William Collins, January - June 2018 by 4th Estate Books

WILLIAM January â&#x20AC;&#x201C; June COLLINS 2018

CONTENTS NEW TITLES Molly’s Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 With the End in Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Traitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Good Mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A Good Time to Be a Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Great Unknown: Where Feet May Fail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Special Pigeon Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 From Wolf to Woof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The Saboteur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Countryfile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Look to Your Wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Curlew Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Fascism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Whalebone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Left for Dead? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Well Gardened Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Yeti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Cops & Robbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Pilgrim’s Regress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Desert Solitaire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Inner City Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Exactly! A Brief History of Precision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The New Science of Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Boy Erased . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 King of the North Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Reading Detective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Undivided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 The History of Cycle Road Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

PAPERBACKS On Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Young and Damned and Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Being Wagner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Other Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Size Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 This Fight Is Our Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Air Force Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Otters’ Tale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The Duchess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Protestants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 In God’s Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Prince Who Would Be King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 The Seabird’s Cry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 What Is the Bible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 Secrets of the Human Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Sons and Soldiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Out of the Shadow of a Giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Rising Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 The Genius of Jane Austen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Ancient Wonderings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Joining the Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 The Secret Life of the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

NEW TITLES

Molly’s Game From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker

Molly Bloom NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive high-stakes underground poker games in the world – an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour and greed. In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom ran the most exclusive poker game in existence. Hundreds of millions of dollars were won and lost at her table. Molly’s game became the game for those in the know–celebrities, business moguls, and millionaires. Molly staged her games in palatial suites with beautiful views and exquisite amenities. She flew privately, dined at exquisite restaurants, hobnobbed with the heads of Hollywood studios, was courted by handsome leading men, and was privy to the world’s most delicious gossip, until it all came crashing down around her and she lost everything. This memoir is a behind-the-scenes look at Molly’s game, the life she created, the life she lost, and what she learned in the process. ‘It isn’t often you come across a story that is both cool and has a lot of heart, and this one does’ Aaron Sorkin

December

Molly Bloom grew up in Loveland, Colorado. She attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in Political Science. Molly was a member of the US ski team and was ranked 3rd overall in North America in 1998. For several years Molly organized one of the largest high-stakes poker games in the country. She lives in Los Angeles, CA. Memoir/Film tie-in 14 December 2017 Paperback Original £8.99 9780008274429

With the End in Mind Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

Kathryn Mannix In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death. Told through a series of beautifully crafted stories taken from nearly four decades of clinical practice, her book answers the most intimate questions about the process of dying with touching honesty and humanity. With the End in Mind is a book for all of us: the grieving and bereaved, ill and healthy. Open these pages and you will find stories of normal humans, dying normal human deaths. You will meet Holly, who danced her last day away; Eric, the retired head teacher who, even with Motor Neurone Disease, gets things done; loving, tender-hearted Nelly and Joe, each living a lonely lie to save their beloved from distress; and Sylvie, 19, dying of leukaemia, sewing a cushion for her mum to hug by the fire after she has died. By turns touching, tragic, at times funny and always wise, the book’s thirty-odd stories offer us illumination, models for action, and hope. Read it, and you’ll be better prepared for life as well as death.

Kathryn Mannix has spent her medical career working with people who have incurable, advanced illnesses. Starting in cancer care and changing career to become a pioneer of the new discipline of palliative medicine, she has worked in teams in hospices, hospitals and in patients’ own homes to deliver palliative care. In 1993 she started the UK’s (possibly the world’s) first CBT clinic exclusively for palliative care patients. Memoir 28 December 2017 Hardback £16.99 9780008210885

December

Bones A Story of Brothers, a Champion Horse and the Race to Stop America’s Most Brutal Cartel

Joe Tone Two brothers live parallel lives on either side of the US–Mexico border. This is the dramatic true story of how their worlds collide in a major criminal conspiracy. Brothers Jose and Miguel are raised in a Mexican border town. Jose loves the countryside but crosses the border in search of opportunities. While he builds a modest living laying bricks, Miguel ascends to the top of the Los Zetas cartel, where he burns rivals alive, eats victims’ hearts and launches grenades. Set against the high stakes of horseracing, this riveting crime drama takes you into the world of cartels, American ranchers and drug cops, revealing how greed and fear mingle with race, class and violence along the vast Southwest border. A gripping story of brotherhood, family loyalty and failed drug wars. Praise for Joe Tone: ‘One magnificent piece of border reporting’ Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic ‘A riveting read that transcends the largerthan-life cartels, cowboys, and fast horses at its heart. It’s about how hard it is to determine what makes a good guy and a bad guy along our embattled border’ Joe Drape, author of the New York Times bestseller American Pharoah

January

Joe Tone, a former editor of the Dallas Observer, has written extensively about sports, crime, and immigration, among other topics. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, LA Weekly and the Washington Post. Tone is a graduate of Santa Clara University and holds a Master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. True Crime 11 January 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008204815

Traitors Communists and the Making of Modern Britain

Richard Davenport-Hines

‘Historians fumble their catches when they study individuals’ motives and ideas rather than the institutions in which people work, respond, find motivation and develop their ideas’ writes Richard Davenport-Hines in his history of the men who were persuaded by the Soviet Union to betray their country. The book refuses to present the Cambridge spies as they wished to be seen, in Marxist terms. It argues that these five men did their greatest harm to Britain not from their clandestine espionage but in their propaganda victories enjoyed from Moscow after 1951. Notions of trust, abused trust, forfeited trust and mistrust from the late nineteenth century to perestroika pepper its narrative. In a book that is as intellectually thrilling as it is entertaining and illuminating, Davenport-Hines charts how the undermining of authority, the rejection of expertise, and the suspicion of educational advantages began with the Cambridge Five and has transformed the social and political temper of Britain.

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, Richard DavenportHines returns with a sharp analysis of the intelligence world that examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson Prize for History for his first book, Dudley Docker. He is an adviser to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and has also written biographies of W.H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent book, An English Affair was published in 2013. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement. History 25 January 2018 Hardback £25 9780007516674

January

The Good Mothers The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World’s Most Powerful Mafia

Alex Perry The ‘Ndrangheta is the most powerful, stealthy organised crime network in Italy and Europe, upheld by the ‘silence code’. This is the story of the women who broke the silence. Calabria’s ’Ndrangheta is one of the most powerful organised crime networks globally. It runs 70% of cocaine and heroin in Europe, brokers illegal arms worldwide, and launders billions of dollars. Yet most of us are unaware of this big family: its rule rests on ‘omertà’ (silence), enforced through violence. But violence isn’t just for outsiders. Its girls are subjected to arranged marriages as teens, while wives are routinely beaten, and even widows can expect sons, brothers or fathers to kill and dissolve them in acid to erase the ‘family shame’. After an abused mafia wife is murdered for turning in evidence, state prosecutor Alessandra Cerreti connects with more ‘Ndrangheta women. The stakes could not be higher: Cerreti is fighting to save a nation; the mafiosi are fighting for their existence. Not all will survive. This is the true yet incredible story of life as a Calabrian mafia wife. Praise for Alex Perry: ‘A modern-day epic, rich, often surprising… I don’t think I ran into another book as important as this one the entire year’ Sunday Times

February

Alex Perry is a contributing editor at Newsweek’s international edition. He is the author of Falling Off The Edge, Lifeblood, The Rift, and the ebooks The Hunt for Boko Haram and Clooney’s War. Prior to joining Newsweek, Perry was a correspondent for TIME. Born in Philadelphia and raised in England, Perry lived and worked for 15 years in Asia and Africa, reporting from more than 100 countries and covering more than 30 wars. He now lives in Hampshire, England. True Crime 8 February 2018 Hardback £20 9780008222109

A Good Time to Be a Girl Don’t Lean In – Change the System

Helena Morrissey Five years have passed since women were exhorted to ‘Lean In’ – Helena Morrissey believes we must do more than that. In this book, she demonstrates why and how we can change the system instead. Drawing on her experience as a City CEO, mother of nine, and leader of the successful 30% Club campaign to achieve more women on UK company boards, Helena Morrissey has written a powerful handbook for gender equality in the workplace. Filled with career advice, it is a key resource for those just starting out or women looking to break through to the next level, and those who want to support or understand them. It is a vital text for business leaders to effect positive change in the boardroom or the back office to achieve greater commercial success. Using the stories of professionals of all ages and genders, as well as her own career and unconventional family structure as examples, the author explains how an accelerated path towards gender equality can liberate all of us. In this powerful guide for success, Helena Morrissey demonstrates that we can be equal but we are different – and together we are stronger. A Good Time to be a Girl demonstrates how homogeneity is flawed, offering a radical solution: rather than leaning into an existing system, we must change the paradigm.

Helena Morrissey started her career with Schroder Capital Management in New York. After returning to London she joined Newton in 1994 and was appointed CEO in 2001. Helena is now Head of Personal Investing at Legal and General Management, a new role aimed at engaging the nation to save and invest more. In 2010, she founded the 30% Club, a cross-business initiative to achieve better gender-balanced UK company boards through men and women working together on a voluntary action. Business 8 February 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008241605

March

The Great Unknown: Where Feet May Fail Learning Through Failure, Living with Audacious Trust

Joel Timothy Houston Joel Houston, the American Music and Billboard award-winning musician, songwriter, pastor of Hillsong NYC, and singersongwriter with the world-famous Hillsong United Christian rock group, chronicles the struggles he has overcome on his personal spiritual journey in this poignant book based on the band’s most popular song, “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)” Wrestling with the pressures of a platform he long tried to avoid, Joel reveals how stepping into his own fears and insecurities, and learning by way of failure and doubt have been the catalyst to his journey. From the suburbs of Sydney, to the streets of New York City, Joel discovers how the great unknown between where we find ourselves, and where we are headed is an ocean filled with hidden dangers and hidden wonders—and yet, how it’s only in embracing the mystery, come hell or high water do we begin to understand our purpose and calling. In this, the band’s first book, Joel explores faith in a modern world, landing in the unlikeliest of places, at the end of every unexpected step.

March

Joel Houston is a Songwriter, Producer and Global Creative Director of Hillsong Church, Frontman of Hillsong United, one of the largest Christian music groups in the world, as well as co-pastor of Hillsong NYC. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2016 American Music Award and Billboard Music Award and his music is sung every Sunday by more than 50 million people worldwide. A native of Sydney, Australia, he lives in New York City with his wife Esther and son Zion. Religion 8 February 2018 Hardback £20 ISBN: TBC

Secret Pigeon Service Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Occupied Europe

Gordon Corera Using declassified documents, this is the untold story of MI 14(d) – Operation Columba – the Secret Pigeon Service and the remarkable ‘Leopold Vindictive’, a Belgian resistance cell who used the pigeon they found one summer’s day in 1941 to spy on the Nazis. Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of ‘Columba’ – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back via homing pigeons – authentic voices from rural France, Holland, Belgium – sometimes with invaluable details of German troop movements and fortifications. At the centre of this dramatic new book by BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera is the ‘Leopold Vindictive’ ring – a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks to resist and how they were led by a priest for whom it was as if every step of his extraordinary life up to July 1941 had prepared him for his role as leader of this unlikely spy network. A powerful and tragic tale of wartime espionage, this is a book not just about pigeons but about the ordinary people who were faced with the choice of how to respond to a call for help, and took the decision to resist.

Gordon Corera is a journalist and the author of several books on intelligence and security issues. Since 2004 he has been a Security Correspondent for BBC News, where he covers terrorism, cyber security, the work of intelligence agencies and other national security issues. History 22 February 2018 Hardback £20 9780008220303

February

From Wolf to Woof A Genetic History of Man’s Best Friend

Professor Bryan Sykes The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove their amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today. How is it that Homo sapiens formed such a special relationship with what, on the face of it, is a most unlikely ally? It is an astonishing example of the co-evolution of two species, man and wolf, to each other’s mutual benefit. This co-evolution was a vital step in helping Homo sapiens to expand in numbers from relative obscurity on the margins towards the overwhelming numerical superiority and influence that we enjoy today. Many theories explore what it was that propelled us to this position of complete domination, but Sykes crucially adds a fourth: our transformation of the wolf into the multipurpose helpmate that is the dog.This fascinating book draws on rich scientific detail, resolving questions that have puzzled scientists for centuries. Praise for Prof Bryan Sykes: ‘A terrific book, written with humour and humanity’ Sunday Times ‘An engrossing, bubbly read, a boy’s own adventure in scientific storytelling that fairly bounces along … a thumping good read’ Observer

March

Professor Bryan Sykes is a Fellow of Wolfson College, and Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. Originally a medical geneticist specialising in inherited bone disease, Prof Sykes has in recent years been researching what DNA can tell us about the human past. He is the founder and chairman of Oxford Ancestors, which helps individuals explore their genetic roots using DNA. Popular Science 8 March 2018 Hardback £20 9780008244415

The Saboteur True Adventures of the Gentleman Spy who took on the Nazis

Paul Kix A breathtaking biography of WWII’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates the exploits of Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned antiNazi saboteur, a British Special Operations Executive-trained agent, and an unsung hero of the Resistance. Robert de La Rochefoucauld was raised in chateaux and educated in Europe’s finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, he escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat – cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands – from the officers of SOE. With his newfound skills, La Rochefoucauld returned to France and organized Resistance cells, interfering with Germans’ wartime missions, and executing Nazi officers. Once caught, La Rochefoucauld withstood months of torture without cracking and escaped his own death not once but twice. More than just a fast-paced, true thriller, The Saboteur is also a deep dive into an endlessly fascinating historical moment, telling the untold story of a network of commandos that battled evil, bravely working to change the course of history.

Paul Kix is a senior editor at ESPN Magazine, and has written for numerous publications from the Boston Globe to the Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. Biography 8 March 2018 Hardback £20 9780007553808

March

Countryfile Countryside Year

Ellie Harrison A unique, all-encompassing view of rural Britain, based on the celebrated, long-running BBC TV series. This beautifully illustrated book provides a month-by-month guide to everything that is happening in the natural world around us. Not only do we discover the most interesting birds, wild flowers or trees at any given time, we also find out what is happening in the fields, or on the shore, or in the rivers and lakes throughout the year, giving us a complete understanding of the mechanics of the modern British countryside. All of this is explained in the signature matterof-fact way made famous by the series and illustrated with glorious colour photographs throughout which show exactly what you will come across during your countryside visit – whether you are at the southern tip of the Scilly Isles or in the far north of the Shetland Islands, and everywhere in-between.

Ellie Harrison is a geographer, naturalist and presenter. During her early travels she worked on a farm in Zimbabwe and spent time in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Canada before returning to the UK to study. Ellie’s television debut came in 2005 as a presenter on Channel 5’s Childrens’ BAFTA-winning series Michaela’s Wild Challenge. She was part of the original presenting team for The ONE Show, filming stories on the best of British wildlife. She is a presenter on BBC1’s celebrated Countryfile. Natural History 5 April 2018 Hardback £25 9780008254988

April

Look to Your Wife Paula Byrne A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life. Lisa Blaize, a teacher and would-be fashion writer, has just married the headmaster of their prize-winning inner-city school. But his highflying career takes him to a very different school and town, where Lisa feels uncomfortable and trapped. So she turns to the one place where she feels she can be uninhibited. But ‘Twitter may be my undoing’, as Lisa herself says. She gets addicted to flirtation in 140 characters. Soon she is being stalked online and mysterious anonymous letters start arriving in the post. But what the troll doesn’t know is that Lisa has been harbouring a real secret… A wonderful setting in the world of schools – the teachers and the staff room, the pupils and parents, the competition and the gossip – is complemented by a lively cast of characters of whom one wants to know so much more. Readers of Joanna Trollope, JoJo Moyes and Maggie O’Farrell will love this. Praise for Paula Byrne: ‘Byrne conjures such a vivid portrait of her enchanting heroine that one almost feels deprived never having met her’ Daily Mail

Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies Perdita, Mad World, The Real Jane Austen, Belle and Kick. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford. Fiction 5 April 2018 Hardback £12.99 9780008270582

April

Curlew Moon Mary Colwell Curlews are the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest wading bird, about the size of a herring gull on long legs. They are particularly known for their evocative calls which embody wild places; they provoke a range of emotions that many have expressed in poetry, art and music. Over the last thirty years curlew numbers have fallen by an alarming 20 per cent across the European continent and they were made a species of highest conservation concern in the UK in December 2015. Mary Colwell decided to walk from the west coast of Ireland through Wales to the east coast of England to raise awareness about their plight, and to raise funds to protect this beautiful bird and its habitat. Colwell chronicles her impressive journey in this beautifully illustrated book, weaving a wonderfully told story of the experiences on her walk, interspersed with the natural history of this most impressive of birds that has fascinated us for millennia.

Mary Colwell makes programmes for the BBC and the independent sector, mainly on nature and the environment. She recently featured in BBC Wildlifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UK 50 Top Conservation Heroes awards. Natural History 5 April 2018 Hardback ÂŁ16.99 9780008241056

April

Fascism Madeleine Albright An urgent book by Madeleine Albright. Based on her upbringing in Hungary under Hitler and the Communist regime that followed World War II, as well as knowledge gleaned from her distinguished diplomatic career and insights from colleagues around the globe, she paints a clear picture of how fascism flourishes and explains why it is once again taking hold worldwide, identifying the factors contributing to its rise. This call to arms clarifies what may happen if we fail to act against rising fascist forces imminently, including the potential for economic catastrophe, a lasting spike in terrorist activity, increased sectarian violence, a rash of humanitarian emergencies, massive human rights violations, a breakdown in multilateral cooperation, and nearly irreparable self-inflicted damage to Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reputation and leadership. Fascism offers compelling solutions to the biggest threat on democracy today.

Madeleine K. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the US and the first woman to serve in that position. She is Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group and Albright Capital Management. She is a Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Chair of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and President of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Genre 18 April 2018 Hardback ÂŁ20 9780008282264

April

Whalebone Nicholas Pyenson Whales are superlative creatures. They are among the largest, most intelligent, deepestdiving species to have ever lived on our planet. We have hunted them for thousands of years and scratched their icons into our mythologies. Humans have a complex relationship with whales – they fill us with waves of terror, awe and affection. And despite centuries of observing whales, we know hardly anything about them. They live an elusive existence. They roam entire ocean basins yet only enter our awareness when they die, struck by a ship or stranded in the surf. All the while, whales captivate us with the little we do understand about their life below the water’s edge. In this remarkable new book, Smithsonian scientist Nicholas Pyenson takes readers to the frontlines of palaeontological whale research, from the cool halls deep inside the Smithsonian’s priceless fossil collection to the frigid fishing decks on Antarctic whaling stations, to the largest fossil whalebone site on Earth, in the blazing hot desert of Chile. He tells a story of scientific discovery that is equal parts fieldwork, guidebook and memoir to bring readers closer to the most enigmatic and beloved animals of all time.

May

Nicholas Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. A National Geographic Explorer, he has done scientific fieldwork on every continent and led over a dozen scientific expeditions during the last decade, with a strong focus on palaeontological exploration, anatomical discovery, international mentorship and 3D digitization for museum collections. Natural History 2 May 2018 Hardback £20 9780008244460

Left for Dead? The Strange Death and Rebirth of Labour Britain

Lewis Goodall A timely and provocative account of the fall of New Labour, the rise of Corbyn, and what it means for the left in Britain and the wider Western world. In early 2017, the Labour Party seemed doomed. A Conservative party resurgent, a far-left takeover, an apparently fateful general election on the horizon, Brexit tearing its electoral coalition asunder. And then it all changed. Far from being ground zero of the leftist disease, at one fell stroke the general election provided Labour with a tonic which heralded its unexpected and strange rebirth. Against all the odds, Jeremy Corbyn became the first Labour leader since Tony Blair in 1997 to gain the party seats. In Left for Dead? political journalist Lewis Goodall traces the journey of the British and wider Western left from the twilight of the ‘Third Way’ to the tumult of the financial crisis to Brexit and Trump and now, to Corbynism. Because one thing is for certain – while the left might not be dead, the traditional social democratic centreleft which we have known since the war is barely twitching in the road. But what has replaced it? Where has it come from? And what does it mean for the long-term future of Labour?

Lewis Goodall is a Political Correspondent for Sky News, formerly having reported for BBC Newsnight. Politics 3 May 3018 Hardback £16.99 9780008226695

May

The Well Gardened Mind Sue Stuart-Smith An inspirational book for the body and mind. The Well Gardened Mind teaches us how vital gardening can be as an escape for the brain and how having green fingers can help our minds through movement as well as thought. The Well Gardened Mind investigates how an immersion in gardening can affect our inner worlds, both consciously and unconsciously, and how it can help us to find or rediscover our place in the world and improve various mental health issues. Combining contemporary neuroscience and psychoanalysis with compelling real-life stories, prominent psychiatric psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith shows how many of the physical and mental processes involved in gardening are ones that are recognized as facilitating neural change. A celebration of gardening and mental health at once, this book will guide those who have green fingers and anyone looking to take on a physical activity that has scientifically been proven to improve our health through contact with the nutrients and bacteria found in the soil. You will never look at your garden in the same way again.

Sue Stuart-Smith, a prominent psychiatric psychotherapist, took her degree in English literature at Cambridge before qualifying as a doctor and a psychiatrist. She teaches at The Tavistock Clinic in London and works for the National Health Service in Hertfordshire. She is married to Tom Stuart-Smith, the famous garden designer, and, over 25 years together, they have created the wonderful Barn Garden in Hertfordshire. Psychology/Popular Science 3 May 2018 Hardback ÂŁ18.99 9780008100711

May

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library

Edward Wilson-Lee This book follows Hernando Columbus’s curation of the first library of its kind. Set to the backdrop of Christopher Columbus’s paradigm-defining explorations of the New World and beyond, it cuts across events of the Renaissance and Reformation to reveal what life as the son of one of the most memorable men in history is like. In 1539, Hernando Columbus dies, leaving a considerable heritage behind. Rather than merely a generous inheritance, it is his collection of over 3,000 books and related paraphernalia that survives him. To this day, the library stands in Seville, housing the first original collection of its kind, which includes playing cards, pornography, and printed images among other artefacts. Set to the backdrop of his father Christopher’s explorations of the New World to spread the Christian ideology and counting Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella as people of note, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books chronicles the unparalleled journey of the Young Columbus.

Edward Wilson-Lee was raised in Kenya, as part of a family of wildlife conservationists and filmmakers, and now teaches Shakespeare at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He has written and lectured widely on subjects from the Bible to Don Quixote and is an expert on the early years of the printing press, chivalric romance and the novel. History 17 May 2018 Hardback £25 9780008146221

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Yeti Graham Hoyland Graham Hoyland, the Everest climber who was responsible for finding the body of George Mallory on the mountain, has another quest. On a recent expedition to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan he discovered and filmed footprints of the mythical Yeti. In Yeti â&#x20AC;&#x2020;Hoyland details his day-by-day quest for this fabled animal in the company of Steve Berry, another explorer who has seen footprints on three previous occasions and who is unshakeable in his belief in the creature's existence. They searched in a lost valley near the unclimbed mountain Gangkar Punsum, which Steve attempted to climb in the 80s. In this valley Graham found evidence of the Yeti, a beast so unspeakably powerful that locals says it can kill a yak with one blow of its fist. The Yeti has curious parallels with the Bigfoot in the US, so Hoyland takes us on his searches of the lonely forests of the Pacific Coast. What leads mankind to the belief in monsters, and what happens when he is confronted with the brutal creature of his nightmares?

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Climber, author and film director Graham Hoyland was the 15th Briton to climb Everest and is the author of the bestselling Last Hours on Everest. He is a former BBC producer of history and exploration programmes and recently sailed and mountaineered around the world. Natural History 17 May 2018 Hardback ÂŁ20 9780008279493

Cops & Robbers The History of the British Police Car

Ant Antstead TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone’s horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and sophisticated electronic tracking. The British Police Force’s relationship with the car started with the chasing of pioneer speeding motorists, who were often caught by policemen on bicycles. However, as speed restrictions eased in the early twentieth century and car ownership increased the Police embraced the car. Crime was becoming intrinsically linked to the car, criminals were stealing them to sell on or to use as getaway vehicles and the Police needed to stay ahead, or at least only one step behind. The arms race for speed had begun. In this fascinating new history of the British Police Car, Ant Anstead looks at the classic Police Cars, from the Met’s Wolseleys to the motorway patrol car officers most loved, the Senator, via unusual unexpected police vehicles such as an Arial Atom. It’s a must-read for car enthusiasts, social historians and anyone who just loves a good car chase.

Ant Anstead is best known for his day job as a car builder, but he is also a designer, artist, author, world record holder and a semi-professional football player. Ant has been building bespoke cars since he was a kid, and after his career as one of the UK’s youngest armed police officers came to an end when he was just 25, he followed his passion into the car world. Ant has appeared on The One Show, Sunday Brunch and This Morning and has fronted the hugely popular Channel 4 series For the Love Of Cars with Philip Glenister. Transport 17 May 2018 Hardback £20 9780008244514

May

Pilgrim’s Regress C.S. Lewis One of C. S. Lewis’s works of fiction, or more specifically allegory, this book is clearly modelled upon Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, as Lewis cleverly satirizes different sections of the Church. Written within a year of Lewis’s conversion, The Pilgrim’s Progress characterises the various theological and temperamental leanings of the time. This brilliant and biting allegory has lost none of its freshness and theological profundity, as the pilgrims pass the City of Claptrap, the tableland of the High Anglicans and the far-off marsh of the Theosophists. As ever, Lewis says memorably in brief what would otherwise have demanded a full-length philosophy of religion. ‘He has quite a unique power for making theology an attractive, exciting and fascinating quest.’ Times Literary Supplement

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Mere Christianity, Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics, the Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures. Religion 17 May 2018 Paperback Original £8.99 9780008254582

May

Desert Solitaire A Season in the Wilderness [50th Anniversary Edition] With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane

Edward Abbey In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National Park Service. Living out of a trailer, Abbey captures in rapt, poetic prose the landscape of the desert; a world of terracotta earth, empty skies, arching rock formations, cliffrose, juniper, pinyon pine and sand sage. His summers become spirit quests, taking him in search of wild horses and Ancient Puebloan petroglyphs, up mountains and across tribal lands, and down the Glen Canyon by river. Back in print for the first time in decades to celebrate its 50th Anniversary, this forgotten classic now seems remarkably prescient, and has lost none of its psychedelic power. ‘Probably my favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ‘His masterpiece. Despite its stated purpose as a eulogy to a lost world, it seems hardly to have aged at all. Part of the book’s staying power resides in the synthesis Abbey created between the American desert — the red-rock canyons, “Abbey’s country” — and the beautiful, hard-chiselled prose, as rough and gorgeous as the land itself, that he used to celebrate its harshness and mystery. None have matched his style’ Salon

Edward Abbey was born in Home, Pennsylvania, in 1927. He was educated at the University of New Mexico and the University of Edinburgh. He died at his home in Oracle, Arizona, in 1989. Memoir 17 May 2018 Trade Paperback with Flaps £12.99 ISBN: TBC

May

Inner City Pressure The Story of Grime

Dan Hancox The definitive story of grime, the 21st Century’s most groundbreaking and influential musical phenomenon. Beginning at the start of the new millennium in the council estates of inner London, Inner City Pressure tells the full story of grime, Britain’s most exciting musical revolution since punk. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, grime’s teenage pioneers sent out a signal from the pirate radio aerials and crumbling estates of London’s poorest boroughs that would, 15 years later, resonate as the universal sound of youthful rebellion, as big in the suburbs as in the inner city. By 2018, the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Skepta have long since become household names. But have the conditions that produced this music now gone forever? What happens to those living on the margins when those margins become ever-smaller spaces? And what happens to a rebellious, outsider sound when it is fully accepted by the pop cultural mainstream? Inner City Pressure tells the astonishing story of a generation dancing, fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital.

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Dan Hancox is a native Londoner who writes about music, politics, gentrification, social exclusion, protest and the margins of urban life in the 2000s, chiefly for the Guardian, but also Vice, The Fader, Dazed & Confused and XXL. He is the author of The Village Against the World (Verso). Music 17 May 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008257132

Exactly! A Brief History of Precision

Simon Winchester Through stories of their trials and tribulations, Exactly! A Brief History of Precision celebrates the memorable men who shaped today’s world through their early innovation in engineering. John Wilkinson, known as ‘“Iron-Mad” Wilkinson, became one of the richest Englishmen of the industrial revolution following the invention of perfectly round cylinders, which forever changed the steam engine business. Joseph Bramah masterminded an eclectic array of inventions, not least the banknote numbering machine, the beer tap, the hydraulic press, and locks. Jesse Ramsden crafted precise optical instruments. As the first man to create a perfect sheet of steel, Henry Maudslay virtually invented the concept of precision. His peer Joseph Whitworth standardised it through the British Standard Whitworth system for imperial measurement – a framework that guides the railway, shipbuilding and car manufacturing industries to this day. Simon Winchester chronicles the genesis of precision by shining a light on the quintet of pioneers who enabled us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson through their unparalleled work of minutiae.

Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of Atlantic, The Man Who Loved China, The Map That Changed the World, and Pacific, among many other titles. In 2006 he was awarded the OBE. He lives in Massachusetts and New York City. Genre 18 May 2018 Hardback £25 9780008241766

May

The New Science of Dinosaurs Brian Ford

Palaeontologists have an agreed interpretation of the life of dinosaurs, yet the latest evidence offers a revolutionary interpretation to the eye of a biologist. Climatological evidence supports the theory that the habitat dinosaurs inhabited was largely wet and warm. Dinosaur fossils are found in mudstones and siltstones, which is a clear pointer to where they lived – a quiet aquatic environment. This is the only theory that explains why there are endless sets of fossilized dinosaur footprints, but none of the large ones show trail marks. More and more is being discovered about dinosaur lives: locomotion, communal hunting, nesting behaviour, distribution, extinction. Prof Ford brings together these amazing discoveries in this remarkable new book which undoubtedly will ruffle a few feathers – or scales if you are an old-school dinosaur lover.

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Dinosaurs are the most vivid, commanding and powerful icons of Earth’s history. As a group, they continue to intrigue. Since the making of Jurassic Park, it has been discovered that they were multi-coloured, feathered animals, not the drab-scaled animals portrayed.

Brian J. Ford FLS HonFRMS is an independent research biologist, author and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years. Natural History 31 May 2018 Hardback £20 9780008218904

Boy Erased A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Garrard Conley SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON, AND STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to “cure” him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalised Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. At times heartbreaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. ‘This brave and bracing memoir is an urgent reminder that America remains a place where queer people have to fight for their lives. Equal parts sympathy and rage, Boy Erased is a necessary, beautiful book’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

Garrard Conley’s fiction and nonfiction can be found in Time, Vice and on CNN.com, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Elizabeth Kostova Foundation writers’ conferences. A finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Boy Erased, Conley lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York. Memoir 7 June 2018 Paperback Original £8.99 9780008276980

June

King of the North Wind The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

Claudia Gold Henry II should be celebrated as England’s greatest monarch. But in his final days, he was unloved and alone. Even his adored youngest son John betrayed him. How was England’s burning light reduced at the end of his days to no more than a flicker in the shadows? This biography of Henry II casts Henry as a tragic hero: a fascinating, erudite man of action possessed of a fatal flaw that brings about his own downfall. Henry possesses exceptional talents wins and holds the largest European land mass of any English monarch before or since. Yet he contrives to lose everything – his wife, his sons, his closest friend, much of his domain, and his dignity – mostly though his own intransigence. Henry was the most talented of English kings – and the most haunted. How was England’s burning light reduced at the end of his days to no more than a flicker in the shadows? Set in five acts, in the Shakespearean tradition, this book dissects the betrayal endured by this lost king, telling the story of Henry as tragedy. Praise for Claudia Gold: ‘Gold has produced a vivid and enjoyable biography’ Spectator ‘Claudia Gold’s opening chapters are hectic and brilliant’ Daily Express

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Claudia Gold has a Master’s degree in medieval history and a background in researching for TV. Her book The King’s Mistress is a biography of the Duchess of Kendal, the extraordinary woman who, as George I’s mistress and possible secret wife, became England’s first Georgian queen in all but name. Her latest book, Women Who Ruled, tells the stories of fifty of the world’s most famous women rulers. Biography 7 June 2018 Hardback £25 9780007554782

The Reading Detective Curious Jane and the Strange Case of a House by the Sea

Sally Bayley ‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’ The empowering story of how one young woman saved herself from an abusive home through the power of reading. Men were forbidden from Sally’s childhood home. Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea, her world was filled with mystery and intrigue. In the early years, hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God. Their leader was Sally’s Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. After her baby brother vanishes from his pram, Sally becomes suspicious of the activities going on around her. What really happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue? And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly go? Disappearing into a world of books and reading, Sally adopts the tried and tested methods of her heroine, Miss Marple. She turns herself into a reading detective… This intensely personal, passionately inspired book will appeal to anyone who has loved Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, I Capture the Castle, Lorna Sage’s Bad Blood, and the work of Ali Smith.

Sally Bayley is a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in English at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford. She has written widely on visual responses to literature, including a jointly authored study of Sylvia Plath’s relationship to the visual arts: Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual and a study of Plath as a cultural icon: Representing Sylvia Plath. Her book The Private Life of the Diary: from Pepys to Tweets was published in 2016. Memoir 14 June 2018 Hardback £14.99 9780008226855

‘Brilliant in merging scholarship with imagination, and emotional depth with writerly flair’ Independent‘

June

Undivided A Memoir of Finding My Voice

Vicky Beeching Vicky Beeching, who the Guardian calls ‘arguably the most influential Christian of her generation,’ tells the story of her rise to becoming a household name in Christian music until her decision to come out as gay in 2014 at the age of 35, which changed the way she was called to worship God. A respected and award-winning writer, commentator, and speaker, Beeching speaks to the topics of religion and LGBT issues, in an effort to bridge the gap and share her vision of an inclusive church for all. Choosing to use her speaking and writing instead of music, she still sees herself as a worship leader, but in a new way, worshipping God for his great faithfulness and love of all members, and leading the way forward to making this a reality across all churches.

Vicky Beeching is an Oxfordeducated theologian, Christian musician and writer, and commentator for outlets like the BBC. She has been featured in major media including the BBC, Sky News, Gay Times Magazine, TIME Magazine, the Telegraph, the Huffington Post, and many others. Vicky has won awards for her media and writing – including a Christian New Media Award – and she advises a variety of organisations, such as the United Nations, on the intersection of LGBT equality and religion. Religion 14 June 2018 Hardback £16.99 9780008182144

June

The History of Cycle Road Racing Chris Sidwells Since the invention of the bicycle, people have raced them. The advent of the pneumatic tyre meant that these races could take place on any road in any country – cycle road racing was born. In just over a century the Tour de France has become the most watched sporting event and the Giro d’Italia, Vuela d’Espagne and Spring Classics are expanding to fill the entire year with competitions which are watched by millions of fans. The routes are cycled by hundreds of thousands of amateurs keen to discover what it is like to ride 200 arduous kilometres in one day, in some cases over the steepest of roads. Intertwined with these competitions is the history and, most importantly, the characters who have graced the road cycling stage. Merckx, Indurain, Coppi, Pantani, Binda, Rominger and Hinault are names that have been raised to mythical status. The History of Cycle Road Racing reveals the epic battles of all of the racing seasons since the first Tour de France – looking beyond the results to see the drama – not just on the road but within the teams and between individuals – and the politics and scandal that continue to fascinate cycle road race fans everywhere.

Chris Sidwells is a bestselling author, journalist, photographer and broadcaster. He writes on every aspect of cycling and fitness. Cycling 14 June 2018 Hardback £20 9780008220778

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PAPERBACKS

On Time Finding Your Pace in a World Addicted to Fast

Catherine Blyth Why has time sped up? Why is there never enough? How can you make it yours again? On Time reveals the most valuable secrets about time and teaches us how to truly master it. In this book for the ages, Catherine Blyth combines cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology with stories ranging from Leonardo da Vinci to Kant, and Keith Richards to Anna Wintour, to reveal timeless truths about humanity’s finest invention, exploring how it shapes our lives. Catherine Blyth has written for publications including The Times, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Elle, Glamour and Daily Mail. Her acclaimed book, The Art of Conversation, was translated into eight languages. Self help • 28 December 2017 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008190002

Young and Damned and Fair The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

Gareth Russell ‘A stunning reappraisal of Henry VIII’s fifth wife’ Tracy Borman, Sunday Times A riveting account of Catherine Howard’s tragic marriage to one of history’s most powerful rulers. This is a grand tale of the Henrician court in its twilight, a glittering but pernicious sunset during which the king’s unstable behaviour and his courtiers’ labyrinthine deceptions proved fatal to many, not just to Catherine Howard. Gareth Russell was a student at Down High Grammar School in Northern Ireland before studying Modern History at Saint Peter’s College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of the novels Popular and The Immaculate Deception. Biography • 11 January 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008128289

Being Wagner The Triumph of the Will

Simon Callow A plunge headlong into Wagner’s world to discover what it was like to be him or to be around one of music’s most influential figures. Callow recalls the intellectual and artistic climate in which Wagner worked, recording the almost superhuman effort required to create his work, and evoking the extraordinary effect he had on people – this composer like no other who ever lived, extreme in everything, creator of the most sublime and most troubling body of work ever known. Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. Callow’s books include a highly acclaimed biography of Charles Laughton, and a multi-volume biography of Orson Welles. He wrote and starred in Inside Wagner’s Head, which inspired for this book. Biography • 25 January 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008105716

January

Other Minds The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Peter Godfrey-Smith The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher of science and a skilled scuba diver, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself – a story that largely occurs in the ocean. By tracing the question of inner life back to its roots and comparing human beings with our most remarkable animal relatives, Godfrey-Smith casts crucial new light on the octopus mind – and on our own. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor of history and the philosophy of science at the University of Sydney. Popular Science • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008226299

Size Zero My Life as a Disappearing Model

Victoire Dauxerre A memoir of a brief career as a top model – and a brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating, closed industry. Scouted in the street when she was 17, Victoire Dauxerre’s story started like a teenager’s dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York’s major fashion shows. But when fashion executives and photographers began to pressure her about her weight, forcing her to become ever thinner, Victoire’s fantasy came at a cost. An unflinching, painful exposé of the uglier face of fashion, her testimony is a shocking example of how our culture can push a young woman to the point of suicide. Victoire Dauxerre was born in Paris in 1992. She is currently studying Drama in London and training to be an actress. Memoir • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008220525

This Fight Is Our Fight The Battle to Save Working People

Elizabeth Warren ‘Nevertheless, she persisted.’ At a perilous moment for the US comes a resonant message from Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, the voice of the opposition and a 2020 presidential candidate favourite. This is at once an illuminating account of how after the wreckage of the great depression, a society was built that offered opportunity, a scathing indictment of those who have spent the past thirty-five years undermining working families, and a rousing call to action. Elizabeth Warren is the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. A former Harvard Law School professor, she is the author of ten books, including bestseller A Fighting Chance, which received widespread critical acclaim. Polemic • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008254575

March

Air Force Blue The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory

Patrick Bishop A homage to the men and women of the Royal Air Force, marking its centenary. Patrick Bishop examines the high point of ithe Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to victory. Air Force Blue portrays the spirit of the RAF during its finest hours. Essential reading for the millions in Britain and the Commonwealth whose loved ones served, and for anyone who wants to understand the Second World War. Patrick Bishop is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Fighter Boys, Bomber Boys, 3 Para and Ground Truth. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, reporting from conflicts all over the world. History • 8 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007433155

The Otters’ Tale Simon Cooper When Simon Cooper bought an abandoned water mill that straddles a small chalkstream in southern England, little did he know that he would come to share the mill with a family of wild otters. Cooper began to observe them, soon immersing himself in their daily routines and movements. He interweaves the personal story of the female otter, Kuschta, with the natural history of the otter in the British Isles. Cooper brings these beloved animals to life in all their wondrous complexity. Simon Cooper is one of the UK’s leading chalkstream conservationists. He lives and works on the English rivers, where otters are once again thriving. Natural History • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008189747

The Duchess The Untold Story

Penny Junor Explosive biography by Britain’s top royal author… A gripping story of human frailty, love, loss, sadness, and tragedy’ Daily Mail The relationship between Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is one of the most remarkable love stories of the age. It has endured against all the odds, and in the process nearly destroyed the British monarchy. In her relationship with Charles, which has survived for more than forty years, Camilla’s story has seen a great many myths. This book is the definitive account. Penny Junor is a frequent commentator on the Royal Family on TV and in the press. She is the author of a number of bestselling royal and political biographies. Biography • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008211035

March

Protestants The Radicals Who Made the Modern World

Alec Ryrie Marking the 500th anniversary of Luther’s rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Protestants tells the story of the men and women who made and remade this quarrelsome faith. Fired by life-changing encounters with their God, they set out for every corner of the world, demanded alarming new freedoms and experimented in new systems of government. This dazzling history explores how Protestantism’s energy made and is still making the modern world. Alec Ryrie studied History and Theology at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and is now Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University. Religion • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008210007

In God’s Hands The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

Pope St John Paul II The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II – published for the first time ever in English. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time. Never intended for publication, these diaries were entrusted before his death to his personal secretary, who saw fit to have them published as they represent an unprecedented and important testament to the spirituality of this Christian leader, adored to this day by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was pope from 1978 to 2005. He is widely known to Catholics as Saint John Paul the Great, having been canonized by Pope Francis. Religion • 22 March 2018 • Paperback • £10.99 • 9780008101077

The Prince Who Would Be King The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

Sarah Fraser ‘This highly readable book has restored this lost prince to his rightful place in our national memory’ BBC History magazine Set against the bloody traumas of the Thirty Years’ War, the writing of the King James Bible, the Gunpowder Plot and the dark tragedies pouring from Shakespeare’s quill, Sarah Fraser compellingly recounts Henry’s life as the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. This is the story of a man who, had he lived, might have saved Britain from King Charles I and the Civil War with all the appalling loss of life his misrule engendered. Sarah Fraser has a PhD in obscene Gaelic poetry. Her acclaimed debut The Last Highlander won the Saltire First Scottish Book of the Year 2012. Biography • 5 April 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007548101

April

Science A History in 100 Experiments

John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin ‘Mary and John Gribbin write with great clarity’ Guardian A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond. John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge before working as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. Popular Science • 5 April 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008236175

English Ben Fogle What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is it something less easily defined? Ben Fogle drives a Land Rover, owns a Labrador, wears a Barbour jacket and Hunter wellies. Is he English, British, European or a man of the world? In his quest to find out more about what it means to be English in a rapidly changing world, Ben takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people in his latest exploration of our nation’s character(s). Ben Fogle is a writer, presenter and adventurer. He has written numerous bestselling books, including Labrador and Land Rover. He campaigns tirelessly for conservation, the environment and animal welfare. Social history • 19 April 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008222284

The Seabird’s Cry The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers

Adam Nicolson, illustrated by Kate Boxer An ode to seabirds and and an impassioned plea for their safeguarding. From the Shetland Isles to Maine via the expanses of the world ocean, this is the full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. This beautifully illustrated book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire. Adam Nicolson is a prize-winning writer of books including Sea Room, God’s Secretaries, The Gentry and the acclaimed The Mighty Dead. He is winner of the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award and the British Topography Prize. Natural History • 19 April 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008165703

April

What Is the Bible? How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

Rob Bell The New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, using his inspired and inquisitive approach, focuses on the most widely read book of all time. Rob addresses the concerns of all those who see the Bible as God’s Word but are troubled by the ethical dilemmas, errors, and inconsistencies in Scripture. With What Is the Bible?, he recaptures the Good Book’s magic and reaffirms its power and inspiration to shape and inspire our lives today. Rob Bell is a bestselling author, international teacher and highly sought after public speaker. In 2011 he was profiled in Time magazine as one of their 100 most influential people. Religion • 19 April 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008259600

A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings Dan Cruickshank The history of architecture told through the stories of 100 iconic buildings. Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture. His selection includes many of the world’s best-known buildings that represent key or pioneering moments in architectural history, but the book also covers less obvious and more surprising structures. Dan Cruickshank is a writer and architectural historian who has made numerous history and culture programmes for the BBC. History • 3 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007581085

Secrets of the Human Body Chris van Tulleken, Xand van Tulleken and Andrew Cohen 206 bones. One heart. Two eyes. Ten fingers. You may think we know what makes up a human. But it turns out our bodies are full of surprises. The effervescent van Tulleken twins bring their knowledge and charm to the page to reveal just how well our bodies keep secrets from the things that want to exploit it: bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, larger predators and, crucially, other people. They reveal the remarkable stories behind the science we are not meant to know, on matters of life and death. Chris and Xand have worked on a variety of projects together, including Operation Ouch, a 2x BAFTA-winning children’s health show on CBBC. Popular Science • 3 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008256562

April

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

Bruce Henderson The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The story of young German Jews who escaped the Nazis, most often without their families, only to return a few years later to war-torn Europe as members of an elite secret U.S. Army unit. The young men who would become known as “The Ritchie Boys” arrived in America as “enemy aliens,” and although they were allowed to enlist in the U.S. military, they were distrusted by everyone. So, in effect, they became outsiders all over again. Until one day in 1942, when the Pentagon woke up to the incredible asset they had on their hands... History • 15 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008180508

Out of the Shadow of a Giant Hooke, Halley and the Birth of British Science

John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin What if Isaac Newton had never lived? Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society. John and Mary Gribbin uncover their fascinating stories, revealing the scientific achievements that neatly embrace the hundred years during which science as we know it became established in Britain. John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge before working as a science journalist for Nature and later New Scientist. Popular Science • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £10.99 • 9780008220617

The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures

Charlie English ‘This spellbinding record of Timbuktu’s heritage blends accounts of European explorers to the ancient city with contemporary reportage’ New Yorker Two tales of a city: the historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al-Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. A mesmerizing investigation. Charlie English is the former head of international news at the Guardian and author of The Snow Tourist. Journalism • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008126650

May

Rising Star The Making of Barack Obama

David Garrow Drawn from thousands of interviews and encyclopedic documentary research, Rising Star reveals as never before the ambition, dreams, and the all-too-human struggles of an iconic president. The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United States – the formative years, confluence of forces, and influential figures who helped shaped an extraordinary leader and his rise – from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Bearing the Cross. David J. Garrow is Professor of Law & History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post and New York Times. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Biography • 17 May 2018 • Paperback • £10.99 • 9780008229412

The Genius of Jane Austen Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood

Paula Byrne Austen expert and author Paula Byrne looks at stage adaptations of Austen’s novels. A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. This book celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. The Genius of Jane Austen presents an Austen not of prim manners and genteel calm, but filled with wild comedy and outrageous behaviour. Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies Perdita, The Real Jane Austen and Belle. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation. She lives in Oxford. History • 7 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008225698

Ancient Wonderings Journeys into Prehistoric Britain

James Canton Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world. As he walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of lifestyle and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day ones than we might imagine. James Canton teaches the Wild Writing MA course at the University of Essex, exploring the fascinating ties between literature and the landscape of East Anglia. Natural History • 14 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008175221

May

Joining the Dots A Woman in Her Time

Juliet Gardiner From Britain’s leading social historian, a lyrical look at the changes to women’s lives since 1940. The book provides an intimate, brilliant account of feminism over the last 6 decades. As a work of living history, both lyrical and personal, Joining the Dots is an accessible and empowering story of how one mid-twentieth-century woman grew into a world so different from the one into which she was born. It is a story of bed-sits, sexual choice, motherhood and marriage, feminism, family planning and professional ambition. Juliet Gardiner is a respected commentator on British social history. She was editor of History Today magazine and is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Wartime. Memoir • 14 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007489190

The Secret Life of the Mind How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

Mariano Sigman In this provocative, mind-bending international bestseller, prize-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life’s work exploring the inner workings of the human brain. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust the judgement of both others and ourselves? What is the role of the unconscious? How can we manipulate our dreams? These are some of the questions tackled in this groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide into understanding our thoughts. Mariano Sigman is an international leading figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision making. In 2016 he was made a Laureate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Psychology • 14 June 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008210953

June

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