4th Estate, William Collins and The Friday Project Catalogue - Jan to June 2014

4th Estate, William Collins and The Friday Project January – June 2014

Contents

4th Estate Fiction

4 – 36

4th Estate Non-Fiction

37 - 52

William Collins

53 – 102

Friday Project

103-111

F ICTION

This is the Way Gavin Corbett Winner of the Listowel Irish Novel of the Year 2013 The enmity between the Sonaghans and Gillaroos is the stuff of legend. But Anthony, the only descendent of both Travelling clans, has grown up away from his people and is only dimly aware of their disputes. That is until the feud is rekindled and he is forced to lie low in Dublin.

Here, aided by thumbless Uncle Arthur and right-on academic Judith, Anthony takes stock of the myths and the world that made him. He begins to set down his own story, a story as funny and moving as its telling is strange and thrilling.

From the reviews of This is the Way: ‘This fresh and funny novel is a devastating love story – one that comes upon you by stealth and stays with you long after you’ve finished reading’ Claire Lowdon, New Statesman ‘Within a couple of pages, I had fallen into the rhythm of a unique and extraordinary voice’ Kate Saunders, Daily Mail ‘The triumph is in the telling. Anthony’s voice, once heard, is hard to forget; its rhythms, its repetitions, its sly humour – all strike the reader as genuinely original. It’s a timely reminder that while fiction may not change things in the real world, it does offer us new ways to dream’ Arminta Wallace, Irish Times

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and raised in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College. This is the Way is his second novel. He lives in New York.

• The Telegraph chose Gavin Corbett as one of its top five debut fiction authors to look out for in 2013.

• A major new literary talent. Beat strong competition to win Irish Novel of the Year at the Listowel Festival.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747597-1 B 197x130 Paperback 2nd January 2014 UK £8.99

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& Sons David Gilbert & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding and Wonder Boys – the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist, two interconnected families, and the heartbreaking truths that fiction can hide.

The Manhattan funeral of Charles Henry Topping would have been a minor affair but for the identity of the eulogist: reclusive author A. N. Dyer, whose novel Ampersand stands as a classic of teenage angst. Now Andrew Newbold Dyer takes stock of his own life, the people he’s hurt and the novel that will endure as his legacy. He realises he must reunite with his three sons before it’s too late.

Eldest son Richard is a screenwriter in Californian exile. In the middle is Jamie, who has spent his life capturing the sorrow that surrounds him. And last is Andy, now a pupil at the boarding school that inspired Ampersand. It is only when the hidden purpose of the reunion comes to light do the sons realise what’s at stake – for their father, themselves and three generations of Dyers.

Daring, entertaining and insightful, & Sons establishes David Gilbert as one of our most original, entertaining and insightful authors. & Sons is that rarest of treasures: a startlingly imaginative novel about families and how they define us, and the choices we make when faced with our own mortality.

Praise for & Sons: ‘The writing is gorgeous – not only the prose but the power of David Gilbert’s observations … this is a terrific story’ John Irving ‘Gilbert has a rich theme, and plenty of talent … Gilbert often writes superbly, his sentences crisp, witty, and rightly weighted … Some of [his metaphors] realign the visual world, asking us, as Nabokov’s best metaphors do, to estrange in order to reconnect … Every page proposes something clever and well turned.

Gilbert is bursting with little achievements’ James Wood, New Yorker

David Gilbert is the author of the short-story collection Remote Feed and the novel The Normals. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, GQ and Bomb.

He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-755279-5 Royal 234x153 Hardback 16th Jan 2014 UK £16.99 Paperback 22nd May 2014 UK £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-755280-1 16th Jan 2014 UK £11.45

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At Night We Walk in Circles

Daniel Alarcón

The breakout book from Daniel Alarcón, one of the New Yorker’s 20 best writers under 40: a breathtaking, suspenseful story of one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall.

Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man, his brother has left their South American country and moved to the United States, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother, and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground. That is, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, with legendary guerrilla theatre troupe Diciembre. And that’s when the real trouble begins.

The tour takes Nelson across a landscape scarred by years of civil war. Forging bonds with his fellow actors, he becomes hopelessly entangled in their lives, until a long-buried betrayal erupts into chaos.

Nelson’s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson’s story – and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. In sharp, vivid, and beautiful prose, Alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, identity, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Daniel Alarcón was born in 1977 in Lima, Peru and lives in San Francisco, California.

He writes for the New Yorker and works as Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra.

Advance praise for At Night We Walk in Circles: ‘Nabokov says that imagination is a form of memory, and this novel is a perfect example of this claim. In writing about a place, its people and its history, Daniel Alarcón's memory catches the evanescent details of everyday life, while his imagination, never for a moment blurred, creates a powerful story with so many intricate characters. This is a novel written with extraordinary vision and wisdom’ Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl and The Vagrants • Daniel Alarcón was named in the 2010 list of the best 20 writers under 40 by the New Yorker.

• Granta has hailed Alarcón as one of the Best Young American novelists.

Fiction ISBN 978-0-00-751739-8 Demy 216x155 Hardback 16th January 2014 UK £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751742-8 31st October 2013 UK £11.39

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Winter Christopher Nicholson The new novel from the author of the Costa Best Novelshortlisted The Elephant Keeper.

In the winter of 1924 the most celebrated English writer of the day, 84-year-old Thomas Hardy, was living at his Dorset home of Max Gate with his second wife, Florence. Aged 45 but in poor health, Florence came to suspect that Hardy was in the grip of a romantic infatuation. The woman in question was a beautiful local actress, 27-year-old Gertrude Bugler, who was playing Tess in the first dramatic adaptation of Hardy’s most famous novel, Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

Inspired by these events, Winter is a brilliantly realised portrait of an old man and his imaginative life; the life that has brought him fame and wealth, but that condemns him to living lives he can’t hope to lead, and reliving those he thought he once led. It is also, though, about the women who now surround him: the middleaged, childless woman who thought she would find happiness as his handmaiden; and the young actress, with her youthful ambitions and desires, who came between them.

Praise for The Elephant Keeper: ‘Captivatingly original…a wonderful feat of storytelling, remarkable for its ability to wrench your heart without resorting to sentimentality’ Daily Mail

Christopher Nicholson read English at Cambridge University.

He has been a community development worker in Cornwall, and a radio scriptwriter and producer in London. He lives in Dorset.

Winter is his third novel.

‘The Elephant Keeper evokes 18th-century village and estate life beautifully, and is stuffed with fascinating data from medical and veterinary history’ Independent Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751607-0 Demy 216x135 Hardback 16th January 2014 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751606-3 16th Jan 2014 UK £8.99

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Carthage Joyce Carol Oates A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war.

Zeno Mayfield’s daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father’s frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects – a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever.

Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unravelling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance.

Dark and riveting, Carthage is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love and forgiveness, and asks if it’s ever truly possible to come home again.

Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:

Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

‘If the phrase “woman of letters” existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it’ John Updike, New Yorker

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748574-1 Royal 234x153 Trade paperback 21st January 2014 UK £12.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-748576-5 21st Jan 2014 UK £8.69

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Ripper Isabel Allende A gripping thriller from the bestselling Isabel Allende.

For Amanda Martín and her friends, Ripper was all just a game.

But then the murders began in real life, and San Francisco was once again in thrall to a cold-blooded killer.

The police can’t crack the case alone, and the murderer is creeping ever closer to Amanda herself. Will she and her online accomplices solve the mystery before it’s too late?

Praise for Maya’s Notebook: ‘Another impressive feat with a dazzling cast and bold array of landscapes, woven together with the storytelling prowess that is Allende’s trademark’ Daily Telegraph, 4 stars ‘Isabel Allende is a mistress storyteller… [her] capacity to surprise keeps her readers page-turning, as do her descriptions of character and place’ Independent • A new direction from a bestselling international author – a new kind of novel for a more YA audience.

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of nine novels. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children’s novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754894-1 Royal 234x153 Trade paperback 28th January 2014 UK £12.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754896-5 28th Jan 2014 UK £8.99

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Maya’s Notebook Isabel Allende The author of The House of the Spirits returns with a gritty yet transcendent tale of teenage addiction.

Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and gentle grandfather Popo. But at school, the teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what’s happened, Maya’s life has turned into one of drug addiction and crime.

Things go from bad to worse as Maya disappears into the criminal underworld. To save her from her old associates, Nini sends Maya to a remote island off the coast of Chile.

Safe amongst her new neighbours, Maya feels compelled to write her story and slowly she begins to heal. But can she learn to live with her scars, and will her past ever catch up with her?

Praise for Maya’s Notebook: ‘Another impressive feat with a dazzling cast and bold array of landscapes, woven together with the storytelling prowess that is Allende’s trademark’ Daily Telegraph, 4 stars ‘Isabel Allende is a mistress storyteller… [her] capacity to surprise keeps her readers page-turning, as do her descriptions of character and place’ Independent

Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of nine novels. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children’s novels. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-seven languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. In 2004 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

• Allende’s popularity as an author just keeps growing, book on book – she has sold over 15 million novels worldwide and is one of the top international bestselling authors.

• City of Beasts, Allende’s first Young Adult novel, has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide and 120,000 copies in the UK alone.

Maya’s Notebook has the potential to appeal to the same audience.

Fiction ISBN:978-0-00-748285-6 B 197x130 Paperback 28th January 2014 UK £8.99

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Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw

In this stunning Booker-longlisted novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.

Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world.

In Five Star Billionaire, Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping the new city experiences all over the world, and their effect on myriad individual lives.

From the reviews of Five Star Billionaire: 'A fascinating cast of characters … a panoramic, expertly detailed painting of contemporary Shanghai' Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times ‘[Tash Aw] is unmatched at evoking the smells and sounds of the land and cityscapes … Their tales are told chapter by chapter, the characters slowly drawing closer together like flotsam in a vortex, before the stunning finale … There is wit here, and plenty of acute observation and characterisation’ Sholto Byrne, Independent on Sunday • Five Star Billionaire was Tash Aw’s second longlisting for the Man Booker Prize

Tash Aw is the author of two previous novels, The Harmony Silk Factory, winner of the Costa First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, and Map of the Invisible World. He was born in Malaysia and now lives in London.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-749418-7 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £8.99

•Tash Aw lives in London and is available for literary festivals and talks around the world.

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A Bit of Difference Sefi Atta A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.

Deola Bello, a 39-year-old Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being single and working overseas. Deola works as a financial reviewer for an international charity, and when her job takes her back to Nigeria in time for her father's five-year memorial service, she finds herself turning her scrutiny inward.

In Nigeria, Deola encounters changes in her family and in the urban landscape of her home, and new acquaintances who offer unexpected possibilities. While there, she must navigate both the expectations of others, and the difference between foreign images of Africa and the realities of contemporary Nigerian life. Deola’s urgent, incisive voice captivates and guides.

‘One of the leading writers of her generation’ Teju Cole

‘Atta's splendid writing sizzles with wit and compassion.

This is an immensely absorbing book’ Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters Street ‘The novel’s momentum comes from Atta’s delicate prose and from the wry sense of humour she gives Deola. The book, among other things, is a novel about novels: in several scenes, Deola and her friend Bandele lament the fact that stories from Africa that reach foreign audiences are uniformly tragic. “More death, the better,” as Bandele says.

Atta’s quietly funny novel is clearly intended as a corrective to this trend’ New Yorker

Sefi Atta is the author of two novels, Swallow and Everything Good Will Come, and a collection of short stories, News from Home.

She has been awarded the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa and the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa. Her novels have been published and translated around the world, and her radio and stage plays performed internationally. Born in Lagos, she now lives in the United States.

Fiction ISBN:978-0-00-753103-5 Demy 216x135 Hardback 30th January 2014 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN:978-0-00-753609-2 30th January 2014 UK £9.99

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Penelope Fitzgerald A major reissue of the novels and non-fiction of one of the most admired novelists of the twentieth-century.

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century. She was awarded the Booker Prize in 1979, and shortlisted another three times. Her fans include David Nicholls, Jonathan Franzen, A S Byatt and Sebastian Faulks. Hermione Lee’s biography of Fitzgerald is published in November 2013.The books will have beautiful, modern new designs and include new introductions from Penelope Fitzgerald’s literary admirers, including Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and Simon Callow.

‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer’ David Nicholls

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Penelope Fitzgerald did not embark on her literary career until the age of sixty. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, she worked at the BBC during the war, edited a literary journal, ran a bookshop and taught at various schools, including a theatrical school; her early novels drew upon many of these experiences. She died in April 2000, at the age of eightythree.

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Human Voices Penelope Fitzgerald A funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz.

The human voices of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel are those of the BBC in the first years of the World War II, the time when the Concert Hall was turned into a dormitory for both sexes, the whole building became a target for enemy bombers, and in the BBC – as elsewhere – some had to fail and some had to die, but where the Nine O’Clock News was always delivered, in impeccable accents, to the waiting nation.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-654254-4 B 197x130 Paperback 30th Jan uary2014 UK £8.99

The Bookshop Penelope Fitzgerald Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, and as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural and even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-654354-1 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £7.99

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Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at 22 Lipka Street, the home of English printer Frank Reid.

One day Frank’s wife Nellie takes the train back to England, with no explanation, leaving him with their three young children. Into his life comes Lisa Ivanovna, a country girl, untroubled to the point of seeming simple. But is she? And why has Frank’s accountant Selwyn, gone to such lengths to bring them together? And who is the passionate Volodya, who breaks into the press at night?

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-654370-1 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £7.99

Franks sees, but only dimly, that he is a rational man in Moscow, a city where love, and friendship, power and politics, are at their most unfathomable.

Charlotte Mew: and her Friends Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of Bloomsbury’s saddest poet.

Charlotte Mew (1869–1928) was a poet with a formidable reputation who, as Virginia Woolf put it, was ‘very good and interesting and unlike anyone else’ and who wrote some of the best English poems of the twentieth century. In her private life, to all appearances, she was a dutiful daughter living at home with a monster of an old mother. The proprieties had to be observed and no one must know that the Mews had no money, that two siblings were insane and that Charlotte was a secret lesbian, living a life of self-inflicted frustration. Despite literary success and a passionate, enchanting personality, eventually the conflicts within her drove her to despair, and she killed herself by swallowing household disinfectant.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-714274-3 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £9.99

In this gripping portrait, Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist’s skills into play, giving us touching story, and an entire life’s emotional history.

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The Gate of Angels Penelope Fitzgerald Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.

Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-654360-2 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £8.99

Until into Fred’s orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she’s quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.

The Golden Child Penelope Fitzgerald The Golden Child, Penelope Fitzgerald’s first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the ‘Golden Child’ at a London museum.

While a new exhibit lures thousands of curious spectators, it also becomes the sinister focus in a web of intrigue and murder.

The Golden Child shows how Fitzgerald’s distinctive wit and humour and her sense of the absurd were present at the very beginning of her career. It shows, as always, how acutely perceptive of human nature she is, how understanding and how forgiving. It is also, perhaps more than any other of her books, a minor comic masterpiece.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-654625-2 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £7.99

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Idiopathy Sam Byers A novel of love, narcissism and ailing cattle Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Thirty, stuck in a town and a job she hates, her mounting cynicism and vicious wit repel the people she wants to attract, and attract the people she knows she should repel. Her ex Daniel, meanwhile, isn’t sure that he loves his new girlfriend Angelica. But somehow not telling her he loves her has become synonymous with telling her that he doesn’t love her, meaning that he has to tell her he loves her just to maintain the status quo.

When their former friend Nathan returns from a stint in a psychiatric ward – to find that his mother has transformed herself into bestselling author and Twitter superstar "Mother Courage" – Katherine, Daniel and Nathan decide to meet to heal old wounds and reaffirm their friendship. But will a reunion end well?

Almost certainly not.

Written with dazzling flair and deep insight; veering from scathing satire to a moving account of love and loneliness, Idiopathy neatly skewers the tangled relationships and unhinged narcissism of a self-obsessed generation. Taking aim at militant environmentalists, money-grabbing misery memoirs, self-help quackery and an increasingly bizarre cattle epidemic, it announces the arrival of a formidable, savagely funny talent.

‘A savagely brilliant novel … Brimming with comic brio and nuanced psychological insight, Idiopathy signals the arrival of an exciting new talent … If Idiopathy was half as fun to write as it is to read I suspect Mr Byers found some happiness along the way’ David Annand, Sunday Telegraph ‘A howling dig at cultural myopia’ Catherine Taylor, Guardian ‘This is a savagely funny debut from a gifted, cynical new voice’ Joseph Charlton, Financial Times

Sam Byers was born in 1979.

Idiopathy is his first novel.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-741210-5 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £8.99

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The UnAmericans Molly Antopol The UnAmericans is a debut story collection of great poise and sophistication.

An absentee father needles his adult daughter for details about her newly commissioned play when he fears it will cast him in an unflattering light. A man finds – and loses – love when he meets and marries a recently widowed Ukrainian immigrant. An actor, fazed out of Hollywood for his Communist ties during the Red Scare era, tries to share a meaningful moment with his son. A young Israeli soldier comes of age when his brother, a favourite son, is tragically maimed on the family farm.

These are just a few of the characters who populate these incredibly skilful stories, cutting a wide swath through the fabric of time and place, exploring different people from different cultures painfully human in their joys, desires, tragedies and heartaches.

Advance praise for The UnAmericans: ‘Antopol’s stories display that wonderful combination of an original voice with masterfully rendered settings. A rich collection, a great read’ Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone ‘Molly Antopol is a writer of uncommon talent and wisdom.

These stories are beautiful, funny, fearless, exquisitely crafted and truly novelistic in scope. It’s so rare to read a story collection—let alone a debut—that is this big, ambitious and brilliantly realized: filled with deeply sympathetic characters who struggle for footing in an uncertain world, and whose sorrows, joys and desires play out on such an expansive global and historical stage.’ Jesmyn Ward, author of National Book Awardwinner Salvage the Bones • Stoutly realist short stories that introduce a wonderful new talent.

Molly Antopol is a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. Her short stories have appeared in numerous publications.

Her essays and reviews appear in he San Francisco Chronicle, The Rumpus, NPR’s This American Life. She lives in San Francisco and Tel Aviv.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754881-1 Demy 216x135 Hardback 3rd Febuary 2014 UK £12.99

Ebook ISBN:978-0-00-754882-8 3rd Feb 2014 UK £8.75

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A French Novel Frédéric Beigbeder Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frédéric Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood.

Confined to his cell within the underbelly of Paris, Frédéric Beigbeder’s seeks escape in his childhood memories, only to discover he can recall just one. From this, he reconstructs both his past and that of his family; the glamour of Sixties Paris and his father’s playboy life in New York, so distinct from the experiences of his soldier grandfather, whose lifespan Frédéric has now exceeded.

His arrest all over the tabloids, Frédéric wonders if the time has come to grow up. A French Novel is a belated coming-of-age tale, profoundly tender and charmingly ironic.

From the reviews of A French Novel: ‘In its mixture of wildness and rigour, exhaustion and rapture, impudence and earnestness, A French Novel reminded this reader of … Michel Houellebecq with a human face, Nabokov in both his huffy and dewy modes, Marcel Proust at his most Paul Morley-ish’ Leo Robson, New Statesman

Frédéric Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster.

‘With self-lacerating comedy as much as lyrical nostalgia, Beigbeder scans the files of his recovered for answers … poignant, droll, self-mocking, a portrait of an artist and of an age’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent • Already a bestseller in France, A French Novel received the Prix Renaudot in 2009.

• Beigbeder’s novel Windows on the World won the Prix Interallié is 2003.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-737137-2 B 197x130 Paperback 6th February 2014 UK £8.99

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Thirty Girls Susan Minot

The long-awaited novel from the best-selling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.

Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has travelled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her centre after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways.

With mesmerising emotional intensity and stunning evocations of Africa's beauty and its horror, Minot gives us her most brilliant and ambitious novel yet.

Praise for Rapture:

Susan Minot is the author of Evening, Monkeys, Lust and Other Stories and Rapture. She lives in New York City and Maine.

'Mesmerising’ Vogue 'Few novels capture so delicately the bittersweet ambiguities of love’ Esquire • Review and feature coverage assured for this highly respected writer

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-714815-8 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th February 2014 UK £16.99

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Every Single Minute Hugo Hamilton

Every Single Minute is based on a journey to Berlin which the author Hugo Hamilton (The Speckled People) undertook in May 2008 with his fellow Irish writer, Nuala O Faolain (Are you Somebody).

She was dying of cancer and had only ten days to live. In a moving fictional reconstruction, the book traces two days they spent fulfilling her final wish and the intensity of those final hours in Berlin before she returned to Dublin.

The narrator, Liam makes his way around Berlin with his dying companion, Una. She has prepared a list of places that she wants to see. She has asked him to book tickets to the opera, Don Carlo. She is twenty years older. Their conversations are pressed for time and take on an intimate urgency, allowing for what she calls ‘the rhythm of honesty’.

In small leaps of memory, both Liam and Una reveal things to each other. She speaks of key events in her life – her lovers, her famous father, her alcoholic mother and crucially, the death of her younger brother. The narrator also reveals his own love story and questions arising over his daughter. As the driver, Manfred continues to transport them around the city, meeting people who come to say farewell to her at the famous Paris Bar, the family stories slowly begin to resemble the opera, Don Carlo. It is a journey full of affection and honesty and humour between them, a journey leading to a heartbreaking and uplifting final discovery about her brother at the Berliner Staatsoper.

Hugo Hamilton is the author of six novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories. His work has won a number of international awards, including the 1992 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2003 French Prix Femina Étranger, the 2004 Italian Premio Giuseppe Berto and a DAAD scholarship in Berlin. He has also worked as a writer-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin. Hamilton was born and lives in Dublin.

Advance praise for Every Single Minute: ‘Hugo Hamilton’s style and imaginative systems are filled with power and subtlety. He approaches human failing with a sympathy and an understanding which are poetic and sharply concrete. Each character he creates contains a world, and in Every Single Minute it is a world not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel’ Colm Tóibín • The Speckled People is now considered a classic memoir, a great success in the UK and especially in Ireland.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-732485-9 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th February 2014 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746886-7 27th February 2014 UK £10.10

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Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

The first in the extraordinary Southern Reach Trilogy.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

This is the twelfth expedition.

Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another, that change everything.

Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, which will be published throughout 2014: volume two (Authority) in May, and volume three (Acceptance) in September.

Advance praise for Annihilation: ‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it’ Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls

Jeff VanderMeer is an awardwinning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages. He writes nonfiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

Fiction ISBN:978-0-00-755071-5 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th February 2014 UK £10 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-755070-8 4th February 2014 UK £6.73

• An innovative and striking multi-platform marketing campaign is anticipated.

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Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful story of love, race and identity.

As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. Ifemelu – beautiful, self-assured – departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze – the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor – had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.

Thirteen years later, Obinze is a wealthy man in a newly democratic Nigeria, while Ifemelu has achieved success as a writer of an eye-opening blog about race in America. But when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, and she and Obinze reignite their shared passion – for their homeland and for each other – they will face the toughest decisions of their lives.

Fearless, gripping, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story of love and expectation set in today’s globalized world.

Praise for Americanah: ‘A tour de force … The artistry with which Adichie keeps her story moving, while animating the complex anxieties in which the characters live and work, is hugely impressive’ Mail on Sunday ‘A brilliant novel: epic in scope, personal in resonance and with lots to say’ Observer • Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize and established Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as one of the most important and exciting young writers in the world. It has sold in excess of 650k copies (TCM 530k).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. Her first novel Purple Hibiscus was published in 2003 and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun won the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2010 she appeared on the New Yorker’s list of the best 20 writers under 40.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-735634-8 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK £8.99

• Americanah received incredible review coverage on the publication of its hardback.

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Wrecked

Charlotte Roche The sensational new novel from Charlotte Roche, author of Wetlands.

‘It’s easier to give a blow job than to make coffee.’ That’s what Elizabeth Kiehl, devoted mother of a seven-year-old, thinks to herself after a particularly inventive bout of sex with her husband Georg. She goes to great efforts to pleasure her husband in the bedroom and beyond, doing whatever it takes to make him happy. Elizabeth is also an extremely thoughtful and committed mother to her daughter, compartmentalizing her life for the sake of the family unit. But her perfect mother and wife act hides a painful past and a tragic rift in her psyche – the result of a terrible car crash in which her brothers and mother were involved.

Extraordinarily candid, Charlotte Roche returns with a provocative, semi-autobiographical novel that explores what is expected of a twenty-first-century wife and mother. Her story will provoke and involve you to the very last page.

From the reviews of Wrecked: ‘Roche definitely knows how to write an opening scene … We should celebrate a writer like Roche, whose voice is defiantly, shamelessly her own’ Guardian

Charlotte Roche was born in 1978 in High Wycombe, but was brought up and lives in Germany.

She has been a highly respected presenter on the German equivalent of MTV.

‘Even if, more recently, the erotic canon had not been diverted by the “mommy-porn” of Fifty Shades of Grey and its imitators …

Roche puts dynamite under that new genre. Wrecked is likely to become a cult classic, American Psycho by way of Catherine Millet, as Roche places domestic sex at the forefront of contemporary erotic literature’ FT • A literary sensation in Germany, Wetlands became the biggest selling book on Amazon – anywhere in the world – before performing extremely well in the UK.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747877-4 B 197x130 Paperback 1st Match 2014 UK £8.99

• A highly promotable author (look her up on YouTube)

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Kinder Than Solitude Yiyun Li

The new novel from the author of The Vagrants and the Guardian First Book Award-winning A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

In 1993, Chu, an eighteen-year-old college student in Beijing, became mysteriously ill; within days she was in a coma. Shao, a childhood friend who was an engineering major in college, snuck into his professor's laboratory and composed an SOS message on one of the few computers in the country that had Internet connection. Within twentyfour hours hundreds of people around the world replied to the message, and of the emails that provided diagnosis, 80% decided that Chu was poisoned with thallium, a lethal heavy metal. Chu's life was saved, but when she recovered from the coma five months later, her brain was permanently damaged. The police soon decided it was a case of attempted murder. Muyan, Chu's best friend, was listed as the only suspect, yet no charge was filed against her, as her grandfather was an influential figure in the central government. The case remained unresolved, but, publicized as a case of successful tele-medicine in the Internet age, it drew wide attention and inspired several thallium poisoning cases in the following years.

Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing, China, and moved to the Unites States in 1996. She is the recipient of several prizes for her writing, including the Guardian First Book Award for A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, and an M.F.A. from The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Li's stories have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review. Her first novel, The Vagrants, was published in 2009. She lives in California with her husband and their two sons.

The novel opens eighteen years later. Chu remains in the care of her aging parents, with the intelligence level of an eight-year-old. She remembers little of her history, and is not aware that for the past five years there has been an Internet manhunt to reveal the identity of her assailant, as the case had been officially closed and files of the investigation destroyed.

The novel follows three characters involved in the manhunt: Lun, who has become a regular visitor to Chu's family and who eventually takes over the responsibility of Chu's care after her parents' deaths; Shao, who saved Chu's life once through the Internet and who believes that the Internet was the only way to bring justice; and Wen, Muyan's husband, who had chosen to believe in Muyan's innocence and who is hoping to restore his reputation. The narrative follows the three men's quests; a story of truth and deception, facts and fabrications, love and honour.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-732982-3 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th March 2014 UK ÂŁ14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735710-9 11th March 2014 UK ÂŁ8.99

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All The Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.

Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris. When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure’s great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.

In another world in Germany, an orphan boy, Werner and his sister, Jutta are enchanted by a crude radio Werner finds.

He becomes a master at building and fixing radios, a talent that wins him a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, makes him a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner’s duties eventually bring him to SaintMalo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.

Doerr’s gorgeous combination of soaring imagination with observation is electric. Deftly interweaving the lives of MarieLaure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is his most ambitious and dazzling work.

Praise for About Grace: 'I loved this wonderful book – its strangeness, its obsessiveness, its beautiful sentences' Monica Ali • About Grace received a great deal of attention, and sold well in the UK. This is a lavishly written but absolutely readable, an epic war novel.

Anthony Doerr is the author of three books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, and Four Seasons in Rome. He has won the Rome Prize, and shared the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award with Jonathan Safran Foer. In 2007 Granta placed Doerr on its list of the ‘21 Best Young American novelists’. Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754866-8 Royal 234x153 Hardback 6th May 2014 UK £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754868-2 6th May 2014 UK £11.45

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American Innovations Rivka Galchen A short-story collection from one of America’s brightest young talents.

In 2008, Atmospheric Disturbances introduced readers to the unique gifts of Rivka Galchen, receiving a great deal of attention on publication.

Since then we have seen a great deal of shorter fiction, much of it in the New Yorker. This collection gathers together those stories – eccentric , vivid, often hilarious, each with its own sidelong take on reality – for the first time.

Praise for Atmospheric Disturbances: 'An original and affecting novel, one that knows how to move from the comic to the painful’ New Yorker

Rivka Galchen is a recipient of a William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for the New Yorker, which selected her for their list of ‘20 under 40’ American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008.

‘A playful and moving novel’ Daily Telegraph • Guaranteed review and feature coverage on publication.

• Rivka Galchen’s profile since Atmospheric Disturbances has grown on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in the US, where she now regularly contributes fiction and nonfiction for the New Yorker.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754878-1 Demy 216x135 Hardback 8th May 2014 UK £12.99

Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754879-8 8th May 2014 UK £8.99

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Snow in May Kseniya Melnik Nine miniature epics.

Set between 1950s and the present, in Russia and the US, Snow in May follows several lives bound together by the town Magadan in the northern Far East of Russia, a former transit base for prisoners sent to Stalin’s labour camps, whose inhabitants were a curious mixture of ex-prisoners and cultured new arrivals from the cities.

In nine linked stories, absorbed in the great tradition of Kuprin, Turgenev and Chekhov, as well as the modern American short story, Kseniya Melnik describes with great humour and tenderness the lives and times of her hometown.

Kseniya Melnik was born in Magadan in the northeast of Russia and immigrated to Alaska in 1998, at the age of fifteen. She received her MFA from New York University in 2010 and has taught creative writing there. Her short stories have appeared in Granta and Prospect.

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The Bees Laline Paull A novel like no other. Set entirely in a beehive, it is reminiscent, at times, of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and, at others, of Watership Down.

Under mounting environmental pressure, a colony of bees struggles to carry on its daily life – making honey and tending its fertility-goddess queen. Abnormally ugly worker Flora 717 is spared from early death because she is too useful – but when she refuses to kill on order, she is harshly punished. Despite this, her courage and intelligence enable her to become an elite forager – even as her spontaneous fertility makes her a traitor to the most sacred rule of the hive: only the Queen may breed. A hunted criminal, Flora’s mother-love makes her increasingly desperate.

Her secret is discovered, time runs out for the hive, and Flora’s acts will determine the fate of her people.

•Highly unusual first novel – a glorious, far-reaching imaginative feat – that will speak to everyone from science-fiction readers to naturalists.

•As a novel it also has great cross-generational appeal, to YA and adult readers.

British-born of Indian parents, Laline Paull studied English at Oxford, screenwriting in Los Angeles and theatre in London, where she has had two plays performed at the Royal National Theatre. She is a member of BAFTA and the Writers’ Guild of America (West). The Bees is her first novel and she is at work on her second. She lives by the sea with her husband the photographer Adrian Peacock, and their three shared children.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-755772-1 Demy 216x135 Hardback 22nd May 2014 UK: £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-755773-8 22nd May 2014 UK £10.99

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The Southern Reach Trilogy – Authority Jeff VanderMeer

The second in an extraordinary trilogy.

We rejoin the Southern Reach story in the company of John Casey (aka ‘Control’), the newly appointed head of the Southern Reach, which he finds in disarray, its previous director lost.

Under pressure to make sense of the twelfth expedition, and as he obsesses over evidence touching on its obscure origins and outcome, demons from Control’s own past are unleashed, impulses he had thought had been banished forever. If Control cannot regain personal control, he knows that his time at the Southern Reach will be over.

Advance praise for Annihilation: ‘If JJ Abrams, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Weisman collaborated on a novel . . . it might be this awesome’ Junot Diaz

Jeff VanderMeer is an awardwinning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages. He writes nonfiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

‘A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it’ Lauren Beukes, award-winning author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls • Huge coverage expected in the US and the UK for this very unusual book. Already excitement within the trade.

• An innovative and striking multi-platform marketing campaign is anticipated.

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In the Approaches Nicola Barker ‘Open yourself up again to all that terrible light and savage bliss and deafening reverberation ...’

Nicola Barker’s readers are primed to expect surprises, but her tenth novel delivers mind-meld on a metaphysical scale. From quiet beginnings in the picturesque English seaside enclave of Pett Level, In the Approaches ultimately constructs its own anarchic city-state on the previously undiscovered common ground between G.K. Chesterton and Philip K. Dick. On the one hand, this is an old-fashioned romantic comedy of fused buttocks, shrunken heads and Irish-Aboriginal saints; on the other it’s Barker’s wildest and most haunting book since 2007’s Booker prize-shortlisted Darkmans.

Following previous celebrations of the enduring allure of the posted letter (Burley Cross Postbox Theft) and the pre-lapsarian innocence of pre-Twitter celebrity (the Booker long-listed The Yips), this concluding instalment of Barker’s subliminally affiliated ‘digital trilogy’ imagines a basis for the internet in Catholic theology. Set in a 1984 which seems almost as distantly located in the past as Orwell’s was in the future, In the Approaches offers a captivating glimpse of something more shocking than any dystopia – the possibility of faith.

From the reviews of The Yips: ‘A bravura concoction of golf, social comedy and gloriously bonkers invention’ James Kidd, Independent, Books of the Year ‘Out-Amised Amis with its freewheeling inventive golfing confessional-cum-state-of-the-nation-satire – set in Luton’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent, Books of the Year

Nicola Barker's nine previous novels include Darkmans (shortlisted for the 2007 Booker and Ondaatje prizes, and winner of the Hawthornden), Wide Open (winner of the 2000 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Clear (longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2004) and The Yips (longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2012). She has also written two prize-winning collections of short-stories, and her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in east London.

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Note to Self Alina Simone A darkly humorous reckoning of our modern condition – spam mail, internships, frenemies and hype – and the story of Anna’s quest for the meaningful life she knows she deserves.

Are you a real person?

Anna Krestler has been fired and needs a new job. What she doesn’t need is to check her Gmail account for new messages, or click-through to a blog on underwear that prevents cameltoe. But Anna is addicted to the internet, and no matter how much her life-coach bullies her, she can’t resist the lure of the next link.

Everything changes for Anna when she chances upon a particularly cryptic online advert. Her reply is the gateway to an existential adventure that sees her swallowed whole by New York’s avant-garde art scene and the strange world of experimental cinema.

Anna will do anything to impress Taj, the enigmatic filmmaker, and gradually he begins to direct every aspect of Anna’s life. But is Taj for real anyway? Is Anna? And what’s better? To be totally, obviously real, or really obviously fake?

‘Note to Self is goofy, sweet, and all the things you want in a coming-of-age story. There’s redemption in all this quotidian depravity’ Jen Vafidis, The Daily Beast

Alina Simone is a Brooklyn-based singer and author. Her work has appeared in print in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review, and online at McSweeneys, the Wall Street Journal and BOMB.

‘A very good first novel…Simone is not the kind of writer who is in a hurry to rescue her heroine’ Nick Hornby ‘The Internet has burrowed deep into our souls, and Alina Simone writes about it with radical honesty. Plus she’s hilarious’ Amanda Palmer

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-750941-6 Paperback 5th June 2014 UK £8.99

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The County Guides –The Norfolk Mystery Ian Sansom The first book in The County Guides to Murder Series.

It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where ‘intelligence is essential’, he applies.

Thus begins Sefton’s association with Professor Swanton Morley, an omnivorous intellect. Morley’s latest project is a history of traditional England, with a guide to every county.

They start in Norfolk, but when the vicar of Blakeney is found hanging from his church’s bellrope, Morley and Sefton find themselves drawn into a rather more fiendish plot. Did the Reverend really take his own life, or was it – murder?

Beginning a thrilling new detective series, The Norfolk Mystery is the first of The County Guides. A must-read for fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, every county is a crime scene, and with 39 counties in store there’ll be plenty of murder, mystery and mayhem to confound and entertain you for years to come.

Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is the author of ten books including, Paper: An Elegy, Mr Dixon Disappears, The Delegates’ Choice and The Bad Book Affair, some of the instalments of The Mobile Library series. He lives in Northern Ireland.

Praise for The Norfolk Mystery: ‘A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties … There is a touch of Sherlock Holmes and a dash of Lord Peter Wimsey, but the total is put together with a charm that is teasingly precious … Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morely promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail ‘Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels when, in the 1930s, Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie were the queens of crime … A brilliant first outing that leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour’ Evening Standard

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-736048-2 B 197x130 Paperback 5th June 2014 UK £7.99

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The County Guides –The Devon Mystery Ian Sansom The County Guides are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England.

The books are an odyssey through England and its history.

In each county, the protagonists – Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley – solve a murder.

The second book is set in Devon.

There are 39 books – and 39 murders – to follow.

Praise for The Norfolk Mystery: ‘A delightful, idiosyncratic mystery set in the Thirties …

There is a touch of Sherlock Holmes and a dash of Lord Peter Wimsey, but the total is put together with a charm that is teasingly precious … Beautifully crafted by Sansom, Professor Morley promises to become a little gem of English crime writing; sample him now’ Daily Mail ‘Sansom is both celebrating and sending up the golden age of detective novels when, in the 1930s, Dorothy L Sayers and Agatha Christie were the queens of crime … A brilliant first outing that leaves you looking forward to the next maniacal mystery tour’ Evening Standard • An absolute must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, The County Guides to Murder bring to life a bygone age of pre-war glamour, quaint English villages and old-fashioned murder!

• The Norfolk Mystery received wonderful plaudits, with comparisons to golden-age crime writing.

Ian Sansom reviews regularly for the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He is the author of ten books including, Paper: An Elegy, Mr Dixon Disappears, The Delegates’ Choice and The Bad Book Affair, some of the instalments of The Mobile Library series. He lives in Northern Ireland.

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The Way Inn Will Wiles

By the author of Care of Wooden Floors.

The Way Inn takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare.

The Way Inn is played out in the anonymous and bizarre lobbies, corridors and concourses in which modern business life takes place. The ‘Way Inn’ of the title is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double, the novel’s protagonist, is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend trade fairs, expos and conventions so you don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, inexpensive suits and out-of-town exhibition centres. This would be hell for most people, but it’s a kind of paradise for Neil, who has turned his incognito professional life into a toxic and selfish personal philosophy.

Will Wiles is senior editor of Icon, the monthly architecture and design magazine. His first novel was the much admired Care of Wooden Floors.

But Neil is about to change – not least because he finds himself, for the first time in his adult life, willing himself to engage with somebody of the opposite sex as a human being rather than as a one-night sexual fling. In a brand new Way Inn in an airport hinterland, he meets a woman – a woman he has seen before in bizarre and unsettling circumstances. She hints at being in possession of an astonishing truth about this mundane world.

And then she disappears. Fascinated, and with his professional and personal life unravelling, Neil tries to find the woman again.

In doing so he is drawn into the appalling secret that lurks behind the fake smiles and muzak of the hotel…

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754555-1 Demy 216x135 Hardback 5th June 2014 UK £12.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754556-8 5th June 2014 UK £8.75

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N ON -F ICTION

Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar Robert Lustig Sugar is toxic, addictive and everywhere. So what chance do you have of living sugar-free?

We all know the obvious culprits when it comes to sugar, but now Dr Robert Lustig reveals how much is hidden in our diet.

Our dependence on sugar-laden processed foods has manifested in shocking levels of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and heart disease. Fat Chance exposes the political and business interests behind our modern diet, and shows why exercise and the latest food fads won’t work for everyone who wants to get fitter. The real key to regulating our hunger is to understand why every calorie is different.

Cutting out sugar is not just about making us thin – it’s about giving us more than a fat chance of a healthier, happier and smarter life!

A top ten New York Times bestseller ‘This important book could finally push you to shed those extra pounds, if not save your life’ Evening Standard ‘A fascinating new book’ Daily Mail

Dr Robert Lustig has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751414-4 B 197x130 Paperback 16th January 2014 UK £8.99

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A Great Day At The Office Dr. John Briffa Dreading work? Tired of a 9 to 5 that’s more like an 8 to 10?

Feeling overwhelmed by your job? A Great Day at the Office offers practical solutions to the challenges of modern-day business life for a healthier, happier and more productive time both in and out of the workplace.

In this ground-breaking and timely book, Dr Briffa reveals how small but critical changes in factors such as nutrition, activity, breathing, light exposure, sleep and psychology can quickly ‘recharge our batteries’ and boost our productivity and performance.

A Great Day at the Office contains the wisdom gained from Dr Briffa’s 20 years of experience helping business professionals to live and work more healthily, effectively and sustainably.

His clients include major professional service companies, law firms and banks in the UK, North America and throughout Europe.

Many of the Dr Briffa’s solutions go against conventional wisdom, but are based on cutting-edge science, and have been tried and tested with literally thousands of individuals.

Praise for Escape the Diet Trap:

Dr John Briffa is a practising doctor, author and international speaker. He is a former columnist for the Daily Mail and the Observer, is a regular contributor to the Times.

He is a regular guest on radio and TV. He is the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling Waist Disposal and Escape the Diet Trap.

‘Briffa’s tips will leave you trim, toned and pleasantly hunger-free’ Woman ‘I was really impressed, mainly because the weight loss was so quick’ Woman and Home ‘…builds a sustainable relationships with food that will bring long-term weight loss without excessive hunger, calorie control or hunger’ Saga ‘I lost 6lbs in two weeks, despite eating a lot more than usual. I’m hooked’ Cosmopolitan

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754791-3 Royal 234x153 Hardback 16th January 2014 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754792-0 16th January 2014 UK £10.10

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Broke: Who Killed The Middle Classes?

David Boyle The average price of a house in the UK in 1952 was £1,800.

The average debt per UK household in 2011 was £53,000.

For the first time ever, today’s middle classes will struggle to enjoy the same privileges of security and comfort that their grandparents did. How did this situation come about? What can be done about it?

In this beautifully shaped inquiry, David Boyle questions why the middle classes are diminishing and how their status, independence and values are being eroded. From Thatcher’s boost of the mortgage market in 1980 to the move from regional to centralised institutions; from the collapse of Barings Bank to the 1986 Big Bang, Broke examines the key moments in recent history that threatened the middle class way of life.

What he discovers is that the triumphs of the middle classes have been just as influential in their undoing as their disasters.

Praise for Broke: ‘Could even be your holiday read if you are unable to afford a house in a suburb that your parents thought scruffy but is now ultra-smart, thanks to an influx of foreign bankers … engrossing and contentious’ The Times

David Boyle has been writing about economics for more than a quarter of a century. He is a fellow of the New Economics Foundation and has just completed an independent review for the Cabinet Office. He is the author of The Tyranny of Numbers, The Human Element and Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life. He lives in London.

‘Exhilarating’ Daily Mail

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-749105-6 B 197x130 Paperback 16th January 2014 UK £8.99

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The End of Night Paul Bogard Our use of light at night is negatively affecting the natural world in ways we’re barely beginning to study. Meanwhile, our physical, psychological, and spiritual health are significantly influenced by darkness or a lack thereof; it’s not a matter of using light at night or not, but rather when and where, how and how much.

We live awash in artificial light. Since the 1930s its increase has been gradual enough that it would be easy to imagine our nights are as dark, or nearly so, as they ever were. But today some three-quarters of Europeans and Americans no longer experience real night and can’t imagine real darkness—and nearly all of us live in areas considered polluted by light.

In The End of Night, Paul Bogart investigates what we mean when we talk about the different shades of darkness, about what we’ve lost, what we still have, what we might regain. He travels from our brightest nights to our darkest, from the intensely lit cities where public lighting as we know it began, to the sites where real darkness might still remain.

A beautiful invocation of our constant companion, the night, which returns every day of our lives, this book reminds us of the power and mystery of the dark.

Paul Bogard is a widely published author of journalism, creative non-fiction, and scholarship whose work has appeared in Outside, Audubon, Backpacker, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Albuquerque Journal. He now teaches writing at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

‘Bogard takes us light years through history, science, psychology, art, folklore and his own travels, looking for an unpolluted dark and starry, starry night’ Iain Finlayson, The Times ‘Bogard’s book is a literary journey — in the space of a few pages, we walk with Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens and Rétif de la Bretonne. It is also a pilgrimage to our capitals of light. This is a rich book with a rewarding appendix of notes.

The big thing is that, as you read it, you too will want to reclaim the night and perhaps rediscover the heavens of the Enlightenment’ Nature Magazine

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-742821-2 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £8.99

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The New IQ: Use Your Working Memory To Think Stronger, Smarter, Faster Tracy and Ross Alloway Working memory – a bigger asset than IQ. Working memory – your ability to work with information – influences nearly everything you do. What if you could find a way to better handle a hectic schedule or expertly manage risks?

What if you could gain an advantage in climbing the career ladder or in sports? What if there were a way to improve your outlook on life, and face each day with more optimism and confidence?

Tracy and Ross Alloway, leading experts, show how working memory is the key to all that and more. They present important and recent breakthroughs in the field, including research on how Facebook can become ‘Smartbook’, how working memory can improve your children’s marks, how it changes as you age, and how working memory is linked with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and Alzheimer’s.

But here’s the best news: You can improve your working memory! This book will give you three tests to find out how good your working memory is – and over 50 targeted exercises so you can sharpen it.

The New IQ offers unprecedented insight into one of the most important cognitive breakthroughs in recent years – a vital new approach to making your brain stronger, smarter and faster.

Tracy Alloway, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Florida. Formerly, she was the Director of the Centre for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan. She is an expert on working memory and education, and developed the internationally recognized Alloway Working Memory Assessment.. Ross Alloway, PhD, CEO of Memosyne Ltd, brings working memory training to educators and parents. Ross developed Jungle Memory, used by thousands of students in over twenty countries.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-755036-4 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £8.99

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Extreme Metaphors J. G Ballard, ed. Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.

J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. Best known for his controversial bestsellers Crash and Empire of the Sun, he was a writer of unique talent – always surprising, frequently prescient.

Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballard’s restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it, and speculated, often correctly, about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation, and continue to yield an uncannily accurate commentary today.

Extreme Metaphors collects the finest interviews of his career.

Conversations with Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray, and collaborators like David Cronenberg, are a reminder of his wit and humanity, testament to Ballard’s profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent history’s most original thinkers.

From the reviews of Extreme Metaphors: ‘In Extreme Metaphors we learn of Ballard’s enduring love of the south of France (an intoxicating mix of “garlic, Gauloises, shit and perfume”), Graham Greene, disused football stadiums and games of contract bridge. Impeccably edited, the book serves as a valuable coda to the work of one of the strangest and most haunted imaginations in English literature’ Ian Thomson, Observer, ‘Books of the Year’ ‘An illuminating and at times revelatory collection of more than 40 interviews given over 41 years’ John Gray, New Statesman

Simon Sellars lives in Melbourne, Australia. He is the editor of the magazine Architectural Review Asia Pacific and the publisher of ballardian.com. His writing on architecture, urbanism, film, travel and Ballard has been published widely.

Dan O’Hara is a philosopher of technology and a literary historian.

He lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745486-0 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK £10.99

• J.G. Ballard has a large and very dedicated fanbase. His final book, the memoir Miracles of Life, has sold over 40,000 copies through TCM.

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The People’s Platform And Other Digital Delusions Astra Taylor From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveller of our age.

The internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratising force, a place where everyone can participate. But how true is this? Dismantling the techno-utopian vision, The People’s Platform argues that for all our “tweeting” and “sharing,” the internet in fact reflects and amplifies real-world inequalities as much as it reduces them. Online, just as off-line, attention accrues to those who already have plenty of it.

What we have seen so far, Astra Taylor argues, has been not a revolution but a rearrangement. A handful of giants like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are our gatekeepers. And the worst habits of the old media model – the pressure to seek easy celebrity – have proliferated. When culture is “free,” creative work has diminishing value and advertising fuels the system.

We can do better, Taylor insists. The online world does offer a unique opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports the diverse and lasting will not spring up from technology alone. If we want the internet to be a people’s platform, we will have to make it so.

• An important book which highlights the real inequalities of the internet and challenges the long-held assumptions that the internet is a democratic utopia.

• Essential reading for anyone who has ever ‘Liked’ something on Facebook, tweeted an article or blogged. Find out how big corporations like Google and Facebook are capitalising on your creativity.

Astra Taylor is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Salon, Monthly Review, The Baffler and other publications. She lives in New York City.

Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752559-1 Royal 234x153 Hardback 18th February 2014 UK £13.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752560-7 18th February 2014 UK £9.43

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Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies Hadley Freeman Hadley Freeman, Guardian features writer and author of the popular ‘Ask Hadley…’ column, reminds the modern lady to ‘Be Awesome’.

‘Being single is often awesome. You can leave a party when you want to, whether that be 9pm or 9am; you don't have to live in fear of ever hearing yourself described as “my better half”; and you can spend all day lying on the sofa in your pajamas watching Murder She Wrote and eating peanut butter straight out of the jar’ ‘Don't, if you are over the age of 18, refer to yourself as a “girl” or your friends, if they are over 18, as “the girls.” You are a woman and so are they. And you know what? That's just brilliant.’

Covering topics vital for any modern woman to consider (from ‘How to read women’s magazines without wanting to grow a penis’ to ‘Beyond the armpit: a guide to being a modern day feminist’), Be Awesome tackles body image, sex, dating and feminism head on.

Hadley Freeman is the author of The Meaning of Sunglasses and has been a columnist and staff writer for the Guardian since 2000, where she writes the popular ‘Ask Hadley’ fashion column. She also contributes to US Vogue. She lives in New York and London.

With an attitude that is unfalteringly funny, smart and surprisingly heartwarming, Hadley Freeman is a voice of sanity that every woman should hear.

‘Freeman manages to be both scathing and serious about being awesome in a way no British writer could … The writing is fresh, original. It is tempting to gorge on this collection at breakneck speed’ Observer ‘Freeman writes with real passion and cold fury … and she writes warmly and kindly about dating, sex and how to cope when all your friends suddenly disappear into the babymaking void … it’s good to know you have someone that fearless, funny and – yes - awesome in your corner’ Stylist Magazine, Book Wars

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748570-3 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK £8.99

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The Sea Inside Philip Hoare

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Leviathan.

The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat. It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It covers two-thirds of our planet. Yet caught up in our everyday lives, we barely notice it.

In The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea, its islands, birds and beasts. He begins on the south coast where he grew up, a place of almost monastic escape. From there he travels to the other side of the world – the Azores, Sri Lanka, New Zealand – in search of encounters with animals and people.

Navigating between human and natural history, he asks what these stories mean for us now.

Along the way we meet an amazing cast; from scientists to tattooed warriors; from ravens to whales and bizarre creatures that may, or may not, be extinct. Part memoir, part fantastical travelogue, The Sea Inside takes us on an astounding journey of discovery.

From the reviews of The Sea Inside: ‘His passionate engagement will infect you. As you close this book, you will probably feel as ecstatic as the author does after one of his cold morning dips’ Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times ‘A passionate, wonderfully engaging book … His oceanic pursuit of the most remarkable animals on the planet has produced two books of the utmost interest’ Christopher Hirst, Independent • With Leviathan Philip Hoare won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2009 • He is considered to be one of our finest living non-fiction writers.

Philip Hoare’s is the author of several books, including Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant; Noel Coward; Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand; Spike Island; England’s Lost Eden; and Leviathan, or, The Whale, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He lives in Southampton.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-741213-6 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK £9.99

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Three Mothers (And A Camel) Phyllida Law An omnibus edition of Phyllida Law’s two classics, Notes to my Mother-in-Law and How Many Camels Are There in Holland?, with a new introduction.

In the much-loved Notes to my Mother-in-Law we were introduced to the wonderful Annie, Phyllida’s motherin-law, increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'.

To get round her deafness, Phyllida began to write out the day's gossip at the kitchen table, putting her notes

by Annie's bed before going to hers. One night as her husband wandered off to bed muttering darkly that she spent so much time each evening writing to Annie she could have written a book. 'And illustrated it!' So she did.

How Many Camels Are There in Holland? is Phyllida’s account of Mego’s – her own mother’s – final months, in the grip of dementia. Never less than humane and often defiantly hilarious, this memoir captures the warmth and tenderness of two generations of daughters brought together to care for their muchloved mother and grandmother.

Phyllida Law has appeared in numerous plays, television series and films, including Peter’s Friends, Much Ado about Nothing, Foyle’s War and Kingdom. She was married to Eric Thompson, the writer and narrator of the English version of The Magic Roundabout, until his death in 1982.

She has two daughters, Emma and Sophie Thompson.

Praise for Notes to my Mother-in-Law: ‘Something quite splendid, new and unforgettable’ Stephen Fry Praise for How Many Camels Are There in Holland?: ‘I doubted that I could ever read anything that would make me smile gently at the tragic reality of caring for a beloved family member who slips away before your eyes becoming a stranger. Yet Phyllida Law has provided such a book’ Book of the Week, Daily Mail • Notes to my Mother-in-Law was extremely successful and roundly praised, as was How Many Camels.

Together they have sold 20,000 hardbacks.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748587-1 B 197x130 Hardback 27th February 2014 UK £10

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Selfish Generation Rod Liddle With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.

In the western world, on this great isle, we live longer, richer, safer than ever before. The unequal are made even, the weak are coddled, the sensitive are spared their blushes. We are freer than ever to be individuals, free from the sort of dour responsibility that attends faith in hoary old images of nation, community and, that most crummy and stifling institution of all, marriage. The pettifogging ties that once held us to account in society are now thrillingly soluble.

But are we happier? Fuck no. Reflecting on his parents, his upbringing and his life, Rod Liddle sets about dissecting and diagnosing – in some cases prescribing treatment for – our very sick state. Lawyers, politicians, citizens – they all cop it.

Offending every piety conceivable, Selfish Generation demonstrates how we have become imprisoned by various – often antithetically opposed – ideologies that make life exponentially less pleasant for the people of Britain.

Rod Liddle writes the popular 'Liddle Britain' column in The Spectator. Liddle was the Editor of the BBC Radio 4's Today programme from 1998 to 2002. In addition to being the Associate Editor of The Spectator, Liddle writes regularly for The Sunday Times and Country Life as well as presenting current affairs documentaries on television. He was formerly a speechwriter for the Labour Party.

Frequently funny, dauntlessly contrary, even rather tender, but never than less eloquent, even in deepest apoplexy, Rod Liddle explains and excoriates modern living.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-735127-5 Royal 234x153 Hardback 27th March 2014 UK £12.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-735130-5 27th March 2014 UK £8.99

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How To Make A Human Being Christopher Potter

A startling investigation of what it means to be human.

Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one?

In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being?

What is it like to be some other kind of animal?

What is reality?

What is consciousness?

Is there a God? What is love?

Why live?

The questions proliferate.

But all these questions can be viewed as facets of a single question: What is science?

In How To Make a Human Being Christopher Potter shows how, at every scale of description, human beings escape the net of scientific reductionism. What it is to be human can be glimpsed in the details: in the opening of a window, in a shared joke. But cannot be caught by any reductive scientific description.

Christopher Potter spent almost a quarter of a century in publishing, over seventeen of those years at the independent publishing house Fourth Estate, where he became publisher and managing director. His first book was the much-praised You Are Here, A Portable History of the Universe.

Praise for You Are Here: ‘One of the most entertaining and thoughtful pop-science books to be published for years’ Sunday Times ‘One of the best popular science books I have ever read’ Guardian • As with the best popular-science books, How to Make a Human Being makes sense of complexity in intelligible units. The story it tells is compelling and approachable.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-744779-4 Royal 234x153 Hardback 27th March 2014 UK £18.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-744780-0 27th March 2014 UK £10.99

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Mostly Vegetables: A Modern Way to Eat Anna Jones A completely modern vegetarian cookbook, from an exciting young food writer, that fits perfectly with how we want to eat today.

Nowadays, everyone wants to eat a little more healthily.

Whether that’s moving away from meat, eating more fruit and vegetable, or finding ways to include nutritious grains. But no one wants healthy eating to be a chore – we all want food that’s delicious, easy to prepare and full of excitement and fresh flavours.

Anna Jones is a brilliant young food stylist and recipe developer who trained with Jamie Oliver. Her first cookbook will be a repertoire of recipes to help us eat healthily and to enjoy every minute of it. Based on how Anna eats day to day, the recipes will be vegetarian and packed with fresh and nutritious ingredients.

From a blueberry and amaranth porridge to start the day, to a sweet potato quesadilla for a quick meal or a tomato and coconut cassoulet for dinner, these are recipes that are modern, satisfying refreshing, and good for you.

Anna Jones is a food stylist and recipe developer who has worked with Jamie Oliver for many years, as well as numerous top food brands and authors.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751670-4 Royal 234x153 Hardback 24th April 2014 UK £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751671-1 24th April 2014 UK £15.99

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Flight By Elephant Andrew Martin The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission.

In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell – a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, performed a series of heroic rescues in the hellish jungles of Japanese-occupied Burma – with the aid of twenty elephants.

At the age of 53, Mackrell went into the ‘green hell’ of the Chaukan Pass on the border of North Burma and Assam. Here, Mackrell and a team of elephant riders rescued Indian army soldiers, British civilians and their Indian servants, from the pursuing Japanese, directing the elephants through jungle passes and raging rivers, and territory infested with sand flies, mosquitoes and innumerable leeches. Those he saved were all on the point of death from starvation or fever: that summer was spent in a fight against time.

Now in Andrew Martin’s hands this never-before-told tale of heroics is given the shape of a suspenseful adventure, a wartime rescue whose facts are the stuff of fiction. Flight By Elephant is a gripping chronicle of war and survival, starring everyone’s favourite animal – the powerful, exotic and hugely loveable elephant.

From the reviews of Flight by Elephant: ‘A delightful, true-life Boys’ Own adventure, brilliantly told with delicious, dry with by a writer in full command of his subject’ James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday ‘Andrew Martin's Flight By Elephant is defiantly Boy's Own stuff … a great adventure’ Ben East, Observer • A rip-roaring adventure in the vein of Unbroken (over 8k HBs) and Lost In Shangri-La (one of Amazon.com’s Best Books of 2011)

Andrew Martin grew up in Yorkshire. After qualifying as a barrister, he won the Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award, 1988.

Since, he has written for the Guardian, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Independent and Granta, among many other publications. His columns have appeared in the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman. His Jim Stringer novels – railway thrillers – have been published by Faber and Faber since 2002.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751272-0 B 197x130 Paperback 24th April 2014 UK £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754236-9 28 January 2014

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Authorised: Encyclopaedia of Myself Jonathan Meades

Nothing wilfully invented. Memory invents unbidden.

A memoir of the author’s early years in Salisbury, in the form of an encyclopaedia. A scrupulously catholic feat of recollection. It gives post-war, rural English life its splendid due.

On Jonathan Meades: 'If Meades was a racehorse you'd be calling for a steward's enquiry. There's something in his feed which definitely gives him the lot' Iain Sinclair 'One of the funniest and truest writers we have. No one understands England better than Meades' Stephen Fry ‘Jonathan Meades is unique, original and clever’ The Times • Jonathan Meades is a cult figure among British audiences and readers. His hilarious and daring fiction has been followed years of unusual television.

Jonathan Meades is a British novelist and writer on food, architecture and culture, as well as an innovative broadcaster. He is perhaps best known for his television appearances on Abroad with Jonathan Meades and its sequel series. His books include The Illustrated Atlas of the World’s Great Buildings (1980), Filthy English (1984), Architectural Expressions (2001), Incest and Morris Dancing (2002), The Fowler Family Business (2002) and Pompey (2003).

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-1-85702-849-2 Demy 216x135 Hardback 8th May 2014 UK £16.99

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Let There Be Light Desmond Tutu Nobel peace prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu retells the Creation story, accompanied by striking illustrations from Nancy Tillman.

'In the very beginning, God's love bubbled over when there was nothing else–-no trees, no birds, no animals, no sky, no sea–-only darkness.'

Let There Be Light combines the love and warmth of Desmond Tutu with the extraordinary talents of bestselling author and illustrator Nancy Tillman.

This retelling of the biblical story of creation vividly portrays the wonder and beauty of God's creation on each of the seven days. Using Archbishop Tutu's lyrical text from the Children of God Storybook Bible and Tillman's remarkable illustrations, Let There Be Light brings the story of creation to life for readers young and old.

• Tutu is the author of the very successful and popular Children of God Storybook Bible

Desmond Tutu is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

During half a decade in ministry, he was most famous for campaigning against apartheid as Archbishop of Cape Town.

Bibles/Liturgical/Music ISBN: 978-0-00-755258-0 229x273 Hardback 2nd January 2014 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-755259-7 2nd January 2014 UK £5.38 Children of God (HB) 978-0-00-734984-5 £9.99

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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (Revised Edition) Daniel Mendelsohn

‘A gripping detective story, a stirring epic, a tale of ghosts and dark marvels, a thrilling display of scholarship, a meditation on the unfathomable mystery of good and evil, The Lost is as complex and rich with meaning and story as the past it seeks to illuminate. A beautiful book, beautifully written’ Michael Chabon Spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, Daniel Mendelsohn embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses to the fates of six ghosts – six relatives who disappeared during the Holocaust. That quest eventually took him to a dozen countries on three continents, including Ukraine, Poland, Israel, Australia, Sweden and Denmark – an epic journey that gradually exposed the tragic conflicts that can arise between the history we live and the stories we tell.

Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving reportage with richly evoked childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound meditation on our fragile hold on the past.

Daniel Mendelsohn was born in Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books as well as the New York Times Magazine. His other books include an acclaimed translation of the poems of C.P. Cavafy. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and teaches at Bard College.

‘Daniel Mendelsohn has written a powerfully moving work of a ‘lost’ family past, reminiscent of the richly expansive prose works of Proust and the elusive texts of W.G. Sebald. A remarkable achievement’ Joyce Carol Oates ‘A stirring detective work in its own right, The Lost is set in the context of stories of the enigmatic interventions of God in human affairs, and deepened by reflections on the inescapable, incomprehensible part that chance plays in history’ J.M.Coetzee ‘Epic and personal, meditative and suspenseful, tragic and at times hilarious, The Lost is a wonderful book’ Jonathan Safran Foer

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-755012-8 B 197x130 Paperback 2nd January 2014 UK: £10.99

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New Naturalist Owls Mike Toms Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures. These mysterious nocturnal creatures are thought to be symbols of wisdom, omens of death, and bringers of prophecy. In fact, owls are one of the oldest species of vertebrate animal, with fossils dating back sixty million years.

In a much-anticipated volume on one of Britain’s most fascinating group of birds, Mike Toms draws on a wealth of experience and research, providing a comprehensive natural history of British owls.

Covering various aspects of owl taxonomy, origins, anatomy, behaviour and ecology, the author looks across British owl species, drawing comparisons and highlighting differences. He provides a detailed perspective of each species, fleshing out relevant conservation issues, behaviour and status.

Toms explores Britain’s beloved Barn Owl, Tawny Owl and Snowy Owl amongst several others. He uses the vast database and latest research from his work with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to focus particularly on the specifics of owls’ breeding ecology, their dispersal patterns, diet, vocalisations, description, population changes and mortality. He addresses conservation issues, changes in legislation and potential changes in the status of some of Britain’s most iconic birds, providing a fascinating overview of the biology and history of British owls.

• Part of the award-winning Collins New Naturalist series, will be bought to add to the collection • Of interest to a wide audience – amateur and professional naturalists, academics, and the general nature enthusiast • Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures and have been a source of inspiration to writers, artists, historians and naturalists alike

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-742555-6 TPS 216x149mm Hardback 2nd January 2014 UK £55 ISBN: 978-0-00-742557-0 TPS 216x149mm Paperback 2nd January 2014 UK £35 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-742556-3 2nd January 2014 UK £19.99

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Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day John Keay An epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia.

Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, Midnight’s Descendants – the generations born since the 1947 ‘midnight hour’ partition of British India – are the world’s fastest growing population In this groundbreaking new study, John Keay presents the first general history of this enormous region and its peoples. Focusing on the complex web of affiliations among all five of British India’s successor states, Keay charts South Asia’s fraught path toward modernization and democratization over the past sixty years. Along the way, he unravels the volatile India-Pakistan relationship; the rise of religious fundamentalism; the wars that raged in Kashmir and Sri Lanka; and the fortunes of millions of South Asia migrants dispersed throughout the world.

• Midnight’s Descendants is the sequel to John Keay’s bestselling India: A History:

John Keay was formerly a special correspondent for The Economist, and a documentarymaker for the BBC. He is the author of several books on the Indian subcontinent, including the bestselling India: A History.

He lives in Argyll, Scotland.

‘A delight…one of the best general studies of the subcontinent.’

Andrew Lycett, Sunday Times ‘It is hard to imagine anyone succeeding more gracefully in producing a balanced overview than John Keay has done in India: A History…a book that is as fluent and readable as it is upto-date and impartial.’ Guardian •Midnight’s Descendants is the culmination of Keay’s long personal involvement with the region – as political correspondent, documentary-maker, historian and annual visitor

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-732657-0 Royal 234x153 Hardback 16th January 2014 UK: £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746877-5 16th January 2014 UK £12.99

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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heartland of Power Claudia Renton A rich historical biography of ‘those wicked wicked Wyndhams’ – three beautiful, cultured aristocratic sisters born into immense wealth in late Victorian Britain.

Mary, Madeline and Pamela – the three Wyndham sisters – were painted by John Singer Sergeant in 1899. For The Times it was ‘the greatest picture of modern times’. These beautiful, rich fin de siècle women clad in white came to epitomize a vanishing world: the leisured, gilded, existence of the late Victorian aristocracy that was to be dealt a deathblow by the First World War. Yet the lives of the Wyndham sisters were far more turbulent than their air of calm suggests. Brought up in artistic and liberal circles, their childhood was freedom-loving and filled with medieval fantasies. Their parents were intimate friends with the Pre-Raphaelites, and the sisters, with Mary as a leader, became involved in ‘the Souls’ – an accidental grouping of brilliant, sincere and loyal friends with liberated morals and shocking beliefs about sexual equality. Bowing to convention, all three made excellent marriages, but only one was happy. All found emotional support from others – Mary with Arthur Balfour and the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; Pamela with the Liberal statesman and ornithologist Edward Grey.

Their first ever biography, Those Wild Wyndhams charts these enchanting and markedly different lives until the First World War brought devastation to their milieu. For readers of Amanda Foreman’s Georgiana and Stella Tillyard’s Aristocrats, this brilliant debut by Claudia Renton is an unforgettable historical and political biography that captures a family and its dwindling age.

Claudia Renton took a Double First at Oxford and was awarded the Gibbs Book Prize for Modern History. Now a practising barrister, she has also enjoyed a career as an actress, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre. She is coauthor of Heroes with Simon Sebag Montefiore and was identified as one of the Guardian’s ‘new history girls’ and Vogue’s 'Bright Stars' of the next decade. She lives in London.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754489-9 Royal 234x153 Hardback 16th January 2014 UK: £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754490-5 16th January 2014 UK £15.99

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Axe: A Brother's Search for a Fallen Warrior Jeffrey Axelson

The story of the Navy Seal whose courage – soon to be depicted in a major motion picture – saved the life of Marcus Luttrell, author of the bestselling Lone Survivor.

Axe is a beautifully crafted, action-filled biography of an elite commando’s inspiring life and tragic death – a final chapter in the story of the Operation Red Wings mission, made famous in Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor.

Navy SEAL Matthew Axelson was just twenty-nine when he was killed in Afghanistan in the aftermath of a harrowing mountaintop battle. In telling the story of that extraordinary fight, Luttrell made legendary a cadre of brave warriors, including one special hero: Matthew Axelson.

Axe recounts Matthew’s life in the years before that firefight, revealing the many ways in which an ordinary American kid became an extraordinary American hero. Jeffrey Axelson also shares the untold story of the twelve days following the firefight, and reveals what Matt was doing during that time – contrary to previous accounts. Through his own research and the cooperation of numerous SEALs who have never gone on record before, Jeffrey pieces together his brother’s final days and describes Matt as a warrior who embodied duty, fortitude, sacrifice, and honour to the very end.

Jeffrey Axelson lives in northern California with his wife and son, whom he named Matt in honour of his younger brother.

Co-author Neal Gabler has been the non-fiction head judge for the National Book Awards, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has won two LA Times Book Prizes.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-755555-0 B 197x130 Paperback original 16th January 2014 UK: £8.99

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The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF’s Bloodiest Raid on Germany John Nichol A line of red string stretched over the North Sea and across Germany veering south to the target.

“Gentleman,” the Navigation Officer said. “Tonight your target is Nuremberg.”

More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. 30 March 1944 was the night when everything conspired against bomber command.

This is the story of that terrible night, the air raid intended to be the climax of Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris’s relentless campaign to defeat Nazi Germany. 795 aircraft set out, nearly 700 men did not return. Piecing together the dramatic stories of these young fliers – the fledgling crews and the veterans, the survivors and the fallen, former RAF Flight Lieutenant John Nichol has interviewed the few surviving veterans, British and German, in the air and on the ground, to record the voices of a diminishing generation.

While the airmen of Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the conflict, their contribution and sacrifice has, until recently, been sidelined in the face of post-war criticism of Bomber Command’s tactics. Yet they were among the best of their generation. John Nichol’s dramatic tribute to the men who flew on the RAF’s bloodiest raid has provided the surviving veterans with the chance to tell the story of that terrible night – the night they flew to Nuremberg.

‘A truly epic tale of courage and sacrifice – an intensely moving epitaph to the men of Bomber Command’ Andy McNab ‘Full of poignant episodes ... A fitting tribute to the raw courage of these young men’ Daily Express

John Nichol is a former RAF flight lieutenant whose Tornado bomber was shot down on a mission over Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991. He was captured and made a prisoner of war. He is the bestselling co-author of Tornado Down and also The Last Escape, and Tail-End Charlies. He is also a journalist and widely quoted military commentator.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748685-4 B 197x130 Paperback 16th Januarry 2014 UK: £7.99

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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things Paula Byrne

Who was the real Jane Austen? A retiring spinster content with quiet village life? Or a strong-minded woman who knew the turbulent world around her and who took the bold decision to remain unmarried and fashion herself as a professional writer?

In this paperback of the landmark biography, bestselling biographer Paula Byrne uses objects that conjure up a key moment in Austen’s life and work – a silhouette, a vellum notebook, a topaz cross, a writing box, a royalty cheque, a bathing machine, and many more – to unlock the biography of this most beloved author. The woman who emerges is far tougher, more socially and politically aware, and altogether more modern than the conventional picture of ‘dear aunt Jane’ allows. Byrne’s lively book explores the many forces that shaped Austen’s life, her long struggle to become a published author, and brings Miss Austen dazzlingly into the twenty-first century.

‘Brilliantly illuminating … riveting. By focusing, chapter by chapter, on one thread or another of Austen's experience, Byrne allows us to grasp the richness of her inner life’ Simon Callow, Guardian ‘Engaging, compelling, a delightful and engrossing book. Of course we all know that the "real" Jane Austen will forever be a mystery, but most 21st century Janeites will adore this one.

Byrne's passion is nothing if not persuasive’ Sunday Times ‘Byrne's essays add up to a fine appraisal of the novelist's environment, truly Austenish in the way they burrow into a sequestered and often secretive private world’ Observer

Paula Byrne was born in Birkenhead. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Theatre, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize. Her second book, Perdita, was a Richard and Judy book-club pick and a bestseller. Her third, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead is ‘the fascinating story of a great house and a great family’ and was another bestseller. She is married to Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-735834-2 B 197x130 Paperback 16th January 2014 UK: £9.99

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The Slow Fix: Lasting Solutions in a Fast-Moving World Carl Honoré What do we do when things go wrong in a fast world? Many of us go for the quick fix that delays the problem rather than solving it. To make real progress we need real solutions – we need to take time for the Slow Fix. We are all under pressure to work faster, get more done and solve problems instantly. But reaching for the quick fix can cause more trouble later down the line. To find genuinely lasting solutions, we need to take time for the Slow Fix. In this entertaining and provocative book, bestselling author Carl Honoré interviews inspiring people around the world who have taken the time to find the best way forward rather than the fastest.

Ranging across business, politics, education, healthcare and even personal relationships, he explains why we must challenge the quick fix culture that surrounds us and provides a clear and compelling set of tools to forge long-lasting solutions.

Wide-ranging, stimulating and full of engaging stories and practical advice, this book will help you take a more considered approach to your problems, and provide the inspiration and the tools to help find solutions that actually work in all areas of your life.

Carl Honoré is an awardwinning journalist and author, who has written for a large number of leading publications.

His first book, In Praise of Slow, received wonderful reviews and was an international bestseller.

When he’s not involved in broadcasting and public speaking around the world, Carl lives with his wife and two children in London.

‘Accessible, lucid and wise, this book should sit in every government and managerial office’ Independent ‘Mr. Honoré has a winning style and an infectious curiosity about the minutiae of other people’s lives’ Wall Street Journal

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-742960-8 B 197x130 Paperback 16th January 2014 UK: £8.99

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Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire Calder Walton The gripping and largely untold story of the role of the intelligence services in Britain’s retreat from empire.

Mining recently declassified intelligence records, Calder Walton reveals the‘missing link’ in Britain’s post-war history. He sheds new light on everything from violent counter-insurgencies fought

by British forces in the jungles of Malaya and Kenya, to urban warfare campaigns conducted in Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified documents, as well as hitherto overlooked personal papers, this is also the first book to examine records from the Foreign Office’s hidden archive at Hanslope Park, which contains some of the darkest and most shameful secrets from the last days of Britain’s empire.

Packed with incidents that could have come straight out of a John le Carré novel, Empire of Secrets is an exhilarating read by an exciting new voice in intelligence history.

‘A superb and engaging account of the role of intelligence during the decline of Britain’s Empire’ Daily Express

Calder Walton is a leading expert among a new generation of intelligence historians.

Between 2003 and 2009, he was one of the principal researchers on Christopher Andrew’s unprecedented authorised history of MI5. This is his first book.

‘An entertaining and welcome demystification of the intelligence services and their role in the demise of Britain’s empire’ Sunday Times ‘Walton’s prose bounds along, the nitty-gritty detail of intelligence leavened with occasional flashes of humour…Empire of Secrets is an important addition to the literature on decolonisation’ Financial Times

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745797-7 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK: £9.99

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The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land – A True Detective Story Patrick Bishop From bestselling author of Fighter Boys, the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world.

On a cold morning in February 1942, with the world plunged in the horrors of World War Two, Avraham Stern hid in an attic in Tel Aviv, a price on his head. He’d been on the run for weeks, his picture blazoned across newspapers all over Palestine. As leader of the Stern Gang, he had committed spectacular and murderous crimes, sparking outcry from both British and Jewish groups. An intellectual poet and mystic, Stern believed himself destined for greatness; the Jewish liberator of British Palestine.

Drawn always to the margins – his writings were drenched in images of martyrdom and blood.

Assistant Superintendent Geoffrey Morton, a middle-class Londoner who had swapped milk deliveries for the dangers of colonial policing, was the man tasked with stopping Stern.

Seemingly so different, in fact the men had much in common – ambition, dedication and conviction in his own righteousness.

The incidents of that morning would be endlessly contested but two things were clear; Morton had cornered Stern and, minutes later, shot him dead. The shots Morton fired that day would echo down the remaining years of British rule in Palestine and through the titanic events that shaped the birth of Israel.

Patrick Bishop is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para and Target Tirpitz.

Previously a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, he has reported from conflicts all over the world, and was for many years Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He lives in West London.

Based on revelatory research, the private archive of Morton and interviews with witnesses, The Reckoning is the first book to tell the tale of a rebel who terrorized Palestine, the lawman determined to stop him and the creation of a cult of martyrdom that destroyed any hope of compromise between Arab and Jew.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-750620-0 Royal 234x153 Hardback 30th January 2014 UK: £20

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Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751827-2 30th January 2014 UK £12.99

‘Wonderfully compelling … a fast-paced story of incredible bravery that at times reads like a thriller’ Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

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Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power David Scott

In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might.

The 300 years between the Tudor accession and the loss of the American colonies witnessed one of history’s greatest transformations: the creation of ‘Britain’ and its emergence as the world’s most formidable maritime power. This age saw the break with Rome and the establishment of English and Scottish Protestant kingdoms; the forging of a powerful state out of the chaos of the Civil War; and the winning and losing of Britain’s ‘first’ empire in America. It was a period shaped by some of the most compelling personalities and thinkers of Western history: Henry VIII the equally indomitable Elizabeth I, the controversial philosopher Thomas Hobbes, and the all-conquering Oliver Cromwell.

David Scott argues in this powerful book that Britain’s rise as a European superpower was driven less by trade or dreams of conquest than by religious intolerance, xenophobia and a desire to strike a blow for ‘the Protestant cause’. Yet though the British state would acquire the strength to subjugate new lands, enslave millions, and crush its rivals, it also practised an unparalleled commitment to ideas of freedom and the rule of law.

Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might. It is a story of the religious fanaticism, political hatred, profiteering, and hunger for power that made Britain great.

‘Thoughtful, entertaining and elegantly written … Amid the flood of new books on the making of the British Empire, Leviathan stands out as one of the best’ Sunday Times

David Scott is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament Trust and has formerly taught at both York and Yale Universities. His previous book Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms 1637-49 was chosen by the Sunday Telegraph as one of its Books of the Year in 2004.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-724754-7 B 197x130 Paperback 30th January 2014 UK: £12.99

‘Sweeping and illuminating’ Financial Times ‘Epic in scale, shrewd in judgement, utterly convincing, Leviathan demands the widest possible readership’ Literary Review

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Cycle of Lies: The Fall of Lance Armstrong Juliet Macur

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A no-holds-barred account of Lance Armstrong and the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent.

As Lance Armstrong’s precipitous fall from grace continues, New York Times sports reporter Juliet Macur takes the reader behind the headlines in an astonishingly intimate portrait of Armstrong that gets beneath the skin of this fallen hero.

With unprecedented access to the key players in the drama – including members of Armstrong’s own family as well as fellow cyclists and top cycling officials – Cycle of Lies reveals how Armstrong built a fortress of people around him to protect his image and upend the lives of anybody who stood in his way.

Cycle of Lies exposes corruption at all levels of the sport in a thrilling, page-turning work of contemporary narrative history.

• Based in the US, and with access to the key players in the drama, Juliet Macur is the reporter on the ground who continues to break stories in the ongoing scandal.

• Interest in cycling will be at an all-time high in 2014 as the Tour de France comes to the UK.

Juliet Macur is a leading sports reporter for The New York Times. Since 2004, she has covered the Olympics and Olympic sports, doping and legal issues for the paper. She has been at the forefront of reporting the Lance Armstrong story. She lives in New York City.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752062-6 Royal 234x153 Hardback 11h February 2014 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752065-7 11th February 2014 UK £9.99

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God’s Little Book of Easter Richard Daly A new edition especially for Easter in this bestselling series of gift books.

‘Jesus came to let you know that the penalty of sin has been removed and its power is broken. In God’s eyes, you’re loved and accepted!’

At times, life can be filled with upheaval, challenges, grief and fear. Easter signals a time for new beginnings, for a fresh take on life, and a joyful, positive outlook.

Open this inspirational little book at any page, and discover anew the hope and joy of the Resurrection.

Each page has an inspirational thought or idea, along with a related Bible reference for further reading and encouragement.

God’s Little Book of Easter, with its collection of inspiring, thoughtprovoking truths is an ideal point of sale, impulse purchase that offers comfort and assurance, and will bring you hope and renewed strength as you journey in the various pathways of life.

Richard Daly is a church pastor and author of several books, including God’s Little Book of Calm, and God’s Little Book of Peace.

‘If God is willing to pardon your mistakes and even bury them, isn’t it time you stopped beating yourself up? Receive his grace and move on!’

Religious ISBN: 978-0-00-751386-4 128x108 Paperback 13th February 2014 UK: £4.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754785-2 13th February 2014 UK £4.49

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The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here Lynda Gratton How to manage the future of your employment.

We are now facing a revolution in the way we work. A substantial schism in the past which is so great that the work we do will change – possibly so that in two decades our working lives will have been so reworked that they are unrecognisable.

This is not just about the impact that a low carbon economy will have on the way we work. It is also about how the nexus of technology and globalisation will work together with demographic and societal changes to fundamentally transform much of what we take for granted about work.

Why will things change so quickly? What will these changes look like? Who will benefit and who will suffer? How do we navigate our career through these times?

Lynda Gratton, Professor at London Business School, is the perfect person to answer these questions. For the past three years she has worked with companies around the world to draw up a picture of the future of work. The Shift looks at the five forces that will fundamentally change the way we work in the next ten to fifteen years, and the three key shifts that you need to make to survive.

Lynda Gratton is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and is the founder of the Hot Spots Movement. She has written six books and is a world authority on people in organizations. She has been ranked in The Times’ top 20 Business Thinkers and is the Financial Times’ business thinker most likely to make a real difference over the next decade.

‘A compendium of modern management and social science theories … the novelty of Gratton’s book is her synthesis of so many contemporary ideas about the changes to our working lives’ Financial Times, Book of the Year

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752585-0 B 197x130 Paperback 13th February 2014 UK: £8.99

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Tales from the Special Forces Club: The Untold Stories of Britain’s Elite Warriors Sean Rayment A unique and poignant record of a club created for heroes.

There are just a handful of men and women alive today who served and fought with the Special Forces during the Second World War. These erstwhile warriors are now in their twilight years, and their untold tales of heroism and derring-do will soon be lost for ever. Despite their age, however ,these men and women still regularly meet in the heart of London – in the Special Forces Club.

In ten astonishing accounts of ingenuity and heroism, former Sunday Telegraph defence correspondent Sean Rayment visits this unique group of veterans and through their memories transports the reader back in time to Britain’s darkest hours during the height of the war. Gathered together in one volume is a series of first-hand accounts, many of which have never been fully documented before.

Covering all theatres of operations, this book provides a unique glimpse into why the members of the Special Forces Club were – and are – truly exceptional.

Sean Rayment served as a Captain in the Parachute Regiment in the late 1980s. As a journalist, he has specialised in war reporting for the past ten years, undertaking assignments in the Balkans, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland and Africa. He is the author of the bestselling Bomb Hunters.

‘Page after page of extraordinary courage’ Daily Mail ‘Rayment uncovers astonishing depths of courage and resourcefulness’ Sarah Sands, Evening Standard ‘[A] brilliant and often deeply moving book’ Sinclair McKay, Sunday Telegraph

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745254-5 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK: £7.99

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Sextant: Guided by the Stars A Transatlantic Voyage and the Men who Mapped the World’s Oceans David Barrie With 2014 marking the tercentenary of the Longitude Act, this eloquent elegy to the sextant tells the story of the elegant instrument and explores its vital role in man’s attempts to map the world.

This is the story of an instrument that changed the world. In prose as crisp as the book’s subject, David Barrie tells how and why the sextant was invented; how offshore navigators depended on it for their lives in wild and dangerous seas until the advent of GPS – and the sextant’s vital role in the history of exploration.

Much of the book is set amidst the waves of the Pacific ocean as explorers searched for the great southern ocean, charted the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Alaska as well as the Pacific islands. Among the protagonists are Captain James Cook, the great French navigator, La Pérouse, who built on Cook's work in the exploring the Pacific during the 1780s, but never made it home, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders – the first man to circumnavigate Australia, Robert FitzRoy of the Beagle, Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old ‘lunarian’ and successful pilot of a small boat across the wild Southern Ocean and Frank Worsley of the Endurance.

Their stories are interwoven with the author’s account of his own transatlantic passage aboard Saecwen in 1973, using the very same navigational tools as Captain Cook, and the book is infused with a sense of wonder and dramatic discovery.

A heady mix of adventure, science, mathematics and derring-do, Sextant is a timeless tale of sea-faring and exploration. A love letter to the sea, it is narrative history for star gazers and sailors, for everyone with a love of salty breezes and a sense of adventure. Beautifully produced, Sextant offers storytelling at its very best.

David Barrie was for many years in the Diplomatic Service, and has held many distinguished posts since then. He is a passionate and dedicated sailor and was inspired to write this book in homage to the remarkable people who brought celestial navigation to perfection, and to the generations of mariners who put the sextant to such good use in charting the world’s oceans.

He lives in West London.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751656-8 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th February 2014 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751657-5 27th February 2014 UK £10.99

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The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy Edited and translated by Daniel Mendelsohn The complete Cavafy poems – including the unfinished works – in a stunning new translation.

No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy’s poetry makes the historical personal – and vice versa. He brings to his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity the historian’s assessing eye as well as the poet’s compassionate heart.

After more than a decade of work, Daniel Mendelsohn – an acclaimed, award-winning author and classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world – is uniquely positioned to give readers full access to Cavafy’s genius. This volume includes the first-ever English translation of thirty unfinished poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died. With Mendelsohn’s in-depth introduction and commentary situating each work in a rich historical, literary and biographical context, this revelatory new translation is a literary event – the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.

Daniel Mendelsohn was born in Long Island and educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books as well as the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of the international bestseller The Lost, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches at Bard College.

‘Magisterial ... A brilliant scholar, a discerning critic and a generous person, Mendelsohn brings Cavafy alive’ The Times ‘No-one seeking the fullest possible picture of the poet need go further than Daniel Mendelsohn's exhaustive edition … You come for the poems, and stay for the notes’ Daily Telegraph

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752337-5 Royal 234x153 Trade paperback 27th February 2014 UK: £25

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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air Richard Holmes

Falling Upwards is a vivid group biography and adventure that tells how men and women first felt as they rose towards the clouds into a new dimension – of science, exploration, warfare, literature, discovery.

Romantic biographer Richard Holmes floats across the world following the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, from the first heroic experiments of the Montgolfiers in 1780s to the tragic attempt to fly a balloon to the North Pole in the 1890s. Dramatic sequences move from the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of beautiful Sophie Blanchard; the revelatory ascents over sprawling Victorian industrial cities of Northern Europe; and the astonishing long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise, and the French photographer Felix Nadar.

Later we find balloons used to observe the horrors of battle during the American Civil War (including a memorable flight by General Custer); the tale of sixty balloons that escaped Paris during the Prussian siege of 1870; and the terrifying seven mile high flight – without oxygen – of James Glaisher, helping to establish the science of meteorology and the environmental notion of a ‘fragile’ planet.

Readers will also discover the writers – from Mary Shelley to Edgar Alan Poe, Dickens to Verne – who allowed the imaginative impact of flight to soar in their work. In exploring the interplay between technology and science fiction, the understanding of the biosphere, and the metaphysics of flight itself, Holmes offers another of his subtle portraits of human endeavour, recklessness and vision. ‘[A] captivating and surely definitive history of the madness of pre-Wright brothers ballooning’ The Times

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

He is the author of many other prize-winning books including Shelley, Coleridge, Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, and the classic work, Footsteps. He lives in Norwich and is married to the novelist Rose Tremain.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-747651-0 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK: £9.99

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Daphne Du Maurier And Her Sisters Jane Dunn

The Du Mauriers – three beautiful, successful and rebellious sisters – were bound in a family drama that inspired Angela and Daphne’s best novels. Much has been written about Daphne but here the hidden lives of the sisters are revealed in a riveting group biography.

The middle sister in a celebrated artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel. Her success and fame were enhanced by films of her novels and horrifying short stories, Don’t Look Now and the unforgettable The Birds among them. But this fame overshadowed her sisters Angela and Jeanne, a writer and an artist of talent, living quiet lives even more unconventional than Daphne’s own.

In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters brought up in the hothouse of a theatrical family with a peculiar and powerful father. This dynamic and revealing the book is full of social non-conformity, creative energy and compulsive make-believe, the sisters’ lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier plotline.

‘Perceptive and exuberant … a saga that is sparklingly re-told’ The Times ‘Jane Dunn specialises in female relationships, and she has found three splendid women for her new book … Dunn writes with haunting delicacy … and she evokes a long-lost England in which women felt deep passions and survived emotional hurricanes with amazing outward restraint’ Mail on Sunday

Described by The Sunday Times as ‘one of our best biographers’, Jane Dunn writes about women and their relationships, and sisters in particular.

Her books include a biography of the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell and the best-seller Elizabeth & Mary, which looks at the lives of the cousin queens Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Bath with her husband the writer and linguist, Nicholas Ostler.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-734709-4 B 197x130 Paperback 27th February 2014 UK: £9.99

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Woodsman Ben Law Ben Law has lived as a woodsman for over twenty years. His authentic, incredible sense of the land and the wildlife, and his respect for age-old traditions and how to sustain them offers a wonderful, inviting insight into the life and character of Prickly Nut Wood.

Having travelled to Papua New Guinea and the Amazon, observing age-old techniques for living in, working in and preserving forests and woodland, Ben Law felt compelled to return home and apply his learnings to a 400-year-old plot of woodland near where he grew up – Prickly Nut Wood.

This is the story of how he came to know and love his woodland, how he lived off the land, how he coppiced and hedged and created charcoal, how he puddled and built shelter, and finally how he carved out his famous woodland home which Kevin McCloud has cited as his favourite ever Grand Design.

And it is the story of the wood itself – how it lives and breathes and affects all those who encounter it, and how it has developed over the twenty incredible years Ben has shared in its lifespan.

It’s an incredibly transporting tale that will make you long to hear the dawn chorus, and appreciate the beauty of Britain’s pockets of woodland.

• Ben Law is one of Britain’s best known, and most authentic, woodsmen. Originally trained as a shepherd he now specialises in coppicing and charcoal production – he is well respected, and has worked with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Ben Law is a writer, Woodsman, Master Carpenter and Eco-Builder.

He lives and works at Prickly Nut Woodsin West Sussex, where apart from making a living from coppicing he trains apprentices and runs courses on sustainable woodland management, eco-building and permaculture design.

• Ben Law’s Woodland House appeared on Grand Designs, and is Kevin McCloud’s favourite ever Grand Design.

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-755192-7 B-format 197x130mm Paperback 27th February 2014 UK £8.99

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A Greedy Man In A Hungry World: How (almost) everything you thought you knew about food is wrong Jay Rayner The UK’s most influential food and drink journalist in a blistering polemic on modern food culture.

The doctrine of local food is dead. Farmers’ markets are merely a lifestyle choice for the affluent middle classes. And ‘organic’ has become little more than a marketing label past its sell-by date.

For the modern, ethically-aware food shopper that may be hard to swallow, but it doesn’t make it any less true. And one of Britain’s most vocal critics of how we eat in the twenty-first century is ready to explain why. Journalist and broadcaster Jay Rayner will debunk a supermarket trolley full of myths and shoot a lot of the food world’s most cherished sacred cows.

Combining delightfully-observed memoir with hard-nosed reportage, Rayner gets serious about modern food culture. From the cornfields of Illinois to the killing lines of a Yorkshire abattoir, Rayner takes the reader on a thrilling global journey that will change the way we shop, cook and eat forever.

Jay Rayner is an award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, who is best known as restaurant critic for the Observer.

‘If you want to eat clever in the 21st Century read Jay Rayner’s joyful book. The rules of lunch just changed’ Caitlin Moran Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-723760-9 B 197x130 Paperback 6th March 2014 UK: £8.99

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New Life Good News Bible Perfect For Young People A bright, lively new edition of the UK’s bestselling Bible translation, ideal for young people at secondary school.

This version of the Good News Bible is absolutely unique and ideal for young adults (aged 12+) who are discovering what the world has to offer and who are eager to find out what the Bible has to say about it all – in depth, yet in an enjoyable and nonthreatening way.

It is the only edition to include a 64-page section of colourfully illustrated and down-to-earth articles offering summaries of Biblical teaching on everyday contemporary issues such as the Internet, food, abortion, sexuality, poverty, the media and many, many more.

As well as the much-loved, and now classic, line drawings by Annie Vallotton – including many previously unseen original drawings, published for the first time in this edition – there are also plenty of extra features to make young people’s Bible reading time even more enjoyable: 20 must-read passages • The life of Jesus • A guide to the Christian year • How did we get the Bible? • Easy access contents lists inside the front and back covers • Side-bar navigation • Ultra-clear text and Bible maps • British English text With all this and much more, the New Life edition really is the full package bringing the widely read and highly trusted Good News translation to life – and engaged with the world around us.

Religious ISBN: 978-0-00-748013-5 185x120 13th March 2014 UK: £16.99

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Rainbow Good News Bible The Bestselling Children’s Bible A bright, lively new edition of the bestselling Bible in the UK, perfect for helping primary school children to enjoy and engage with the Bible.

The obvious choice for a child’s first full-text Bible, the Rainbow Good News Bible is recommended both by primary school teachers for use in class, as well as in church Sunday schools.

Along with the much-loved, and now classic, line drawings by Annie Vallotton – including many previously unseen original drawings, published for the first time in this edition – the Rainbow GNB retains the 24 beautiful full-colour paintings of children’s favourite Bible stories.

This brand new edition also provides a unique range of NEW features to help young children get the most out of the Bible, including: 20 must-read passages • The life of Jesus • A guide to the Christian year • How did we get the Bible? • Timeline of the Bible The Rainbow Good News Bible is the perfect choice for primary school-aged children and will help to instil a love of Bible reading in children with a translation that is both accessible and trustworthy.

Religious ISBN: 978-0-00-748011-1 185x120 13th March 2014 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 13th March 2014 UK £9.99

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Sunrise Good News Bible The Bestselling Bible Translation A bright, accessible new edition of the UK’s bestselling Bible translation, perfect for readers of all ages.

The Sunrise Good News Bible is a popular choice if you are looking for an easy-to-read Bible text, or a more grown-up version of the Bible you remember using as a child.

Containing the much-loved, and now classic, line drawings by Annie Vallotton – including many previously unseen original drawings, published for the first time in this edition – the Sunrise Good News Bible is a pleasure to read because of its bright design and accessible language.

This edition also contains a wide range of extra features to help you make the most of your Bible reading time, including: 20 must-read passages • The life of Jesus • A guide to the Christian year • How did we get the Bible? • Easy access contents lists inside the front and back covers • Side-bar navigation • Ultra-clear text and Bible maps • British English text Available in both hardback and paperback bindings, this edition is a popular with adults, but is also used in 75% of UK secondary schools with older children.

Religious ISBN: 978-0-00-748012-8 185x120 Hardback 13th March 2014 UK £16.99 ISBN: 978-0-00-748014-2 185x120 Paperback 13th March 2014 UK: £13.99 Ebook ISBN: 13th March 2014 UK £8.99

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Haunted Empire: Apple after Steve Jobs Yukari Iwatani Kane An insightful behind-the-scenes portrait of technology giant Apple Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs’s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs’s vision and keep the company moving forward.

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Steve Jobs‘ death raised one of the most pressing questions in the tech and business worlds: Could Apple stay great without its iconic leader? Many inside the company were eager to prove that Apple could be just as innovative as it had been under Jobs.

Maintaining market leadership has become crucial as the company tries to conquer new frontiers and satisfy the public’s insatiable appetite for ‘insanely great’ products.

Haunted Empire is an illuminating portrait of Apple today, which offers clues to its future. With nuanced insights and colourful details that only a seasoned journalist could glean, Kane goes beyond the myths and headlines. She explores Tim Cook’s leadership and its impact on Jobs’s loyal lieutenants, new product development, and Apple’s relationships with Wall Street, the government, tech rivals, suppliers, the media and consumers.

Yukari Iwatani Kane has worked for the Wall Street Journal and Reuters. In 2011, she was named a Gerald Loeb Award finalist as part of a journal team responsible for a series on internet privacy. She lives in San Francisco.

• Based on over two hundred interviews with current and former executives, business partners, Apple watchers and others.

• Yukari Iwatani Kane has written about the technology industry for fifteen years. She covered Apple for the Wall Street Journal during the last years of Jobs’s reign and broke the story about the CEO’s liver transplant. Her painstaking reporting and track record of big scoops on the notoriously secretive company has earned her a reputation as the recipient of ‘controlled leaks’.

Apple-watchers consider her stories must-reads.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-745254-5 Royal 234 x 153 Hardback 18th March 2014 UK: £20 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747915-3 18th March 2014 UK £13.99

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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Sarah Lewis An inspiring book about what it means to be human as we struggle for mastery in our various spheres.

The gift of failure is a riddle. Like the number zero, it will always be both the void and the start of the infinite possibility. The Rise – part investigation into a psychological mystery, and part an argument about creativity and art, and part a soulful celebration of the determination and courage of the human spirit – makes the case that many of our greatest achievements come from understanding the importance of this mystery.

This exquisite biography of an idea is about the improbable foundations of creative human endeavour. The Rise begins with narratives about figures past and present who range from writers to entrepreneurs: Frederick Douglass, Samuel F. B. Morse, and J. K. Rowling, for example, feature alongside choreographer Paul Taylor, Nobel Prize winning physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, Arctic explorer Ben Saunders, and psychology professor Angela Duckworth.

Sarah Lewis is a historian, writer, curator and critic. Selected for Oprah’s 2010 ‘Power List’ and included as a member of President Obama’s Arts Policy Committee, her writing has been published widely.

While not a how-to book, The Rise contains important lessons for pedagogy and parenting, for innovation and discovery, and for self direction and creativity.

‘Sarah Lewis has assembled a rich trove of reflections not just on creativity but on the too-often ignored role that failure and surrender play in almost any ambitious undertaking. That counter-intuitive point of attack makes The Rise a welcome departure from standard accounts of artistry and innovation.’

Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-744542-4 Demy 216x135 Hardback 27th March 2014 UK: £15.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-747947-4 27th March 2014 UK £8.99

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The English: A Field Guide Matt Rudd A hilarious field guide to the world’s most remarkable and unusual creatures: the English.

Join Matt Rudd on a journey deep into the natural habitat of the English – a journey to rival anything David Attenborough did with gorillas, a journey that begins on a sofa and continues, unflinchingly, to the kitchen, the garden, the office, the pub, the beach ... and the bedroom.

Matt’s fearless anthropological approach leaves no cliché unturned in his attempt to portray the real English. Are we really a nation of binge-drinking, horse-meat-eating, tailgating, grumbling slobs or is there something altogether more beautiful to be found lurking behind the cyprus leylandii?

‘Highly entertaining … ample opportunity for Rudd to display his flair for comic writing…in his hands, and contrary to received wisdom, sarcasm is one of the higher forms of wit … a warm and witty celebration of England and the English … proof that comedy is one of the things that the English are very good at indeed’ Sunday Times

Matt Rudd is senior writer at the Sunday Times. In the name of this book, he has spent the last two years on the road with binoculars, a notebook and many Red Bulls.

He lives in Kent with his family

‘Be prepared to laugh out loud. And start nodding and thinking: “yep, I SO know that person,” every few seconds … Clever and witty, but oh-so true, you’ll love this fab look at our nation’ Sun ‘Which are we: dukes in top hats, or Pearly Kings? … Good for Matt Rudd, who establishes that we’re neither … [readers] will find more home truths, and fewer clichés, about the English than they will in most Anglo-hunting books’ Mail on Sunday • Will delight fans of Bill Bryson, Tony Hawks and Stuart Maconie.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-749047-9 B 197x130 Paperback 27th March 2014 UK: £8.99

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Belle: The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice The True Story Behind the Movie Paula Byrne The extraordinary true story behind the film Belle due for worldwide release in Spring 2014.

Beautiful, wealthy and sophisticated, Dido Belle appears, in her famous portrait alongside her ‘sister’ and companion Lady Elizabeth Murray, a vision of eighteenth-century aristocratic virtue. But Dido Belle was no normal eighteenth century Lady, and this was no common painting. Adopted and raised by Lord Mansfield – one of the most powerful men of the day – Dido Belle’s mixed race and illegitimacy became the controversy of English high society. Born to a captured slave mother and a captain in the Royal Navy, Dido’s evident grace and adoption by the Mansfield family to be raised as a daughter in Kenwood House challenged English notions of race at their highest rank.

Meanwhile, as Lord Chief Justice of England, Mansfield presided over two of the key cases that would lead to the abolition of the slave trade: the granting of freedom to James Somersett and the terrible Zong case, in which a cargo of African slaves were thrown overboard by Liverpool traders in pursuit of insurance money. These rulings would would galvanise a nascent abolitionist movement and radically alter attitudes towards the barbarism of the Atlantic Slave trade. From the elegant surroundings of Kenwood (reopening after extensive renovation in November), to the economics of slavery, Paula Byrne vividly depicts for the first time everything we know of Belle’s true story amid the elegance of Georgian aristocratic Britain and the dark trade that underpinned its refined grace.

Praise for film previews of Belle: ‘A lovely, female-centric romance that completely reinvents the period movie in a way that will resound for quite some time’ Empire ‘Elegant and emotionally satisfying ... this handsome period piece tells a continually fascinating, unusually layered story’ Variety

Paula Byrne was born in Birkenhead. She is the author of Perdita, a Richard and Judy bookclub pick and a best-seller, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead – ‘the fascinating story of a great house and a great family’ – and The Real Jane Austen.

She is married to Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754272-7 B 197x130 Paperback 27th March 2014 UK: £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754811-8 27th March 2014 UK £6.06

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Collins British Butterfly Guide Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British butterflies, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers.

This comprehensive guide to the butterflies of Britain depicts both male and female insects. Species descriptions include details on taxonomic nomenclature, distribution, flight period, variation, habitat, behaviour and life cycle. Subspecies are included where there is significant variation, and distribution maps accompany each widespread species.

Illustrated by Richard Lewington, the world's leading butterfly illustrator, this is the ideal pocket guide for travelling naturalists and butterfly enthusiasts alike and is an essential addition to every nature lover's bookshelves.

• Collins is the market-leading Natural History ID guide publisher – we enter this price band offering the amazing quality of the world-famous Black Guides for just £9.99 • Aspirational packaging sets the book apart from the competition • Leading brand coupled with leading expert authors and illustrators • Black Guide quality paired with a stunning package reminiscent of the beloved Moleskine notebooks, the book will offer something completely different

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-749974-8 TPS 190x120mm Paperback 27th March 2014 UK £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-749975-5 27th March 2014 UK £7.99

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Collins British Tree Guide Owen Johnson and David More Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British trees, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers.

This comprehensive guide to British trees contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced. Covering all tree species commonly found outside the major arboretums, the text highlights the most important things to look for to aid fast and accurate identification, and the illustrations are annotated with essential features.

The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, which also provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a ‘key’ species. Within each tree family there is a list of key species and a guide to the most important features to look for when identifying a particular tree from that family. Individual species are then thoroughly described and a detailed illustration features on the same page.

This is the ideal pocket guide for travelling naturalists and tree enthusiasts alike and is an essential addition to every nature lover's bookshelves.

• Collins is the market-leading Natural History ID guide publisher – we enter this price band offering the amazing quality of the world-famous Black Guides for just £9.99 • Aspirational packaging sets the book apart from the competition • Leading brand coupled with leading expert authors and illustrators • Black Guide quality paired with a stunning package reminiscent of the beloved Moleskine notebooks, the book will offer something completely different

Natural History ISBN:978-0-00-745123-4 TPS 190x120mm Paperback 27th March 2014 UK £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-750771-9 27th March 2014 UK £7.99

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Collins British Wild Flower Guide David Streeter, Christina Hart-Davies, Audrey Hardcastle, Felicity Cole and Lizzie Harper Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British wild flowers, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers.

Leading botanical artists specially commissioned to ensure beautifully detailed illustrations feature the most widely common British wild flowers. Species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. They are arranged by family, with their key features highlighted for quick and easy reference.

This is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert, and is beautifully packaged to lend itself both as gift or self-purchase.

• Collins is the market-leading Natural History ID guide publisher – we enter this price band offering the amazing quality of the world-famous Black Guides for just £9.99 • Aspirational packaging sets the book apart from the competition • Leading brand coupled with leading expert authors and illustrators • Black Guide quality paired with a stunning package reminiscent of the beloved Moleskine notebooks, the book will offer something completely different

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-745125-8 TPS 190x120mm Paperback 27th March 2014 UK £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-750770-2 27th March 2014 UK £7.99

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Collins British Bird Guide Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterstrom, Peter J. Grant Experience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British birds, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers.

This new, abridged edition of the hugely successful Collins Bird Guide is a must for every birdwatcher.

The book provides all the information needed to identify any common British species at any time of the year, covering size, habitat, range, identification and voice. Accompanying every species entry is a distribution map and illustrations showing the species in all the major plumages (male, female, immature, in flight, at rest, and feeding).

This is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in birds, whether amateur or expert, and is beautifully packaged to lend itself both as gift or self-purchase.

• Collins is the market-leading Natural History ID guide publisher – we enter this price band offering the amazing quality of the world-famous Black Guides for just £9.99 • Aspirational packaging sets the book apart from the competition • Leading brand coupled with leading expert authors and illustrators • Black Guide quality paired with a stunning package reminiscent of the beloved Moleskine notebooks, the book will offer something completely different

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-745124-1 TPS 190x120mm Paperback 27th March 2014 UK £9.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-750772-6 27th March 2014 UK £7.99

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Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us Murray Carpenter The most popular drug in the world is a white powder. No, not that powder. This is caffeine in its most essential state.

Caffeinated reveals the little-known truth about this addictive, largely unregulated drug found in coffee, energy drinks, teas, colas, chocolate, and even pain relievers.

We’ll learn why caffeine has such a powerful effect on everything from boosting our mood to improving our athletic performance as well as how – and why – brands such as Coca-Cola have ducked regulatory efforts for decades. We learn the differences in the various ways caffeine is delivered to the body, how it is quietly used to reinforce our buying patterns, and how it can play a surprising role in promoting health problems like obesity and anxiety.

Drawing on the latest research, Caffeinated brings us the inside perspective of the additive that Salt Sugar Fat overlooked. Carpenter's story takes us from the coffee farms of central Guatemala to the world's largest synthetic caffeine factory in China to an energy shot bottler in New Jersey, and beyond.

Murray Carpenter has reported caffeine-related stories for the New York Times, NPR, and Wired Magazine. His work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, and other media outlets. He holds a degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. He lives in Belfast, Maine, USA.

Natural History ISBN: TBC Demy 216x135mm Trade paperback 27th March 2014 (TBC) UK £14.99

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The Book of Forgiving Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rev Mpho Tutu The Book of Forgiving, written by the Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu with his daughter Mpho, offers a deeply personal testament and guide to the process of forgiveness.

All of us have at times needed both to forgive (and, sometimes, be forgiven) – whether small, everyday harms or real traumas. But the path to forgiveness is not easy, and the process unclear. How do we let go of resentment when we have been harmed, at times irreparably? How do we forgive and still pursue justice? How do we heal our hearts? How do we heal the harm we have caused others? And how do we forgive ourselves?

Drawing on his memories of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu offers four concrete steps to forgiving and being forgiven: 1) Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm 2) Telling one’s story and witnessing the anguish 3) Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness 4) Renewing or releasing the relationship

Desmond Tutu is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

During half a decade in ministry, he was most famous for campaigning against apartheid as Archbishop of Capetown.

Mpho Tutu is an Episcopal priest and the founder and Executive Director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer & Pilgrimage.

Each chapter contains reflections and personal stories, as well as exercises for practising each step of the path. The Book of Forgiving is a touchstone and tool for anyone seeking the freedom of forgiveness: an inspiring guide to healing ourselves and creating a more united world.

Religious ISBN: 978-0-00-751287-4 Demy 216x135 Hardback 1st April 2014 UK: £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751289-8 1st April 2014 UK £8.99

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Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

Charles Glass

The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee?

During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the Americans 40,000. Commonwealth forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Britain’s colonial empire also left the ranks in their thousands.

The overwhelming majority of deserters from all armies were front-line infantry troops; without them, the war was harder to win. Many of these men were captured and court martialled, while others were never apprehended. Some remain wanted to this day. Why did these men decide to flee their ranks?

In Deserter, veteran reporter and historian Charles Glass follows a group of British and American deserters into the heat of battle and explores what motivated them to take their fateful decision to run away. The result is a highly emotional and engaging study of an under-explored area of Second World War history.

Charles Glass is the author of Americans in Paris, Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope and The Northern Front: An Iraq War Diary. A highly respected journalist and broadcaster, he has covered wars and political upheaval throughout the world.

His writing appears in the Independent and the Spectator.

‘Sensitive and thought-provoking … As this compelling and wellresearched book shows, the battlefield was not a place for heroes, but a place where young men were dehumanised and killed …

Given such conditions who among us would not also have considered walking away?’ Sunday Telegraph ‘[These] stories – of individual human beings who eventually cracked under the strain of hardly imaginable fear and misery – are wonderful, unforgettable acts of witness, something salvaged from a time already sinking into the black mud of the past’ Guardian

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-734593-9 B 197x130 Paperback 24th April 2014 UK: £9.99

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Holy Bible: King James Version This edition of the King James Bible is ideal for anyone who wants to understand why it has had such a huge impact on our language and culture.

The King James Version has been a popular bestseller for centuries, with Collins selling over 1 million gift Bibles alone.

This full text edition of the ever-popular Authorized King James Version Bible includes both the Old and New Testaments, with all its literary beauty and poetic grandeur.

Written in 1611, the KJV is regarded as one of the most accurate translations of the Bible into the English language. The translation is often requested for ceremonial events and given to mark special occasions.

For 400 years the King James Bible has represented the epitome of the English language in all its power and glory, and has been a popular bestseller for Collins.

Religious ISBN: B 197x130 24th April 2014 UK: ÂŁ9.99

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Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet Jesse Norman MP Jesse Norman reinvigorates the study of Edmund Burke and presents him as a man well ahead of his time, who is crucial to understanding modern politics.

Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729, and greatly affected by extremes of inequality and poverty, his career constituted a lifelong struggle against the abuse of power.

In this incisive new biography, MP Jesse Norman gives us Burke anew, vividly depicting his dazzling intellect, imagination and empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th-century Europe. Burke’s wisdom, Norman shows, applies well beyond his own times. We cannot understand the defects of the modern world, or modern politics, without him.

‘Jesse Norman has brought back Burke in triumph. This is an overdue reassessment of a politician who was the father of the modern political party, a man who campaigned with equal brio and genius against British exploitation of India and the bloody tyranny of the French Revolution. Anyone who cares about politics will pounce on this book and devour it’ Boris Johnson

Jesse Norman is the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire. In 2012 he was awarded Parliamentarian of the Year and Backbencher of the Year. This is his first biography.

‘A must-read for anyone interested in politics and history …

Superb’ Matthew D'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph ‘An excellent book, which unites biographical and political insights. The best short biography of Burke for nearly fifty years … and a pleasure to read’ Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University • Edmund Burke has been longlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748964-0 B 197x130 Paperback 1st May 2014 UK: £9.99

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A Royal Experiment: The Extraordinary Family Life of George III Janice Hadlow An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer.

George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission.

He wanted to be a new kind of king, one whose power was rooted in the affection and approval of his people. And he was determined to revolutionise his private life too – to show that a better man would, inevitably, make a better ruler.

For a long time it seemed as if, against all the odds, this great family experiment had been a success. His wife, Queen Charlotte, shared his sense of moral purpose, and together they did everything they could to raise their tribe of 13 young sons and daughters in a climate of loving attention. But as the children grew older, and their wishes and desires developed away from those of their father, it became harder to maintain the illusion of domestic harmony.

At one level, A Royal Experiment is the story of how the best intentions can produce unhappy consequences. But the lives of the women in George’s life – and of the princesses in particular – were shaped by a kind of undaunted emotional resilience that most modern women will recognise. However flawed George’s great family project may have been, in the value the princesses placed on the ideals of domestic happiness, they were truly their father’s daughters.

• A gripping, emotional history that will appeal to the same readership as The Duchess.

Janice Hadlow is Controller of BBC2 and BBC4. As head of history at the BBC, she was responsible for commissioning Simon Schama’s ‘A History of Britain’ series.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-716519-3 Royal 234x153 Hardback 8th May 2014 UK: £25

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New Naturalist Brecon Beacons Jonathan Mullard The Brecon Beacons are one of the most impressive upland areas in Wales, a multi-layered landscape with an astonishing variety of habitats ranging from extensive cave systems to limestone crags and rich meadows. This variety supports thousands of species, some of which are found nowhere else on Earth.

This is the first comprehensive book to be published about the wildlife of the Brecon Beacons, and a much-anticipated addition to the series. Although a large number of people visit the area every year, comparatively few are aware of the flora and fauna that exists in this seemingly wild and inhospitable mountain landscape and its surroundings.

The natural history of the Brecon Beacons is like most parts of the British Isles – inextricably linked to the activities of man across many thousand years. The author uses the evolving landscape and the effect that the associated changes have had on species and habitats as his core approach. He provides a detailed examination of the geology and scenery of the region and the integration of the archaeological and historic landscape with the natural landscape and its associated species. Covering the vast diversity of its mountains and moorlands, rivers and waterfalls, caves, woodlands, wetlands and farmland, he equally provides an overview of man’s influence on the natural environment over the centuries and the ongoing conservation of the area.

A landscape rich in legends, the Brecon Beacons play host to a number of myths involving, among others, King Arthur. Mullard explores these rich tales alongside other cultural landmarks of historical interest, such as the churches and chapels of the area.

The culmination of years of research, New Naturalist Brecon Beacons is an inspiring exploration of this diverse and fascinating area.

Jonathan Mullard is a professional ecologist who specialises in the management of protected areas. He has spent a considerable part of his career in Wales and is currently Lead Advisor for Marine Planning with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-736770-2 TPS 216x149mm Hardback 8th May 2014 UK £55 ISBN: 978-0-00-736769-6 TPS 216x149mm Paperback 8th May 2014 UK £35 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-753125-7 8th May 2014 UK £19.99

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Life of a Chalkstream Simon Cooper Chalkstreams are one of the very few habitats that are nearly exclusive to England. They range far and wide from the famous River Test in Hampshire across eight other counties from Dorset in the west to Yorkshire in the north. Every river is very special in its own right.

Brought up in Hampshire, Simon Cooper was lucky enough to have great fly fishing on his doorstep, but as he grew up, got a job and moved away he soon realised what a closed world chalkstreams were unless you were in the know. So with little more than a germ of an idea, a telephone and the book of his fishing contacts, he set out to change that. His passion for all things fly fishing, but in particular the chalkstreams of southern England, shines through in this lyrical and most extraordinary of journeys.

We are treated to a year in the life of a chalkstream. From the remarkable spectacle of salmon, sea trout and brown trout spawning in winter, to the stunning sight of emerging water voles in spring and the budding explosion of mayflies in the early days of summer, the author describes the true wonders of life in a chalkstream in his inimitable and evocative voice. He introduces us to the fascinating diversity of life that inhabits its waters and environs – the fish, the angling community, the plant life and the wildlife. We learn how neglect threatens these inhabitants and why the fight to save and restore the chalkstreams is so vital, not only for fishermen, but for anybody who values the beauty of rural England.

Simon Cooper is one of the UK’s leading chalkstream conservationists. He hosts the largest chalkstream fishing website, with over 10,000 obsessive followers. He runs a company called Fishing Breaks, hosting courses and tours from April to October at Nether Wallop Mill, in the heart of Hampshire. A beautiful thatched cabin overlooking a gin-clear, wellstocked lake with rainbow brown and blue trout beckoning to budding fishermen and nature enthusiasts.

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-754786-9 Demy 216x135mm Hardback 8th May 2014 UK £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754787-6 8th May 2014 UK £11.45

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Ultimate Weather Manual Lyle Brotherton All the techniques you need to become an expert weather predictor Divided into key environments, the Ultimate Weather Manual is the essential guide to predicting and surviving the complete range of weather that can be found on Earth. From the classical frontal systems found at sea – including the wave patterns and cloud formations – to the extreme weather that can be found at high altitude or in the polar regions, this book is the first to detail exactly what to expect and how to predict in the major areas of the world.

Covering sea, maritime land, continental land, mountains, desert, tropical, temperate and polar regions in the detail that is required to predict and then avoid all types of weather, it also includes the more dangerous forms such as hurricanes or flooding.

• Weather is a perpetual source of fascination to a growing audience interested in global climate phenomena • Heavily illustrated with stunning photography, charts and diagrams throughout, this manual will help you understand all aspects of the weather, from a historical, scientific and practical point of view Praise for the author’s previous work: 'Seamlessly integrating traditional methods with cutting-edge GPS techniques into a fresh and intuitive format' Trail Magazine ‘It’s an essential for anyone who spends time in the countryside’ Field Magazine ‘This comprehensive and richly illustrated guide has everything you could ever wish to know about navigation’ Walk Magazine ‘(An) outstanding achievement in writing … a comprehensive book for land navigation’ The Royal Institute of Navigation

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-752119-7 Demy 216x135mm Paperback 8th May 2014 UK £14.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752120-3 8th May 2014 UK £8.99

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Last Hours On Everest Graham Hoyland The gripping story of two intrepid mountaineers who attempted to take on the might of Everest – and at long last, an answer to the mystery of whether they succeeded.

‘Dawn broke fine on that fateful day. As the sun rose through wisps of cloud beyond the Tibetan hills to the east, one of the men emerged through the tent flaps. It was a perfect morning for the attempt, with only a few clouds in the sky. The two of them stood for a while, shuffling their feet and blowing into their hands. Inside the tent lay a mess of sleeping bags and food. The men lifted oxygen sets onto their backs, then they turned towards the mountain and stamped off into history.’

On the 6th June, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of history. George Mallory’s body was discovered high on Everest in 1999. Sandy Irvine’s body is still believed to be on the mountain having been rediscovered in 1975 by a Chinese climber who was killed the very next day.

In 1993, Graham Hoyland became the 15th English man to climb Everest having become obsessed by the mountain and the myth of what happened to Mallory and Irvine. It was his evidence that led to the discovery of Mallory’s body and it will be his evidence that will lead to the discovery of Sandy Irvine’s.

Last Hours on Everest is the most detailed reconstruction of what happened after the two English climbing legends left the camp on that fateful day. Combining personal experience, the physical evidence found on the mountain and an insight into the hearts and minds of the two climbers, Graham Hoyland produces the most compelling description of what actually happened on that day and the answer to that most intriguing of questions – did they actually climb Everest?

‘You have never read a book like Last Hours on Everest … Graham Hoyland has created a towering work full of twists and turns, like the backdrop’ Independent

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-745574-4 B-format 197x130mm Paperback 8th May 2014 UK:£8.99

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A Terrible Victory: Vercors, DDay and the Battle for France Paddy Ashdown

‘In war, young men go out to die for old men’s dreams’ Anon From the bestselling author of A Brilliant Little Operation comes the neglected D-Day story of the largest partisan battle of the Second World War. The Vercors massif stretches from the ancient city of Grenoble at its north-eastern point, to the south-western vineyards of Valence. Its forbidding cliffs and high plateau form a natural fortress. But the Vercors has bitter memories – of refuge from retribution, persecution and bloody repression.

Early in 1941, three separate groups of plotters – one military, one political and one intellectual – began to organise. Their aims were the same: to hasten the departure of the German occupiers; to restore the pride of France after its fall and the humiliations of the puppet Vichy government; and to build a new France. The overwhelming desire to get rid of the Germans would unite them. Their different hopes for the future of France would divide them.

After three years of planning, as the Allies landed on D-Day, the Vercors rose up to fight the Nazi occupiers in a rearguard action.

It would be not only the largest partisan action of the war but also, in the severity of the German response, the most brutal crushing of resistance forces in Western Europe. For the Vercors men and women, aided by General de Gaulle’s Free French forces and British SOE operatives, events took them from early idealism through misjudgement, folly, despair, sacrifice and slaughter to a terrible victory. It drew the attention of the Allies’ highest ranks and placed the Vercors at the heart of the history of modern France in a way that resonates still.

Praise for A Brilliant Little Operation: ‘Ashdown has sifted the facts from the myths to write a fascinating and very personal account’ Independent

After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Paddy Ashdown was a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. Later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2006.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752080-0 Royal 234x153 Hardback 15th May 2014 UK: £25 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752082-4 15th May 2014 UK £15.99

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The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters Adam Nicolson In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters – to him, to you, to the world.

This ambitious, genre-defying memoir offers a spectacular, profound journey through Adam Nicolson ’s life, his love of Homer and his belief that this great ancient poet still matters to us all in our search to understand what it is to be human, to love, to lose, to grow old and to die.

One of the great writers of landscape and sea, Nicolson takes his readers on a voyage; from the Aegean shores ever haunted by their Homeric heroes, to a disputatious dinner in 19th-centuryFrance; to Keats’ travels in the ‘realms of gold’; memories of sailing from a Scottish beach on a vengeful sea and navigating storms off the coast of Ireland; to Sicily awash with wild flowers, to Bosnia where oral poetry still thrives; to Syria where he is faced with his own mortality; to the deserted, irradiated steppes of Chernobyl where Homeric warriors still lie unexcavated under the tumuli. All this is sewn together by the poems themselves, and their metaphors of life and suffering.

Adam Nicolson writes a celebrated column for the Sunday Telegraph. His books include Sissinghurst, When God Spoke English, Sea Room and Men of Honour, and the widely heralded Gentry. He is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Ondaatje Prize and William Heinemann Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex.

Nicolson ’s book is driven by a desire to find the source of Homer’s directness and to understand why Homer is still so present so many thousands of years after it was first composed.

Like Homer himself, it is a book haunted by transience, by the way memory drifts in the face of time. It is a book that will bring each reader face to face with the meaning of existence in a text full of surprises.

Praise for Adam Nicolson: ‘Nicolson writes so well, with such modesty and deep feeling, that the book fairly sings in your hands’ Daily Telegraph ‘Generous, exuberant and a vividly written narrative … history, travel writing and memoir of the best sort’ Spectator

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-733552-7 Royal 234x153 Hardback 22nd May 2014 UK: £18.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-733554-1 22nd May 2014 UK £10.99

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Our Land At War Duff Hart-Davis

A fascinating, multi-layered account of the changes inflicted by the war of 1939-45 on rural England, Scotland and Wales, and on the people who lived through the conflict. A living history, filled with stirring stories; a heady combination of hardship and farce.

Whereas city and town dwellers were subjected to relentless bombing, the experience of country people was quite different.

Hundreds of them were ordered out of their homes, never to return; evacuee children were dumped on them by the thousand; their territory was invaded by service personnel, British and American; their land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds and gunnery ranges; and in the great drive to grow more food, farmers were burdened by aggressive new restrictions. Large areas, including the whole of north-west Scotland, were closed to outsiders and devoted to military purposes.

Drawing on diaries, letters, books, official records and personal reminiscences, Duff Hart-Davis revisits rural Britain to reveal the lives of ordinary people in villages and farms, from the Home Guard struggling with ridiculous equipment to the Auxiliary Units’ efforts to enlarge badger setts into bunkers from which they could harass German invaders. Rich, sad and sometimes hilarious, this warm-hearted, generous book tells some fascinating tales and casts new light on Britain during the war.

Duff Hart-Davis has written or edited more than fifty books on a wide variety of subjects, including natural history and biography. He has also ghosted several best-selling military memoirs, and is the author of eight adventure novels. After a stint as Literary Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, he travelled widely as a feature reporter, and for fifteen years contributed the Country Matters column to the Independent.

Non -Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-751653-7 Demy 216x135 Hardback 5th June 2014 UK: ÂŁ18.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-751654-4 5th June 2014 UK ÂŁ12.80

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Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants Stefan Buczacki and Keith Harris Essential for all gardeners, horticulturists, teachers, students and naturalists, this is a practical, highly-illustrated guide to dealing with the pests, diseases and disorders that commonly affect fruit, vegetables, trees and ornamental garden plants.

The 4th edition of the highly acclaimed Collins Guide to Pests, Diseases and Disorders first published in 1981, the book features completely updated text, the addition of several new pests and diseases that have become important in the last decade, and an impressive full-colour plate section with over 600 photographs.

The introduction provides general information about garden hygiene and plant care and control, including an assessment of pesticides and chemicals. Special attention is given to the increasing importance of biological control in gardens.

• The A-to-Z of Symptoms lists all the common garden plants, and describes likely causes of problems with leaves, shoots, flowers, fruit and buds, with cross-references to the detailed entries in the main section of the book.

• Pests are arranged by groups of closely related organisms.

Problems such as eelworms, slugs, snails, aphids and birds are all covered.

• Diseases are organised on the basis of symptoms such as rusts, smuts, cankers and rots.

• Disorders, like mineral deficiencies and genetic abnormalities, are grouped under the main factors causing them – mechanical, climatic and nutritional.

Stefan Buczacki is one of the UK’s leading gardening personalities.

Keith Harris has worked on garden pests for over thirty years.

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-748855-1 TPS 216x138mm Paperback 5th June 2014 UK £20 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-738716-8 Updated 2nd June 2014 UK £13.99

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Microadventures Alastair Humphreys Adventure is a loose word, a spirit of trying something new, trying something difficult. Going somewhere different, leaving your comfort zone. Above all, adventure is about enthusiasm, ambition, open-mindedness and curiosity.

It is in this inspirational spirit that Alastair Humphreys introduces us to the exciting world of microadventures – adventures that are close to home, cheap, simple, short, and yet very effective. A microadventure has the spirit (and therefore the benefits) of a big adventure. It's just all condensed into a weekend away, or even a midweek escape from the office. Even people living in big cities are not very far away from small pockets of wilderness.

You can experience it by yourself or with friends. You can do it with your parents or children or colleagues from the office. You can seek out short, interesting, rewarding adventures right on your doorstep. If you are too busy, too stressed, too broke, too tired or too unfit for an adventure, then you definitely would benefit from a microadventure. They may be small, but microadventures can still be challenging and rewarding. Each one is designed to inspire others to set their own small-butperfectly-formed challenge.

Whether it is camping on a hilltop or going for a wild swim, cycling a lap of the Isle of Wight or walking home for Christmas, Humphreys inspires us all to leave our comfort zones and discover that the potential for adventure is everywhere, every day and it is up to us to seek it out.

Alastair Humphreys is a British adventurer, author and blogger. He spent over four years cycling round the world, a journey of 46,000 miles through 60 countries and five continents. More recently, Alastair has walked across southern India, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, run six marathons through the Sahara desert, completed a crossing of Iceland, and participated in an expedition in the Arctic, close to the magnetic North Pole. He has trekked 1000 miles across the Empty Quarter desert and 120 miles round the M25 – one of his pioneering microadventures. He has written five books and was named as one of National Geographic ’s Adventurers of the year for 2012.

Praise for Alastair Humphreys: ‘Enormous determination, lateral thinking, and a love for life and adventure’ Sir Ranulph Fiennes ‘I feel proud that our nation still produces nutters like you’ Major General G J Binns CBE DSO MC

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-754803-3 TPS 210x172mm Paperback 5th June 2014 UK: £16.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-754804-0 5th June 2014 UK: TBC

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Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature Chris Yates Chris Yates, one of Britain’s most insightful and lyrical writers, raises his gaze from his beloved rivers and ponds and takes us on a mesmerizing tour of the British countryside.

‘Last November, the sudden appearance of a hundred wintering ravens in a wood in Cranborne Chase, where I have lived for twenty-five years without seeing more than a few solitary specimens, reminded me that there is always something ready to flame up again in the landscape, just when it seemed the fire had gone out.’

In Nightwalk we accompany Chris Yates on the most magical of journeys into the very heart of the British countryside. His acute observation of the natural world and ability to transcend it exquisitely sets Chris apart from his contemporaries.

Time slows down for a deeper intimacy with nature, and through Chris’s writing we hear every rustle of a leaf, every call of a bird.

He widens the power of our imagination, heightening our senses and revealing beauty in the smallest details.

• Chris Yates is lauded as one of the great writers on the countryside • This book has placed Chris amongst the luminaries of nature writing such as Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Richard Mabey ‘Lyrical and haunting … Yates’ narrative is presented as an account of a midsummer countryside walk … Its beauty lies in its tenderness about the world and the author’s personal responses to what he hears, feels and smells … It stayed with me a long time after I finished.’ Rachel Joyce, The Times ‘In Yates’s darkest England, four delightful decades of meandering nostalgia, curiosity and hedonism meet creatures of the night in the finest tradition of country writing.’ BBC Wildlife

Chris Yates is an angler, photographer, tea connoisseur and prolific writer with contributions to the Idler magazine and former Editor of Waterlog magazine. He is a celebrated British fisherman and author of How To Fish, which has variously been described as containing 'more good sense than all those effete aesthete fishing narratives put together' (Condé Nast Traveller) and as 'a gem of a book' (The Field).

Natural History ISBN: 978-0-00-744870-8 B-format 197x130mm Paperback 5th June 2014 UK £8.99

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Whatever Happened To Billy Parks Gareth Roberts A heart-warming novel about football and second chances.

October 17th 1973: the greatest disaster in the history of English football.

All England had to do was beat Poland to qualify for the World Cup.

They didn’t.

They could only draw.

Left on the bench that night was a now forgotten genius, West Ham’s Billy Parks: beautiful, gifted and totally flawed.

Fast-forward forty years, Billy’s life is a testament to wasted talent. His liver is failing and he earns his money selling football memories on the after-dinner circuit to anyone who’ll listen and buy him a drink. His family has deserted him and his friends are tired of his lies and excuses.

But what if he could be given a second chance? What if he could go back in time and win the game for England? What if he was able to undo the pain he’d caused his loved ones? The Council of Football Immortals can give him that chance, just as long as he can justify himself, and his life, to them.

Gareth R Roberts was born in Llangollen and brought up in Llandudno in North Wales. In 2005 he wrote his first novel, That Immortal Jukebox Sensation, a dark comedy about a solicitor who decides that he wants to kill a pop-star.

This is the story of Billy Parks: a man who bore his genius like a dead weight and who now craves that most precious of things – the chance to put things right.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-753151-6 B 197x130 Paperback th 16 January 2014 UK £7.99

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Death Can’t Take A Joke Anya Lipska The keenly anticipated novel from crime writer Anya Lipska, author of Where The Devil Can’t Go. Meet Janusz Kiszka: private investigator, ‘fixer’ and – murderer?

Janusz Kiszka is determined to clear his name. One of his oldest friends turned up dead in his doorway, and now the cops are after him. But proving his innocence means digging deep into London’s filthy underbelly, and crossing paths with ruthless organised criminals from Eastern Europe, bent on infiltrating the capital.

Meanwhile, Police Detective Natalie Kershaw is investigating a suicide at Canary Wharf – but when she arrives, not all is as it seems, and nobody’s talking…

Kiszka and Kershaw make a formidable double-act – but their complicated private lives keep getting in the way. Kiszka’s girlfriend spends any spare moment running her new nail bar, or with her husband. And Natalie might be falling for a fellow copper, but that is against the rules…

Praise for Where The Devil Can’t Go:

Originally trained as a journalist, Anya now writes and produces documentaries and drama documentaries.

‘RIP Nordic crime – here come the Poles…’ Emlyn Rees, author, Hunted ‘A gripping reminder of how crime fiction reveals the world around us’ Val McDermid • Anya Lipska was selected by Val McDermid as one of the New Blood authors for 2013.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752440-2 B 197x130 Paperback th 13 February 2014 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752441-9 th 13 February 2014 UK £3.99

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The Stonehenge Letters Harry Karlinsky A remarkable new novel from the Wellcome Trust longlisted author.

While carrying out historical investigations at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, a psychiatrist makes an unusual discovery. Among the piles of papers are eight letters addressed to the executor of Alfred Nobel’s will. Remarkably, each is crafted by a different Nobel Laureate — including Rudyard Kipling and Marie Curie — and each is an explanation of why and how Stonehenge was constructed. Diligent research eventually uncovers that Alfred Nobel added a secret codicil to his will, ‘a prize — reserved exclusively for Nobel laureates — was to be awarded to the person who solves the mystery of Stonehenge.’

Weaving together a wealth of primary documents — photos, letters, wills — The Stonehenge Letters documents a fascinating secret competition, complete with strange but illuminating submissions and a contentious prize-awarding process.

Did this all happen? Maybe, as with Stonehenge, we don’t really need to know.

Harry Karlinsky is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Praise for Harry Karlinsky:

‘Karlinsky’s retelling of Darwinian family history is ingeniously wry and original’ Essie Fox, Author of The Somnambulist ‘Just when you think there’s nothing new to be done with the novel, along comes a book that pushes the form in a fresh direction’ John Harding, author of Florence & Giles Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-746432-6 B 197x130 Paperback th 6 March 2014 UK £7.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-746431-9 6 March 2014 UK £3.99

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Finches of Mars Brian Aldiss ‘My final Science Fiction novel’ - Brian Aldiss Mars is in crisis. Ten years after its formation the Earth colony on the red planet has yet to produce a healthy child. Every baby has been deformed and stillborn. With Earth overpopulated and at war, the success of the Mars experiment is crucial to the survival of the human race. Something must be done to ensure its future.

In Finches of Mars, Brian Aldiss has produced a fascinating and thought-provoking novel that considers the practicalities of man’s exploration of space. It is shot through with the trademark wit and visionary philosophy which have been ever present across the seven decades of his writing career.

Brian Aldiss has announced that Finches of Mars will be his final science fiction novel. And what a way to end one of the most illustrious careers in the genre.

‘It’s a terrific yarn, but more than that; as Aldiss casually throws out ideas and speculations, it’s a reminder of why he’s one of the giants of the field’ SFX Magazine

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist.

‘Brian Aldiss is one of those writers who can stand back and look out across the vast fictional landscape of sciences fiction, and consider himself both a creator and a destroyer of worlds; a mortal God if you will’ Starburst Magazine 'This grandmaster of the genre, who has laid down many a milestone in his 60-year career, including classics such as Hothouse, Greybeard and the Helliconia trilogy, is retiring on a high note’ Financial Times

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-754925-2 B 197x130 Paperback rd 3 April 2014 UK £8.99

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Bang In The Middle Robert Shore A book to put the Midlands back on the map.

Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of England – the clichés abound. But what about that big, anonymous stretch of land in between: the Midlands? Despite being home to around a third of the English population, it’s a region that seems to have neither purpose nor identity. In this humorous exploration, the author – a Midlander exiled in London – sets off on a tour of the country’s belly in order to piece together his Midland heritage. What he discovers is nothing short of revelatory: quietly, without fanfare, the Midlands have powered most of English – and not just a little of world – history.

The Industrial Revolution was forged there, as were the ideals of the Land of the Free and the theory of evolution. Why, we even have the Midlands to thank for the modern idea of sex.

Shakespeare, world literature’s greatest genius, was born in the Midlands, as were Margaret Thatcher, Dr Johnson and Robbie Williams. The list goes on and on.

Join Robert Shore on a fascinating, and very funny, journey to the heart of our great nation.

Robert Shore is a journalist. He lives with his wife and young son, and is from Mansfield, in the Midlands.

Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752442-6 B 197x130 Paperback th 10 April 2014 UK £8.99 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752443-3 th 10 April 2014 UK £3.99

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21st Century Dodos: A Collection of Endangered Objects (and Other Stuff) Steve Stack A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.

We’ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered inanimate objects.

Until now, that is.

Steve Stack has catalogued well over one hundred objects, traditions, cultural icons and, well, other stuff that is at risk of extinction. Some of them have vanished already.

Cassette tapes, rotary dial phones, half-day closing, milk bottle deliveries, Concorde, handwritten letters, typewriters, countries that no longer exist, white dog poo… …all these and many more are big a fond farewell in this nostalgic, and sometimes irreverent, trip down memory lane.

This paperback edition will include several new dodos as selected by readers of the book.

Steve Stack is the pseudonym of a well-known blogger and journalist. He has, under various names, written for The Times, Observer, Private Eye and The Guardian.

‘Chummy 1970s and 80s nostalgia’ Guardian ‘Best toilet book I’ve read in a while’ Ben Hatch, author of Are We Nearly There Yet?

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-748466-9 B 197x130 Paperback th 5 June 2014 UK £7.99

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Further Confessions of a GP Benjamin Daniels Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions.

Further Confessions of a GP is the eagerly anticipated follow-up from the bestselling book Confessions of a GP. With more eyebrow-raising stories from the world of general practice, Dr Daniels once again amuses, shocks and surprises in equal measure. You’ll never feel the same about going to the doctor again‌

Dr Benjamin Daniels is a GP. That is about as much as we can reveal about him.

Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752495-2 B 197x130 Paperback th 16 June 2014 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-745824-0 th 16 June 2014

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Georgie and Elsa Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife: The Untold Story Norman Di Giovanni Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa, a widow, with a son in his twenties, was eleven years younger.

It proved to be a tempestuous and eventful marriage that would leave an indelible mark on the remainder of Borges’ life, but their relationship has been largely glossed over by previous biographers.

This is because the one person who knew all the details has refused to speak about it.

Until now.

Norman Thomas di Giovanni worked with Borges in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in Buenos Aires from late 1967 to 1972 and thereafter sporadically until Borges’ death in 1986.

Norman Thomas di Giovanni (born 1933) is an American-born editor and translator known for his collaboration with Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges.

The book is based on the author’s extensive collection of original material in the form of diaries, notebooks, letters, manuscripts, and photographs, most of which has never before been seen. It provides a unique insight into one of the few true geniuses of literature.

Non Fiction ISBN: 978-0-00-752437-2 B 234x153 Hardback th 10 July 2014 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-00-752438-9 th 10 July 2014

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