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AMONG THE WOLVES OF COURT

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The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn LAUREN MACKAY Dramatic new retelling of the Anne Boleyn tale, through the stories of her father and brother Thomas and George Boleyn – the father and brother of Anne Boleyn and heads of one of the most powerful infamous dynasties in English history. Already key figures in Henry VIII’s court, with the ascent of Anne to the throne in 1533 these two men became the most important players on the Tudor stage, with direct access to royalty, and with it, influence.

Both were highly skilled ambassadors and courtiers who negotiated their way through the complex and ruthless game of politics with ease. But when the Queen fell from grace just three years later, it was to have a devastating effect on her family – ultimately costing her brother his life. In this groundbreaking new book, Lauren Mackay reveals this untold story of Tudor England, bringing into the light two pivotal characters whose part in the rise and swift fall of Anne Boleyn has so far remained cloaked in shadow.

June 2018 312 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £18.99 9781788310437 24 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates I.B.Tauris

Lauren Mackay is a historian of Tudor England. She is the author of Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador and a regular contributor to BBC History and All About History. She has spoken at the Tower of London, Hever Castle, Leeds Castle and the National Archives at Kew.

Cromwell at War The Lord General and his Military Revolution Martyn Bennett 9781784535117 £25.00 Hardback

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EDMUND

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In Search of England's Lost King FRANCIS YOUNG What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England’s greatest former churches and shrines?

The ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds are a memorial to the largest Romanesque church ever built.

This Suffolk market town is now a quiet place, out of the way, eclipsed by its more famous neighbour Cambridge. But present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, as Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body – placed in an ‘iron chest’ but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries – of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England’s first patron saint.

After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the ninth century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom.

March 2018 256 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £20.00 9781788311793 16pp colour plates, 3 maps I.B.Tauris

'This is a fascinating and wonderful book' - Tom Holland Francis Young is a foremost authority on the history and culture of eastern England, gained a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author and editor of seven previous books, including A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity (2016). He broadcasts regularly for the BBC on historical and religious topics.

A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons Henrietta Leyser 9781780766003 £10.99 Paperback

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DRAGON LORDS

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The History and Legends of Viking England ELEANOR PARKER A sparkling new history of the resonant and resilient Viking stories which shaped the English nation Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales paint a picture very different from the ferocious pillagers of popular repute. Eleanor Parker here unlocks secrets that point to more complex motivations within the marauding army that in the late ninth century voyaged to the shores of eastern England in its sleek, dragon-prowed longships. Exploring legends from forgotten medieval texts, and across the varied Anglo-Saxon regions, she depicts Vikings who came not just to raid but also to settle personal feuds, intervene in English politics and find a place to call home. Each myth shows how the legacy of the newcomers can still be traced in landscape, place-names and local history.

April 2018 288 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback ÂŁ20.00 9781784537869 40 bw integrated I.B.Tauris

'This beautifully written book succeeds in casting Viking invaders and settlers in an unexpected new light.'

- Carolyne Larrington Eleanor Parker is a Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) at Oxford University and also a member of Worcester College, Oxford.

The Last Vikings The Epic Story of the Great Norse Voyagers Kirsten A. Seaver 9781784530570 ÂŁ10.99 Paperback

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FRANCO

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Anatomy of a Dictator ENRIQUE MORADIELLOS Based on original new research, a major new portrait of Franco as man and dictator On 20th November 1975, General Francisco Franco died in Madrid, just before his 83rd birthday. At the time of his death he had been the head of a dictatorial regime with the title of ‘Caudillo’ for almost 40 years. In this book, Enrique Moradiellos redraws Franco in three dimensions – Franco, the man; Franco, the Caudillo and Franco’s Spain. In so doing, he offers a reappraisal of Franco’s personality, his leadership style and the nature of the regime that he established and led until his death. As a dictator who established his power prior to World War II and maintained it well into the 1970s, Franco was one of the most central figures of twentiethcentury European history. In Spain today, he is a spectre from a regrettable recent past, uncomfortable yet still very real and significant. Although a relatively minor dictator in comparison with Mussolini, Hitler or Stalin, Franco was more fortunate than them in terms of survival, long-lasting influence and public image. A study of his regime and its historical evolution sheds new light on fundamental questions of European history, including the social and cultural bases for totalitarian or authoritarian challenges to democracy and sources of political legitimacy grounded in the charisma of a leader.

February 2018 264 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781784539429 16 colour illustrations I.B.Tauris

Enrique Moradiellos is Professor of Modern Spanish and European History at the University of Extremadura, Spain.

He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London and Complutense University, Madrid and is the author of ten books on twentieth-century Spain, published in Spanish.

Churchill's Last Stand The Struggle to Unite Europe Felix Klos £25.00 Hardback 9781784538132

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO XI

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Everything You Need to Know About the New China KERRY BROWN The thoughts of Chairman Xi - a guide to the psyche of the world's most powerful leader China is now the most powerful country on earth – its manufacturing underpins the world’s economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of any nation and its leader, Xi Jinping, is now to set the pace and tone of world affairs for decades. Recently Xi became part of the constitution – an honour not seen since Chairman Mao, the founder of Modern China. This means he will rule China for decades, and what he does and what he thinks will shape all our futures.Here, in an accessible and readable style, Kerry Brown guides us through Xi's plans to make China the most powerful country on earth, to eradicate poverty and even solve climate change.

We find out what he really thinks about the communist China he leads, and how far he is willing to go to defend it.

March 2018 128 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £8.99 9781788313285 I.B.Tauris

'An essential read' - The Observer on Kerry Brown's The New Emperors Kerry Brown writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Diplomat and Foreign Affairs, as well as for many international and Chinese media outlets.

He is the bestselling author of China’s World (2017), CEO China (2016) and The New Emperors (2014).

China's World What Does China Want?

Kerry Brown 9781784538095 £20.00 Hardback

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SOMEONE ELSE'S WAR

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Fighting for the British Empire in World War I JOHN CONNOR The hidden story of Britain’s colonial forces on the Western Front World War I was the first truly global conflict and its effects were felt across the British Empire. When war broke out in 1914, Great Britain had the largest empire, encompassing one quarter of the population of the world. Many colonial citizens were to be enlisted into the war effort and shipped from their homes in Africa, Asia and Australasia to fight on the battlefields of the Western Front. What was the experience of war like for citizens of empire, whether combatants or not?

How did the empire affect countries administered by Great Britain but geographically located tens of thousands of miles from the conflict? In this book, John Connor tells the story of the people whose lives were profoundly affected by ‘someone else’s war’ – dragged, against their will, into a geopolitical conflict vastly removed from their normal lives.

August 2018 352 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £25.00 9781784532703 20 bw integrated I.B.Tauris

John Connor is Senior Lecturer and History Discipline Head at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. He is one of Australia’s leading military historians and has published widely on World War I. His previous books include The Australian Frontier Wars.

The Long Silence The Tragedy of Occupied France in World War I Helen McPhail 9781784530532 £11.99 Paperback

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THE PHONEY VICTORY

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The World War II Delusion PETER HITCHENS An iconoclast debunks the myths about Britain’s role in ‘The Good War’ Was World War II really the ‘Good War’? In the years since the declaration of peace in 1945 many myths have sprung up around the conflict in the victorious nations. In this book, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the ‘Good War’.

Whilst not criticising or doubting the need for war against Nazi Germany at some stage, Hitchens does query whether September 1939 was the right moment, or the independence of Poland the right issue. He points out that in the summer of 1939 Britain and France were wholly unprepared for a major European war and that this quickly became apparent in the conflict that ensued. He also rejects the retroactive claim that Britain went to war in 1939 to save the Jewish population of Europe. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. In a provocative, but deeply researched book, Hitchens questions the most common assumptions surrounding World War II, turning on its head the myth of Britain’s role in a ‘Good War’.

August 2018 240 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £17.99 9781788313292 I.B.Tauris

Peter Hitchens is a journalist and commentator. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought.

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RIVIERA DREAMING

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Love and War on the Côte d'Azur MAUREEN EMERSON The stories behind the most glamorous houses on the French Riviera In 1926 a young American architect and his lover, an exofficer in the British Army, moved to the south of France and built a white, flat-roofed Modernist masterpiece; they called it Le Trident. From the moment it was built, it captivated Riviera society. Noel Coward called it 'impossibly beautiful' and its guest book became filled with the Riviera beau monde.

As commissions for more villas flooded in, Barry Dierks and Eric Sawyer became the 'darlings of the Riviera'. Over the years, Dierks would design and build over 70 of the Riviera’s most recognisable villas for clients. Riviera Dreaming tells the dazzling story of the lives, loves and adventures that played out behind the walls of these stunning houses and provides an unparalleled portrait of life on the Côte d’Azur at the height of the Jazz Age.

March 2018 264 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £20.00 9781788311625 60 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

“...packed with history and glamorous insider stories of the rich and famous, contrasted with the hardships of local residents living under German occupation during WWII. Bet you won't be able to put it down.”

- Mary S. Lovell, author of The Mitford Girls Maureen Emerson lived in Provence for 20 years, where she worked as a local co-ordinator for CBS and NBC at media festivals in Cannes. Her first book on the Riviera, Escape to Provence, was published in 2008.

The Riviera at War World War II on the Côte d'Azur George G. Kundahl 9781784538712 £18.99 Hardback

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FRANCO AND THE CONDOR LEGION

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The Spanish Civil War in the Air MICHAEL ALPERT The first history in English of how the Spanish Civil War unfolded in the skies The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new techniques of air war were rehearsed including high-speed dogfights, attacks on ships, bombing of civilian areas and tactical air-ground cooperation. At the heart of the air war were the Condor Legion, a unit composed of military personnel from Hitler’s Germany who fought for Franco’s Nationalists in Spain. In this book, Michael Alpert provides the first study in English of the Spanish Civil War in the air. He describes and analyses the intervention of German, Italian and Soviet aircraft in the Spanish conflict, as well as the supply of aircraft in general and the role of volunteer and mercenary airmen. His book provides new perspectives on the air war in Spain, the precedents set for World War II and the possible lessons learnt.

March 2018 288 pages 216 x 138mm Hardback £20.00 9781788311182 7 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Michael Alpert is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Westminster. He is the author of A New International History of the Spanish Civil War and The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.

A Short History of the Spanish Civil War Julian Casanova 9781848856585 £10.99 Paper back

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WOMEN IN BRITAIN

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Voices and Perspectives from Twentieth Century History

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JANET H. HOWARTH The forgotten female voices that changed the Twentieth Century Twentieth-century developments have altered the position of women beyond all recognition. Women’s suffrage and equal rights, the consumer society, control of fertility, the sexual revolution, and the millennium’s new breed of female breadwinners have made this a transformative period for women.

August 2018 288 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £15.95 9781850434566 This anthology of original sources is accompanied by state- 8 b&w illustrations

of-the-art historiography, and includes an introductory survey providing an accessible overview and analysis of key questions, including the relationship between ‘first’, ‘second’ and ‘third’ wave feminism in Britain.

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Janet H. Howarth is Fellow in Modern History at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, specialising in the history of the women’s movement, women’s education and feminist biography.

Women and the Royal Navy A HIstory of The Royal Navy Jo Stanley 9781780768595 £25.00 Hardback

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DARK STAR

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The Untold Story of Vivien Leigh ALAN STRACHAN Major new biography of one of the most iconic actresses of the twentieth century Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history.

Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century’s greatest actresses.

August 2018 336 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £25.00 9781788312080 24 bw in 16pp plates I.B.Tauris

Alan Strachan is a theatre director. In the West End he has directed over twenty five productions, and overseas he has worked in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin and New York. He has directed such actors as Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Penelope Keith, Maureen Lipman, Dorothy Tutin and Pauline Collins; and plays by authors ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw and Tennessee Williams to Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard. He is the author of Secret Dreams: A biography of Michael Redgrave and Putting it On: The West End Theatre of Michael Codron.

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IN SEARCH OF ISAIAH BERLIN

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A Literary Adventure HENRY HARDY & ISAIAH BERLIN A revealing new portrait of one of Britain’s most famous public intellectuals Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century – a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas – especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism – have become even more prescient and vital today. But who was the man behind such influential philosophies? In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin’s huge body of work into print. Hardy discovered that Berlin had written far more than people thought, much of it unpublished. As he describes his struggles with Berlin, who was almost on principle unwilling to have his work published, an intimate and revealing picture of the self-deprecating philosopher emerges. This is a unique portrait of a man who illuminated a new way of thinking about the world, yet whose own life has for so long remained in the shadows.

August 2018 288 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781788312448 32 colour illustrations I.B.Tauris

Henry Hardy is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College and Isaiah Berlin’s editor and literary trustee. Previously an editor at OUP, Hardy has been working full-time on Berlin since 1990 and has now edited or co-edited 18 of his books, as well as a four-volume edition of his letters.

The Wartime Journals Hugh Trevor-Roper, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines 9781784531935 £11.99 Paperback

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THE MAN WHO BUILT THE SWORDFISH

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The Life of Sir Richard Fairey, 1887-1956 ADRIAN SMITH The absorbing true story of one of Britain’s greatest aviation inventors Sir Richard Fairey was one of the great aviation innovators of the twentieth century. His career as a plane maker stretched from the Edwardian period to the jet age – he lived long enough to see one of his aircraft be the first to break the 1000mph barrier; and at least one of his designs, the Swordfish, holds iconic status. A qualified engineer, party to the design, development, and construction of the Royal Navy’s state-of-the-art sea planes, he founded Fairey Aviation at the Admiralty’s behest in 1915. The firm built a succession of front-line aircraft for the RAF and the Fleet Air Arm, including the iconic Swordfish. In addition, Fairey Aviation designed and built several cutting-edge experimental aircraft, including long-distance record-breakers between the wars and the stunningly beautiful Delta 2, which broke the world speed record on the eve of Sir Richard’s death in 1956.

April 2018 480 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £25.00 9781788313360 25 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Adrian Smith is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton. An established author, broadcaster and journalist in the fields of modern British political, social and cultural history, his previous books include Mountbatten Apprentice War Lord and The City of Coventry: A Twentieth Century Icon (both I.B. Tauris).

Speedbird The Complete History of BOAC Robin Higham 9781780764627 £35.00 Hardback

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THE ARMENIAN LEGIONNAIRES

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Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I SUSAN PATTIE A crucial insight into the tainted battles fought by volunteer Armenians during World War One Following the devastation resulting from what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined the French Foreign Legion. The Armenian Legionnaires signed up on the understanding that they would be fighting in Syria and Turkey, and, should the Allies be successful, they would be part of an occupying army in their old homelands, laying the foundation for an independent Armenia.

August 2018 288 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback ÂŁ25.00 9781788311250 150 bw integrated, 15 colour in 8pp plates I.B.Tauris

Complete with eyewitness accounts, letters and photographs, this book provides an insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, powerless people caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already destroyed their known world.

Susan Pattie is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London and former Director of the Armenian Institute in London. In recent years she served as Director of the Armenian Museum of America and was Program Manager of the National Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemorations in Washington, DC. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from University College London.

The Armenians in Modern Turkey Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History Talin Suciyan 9781788310918 ÂŁ25.00 Paperback

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SECRET NATION

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The Hidden Armenians of Turkey AVEDIS HADJIAN Revealing the lives of a hidden people forced to conceal their origins for almost a century It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres. As a result of what has come to be called the Armenian Genocide, those who survived in Anatolia were assimilated as Muslims, with most losing all traces of their Christian identity. In fact, some did survive and together with their children managed during the last century to conceal their origins. Many of these survivors were orphans, adopted by Turks, only discovering their ‘true’ identity late into their adult lives. Outwardly, they are Turks or Kurds and while some are practising Muslims, others continue to uphold Christian and Armenian traditions behind closed doors. In recent years, a growing number of ‘secret Armenians’ have begun to emerge from the shadows.

Spurred by the bold voices of journalists like Hrant Dink, the Armenian newspaper editor murdered in Istanbul in 2007, the pull towards freedom of speech and soul-searching are taking hold across the region. Avedis Hadjian has travelled to the towns and villages once densely populated by Armenians, recording stories of survival and discovery from those who remain in a region that is deemed unsafe for the people who once lived there.

April 2018 624 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback £25.00 9781788311991 4 colour in 4pp plates I.B.Tauris

Avedis Hadjian is a freelance journalist. He has appeared on CNN and his writing has appeared in Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg News and Le Monde Diplomatique, amongst many other major international news outlets.

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home The Dildilian Photography Collection Armen T. Marsoobian 9781784537500 £20.00 Paperback

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VITA

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The Life of Vita Sackville-West VICTORIA GLENDINNING The classic, Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-West – the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group – was a vital, gifted and complex woman.

A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita’s extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.

May 2018 480 pages 198 x 129mm Paperback £11.99 9781788312431 18 b&w illustrations Tauris Parke Paperbacks

‘Superb… much more than just a record of events but an opening up of understanding and experience.’ - The Times ‘A biography that conceals nothing… gives her life in fact the strangeness, subtlety, complexity and ambivalence missing from her fiction' - The Observer Victoria Glendinning is a biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. Her biographies include A Suppressed Cry: Life and Death of a Quaker Daughter; Elizabeth Bowen: Portait of a Writer and Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Prize).

Ernest Hemingway Anthony Burgess 9781784531188 £9.99 Paperback

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THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND THE CIVIL WARS

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DAVID J. APPLEBY A distinctive ‘global’ twist on the history of England in the 17th Century A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England – soon followed

by Scotland and Ireland – exploded into bitter conflict as dissenting members John Hampden and John Holles fled the April 2018 Long Parliament and Charles Stuart raised his royal standard 256 pages 216 x 134mm at Nottingham in 1642.

Paperback £10.99 9781780766027

In his atmospheric new history of an era once known simply 40 bw integrated, 8 maps as ‘the Troubles’ or as ‘the Great Rebellion’, David J Appleby I.B.Tauris shows how the ensuing conflagration turned the world upside down, as long-cherished assumptions about monarchy, social Also Available hierarchy and religious belief were consumed like so much Hardback £72.00 parchment in the flame.

9781780766010 David J. Appleby is Lecturer in Early Modern British History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Black Bartholomew’s Day: Preaching, Polemic and Restoration Nonconformity (2007).

The English Civil War A Military History Peter Gaunt 9781788310598 £12.99 Paperback

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THE MONGOLS

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GEORGE LANE

A bold new history of the Mongols, from the rise of the Great Khan to the destruction of the empire The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarkable century and a half it commanded a population of 100 million people, while the rule of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan marched undefeated from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. George Lane argues that the Mongols were not only subjugators who swept all before them but one of the great organising forces of world history. His book traces the rise of the Great Khan in 1206 to the dissolution of the empire in 1368 by the Ming Dynasty. He discusses the unification of the Turko-Mongol tribes under Chinggis’ leadership; the establishment of a vigorous imperium whose Pax Mongolica held mastery over the Central Asian steppes; imaginative policies of religious pluralism; and the rich legacy of the Toluid Empire of Yuan China and Ilkhanate Iran.

Offering a bold and sympathetic understanding of Mongol history, the author shows that commercial expansion, cultural assimilation and dynamic political growth were as crucial to Mongol success as desire for conquest.

February 2018 256 pages 216 x 138mm Paperback £10.99 9781780766065 12 bw integrated, 4 maps I.B.Tauris

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George Lane is Senior Teaching Fellow in the History of the Middle East and Central Asia at SOAS in the University of London. His previous books are Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran, Genghiz Khan and Mongol Rule, Daily Life in the Mongol Empire and Silk Roads and Steppe Empires.

Genghis Khan Conqueror of the World Leo de Hartog 9781860649721 £10.99 Paperback

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THE REFORMATION

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HELEN L. PARISH

A new history of Europe’s great religious schism When, in October 1517, Martin Luther pinned his NinetyFive Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg he shattered the foundations of western Christendom. The Reformation of doctrine and practice that followed Luther’s seismic action, and protest against the sale of indulgences, fragmented the Church and overturned previously accepted certainties and priorities. But it did more, challenging the relationship between spiritual and secular authority, perceptions of the supernatural, the interpretation of the past, the role of women in society and church, and clerical attitudes towards marriage and sex. Drawing on the most recent historiography, Helen L Parish locates the Protestant Reformation in its many cultural, social and political contexts.

She assesses the Reformers’ impact on art and architecture; on notions of authority, scripture and tradition; and – reflecting on the extent to which the printing press helped spread Reformation ideas – on oral, print and written culture.

June 2018 256 pages 216 x 138mm Hardback/Paperback £10.99 9781780766102 30 bw integrated, 5 maps I.B.Tauris

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Helen L. Parish is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).

A Short History of Medieval Christianity G.R. Evans 9781784532833 £10.99 Paperback

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PAUL CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON The epic conflict that shaped and still divides a nation The American Civil War (1861-65) remains a searing event in the consciousness of the United States. It was one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history, claiming the lives of at least 600,000 soldiers and an unknown number of civilians.

The Civil War was also one of the world’s first truly industrial conflicts, involving railroads, the telegraph, steamships and mass-manufactured weaponry. The eventual victory of the Union over the Confederacy rang the death-knell for American slavery, and set the USA on the path to becoming a truly world power. Paul Christopher Anderson shows how and why the conflict remains the nation’s defining moment, arguing that it was above all a struggle for political supremacy. Melding social, cultural and military history, the author explores iconic battles like Shiloh, Chickamauga, Antietam and Gettysburg as well as the bitterly contesting forces underlying them.

He shows that while both sides began the war in order to preserve – the integrity of the American state for the Union, the integrity of a culture and value system for the Confederacy – it allowed the South to define a regional identity that has survived into modern times.

August 2018 272 pages 216 x 138mm Paperback £10.99 9781780765983 40 integrated bw, 10 maps I.B.Tauris

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Paul Christopher Anderson is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, South Carolina. He is the author of Blood Image: Turner Ashby in the Civil War and the Southern Mind (2002).

A Short History of the American Revolutionary War Stephen Conway 9781848858138 £10.99 Paperback

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THE CRIMEAN WAR

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TRUDI TATE

Drawing on first-hand accounts, a new look at Britain’s nineteenth century conflict with Russia The Crimean War (1853–1856) was the first modern war.

A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern ‘war machine’. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. In its skilful interweaving of military, medical and social history, the book offers a fresh and intriguing look at one of the most fascinating conflicts of modern times.

August 2018 256 pages 216 x 138mm Paperback £10.99 9781848858619 30 integrated b&w I.B.Tauris

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Trudi Tate is an Affiliated Lecturer in English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall. She has written and broadcast about Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade and is the author of Modernism, History and the First World War (1998).

Miss Palmer's Diary The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady Gillian Wagner 9781788310062 £20.00 Hardback

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TITANS

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Fox & Pitt DICK LEONARD AND MARK GARNETT The titanic struggle for power between two giants of the Georgian Age Charles James Fox and William Pitt the Younger were the two political giants of their day – the greatest of orators, and the fiercest of rivals. But did the two men have anything in common? Temperamentally, they could hardly have been more different. Their fates were heavily influenced by their respective relationships with George III, who formed an insensate hostility to Fox, using unconstitutional means to exclude him from power, while favouring Pitt, appointing him as Prime Minister at the age of 24, and maintaining him in office for 17 years (plus a further two years in his second administration). The result was that Fox enjoyed only three very short periods as Foreign Minister, and was effectively Leader of the Opposition for a record 23 years, but enjoyed a late triumph when, following the death of Pitt, he became the dominant member of the ‘Government of All the Talents’ and lived long enough to be able to introduce the bill which abolished the slave trade.

August 2018 256 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £25.00 9781784533694 20 bw in 16pp plates I.B.Tauris

Dick Leonard is an historian, journalist and author and a former Labour MP. For many years he was Assistant Editor of The Economist, and headed their office in Brussels, where he was later also correspondent of The Observer. His publications include The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli (I.B.Tauris).

Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He is co-author of Exploring British Politics and British Foreign Policy since 1945.

The Great Rivalry Gladstone and Disraeli Dick Leonard and Mark Garnett 9781784536374 £12.99 Paperback

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THE PASSION

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Football and the Story of Modern Turkey PATRICK KEDDIE Exploring Turkey, from the centre circle to the heart of government, through the nation’s favourite sport Turkey is a nation obsessed with football. From the glowing red and blue flares which cover the pitch with multi-coloured smoke and often brings play to a halt, to the ‘conductors’ – ultras who lead the ‘walls of sound’ at matches – Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And yet, in this most political of countries, caught between the Middle East and the West, football has also always been something more. From the fan groups accused of attempting to assassinate the president, to the World-Cup players fighting corruption, football in Turkey encompasses politics, anger and resistance. Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes us on a wild journey through of the world’s most popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where simit sellers compete with water cannons for the attentions of the fans, to the deserts of Anatolia, where Islamic teams show their devotion through soccer. He meets gay referees facing death threats, women fighting for the right to wear shorts on the pitch and Kurdish teams playing for the human rights. In doing so he lifts the lid on a new side to the story of modern Turkey.

March 2018 320 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £16.99 9781784538026 I.B.Tauris

Patrick Keddie is a journalist and essayist based in Istanbul.

A reporter for Al Jazeera, his writing has also appeared in VICE, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, the Irish Times, the LA Review of Books, Middle East Eye and the Sunday Herald among others.

Under the Shadow Rage and Revolution in Modern Turkey Kaya Genc 9781784534578 £12.99 Paperback

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COLD RUSH

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The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North MARTIN BREUM The white-knuckle story of the secret war in the Arctic The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarising the North Pole – sending submarines and ice-breakers – the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new opportunities for mining gas and oil.

What is quietly unfolding in the polar north is a ‘great game’ for territory and for resources, all against the biggest backdrop of all: the destruction of the Arctic caused by climate change.

And then last year things took a strange turn. The Kingdom of Denmark, through its colonial claim on Greenland, declared ownership of the entire European hemisphere of the Arctic.

Its claims on a territory larger than Scandinavia overlap over 500 sq. km with Russia’s, who have planted a flag on the ocean floor underneath the North Pole. Investigative journalist Martin Breum has been at the front-line for a decade, and brings this secret story to life. He reports on researchers discovering Russian submarines beneath the ice, spy plane pilots flying over environmental research boats and uncovers the stories of the inhabitants of sleepy Greenland who are waking up to their new place in the universe – between the great aggressive military powers of the world.

June 2018 224 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £17.99 9781788312424 2 maps I.B.Tauris

Martin Breum is a journalist and renowned Arctic expert.

His first book When the Ice Disappears was awarded the Danish Authors Association’s award for the best non-fiction work in 2014. He is lead correspondent for the prestigious Arctic Journal and a journalist for the Danish Broadcasting Association. His writing on the Polar region has been published in the New York Times amongst others.

Russia and the Arctic Environment, Identity and Foreign Policy Geir Honneland 9781784536817 £15.99 Paperback

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ASHES TO LIGHT

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A Holocaust Childhood to a Life in Music NELLY BEN-OR The extraordinary memoir of a holocaust survivor and renowned classical pianist Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early 1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. With help from family and friends, Nelly and her mother were smuggled out of the Ghetto in Lvov and escaped to Warsaw with false identity papers where they were under constant threat of discovery. Miraculously, they survived being taken on a train to Auschwitz, deported not, in fact, because they were Jews, but as citizens of Warsaw following the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis. After the end of the war, Nelly’s musical talent was free to flourish, at first in Poland and then in the recently created State of Israel, where Nelly completed her musical studies as a scholarship student at the Music Academy in Jerusalem.

Following her move to England she carried out a full concert career and also discovered the Alexander Technique for piano playing, which had a profound influence on her. Today Nelly Ben-Or is internationally regarded as the leading exponent of the application of principles of the Alexander Technique.

This unique memoir is testimony to an extraordinary life and illustrates the strength of the human condition when faced with adversity.

January 2018 224 pages 198 x 129mm Hardback £20.00 9781788313094 16 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

Nelly Ben-Or is a distinguished pianist and piano teacher.

She has broadcast frequent recitals for the BBC, performed at major concert venues in the UK and in many countries overseas. In 1963 she qualified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique – the first professional pianist to do so.

Babushka's Journey The Dark Road to Stalin's Wartime Camps Marcel Krueger 9781784538019 £18.99 Hardback

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CULT OF A DARK HERO

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Nicholson of Delhi STUART FLINDERS A gripping investigation into the obsessive cult of the 'imperial psychopath' known as 'Nikal Seyn' In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted such devotion, not just from his religious followers, but from the general public? And why is he no longer considered a hero? The man called 'The Lion of the Punjab' by his contemporaries and compared to Wolfe of Quebec and even to Napoleon has in recent times been dubbed 'an imperial psychopath' and 'a homosexual bully'.

Yet his was a remarkable tale of a life of adventure lived on the very edge of the British Empire; of a man who was as courageous as he was ruthless, as loyal to his friends as he was merciless to those who crossed him. This book traces his murderous thoughts towards the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, John Lawrence, and reveals that, remarkably, the Nikal Seyni cult continued into the 21st century. This is the first book-length biography of Nicholson since World War II. A new account of the Irish soldier who became an Indian God, this examination of the cult of a dark hero, is long overdue.

June 2018 256 pages 234 x 156mm Hardback ÂŁ25.00 9781788312363 20 bw in 16pp plates, 2 maps I.B.Tauris

Stuart Flinders is a BBC journalist, reporter and presenter.

He is currently a Manchester-based reporter for North West Tonight and occasional presenter of You and Yours on BBC Radio 4.

British Imperial What the Empire Wasn't Bernard Porter 9781784534455 ÂŁ20.00 Hardback

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UNDERSTANDING CLASSICS Edited by Richard Stoneman, University of Exeter

Understanding Classics is a specially commissioned series which aims to introduce the outstanding authors and thinkers of antiquity to a wide audience of appreciative modern readers, whether undergraduate students of classics, literature, philosophy and ancient history or generalists interested in the classical world.

Each volume – written by leading figures internationally – will examine the historical significance of the writer or writers in question; their social, political and cultural contexts; their use of language, literature and mythology; extracts from their major works; and their reception in later European literature, art, music and culture.

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THE POETS OF ALEXANDRIA

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Understanding Classics SUSAN A. STEPHENS Innovation, inspiration and the avant-garde in ancient Alexandria Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres), but at the same time forwardlooking and experimental, willing to make use of previous forms of writing in exciting new ways. The author examines Alexandria’s poets in turn. She discusses the strikingly avantgarde Aetia of Callimachus; the idealised pastoral forms of Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, the Argonautica, with its impressive combination of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She shows that all three poets were innovators, even while they looked to the past for inspiration: drawing upon Homer, Hesiod, Pindar and the lyric poets, they emphasised stories and material that were entirely relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment.

March 2018 192 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £12.99 9781848858800 I.B.Tauris

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Susan A. Stephens is Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classics at Stanford University.

Her books include Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (2003), Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets (with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, 2012) and Callimachus: The Hymns (2015).

Tacitus Understanding Classics Victoria Emma Pagan 9781780763187 £12.99 Paperback

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GOD

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A New Biography PHILIP C. ALMOND A scintillating new life of the 'Supreme Being' The story of God is the story of a paradox. It is the drama of a transcendent, timeless being who, throughout history, has supposedly engaged with immanent and mortal creatures on a fallen and broken world of his own making. In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that – whether in Judaism, Christianity or Islam – God is seen to be at once utterly beyond our world yet at the same earnestly desiring to be at one with it. In the Christian chapter of this story the paradox arguably reaches its improbable zenith: in the fragile form of a human being the infinite became finite, the eternal temporal. The way these and other metaphysical tensions have been understood is, the author demonstrates, the key to unlocking the entire history of religion in the West.

June 2018 264 pages 216x135mm Hardback £20.00 9781784537654 16pp bw plates I.B.Tauris

'Almond sheds new light on the Prince of Darkness' - Independent on The Devil: A New Biography

Philip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. His previous books include The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill (paperback 2017), The Devil: A New Biography (2014, cited as one of the Independent’s ‘Books of the Year: Best Books on Religion’, paperback 2015) and Afterlife: A History of Life after Death (2016), all published by I.B.Tauris.

The Devil A New Biography Philip C. Almond 9781784536398 £10.99 Paperback

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UNIMAGINABLE

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What We Imagine and What We Can't GRAHAM WARD A profound new exploration of the human imagination What we imagine can crush us or create us, destroy us or heal us; it can pitch us into battles with demons or set us among the songs of angels. It has roots beneath consciousness and is expressed in moods, rhythms, tones and textures of experience that are as much mental as physiological. In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain’s most exciting writers on religion here presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination. Discussing the likes of William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams, so as to assess the true meanings of originality and memory, and drawing on his own rich encounters with belief, Graham Ward asks why it is that the imagination is so fundamental to who and what we are. He reveals that, in understanding what it really means to be human, what cannot be imagined invariably means as much as what can.

July 2018 264 pages 226 x 155mm Hardback £20.00 9781784537579 I.B.Tauris

‘...a profound and richly enjoyable journey towards the ground of our being. I know this is a text which I shall often revisit.’ - A.N. Wilson Graham Ward has written numerous books which explore varied topics in religion, theology, literature and literary and cultural theory. His books include Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice (2010) and Unbelievable: Why We Believe and Why We Don’t (I.B.Tauris, 2014).

Unbelievable Why We Believe and Why We Don't Graham Ward 9781780767352 £20.00 Hardback

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IMAM 'ALI

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Concise History, Timeless Mystery

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REZA SHAH-KAZEMI An accessible and fascinating account of the life of the first Shi'i Imam ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib is unparalleled in Islam. He was the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, the first Shi'i Imam and the fourth of the Rashidun Caliphs. Sunni and Shi'i Muslims alike hold ‘Ali in the highest regard owing to his status as a spiritual teacher and his strength as a warrior. According to March 2018 the mystical tradition of Islam, ‘Ali is the embodiment of ‘the 160 pages 216 x 134mm Paperback £8.99 perfect human being’.

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Reza Shah-Kazemi here draws on the insights of the Sufi 24 bw and colour integrated masters Ibn ‘Arabi and Rumi to look beyond the biographical I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute details of ‘Ali’s life to reflect on the spiritual significance of Ismaili Studies of his actions and teachings. For Shah-Kazemi, it is this mystical interpretation of ‘Ali that invites a new, much deeper understanding of his personality and contemporary relevance, outside the confines of history. An accessible and concise guide, this book will be relevant to all those with an interest in the life of ‘Ali, Islamic spirituality, religious practice and the philosophy of religion.

Reza Shah-Kazemi is the author of several books in the fields of Islamic studies and comparative religion, including the award-winning Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam 'Ali. He is Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica and Senior Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.

The Shi'i World Pathways in Tradition and Modernity Edited by Farhad Daftary, Amyn Sajoo & Shainool Jiwa 9781784534776 £27.00 Hardback

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THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA

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The Age of Decline and Revival (Volume 4) CHRISTOPH BAUMER An epic history brought to its conclusion, as Russia and China rise against the Mongol power For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest military power on the planet. But after the fragmentation of the all-conquering Mongol polity, the region began a steep decline which rendered this former domain of horse lords peripheral to world affairs. The process of deterioration reached its nadir in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the former territories and sweeping steppes of the great khans were overrun by Tsarist Russia. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed Central Asia quartet, Christoph Baumer shows how China in the east, and Russia in the northwest, succeeded in throwing off the Mongol yoke to become the masters of their own previous rulers. This epic history concludes with an assessment of the transition to modern independence of the Central Asian states and their struggle to contain radical Islamism.

May 2018 272 pages 289 x 237mm Hardback £30.00 9781788310499 I.B.Tauris

Christoph Baumer – a leading explorer and historian of Central Asia, Tibet and China – has written several wellreceived books include The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity (2006, 2016) and Traces in the Desert: Journeys of Discovery across Central Asia (2008), both published by I.B.Tauris. The first three volumes of his magisterial four-volume history of Central Asia were released

by I.B.Tauris, to much acclaim, in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

The History of Central Asia The Age of Islam and the Mongols (Volume 3) Christoph Baumer 9781784534905 £30.00 Hardback

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I.B.TAURIS LITERARY GUIDES FOR TRAVELLERS Sometimes, reading about a place can be as good as being there yourself.

I.B.Tauris Literary Guides for Travellers celebrate the spirit of place through the experiences of history’s greatest writers, artists and travellers. Travel the world through their eyes: from Hemingway’s Paris and Cervantes’ Andalucía to Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Greece, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin and Ezra Pound’s Sicily.

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TANGIER

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A Literary Guide for Travellers JOSH SHOEMAKE A delightful compendium celebrating one of the most famous literary scenes in history An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe and overlooking both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape. The Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts and writers for centuries – men and women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time.

Particularly in the past century, the results were some of the most incendiary and influential books of our time, the most prominent being Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Paul Bowles’ The Sheltering Sky. The list of “edge” writers who were drawn to Tangier is long, among them Ibn Battuta, Samuel Pepys, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walter Harris, Jean Genet, Paul and Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Chester, Joe Orton and Mohamed Choukri.

May 2018 296 pages 198 x 126mm Paperback £11.99 9781788312837 8 bw integrated, 1 map I.B.Tauris

Josh Shoemake moved to Morocco in 1996, after graduating from Columbia. He spent three years in Tangier, where he taught literature at the American School of Tangier and formed close friendships with Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri and other local artists and writers. He then served for five years as headmaster of The American School of Marrakesh.

Currently he lives in Paris.

Greece A Literary Guide for Travellers Michael Carroll 9781784538743 £16.99 Hardback

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ALICE IN WESTMINSTER

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The Political Life of Alice Bacon RACHEL REEVES A fascinating biography detailing the achievements of a pioneering female MP, now available in paperback Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century’s most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain’s postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed. Labour MP Rachel Reeves here tells Alice Bacon’s story, narrating one woman’s extraordinary progression from the coalfields to the Commons.

March 2018 264 pages 198 x 129mm Paperback £11.99 9781788313070 24 b&w illustrations I.B.Tauris

A GUARDIAN POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Rachel Reeves is Labour MP for Leeds West. She was Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions between 2013-2015.

Nye The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds 9781784535629 £10.99 Paperback

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OPPOSING THE SLAVERS

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The Royal Navy’s Campaign against the Atlantic Slave Trade PETER GRINDAL Examining the Royal Navy's pivotal role in ending the slave trade Much is known about Britain’s role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Drawing on original sources to provide a comprehensive and engaging narrative of the naval operations against slavers of all nations – in particular Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and Brazil, he describes how illegal traders sought to evade treaty obligations, reveals the obduracy of the USA that prolonged the slave trade, and shows how, despite inadequate resources, the Royal Navy’s sixty year campaign forced slavers to expend ever greater sums top conduct their business and confront the losses inflicted by capture and condemnation.

March 2018 896 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £20.00 9781788312868 23 integrated bw, 9 maps I.B.Tauris

'Opposing the Slavers is a fine example of meticulous academic research and writing… a magnificent achievement' - Military History Review SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY Peter Grindal enjoyed a successful career with the Royal Navy before retiring in 1992. His final role was Commander of the United Kingdom and Netherlands Amphibious Task Group for NATO. He was awarded the CBE in 1982.

The Napoleonic Wars A History of the Royal Navy Martin Robson 9781780765440 £20.00 Hardback

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THE FLAME OF MILETUS

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The Birth of Science in Ancient Greece (and How it Changed the World) JOHN FREELY Miletus: one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece. It was here, on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in the 6th century BC, that the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy sparked into life, setting in motion a chain of knowledge that would change the world, forever. Acclaimed historian John Freely here continues the story to tell of how the elements of Greek scientific and philosophical learning were adopted by the Islamic world and the transmission of Graeco-Islamic science to western Europe, as well as the preservation of Hellenic culture in Byzantium and its profound influence on the European renaissance and our modern world.

John Freely (1926-2017) was one of the most widely respected writers of travel books, histories and guides about Greece and Turkey. His books include The

Cyclades, The Western Shores of Turkey, Strolling through Athens, Strolling through Venice and the bestselling Strolling through Istanbul (all I.B.Tauris).

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SOUTH SUDAN

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The Untold Story from Independence to Civil War HILDE F. JOHNSON In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world’s newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson was witness to the many challenges which the country faced as it struggled to adjust to its new autonomous state. In this book, she provides an unparalleled insider’s account of South Sudan’s descent from the ecstatic celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous conflict in December 2013 and the early, bloody phase of the fighting. Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Hilde F. Johnson was the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (20112014). From 2007-2011 Hilde F. Johnson was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, where she was in charge of the organisation’s humanitarian operations, crisis response and security issues.

April 2018 416 pages 226 x 155mm Paperback 9781788313780 £14.99

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FIGHTING PROUD

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The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars STEPHEN BOURNE In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and on the Home Front. It brings to light the great and previously unrecognised contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men – many of whom led the charges into machine-gun fire only to find themselves court-marshalled after the war for indecent behaviour. Fighting

Proud also includes a wealth of long-suppressed wartime photography. This book is a monument to the bravery, sacrifice and honour of this persecuted minority who contributed so much during Britain’s hour of need.

Stephen Bourne is a writer and historian. An expert on Black and LGBT British history, he has written for BBC History Magazine and History Today and is a regular contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

June 2018 256 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback 9781788313469 £11.99

ALEPPO

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The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City PHILIP MANSEL Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo – one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire’s third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. In the first history of Aleppo in English, Dr Philip Mansel describes its decline from a pinnacle of cultural and economic power, a poignant testament to a city shattered by Syria’s civil war.

Philip Mansel has lived in Paris, Beirut and Istanbul, and often visited Aleppo.

In 2012 he won the London Library Life in Literature Award, and in 2013 became a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. His most recent publication is The

Eagle in Splendour: Inside the Court of Napoleon (2015).

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ONCE UPON A TIME LORD The Myths and Stories of Doctor Who

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IVAN PHILIPS 'We're all stories in the end', said The Doctor...

Stories are, fundamentally, what Doctor Who is all about.

Ivan Phillips presents a lively and richly varied analysis of the accumulated tales that constitute this eccentric masterpiece of modern mythology. Concerned equally with ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Who, Phillips traces the expansion of the Time Lord’s story from the television into ever more intricate patterns of transmedia production. Doctor Who is discussed as a mythology that has drawn on its own past in often complex ways, at the same time reworking elements from other sources, whether literary, cinematic, televisual or historical.

May 2018 256 pages 216 x 138mm Paperback £12.99 12 b&w illustrations 9781784532673 I.B.Tauris

The book also offers an original take on this popular hero’s journey, reading the unsettled enigma of The Doctor in relation to the characters, narratives and locations that he has inhabited across more than half a century.

Ivan Philips is an Associate Dean in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on popular culture, science fiction and horror, reviewing regularly for Critical Studies in Television. He is a contributor to Fan Phenomena: Doctor Who.

Dancing With The Doctor Dimensions of Gender in the Doctor Who Universe Lorna Jowett £12.99 Paperback 9781784533748

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The X-Men Comics of Chris Claremont MILES BOOY The seminal early work of Marvel’s uncanny genius: Chris Claremont In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn’t used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the bestseller in a revived comics market. Unusually in the comics world, one man, Chris Claremont wrote the comic over seventeen years, from 1975 to 1991, developing new characters such as Wolverine and Storm, and taking themes from Freudian psychology, Christian temptation narratives, Existentialist philosophy and the language of sub-cultural identity.

March 2018 256 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback £12.99 9781788311526 I.B.Tauris

Marvel’s Mutants is the first book to be devoted to the aesthetics of these comics that laid the foundation for the worldwide X-Men franchise we know today. Miles Booy explores Claremont’s recurrent themes, the evolution of his reputation as an auteur within a collaborative medium, the superhero genre and the input of the artists with whom Claremont worked. Also covered are the successful spin-off projects, which Claremont wrote: the solo Wolverine miniseries and whole new teams of mutant superheroes.

Miles Booy is an expert on Marvel comics. He is the author of Love and Monsters: The Doctor Who Experience, 1979 to the Present (2012) and a contributor to The Cult TV Book (2012), both I.B Tauris.

Hunting the Dark Knight Twenty-First Century Batman Will Brooker 9781848852808 £12.99 Paperback

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HOW TO LOOK AT STAINED GLASS

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A Guide to the Church Windows of England JANE BROCKET A fresh and accessible guide to the most stunning stained glass windows in English churches The magical qualities of stained glass have an enduring appeal, but church windows tend to be ignored as a form of creative and artistic expression. How to Look at Stained Glass is a fresh, unstuffy guide, which explores the medium by themes, patterns, designs, and effects. Using an A-Z format to reveal a multitude of fascinating details – all the way from apples to zig-zags – it makes looking at gloriously colourful, artistically important windows entertaining and rewarding.

This layman’s guide requires no previous historical, artistic or religious knowledge and the A-Z miscellany is in keeping with the pot-luck mix of windows to be found in most churches.

It covers all the major periods and styles from medieval to modern, Victorian to post-war, eighteenth century to Arts and Crafts, figurative to abstract, and examines the fascinating and evolving iconography of stained glass.

May 2018 256 pages 210 x 148mm Paperback £12.99 9781788310895 40 bw, 16pp colour plates I.B.Tauris

Jane Brocket has an MA in Victorian Art and Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2005 she created her successful and popular yarnstorm blog to write about domesticity, textiles, design, art and literature. This led to her first book, the best-selling The Gentle Art of Domesticity (2007). Since then she has written a further seventeen books on a variety of creative and cultural themes.

Historic English Churches A Guide to Their Construction, Design and Features Geoffrey R. Sharpe 9781848851894 £12.99 Paperback

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BRAND NEW ART FROM CHINA

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A Generation on the Rise BARBARA POLLACK New York Times art critic unveils a ground-breaking new generation of Chinese Artists A unique and visionary generation of young Chinese artists are coming to prominence in the art world – just as China cements its place as the second largest art market on the planet. Building on the new frontiers opened up by the Chinese artists of the late 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Ai Wei Wei who came to the West and became household names, this new generation are provocative, exciting and bold. But what does it mean to be a Chinese artist today? And how can we better understand their work?

June 2018 192 pages 216 x 135mm Paperback £16.99 9781788313131 20 bw integrated, 16pp colour plates I.B.Tauris

Here, renowned critic Barbara Pollack presents the first book to tell the story of how these Chinese millennials, fast becoming global art superstars, negotiate their cultural heritage, and what this means for China’s impact on the future of global culture. Many young Chinese artists have declared they are 'not Chinese, but global' – this book investigates just what that means for China, the art market, and the world.

Barbara Pollack is an award-winning journalist, art critic, and curator who is one of the world’s leading authorities on contemporary Chinese art. Her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Departures, Artnews, Art and Auction and Art in America, among many others.

Chasing the Chinese Dream Stories from Modern China Nick Holdstock 9781784533731 £20.00 Hardback

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DEATH OF THE ARTIST Art World Dissidents and Their Alternative Identities

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NICOLA MCCARTNEY How does contemporary art subvert the role of the artist/author?

There exists a series of contemporary artists who continually defy the traditional role of the artist/author, including Art & Language, Guerrilla Girls, Bob and Roberta Smith, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd and Lucky PDF. In Death of the Artist, Nicola McCartney explores their work and uses previously unpublished interviews to provoke a vital and nuanced discussion about contemporary artistic authorship. How do emerging artists navigate intellectual property or work collectively and share the recognition? How might a pseudonym aid ‘artivism’?

Most strikingly, she demonstrates how an alternative identity can challenge the art market and is symptomatic of greater cultural and political rebellion. As such, this book exposes the art world’s financially incentivised infrastructures, but also examines how they might be reshaped from within. In an age of cuts to arts funding and forced self-promotion, this offers an important analysis of the pressing need for the artistic community to construct new ways to reinvent itself and incite fresh responses to its work.

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Nicola McCartney is an associate research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and has previously taught fine art and critical theory at Central St Martins, University of the Arts and The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design (The Cass) at London Metropolitan University. She is also a practising artist and has exhibited throughout London and the UK, received public commissions and undertaken residencies.

Inside the Freud Museums History, Memory and SiteResponsive Art Joanne Morra 9781780762074 £17.99 Paperback

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STAIRWAYS TO HEAVEN

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Rebuilding the British Film Industry GEOFFREY MACNAB Essential guide to the resurrection of British film What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golden era? In the mid-1980s the industry was in a parlous state. The number of films produced in the UK was tiny. Cinema attendance had dipped to an all-time low, cinema buildings were in a state of disrepair and home video had yet to flourish. Since then, while many business challenges – especially for independent producers and distributors – remain, the industry overall has developed beyond recognition. In recent years, as British films have won Oscars, Cannes Palms and Venice Golden Lions, releases such as Love Actually, Billy Elliott, Skyfall, Paddington and the Harry Potter series have found enormous commercial as well as critical success. The UK industry has encouraged, and benefitted from, a huge amount of inward investment, much of it from the Hollywood studios, but also from the National Lottery via the UK Film Council and BFI. This book portrays the visionaries and officials who were at the helm as a digital media revolution began to reshape the industry.

April 2018 320 pages 216 x 135mm Hardback £14.99 9781788310055 35 bw integrated I.B.Tauris

Geoffrey Macnab is a film journalist and critic for The Independent, The Guardian and Screen International. His books include the acclaimed Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution and Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director (both I.B.Tauris).

British Film Design A History Laurie N. Ede 9781848851085 £16.99 Paperback

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PHOTOGRAPHY REFRAMED

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New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture EDITED BY BEN BURBRIDGE & ANNEBELLE POLLEN A vital roadmap to developments in 21st-century photography At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a diverse set of photographic territories: the ontology of photography; the impact of mass photographic practice; the public display of intimate life; the current state of documentary, and the political possibilities of photographic culture. These lively, accessible essays by some of the best writers in photography together go deep into the most up-to-date frameworks for analysing and understanding photographic culture and shedding light on its histories.

May 2018 288 pages 234 x 156mm Paperback £16.99 9781784538835 40 b&w, 16 pp colour illustrations I.B.Tauris

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Ben Burbridge is Senior Lecturer in Art History and CoDirector of the Centre for Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Sussex. Curatorial projects include the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial, Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space and Revelations: Experiments in Photography.

Annebelle Pollen is Principal Lecturer in the History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. She is the author of The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians, Mass Photography: Collective Histories of Everyday Life and co- editor of Dress History: New Directions in Theory and Practice.

Photography and Surrealism Sexuality, Colonialism and Social Dissent David Bate £19.99 Paperback 9781860643798

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A MOROCCO ANTHOLOGY

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Travel Writing through the Centuries EDITED BY MARTIN ROSE One of the most diverse and fascinating countries in the world, seen through the eyes of early travellers Morocco is a country that has been much invaded, much travelled though, and much written about in many languages.

Positioned at the entrance to Africa – or the entrance to Europe – it has seen deep cultural cross-fertilisation and the emergence of a very distinct culture at the threshold of two April 2018 worlds. Its history is exciting and colourful; its ancient cities 160 pages 160 x 120mm extraordinary in their preservation; and its people magnetic. Hardback £11.99 9789774168468

It has drawn travellers and writers for many centuries, and 20 b&w illustrations continues to do so today, with the result that there exists The American University in Cairo Press a rich seam of description and sometimes quizzical (but generally very fond) appreciation, which Martin Rose, a longtime resident of the country, has been able to mine for this fascinating anthology.

Martin Rose was director of the British Council in Morocco until 2014, travelled widely, and wrote regularly about the country in his blog Mercurius Maghrebensis. His British Council career also took him to Baghdad, Rome, Brussels and Ottawa, and he is now retired to Saffron Walden in Essex. He is a visiting fellow at the Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.

A Jerusalem Anthology Travel Writing through the Centuries Edited by T.J. Gorton & Andree Feghali Gorton 9789774168420 £11.99 Hardback

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ISLAMIC MONUMENTS IN CAIRO

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The Practical Guide Updated 7th Edition

CAROLINE WILLIAMS A thousand years of spectacular buildings in one handy primer No other Islamic city can equal Cairo’s spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now awaits the delight of the general visitor.

This new, fully revised edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city’s most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent restoration initiatives and newly opened monuments.

May 2018 316 pages 210 x 140mm Paperback £24.95 9789774168550 35 b/w illustrations, 15 maps The American University in Cairo Press

'Any visitor to Cairo who wants to see the monuments should not be without it' - Bernard O'Kane, author of The Mosques of Egypt Caroline Williams, with graduate degrees in Middle Eastern history from Harvard and Islamic art and architecture from the American University in Cairo, has been a frequent resident of or visitor to Cairo since 1961.

Cairo Inside Out Trevor Naylor 9789774167560 £19.95 Hardback

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ALL STRANGERS ARE KIN

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Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World ZORA O'NEILL A light-hearted and engaging memoir taking in the trials and rewards of a lifetime of language learning They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. Zora O’Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus, but couldn’t shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in – this time with a new approach. Join O’Neill for a grand tour through the Middle East. You will laugh with her in Egypt, delight in the stories she passes on from the United Arab Emirates, and find yourself transformed by her experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. A natural storyteller with an eye for the deeply absurd and the deeply human, Zora O’Neill explores the indelible links between culture and communication. A powerful testament to the dynamism of language, All Strangers Are Kin reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.

March 2018 336 pages 230 x 150mm Paperback £16.95 9789774168659 The American University in Cairo Press

'O'Neill doesn't teach readers to be fluent in Arabic, but she imparts a more valuable lesson on how (and how not) to learn a language, and the journey is more fascinating than the result.' - Publishers Weekly Zora O'Neill is a freelance travel and food writer. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times and Condé Nast Traveler, and she has written or contributed to more than a dozen titles for Rough Guides and Lonely Planet.

The Land Beyond A Thousand Miles on Foot Through the Heart of the Middle East Leon McCarron 9781788310567 £16.99 Hardback

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THE UNEXPECTED LOVE OBJECTS OF DUNYA NOOR

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RANA HADDAD A wonderfully rich and witty debut novel – a tribute to love, youth and Syria Aspiring photographer Dunya Noor discovers early on that her curious spirit, rebellious nature, and very curly hair are a recipe for disaster in 1980s Syria. And at the tender age of thirteen, she is exiled to live with her grandparents in March 2018 England.

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Many years later in London, she meets Hilal, the son of a Paperback £9.99 humble tailor from Aleppo and no match for Dunya, daughter 9789774168611 of the great heart surgeon Joseph Noor. But, dreamy, restless Hoopoe Dunya falls in love with Hilal and they decide to return to Syria together, embarking on a journey that will change them both forever.

Rana Haddad’s vivid and satirical debut novel captures the essence of life under the Assad dictatorship, in all its rigid absurdity. With humour and an unexpected playfulness, this is a story of love and light against the forces of conservativism and oppression.

Rana Haddad grew up in Lattakia, Syria, moved to the UK as a teenager, and studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She has since worked as a journalist for the BBC, C4, CNN and Al Jazeera, among others, and has also published poetry. The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor is her first novel.

No Knives in the Kitchens of this City Khaled Khalifa 9789774167812 £9.99 Paperback

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TALES OF YUSUF TADRUS

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Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2016 Tales of Yusuf Tadrus is set in the Egyptian Delta town of Tanta, and tells the story of a young Coptic artist from a humble background. It provides an intimate glimpse into Egyptian Christian life, and carefully tells of the struggles faced by an artist who seeks to remain true to his calling.

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Written with sensitivity and honesty, it addresses an array Paperback £9.99 of social issues in Egypt’s rapidly changing landscape, from 9789774168604 fundamentalism to emigration.

Hoopoe Adel Esmat graduated in philosophy from the Faculty of Arts of Cairo’s Ain Shams University in 1984. He lives in Tanta, in the Nile Delta, and works as a library specialist in the Egyptian Ministry of Education.

Mandy McClure is the translator of Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide (AUC Press, 2008) and co-translator of The Traditional Crafts of Egypt (AUC Press, 2016). She lives in Cairo.

All the Battles Maan Abu Taleb 9789774168475 £10.99 Paperback

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OF SEA AND SAND

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DENYSE WOODS

A mystery bringing together the supernatural, a passionate love affair and a family tragedy Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland. There, he begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jinn – a supernatural being – but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore, despite her sudden, March 2018 304 pages 200 x 135mm unexplained disappearance.

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Twenty-five years later, Irishwoman Thea Pearson lands 9789774168031 in Muscat, chasing her own ghosts from the past, and is Hoopoe approached by Gabriel who believes she is his lost lover.

Certain that they have never met before, Thea is nonetheless drawn to this deluded, and perhaps dangerous, stranger and the rumours that surround him. Of Sea and Sand teeters on the edge of a spirit world just beyond our grasp in this haunting, seductive mystery.

Denyse Woods, who also writes as Denyse Devlin, is an Irish novelist. Born in Boston in 1958, she grew up all over the world, before settling in Cork. Her books include the critically acclaimed Overnight to Innsbruck and the bestselling The Catalpa Tree. Reflecting a lifelong interest in the Arab world, three of her novels are based in the Middle East. A recipient of arts bursaries and international residencies, Denyse is the only writer to have been awarded a residency in Ernest Hemingway’s studio in Key West. Her work has been translated into six languages.

Cigarette Number Seven Donia Kamal 9789774168505 £9.99 Paperback

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RABAI AL-MADHOUN TRANSLATED BY PAUL STARKEY

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 Palestinian–Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with her dying wish: to take her ashes back to their old home in Acre. With her husband Walid, they leave London and embark on a journey back to their country of birth.

March 2018 264 pages 200 x 135mm

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Rabai al-Madhoun is a Palestinian writer and journalist, born in al-Majdal, in southern Palestine in 1945. He is the author of the acclaimed The Lady from Tel Aviv and has worked for a number of Arabic newspapers and magazines, including alQuds al-Arabi, Al-Hayat, and Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. He currently lives in London.

Paul Starkey, Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Durham University, won the 2015 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. He has translated a number of contemporary Arabic writers, including Edwar al-Kharrat, Youssef Rakha, and Mansoura Ez-Eldin.

Gaza Weddings Ibrahim Nasrallah 9789774168444 £8.99 Paperback

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AUTHOR / TITLE INDEX

Napoleonic Wars 37 Nasrallah, Ibrahim 53 Naylor, Trevor 48 No Knives in the Kitchens of this City 50 Nye 36

Short History of the American Revolutionary War, A 21 Short History of the Anglo-Saxons, A 2 Short History of the Crimean War, A 22 Short History of the English Revolution and the Civil Wars, A 18 Short History of the Mongols, A 19 Short History of the Reformation, A 20 Short History of the Spanish Civil War, A 9 Smith, Adrian 13 Someone Else's War 6 South Sudan 38 Speedbird 13 Stairways to Heaven 45 Stanley, Jo 10 Starkey , Paul 53 Stephens, Susan A. 29 Strachan, Alan 11 Suclyan, Talin 14

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Of Sea and Sand 52 Once Upon a Time Lord 40 O'Neill, Zora 49 Opposing the Slavers 37

Taleb, Maan Abu 51 Tales of Yusuf Tadrus 51 Tangier 35 Tate, Trudi 22 Thomas-Symonds, Nicklaus 36 Titans 23 Trevor-Roper, Hugh 12

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Aleppo 39 Alice in Westminster 36 All Strangers are Kin 49 All the Battles 51 Al-Madhoun, Rabai 53 Almond, Philip C. 30 Alpert, Michael 9 Among the Wolves of Court 1 Anderson, Paul Christopher 21 Appleby, David J. 18 Armenian Legionnaires, The 14 Armenians in Modern Turkey, The 14 Ashes to LIght 26

Fighting Proud 39 Flame of Miletus 38 Flinders, Stuart 27 Fractured Destinies 53 Franco 4 Franco and the Condor Legion 9 Freely, John 38

Mackay, Lauren 1 MacNab 45 Mansel, Philip 39 Man Who Built the Swordfish, The 13 Marsoobian , Armen T. 15 Marvel's Mutants 41 McCarron, Leon 49 McCartney, Nicola 44 McClure, Mandy 51 McPhail, Helen 6 Moradiellos, Enrique 4 Morocco Anthology, A 47 Morra, Joanne 44

B Babushka's Journey 26 Bate, David 46 Baumer, Christoph 33 Bennett, Martyn 1 Ben-Or, Nelly 26 Berlin, Isaiah 12 Booy, Miles 41 Bourne, Stephen 39 Brand New Art from China 43 Breum, Martin 25 British Film Design 45 British Imperial 27 Brocket, Jane 42 Brooker, Will 41 Brown, Kerry 5 Burbridge, Ben 46 Burgess, Anthony 16 C Cairo Inside Out 48 Carroll, Michael 35 Casanova, Julian 9 Chasing the Chinese Dream 43 China's World 5 Churchill's Last Stand 4 Cigarette Number Seven 52 Cold Rush 25 Connor, John 6 Conway, Stephen 21 Cromwell at War 1 Cult of a Dark Hero 27 D Daftary, Farhad 32 Dancing With the Doctor 40 Dark Star 11 Davenport-Hines, Richard 12 Death of the Artist 44 de Hartog, Leo 19 Devil, The 30 Dragon Lords 3 E Ede, Laurie N. 45 Edmund 2 Emerson, Maureen 8 English Civil War, The 18 Ernest Hemingway 16 Esmat, Adel 51 Evans, G.R. 20

INDEX

G Garnett, Mark 23 Gaunt, Peter 18 Gaza Weddings 53 Genc, Kaya 24 Genghis Khan 19 Glendenning, Victoria 16 God 30 Gorton, Andree Feghali 47 Gorton, T.J. 47 Great Rivalry, The 23 Greece 35 Grindal, Peter 37 H Haddad, Rana 50 Hadjian, Avedis 15 Hardy, Henry 12 Higham, Robin 13 Historic English Churches 42 History of Central Asia, Vol. 3 33 History of Central Asia, Vol. 4 33 Hitchens, Peter 7 Holdstock, Nick 43 Honneland, Geir 25 Howarth, Janet H. 10 How to Look at Stained Glass 42 Hunting the Dark Knight 41 I I.B.Tauris Short histories 17 I.B.Tauris Short Histories 17 Imam 'Ali 32 In Search of Isaiah Berlin 12 Inside the Freud Museums 44 Islamic Monuments in Cairo 48 J Jerusalem Anthology, A 47 Jiwa, Shainool 32 Johnson, Hilde F. 38 Jowett, Lorna 40 K Kamal, Donia 52 Keddie, Patrick 24 Khalifa, Khaled 50 Klos, Felix 4 Krueger, Marcel 26 Kundahl, George G. 8 L Land Beyond, The 49 Lane, George 19 Last Vikings, The 3 Leonard, Dick 23 Leyser, Henrietta 2 Long Silence, The 6

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P Parish, Helen L. 20 Parker, Eleanor 3 Passion, The 24 Pattie, Susan 14 Philips, Ivan 40 Phoney Victory, The 7 Photography and Surrealism 46 Photography Reframed 46 Poets of Alexandria, The 29 Pollack, Barbara 43 Pollen, Annebelle 46 Porter, Bernard 27 R Reeves, Rachel 36 Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home 15 Riviera at War, The 8 Riviera Dreaming 8 Robson, Martin 37 Rose, Martin 47 Russia and the Arctic 25 S Sajoo, Amyn 32 Seaver, Kirsten A. 3 Secret Nation 15 Shah-Kazimi, Reza 32 Sharpe, Geoffrey R. 42 Shi'i World, The 32 Shoemake, Josh 35 Short History of Medieval Christianity, A 20 Short HIstory of the American Civil War, A 21

U Unbelievable 31 Under the Shadow 24 Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor, The 50 Unimaginable 31 V Vita 16 W Wagner, Gillian 22 Ward, Graham 31 Wartime Journals, The 12 Williams, Caroline 48 Women and the Royal Navy 10 Women in Britain 10 Woods, Denyse 52 World According to Xi, The 5 Y Young, Francis 2

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Contents I.B.Tauris Publishers Hoopoe

The American University in Cairo Press 47-53 Author/Title Index

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Subject Guide

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Classics

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Ancient Egypt

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April 1939: British Conservative politician Winston Churchill Š Evening Standard / Stringer / Getty Images.

From the cover of Churchill’s Last Stand: The Struggle to Unite Europe by Felix Klos (see p.4)

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