BOOKS FOR THE INDEPENDENT READER
A Making a Murderer set in South Africa – a gripping truecrime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid
We Are Not Such Things
A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
by Justine van der Leun An investigation into the murder of a young white American activist in a South African township in 1993, this is a gripping journey through the case and its aftermath – and a lucid, eye-opening account of life today in South Africa.
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Justine van der Leun has written about South Africa for Harper’s and the Guardian. She lives in Brooklyn.
E-book
30.06.2016 TPB
978-0-00-819107-8 £14.99
978-0-00-819108-5
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Out of Time
Midlife, If You Still Think You’re Young
by Miranda Sawyer Miranda Sawyer’s midlife crisis began when she was 44. She felt uncomfortable; too hot, as though she had the wrong coat on. Out of Time is an exploration of this crisis. Speaking to friends, musicians and artists, Miranda asks how they too have confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, they’ve learned along the way.
978-0-00-819106-1 E-audio (unabridged)
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A refreshingly modern look at the midlife crisis, delving into the truth, and the lies, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour
Miranda Sawyer is a journalist, arts critic and broadcaster. She lives in Brixton.
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30.06.2016 TPB
978-0-00-752107-4 £12.99 E-book
978-0-00-750915-7 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-754380-9
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Borderlines by Michela Wrong ‘A gripping thriller … an ambitious, multi-layered mystery’ Guardian
From the author of Dying Young and Daniel Isn’t Talking, a deeply absorbing and moving story of a family in crisis coming to terms with their painful past
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A British lawyer in Africa is drawn to a former rebel and an idealistic young doctor - and to actions no decent lawyer should ever contemplate.
30.06.2016 PB B-Format
978-0-00-812301-7 £8.99
Michela Wrong is an unrivalled authority on Africa and is the author of It’s Our Turn to Eat, I Didn’t Do It For You and In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz.
Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan ‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent
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30.06.2016
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. Rosemary Sullivan has written poetry, fiction, biography and literary criticism. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
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PB B Format
978-0-00-749113-1 £10.99
Age of Consent
by Marti Leimbach Radio DJ Craig took a shine to Bobbie when she was only thirteen years old. He remembers their relationship as a love affair. She remembers it as abuse. Decades later, she returns to her hometown to testify against him but Craig has a witness that she could not have anticipated – her own mother, now Craig’s wife. Marti Leimbach has written several novels, including Dying Young, which was turned into a major feature film staring Julia Roberts. Marti lives in the UK.
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14.07.2016 HB Demy
978-0-00-730709-8 £12.99 E-book
978-0-00-816798-1 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-819124-5
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The bestselling modern fairytale, with a new introduction from YouTube star Luke Cutforth, who is making a Kickstarterfunded film adaptation of the novel
Small towns can hide big secrets, but Rocco Schiavone will do whatever it takes to bring them into the light
OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
The Drowning of Arthur Braxton
A Cold Death
Arthur Braxton has had enough. His mum has left, his dad is broken and he’s the laughing stock of his high school.
The second novel in the internationally bestselling crime series. In an elegant apartment in a chilly Alpine town a cleaning lady makes a gruesome discovery: the body of her employer hanging from a chandelier.
by Caroline Smailes
When Arthur runs away and shelters in an old abandoned bathhouse, he sees a naked woman swimming in the pool. From this point on, his sad little life will never be the same.
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14.07.2016
B Format PB 978-0-00-747909-2 £7.99 E-book
978-0-00-747939-9
by Antonio Manzini
The official version of events says it was suicide, but the incurably cynical Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone thinks otherwise.
Publication Date 11.08.2016 PBO
978-0-00-812433-5 £7.99 E-book
978-0-00-812435-9 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812434-2
Caroline Smailes worked as a lecturer for several years before turning her hand to fiction. She lives in Liverpool.
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Antonio Manzini is an actor, screenwriter, director and author. He lives in Italy.
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‘Purity makes the most compelling reading, and Franzen reveals himself here to be even more a master than ever’ Evening Standard
A special limited edition of Ballard’s cult, post-modern novel
Crash A Special Edition
Purity
“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
Pip Tyler knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but has no idea who her father is or how she’ll ever have a normal life. Purity is the story of one young woman’s quest to find her father – and a grand tale of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder from one of the major writers of our time.
by J.G. Ballard
When Ballard smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he is introduced to a world full of head-on collisions of blood, semen, engine coolant and iconic celebrity. One of the 20th century’s most seminal novels, Crash is presented in a gift edition with slipcase, facsimile signature and reproduced manuscript pages. J.G. Ballard was at the forefront of modern British fiction for over three decades. He passed away in 2009.
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by Jonathan Franzen
Publication Date 22.09.2016 HB
978-0-00-737834-0 £25.00
Publication Date 06.09.2016 PB B Format
978-0-00-753278-0 £8.99 E-book
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other novels, most recently The Corrections and Freedom, and five works of non-fiction and translation.
978-0-00-753279-7 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-813904-9
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A funny, thoughtful memoir on how our mother tongues shape our lives, from how we think, to how we fall in love
The mindboggling, heartrending, darkly comic story of one woman’s quest to find true love online, from the author of the Guardian column, Mid-Life Ex-Wife
When in French
Would Like To Meet An Online Dating Diary
After a lifetime spent firmly in English, New Yorker journalist Lauren Collins is struck one day to find herself newly married and living in French-speaking Geneva. As she embarks on learning French in her new surroundings, Lauren reflects on her lifelong love affair with language and her own linguistic roots.
“I spent Sunday trawling the listings in my pyjamas, while eating leftover Chinese takeaway. It’s easy to become obsessive about the online dating search. It’s like the kind of feverishness that can grab you when you’ve sold one house and can’t find another.”
by Lauren Collins
As a Europe-based staff writer at the New Yorker, Lauren has covered stories from London, Paris and beyond.
by Stella Grey Publication Date
22.09.2016 HB Demy
978-0-00-810059-9 £12.99 E-book 13.09.2016
978-0-00-810060-5 E-audio (unabridged) 13.09.2016
978-0-00-810061-2
Middle aged and newly single, Stella Grey is embarking on a mission – to find love online. Her journey is certainly never dull, featuring marriage proposals, invitations to Tangier, badly timed food poisoning and much younger men – but will it be successful?
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22.09.2016 TPB Demy
978-0-00-820173-9 £12.99 E-book
978-0-00-820174-6 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-819748-3
Stella Grey is a pseudonym.
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‘Energetically researched, beautifully written... and full of serious ideas, boldly stated.’ New Yorker
We British by Andrew Marr A history of Britain, told through the verse of its greatest poets. ‘Every school kid in the country should be given a free copy of this book’ Paula Byrne
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22.09.2016 B Format PB
978-0-00-813092-3 £12.99
Andrew Marr hosts BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show. He is also a hugely successful non-fiction author.
Bolshoi Confidential Secrets of the
Russian Ballet - From the Rule of the Tsars to Today by Simon Morrison From the theatre’s opening in 1776, to Sergei Filin’s acid attack in 2013, the Bolshoi has long been a location where art and politics collide. In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned music historian Simon Morrison looks at this longstanding relationship between culture and political power, and the perils it often entails for dancers and politicians alike. Simon Morrison is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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08.09.2016
The Lost Landscape by Joyce Carol Oates ‘A writer of extraordinary strengths’ Guardian A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest writers.
E-book
978-0-00-757662-3
25.08.2016 PB B-Format
HB Demy
978-0-00-757660-9 £20.00
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Joyce Carol Oates’ most recent novel is The Man Without a Shadow.
978-0-00-814661-0 £8.99
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-814104-2
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In the everexpanding world of beauty, Sali Hughes uses her peerless expertise to curate the beauty products which no woman should be without
Pretty Iconic
The Fortnum & Mason Cookbook
by Sali Hughes
by Tom Parker Bowles
Sali Hughes takes us through her favourite beauty finds, from beloved, treasured favourites such as Chanel No 5, to mould-breaking game changers such as MAC’s Ruby Woo. Pretty Iconic is a personal, expert look at beauty products of the past, present and future from Britain’s most trusted beauty writer.
Fortnum & Mason is a constantly evolving, hugely successful modern enterprise that respects its magnificent history while looking forward into the 21st century. The first Fortnum & Mason Cookbook will do the same, shining a light on the history of the best British cuisine, with delicious, contemporary modern British dishes.
Sali Hughes is a journalist, broadcaster, and founder of the award-winning salihughesbeauty.com. She lives with her two sons in Brighton.
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The first cook book from a beloved British institution and national icon
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06.10.2016 HB
978-0-00-819453-6 £22.00 E-book
978-0-00-819454-3 Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-818184-0
Tom Parker Bowles is an award-winning food writer and the author of five cook books. He lives in London.
Publication Date 08.09.2016 HB
978-0-00-819936-4 £30.00 E-book
978-0-00-819940-1
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‘A talent that is as rare and strange as a kestrel on Oxford Street’ Sunday Times
by Nell Zink ‘Mislaid catapults Zink straight into the company of not only Franzen, but also Donna Tartt and Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and John Irving. Zink takes her big-name predecessors in her stride and goes that bit weirder … An extraordinary talent’ Daily Telegraph
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10.03.2016 PB B Format
978-0-00-810057-5 £8.99
The Wallcreeper
Nicotine
by Nell Zink
by Nell Zink ‘An unusual and original talent, one fearless in her approach to language and subject’ Observer Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life—by being the conventional one. But all that changes when she inherits her father’s house in New Jersey. Finding it occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters, united in defence of smokers’ rights, she becomes enmeshed in the political fervor and commitment of her fellow squatters.
Mislaid
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06.10.2016 HB Demy
978-0-00-817917-5 £14.99
‘A slim, strange masterpiece, and one of those alluring, elliptical, exceptional novels that I will want to keep rereading for the rest of my life’ Sunday Times
Publication Date
10.03.2016
PB B Format 978-0-00-813088-6 £7.99
E-book
978-0-00-817918-2 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-817920-5
Nell Zink is the much acclaimed author of The Wallcreeper and Mislaid. She lives in Germany.
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One Shot, One Kill by Andy Dougan The ultimate in contemporary Spanish cooking, from classic recipes and tapas dishes to information about the very best ingredients and food producers
‘A pacy and … timely history of undercover war’ The Times An engrossing human history, from the English Civil War to modern times, of the men and women who transformed how war is waged.
Publication Date
20.10.2016 PB B Format
978-0-00-818940-2 £8.99
Andy Dougan is the author of the bestselling Dynamo: Defending the Honour of Kiev.
Raptor by James Macdonald Lockhart ‘A true heir to J.A. Baker’s The Peregrine, and T.H. White’s The Goshawk, this is a unique and wonderful work.’ Philip Hoare
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20.10.2016
Lockhart explores all fifteen breeding birds of prey on these shores in a book that will change how we think of our own skies.
PB B Format
978-0-00-745989-6 £9.99
Brindisa The True Food of Spain by Monika Linton
Ranging from the most unusual artisan dishes to the essentials of Spanish cooking, this cook book draws on Brindisa’s specialist knowledge to cover the unique way good food is integral to everyday Spanish life. Brindisa: The True Food of Spain is a celebration of Spain: its food, its people and its landscape. Founded by Monika Linton in 1988, Brindisa is a hugely respected brand and wholesaler, importing artisan Spanish foods to Britain.
Publication Date
06.10.2016 HB Demy
978-0-00-730718-0 £30.00 E-book
978-0-00-730719-7
James Macdonald Lockhart is an associate editor of Archipelago Magazine, and a literary agent at Antony Harwood Limited.
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Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but only if we skip it
Gluten Exposed The Science Behind the Hype
Breakfast is a Dangerous Meal
and How to Navigate a Healthy, Symptom-free Life by Dr. Peter H.R. Green and Rory Jones
by Terence Kealey
When we wake each morning after a night of fasting, our insulin, blood sugar and cholesterol levels fall. But eating interrupts this fast. Terence Kealey investigates the possibility that eating breakfast may not be as beneficial as previously believed; indeed it may even have hazardous repercussions, from type 2 diabetes to obesity and heart disease.
Publication Date
29.12.2016 TPB
978-0-00-817234-3 £12.99 E-book
978-0-00-817235-0
Terence Kealey is a professor of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014.
The definitive book on gluten, explaining the science behind the gluten-free craze
E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-818185-7
Thousands of people have adopted a gluten-free lifestyle, believing it’s healthier, that it will help them lose weight or increase their energy. Gluten Exposed provides an in-depth examination of every symptom and condition associated with gluten, how gluten works in the body, what the gluten-free diet cures - and what it doesn’t.
Publication Date
29.12.2016
PB B Format
978-0-00-814406-7 £8.99 E-book
978-0-00-814405-0
Dr. Peter H.R. Green is the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University. Rory Jones is a science writer and Adjunct Professor of Narrative Medicine at Barnard College of Columbia University.
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‘A brilliant read; a month after finishing it, I still think of it every time I set the table’ Observer
First Bite How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
From childhood onwards, we learn how big a portion is. We learn to love broccoli - or not. But once we acquire our food habits, can we change them for the better? An exploration of the extraordinary origins of our eating habits, First Bite explores how we can change our palates to lead healthier, happier lives. Bee Wilson is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and journalist. She lives in Cambridge.
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Publication Date
29.12.2016
PB B Format
978-0-00-754972-6 £8.99 E-book
978-0-00-754971-9 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812138-9
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A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet. This groundbreaking book, which accompanies the new BBC1 TV series, provides the deepest answers to the simplest questions
Forces of Nature
by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen Professor Brian Cox uncovers some of the most extraordinary natural events here on Earth and in the Universe beyond. From the immensity of the Universe, the roundness of Earth to the shape of every single snowflake, the forces of nature shape everything we see. Think you know our planet? Think again.
Publication Date
30.06.2016 HB
978-0-00-748882-7 ÂŁ25.00 E-book
978-0-00-748883-4
Professor Brian Cox, OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He lives in London. Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Forces of Nature.
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Understand how the world really works in this spectacular journey through space and time that shows the fundamentals of science in groundbreaking visuals
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age
Eureka! An Infographic Guide to Science
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
From the first cataclysmic moments to the emergence of human and machine intelligence, Eureka! uncovers the secrets of the Universe, presenting the science that has emerged over billions of years.
Delving into the recesses of her origins and childhood, Susan Faludi explores the many previous incarnations of her father: American dad, Alpine mountaineer, Amazon adventurer, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. Her struggle to trace his reinvented self takes her across borders – historical, political, religious, sexual – as she confronts the question: Is identity something you ‘choose’ or is it the very thing that you can’t escape?
by Tom Cabot
Tom Cabot is a London-based book editor and designer with a background in experimental psychology, natural science and graphic design.
Publication Date
08.09.2016 PLC
978-0-00-812936-1 £20.00 E-book
978-0-00-816955-8
Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. She lives in Massachusetts.
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Publication Date
14.07.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-819349-2 £16.99 E-book
978-0-00-819351-5 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-819352-2
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The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation
An eye-opening account of Emma and Carl’s unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and the early years of Psychoanalysis, based on revealing family interviews and papers
Labyrinths Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl
Full Steam Ahead How the Railways Made
by Catrine Clay
by Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman
and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis When the Jungs married, Emma was Switzerland’s richest heiress, Carl a pastor’s penniless son. Their marriage included a ménage à trois, among Carl’s various other flirtations - all within the context of the scandalous new movement of Psychoanalysis. Labyrinths charts Emma’s struggle with Carl’s complex character, finally triumphing as an analyst in her own right. Formerly an award-winning BBC producer, Catrine Clay is the author of Trautmann’s Journey, which won Best Sports Biography of the year. She lives in London.
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Publication Date
11.08.2016 HB
978-0-00-751066-5 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-751067-2 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-814119-6
Britain
Full Steam Ahead will reveal how the world we live in today was entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture. The authors discover a hidden layer of social history, using rail transportation as a backdrop to reveal Britain’s radical change in social attitudes and culture across the 19th and early 20th centuries, including the rise of the working class, women’s rights, industrial growth and economic decline.
Publication Date
11.08.2016 HB
978-0-00-819431-4 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-819432-1
Historian Ruth Goodman is an expert in British social and domestic history. She has written and presented numerous acclaimed BBC television series. Peter Ginn is an archaeological digger, supervisor and teacher, with a passion for making the past accessible to all. WILLIAM COLLINS CATALOGUE 2016
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In a unique collaboration between the British Trust for Ornithology, Nature Photographers Ltd and William Collins, this beautiful book accompanies a new photographic competition celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year
Hidden Figures
Bird Photographer of the Year
The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
www.birdpoty.co.uk The book will include the winning and short-listed images from the competition, showcasing some of the finest bird photography, with a foreword by BTO President and head judge, Chris Packham. A proportion of the profits from the book will go directly to the BTO to support their conservation work. A celebration of avian beauty and diversity, it is a tribute to both the dedication and passion of the photographers as well as a reflection of the quality of today’s modern digital imaging systems.
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The never-beforetold true story of NASA’s AfricanAmerican female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space programme
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Publication Date
25.08.2016 HB
978-0-00-817523-8 £25.00
Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work would launch rockets into space – and change the world. An independent scholar, Margot Lee Shetterly currently works on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA’s female Human Computers. She splits her time between Hampton, Virginia and Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
Publication Date
08.09.2016 HB
978-0-00-820128-9 £16.99 E-book
978-0-00-820130-2 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-820131-9
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Return of the Dambusters by John Nichol In the tradition of Ben MacIntyre, Game of Spies tells the story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux between 1942 and 1944
‘A tale of victory … magnificently told in lip-biting detail’ Daily Mail Discover how, after 617’s dams raid, this elite squadron was called upon for a hundred more of the most secret and dangerous precision attacks.
Publication Date
30.06.2016 PB B-Format
978-0-00-810085-8 £8.99 E-book
978-0-00-810086-5
A former RAF Tornado pilot, John Nichol is a journalist and bestselling author.
Game of Spies The Secret Agent, the
Traitor and the Nazi by Paddy Ashdown In occupied France, three men – one British, one French and one German – fought out a duel in an atmosphere of collaboration, betrayal and assassination. In a world where comrades sold comrades, agents and fugitives as cheaply as a bottle of wine, Paddy Ashdown tells a story of SOE treachery, bed-hopping, executions and France’s greatest betrayal. After service as a Royal Marine, Paddy Ashdown was formerly a Member of Parliament and later a leader of the Liberal Democrats. He is based in Somerset, UK.
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Publication Date
22.09.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-814082-3 £20.00 E-book
978-0-00-814083-0 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-818193-2
Taming the Flood by Jeremy Purseglove ‘A classic... exquisitely written.’ The Sunday Times Beautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future generations.
Publication Date
14.07.2016
PB B-Format
978-0-00-813221-7 £9.99 E-book
978-0-00-813222-4
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End Game by Professor Anthony D. Barnosky and Professor Elizabeth A. Hadly
‘Eloquently lays out the ecological perils we face’ New Scientist
Cameron at 10
by Anthony Seldon and Peter Snowdon ‘Explosive … a gripping and at times astonishing account of the people who rule us’ Mail on Sunday
Publication Date
14.07.2016
Two world-renowned scientists ask what combination of problems will hasten the sixth mass extinction. And how do we act?
The compelling story of Cameron’s premiership, based on 300 in-depth interviews with senior figures.
978-0-00-754817-0 £9.99 E-book
978-0-00-754816-3
978-0-00-757552-7
by Phil Norman
‘Terrific … both confident and smooth’ Daily Telegraph
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E-book
A History of Television in 100 Programmes
by Simon Winchester
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978-0-00-757553-4 £10.99
Anthony Seldon is the author of multiple volumes on the premiership. Peter Snowdon is a historian and duty editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme.
Pacific
Simon Winchester OBE is the bestselling author of Atlantic and The Surgeon of Crowthorne.
11.08.2016
B Format PB
PB B-Format
Professors Barnosky and Hadly are researching the science of a future for humanity.
Travelling its gigantic circumference, Simon Winchester explores the economic, political and military story of the world’s largest body of water.
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‘Norman writes with epigrammatic wit’ The Times
Publication Date
13.09.2016
PB B-Format
978-0-00-755077-7 £9.99 E-book
978-0-00-755078-4
An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history. Phil Norman was a founding member of the TV Cream nostalgia website and has written several books on popular culture.
Publication Date
03.11.2016
PB B-Format
978-0-00-811332-2 £8.99 E-book 978-0-00-759140-4
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Revisiting recent conflict zones, veteran reporter Fergal Keane’s intensely personal memoir is a collection of experiences from darkest places of our world
Wounds
Nujeen From War-Torn Aleppo to Suburban
A Memoir of Love and War
Germany in a Wheelchair
by Fergal Keane
Wounds recalls the cost – personal and humanitarian – of conflicts in Iraq, South Africa, Tunisia, Burma, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and elsewhere. Writing from crisis-hit Calais, the collapse of international order in Ukraine and the family homes of soldiers lost in Iraq, Keane offers an opinionated, emotional portrait of life on the front-lines of modern conflict. Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. He is one of the BBC’s most distinguished correspondents, having worked in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Balkans.
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An inspiring tale of modern migration, overcoming adversity and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the very first time in her life
by Nujeen Mustafa, with Christina Lamb Publication Date 08.11.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-818925-9 £20.00 E-book
978-0-00-818926-6 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-818192-5
Nujeen Mustafa has cerebral palsy. This did not stop her travelling, with her sister, 4000 miles from Syria to Hungary in a wheelchair. Having taught herself English watching US soap-operas, she made her way in the hope of receiving asylum in Germany, where she has told her remarkable story, with Christina Lamb – bestselling co-author of I Am Malala. Sixteen-year-old Nujeen Mustafa became a global face of immigration following a BBC interview. She is based in Germany.
Publication Date 22.09.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-819278-5 £18.99 E-book 978-0-00-819279-2 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-819280-8
Christina Lamb is a world-renowned correspondent and best-selling author. She is based in London. WILLIAM COLLINS CATALOGUE 2016
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The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya – the true tragedy that throws fascinating new light onto Pasternak’s masterwork, Doctor Zhivago
Lara
Kenneth Clark
by Anna Pasternak
by James Stourton
The Untold Love Story Drawing on revelatory family sources, Lara unearths a love story of unimaginable courage, loyalty, suffering, drama and loss. Though Boris’ life was spared by Stalin, his lover, typist and literary muse Olga was sent twice to labour camps because of their association. Lara is a heartrending account of their devastating and long-hidden affair.
The Authorised Biography
Publication Date 06.09.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-815678-7 £20.00 E-book
978-0-00-815680-0
Anna Pasternak is a writer and member of the famous Pasternak family. She was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford.
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The biography of the popular British author, broadcaster and highly influential art historian, who achieved international acclaim as the writer and presenter of the television series, Civilisation
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978-0-00-815679-4
Kenneth Clark was the grandest figure in the arts in Britain in the last century. Museum director, patron, pioneer of television, cultural panjandrum, he effortlessly dominated the art world for over half a century. Telling this story of one of the great twentieth-century lives, James Stourton’s biography is a comprehensive view of the arts during the 20th century. James Stourton is a former Chairman of Sotheby’s UK. A journalist and author, he has published five books.
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22.10.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-749341-8 £30.00 E-book 978-0-00-749343-2 E-audio (unabridged) 978-0-00-757405-6
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The witty, incisive and frank memoirs of bestselling author of The Victorians, Jeremy Paxman, whose career at the BBC included 25 years as the uncompromising presenter of Newsnight
A Life in Question
This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic
Covering insights on politicians of every stamp over the last half century, reporting from war zones, the state of the BBC, to the role of journalism in our political system and much more, Jeremy Paxman’s long-awaited and candid memoirs are packed with opinions and good humour on every page.
This Long Pursuit ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration to reflect upon the importance and revolutions of biographical writing. Lauded for the magnificent The Age of Wonder and for his profoundly influential earlier biographies of Shelley, Coleridge and Johnson, Holmes’ latest volume contains some of the finest biographical writing ever published.
Biographer by Richard Holmes
by Jeremy Paxman
Best known for his work presenting Newsnight and University Challenge, Jeremy Paxman’s acclaimed books include Friends in High Places, The English, The Victorians and Great Britain’s Great War.
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From the great biographer of the Romantics, This Long Pursuit is a memorable exploration of a career devoted to the art of lifewriting
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06.10.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-812830-2 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-812831-9 Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812832-6
Richard Holmes is the prize-winning and best-selling author of The Age of Wonder, Sidetracks and the classic Footsteps. He lives in Norwich.
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06.10.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-738694-9 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-816871-1 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-818194-9
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As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips or a British Bulldog, the boxy, utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British
Land Rover
Science: A History in 100 Experiments
To understand this national love affair, Ben has travelled the length of the British Isles in an old Series 1 Land Rover, spending time with Defender enthusiast Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Royal Marines and the Dartmoor search-and-rescue teams, among others. Every Land Rover has its own unique story to tell. This is the story of the world’s favourite car.
Everything in the scientific world view is based on experiment, including observations of phenomena predicted by theories and hypotheses. From the discovery of microscopic worlds to weighing the Earth, from making electricity to the accelerating Universe and gravitational waves, this stunning book tells the fascinating history of science through the stories of 100 groundbreaking experiments.
by Ben Fogle
Ben Fogle is a presenter, writer and adventurer. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent and has written numerous bestselling books. He campaigns tirelessly for conservation, the environment and animal welfare. Ben lives in London.
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A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond
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by Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Publication Date 06.10.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-819422-2 £20.00 E-book
978-0-00-819423-9 Audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-819424-6
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20.10.2016 HB
978-0-00-814560-6 £25.00 E-book
John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and worked as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. His wife Mary is a teacher with a special gift for communicating difficult concepts. John is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
978-0-00-814561-3
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There are millions of ingredients, but only eight Ingredients: Waters, Sugars, Carbs, Lipids, Proteins, Minerals, Gases and Heat
The genesis of the catastrophic British mishandling of the Middle East in the 20th Century, told through the career of Edwardian politician Sir Mark Sykes
The Man Who Created the Middle East
Ingredient
The Life of Sir Mark Sykes
The True Elements of Cooking
Mark Sykes was the aristocrat, traveller, writer and co-author of the infamous 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement, the shady deal carving up the Middle East that lies at the heart of many of region’s problems today. Drawing from previously undisclosed family archives, Christopher Simon Sykes deftly analyses his grandfather’s notorious legacy as we approach the centenary of its controversial creation.
Ingredient isn’t a book of recipes – instead, it’s about learning to see beneath the surface of food, exposing the moving parts that cause every failure and every triumph in every kitchen. Renowned culinary scientist Ali Bouzari illuminates the elemental world of food and unlocks the secrets of ingredients in a lively, engaging and accessible way that dramatically changes the way we look at our food.
by Christopher Simon Sykes
Christopher Simon Sykes is the acclaimed author of six books, including the acclaimed biography of David Hockney. He lives in North London.
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by Ali Bouzari Publication Date
03.11.2016 HB Royal
978-0-00-812190-7 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-812192-1 E-audio (unabridged)
978-0-00-812191-4
Publication Date
20.10.2016 HB
978-0-00-817914-4 £25.00 E-book
978-0-00-817916-8
Ali Bouzari began cooking in professional kitchens while studying biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an adjunct instructor at the CuIinary Institute of America, where he teaches culinary fundamentals. WILLIAM COLLINS CATALOGUE 2016
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The Devil’s Diary
A photographic celebration of Britain and northern Europe’s richly varied birdlife. The photographs are gloriously detailed, appealing to both beginners and experienced birdwatchers
by Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney ‘An incisive biography and a detective story’ Neal Bascomb, author of Hunting Eichmann Investigating the disappearance of a diary belonging to Hitler’s “chief philosopher” and an architect of Holocaust.
Publication Date
01.01.2017
PB B-Format 978-0-00-757665-4 £8.99 E-book
978-0-00-757561-9
Robert K. Wittman created the FBI’s Art Crime Team. David Kinney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
War: A History in 100 Battles
Collins Life Sized Birds
by Richard Overy
by Paul Sterry Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they have been fought. Through them we can understand how warfare and world history have evolved. Praise for Richard Overy: ‘Wonderfully told history … comprehensive and utterly accessible’ Jon Snow Professor Richard Overy was educated at Caius College, Cambridge.
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06.10.2016
PB B-Format
978-0-00-745251-4 £9.99 E-book
978-0-00-745252-1
The book is unique because for every species entry at least one image shows the bird in question, or the head and bill in the case of large species, depicted life size. The photographs used throughout the book have been chosen carefully to show not only important identification features but also to depict a bird’s typical posture, be that perched, standing, swimming or in flight.
Publication Date
25.08.2016
HB 978-0-00-818111-6 £20
Paul Sterry has written and illustrated more than 50 books, including the bestselling Collins Complete Guide to British Wildlife. Trained as a zoologist, Paul is a wildlife photographer who lives in Basingstoke.
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Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group that contains creatures as different as the fast-moving squid of the oceans and clams, cockles and mussels
Collins New Naturalist Library
Collins Field Guide
Slugs and Snails by Robert Cameron In this long-anticipated New Naturalist volume, Robert Cameron introduces us to this remarkable group of gastropods, telling us the stories of the snail familiar to all British and many other readers, the garden snail, and of the giant African snail, introduced into many tropical countries, as well as providing a comprehensive natural history of slugs and snails of the British Isles specifically. Snails have been used to explore important ideas in evolutionary biology, in biogeography and in ecology, and Cameron draws out these explorations, looking specifically at the role of evolution in determining how our understanding of snails has developed. Praise for the New Naturalist series: ‘The series is an amazing achievement’ Times Literary Supplement
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This easy-to-use guide to the birds of south-east Asia is the essential travel companion for experienced birdwatchers and novice birders alike
Birds of South-East Asia by Norman Arlott
Publication Date
08.09.2016 HB
978-0-00-711300-2 £60 PB 978-0-00-711301-9 £35 E-book TBC
Coverage includes China (south of the line used to define the Palearctic), Hainan (treated separately from SE China), Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Coco Islands. Covers the birds’ key identification features with information on habitat, songs and calls. Beautiful artwork depicts their breeding plumage, and non-breeding plumage when it differs significantly.
Publication Date
01.01.2017 PLC
06.10.2016 978-0-00-742954-7 £40.00 E-book 978-0-00-812242-3
Wildlife artist Norman Arlott has illustrated nearly 100 books and his artwork regularly appears in magazines. He has led ornithology tours to East Africa and lives in Norfolk.
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