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The intimate story of Catherine Howard’s tragic marriage to Henry VIII – including the aristocrats and servants who constantly gossiped and, in the end, conspired against her.
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
by Gareth Russell In its sixteen months between her marriage and arrest, Howard’s household showcased the Tudor monarchy in microcosm: how royal favour was won, granted, exercised, displayed, celebrated and betrayed. Through this remarkable story Gareth Russell depicts in thrilling detail how Howard’s short life ended with the incarceration of half her family and the executions of her alleged lover, friends and the queen herself. Gareth Russell read Modern History at the University of Oxford. A playwright, novelist and historian, he has written for the Sunday Times, Tatler and the Irish News.
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Publication Date 12.01.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-812827-2 £25 TPB 978-0-00-818492-6 £16.99 eBook 978-0-00-812829-6
Paperbacks The Devil’s Diary by Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney ‘Fascinating’ The Times Investigating the disappearance of a diary belonging to Hitler’s ‘chief philosopher’ and an architect of the Holocaust.
Publication Date 01.01.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-757665-4 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-757561-9
Robert K. Wittman created the FBI’s Art Crime Team. David Kinney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.
The Great Soul of Siberia by Sooyong Park Poignant, poetic and fiercely compassionate, this is the incredible story of one man’s unique obsession with Siberian tigers and his dangerous quest to seek them out to observe and study them. Eloquently told, it is a personal account of one of the most extraordinary wildlife studies ever undertaken.
Publication Date 12.01.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-815617-6 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-815616-9
‘Wonderful ... a classic of wildlife literature’ The Times
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Paperbacks Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn How Rome’s first great poet, who fell in love with a married woman, made their love immortal through radical verse. ‘Beautifully written ... a superb portrait’ Sunday Times
Publication Date 26.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-755432-4 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-755434-8
Dr Daisy Dunn read Classics at Oxford, and completed a PhD at UCL. NOT FINAL JACKET
Christian Reflections by C. S. Lewis A collection of Lewis’s essays against ‘the new morality’ – this is Lewis at his most brilliant. ‘I am constantly realising that I owe many of my most basic convictions about Christian faith to Lewis’s imagination’ Rowan Williams ‘A magnificent restatement of the essence of the Gospel and the faith’ Church Times
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Publication Date 12.01.2017 PB 978-0-00-820385-6 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-822855-2
A unique telling of the genius and legacy of the selfproclaimed Musician of the Future.
Being Wagner by Simon Callow During a wildly unpredictable sixty-nine-year life, Richard Wagner became the hero of his era and the official protagonist of a new unified Germany. The architect of the vast four-day, fifteen-hour Ring Cycle, he dug deep into the subconscious of his audience, discharging among them oceanic and engulfing emotions. In this bold vision of Wagner’s life, bestselling author and acclaimed performer of ‘Inside Wagner’s Head’ Simon Callow turns his famed storytelling energies towards this vast and complex revolutionary of music.
Publication Date 26.01.2017 Demy HB 978-0-00-810569-3 £14.99 eBook 978-0-00-810570-9
Simon Callow is an actor, director and author of several books including Being an Actor and a biography of Charles Dickens and The Great Theatre of the World.
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A brutally honest and fascinating account of what goes on behind the scenes in the closed industry of fashion modelling.
Size Zero: My Life as a Disappearing Model by Victoire Dauxerre An unflinching, painful exposé of the uglier face of fashion, Dauxerre’s story is a shocking example of how our culture’s mechanisms of anorexia and bulimia can push a young woman to the point of suicide. It is the story of a survivor whose fight against poisonous illness and body image shows us how to take courage and embrace life. Victoire Dauxerre was born in Paris. She is currently studying drama in London and training to be an actress.
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Publication Date 09.02.2017 Demy HB 978-0-00-822048-8 £16.99 TPB 978-0-00-822049-5 £12.99 eBook 978-0-00-822050-1
How, amid the civil rights movement, NASA’s unheralded AfricanAmerican female mathematicians played a crucial role in the space programme.
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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Margot Lee Shetterly ‘Genuinely inspiring’ Boston Globe The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of our greatest achievements in space. Now a major motion picture. Following the astonishing careers of four African-American women, Hidden Figures moves from World War II through NASA’s golden age, the civil rights era, the Space Race and the women’s rights movement. An untold history of our greatest adventure, their stories would forever change the world.
Publication Date 09.02.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-820132-6 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-820130-2
The daughter of a NASA engineer, Margot Lee Shetterly is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. She lives in Charlottesville, VA.
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A short, sharp intervention in the crucial debate about the future of democracy, which has been brought to a head by events from Brexit to the Trump phenomenon.
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Democrazy by Mick Hume In response to the emerging ‘I believe in democracy but …’ consensus, this book will argue for a forthright defence of democracy against its enemies and critics, old and new. As part of this argument it will aim to show that the problem has not been too much democracy, but too little – the absence of real political choices about the future that has stoked the popular mood of anti-politics. Mick Hume is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in The Times for 10 years and is the author of Trigger Warning.
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Publication Date 09.02.2017 A Format PB 978-0-00-822082-2 £6.99 eBook 978-0-00-822083-9
Paperbacks Taming the Flood by Jeremy Purseglove ‘Taming the Flood most deserves its status as a classic’ Sunday Times This book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future generations.
Publication Date 09.02.17 B Format PB 978-0-00-813221-7 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-813222-4
Aurora by Melanie Windridge Melanie Windridge takes us on an Arctic journey to discover the northern lights, in which complex science is delicately interwoven with a background of their history, folklore and changing landscape.
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Publication Date 23.02.17 B Format PB 978-0-00-815611-4 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-815610-7
Dr Melanie Windridge is a plasma physicist, lecturer and writer with a taste for adventure. She has a PhD in fusion energy and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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Paperbacks Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon by Damian Collins The fascinating man who connected great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power. As Philip Sassoon was, Damian Collins is the Member of Parliament for Folkestone and Hythe. HB JACKET
Publication Date 23.02.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-812763-3 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-812761-9
‘A readable and lively picture of this extravagant creature’ Literary Review
Thicker Than Water by Cal Flyn ‘Stunning. A thrilling debut, a true story that reads like a classy, compelling fiction’ The Times Discovering dark family secrets, one young Scottish woman travels to Australia to reconcile with an ancestor’s crimes. Cal Flyn is a freelance journalist from the Highlands of Scotland.
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Publication Date 23.02.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-812662-9 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-812661-2
Paperbacks From the immensity of the Universe and the roundness of Earth to the form of every single snowflake, the forces of nature shape everything we see. Pushed to extremes, the results are astonishing. NOT FINAL JACKET
Forces of Nature by Professor Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen Forces of Nature takes you to the great plains of the Serengeti, the volcanoes of Indonesia and the precipitous cliffs of Nepal, to the humpback whales of the Caribbean and the northern lights of the Arctic. Brian answers questions on Earth that illuminate our understanding of the Universe. Professor Brian Cox OBE is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester as well as a researcher on one of the most ambitious experiments on Earth, the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. He lives in London.
Publication Date 09.03.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-821003-8 ÂŁ8.99 eBook 978-0-00-748883-4
Andrew Cohen is Head of the BBC Science Unit and an honorary lecturer in Life Sciences at the University of Manchester.
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Paperbacks How to Be Here by Rob Bell Discover the greatness you were born for in this guide to slowing down and enjoying life. ‘While reading this book ... infinite possibilities for your life start unfolding before your eyes’ Elizabeth Gilbert
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Publication Date 09.03.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-759134-3 £8.99 EB 978-0-00-759133-6
Rob Bell is the author of Love Wins and hosts a weekly podcast, The Robcast.
Shakespeare in Swahililand by Edward Wilson-Lee This radical, breathtaking book combines travel, history, biography and satire in a thrilling exploration into Shakespeare as a global poet. Edward Wilson-Lee was raised in Kenya and now teaches Shakespeare at Cambridge University. HB JACKET
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Publication Date 09.03.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-814621-4 £9.99
‘Vivid and full of insights’ Independent
Peter Godfrey-Smith, a leading philosopher of science, tells a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself.
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith What does it mean that intelligence on Earth has evolved not once but twice? And that the mind of the octopus is nonetheless so different from our own? Combining science and philosophy with first-hand accounts of his cephalopod encounters, GodfreySmith shows how primitive organisms began sending signals to each other and how these early forms of communication gave rise to the advanced nervous systems that permit cephalopods to change colours and human beings to speak.
Publication Date 09.03.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-822627-5 ÂŁ20 eBook 978-0-00-822628-2
Peter Godfrey-Smith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York and Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.
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Otters hold a unique place in the animal kingdom of the British Isles. They are the most secretive yet also the most popular mammals – they are so rarely seen that they have been raised to mythical status.
The Otter’s Tale by Simon Cooper Simon Cooper lives in a normal house, in a normal village – with one extraordinary feature. Wild otters live in his house. This close relationship has given him a unique insight into the life of otters. The female otter, Lutra (named after the scientific name for the European otter, Lutra lutra), is the central character in this tale, but Simon interweaves her personal story with the natural history of the otter. Simon Cooper is one of the UK’s leading chalkstream conservationists. He runs a company called Fishing Breaks, hosting courses and tours from April to October at Nether Wallop Mill in the heart of Hampshire.
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Publication Date 23.03.2017 Demy HB 978-0-00-818971-6 £16.99 eBook 978-0-00-818972-3
Drawing on a wealth of inspiring sources, Catherine Blyth shows how we have become drenched by the present – and unveils easy, practical ways to use it better.
Time Travel for Beginners by Catherine Blyth Exploring psychological, organisational and biological dimensions, Time Travel for Beginners delves into the secret lives of habits, decisions and motivation; explains why time goes at different speeds in activities; and reveals how cunning time-thieves squander our good intentions. Time Travel for Beginners will help you cease clock-watching, stop stockpiling self-reproach and quit chasing white rabbits. Don’t mark time: make it work for you.
Publication Date 23.03.2017 Demy HB 978-0-00-818998-3 £16.99 eBook 978-0-00-814620-7
Catherine Blyth’s writing has appeared in The Times and the Daily Telegraph. Her acclaimed first book, The Art of Conversation, was translated into five languages.
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A vast yet compact view of cognitive neuroscience, a groundbreaking, personal and comprehensive guide to understanding our thoughts.
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides
by Mariano Sigman At the point where psychology meets neuroscience, The Secret Life of the Mind combines the astonishing work of biologists, physicists, mathematicians, psychologists, anthropologists, linguists, engineers, philosophers and medical doctors – not to forget cooks, magicians, musicians, chess players, writers and artists. It is an astonishing synthesis of a life’s expertise on the edge of science, for readers of Thinking, Fast and Slow. Mariano Sigman, a physicist by training, is a leading international figure in the cognitive neuroscience of learning and decision-making.
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Publication Date 23.03 .2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-821092-2 £20 TPB 978-0-00-822556-8 eBook 978-0-00-821093-9
The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II. The most intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time.
IN GOD’S HANDS THE SPIRITUAL DIARIES OF
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In God’s Hands The Spiritual Diaries of Pope John Paul II
by Karol Wojtyła – Pope St John Paul II Since his early years as a priest in the 1960s, up until 2003, two years before his death, the pope kept a spiritual diary, recording his reflections on God, life, spirituality, the problems facing the Church – and his own struggles. Never intended for publication, these diaries represent his most personal writing, and are an extraordinary testimony to a life lived in constant communication with God.
Publication Date 23.03.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-810105-3 £25 eBook 978-0-00-810106-0
Pope St John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła, was pope from 1978 to 2005. He was canonised by Pope Francis in 2014.
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Paperbacks Naked Diplomacy: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age by Tom Fletcher Who will be in power in the 21st century? Naked Diplomacy provides the answers for our digital age.
Publication Date 23.03.2017
Tom Fletcher was British Ambassador to Lebanon and foreign policy adviser to three prime ministers.
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‘Welcome to Britain’s new brand of diplomacy’ Evening Standard
Kick: The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK’s Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne The vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Paula Byrne is the author of four successive Sunday Times top-ten bestseller biographies including The Real Jane Austen. HB JACKET
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Publication Date 23.03.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-754814-9 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-754813-2
‘A joy ... Byrne recounts the dramas with great pace and poignancy’ Guardian
Paperbacks Walking Through Spring by Graham Hoyland ‘This richly enjoyable book is the most effective advertisement for the countryside I’ve ever encountered’ Daily Mail In Walking Through Spring Graham Hoyland walks north with Spring, from the South Coast to the Borders, tracing a new national trail.
Publication Date 06.04.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-815614-5 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-815613-8
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Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths ‘A surprisingly useful way to embrace the messy compromises of real, nonVulcan life’ Guardian How insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives and illuminate the human mind.
Publication Date 06.04.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-754799-9 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-747939-9
Brian Christian is the bestselling author of The Most Human Human. Tom Griffiths is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Berkeley.
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A family story of the murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be silent still.
Wounds: A Memoir of Love and War by Fergal Keane Trying to relate the kindly people of his childhood with the deeds made public after they died, Keane searches for the personal history that made a colonial war and how it initiated the beginning of the end of empire. Through one murder in the Irish Civil War, he asks: what is a terrorist? And how do people live with the act of killing? Fergal Keane was born in London and educated in Ireland. He is one of the BBC’s most distinguished correspondents.
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Publication Date 06.04.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-818925-9 £20 TPB 978-0-00-822537-7 £14.99 eBook 978-0-00-818926-6
Paperbacks ‘A visionary, vision-changing masterpiece; a book that, once read, will never release its grip upon you’ Robert Macfarlane, author of Landmarks and The Wild Places
The Peregrine: 50th Anniversary Edition
by J. A. Baker, Introduction by Mark Cocker, Afterword by Robert Macfarlane, Edited by John Fanshawe ‘Passionately fierce but also wonderfully tender’ Andrew Motion ‘An inspiring example to future writers, and a gift to lovers of nature’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A literary masterpiece, one of the 20th century’s outstanding examples of nature writing’ Independent
Publication Date 06.04.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-821621-4 £9.99
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A new history of one of the most creative, adaptive, corrosive and argumentative movements in human history.
Protestants by Alec Ryrie 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of an unknown professor at an obscure German university speaking out against corruption by local churchmen, which eventually produced Protestantism, a completely new kind of Christianity that spread across the globe.
Publication Date 06.04.2017
Protestantism’s history is one of churning, restless novelty, with its adherents credited with – or blamed for – most of the world’s big changes of the past five centuries.
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Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Durham, and lives in Durham.
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Royal HB 978-0-00-746503-3 £25
Paperbacks The Black Door: by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac Exploring the murkier relationships between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies.
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Richard Aldrich is a regular commentator on espionage and the author of GCHQ. Rory Cormac is an intelligence historian who lectures at the University of Nottingham.
Publication Date 20.04.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-755547-5 £10.99 eBook 978-0-00-755545-1
‘Must-read stuff ... A vital, authoritative book’ The Times
Full Steam Ahead by Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today was entirely shaped by the rail network, charting its glorious evolution and how it left its mark on every aspect of life, landscape and culture.
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Publication Date 06.04.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-821004-5 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-819432-1
Peter Ginn is an archaeological digger and teacher. Ruth Goodman is an expert in British social history.
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How we have always been stirred by seabirds, the pattern of their lives, the folklore and the inspiration they’ve brought to writers, musicians and painters in their extraordinary lives.
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The Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson Through much of human time, seabirds have been our food and poetry: metaphors for what we are or might be, and sustenance for often poor and marginal coastal communities. In a beautiful evocation of the natural world that we both abuse and treasure, The Seabird’s Cry tells the long story of seabirds as a barometer of human life on earth. Adam Nicolson’s books include Wetland, Sea Room and the acclaimed The Mighty Dead. He is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and lives on a farm in Sussex.
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Publication Date 20.04.2017 Demy HB 978-0-00-816569-7 £16.99 eBook 978-0-00-816571-0
Both a story of how modern librarians risked their lives to smuggle ancient manuscripts beyond violent Islamists, and an untold history of Victorian exploration of the African interior.
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu by Charlie English As a modern-day librarian struggles to save Timbuktu’s heritage, Charlie English tells the riveting story of the explorers who raced to reach this mysterious capital of a remote but intensely rich African kingdom. Told in tandem, these stories describe the rich and fraught history of Timbuktu, and how conflict threatens to wipe out its priceless legacy. Charlie English is former head of international news at the Guardian and author of The Snow Tourist. He is based in London.
Publication Date 04.05.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-812663-6 £20 TPB 978-0-00-818490-2 £14.99 eBook 978-0-00-812664-3
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Paperbacks The Last Days of the Spanish Republic by Paul Preston Told for the first time in English, the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Paul Preston CBE is Director of the Cañada Blanch Centre of Contemporary Spanish Studies at LSE.
Publication Date 04.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-816341-9 £12.99 eBook 978-0-00-816342-6
‘Masterly and intensely moving’ Sunday Telegraph
The Wood for the Trees by Richard Fortey ‘Fortey’s prose is a joy ... his sharp eye and ceaselessly inquiring mind are an inspiration’ Daily Mail The biography of a beechand-bluebell wood combines stunning natural history with the ancient history of the countryside to tell the full story of the British landscape. HB JACKET
Richard Fortey was formerly the senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum.
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Publication Date 04.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-810469-6 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-810467-2
The life story of the heroic prince – dead before his time – who was intended to reign in place of King Charles I.
The Lost Prince: Henry Stuart – The King Who Never Was
by Sarah Fraser In 1610, Henry Stuart was a celebrity throughout Europe. Eldest son of James VI and the epitome of Renaissance princely virtue, his life was framed by the King James Bible, the Thirty Years’ War, the Gunpowder Plot, Jacobean theatre and great innovation in science. Henry Stuart’s dynamic life is last great Jacobean tale. Now forgotten, he might have saved Britain from civil war. Sarah Fraser contributes regularly to radio and newspapers. Her first book, The Last Highlander, won the 2012 Saltire First Scottish Book of the Year.
Publication Date 04.05.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-754808-8 £25 eBook 978-0-00-754809-5
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How the garden is a vital place of escape for the brain, and how it helps us shape our minds through action as well as thought.
The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith Gardening can affect our inner worlds, both consciously and unconsciously, and can help us to find or refind our place in the world. With its rituals of growth, decay and regeneration, safety and enclosure, it is as if we are also gardening our minds. Combining neuroscience and psychoanalysis with real-life stories, Sue Stuart-Smith shows how gardening processes can facilitate neural change. A prominent psychiatric psychotherapist, Sue Stuart-Smith teaches at the Tavistock Clinic in London and works for the NHS in Hertfordshire.
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Publication Date 04.05.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-810071-1 ÂŁ18.99 eBook 978-0-00-810072-8
A beautiful, richly illustrated and fact-filled book on Europe’s wild orchids – perhaps the most enigmatic and popular group in the British flora.
Orchids by Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen and Bo Mossberg This beautiful book is the result of a collaboration between two prominent experts: the illustrator Bo Mossberg and the author, botanist and professor Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen, who is the foremost European expert on orchids.
Publication Date 04.05.2017
Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen is Associate Professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Bo Mossberg is one of Sweden’s leading botanical artists.
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Paperbacks Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings by Dan Cruickshank ‘Illuminating ... inspirational’ Guardian
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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 creations in world architecture.
Publication Date 04.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-758108-5 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-757559-6
All Out War by Tim Shipman The inside story of how the EU Referendum brought a Brexit win and sank Britain’s political class – filled with stories, anecdotes and juicy leaks.
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As Political Editor of the Sunday Times, Tim Shipman has covered four British General Elections and three elections from the US. ‘A must-read’ Nick Robinson
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-821517-0 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-821516-3
Paperbacks Land Rover by Ben Fogle As quintessentially British as a plate of fish and chips, the utilitarian Land Rover Defender has become an iconic part of what it is to be British. Every Land Rover has its own unique story to tell – this is the story of the world’s favourite car.
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Publication Date 23.03.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-819425-3 £8.99 eBook 978-0-00-819423-9
Ben Fogle is a presenter, writer and adventurer. He quite likes Land Rovers.
My Dear Ones by Jonathan Wittenberg A family’s race for survival from the Nazis in the face of unspeakable horror, told through their correspondence. ‘One of Britain’s greatest religious thinkers’ Jonathan Freedland
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-815806-4 £8.99 eBook 978-00-0-815805-7
Jonathan Wittenberg lives in north London where he is rabbi of the New North London Synagogue.
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Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by Isaac Newton, were pioneering scientists in their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society.
In the Shadow of a Giant by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin While Newton is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time, and the father of the English scientific revolution, John and Mary Gribbin uncover the fascinating story of Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose scientific achievements neatly embrace the hundred years or so during which science as we know it became established in Britain. They argue persuasively that even without Newton science in Britain would have made a great leap forward in the second half of the 17th century, headed by these two extraordinary men. John Gribbin gained a PhD from the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge before working as a science journalist for Nature and New Scientist. Mary Gribbin is a teacher and a previous winner of the TES Junior Information Book Award.
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Publication Date 18.05.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-822059-4 ÂŁ25 eBook 978-0-00-822060-0
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with an exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked.
Viking Britain by Tom Williams The period between the conventional beginning of the Viking Age in the late eighth century and its close in the eleventh left a historical and cultural footprint that is in many ways broader and deeper than Rome’s. Drawing together narrative history and new academic research, Tom Williams offers a vital evocation of a forgotten world and its implications for the present. Tom Williams was a curator of the major international British Museum exhibition ‘Vikings: Life and Legend’, and is currently researching his PhD at University College London.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-817193-3 £25 eBook 978-0-00-817194-0
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Paperbacks Game of Spies: The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi by Paddy Ashdown The story of a lethal spy triangle in Bordeaux during World War II – and of France’s greatest betrayal. Paddy Ashdown was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. He is the author of The Cruel Victory.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-814084-7 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-814083-0
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Nujeen: One Girl’s Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair by Nujeen Mustafa, with Christina Lamb A tale of migration and escaping the hell of war, from a girl struggling to walk for the first time.
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Nujeen Mustafa, who has cerebral palsy, travelled across the Mediterranean to Germany in search of a new life. Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist for the Sunday Times.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-819281-5 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-819279-2
‘Nujeen is our hero. Everyone must read her story’ Malala Yousafzai
Paperbacks Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak ‘A gripping and well-researched book’ Express The heartbreaking story of the passionate secret love affair between Boris Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya.
Publication Date 18.05.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-815681-7 £9.99 eBook 978-0-00-815680-0
Anna Pasternak is a writer and member of the famous Pasternak family. HB JACKET
‘A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel’ Independent A revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father’s name – and of a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us.
Publication Date 14.07.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-747909-2 £7.99 E-book 978-0-00-747939-9
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How Jane Austen’s love of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia have led to some of our most cherished film, TV and theatre adaptations.
The Comic Muse: Jane Austen, the Theatre and Why Hollywood Loves Her
by Paula Byrne As 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of Austen’s death, this is the story of how her writing was shaped by theatrical comedy. Austen’s admiration for drama’s dialogue, characterisation, plotting and staging is the reason for her many successful screen dramatisations. And, as the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Real Jane Austen explains, these adaptations are at the centre of her continuing fame. Paula Byrne is the author of four successive Sunday Times top-ten bestseller biographies. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford.
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Publication Date 01.06.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-822565-0 £25 TPB 978-0-00-822566-7 £14.99 eBook 978-0-00-822567-4
Ancient Wonderings tells a tale of stepping into the past, of journeying across Britain’s wildest lands on a trail of ancient worlds.
Ancient Wonderings by James Canton James Canton immerses himself into the landscape, chasing physical obsessions of prehistory: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, tin and a lost Roman road. He explores those wonders of the natural world which occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. And he wanders to the furthest reaches of our islands to seek those intangible teasings left by our ancestors. By going to the places where the ancient past is still most visible and then tucking ourselves away from the present world and digging down within, we begin to realise what it is, what it has ever been, to be human.
Publication Date 15.06.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-817520-7 ÂŁ20 eBook 978-0-00-817521-4
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.
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In her relationship with Charles that has survived for more than forty years, Camilla’s story has seen a great many myths. This book is the definitive account.
The Duchess: Camilla, Charles, and the Love Story That Rocked the British Monarchy
by Penny Junor 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. It is a rich and remarkable story that has never been properly told – indeed, it is one of the most extraordinary, star-crossed love stories of the past fifty years. Penny Junor is a well-known and well-respected British writer, biographer and broadcaster.
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Publication Date 29.06.2017 Royal HB 978-0-00-821100-4 £20 eBook 978-0-00-821102-8
Paperbacks Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C. S. Lewis The only official sequel penned by Lewis himself to the ever-popular Screwtape Letters – published alongside other short essays. ‘Abrasively funny and exhilarating to read’ Sunday Times
Publication Date 09.02.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-819253-2 £7.99 eBook 978-0-00-822854-5
Compelling Reason by C. S. Lewis For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic (not ill-founded beliefs and opinions) were the only sensible way to approach faith and ethics. ‘Most of us would gladly have given reams of our own work to write a couple of paragraphs as Lewis wrote’ Church of England Newspaper
Publication Date 09.02.2017 B Format PB 978-0-00-822088-4 £7.99 eBook 978-0-00-822851-4
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In this long-awaited paleo-anthropological addition to the series, Nicholas Ashton provides an overview of the developing geography of Britain throughout the eons.
Collins New Naturalist Library Early Humans by Nicholas Ashton Setting the scene on the Norfolk coast almost a million years ago, Ashton follows the remarkable survival of bones, stone tools and footprints which allow us to paint a picture of the first human visitors to this remote peninsula of north-west Europe. He tells the story of the faunas, floras and developing geography of Britain against the backdrop of an ever-changing climate. He explores how early people began as brief visitors to this wild remote land, but who, over time, through better ways of acquiring food and developing new technologies, began to tame, shape and dominate the countryside we see today. Nicholas Ashton has been a curator at the British Museum for over 25 years, specialising in Lower and Middle Palaeolithic archaeology.
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Publication Date 23.03.2017 HB 978-0-00-815033-4 £60 TPB 978-0-00-815035-8 £35 eBook 978-0-00-815034-1 £19.99
The way that people use the land – whether for food production, recreation, housing and other infrastructure – shapes the habitats of birds and other wildlife.
Collins New Naturalist Library Farmland Birds by Ian Newton Ian Newton discusses the changes in bird populations that have occurred, mainly in the 20th century, in relation to changes in land-use and agriculture. He explores how human land-use, water management and fisheries practices affect wildlife, and how this understanding is essential to the future conservation and maintenance of bird populations. Ian Newton is an ornithologist and applied scientist, and a leading expert on bird ecology and biogeography. He graduated from Bristol University and gained his doctorate at Oxford.
Publication Date 15.06.2017 HB 978-0-00-814789-1 £65 TPB 978-0-00-814790-7 £35 eBook 978-0-00-817533-7 £19.99
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This easy-to-use guide to the birds of south-east Asia is the essential travel companion for experienced birdwatchers and novice birders alike.
Collins Field Guide: Birds of South-East Asia by Norman Arlott Coverage includes China, Hainan, Taiwan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Coco Islands. Covers the birds’ key identification features with information on habitat, songs and calls. Beautiful artwork depicts their breeding plumage, and non-breeding plumage when it differs significantly. Wildlife artist Norman Arlott has illustrated nearly 100 books and his artwork regularly appears in magazines. He has led ornithology tours to East Africa and lives in Norfolk.
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Publication Date 09.02.2017 HB 978-0-00-742954-7 ÂŁ40 eBook 978-0-00-812242-3
Paperbacks Collins British Bird Guide by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney, Dan Zetterström and Peter J. Grant This new abridged edition of the hugely successful, awardwinning Collins Bird Guide is a must for every birdwatcher.
Publication Date 01.06.2017
Lars Svensson is Europe’s leading field ornithologist. Killian Mullarney is one of the world’s finest bird illustrators. Dan Zetterström is equally widely acclaimed for his bird illustrations.
‘The richest, most comprehensive of the current guides’ The Times
PB 978-0-00-745124-1 £12.99
Collins British Butterfly Guide by Tom Tolman and Richard Lewington Experience the joy of discovering the natural world with this beautiful pocket guide to British butterflies. Richard Lewington is one of the world’s leading natural history illustrators, specialising in insects. He lives in Oxfordshire. Tom Tolman developed an interest in botany and natural history in the 1970s and has since developed a passion for butterflies.
Publication Date 01.06.2017 PB 978-0-00-749974-8 £12.99
‘The illustrations are magnificent [and] the text is excellent’ New Scientist
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