Unicorn Publishing Group Spring 23 catalogue

Welcome to Unicorn Publishing Group’s Spring 2023 catalogue

A very warm welcome to our Spring 2023 catalogue, as ever timed to coincide with the Frankfurt Book Fair when we announce our acquisitions to be published in the first six months of next year.

For next Spring we are announcing 38 new titles, 24 from Unicorn and 14 from Unicorn Sales & Distribution’s client publishers Imperial War Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich, Royal Armouries, Unicorn Press, Farleys House and Gallery, Notting Hill Editions and Your London Publishing.

Unicorn leads with Bill Wyman’s Chelsea: From Medieval Village to Cultural Capital, wherein the venerable ex-Rolling Stone pays homage to his beloved home neighbourhood, a title which also continues Unicorn’s long association with books about Chelsea. Roger Bamber: Out of the Ordinary is a retrospective of the late photographer's remarkable career and features a foreword by Eamonn McCabe. Previous Unicorn photographer Niki Gorick returns with Dock Life Renewed: How London’s Docks are Thriving Again, while Rupert Grey’s photojournalism is featured in Homage to Bangladesh: A Tribute in Words and Photographs.

Of particular interest to designers will be William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition, as well as A Short and Beautiful Life: The Books, Writers and Artists Who Made the Shakespeare Head Press and Glorious Graphics: 200 Years of Design Inspiration, while we hope followers of modern architecture will enjoy Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture and Renewal Architects: The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta

Of special cultural interest is Four French Holidays: Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and Their Novels Inspired by France and of topical interest is You Always Hurt The One You Love: Central Banks and the Murder of Capitalism by the distinguished financial commentator Bernard Connolly.

As always, we very much hope you enjoy reading our books as much as we enjoy publishing and marketing them.

Lord Strathcarron Chairman Unicorn Publishing Group

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CHELSEA STREETS G TO M

In which you will meet: AA Milne, Dylan Thomas (who called living in London ‘capital punishment’), Gracie Fields, Bill Wyman, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Gianluca Vialli, and Laurence Olivier. You’ll visit: The house built on a Medieval plague pit, visit the scene of a murder, and perhaps take a drink in Admiral Codrington Arms.

Makins Street

Makins Street is a turning west from Sloane Avenue, below Ixworth Place, and is residential with some commercial buildings.

Mallord Street

Mallord Street is north of the Kings Road, running parallel, and is a turning west from Old Church Street.

It was named in 1909 after the painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (17751851), who lived at 119 Cheyne Walk in his later years. The street has an early ‘Chelsea’ road sign.

Nº 1: This house has a highly decorated entrance.

Nº 2: Is Mallord House, and features an insignia made up of the capitals ‘CHA’ and the date 1911 above the entrance. On the house eastern wall facing Old Church Street is an old oblong blue metal sign that reads ‘Mallord House’ which was once

white, with a four-petal flower in the right-hand corner.

Nº 11: Author A. A. Milne (1882-1956) lived here from 1919 to 1925. It was here in 1924 that he wrote ‘When We Were Very Young’, a series of verses for children, dedicated to his 4-yearold son Christopher Robin, who was born in this house. The family moved next door to Nº 13 in 1925.

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Nº 13: Author A. A. Milne (1882-1956) lived here from 1925 to 1929. Here he wrote ‘Winnie The Pooh’ in 1926, ‘Now We Are Six’ in 1927 and ‘House At Pooh Corner’ in 1928. There is a blue plaque here to his honour.

LITERARY CHELSEA

Author A.A. Milne (1882-1956) lived at Nº 13 Mallord Street from 1925 to 1929.

Here he wrote Winnie The Pooh in 1926, Now We Are Six in 1927 and House At Pooh Corner in 1928. In Nº 11 of the same street he wrote When We Were Very Young a series of verses for children, dedicated to his 4-year-old son Christopher Robin, who was born in this house.

Nº 17: Is Tryon House.

Nº 20: Is highly decorated with a central statue of a man over the entrance door in the Greek style, and over the lower left front window is the face of a man, and over the lower right window, the face of a woman.

Nº 21: This is Vale Court, a large apartment block.

1933/34, when singer Gracie Fields bought the house.

Manresa Road Manresa Road is an attractive residential street that runs north from the Kings Road to the South Carriage, north of Chelsea square. The road, formerly called Trafalgar Road, is named after the town in Spain.

Nº 1-8: Here was the Wentworth Studios, built in 1885, with 8 studio units, housing various artists that included Frances Darlington in 193439, and Dylan Thomas in the 1940s.

Nº 2. Is the Henry Moore Court, with a large black sculpture like wood-grain in the forecourt by Andrew Sabin. There is a plaque here that says as follows: ‘Andrew Sabin Painting and Sculpture 2013 Bronze.

Nº 28: This house was built on 1913/14 as a studio for painter Augustus John (1878-1961), and there is a blue plaque here in his honour. He was the best-known living painter in England, renowned for his portraits, which included those of George Bernard Shaw and David Lloyd George.

He lived here from c.1914 until

Commissioned for Henry Moore Court, this sculpture celebrates the artists of Chelsea College of Art that formally occupied this site. It also acknowledges Moore’s ‘Two Piece Reclining Figure Nº 1 1959, located here from 1865 to 2000. Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 taught at Chelsea between 1932 and 1939. Andrew

Paperback with flaps 224 pp 230 x 160 mm | 6¼ x 9⅛ in 300+ colour images Thema Codes: AM, WTHW, WTHL 978-1-911397-35-9

May 2023 £16.99 | US$25.95 | Can$28.99

A comprehensive and affectionate look at the village of Chelsea, with historical research, walking tours, photos and stories by ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman.

Bill Wyman’s Chelsea From Medieval Village to Cultural Capital

BILL WYMAN

Bill Wyman has worked in the London borough of Chelsea onand-off since joining the Rolling Stones in 1962, and has lived in the area since 1982. Over the past few years, Bill has walked every street of his beloved neighbourhood, photographing anything unusual that caught his eye: bridges, churches, pubs, shops, houses, monuments, decorative wall plaques, blue historical plaques, statues, weather vanes, front doors, street signs and coal hole covers. Bill then began to research the area thoroughly – its history, its stories, and its residents. Bill Wyman's Chelsea is the result of this work: a comprehensive and informative guide to a London borough steeped in culture and history, as seen through the personal and affectionate lens of a long-standing resident, who himself plays a part in the history of the area. Complete with walking tour itineraries, maps, an A-Z of streets, historical information, over 400 of Bill’s photos and knowledge from an insider; Bill has produced what can confidently be called the ‘Master Book on Chelsea’.

Bill Wyman was born in London in 1936, and joined The Rolling Stones in 1962. Although best known for his music, Bill has pursued many other interests since leaving the Stones in 1993. Bill is an avid archivist, collector, author, photographer and has kept diaries since a young age. He also has a great interest in history and archeology, and has carried out extensive research on the London neighbourhood of Chelsea, where he has lived and worked for much of his life.

Hardback 208 pp 270 x 290 mm | 11⅜ x 10⅝ in 170 images

Thema Codes: A, AJ, AJC, AJCD 978-1-911397-16-8 May 2023 £40 | US$60 | Can$70

Roger Bamber Out of the Ordinary

ROGER BAMBER FOREWORD BY EAMONN M C CABE

Roger Bamber, for fifty years one of Britain’s leading photojournalists, has poured his life’s work into this unique reflection of a career that encompassed not only riots and bombings and the crazy world of rock and pop in the twentieth century but recorded with a sympathetic eye the demise of traditional British industries and the old steam railways. His graphic photographs are well known for their distinctive, often wryly humorous, style and strong visual impact and have been widely published worldwide. He was British Press Photographer of the Year, two-time British News Photographer of the Year and won many awards for his features on the arts.

Towards the end of his career he worked mainly for the Guardian and was happiest finding creative people with a story to tell. He preferred working outdoors, ideally within sight of the sea, and showcasing ordinary people – celebrating just how extraordinary all of us can be.

Roger Bamber was born in Leicester in 1944 and trained in graphic design, a discipline that informed all his future work. He was only 20 years old when he joined the Daily Mail as a photographer in 1965. It was the start of a career that saw his pictures used in every national newspaper, most recently the Guardian who allowed his passion for working with artists and other creatives full rein. He lived for most of his life in Brighton, where the beach became his outdoor studio and scores of his fellow Brightonians his willing subjects.

Hardback 160 pp 225 x 270 mm | 10⅝ x 8⅞ in 160 images

Thema Codes: A, AJ, AJC, AJCD 978-1-911397-31-1

April 2023 £30 | US$45 | Can$50

A photographic insight into contemporary living, working and playing on the waters of London’s docks.

By the same author:

Dock Life Renewed How London's Docks are Thriving Again

NIKI GORICK FOREWORD BY LORD HESELTINE

Forty years ago, London’s Docklands had become 6,000 acres of forgotten wasteland after over a century as the busiest port in the world. Now these once-derelict docks are again filled with ships and boats, forming homes and businesses for an extraordinary range of people. Whether millionaires visiting on their superyachts, country-house executives needing a London base, young tech workers wanting a cheaper place to live, jobbing craftsmen keeping ancient marine trades alive or homeless people finding refuge, these are varied and dynamic communities. Highly acclaimed London photographer Niki Gorick focuses on St. Katharine Docks, the Surrey Docks and the Isle of Dogs to illustrate the rich mix of personalities and activities in these converted commercial docks. They enjoy central London locations but as floating communities with their own nautical customs and rules, they are a world apart from their land-based neighbours. These images reveal the amazingly diverse modern-day life within these urban marinas.

As a British fine art photographer specialising in images of London and Londoners for over 20 years, Niki Gorick has established a reputation for capturing the true character of the city. Niki’s enthusiasm for creating images led to a career spanning theatre photography, journalism, television camerawork and scriptwriting in Canada, Hong Kong and Scotland, as well as London, where she now lives and works. Her photographs have been exhibited throughout London, including at the Barbican and the National Maritime Museum, and are in both private and corporate collections.

Faith in the City of London 978-1-912690-73-2

Hardback

128 pp

280 x 230 mm | 9 x 11 in 80 images

Thema Codes: A, AJF, DNP 978-1-911397-39-7

April 2023

£30 | US$45 | Can$50

Homage to Bangladesh A Tribute in Words and Photographs

RUPERT GREY

Bangladesh has been shunned by tourists from the moment it was created in 1971 out of East Pakistan. Henry Kissinger described it as a basket-case. Poverty and humanitarian disasters defined Bangladesh in the decades since. When Rupert Grey arrived in Dhaka in 1992, a sign announced that arrivals were ‘Welcome to Bangladesh before the tourists get here’. They still haven’t.

Grey first came to Bangladesh as a London lawyer armed with three FM2 cameras and now, many journeys and thirty years later, is a photographer armed with a useful legal background. The catalysts were Chobi Mela, the Festival of Light, and its founder Shahidul Alam, an acclaimed photographer, human rights activist and one of Time magazine’s People of the Year in 2018.

This book charts Grey’s love affair with Bangladesh, including an epic transcontinental journey through India to Chobi Mela in a vintage Rolls-Royce, later portrayed in the award-winning film Romantic Road produced by Sharon Stone. His photographs, mostly taken on film, speak powerfully of the cultural vitality and energy, which Kissinger missed, and which inspired Grey’s Homage to Bangladesh

As a libel and copyright lawyer Rupert Grey has represented national papers, politicians, bankers, celebrities and explorers. He serves on the board of a number of front-line charities in the arts, education and marine exploration. Armed with his Nikon FM2s he has travelled on foot and horseback, by dug-out canoe, camel, elephant, bush-plane and vintage Rolls Royce to the wild places of the earth. His photographs have been exhibited in several countries including Bangladesh, and his articles have been widely published.

Hardback

336 pp 240 x 196 mm | 7¾ x 9½ in 330 images

Thema Codes: AKH, A, AKHM, AK 978-1-911397-17-5

March 2023

£50 | US$75 | Can$85

William Harry Rogers Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition

GREGORY JONES

The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event which provides a ubiquitous reference point for cultural histories of the nineteenth century. He subsequently specialised in designing the appearances of books and his work in this field in the 1850s and 1860s was unrivalled, with many of his designs appearing also in the USA. The present book is the first to be devoted to Rogers and aims to be definitive, containing comprehensive accounts of his work and his life in Soho and the then village of Wimbledon. It includes many new discoveries, and hundreds of colour illustrations.

Gregory Jones read natural sciences at Cambridge, after which a PhD in psychology led to research at Oxford, a readership at Bristol and finally a professorship at Warwick, where he is now emeritus. In recent years he has turned to researching many aspects of Victorian book production, including design, illustration, binding, publishing and copyright. He has written about these topics in journals such as The Library and The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Hardback

208 pp

234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 80 images

Thema Codes: AKH, A, AKHM, AK 978-1-911397-29-8

March 2023

£30 | US$50 | Can$60

A Short and Beautiful Life

The Books, Writers and Artists who made the Shakespeare Head Press

RITA RICKETTS

Few have heard of the Shakespeare Head Press, although it ranks alongside William Morris’s Kelmsco , Emery Walker and CobdenSanderson’s Doves, Eric Gill’s Golden Cockerel and St John Hornby’s Ashendene. Its origins date to the 1860s, when a young Arthur Henry Bullen dreamt of printing the whole of Shakespeare. Making his dream a reality, Bullen founded the press in 1904 in an old Tudor house, where Shakespeare would have been a guest.

There are many backstories associated with the SHP, and of the perennial dashed hopes of small presses which plagued Bullen. When the Press passed to Basil Blackwell (1921), Bullen’s mantle was assumed by the scholar-printer Bernard Newdigate. For twenty years he produced a series of finely printed books, yet these were not commercially successful. Blackwell blamed the commodification of literature and the metamorphoses of books from handcra ed works of art to manufactured objects.

This book reconstructs the lives of Bernard Newdigate and A.H. Bullen, and that of the SHP. For Sir Basil Blackwell, ‘the exact record of events was secondary to the universal truths it served to illustrate.’ And there is something remarkably contemporary about them.

Rita Ricke s gives prominence in her writing and research to neglected stories. She has published in the UK, New Zealand and the US, and is a regular commentator in the New Zealand media. Currently the visiting Bodleian Blackwell Fellow, she was one of the recipients of the 2022 European Women’s Leadership Award.

Hardback 208 pp

230 x 170 mm | 6¾ x 9⅛ in 1000+ colour images

Thema Codes: AKC, AKL, A 978-1-911397-37-3

June 2023

£29.99 | US$45 | Can$50

Featuring images from the Robert Opie Collection

Glorious Graphics 200 Years of Design Inspiration

ROBERT OPIE

Glorious Graphics delves into the vast array of graphic design that surrounds us wherever we go, and has done so ever since printing was invented. Yet everyday graphics have mostly been ignored as an art form.

From Victorian song sheets to French perfume labels, early matchboxes to decorative greetings cards, appealing cigarette packets to enticing holiday brochures, colourful advertisements to racy night club tickets, these miniature masterpieces deserve artistic recognition.

With over a thousand images, Glorious Graphics is both an inspiring source book and a treasure trove of ideas; a true cornucopia of communication.

Consumer historian Robert Opie began saving the evidence of our branded world when he was sixteen years old. In 1975, he curated his widely praised exhibition The Pack Age at the V&A. After a career in market research, he opened the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising, Britain’s first museum devoted to the remarkable story of these aspects of marketing. Having compiled some twenty books and created a two-hour film In Search of our Throwaway History, Robert’s new book Glorious Graphics: 200 Years of Design Inspiration overflows with more extraordinary material.

Hardback

320 pp

245 x 245 mm | 9⅝ x 9⅝ in 387 images

Thema Codes: AM, AMA, AMC, AMG, AMK, AMX 978-1-911397-33-5

June 2023

£40 | US$60 | Can$70

Untold Stories Hong Kong Architecture

RAYMOND FUNG

Although Hong Kong has produced many internationally renowned architects and designers who have contributed significantly to its cityscape, there are many talented local architects who have played the role of an unsung hero in shaping this beautiful city. This book aims to capture the stories of theses talents whose unique work should be more widely known and appreciated. This lavishly illustrated book is the first to provide this essential showcase.

Professor Raymond Fung JP; FHKIA; HonAIA(HK), is a renowned ink-painter, architect and recipient of the Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Designers' Award and 50 major awards in visual arts, architecture and interior design. He is formerly the Honorary Architect and a current Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently Board Member of Hong Kong Palace Museum, Committee Member and Member of Acquisitions Committee; Member of the Development Committee of WKCDA, LCSD Museum Expert Adviser, Advisor of Hong Kong Observatory Strategic Committee. LCSD Museum Expert Adviser, and advisor of Hong Kong Architecture Centre.

Hardback 208 pp 248 x 210 mm | 8¼ x 9¾ in 200 colour images

Thema Codes: AM, AMA, AMC, AMG, AMK, AMX 978-1-911397-36-6

June 2023

£30 | US$52.95 | Can$60

‘It is perhaps the finest building our island has seen over many a decade. It proves that real estate development can be produced enriched with what Vitruvius termed “Venustas”. Rarely has Malta seen architecture of this excellence.’

Richard England, celebrated Maltese architect

Renewal Architects The Transformation of Farsons Brewery Malta

IAN RITCHIE

The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugia’s visionary decision to conduct a European architectural competition has resulted in a stunningly beautiful and brilliant transformation of the 1951 Art Deco Farsons Old Brewhouse buildings.The gardens-courtyards-campus masterplan and architecture has been designed by the internationally renowned architects - ritchie*studio – led by Ian Ritchie, and realised in collaboration with Alex Torpiano’s engineering-focused Maltese practice TBA Periti, and environmental physicist Doug King. Inspired by Maltese palace gardens and the coloured architectural elements of the island’s vernacular buildings, and designed with respect for the force of the Mediterranean sun, this utterly contemporary mixed-use commercial architecture is a masterpiece of form, light and shade, sustainability and environmental engineering.

Ian Ritchie leads one of the world’s most thoughtful and influential contemporary architectural practices ritchie*studio, based in London. Ian is a Royal Academician and an elected member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. He is Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture Liverpool University; Fellow of the Society of Façade Engineering and Emeritus Commissioner CABE. He has been adviser to the British Museum, Natural History Museum, The Ove Arup Foundation, the President of Columbia University and the Centre for Urban Science and Progress NYU. He has chaired international juries including RIBA Stirling Prize, Czech Architecture Grand Prix, French government’s 'Nouveaux Jeunes Albums' and the Berlin Art Prize. He is a writer, poet, and his art is held in several international galleries and museums.

Previously announced Hardback 496 pp 234 x 170 mm | 6¾ x 9¼ in 300 colour images Thema Codes: WQ, DNB, DNBH 978-1-912690-90-9 May 2023 £45 | US$67.50 | Can$75

Featuring previously unpublished images, diaries and private letters from the Cadogan family archives

Cadogan

The Lives, Loves & Legacy of a Chelsea Family

TAMSIN PERRETT

Celtic chieftains emerging from the mists of ancient Wales, the ‘battle-keen’ Cadogans play their part at Blenheim alongside Marlborough, on board Pellew’s Indefatigable, with Wellington at Mondego Bay and Vittoria; at Balaklava and Sevastapol; at Ypres, Gallipoli and El Alamein. But opening the family archives – private letters, diaries and albums – we also find multilingual spies, evangelical clergymen, watercolour artists and society ladies who defy convention for love; illegitimacy, duels and gambling. There are diplomats, courtiers and confidantes. They share their stories with institutions from Chelsea Physic Garden and the British Museum to the British Olympic Association and Chelsea Football Club; from the Gaiety Theatre and the Jockey Club to the United Nations and the BBC. Woven throughout is the parallel history of Chelsea: a riverside farmland estate transformed into a visionary Georgian new town, and again into the recognisable red-brick of Pont Street Dutch, surviving riots and near-bankruptcy to become a thriving London community.

Told with affection and humour, interweaving world events and private dramas over a thousand years, this book brings to life the story of one family that is also to the story of the British Isles.

Tamsin Perrett is a writer and editor with a particular interest in cultural history. She studied at the University of Exeter and Winchester School of Art; after learning her craft at Thames & Hudson and Phaidon Press, Tamsin gained additional experience at the National Portrait Gallery and Frieze Art Fairs. Since 2009 Tamsin has worked independently for renowned public institutions such as the V&A Museum and Hayward Gallery.This is her second book about the Cadogan family and estate, following Cadogan: The Heart of Chelsea (2016).

Hardback

400 pp

234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in Thema Codes: JP, JPN, J, JPS, JPV, JBCT5 978-1-911397-24-3

January 2023

£50 | US$75 | Can$85

Media and Truth French Media and the Depiction of China

MAXIME VIVAS

Why does global media feel a need to denigrate China? Why does discussion and analysis fall back on obvious tropes and polemics, when in reality China is raising living standards, developing its economy and introducing human rights.

In this book, Maxime Vivas draws a picture of China from the perspective of the French media and France’s political class. He will also explore the ramifications of journalists who dare to stand out from the anti-China movement.

Maxime Vivas is the author of hundreds of articles and twenty books, three of which have won awards. He has been translated into 13 languages. He has publishers in several European countries, Latin America, the United States of America and China, which awarded him the Special Book Award of China in November 2021. Among his political books about China are: La face cachée de Reporters Sans Frontières (2007), Le dalaï lama pas si zen (2011), Ouïghours, pour en finir avec les fake news, (2020) and La Chine sans œblindères (collective, 2021). He is also administrator of the alternative information website Le Grand Soir and host of a radio show in Toulouse.

China’s Relationship with India

VIKRAM CHANNA

Previously announced Hardback · 400 pp · 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in Thema Codes: 1FPC, JP, JPN, RGCP 978-1-914414-90-9 · June 2023 · £50 | US$75 | Can$85

Over the past four decades, China has developed rapidly and become a global economic power. This book explores the essential cultural elements of China – urbanisation and modernisation – in correlation with its relationship with India.

Contemporary China and the World Building a Global Community for a Shared Future

DAVID FERGUSON

Previously announced Hardback · 400 pp · 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in Thema Codes: 1FPC, JP, JPN, RGCP 978-1-914414-91-6 · January 2023 · £50 | US$75 | Can$85

An exploration of contemporary Chinese society through first-hand contact, to better understand its cultural essence and goals of community development.

Moderate Prosperity

Why the Chinese Model Works

STEPHAN PETERMANN

Previously announced Hardback · 400 pp · 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in

Thema Codes: 1FPC, JP, JPN, RGCP 978-1-914414-92-3 · June 2023 · £50 | US$75 | Can$85

This book examines the interplay of contemporary urban development and the rapidly flourishing e-commerce sector in China, with the aim of achieving ‘moderate prosperity’ – an efficient and eco-friendly model for its economy and society.

Previously announced Hardback 352 pp 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 160 B&W images Thema Codes: DNBH, NHTZ1 978-1-914414-49-7

January 2023 £25 | US$37.95 | Can$42.95

A heart-wrenching and detailed historical account following the last page of what might be the bestknown war story in all of Western history.

Published in collaboration with the Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

After the Annex Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond

BAS VON BENDA-BECKMANN

On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter and dentist Fritz Pfeffer. In the months after his liberation Otto Frank would discover that he was the only survivor out of these eight people.

A er the Annex continues the journey that Otto began. It is the ultimate attempt, based on thorough research in archives and available eye witness accounts, to reconstruct as precisely as possible what happened to the eight people in hiding after their arrest.

Bas von Benda-Beckmann is a historian and currently works as a researcher at the Anne Frank House. He is also the author of De Velser Affaire (The Velser Affair), shortlisted for the Libris history award, and the equally acclaimed Het Oranjehotel (Hotel Orange). After the Annex was researched and written in collaboration with Erika Prins, Esther Göbel and Gertjan Broek.

Previously announced Hardback 256 pp 260 x 240 mm | 9½ x 10¼ in 200 colour images Thema Codes: WGM, NHW, JWL, NH March 2023 978-1-914414-15-2 £40 | US$60 | Can$70

Nine Lives The Story of Biggin Hill

ALEX MARTIN

Biggin Hill, world-famous as a Battle of Britain fighter station, has had many lives. First used as an airfield in 1917, Biggin Hill saw brutal action in both World Wars, never losing a day’s operations despite devastating enemy attacks. Since 1959 two dynamic figures have kept this historic airfield open against the odds: fighter ace Jock Maitland, creator of the renowned Biggin Hill Air Show, and army pilot Andrew Walters, who has turned it into London’s No 1 business airport, with a thriving aviation community that includes air charter companies, engineering firms, flying schools, storage and restoration, and Formula 1 and Bombardier interests. Meanwhile a new Museum and St George’s Memorial Chapel keeps memories alive.

The first full history of this great airfield, Nine Lives looks behind the scenes of a busy modern airport, digs deep into its dramatic past, and tells an inspiring tale of enterprise, innovation, teamwork and determination.

Alex Martin grew up in Westerham, a few miles south of Biggin Hill, when the Battle of Britain was still a vivid memory. He has taught in schools and universities in England and Italy, worked for the BBC and the British Council, and written more than twenty books on history and travel, as well as children’s and adult fiction.

Hardback 228 pp 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 34 images

Thema Codes: DNBA, DNBH1, JP 978-1-911397-25-0 March 2023 £30 | US$45 | Can$50

An Irishman Abroad

In An Irishman Abroad, Tarka King recalls his feral youth on the periphery of the Anglo-Irish world, his brief UK public school education and a period of extensive travel, followed by a period of soldiering in the Middle East at the height of the Cold War before returning to Ireland.

The book identifies the pre-Belfast Good Friday Agreement Ulster Canal project as a way of tackling historic regional socio-economic ills, with supporting opinions from wide range of contacts stretching from senior IRA hunger strikers through to dedicated hardline Unionists. King reflects on how he felt compelled to move to England due to the unrest in the early 1980s and how management of his farm and forests in 'no-man'sland' was not surrendered and his interest in pursuing the Ulster Canal restoration continues.

Tarka King left Ireland for Dorset forty years ago due to 'the Troubles' but retained ownership of his mid-Ulster border farm and forest. While continuing to manage his property from a distance he has travelled extensively and developed an interest in seeing the restoration of the derelict Ulster Canal become a reality. His Anglo-Irish roots and family literary background has provided an insight as to the waterway's absolute relevance as part of the resolution to the ongoing socio-political problems created by Ulster's Partition in 1924.

TARKA KING

Hardback 592 pp 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 2 images Thema Codes: DNBR, D, DNB 978-1-911397-40-3

February 2023 £40 | US$60 | Can$70

LanXang and the Last Lao King

The Lao and the Siamese are descendants of the same Ai-Lao race, but they have different characters and destinies, and they established their own kingdoms.

The invasion of ViengChan by Siam in 1779 left Lao LanXang in danger of total collapse. The twelve-year-old prince Chao Anouvong, the feudal ruling class, the court nobility and many of the people were forcefully taken to Siam, resulting in the total political extinction of a society that had governed LanXang for over 1,000 years.

Chao Anouvong grew up in Bangkok and was regarded by the Siamese as a mere provincial ruler. He returned to ViengChan at the age of twenty-eight and became king, with nothing to support him but his own talents and his ambition to restore LanXang.

Xanouvong fled his native Laos with his parents when he was 15 years old as a result of the Pathet Loa takeover of the country in 1975. He has been based in Los Angeles ever since. After graduating from UCLA with a media studies diploma, he has worked in press and TV all over world before becoming South-East Asia Bureau Chief for TimeLife and more recently Senior Foreign News Editor for the Los Angeles Times. Retaining family and cultural ties with Laos, he wrote LanXang and the Last Lao King as a result of extensive research into his native country's history.

Hardback

528 pp 234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in Thema Codes: K, KC, HJ, KN 978-1-911397-41-0 June 2023

£30 | US$45 | Can$50

The book demolishes standard macroeconomic theory and shows how central banks’ blinkered obeisance to that theory has undermined the pillars of a capitalist society.

You Always Hurt the One You Love Central Banks and the Murder of Capitalism

BERNARD CONNOLLY

It has become a commonplace to blame central banks for recurrent bubbles and financial crises, recessions, massive wealth inequality and widespread disenchantment with capitalism, and latterly for inflation. But this important new book argues that the enormous intellectual error of which central banks have been guilty sprang from the generation-long arrogance of the mainstream academic macroeconomics profession, which ignored interwar lessons and the crucial importance of intertemporal disequilibrium.

The book shows why and how the intellectual error, most evident in the deliberations and actions of the US Federal Reserve from the mid-1990s onwards, set in train the global consequences which now threaten the continued existence of a capitalist society. In particular, it explains how central banks have needed the financialsector misbehaviour they so piously castigate. While a key early figure in this Greek Tragedy was an ardent advocate of capitalism – Alan Greenspan, the revered former Federal Reserve Chairman – culpable hubris has underlain the whole structure of modern macroeconomic theory. Nemesis, the book shows, has followed ineluctably.

Bernard Connolly is a renowned British economist and author of the international best-selling book on monetary matters, The Rotten Heart of Europe. A consultant to wealth managers, he is highly respected by central bankers, policy-makers and financialmarket participants, who appreciate his depth of highly original theoretical understanding and his ability to apply that theory successfully to the real world. He has published articles in the financial and general press throughout the world.

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240 pp 240 x 196 mm | 7¾ x 9½ in 80 images

Thema Codes: JNL, JNLP, JNB 978-1-911397-38-0 May 2023 £35 | US$52.95 | Can$60

Elstree 175

Celebrating 175 Years of Elstree School

HUGO VICKERS

Elstree School celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2023. This is a revised history of the school which gives a lively account of the extraordinary Sanderson family who ran it for 100 years, the other teachers who made it special and which celebrates some of its distinguished old boys. Elstree was a feeder for Harrow, and in its early days, had a strong intellectual background with figures such as Joseph Conrad and John Galsworthy frequent visitors to the school. The book explains the ethos of study, Christian faith, high sporting achievement and good manners that have long given the school its special quality, and brings the story right up to the present day.

Hugo Vickers is well known as a biographer, lecturer and broadcaster, and is an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family. He is always called upon to commentate on important state occasions, and at times when the Royal Family are in the news. He has covered events from the first wedding of the Prince of Wales, to the funerals of Diana, Prince Philip, and Queen Elizabeth II. The Financial Times recently described him as: ‘the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet.’

He is a Deputy Lieutenant for the Royal County of Berkshire and Captain of the Lay Stewards of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He lives in London and Wiltshire and has three grown-up children.

Hardback 160 pp

234 x 156 mm | 6⅛ x 9¼ in 22 images

Thema Codes: D, DS, DSB, DNB, DNBL, DSM 978-1-911397-27-4 March 2023 £25 | US$37.95 | Can$40

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Four French Holidays Daphne du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France

ANNE HALL INTRODUCTION BY HUGH SCHOFIELD

Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefieldtour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led to Still Waters and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a nevermarried septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.

The Du Mauriers

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Anne Hall was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She studied English and French, and after taking a PhD in French literature, she moved permanently to France. She has taught at the universities of Tours and Aix-enProvence. Fifteen years ago, her research into the Du Mauriers’ French ancestry led her from Provence back to the Centre-Val de Loire region, where she is still living and writing.

Angela Thirkell

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Previously announced Hardback 320 pp 240 x 196 mm | 7¾ x 9½ in 150 images Thema Codes: 1DDR, WQN, WT, WTHV 978-1-914414-85-5 June 2023 £30 | US$45 | Can$50

The Irish Railway Journey A Tourist History of the Emerald Isle

MARTYN PRING

Ireland embraced tourism from mid-Victorian times. Railways and cross-channel steamers between Europe’s two largest islands transformed the travel landscape of a country possessing a unique blend of attractive cultural, heritage, natural and manmade assets. This book records the story of travel, from and around Ireland, and how visitors explored places and new resorts put on the map by railway expansion.

Sought after destinations were made familiar through travellers’ tales and writings, and an explosion in the level of marketing materials produced by competing railway companies and travel organisers, all carefully designed to attract affluent Victorian and Edwardian visitors. In colonial, post-separation and modern eras the numbers of British and American tourists increased rapidly. Together with a story of more organised, planned, and systemic promotion, the development of Ireland came about as a modern tourist destination. Yet for a hundred years the role of the railways were an essential component in a narrative that makes Irish travel so compelling.

Martyn Pring is a tourism and travel history researcher currently working in the destination promotion arena. A marketing professional, having worked in private, public and academic sectors, he has a life-long interest in railways and shipping, deluxe forms of transport and social history. He has written two other travel-related books, and a host of published blogs and articles.

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The Scapegoat Ovid’s Journey Out of Exile

MICHAEL V. SOLOMON

The Scapegoat: Ovid’s Journey Out of Exile follows the ancient Roman poet Ovid – enormously popular during his lifetime, and banished by the emperor Augustus to a remote city on the Black Sea – on his fictitious journey out of exile.

In the year 14AD, Publius Ovidius Naso – known as Ovid – is in his sixth year of banishment in Tomis, a small port on the Black Sea. He resists joining a conspiracy against the Emperor and hopes that his friend in Rome will obtain his pardon. However, when Augustus dies later that year, the conspirators, terrified that their treasonous plan will come to light, move Ovid to a garrison along the Danube where they intend to kill him. He manages to escape, is caught, but instead of being killed, he is sent to Rome and is turned into an outlaw – and a scapegoat.

Michael V. Solomon is a Romanian and German writer living in London. He started to write – mainly plays and poetry – during his teenage years in Bucharest, Romania. Later he became an engineer, designing and building bridges throughout Europe, America and the Middle East. During the pandemic, with new insights, he rewrote his debut novel The Scapegoat: Ovid's Journey Out Of Exile for an anglophone audience who, following years of lockdowns and isolation, understand freedom and exile perhaps more than ever before.

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Hardback 240 pp 220 x 148 mm | 5⅞ x 8⅝ in Thema Codes: FN, FNM 978-1-911397-44-1 June 2023 £14.99 | US$22.95 | Can$25

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The Auspicious Time

ZHANG ZHILU

The Auspicious Time is a novel focusing on life in Beijing before and after the founding of New China, observing the earth-shaking changes around them from the perspective of a child named Auspicious. It is a children's novel with deep Beijing charm and Chinese feelings. With restrained and peaceful brushstrokes and poetic and tender narratives, the childhood stories in the old Beijing hutongs and courtyards are like live dramas, which are presented to contemporary children through the dust of history. Zhang Zhilu is a writer and playwright. His Literary works include the novels Thunderbolt Beibei, The Third Legion, Illegal Wisdom, Turtles Also on the Internet and Qianwen's Dance. He has been nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and won numerous awards including the China Book Award, Andersen Award China division, Soong Ching Ling Children's Literature Award and Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award. He has also won the China Film Huabiao Award and the Cairo International Children's Film Festival Gold Award, and published the film theory monograph Chinese Children's Film History

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72 pp 220 x 245 mm | 9⅝ x 8⅝ in 34 B&W line drawings

Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7, YBGC 978-1-912423-55-2 April 2023

£9.99 | US$14.95 | Can$16.95

World War Two Planes Colouring Book

ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANCES CASTLE

Bring to life the aviation legends that took to the skies during World War Two with the Imperial War Museum’s fantastic colouring book. Packed with stunning drawings with a vintage theme, including a Supermarine Spitfire, Lancaster Bomber and B-17 Flying Fortress, this colouring book features over 30 illustrations of iconic aircraft and features action-packed scenes from the air battles over Europe and beyond.

Pick up your colouring pencils and be transported back to World War Two with this perfect gift for aviation lovers big or small!

Frances Castle is an award-winning illustrator based in the UK.

Bomber Command IWM Photography Collection

REBECCA GREENWOOD HARDING

Hardback · 96 pp · 180 x 180 mm | 7⅛ x 7⅛in

50 colour and B&W images

Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7, NHWR1 978-1-912423-53-8 · May 2023 · £12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95

The Imperial War Museum holds approximately 11 million photographs in its archives, covering the causes, course and consequences of modern conflict from the First World War to the present day. Offering a snapshot into this unique collection, Bomber Command showcases 50 iconic photographs of the aircraft and crew that lead Britain and its Allies to victory during one of the longest, most expensive and controversial of the Allied campaigns during the Second World War. This vivid collection of photographs traces Bomber Command through each stage of its development and brings to life the experiences of those both in the air and on the ground.

The Blitz

IWM Photography Collection

IAN KIKUCHI

Hardback · 96 pp · 180 x 180 mm | 7⅛ x 7⅛in

50 colour and B&W images Thema Codes: NHW, NHWR7, NHWR1 978-1-912423-54-5 · May 2023 · £12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95

The Blitz showcases 50 images from the Imperial War Museum's unique collection of photographs. During the Second World War, on 7 September 1940, the German air force unleashed a devastating bombing campaign. Seeking to force Britain into surrender, the Blitz saw towns and cities across the United Kingdom blasted with high explosives and set ablaze by firebombs. Yet even as the bombs rained down, a civilian army of air raid wardens, firemen, first aiders and rescue parties mobilised for battle. These striking photographs tell the stories of those who experienced the Blitz and highlight the bravery and determination of civilians in wartime Britain.

Ian Kikuchi is a Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum.

Rebecca Greenwood Harding is Head of Technological Objects at the Imperial War Museum.

Hardback 160 pp

172 x 132 mm | 5¼ x 6¾ in 100 images

Thema Codes: NHTM, WCG 978-1-906367-76-3

February 2023 £12.99 | US$19.95 | Can$21.95

An ideal gift book for anyone fascinated by all things nautical, crammed full of fun facts about oceans, voyages, nautical myths and life at sea to amaze your friends and family

Fish and Ships A Nautical Miscellany

This quirky compendium of nautical stories, facts, figures and miscellany is a must-have for all the salty sea-dogs out there.

From stories of dramatic voyages, myths, superstitions and famous sea battles, to curious sea creatures and our greatest explorers, this charming book brings together the expertise of world-leading curators in a pocket-sized volume.

Fish and Ships is a celebration of the practical and the bizarre: inspiring tales of nautical endeavour, notable firsts, the origins of maritime sayings and the weird and wonderful lifeforms in the depths of the sea.

The National Maritime Museum is the world’s largest maritime museum, telling stories of Britain’s epic relationship with the sea –global encounters, cultural exchange and human endurance.

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About Time Too 978-1-906367-66-4 | £12.99

Hardback 128 pp 210 x 148 mm | 5⅞ x 8¼ in approx. 60 images Thema Codes: NHTM, PGZ 978-1-906367-99-2 March 2023 £15.99 | US$23.95 | Can$27.95

A popular look at the life of John Harrison –the man who invented the first marine chronometer

John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude

JONATHAN BETTS

John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude, in a revised and updated edition, is a fascinating account of the life and achievements of John Harrison, the man who designed and built the first accurate marine chronometers.

Inspired by the prize offered in 1714 to provide a solution to the problem of determining longitudinal position at sea, John Harrison – a carpenter by trade – set out to develop portable clocks that would rival even the most precise watches of the time. His famous ‘H’ timepieces went on to revolutionise sea travel and save many thousands of lives. Now housed in the collection of Royal Observatory Greenwich, they are milestones in clockmaking history.

Beautifully illustrated with images that showcase the intricate detail and mechanisms of the timepieces, John Harrison and the Quest for Longitude tells the story of one man driven by the need to solve one of the greatest practical problems of his time.

Jonathan Betts is Curator Emeritus of Horology at Royal Museums Greenwich. He is the author of Marine Chronometers at Greenwich

Hardback 288 pp

297 x 210 mm | 8¼ x 11¾ in 425 colour images

Thema Codes: WCK, JWM, NHW, 1DDU, 3MNBJ, 3MNBL 978-1-913013-42-4 June 2023 £80 | US$110 | Can$135

The only book to comprehensively analyse British muskets from this period, written with De Witt Bailey, the foremost expert on small arms of the 1700 and 1800s

British Ordnance Muskets of the 1830s and 1840s: George Lovell's Legacy

ADRIAN ROADS WITH DE WITT BAILEY

British Ordnance Muskets identifies and analyses in detail eighteen ordnance muskets from the 1830s and 1840s. As well as providing the history and details of the muskets of this important period when the Ordnance transitioned from flintlock to percussion arms, it also covers the impact of two arms shortages, material losses suffered in the Tower of London fire (1841) and the obsolescence of all existing arms for the Militia and Volunteers.

By consulting original records, Adrian Roads also offers much about the gun contractors themselves: what drove them, what irked them and their capacity for work. It includes several appendices that facilitate in-depth research into any British ordnance percussion musket held in a collection or under consideration for acquisition, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, students of arms and collectors alike.

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288 pp 280 x 240 mm | 9½ x 11 in 175 colour images

Thema Codes: WCK, JWM, NHW, 1DDU 978-1-913013-40-0

Available now £40 | US$60 | Can$70

A lavishly illustrated account of some of the most interesting pieces of arms and armour in existence.

Treasures of the Royal Armouries: A Panoply of Arms

EDITED BY EDWARD IMPEY FOREWORD BY HRH THE EARL OF WESSEX

Treasures of the Royal Armouries is a photographic journey through Britain’s national museum of arms and armour. It reflects the diversity of the Royal Armouries’ collection, which was assembled over many centuries at the Tower of London and now spans the ancient world to the present day.

At the core of this journey is the museum’s unparalleled group of Tudor armours which derive from the Greenwich Armoury of Henry VIII, but European swords, paintings and manuscripts are equally well-represented. Stunning pieces from Asia are included, as are key items from the national collection of firearms, started in 1631 by Charles I and now housed at the National Firearms Centre, as well as larger guns from the National Artillery Centre at Fort Nelson.

Each of the 115 entries tell compelling stories, tracing the histories of individuals, campaigns and cultures across millennia. They also consider the place of arms in an increasingly turbulent world and the new challenges that technology presents to a modern army.

Paperback with flaps 512 pp 250 x 210 mm | 8¼ x 9⅞ in 400+ colour images

Thema Codes: A, GB, GT, JB 978-0-993361-02-9

April 2023 £35

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London’s South Bank

The History

MIREILLE GALINOU

London’s South Bank explores the history of this vibrant area from 1600 to the present day. It examines the social and topographical fabric of the area during different historical periods – 1600, 1770, 1845 and today – accompanied by reconstructions, maps and historical images. It explores the diverse characters of the four neighbourhoods which make up the South Bank and investigates the key role it played in creating an image for London – from the earliest sixteenth-century prospects in the hands of northern European artists to the work of contemporary artists, famous or little known.

Mireille Galinou, an art and urban historian, is a graduate from Bordeaux University and Birkbeck College. She has spent nearly fifty years working on the subject of London – first as the art curator of the Museum of London, then as a freelance consultant and finally, since 2015, as a small independent publisher – Your London Publishing. She has written many books and articles including London in Paint, the Museum of London catalogue of paintings (with John Hayes, 1996); City Merchants and the Arts (as editor, 2004) and Cottages and Villas (Yale, 2010) which won the John Brinckerhoff Jackson book prize. London’s South Bank is the third book on London suburbs published by Your London Publishing.

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February 2023 £18.50 | US$29.95 | Can$30

Drochaid

SCOTT M C KENZIE

Four university friends visit Jerusalem and return home sharing a secret which will change their lives and those under their influence. After his father’s death, and before taking up his own place at university in Edinburgh, the son of one of the four finds himself at the centre of a dangerous quest. Evil swirls around him as he encounters a mystical ferryman with superhuman strength, a strikingly beautiful girl who befriends him, his father’s contemporaries who he meets for the first time, and a professional assassin employed by one of them to kill him. In a race against time, and in his naivety unable clearly to distinguish between friend and foe, he receives his father’s sole legacy, a box apparently only containing a candle. The quest takes him to Jerusalem and Southern France; to Whitby, the Hebrides, Walsingham and the Norfolk salt marshes. ‘Something almost lost to the world remains’.

Scott McKenzie, born in Stirling and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh where his life-long love of literature was kindled, joined the school’s Pipe Band and Literary Society. He acted in a dramatization of Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun at the Edinburgh Fringe. A career in the Civil Service took him to London and Westminster where he drafted numerous Bills for ministers. In Drochaid there is much evidence of his Scottish roots and upbringing.

SCOTT M c KENZIE

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160 pp

288 x 240 mm | 9½ x 11⅜ in 190 images

Thema Codes: A,J,B 978-1-914298-04-2 March 2023

£29.95 | US$37.95 | Can$50

Annabel Moeller –Friends to Frontiers

ANNABEL MOELLER, LOUISE HALLIDAY, DAVID NOTT, SELINA ROBSON, PHILIP WEIR, AND MAJOR GENERAL ANDY SALMON

Over a thirty year career, Annabel’s work has taken her to some extraordinary places. From commissions at the creative powerhouses of the Sydney Opera House and the London Coliseum, to assignments over the rugged terrains of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Her collection showcases the unusual breadth of her work as catwalk models, ballet dancers and opera divas sit alongside soldiers, surgeons and Afghan tribesmen. From the personal to the profound, this book documents human beauty, creativity and perseverance.

Hardback

350 pp

288 x 240 mm | 9½ x 11⅜ in 190 images

Thema Codes: B,J 978-1-914298-05-9

May 2023

£35 | US$50 | Can$60

Love Letters –Bound in Gold Handcuffs

LEE MILLER & ROLAND PENROSE, ANTONY PENROSE, HILARY ROBERTS

The beautifully illustrated book of Love Letters between Lee Miller and Roland Penrose begins when they first met at a fancy dress party in Paris, June 1937. Through the letters it tracks their love affair, adventures, creative work, involvement with the surrealist art movement, scandal and laughs to the background of a world that is building up to the beginning of the Second World War.

Hardback

168 pp

190 x 120 mm | 4¾ x 7½ in Thema Codes: ATF, DNC, WH 978-1-912559-40-4

February 2023 £14.99

Cary Grant’s Suit

Nine Movies that Made Me the Wreck I Am Today

TODD M C EWEN

Todd McEwen grew up in Southern California, so his head was hopelessly messed with by the movies. As the son of relatively NORMAL PEOPLE, Todd had no in with Hollywood, a mere thirteen miles away, yearn and try as he might. This is a kid who loved the movies so much, he got up at 4.30 in the morning to watch Laurel and Hardy. A kid who insisted on his birthday that his father project 8mm cartoons onto the family’s dining room curtains so they could be slowly parted, just like at a real cinema. This is a kid who liked to leave the movie and trudge up hundreds of dangerous iron steps to visit the lugubrious and always surprised projectionist. This is a kid who, years later, watched Chinatown over sixty times. A love letter to old Hollywood, this is a book for anyone interested in film.

Todd McEwen’s novels include Fisher’s Hornpipe, McX: A Romance of the Dour, Who Sleeps with Katz, and The Five Simple Machines

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168 pp

190 x 120 mm | 4¾ x 7½ in Thema Codes: VSP, A, NH, AGA, JBCC9 978-1-912559-49-7

April 2023 £14.99

ANOUCHKA GROSE Fashion: A Manifesto

Fashion: A Manifesto takes a look at the psychology of fashion in order to unpick the hold it has on so many of us. On the one hand clothes can help you out with embodied life by concealing the bits you feel ashamed of and accentuating the bits you’re proud of. But like gambling, fashion keeps us captivated by treating us badly, trapping us in a cycle of promises and dashed hopes by suggesting that new clothes will help us to like ourselves more. And while it’s easy to dismiss fashion as elitist and wasteful, isn’t it also fascinating, exciting and perhaps sometimes even radical – not to mention surprisingly egalitarian?

Taking us on a journey from the court of Louis XIV to TikTok’s avant apocalypse, Fashion: A Manifesto scrutinises fashion to open up questions about the ways in which it works both for and against us.

Anouchka Grose is a psychoanalyst and writer and a member of The Centre for Freudian Research, where she regularly lectures. Her non-fiction books include No More Silly Love Songs and A Guide to Eco-Anxiety. She is also extremely fashionable.

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328 pp 216 x 135 mm | in Thema Codes: FXE, DNL, DNC 978-1-912559-55-8 May 2023 £12.99

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World: Essays

BARRY LOPEZ INTRODUCTION BY REBECCA SOLNIT

An urgent final work from the award-wining Barry Lopez whose writing, fieldwork and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists, this remarkable collection of essays unspools memories, both personal and political, among them tender, sometimes painful stories of his childhood in New York and California; reports from expeditions to study animals and sea life; recollections of travels to Antarctica and other extraordinary places on earth and mediations on finding oneself amid vast, dramatic landscapes.

With an introduction by Rebecca Solnit that speaks to Lopez’s keen attention to the world, Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World opens our minds and sounds to the important of being wholly present to the beauty and complexity of life.

Barry Lopez (1945–2020) was the author of various essay and story collections, including Arctic Dreams, which received the National Book Award.

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist and the awardwinning author of more than twenty books.

‘To meet Barry was to feel we were entering a sphere where a language was spoken that had been fading away – the language of our inseparable connection with the natural world – yet here was a speaker who was renewing it… A lonely speaker then – he must have often wondered whether anyone was truly listening –he is an essential speaker now.’ Margaret Atwood

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