The bluebird is the symbol of happiness and the first sign of spring. Our aim is that Bluebird books help readers live more fulfilled lives by bringing them compelling writing, authoritative information and inspiration. We embrace a wide range of non-fiction subject areas in many formats, from colour illustrated cookery books and thoroughly researched investigative reporting to highly personal memoir. In publishing terms, our imprint is still very new: 2019 marks our fourth year. We have set a record for the highest turnover of any new imprint in Nielsen Bookscan history and our books have graced the bestseller lists with impressive frequency. We’ve also won (and been shortlisted for) multiple industry awards. Whilst the story the numbers tell is remarkable, what really motivates the team at Bluebird is the feedback we get from readers who are finding what they need in our books: the perfect affordable and delicious recipe for a family gathering, helpful advice on coping with anxiety or tales of sheer relief brought about from reading our stigma-busting memoirs on mental health or neurodiversity. We hope you find something in this catalogue that sparks your interest and captures your imagination. Carole Tonkinson, Publisher
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Just Eat It
How Intuitive Eating can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food LAURA THOMAS PhD £12.99 Trade Paperback | 356pp | 9781509893911 10/01/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
The straight-talking guide to Intuitive Eating: how to develop a healthy, trusting relationship with food and your body.
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Have you ever been on a diet? Spent time worrying that you looked fat when you could have been doing something useful? Compared the size of your waistline to someone else’s? Felt guilt, actual guilt, about the serious crime of . . . eating a doughnut? You’re not alone. Just Eat It gives you everything you need to develop a more trusting, healthy relationship with food. This anti-diet guide from registered nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD can help you sort out your attitude to food and ditch punishing exercise routines. As a qualified practitioner of Intuitive Eating – a method that helps followers tune in to innate hunger and fullness cues – Thomas gives you the freedom to enjoy food on your own terms. There are no rules: only simple, practical tools and exercises including mindfulness techniques to help
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‘Laura is a passionate and intelligent voice of new thinking, a fire starter of the revolution in how we think about food, eating and our bodies.’ Brigid Moss, Contributing Editor, Red
you recognise physiological and emotional hunger, sample conversations with friends and colleagues, and magazine and blog critiques that call out diet culture.
Just Eat It isn’t just a book. It’s part of a movement to give women power and control over our bodies. To free us from restrictive dieting, disordered eating and punishing exercise. To reject the guilt and anxiety associated with ‘Laura is one eating and, ultimately, to of the most help us feel good about important voices ourselves. in food today.’ Anthony Warner, The Angry Chef
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At Home PRUE LEITH AND PETA LEITH ÂŁ25.00 Hardback | 288pp | 9781509891504 19/09/19 | World
Pure comfort food from Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith and her niece, Peta Leith, formerly patisserie chef at The Ivy. Whether it’s crisp potatoes roasted to perfection or the sticky sponge of a lemon drizzle cake, Prue Leith and her niece Peta agree that the best foods are comforting, delicious and an absolute pleasure to eat. Their cookbook is packed with one hundred simple recipes that bring delight to the Leith family table, time and time again.
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‘Unlike many bestselling foodies, she is the real thing: a serious writer, not just a telly star.’ Radio Times
We all need easy comfort foods – whether for busy family weeknights or drawn-out Sunday lunches. This book contains nourishing and heartwarming main meals, many of which are vegetarian, that bring Prue’s wealth of cookery knowledge to your kitchen. There are also fussfree baking recipes for delicious breads, pies, biscuits and cakes, ‘For me, perfection with tips from Peta means food that on how to get smells wonderful, an extra-special tastes wonderful and patisserie flourish. feels like heaven in the mouth.’ Prue Leith
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The Orchid and the Dandelion Why Some People Struggle and How All Can Thrive W. THOMAS BOYCE MD ÂŁ20.00 Hardback | 224pp | 9781509805181 | 24/01/19 WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
A landmark publication with foreign language rights sold in twenty-three territories
Why do some people struggle to survive while others thrive easily? In his landmark publication Dr Tom Boyce reveals an extraordinary discovery about childhood development, parenting and the key to helping everyone find happiness and success. With pioneering scientific research, personal experience and clinical expertise, he explains how there are two kinds of people: the more hardy and resilient, who like dandelions can thrive anywhere, and those who like orchids are more sensitive and susceptible to their environment. While orchids experience the vast majority of physical and
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‘Groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children – and the adults who love them.’ Susan Cain, author of Quiet
mental illness, we now know that given the right support, orchids can thrive as much, if not more than anyone else. The author’s moving personal story is woven through this highly readable book about the origins, sensibilities and enormous potential of the 20 per cent of us who are orchids. As powerful and applicable as Susan Cain’s Quiet, The Orchid and the Dandelion is the culmination of twenty-five years of groundbreaking research from one of the world’s foremost paediatricians.
Powerful, positive research into the difference between those who succeed and those who struggle.
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Veggie Lean in 15
15-Minute Veggie Meals with Workouts JOE WICKS £16.99 Trade Paperback | 240pp | 9781509856152 13/12/19 | World
Joe’s fresh approach to food and exercise has transformed the lives of millions around the world
Over 4 million social media followers
‘He is changing the lives and shapes of thousands of people’ Balance
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Get ready for the first veggie cookbook from the nation’s favourite healthy cook and fitness sensation, Joe Wicks. Inside are one hundred flavour-packed vegetarian recipes, many of which are also vegan, plus three exclusive Body Coach HIIT workouts and a bonus abs workout. From Smoky Sweet Potato Chilli to ‘Creamy’ Butternut Pasta, Veggie Lean in 15 features a fantastic range of meat-free dishes, most of which can be prepared in fifteen minutes flat. The recipes are ideal for full- and part-time veggies, as well as those wishing to cut down on eating meat. Joe has more than four million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a healthier, fitter lifestyle. Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all of his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers.
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100 Quick and Easy Recipes with Workouts £16.99 Trade Paperback 240pp | 9781509836079
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The Dirty Dishes
100 Fast and Delicious Recipes ISAAC CAREW £20.00 Hardback | 256pp | 9781509841004 07/03/19 | WEL
Isaac Carew takes it back to the kitchen in The Dirty Dishes, his debut cookbook, featuring the food that’s inspired his life-long love of cooking.
‘He has unassailable culinary credentials that put him head and shoulders above your average selfie-prone Instagram feeder.’ The Times
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Isaac spent his childhood in kitchens with his dad and godfather, washing mussels and leafy greens, before he went on to qualify as a chef himself. His culinary career spanned some of the world’s top restaurants – including London’s The Connaught and Miami’s El Cielo – but life took a different turn when he was scouted by a modelling agency in 2008. Isaac went on to front major campaigns for the likes of Hermès, Moschino and Valentino, whilst never forgetting his passion for great food. He often uses the cuisine of fashion capitals as his inspiration.
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In The Dirty Dishes Isaac returns to his first love with a fresh and modern collection of one hundred recipes: from lazy brunches to easy weekday suppers, and from vegan delights to late-night bites. He shares new takes on popular dishes such as Poached Salmon Niçoise and the more adventurous Tamarind Treacle Tart. Stylish and bursting with flavour, the book reveals the secrets of Isaac’s culinary training and gives you everything you need to have fun – and get a little bit messy – in the kitchen.
A stylish and simple take on delicious, classic recipes from chef and model Isaac Carew 350k Instagram followers and 10.7k Twitter followers with a very high engagement
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Asperger’s and Asparagus KATHERINE AND JULIA KINGSFORD £16.99 Hardback | 224pp | 9781509887019 30/05/19 | World
The uplifting true story of two sisters’ intertwining lives, and a major insight into Asperger’s syndrome from someone who has only recently understood how wonderfully unique her world view is. 14
This is the memoir of Katherine Kingsford and her younger sister, Julia Kingsford. Katherine was diagnosed with Asperger’s when she was thirty-two, despite first being referred for psychiatric evaluation when she was just seven. She struggled her whole life with fitting in and living life in the ‘normal’ way. Interventions, evaluations and her desperate search for answers to what was ‘wrong’ with her as well as a lack of diagnosis took an increasing toll on her mental health and led to a breakdown in her twenties. Asperger’s and Asparagus is the story of what it’s like to grow up palpably different from those around you, but with no one explaining that difference, or why it’s actually okay not to be the same, and so never living a life that’s true to who you really are. It’s also the story of what it’s like to grow up alongside that. From her earliest days, Julia learned
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that she had to be a guide for Katherine in a world where she clearly didn’t quite fit – despite their relationship being almost impossibly explosive at times. As adults it was Julia’s absolute belief that there were still questions left unanswered that forced a GP to refer Katherine for diagnosis. Finally receiving a diagnosis saw Julia become Katherine’s guide on an entirely different journey: to understanding her autism; how it can present so Asperger’s and differently in women; the clichéd views Asparagus is an we all harbour of what autism means emotional journey and how – without either of them reflecting on knowing – this has utterly shaped who intertwining lives that they both are. It’s also, a very little bit, is heart-rending about asparagus and how a job sorting and uplifting spears on a local farm taught them both how to appreciate Katherine’s superpowers.
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Untitled Russell Brand RUSSELL BRAND ÂŁ12.99 Hardback | 112pp | 9781509850884 24/01/19 | World
Living and working a conscious programme of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction has helped Russell Brand to re-frame his thinking in all areas of his life. Across the twelve chapters of this book, he looks at twelve themes that inform the process of recovery and, using that framework, discusses the lessons he has learned so far along his fifteen-year path. Chapters feature insights from a guest on his chart-topping podcast, Under the Skin, or a friend he has made in his recovery from addiction. Guests include bestselling authors Yuval Noah Harari, Naomi Klein and Jordan Peterson.
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‘Offers real insight into addiction and the stuff that drives it. Russell has done a great service in tackling the classic twelve steps in a non-reverential and totally entertaining kind of way that will help a lot of people.’ Matt Haig
‘Recovery should be read by the world.’ Ruby Wax
‘A thought-provoking explication of the 12-step program.’ New York Times
‘Brand brings an exhaustive and profound understanding of what it means to be felled by addiction and how to stand back up again.’
Recovery
Freedom from Our Addictions £20.00 Hardback 288pp | 9781509844944 £8.99 Paperback 288pp | 9781509850860
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‘There is no better lesson to be learnt than by someone who has lived it. And with that in mind, Russell Brand is a man to listen to. Carefully. Beneath the performance he talks sense. A lot of it.’ Stylist
Recovery has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide
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Pinch of Nom
100 Slimming, Home-style Recipes KATE ALLINSON AND KAY FEATHERSTONE £20.00 Hardback | 272pp | 9781529014068 21/03/19 | World
Delicious, healthy recipes from the founders of Pinch of Nom, the UK’s most frequently visited food blog.
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There’s no-one better than a trained chef to show you how to slim down without sacrificing exciting and flavoursome meals. These reliable recipes are tried and tested to ensure that they are not only healthy, but tasty too. Packed with a hundred mouth-watering dishes such as Dirty Rice, Mediterranean Chicken Orzo, Mexican Chilli Beef and Chicken Korma Curry, the food is so good, it’s hard to believe it is low in calories. Helpful symbols and calorie information alongside each recipe guide you towards the ones that suit you best – whether you want to feed a family of four, love using your slow-cooker or have limited time. Pinch of Nom will be your go-to book for meals that tick all the boxes.
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Chefs Kate and Kay created the Pinch of Nom blog with the aim of teaching people how to cook. It was originally Since launching less a collection of decadent, beltthan two years ago, busting recipes, but the pair Pinch of Nom has repurposed the blog to provide become the UK’s most-visited food blog healthy recipes after they decided with over 3 million to lose weight and have since lost hits per month 1.32 million nearly twelve stone between them. Facebook likes Sharing motivational posts as well as with 660k Facebook recipes, they’ve amassed an engaged closed group community of over one million online followers. members and With Pinch of Nom, Kate and Kay prove that 248k Instagram dieting should never be a barrier to cooking followers satisfying, incredible food – and enjoying yourself at the same time.
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Diary of a Lone Twin DAVID LOFTUS £16.99 Hardback | 320pp | 9781529011289 16/05/19 | World
More than thirty years ago, David Loftus’s cherished identical twin, John, passed away. Since then a day hasn’t passed without David feeling the loss.
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John Loftus contracted meningitis during his recovery from a brain tumour and found himself back in hospital. The brothers were opening their twenty-fourth birthday presents when a medical error forced John into a coma. He died within two weeks.
Diary of a Lone Twin recounts David’s attempt to come to terms with this profound loss thirty years after the fact. David, an internationally acclaimed photographer, began the diary in January 2018 by taking time every day to remember John. Stunning photographs feature alongside diary entries sharing visceral childhood memories of their too-short shared life and the acute loneliness that followed. David has worked with the Lone Twin Network to highlight the special kind of grief involved for identical twins.
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Where’s My Happy Ending? ANNA WHITEHOUSE AND MATT FARQUHARSON £14.99 Hardback | 272pp | 9781529013696 05/09/19 | World
What is ‘happily ever after’? Does it really exist? What do you do once you get there? Anna and Matt, journalists and authors of Parenting the Sh*t Out of Life, have been together for over ten years. They set out to discover what it takes to make it to forever by travelling the world to seek the answers to our greatest questions about love. Join the authors on a hilariously honest journey with interviews from people with some of the most diverse views on relationships, from romance novelists and neurologists to the world’s most divorced woman. Every chapter contains the dual voices of the authors sharing their individual perspectives and anecdotes. Where’s My Happy Ending? is a belly-laugh inducing study on whether love and relationships could be simpler – or more complex – than we think.
Explore what happens after you fall in love with this humorous study from husband and wife, Anna Whitehouse and Matt Farquharson, co-founders of motherpukka.co.uk. Over 200k Instagram followers
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Vegan on a Bootstrap
100 Simple, Budget and Meat-Free Recipes JACK MONROE £16.99 Trade paperback | 256pp| 9781529005080 | 26/12/19 | World
A vegan cookbook for every budget from award-winning cookery writer and antipoverty campaigner Jack Monroe.
136k Twitter followers, 81.4k Facebook followers and 54.1k Instagram followers
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Bestselling cookery writer Jack Monroe is on a mission to prove that everyone can enjoy delicious vegan dishes without the need for pricey ingredients or fancy equipment. Jack’s fourth cookbook, Vegan on a Bootstrap brings together one hundred affordable, crowdpleasing vegan recipes. From brunches and 5-minute meals, to table-loading feasts and indulgent desserts, this food appeals whether you are a full-time vegan or would like new and exciting ways to eat more greens. A vegan diet may seem as if it’s only an option for the privileged few – but Jack is here to change all that, thanks to her preference for accessible, cheap ingredients. Packed with witty repartee, feel-good dishes and beautiful photography, this book shares all the joys of simple, vegan cooking in Jack’s inimitable style.
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The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World MELINDA GATES £16.99 Hardback | 288pp | 9781529005493 | 04/04/19 WEL Excluding US CAN AU NZ
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, invest in women. In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the great opportunities that exist right now to ‘turbo-charge’ change. And she provides simple and effective ways to make a difference. Convinced that all women should be free to decide whether and when to have children, Gates took her first step onto the global stage to make a stand for 24
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family planning. That step launched her into further efforts: to ensure women everywhere have access to every kind of job; to encourage men around the globe to share equally in the burdens of household work; to advocate for paid family leave for everyone; to eliminate gender bias in all its forms. Throughout, Gates introduces us to her heroes in the movement towards equality, offers startling data, shares moving conversations she’s had with women from all over the world – and shows how we can all get involved. A personal statement of passionate conviction, this book tells of Gates’ journey from a partner working behind the scenes to one of the world’s foremost advocates for women, driven by the belief that no one should be excluded, all lives have equal value, and gender equality is the lever that lifts everything.
A debut from Forbes’ third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates; a timely and necessary call to action for women’s empowerment.
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The Path Made Clear Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose OPRAH WINFREY £18.99 Hardback | 208 pp | 9781529005424 26/03/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN
Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, ‘Your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you are meant to be, and to begin to honour your calling in the best way possible.’ In The Path Made Clear Oprah shares her guide to activating your deepest vision of yourself, offering a framework for creating not just a life of success, but one of significance. Featuring Oprah’s own key lessons together with the thoughts of renowned figures as diverse as Eckhart Tolle, Ru Paul and Jay-Z, as well as more than one hundred awe-inspiring photographs, this is a beautiful guide to navigating life’s detours, and achieving personal contentment. 26
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The First Breath
How Modern Medicine Saves the Most Fragile OLIVIA GORDON £16.99 Hardback | 320pp | 9781509871179 13/06/19 | WEL
A powerful medical memoir and science book about the extraordinary foetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies into the world.
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Olivia Gordon was 29-weeks pregnant when a scan revealed that her baby was critically ill and had only a 50 per cent chance of survival. Thanks to an operation in utero and five months in neonatal care, her son survived. The First Breath is a memoir that balances the powerful emotion of that experience, case histories of high-risk pregnancies and the extraordinary medical science making these births possible. Following the success of medical memoirs by Paul Kalanithi and Atul Gawande, The First Breath is the first book of its kind to explore the female experience. Shining a light on the intense patientdoctor relationship at work with every birth, this book will reflect on what happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby’s life don’t go as planned and how modern medicine responds.
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Ten to Zen
Ten Minutes a Day to a Calmer, Happier You OWEN O’KANE £10.99 Trade Paperback |192pp | 9781509893676 27/12/18 | World
Think you’re too busy to calm your mind? Think again. Each morning most of us spend about ten minutes in the shower, ten minutes getting ready, ten minutes making breakfast but no time at all tending to our minds. Ten to Zen is a simple, effective and fuss-free guide to help you start your day in the right head-space to prepare for the challenges it may bring. Using a combination of four therapeutic models – Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy – Ten to Zen will teach you how calm your mind and reduce stress in just ten minutes a day.
Owen O’Kane has a dual medical and psychotherapy background and is a clinical lead for mental health services in the NHS.
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Antoni in the Kitchen ANTONI POROWSKI
© Joey Krietemeyer
£20.00 Hardback | 320pp |9781529010336 17/10/19 |WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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With a disarmingly fresh approach to food, Queer Eye sensation Antoni Porowski inspires both newbies and knowledgeable cooks to get back into the kitchen. This gorgeous debut cookbook brings together his trademark inclusive and accessible attitude to food with one hundred of his all-time favourite recipes. Chapters include Weeknight Healthyish Meals, Big Share Plates and Bakes, with recipes that celebrate a love for fresh and healthy cooking and the occasional indulgent feast. Get dinner on the table fast with Antoni’s Chicken Milanese with Baby Tomato Salad, or impress guests with visual stunners like his Roasted Carrots with Carrot-Top Pesto. Antoni in the Kitchen is a celebration of fast feel-good food, the therapeutic nature of cooking and the joy of sharing food with friends and loved ones.
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Spirited
The Joy of Drinks SIGNE JOHANSEN £14.99 Hardback | 124pp 9781509860579 | 19/09/19 | World
Over 50 well-crafted cocktails and creative ideas from a spirited woman
This is a beautifully illustrated guide with creative cocktails and fresh drinks ideas from whisky expert, author and bestselling food writer Signe Johansen. Exploring the exhilarating world of drinks from a fresh perspective, Signe presents 50 carefullycrafted cocktail recipes, all fuelled by a cook’s palate and a love of creative ingredients. Her recipes play with a wide range of flavours from fruity to floral, spicy and herbal and reveal how to think like a cook not a bartender when it comes to tasty tipples.
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Packed with trade secrets and insider industry knowledge, and featuring chapters on drambling (the joy of winter walks and whisky), ferments, warming nightcaps and non-alcoholic ‘soothies’, in Spirited you’ll find a delicious drink for every occasion.
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Wandering
A Buddhist Monk’s Encounter with Death and his Journey Back to Life YONGEY MINGYUR RINPOCHE WITH HELEN TWORKOV £14.99 Hardback | 288pp |9781509899326 18/04/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
A renowned teacher and modern-day monk’s timely, personal account of a near-death experience and the life-changing insights on death, dying and how to live a good life that followed.
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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s experience begins the night he has chosen to embark on a four-year wandering retreat, slipping past the monastery gates. Alone for the first time in his life, he sets out into the unknown. His initial motivation is to step away from his life of privilege and to explore the deepest, most hidden aspects of his being, but what he discovers throughout his retreat – about himself and about the world around us – comes to define his meditation practice and teaching. Just three weeks into his retreat, Rinpoche becomes deathly ill and his journey begins in earnest through this near-death experience. Wandering is the story of two different kinds of death: that of the body and that of the ego, and how we can bridge these two experiences to live a better and more fulfilling life.
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Solve For Happy Engineer Your Path to Joy MO GAWDAT NEW EDITION £9.99 Paperback | 368pp | 9781509809950 10/01/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
As a former engineer with the highly secretive Google [X] programme, Mo Gawdat is skilled in finding answers to impossible questions. When he realised – in spite of his wealth and professional success – that he was deeply unhappy, he analyzed the problem with his engineer’s mind and developed an algorithm that can be applied to anyone’s life to predictably deliver lasting happiness. Happiness was a conceptual problem for Mo until the day his wonderful teenage son, Ali, died during routine surgery. Then it became a practical, personal and profoundly urgent problem. Could the algorithm help him and his family come to terms with the loss of their dearly loved child and brother? Inspired by the good nature of his son, Mo put the system to the test – he was able to find happiness again. Using his Solve For Happy algorithm, so can you.
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Kaizen
The Japanese Method for Improving your Life, One Small Step at a Time SARAH HARVEY £9.99 Hardback | 208pp | 9781529005356 19/09/19 | World
A beautifully illustrated guide to how the Japanese method of Kaizen can help you make mindful, positive changes in any part of your life.
A familiar term in business, Kaizen is a philosophy which literally translates as ‘good’ (kai) ‘change’ (zen). The Japanese have a proverb ‘Beginning is easy, continuing is hard,’ and Kaizen offers a way for you to transform your existing habits or build new ones in small, incremental stages, meaning that you are more likely to stick to them and create sustainable long-lasting change. The focus is on having patience, shaping solutions for yourself rather than following others, and not giving up or being too hard on yourself when things aren’t working. In Kaizen, Sarah Harvey presents a personalized and flexible approach to little-by-little changes that can be applied to any area of life, whether that is your health, your wealth, your relationships, or your work life. Like the Japanese concept of Ikagai or Nordic Hygge, Kaizen is sure to strike a major chord.
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The Pool Diary
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THE POOL £14.99 Hardback | 192pp | 9781529013740 08/08/19 | World
The perennial diary and planner from the creators of The Pool, the UK’s largest online platform for women. This evergreen diary is a sure–fire way to get your time organised.
Life Honestly
The Pool Diary has monthly planner pages as well as a useful notes section that will help to keep track of everything you’ve got going on in your life. This is a handy, holistic tool that won’t ping countless notifications your way, but will quietly become your one-stop shop for keeping your day organised. You can start it any time of the year, and the monthly planner and diary pages will cover you for the next twelve months. The whole book is designed to be personalized to your own needs and includes timely quotes and affirmations from the writers of The Pool, as well as the inspirational women featured on their site, that resound with the seasons.
‘Interesting, entertaining, thoughtprovoking, keeping me up to date and unpacking important issues into “normalspeak”, The Pool is one of my best friends.’
£14.99 Hardback 304pp | 9781509887194
Marian Keyes
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Stress Less, Accomplish More Meditation for Extraordinary Performance EMILY FLETCHER FOREWORD BY MARK HYMAN, MD PREFACE BY ANDREW HUBERMAN PHD £14.99 Trade paperback | 256pp | 9781509876167 21/02/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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The fifteen minutes, twice a day, that will transform your life
In Stress Less, Accomplish More Emily Fletcher shares an ancient meditation technique designed for busy lives. The focus of the practice is stress relief, mental clarity and improved productivity. This style of meditation was developed specifically for people with a lot of demands on their time – those with busy jobs, lives and families – and so it has been designed to work anywhere, any time. All you need is somewhere to sit, a little training and a few minutes to yourself.
Stress Less, Accomplish More teaches you how to: • Reduce stress • Increase focus • Master an energetic recharge five times more powerful than sleep • Increase productivity and creativity
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THE ONLY INTRODUCTIONS YOU’LL EVER NEED!
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How to: Negotiate
How to: Be a Better Leader
CHRISTOPHER COPPER-IND
STEFAN STERN
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The Girl in the Dark
A Runaway Child with a Secret Life. A Devastating Discovery that Changes Everything ANGELA HART £7.99 Paperback | 320pp | 9781529004151 21/02/19 | World
Sunday Times bestselling author
‘A no-holds-barred insight into the reality of looking after someone else’s children. A remarkable story from a remarkable woman, it brought back a lot of memories for me.’
Melissa is a sweet-natured girl with a disturbing habit of running away and mixing with the wrong crowd. Social Services beg specialist foster carer Angela to take her in, but can she keep the testing twelve-year-old safe? And will Angela ever learn what, or who, drove Melissa to run and hide, sometimes in the dead of night?
Casey Watson
Sunday Mirror
Praise for Angela Hart: ‘A true tearjerking tale or love and compassion.’ ALSO AVAILABLE:
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The Girl Who Drew Skylarks The True Story of a Girl who Couldn’t Ask for Help TOREY HAYDEN £7.99 Paperback | 352pp | 9781509864485 08/08/19 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
Sunday Times bestselling author
From the million-copy bestselling author of One Child and Tiger’s Child comes the true story of a neglected little girl whose cries for attention have gone unheeded, until now. Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl. She has a talent for drawing gorgeous, intricate skylarks but she also knows how to get her own way and will lie, scream, shout and hurt to get just exactly what she wants. Her parents can’t take her back, and her social workers struggle to deal with her mood swings and destructive behaviour and so ask educational psychologist Torey Hayden for help. Torey agrees to weekly meetings with Jessie to try and uncover why this little girl is acting out. Her gentle care and attention reveals shocking truths behind Jessie’s lies. Upcoming Highlights
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‘Healthy, simple plant-based recipes - we love this book!’ ‘A great way to eat more beautiful veg’
Bosh!
Jamie Oliver
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The 28-Day Vegan Plan Kickstart a Plant-based Lifestyle in Just One Month KIM JULIE HANSEN £16.99 Trade Paperback | 304pp | 9781509874934 27/12/18 | WEL Excluding US CAN
Find out how to go vegan in a month with this ultimate all-you-need-to-know guide.
The 28-Day Vegan Plan is a comprehensive guide to going vegan the healthy way. Food writer and blogger Kim-Julie Hansen offers a practical and easy-to-follow programme, laid out day by day with meal plans, shopping lists, inspiration and incredible recipes. If you want to try veganism and don’t know where to start, this is the ultimate guide. But it’s also invaluable for anyone (vegan or not) looking to kickstart healthier habits. Thanks to incredible recipes such as Black Bean Tacos, Butternut Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Blueberry–Banana Ice Cream, The 28-Day Vegan Plan will get you craving plant-based meals long after the first month.
Kim-Julie runs the world’s most successful vegan social media accounts and bespoke online platforms bestofvegan, veganreset, veganchallenge and idontwantsalad with more than one million followers.
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How Not to Die
Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease MICHAEL GREGER MD WITH GENE STONE £9.99 Paperback | 672pp 9781509852505 | 28/12/17 WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
‘Dr Michael Greger reveals the foods that will help you live longer’ – Daily Mail
Simple nutritional advice for beating the most common diseases and living longer.
How Not to Die Cookbook Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease MICHAEL GREGER MD WITH GENE STONE £16.99 Hardback | 272pp | 9781509844333 07/12/17 | WEL Excluding US CAN Dr Michael Greger, founder of the wildly popular website NutritionFacts, takes his comprehensive, lifesaving science into the kitchen. Backlist Highlights
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Real Food Kids Will Love
Over 100 simple and delicious recipes for toddlers and up ANNABEL KARMEL £16.99 Hardback | 240pp | 9781509888429 28/06/2018 | World
Make family mealtimes fun and healthy with over one hundred recipes from Britain’s best-loved kids cooking expert.
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Annabel Karmel brings you a mouth-watering batch of recipes featuring delicious ingredients with serious nutritional credentials. With beautiful photographs and fresh design, this is an essential book for every modern parent. Chapters range from Fifteen Minute Meals to Healthy ‘Fast Food’, via Holiday Cooking with Kids and Lunchbox Snacks, and fresh, easy and modern dishes include Quinoa Chicken Fingers, Crispy Baked Cod, The Best Buttermilk Pancakes and Carrot Cake Balls.
Real Food Kids Will Love offers everything today’s parents are looking for once their babies are ready to start joining in with family mealtimes. Each dish is designed to be enjoyed by the whole family, while remaining simple, healthy, and not too salty or sugary for young children.
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Bake LORRAINE PASCALE £20.00 Hardback | 288pp | 9781509820733 09/03/17 | World The modern and creative baking bible from BBC celebrity chef, Lorraine Pascale.
East by West JASMINE HEMSLEY £25.00 Hardback | 304pp | 9781509858125 02/11/17 | WEL 140 delicious recipes to bring the concept of Ayurveda into your daily life.
One Part Plant JESSICA MURNANE £16.99 Trade Paperback | 256pp | 9781509812646 09/03/17 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA A stunning collection of one hundred plant-powered recipes from Jessica Murnane for a healthier and happier lifestyle. Backlist Highlights
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Dog Medicine
How My Dog Saved Me From Myself JULIE BARTON £7.99 Paperback | 256pp | 9781509834488 14/07/2016 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFT
Living the Life Unexpected 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfilling Future Without Children JODY DAY £12.99 Trade Paperback | 384pp | 9781509809035 25/02/2016 | World
Small Change
Money Mishaps and How to Avoid Them DAN ARIELY AND JEFF KREISLER £16.99 Hardrback | 256pp | 9781509864645 08/02/2018 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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How to Stay Sane PHILIPPA PERRY £7.99 Paperback | 144pp 9781447202301 | 10/05/12 World
How to Change the World JOHN-PAUL FLINTOFF £7.99 Paperback | 160pp 9781447202325 | 10/05/12 World
How to Find Fulfilling Work
How To Think More About Sex
ROMAN KRZNARIC
ALAIN DE BOTTON
£7.99 Paperback | 160pp 9781447202288 | 10/05/12
£7.99 Paperback | 160pp 9781447202271 | 10/05/12
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How to Worry Less About Money
How to Develop Emotional Health
JOHN ARMSTRONG
OLIVER JAMES
£7.99 Paperback | 160pp 9781447202295 | 10/05/12 World
£7.99 Paperback | 160pp 9780230771710 | 02/01/14 World
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The Artist’s Way
A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self JULIA CAMERON £16.99 Trade Paperback | 224pp | 9781509829477 03/11/16 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
The international bestseller helping millions recover their creativity, reissued in a beautiful new edition. ‘A practical, spiritual, nurturing book . . . I feel this is a special book and I wish I’d found it sooner . . . A bestselling timeless classic’ – Russell Brand
The Artist’s Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. Its step-by-step approach enables you to transform your life, overcome artistic blocks, and replace them with self confidence and productivity. The Artist’s Way will demystify the creative process by making it a part of your daily life. From Alicia Keys to Elizabeth Gilbert, Patricia Cornwell to Pete Townshend and Russell Brand, The Artist’s Way has helped thousands of people around the world to discover their inner artist. Whatever your artistic leanings, this book will give you the tools you need to enable you to fulfil your dreams.
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Art of Mindfulness
Anti-stress drawing, colouring and hand lettering EMMA FARRARONS £8.99 Paperback | 112pp 9780752265940 | 11/01/18 | World
The Anxiety Journal Exercises to soothe stress and eliminate anxiety wherever you are CORINNE SWEET
£9.99 Paperback | 224pp 9780752266275 | 04/05/17 | World
The Mindfulness Colouring Book Anti-stress art therapy for busy people EMMA FARRARONS £7.99 Paperback | 112pp 9780752265629 | 01/01/15 | World
The Little Book of Calm Colouring Portable Relaxation
DAVID SINDEN & VICTORIA KAY £5.99 Paperback | 128pp 9781509812660 | 30/07/15 | World
Modern Mindfulness
How to Be More Relaxed, Focused, and Kind While Living in a Fast, Digital, Always-On World ROHAN GUNATILLAKE £8.99 Paperback | 288pp 9781509848638 | 18/05/17 | World
The Little Bullet Book Be Gorgeously Organized DAVID SINDEN £8.99 Paperback | 224pp 9781509865932 | 05/10/17 | World
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A Beginner’s Guide to Being Mental An A-Z
NATASHA DEVON WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY RUBY ETC £12.99 Trade Paperback | 272pp | 9781509882229 17/05/18 | World
Odd Girl Out
An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World LAURA JAMES £8.99 Paperback | 240pp | 9781509843824 22/03/18 | WEL Excluding US CAN
My Lovely Wife
A Memoir of Madness and Hope MARK LUKACH £8.99 Paperback | 320pp | 9781509805969 28/06/18 | WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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The Stranger on the Bridge
My Journey from Suicidal Despair to Hope JONNY BENJAMIN AND BRITT PFLÜGER £8.99 Paperback | 224pp | 9781509846436 02/05/19| World Non-Exclusive EU & EFT
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Anxiety for Beginners A Personal Investigation ELEANOR MORGAN £6.99 Paperback | 320pp | 9781509813247 04/05/17 | WEL Excluding US CAN
The 28-Day Alcohol-Free Challenge
Sleep Better, Lose Weight, Boost Energy, Beat Anxiety ANDY RAMAGE AND RUARI FAIRBAIRNS £12.99 Trade Paperback | 224pp | 9781509857258 28/12/17 | World Backlist Highlights
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Hockley Raven Spare
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Communications Director
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Editorial Assistant
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