PROFILE BOOKS Autumn 2020
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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division Elif Shafak The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on what it means to be human in an age of uncertainty When it feels like everything is falling apart, how do we remain optimistic? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division? In this beautifully written and illuminating polemic, Booker Prize nominee Elif Shafak reflects on our age of pessimism, when emotions guide and misguide our politics, and misinformation and fear are the norm. A tender, uplifting plea for optimism, Shafak draws on her own memories and delves into the power of stories to reveal how writing can nurture democracy, tolerance and progress. And in the process, she answers one of the most urgent questions of our time.
Elif Shafak is an award-winning novelist and the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019, and her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science, is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED global speaker. In 2019, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
July Politics/Self-Help A format paperback 96pp ÂŁ3.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 572 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 728 2 WxUSAC Audiobook available
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How Are We Going to Explain This? Our Future on a Hot Earth
Jelmer Mommers An international bestseller, the first climate book that doesn’t leave the reader depressed: realistic and hopeful, witty and clarifying The climate debate leads to so much division. What the hell are we supposed to do? For many of us the answer is: look away. Tom, one of my best friends, is looking away. He told me the other day when we had coffee. He wants to live his life without feeling bad about the state of the earth all the time. I understand Tom. And yet I believe desperation can be the beginning of something new. This book is for all the Toms out there. For anyone who tends to look away, but also knows that this is not a solution.
July Popular Science/Society B format paperback 256pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 493 1 eISBN 978 1 78283 674 2 Audiobook available World
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Jelmer Mommers is a climate journalist based in Amsterdam. He made world headlines when he uncovered an alarmist climate documentary made by Shell in 1991, and again when he released internal Shell documents showing the company’s internal research into global warming. Those documents are now being used in court cases against the oil giant worldwide.
Notes from Deep Time A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
Helen Gordon The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together
From the secret fossils of London to the 3-billionyear-old rocks of the Scottish Highlands, and from state-of-the-art Californian laboratories to one of the world’s most dangerous volcanic complexes hidden beneath the green hills of western Naples, set out on an adventure to those parts of the world where the Earth’s life story is written into the landscape. Helen Gordon turns a novelist’s eye on the extraordinary scientists who are piecing together this planetary drama. She gets to grips with the theory that explains how it all works – plate tectonics, a breakthrough as significant in its way as evolution or quantum mechanics, but much younger than either, and still with many secrets to reveal. And she looks to the future of our world, with or without us.
Helen Gordon’s books include a novel, Landfall (Penguin, 2011), and Being A Writer, a compendium written with Travis Elborough (Frances Lincoln, 2017). She is married to an earth scientist and lives mostly in the Holocene.
July Nature/Popular Science Royal hardback 320pp £20 ISBN 978 1 78816 163 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 504 2 UK & Commonwealth Exclusive Europe
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The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail
Miek Zwamborn A beautifully illustrated little book that will open your eyes at the seaside
Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names – pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack – are largely unknown to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. Seaweed troubled Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic, intrigued von Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea and inspired artists from Hokusai to Matisse. Covering seaweed’s collection by Victorians, its adoption into fashion and dance and its potential for combating climate change, and with a fabulous series of recipes based around the ‘truffles of the sea’, this is a wonderful gift for every nature lover’s home.
July Nature 190 x 133mm Hardback 192pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 546 4 eISBN 978 1 78283 719 0 UK & Commonwealth
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Miek Zwamborn is an artist, novelist and poet. She lives and works on the Isle of Mull, in the Hebrides, where she runs a project working to explore the natural environment – and particularly its bountiful seaweed – with scientists, designers and artists.
Signs of Life To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor
Stephen Fabes A young doctor cycles round the world and discovers how societies treat their most vulnerable, in this thought-provoking and witty medical odyssey
In 2010 Stephen Fabes rode away from his career as an emergency doctor in London, on a journey that would see him ride the length of six continents; a cycling circumnavigation which took six years. Signs of Life is his story of a world of challenges – from Tajik camel spiders to camping on a frozen lake in Mongolia, to coaxing another few kilometres out of ‘Ol’ Patchy’ (his faithful inner tube), and of fascinating interactions with the people of seventyfive countries; from hospitable nomads and curious children to vindictive border guards and gangsters. It is also a story of medicine calling Stephen back; he recalls his first pronouncement of death as he examines the frozen body of a monk high in the Himalayas; he is drawn into treating patients at a leprosy clinic; he helps refugees at The Jungle in Calais. All the while, he reflects on how societies treat their most vulnerable and draws comparisons with the lost souls he had treated back home in London; people who he resolves to truly listen to, when he returns to his vocation.
Stephen Fabes is an A&E doctor at St Thomas’ and Homerton hospitals in London. His search for adventure began as a teenager when he was often found standing on the side of a road, holding a handwritten sign saying ‘Anywhere’. He writes and appears in the media frequently, both at home and abroad, and still suffers from wanderlust.
August Travel/Memoir Demy hardback 400pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 121 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 477 9 WxUSAC Exclusive Europe
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Pocket World in Figures 2021 The new edition of this annual bestseller, packed with amazing data about the world in 2021
For nearly thirty years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world. Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Zambia is the most entrepreneurial country on earth, that Qatar uses the most energy per head of population and that the Virgin Islands have the fourth highest murder rate of any region in the world? This new edition includes data from over 180 countries, presented in a series of rankings and country profiles. Updated, revised and expanded each year to include new rankings and features, it also includes detailed statistical profiles of more than sixty-five of the world’s major economies, the euro area and the world itself. The 2021 edition showcases the Economist’s strength in data journalism with charts and graphs, and invites readers to test their knowledge with a fiendishly difficult quiz.
August Reference Hardback 256pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 497 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 676 6 WxUSAC
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The Velvet Rope Economy How Inequality Became Big Business
Nelson Schwartz A new and gripping investigation into the rise of the virtual velvet rope economy
In nearly every realm of daily life there is an invisible velvet rope that divides how we live. On one side, appointments are secured, queues are skipped and doors are opened. On the other, people fight for an empty seat on the plane, a place in line at a theme park or even a hospital bed. Schwartz shows how business innovators have stepped in to exploit the gap between the rich and everyone else, shifting services away from the masses and finding new ways to profit by serving the privileged. The frictionless world of VIP experiences seems like good business, but as this model expands, the costs are mounting. Schwartz’s gripping account takes us on a glittering, behindthe-scenes tour of this new reality – from education, to holidays to entertainment – and shows the toll the velvet rope divide is taking on society.
Nelson Schwartz has been a writer at The New York Times for a decade and covers economics. Before that, he wrote about Wall Street and banking for The Times, and also served as European economic correspondent in Paris.
August Economics Demy paperback 352pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 599 0 eISBN 978 1 78283 744 2 WxUSAC
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Dancing with the Octopus The Telling of a True Crime
Debora Harding A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die. But what if this wasn’t the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood? Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family’s disintegration, this is a darkly humourous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.
August Memoir Demy hardback 288pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 516 7 eISBN 978 1 78283 701 5 UK & Commonwealth Audiobook available
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Debora Harding wrote the final version of this story after watching Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, in 2018. A writer whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Daily Mail and elsewhere, she has trained as a mediator in restorative justice and worked in US politics, amongst other things. The mother of two children, she spent her childhood in Nebraska and Iowa and now lives in England with her British husband.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
Linda Colley Linda Colley reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advance of written constitutions Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone’s James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia’s Khayr-al-Din, a creator of the first modern Islamic constitution. Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. Whether reinterpreting Japan’s momentous 1889 constitution, or exploring the significance of the first constitution to enfranchise all adult women on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific in 1838, this is one of the most original global histories in decades.
Linda Colley is Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a Fellow of the British Academy. Among her seven books, are the awardwinning Britons: Forging the Nation, and the highlyacclaimed The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
August History Royal hardback 320pp £20 ISBN 978 1 84668 497 5 eISBN 978 1 84765 926 2 WxUSAC
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Breaking Bread with the Dead A Literary Guide to Peace in the Present
Alan Jacobs The past isn’t cancelled: it’s not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regrettable parts Should we still bother with the supposedly great works of past ages? Aristotle believed that men were naturally superior to women. Kant wrote that ‘Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.’ The Founding Fathers declared it ‘self-evident’ that all men are created equal, but nevertheless owned slaves. Small wonder that many readers prefer to close the book on the past. Rather than dwell amid the squalor of history, shouldn’t we focus our attention on hopes for a better world? The literary scholar Alan Jacobs hears you. He gets it. But you’re wrong. In a scintillating work that weaves together the Book of Genesis and Thomas Pynchon, the Roman poet Horace and Simone Weil, Jacobs shows how our encounters with the past in all its disturbing strangeness may be our best chance at winning a measure of mental freedom.
September Literary Criticism B format hardback 192pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 299 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 584 4 UK & Commonwealth
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Alan Jacobs is the Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University. He has written for the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal and Harper’s and is the author of several books, including a biography of C. S. Lewis and an essay on the pleasures of reading.
Britain at Bay The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938–1941
Alan Allport Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War? In the bleak first half of the Second World War, Britain stood alone against the Axis forces. Isolated and outmanoeuvred, it seemed as though she might fall at any moment. Only an extraordinary effort of courage – by ordinary men and women – held the line. The Second World War is the defining experience of modern British history, a new Iliad for our own times. But, as Alan Allport reveals in this, the first part of a major new two-volume history, the real story was often very different from the myth that followed it. From the subtle moral calculus of appeasement to the febrile dusts of the Western Desert, Allport interrogates every aspect of the conflict – and exposes its echoes in our own age. Challenging orthodoxy and casting fresh light on famous events, this is the real story of a clash between civilisations that remade the world in its image.
Alan Allport is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. He is the author of two previous volumes of history, Browned Off and BloodyMinded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939–1945, described by the historian Andrew Roberts as ‘Second World War history at its best’, and Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War, which won the 2010 Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award.
September History Royal hardback 608pp £25 ISBN 978 1 78125 781 4 eISBN 978 1 78283 327 7 UK & Commonwealth
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Magritte A Life
Alex Danchev The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated author of Cézanne
René Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama and fine-tuned outrageousness have all become inescapably part of our times. But these groundbreaking subversions all came from a middle-class Belgian gent, who kept a modest house in a Brussels suburb and whose first oneman show sold absolutely nothing. Through a deep examination of Magritte’s friendships and his artistic development, Alex Danchev explores the path of a highly unconventional artist who posed profound questions about the relationship between image and reality, challenged the very nature of authenticity and whose influence can be seen in the work of everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé.
September Art/History Royal hardback 464pp £25 ISBN 978 1 78125 077 8 eISBN 978 1 84765 917 0 UK & Commonwealth
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Alex Danchev, who died as he was finishing this biography, was the author of Georges Braque and Cézanne: A Life, as well as a new translation of The Letters of Paul Cézanne. He was a professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, where his archive resides.
The Black Book The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
Sybil Oldfield For the first time, discover the stories of the heroic men and women the Nazis singled out for death in their plan to invade Britain In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis’ first priority in the event of a successful invasion. Who were they? What had they done to provoke Nazi Germany? For the first time, the historian Sybil Oldfield uncovers their stories and reveals why the Nazis feared their influence. Those on the hitlist – more than half of them naturalised refugees – were many of Britain’s most gifted and humane inhabitants. Among their numbers we find the writers E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, humanitarians and religious leaders, scientists and artists, the social reformers Margery Fry and Eleanor Rathbone MP, the artists Jacob Epstein and Oskar Kokoschka. By examining these targets of Nazi hatred, Oldfield not only sheds light on the Gestapo worldview; she also movingly reveals a network of truly exemplary Britons: mavericks, moral visionaries and unsung heroes.
Sybil Oldfield is a writer and campaigner. She is emeritus reader in English at the University of Sussex, and a researcher for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
October History Royal hardback 352pp £25 ISBN 978 1 78816 508 2 eISBN 978 1 78283 697 1 World Audiobook available US
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The Lives of the Stoics Lessons on the Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to Stoicism’s greatest practitioners For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of selfmastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today’s chaotic world. But who were the Stoics? In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practised it. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. The result is a treasure trove of insights for anyone in search of living a good life.
September Philosophy/Self-Help Demy hardback 256pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 260 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 550 9 UK & Commonwealth Audiobook available
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Ryan Holiday is one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He is the author of many bestselling books including The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is the Key and The Daily Stoic. Stephen Hanselman has worked in publishing for over three decades. He received a Master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School while also studying at Harvard’s philosophy department.
The Mark of Cain War and the Human Condition
Margaret MacMillan Why do humans go to war and how has our long history of conflict shaped the world we live in?
Margaret MacMillan asks why groups, whether nations or religious sects or gangs, get into wars and why individual men and women fight. She explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have brought great change, for better and worse, to the societies that fight them. Economies, science, technology, medicine: all have been instrumental in war but have also been shaped by it. We might never have had penicillin or radar or rockets without the impetus of war. Women, who have so often been the objects of violence in war, have seen their position in some societies change for the better as the need for their involvement has grown. Finally, MacMillan examines how we think and feel about war. Writers, artists, film-makers, playwrights and composers have taken war as their theme, whether to condemn, exalt or simply puzzle about it.
Margaret MacMillan is Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Oxford and Professor of History, University of Toronto. She is the author of Women of the Raj and the international bestsellers Nixon in China and Peacemakers, which won the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize, and The War that Ended Peace, was published by Profile.
October History Royal hardback 320pp ÂŁ25 ISBN 978 1 78816 256 2 eISBN 978 1 78283 548 6 UK & Commonwealth
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World History in Figures Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer The numbers that tell the story of humanity
What was history’s biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: vast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. So, join the radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer for a dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past. Drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log each piece of demographic and econometric information that can be reliably estimated for every society that has ever existed, World History in Figures does more than tell the story of the past: it shows you the large-scale patterns.
October History/Economics Demy hardback 320pp ÂŁ14.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 192 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 519 6 WxUSAC
Professor Peter Turchin is the founder of the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics. He has authored seven books and has published 200 articles, including a dozen in such top journals as Nature, Science, and PNAS.
Dr Dan Hoyer works with Peter Turchin on the Deep Roots of the Modern World, part of the Seshat: Global History Databank Project.
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Fabric The Hidden History of the Material World
Victoria Finlay A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth – how we make it, use it and what it means to us From our earliest ancestors to babies born today, fabric is a necessary part of our everyday lives, but it’s also an opportunity for creativity, symbolism, culture and connection. Travelling across the world and bringing history to life, bestselling author Victoria Finlay investigates how and why people have made and used cloth. A century ago in Wales, women would sew their own funeral clothes over tea with friends. In Papua New Guinea, bark is stripped from trees and beaten into cloth. Harris Tweed has a particular smell, while Guatemalan weavers use dazzling colours. Uncovering the stories of the fabrics people wear and use from sacking to silk, Fabric combines science, history, tradition and art in a captivating exploration of how we live, work, craft and care.
Victoria Finlay is the critically acclaimed author of Colour – Travels Through the Paintbox and the former arts editor of the South China Morning Post. She studied social anthropology and has travelled around the world in search of stories about her subjects, from colour to jewels and fabric. As well as writing, she has worked in international development.
October Art/History Royal hardback 384pp £20 ISBN 978 1 78125 706 7 eISBN 978 1 78283 285 0 UK & Commonwealth
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Ruin and Renewal Civilising Europe After World War II
Paul Betts A major new history of post-war Europe
In 1945, Europe lay in ruins – its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened – and to forge a new understanding of civilisation that would bring peace and progress to a broken continent. As they wrestled with questions great and small – from the legacy of colonialism to workplace etiquette – institutions and shared ideals emerged which still shape our world today. Drawing on original sources as well as individual stories and voices, this is a gripping and authoritative account of how Europe rebuilt itself – and what we, in the twenty-first century, could lose again.
November History Royal hardback 512pp £25 ISBN 978 1 78816 109 1 eISBN 978 1 78283 472 4 UK & Commonwealth
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Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic and The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design.
The Aeneid A New Translation
Shadi Bartsch A fresh new translation of Vergil’s Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature – and maybe even western civilisation – might have taken a different course. The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universities, and has been invoked at key points of human history – whether by Saint Augustine to illustrate the fallen nature of the soul, by settlers to justify manifest destiny in North America, or by Mussolini in support of his fascist regime. In this fresh and fast-paced translation of the Aeneid, Shadi Bartsch brings the poem to the modern reader. Along with the translation, her introduction will guide the reader to a deeper understanding of the epic’s enduring influence.
Shadi Bartsch is the Regenstein Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. She is the author or editor of fourteen books on the the ancient world and imperial roman literature, the most recent of which is Persius: A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural, which won the 2016 Goodwin Award of Merit.
November Ancient History/Poetry Demy Hardback 352pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 267 8 eISBN 978 1 78283 559 2 UK & Commonwealth
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The Colour Code Why We See Red and Feel Blue
Paul Simpson A kaleidoscopic investigation into the meaning of colour that will change the way you see the spectrum How many colours are there? The West tends to go for seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Pirahã tribe in the Amazon have no words for the spectrum. Colour isn’t something we see; it’s something we think. In The Colour Code Paul Simpson takes our key eleven colours and explores the meanings we give to them: how they have shaped our evolution as a species, persuaded us in politics and culture and allowed us to express or oppress personal freedoms. It looks, too, at why colours mean different things to different people. Charting the significance of each of these major colours in our lives, The Colour Code investigates such issues as the gender of pink, the sinister side of green, the decadence of yellow, the performancediminishing impact of grey and the ways in which orange has shaped power in Europe.
November Cultural History Demy hardback 288pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 626 8 eISBN 978 1 78283 242 3 World US
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Paul Simpson writes on culture. An award-winning journalist, he launched the renowned football monthly FourFourTwo and has edited the UK Design Council magazine. He has written books on cult movies, Elvis Presley and Tolkien, and became interested in colour after buying a yellow suit and being told he couldn’t wear it to the office.
Genesis The Ultimate Story of Creation
Guido Tonelli A lyrical, ecstatic account of the origin of the universe and creation of our world from a central player in the discovery of the Higgs boson particle Perhaps the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe did indeed spring from chaos. What, in that case, transpired in its first moments? Scientists around the world are prying open all the hidden crevices of creation in search of answers, probing the subtle mechanisms by which our familiar world came to be, and trying to foretell the fashion in which it will end. Our scientists might be armed with giant telescopes and powerful particle accelerators, yet their goal is the same one that has impelled the human imagination since ancient times: to show us our place in the universe. The result of their collective efforts is a complex story. At times it stretches the imagination just as much as the old creation myths. But its building blocks give us the power to work marvels our predecessors could scarcely comprehend. In Genesis, the CERN physicist and bestselling author Guido Tonelli sets out ‘to do justice to the great origin story that modern science gives us’.
Guido Tonelli is an Italian particle physicist, and one of the leaders in the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN. He is a professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa. Genesis was a bestseller on release in Italy.
November Popular Science Demy hardback 224pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 510 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 698 8 UK & Commonwealth
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Murder in Midwinter Ten Classic Crime Stories for Christmas
Edited by Cecily Gayford Murder served ice-cold …
Midwinter. As snow falls softly outside and frost sparkles on tree branches, it’s time to curl up before a roaring fire, wrap your hands around a steaming mug of mulled wine, and forget your worries for now. But as the temperature drops outside, malice is sharpening its claws … and murder walks abroad. In these classic stories of mystery and mayhem, let ten of the history’s great crime writers surprise and delight you with twists and turns as shocking as an icicle in the heart.
November Crime B format paperback 240pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 614 0 eISBN 978 1 78816 615 7 UK & Commonwealth
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Cecily Gayford studied English at the University of Oxford, where she wrote her thesis on the ‘golden age’ detective stories of the 1930s and 40s. Now an Editorial Director, she has worked at Profile Books for eight years.
Unconventional Wisdom Adventures in the Surprisingly True
Tom Standage Another collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house’s value? How are winemakers responding to climate change? How much should you tip your Uber driver? Should your dog fear Easter more than fireworks? The keen minds of The Economist love to look beyond everyday appearances to find out what really makes things tick. In this latest collection of The Economist Explains, they have gathered the weirdest and most counterintuitive answers they’ve found in their endless quest to explain our bizarre world. Take a peek at some Unconventional Wisdom – and pass it on! The world only gets more amazing when discoveries are shared.
Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist. He is the author of several books, including Uncommon Knowledge, Seriously Curious, Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years and The Victorian Internet. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Wired.
November Economics B format paperback 288pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 613 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 751 0 WxUSAC
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How Toddlers Thrive What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2–5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success
Tovah P. Klein How to understand and parent your toddler to ensure they grow up to be fulfilled adults Why do some children thrive and others struggle? Leading toddler expert Dr Tovah P. Klein reveals why age two to five years is the most crucial time for a child’s brain development and how parents can harness this period to have a lifelong positive effect on their children’s lives. Based on extensive research with toddlers, How Toddlers Thrive explains what is happening in children’s brains and bodies at this age that makes their behaviour so turbulent, and why your reaction to their behaviour – the way you speak to, speak about and act towards your toddler – holds the key to a successful tomorrow and a happier today. With chapters on everyday routines, tantrums, managing change and avoiding toddler shaming, this smart and useful guide will inspire you to be a better parent.
August Psychology/Parenting B format paperback 320pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 550 1 eISBN 978 1 78283 721 3 UK & Commonwealth
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Tovah P. Klein, PhD, is a leading child development psychologist and the Director of the Barnard College Center for Toddler Development in Manhattan. She consults internationally on parenting children in the early years and has contributed to publications including The New York Times, Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal. She is the mother of three boys and lives in New York.
This Book Will Make You Kinder An Empathy Handbook
Henry James Garrett A sweetly illustrated examination of what makes us kind
Why are you kind? This book will make you kinder by introducing you to your empathy, and by pointing out what limits that empathy. Not just the everyday kindness of taking out your neighbour’s bins – the strong, courageous, moral kindness of fighting cruelty. It’s needed now more than ever. Unkindness has been given new energy in recent years. So get to know your empathy a little better. Where it comes from, and why every human – and some animals – have it. Empathy is what makes us kind, but it must be combined with a conscious effort to learn about different kinds of people. A world in which everyone acted on their empathy would be a very kind world indeed. Let’s work towards that world.
Henry James Garrett has written and illustrated for The New York Times, created Valentine’s cards for The Fawcett Society, provided a drawing of Meghan Markle’s dog as a gift for her, cartooned for the i Newspaper, Buzzfeed and London Pride, had solo exhibitions in London and in a beautiful phonebox in Brighton and made greetings cards.
November Humour/Gift B format hardback 208pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 548 8 eISBN 978 1 78283 720 6 UK & Commonwealth
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories 25th Anniversary Edition with a new story: Pinocchio
James Finn Garner A bestselling, witty, contemporary parody of traditional fairy tales, now with the story of ‘Pinocchio’ In this bestselling classic, James Finn Garner has rewritten classic stories for more enlightened times; from Snow White’s relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, to the Emperor who was not naked but was endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle. At last, here is bedtime reading free from prejudice and discrimination against witches, giants, dwarves, goblins and fairies everywhere. For anyone brought up on sexist, racist, sizeist and ethnocentrist reading matter, James Finn Garner’s stories have been purged of the influence of an insensitive cultural past to become fables for our times.
November Humour 175 x 129mm hardback 128pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 513 6 eISBN 978 0 28564 062 7 World US
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James Finn Garner was born in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. He performed comedy in Chicago nightclubs for a number of years and is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, Once Upon A More Enlightened Time and Politically Correct Holiday Stories. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
Marmalade Jane McCosh The founder of the world’s first marmalade festival tells her story along with the history of marmalade
What is it that drives people back into the kitchen in the dark days of January, after the excesses of Christmas, to undertake the laborious and messy process of making marmalade? Is it the same urge that inspired Jane McCosh, in the inclement Cumbrian winter, to start a marmalade festival from scratch, without any indication that the world needed or wanted one? Mention marmalade, and a family story is never far away, nor is a recommendation to eat it with cheese or sausages. This is a jar-half-full celebration of marmalade and its universal goodness and the story of a festival that has defied all expectations. A book to press on friends, relations and marmalade lovers everywhere.
Jane McCosh was a young bride when she moved into Dalemain Mansion, a draughty, haunted eighteenthcentury stately home outside Penrith. As the new daughter-in-law, she was told that the house was the family business, and was put in charge of the tea rooms. Her aim in starting the Marmalade Festival was to ‘bring people to my tea rooms in February’.
November Food/Memoir B format hardback 224pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 489 4 eISBN 978 1 78283 672 8 World US
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The Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Julia Cameron The multi-million-copy bestseller in hardback and paperback: discover your innate creativity with The Artist’s Way
April Creativity/Self-Help 228 x 187mm hardback 272pp £25 ISBN 978 1 78816 428 3 eISBN 978 0 28564 126 6 UK & Commonwealth Audiobook available
November Creativity/Self-Help 228 x 187mm paperback 272pp £16.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 429 0 UK & Commonwealth
Since its first publication, The Artist’s Way has inspired the genius of Elizabeth Gilbert, Tim Ferriss, Reese Witherspoon and millions of other readers to embark on a creative journey and find a deeper connection to process and purpose. Julia Cameron guides readers in uncovering problems and pressure points that may be restricting their creative flow and offers techniques to open up opportunities for self-growth and self-discovery. A revolutionary programme for personal renewal, The Artist’s Way will help get you back on track, rediscover your passions, and take the steps you need to change your life.
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The Artist’s Way Workbook Julia Cameron A new, gorgeously repackaged edition of the classic companion to The Artist’s Way
For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through The Artist’s Way: a workbook and companion to the international bestseller. In this elegantly redesigned and user-friendly volume you’ll find: – More than 110 Artist’s Way tasks – More than 50 Artist’s Way check-ins – Insights into the creative process – New ideas for Morning Pages and Artist’s Dates The Artist’s Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the path to creativity laid out in The Artist’s Way.
Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation – in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than forty books, fiction and non-fiction, as well a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. The Artist’s Way has been translated into forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.
September Creativity/Self-Help 298 x 244mm hardback 176pp £15.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 430 6 eISBN 978 0 28563 994 2 UK & Commonwealth
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing
Betty Edwards A workbook of 40 exercises to accompany the acclaimed drawing guide Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook accompanies the world’s most widely used drawing instruction book by Betty Edwards. This workbook reinforces the five basic skills of drawing and includes: – 40 exercises to practise your drawing abilities – A range of subject matters from portrait drawing and still life, to landscapes and imaginative drawing – Advice for a variety of mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal and graphite – A pull-out viewfinder tool The original Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain helps artists to nurture the creative right side of the brain, dramatically improving your ability to draw, whether you are a professional, an artist in training or someone who draws for a hobby. This workbook will help you practise that knowledge with success at every step.
August Drawing/Art 276 x 216 mm paperback 176pp £15.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 366 8 UK & Commonwealth
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Dr Betty Edwards is an American art teacher, lecturer and author of the preeminent book on its subject, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now retired from her position as Professor Emeritus of Art at California State University in Long Beach, she continues to write, consult and participate in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshops. She lives in California.
Create Your Own Midlife Crisis Marie Phillips We all ask ourselves ‘How did I get here?’ So try running away or sexting without ruining your life To run away to Brazil, turn to p.34. To get a tattoo, turn to p. 47. To burn your house down, turn to p.145. Midway through our lives, we wonder how we ended up here and whether there’s a way out. There must have been a crucial turning point, but there’s no way to start again. Here’s your chance to try all the roads not taken. But beware: all choices come at a cost ... Yelpingly funny, horribly relatable, this is a compulsively readable book-as-game which – just like real life – you can never truly win.
November Humour/Gift B format paperback 192pp £7.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 393 4 eISBN 978 1 78283 637 7 UK & Commonwealth
Realms of the Human Unconscious Observations from LSD research
Stanislav Grof The classic work by one of the founding fathers of consciousness research Dr Stanislav Grof constructs a comprehensive framework out of the bewildering wealth of experiences triggered by LSD in research subjects. Current research into the brain and ways of expanding consciousness give this seminal book, first published in 1979, new importance for the light it throws on many fundamental human potentialities.
November Psychology B format paperback 320pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 371 2 eISBN 978 0 28564 366 6 UK & Commonwealth 37
Weep Not For Me In Memory of a Beloved Cat
Constance Jenkins A beautiful poem to help comfort those who have experienced the loss of a beloved pet
February Poetry/Gift 150 x 111 mm hardback 32pp £5.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 612 6 World
The death of a beloved companion animal can cause as much grief as the death of a human being. Weep Not For Me is a moving poem providing the comfort that helps to bring acceptance of a pet’s death, complemented by illustrator Pat Schaverien’s etchings of cats.
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HypnoBirthing The breakthrough approach to safer, easier, more comfortable birthing
Marie Mongan The original guide by the inventor of hypnobirthing
September Pregnancy & Childbirth Demy paperback 336pp £14.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 622 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 452 6 UK & Commonwealth 38
Invented by Marie Mongan, HypnoBirthing is about understanding the birthing body and learning how to progress your labour using movement, breath and powerful visualisation techniques to manage pain. Whether you are having a natural, assisted or caesarean delivery, this complete guide will help every woman take control for a positive birth.
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Letters from Tove A revelation and a gift for all Tove Jansson and Moomin fans
Selected by Boel Westin and Helen Svensson
September 2020 Diaries, Letters & Journals Demy paperback 496pp £14.99 ISBN 978 1 90874 584 2 UK & Commonwealth
‘Reading her letters (to her mother, friends, lovers) was a revelation. I thought: “Finally, it’s her own authentic voice.”’ Sophia Jansson, Radio Times ‘Letters from Tove offers readers the privilege of spending time inside an intelligent, creative, curious, generous mind.’ Anna Carey, Irish Times
Celebrating 75 Years of THE MOOMINS
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The Peter Principle Why Things Always Go Wrong
Dr Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull ‘The classic book which warned of the dangers of over-promotion’ The Times
In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence. This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over forty years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up a hierarchy inevitably leads to over-promotion and incompetence. Through barbed anecdotes and wry humour the authors define the problem and show how anyone, whether at the top or bottom of the career ladder, can avoid its pitfalls. Or, indeed, avoid promotion entirely!
October Business B format paperback 192pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 605 8 WxUSAC
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Laurence J. Peter was born in Canada and received an EdD from Washington State University. An experienced teacher, counselor, school psychologist, prison instructor, consultant and university professor, he wrote articles for many journals as well as several books. He died in 1990. Raymond Hull wrote many stage plays as well as articles for Punch, Maclean’s and Esquire. He died in 1985.
Where Power Stops The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
David Runciman How character defines and limits the holders of the highest offices in the UK and America ‘An insightful dissection of political leaders with high expectations’ Financial Times ‘Innumerable hair-raising stories’ Literary Review ‘Entertaining and readable’ Herald Scotland
March Politics B format paperback 224pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 334 7 eISBN 978 1 78283 599 8 Audiobook available US
Trials of the State Law and the Decline of Politics
Jonathan Sumption Judges are meant to interpret laws but, increasingly, they make them ‘Brisk, entertaining, brilliant ... one of the great lawyers of our time’ Sunday Times ‘Magisterial’ The Times
March Politics B format paperback 128pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 373 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 622 3
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Breaking & Mending A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion & Burnout
Joanna Cannon The unforgettable memoir from the bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep ‘One of the most beautiful books you will ever read’ Kate Mosse
July Memoir/Health B format paperback 176pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 058 2 eISBN 978 1 78283 452 6 Audiobook available
‘I tore through Breaking and Mending ... frank, emotional and compassionate’ David Nicholls ‘The story of the struggling NHS has been told in several excellent books recently, and this is among the best. We need to listen.’ Guardian
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Mindf*ck Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World
Christopher Wylie
‘Fascinating and hugely readable ... valuable and revelatory’ Sunday Times July Current Affairs B format paperback 288pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 500 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 677 3 Audiobook available 44
‘A devastating indictment of a political culture out of control.’ Herald ‘Freewheeling and profane’ The New York Times
Red Card FIFA and the Fall of the Most Powerful Men in Sports
Ken Bensinger The full story behind FIFA’s headline-grabbing corruption scandal, soon to be a major film ‘A forensic dissection of the FIFA corruption scandal that fizzes with the ferocious energy of a superior thriller’ Mail on Sunday ‘Red Card is the meeting of American investigative reporting and real-life cop show.’ Financial Times ‘A powerful piece of reportage’ Herald
July Sport B format paperback 368pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 672 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 266 9 Audiobook available
Reef Life An Underwater Memoir
Callum Roberts A life working on coral reefs by Britain’s foremost marine scientist and pioneering conservationist
‘A vibrant memoir of the joys, as well as the grind, of a research career beginning in the 1980s that has spanned a golden age of coral reef science’ Guardian ‘Compulsory reading for scuba divers and armchair divers alike’ BBC Wildlife ‘Part odyssey, part “Reef Ecology 101” ... witty and vivid’ Nature
July Memoir/Popular Science B format paperback 384pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 216 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 532 5 A 45
Where There’s A Will Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent
Emily Chappell Emily Chappell’s story of transformation into a cross-continental bike racer
January Sport/Cycling B format paperback 288pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 152 7 eISBN 978 1 78283 491 5 US
‘Emily Chappell is one of the most inspiring athletes on the planet. Humble, tender and alive with unimaginable grit, this book makes us see just how much is possible.’ Chris Cleave, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven ‘A beautifully written and intimate book’ TLS ‘A first-class cyclist and an even better writer’ Robert Penn, author of It’s All About the Bike
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Beneath the Skin Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Naomi Alderman et al. A timely, triumphant celebration of our embodiment ‘These essays lift back the skin to reveal something secret and precious, articulating private truths and distilling sensation into language.’ i August Essays/Health B format paperback 192pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 096 4 eISBN 978 1 78283 467 0
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Including Naomi Alderman, Ned Beauman, A. L. Kennedy, Thomas Lynch, Imtiaz Dharker, Philip Kerr and many more
Going Home A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
Raja Shehadeh Raja Shehadeh reflects on ageing, failure, the occupation and the changing face of Ramallah ‘Going Home cements the author’s reputation as the best-known Palestinian writing in English.’ Guardian ‘Personal and political, human and geographical histories are beautifully intertwined and preserved’ Spectator ‘Palestine’s greatest prose writer’ Observer
August Current Affairs/Memoir B format paperback 208pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 307 1 eISBN 978 1 78283 582 0 A
The Making of You A Journey from Cell to Human
Katharina Vestre It’s the first great mystery: where did you come from? ‘Vestre has a rare talent for breaking down complex biology and turning it into something captivating and compelling.’ Linda Geddes, Bumpology ‘Engrossing ... has the knack of sparking wonder’ Nature ‘Captivating’ The Bookseller
August Health/Science B format paperback 176pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 184 8 eISBN 978 1 78283 513 4 A 47
This Life Why Mortality Makes Us Free
Martin Hägglund A serious and original philosopher explores the purpose of your life ‘A splendid primer in the importance of authentic freedom.’ Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek minister of finance and author of Adults in the Room August Philosophy B format paperback 464pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 301 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 579 0
‘This is a rare piece of work, the product of great intellectual strength and moral fortitude. Hägglund is a genuine moralist for our times.’ Simon Critchley, author of Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us ‘Challenged my beliefs ... the time seems ripe for a radical rethink of how we live.’ Guardian
The Gravediggers 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic
Rüdiger Barth and Hauke Friederichs A gripping day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic
August History B format paperback 416pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 073 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 459 5 A 48
‘A sharply focused study of the many poor decisions that ended with Hitler’s taking power … In this meticulously researched narrative, the authors emphasize that stupidity, not destiny, led to the Third Reich.’ Kirkus
Great State China and the World
Timothy Brook The last eight centuries of China’s relationship with the world ‘Great State offers some compelling lessons for today, and for all our futures.’ New Statesman PRAISE FOR VERMEER’S HAT ‘Spellbinding ... as a guide to the world behind the pictures Vermeer’s Hat is mind-expanding.’ Sunday Times
September History B format paperback 464pp £10.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 829 3 eISBN 978 1 78283 347 5 Audiobook available
Long Live Latin The Pleasures of a Useless Language
Nicola Gardini A celebration of the beauty of this not so dead language
‘Brilliant’ Harry Mount ‘This love-letter to Latin enthrals, illuminates, and convinces. Nobody could possibly describe Latin as a dead or useless language after reading it.’ David Crystal ‘Highlighting the particular charms in the styles and attitudes of Latin’s greatest writers, this book will open many eyes to the unexpected pleasures of Latin.’ Nicholas Ostler, author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
September Language B format paperback 320pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 940 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 399 4 A 49
Confessions of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FOLLOW-UP TO DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER ‘Bythell has a good ear for the absurd and a mundane telemarketing call becomes comedy gold.’ The Times September Memoir B format paperback 336pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 231 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 539 4 Audiobook available
‘The best parts are irreverently funny and only borderline legal ... has kept me giggling all week.’ Scotland on Sunday ‘All the ingredients for a gentle human comedy are here, as soothing as a bag of boiled sweets and just as tempting to dip into.’ Literary Review
People Like Us What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
Hashi Mohamed
‘A vital work of courage and hope, by a truly remarkable individual.’ Philippe Sands September Memoir B format paperback 256pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 113 8 eISBN 978 1 78816 111 4 Audiobook available 50
‘Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesn’t have to leave a part of themselves behind to achieve it.’ David Lammy
A Cheesemonger’s History of The British Isles Ned Palmer A celebration of cheese to go perfectly with your Christmas Stilton ‘His encounters with modern-day practitioners fizz with infectious delight.’ Sunday Times ‘A delightful and informative romp ... a fine Christmas present.’ Guardian ‘A beautifully textured tour around the cheeseboard.’ Simon Garfield
October Food/Gift B format paperback 384pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 117 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 475 5 US
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Michael Rosen’s Book of Play Why Play Really Matters, and 101 Ways to Get More of it in Your Life
Michael Rosen ‘Play, make-believe, nonsense talk, it all comes naturally to us when we’re young ... Yet now, more than ever, Rosen argues that there’s an important role for play in all our lives.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘The former children’s laureate advocates play for everyone, young or old. The book has a friendly, lively tone as it explores role play, ad-libbing, dressing up, toys, art, stories and wordplay.’ i
October Education/Self-Help B format paperback 272pp £8.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 191 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 518 9 US
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The Music of Time Poetry in the Twentieth Century
John Burnside A Financial Times Book of the Year
‘The joy of Burnside’s poems – and part of what makes them moving – is that he does know and never stops registering the ways in which beauty makes life worth living.’ Observer October Literary Criticism B format paperback 528pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 562 9 eISBN 978 1 78283 213 3
‘Burnside writes lyrical prose with virtuoso ease’ Guardian ‘A rich, generous and often surprising book’ Scotsman
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Imperial Tragedy From Constantine’s Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363–568
Michael Kulikowski Two hundred years of Roman imperial politics and power brought to life in an action-packed narrative ‘A fascinating account showing just what it was like to be a Roman emperor’ Jerry Toner, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge October History B format paperback 432pp £12.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 633 6 eISBN 978 1 78283 246 1 Audiobook available 52
‘A tour-de-force history ... a vivid, compelling story’ Kyle Harper, author of The Fate of Rome ‘He writes boldly and fluently ... highly recommended as an introduction to the political history of this period’ Hugh Elton, author of The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Stillness is the Key An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life
Ryan Holiday The #1 New York Times Bestseller
‘Some authors give advice. Ryan Holiday distills wisdom. This book is a must read.’ Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism ‘Ryan Holiday is among the most psychologically wise writers I know ... If you struggle – as I do – to find your centre in the increasingly noisy and frenetic world we live in, then this book is for you.’ Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit ‘Ryan Holiday has done it again.’ Sophia Amoruso, co-founder and CEO of Girlboss
October Self-Help B format paperback 288pp £9.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 206 7 eISBN 978 1 78283 527 1 Audiobook available
Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals Stuart Heritage Funny and soothing: let Stuart Heritage tuck you in and read you a story about how everything is fine again ‘The perfect Christmas gift has been published. Guardian journalist Stuart Heritage puts a short, “snowflakey” twist on classics ... 130 pages of sweary funniness, aimed at the Twitterati.’ Herald ‘The funniest book I’ve read this year ... Superb.’ Will Storr
November Humour B format paperback 144pp £7.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 338 5 eISBN 978 1 78283 606 3 US
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Schadenfreude The Joy of Another’s Misfortune
Tiffany Watt Smith A hilarious quest to understand life’s ultimate guilty pleasure – in a beautiful gift package ‘This treatise on one of the most shame-inducing but widespread of all emotions is funny and insightful.’ Sunday Times October Psychology/Gift B format paperback 160pp £7.99 ISBN 978 1 78125 910 8 eISBN 978 1 78283 381 9
‘A delightful book, full of jokes and confessions’ Guardian ‘Watt Smith treats each emotion with the expertise of a wine taster, showing how it is formed from a mixture of many other emotions.’ Mail on Sunday
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What We Need to Do Now For a Zero Carbon Future
Chris Goodall A manifesto for those seeking urgent action on climate breakdown and other threats
PRAISE FOR CHRIS GOODALL November Environment B format paperback 224pp £7.99 ISBN 978 1 78816 477 1 eISBN 978 1 78283 666 7 US
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‘Brilliantly concise and clear-eyed’ New Scientist [Ten Technologies] ‘ Goodall is a pioneer’ Guardian [How to Live a Low-Carbon Life] ‘A highly readable book ... for anyone interested in the future of energy’ Financial Times [The Switch]
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R O B E RT G R E E N E Robert Greene, the ‘modern Machiavelli’, distills the most important lessons from history to help you get ahead www.powerseductionandwar.com Twitter: @RobertGreene
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The Economist Guide to Commodities 2nd Edition Producers, players and prices; markets, consumers and trends
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