BOOKS FOR THE INDEPENDENT READER
Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it.
Breakfast Is a Dangerous Meal by Terence Kealey
We’re told breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But Professor Kealey noticed that his glucose levels were unusually high after eating first thing, whereas when he fasted until lunchtime they fell to a normal level. Should we be investigating the possibility that breakfast may be doing us more harm than good? And who should consider skipping breakfast altogether? Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham.
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Publication Date 29.12.2016 TPB 978-0-00-817234-3 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-817235-0 £9.99 EA 978-0-00-818185-7 £8.99
‘This book can’t give you a sixpack in seven days. But I can promise that with a few adjustments your life will alter for the better in ways that you can sustain’
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This Is Not a Diet Book by Bee Wilson
A collection of calm, practical tips and ideas on the role that food plays in our lives. Unlike a diet, these tweaks work with your appetites, rather than against them, reaching towards the point where food is something that sustains you and gives you joy. In this new life, a life beyond diets, there is no fail. Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer and historian. She lives in Cambridge.
Publication Date 29.12.2016 PB 978-0-00-822576-6 £6.99 EB 978-0-00-822577-3 £6.99 EA 978-0-00-822578-0 £6.99
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First Bite by Bee Wilson First Bite explores how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. ‘If any book can effect longterm weight loss, it should be this one’ The Times
Publication Date 29.12.2016 PB 978-0-00-754972-6 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-754971-9
‘I still think of it every time I set the table.’ Observer Food Monthly
Gluten Exposed by Dr Peter Green and Rory Jones The definitive, expert book on gluten, uncovering the truth and explaining the science behind the current gluten-free craze. ‘A model for how to communicate science to the public, an antidote to the breathless hype [...] that too often dominates popular scientific discourse’ Slate
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Publication Date 29.12.2016 PB 978-0-00-814406-7 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-814405-0
‘A fabulous depiction of a London where the “Swinging Sixties” hides a darker story of prejudice and struggle’ Helen Simonson
Miss Treadway & the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson
How do you find a missing actress in a city where everyone’s playing a role? In a tiny flat above a Turkish café in Soho lives Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre. When the American actress Iolanthe Green disappears after an evenings performance at the Galaxy, the newspapers are wild with speculation about her fate. But as the news grows old and the case grows colder, it seems Anna is the only person left determined to find out the truth.
Publication Date 12.01.2017 HB 978-0-00-817057-8 £12.99 PB 978-0-00-817059-2 £10.99 EB 978-0-00-817058-5
Miranda Emmerson is a playwright and author living in Wales. She has written numerous drama adaptations for BBC Radio 4.
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The country is their oyster...
Essex Poison
by Ian Sansom October 1937. Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley is an honorary guest at the Colchester Oyster Festival. But when the mayor dies suddenly at the civic reception suspicion falls on his fellow councilors. Is it a case of food poisoning? Or could it be … murder? Ian Sansom is the author of several books, a contributor to the Guardian and a regular radio broadcaster. Essex Poison is the fourth in his County Guide series.
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Publication Date 12.01.2017 HB 978-0-00-814674-0 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-814706-8
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Westmorland Alone by Ian Sansom
The Norfolk Mystery by Ian Sansom
‘A frolicsome read’ Country Life
‘Superbly entertaining’ The Times
Publication Date 12.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-753316-9 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-753315-2
Death in Devon by Ian Sansom
‘Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail
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‘Like the women of the Harvard Observatory, Sobel reveals worlds to us. The Glass Universe is sensitive, exacting, and lit with the wonder of discovery’ Elizabeth Kolbert
The Glass Universe The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
by Dava Sobel
Before they even had the right to vote, a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as ‘Human Computers’ to interpret the observations made via telescope by their male counterparts each night. The Glass Universe shines light on how these women changed the burgeoning field of astronomy and our understanding of our place in the universe. Dava Sobel is the author of five books, including the bestsellers Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter and The Planets.
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Publication Date 12.01.2017 HB 978-0-00-7548187-l £16.99 Publication Date 06.12.2016 EB 978-0-00-754819-4
‘Heart-stopping, eye-opening and jaw-dropping. Sometimes painful, sometimes sad, often very, very funny’ Craig Brown
Emergency Admissions Memoirs of an Ambulance Driver
by Kit Wharton
A machete-wielding drunk with a history of mental illness; an S & M party gone horribly wrong; a dead man locked in a car with a hungry dog; a teenage girl with suspicious abdominal pains … it’s just another day at work for Kit. This is a fascinating glimpse into the extraordinary world of ambulance driving from the man behind the wheel. Kit Wharton has worked for the NHS emergency ambulance service for 12 years. He lives with his partner and two children.
Publication Date 12.01.2017 TPB 978-0-00-818860-3 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-818861-0
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Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg A compulsive debut about a girl growing up in a cult – with a chilling climax. ‘Will lure you in – then cut to the kill’ Guardian ‘A richly atmospheric Gothic debut’ Irish Times
Publication Date 12.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-816410-2 £7.99 EB 978-0-00-816411-9
‘Wonderfully tense’ Emerald Street
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead A story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s lives and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. ‘This book is impossible to forget’ Observer ‘Astonishing … a work of art’ Evening Standard ‘Extraordinary, beautifully written, utterly heartbreaking’ Daily Express
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Publication Date 12.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-814215-5 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-814217-9
A novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.
Moonglow
by Michael Chabon An old man tells stories to his grandson, uncovering a history long buried. From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of ‘the American Century’, Moonglow collapses an era into a single life and a lifetime into a single week. Michael Chabon is a bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of seven novels, two story collections and two essay collections. He lives in California.
Publication Date 26.01.2017 HB 978-0-00-754891-0 £18.99 Publication Date 22.11.2016 TPB 978-0-00-818980-8 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-818986-0 £12.99
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‘An existential thriller written in prose that points the way to the future’ Zadie Smith
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
A lives with B. B seems to be becoming more and more like A. If A’s boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A? And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for their eyes? Alexandra Kleeman lives in New York City and has been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Harper’s.
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Publication Date 26.01.2017 TPB 978-0-00-821084-7 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-821085-4
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas – and squirrels. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘Raw and weird and hilarious’ Guardian
Publication Date 26.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-816039-5 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-816040-1
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates A taut, unsettling novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality. ‘Completely suspenseful and darkly erotic ... illuminates, with strobe-light intensity, the labyrinthine mysteries of our brains and minds’ Booklist
Publication Date 26.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-816541-3 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-816540-6
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Groundbreaking, surprising and frequently amusing, a wholly original account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our finest biographers.
Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
by Kathryn Hughes
Shake George Eliot’s right hand – much larger than her left and a life long embarrassment. Admire Fanny Cornforth’s voluptuous lips, which her lover, Dante Gabriel Rossetti reproduced with scandalous sensuality. Look in horror at Fanny Adams’s young body, brutally hacked into parts before being reassembled as a joke still referenced today. The acclaimed historian and biographer reveals what it was physically like to be a Victorian in this mesmerising book. Kathryn Hughes is the author of the bestselling The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton and George Eliot: The Last Victorian. She teaches at UEA and writes for the Guardian and TLS.
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Publication Date 26.01.2017 HB 978-0-00-754836-1 £20 EB 978-0-00-754837-8
‘Imbolo Mbue would be a formidable storyteller anywhere, in any language. It’s our good luck that she and her stories are American’ Jonathan Franzen
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and of what we’re prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. Imbolo Mbue is a native of Limbe, Cameroon. She holds a BS from Rutgers University and an MA from Columbia University. She lives in New York.
Publication Date 09.02.2017 HB 978-0-00-815811-8 £14.99 EB 978-0-00-815813-2
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Tales of Persuasion by Philip Hensher ‘A writer who seems capable of anything’ Guardian ‘Hensher nails lust, hypocrisy, regret and hopefulness with an exquisite eye’ Daily Mail ‘Elegant stories that radiate with fine human feeling’ Financial Times
Publication Date 09.02.2017 PB 978-0-00-745965-0 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-745964-3
A Life Discarded by Alexander Masters
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Part thriller, part love story, part social history, A Life Discarded is an account of an extraordinary life.
Publication Date 23.02.2017
‘A bizarre, engrossing, affectionate book that is a triumph on every level’ The Times
EB 978-0-00-813079-4
‘Profoundly moving’ Daily Mail
PB 978-0-00-813081-7 £8.99
A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life.
Birds Art Life Death by Kyo Maclear
In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted this embrace of nature, she followed him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal shifts and migrations, Birds Art Life Death asks how we might come to love not only the world’s natural places but also the urban spaces where so many of us live. Kyo Maclear lives in Toronto where she shares a home with two sons, two cats and a musician.
Publication Date 09.02.2017 HB 978-0-00-820928-5 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-821001-4 £12.47 EA 978-0-00-821002-1 £8.49
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From the author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its origins, its literary and scientific evolution, its influence on our understanding of time.
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. James Gleick is our leading chronicler of science and technology. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
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Publication Date 23.02.17 HB 978-0-00-754443-1 ÂŁ16.99 EB 978-0-00-754444-8 Publication Date 27.09.16 TPB 978-0-00-820767-0 ÂŁ12.99
An early-thirties couple are forced to move in with a slightly older couple in this acclaimed poet’s hilarious and sinister debut novel.
The Transition
by Luke Kennard While taking part in The Transition, you and your partner will spend six months living under the supervision of your mentors, two successful adults of a slightly older generation. Your mentors will guide you through the key areas of the scheme until you are ready to re-enter adult society. At the end of your six months – who knows where you’ll be?
Publication Date 09.03.2017 HB 978-0-00-820042-8 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-820044-2
Luke Kennard has published five collections of poetry including, most recently, Cain. He lectures at Birmingham University.
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Plot 29 is an allotment where people come together to grow. It’s just that sometimes what Allan Jenkins grows there, along with marigolds, is solace.
Plot 29
by Allan Jenkins A personal narrative blended with beautiful descriptions of gardening and the pleasures of losing yourself in the horticultural, Plot 29 weaves together memoir and memory, from the author’s childhood to the present day. Allan Jenkins is editor of Observer Food Monthly. He lives in London.
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Publication Date 09.03.2017 HB 978-0-00-812196-9 £14.99 EB 978-0-00-812198-3 £13.49 EA 978-0-00-812197-6 £13.99
A beautifully produced hardcover edition of the definitive, cult, postmodern novel with slipcase, facsimile signature, and reproduced manuscript pages.
Crash: A Special Edition
J. G. Ballard, Curated by Chris Beckett
A fatal collision. A narrator increasingly drawn to the mangled wreckage of car crashes. A former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway. A collection of alienated crash victims. A series of erotic atrocities preparing for the ultimate crash – a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity. A shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism.
Publication Date 23.03.17 HB 978-0-00-737834-0 £25
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) is the author of many books including Empire of the Sun and Miracles of Life.
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Raptor by James Macdonald Lockhart A book that will change how we think of our own skies in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen Macdonald. ‘Intimate, visceral, gripping’ Independent
Publication Date 14.07.2017 PB 978-0-00-745989-6 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-745988-9
‘A sensuous delight … a tour de force’ Daily Mail
The Living by Anjali Joseph
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Anjali Joseph, author of Saraswati Park, shines a light on everyday life, illuminating its humour, beauty, and truth.
Publication Date 06.04.2017
‘An extraordinary portrait of two lives … An exceptional, unexpected work’ Guardian
EB 978-0-00-746282-7
‘Rather like a Dardenne Brothers or Ken Loach film … the novel speaks its wisdom in whispers’ Independent
PB 978-0-00-746284-1 £8.99
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen A new edition of Franzen’s epic of contemporary love and marriage, Freedom, the international bestseller and great American novel. ‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent
Publication Date 23.03.2017 PB 978-0-00-726976-1 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-741971-5
‘Both a page-turner and a work of art’ Evening Standard
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen A reissue of Jonathan Franzen’s much-loved novel – a story of family, America and the modern world, an international phenomenon and an instant classic. ‘Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent’ Guardian
Publication Date 23.03.2017 PB 978-0-00-723244-4 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-714379-5
‘A testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords’ David Foster Wallace
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‘Absolutely magnificent; one of the most beautiful, affecting novels I’ve read in years’ Eimear McBride
Reservoir 13
by Jon McGregor From the Booker-nominated author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs, Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family’s loss. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger’s tragedy refuse to subside. Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He has won the IMPAC Prize and twice been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He lives in Nottingham.
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Publication Date 06.04.2017 HB 978-0-00-820485-3 £14.99 TPB 978-0-00-820486-0, Royal, £12.99 EB 978-0-00-820487-7
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Even the Dogs by Jon McGregor
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
An intimate exploration of life at the edges of society – littered with love, loss, despair, and a half-glimpse of redemption.
Jon McGregor’s Booker-nominated first novel brilliantly evokes the lives of the people in one street to build up an unforgettable human panorama.
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So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor
The Booker-nominated novel about exile and the ways we learn to let go of the people we might have been.
Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishing story collection by one of Britain’s finest contemporary writers.
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From Dan Lepard, the country’s favourite baker, an allergy-aware baking book that caters to every diet, without compromising on taste or quality.
Shared
by Dan Lepard The next baking classic from the acclaimed author of Short and Sweet, and with recipes that are dairy-free and low in sugar, Shared is a book for anyone to cook from, not just those with allergies or intolerances. Packed with Dan’s infallible recipes, Shared takes inspiration from restriction on ingredients to produce dishes that are even more delicious, and healthy, than the original. Dan Lepard is an award-winning baker, food writer and photographer. Originally from Australia, he now lives in London.
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Publication Date 06.04.2017 HB 978-0-00-751977-4 £25.00 EB 978-0-00-751979-8
When in French by Lauren Collins A funny, thoughtful memoir on how language shapes our lives, from thinking to falling in love.
Publication Date 06.04.2017
‘Lauren Collins understands everything about language, love, time and place. This is a brilliant book’ India Knight
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PB 978-0-00-810062-9 £8.99
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Bolshoi Confidential by Simon Morrison In this enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.
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‘Energetically researched, beautifully written – fun, relaxed, sophisticated – and full of serious ideas, boldly stated’ New Yorker
Publication Date 14.04.2017 PB 978-0-00-757663-0 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-822162-1
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I Will Find You by Joanna Connors A reporter investigates the life of the man who raped her. ‘More chilling than a horror film, more thoughtprovoking than an HBO doc … hard to read and even harder to put down’ Cosmopolitan
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Publication Date 20.04.2017 PB 978-0-00-752186-9 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-752187-6
‘Brutally affecting’ Guardian
Out of Time by Miranda Sawyer From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis. ‘A straight-talking handbook for those of us who believe we’re still at our peak … but need a few honest signposts’ Viv Albertine HB JACKET
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‘The Morrissey of her journalistic generation’ Sunday Times
Publication Date 04.05.2017 PB 978-0-00-752108-1 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-750915-7
An electrifying story of power, friendship and betrayal from the author of the bestselling Baileys Prize-shortlisted The Bees.
The Ice
by Laline Paull As the melting ice of the Midgard glacier expels a frozen corpse into the sea, long-submerged secrets threaten to come to light. Discovered near a glamorous wilderness retreat owned by explorer-turned-businessman Hugh Harding, the body is that of his best friend Tom Cawson – lost in an accident on the glacier three years ago, when Harding had been the last person to see him alive ...
Publication Date 04.05.2017 HB 978-0-00-755775-2 £16.99 TPB 978-0-00-822110-2 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-755776-9
Laline Paull’s first novel The Bees was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015. She lives in East Sussex.
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The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan ‘Zadie Smith, Donna Tartt, Eleanor Catton, Meg Wolitzer and Elena Ferrante … with a worldencompassing colossus second novel, C. E. Morgan has joined their ranks’ TLS
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 PB 978-0-00-817331-9 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-731328-0
‘Morgan’s novel is big news … think of Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life’ Sunday Times
What We Cannot Know by Marcus du Sautoy Prepare to be taken to the edge of knowledge by Britain’s most famous mathematician, to find out if there’s anything we truly cannot know. ‘Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting’ Bill Bryson HB JACKET
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 PB 978-0-00-757659-3 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-757657-9
From the author of multi-awardwinning The Pike comes a breathtakingly ambitious, beautifully written debut novel.
Peculiar Ground
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett In the 17th century, a wall is built, enclosing a great house with ornamental lakes and majestic avenues, dissidents hiding in the forest and plague refugees at the gate. Three centuries later, rumours of another wall going up, dividing Berlin, blur with erotic entanglements during a hot weekend party in the same house. Decades later a refugee from a new conflict arrives seeking safety as a Great Storm brews.
Publication Date 18.05.2017 HB 978-0-00-812650-6 ÂŁ16.99 EB 978-0-00-812653-7
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is the author of The Pike, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Costa Biography Award, Heroes and Cleopatra. She lives in London.
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Written with self-excoriating candour, comes a book about how to be a dad from one of our best-loved journalists.
Dad, You Suck
by Tim Dowling For me the hardest task of fatherhood was always the oppressive obligation to lead by example. My sons have been present on countless occasions when I have wished to turn to them as a judge might to a jury and say, ‘Please strike the next few minutes from the record,’ but here I have committed my less then exemplary behaviour to print – not because I’m any less ashamed now; it’s because if I left it out there wouldn’t be enough for a book. Tim Dowling is the author of several books including the Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, How to be a Husband. His popular weekly Guardian column charts the ups and downs of his family life.
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 TPB 978-0-00-752769-4 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-752770-0
A stunning debut novel – a rueful, funny examination of love, marriage, infidelity and origami – that is as poignant as it is hilarious and never deviates from superb.
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Graham has always wanted a calm, orderly life – running off with Audra was the one impulsive thing he ever did – and now he has to deal with the consequences of being married to someone who’s charming and spontaneous and very extroverted. When his ex-wife Elspeth reappears in his life, Graham starts to wonder: How can anyone love two such different women? Did he make the right choice? Is there a right choice?
Publication Date 01.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-810552-5 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-810551-8
Katherine Heiny is the author of the celebrated short-story collection, Single, Carefree, Mellow.
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From the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.
RisingTideFallingStar by Philip Hoare
Without lakes and seas, where would we invest our souls? Water stands for what we have lost, and have gained, symbolising the increasing distance between us and the rest of the natural world. Philip Hoare travels across countries and through time, swimming from freshwater ponds to vast oceans, encountering selkies and sea ducks, rebels and visionaries from Prospero to David Bowie - people, places, animals and ideas forever swimming against the tide. Philip Hoare is the author of several books, including Spike Island and Leviathan, or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He lives in Southampton.
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-813366-5 ÂŁ16.99 EB 978-0-00-813369-6
‘A short, beguiling book … Not a novel, nor a memoir, nor exactly is it an essay, more a wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … Peculiar and astonishing in its effect’ Boston Globe
Little Labours
by Rivka Galchen In this slanted, enchanted miscellany, Galchen writes about babies in art (with wrongly shaped heads), about babies in literature (rare, often monstrous), about ‘mother writers’, and about the arrival of a baby in her own apartment – a baby able to morph from a puma into a chicken. In doing so she opens up an odd and tender world of wonder. Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations. She lives in New York.
Publication Date 23.05.2017 HB 978-0-00-822518-6 £10 EB 978-0-00-822519-3
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From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.
Inferior
by Angela Saini Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being rediscovered. She explores what these revelations mean for us as individuals and as a society, revealing an alternative view of science in which women are included rather than excluded. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She lives in London.
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 TPB 978-0-00-817202-2 ÂŁ14.99 EB 978-0-00-817204-6 EA 978-0-00-818188-8
A beautifully written, enthralling family memoir in the vein of Bad Blood and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
The Iron Room
by Rebecca Stott Novelist and historian Rebecca Stott pulls together the many threads of her family’s story, from their experiences within a fundamentalist Christian sect to the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away. The Iron Room is a moving, at times shocking, and deeply personal exploration of the damage done by religious fundamentalism, and a passionate plea for the importance of freedom of speech and thought. Rebecca Stott is a novelist and historian. She is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She lives in Norwich.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-820916-2 £16.99 TPB 978-0-00820917-9 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-820918-6
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The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church A luminous and enthralling novel about birds and science, ambition and sacrifice, revolutions – both big and small – and the late blooming of an unforgettable woman.
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-820932-2 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-820931-5
‘A striking story of a woman forced to choose between the future she desires or the path society insists she take’ Harper’s Bazaar
Tribe by Sebastian Junger The author of War and The Perfect Storm demonstrates that regaining our tribal connection may be the key to our psychological survival. ‘I would give this to anyone embarking on the understanding of human society and governance’ Evening Standard HB JACKET
‘Electrifying … a stirring clarion call for a return to solidarity’ Guardian
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-816818-6 £7.99 EB 978-0-00-816819-3
Age of Consent by Marti Leimbach A shattering page-turner about a sexual relationship between a grown man and a teenager. ‘Devastatingly powerful’ Kirkus
Publication Date 13.07.2017 PB 978-0-00-816797-4 £7.99 EB 978-0-00-816798-1
‘A painful yet powerful book that shouldn’t be ignored’ Bustle HB JACKET
The Heartfix by Stella Grey Totally compulsive, painfully true and darkly comic, this is an unputdownable account of one woman’s search for love online. ‘Shocking, tender and funny … as gripping as a thriller’ Miranda Sawyer
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-820175-3 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-820174-6
‘A Bridget Jones for the internet dating age’ Plum Sykes
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Two families. Two opposing worldviews. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
Gus Vorhees is an eminent doctor at the Muskegee Falls Women’s Center, Ohio. One morning as he arrives at the clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.
Publication Date 01.06.2017
A Book of American Martyrs is the sweeping story of both men’s families – opposites in many ways, and not least on the abortion debate – now tangled together for ever.
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Joyce Carol Oates’s most recent novel is The Man Without a Shadow. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
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HB 978-0-00-822167-6 £16.99
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict.
Kingdom of Olives and Ash
Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman The violence on both sides of the conflict has been horrific, the casualties catastrophic. Illustrious writers including Colum McCann, Colm TĂłibĂn, Dave Eggers, Geraldine Brooks, and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have come together to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories, enabling readers to understand the human narratives behind the litany of grim destruction broadcast nightly on the news.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 TPB 978-0-00-822919-1 EB 978-0-00-822920-7
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A poignant and uplifting testament to the enduring power of dignity and humanity – inspired by a true story.
The Less You Know the Sounder You Sleep by Juliet Butler
Maria and Dariya Krivoshlyapova are conjoined twins, born into a society where flaws must be hidden from sight. As the twins grow up amid the seismic shifts of Communism, they discover hope – and friendship – in the unlikeliest of places. But will their shared struggle for happiness always be threatened by the differences that divide them? Juliet Butler has worked in Russia (where she knew the twins over a period of 15 years) and the UK as a journalist and translator. She lives in Devon.
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Publication Date 14.07.2017 HB 978-000-820375-7 £14.99 TPB 978-0-00-820376-4 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-820377-1
Forget the Durrells, forget the Mitfords. Welcome the Mighty Franks. This eye-opening, hugely enjoyable and unforgettable memoir is a classic in waiting.
The Mighty Franks by Michael Frank
Brother and sister married sister and brother, and lived blocks apart in the hills of LA. The older couple had no children, so the younger couple shared theirs. The older woman takes a particular shine to one of her nephews, Michael – a shine that complicated the delicate balance of the families and changed Michael’s life for ever. This is an extraordinary memoir about an extraordinary family.
Publication Date 14.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-821519-4 £16.99 EB 978-0-00-821521-7
Michael Frank’s writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Glimmer Train, among other publications. He has been a book critic for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in New York and Liguria, Italy.
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‘A ten-tonne joy’ Jason Hazeley, author of the Adult Ladybird series ‘So sad and sweet and lovely’ Holly Walsh
Postcard from the Past
by Tom Jackson (with an introduction by Mark Haddon) In Postcard from the Past Tom Jackson orchestrates the discarded scribblings on his collection of vintage postcards into a symphony of voices, glimpses into past lives and tantalising hints of stories at once everyday and bizarre. Lovingly written in rainy campsites and over grim hotel breakfasts, on sweltering beaches and in windy seaside car parks, these missives from another era form a nostalgic, offkilter and often hilarious tribute to the British character. All our lives on the back of a postcard. Tom Jackson is a collector of postcards. He has worked as a producer in television and radio. He currently makes commercials and runs the Twitter feed PostcardFromThePast (@PastPostcard). He lives in south London.
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Publication Date 15.067.2017 HB 978-0-00-822053-2 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-822054-9
An extraordinary, genre-defying new novel from Jeff VanderMeer in which nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past, not the present, not the future
Borne
by Jeff VanderMeer In a ruined city of the future, Rachel, a scavenger, finds Borne entangled in the fur of a gigantic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company. At first, Borne looks like nothing at all – just a green lump – but everything is hiding secrets. Hidden deep within the Company, Rachel finds something that will change everything – lost and forgotten things that have lingered and grown … Jeff VanderMeer’s books include the Southern Reach trilogy and have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in Florida.
Publication Date 15.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-815917-7 £12.99 EB 978-0-00-815920-7 Publication Date 02.05.2017 TPB 978-0-00-815918-4 £10.99
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Barkskins by Annie Proulx An epic novel about the taking down of the world’s forests from author of The Shipping News and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘An ambitious novel of extraordinary power that deserves to win the biggest literary prizes’ Sunday Express
Publication Date 01.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-723201-7 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-729014-7
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Nicotine by Nell Zink From the author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families - the ones we’re born into and the ones we create – obsession, idealism and ownership.
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‘Zink’s sentences are like cigarettes: the first few are dizzying and not always pleasant, but before you know it, you’re hooked’ Telegraph
Publication Date 06.10.2017 HB 978-0-00-817917-5 £14.99 EB 978-0-00-817918-2
We Are Not Such Things by Justine van der Leun A true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid. ‘Shocking, compelling’ Guardian ‘Gripping, explosive ... crafts a close sense of place that rivals the work of Katherine Boo’ New York Times
Publication Date 29.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-819109-2 £9.99 EB 978-0-00-819106-1
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Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan A revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name – and of a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us. ‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent
Publication Date 14.07.2017 PB 978-0-00-747909-2 £7.99 EB 978-0-00-747939-9
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