Bloomsbury Adult Catalogue: New Titles July - December 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing

July – December 2021

4 Original Fiction

16 Raven Books – Crime, Thriller & Mystery

24 Original Non-Fiction

74 Cookery

82 Paperback Fiction

90 Paperback Non-Fiction

102 Bloomsbury Business

110 Sigma – Popular Science

118 Green Tree – Wellbeing

120 Bloomsbury Sport

130 Yearbooks

135 Bloomsbury Contact List & International Sales

137 Social Media Contacts

138 Index

TPB Trade Paperback

PAPERBACK B format paperback (dimensions 198 mm x 129 mm)

ORIGINAL FICTION

Animal The first novel from the author of Three Women Lisa Taddeo The first novel from Lisa Taddeo, author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Three Women Meet Joan. I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That’s a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man. Do you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way. I am depraved. I hope you like me. 24 JUNE 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS HARDBACK / 9781526630940 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781526630926 / £11.89 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ UK/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ICM PARTNERS EXPORT TPB / 9781526630933 / £13.99 ANZ PUB DATE 08 JUNE 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $32.99 / NZ $34.99

Lisa Taddeo is the author of Three Women, which she is adapting for a television series with Showtime. Three Women was an international number one bestseller, the British Book Awards Narrative Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Taddeo is also working on projects with Netflix and Annapurna Pictures. She lives in New England.

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What You Can See From Here The international bestseller translated by Tess Lewis Mariana Leky The international bestseller by award-winning Mariana Leky about finding your place in the world, even if that place is right where you started.

‘Manages something only a few books achieve: it makes you happy’ Münchener Merkur On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. But who? As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that they are not superstitious), Selma’s granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings long-carried secrets to the surface. And when death comes, it comes in a way none of them could have predicted... A story about the absurdity of life and death, a bittersweet portrait of village life and the wider world that beckons beyond, What You Can See From Here is a story about the way loss and love shape not just a person, but a community.

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Mariana Leky lives in Berlin. She began her career as a bookseller, and has published awardwinning novels before What You Can See From Here, an international bestseller which has been published in fourteen territories. Tess Lewis is an award-winning translator who has been awarded grants from PEN USA and UK. She is co-chair of the PEN Translation Committee and advisory editor for the Hudson Review.

ORIGINAL FICTION

Orphans of the Storm Celia Imrie A thrilling read from the Sunday Times-bestselling author and national treasure: an epic story of a mother’s quest Praise for Celia Imrie: ‘Utterly delicious in every way’ Joanna Lumley Nice, 1912. The very worst thing imaginable has come true for Marcela: following their separation, her cruel, controlling husband Michael has disappeared with their two young sons. Lolo and Monmon don’t understand where their daddy is taking them. First it was London; now they’re boarding a massive ship and heading out to sea. Marcela will do everything in her power to find her boys; but when an era-defining disaster strikes, it seems impossible that they will ever be reunited.

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Celia Imrie is an Olivier Award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress known for roles in films including The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Absolutely Fabulous. She is the author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Nice series, Not Quite Nice, Nice Work (If You Can Get It), A Nice Cup of Tea and Sail Away. @CeliaImrie

Orphans of the Storm dives into the waters of the past to unearth a sweeping, epic tale of the sinking of the Titanic that radiates with humanity and hums with life.

ORIGINAL FICTION

The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden Kate Saunders For fans of the Grantchester Mysteries, the charming third instalment in Kate Saunders’s series featuring engaging lady detective Laetitia Rodd Praise for the series:

‘Laetitia is a warm and engaging heroine’ The Times ‘Hugely enjoyable’ James Runcie ‘Simply begging to be made into a Sunday night drama’ Red In the spring of 1853, private detective Laetitia Rodd receives a delicate request from a retired actor, whose days on the stage were ended by a theatre fire ten years before. His great friend, and the man he rescued from the fire, Thomas Transome, has decided to leave his wife, who now needs assistance in securing a worthy settlement. Though Mrs Rodd is reluctant to get involved with the scandalous world of the theatre, she cannot turn away the woman in need. But what starts as a simple matter of negotiation becomes complicated when a body is discovered in the burnt husk of the old theatre. Finding herself embroiled in family politics of a Shakespearean scale, Mrs Rodd must summon all her investigative powers, not to mention her famous discretion, to solve the case before tragedy strikes once more.

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Kate Saunders is an author and journalist. She has written numerous books for adults and children, including the bestselling Night Shall Overtake Us, and her follow-on to E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It stories, Five Children on the Western Front, which won the Costa Children’s Book Award in 2014. She lives in London.

ORIGINAL FICTION

Iron Annie Luke Cassidy Mixing Thelma and Louise and Lisa McInerney’s The Glorious Heresies, with a dash of Pulp Fiction, Iron Annie heralds the arrival of a major new Irish writer

‘What an exquisite novel Iron Annie is. The narrative voice fair crackles: it’s full of wonder, grit, insight, sadness and joy, and is quite beautiful. And Aoife is one of those fictional characters that arrives only once or twice in an age, sublimely rendered and completely unforgettable’ Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart and From a Low and Quiet Sea

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Born in Ireland, Luke Cassidy holds a PhD from the Sorbonne, Paris. He has written and staged two plays. He has been awarded bursaries through the Irish Arts Council and Moniack Mhór in Scotland, and a writing residency at the Horned Dorset Colony in New York in 2019.

Set primarily in the small-town underworld of the Irish border town of Dundalk, this is the story of Aoife, a bisexual woman whose obsession with Annie, a strong, magnetic and somewhat capricious character, threatens to undermine what stability she has. When Aoife’s friend and collaborator the Rat King asks her to help him dispose of ten kilos of cocaine, swiped from a rival, she decides to bring Annie on board for a road trip through Brexit Britain. But when Annie decides she doesn’t want to return to Ireland, Aoife makes a decision that changes everything. Despite episodes of extreme violence and wild sexual experimentation, alongside the grim reality of the criminal world with the constant fear of betrayal, this is a novel that is filled with tenderness, hope, love and desire, with a narrator who we root for at every turn.

ORIGINAL FICTION

Tenderness Alison MacLeod The spellbinding and visionary story of Lady Chatterley’s Lover; a daring celebration of the transformative and triumphant power of fiction Praise for Alison MacLeod: ‘Full of simmering tension, resentment and unexpressed passion... A bold, cleverly told story from a writer who knows exactly what she’s doing’ Viv Groskop, Observer D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are the years early in his marriage during the war, where his desperation drives him to commit a terrible betrayal. And there is a woman in an Italian courtyard, her chestnut hair red with summer. Jacqueline and her husband have already been marked out for greatness. Passing through New York, she slips into a courtroom where a book, not a man, is brought to trial. A young woman and a young man meet amid the restricted section of a famous library, and make love. Scattered and blown by the winds of history, their stories are bound together, and brought before the jury. On both sides of the Atlantic, society is asking, and continues to ask: is it Obscenity – or is it Tenderness?

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Alison MacLeod is the author of three novels, The Changeling, The Wave Theory of Angels and Unexploded, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and two story collections. She is the joint winner of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award 2016. She is professor of contemporary fiction at the University of Chichester and lives in Brighton. alison-macleod.com

ORIGINAL FICTION

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature returns to the novel after almost fifty years with an excoriating satire on the nature of power and an unforgettable portrait of contemporary Nigeria Praise for Wole Soyinka: ‘You don’t see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that’ Toni Morrison

‘He is the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Born in Nigeria in 1934, Wole Soyinka is an author, playwright, poet and political activist. His prolific body of work includes debut novel The Interpreters and play Death and the King’s Horseman. Twice jailed for his criticism of the Nigerian government, Soyinka destroyed his green card when Trump was elected in 2016. He is Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature.

A gruesome discovery, and an honest man trying to hold on to his humanity – and his life – forms the mystery at the heart of a work which is both a gripping whodunit and a sharply satirical state-of-the-nation novel. At once a scathing indictment of an opportunistic and avaricious political elite and a paean to the spirit of people in their charge, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is provocative, profoundly compassionate and slyly mischievous. Bristling with wit and rage in equal measure and delivered with an enormous generosity of spirit and a dazzling lightness of touch, Wole Soyinka speaks truth to power as ever with a tour de force from a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

ORIGINAL FICTION

Reprieve James Han Mattson Get Out meets Parasite in this story of a killing at a haunted escape room On 27 April 1997, four contestants make it to the fifth ‘cell’ of the Quigley House – a startling feat, given that only one other group in the history of the house has made it to the sixth without shouting the safe word. Before the group can match their predecessors’ victory and win the cash prize, a desperate, lovelorn hotel manager breaks into the house and kills one of its members. Reprieve tracks the life trajectories that lead each character to the Quigley House on that fateful day. As each story unfolds and overlaps, deceits fuelled by obsession, misogyny and racial fetishism are revealed, and in the end each character is compelled to examine the ways in which their ideas of love, sex, race and friendship contributed to a horrifying catastrophe.

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James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of awards from the Michener-Copernicus Society of America and Humanities North Dakota. He is currently the fiction editor of Hyphen magazine and an assistant professor of creative writing at Murray State University.

ORIGINAL FICTION

The Woman from Uruguay Pedro Mairal A poignant, constantly surprising and convention-defying story of a single day as a writer risks everything in pursuit of a fantasy figure from his past

‘A perfect novel. A triumph from beginning to end. The novel’s style, that carries the soft irony of a writer in command of his narrative voice, its extension, its verbal prowess, its impeccably paced rhythm and, of course, the theme’ El País (Spain)

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Pedro Mairal is a professor of English literature in Buenos Aires. Among his novels are A Night with Sabrina Love, which was made into a film and The Woman from Uruguay, which was a bestseller in Latin America and Spain and has been published in twelve countries.

Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash. This small fortune might solve his problems, most importantly the unbearable tension he has with his wife. While she spends her days at work and her nights out on the town – with a lover, perhaps – Lucas is stuck at home all day staring at the blank page, caring for his son Maiko and fantasising about the Uruguayan woman he met at a conference several months back and who he is longing to see on this trip. This surprising, moving story of one incredibly impactful day in Lucas’ life is both a gripping narrative and tender, thoughtprovoking exploration of the nature of relationships. An international bestseller, it is the masterpiece of one of Latin America’s most beloved writers.

ORIGINAL FICTION

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket Stories Hilma Wolitzer The uncannily relevant, clear-eyed collected stories of awardwinning ‘American literary treasure’ (Boston Globe), with a foreword by Elizabeth Strout Hilma Wolitzer, now 90 years old, has gained a reputation as a writer who ‘raises ordinary people and everyday occurrences to a new height’ (Washington Post) These collected short stories, most of them originally published in magazines in the 1960s and 1970s, along with a new story that brings her early characters into the present, are evocative of an era that still resonates deeply today. In the title story, a bystander tries to soothe a woman who seems to have cracked under the pressures of motherhood, and in several linked stories throughout, the relationship between the narrator and her husband unfolds in often hilarious vignettes. Zeroing in on the domestic sphere and ordinary life with wit, candour, grace and an acutely observant eye, this collection reintroduces a beloved writer to be embraced by a whole new generation of readers.

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Hilma Wolitzer has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and other universities. Her first published story appeared when she was thirty-six. She is now ninety, and lives in New York City.

CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

The Hunt and the Kill Holly Watt John le Carré meets James Bond in this searing, pulse-racing thriller featuring globe-trotting undercover journalist Casey Benedict Praise for the series:

‘Casey is fierce, obsessive and brilliant’ Observer ‘Sensational!’ Clare Mackintosh ‘Watt is an expert at ratcheting up the suspense’ The Times Casey Benedict, acclaimed undercover journalist, has been reluctantly reassigned at her newspaper while she recovers from her last major investigation, a story that sent her into extremely dangerous territory.

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Holly Watt is an award-winning investigative journalist who worked on MPs’ expenses and the Panama Papers. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and The Guardian. To The Lions won the 2019 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize and the Capital Crime Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards. @holly_watt

When Casey is asked to interview a young woman with a lifelimiting genetic condition, the patient’s doctor alerts her to the alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant infections, tipping her off about a potential new wonder drug. If the rumours are true, this new antibiotic could be transformative, saving millions of lives, but no one seems to know if the drug even exists. Then tragedy unexpectedly strikes and Casey, beginning to suspect a cover-up, vows not to let the story drop, no matter how much danger she – or those she loves most – are put in.

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

People Like Them Samira Sedira Lullaby meets The Adversary in this dark novella that asks how can a seemingly normal person commit a terrible crime?

‘ People Like Them is disturbing and powerful. It explores the topics of racism and jealousy in a very subtle way. I loved it’ Leila Slimani, bestselling author of Lullaby Anna and Constant Guillot and their two daughters live in the remote village of Carmac. Everyone in Carmac knows each other, and most of its residents look alike – that is until Bakary and Sylvia Langlois arrive with their three children. The family’s impressive chalet and expensive cars are in stark contrast to those of their neighbours. Despite their initial differences, the Langlois and the Guillots form an uneasy friendship. But when both families begin experiencing financial troubles, the underlying class and racial tensions of their relationship come to a breaking point, and the unthinkable happens… How could a seemingly ‘normal’ person commit an atrocious crime? How could that person’s loved ones ever come to terms with it?

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And how well can you really know your own spouse?

Samira Sedira is a novelist, playwright and actress who was born in Algeria and moved to France with her family as a young girl. People Like Them is her first novel to be translated into English. Lara Vergnaud is an award-winning translator who specialises in North African literature.

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

Girl One Sara Flannery Murphy Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood by way of Naomi Alderman in this brilliantly twisty high-concept thriller Praise for The Possessions:

‘An imaginative and seductive supernatural novel that examines love, loss and terrifying obsession’ Daily Mail ‘Gripping’ Lucy Jago ‘You’re delivered into an entirely compelling world’ Guardian Josephine Morrow is Girl One. The first of nine ‘Miracle Babies’ conceived entirely without male aid or intervention, and raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. After a suspicious fire at the ranch kills both the doctor behind the pioneering experiment and one of the girls, the mothers and their children scatter across the country.

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Sara Flannery Murphy is the author of the novel The Possessions. She grew up in Arkansas, studied library science in British Columbia, and received her MFA in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and son.

Now years later, Josie is studying medicine, following in the footsteps of her beloved mentor. One day she is called home to discover that her mother has vanished, her house left wrecked. Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, attempting to track down her estranged sisters, who seem to hold the keys to her mother’s disappearance. But she soon discovers that someone out there is determined to stop her reaching the truth about exactly what happened at the ranch.

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

Nightmare Alley William Lindsay Gresham A forgotten classic of Depression-era America; a brilliant, horrifying, compulsive journey into the true darkness of the human mind

‘A creepy, all-too-harrowing masterpiece’ Washington Post ‘Read and shudder. And relish’ Guardian ‘A brilliant and horrific book’ The Times Stanton Carlisle watches their freak-show geek – an abject alcoholic, the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision – at the travelling circus at which he is employed and wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. Unlike the tragic figure he sees before him, Stan is young, clever and ambitious and quick to learn from the other acts. Initially teaming up with a beautiful but vulnerable woman as part of a double act, Stan soon leaves his circus days behind him, becoming a successful spiritualist who exploits the weak and the wealthy. But even the very best con men can meet their match...

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Nightmare Alley was American writer William Lindsay Gresham’s first book, and was a bestseller, subsequently adapted into a film in 1947. The novel was in part inspired by conversations Gresham had with a former sideshow employee whom he befriended while volunteering during the Spanish Civil War.

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

Nothing Can Hurt You Nicola Maye Goldberg ‘Gripping, sharp and sultry – I couldn’t put it down’ Pandora Sykes ‘Captivating, serpentine and affecting, Nothing Can Hurt You subverts the tropes of the “dead girl” genre in ways that impart its female characters with a dark majesty and mystery all their own’ Megan Abbott On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan is killed in the woods surrounding her college campus and suspicion falls on her boyfriend. Following his plea of temporary insanity and acquittal, the case comes to haunt those connected to the couple. Some seek answers, others retribution; from the young woman who discovers Sara’s body to the reporter who senses its connection to a local convicted serial killer. 01 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: RAVEN BOOKS PAPERBACK / 9781526619471 / £7.99 EBOOK / 9781526619464 / £6.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WATKINS / LOOMIS AGENCY EXPORT TPB / 9781526619488 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $22.99

A propulsive, taut tale of obsession and voyeurism, Nothing Can Hurt You pieces together a chorus of unforgettable voices to explore the far-reaching consequences of one single act of violence.

Nicole Maye Goldberg is a graduate of Bard College and Columbia University. She is the author of the novella Other Women. Her work has appeared in CrimeReads, The Quietus, Queen Mob’s Teahouse and Winter Tangerine, among others. She lives in New York City.

Murder by Milk Bottle Lynne Truss ‘The glorious return of Twitten and the doughty coppers of 1950s Brighton is cause for celebration’ Sunday Times Crime Club The August bank holiday is approaching and Constable Twitten is eagerly anticipating a quiet spell at work. But then they find the bodies – and the milk bottles. Three seemingly unconnected victims – a hard-working AA patrolman, a would-be beauty queen, a catty radio personality – have all been killed with the same, highly unusual murder weapon. Constable Twitten and his team are baffled, the town is alarmed and the local newspaper is delighted: after all, what sells papers better than a killer on the loose? 22 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: RAVEN BOOKS PAPERBACK / 9781526609786 / £8.99 EBOOK / 9781526609809 / £10.49 SERIES: A CONSTABLE TWITTEN MYSTERY TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/EUROPE/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $22.99

Can our redoubtable trio catch this most curious of killers before they strike again?

Lynne Truss is a columnist, writer and broadcaster whose book on punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves was an international bestseller. She has written extensively for radio and is the author of six previous novels, as well as a non-fiction account (Get Her Off the Pitch!) of her four years as a novice sportswriter for The Times.

RAVEN BOOKS – CRIME, THRILLER & MYSTERY

Post Mortem Elliot Rook, QC: Book 2 Gary Bell Elliot Rook defends a prison officer accused of drug smuggling in a legal read perfect for fans of Robert Galbraith Once a petty criminal, now a highly respected QC, Elliot Rook has years of legal experience – and he will need every one of them if he is to see his latest client acquitted. A batch of tainted drugs has killed thirteen inmates at a London prison and a vulnerable young officer, Charli Meadows, has been charged with smuggling them into the prison. Charli insists she is innocent but as Rook begins to investigate the charges that first saw the prisoners incarcerated, a threatening note arrives at his flat, warning him off the case.

Born the son of a coal miner, Gary Bell QC left school without any qualifications and drifted in and out of a number of jobs before being convicted of fraud aged eighteen. He returned to his studies aged twenty-one and, after seven years, became a barrister. He spent the last thirty years at the Bar, becoming a QC in 2012.

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The Shape of Darkness Laura Purcell ‘Darkly addictive, utterly compelling’ Ruth Hogan ‘Dripping with atmosphere with a corkscrew plot, Laura Purcell just gets better and better’ Stacey Halls, author of The Familiars and The Foundling As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness, making enough money to support her elderly mother and orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but now someone seems to be targeting her business. Desperately seeking answers, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that they may have opened the door to something they can never put back...

Laura Purcell is a former bookseller and lives in Colchester with her husband and pet guinea pigs. The Silent Companions was a Radio 2 and Zoe Ball ITV Book Club pick and was the winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award. The Corset and Bone China established Laura as the queen of the sophisticated, and spooky, page-turner. laurapurcell.com

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ORIGINAL NON-FICTION

Girlhood Melissa Febos ‘Girlhood is an exquisite collection. In lapidary, lucid prose, Melissa Febos dissects the traumas, terrors, and pleasures of the fraught passage from girl to woman. Febos’s insight is devastating, the examinations of her world – from the female body, queerness, consent, slut-shaming, and intimacy – are rigorous and compassionate. This is a book for mothers, daughters, and our deepest selves, a true light in the dark’ Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. Blending investigative reporting, memoir and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power and pleasure women have long been taught to deny.

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Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me, a Lambda Literary Award finalist and Publishing Triangle Award finalist. Her essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, The New York Times, The Paris Review and elsewhere. She is an associate professor at The University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.

Written with Febos’s characteristic precision, lyricism and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, towards a chosen self.

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First Comes Love On Marriage and Other Ways to be Together Tom Rasmussen With greater freedom to express one’s love as one chooses, why are people still getting married in the 21st century? Praise for Diary of a Drag Queen: ‘A riotous portrayal of the contemporary queer experience’ Dazed Tom Rasmussen finds themselves straddling two worlds, that of their Northern, working-class family, and as a male-bodied, non-binary queer in a relationship with a man. Can Tom have the Vera Wang wedding of their dreams – or is it appropriate to reject this heteronormative ritual? Is there a way to reconcile the two without letting either down? And, moreover, can any of us with any sense, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, justify it? Determined to find enlightenment, Tom sets off on a journey over the course of a year to get to the bottom of this multibillion-dollar question. Their quest will lead them from the garish cacophony of the National Wedding Fair to tea with the world’s most expensive wedding planner; and will induct them into the secrets of tens of different marriages of all shapes, sizes, faiths, politics and values.

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Tom Rasmussen is contributing editor at Dazed Beauty, LOVE and Refinery29, and writes regularly for The Independent and i-D. They were named an LGBT trailblazer by The Dots and one of the voices of now for i-D. Tom forms half of the queer punk band ACM. Their debut, Diary of a Drag Queen, was longlisted for the Polari Prize. They live in London. @tomglitter

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Everybody Needs Beauty In Search of the Nature Cure Samantha Walton A culturally expansive, deeply researched and exquisitely written journey into the ‘nature cure’ phenomenon Everyone is talking about the connection between nature and mental health. Hospitals are being retrofitted with green spaces; on the Shetland Islands it’s possible to walk into a doctor’s surgery with anxiety and depression, and walk out with a prescription for nature. Where has this come from? The ‘nature cure’, it turns out, has a long history, and in Everybody Needs Beauty, British academic Samantha Walton sets out to uncover its cultural legacy. From the miraculous waters of Lourdes, to a laboratory working on simulating the experience of nature indoors, she investigates the pull of landscapes associated with healing. 22 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS HARDBACK / 9781526620729 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781526620705 / £11.89 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ EUROPE/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: FELICITY BRYAN ASSOCIATES LTD EXPORT TPB / 9781526620712 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

Samantha Walton is a reader in modern literature at Bath Spa University. In 2016, she won a major research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and she was a writing fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre. She is also a poet, and her collection Self Heal was a 2018 White Review book of the year. @samlwalton

Everybody Needs Beauty shows the ways that nature truly affects our health – and why now, more than ever, it is important to understand the depth of that relationship.

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The Age of Acrimony How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865–1915 Jon Grinspan ‘[A] period chronicled in vivid and loving detail ... Plunges readers into a pulsating political culture long vanished’ Wall Street Journal, on THE VIRGIN VOTE The Age of Acrimony offers a revelatory account of 19th-century democracy’s unruly spectacle – and what it cost to cool the republic. At its centre is the captivating drama of a remarkable father–daughter dynasty: William ‘Pig Iron’ Kelley, a radical, working-class congressman, and Florence Kelley, a fiery intellectual who defied him and went on to become a leader of the Progressive movement. Through Will and Florie’s personal struggles – and their friendships and feuds with a lively cast of characters – historian Jon Grinspan traces a narrative of American democracy in crisis, revealing their divisive political system’s enduring capacity to heal itself.

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Jon Grinspan is curator of political history at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, and is the author of the award-winning The Virgin Vote. He also frequently contributes to the New York Times, The Atlantic and other publications, and has been featured in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, NPR programs, PBS and NBC. He lives in Washington, DC.

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A Brief History of Motion From the Wheel to the Car, to What Comes Next Tom Standage From the bestselling author and deputy editor of The Economist comes a 5,500-year history of how transportation shaped our civilisation

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‘There aren’t many books this entertaining that also provide a cogent crash course in ancient, classical and modern history’ Los Angeles Times on A History of the World in Six Glasses Tom Standage’s surprising global histories have delighted readers and sold over half a million copies worldwide. Now, he returns with a provocative account of an overlooked form of technology – personal transportation – and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia. Beginning around 3,500 bc with the wheel, Standage moves through the eras of horsepower, trains, bicycles and cars, revealing how each successive mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in – from the geography of our cities, to our experience of time, to our notions of gender. A Brief History of Motion overturns everyday myths about one of our most fundamental forms of technology, and invites us to look at our past with fresh eyes.

Tom Standage is deputy editor of The Economist and the author of Writing on the Wall, the New York Times bestsellers A History of the World in 6 Glasses and An Edible History of Humanity, and The Victorian Internet. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Wired and other publications. He lives in London.

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A Field Guide to Larking Lara Maiklem ‘Enchanting ... In fact, I am quite tempted to join Maiklem on the riverbed looking for treasure’ Sunday Times on Mudlarking To lark is to get out and about, to explore the world around us and to discover the little treasures hiding in plain sight. We think, of course, of mudlarking but there is also beachlarking, fieldlarking or even simply exploring your own home with fresh eyes. In this beautiful field guide, Lara teaches us how to lark for ourselves. There are maps and charts, tips and lists, and colour illustrations throughout to help identify finds. From tide tables for mudlarkers to a flint guide for fieldlarkers, this book is richly informative and yet small enough to pop in a pocket. Like a journal it invites you to interact – to make notes and record finds along the way. If Mudlarking was a glimpse into a hidden world, with this field guide Lara Maiklem shows us how we can discover it for ourselves.

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Lara Maiklem moved from her family’s farm to London in the 1990s and has been mudlarking along the Thames for fifteen years. She now lives with her family on the Kent coast within easy reach of the river, which she visits as regularly as the tides permit. Her first book, Mudlarking, was an acclaimed bestseller. Twitter: @LondonMudlark Instagram: @london.mudlark

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Speak, Silence In Search of W. G. Sebald Carole Angier A landmark portrait of one of the most significant and lauded cultural figures of the twentieth century

‘Remarkable, the definitive biography ... Deeply researched, subtle, sympathetic’ Claire Tomalin on Carole Angier’s Jean Rhys The first biography to explore Sebald’s life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England, exploring the choice of isolation and exile that drove his work.

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Carole Angier is the author of Jean Rhys: Life & Work, which won the Writers’ Guild Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, and The Double Bond: A Life of Primo Levi. She was educated at the universities of McGill, Oxford and Cambridge and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical coldness, saving humour, and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as his work. The result is a unique, ferociously original portrait that pushes the boundaries of biography as its subject pushed the boundaries of fiction.

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Starry Night, Blurry Dreams Henn Kim ‘Experiencing Henn’s work makes for a a surreal but serene whole ... vulnerable, sweet yet complicated love stories that anyone can relate to’ WePresent who are you when you’re alone Starry Night, Blurry Dreams is a collection of graphic poetry about loneliness, love and existing in our world. you are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy When words aren’t enough to describe our emotions, this book will offer comfort, joy and a friend in the dark. we all have our own beautiful universe

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Henn Kim was born (1982) and raised in Ulsan, South Korea where she lived until she was eighteen. After moving to Seoul at nineteen, she focused on music and art, and often designed cover art for indie bands in Seoul. She worked at a design company as a graphic designer, but decided to follow her own path as an illustrator/artist and has been pursuing her dream since 2015. Since then, her work has been commissioned by the BBC, UNICEF, Nike, Bottega Veneta, Snapchat and TED, featured in GQ, The Big Issue, Vogue and on book covers, and exhibited in Hong Kong and Korea.

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The Right to Sex Amia Srinivasan A landmark book that provides us with a new way of thinking about sex, from a leading young intellectual We still do not know how to talk about sex. The current debate about sexual entitlement, objectification, rape culture and pornography fixates on the idea of consent as an objective frame through which to view our sexual encounters. Yet stripped of morality and ethics, consent is a blunt tool. What is the meaning of sex in a culture where online pornography shapes the sexual psyches of almost all young people? How do we address new questions about sexual entitlement, from incels to the politics of desire? How do we deny that sex is a commodity to be evenly distributed, while simultaneously insisting women have the right to sell it? Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark dismantling of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one. 19 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING HARDBACK / 9781526612533 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781526612571 / £11.89 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/ UK/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN GROUP LIMITED EXPORT TPB / 9781526612557 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 31 AUGUST 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

Amia Srinivasan was born in 1984 in Bahrain and raised in London, New York, Singapore and Taiwan. She is currently the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, and has held permanent or visiting academic posts at University College London, Yale, NYU and UCLA. She lives in Oxford.

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This Dark Country Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century Rebecca Birrell A stunning, boldly original work that tells the stories of seven extraordinary women as glimpsed through their stilllife paintings A chance discovery in the former attic studio of Vanessa Bell set in motion a new approach to art for Birrell: an urge to discover the tender and troubling stories hidden in a painting. She found herself drawn to twentieth-century women, to their bowls of peaches, tulips and rented rooms, unable to shake a feeling that their paintings told powerful stories of creativity and resistance. The seven remarkable women at the heart of this book – Vanessa Bell, Nina Hamnett, Dora Carrington, Gluck, Ethel Sands and Gwen John – navigated their feelings, desires and aspirations through the art of still life. In this compelling blend of memoir, biography and art criticism, Birrell leads us into their lives, and conducts a dazzling investigation into the structures of intimacy that make – and dismantle – our worlds.

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Rebecca Birrell studied English literature at UCL, then women’s studies at Oxford University. She has occupied curatorial positions at the Jewish Museum London, the Department of Prints and Drawing at the British Museum and at the Charleston Trust. She is currently completing a PhD at the Edinburgh College of Art.

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On the Cusp Days of ’62 David Kynaston Celebrated historian David Kynaston presents a scintillating snapshot of 1962 – a most fascinating period of transition in modern British history

‘David Kynaston is one of the great chroniclers of our modern story’ Sunday Times ‘A master socioeconomic craftsman’ Guardian ‘A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals’ Financial Times

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The ‘real’ Sixties began on 5 October 1962. On that remarkable Friday, the Beatles hit the world with their first single, ‘Love Me Do’, and the first James Bond film, Dr No, had its world premiere in London: two icons of the future heralding a social and cultural revolution. On the Cusp, continuing David Kynaston’s groundbreaking history of post-war Britain, charts the months leading up to that plates-shifting moment. The Rolling Stones making their debut at the Marquee Club; the last Gentlemen versus Players match at Lord’s; the issue of Britain’s relationship with Europe starting to divide the country – these were months thick with incident, all woven together with an array of fresh sources, including diarists both famous and obscure. Sometimes indignant, sometimes admiring, always understanding, On the Cusp summons up a vanished world on the edge of fundamental change.

David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. He is the author of Austerity Britain, 1945–51, Family Britain, 1951–57 and Modernity Britain, 1957–1962, the first three titles in an awardwinning series covering the history of postwar Britain under the title ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’. Kynaston is currently researching the next volume, Opportunity Britain, covering October 1962 to May 1967.

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In Kiltumper A Year in an Irish Garden Niall Williams & Christine Breen A memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty and importance of the natural world

‘A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone’ Praise for This Is Happiness, Irish Independent Thirty-five years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to writing, gardening and living a life that followed the rhythms of the earth. In 2019, with Christine in the final stages of recovery from cancer and the land itself threatened by the arrival of turbines just one farm over, Niall decided to document a year of living in their garden and in their small corner of a rapidly changing world. Proceeding month-by-month through the year, this is the story of a garden in all its many splendours and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders.

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Niall Williams is the author of ten novels including This Is Happiness, longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, History of the Rain, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Four Letters of Love. Christine Breen is the author of Her Name Is Rose and the co-author of four non-fiction books on country living in Ireland.

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The Contrarian Peter Thiel and the Making of Modern Power Max Chafkin The first book about the most influential, least understood tech mogul, and how he rewrote the rule book of modern power PayPal. LinkedIn. Yelp. Facebook. If you use the internet, you are using things Peter Thiel made possible. Since the mid 1990s, Thiel has spearheaded the technological revolution, but he has never been satisfied with merely building tech companies. His career has been a decades-long mission to upend worldwide institutions and use technology as a means to reset world power. From his role in Elon Musk’s SpaceX to his leadership of Palantir, Thiel has ensured that technologists no longer rely on government funding to develop their products; now, they deliver their products directly to Washington. 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING HARDBACK / 9781526619556 / £25.00 EBOOK / 9781526619587 / £17.50 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/ OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: PETERS, FRASER & DUNLOP LTD EXPORT TPB / 9781526619563 / £14.99 ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

Max Chafkin has covered the tech world at Inc., Fast Company and Vanity Fair, and is currently at Bloomberg Businessweek, where he has written profiles of nearly every major tech figure. He regularly appears on major media including Bloomberg TV, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS and CBS. He lives in New York.

Both the story of the man who has engineered so much of our existence and a larger portrait of technology and our future, The Contrarian will be the first book to explore Silicon Valley’s most divisive, yet arguably most visionary, figure.

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Wildland The Making of America’s Fury Evan Osnos An incredibly deeply reported and compelling account of how America lost its way, from National Book Award-winner Evan Osnos For thousands of hours over the course of six years, New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos talked to everyday Americans, trying to figure out how things had gone so wrong. These conversations were mostly about their lives, their places, and the intersection of choices they made and choices that were made beyond their control. Wildland is an attempt to answer the question of how confidence in America eroded, through extensive reporting from three places that Osnos has lived in. He found that the explanation lies in the roots of a crisis of elite integrity in places like Greenwich; the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and the effects of segregation in Chicago. It is a story that comes to life not in the slogans of political leaders, but in the intricate details of individual lives.

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Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008. He is the author of Joe Biden and Age of Ambition, which won the National Book Award, among other honours. Previously he reported from China, Iraq and elsewhere for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He lives in Washington, DC.

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Lost Focus The Rise of Our Attention Crisis Johann Hari A major book from internationally bestselling author Johann Hari that chronicles our attention crisis, and how we can solve it

‘The more people read this book, the better off the world will be’ Naomi Klein on Lost Connections Part of the experience of being alive in the twenty-first century is the feeling that your attention span is collapsing, along with those of everyone around you. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And how do we get it back?

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Johann Hari’s first book, Chasing the Scream, was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted into a Hollywood feature film. His second book, Lost Connections, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and others. His books have been translated into nearly thirty languages.

In Lost Focus, Johann Hari sets out on a global investigative journey into our shortening attention spans. He tells us what he learned from spending three months off the internet, reveals the inside story of the war to grab our attention that is waged every day, and explores why those prescribing mood stimulants to children are getting it so wrong. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with the world’s leading experts on attention problems, Lost Focus moves beyond individual solutions towards a collective understanding of a problem facing us all.

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The Searchers The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West The epic, heart-rending stories of the search to recover, identify and honour the missing soldiers of the First World War

‘A marvellous book – a gripping story, superbly researched and related with grace and humour in elegant, enjoyable prose’ Praise for The Disinherited, Literary Review By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. The Armistice was not the final reckoning many hoped it would be: the day when a line was drawn between the living and the dead. The Searchers brings together the extraordinary, moving stories of the people who dedicated their lives to the search for the disappeared. From the military department set up to investigate the fate of missing comrades, to the grief-stricken families who took matters into their own hands to confirm, against all hope, that their sons, husbands, brothers were still alive.

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Giving prominence to the ongoing missions of those left behind, Robert Sackville-West offers a vital, fresh look at the legacy of the war, bringing its rawness and enormity, fears and hopes, follies and tragedies compellingly to life.

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After studying history at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West worked in publishing. He now combines that with chairing Knole Estates, the company responsible for running the Sackville family’s interests at Knole, the house in Kent where his family have lived for the past 400 years. Robert is the author of the critically acclaimed Inheritance (2010) and The Disinherited (2014).

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Truffle Hound On the Trail of the World’s Most Seductive Scent, with Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs Rowan Jacobsen From the James Beard Award-winning author of The Geography of Oysters comes a captivating exploration into the secretive world of truffles

‘[H]ere are the Winesap, the Pound Sweet, the Maiden’s Blush and Black Twig, rendered in a vivid prose rarely seen outside of the wine list ... For anyone who’s willing to get swept up in the grand romance of food, this handsome volume will make for seductive reading’ Morning Edition, NPR, on Apples of Uncommon Character 14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING HARDBACK / 9781526618719 / £20.00 EBOOK / 9781526618702 / TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 30 NOVEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $42.99

The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in a Barolo forest was all it took to lead Rowan Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into Truffleland – a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, muddy dogs and obsessive chefs. People spend years training dogs to find truffles underground (or pay absurd amounts for a ringer). Some plant entire forests and wait a decade for them to appear. Others pay thousands to possess them. All turn into quivering puddles in their presence. Why? Both an entertaining odyssey and a manifesto, Truffle Hound is the fascinating account of Rowan’s quest to understand why people respond so strongly to this ingredient and shows them there’s more to truffles than they ever imagined, and gives them all the tools they need to take their own truffle love to the next level.

Rowan Jacobsen is the James Beard Awardwinning author of A Geography of Oysters and Fruitless Fall. Jacobsen’s writings on food, the environment and their interconnected nature have appeared in the New York Times, Wild Earth, Harper’s, Eating Well and Newsweek. He lives in rural Vermont with his wife and son.

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Transitional Munroe Bergdorf The wise, life-changing, groundbreaking book from writer and activist Munroe Bergdorf Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely – regardless of how we identify – but nor do we stay the same forever. We all transition. It’s what binds us, not what separates us. In Transitional, Munroe Bergdorf draws on her own experience and theory from key experts, change-makers and activists to reveal just how deeply ingrained transitioning is in human experience. This is a book to help bring us closer to a shared consciousness: a powerful guide to how our differences can be harnessed as a tool to heal, build community and construct a better society. 14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING HARDBACK / 9781526630315 / £18.99 EBOOK / 9781526630346 / £13.29 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC EXPORT TPB / 9781526630339 / £14.99 ANZ PUB DATE 19 OCTOBER 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

Munroe Bergdorf is an activist, writer and model who has spoken on international panels from Oxford to Princeton University. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary doctorate for her contributions campaigning for transgender rights by the University of Brighton, and was recently appointed a National Advocate for UN Women UK. Her first film premiered on Channel 4 in 2018. @MunroeBergdorf

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Creation The History of Art from the Beginning John-Paul Stonard From distinguished critic and curator John-Paul Stonard, a dazzling, panoramic world history of art from ancient times to the present Creation tells the extraordinary story of how people all over the globe, from prehistory to the present day, have created images in order to understand the world they inhabit. It explores the remarkable endurance of this creative impulse, and by tracing the diversity of artistic forms through the ages, offers a comprehensive and exhilarating introduction to world art.

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John-Paul Stonard is a writer, art historian and member of the consultative committee of the Burlington Magazine, where he worked as an editor from 2005 to 2010. He completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art.

Historian, critic and curator John-Paul Stonard has assembled a dazzling array of paintings, sculptures and artefacts to tell a truly global story of vitality and renewal. Fully illustrated throughout, each chapter of Creation offers intimate access to key works of art and the conversations surrounding them, from the earliest cave paintings of the Palaeolithic Era to the conceptual art of today.

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An Answer for Everything 200 Infographics to Explain Our Crazy World Delayed Gratification magazine The world’s most mind-boggling questions are answered through 200 brilliantly clever and addictive infographics What’s the secret to living past 100? What’s going on in China? Are we running out of sand? And how many chickens are there? In An Answer to Everything, 200 of the world’s most mindboggling questions are explained by way of brilliantly clever and addictive infographics. Some will make you giggle, others hit like a sucker punch, and then there are the slow burners, where you can geek out over a data set for hours. Authored by the team behind Delayed Gratification, the world’s best slow journalism magazine, these deeply researched infographics are a compelling and darkly funny way to see the world around us with new eyes.

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Delayed Gratification is a quarterly publication that specialises in demystifying the world’s biggest news stories in slow retrospection. Every article is supported by beautifully designed and enlightening data-driven infographics.

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These Precious Days Ann Patchett An irresistible collection of essays from the internationally bestselling, Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Dutch House Praise for Ann Patchett: ‘Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature’ Guardian The internationally bestselling writer Ann Patchett has been described as ‘one of the foremost chroniclers of the burdens of emotional inventory and its central place in American lives’ and ‘a master of her art’ (Observer). In her new collection, with her trademark blend of wryness, intelligence and wisdom she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success – and how all these forces have shaped her as a writer. Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors. 02 NOVEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING AUDIO: 9781526640987 / £16.99 HARDBACK / 9781526640963 / £16.99 EXPORT TPB / 9781526640956 / £11.99 EBOOK / 9781526640970 / £10.49 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/ OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CURTIS BROWN ANZ PUB DATE 01 DECEMBER 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS

Ann Patchett is the author of eight novels and three works of non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction three times, and won it for Bel Canto. Her most recent novel The Dutch House was a Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She co-owns Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Feet First 52 Ways to Walk and Why, When, Where and How Annabel Streets Inspiring readers to walk each week of the year, supported by 52 science-based essays covering how, why, where and when Walking strengthens our bodies, calms our minds and uplifts our spirits. We know this intuitively, and recent years have seen an explosion of scientific and evidence-based research to substantiate that. Feet First celebrates the simplicity of walking and outlines fiftytwo ways to walk – one for each week from January through to December – all of which can be done by anyone, anywhere. For each of the fifty-two ways, writer and walking-obsessive Annabel Streets synthesises the latest science and interweaves the romance of getting out into the fresh air. How we breathe and how our bodies tick are all powerfully transformed by even a short stroll, and the surrounding natural landscapes we walk in can also improve our wellbeing. Beautifully designed and pocket-sized, Feet First is a handbook to all the good things that happen when we step outside of our door.

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Annabel Streets is an award-winning writer who has explored countless corners of the globe by foot. From Kilimanjaro to the Himalayas, she has spent days walking across Italy, Spain, Germany and the UK. She co-founded the Age-Well Project, a blog offering advice on living longer and healthier lives. Her writing has featured in The Guardian, Psychologies and Huffington Post.

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The Book of Vanishing Species Illustrated Lives Beatrice Forshall Illustrated by Beatrice Forshall Collected here are some of the planet’s most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the olm, ‘a pale creature with no eyes that lives in cave pools’, to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender is determined by the temperature of the sand it was born in. These creatures have survived hundreds of thousands of years by cleverly adapting to their environments, but their futures remain far from certain.

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Beatrice Forshall is an artist whose work draws on the natural world. Her exquisite hand-coloured, drypoint engravings revolve around wildlife and themes central to conservation. She was artist in residence at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), a pioneering collaboration between researchers, policymakers and practitioners to raise understanding and awareness. The Book of Vanishing Species is her contribution to the cause.

Immortalised in this book, in all their weird and wonderful glory, are the lives of sixty species currently under threat, illuminated by Beatrice Forshall’s stunning etchings and moving narratives. The Book of Vanishing Species is both a love letter to the wonders of nature, and an urgent call to arms to protect what is precious and beautiful in this world.

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What Dogs Want An Illustrated Guide for Truly Understanding Your Dog Learn what your dog is trying to tell you with their body language or different barks, and discover the basics of modern dog-training (for any age and breed) so they live a content and safe life. Which means you will be happy too! What Dogs Want includes tons of two-colour illustrations that are informative as well as affectionate, familiar and funny. It’s the perfect book for new owners.

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Feng Shui for Modern Living Bring a Healthier, Happier Energy into your Home Bring a healthier, happier energy into your home using the ancient art of feng shui. In the tradition of Marie Kondo and Mrs Hinch, Feng Shui for Modern Living will show you how to enhance your home, whether you live in a small flat or a five-bedroom home, by placing the right things around you to balance the five main elements – wood, fire, earth, metal and water. These simple tips, beautifully illustrated, will go through each room and what you’re trying to achieve in your life, all while explaining the basic ideas behind the practice. 14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING AUDIO: 9781526640031 / £12.99 HARDBACK / 9781526639998 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781526640000 / £9.09 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 19 OCTOBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $26.99

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Tradition How We Destroyed It and Why We Want It Back Tim Stanley Historian Tim Stanley makes an impassioned case for embracing the past and recognising the value of tradition

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Tim Stanley is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. He held fellowships in history at Sussex University and Royal Holloway before joining the Daily Telegraph as a columnist and leader writer. He regularly appears on Radio 4 discussing religion and morality, and has contributed to CNN, The Spectator and History Today. He is a contributing editor at the Catholic Herald. @timothy_stanley

Civilisations go wrong: they change too fast, too far and throw out the good with the bad. Tradition examines what we have lost and how we can rediscover it. Focusing on utility and beauty, Stanley shows that traditions – ritual, hierarchy, codes of behaviour, the concept of sanctity – were once preserved because they were useful. Traditions are also beautiful because they enhance life and make it worth living. Drawing on a rich trove of examples from history, literature, art and architecture, Stanley demonstrates how traditions add colour and identity, tying us into our past and evoking sacred mysteries that exist beyond ourselves.

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Benedict XVI: A Life Volume Two: Guardian of the Faith, Pope, Pope Emeritus 1965–The Present Peter Seewald Peter Seewald’s magisterial life of Pope Benedict continues, covering the period from the Second Vatican Council to the present day In this second volume of Peter Seewald’s authoritative biography, we see how Pope Benedict was influenced by the Second Vatican Council (1965–8) and the ensuing political unrest all over Europe to move from a liberal perspective to one of profound conservatism. Appointed in 1981 as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he proved to be intransigent on the controversial issues of abortion, contraception, gay rights and gay marriage. But, elected Pope in 2005, Benedict’s tenure of office was so riven with scandal that by the time of his dramatic resignation in 2013 it appeared he was incapable of handling the complexities of the Church in the modern world. Seewald relates the inside story of these truly turbulent events from his position as one of the few journalists with privileged access to the Pope Emeritus.

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Peter Seewald has worked as a journalist for Stern, Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is one of the most admired authors on religion in Germany today. He has remained one of the writers closest to Pope Benedict and has interviewed him for countless hours. The first volume of his biography of the Pope Emeritus was published in late 2020.

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Leonard Cohen The Mystical Roots of Genius Harry Freedman An exploration of the religious folklore, spiritual ideas and mystical concepts that suffuse Leonard Cohen’s music Cohen was deeply learned in both Judaism and Christianity: they helped shape his self-identity and the way he made sense of the world. This book explores the sources he drew upon, discusses their original context and the stories and ideas behind them. It gives us an insight into the soul and imagination of one of the greatest singers and lyricists of our time. This is not a biography, but a biographical narrative is woven into the treatment of each song or theme.

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Harry Freedman is Britain’s leading author of popular works of Jewish culture and history. His publications include The Talmud: A Biography; Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul; The Murderous History of Bible Translations; Reason to Believe and The Gospels’ Veiled Agenda.

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The Spirit of Catholicism Vivian Boland OP How can an institution rocked by such scandal survive? The answer will be in its spirit, the treasure it carries In 1924, Karl Adam’s classic work The Spirit of Catholicism caught the zeitgeist and was an international bestseller. Here is a very similar book but for our times. Boland stresses the social, embodied character of Catholicism, crucial for understanding its particular form as well as what it offers to contemporary social and political challenges. The body of Christ in the world is the community of those who believe in Him and who, living by His Spirit, seek to bear witness to the fraternity, to the social friendship, which the world so keenly needs. Paradoxically, such embodiment is the spirit of Catholicism. 28 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM HARDBACK / 9781441178022 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781441111388 / £14.16 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 30 NOVEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $35.00 / NZ $39.99

Vivian Boland OP is professor aggregatus in the Faculty of Theology at the Angelicum University in Rome. He taught at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and is author and editor of several books, including St Thomas Aquinas in the Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought (2014).

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Educated? The Taboos Deforming Your Children’s Schooling and What You Can Do About It James Tooley Educated? is the first major trade book on education by awardwinning author James Tooley for more than a decade Professor James Tooley is the one thinker on education in Britain who successfully cuts through the red tape of bureaucracy, the mindlessness of set curricula, and the imposition on children of trendy politically correct notions which are ultimately destructive.

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James Tooley is professor of education and vice chancellor at the University of Buckingham, with previous academic appointments at the Universities of Oxford, Manchester and Newcastle. His groundbreaking research on low-cost private education in developing countries has won numerous awards and his book based on this research, The Beautiful Tree, won the Sir Antony Fisher Memorial Prize.

In this book Tooley identifies five educational ‘taboos’ stifled in public discussion: 1. Sex, gender and relationships: Issues arising from LGBT and ‘new relationship education’; 2. Boys as the second sex; 3. What is it to be British: the government of so-called British values; 4. Education, difference intelligence and IQ; 5. Modern diseases: the rise of dyslexia, dyspraxia and Attention Deficit Disorder.

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Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists Shelagh Delaney. Edna O’Brien. Lynne Reid-Banks. Charlotte Bingham. Nell Dunn. Virginia Ironside. Margaret Forster. Celia Brayfield ‘Writers who changed lives. Rebel Writers is a startling new approach to literary criticism – not just what was done, but why it had to be done – mingled with astute social history. All sorts of things we should know but don’t know about the sixties, all smoothly and elegantly written and as readable as any novel. Six writers to whom we owe a debt of gratitude, all in their own ways sowing the seeds of how we live today. Marvellously interesting!’ Fay Weldon In 1958, nineteen-year-old Shelagh Delaney redefined British women’s writing with A Taste of Honey. She was the first in a succession of young women whose writing rebelled against sexism and inequality, including Edna O’Brien, Lynne ReidBanks, Charlotte Bingham and Nell Dunn. Bypassing the cultural elite, their work reached millions around the world, paved the way for social change and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism. They were as angry as the Angry Young Men, but were also more constructive and proposed new ways to live and love.

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In this biographical study, Celia Brayfield tells their story for the first time.

‘Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it’s Oprah’s Book Club worthy’ Vice

Celia Brayfield is an author whose nine novels range from modern social fiction to international bestsellers. Her subjects are mostly women, working through changes in themselves and the world, and other themes are the psychogeography of London suburbs, media overshadow and British ex-pats abroad. This is her fifth non-fiction book.

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Ripples on the River Celebrating the Return of the Otter Laurie Campbell & Anna Levin Celebrating the return of the otter to our rivers and freshwater wetlands after a drastic decline in the twentieth century Ripples of excitement are spreading through Europe’s rivers. A generation ago, otter-watching was a wildlife highlight restricted to remote coastal areas. But recent decades have seen the positive effects of determined conservation efforts to clean up waterways, and now otters are returning, spreading throughout their former habitats.

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Laurie Campbell has dedicated fifty years to natural-history photography and was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 for the contribution his photography has made to conservation in Scotland. Anna Levin is an author and editor specialising in wildlife. A former editor with BBC Wildlife, she has been freelance for twenty years, working for magazines, newspapers and environmental organisations.

Laurie Campbell was delighted to see otters on the Tweed. The discovery launched him on a quest to create a photographic account of the lives of freshwater otters. Two decades later, numbers have steadily increased, and new generations of otters have become more confident around people, even appearing in daylight. Laurie’s exquisite photographs reveal moments rarely captured by other photographers, while Anna Levin’s detailed captions relate his observations of photographing otters through the changing seasons, weaving a wealth of information about otter behaviour and ecology into the story Laurie’s pictures tell.

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Abundance Journeys into Restoration in the Natural World Karen Lloyd How should we restore nature? Why does it matter? And what is lost when we do not engage in rewilding? In this collection of literary essays, Karen Lloyd explores abundance and loss in the natural world, relating compelling stories of restoration, renewal and rewilding, describing how those working on the front lines of conservation are challenging the inevitability of biodiversity loss. In an era of urgent ecological challenge, her timely book reveals the places that people are coming together to bring species and habitats back from the edge of extinction. Yet, elsewhere, many other species are being allowed to disappear for ever. To understand why, she examines how humans have chosen to entangle themselves in nature and considers the ways we perceive the natural world. As she explores attitudes towards meaningful conservation, she weaves her delightful narrative through a diverse range of inspiring landscapes, from Romania’s Carpathian Mountains and the Hungarian Steppe to Perthshire’s rivers and the dune forests of the Netherlands.

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Karen Lloyd is a non-fiction and poetry writer. She has published two works of nonfiction. The Gathering Tide: A Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay (2016) was selected as Katherine Norbury’s top read in the Observer Authors’ Books of the Year. The Blackbird Diaries was published in 2017. Both won prizes at the Lakeland Book of the Year Awards.

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Urban Wild 52 Ways to Find Wildness on Your Doorstep Helen Rook Take your first steps on a journey of discovery towards a lifelong connection with our beautiful natural world Increasing workload, nervous tension, trouble sleeping? Wondering whether there is more to life? This is not a mid-life crisis. Like so many others, you are feeling the call of the wild.

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Helen Rook has worked bringing art and nature to people from all walks of life for more than twenty years, providing varied opportunities from natural and forest therapy to urban herbalism and home spas. She has a keen interest in psychology and uses her knowledge and experience to run natural mindfulness sessions to help people cope with stress and trauma.

Today’s urban living makes it easy to feel divorced from nature. This practical book is crammed with fifty-two varied activities to get you out and about whatever the weather. Featuring a combination of creative, culinary, herbal and mindful activities, with nature at their heart, you’ll be surprised how much there is to find on your doorstep when you know where to look. Organised by month, Urban Wild’s simple, seasonal step-bystep activities open the door to nature in urban and suburban landscapes to help you increase your potential for health and wellbeing. We already live in the Garden of Eden, warts and all, when we know where to find it.

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Farewell Mr Puffin A Small Boat Voyage to Iceland Paul Heiney A colourful and good-humoured insight into the private life of the puffin, and human life on the ocean waves Writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney set sail from the east coast of England bound for Iceland, propelled by a desire to breathe the clear air of the high latitudes, but also to follow in the wake of generations of sailors who have made this treacherous journey since the 13th century. In every harbour he tripped over maritime history and anecdote, and came face to face with his own past as he sailed towards the Arctic Circle. But there was one major thing missing from this voyage – the sight of puffins. Where was the ‘joker of the seas’?

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Paul Heiney is a well-known writer and broadcaster. The account of his voyage from the UK to Cape Horn and back (much of it alone) was published in his much-acclaimed book One Wild Song (Adlard Coles). He has since published Ocean Sailing, also with Adlard Coles. He is currently commodore of the Royal Cruising Club.

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Tales from the Tillerman Fifty Years of Cruising Britain’s Inland Waterways Steve Haywood A tribute to Britain’s canals, rivers and countryside, and a celebration of Britishness in all its eccentric glory Tales from the Tillerman is the story of Steve Haywood’s fifty years of adventures on Britain’s inland waterways, recounting the many hair-raising escapades he’s had up and down the land and reflecting on how the country and the cruising landscape have changed in those fifty years.

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Steve Haywood is author of four previous waterways books – and a Crime Club novel. Previously a producer on BBC’s Newsnight and Panorama, he’s been a devoted inland waterways narrowboater for fifty years and has written a monthly column for the magazine Canal Boat for more than ten years.

With anecdotes and light-hearted rants aplenty, mixed with some tall tales and a smattering of the nostalgic, you’ll be thoroughly entertained as a middle-aged man (oh, go on then, an old one) reflects on his long love affair with boats and waterways, contemplating their importance to his life and how they’ve changed it.

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From Women to the World Letters for the Female Century Elizabeth Filippouli A book of letters from forty influential women, to the women who inspired them Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, prime minister of New Zealand, after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine Al Massri pens a poem about war for her mother. Activist and TV presenter June Sarpong addresses designer Diane von Furstenberg. These are a few of the moving and insightful letters that make up From Women to the World, a book which brings together letters from a global group of accomplished women – politicians, royalty, actors, writers and activists. Each is based on these women’s personal histories and experiences, drawing attention to social issues such as homelessness, war, LGBT activism, mental health care or the plight of international refugees. The book is more than a simple collection of letters – it demonstrates how we have the wisdom to inspire, motivate and reinvent our world.

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Elizabeth Filippouli is the founder and CEO of Global Thinkers Forum (GTF), a global platform that works as an agent for positive change by connecting international thought leaders to promote collaboration and partnerships. The organisation launched Athena40 – the first ever global list of the top forty most innovative women from across all industries that is announced every two years.

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The Nile A New History of the World’s Greatest River Terje Tvedt The definitive history of the river Nile The river Nile has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5,000 years and eleven countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, this book is the definitive history of the world’s greatest river.

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Terje Tvedt is professor of geography at the University of Bergen and professor of political science and of global history at the University of Oslo. He has presented three successful television documentaries on water, shown in 150 countries worldwide. He is the series editor of the pioneering History of Water series, published by I.B.Tauris.

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History of the Caucasus Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires Christoph Baumer A richly illustrated history of the Caucasus region A landscape of high mountains and narrow valleys stretching from the Black to the Caspian Seas, the Caucasus region has been home to human populations for nearly 2 million years. In this first volume of this richly illustrated two-volume series, historian and explorer Christoph Baumer charts the period from the emergence of the earliest human populations in the region to the Seljuk conquests of ad 1050. It is a story of rival claims by empires and nations and of how the region has become home to more than fifty languages that can still be heard within its borders to this very day.

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Christoph Baumer is a leading historian of Central Asia, Tibet and the Caucasus. He is president of the Society for the Exploration of EurAsia and a member of the Explorers’ Club in New York, as well as the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London. He is a recipient of the prestigious Sir Percy Sykes Medal.

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Putin’s War in Syria Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America’s Absence Anna Borshchevskaya The story of the political, diplomatic and military actions of Putin’s intervention in Syria

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Anna Borshchevskaya is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, focusing on Russia’s policy towards the Middle East. Her analysis has been published widely in publications such as: Foreign Affairs, The Hill and The New Criterion.

Following Putin’s intervention in Syria in September 2015, international critics predicted that Russia would overextend itself. Barack Obama even suggested that the country would find itself in a ‘quagmire’ in Syria. However, here, Anna Borshchevskaya, one of the leading experts on Russian foreign policy from the Washington Institute, argues that, as a result of Putin’s actions, Russia achieved its objectives in the country, which has enabled it to become a leading power in the Middle East. Putin’s War in Syria illustrates the impact of Western absence in the country, presenting what the role of the West is, and could be, in the Middle East.

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Stalinism at War The Soviet Union in World War II Mark Edele Tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War II from 1937 to 1949 Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics, the Soviet Union’s involvement in World War II was both considerably longer and more all-encompassing than is sometimes appreciated. Mark Edele, one of the foremost scholars of Soviet history, unites the military, economic and political history of the Soviet Union with broader popular histories from below by exploring the experiences of ordinary citizens from Russians and Koreans, Ukrainians and Jews, Lithuanians and Georgians to men and women, loyal Stalinists and critics of his regime. In doing so, Edele reveals how the Soviet Union, led by a ruthless dictator, propelled Allied victory over Germany and Japan. 21 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC HARDBACK / £20.00 / 9781350153516 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 18 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $50.00 / NZ $55.00

Mark Edele is professor and Hansen Chair in History at University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Soviet Union: A Short History (2019), Stalin’s Defectors: How Red Army Soldiers became Hitler’s Collaborators, 1941-1945 (2017) and Stalinist Society, 1928-1953 (2011), among others.

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Brezhnev The Making of A Statesman Susanne Schattenberg A major new biography of Leonid Brezhnev based on a wealth of archival research

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Susanne Schattenberg is professor of contemporary history and culture of Eastern Europe and the director of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen.

Leonid Brezhnev, who served as leader of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1982, is seen to many as being responsible for the stagnation (and to some even collapse) of the Soviet Union. Originally published in German, Schattenberg’s book systematically dismantles the one-dimensional view of Brezhnev, the ‘forgotten’ leader of the Soviets, by drawing on a wealth of archival research not previously seen in English. The Brezhnev that emerges is a complex one, from his early apolitical years, when he dreamed of becoming an actor, through his swift and surprising rise through the Party ranks to his ultimate descent into addiction and untimely death. For Schattenberg, this is the story of a flawed and ineffectual idealist and makes a convincing case that Brezhnev should be reappraised as one of the most interesting and important political figures of the twentieth century.

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Speak Not Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language James Griffiths A personal and engaging account of how we can stop the extinction of linguistic diversity as we stand at the brink of a decline in the world’s languages As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet’s linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the front lines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don’t, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.

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James Griffiths is a reporter and producer for CNN International, currently based in Hong Kong. He has reported from Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Australia for outlets including The Atlantic, Vice and the Daily Beast. He is the author of The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet (Zed Books, 2019).

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Liberalism and Education The Monopoly of an Idea Francis O’Gorman Examines the damaging consequences of a liberalism that seems almost obligatory within modern Western universities and in literature and art In the 20th century what had been open-minded inquiry gradually gathered an assumption that judgement, particularly moral judgement, had no part in a university education. In this shift, counterculture became the most prestigious intellectual position, but the costs were not considered. Because liberals have insisted that intolerance is morally unacceptable, the only forms of intolerance that we can now perceive are extreme. Liberalism has handed to the extremists the only realistic option for taking a different view.

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Francis O’Gorman is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015), described by John Carey as ‘subtle, exploratory, completely original’, was a Guardian Book of the Week, a Sunday Times Must Read, and one of Bookbag’s History Books of the Year, 2015.

Liberalism and Education is a salute to thinking again about this: to reassessing exactly those topics that liberalism has outlawed, including the place of order, law, authority, reason, moral values, and of judgement in contemporary intellectual culture.

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Uncontrollable Women Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries Nan Sloane Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Very few of them are well known today; some were unknown even in their own day. All of them contributed something to the world we now inhabit. At a time when women were supposed to leave politics to men they spoke, wrote, marched, organised, asked questions, challenged power structures, sometimes went to prison and even died. History has not usually been kind to them, and they have frequently been pushed into asides or footnotes, dismissed as secondary, or spoken over, for, or through by men and sometimes other women. In this book, they take centre stage in both their own stories and those of others. These are their stories.

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Nan Sloane is the director of the Centre for Women and Democracy. She is currently a member of Fawcett Society’s ‘Does Local Government Work for Women?’ Commission. Her most recent book is: The Women in the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History, published by I.B. Tauris in 2018.

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33 1/3 33 1/3 is a series of short books about popular music, focusing on individual albums by artists ranging from James Brown to Celine Dion and from J Dilla to Neutral Milk Hotel. @333books

Goldie’s Timeless Martyn Deykers 09 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC PAPERBACK / £9.99 / 9781501355547 ANZ PUB DATE 04 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $21.99

Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 Colin Fleming 09 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC PAPERBACK / £10.99 / 9781501339776 ANZ PUB DATE 04 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $21.99

Janelle Monáe’s The Archandroid Alyssa Favreau 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC PAPERBACK / £9.99 / 9781501355707 ANZ PUB DATE 18 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $21.99

Maria Callas’s Lyric and Coloratura Arias

John Prine’s John Prine

Ginger Dellenbaugh

Erin Osmon

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BFI Film Classics ‘An indispensable part of every cineaste’s bookcase’ Total Film ‘Possibly the most bountiful book series in the history of film criticism’ Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Comment ‘A landmark in film criticism’ Quarterly Review of Film and Video

Duck Soup J. Hoberman From Hollywood’s pre-eminent comedy team, the Marx Brothers, Duck Soup is a topical satire of dictatorship and government. Although a critical failure and box-office disappointment on its initial release in 1933, today it is regarded as their quintessential film. J. Hoberman’s study traces its reputation history, from the initial disappointment of its release, to its rise to cult status in the 1960s when the Marxes’ anarchic, anti-establishment humour seemed again timely. J. Hoberman is a film critic, journalist and author based in New York City. From 1988 to 2012 he was senior film critic for The Village Voice. 09 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PAPERBACK / £11.99 / 9781839022258 ANZ PUB DATE 04 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

Trouble in Paradise David Weir In his study of Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise (1932), David Weir explores its significance within Lubitsch’s career, but also its larger cultural significance within the history of cinema, and the social context of its release during the Great Depression. Drawing on original archival research, Weir traces Trouble in Paradise’s reception history, including its critical reception, and the effect of the Motion Picture Production Code, which led to the film being denied approval for rerelease in 1935. David Weir is emeritus professor of comparative literature at the Cooper Union, New York. 07 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PAPERBACK / £11.99 / 9781839022036 ANZ PUB DATE 02 DECEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Catherine Fowler Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman portrays in excruciating detail the daily life of a single mother, as she cooks, cleans and cares for her son, and has sex with male clients in her home. More than any other film before or since, it reminds the viewer that we give our time to a film; and in making us look both harder and for longer it asks us to feel time slipping away, for its protagonist as much as for ourselves. Catherine Fowler’s study of the film interrogates its unique representation of domestic space and the materiality of women’s time. In doing so, she illuminates why the film is seen as a significant precursor for what came to be known as ‘slow cinema’ and why it continues to exert such significance in film history today. Catherine Fowler is associate professor in film at the University of Otago, New Zealand. 07 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PAPERBACK / £11.99 / 9781839022821 ANZ PUB DATE 02 DECEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

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Object Lessons Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The series is published in partnership with an essay series in the Atlantic. @objectsobjects

Spacecraft Timothy Morton Space travel can seem like a waste of resources or like human destiny. But what are spacecraft and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy and the nature of objects? Based primarily around the infamous Star Wars vehicle the Millennium Falcon, Spacecraft takes readers on an intergalactic journey through science fiction and speculative philosophy, revealing real-world political and ecological lessons along the way. Philosopher Timothy Morton shows how the Millennium Falcon is a spacecraft par excellence, offering readers not just flights of fancy, but new ground to stand on. 25 MARCH 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC PAPERBACK / 9781501355462 / £9.99 TERRITORY: WORLD ALL LANGUAGES TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC SERIES: 33 1/3

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. He is the author of sixteen books, including Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018) and Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), and 200 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.

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Other upcoming titles in the series: Train, A. N. Devers

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Fog, Stephen Sparks

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Football, Mark Yakich

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Valkyrie The Women of the Viking World Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir ‘This book is intelligent, engaging and well written, with many new insights’ BBC History Magazine ‘Valkyries have an obvious appeal, but the real women of the Viking age are more exciting. In Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir’s significant new history, they are brought engagingly to life’ Times Literary Supplement Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war – to make the pain and suffering, the lost limbs and deformities, the piles of lifeless bodies of young men, glorious and worthwhile. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Valkyrie introduces readers to the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland, a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of roles carrying power. In the process, this fascinating book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the dynamic, diverse lives of Viking women. Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir currently works at National Library of Norway in Oslo. Her research focuses on Vikings, old Norse-Icelandic sagas, mythology and poetry, late medieval Iceland, medieval manuscripts and gender.

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The Precariat The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION

Guy Standing ‘A very important book’ Noam Chomsky First published in 2011, Guy Standing’s The Precariat defined a new social class formed by the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the shopping centre, the carer looking after our elderly ... these are The Precariat. The issue of precarity has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, yet at the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the Western world is realising the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers. The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work – the principles 20th-century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like basic income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future. Guy Standing is professorial research associate at SOAS University of London, and co-founder and now honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international NGO that promotes basic income.

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Back to Black Black Radicalism for the 21st Century Illustrated Edition SPECIAL ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ ILLUSTRATED EDITION

Kehinde Andrews ‘Black radicalism, Kehinde Andrews argues, is the most misunderstood ideology of the 20th century. And he’s right … It’s a compelling polemic’ The Observer 23 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: ZED BOOKS PAPERBACK / £12.99 / 9780755639137 TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE WYLIE AGENCY ANZ PUB DATE 18 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $26.99 / NZ $29.99

Back to Black seeks to show us the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. At its core, the book argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet Kehinde Andrews shows how Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency and force. Immensely readable and shocking, Back to Black traces the true roots of this tradition in this new illustrated edition, and connects the dots to today’s struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century. Kehinde Andrews, author and educator, is one of the leading Black political voices in Britain. He is professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, a regular writer of opinion pieces for the Guardian, Independent and Ebony magazine, and editor of the series Blackness in Britain.

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Meatballs for the People Mathias Pilblad Fifty delectable recipes, with Swedish meatballs to rival even Ikea! On a regular day, Chinese, English and German can be heard in this Stockholm restaurant; tourists and bearded södermalmare discuss whether to have the classic Swedish meatballs or one of the specials, such as wild boar, and whether the sides should be mashed potatoes or mushroom risotto. But one thing is certain: no one is thinking about anything other than meatballs. Dive into these mouth-watering pages to discover how to make the perfect Swedish meatball, and then read on to uncover a whole host of meatball recipes, from pike to pork, or from reindeer to shrimp, and not forgetting a range of veggie delights. The book will offer them all, making an ideal stocking filler or gift for any foodie in your life. 19 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY ABSOLUTE HARDBACK / 9781472983039 / £20.00 EBOOK / 9781472983046 / £14.00 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 31 AUGUST 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $42.99

Established in 2013, this popular Stockholm eatery has taken locals and tourists by storm, with fifteen-metre queues a regular occurrence as fans line up to taste the very best meatballs. Originally mainly a takeaway with a deli on the side, the restaurant has exploded, with about 11,000 meatballs served each week. meatball.se / @meatballsforthepeople

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sketch Mourad Mazouz & Pierre Gagnaire A dreamscape book about one of the world’s most exotic and extraordinary restaurants: London’s sketch Enter the totally unique and entirely exceptional world of London’s sketch, one of the city’s most-loved restaurants. Set in the very heart of London there are treasures to be found in every room – including the famous pod toilets which are an Instagrammer’s dream. From a mad hatter’s tea party in the Glade tea room, to the eccentric Parlour patisserie, the icing on top of this magical cake is to be found in Pierre Gagnaire’s three-Michelin-starred Lecture Room and Library – one of only five restaurants in the UK to hold such an accolade. Part history, part recipes, part love letter to sketch and its patrons, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved the restaurant and food lovers alike. This is a sensual feast in book form, and, just like the restaurant, the book is entirely unique.

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Mourad Mazouz, the celebrated restaurateur and art connoisseur, combines the most unusual in the most unexpected way. His hybrid restaurants and bars have created unique experiences in six international cities. Pierre Gagnaire’s name is synonymous with iconoclastic cooking and technical mastery. He is a leading figure of modern French cuisine and three-Michelin-star, mad-scientist food experiments, with restaurants around the world. sketch.uk.com / @sketchlondon

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Essential Ollie Dabbous Perfect versions of essential recipes for home cooks from a Michelin-starred chef Ollie Dabbous is one of the UK’s most exciting chefs. His restrained but stunning dishes celebrate the essence of ingredients and flavour. Essential is his first cookbook for home cooks and it is made up of 100 everyday recipes which Ollie has made faultless. These are pitch-perfect versions of familiar dishes like cauliflower cheese, risotto, tuna steak, roast beef and cheesecake. Each chapter takes a different ingredient type – from grains through to fruit and berries – and the recipes are simple, unfussy and incredibly elegant.

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Ollie Dabbous wanted to be a chef from the age of six, and started cooking as a kitchen hand in Florence when he was fifteen. He became head chef at the Scandinavianinfluenced Texture on Portman Street, and also spent time at Mugaritz, Noma, Pierre Gagnaire and WD50. He opened DABBOUS in 2012 and was awarded a Michelin star within months.

Ollie may be Michelin-starred but in this book he doesn’t use complicated techniques or tools. He simply shares his intuitive approach to balancing, layering and tweaking ingredients to create perfect results time and again.

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The Rice Book Sri Owen The definitive book on rice, with more than 140 recipes from around the globe Winner of the André Simon Award 1993 Named one of OFM’s 50 Best Cookbooks of All Time The Rice Book became an instant classic when it was published almost thirty years ago, and to this day remains the definitive book on the subject. Rice is the staple food for more than half the world, and the creativity with which people approach this humble grain knows no bounds. From renowned food writer Sri Owen’s extensive travels and years of research come recipes for biryanis, risottos, pilafs and paellas from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Spain, Italy, Brazil and beyond. In a gorgeous new livery, with a fully updated introduction on the nutrition, history and culture surrounding rice, more than 140 delicious, foolproof recipes and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is an essential book for every kitchen and every cook.

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Sri Owen is a renowned Indonesian cook, food writer, and author of several cookbooks including The Indonesian Kitchen, and The Rice Book, which won the André Simon Award. Since publishing her first book in 1976, Sri has become one of the pre-eminent UK-based food writers, and her expertise saw her awarded the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

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Baking with Fortitude Dee Rettali A craft-baking book that uses groundbreaking techniques to highlight natural flavours Dee Rettali is an artisan baker who has honed her recipes to bring out intense flavour using forgotten craftsmanship. Dee’s cakes, created for her bakery – Fortitude Bakehouse – are a world away from generic cakes loaded with sugar or artificial flavours. Her most groundbreaking technique is to use a sourdough-like starter in her baking. Another flavour-building process she has developed is to ferment the batter before baking. Both these exciting and simple approaches bring a unique depth of flavour to Dee’s recipes, as do other slow-paced artisanal methods like steeping fruit and making herb infusions.

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Dee Rettali was at the forefront of the organic food movement, having founded Patisserie Organic in 1998, and her belief in preserving traditional crafts, using time-honoured techniques and sourcing simple, seasonal ingredients has informed the way she cooks and bakes ever since. She opened Fortitude Bakehouse in London in 2018 and has amassed a loyal following.

This is a cutting-edge way of baking and at the same time it has antecedents in Dee’s past. She grew up in rural Ireland where seasonal, no-waste baking was simply a way of life. This book brings her experience to life in a thoroughly modern way.

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River Cottage Christmas Lucy Brazier In River Cottage Christmas, Lucy Brazier shares a feast of recipes and ideas for your Christmas celebrations In this book are the most delicious recipes, honed over the years and rooted in the River Cottage foundations of tradition, seasonality and sustainability. There are chutneys, sauces and cordials to give as gifts; ultimate recipes for Christmas cake, roast turkey and all the trimmings, and ingenious ways to reinvent your leftovers. Taking inspiration from the natural world, there are also instructions on how to make your own eco-friendly decorations such as wreaths, garlands and tree ornaments using foraged foliage. Accompanying all of this are tips on planning ahead, effortlessly feeding a crowd and orchestrating the great Christmas Dinner so you’ll also be able to find time to relax and enjoy yourself along the way. With an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and a hearty dash of festive spirit, River Cottage Christmas is the ultimate comfort and joy.

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Lucy Brazier is a freelance writer, specialising in food, lifestyle and memoir. Following a longstanding career in talent management, she left London and moved to Dorset fourteen years ago to work with Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall and the team at River Cottage as a writer and course tutor.

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Natural Flava Easy Plant-based Caribbean Recipes Craig McAnuff & Shaun McAnuff A Caribbean vegan cookbook from the bestselling duo behind Original Flava This easy and delicious cookbook includes over eighty recipes from light bites to curries, all of which are naturally plant-based and full of flavour. Caribbean food is often naturally vegan because it is packed with fresh fruit and vibrant vegetables. Jamaica also has a long and authentic vegan tradition: the Ital diet of Jamaican Rastafarians. Ital is all about cooking with natural, unprocessed, plant-based ingredients, which will promote wellness. 23 DECEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING HARDBACK / 9781526631879 / £20.00 EBOOK / 9781526631862 / £15.82 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2022 HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $42.99

Craig and Shaun McAnuff, raised in London and of Jamaican descent, are bringing Caribbean food to the modern kitchen. In April 2016, they launched the Original Flava brand, sharing videos of them cooking simple Caribbean recipes that amassed a huge following. They self-published their first cookbook Caribbean Cookbook in 2017, which reached No. 1 in Caribbean Cookery on Amazon. originalflava.com

In this book, Craig and Shaun from Original Flava, bring Ital inspiration to everyday dishes for home cooks who want punchy Caribbean flavours as part of a feel-good, plant-based diet.

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Leave the World Behind Rumaan Alam ‘The book of an era’ Independent ‘Stupendously good ... As terrifying and prescient as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road ...When future generations want to know what it was like to live through the nightmare of 2020, this is the novel they’ll reach for’ Observer

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Amanda and Clay head to a remote home in Long Island expecting a holiday. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., a couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a power outage has swept the city, and they have come to the country in search of shelter. But with no phone service, the facts are unknowable. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place? And are they safe from one another? Rumaan Alam is the author of Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Elle, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, The Rumpus, BuzzFeed and elsewhere. He studied at Oberlin College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Here is the Beehive Shortlisted for Popular Fiction Book of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards Sarah Crossan So long as we live, we gamble

‘Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana’s fragmented narrative’ Emma Healey

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For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, keeping their relationship hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana’s company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach – Connor’s wife Rebecca…

‘A triumph’ Observer ‘Compelling’ Sunday Times ‘Stunning’ Cecelia Ahern Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Brighton. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. Crossan was the 2018-2020 Laureate na nÓg (Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate). Here is the Beehive is her first novel for adults. @sarahcrossan

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The Vanishing Sky L. Annette Binder An intimate story about love, loss and sacrifice seen through the eyes of a German family during WWII

‘An intimate tragedy that’s all the more powerful for refusing the ending we fervently hope for’ Daily Mail Germany, 1945. In Heidenfeld, Etta and her husband Josef roam an empty nest: their eldest son Max is away fighting, while fifteen-year-old Georg is at a school for the Hitler Youth. When Max is discharged, Etta is relieved to have her eldest home. But soon after he arrives, it’s clear that the boy who left is not the same one who returned. With Georg a hundred miles away and a husband confronting his own feelings towards patriotic duty, Etta alone must gather the pieces of a splintering family, determined to hold them together in the face of an uncertain future. L. Annette Binder was born in Germany. Her collection Rise received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and her fiction has also appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. The Vanishing Sky is her first novel and is inspired by her family’s experience in Second World War Germany. She lives in New England.

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To Be a Man Nicole Krauss ‘Superb … Characters so fully realized that Krauss’s deft authorial hand is rarely evident’ New York Times ‘One of America’s most important novelists’ New York Times ‘Stunning. Intellectually and emotionally intelligent and immaculately written’ Louise Kennedy Weaving from one end of life to another – from the mystery and wonder at a life at its close or at a future waiting to unfold, Nicole Krauss’s stories illuminate the moments in the lives of women in which the forces of sex, power and violence collide. From Switzerland, Japan and New York to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles and South America, To Be a Man delves into questions of masculinity and violence, regret and regeneration, control and desire; and shines a fierce light onto men and women, and into the gulfs that lie between them. Nicole Krauss is the author of four novels, including the international bestsellers Great House (shortlisted for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize) and The History of Love (shortlisted for the Orange, Médicis and Femina prizes, and winner of the Saroyan Prize and the Prix Étranger). Her work has been translated into over thirty-five languages. She lives in New York.

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Against the Loveless World Winner of the Palestine Book Award Susan Abulhawa Winner of the Palestine Book Award; ‘a major writer of our time’ (Alice Walker)

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Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist, and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things, and had many names. Nahr sits in the Cube, and tells her story to Bilal. Bilal, who may not even be alive, but who is her only reason to get out. Susan Abulhawa was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967. She moved to the USA as a teenager and established a career in medical science. In 2001, she founded Playgrounds for Palestine. She is the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin and The Blue Between Sky and Water. She lives in Pennsylvania. @sjabulhawa

Why Visit America Matthew Baker A twisted, exhilarating and darkly strange vision of our time, explored in thirteen interconnected episodes

‘A little revelation ... Mind-bending, like all the best drugs’ Big Issue Welcome, dear visitor, to a proud and storied nation. When you put down this guidebook, look around you. A nation isn’t land. A nation is people. Equal parts speculative and satirical, the stories in Matthew Baker’s collection portray a world within touching distance of our own. This is an America riven by dilemmas confronting so many of us, turned on its head by one of the most innovative voices of the moment. 05 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PAPERBACK / 9781526618429 / £9.99 EBOOK / 9781526618405 / £11.89 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: ABNER STEIN EXPORT TPB / 9781526618399 / £13.99 ANZ PUB DATE 31 AUGUST 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $22.99

Read together, these parallel-universe stories create a composite portrait of our true nature and a dark reflection of the world we live in. Matthew Baker is the author of the story collection Hybrid Creatures. His stories have appeared in the Paris Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, One Story, Electric Literature and Conjunctions, and in anthologies including Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions. Born in Michigan, he currently lives in New York City.

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A Saint from Texas Edmund White ‘In thrall to the shimmering artifice of glamour yet incisive about the tragedy of human existence … A delight’ Observer Yvette Crawford serves in a Colombian convent. Yvonne Crawford climbs the ranks of Parisian society. From humble beginnings on a patch of East Texas prairie, the lives of the Crawford twins take radically different turns. But no matter how far apart their fates, secrets and dreams propel them, the twins will learn that the bonds that bind them – family and the past – cannot be broken. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White’s marvellous new novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds. Edmund White is an award-winning and prolific writer. His work, which includes the novel Our Young Man and the memoir The Flâneur, has revitalised American literature, breaking down boundaries of class, sexuality and power. His accolades include the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction, and a Guggenheim fellowship under the recommendation of Susan Sontag.

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Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah ‘Riveting and heartbreaking ... Gathers close all those who were meant to be forgotten, and refuses their erasure’ Maaza Mengiste, Guardian ‘A brilliant and important book for our times, by a wondrous writer’ Philippe Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year The century is young, and war burns hot on the east coast of Africa. Hamza was sold into war as a young boy; he has come of age at the right hand of a German officer whose zeal has marked him for life. He has no words for the way the war ended for him, in a haze of blood. Returning to his village, Hamza meets the beautiful Afiya – who was given away after her brother was stolen to fight in the war. As friends and lovers come and go, the shadow of war lengthens and darkens; ever watchful and all consuming. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the author of nine novels including Paradise (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award) and By the Sea (longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award). He is a professor of English at the University of Kent. He lives in Canterbury.

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Piranesi Susanna Clarke A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL OF THE YEAR

‘Reminds us of fiction’s power to take us to another world and expand our understanding of this one’ Guardian, Autumn highlights Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, he makes a careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands of statues, the tides which thunder up staircases. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. But mostly, he is alone.

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Then messages begin to appear. There is someone new in the House. But who are they? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. Susanna Clarke’s debut Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. It has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and been translated into thirty-four languages. Piranesi is an international bestseller. Susanna Clarke lives in Derbyshire.

The Last Good Man Thomas McMullan ‘A Scarlet Letter for our times’ Margaret Atwood ‘A brilliantly unsettling parable’ Independent.co.uk ‘Extraordinary and disquieting’ Rob Doyle Duncan Peck is new to the village. He has come from the city, where civilisation has broken down, where the fires are always burning; but out here on the moors there is community, and order, and safety. Under the shadow of a great wall that cleaves the hillside, the people live an honest life; and if there’s any trouble, they have a way to settle it. 02 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PAPERBACK / 9781526609274 / £8.99 EBOOK / 9781526609267 / £7.99 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/EUROPE/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID HIGHAM ASSOCIATES EXPORT TPB / 9781526609236 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 30 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $22.99

A troubling, uncanny book about fear and atonement, responsibility and justice, The Last Good Man dares to ask, what makes people good? And whose job is it to answer that question? Thomas McMullan’s work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Observer, TLS and Frieze, and has been published in Best British Short Stories. He was a member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and has had plays produced at the ICA, Southwark Playhouse, the V&A and the British Museum. He has worked with visual artists in London, Amsterdam and Beijing.

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Artifact Arlene Heyman ‘A wise, intimate tale that is by turns joyful, sorrowful and explicit’ Observer Lottie Kristin possesses a passion for experimentation, intellectual and sensual. A girl who’d rather carry out dissections in the back yard than join her family for Christmas dinner is a strange artifact in the town of Sleeping Bay. But by her twenties, Lottie finds herself trapped in marriage and motherhood. How can a young woman make her way in a world determined to contain her brilliance, her longing to live? Artifact is a portrait of a whole woman, a celebration of her refusal to be defined by others’ imaginations, and a meditation on the glorious chaos of biological life. Arlene Heyman is the author of Scary Old Sex, and a recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockefeller and Robert Wood Johnson fellowships. She won Epoch magazine’s novella contest, and has been listed twice in the honour rolls of The Best American Short Stories. Heyman is a psychiatrist/ psychoanalyst practising in New York City. This is her first novel.

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Beneath the Trees of Eden Tim Binding ‘Fierce, untamed, animal in its joy. Terrific’ Patrick McCabe ‘A novel to cherish for its ambition and its portrayal of a vanished world’ Literary Review Alice is twenty when she becomes involved with Louis, a brooding, older man who has built some of the first motorways to stretch across England. With a child on the way, the couple set off on the road, determined to carve out a life for themselves off the beaten track. But as their son grows older, he begins to question his parents’ philosophy and the sacrifices it entails. Searing and lyrical, Beneath the Trees of Eden is a rumination on the possibility for salvation, the people and places we find ourselves tethered to, and the things that get left behind. Tim Binding was born in Germany in 1947. He is the author of In the Kingdom of Air, A Perfect Execution, Island Madness, On Ilkley Moor, Anthem, Man Overboard, The Champion and the children’s book Sylvie and the Songman. He lives in Kent with his wife and daughter.

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The Book of Trespass Crossing the Lines that Divide Us Nick Hayes The ‘remarkable and truly radical’ (George Monbiot) Sunday Times bestseller that ‘will make you see landscapes differently’ (Robert Macfarlane)

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The vast majority of our country is unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. The Book of Trespass is Nick Hayes’s Sunday Times-bestselling journey over these walls, which makes the argument for the uneven distribution of land as the root of social inequality. Nick Hayes is an author, illustrator, printmaker, musician and political cartoonist. He has published four graphic novels 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.

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The System Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us James Ball ‘A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important’ Caroline Criado-Perez ‘A sprightly history of the internet seen from the perspective of its inventors, investors, custodians, rule-makers and rebels’ Financial Times The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. 08 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PAPERBACK / 9781526607232 / £9.99 EBOOK / 9781526607218 / £14.00 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: THE WYLIE AGENCY LTD EXPORT TPB / 9781526607256 / £14.99 ANZ PUB DATE 31 AUGUST 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $22.99 / NZ $24.99

We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this necessary book, James Ball shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed – that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before. James Ball is the global editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the author of multiple books, including Post-Truth. He has worked for BuzzFeed, The Guardian and the Washington Post and his reporting projects have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard Prize and the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, among others.

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The Glamour Boys The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler Chris Bryant ‘An inspiring story of defiant courage … Superb, suspenseful’ Stephen Fry In the early 1930s, a group of young, queer British MPs visited Berlin on a series of trips that would change the course of the Second World War. Having witnessed the Nazis’ brutality first-hand, they were some of the first to warn Britain about Hitler – repeatedly speaking out against their government at a time when even the suggestion of homosexuality could land you in prison. Undaunted, they refused to be silenced and when war came, they enlisted. Four of them died in action. And without them, Britain would never have faced down the Nazis. Chris Bryant has been the MP for Rhondda since 2001. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Europe, and has been Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Shadow Leader of the House of Commons. The author of six previous books, he has written regularly for The Guardian and The Independent.

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The Nine Lives of Pakistan Dispatches from a Divided Nation Declan Walsh ‘Sets a new benchmark for non-fiction about the complex palace of mirrors that is Pakistan’ William Dalrymple ‘All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read it’ Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger The demise of Pakistan – a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam – is regularly predicted. But things rarely turn out as expected, as Declan Walsh knows well. Over a decade covering the country, his travels took him from the raucous port of Karachi to the gilded salons of Lahore to the lawless frontier of Waziristan, encountering Pakistanis whose lives offer a compelling portrait of this land of contradictions. Unravelling the many mysteries of state and religion, this is an arresting account of life in a country that, often as not, seems to be at war with itself. Declan Walsh covered Pakistan for over a decade, for The Guardian and the New York Times. The Pakistani authorities expelled him in 2013, citing unspecified ‘undesirable activities’. Walsh has reported from sub-Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, the United States and across the Middle East. He lives in Nairobi.

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Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? Essays Jenny Diski ‘Highly intelligent, furiously funny’ Sunday Times

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Jenny Diski was a fearless writer, for whom no subject was too difficult. Her columns in the London Review of Books – ranging from subjects as various as happiness, social psychology, self-absorption and cats – have been described as ‘virtuoso performances’, and ‘small masterpieces’. Original, opinionated and well ahead of its time, this collection will allow readers old and new to ‘read Diski for the pleasures of Diski, but also read Diski to learn what we may think, in the future, about how, were we possessed by foresight, we might have better performed our humanity in the now’ (New Yorker) Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London. She was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in publications including the Mail on Sunday, Observer and the London Review of Books, to which she contributed more than 200 articles over twenty-five years. jennydiski.co.uk

Good Talk A Memoir in Conversations Mira Jacob ‘Good Talk isn’t just Mira Jacob’s personal story: it also illuminates the increasingly fractured world we live in. By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it plunges fearlessly into the murky grey areas of race and family, of struggling to find common ground, of trying to talk to our children and help them make sense of it all’ Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere 05 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PAPERBACK / 9781526631596 / £14.99 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: A M HEATH & COMPANY LTD ANZ PUB DATE 02 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $22.99 / NZ $24.99

Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-American, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s found her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, colour, sexuality, and, of course, love. Written with humour and vulnerability, this deeply relatable graphic memoir is a love letter to the art of conversation; and to the hope that hovers in our most difficult questions. Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing. Her recent work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Vogue, Glamour, Tin House, Electric Literature and Literary Hub. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Bowie’s Books The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life John O’Connell ‘You can only truly know a pop star through his bookshelf. John O’Connell’s brilliant, gossipy book gives you a whole new secret David Bowie: the reader. This is the unwritten Bowie book that needed writing’ Caitlin Moran Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was. In Bowie’s Books, John O’Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in. John O’Connell was born in 1972. A former senior editor at Time Out and music columnist for The Face, he is now freelance, writing mainly for The Times and Guardian. He interviewed David Bowie in New York in 2002. He lives in south London with his wife and two daughters.

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Work A History of How We Spend Our Time James Suzman ‘A fascinating exploration that challenges our basic assumptions of what work means’ Yuval Noah Harari The work we do brings us meaning, moulds our values, determines our social status and dictates how we spend most of our time. But this wasn’t always the case: for 95 per cent of our species’ history, work held a radically different importance. How, then, did work become the central organisational principle of our societies? How did it transform our bodies, our environments, our views on equality and our sense of time? And why, in a time of material abundance, are we working more than ever before? James Suzman is an anthropologist specialising in the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa. A recipient of the Smuts Commonwealth Fellowship in African Studies at Cambridge University, he is now the director of Anthropos Ltd. He has advised organisations including the Foreign Office, the World Bank and the European Commission. He lives in Cambridge.

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The Haunting of Alma Fielding SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

Kate Summerscale ‘A wonderful book’ Hilary Mantel

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London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a refugee and ghost-hunter for the Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss – and the foreshadowing of a nation’s worst fears. As the spectre of fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor’s obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed. With rigour, daring and insight, Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor’s inquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting. Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher won the Samuel Johnson Prize and was adapted into a major ITV drama. Her bestselling debut The Queen of Whale Cay won the Somerset Maugham Award; while Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace was a Sunday Times bestseller, and The Wicked Boy was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Summerscale lives in London.

Sylvia Pankhurst Natural Born Rebel Rachel Holmes ‘It’s impossible to summarise adequately a book so magnificent … Holmes sublimely illuminates Sylvia’s extraordinary life’ The Times Born into one of Britain’s most famous activist families, Sylvia Pankhurst was a free spirit and radical visionary who found her voice fighting militantly for votes for women. The vote was just the beginning of her lifelong defence of human rights, from her early warnings of the rise of fascism in Europe, to her championing of liberation struggles in Africa and India. 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PAPERBACK / 9781408880456 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781408880432 / £24.50 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 02 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $26.99

Rachel Holmes interweaves the personal and political to reveal Sylvia Pankhurst as never before. This major new biography celebrates a life in resistance, painting a compelling portrait of one of the greatest unsung political figures of the twentieth century. Rachel Holmes is the author of Eleanor Marx: A Life, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry and The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman. She is co-editor of Fifty Shades of Feminism and I Call Myself A Feminist. She lives in London.

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A Sound Mind How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) Paul Morley ‘An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form … Destined to become a classic’ Jarvis Cocker Paul Morley had stopped being surprised by modern pop music and found himself retreating into the sounds of artists he loved as an emerging music journalist in the seventies. But not wishing to give in to dreary nostalgia, endlessly circling back to the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare and wondrous – and found it in classical music. A Sound Mind is a multi-layered memoir of Morley’s shifting musical tastes, but it is also a compelling history of classical music that reveals the genre’s rich and often deviant past – and, hopefully, future. Writer, critic and broadcaster Paul Morley was a founding member of the electronic ensemble Art of Noise, collaborated with Grace Jones on her bestselling memoirs and was an artistic advisor for the David Bowie Is exhibition at the V&A. He is the author of a number of books on music as well as two acclaimed memoirs, Nothing and The North.

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The Artful Dickens The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist John Mullan ‘A feast of Dickensian knowledge’ The Times From Pickwick to Scrooge, Copperfield to Twist, how did Dickens find names for his characters? When is a Dickens character most likely to see a ghost? Why is Dickens’s trickery only fully realised when his novels are read aloud? In thirteen entertaining and wonderfully insightful essays, John Mullan explores the literary machinations of Dickens’s eccentric genius, from his delight in clichés to his rendering of smells and his outrageous use of coincidences. A treat for all lovers of Dickens, this essential companion puts his audacity, originality and brilliance on full display. John Mullan is Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published extensively on eighteenthand nineteenth-century literature. In 2009 he was one of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent book is What Matters in Jane Austen? He lives in London.

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The International Brigades Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War Giles Tremlett ‘A remarkable act of scholarship … As close to a definitive history as we are likely to get’ Guardian The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini.

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In this magisterial history, award-winning historian Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group of people. Drawing on the Brigades’ extensive archives in Moscow, Comintern documents and first-hand accounts, Tremlett captures all the human drama of an historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe. Giles Tremlett is a contributing editor to The Guardian and fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre, LSE. He has lived in and written about Spain for over twenty years, and is the author of Catherine of Aragon, Ghosts of Spain and Isabella of Castile, winner of the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He lives in Madrid with his family.

Joe Biden American Dreamer Evan Osnos ‘It is impossible to come away from Osnos’s biography without a sense of awe at what Biden has overcome’ Guardian

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President Joseph R. Biden Jr has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest – fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses. Blending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others to capture an extraordinary moment in American history. In this nuanced portrait, Biden emerges as flawed, yet resolute, and tempered by the flame of tragedy – a man who just may be uncannily suited for his moment in history. Evan Osnos has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2008. His most recent book, Age of Ambition, won the National Book Award, among other honours. Previously he reported from China, Iraq and elsewhere for the Chicago Tribune, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He lives with his wife and children in Washington, DC.

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Ageless The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old Andrew Steele ‘Read it and prepare to think differently about your future’ Andrew J. Scott ‘Writing with the vim of a Bill Bryson and the technical knowledge of a scientist, Steele gives us a chance to grasp what’s at stake’ Independent Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a revolution in medicine. It takes us inside the laboratories where scientists are studying every aspect of the body – DNA, mitochondria, stem cells, our immune systems, even longevity genes that have helped animals to a tenfold increase in lifespan – all in an effort to forestall or reverse the ageing process itself. Andrew Steele reveals how understanding the scientific implications of ageing could improve billions of lives, save trillions of dollars and transform the human condition. Andrew Steele is a scientist, writer and campaigner. After a PhD in physics from the University of Oxford, he decided that ageing was the single most important scientific challenge of our time and switched fields to computational biology. He has worked at the Francis Crick Institute, using machine learning to decode our DNA. He lives in London.

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Justice on Trial Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point Chris Daw A QC’s urgent manifesto for reimagining crime and punishment in the twenty-first century

‘Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice. You should all go out and buy his book’ The Secret Barrister Chris Daw has been practising criminal law for over twenty-five years, navigating Britain’s fractured justice system from within. Yet his work takes place at the heart of a structure at breaking point, and now he is convinced that something must change. Drawing on his own fascinating case histories and global reporting, Daw presents a radical new set of solutions. By turns shocking, moving and pragmatic, Justice on Trial offers rare inside access to a system in crisis and a roadmap to a future beyond the binary of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. Chris Daw was called to the Bar in 1993. Since then he has practised criminal law, first as a junior barrister, now as a QC whose cases frequently make the national news. Chris writes on legal matters for The Spectator and other publications. He co-presents the BBC series Crime – Are We Tough Enough? @crimlawuk

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Hope and the Nearness of God The 2022 Lent Book Teresa White FCJ 09 DECEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY CONTINUUM PAPERBACK / 9781472984197 / £10.99 EBOOK / 9781472984203 / £8.32 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 01 FEBRUARY 2022 PAPERBACK / AUS $22.99 / NZ $24.99

This is a book about hope, which the author argues is central to the meaning of Lent, and Easter. Hope, which is quite different from optimism, is the most precious spiritual gift. This hope is not simply confidence in the future, but confidence that the past, present and future are held in God’s hands and that God, in His providence, never abandons us. Hope is the realistic way of perceiving the scope of our real human possibilities. It implies courage and patience, accepting the things that we cannot change and living constructively. It is an entirely original approach to Lent. Sister Teresa White FCJ is a member of a Roman Catholic order of nuns involved in education and social work. Her extraordinary experience, her intelligence and her spirituality are her true credentials for writing this book.

Creative Ropecraft A Treasure Trove of Knots, Hitches, Bends, Plaits and Netting Stuart Grainger The standard work on practical and decorative knots and ropework, revised and republished in an attractive new format 11 NOVEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: ADLARD COLES PAPERBACK / 9781472985651 / £18.99 EBOOK / 9781472985668 / £14.16 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 11 JANUARY 2022 PAPERBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $45.00

Creative Ropecraft is a wonderful collection of practical nautical knots and decorative ropework, all presented in clear steps thanks to Stuart Grainger’s exquisite drawings. This enhanced edition will include new photography and a foreword from knotting expert Des Pawson, as well as further tips and revisions throughout. Readers can learn how to tie and use a wide variety of knots and ropework projects, both practical and elaborate, including crown and wall knots, turk’s heads, door knockers, hammocks, mats; belts, table lamps, rope-edged trays and many more. The late Stuart Grainger was a master mariner of wide experience and published many books and articles on knots and ropework. Des Pawson is the acknowledged guru of knotting, worldwide, the co-founder of the International Guild of Knot Tyers, and received an MBE in 2007. He’s the author of Des Pawson’s Knot Craft and Rope Mats (Adlard Coles).

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Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Mark Carwardine A field guide to all species of cetaceans in the world Many people dream of seeing whales, dolphins and porpoises in the wild, and a good identification guide is a must for any whale-watching trip. This new edition of Mark Carwardine’s hugely popular Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises is fully updated with the latest information on cetaceans and their distribution, and includes every species in the world. Clear descriptions and identification tips are accompanied by beautiful colour artwork and photographs of each species. Information on behaviour and where to see each species aids identification and gives an insight into the lives of these magnificent animals. Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, writer, radio and TV presenter, wildlife photographer, wildlife tour operator and an active and outspoken conservationist, with a special interest in cetaceans. His TV series include BBC’s Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry, and for many years he presented the weekly half-hour programme Nature on BBC Radio 4.

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The Power of Clarity Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment Ann Latham Organisations are stressed. Technological innovations have become the source of relentless pressure and customers have never had higher expectations. Corporations are cutting costs, but still struggle to improve everyday productivity in an effort to boost profits. According to a Fortune 500 study, as much as 80 per cent of working time is lost to counterproductive activities. In The Power of Clarity, Ann Latham clarifies how to tackle these deficits in working practices. This fascinating guide to workplace productivity draws upon extensive research and case studies to demonstrate how you can effectively identify and overcome such hindrances in your working life.

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Ann Latham is the founder of US-based consulting firm Uncommon Clarity. Her clients represent over forty industries and range from organisations such as Boeing, Hitachi and PBS. She is widely considered an expert in strategic clarity and strategies for productivity, performance and reputation. She is an accomplished keynote and workshop speaker and author of The Clarity Papers and Uncommon Meetings.

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The Intentional Leader How Inner Authority Can Unleash Strong Leadership Tim Herbert When leaders don’t take time to self-reflect and connect with their values, they will almost always fall short of their responsibilities. Successful leaders inspire their employees to rally behind the organisational cause – whether that be developing cutting-edge technologies or selling fast food. This is intentional leadership. Drawing upon his extensive experience as a business leader and consultant, Tim Herbert provides practical advice and accessible guidance that will bolster business leaders across all industries. With an engaging combination of high-profile case studies, first-hand experiences and enlightening research, The Intentional Leader is the essential guide to cultivating authentic and effective leadership.

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Tim Herbert is a business owner, keynote speaker, writer and workshop facilitator. Tim currently serves as CEO and founder of Trilix, a business and technology consulting firm. While CEO and president of Atrion, a leading IT services firm, he grew the company to a value of $170 million with over 260 employees.

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Retail Recovery How Creative Retailers Are Winning in their Post-Apocalyptic World Mark Pilkington The retail industry has been devastated by the twin effects of the internet and the Coronavirus lockdown. Huge numbers of prestigious brands have gone under, or are a shadow of their former selves. Fortunately, new shoots of recovery are emerging from the wreckage – ways of providing value and innovative methods of drawing consumers in. Technology is reshaping every aspect of the supply chain, while lowering barriers of entry to innovative start-ups, which are revitalising the sector. Retail Recovery offers a comprehensive analysis of the new forces that are changing the ways in which we buy products and experience brands.

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Mark Pilkington is an experienced retailer and consultant. After graduating from INSEAD, he joined Courtaulds, eventually becoming CEO of Gossard. He has worked subsequently on joint ventures with M&S, and has consulted extensively in the Middle East in the lingerie and cosmetics areas. He is currently a consultant for major retail groups on strategic developments, with clients across the world.

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Dark Social Safeguarding Your Business from Online Threats, Risks and Scams Ian MacRae From Donald Trump’s tweets to echo chambers and bots – the negative side of social media is becoming ever more apparent. Now far removed from a landscape of cat videos and family pictures, social media is now open to exploitation from a range of sources, from disgruntled employees to ‘fake news’. The negative impact of social media can have damaging consequences for businesses. Reputations can be ruined overnight and the boundaries between professional and personal conduct can become blurred. Drawing upon case studies and organisational psychology, Dark Social is a timely and fascinating insight into social media.

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Ian MacRae is an organisational psychology consultant and psychometrician and writer who works internationally. Ian has conducted research with tens of thousands of participants in over forty countries. He has written four books about practical work psychology. He is an advisor at Thomas International, research manager at Sage Transitions in Canada, and director of High Potential Psychology Ltd.

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Futureproof Your Career A Practical Guide to Success in the New Normal Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj & Naeema Pasha It is almost an understatement to say that we’re entering a ‘new normal’ in which working patterns and career trajectories have irreversibly changed. From two leading academics, this book provides key insights into how this transformed landscape will impact the essential roles and functions within organisations – and how you can take advantage of these new opportunities.

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Dr Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj is associate professor in entrepreneurial leadership at Henley Business School. She specialises in bringing complex and innovative thinking to organisations. Dr Naeema Pasha is director of careers & professional development at Henley Business School and founder of World of Work, an annual conference on the future of work. She specialises in flexible working and the gig economy.

Futureproof Your Career provides original and practical guidance for improving your career and positioning yourself for progression. It places a major focus on the changing business, economic and technological landscape and the new challenges this presents for job retention and career progression.

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The Performance Curve Laura Watkins & Vanessa Dietzel There has always been an unnecessary division between personal career guidance and advice that focuses upon the performance of an entire team or the whole organisation. For the first time, The Performance Curve unites these distinct approaches, interweaving the individual and the collective to produce a bold new holistic guide to improving business performance. The book’s practical advice on maximising performance capabilities is underpinned by a robust and unique combination of neuroscience, psychological research and mindfulness. This is an engaging and practical consolidation of the concepts, approaches and tools that the authors have developed over years of expert experience.

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Laura Watkins is co-founder of the Cognitas Group, which helps leaders build powerful organisations. She is also the co-founder of Jumpstart Development, a leadership consultancy. Vanessa Dietzel is a consultant with the Cognitas Group. She has over fifteen years’ experience working with senior executives on a wide range of business issues, including strategy development, organisation design and implementing change programmes.

On Board The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom John Tusa John Tusa brings us behind the closed doors of the boardroom to provide an insight into the inner workings of boards. From personal squabbles to financial crises, Tusa shares his experiences serving on a wide variety of international boards at institutions such as Barbican and APR. These lively life stories unveil how boards overcome deep-set divisions, appoint new members and survive in times of chaos. 14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY BUSINESS PAPERBACK / 9781472976024 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781472976017 / £14.00 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2022 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

On Board is not only an engaging foray into the vibrant and prestigious career of John Tusa, it is also a comprehensive guide to working effectively within both cooperative and combative work environments.

John Tusa is the co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and has formerly served as the chairman of Wigmore Hall, the University of the Arts London, and the V&A Museum. His prestigious career in broadcasting and arts administration began at the BBC, where he presented Newsnight and 24 Hours before becoming the managing director of the BBC World Service.

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Our Biggest Experiment A History of the Climate Crisis Alice Bell The surprising history of climate change research – revealing how the world became addicted to fossil fuel and that renewable energy is no modern discovery For more and more of us, climate change is shifting from an itchy fear at the back of our minds to something we feel we need to get an urgent grip on. Our Biggest Experiment shows just how long we’ve been working to overcome it. Our exploration of the Earth’s environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavour. It also began earlier than you might think. Greenpeace and Al Gore are merely the latter chapters of a story that goes back to the days of Napoleon. 08 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SIGMA HARDBACK / 9781472974778 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781472974792 / £11.89 TERRITORY: COMMONWEALTH (EXCLUDING CANADA)/UK/ OPEN MARKET TRANSLATION RIGHTS: WATSON, LITTLE LTD EXPORT TPB / 9781472974808 / £14.99 ANZ PUB DATE 03 AUGUST 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

Dr Alice Bell is a journalist and historian of science. She has been a lecturer at Imperial College, the University of Sussex and City University London. Alice contributed to the International Council for Science’s blog on climate policy, and launched storytelling website How We Get to Next as well as The Guardian’s science policy blog, and has written for The Times, New Scientist, New Humanist and Mosaic.

Dr Alice Bell cuts through the jargon and the jumble of numbers to present a pacy, approachable telling of what is now the defining issue of our time. She doesn’t sugar-coat the situation, but her message is ultimately hopeful – harnessing the ingenuity and intelligence that has driven climate change research can mean a more sustainable future for humanity.

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Worlds in Shadow Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth Patrick Nunn Exploring sunken lands – mythical, real and those in future danger – reveals a wealth of discoveries in the science of submergence The traces of much of human history – and much which preceded it – lie beneath the ocean’s surface; broken up, dispersed, often buried and always mysterious. This is fertile ground for speculation, even myth-making, but also a topic on which geologists and climatologists have increasingly focused in recent decades. We now know enough to tell the true story of some of the continents and islands that have disappeared throughout the Earth’s history, to explain how and why such things happened, and to unravel the effects of submergence on the rise and fall of human civilisations. Patrick Nunn sifts the fact from the fiction, using the most up-to-date research to work out which submerged places may have actually existed versus those that probably only exist in myth to emphasise the myriad importance of these lost worlds.

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Patrick Nunn has taught at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and the University of New England, Australia. He is a research professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Patrick is also author of Vanished Islands and Hidden Continents of the Pacific and The Edge of Memory.

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Fire and Ice The Volcanoes of the Solar System Natalie Starkey A tour of the Solar System’s tallest, hottest, coldest and weirdest volcanoes – and a look inside what makes them erupt The volcanic eruption is among the most familiar and most terrifying of all geological phenomena. However, it is a phenomenon not unique to Earth. The Solar System, and probably the entire Universe, is littered with volcanoes. But these volcanoes don’t necessarily resemble ours. For a start, some volcanoes aren’t even particularly hot. Those on Pluto, for example, erupt methane, ammonia, water and carbon dioxide, substances that freeze to form mountain chains made of ice rather than rock.

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Natalie Starkey is a geologist, cosmologist and recipient of a British Science Association Media Fellowship. She is also author of Sigma’s Catching Stardust. Natalie regularly appears on television and radio internationally, as well as being a science host with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular StarTalk Radio.

Whether they are formed of fire or ice, volcanoes are of huge importance for scientists researching the inner workings of a planet or moon. Volcanoes dredge up materials from the depths and deliver them to the surface. The ways in which they erupt and the products they generate can even help scientists ponder bigger questions of the possibility of life elsewhere in the Solar System.

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Sticky The Untold Story of the Forces that Built Civilisation Laurie Winkless Just how much does life on Earth owe to the puzzling science of stickiness? At the scale of atoms and molecules, things quite often like to stick together. But these tiny interactions don’t just matter at the nanoscale; taken together, they produce some important larger-scale forces – friction, for example. This force keeps cars on roads, trains on tracks and our feet on the ground, and is present as drag in objects through air and water. In other words, there’s a lot of stickiness going on, all the time. But what do we actually know about the physics of it? How has nature evolved to make use of it, and what technological advances has it enabled us to create? In Sticky, physicist Laurie Winkless explores the manifold world of surface science in an engaging romp that samples textures and materials both exotic and everyday, and reveals just how much civilisation owes to the science of stickiness.

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Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science communicator across all forms of media. She has appeared on Channel 4, BBC World Series and RTE, and at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. She has written for Forbes, How It Works, Materials Today, Wired, Esquire and The Guardian. Laurie is also author of Bloomsbury Sigma’s Science and the City.

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Sway Unravelling Unconscious Bias Pragya Agarwal Uncovers the science behind our unconscious biases using real-world stories underpinned by scientific theories and research

‘Agarwal’s diagnosis of the political harms of bias is passionate and urgent’ Guardian, Book of the Week

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Experiments have shown that our brains categorise people by race in less than one-tenth of a second, about 50 milliseconds before determining sex. This means that we are labelling people by race and assigning certain characteristics to them without even hearing them speak. In Sway, author Pragya Agarwal reveals the way our biases affect the way we communicate, make decisions and perceive the world. She encourages readers to evaluate their own biases in a scientific and non-judgemental way. Pragya Agarwal was a senior academic in top UK and US universities for more than fifteen years after completing a PhD at the University of Nottingham. She now works as a freelance writer and entrepreneur. Pragya writes regularly about bias, diversity and inclusivity for various media outlets, including Forbes, the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent and many others.

Kindred Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Rebecca Wragg Sykes ‘Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity’ Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, The New York Times

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Our perception of Neanderthals has undergone a metamorphosis since their discovery 150 years ago, from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. There is a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond, but do we know the whole story? In Kindred, Becky Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know. She lays out the full picture we now have of the Neanderthals for the first time, from amazing new discoveries to the more enduring mysteries of how they lived and died. Rebecca Wragg Sykes has been fascinated by the vanished worlds of the Pleistocene ice ages since childhood, and followed this interest through a career researching the most enigmatic of characters, the Neanderthals. She has also earned a reputation for exceptional public engagement, and frequently writes for the popular media, including the Scientific American and Guardian science blogs. @LeMoustier

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Unfit for Purpose When Human Evolution Collides with the Modern World Adam Hart Forged by natural selection and honed by evolution, humans are perfectly adapted machines, for a world that no longer exists

‘This book is a gripping and sobering reminder of how much we are all governed by our genetic inheritance. So much for free will’ The Mail on Sunday, 5 stars Stress, obesity, declining mental health, addiction, back pain, bowel diseases and violence; a stark checklist of present-day problems, and every one of them is a legacy of our evolutionary past. In Unfit for Purpose, Adam Hart explores how many biological adaptations that evolved to help us thrive in a different world are now working against us. Adam also tests an array of evolutionarily informed treatments, from the straightforward to downright weird. In a world of our making, we find ourselves unfit for purpose. Adam Hart is an entomologist and professor of science communication at the University of Gloucester. He is a regular broadcaster for both Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. His previous book was The Life of Poo (2015).

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The Breathing Revolution Train Yourself to Breathe Properly to Banish Anxiety and Find Your Inner Calm Yolanda Barker Breathing is at the core of everything we do. Breath is life We breathe over 20,000 times a day. But most of us don’t breathe properly. Years of stress and anxiety mean many of us breathe through our chests, forgetting to use our diaphragms and stomachs. Learn to breathe correctly and you will be calmer, sleep better and enjoy life more. The seven-day Breathing Programme will help you re-teach yourself how to breathe and to experience the benefits of harnessing your breath, helping you banish anxiety and find inner calm. Take a deep breath – and learn how to breathe again. 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: GREEN TREE EBOOK / 9781472948588 / £10.39 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC EXPORT TPB / 9781472948595 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 09 NOVEMBER 2021 TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

Yolanda Barker is a yoga teacher and filmmaker. Through her yoga experience she has developed an accessible method for anyone and everyone. @YolandaBarker

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From A to B A Cartoon Guide to Getting Around by Bike Dave Walker More joyful cycling cartoons in the follow-up book from Cycling Cartoonist Dave Walker

‘Cartoonist and cyclist Dave Walker has put together this hilarious coffee table book full of cycling-related illustrations’ Review of The Cycling Cartoonist, Cycling Weekly 08 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472976130 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781472976154 / £9.09 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 03 AUGUST 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $26.99

Dave Walker is a cartoonist. He has had cycling cartoons published by Cycling Weekly, CTC and others. Dave has had a weekly cartoon in Church Times since 2005. @davewalker

More joyful cycling cartoons from the renowned Cycling Cartoonist, this time with a wry look at everyday cycling. With over 100 full-page cartoons that cast an affectionate eye over cycle commuting, leisure cycling and everything in between – funny, thoughtful and powerful cartoons from bestseller Dave Walker, celebrating the simple pleasure of getting from A to B on two wheels.

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Anton Danyluk: 50 Steps to the Best Version of Yourself Anton Danyluk From bullied, overweight teenager to World Merit ambassador with the United Nations, Love Island star Anton Danyluk has been on an incredible journey. In his debut book, Anton sets out to show people the simple first steps needed to change their attitudes to health and wellbeing to make themselves feel better every day Having battled with his weight and confidence in the past, Anton Danyluk wants to help others who are struggling with their fitness and encourage people to live healthy and active lifestyles. And having undergone his own fitness transformation, it shows if Anton can do it, so can others. Open and honest, as well as inspiring, this part-practical, part-autobiographical illustrated lifestyle book will empower, motivate and encourage readers to be the best version of themselves.

05 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472987815 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781472987808 / £11.89 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 19 OCTOBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $34.99 / NZ $36.99

The book will reflect Anton’s innate passion for helping people overcome obstacles and get on the path to achieving their own dreams. In the age of the smartphone, being inspired to be active has never been more important.

Anton Danyluk is a young Scottish entrepreneur who shot to fame in 2019 as a finalist on the ITV smash hit show Love Island. Smart, likeable and passionate about fitness, Anton is well remembered and one of the standout stars of the series.

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Francis Benali: The Autobiography Francis Benali Francis Benali is a Southampton Football Club legend and celebrated charity endurance athlete, and he’s ready to tell his story Francis ‘Franny’ Benali played football for twenty years for Southampton FC in more than 300 games, almost his entire career. His utter dedication to the club made him a hero to Saints fans around the world. Written with the acclaimed sportswriter Matt Barlow, this book details Benali’s humble beginnings and countless tales involving the players, managers and matches in his illustrious career. But his story is much more than that. The intense commitment he had as a player found a new outlet in the world of endurance sport. Through Ironman triathlons and marathons, he has raised more than £1 million for Cancer Research UK. 19 AUGUST 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472986795 / £20.00 EBOOK / 9781472986801 / £14.00 TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: DAVID LUXTON ASSOCIATES ANZ PUB DATE 19 OCTOBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $45.00

Francis ‘Franny’ Benali MBE is a former professional footballer and coach who spent most of his playing career at Southampton FC. In recent years Franny has completed many ultra-endurance challenges for charity and has raised over £1 million for Cancer Research UK. He was named in the New Year’s Honours list 2020, where he was awarded an MBE.

Benali’s story shows what can be achieved through dedication and commitment on and off the pitch. Through football and charity, he has made a positive difference in countless people’s lives. His is truly an inspirational story.

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The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook Protein-rich Recipes to Train, Recover and Perform Anita Bean Over 100 healthy and tasty vegan recipes packed with the balanced nutrients you need to train, recover and perform Whether you already live a vegan lifestyle, embrace a meat-free day each week or you simply want to try some amazing flavour combinations, The Vegan Athlete’s Cookbook will help you create fuss-free, healthy and inexpensive meals. Anita’s latest book is bursting with over 100 exciting vegan recipes packed with the nutrients you need. For a vegan athlete the crucial issue is making sure to get enough protein to allow recovery – anyone taking their fitness seriously needs a carefully curated list of recipes to ensure that they get the protein they need. As well as delicious everyday recipes and cooking tips, the book also contains evidence-based advice on how to fuel your workouts and maximise your performance. It debunks vegan myths, demystifies sports nutrition and will help you gain the confidence to create delicious, nourishing meals that will support your fitness goals.

30 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT PAPERBACK / 9781472984296 / £16.99 EBOOK / 9781472984289 / £12.49 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 09 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $45.00

Anita Bean is a bestselling nutrition author, Registered Nutritionist and London Marathon and Ride London nutritionist. Author of among other titles The Runner’s Cookbook, The Vegetarian Athlete’s Cookbook, Vegetarian Meals in 30 Minutes and The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition 8th edition. She has sold over 100,000 books.

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Panini Football Stickers The Official Celebration Panini 14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472987778 / £14.99 EBOOK / 9781472987747 / £10.82 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 07 DECEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99

A landmark illustrated book celebrating the world’s most famous football sticker albums The Panini brand is synonymous with football trading stickers. Phrases like ‘swapsies’, ‘shinies’ and ‘Got. Got. Need.’ create fond nostalgic memories for anyone who has attempted to fill an album. For the first time, Panini has granted exclusive access to their archives for this gloriously illustrated celebration of their iconic football sticker collections. A heady mix of football history and joyous nostalgia, the book is curated by Panini and Greg Lansdowne, and showcases the best elements of every UK-published Panini album. Featuring a mass of visual material that football fans and nostalgics will love – including the album cover and sticker packet designs, famous players and stickers of interest – the book tells the story behind the stickers and is complete with interviews with famous players who have been immortalised in the albums.

Panini was founded in 1961 with the launch of its first Calciatori/Football Players collection. It now has subsidiaries in Europe, Latin America and the United States. Greg Lansdowne is the UK’s leading authority on Panini sticker albums and the author of Stuck on You: The Rise & Fall... & Rise of Panini Stickers.

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The Runners’ Code The Unwritten Rules of Everyday Running Chas Newkey-Burden This light-hearted yet informative gift book explores the unwritten rules of everyday running The Runners’ Code takes the newbie and initiated alike through all the secret, nuanced and blindingly obvious rules of running. It helps you deliver your best performance (coping with running in different weather), advice on clothing (how many miles can a pair of trainers last, and is it ever appropriate to run in a mankini?) and pavement etiquette (overtaking dawdling pedestrians on a busy street). What should you do if you get caught short on a run? What’s the correct etiquette when it comes to acknowledging other runners? And how many times can you ask colleagues for marathon sponsorship? Daily Telegraph journalist and selfconfessed running nut Chas Newkey-Burden reveals all.

14 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472989598 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781472989574 / £9.09 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 01 DECEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

The book also features guest contributions from celebrities and well-known runners including BBC presenter Nicky Campbell, sports writer Henry Winter and running authors including Helen Croydon, Anna McNuff and Leanne Davis.

Chas Newkey-Burden is a running fanatic who has trotted at hundreds of events including marathons, half-marathons and over 100 Parkruns. He writes about running for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Shortlist and has contributed to Runner’s World and Men’s Health. He is the author of twenty-eight books, including gift titles such as Running: Cheaper Than Therapy and 64 Geeks.

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Don Revie: The Definitive Biography Christopher Evans The definitive story of Don Revie, a player and manager who single-handedly changed the face of English football Former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie was one of the most complex and controversial men ever to grace the game of football. As a player he was crowned footballer of the year and credited with creating the modern centre forward. As a manager, he took a Leeds United side languishing in the lower half of the second division and turned them into league champions. In 1977, after negotiating a big money contract with United Arab Emirates, Revie became the first man to walk out as England manager.

28 OCTOBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT HARDBACK / 9781472973368 / £18.99 EBOOK / 9781472973375 / £13.29 TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 02 NOVEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $39.99 / NZ $45.00

Christopher Evans is the Member of Parliament for Islwyn in South Wales. He has been published in Boxing Monthly and many other publications as well as appearing on national television as a political commentator. His first book, Fearless Freddie: The Life and Times of Freddie Mills was shortlisted for The Times Biography of the Year and the Sports Book Awards.

Branded a traitor and banned from the game for ten years, the press declared open season on Revie. Accused of offering bribes to throw matches, his reputation was destroyed. Based on exclusive interviews, this biography examines the secrets of Revie’s life in order to redeem his reputation for the first time ever.

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Finish Strong Resistance Training for Endurance Athletes Richard Boergers & Angelo Gingerelli Written by two leading US fitness authorities, this training manual outlines how endurance athletes can benefit from resistance training Whether training for a 5K or ultramarathon, all endurance athletes can benefit from some form of resistance training. Runners, swimmers, cyclists and triathletes now number in the millions, but the resources available to teach them how to integrate weight training into their programmes are surprisingly limited. This book introduces the principles of resistance training to all forms of endurance athletes in a way that will optimise their training and allow them to compete at a higher level.

Richard Boergers is a certified athletic trainer (ATC) through the National Athletic Training Association (NATA). Angelo Gingerelli has worked in the strength & conditioning field for almost twenty years. The majority of this time has been spent at Seton Hall University as a Strength & Conditioning Coach.

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Out of Thin Air Running Wisdom and Magic from Above the Clouds in Ethiopia Michael Crawley ‘Through reading this book you will come to understand that the heart and soul of running are to be found in Ethiopia. I welcome everyone to experience the Ethiopian love of running, and to come and have the same life altering experience that Michael had. Running is life!’ Haile Gebrselassie ‘Excellent’ Runner’s World Why does it make sense to Ethiopian runners to get up at 3 a.m. to run up and down a hill? Who would choose to train on almost impossibly steep and rocky terrain, in hyena territory? And how come Ethiopian men hold six of the top ten fastest marathon times ever? Michael Crawley spent fifteen months in Ethiopia training alongside (and sometimes a fair way behind) runners at all levels of the sport. Follow him into the forest as he attempts to keep up and get to the heart of their success.

Michael Crawley is a 2.20 marathon runner who has competed internationally for Scotland and Great Britain. He is assistant professor in social anthropology at Durham University. This is his first book.

11 NOVEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY SPORT PAPERBACK / 9781472975294 / £9.99 EBOOK / 9781472975317 / £11.89 TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: CONVILLE & WALSH LTD EXPORT TPB / 9781472975331 / £12.99 ANZ PUB DATE 28 JANUARY 2022 PAPERBACK / AUS $19.99 / NZ $22.99

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Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022 Edited by Alysoun Owen ‘Write. Find your voice. Keep improving and you’ll get there’ Patrice Lawrence ‘A goldmine of invaluable information’ Francesca Simon ‘Filled with practical and creative advice’ William Sutcliffe

22 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS PAPERBACK / 9781472982858 / £25.00 EBOOK / 9781472982841 / £20.00 SERIES: WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $49.99 / NZ $55.00

This is the annual, bestselling guide to all aspects of how to write and illustrate for children and young adults. Now in its eighteenth edition, the Yearbook is acknowledged by the media industries and authors as the essential guide to how to get published. It provides invaluable guidance on subjects such as writing for broadcast media, dealing with tough issues in fiction, the craft of illustration, managing finances and seeking representation. It includes advice from some of the most successful writers for children, including Sarah Crossan, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Robin Stevens, Salvatore Rubbino and Cornelia Funke.

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Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022 Edited by Alysoun Owen ‘A definitive guide, in here you’ll find everything you need’ S. J. Watson ‘Full of useful stuff’ J. K. Rowling ‘a lifeline ... it set my feet on the publishing path’ Joanne Harris This 115th edition of the bestselling Yearbook is packed with more than eighty articles offering practical advice on how to write and get published as well as over 4,000 entries on who to contact across the publishing industry and wider media. Designed for authors and illustrators across all genres and markets, it is relevant for those looking for a traditional, hybrid or self-publishing route to publication; writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets and playwrights, writers for TV, radio and videogames. Additional articles, free advice, events information and editorial services at www.writersandartists.co.uk

22 JULY 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS PAPERBACK / 9781472982834 / £27.50 EBOOK / 9781472982827 / £22.00 SERIES: WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS’ TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 28 SEPTEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $55.00 / NZ $60.00

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A Writer’s Journal Workbook Create, craft, practise, perfect, share Lucy van Smit This Writers’ Journal Workbook is the must-have companion for all creative writers.

02 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS PAPERBACK / 9781472987365 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781472988669 / £12.99 SERIES: WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS’ TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 2 NOVEMBER 2021 PAPERBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

Lucy van Smit is an award-winning author, a screenwriter and an artist. She has made documentaries for Canadian TV on writers such as John Le Carré and Ian McEwan. She has a distinction in MA creative writing and her debut YA novel, The Hurting (Chicken House) won the inaugural Bath Children’s Novel Award.

Stuck and don’t know how to move forward? Lack routine and need structure to set daily or weekly writing time for yourself? Want somewhere to gather your writing ideas in one place? Legendary writers, from John Steinbeck to Sylvia Path, kept a writing journal as they crafted their masterpieces and wrestled with their doubts. Let this Journal Workbook guide you through practical exercises and regular creative tasks to spark inspiration, sharpen your ideas and perfect your skills at your own pace.

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Writers on Writing The Writers’ & Artists’ Book of Quotations ‘Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being’ A. A. Milne ‘I hate writing, I love having written’ Dorothy Parker ‘A writer is a person who writes’ John Braine Packed with a plethora of phrases, memorable lines, quips and putdowns, this lively book brings together words of wisdom and withering wit from famous, and infamous, writers across the ages about their own work and that of fellow writers. You will find quotations on genres and styles, first drafts and editing, agents, publication day and book tours, and on themes such as rivalry, censorship, writer’s block, fame, money, plagiarism and alcohol. This is the perfect gift for the readers and writers in your life. 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS HARDBACK / 9781472986979 / £12.99 EBOOK / 9781472988591 / £12.99 SERIES: WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS’ TERRITORY: WORLD ENGLISH TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 30 NOVEMBER 2021 HARDBACK / AUS $24.99 / NZ $27.99

Devised, collated and edited by the Writers’ & Artists’ team of editors.

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Who’s Who 2022 The 174th edition of the renowned source book of information on people of influence in every area of public life Who’s Who 2022 is the 174th edition of the world’s longest established and most comprehensive general reference book, brought right up to date for the year ahead. The first autobiographical reference book in the world and, after 173 years, still the most accurate and reliable resource for information supplied and checked by the entrants themselves.

06 DECEMBER 2021 IMPRINT: BLOOMSBURY YEARBOOKS HARDBACK / 9781472979070 / £360.00 SERIES: WHO’S WHO TRANSLATION RIGHTS: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC ANZ PUB DATE 01 JANUARY 2022 HARDBACK / AUS $650.00 / NZ $655.00

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138 INDEX

Index Bowie’s Books

Essential

Abulhawa, Susan

Brayfield, Celia

Evans, Christopher

Abundance

Brazier, Lucy

Everybody Needs Beauty

Afterlives

Breathing Revolution, The

Breen, Christine

Farewell Mr Puffin

Brezhnev

Favreau, Alyssa

Against the Loveless World Agarwal, Pragya

114

118

76 126 26

Age of Acrimony, The

Brief History of Motion, A

Febos, Melissa

Ageless

Bryant, Chris

Feet First

Alam, Rumaan

Feng Shui for Modern Living

Alyssa Favreau

Campbell, Laurie

Field Guide to Larking, A

An Answer for Everything

Carwardine, Mark

Andrews, Kehinde

Cassidy, Luke

Field Guide to Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises

Angier, Carole

Chafkin, Max

Animal Anton Danyluk: 50 Steps to the Best Version of Yourself

4 121

Artful Dickens, The

Artifact

B Back to Black

Baker, Matthew

Baking with Fortitude

Ball, James

Barker, Yolanda Baumer, Christoph

118 61

Bean, Anita

123

Bell, Alice

110

Bell, Gary

Benali, Francis

122

Beneath the Trees of Eden

Benedict XVI: A Life

Bergdorf, Munroe

Binder, L. Annette

Binding, Tim

Birrell, Rebecca

Boergers, Richard

127

Boland OP, Vivian

Book of Trespass, The

Book of Vanishing Species, The

Borshchevskaya, Anna

Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2022

130

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Clarke, Susanna

Colin Fleming

Contrarian, The

Crawley, Michael

127

Creation

Creative Ropecraft

Crossan, Sarah

D Dabbous, Ollie

Danyluk, Anton

121

Dark Social

105

Daw, Chris

Delayed Gratification magazine

Dellenbaugh, Ginger

Deykers, Martyn

Dietzel, Vanessa

107

Diski, Jenny Don Revie: The Definitive Biography Duck Soup

92 126 69

E Edele, Mark

Educated?

Erin Osmon

Filippouli, Elizabeth

Finish Strong

127

Fire and Ice

112

First Comes Love

Fleming, Colin

Forshall, Beatrice

Fowler, Catherine

Francis Benali: The Autobiography 122 Freedman, Harry Friðriksdóttir, Jóhanna Katrín From A to B From Women to the World Futureproof Your Career

50 71 120 59 106

G Gagnaire, Pierre

Ginger Dellenbaugh

Gingerelli, Angelo

127

Girl One

Girlhood

Glamour Boys, The

Goldberg, Nicola Maye

Goldie’s Timeless

Good Talk

Grainger, Stuart

Gresham, William Lindsay

Griffiths, James

Grinspan, Jon

Gurnah, Abdulrazak

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Liberalism and Education

Hari, Johann

Lloyd, Karen

Panini 124

Hart, Adam

115

Lost Focus

Panini Football Stickers

124

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