARY – JUNE 2025

Eat Great, Lose Weight

Easy, healthy recipes that you'll actually want to eat

Jess Hawkins

100 easy and delicious high-protein, slimming recipes from Instagram sensation Jess Hawkins.

Delicious, easy-to-make, high-protein, calorie-counted recipes that you REALLY want to eat

With 100 recipes under 600 calories, Jess Hawkins will show you that you don’t need to be restrictive, scrimp on flavour or feel overwhelmed whilst on a slimming journey thanks to her indulgent feeling dishes – think Potato Waffle Topped Sausage & Onion Pie, Slow Cooker Chicken, Chorizo & Prawn Paella and Air Fryer Raspberry & White Chocolate Croissant Bake.

From breakfasts and brunches to speedy lunches, cosy and comforting dinners, one pan meals, as well as fakeaways, snacks and sides, and sweet treats, inside you’ll find recipes that everyone will love whether they’re watching their waistline or not. No restrictions, just finger-licking good food.

Jessica Hawkins is a 28-year-old content creator who inspires her 359K Instagram followers to embrace a lifestyle of delicious balance and joyful eating. Through her weight loss journey, she has demonstrated that losing weight isn’t about sacrificing the delicious food you love.

January 2025

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9781526681614 • £20.00

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Poppy Cooks: The Potato Book

101 recipes from the Potato Queen

Poppy O'Toole

Let the TikTok Potato Queen show you how to celebrate the humble spud

Fried. Baked. Mashed. Roasted.From TikTok's High Priestess of the Potato comes the ultimate potato book!

The spud, the humblest of ingredients, can be made into more than just mash (but if it is mash, make it the best mash), and in this book Poppy O’Toole celebrates the range and variety from just this one mighty ingredient. Here are the tools you need for the perfect potatoes every time (whether they be roast, fondant,gnocchi or fries), with a signature classic recipe, before Poppy then adds tips and tricks for cooking with different methods and flavour options, as well as mouth-watering international classics (think latkes, dauphinoise and tartiflette) and old-school freezer favourites (hello tater tots and curly fries!).

With 101 recipes, from crispy cubes to chips and patatas bravas to Poppy’s ultimate 15-hour potatoes, this is THE book you need to raise your spud game and cook like the Potato Queen herself.

Poppy rose to TikTok fame in lockdown 2020; she quickly became known for her many and varied potato recipes, with her 15-hour potato recipe going viral. Now with more than 3 million followers across platforms and over 400 million views across her channels, she is a highly in-demand food influencer. She’s appeared on Saturday Kitchen and is the cohost of BBC Three’s Young MasterChef @poppycooks (TikTok) / @poppy_cooks (Instagram)

ADHD Unpacked

Everything you need to know to survive and thrive as an adult with ADHD

Alex Conner & James Brown

An essential guide to adult ADHD from Alex Conner and James Brown, the hosts of the podcast, The ADHD Adults.

Think you might have ADHD but don't know where to look for help? Maybe you've been recently diagnosed and you're thinking, what now? Looking for ways to better support and understand an adult with ADHD in your life?

From the hosts of The ADHD Adults comes this accessible, authentic and unfiltered guide to understanding adult ADHD. You'll find science-backed facts on what ADHD actually is, how it shows up in everyday life, personal reflections (sometimes painful, often hilarious) and tips and tools for coping.

Join Alex and James as they walk you through ADHD myth-busters, the long-held perceptions of ADHD (did you know that it was once known as 'a defect of moral control'?!), to why intention and emotion regulation disorder might be a better name for it.

ADHD Unpacked is the relatable, reassuring and downright funny handbook you need to survive and thrive with ADHD.

James Brown and Alex Conner are the hosts of the podcast, The ADHD Adults. James is a scientific researcher and journalist and Alex is an academic, coach, journalist and science communicator. Both James and Alex have ADHD and were diagnosed as adults. They are also the founders of the award-winning charity, ADHDadultUK.

Bees & Honey

River Cottage Handbook No.19

Rachel de Thample

In the latest River Cottage Handbook, Rachel de Thample provides a comprehensive guide on beekeeping and using honey in cooking

Bees & Honey tells you everything you need to know about setting up a hive, keeping healthy bees, and harvesting golden pots of honey.

This practical handbook will enable you to establish a colony of honeybees and understand exactly what is happening inside the hive. You’ll be guided through the bee’s year and given instructions for sustainably harvesting their hard work. And, once you have your first pot of delicious honey, there are recipes for cakes, sauces, drinks and more.

Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and containing plenty of step-by-step photography, this is the only book you’ll ever need on beekeeping.

Rachel de Thample runs preserving and fermentation courses at River Cottage, and has previously worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White, Heston Blumenthal and Peter Gordon. She is the author of several books, including the most recent River Cottage Handbook, Fermentation. She was Commissioning Editor of Waitrose Food Illustrated and pioneered the Abel & Cole organic box scheme.

March 2025 Hardback

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Indian Kitchens

Treasured

family recipes from across the land

Roopa Gulati

A vivid, contemporary portrait of a country through its food and the ordinary, extraordinary, people who make it

From dals to masalas, and quick and easy suppers to feasts for a crowd, Roopa's easy-tofollow recipes are bursting with authentic flavours using ingredients found in your local supermarket. Recipes include aubergine pakoras with onion and tamarind relish, potato and paneer tikki, Tandoori sea bass home-style Punjabi chicken curry Kashmiri lamb with saffron, cardamom and red chillies, Bengali-style butternut squash with tamarind and jaggery, channa dal with spinach, phirni with honey, orange and saffron syrup and pistachio and cardamom biscuits.

From the monsoon-washed backwaters of Kerala to the crowded markets of Mumbai, this celebration of regional cooking will bring the sights, sounds and flavours of India to your table.

Roopa Gulati is all about making the most of Indian spices in your own kitchen. Raised in Cumbria, she crossed continents and worked as a chef in New Delhi's kitchens, cooking in hotels, street bazaars, TV studios and on stoves across India. Now in London, Roopa writes about food and shares her skills with fans of regional Indian cooking.

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The Walking Cure

Harness the life-changing power of landscape to heal, energise and inspire

Annabel Streets

The Walking Cure celebrates the joy of walking and shares the science behind its incredible health benefits.

In this inspirational travelogue-come-guide, Annabel Streets uses her unique blend of ‘science and romance’ to explain the curative and therapeutic benefits of 20 easy-to-find landscapes, both rural and urban. From mountains to meadows, disused railway lines to rivers and coastal cliffs to city parks, the physiological benefits of walking are huge and exponentially enhanced by the right route. Streets investigates how such landscapes have proven abilities to change how we see, feel and experience ourselves and the world.

With warmth and wisdom, and using a compelling blend of anecdotal and empirical evidence, she identifies the perfect place to walk for over two dozen common states-ofmind, whether it be a canal path to spark creativity, a bustling city to allay boredom or the coastline to heal grief and worry. The Walking Cure celebrates the joy of walking and shares the extraordinary health benefits that it unlocks.

Annabel Streets is an award-winning writer, with her first walking book, 52 Ways to Walk, being a bestseller. As Annabel Abbs, she wrote Windswept: Why Women Walk and as Annabel Streets she co-authored The Age-Well Project: Easy Ways to a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life. She has written for a range of newspapers and is a Fellow of the Brown Foundation.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526642585 • £26.00

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The Seafood Restaurant Cookbook

Rick Stein

A glorious celebration in recipes, words, and pictures of Rick Stein’s legendary Seafood Restaurant in the fishing village of Padstow in North Cornwall.

A glorious celebration in words, pictures and 50 classic recipes of Rick Stein’s legendary Seafood Restaurant.

Opened in 1985 by Rick Stein and his wife Jill, the Seafood Restaurant has, for half a century, been a destination for food lovers the world over.

Covering five decades and featuring a chapter for each decade, the book showcases the 50 most beloved Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant recipes.

In 2025, after 50 years at the helm, Rick and Jill Stein will step down from the day to day running of the restaurant to hand over to their three sons, Ed, Jack and Charlie, who will pick up the reins and together take the restaurant on into the next half century.

The Seafood Restaurant Cookbook is destined to become both a classic in the kitchen and also a timelessly touching story of a simple Cornish family restaurant that through hard work, dedication, chance and supreme talent became a worldwide culinary destination.

Having first appeared on the nation’s TV screens in 1985 in an episode of Keith Floyd’s first BBC show, Floyd on Fish, Rick Stein has since become the face of passionate, intelligent and entertaining cookery shows the world over.

He is the author of over 25 bestselling cookbooks and jointly oversees a restaurant empire that stretches from Padstow in Cornwall to Sydney in Australia.

He opened The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow in 1985 with his then wife Jill. They run it together to this day.

March 2025

Hardback 9781526676320 • £14.99

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A Wilder Way

How Gardens Grow Us

Poppy Okotcha

Ecological horticulturalist Poppy Okotcha maps a year in her wild garden, sharing the joys of reconnecting with the natural world

A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals, but can also help to grow a better world.

From her wild little garden in Devon, Poppy Okotcha shares the inspiring and magical moments that arise from tending the land through the seasons, and what it can teach us about living more sustainably.

She shows us how the small joys of engaging with the natural world are imperative for our physical and emotional well-being. How the folklore of our ancestors can help us see the world with fresh eyes. And how the more we look around us, the more we learn and the more we care. As we move through the year, she shares practical notes on sowing and growing, wild ingredients to be found and delicious seasonal recipes, inspiring us to live a little more wildly.

Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, passionate about inspiring people to engage with and connect to the natural world. Poppy has been featured on BBC2's Gardeners' World and is a regular contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society podcast. She was also the ecological expert on Channel 4's The Great Garden Revolution

Instagram: @poppyokotcha

April 2025

Hardback 9781526666512 • £18.99

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Completely Normal and Totally Fine

My Life with Bipolar Disorder

Rosie Viva

Rosie Viva’s uplifting memoir of living with bipolar disorder and how we can all make peace with our minds.

In 2018, model Rosie Viva was arrested after she caused Stansted Airport to evacuate all its waiting passengers following a psychotic episode. After the incident, she was hospitalised, sectioned and diagnosed with bipolar disorder - a dramatic moment that would alter the course of her life.

In this moving memoir, Rosie opens up about the unique experience of being 'normal' and 'fine', whilst dealing with the delusions, mania and depression that bipolar brings. Navigating love, work and life while in recovery, she shares how she learned to embrace a ‘new normal’ and left the world of modelling behind to become a mental health advocate.

Completely Normal and Totally Fine shines light on living with a complex mental health condition that's often misunderstood and underdiagnosed, inspiring us to shed the stigma around mental health and open up about our messy minds too.

Rosie Viva is a model, documentary filmmaker and activist passionate about encouraging and helping people talk about neurodiversity. 2023 saw Rosie become the subject of a Channel 4 digital documentary, Modelling, Mania and Me, charting her day-to-day experiences of living with bipolar, amassing over 100,000 views since May. Channel 4 want to make Rosie their next ‘face of mental health’.

Food You Want to Eat

Thomas Straker

This isfood you want to eat shared by Thomas Straker to his 5M following, and in his first cookbook.

This describes the food you want to eat, shared by chef and creator Thomas Straker to his 5M following, and now in his first cookbook. Uncomplicated, seasonal and delicious, each recipe has been perfected by Thomas so that youcan enjoy the flavours without spending hours labouring away.

The book includes favourite dishes beloved on his socials such as flavoured butters and flatbreads as well as elegantly achievable plates, for example: Roast chicken with butter beans and salsa verde Cod with tomatoes and peppers

Pan fried romanesco with tahini sauce

Set custard with rhubarb

Thomas is a new generation chef who cooks with the same stylish simplicity whether at home, online or in the kitchen of his acclaimed London restaurant, STRAKER’S. Breaking down the barriers between cheffy food and home-cooking, he shows how quality ingredients and simple techniques can lead toamazing results in your kitchen.

Thomas Straker is a British chef, based in London. He has worked in some of London’s top restaurants, and during lockdown, started creating recipe videos on Instagram which has now amassed a following of 5M people worldwide. Tom recently opened his first restaurant STRAKER’S to critical acclaim, being cited as one of the most sought-after tables in London.

Sabzi

Fresh vegetarian recipes for everyday

Yasmin Khan

From the best-selling and critically-acclaimed author Yasmin Khan, comes a dazzling new collection of 80 easy-to-cook, vibrant vegfocussed recipes inspired by her travels across the globe.

Sabzi – the Persian word for fresh greens and herbs – isn’t a casual afterthought in bestselling author Yasmin Khan’s kitchen; instead they are the cornerstone of the meals she cooks, the bedrock of khorests, curries, soups, salads and frittatas. In this beautiful collection Yasmin shares the food she most often cooks at home, which just happens to be vegetarian and often vegan, inspired by her Pakistani and Iranian heritage, her mother’s cooking and her travels around the world.

Recipes in the book include: Tofu shakshuka; Peach and feta salad; Roast carrots with tahini lentils and smashed herbs; Persian yoghurt cucumber soup; Coconut chana dal; Pasta with aubergine, tomatoes and capers; Persian saffron and rose rice pudding … and many more

An invitation into Yasmin’s treasure trove of a kitchen, with its limited storage and overflowing shelves, Sabzi is a celebration of the life-affirming and nourishing power of plants.

Yasmin Khan is an author and broadcaster. Her critically acclaimed cookery books, The Saffron Tales, Zaitoun and Ripe Figs chronicle her culinary adventures through Iran and Palestine, sharing recipes and stories that celebrate beauty and the power of the human spirit in regions more commonly associated with conflict. Sabzi is her fourth book. yasminkhanstories.com / Twitter: @Yasmin_khan / Instagram: @yasminkhanstories

May 2025

Hardback 9781526664952 • £26.00

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Celebrate

Joyful Baking All Year Round

Paul Hollywood

Paul Hollywood, the best baker in the business, is back with Celebrate: showstopping bakes to mark the special moments in your life.

With chapters on Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as well as Party Food and Cakes, you will have something up your sleeve for every occasion, from Easter and Christmas, to summer picnics, Valentine’s Day and much more. Including recipes for easy traybakes, layer cakes, quiches, tarts, breads, pastries, desserts and cookies, expect family favourites like Mini Chocolate Logs and twists on classics like Strawberry Heart Scones, as well as Paul’s delectable Bake Off Cake and scrumptious handheld beef pies.

Filled with his fool-proof recipes and kaleidoscopic photography, Celebrate makes the occasions that mean the most to us all the more memorable.

June 2025

Hardback 9781526679017 • £26.00

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NEW TITLES • JANUARY – JUNE 2025

River Cottage Baby and Toddler Cookbook

Nikki Duffy

Introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Baby and Toddler Cookbook puts real food on the table for the whole family to enjoy

Nikki Duffy brings the River Cottage ethos to feeding children, and shows that it's never too early to involve the youngest family members in mealtimes. Her delicious seasonal purées and simple, wholesome recipes put the needs and wants of babies and toddlers first, whilst offering up dishes that will delight adults too. With clear advice on nutrition and weaning, The River Cottage Baby & Toddler Cookbook is the perfect starting point for your child's food adventure.

Start the day with breakfasts like blueberry pancakes, apple muesli or eggy bread, followed by simple and delicious meals like fishcakes, meatballs, shepherd's pie, homemade pizza, falafel, mackerel pâté, pea risotto or roasted fish with tomato sauce. Nice little puddings include baby baked apples with chocolate, rhubarb crumble and a classic rice pudding. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this book will put real food on the table for the whole family to share.

Formerly Deputy Editor of the award-winning magazine Waitrose Food Illustrated, Nikki Duffy also wrote a weekly food column in the Guardian

She worked for three years as the River Cottage Food Editor and is now a freelance food writer. She lives in Essex with her husband and children.

January 2025

Paperback 9781526676740 • £16.99

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Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Travels

Caroline Eden

'A unique blend of history, place, love, food and belonging.' Diana Henry

A Financial Times and Observer "best summer read"

In her welcoming, dimly lit Edinburgh kitchen, Caroline Eden recounts travels across Central Asia, Turkey, the Baltics and beyond, where her recipes, ingredients and imagination are a portal to past adventures and distant lands. From midnight baking as a route to Ukraine, to recollecting the magic of Uzbekistan’s rare winter melons, Cold Kitchen is an ode to the kitchen’s extraordinary ability to tell human stories and transport us to different lives and places.

Caroline Eden is a writer, book critic and multi-award winner. Before moving to journalism she completed an MA in Jewish Studies and Diaspora at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London. She has travelled extensively to countries such as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Bangladesh, documenting her experiences across multiple publications, as well as on BBC Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’. Caroline contributes to the Financial Times TheGuardian and the TimesLiterary Supplement. Her books include Samarkand, Black Sea and most recently, Red Sands.

May 2025

Paperback 9781526658999 • £10.99

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