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CONTENTS NEW TITLES
The Spy Who Changed History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Born Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 King of the North Wind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 It All Adds Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Autonomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Left For Dead? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 What’s Your Type? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Life on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 A German Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Bloody Brilliant Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 The Domestic Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Chasing the Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Napoleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 From Russia With Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Symphony in C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 CLOSE-UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Wes Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 New York Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Vampire Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
PAPERBACKS
The Genius of Jane Austen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Ritchie Boys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Case for Impeachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Viking Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Hit Refresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Wounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 To Catch a King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Why Dylan Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The First Iron Lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Dawn Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
NEW TITLES
The Spy Who * STOP PRESS * Changed History The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets
Svetlana Lokhova On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, Svetlana Lokhova, By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a leading expert in espionage history, takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation. In 1931, Soviet spy Stanislav Shumovsky completed his journey from Moscow to enrol at a top American university. He was concealed amongst a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education. In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova pieces together every aspect of Shumovsky’s life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes.
Svetlana Lokhova is a 2018 Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. Her groundbreaking Masters dissertation was on the founder of the Soviet Intelligence Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky. She is responsible for a number of important archival discoveries made in recent years and is an expert on the Mitrokhin Archive. She has worked with Christopher Andrew for some years in Cambridge. She lives in London. History 14 June 2018 Hardback £25 9780008238117
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Born Trump
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Emily Jane Fox As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President’s children. In the vein of Michael Wolff's Fire and the Fury, Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her finding, as an insider within the most influential family in America. Wonderfully gossipy, Born Trump examines what shaped the Trump children into who they are – a shared familial history that will inevitably become part of American history in the coming years. Given their father’s need to be in the spotlight, his bellicose and litigious nature, and how often his personal life plays out in public, it seems astonishing that his children remain so close to him. And yet this is part of the Trump ethos – like royalty, they stand together, cloistered not in palaces, but in Trump Tower. This book reveals for the first time what it was like to grow up Trump and what this reveals about living in Trump’s America. Born Trump is an exclusive insight into the lives of the most polarising family in the world, painting an intimate portrait of the 45th President of the United States from the perspective of his most inner circle.
Emily Jane Fox is a reporter for Vanity Fair covering Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the 0.01 per cent everywhere. Biography 19 June 2018 Hardback £20 9780008292454
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King of the North Wind The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
Claudia Gold Henry II conquered the largest empire of any medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral. Who was this great, yet tragic, king? Henry – so famed in his lifetime – has mysteriously skipped into the shadows of history. He had all the gifts of the gods. Charismatic, clever, learned, empathetic, a brilliant tactician, endowed with physical strength and an astonishing self-belief, contemporaries described him as their ‘Alexander of the West’. He was the creator of England’s greatest dynasty – the Plantagenets – who ruled through eight generations of kings. He presided over a blossoming of culture and learning, pursued the tenets of reason over faith, and did more to reform the justice system and enforce the rule of law than any other English monarch before or since. Written as historical tragedy, King of the North Wind offers a fresh evaluation of Henry. It tells the story of how this most talented of English kings came into conflict with those closest to him, to become the most haunted. ‘Gold has produced a vivid and enjoyable biography’ Spectator
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Claudia Gold writes historical non-fiction. Her first book, Women Who Ruled, tells the stories of fifty of the world's most famous – and often notorious – female rulers. Her second book, The King's Mistress, is a biography of the extraordinary woman who became England's first Georgian queen in all but name. Claudia has also researched and written for a number of TV documentaries. She has a Masters degree in medieval history. History 12 July 2018 Hardback £25 9780007554782
It All Adds Up The Story of People and Mathematics
Mickaël Launay THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A cross between Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and Alex Bellos, It All Adds up is an engaging and accessible exploration of the role of mathematics as an aide to human activity. Full of anecdotes, Launay’s short primer on the history of numbers will change the general public’s relationship with numbers for the better As early as 8000 BCE in Mesopotamia, the decorative friezes on vases formed ingenious geometrical patterns based on symmetries and rotations. Later, to count the animals in a herd, man learned to master numbers. Eventually, to draw land boundaries, it became necessary to measure and draw maps. in other words: geometry. Who are the everyday people and experts who first made these discoveries; why did they, and how? This book answers these questions and so much more. Exploring topics from the beauty of the number Pi to theorems yet to be discovered, it will change how you look at the value of maths. A short and engaging social history of the role of numbers in the arts and crafts, sciences and every day life, It All Adds Up will make you understand and love maths, at long last.
Mickaël Launay graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, in 2009 with a degree in maths. He holds a PhD in probability and curates the Micmaths YouTube channel, which has garnered 18.5 million views and on which he has over 270,000 subscribers. He is the author of two previous books. Mathematics 9 August 2018 Hardback £20 9780008283933
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Autonomy The Quest to Build the Driverless Car – And How It Will Reshape Our World
Lawrence D. Burns and Christopher Shulgan From the ultimate insider – a former General Motors executive and current adviser to the Google Self-Driving Car project – comes the definitive story of the race between Google, Apple, Tesla and Uber to create the driverless car, and what this technological revolution means for our future. In the past decade, titans of the old automobile industry, like GM, have been partnering with tech start-ups such as Tesla and Uber to revolutionise the way we move around the world – and everyone wants a piece of the action. It’s not a question of whether the self-driving car will disrupt the automobile industry; it’s a question of when, how, and who will do it. A chronicle of the past, diagnosis of the present and prediction of the future, Autonomy is the ultimate guide to understanding the driverless car and to navigating the revolution it sparks.
Lawrence D. Burns was a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and served as corporate vice president of Research & Development and Strategic Planning at General Motors, where he oversaw GM’s advanced technology, innovation programs and corporate strategy. He now serves as an adviser to the Google Self-Driving Car project and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He lives in Franklin, Michigan. Technology 6 September 2018 Hardback £20 9780008302061
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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 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 centre-left that 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. He has also reported for the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Radio 4 and BBC World. As well as covering all things politics (with a particular focus on the Labour Party) he has presented and reported on stories as varied as Euroscepticism in Clacton, the Paris terror attacks, and even enrolled in the world’s most famous clown school in Étampes, Paris. Politics 6 September 2018 Hardback £20 9780008226695
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What’s Your Type? The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing
Merve Emre An unprecedented history of the personality test that has achieved cult-like devotion, devised a century ago by a pair of homemakers and found today in boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It has been harnessed by Fortune 100 companies, universities, hospitals, churches and the military. Its language – of extraversion vs. introversion, thinking vs. feeling and so on – has inspired online dating platforms and BuzzFeed quizzes alike. And yet despite the test's widespread adoption, experts in the field of psychometric testing, a $500 million industry, struggle to account for its success – no less to validate its results. How did the Myers-Briggs insinuate itself into our jobs, our relationships, our internet, our lives?
Merve Emre is an assistant professor of English at McGill University. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Bookforum, the New Republic, the Baffler, n+1 and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she is senior humanities editor. Biography 20 September 2018 Hardback £20 9780008201371
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Vietnam An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Max Hastings A masterful chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century and its effects on the Vietnamese people. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. No book so far has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings’s readers know so well. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. History at its finest. Praise for Max Hastings: ‘A monumental achievement…compassionate but unsparing in its judgements’ Sunday Times ‘An outstandingly gripping and authoritative account ... a monument to human bravery and savagery’ Daily Telegraph
Max Hastings reported on the Vietnam war as a journalist, first in 1967–8 from the United States, where he encountered many of the war’s decision-makers including President Lyndon Johnson; then he undertook successive assignments in Indochina for newspapers and BBC TV. He rode a helicopter out of the US Saigon embassy compound during the 1975 final evacuation. He is the author of twenty-six bestselling books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. History 20 September 2018 Hardback £30 9780008132989
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Life on Earth David Attenborough A new, beautifully illustrated edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth David Attenborough’s meeting with gorillas was one of the most unforgettable moments for millions of television viewers. With Life on Earth, he created a book and TV series that became a benchmark of quality, influencing a generation of nature lovers. Told through an examination of animal and plant life – with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to illustrate the origin of living creatures – it is an astonishing celebration of the evolution of life on Earth, with a cast of characters drawn from the massive range of organisms that have lived on this planet. Attenborough’s perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of millions of species takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of discovery from the very first spark of life to the blue and green wonder we know today.To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the book’s first publication, David Attenborough has revised Life on Earth, updating and adding to the original text and choosing beautiful completely new photographs. This special anniversary edition provides a fitting tribute to an enduring wildlife classic.
David Attenborough is one of the world’s leading naturalists and broadcasters. His distinguished career spans more than sixty years, and his extraordinary contribution to natural history broadcasting and filmmaking has brought him international recognition, from Life on Earth to Frozen Planet, Planet Earth to Blue Planet. He has achieved many professional awards, honours and merits, including the CBE and OM, and was knighted in 1985. Natural History 4 October 2018 Hardback £25 97800088294281
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A German Tragedy Paddy Ashdown From the bestselling and prize-winning author, a groundbreaking and revelatory new history of opposition to Hitler inside Germany during 1934–5. In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been defeated because he had been betrayed from the inside. In part, he was right. His armies were being crushed on all fronts, but from the beginning there were Germans determined to bring him and his Nazi Party down. This is the story of those who, starting in 1934, repeatedly attempted to kill Hitler, frustrate his war aims, pass his military secrets to the Allies and, from 1943 onwards, strike a separate peace with the West, which would have avoided Eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke. Paddy Ashdown tells this story, based on newly released files, for the first time. The result is a unique and fast-moving narrative about how one of the biggest disasters in history could have been avoided. Praise for Paddy Ashdown: ‘A powerful account of an extraordinary story’ The Times ‘A fine account’ 5*, Daily Telegraph ‘It moves at the pace of a thriller and it’s real’ Nick Ferrari, Sunday Express
Paddy Ashdown served as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, was a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. From 2002 to 2006 he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2006. History 4 October 2018 Hardback £25 9780008257040
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Bloody Brilliant Women Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention
Cathy Newman A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t. In this freewheeling feminist history of modern Britain, Channel 4 journalist Cathy Newman explores the motivations of the women who played a crucial role in the dramatic transformations that took place in British women’s lives from the mid-nineteenth century onward. While a few of them are now household names, many more have faded into oblivion, their personal and collective achievements mere footnotes in the history we are told about. Who, outside of academic circles, remembers engineer and chain-smoking motorbike racer Beatrice Shilling, whose device for the Spitfires’ RollsRoyce Merlin engines saved thousands of pilot lives? Or Dorothy Lawrence, the journalist who achieved her ambition to become a First World War correspondent by pretending to be a man? And the developmental biologist Anne McLaren, whose work in genetics paved the way for in vitro fertilisation? A celebration of these women and others like them, Bloody Brilliant Women is an engaging, accessible book that seeks to restore these pioneers to their place in British history.
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Cathy is one of Channel 4 News’ main studio presenters. She joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent in January 2006. In 2000, she won the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending four months following in the footsteps of Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the Washington Post. History 4 October 2018 Hardback £20 9780008241711
The Domestic Wolf 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 animals 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 propelled us to this position, but Sykes crucially adds another: our transformation of the wolf into the multi-purpose 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
Professor Bryan Sykes is a Fellow of Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford. He is the founder and chairman of Oxford Ancestors, which helps individuals explore their genetic roots using DNA. Popular Science 18 October 2018 Hardback £20 9780008244415
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Chasing the Moon The Story of the Space Race – from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo Landings and the Space Shuttle
Robert Stone and Alan Andres Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon, upending much of the conventional mythology. With newly revealed stories about the venture, from its earliest days to the monumental achievement of the lunar landing in 1969, the book features a diverse cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events. Utilising a wealth of previously overlooked or lost archival material, the Space Age is recast as a fascinating melange of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Among those featured are astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Frank Borman and Bill Anders; Sergei Khrushchev, son of the former Soviet premier and a leading Soviet rocket engineer; Poppy Northcutt, a 25-year-old ‘mathematics whiz’ who gained worldwide attention as the first woman to serve in the all-male bastion of NASA’s Mission Control; and Ed Dwight, the Air Force pilot selected by the Kennedy administration to train as America’s first black astronaut. Praise for Robert Stone: ‘One of our most important documentary filmmakers’ Entertainment Weekly
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Robert Stone is an Academy Awardand Emmy-nominated producer, director, writer and editor of critically acclaimed feature documentaries about American history, pop culture, mass media and the environment. Stone’s work has won awards at dozens of international film festivals. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America and the Television Academy. History 18 October 2018 Hardback £20 9780008307875
Napoleon The Man Behind the Myth
Adam Zamoyski A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. As Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, Napoleon was a rather ordinary man. Although he possessed almost superhuman qualities it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise of rebuilding a strong France which he and others had toiled so hard to achieve. In a book beautifully illustrated with portraits done from life, Zamoyski strips away the lacquer of prejudice to reveal a more human, more understandable and far more interesting Napoleon than is usually presented. He places him firmly within the context of his times, showing how in the 1790s this provincial youth was propelled into a political scene racked by revolution and by a world at war. Neither justifying nor condemning, Zamoyski seeks instead to understand Napoleon’s extraordinary trajectory.
Adam Zamoyski is a British historian of Polish origin. He is the author of the bestselling 1812 and its sequel Rites of Peace, as well as several other acclaimed works on key figures and aspects of European history. He has also contributed to all the major British papers and periodicals, as well as lecturing widely in England, Europe and the United States. He lives in London and Poland. Biography 18 October 2018 Hardback ÂŁ30 9780008116071
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From Russia With Blood Heidi Blake Russia’s resurgent encroachment into the West is the defining geopolitical story of our time. Vladimir Putin’s concerted use of deadly force to wipe out his opponents and strike fear into his critics at home has long been an uncomfortable truth for Western leaders anxious to “reset” relations with Russia. The attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury is the latest in a brazen series of hits connected to Russia – until March 2018 some 14 deaths in the UK, one in the USA that were treated as non-suspicious by the authorities. This book by award-winning journalist Heidi Blake tells the full story of how Russia refined the art and science of assassination as a form of statecraft – and matched this with formidable cyber powers, international propaganda, security, espionage and organized crime. Written as a compelling, character-driven narrative, the book takes a deep dive into recent events but also looks back to cases linked to Russia such as the murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgie Markov on Waterloo Bridge with a poison-tipped umbrella in 1978, and the strange deaths of 28 government scientists working on the Star Wars program in the eighties, all of which were treated as suicides As Russia extends its tentacles ever deeper into the US and Europe—stoking far right movements, fomenting instability, brazenly interfering in the US election and disrupting EU democracies—this book reveals how Putin’s campaign of targeted killing is a critical part of his pursuit of global dominance that the West has too-long overlooked.
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Heidi Blake is BuzzFeed’s UK Investigations Editor. She led the BuzzFeed team that uncovered explosive evidence of 14 Russian assassinations on British soil. Previously on the Sunday Times Insight team, she has won 18 media awards for her investigative reporting and in 2016 was ranked on Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Current Affairs 1 November 2018 Hardback £20 9780008300050
Symphony in C Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Robert Hazen Composed in four movements, Symphony in C explores carbon’s multi-faceted characteristics, as epitomised by the classical elements of the ancients – Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This book takes readers on a fascinating journey about origins and evolution, stasis and change, science and technology, spanning almost fourteen billion years of cosmic history, but utterly immediate and relevant today.
Robert Hazen is Senior Staff Scientist at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science in geology at the MIT, his PhD at Harvard University in Earth science and was NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University. The biomineral ‘hazenite’ was named in his honour. Popular Science 6 November 2018 Hardback £20 9780008292386
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CLOSE-UPS Little White Lies, the world’s coolest and most beautiful film magazine, and William Collins present Close-Ups, a series of instant-expert guides that reflect how we watch and engage with movies in the 21st century. Close-Ups pairs Little White Lies’ best film journalists and illustrators with cult subjects, including legendary actors, auteur-directors, outlandish genres and classic series. In pocket-sized, beautifully illustrated guides, our writers explore the world of cinema with wit, verve and expert authority. In an information-saturated age, each CloseUp is a carefully curated and handsomely crafted volume – a film course’s worth of knowledge in less than 200 pages, narrated with the enthusiasm of a film fanatic and the warmth of an old friend.
Wes Anderson Sophie Monks Kaufman and Little White Lies The indispensable illustrated pocket guide to the films of Wes Anderson, from Bottle Rocket to Isle of Dogs. Wes Anderson has quickly become one of the auteurs of modern American cinema, creating his own distinctive film world with pastel colour palettes, meticulous set design, nostalgic soundtracks and a kooky troupe of actors. In this guide Sophie Monks Kaufman navigates his off-kilter world, strolling across the quadrangles of Rushmore Academy, diving beneath the sea with Team Zissou and checking into the Grand Budapest Hotel to discover how an awkward indie film nerd from Texas became the most celebrated director of his generation.
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Sophie Monks Kaufman is a freelance film journalist published in Sight & Sound, BFI, NME, the Guardian, New Statesman and Time Out. She is contributing editor at Little White Lies and talks about movies on Radio 4's The Film Programme and the Truth & Movies podcast. Her debut film as writer/director, I Do Not Sleep, is enduring the stressor of being entered in film festivals. Arts & Culture 15 November 2018 Flexibound £9.99 9780008256586
New York Movies Mark Asch and Little White Lies The indispensable illustrated pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach. In this guide to New York and its movies Mark Asch explores the Big Apple block by block and neighbourhood by neighbourhood, jogging past the iconic bench from Manhattan, eating at Katz’s Deli from When Harry Met Sally, and mooching around the Coney Island boardwalk like a character from The Warriors. Retracing the steps of countless acclaimed actors, cinematographers and directors, he draws up a unique cinematic map of The City That Never Sleeps.
Mark Asch graduated from NYU with a degree in Cinema Studies in 2006. He ran the film section of the L Magazine and its successor Brooklyn Magazine, on and off from 2007 to 2017. He has a Master's in Literature, Culture and Media from Háskóli Íslands (the University of Iceland), where he has also taught. Arts & Culture 15 November 2018 Flexibound £9.99 9780008256647
Vampire Movies Charles Bramesco and Little White Lies The indispensable illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. When F. W. Murnau brought Nosferatu to the screen in 1922 he ushered in the bloody reign of cinema’s most venerable villain – the vampire. Nocturnal, fanged and insatiable for human blood, the vampire has infected the public consciousness like no other movie monster. In this guide, Charles Bramesco goes vampirehunting across a century of cinema, stalking around lonely Transylvanian castles, dusty New York apartments and rain-soaked Washington woods to discover why the vampire has become cinema’s most enduring villain.
Charles Bramesco is a former staff writer for Rolling Stone and his work has previously appeared in the Guardian, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Vulture, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox, Pitchfork and Uproxx. His favourite film is Boogie Nights, and he lives in Brooklyn. Arts & Culture 15 November 2018 Flexibound £9.99 9780008256616
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PAPERBACKS
The Genius of Jane Austen Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood
Paula Byrne ‘I relished every page … I am tempted to say this is the best book on Jane Austen I have ever read’ Paul Johnson, Spectator Paula Byrne explores Austen’s writing to reveal why her unrivalled aptitude for theatrical comedy has inspired artists across the world. In this fresh look at Britain’s favourite novelist, we discover the genius of Austen’s wild comedy and outrageous behaviour. An accessible and important read for all Austen fans and lovers of the performing arts. Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies The Real Jane Austen, Belle and Kick. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation. She lives in Oxford. Biography • 12 July 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008225698
The Ritchie Boys The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned to Fight Hitler
Bruce Henderson ‘The last great, untold story of WWII … highly compelling’ Daily Mail 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 US Army unit. Bruce Henderson has written more than twenty books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller And the Sea Will Tell, the national bestseller Hero Found: and Rescue at Los Baños. He has taught writing and reporting at the USC School of Journalism and Stanford University. He lives in California. Military History • 12 July 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008180508
The Case for Impeachment Allan J. Lichtman Professor Lichtman, who has correctly forecast thirty years of presidential elections, makes the case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States. The author lays out the reasons why the issue of Congress removing Donald J. Trump has become a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if ’. Shedding light on the consequences of his ties with Russia before and after the election, on complicated financial conflicts of interest at home and abroad and abuse of executive authority, this is an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the most controversial presidency since Nixon. Allan J. Lichtman is a Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, and is the author of many prize-winning books. Politics • 12 July 2018 • Paperback • £8.99 • 9780008292676
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Viking Britain An Exploration
Thomas Williams ‘Fresh, vivid and impeccably researched … the most rip-roaring work of nonfiction I read this year’ Tom Holland, Observer Thomas Williams draws on his experience as project curator of the British Museum’s exhibition of Vikings: Life and Legend to write a new narrative history. A vivid exploration of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. Thomas Williams undertook doctoral research at University College London and has taught and lectured in history and archaeology at the University of Cambridge. History • 9 August 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008171957
Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
Satya Nadella ‘Satya has charted a course for making the most of the opportunities created by technology while also facing up to the hard questions. And he offers his own fascinating personal story, more literary quotations than you might expect, and even a few lessons from his beloved game of cricket’ Bill Gates Microsoft’s CEO tells the inside story of the company’s continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant changes of the digital era and offering his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies. Satya Nadella is a husband, a father, and the chief executive officer of Microsoft. Technology • 23 August 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008247690
Wounds A Memoir of War and Love
Fergal Keane A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. It is a family story of war and love, revealing how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present. Keane uses the experiences of his ancestral homeland in north Kerry to examine why people will kill for a cause, and how the act of killing reverberates through the generations. Fergal Keane OBE was born in London and educated in Ireland. A prize-winning international journalist and reporter, he is currently BBC's Africa Editor. History • 20 September 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008189273
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To Catch a King Charles II's Great Escape
Charles Spencer How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall, and Britain became a republic. In this gripping, action-packed, true adventure story, Charles Spencer, bestselling author of Killers of the King, uses Pepys’s account and many others to retell the story of Charles II’s epic adventures. Charles Spencer was educated at Eton College and obtained his degree in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of bestseller Blenheim: Battle for Europe (shortlisted for History Book of the Year, National Book Awards) and Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier. History • 4 October 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008153663
Why Dylan Matters Richard F. Thomas A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017 ‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard ‘A poignant blend of memoir, literary analysis through a classical lens, musicology and, above all, love. It’s impossible to emerge from the book untouched’ Guardian Born of Professor Richard F. Thomas's controversial Harvard Classics course on Dylan, this witty, personal volume makes a compelling case for moving Dylan out of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and into the pantheon of classical poets. The most dazzlingly original and compelling Dylan book in decades, Why Dylan Matters will amaze and astound everyone from the first-time listener to the lifetime fan. Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of Classics at Harvard University, a Bob Dylan expert, and the creator of a freshman seminar at Harvard on Bob Dylan. Music • 4 October 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008245467
The First Iron Lady A Life of Caroline of Ansbach
Matthew Dennison ‘A scintillating, thoroughly researched biography’ The Times The First Iron Lady, the first biography of Caroline of Ansbach for over seventy years, uncovers the complexities of her multi-faceted life. The child of a minor German princeling who, through intelligence, determination and a dash of sex appeal, rose to occupy one of the great positions of the world and did so with distinction, élan and a degree of cynical realism. This is a remarkable portrait of an eighteenth-century woman of great political astuteness and ambition, a radical icon of female power. Matthew Dennison is the author of five critically acclaimed works of non-fiction. He is a contributor to Country Life. Biography • 18 October 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780008122027
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The Dawn Watch Joseph Conrad in a Global World
Maya Jasanoff ‘ will win prizes. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong with the prizes’ Guardian Dealing with migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism in a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes. Exploring his novels The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness and Nostromo, The Dawn Watch is a genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane book. Jasanoff takes us on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and our own. Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University and the winner of the prestigious 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. History • 1 November 2018 • Paperback • £9.99 • 9780007553723
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