William Collins catalogue, July - December 2017

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CONTENTS First Publications july aug sept oct nov

Sons and Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dunkirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The First Iron Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Bowland Beth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Joining the Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Viking Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 An Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 The Hidden Life of Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Air Force Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hit Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Cops and Robbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 How to Build a Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 To Catch a King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Secrets of the Human Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Age of Unreason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Antiques Roadshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Dawn Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Why Dylan Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Paperbacks july aug septoct nov

Screwtape Proposes a Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 In the Darkroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Shadows of a Princess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Kenneth Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 This Long Pursuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Man Who Created the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Inside Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 The Five Giants [New Edition] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Labyrinths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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NEW TITLES

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Sons and Soldiers The Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned for Retribution

Bruce Henderson The little-known saga of young German Jews who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America and returned to Europe with the U.S. Army to play a perilous and key role in Allied victory.

In 1942, the U.S. Army unleashed one of its greatest secret weapons in the battle to defeat Adolf Hitler: training nearly 2,000 Germanborn Jews in special interrogation techniques.

Though they knew what the Nazis would do to them if they were captured, they joined every major combat unit in Europe, where they interrogated German POWs and gathered crucial intelligence that saved American lives and helped win the war. Sons and Soldiers traces some of their stories from childhood and their escapes from Nazi Germany, through their feats and sacrifices during the war, to their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones in war-torn Europe.

Praise for Bruce Henderson: ‘Bruce Henderson has told a wonderfully exciting story of one of war’s greatest rescues with verve, style, and panache. I didn’t even stop for coffee during my reading: it was so classically unputdownable’ Simon Winchester

Bruce Henderson is the bestselling author of more than twenty nonfiction books. An award-winning journalist and author, Henderson is a member of the Authors Guild. He has taught reporting and writing courses at USC School of Journalism and Stanford University. He lives in California.

History 13 July 2017 Hardback, £20 9780008180478

‘Riveting … Readers [will] be both shocked … and appreciative of the bravery and ingenuity of that generation we have come to call the greatest’ Washington Post 2

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Dunkirk Official tie-in to the major motion picture from Christopher Nolan

Joshua Levine The epic history of Dunkirk, May 1940: when over 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation.

The story of Dunkirk amounts to more than a frenzied month of soldiers and sailors, tanks and beaches, ambitious politicians and quivering generals. It is more, even, than an intense drama of personal and national survival. It is the story of the men and women involved, their backgrounds, and the experiences that formed them. It is the approaches used by different nations to overcome the misery of the thirties, and how these led to the evacuation of an army as another strained to destroy it. Joshua Levine tells the incredible history behind Dunkirk, starring Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Harry Styles.

Praise for Joshua Levine: ‘Fascinating’ Sunday Times 'A first-class portrait of that traumatic and tragic time, conveyed largely through the words of those who experienced it' Sunday Telegraph

Joshua Levine has written six bestselling histories including titles in the hugely popular Forgotten Voices series. Beauty and Atrocity, his account of the Irish Troubles, was nominated for the Writers' Guild Book of the Year award. On a Wing and a Prayer, his history of the pilots of the First World War, has been turned into a major British television documentary. He has written and presented several programmes for BBC Radio 4. He lives in London.

History, Film tie-in 13 July 2017 Paperback Original, £8.99 9780008227876

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The First Iron Lady A Life of Caroline of Ansbach

Matthew Dennison Often compared to Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, Caroline of Ansbach is the great Queen that Britain forgot it had, a thinker, politician, schemer, patron and matriarch.

This brilliant book offers a remarkable portrait of a woman of great political astuteness and ambition, a radical icon of female power.

Why has history forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, a woman who in her lifetime was frequently compared to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’? In this magnificent biography, the first for over seventy years, Matthew Dennison reverses this neglect. The First Iron Lady uncovers the complexities of Caroline’s multifaceted life from child of a minor German princeling who, through intelligence, determination and a dash of sex appeal, rose to occupy one of the great positions of the world and did so with distinction, élan and a degree of cynical realism.

Praise for Matthew Dennison: 'Fascinating ... Dennison's clever, searching account of her life shows the incredible fight she had to make herself into the kind of woman she wanted to be.' The Times

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Matthew Dennison is the author of five critically acclaimed works of nonfiction, including Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, a Book of the Year in The Times, Spectator, Independent and Observer. His most recent book is Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter. He is a contributor to Country Life.

Historical Biography 10 August 2017 Hardback, £25 9780008121990

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Bowland Beth The Life of an English Hen Harrier

David Cobham, Illustrated by Dan Powell The story of the short life of Bowland Beth – an English Hen Harrier – which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation.

The Hen Harrier has become the conservation cause célèbre in the UK – with only three nesting pairs in England it is seen as a totemic species in the battle between the conservationists and the ruralists. In Bowland Beth David Cobham follows the short life of this Hen Harrier, interweaving her story with the story behind the species’ plight. Following the style of Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter, Cobham has dramatized Bowland Beth’s short life, entering her world to show what being a Hen Harrier today is like. In this powerful narrative, he provides us with a profound story which helps to illuminate the larger implications of the species’ steep decline, highlighting the urgent need for conservation efforts to reverse this.

David Cobham is an internationally renowned filmmaker, well known for his films Tarka the Otter and The Goshawk. He is currently Vice-President of the Hawk and Owl Trust.

Dan Powell is a wildlife artist best known for the field guide to The Dragonflies of Great Britain. His drawings and paintings have appeared in numerous wildlife books and publications.

Natural History 10 August 2017 Hardback, £16.99 9780008251895

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Joining the Dots A Living History

Juliet Gardiner From Britain’s leading social historian, an account of the changes to women’s lives since 1940, told with examples from her own life. The book provides an intimate account of feminism as she lived it over the last six decades.

Bestselling social historian Juliet Gardiner explores the radical changes in women’s lives since her birth during WW2. In a work of ‘living history’, she uses episodes from her own life – as a young girl adopted into a lower-middleclass family, her experience at grammar school, her desperation to escape the suburbs – to illuminate the radical transformations across society.

Short, lyrical, personal, this is an accessible and empowering story of education, sexual choice and family planning, professional ambitions and freedom.

Praise for Juliet Gardiner: ‘History told through a carefully woven web of stories, relayed by a consummate storyteller’ Observer

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Juliet Gardiner is a respected commentator on British social history from the Victorian times through to the 1950s. She was editor of History Today magazine and is also author of many books including the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime, The Blitz and The Thirties.

History/Memoir 10 August 2017 Hardback, £16.99 ISBN 9780007489169

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Viking Britain A New History

Tom Williams A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.

Britain in the Viking Age was a turbulent violent place, and the war-lords of the age have names that fire the blood and stir the imagination – Alfred the Great and Ivar the Boneless, Edmund Ironside and Erik Bloodaxe, Macbeth and Thorfinn Skullsplitter. In this new book Tom Williams offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world, its echoes in later history and its implications for the present.

A Viking Britain truly existed, and its historical and cultural footprint is in many ways broader and deeper than Rome’s. Between the conventional beginning of the Viking Age in the late eighth century and its close in the eleventh, Scandinavian people and culture were involved with Britain to a degree that has left a permanent impression on these islands. They came to plunder and to settle, to colonize and to rule. By the time of the Norman Conquest, much of Britain might justifiably be described as ‘Viking’, and in language, literature, place-names and folklore, the presence of Scandinavian settlers can still be felt. This book brings Viking Britain to life again.

Tom Williams was a curator of the major international British Museum exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend, which enjoyed extensive national and international media coverage in 2014.

He teaches History and Archaeology at Cambridge and is Curator of Early Medieval Coins at the British Museum.

He has been widely quoted in the press and has appeared on BBC TV, ITV and on BBC radio. He appeared at the Hay Festival and Bath Children’s Literary Festival in 2014.

History 24 August 2017 Hardback, £25 9780008171933

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An Odyssey A Father, A Son and an Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is this renowned author-scholar’s most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.

When eighty-one-year-old former science academic Jay Mendelsohn enrols in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. This is the ‘one last chance’ for Jay to learn the great literature he neglected in his youth and begin to understand his son. But Jay’s responses to both the text and the Homeric journey they recreate uncover long-buried secrets, allowing the son to understand his father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn’s narrative echoes the Odyssey itself with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures and perils of travel and the meaning of home. ‘[Mendelsohn] is a brilliant storyteller, influenced by the Greek masters he so admires, eschewing the chronological, looping forward and back, teasing the reader with hints of what the gods may have in store.’ Sunday Times

Daniel Mendelsohn was born in Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books as well as the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review. His previous books include the memoir The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and many other honours.

He teaches at Bard College, NY. Memoir 07 September 2017 Hardback, £25 9780007545124

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The Hidden Life of Trees What They Feel, How They Communicate

Peter Wohlleben A forester’s fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other.

Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben vividly makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers.

Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. A walk in the woods will never be the same again.

‘The matter-of-fact Mr. Wohlleben has delighted readers and talk-show audiences alike with the news long known to biologists that trees in the forest are social beings.’

The New York Times

Peter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice.

He now runs an environmentally-friendly woodland, where he works for the return of primeval forests. He is the author of numerous books about trees.

Natural History 07 September 2017 Paperback original, £9.99 9780008218430

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Air Force Blue Patrick Bishop In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop – author of the bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys – uses the centenary of the Royal Air Force to explore the lives and wartime experience of thousands of women and men who served in the units.

During the Second World War, one in four of those in uniform wore ‘air force blue’.

This new book from Patrick Bishop tells the personal stories of those who served, using their letters, diaries and memoirs to create a true picture of what it was like to be a pilot, a navigator, a gunner, a fitter or a WAAF ops room clerk. It recreates the reality of operations, whether wheeling over Kent in a Spitfire in 1940, rumbling towards the Ruhr in a Halifax in 1942, or looking down from the cockpit of a Liberator at the grey corrugated waters of the North Atlantic in 1943. It also lights up the humanity of the participants at every level: their values and motivations, their desires and ambitions.

Air Force Blue is a substantial work of history, brimming with stories of heartbreak, loss, courage and survival against the odds.

A must-read for the descendants of the million men and women from Britain and the Commonwealth who served in the RAF.

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Patrick Bishop is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para and Ground Truth. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, reporting from conflicts all over the world.

Military History 21 September 2017 Hardback, £20 9780007433131

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Wounds A Memoir of Love and War

Fergal Keane Why will people kill for a cause? How does the act of killing reverberate through the generations? In this family story of murder, blood and betrayal that tore a town apart, Fergal Keane investigates events of the Irish civil war, his family’s role in this fratricidal conflict and the scars left by bloody conflict, wherever it occurs.

Wounds is both memoir and history set during years of bitter conflict in rural West Ireland during the 1920s. Although the book has a large cast of characters, it is primarily the story of Fergal Keane’s grandmother, who was an IRA guerrilla, and of her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan and how they took up guns to fight the British Empire. It is also the story of another Irishman, Tobias O’Sullivan, who fought against them. In a book that is both personal and historical, Keane uses their experiences and those of many Irishmen and women like them, to explain why he has spent much of his life trying to understand war and hatred. Written with great lyrical power and the understanding of terrorism and war he has gained from years of reporting for the BBC, this book unearths buried secrets and offers an intimate, unforgettable picture of the long-term effects of war.

Praise for Fergal Keane: ‘Profoundly honest’ Observer

Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. He is one of the BBC's most distinguished correspondents, having worked for the corporation in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Balkans. He has been awarded a BAFTA and has been named reporter of the year on television and radio, winning honours from the Royal Television Society and the Sony Radio Awards. He has also been named Reporter of the Year in the Amnesty International Press Awards and won the James Cameron Prize and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the US Overseas Press Association.

Memoir 21 September 2017 Hardback, £18.99 9780008189259

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Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

Satya Nadella With a Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era.

Hit Refresh is about how people, organizations and societies can and must hit refresh – transform – in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, relevance and renewal. At the core, it’s about us humans and our unique qualities, like the precious gift of empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt like never before. As much a humanist as a technologist, Nadella defines his mission and that of the company he leads as empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Before being named CEO of Microsoft in 2014, Satya Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and in business administration from the University of Chicago. He is married and has three children.

Business / Memoir 21 September 2017 Hardback, £25 9780008247652

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Cops and Robbers The Police’s Quest for Speed to Catch the Fastest Criminals

Ant Anstead TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking.

The British Police Force’s relationship with car started with it’s chasing of pioneer speeding motorists, who were often caught by policemen on bicycles. However, as speed restrictions eased in the early twentieth century and car ownership increased, the Police embraced the car. The arms race for speed had begun. In this fascinating new history of the British Police Car, Ant Anstead looks at the classic Police Cars, from the Met’s Wolseleys to the motorway patrol car officers’ most loved, the Senator, via unusual unexpected police vehicles such as an Ariel Atom. It’s a must-read for car enthusiasts, social historians and anyone who just loves a good car chase.

Ant Anstead is a man of many talents.

He is best known for his day job as a car builder, but he is also a designer, artist, author, world record holder and a semiprofessional football player. Ant has been building bespoke cars since he was a kid, and after his career as one of the UK’s youngest armed police officers came to an end when he was just 25, he followed his passion into the car world. Ant has appeared on The One Show, Sunday Brunch and This Morning and has fronted the hugely popular Channel 4 series For the Love of Cars with Philip Glenister.

Transport 05 October 2017 Hardback, £20 9780008244514

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English The Story of How Weather, Wonky Teeth and Marmite Make Us Who We Are

Ben Fogle What does it mean to be English in a postBrexit world? Is it the beer-swilling, teadrinking, Marmite-eating, wonky-toothed caricature? Or is it a bit more nuanced?

In his quest to find out more about what it means to be English in a rapidly changing world, Ben Fogle takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people in his latest exploration of our nation’s character(s). Over the course of a year Ben makes his way through the British seasons to explore what it means to be English, using the weather as a barometer of Englishness.

He scrutinises our relationship with the weather through art, literature and music.

Covering history, attitudes to foreigners, sport, stereotypes, language and more, English is filled with revealing stories and anecdotes that provide a fascinating portrait of a nation and its people.

Praise for Ben Fogle: ‘Funny, entertaining and really rather inspiring, too’ Daily Mail ‘A great escapade told with refreshing frankness’ Independent on Sunday ‘Passionate and well-researched’ Tatler

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Ben Fogle is a writer, presenter and adventurer. He writes regularly for the Sunday Telegraph and has written numerous bestselling books, including Labrador and Land Rover. He campaigns tirelessly for conservation, the environment and animal welfare, is an ambassador for WWF, Médecins Sans Frontières and Tusk, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the President of the Campaign for National Parks.

Social History 05 October 2017 Hardback, £20 9780008222246

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How to Build a Universe An Infinite Monkey Cage Adventure

Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince From the hosts of the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme comes this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels – a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.

Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince take the musings of the great and the good of British science, to produce an insight into the multifaceted subjects involved in building a Universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout. Covering thousands of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the Big Bang to parallel Universes, fierce creatures to extraterrestrial life, brain science to artificial intelligence. Bringing together the best, most unusual and hilarious of the inquisitive minds that help shape and understand our world, from Neil deGrasse Tyson and Dara Ó Briain to Sir Patrick Stewart, Tim Minchin, Stephen Fry and more, How to Build a Universe is an illuminating and inspirational celebration of science.

Praise for the BBC Radio 4: ‘A witty and irreverent look at the world according to science’ Independent

Professor Brian Cox is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as researcher in one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He is best known as a science broadcaster and presenter of the popular BBC Wonders trilogy.

Robin Ince is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting The Infinite Monkey Cage with Brian Cox on BBC Radio 4.

Popular Science 05 October 2017 Hardback, £20 9780008254957

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To Catch a King Charles Spencer From the bestselling author of Killers of the King, a fast-paced adventure of young Charles II running for his life. One of the greatest escape stories of all time.

January 1649 – Charles I lost his head and Britain became a republic. Two years later, his son was defeated at Worcester, his hopes of regaining his throne shattered. At six foot two inches tall, he stood out in a crowd. If caught, he faced the same fate as his father, but how would he fare on the run with Cromwell’s soldiers on his tail and a vast price on his head?

The next six weeks would form the most memorable and dramatic of Charles’s life. Using disguise, deception and relying on grit, fortitude and good luck, he hid in oak trees, disguised himself as a milk-maid and watched as a village rejoiced at the news of his death. When restored to the throne as Charles II, he told the tale of his adventures to Samuel Pepys.

In this gripping, action-packed, true story, Spencer uses Pepys’s account and many others to retell this epic story. Charles never forgot the particular kindness of his Catholic helpers.

Their patchwork of hiding places had evolved in the face of lethal persecution by royal, Protestant forces; but, ironically, they saved the life of a king.

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Charles Spencer is a historian. His most recent book, Killers of the King, was published by Bloomsbury in 2015.

His book Blenheim: Battle for Europe was shortlisted for History Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards.

In 1986 - 1995, he was Contributing Correspondent on the TODAY Show (NBC News). He is a Founder of the Althorp Literary Festival - held in October each year.

Historical Biography 05 October 2017 Hardback, £20 9780008153632

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Secrets of the Human Body Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken and Andrew Cohen 206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think we know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises.

Your body is full of extraordinary mysteries that science is only just beginning to understand.

This book, which accompanies a major new BBC TV programme, turns your knowledge of the human body on its head. Leading us through all of these revelations are stories of everyday miracles – the human stories that bind every one of us together through the universal stages of life. From the most extreme environments on Earth to the most extreme events, we reveal the extraordinary abilities every human shares. Combining cutting-edge science with state-of-the-art technology, we see the human body like never before.

Praise for Chris & Xand van Tulleken: ‘The van Tullekens are the pin-up doctors at the forefront of HIV research, medicine in war zones and the Ebola epidemic. They’re so warm and likeable that they’ve made roughly 20 TV shows between them. Proving that smart is indeed the new sexy, both van Tullekens are highly qualified doctors, while their shows tend to involve hair-raising, death-defying or body-hacking challenges — all carried off with inexhaustible good humour in the name of science.’ Evening Standard

Chris van Tulleken trained in medicine in Oxford and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. After more than a decade working in the NHS he is now doing a PhD in Molecular Virology at UCL. He is one of the BBC’s leading science presenters.

Xand van Tulleken is the Helen Hamlyn Senior Fellow at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs. He has a diploma in International Humanitarian Assistance and a Master’s in Public Health from Harvard. Xand has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4.

Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and the Executive Producer of the BBC series Secrets of the Human Body. He has been responsible for a wide range of science documentaries including Horizon, the Wonders trilogy, Stargazing Live and Human Universe.

Popular Science 05 October 2017 Hardback, £25 9780008256548

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The Age of Unreason George Osborne With capitalism in deep crisis, this urgent and impassioned book shows how and why growing populist nationalism across the world threatens the bonds that keep our societies prosperous, strong and united.

In this ‘Age of Unreason’ experts are denigrated while prejudice is celebrated. The simplistic cries of anti-market populism resonate with those who have been left behind in a new landscape of technological change, near-zero interest rates and recovery from financial crisis.

Insecurity is fuelled by mass migration, with more displaced persons across the world than at any time since the end of World War II. New social media amplifies these fears and gives voice to extremes. In an age dominated by economic insecurity, mass immigration, lost identity and powerlessness, this book sets out a radical alternative vision.

‘My book is about the future. I want to apply the lessons I've learnt in victory and defeat to the urgent challenge of this Age of Unreason.

Capitalism and democracy are in crisis.

The west is in retreat. The forces of populist nationalism and prejudice are on the rise, amplified by new technology. The likes of Donald Trump say to people: what the hell have you got to lose? The answer is: a lot. Peace, prosperity and security. It's time to say so. It's time for the defenders of open societies and free markets to fight back.’ George Osborne

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The Right Honourable George Osborne CH MP is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Tatton, Cheshire. He was first elected to the House of Commons in June 2001.

George served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 – one of the longest periods anyone has held the office. In August 2016, he was made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty the Queen. This is his first book.

Economics 12 October 2017 Hardback, £25 9780008229320

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Antiques Roadshow Paul Atterbury & Marc Allum A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series.

Gracing our screens for nearly forty years, one of the nation’s most beloved television programmes has become a national institution. The Antiques Roadshow has given the opportunity for thousands of unique stories to be told over the years, as well as the introduction of many incredible characters. In this exclusive new compendium, some of the classic moments from the show are featured, providing an intriguing look at the fascinating history behind each object.

The show has created some historical television moments, including the Lalique vase which had been bought for a pound at a carboot sale and left in the loft, only to be valued at £25,000. Beautifully illustrated, and featuring a diverse mix of the fabulous finds from the show, this is a truly revealing book, uncovering many fascinating moments from history through each of the extraordinary items discovered in its forty-year history.

History 19 October 2017 Hardback, £20 ISBN TBC

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The Dawn Watch Joseph Conrad and the Globalizing World

Maya Jasanoff An ambitious new history of the world at the dawn of the twentieth century viewed through the lens of Conrad’s life and fiction.

Conrad’s seminal novels – including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo and The Secret Agent – are visions of the twentieth century: terror, genocide, industrialization, transcontinental migration, multinational capitalism; a world filled with mixing, mobility, disorder, discovery, difference, appropriation, expropriation, going native and going rogue.

Everything that Conrad described at the dawn of the twentieth century plays out through the world at the beginning of the twenty-first.

In this book, award-winning historian Maya Jasanoff uses the work of Joseph Conrad as a precursor and guide to our modern times.

With breath taking scope and incisive analysis, she offers a new way of looking at an international, internationally-engaged world, as much across national borders as within them, at the people who traversed them, and at the ideas and incidents that made Conrad’s world – like our own – an unprecedentedly mobile, dynamic, interconnected, turbulent place to live.

‘Jasanoff ’s achievement in this vivid, superbly researched and high intelligent book is to skilfully weave together a mass of recent revisionist research on these men and women’ Guardian

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Maya Jasanoff is Professor of British and Imperial history at Harvard University. Her first book, Edge of Empire, was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications including the Economist, the Guardian and the Sunday Times. Her second, Liberty’s Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2017 she was a recipient of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize.

History 02 November 2017 Hardback, £25 9780007553730

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Why Dylan Matters Richard F. Thomas Harvard Classics professor and celebrated ‘Dylanologist’ Richard F. Thomas makes a compelling case for why the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan endure and inspire us.

Professor Richard Thomas, whose wildly popular Harvard course has been dubbed ‘Dylan 101’, is breeding a new crop of Dylan fans. His course is a testament to the ongoing relevance and the intergenerational appeal of Bob Dylan, inciting lively debates on subjects that range from sexism in ‘Just Like a Woman’, to the eclectic literary references in Dylan’s work.

Growing out of the course, Why Dylan Matters is a celebration of Dylan’s genius that explores his music in the context of the last half-century and puts his work in the tradition of classical poets like Virgil and Homer. Thomas probes the question of why Dylan’s work continues to resonate and to speak to us today, particularly in light of his award of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, a Bob Dylan expert, and the creator of a freshman seminar at Harvard on Bob Dylan.

Popular Culture 16 November 2017 Hardback, £12.99 9780008245498

Praise for Richard F. Thomas: ‘The coolest class on campus’ New York Times

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Screwtape Proposes a Toast And Other Pieces

C.S. Lewis

Seventy-five years after the publication of The Screwtape Letters, the only sequel Lewis ever penned is now available for a new generation of readers.

Just before C. S. Lewis died he selected essays from his previously published works to form a new volume. The first of these sees the return of the notorious Screwtape, giving an after-dinner speech at the Tempter’s Training College for young devils.

C.S. Lewis was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. He was the author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia.

Essays • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £7.99 • 9780008192532

In the Darkroom Susan Faludi A New York Times Book of the Year. ‘An out and out masterpiece’ Observer In this New York Times bestseller, the author’s struggle to come to grips with her father's gendered metamorphosis takes her across borders – historical, political, religious, sexual – bringing her face to face with the question of the age: is identity something you ‘choose’ or is it the very thing you cannot escape?

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Susan Faludi is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Memoir • 13 July 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008194475

Shadows of a Princess An Intimate Account by her Private Secretary

Patrick Jephson

Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana’s death Patrick Jephson was Diana’s closest aide and adviser during her years of greatest public fame and deepest personal crisis. Rooted in unique first-hand experience, Shadows of a Princess is an authoritative and balanced account of one of the world’s most famous and tragic women.

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Patrick Jephson became equerry to the Princess of Wales in 1987 and was later appointed her first, and only, private secretary. His resignation in 1996, after her Panorama interview, made headline news.

Biography • 27 July 2017 • Paperback Reissue • £9.99 • 9780008259297

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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500–2000

Paul Kennedy

Paul Kennedy’s classic international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might, explaining the journey to the present among the great powers of the world.

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This masterwork explores world wars and civil wars, destructive ideologies, the paranoia of superpowers and the inherent problems of a united Europe. It shows how imbalance between economic and military power has historically led to spectacular political disaster.

Paul Kennedy studied at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford and is now professor of history at Yale. His other books include Preparing for the Twenty-first Century.

Genre • 10 August 2017 • Paperback Reissue • £14.99 • 9780006860525

Kenneth Clark Life, Art and Civilisation

James Stourton

The astonishing life of Kenneth Clark – the greatest British art historian of his time.

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A dazzling biography of a towering figure in the art world – a passionate art historian of the Italian Renaissance and a brilliant communicator. Through the many mediums of his work Clark conveyed the profound beauty and importance of art, architecture and civilisation for generations to come.

James Stourton graduated from Cambridge Art History Faculty. He sits on the Panel of the Heritage Memorial Fund and the Acceptance in Lieu Panel.

Biography • 21 September 2017 • Paperback • £10.99 • 9780007493449

This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

Richard Holmes

This Long Pursuit contains some of the finest biographical writing ever published.

Spanning three centuries and much of Europe, this companion book to our favourite Romantic figures (Cavendish, de Staël, Coleridge, Shelley, Somerville, Wollstonecraft…) ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration. A masterful reflection upon the practice and importance of biographical writing.

Richard Holmes is the author of the prize-winning and best-selling The Age of Wonder, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2009 and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science writing.

Biography • 05 October 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008168728

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The Man Who Created the Middle East A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement

Christopher Simon Sykes The sad story of an experienced, knowledgeable, good-humoured and generous man once considered the ideal diplomat for finding a peaceful solution continues to reverberate across the world today.

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes’s lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.

Christopher Simon Sykes grew up at Sledmere, and went on to become a journalist, photographer and writer. He is married with two children and lives in North London.

Biography • 02 November 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008121938

Inside Story Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit

Philip Webster

From one of the greatest political journalists of recent times, an insider’s account of four decades of covering the British political scene and tales of the biggest political happenings of the last half-century.

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This is the book that politicians and journalists have been waiting for, one that will give readers explosive new insights about the stories they read at breakfast emerging into the daylight. Webster unearths exciting new secrets about the way political journalists operate and the changes in politics in his marathon career.

Philip Webster was Political Editor of The Times from 1993 to 2010, having previously been Chief Political Correspondent. This is his first book.

Politics and Current Affairs • 02 November 2017 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008201364

The Five Giants A Biography of the Welfare State: New Edition

Nicholas Timmins

The classic narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State – now fully revised to cover New Labour and Cameron’s premiership.

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On the 75th Anniversary of William Beveridge’s original Report, this fully updated history of the Welfare State from the 1940s to the present day tells an anecdotal, witty and illuminating story central to modern British identity.

Between 1996 and 2011, Nicholas Timmins was Public Policy Editor at the Financial Times. He has written extensively on health care and was president of the Social Policy Association between 2008 and 2011.

Politics • 02 November 2017 • Paperback Reissue • £12.99 • 9780007335138

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Labyrinths Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

Catrine Clay

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis.

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Labyrinths tells the story of the Jungs. Aged seventeen, Emma, clever, ambitious and one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland, met and fell in love with Carl, a handsome, penniless medical student. This book chronicles their work and marriage, and their friendship as well as their subsequent rift with Freud.

Catrine Clay is a former BBC director and producer. She authored King Kaiser Tsar and Trautmann's Journey, winner of the Best Sports Biography of the Year, and William Hill Sports Book Prize runner-up.

Psychology • 02 November 2017 • Paperback • £9.99

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