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CAPTURE OR KILL Tom Marcus
.................................................................................... From the bestselling author of Soldier Spy, former MI5 officer Tom Marcus, comes the first in a breathtaking series featuring tortured counter terrorism operative Matt Logan Matt Logan is an MI5 agent for the British government. Working on the frontline of counterterrorism his job is to protect its citizens against all threats.
Macmillan May 2018 Material awaiting clearance by M15
When two brothers known operationally as ‘Iron Sword’ and ‘Stone Fist’ are suspected of plotting a major terrorist event, Logan and his team work undercover to track them down. If they fail, an attack will be unleashed that will rock the country to its very core. Frustrated by always needing to obey the rules, Logan yearns for a way to break through the red tape that hinders their progress. His wishes seem to come true when he is offered the chance to join a new, deniable outfit known as ‘Blindeye’. Then devastating news reaches Logan, throwing his world into turmoil. But one thing remains certain, he will join the team and become their fiercest, most ruthless operative... Tom Marcus served in the British Army before being hand-picked by MI5 as a Surveillance Officer working in counter terrorism. His account of his time within MI5, Soldier Spy, was a Sunday Times Besteller, selling over 250,000 copies. Praise for Soldier Spy: ‘Gripping. One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time.’ – Sun
I SPY
My Life in MI5
Tom Marcus
.................................................................................. A pulse-racing memoir from the former MI5 officer and Number One bestselling author of Soldier Spy Tom Marcus spent the best years of his life undercover, waging a secret war on the streets against those that want to do us all harm.
Sidgwick & Jackson September 2018 Material: Spring 2018
Soldier Spy has been optioned for TV by Kudos
First published in 2016, Soldier Spy was a series of stories from those years and has now sold over 250,000 copies across all editions and was a Sunday Times bestseller for five months. It has been optioned for an ITV1 Series, which is very close to being greenlit. In 2018, Tom feels able to take us deeper inside what it's really like to live your life in the shadows and write the book he is only now able to. It will be bigger, richer and more shocking, just as exciting and action-packed as his previous book, but with a much stronger sense of what it does to the heroes on our streets to fight a war against those who will stop at nothing to destroy us. It will include much more insight into the psychological impact of living a life undercover, something readers were desperate for after reading Soldier Spy. It will include his behind the headlines take on what is really going on with global terrorism and new material only now cleared by the government's security services at Thames House. Tom Marcus former MI5, grew up on the streets in the North of England. He was hand picked from the Army into MI5 as a Surveillance Officer.
I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU Penny Hancock
.............................................................................‌. Who do you know best? Your oldest friend? Your child? And who do you believe when one accuses the other of something terrible?
Mantle February 2019 Material available Rights sold Czech: Euromedia
Jules and Holly have been best friends since university. They tell each other everything trading revelations and confessions, and sharing both the big moments and the small details of their lives: Holly is the only person who knows about Jules' affair; Jules was there for Holly when her husband died. And their two children - just four years apart - have grown up together. So when Jules' daughter Saffie accuses Holly's son of a terrible crime, neither woman can possibly be prepared for what this means - for their families or their friendship. Especially as Holly refuses to believe her son is guilty. For fans of He Said, She Said and Anatomy Of A Scandal, Penny Hancock's I Thought I Knew You is about secrets and lies - and whose side you take when it really matters. Penny Hancock is the author of Tideline, a Richard & Judy bookclub pick, The Darkening Hour and A Trick of the Mind. She works as a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, supporting students with their writing. I Thought I Knew You is her fourth novel.
YOUR TRUTH OR MINE? Trisha Sakhlecha
................................................................................. When it all unravels, what will they believe... YOUR TRUTH OR MINE?
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At their wedding Mia and Roy Kapoor promised to love and cherish each other. Whilst not perfect, their marriage is sacred and their commitment absolute. But a knock at the door changes everything when Roy is questioned in the disappearance of a young woman. As Roy and Mia’s life unravels, they must question everything they know about each other if their marriage is to survive. But what if the real truth is not what they, or you, think? A debut psychological suspense title about the breakdown of a marriage perfect for fans of Erin Kelly's He Said She Said and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone. Trisha Sakhlecha is a graduate of the Faber Writing Academy and works in high-end fashion industry.
THE RUNAWAY DAUGHTER Joanna Rees
.............................................................................…. The first in a dazzling historical fiction trilogy which will delight fans of Jeffrey Archer and Penny Vincenzi
Pan April 2019 Material: Spring 2018
It’s 1924 and a beautiful young girl arrives in London as a stowaway on a steam train. We know she’s shaken from something terrible that has happened to her. She’s on a mission to re-invent herself and put her past behind her. She calls herself Matilda Casey and heads for Piccadilly Circus, hoping to find her bearings. Joanna Rees, aka Josie Lloyd and Jo Rees, is a bestselling writer of twelve novels, including romcoms, blockbusters and big-hearted adventures such as Come Together, Platinum and A Twist of Fate.
SECRETS UNDER THE SUN Nadia Marks
.............................................................................…. A transporting novel from an author who sits comfortably on the bookshelf alongside Victoria Hislop and Dinah Jeffries. The truth will surprise you... On the day of Katerina’s funeral in Larnaka, Cyprus, three childhood friends reunite for the first time in years to say farewell to the beloved old woman who profoundly influenced their lives. Eleni, Marianna and Orestis grew up together, as close as siblings, in their small, quaint seaside town. Originally hired as a household maid at just 13, Katerina became a pillar of their community, Pan seeing the town change from a bustling, May 2018 fashionable port to the quiet tourist destination it Rights sold (Among the Lemon Trees) is today. The friends can hardly imagine a Larnaka without her. Bulgarian: Kragozor Greek: Klidarithmos Italian: Newton Compton
But the funeral is not just a time to reminisce. Oresti’s mother, Sonia, decides that with Katerina’s death comes the time to unburden herself from all the family secrets. What she reveals will change everything, and how the three friends perceive their lives. A web of secrets, deception, forbidden love, and tenderness unravels before them. Nadia Marks is a freelance journalist who has written for numerous publications including The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Independent, Psychologies and In Style magazine. She is the author of Among the Lemon Trees: ‘My book of the year. An utterly gripping story of love and family secrets.’ – Vanessa Feltz
THE NIGHTJAR Deborah Hewitt
.............................................................................…. A magical adventure set in an alternative London with a unique mythology - perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman
Pan June 2019 Material: Autumn 2018
Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life, and only her best friend Jen understands her terror. So when an accident leaves Jen in a coma, Alice is devastated. Then the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an aviarist: capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. And Jen’s nightjar has already flown to Death’s aviary, the Black Menagerie. Unless Jen and her soul bird can be reunited, she won’t recover – and only Alice can save her. With Crowley’s help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden city within the London she knows. Here, surrounded by others with unique powers, she begins to hone her own newfound talents. However, she's being hunted by a faction intent on annihilating magic users. And is Crowley really working with her, or against her? Alice must risk everything she holds dear to save her best friend – and uncover the strange truth about herself. Deborah Hewitt is a teacher and previous ‘Undiscovered Voices’ winner living in Manchester. The Nightjar is her debut novel.
THE CHARMED LIFE OF ALEX MOORE Molly Flatt ..................................................................................
‘I was hooked after the first paragraph’ Minnie Driver
Bridget Jones meets The Matrix in a thrillingly original debut that will make you question what it means to be conscious, what it means to be you, and to what extent we’re really in control of our own lives.
Macmillan May 2018 Material available
How would you feel if everything in your life suddenly started to go... right? Weirdly, brilliantly right? Six months ago, Alex Moore was stuck in a dead-end job, with an average life, and an average looking future. Then, overnight, she launches her dream start-up to become one of London's fastest rising tech stars, and the toast of the town. At thirty, her life has just begun. But Alex’s transformation isn’t easy for those around her. Her friends are struggling to understand her sudden success, her parents are worried too, and her fiancé is feeling rather sidelined. Then odd things start to happen. Muggings, stalkers and a frenzied stranger claiming she’s a murderer. And when Alex visits the Orkney Islands on a weekend retreat, weird turns into WTF. Because there she discovers the world’s oldest secret – and it’s a secret that Alex’s stratospheric rise has royally messed up. Molly Flatt is an author and journalist who explores how technology changes the way we think, work, and live. She is Associate Editor for FutureBook, Digital Editor for PHOENIX magazine and Associate Editor for the Memo, and writes regularly for publications such as the BBC and the Guardian. http://www.mollyflatt.com/
THE CURSED WIFE Pamela Hartshorne
..................................................................................... When a young girl is cursed at the age of six, she carries the curse all her life - set against a rich, dark, Elizabethan England - in this gripping historical thriller Curses cannot be silenced. Mary lives a contented life as wife to a wealthy merchant in Elizabethan London. But there's a part of her past she can’t forget... As a small girl she was cursed for causing the death of a vagrant child, a curse that predicts that she will hang. Pan March 2018 Rights sold Czech: Baronet Greek: Dioptra Previous publishers Dutch: Van Holkerna & Warendorf French: l’Archipel German: Goldmann Italian: Editrice Nord
Sometimes the happiest households are not what they seem, and Mary's carefully curated world begins to falter. Mary’s whole life is based on a lie. Is she the woman her husband believes her to be? One rainy day she ventures to London's Cheapside, where her past catches up with her... Suddenly the lies and deception she has so fought to hide begin to claw to the surface. Pamela Hartshorne is a historian as well as an award-winning novelist. She draws inspiration from her PhD research into Medieval history to write vividly about the 16th century, in fact and in fiction. She has won a number of prestigious writing awards, including a coveted RITA from the Romance Writers of America. Praise for Pamela Hartshorne: ‘Vertigo meets Rebecca in a twisty Tudor time slip. Addictive, atmospheric and completely enjoyable.’ Julie Cohen ‘Authentic, vivid and gripping.’ - Kate Riordan
DEAD GIRLS Abigail Tarttelin
.............................................................................…. “Abigail Tarttelin is a fearless writer”- Emily
St.John Mandel
Do I know Billie Brooke? Do I know Billie? How am I supposed to answer that? Billie May Brooke and me have been best, true, forever friends since we were in the same antenatal class in our Mums’ tums when we were minus 6 months old.
Mantle May 2018 Material available Publishers of Golden Boy Chinese simple: Citic Chinese complex: Pushing Hanz Dutch: Luitingh Sijthoff Italian: Mondadori Portuguese (Brazil): Globo Livros Spanish: Ediciones B Swedish: Bonnier Turkish US: Atria
Thera Emily Kathryn Wilde is 11 years, 3 months, 5 days, 17 hours, and 32 minutes old when she's asked by a police woman if she knows Billie Brooke. She's always had what might politely be called a mind of her own, and she's a firm believer in the adage that if you want something doing, then you should do it yourself. So, when it subsequently turns out that Billie has been murdered, it's no surprise that Thera decides it's her duty - as Billie's official best friend, and the last-person-but-one to see her alive - to find the killer and avenge her best friend's death. Spurred on with her quest by Billie herself - and six other dead girls, all of whom appear regularly to Thera - Thera is determined. The trouble is that when Thera sets her mind to something, there's every chance she'll succeed. Even if she has no idea what she's getting into. Abigail Tarttelin’s first novel Golden Boy received a 2014 Alex Award and has been translated into numerous languages. Praise for Golden Boy: ‘Terrific. A poignant, brave and important book.’ - S J Watson ‘A gripping read. [Tarttelin] is a natural storyteller.’ - Matt Haig
YARDIE Victor Headley
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First published in 1992, Yardie became a wordof-mouth cult classic and was acclaimed as ‘the black Godfather. Now turned into a major film, it is Idris Elba's directorial debut A brutal depiction of the drug-fuelled Yardie gang wars of 90s London
Pan Film tie-in edition to be published in 2018
At Heathrow Airport’s busy immigration desk, a newly arrived Jamaican strolls through with a kilo of top-grade cocaine strapped to his body. And keeps on walking... By the time the syndicate get to hear about the missing consignment, D is in business – for himself – as the Front Line’s newest don. But D’s treachery will never be forgotten – or forgiven. The message filters down from the Yardie crime lords to their soldiers on the streets: Find D. Find the merchandise. And make him pay for his sins... ‘Yardie is, quite simply, a literary sensation… Originally published by X Press, a two-man operation, it was produced on a desktop computer and distributed through unusual channels: it was sold at clothing shops, hairdressers, and even on top of over-turned dumpsters outside of nightclubs.’ Good Reads
MOUNTAIN ROAD, LATE AT NIGHT Alan Rossi .....................................................................................
When a couple is killed in an accident they leave behind an orphaned child and family members, at odds with each other, who must decide who will care for the boy. A vivid, compulsive and breathtaking debut novel from an assured new talent Picador May 2019 Material available
In the early hours one morning, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, a car crashes on an isolated road, killing a couple on their way home from a party. In the days that follow, their grieving relatives must decide who will care for the couple’s four-year-old son, Jack. Of Jack’s wider family, Nathaniel, the dead man’s brother, and his wife are least prepared, but Jack’s paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother have preoccupations of their own to deal with. Moving backwards over the course of a week, through the minds of Nathaniel, his mother Katherine and his mother-in-law Tammy, the novel’s climax reaches further back in time to the night of the car crash. The boy’s father, Nicholas, lies mortally injured, trapped in the twisted vehicle. As he hopes for help to arrive, unsure whether his wife April is dead or alive, he thinks of his son as he tries to unravel how the night’s events led to a wrecked car on a deserted mountain road. Alan Rossi was born in 1980 in Columbus, Ohio. His short stories has appeared in Granta, Atlantic, Missouri Review, Conjunctions, Agni, and Ninth Letter. His novella Did You Really Just Say That To Me? was awarded the New England Review Award, and he was the New England Review/Bread Loaf Scholar for 2017. He lives in South Carolina with his wife and daughter.
THE BRAID Laetitia Colombani
.................................................................................. 350,000 hardcovers sold in France Smita, Giulia, Sarah: three lives, three continents, three women with nothing in common, but nevertheless bound by a rare expression of courage... like three strands of hair in a braid
Picador March 2019 Rights sold (via Grasset) Arabic: Arab Cultural Centre Castilian: Salamandra Catalan: Salamandra Chinese (simple): People’s Literature Czech: Euromedia Dutch: Ambo Anthos Estonian: Varrak German: S. Fischer Verlag Greek: Patakis Hebrew: Kinneret Hungarian: Kossuth Icelandic: Forlagid Italian: Editrice Nord Korean: Balgunsesang Lithuanian: Alma Littera Norwegian: Arneberg Forlag Polish: Literackie Portuguese: Bertrand Editora Portuguese (Brazil): Intrinseca Romanian: Trei Russian: Eksmo Serbia: Laguna Slovak: Ikar Swedish: Sekwa Ukrainian: Hemiro Vietnamese: AZ Communication
India. Smita is an untouchable, married to a “rat hunter,” whose job is to clean with her bare hands the village latrines, just like her mother before her. Her dream is to see her daughter escape this same fate, and learn to read. When this hope is shattered, she decides to run away with the child, despite her husband’s warnings, sacrificing what is most precious to her: her hair. Sicily. Giulia is a worker in her father’s wig workshop, the last of its kind in Palermo. She classifies, washes, bleaches, and dyes the hair provided by the city’s hairdressers. When her father is the victim of a serious accident, she quickly discovers the family company is bankrupt. Canada. Sarah is a reputed lawyer. As a twicedivorced mother of three children, she ploughs through cases at breakneck speed. Just as she is about to be promoted, she learns she has breast cancer. Her seemingly perfect existence begins to show its cracks... But this is only if one ignores the incredible lust for life that keeps her going. Through one woman’s hair, the three women’s destinies will combine… Laetitia Colombani comes from the world of film, where she worked as a screenwriter-director, and actress. She also writes for the stage.
COLD BLOOD Chris Kraus
.................................................................................. The most hotly anticipated book of the German literary calendar is an epic tale of betrayal and self-delusion spanning seventy years The novel opens in 1974 on a hospital ward for patients with head injuries, where the sixty-fiveyear-old narrator is confined. He recounts his life story to the man in the next bed, a man he refers to as ‘the hippie’. The narrator is Konstantin (Koja) Solm, the younger of two Baltic-German brothers born in Riga, whose childhood is shaped by the fear and hardships of the Russian Revolution.
Picador February 2020 German edition available English translation: Spring 2019
As the Nazis rise to power, Koja’s older brother Hub finds work for them both in the fledgling SS. Hub marries Ev, whose Jewish heritage only Koja knows about. After the war the brothers join the German secret service (the BND), along with many other former SS members, but Koja is by this point a double agent for the Soviets. His relationship to his brother is irreparably damaged by the affair he had with Ev, and he eventually emigrates to Israel with her. While Ev helps to track down former Nazis, Koja offers his services to an increasingly suspicious Mossad. It is only a question of time before Koja’s real identity is exposed and he ends up in hospital with a bullet lodged inside his skull. Chris Kraus was born in Göttingen in 1963 and is a film director, screenwriter and novelist. His films have won numerous awards, including the German Film Prize for best feature film in 2007. Cold Blood is his second novel. He lives in Berlin.
BELOW DRACHENWAND MOUNTAIN Arno Geiger ..................................................................................
A unique, touching novel, depicting the quiet heroism of ordinary people in the face of suffering, and the struggle to live a normal life in violent times. For fans of Robert Seethaler and Ralf Rothmann
Picador April 2020 German edition available English translation: Spring 2019
Arno Geiger grew up in the Austrian Alps, in a village overlooking Lake Constance. He studied German and comparative literature at university and his debut novel appeared in 1997. In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first German Book Prize for his novel We are Doing Fine and his writing has won numerous other prizes. First published in 2011, his autobiographical The Old King in His Exile has been translated into 28 languages. He is married and lives in Vienna. Praise for Arno Geiger: ‘A profound, distinctive and timeless investigation into what concerns every one of us: aging and illness, home and family. A meditation on the things we find hard to deal with. A great work of literature about what makes life worth living no matter what.’ Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ‘A book about the search for a lost world, a lost home and a character presumed lost, as well as about a rediscovered relationship. A powerful, grown-up, curious, and touchingly delightful book.’ - Elmar Krekeler, Die Welt ‘A delicate and fabulously straightforward book.’ Franz Haas, Neue Zürcher Zeitung
MURMUR/ MONKEY WILLIAMS Richard House .....................................................................................
Two new books from the Booker-nominated author of The Kills, both set in the world of the global protest movement over the last 30 years
Picador February 2019 (Murmur) June 2019 (Monkey Williams) Material: Summer 2018 Rights sold (The Kills) Dutch: Uitgeverij De Geus Italian: Fanucci Editore Japanese: Hayakawa Spanish: ECC Ediciones US: Picador
Monkey Williams and Murmur are about how individuals coordinate to undermine the world's most powerful financial organization - and spark a new social and political movement in the process. The first volume, Monkey Williams, follows a small group of friends and associates who first devise the ideas and approaches which become Monkey Williams. The second volume, Murmur, is about how the ideas first started by this group go viral to become a global movement. This isn't a smooth journey. While a great deal of mischief is involved as they grow from scam to hoax to heist, Monkey Williams skirt under the law and evade capture and recognition. A complex, twisting narrative will introduce us into world of conspiracy, deceit, political corruption, scientific research and artistic interventions. Richard House is an author, film maker, artist and university lecturer. His previous book The Kills was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and it was Book of the Year in the Guardian, Spectator, Daily Mail and Independent. Praise for The Kills: ‘Prepare to be dazzled by this monumental novel… a true achievement.’ - Sunday Times
THE PAPER LOVERS Gerard Woodward
.................................................................................. A devastating new novel from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author This is the story of two married couples and an affair. The first part of the book focuses on a man who suddenly develops a crush on one of his wife’s friends. As his affections deepen, he becomes aware that she too has feelings for him. Soon they transgress. But what does this mean? Is it love? Will they be caught? Picador May 2018 Material available
The second part of the story is about the crisis of identity that comes with betrayal. If you are no longer faithful to yourself, to your spouse or to your God, who are you now? If you have been deceived, diminished, your world destroyed without your knowledge, who are you now? And in each case: how might you live on, who might you become? Gerard Woodward is the author of a number of novels, including Nourishment and an acclaimed trilogy comprising: August (shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award), I'll Go to Bed at Noon (shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize) and A Curious Earth. His collection of poetry, We Were Pedestrians, was shortlisted for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent poetry collection, The Seacunny, was published in 2012. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. ‘Gerard Woodward is one of our finest writers... he writes with subtlety and skill.’ - Daily Telegraph
THINGS WE NEARLY KNEW Jim Powell
.................................................................................. ‘If you didn’t know Jim Powell was British, you wouldn’t guess from this hard-boiled slice of Americana, narrated by the middle-aged owner of a Nowheresville bar… with a wry charm that grips you right to the sombre finish.’ - Daily Mail
Picador January 2018 Previous publishers UK: W&N US: Penguin Catalan: La Campana Croatian: Ljevak Danish: HR Ferdinand French: Sonatine Editions Icelandic: Bjartur Italian: Einaudi Norwegian: Pax Polish: Albatros Portuguese (Brazil): Geracao Portuguese: Livaria Civilizacao Editora
Things We Nearly Knew is narrated by an unnamed bartender, who owns an unremarkable bar on the outskirts of a backwater American town. One day a mysterious woman, Arlene, walks into the bar, looking for a man named Jack, who may have been a regular in the past. Among the current regulars is Franky Albertino, a man who had skipped town 30 years earlier, with debts and troubles, only to turn up again one day, like the proverbial bad penny. As Arlene becomes a bar regular, establishing unspoken ownership of her own seat at the counter, we get brief glimpses of her past, and why she’s searching for Jack, although the truth remains tantalisingly out of reach. As Arlene gets closer to finding Jack (her father? her lover?), the bar becomes a scene of a great unravelling, as secrets buried long ago are brought into the light. Things We Nearly Knew invites us to consider how much we know about the ones we love and finally asks: would you want to know the truth? Jim Powell is the author of Trading Futures and The Breaking of Eggs, and was named by BBC2's The Culture Show as one of the ‘12 Of The Best New Novelists’ of 2011. ‘With his gallows humour and observational wit, Jim Powell gives us a vivid portrait of a man in meltdown.’ - Daily Mail on Trading Futures
THE DEAD GIRLS Jorge Ibargüengoitia Introduction by Colm Tóibín
.................................................................................. ‘The Dead Girls is a startlingly good book by an author of genuine, exciting originality.’ Salman Rushdie First published in 1977 The Dead Girls (Las Meurtas) was inspired by the true story of the unexplained deaths of six prostitutes, buried in the back yard of a brothel in Mexico.
Picador July 2018 Material available
In 1960s Central Mexico, two sisters, Delfina and María de Jesús González, known as 'Las Poquianchis', run a small-town brothel. Kidnapped, drugged and beaten, their young workers are desperate for escape. The Dead Girls is the discovery of these young women, buried in the back yard. In the laconic tones of a police report, Jorge Ibargüengoitia investigates these horrific murders and their motives. A black comedy, both moving and cruelly funny, Ibargüengoitia's work is a potent and entertaining blend of sex and mayhem. Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928-1983) was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved popular and critical success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: Las Muertas (The Dead Girls), Dos Crimenes (Two Crimes), and Los Relámpagos de Agosto (The Lightning of August). Winner of the Premio Casa de las Americas, as well as the Premio Mexico, he worked as a translator, as a teacher of Spanish literature in American universities and as a journalist in Mexico City.
SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT
The People Changing Birth, Food, Sex & Death For Ever
Jenny Kleeman
.................................................................................... A gripping journey into the people and forces that are driving astonishing innovation in the four core areas of human experience: birth, food, sex and death Picador May 2019 Proposal available
We are on the brink of seismic change in every one of these four areas, from artificial wombs, to labgrown meat; from sex robots programmable to have polite conversations with your wife, to a new frontier in assisted dying. Who are the people dictating and shaping the change taking place, and what is motivating them to do it? Can we safely assume that these entrepreneurs are in it for the thrill of human advancement, or might there be more sinister, or mundane, motivations at hand? Sex Robots & Vegan Meat will take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the changes afoot, and their implications for who we are as a society, and as humans. Jenny Kleeman is a journalist and documentarymaker who's travelled the world finding eyecatching, thought-provoking stories and compelling characters. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, the Sunday Times, BBC Panorama, and Channel 4. She won the One World Media Television Award for her work on Unreported World in 2011, and was nominated for the Amnesty International Gaby Rado award in 2012.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY / NEW POETRY COLLECTION John Cooper Clarke
.................................................................................... A new collection of poetry and the long-awaited autobiography of The Doctor, Bard of Salford and People’s Poet Laureate
Picador November 2018 (Poetry collection) June 2019 (Autobiography) Proposal available
John Cooper Clarke has been variously described as: the Poet Laureate of Punk; rock star; fashion icon; movie star; comedian; Britain's best-loved ‘people’s poet’; Honorary Doctor of Salford University; reluctant national treasure. Born on 25 January 1949 in Salford, John Cooper Clarke is a poet and performer who shot to prominence in the late 1970s as the original ‘punk poet’. Despite his ‘alternative’ national treasure status, John remains quite a mysterious, off-grid character. His long-awaited autobiography will be the first chance for readers and loyal fans to get behind the rapid-fire quips, the big hair and dark glasses and enter into his world. ‘One of Britain’s outstanding poets. His anarchic punk poetry has thrilled people for decades and his no-nonsense approach to his work and life in general has appealed to many people including myself for many years.’ - Sir Paul McCartney ‘I say to people, have you heard of John Cooper Clarke, and if they say, yes, yeah he's an absolute genius and you just go, “Oh – OK, you've saved me a lot of time”.’ - Steve Coogan ‘He's the real deal, really funny and really caustic, the velvet voice of discontent.’ - Kate Moss
QUEERER LIVING Amelia Abraham
.................................................................................... We are in an era of assimilation and equal rights for LGBT communities, but what are the pros and cons of that?
Picador May 2019 Material: Autumn 2018
Young, restless and in love, Amelia Abraham quit her job in London and left behind a life of multiple partners for the promise of monogamous bliss with her girlfriend in Iceland. She returned only ten days later, heartbroken, single and unemployed. Despite mourning a lost future of marriage and perfect children shaped by the heteronormative ideal, the prospect of returning independence seemed also like an affirmation of her queer identity – more transient, more radical, more free. This instant of personal confusion within the moment we are living is the jumping off point for a book that seeks to ask: what does it mean to be queer in 2017, what do those life choices look like for those who live them now, and what might that mean for Amelia and how she should live her own life? Amelia Abraham is a freelance journalist from London. She was an editor at VICE before moving to Refinery29, and has been published by the Guardian, the Observer, the Independent, the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, ES Magazine, and i-D among others.
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BURQA
Twenty Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race
Mariam Khan
.................................................................................. An anthology of essays by Muslim women about the contemporary Muslim female experience
Picador February 2019 Material: Summer 2018
It's Not About the Burqa is the brainchild of Mariam Khan, a 24-year-old activist determined to create a new narrative where Muslim women write about their lives outside the parameters of the expectations projected on them. The book will take back the narrative around Muslim women: here Muslim women will speak for themselves, be they feminist, queer, wear the hijab, believe one must be Muslim in culture as well as in faith, or whether they're standing up to speak about what education, power and feminism mean for Muslim women. It's Not About the Burqa doesn't claim to speak for a faith or a group of people, but it does present us with a varied series of passionate, female voices - exactly the voices we need to be hearing. Confirmed contributors include: Mona Eltahawy, Egyptian-American journalist and author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. Salma Haidrani, London-based award-winning freelance writer and journalist. Blair Imani, prominent African-American activist, member of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Executive Director of Equality for HER. Mariam Khan is the author of the much-discussed Femsplain essay ‘So, What Generation Immigrant Are You?’. Mariam’s website is www.helloiammariam.com
ABRACADABRA
The Magic of Alphabetic Order
Judith Flanders
.................................................................................. A celebration of alphabetical order, from its humble beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the sum of the world's knowledge
Picador February 2020 Material: Spring 2019
While we emphasize our subconscious appreciation for the importance of the alphabet, it is alphabetic order, its organization, that allows us to sift through the centuries of thought, of knowledge, of poetry, literature, scientific discovery and discourse. Alphabetic order allows us to locate the information we need, and disseminate it further. Without alphabetic order, all the knowledge in the world would lie in great unsifted stacks of books, unfindable, unread, unknown. ABraCaDabra traces the beginnings of alphabetization, as we understand it, moving from the development of what was, in effect, a sixteenthcentury proto-card catalogue, to a London bookseller who made a revolutionary breakthrough when he alphabetized his books, not by lumping all the ‘Thomas’es together (Thomas More, Thomas Smith, Thomas Elyot), but by ‘sirname’. Judith Flanders is the author of the bestselling The Victorian House (2003); A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the New York Times bestselling The Invention of Murder (2001); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; and The Making of Home (2014). In her leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels.
52 BOOKS
A Year of Reading for Pleasure and Comfort
Cathy Rentzenbrink
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Picador October 2019 Material: Spring 2019
Cathy Rentzenbrink was born in Cornwall, grew up in Yorkshire and now lives in London, where she works as a writer and journalist. She is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir The Last Act of Love, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. Her latest book A Manual for Heartache was published in 2017. Praise for Cathy Rentzenbrink: ‘... The book's real power lies in Rentzenbrink's skill as a writer, her ability to unearth precise and agonising details quietly, with no self-pity or drama... it falls into a tradition of beautifully written accounts of grief, such as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking... She emerges from this unflinching memoir with dignity, strength and an enormous heart.’ - Sunday Times ‘This is a brilliant book. Harrowing and heartbreaking, but also warm and human and healing.’ - Matt Haig, author of Reasons To Stay Alive ‘Brilliant. Moving, warm, agonising, unputdownable. One of the best memoirs I've read.’ - Sophie Hannah, author of The Carrier ‘This is a touching and brave book, heartbreaking yet beautiful.’ - S J Watson ‘Extraordinary... An honest, heartbreaking, uplifting account of family tragedy. Read it.’ - Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You
Non Fiction ∞
MILK OF PARADISE A History of Opium
Lucy Inglis
..................................................................................... A compelling and comprehensive history of opium, a drug that has both healed and harmed since civilization began ‘The only thing that is good is poppies. They are gold.’ Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ‘Milk of Paradise’ for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain – and hugely addictive. Macmillan August 2018 Material available
No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is a farm-gate material that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip or the scorched and filthy spoon. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today’s synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine and, above all, money. And, as this ambitious, wide-ranging and compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history and it speaks to us of who we are. Lucy Inglis is a historian and novelist, a speaker, and occasionally a television presenter and voice in the radio. She is the creator of the Georgian London blog and her book of the same name was shortlisted for the History Today Longman Prize.
DUTCH LIGHT
Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
.................................................................................. The untold story of the Huygens family, movers and shakers of the Dutch Golden Age Macmillan September 2020 Proposal available Rights sold Dutch: De Bezige Bij German: Hanser
The Huygens were a family of intellectuals who would have Rembrandt and Descartes to dinner on the same night. The patriarch, Constantijn Huygens, had been a diplomat and an advisor to the House of Orange, but he was also an artist who corresponded with Galileo and Mersenne. Susanna Huygens, his wife, was mathematically gifted, and well-connected too through her wealthy merchant family. Christiaan Huygens, one of their children, then became Europe’s leading scientist, and in an age when scientists kept their discoveries close, Christiaan actively encouraged an international fellowship of ideas which stretched from Leibniz in Germany to Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in France and Robert Hooke and John Locke in Britain. Dutch Light is the story of the Huygens, but it is also a fascinating and vivid portrait of a place and time in science, industry and culture – a period that saw an unprecedented expansion of ideas and vision, that changed our understanding of the world - and weaves together the contributions of a number of personalities, connected by family as much as by scientific sympathies. Hugh Aldersey-Williams is the Sunday Times bestseller writer of Periodic Tales (2012), Anatomies (2014) and The Sunday “Must Read” book Tide: The Science and Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth (2016).
PANDORA'S JAR
Greek Myths Retold
Natalie Haynes
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Macmillan May 2020 Material: January 2019
From Jason and the Argonauts to Oedipus and the Trojan War, the Greek Myths the most important cultural foundation block of the modern world and its literature. Their influence can be seen in stories across the ages, from Shakespeare to soap operas, to Game of Thrones – they are sagas whose characters and stories underpin the whole of storytelling. Greek Myths will be a rich and lively exploration of Greek mythology. Examining the four key mythic sagas - The Trojan War, The Royal House of Thebes, Jason & the Argonauts, and Heracles - it will not only revisit these classic stories, but will offer a commentary on how they have influenced society over millennia, and still do today. Themes first introduced in the stories of Achilles, Heracles and Jason, are integral not only to an understanding of Shakespeare and Freud, but continue to underpin everything from superhero movies to the novels of Margaret Atwood. Knowledge of the Greek myths is vital to a proper understanding of modern culture and art and Greek Myths meets this need. It will be the perfect book for readers without a formal education in Classics but with a desire to know more about these timeless stories and the ways in which they have influenced, and continue to influence, society the world over. Natalie Haynes is a writer, broadcaster and classicist. She has written two novels about women in Greek Myth, The Amber Fury and The Children of Jocasta, as well as one work of non-fiction, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. Natalie writes for the Guardian and the Independent and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4.
GOING WITH THE BOYS Six Women Writers Who Went To War Judith Mackrell
..................................................................................... Going with the Boys will be a group biography of six women who became war correspondents in the Second World War: Virginia Cowles, Martha Gellhorn, Clare Hollingworth, Helen Kirkpatrick, Lee Miller and Sigrid Shultz. Macmillan May 2021 Material: 2020 (120,000 words)
Drawing on their own writings and photographs as well as on contemporary memoirs, Judith Mackrell will examine the factors that drew these woman towards war, the challenges they faced and the triumphs they achieved. And while it will aim to portray each of them as nuanced, complicated individuals - as women not just as correspondents it will also weave their stories into the larger narrative of the Second World War. Through these six characters, this book will evoke the daily texture of wartime life, the small details as well as the big dramatic adventures; and in doing so will help to recast this period from a female perspective. Judith Mackrell is the author of The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice (Thames & Hudson) and Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (Macmillan/Sarah Crichton Books).
NO CHEERING CROWDS
How Britain & Germany Slid into War: A People's History of the Year 1939
Frederick Taylor
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Macmillan April 2019 Material: Autumn 2018
A brilliant, timely account of the run-up to the start of World War II which examines how Britain and Germany slid so catastrophically into the horror of total war over the span of one critical year. In hindsight it’s easy to look back on events in Europe in 1939 and wonder how on earth people could not see what was happening? But history isn't lived in hindsight, and the sequence of events we can now see so clearly are experienced only incrementally in the moment, step by step until, suddenly, the point of no return has been passed. Frederick Taylor is known for his great skill at weaving impeccable primary research with gripping narrative and an innate interest in the lives of the ordinary people caught up in the big moments of history. Rich in human detail, and full of first person testimony and voices, No Cheering Crowds will reveal the day-to-day points of view of some of the millions of individuals enmeshed in the unfolding catastrophe. At its heart, the book will also make the connections and disconnections between what ordinary people want, what governments do in their name, and the fateful political decisions over which citizenry has little or no control. Frederick Taylor is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern European history. His work includes Dresden; The Berlin Wall; Exorcising Hitler, and The Downfall of Money (Bloomsbury UK & US).
MACHIAVELLI Alexander Lee
..................................................................................... From an acclaimed scholar of Renaissance history, comes a major new portrait of one of history’s most maligned characters which casts its subject not as the sinister genius, but as an infinitely sympathetic figure prone to political missteps, professional failures, and wickedly amusing personal dramas. Macmillan May 2019 Material: Summer 2018 200,000 words
When Niccolò Machiavelli’s wrote The Prince in 1513 it was to shape his reputation ever after. Almost from the moment of its appearance, it has been perceived as the defining statement of his views and its apparently amoral political realism has led him to be cast as the archetypal evil genius. Half a millennia later, his name continues to be a byword for cunning, deceit, and tyranny. In this new biography, Alexander Lee offers a comprehensively authoritative and highly original portrait of one of history’s most unjustly infamous characters that is as rich in scholarly detail as it is in lively anecdotes and profoundly human insights. Marshalling a dazzling array of primary sources, this ground-breaking biography will provide the most intimate, accessible, and comprehensive study of Machiavelli’s life yet published and will guarantee that you never see Machiavelli in quite the same way again. Alexander Lee is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Early Modern History at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. A prize-winning specialist in the history of the Italian Renaissance, he holds degrees from the universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, and is the author of numerous works on the Renaissance, most recently The Ugly Renaissance (Hutchinson/ Doubleday, 2013).
THE FIRST BREATH
Stories of Birth, Bravery, and Love Olivia Gordon .....................................................................................
A powerful memoir and science book about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation of babies in to the world Macmillan July 2019 Material: Autumn 2018
The First Breath combines personal memoir and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high risk births with extraordinary medical science - from the dawn of fetal medicine to the latest groundbreaking neonatal surgery and the exploding field of perinatal genetics. Balancing the powerful emotion of real lives with the careful detachment needed to convey complex medicine at work in leading fetal and neonatal hospital units around the world, The First Breath will reveal the untold story of a new generation born with unprecedented medical intervention. Shining a light on the intense patient-doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book will reflect on what happens when having a baby doesn't go as planned. Olivia Gordon is a freelance journalist who writes on health and lifestyle, and author of The Agony of Ecstasy. Educated at Cambridge University, she has written for publications including Observer, The Times, Telegraph, Red and Wired.
MAPPING IN THE MIND Michael Bond
..................................................................................... The neuroscience of navigation importance of getting lost
Macmillan July 2019 Material: Autumn 2018
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In the age of GPS, you might think there would be little need to pay attention to our surroundings, and that interactive digital maps would make it harder than ever to get lost. The latest science suggests a very different reality. Neuroscientists have just recently begun to uncover the neural mechanisms that drive human navigation, the inner map that keeps us orientated. It seems that, like any talent, they atrophy without use; that neglecting them into old age could have serious implications for our health; and that by depending entirely on GPS we risk doing just that. For the first time in the history of human evolution, we have stopped using the wayfaring skills that we inherited from our peripatetic ancestors, and the consequences are potentially devastating. Michael Bond, who won the British Psychology Society Prize 2015 for The Power of Others, is a freelance journalist and former editor and reporter at New Scientist, who specialises in psychology and human behaviour, and particularly social behaviour and how people interact with their environments. Praise for The Power of Others: ‘Important and compelling. Bond drives home a fact that we all must accept - we are never alone.’ - David McRaney, bestselling author of You Are Not So Smart ‘Bond renders a worthwhile subject into entertaining, informative reading.’ – Kirkus Review
WILD AND CRAZY GUYS Nick de Semlyen
..................................................................................... The definitive account of the kings of comedy who ruled eighties Hollywood
Boxtree September 2019 Material: Spring 2019
The larger-than-life story of the wave of Hollywood comedy stars that ruled the 1980s. As well as delving behind the scenes of movies such as Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places and dozens more, it chronicles the off-screen, larger-than-life antics of Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Candy et al. It’s got drugs, sex, punchups, webbed toes and Bill Murray being pushed into a swimming pool by Hunter S Thompson, while tied to a lawn chair. It’s akin to Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, following the key players through their highs and lows, and their often turbulent relationships with each other. Nick has already interviewed pretty much all the big names for Empire, as well as directors such as Walter Hill, John Landis and Carl Reiner, and is sitting on lots of unseen material. Taking you on a trip through the tumultous ’80s, Wild And Crazy Guys explores the friendships, feuds, triumphs and disasters experienced by these iconic funnymen. Based on candid interviews from the stars themselves, as well as those who entered their orbit, it reveals the hidden history behind the most fertile period ever for screen comedy. Nick de Semlyen is a film journalist who has written for publications including Rolling Stone, FHM, Stuff and Time Out. His current job is Reviews Editor for Empire, the world's biggest movie magazine.
CRISTIANO AND LEO
The Race to Become the Greatest Football Player of All Time
Jimmy Burns
..................................................................................... The definitive account of the world-shaping rivalry between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionell Messi and their ongoing competition to be the greatest football player of all time
Macmillan May 2018 Material available Rights sold Hebrew: Kinneret Polish: SQN Spanish: Roca Editorial Ukrainian: KFund Previous publishers (Barca) Dutch: Uitgeverij Thomas Rap Polish: SQN Spanish: Anagrama Previous publishers (Beckham) Hungarian: Europa Konyvkiado Spanish: Pearson Spain Previous publishers (Papa Spy) Spanish: Penguin Random House US: Bloomsbury Previous publishers (Hand of God) Dutch: Uitgeverij Elmar Finnish: Minerva Japanese: Baseball Sha Spanish: Santillana/ Planeta (Latin America) Polish: Zysk Turkish: Italki US: Lyons Press Previous publishers (La Roja) German: Verlag Die Werkstatt Polish: SQN Spanish: Penguin Random House US: Nation Books Previous publishers (Pope Francis) Chinese complex: Cite Danish: Kristeligt Dagblads Spanish: Planeta (Latin America)
Football is a team game. It's virtually unheard of to have the sort of focused, one on one rivalries that dominate individual sports. But for the best part of the last decade football has seen a personal rivalry unlike any seen before. Cristiano and Leo. This is their definitive story, from children kicking a ball halfway around the world from each other to their era-defining rivalry. One the preening adonis, a precision physical machine who blows teams away with his pace and power. The other a shuffling genius, able to do things with a football that seem other-worldly. Their differences seem to tap into something fundamental about football. Between them they have scored over a thousand goals, won the Ballon d'Or 9 times and redefined modern football. For the past eight seasons they have shared the accolade of best footballer in the world and arguments rage over which one deserves the title of greatest player of all time. This will be the essential book to understand the defining players of a generation. Jimmy Burns is an award winning journalist and author. His previous books include The Land That Lost Its Heroes, Barca, When Beckham went to Spain, Beyond the Silver River, and the internationally acclaimed Hand Of God: The Life Of Diego Maradona. La Roja, a history of Spanish national football, was published in May 2012.
NIGHTSCAPE No Limits
.................................................................................... The phenomenal limits-busting book by online adventurer Nightscape Go here. Do that. Work here. Buy that. Spend each day bored, staring at a screen, wondering if this is really all there is. There is another way.
Boxtree August 2018 Material: Spring 2018
In his book No Limits urban exploration phenomenon Nightscape wants to inspire you to see things from a different angle. Through years of training, the city has become his playground. Now he wants to show you what the world looks like through his eyes. Full of astonishing, never-beforeseen images and stories of his incredible adventures around the world, he wants to inspire people to find their passion, whatever it may be. Don't let anyone tell you what your limits are. Nightscape is one of the fastest-growing YouTube creators. He has an online audience of over a million followers.
AN ELEPHANT IN MY KITCHEN Francoise Malby Anthony .....................................................................................
A powerful, moving sequel to the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer that tells the story of one woman's fight to protect a herd of elephants A blonde, chic Parisienne, Francoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But when she fell in love with renowned conservationist Lawrence Anthony her life took an unexpected turn. Lawrence died unexpectedly in 2012 and Francoise was left to face the tough reality of running Thula Thula without him, even though she knew very little about conservation. She was short on money, Sidgwick & Jackson poachers were capitalizing on the chaos of July 2018 Lawrence’s death, and one of their elephants was Material available charging Land Rovers on game drives and terrifying guests. There was no time to mourn Rights sold (The Elephant Whisperer) when Thula Thula’s human and animal family were Chinese: Taibei Shi depending on her. French: Edition les 3 Génies German: MVG Verlag Italian: Newton Compton
How Francoise survived and Thula Thula thrived is beautifully described in this charming, funny and poignant book. If you loved Lawrence's international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, or just want to spend time with some remarkable animals, then you won’t want to miss this sparkling book. Praise for The Elephant Whisperer: ‘In my thirty-five years of studying man/animal communication I have met only a few individuals who have the ability to enter into the metaphysical realm of the exotic animal. Lawrence Anthony has been there and back.’ ―Ralph Helfer, author of Modoc
POP SCIENCE
Serious Answers to Questions Asked in Songs
James Ball
.................................................................................... A book of hilarious and compelling answers to the most famous questions posed in pop songs, using data, facts and science. Boxtree October 2018 Material: Spring 2018
What is Love? How Soon is Now? How long has this been going on? Is this the real life? Is there life on Mars? How do you solve a problem like a Maria? They're some of the most famous questions ever asked. But do you know the answer to them? In Pop Science, James Ball gives the definitive and hilarious answers and in doing so uncovers what we have always know - pop songs are the key to life itself. James Ball is a special correspondent at BuzzFeed UK. Previously special projects editor at The Guardian, James played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden, as well as the offshore leaks, HSBC Files, Reading the Riots and Keep it in the Ground projects. At WikiLeaks he was closely involved in Cablegate – the publication of 250,000 classified US embassy cables in 2010 – as well as working on two documentaries based on the Iraq War Logs. He knows a lot about pop songs.
PSYCHEDELIC APES Alex Boese
.................................................................................. A collection of the weirdest and wackiest theories from history and science by bestselling author Alex Boese
Macmillan July 2019 Material: Autumn 2018 Previous publishers German: Rowohlt Verlag Turkish: Dogus US: St Martin’s Press
What if we’re living inside a black hole? What if we originated from viruses? What if the Tyrannosaurus Rex was a scavenger? What if Jesus Christ was actually Julius Caesar? In Psychedelic Apes, bestselling author Alex Boese will delve into the curious scientific subculture of weird theories. Thoroughly bizarre and contrary to the established norm, these ideas were often vehemently rejected by the intellectual community. From the creation of the Universe to the evolution of humans, the birth of civilisation right through to speculation on how our solar system might end, Psychedelic Apes explores some of the craziest ideas from history and science and shows that, sometimes, even the weirdest theories may be proved true! Alex Boese holds a master's degree in the history of science from the University of California, San Diego. He is the bestselling author of Elephants on Acid, Electrified Sheep and Hippo Eats Dwarf as well as being the creator and curator of www.museumofhoaxes.com. He lives near San Diego. Praise for Alex Boese: ‘Excellent accounts of some of the most important and interesting experiments in biology and psychology.’ - Simon Singh ‘Eye-popping.’ - Daily Mail
Lifestyle, Health, & Cookery ∞
TEN TO ZEN
The Ten-Minute Toolkit to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
Owen O'Kane
..................................................................................... Alleviate stress in just ten minutes per day
Bluebird December 2018 Material: Spring 2018
Each morning most of us will spend about ten minutes in the shower, ten minutes making and eating breakfast but no time at all clearing our minds. Ten to Zen is a simple, effective and fussfree guide to help you start your day in the right head-space to prepare for the challenges it may bring. Ten to Zen uses a combination of four therapeutic models – Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy – in a simple, easy-to-implement programme. You will learn: > How to settle the mind quickly > How to focus and retrain the brain on dealing with stress > How to restructure unhelpful patterns of thinking or behaviours > How to develop ways of communicating that are more effective Owen O’Kane is a Clinical Lead for a Mental Health service in the NHS with a dual medical and Psychotherapy background. He is also the founder of Ten to Zen, a business for stress management training through which he delivers workshops on Mindfulness and the Ten to Zen solution across the UK and Ireland. He grew up in Belfast during the period known as 'The Troubles', which he describes as a great training ground for understanding the anxious mind. His clients include BBC Worldwide, Goldman Sachs, BUPA, Virgin Atlantic and the NHS.
THE KINDNESS METHOD Changing Habits for Good
Shahroo Izadi
..................................................................................... Unlock the key to real, lasting change with The Kindness Method The Kindness Method is the key to breaking unwanted habits for good. By combining her own therapeutic style, personal experience and techniques learned from working in substance misuse, Shahroo Izadi shares simple steps that help strengthen your willpower like a muscle, so you can sustain motivation for the long haul. Bluebird May 2018 Material available
Shahroo shares her totally non-judgmental and flexible process for mapping and changing your habits, based on treating yourself with the compassion and understanding that would normally be reserved for others. It works for everything from procrastination to alcohol consumption and body positivity because the plan is bespoke: mapped by you, for you and driven by self-motivation. Shahroo will teach how to: 1. Believe you can change 2. Clarify your reasons for changing 3. Plan how you’re going to do it 4. Prepare for what is likely to throw you off track Start mapping your habits, setting your own goals with honesty and start treating yourself with the kindness you truly deserve! Shahroo Izadi is a Behavioural Change Specialist, and also a support group facilitator and therapist. Her work has been featured on BBC Radio 1, Red magazine, the Telegraph and Psychologies.
A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO BEING MENTAL Natasha Devon MBE
..................................................................................... ‘Am I normal?’ ‘What’s an anxiety disorder?’ ‘Does therapy work?’ ‘How would I know if someone had an eating disorder?’
Bluebird September 2018 Material available
These are just a few of the questions Natasha Devon is asked as she travels the UK campaigning for better mental health awareness and provision. Here, Natasha calls upon experts in the fields of psychology, neuroscience and anthropology to debunk and demystify the full spectrum of mental health. From A (Anxiety) to Z (Zero F*cks – the art of high self-esteem) via everything from body image and gender to differentiating ‘sadness’ from ‘depression’. Statistically, one in three of us will experience symptoms of a mental illness during our lifetimes. Yet all of us have a brain, and so we ALL have mental health – regardless of age, sexuality, race or background. The past few years have seen an explosion in awareness, yet it seems there is still widespread confusion. A Beginner's Guide to Being Mental is for anyone who wants to have this essential conversation, written as only Natasha, with her combination of expertise, personal experience and humour, knows how. Natasha Devon MBE is a writer and social critic. She travels schools and colleges delivering classes and conducting research with teenagers, teachers and parents on mental health, body image and social equality.
THE STRANGER ON THE BRIDGE
My Journey from Despair to Hope
Jonny Benjamin & Britt Pflüger ....................................................................................
‘In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.’ - HRR Prince William In 2008, twenty year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Bluebird May 2018 Material available
Fast forward to 2014 and Jonny started a campaign to find the stranger who put him on the path to recovery. The campaign gained the attention of 319 million people on social media, the world’s media, and Jonny’s story appeared on TV shows all over the world. Eventually the stranger, whose name is Neil Laybourn, was found and the pair reunited and have remained firm friends ever since. The Stranger on the Bridge is a memoir of the journey Jonny made both personally, and publicly to not only find the person who saved his life, but also to explore how he got to the bridge in the first place and how he continues to manage his diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. Using extracts from diaries Jonny has been writing from the age of thirteen, this book is a deeply personal memoir with a unique insight on mental health. Jonny Benjamin is an ambassador for Heads Together, a partnership with The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Mind and 12 other mental health charities to help to change the national conversation on mental health.
TRUE YOU
A Handbook to Connect you to your Inner Power
Jasmine Hemsley & Susie Pearl .....................................................................................
A self-help manual of small but key changes to create a profound, positive impact on your mind, body and soul
Bluebird December 2018 Material: Spring 2018
A handbook to upgrade your life, find balance and live with authenticity. True You is full of practical insights to help you stay centered in the chaos, from ideas on how to design your life by managing your thoughts and words, to removing negative programming with techniques to connect to your inner calm and find your magic spark. Follow simple morning routines to energize your day with mindfulness and meditation tools, and put that monkey mind to rest with self-care bedtime rituals. Gain the knowledge to nourish the mind and body with sensory living, from sound healing to creativity and kindness: this is the wisdom of the ages woven into modern living. True You combines Susie Pearl’s expertise as a personal transformation coach with Jasmine Hemsley’s passion for 360-degree wellbeing to create an inspiring guide to becoming the best version of you. Jasmine Hemsley is the co-founder of the Hemsley + Hemsley brand and cafe at Selfridges, and bestselling author of East by West (Bluebird), The Art of Eating Well and Good + Simple (Ebury). Susie Pearl is the author of Instructions for Happiness and Success and a coach who has collaborated with celebrities from Paul McKenna and Paul McCartney to David Lynch and Dr Richard Bandler. Susie runs an international coaching business that creates new strategies for positive living.
Delicious recipes to enjoy in minutes with multi-million-copy bestselling author Joe Wicks
JOE'S 30 MINUTE MEALS Publishing September 2018
Bestselling author Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, presents this gorgeous book featuring more than 100 nutritious recipes that are perfect for sharing. Proving once again that you don't need loads of time to cook great food, Joe’s 30-Minute Meals is packed with everyday healthy dishes that you'll want to make, time and time again. Most chapters are simply organised by main ingredient, making it easy to find a dish for every occasion. Every recipe is labelled as either reduced-carb or carb-refuel – this makes the book a brilliant addition for those already familiar with Joe's eating structure (carbs following workouts or on active days), but the meals are also enjoyable and tasty for all, whether you are following Joe's plan or not. Whether you're looking for a crowd-pleasing lunch like the Bang Bang Chicken Stir-Fry or something tasty to chuck in the oven at the end of a long day such as Joe’s Sausage and Mushroom Pie, Joe's 30-Minute Meals makes it easy to make a fuss-free, tasty plate of food, every single day. Joe Wicks has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum and gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards. Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers.
Get ready for the first veggie cookbook from the bestselling author & fitness sensation Inside are 100 flavour-packed vegetarian recipes, many of which are also vegan, plus five exclusive Body Coach HIIT workouts
VEGGIE LEAN IN 15 Joe Wicks Publishing December 2018
From Smoky Sweet Potato Chilli to Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli with Salsa Verde, Veggie Lean in 15 features a fantastic range of meat-free dishes, all prepared in 15 minutes flat. The recipes are ideal for full- and part-time veggies, as well as those wishing to cut down on eating meat in a healthy and delicious way. Joe highlights the best food to eat on rest days and active days, making it easy to fuel workouts and keep lean. There are also plenty of make-ahead ideas to get you prepping like a boss in no time at all. Joe has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum and gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards. Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all his books have been nonfiction number one bestsellers. Series publishers: Hainan (Chinese simple), Business Weekly (Chinese complex), Slovart (Czech), Strandberg (Danish), Kosmos (Dutch), Varrak (Estonian), WSOY (Finnish), Larousse (French), Goldmann (German), Psichogios (Greek), Könyvmolyképzo (Hungary), TEA (Italian), Zvaigzne ABC (Latvian), Jotema (Lithuanuan), Gyldendal (Norwegian), Zysk (Polish), Rocco (Portuguese/Brazil), Clube do Autor (Portuguese), Lifestyle (Romanian), Exmo (Russian), Slovart (Slovak), Pipinova Knjiga (Slovene), Roca Editorial (Spanish), Bonnier (Swedish), and US (William Morrow)
PRUE
My Favourite Recipes From a Lifetime of Cooking and Eating
Prue Leith
..................................................................................... A treasure trove of fantastic recipes from the founder of Leith’s School of Food and Wine and Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith
Bluebird September 2018 Material: Spring 2018
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith draws on a life-long passion for food with 100 recipes from her own kitchen table. Whether it’s Halibut with Green Linguine, Fast Roast Teriyaki Lamb or Slowcooked Rat-a-tat-touille, these are delicious, fussfree dishes that Prue has cooked countless times for family and friends. Inside are quick-to-whip-up suppers and dinner party showstoppers that are as much a pleasure to cook as to eat. Expect firmly established favourites, lazy leftovers, meat-free meals, exciting new flavour combinations and fresh takes on classic dishes. There’s also a chapter of puds inspired by Prue’s time on Bake Off – every one guaranteed to be ‘worth the calories’. This is Prue's first cookery book in 25 years, and she has woven intimate and witty stories from her life around many of the recipes. Celebrating the food we all want to make at home, Prue gives an unparalleled view into the cooking life and style of one of the nation’s best-loved cooks. Prue Leith has been at the top of the British food scene for nearly 60 years. Well known as a judge on The Great British Menu, now she is a judge on the nation’s favourite TV programme, The Great British Bake Off. Prue was born in South Africa and lives in the UK.
THE DIRTY DISHES
100 Fast and Delicious Recipes
Isaac Carew
..................................................................................... A classically inspired, simple guide to creating impressive and delicious dishes at home
Bluebird March 2019 Material: Spring 2018
Chef-turned-model Isaac Carew takes it back to the kitchen in The Dirty Dishes, his début cookbook sharing the classic and flavourful dishes that inspired his love of food. Isaac started in the kitchen at a young age, helping out his dad and godfather, who are also both chefs, cleaning leafy greens and mussels. In his teens, he qualified as a chef himself and went on to work in Angela Hartnett’s kitchens in restaurants in London (The Connaught) and Miami. Since then, and through a high-profile modelling career, Isaac has nurtured his passion for great cooking and delicious food with the fashion capitals of the world as his muse. With The Dirty Dishes, Isaac is returning to his first love and has produced a fresh, modern, delicious collection of 100 recipes: from easy weekday suppers to late night bites. Isaac shares new takes on popular dishes such as the Poached Salmon Niçoise to the more adventurous Tamarind Treacle Tart, there are dishes to tempt and treat friends or to enjoy on your own. The Dirty Dishes reveals secrets of Isaac's culinary training with step-by-step guides making it easy for anyone to make incredible, great tasting food. Isaac Carew has worked in kitchens since the age of eight, and trained at culinary school for two years before getting his big break in 2007 cooking alongside Angela Hartnett at The Connaught and Cielo in Miami. After a successful modelling career, in 2016 Isaac launched The Dirty Dishes, a website and YouTube channel dedicated to easy, delicious meals.