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HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY
A Month-by-Month Guide
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TOM HODGKINSON
A gift hardback reissue of Tom Hodgkinson’s classic almanac, with a foreword by Dominic West and illustrations by artist Alice Smith
Drawing on the wisdom of an eclectic range of thinkers and writers, this illustrated pocket almanac works its way through each month of the year, offering refreshingly honest and realistic wisdom to get the most out of living in the country.
Covering beekeeping, poultryrearing, pig-keeping, breadbaking, wood-chopping, firelaying, bartering, home-schooling and much more, it is the perfect inspirational text for beginners looking to make the move back to the land. Interwoven with his tried and tested tips and shortcuts are Tom’s own often hilarious experiences from his time raising a young family in rural Devon.
‘Hugely inspiring’ Sarah Bakewell
‘A delightful read’ Mail on Sunday
Title: How to Live in the Country Pub date: 14/10/2021 Format: Hardback Price: £10.99 ISBN: 978-1-80018-098-7 Rights: World/Audio/TV & Film
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Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of the Idler and the author of bestselling books including How to be Idle, How to be Free, The Idle Parent and Business for Bohemians. He and his wife Victoria Hull established the Idler Academy, which hosts literary events and offers online courses in academic and practical subjects.
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PHILOSOPHERS’ DOGS
SAMUEL DODSON AND ROSIE BENSON
Complete with beautiful illustrations, this book shows how celebrated philosophers really stole all their best ideas from their dogs
Each and every human philosopher since time immemorial has stolen their best ideas from their canine companions. Not only that, but they’ve shamelessly altered their dogs’ original thoughts to make them sound more human (read: more foolish).
Covering everyone from Socrafleas to Simone de Beau-fur via John Licke and Mary Woofstonecraft, Philosophers’ Dogs is here to set the record straight. It features beautiful illustrations alongside meticulous research and historical fact*, unearthing the trials, tribulations and tailwagging of the dogs owned by famous philosophers to acquaint the reader with the true masters of enlightenment.
*Not necessarily historical or factual.
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Philosophers’ Dogs 28/10/2021 Hardback £9.99 978-1-80018-066-6 World/Audio/TV & Film
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Samuel Dodson is a twenty-something writer based in London. He is the co-founder of the Nothing in the Rulebook creative collective. @InstantIdealism
Rosie Benson is an artist and illustrator based in the north of England. @RosieBensonArt
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ALL THE COFFEE CUPS
A Collection of Caffeinated Comics
JOSH HARA
A full-colour collection of illustrated coffee cups by @yoyoha, of Twitter and Instagram fame
One morning, Josh Hara found himself staring at the blank white side of the empty coffee cup he held. In his other hand was a pen. He brought the two together, and the first of hundreds of doodledon and decorated coffee cups shortly found its way onto the internet.
Years later, the coffee cups had taken on a life of their own, with jokes, seasonal greetings and social commentary being shared around the world. All the Coffee Cups preserves a particular moment in history – one where pop culture and caffeine came together to create art.
Title: Pub date: Format: Price: ISBN: Rights: All the Coffee Cups 25/11/2021 Hardback £9.99 978-1-80018-068-0 World/Audio
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Josh Hara is a US-based creator working in advertising, with a background in graphic design. His Twitter has over 75k followers, and his Instagram over 115k. @yoyoha
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NEW TITLES: DIGITAL
The following titles are from our digital-first list, available to order as paperbacks from GBS at orders@gbs.tbs-ltd.co.uk
Genie has everything – a BRIT Award, a singing career and Oliver Fox, a pretty boy who looks good on her arm. But when Oliver dies unexpectedly, how far is she prepared to go to fix things? The afterlife isn’t the most comfortable of places for anyone who’s still alive, but Genie’s got years of experience in the music business.
Title: Comeback Author: Chris Limb Pub date: 21/01/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-089-1 Price: £10.99
Moffat the Magniloquent returns. Events at Gibbous House are over a decade in the past. Penniless, he heads south to St Louis and becomes involved with an Underground Railroad scheme to free slaves and rob the New Orleans Mint, encountering a cast of grotesques and real-life characters along the way.
Title: No Good Deed Author: Ewan Lawrie Pub date: 21/01/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-091-4 Price: £10.99
A dystopian thriller about a fiery and indigenous Aussie rebel battling the Xirfell rulers – along with his own internal demons. Can the restless, reckless Aiden take a stand long enough to save humanity from enslavement?
Title: Last Star Standing Author: Spaulding Taylor Pub date: 18/02/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-097-6 Price: £10.99
A high school coming-of-age novel – the story of two friends discovering truths about themselves, and the ways their community has been shaped by secrets, lies and a devastating obsession with perfection.
Title: Slow Motion Author: Jennifer Pierce Pub date: 04/03/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-139-3 Price: £9.99
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98 Two siblings, one crime, and a long-buried secret. Embers is a haunting whodunnit with a Scandi-Noir twist, set against a backdrop of deep Swedish forests and the mysticism of Sami folklore.
Title: Embers Author: Josephine Greenland Pub date: 18/03/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-103-4 Price: £9.99
Mary Ann Hunn is known to history as the disreputable actress mother of the politician George Canning, a footnote to his story. Using her own memoir and the remarkable forty-sevenyear correspondence between mother and son, this new work uncovers the hidden history of a strong, passionate and intelligent woman.
Title: George Canning Is My Son Author: Julian Crowe Pub date: 18/03/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78352-923-0 Price: £12.99
Lancashire, 1612: The most notorious witchcraft trials in England are taking place. Among the accused, three generations of the same family. A family rooted in Pendle, tied to the infamous Malkin Towers and always followed by a whisper of evil. A family destroyed by the evidence given by a nine-year-old girl . . .
Title: The Hellion Author: Harriet Young Pub date: 15/04/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78352-921-6 Price: £9.99
An original and compelling novel of memory, history and the scars left by unacknowledged damage.
Title: The Draftsman Author: Laurel Lindström Pub date: 29/04/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-111-9 Price: £9.99 In this eerie novel of possession and compulsion, a young woman is propelled to fulfil a macabre destiny.
Title: A Melancholy Event Author: Dan Glaister Pub date: 29/04/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-121-8 Price: £9.99
A science fiction story of family, forgotten history and advancing technology. Follow its characters on their interconnected paths to re-discover the truth about their small, isolationist civilisation – and something far bigger than any of them could have imagined.
Title: Trinity Authors: Patrick Morgan and David Kidger Pub date: 29/04/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-099-0 Price: £10.99
A hilarious eighties-set epistolatory coming-of-age novel. Maud, who is twelve and lives with her dysfunctional parents and her elder brother, spends all her time in her bedroom writing letters to her favourite pop star, Tom Harding, the lead singer of a punk band called Horsefly.
Title: Your Friend Forever Author: Zena Barrie Pub date: 29/04/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-107-2 Price: £9.99
A Scots family drama of three generations chasing dreams and happiness, when not everyone is quite who they seem.
Title: Be guid tae yer mammy Author: Emma Grae Pub date: 06/05/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-117-1 Price: £9.99
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100 As Lena races to find her missing sister in war-torn Angola, will she have the courage to bear witness to what she finds?
Title: Into the Mouth of the Lion Author: A. B. Kyazze Pub date: 06/05/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-113-3 Price: £9.99
Literary crime fiction: a novel of isolation and fear set in an isolated Highland village on the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
Title: The Mash House Author: Alan Gillespie Pub date: 06/05/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-119-5 Price: £9.99
As the world recovers from the effects of the Turmoil, the genetically augmented soldiers of Project Golem now want lives of their own . . .
Title: Discarded Author: Mark A. Ciccone Pub date: 10/06/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-123-2 Price: £9.99
In book two of the Origin Trilogy, John and the army of survivors continue the search they started in Darwin’s Soldiers. Who brought them to this bizarre world and for what purpose?
Title: Survival Machines Author: Ste Sharp Pub date: 10/06/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-127-0 Price: £9.99 Ireland, 1980s. A young writer tells stories about guests in Dolly’s hotel – but will it get him loved, killed or both?
Title: Dolly Considine’s Hotel Author: Eamon Somers Pub date: 08/07/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-129-4 Price: £9.99
In space, keep your friends close but your monsters even closer . . . A boy struggling with OCD must journey with his social worker through space to rescue his mother.
Title: Rory Hobble and the Voyage to Haligogen Author: Maximilian Hawker Pub date: 08/07/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-125-6 Price: £9.99
Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. In a wild, abandoned country, how do you find your place?
Title: Salt Lick Author: Lulu Allison Pub date: 08/07/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-131-7 Price: £9.99
A tale of parallel universes, unrequited love and Welsh world domination: deadbeat Kevin Jones finds himself kidnapped to an alternative reality where Wales is the single global superpower.
Title: Anthracite Author: Matt Thomas Pub date: 05/08/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-147-8 Price: £10.99
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102 Two aristocrats, a hidden fortune and the not-so-greatest show on Earth: Stevyn Colgan’s third – and funniest – South Herewardshire novel continues the series that began with A Murder to Die For and The Diabolical Club.
Title: Cockerings Author: Stevyn Colgan Pub date: 19/08/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-151-5 Price: £9.99
From a Somerset farm to the trenches of France: one man’s coming of age through land, love and blood.
Title: A Hundred Years to Arras Author: Jason Cobley Pub date: 19/08/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-149-2 Price: £9.99
A policeman sets out to investigate the murder of a former reality television star, in a near-future UK where bad taste is illegal.
Title: The Lion and the Unicorn Author: Tom Ward Pub date: 02/09/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-153-9 Price: £9.99
The inside story of two women, an Olympic rower and a Paralympic cyclist, going for Tokyo 2020 gold.
Title: How to Be an Olympian Author: Harry Reardon Pub date: 16/09/2021 ISBN: 978-1-78965-101-0 Price: £10.99
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