4th Estate, July - December 2018

4th Estate July to December 2018

CONTENTS NEW TITLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

PAPERBACKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Into the Raging Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

When They Go Low, We Go High . . . . . . . . . 24

Good Trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Modern Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

My Absolute Darling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Slay in Your Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ma’am Darling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Accidental Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

The Twelve-Mile Straight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Feast Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The Reservoir Tapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Accidental Further Adventures

The Devil’s Highway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

of the Hundred-Year-Old Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Pretty Iconic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Where Shall We Run To? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Fresh Complaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Future Popes of Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

How to Live Like Your Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Strudel, Noodles & Dumplings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Ravenmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Everyday Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 What We’re Teaching Our Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Fortnum & Mason: Christmas and Other Winter Feasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Bullet Journal Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The End of the End of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hazards of Time Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Into the Raging Sea Thirty-three Mariners, One Megastorm and the Sinking of the El Faro

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Rachel Slade In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished on board, and the destructive forces of globalisation that put the ship in harm’s way.

On 1 October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barrelled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the El Faro whole, resulting in one of the worst shipping disasters in decades. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish – until now.

Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves – whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder – journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of the El Faro.

‘An extraordinary piece of reporting’ John Konrad ‘Rachel Slade mashes up The Perfect Storm with a suspenseful, page-turning thriller … superbly written, this deserves a place on the bookshelf of modern maritime classics’ Robert Frump

Rachel Slade is a Boston-based journalist, writer, and editor.

She was a staff writer at Boston magazine for ten years, and her writing earned her a City and Regional Magazine Award in civic journalism. She splits her time between Brookline, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Maine.

Non-Fiction 17 May 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008302436

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Good Trouble Joseph O'Neill In Good Trouble, the first story collection from Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, characters are forced to discover exactly who they are, and who they can never quite be.

There’s Rob, who swears he is a dependable member of society, but can’t scrape together a character reference to prove that’s the case. And Jayne, who has no choice but to investigate a strange noise downstairs while her husband lies glued to the bed with fear. A mother tries to find where she fits into her son’s new life of semi-soft rind-washed cheeses, and a poet tries to fathom what makes a poet. Do you even have to write poetry?

Packed with O’Neill’s trademark acerbic humour, Good Trouble explores the maddening and secretly political space between thoughts and deeds, between men and women, between goose and not-goose.

Praise for Netherland: ‘A great American novel, but one with an ordinary European Everyman at its centre’ Sean O’Hagan, Observer ‘An exquisitely written novel, a large fictional achievement, and one of the most remarkable post-colonial books I have ever read’ James Wood, New Yorker ‘An extraordinary novel … O’Neill is a writer of dizzying elegance’ Daniel Swift, Financial Times

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Joseph O’Neill lives in New York and teaches at Bard College.

He is the author of four novels, Netherland (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008),The Dog, This Is the Life and The Breezes, as well as a memoir, Blood-Dark Track. His short stories have been published in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and his literary criticism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times, the Atlantic, Granta and other publications. He won the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction and the 2009 Kerry Fiction Award for Netherland.

Fiction 14 June 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008283995

Hold

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Michael Donkor One of the Observer’s New Faces of Fiction 2018 Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, funny, heartbreaking story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.

Belinda knows how to follow the rules.

She knows the right way to fold a hundred handkerchiefs, to polish water glasses, and to keep a tight lid on the world she left behind when she came to Kumasi as a housegirl.

Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A pupil at her exclusive South London school, she has been the pride of her Ghanaian parents. Until now. Watching their daughter grow sullen and wayward, they decide that Belinda might be the shining example Amma needs.

So Belinda is summoned from Ghana to London, to befriend a troubled girl who shows no desire for her friendship.

As Belinda encounters a city as bewildering as it is exciting, she and Amma are surprised to discover the beginnings of an unexpected kinship. But when cracks in their defences open up, the secrets they have both been holding tight to threaten to seep out …

‘An arresting and textured novel … He has a gift for succinct, piercing description’ Observer ‘Moving and funny, a big-hearted book that will stay with you’ Guardian, Best Fiction for 2018

Michael Donkor was born in London, to Ghanaian parents.

He studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature to secondary school students. Many of the issues in this novel are close to his heart, and his writing won him a place on the Writers’ Centre Norwich Inspires Scheme in 2014, where he received a year’s mentoring from Daniel Hahn.

Fiction 12 July 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008280345

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Slay in Your Lane The Black Girl Bible

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené The long-awaited guide to life for a generation of black British women inspired to make lemonade out of lemons, and find success in every area of their lives.

Black women today are facing uniquely challenging experiences in all aspects of their lives. Yet when best friends Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené searched for a book that addressed these challenges they realised none existed. So Slay in Your Lane – the lovechild of exasperation and optimism – was born.

From education, to work, to dating, to representation, money and health, this inspirational, honest and provocative Black Girl Bible explores the ways in which being black and female affects each of these areas – and offers advice and encouragement on how to navigate them.

Illustrated with stories from Elizabeth’s and Yomi’s own lives, and from interviews with dozens of the most successful black women in Britain, Slay in Your Lane celebrates the strides black women have already made, whilst providing practical advice and inspiration for those who want to do the same and forge a better, visible future.

Featured in the Observer’s 18 for 2018 One of Elle’s ‘12 addictive books you have to read to get through 2018’

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Yomi Adegoke is an awardnominated journalist and senior writer at the women’s site, The Pool. She writes about race, feminism, popular culture and how they intersect, as well as class and politics. In 2013 she founded Birthday Magazine, a publication aimed at black teenage girls.

Elizabeth Uviebinené is a marketing manager at a leading global brand. She graduated from Warwick University with a Politics and International Relations degree, and specialises in creating marketing campaigns that are both culturally progressive and commercially relevant.

Lifestyle 12 July 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008235628

The Accidental Memoir The Remarkable Way to Write Your Life Story

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Anthony Cropper and Eve Makis A cross between the guided journal and a creative writing manual written by authors with more than forty years of teaching and writing experience between them and the firm belief that everyone can enjoy the many benefits of creative writing with the right encouragement.

The Accidental Memoir takes you on a journey of self-discovery, from the origins of your family name and earliest memories, to what you’d invent and how you’d change the world. This beautifully illustrated book is filled with inventive and accessible writing prompts, as well as tips for anyone wanting to document their lives and explore their creativity.

Want to flex your writing muscles, exorcise your demons, relive moments of magic, make sense of life, have fun and leave a lasting legacy?

The Accidental Memoir will show you how.

This innovative concept was developed as an Arts Council project to help people tap into their own lives. Working with diverse groups from refugees to the elderly and prisoners, it has been a resounding success in unearthing stories that otherwise might never have been told. The Accidental Memoir is truly for all: writers and non-writers, teachers and students, the perfect book for anyone seeking inspiration or imaginative ways to explore their life story.

Eve Makis worked as a journalist and radio presenter before becoming a novelist. She is the author of four novels, including The Spice Box Letters, which was shortlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, the East Midlands Book Award and received the Aurora Mardiganian Gold Medal.

Anthony Cropper is the author of two novels and a collection of short stories. he is also an award-winning playwright and has taught creative writing both in this country and abroad.

Lifestyle 12 July 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008302030

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Feast Days Ian Mackenzie A taut, powerful and profound novel about a young woman who follows her banker husband to São Paulo.

So. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home, nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had GPS. in our smartphones.

I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our collection of international adaptors, none of which seemed to fit in Brazilian wall sockets. My husband was in the chrysalis stage of becoming a rich man, and idealism was never my vice . . .

‘Devastating, funny and wise, it’s among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You ‘An all-consuming meditation on the modern condition, the search for rootedness in the ever-shifting worlds of our own creation, told by a writer so gifted with language that you forget who you are in the poetry of his prose’ Uzodinma Iweala, author of Beasts of No Nation ‘Magnificent, profound and true’ Elisa Albert, author of After Birth

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Ian MacKenzie was born and raised in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard College, and since then has lived in New York City, Ethiopia, Brazil and Washington, DC. Fiction 26 July 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008298548

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man

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Jonas Jonasson Translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

It all begins with a hot-air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they’re not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un . . .

Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated . . .

Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared: ‘A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully’ Sunday Times ‘Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind’ Daily Telegraph

Jonas Jonasson is also the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All. He lives on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Fiction 9 August 2018 Paperback £8.99 9780008275570

‘Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny’ Guardian

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Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir

Alan Garner From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.

The war went. We sang in the playground, ‘Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions.’ David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice. Twiggy taught by reciting The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Charge of the Light Brigade and the thirteen times table. Twiggy was a bully but he didn’t take any notice of me.

In Where Shall We Shall We Run To? Alan Garner remembers his early childhood in the Cheshire village of Alderley Edge: life at the village school as ‘a sissy and a mardy-arse’; pushing his friend Harold in the nettles to test the truth of dock leaves; his father disappearing off to war.

Praise for Alan Garner: ‘Alan Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because his work is deeper and more truthful … I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration’ Philip Pullman ‘Alan Garner’s fiction is something special’ Neil Gaiman ‘He deploys short, accurate words better than anyone else writing in English today, and he makes it look simple’ The Times

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Alan Garner was born in Cheshire on 17 October 1934, and his childhood was spent in Alderley Edge where his family has lived for more than four hundred years. He was awarded the OBE in 2001, for his services to literature.

Memoir 9 August 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008305970

Future Popes of Ireland Darragh Martin

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A big-hearted, funny, sad, dazzlingly ambitious novel about the messiness of love, family and belief – and how nothing ever turns out quite how we plan.

In 1979 Bridget Doyle has one goal left in life: for her family to produce the very first Irish pope.

Fired up by John Paul II’s appearance in Phoenix Park, she sprinkles Papal-blessed holy water on the marital bed of her son and daughter-inlaw, and leaves them to get on with things. But nine months later her daughter-in-law dies in childbirth and Granny Doyle is left bringing up four grandchildren: five-year-old Peg, and baby triplets Damien, Rosie and John Paul.

Thirty years later, it seems unlikely any of Granny Doyle’s grandchildren are going to fulfil her hopes. Damien is trying to work up the courage to tell her that he’s gay. Rosie is a dreamy blue-haired rebel who wants to save the planet and has little time for popes. And irrepressible John Paul is a chancer and a charmer and the undisputed apple of his Granny’s eye – but he’s not exactly what you’d call Pontiff material.

None of the triplets have much contact with their big sister Peg, who lives over 3,000 miles away in New York City, and has been a forbidden topic of conversation ever since she ran away from home as a teenager. But that’s about to change.

Darragh Martin has written several plays and one children’s book, The Keeper, which was shortlisted for an Irish Book of the Year Award in 2013. Darragh grew up in Dublin and now lives in London. Future Popes of Ireland is his first adult novel.

Fiction 23 August 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008295394

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Strudel, Noodles & Dumplings The New Taste of German Cooking

Anja Dunk Full of flavoursome, nourishing recipes, Strudel, Noodles & Dumplings is an introduction to the best of modern German home cooking from Anja Dunk’s young family kitchen.

‘For me the German kitchen is as much a way of life as it is about preparing a meal. I want to teach as many people as I can about German food in the hope that it will satisfy, inspire and bring new dishes to the table.’

From recipes such as wholewheat buttermilk waffles to caraway roast pork and courgette and green pepper salad with yogurt dressing, Anja Dunk’s German food is gently spiced, smoky and deeply savoury. Her way of cooking is vibrant, honest, simple and deeply intertwined with the seasons and the weather.

Featuring over 200 recipes for the everyday family table, as well as for snacks and special occasions, Anja’s cookbook will be an essential guide to all the basics of German cuisine, providing inspiration for appetising meals throughout the year.

Praise for Anja Dunk: ‘Anja’s writing is warm, evocative, engaging and transportative … Her recipes are clear and confident, you sense immediately you are in safe, experienced hands – I love that’ Rachel Roddy ‘Every time I see one of Anja’s pictures I want to sit at her table, be it to sip her morning hot chocolate around a few lit candles or spoon apple butter on a pile of pancakes. Her generous spirit comes across in all she does’ Anna Jones 12

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Anja Dunk was born in Wales to a German mother and a Welsh father. Her childhood was spent predominantly in Wales but also in Germany and South East Asia. Her love of food started at home but has grown since working in cafes and restaurants over the years. She is now a freelance cook, mainly catering for large events and parties. Anja has co-written a book on preserves, Do Preserve, and runs small preserving workshops.

Cookery 23 August 2018 Hardback £26.00 9780008244385

The Skills

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From First Job to Dream Job – What Every Woman Needs to Know

Mishal Husain The ultimate handbook for women on how to take your career, aspirations and experience to the next level.

Written by award-winning Today presenter Mishal Husain, The Skills will inspire, motivate, champion and encourage women to reach their potential by focusing on the practical skills that make a difference.

Gathering together advice for women of all ages, whether they are new graduates, working mothers, or women seeking a career change, The Skills explains: * How to present yourself, in person and online * How to plan for long-term goals * How to gain confidence and avoid self-doubt * How to find work/life balance Drawing heavily on Mishal’s own experience, interviews with experts and with inspirational women from Martha Lane Fox to Malala Yousafzai, The Skills will guide women towards honing the abilities they need to survive and thrive in the modern world.

Mishal Husain is one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and the television news on BBC One. She has been named by the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential people in Britain. Born in the UK, Mishal grew up in the Middle East and was later educated at Cambridge University, where she read law.

Self-Help 6 September 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008220631

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The Ravenmaster Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

Christopher Skaife The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens at Britain’s most famous national monument.

Legend has it that if the Tower of London’s ravens should perish or be lost, the Crown and kingdom will fall. The Ravenmaster’s role is serious indeed, and after decades of serving the Queen, Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife took on the added responsibility of caring for these infamous birds. In The Ravenmaster, he invites us over the Tower’s drawbridge to watch as he feeds his ravens ox-hearts and dog-biscuits soaked in blood, protects them from foxes, and ensures that these unusual, misunderstood and utterly brilliant corvids are healthy, happy and ready to captivate the three million tourists who flock to the Tower every year.

A rewarding, intimate and inspiring partnership has developed between the ravens and their charismatic and charming protector, the Ravenmaster. Weaving together insights from folklore, history and contemporary behavioural science, Skaife shines light on these mysterious creatures and entertains his reader with anecdotes from his own experience with his beloved bird family. The Ravenmaster is a book for anyone with an interest in history, nature, memoir, and the macabre.

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Christopher Skaife is Yeoman Warder (Beefeater) and Ravenmaster at the Tower of London. He has served in the British Army for twenty-four years. He has been featured on the History Channel, PBS, the BBC, BuzzFeed, Slate and more. He lives at the Tower with his wife and, of course, the ravens. Follow him on Twitter: @ravenmaster1.

Biography 6 September 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008307929

Money

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A User’s Guide

Laura Whateley With the housing crisis, equal pay for equal work campaign, and so many in their twenties and thirties still feeling the effects of the financial crisis, this book is the ultimate expert handbook to helping navigate the choppy waters of personal finance.

Being financially aware is something that’s learned and yet we aren’t taught it in schools or universities. The angles of an isosceles triangle – yes – how to save effectively for the future – no. This clear-sighted and indispensable guide to money will provide a financial framework to those for whom money is just beginning to be a factor through to those who don’t know what an ISA is and are too afraid to admit it.

Covering topics including housing, student loans, debt, saving for the future, bills, love & money, ethical money, mental health, tax etc. this book is guaranteed to be your essential go-to guide when it comes to successfully structuring your financial life now and in the future.

Laura Whateley is an awardwinning freelance journalist and The Times’ consumer champion, writing the agony aunt column in the weekly Saturday Money section since 2010. She has had articles published in the Sunday Times, Guardian and Observer, on the US website Mansion Global (part of Dow Jones), in the Express and Moneywise magazine.

Business/Self-Help 6 September 2018 Paperback £6.99 9780008308315

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Everyday Madness On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love

Lisa Appignanesi A short, potent examination of the ways in which our sanity can become suddenly elusive, Everyday Madness is a deeply personal and brave account of subjects that resonate powerfully for so many of us.

Everyday Madness depicts the kind of states that float between diagnosis and daily life. Unfolding in three sections, it delves into the aftermath of Lisa Appignanesi’s partner’s death, her grief and anger that were reflected all around post-Brexit Britain, and finally the healing process of looking after her toddler grandson, who has to come to terms with his younger brother’s arrival.

Asking how we might cope with, or even heal, the forms of everyday madness that we are all faced with in our lives, Lisa Appignanesi’s memoir is a poignant, heartfelt reflection on love and loss.

Praise for Mad, Bad and Sad: ‘Subtle, textured and enthralling … One of the great strengths of this book is the way in which it charts the uncanny relationship between fashions in psychiatric theory and sufferers’ symptoms’ Sunday Times ‘Marvellous. At last! A serious, well-researched book on this important subject’ Pamela Stephenson 'Endlessly fascinating’ Independent on Sunday

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Born in Poland in 1946, Lisa Appignanesi grew up in Montreal from the age of six. Since moving to Britain in her twenties she has been central to British cultural life: a former President of English PEN and former Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London, she is currently the Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. She has published extensively, both fiction and non-fiction, including the novel Memory and Desire and the nonfiction books Mad, Bad and Sad and All About Love.

Biography 20 September 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008300302

What We’re Teaching Our Sons

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Owen Booth Wise and funny, touching and true, What We’re Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown-up.

We’re teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy.

We’re teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We’re teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who’ve known you longer than you’ve known yourself, and the difference between zombies and vampires.

We’re teaching them about sex, although everyone would be a lot happier if the subject had never come up . . .

Meet the married Dads, the divorced Dads, the widowed Dads and the gay Dads; the gamblers, the firemen, the bankers, the nurses, the soldiers and the milkmen. They’re trying to guide their sons through the foothills of childhood into the bewildering uplands of adulthood. But it’s hard to know if they’re doing it right.

Or what their sons’ mothers think . . .

Owen Booth is a journalist, copywriter and father of two sons.

He lives in Walthamstow, London.

He won the 2015 White Review Short Story Prize and was recently awarded 3rd prize in the Moth Short Story competition. His work has been published in numerous print and online magazines and anthologies.

Fiction 4 October 2018 Hardback £10.00 9780008282592

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Fortnum & Mason: Christmas and Other Winter Feasts Tom Parker Bowles The ultimate Fortnum & Mason compendium for Christmas and other special occasions.

Capturing the magic and finest festive traditions of Fortnum & Mason, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts gathers together everything you need to enjoy a truly delicious winter.

A joyous celebration of Fortnum & Mason’s love for extraordinary seasonal food, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts will be filled with flavoursome recipes for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, as well as Guy Fawkes and Burns’ Night.

From seasonable soups to hearty January eating, and featuring exclusive stories from the Fortnum & Mason archives, Christmas and Other Winter Feasts is the essential accompaniment to any party, gathering or feast.

Tom Parker Bowles is a food writer and broadcaster, and author of six books including E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed, the awardwinning Full English: A Journey through the British and Their Food, Let’s Eat: Recipes from My Kitchen Notebook and Fortnum & Mason: The Cook Book.

He is also Restaurant Critic for the Mail on Sunday, and Food Editor of Esquire. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

Cookery 4 October 2018 Hardback £30 9780008305017

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The Bullet Journal Method Track the Past, Order the Present, Plan the Future

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Ryder Carroll The long-awaited first book by the founder of the enormously popular Bullet Journal organisational system.

Like many of us, Ryder Carroll tried everything to get organised – countless apps, systems, planners, you name it. Nothing really worked.

Then he invented his own simple system that required only pen and paper, which he found both effective and calming. He shared his method with a few friends, and before long he had a worldwide viral movement. Hundreds of thousands of Bullet Journal fans now spread the word and read Ryder’s blog and newsletter.

The system combines elements of a wishlist, a to-do list and a diary. It makes it easy to get thoughts out of your head and onto paper, to see them clearly and decide what to do about them.

Then it helps you set up daily mini-goals on the path to accomplishing your long-term goals.

Users rely on a Daily Log, a Weekly Log and a Monthly Log to stay focused despite the crush of incoming demands.

But this is much more than a timemanagement book. It’s also a manifesto for what Ryder calls ‘intentional living’: making sure that your beliefs and actions align. Even if you already use a Bullet Journal, this book gives you new exercises to make you calmer and more focused, new insights on how to prioritise well, and a new awareness of the power of analog tools in a digital world.

Ryder Carroll is a digital product designer and inventor of the Bullet Journal. He’s had the privilege of working with companies like Adidas, American Express, Cisco, IBM, Macy’s and HP. He’s been featured by the New York Times, LA Times, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Lifehacker and Mashable. He recently gave a TEDx talk on intentionality.

Lifestyle 23 October 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008261375

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The End of the End of the Earth Jonathan Franzen A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections.

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – that have long preoccupied him.

Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we’ve come to expect from Franzen.

Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. The End of the End of the Earth is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

‘One of America’s best novelists and essayists’ The Times ‘Franzen in an exceptional writer, more skilled than most at producing brutal insights, perfectly evocative turns of phrase, and genuine hilarity’ Guardian ‘Franzen’s strength is his ability to combine a rigorous intellectual approach with an upbeat energy, using language which touches the heart as surely as the head’ Time Out

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including Freedom and The Corrections, and five works of non-fiction and translation, including The Kraus Project and Farther Away. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Non-Fiction 15 November 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008299224

Hazards of Time Travel

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Joyce Carol Oates

When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America – ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ – that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ – but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.

Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery – and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.

© Dustin Cohen

An ingenious dystopian novel about one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates?

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN /Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage and, most recently, A Book of American Martyrs. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

Fiction 13 December 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008295448

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When They Go Low, We Go High Speeches that Shape the World – and Why We Need Them

Philip Collins ‘For those who despair that politics can ever be inspiring again this is a mustread to shake you out of your misery’ Paddy Ashdown When They Go Low, We Go High explores the ways in which the most notable speeches in history have worked, analysing the rhetorical tricks to uncover how the right speech at the right time can profoundly shape the world. It is a passionate defence of the power of good public speaking to propagate and protect democracy.

Philip Collins is a columnist for The Times. He was Chief Speech Writer to Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street between 2004 and 2007, and pioneered the analysis of speeches in The Times.

Politics • 31 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008235680

Modern Gods Nick Laird ‘Laird dazzles with his kinetic prose’ Jennifer Eagan ‘Brilliantly observed, tense, dark and funny’ Graham Norton Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of two sisters whose lives are about to fall apart. It soon becomes clear that they both must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide just what the living owe to the dead.

Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He has published two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover’s Mistake, and three collections of poetry, To a Fault, On Purpose and Go Giants. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Fiction • 14 June 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008257354

My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent ‘The year’s must-read novel’ The Times ‘A masterpiece’ Stephen King At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall. She knows her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world, that chaos is coming and he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her with him. But she doesn’t know why she feels so different from other girls at school; why the line between love and pain can be so hard to see. Or why making a friend may be the bravest and most terrifying thing she has ever done.

Gabriel Tallent was raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his BA in 2010, and afterwards spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Fiction • 28 June 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008185244

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Ma'am Darling 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Craig Brown ‘A masterpiece’ Mail on Sunday ‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’ Observer The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled.

Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, catalogues and essays, Ma’am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society.

Craig Brown is a prolific author and journalist. He has been writing his parodic diary in Private Eye since 1989. He currently writes for the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday.

Biography • 28 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008203634

The Twelve-Mile Straight Eleanor Henderson ‘Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent’ Ann Patchett ‘A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper Lee and Carson McCullers‘ Oprah Magazine Genus Jackson was killed in Cotton County, Georgia, on a summer midnight in 1930, when the newborn twins were fast asleep.

They lay head to toe in a cradle meant for one, Winnafred on one side and Wilson on the other. Only if you looked closely – and people did – could you see that the girl was pink as a piglet, and the boy was brown.

Eleanor Henderson earned her MFA from the University of Virginia in 2005. An associate professor at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband and two sons.

Fiction • 9 August 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008158705

The Reservoir Tapes Jon McGregor From the Costa-winning author of Reservoir 13 ‘For anyone who enjoyed Reservoir 13, it is essential reading’ Financial Times The aftershocks of Becky Shaw’s disappearance have origins long before that December day, and those in the village have losses, and secrets, and stories of their own.

First broadcast as a series of specially commissioned stories on Radio 4, The Reservoir Tapes returns to the territory of the Booker-longlisted Reservoir 13, revealing the web of connections that bind us, and the many layers on which we all build our truth.

Jon McGregor is the author of four novels and a story collection. He was born in Bermuda in 1976, grew up in Norfolk, and now lives in Nottingham.

Fiction • 6 September 2018 • Paperback • £7.99 • 9780008235635

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The Devil's Highway Gregory Norminton ‘Brilliant . . . a powerful meditation on the damages – and the good – we have wrought, and will wreak, on the living world’ Robert Macfarlane, Book of the Year In ancient Britain a boy must choose between his brother and his tribe.

In the present, two men clash, and a young girl is caught between them.

In the distant future, a gang of feral children struggles to reach safety in a burning world.

Three journeys. Three thousand years. One destination. A visionary tale of love, loss, fanaticism, heroism and sacrifice.

Gregory Norminton is the author of five novels, two collections of short stories and a book of aphorisms. He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and lives in Sheffield.

Fiction • 6 September 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008243791

Pretty Iconic Sali Hughes Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future.

‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury Packed full of beauty wisdom, Pretty Iconic takes us from the evocative smell of Johnson’s baby lotion through to Simple Face wipes, NARS Orgasm and beyond, looking at the formative role beauty plays in our lives.

Sali Hughes is a journalist, broadcaster, Guardian columnist and founder of the awardwinning salihughesbeauty.com. Pretty Honest, Sali’s first book, was published in 2014.

Non-fiction • 6 September 2018 • Paperback • £16.99 • 9780008194550

Fresh Complaint Jeffrey Eugenides ‘[An] excellent short story collection’ Guardian ‘Beautifully written and couldn’t be more topical’ Observer, Books of the Year The first-ever collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies.

Narratively compelling, Fresh Complaint shows all of Eugenides’s trademark humour, compassion and complex understanding of what it is to be human.

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities.

He has published three novels, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot, all to great critical fanfare. He is a professor of creative writing at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton.

Fiction • 4 October 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008243807

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How to Live Like Your Cat Stéphane Garnier, translated by Roland Glasser

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A fun present for cat lovers everywhere: a light-hearted self-help guide to help you live more like your cat.

Do cats worry about their pension? Nope. Do cats take on work they don’t want to do? As if ! Do cats rush around hectically when they’d rather be licking their paws and looking out of the window? Please. Cats are free. They are calm, observant, wise, elegant, charismatic and proud. Stéphane Garnier will show you what he’s learned over fifteen years of closely observing his cat, and teach you all the ways in which you too can apply the secrets of cats to your own life – at work, at home and with your friends. ‘There’s a lot to be said for a philosophy of sleeping and doing what you want when you want to.’ Emerald Street Stéphane Garnier was born in Lyon in 1974.

Non-fiction • 4 October 2018 • Paperback • £6.99 • 9780008276805

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