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LONDON BOOK FAIR
APRIL 2014
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CONTENTS
FICTION
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SCIENCE
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HISTORY
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GENERAL NON-FICTION AND MEMOIR
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BIOGRAPHY
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ART
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PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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BUSINESS
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COOKERY
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
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Fiction
AGE, SEX, LOCATION
Melissa Pimentel
publication date
29 January 2015
A hilarious and refreshingly honest foray
into modern dating, Age, Sex, Location
is the Bridget Jones for the modern-day
woman, and perfect for fans of You Had
Me at Hello and the hitTV series Girls
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198mm x 129mm
An American ex-pat living in London, Lauren
is intelligent, beautiful, charming and loves to
party. So why can’t she convince a man she isn’t
after something more serious than scrambled
eggs and goodbye in the morning?
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Determined to break the curse and snare some
regular male affection, she embarks on a project:
each month she will follow the rules of a dating
guide. Lauren vows to stick by every rule along
the way - refusing to pay the bill, chatting up
every man in her path and withholding sex switching seamlessly to the next book at the
end of each month. Lauren’s love life is about
to get scientific, and very experimental in some
cases.
Melissa Pimentel is a literary agent living in
London having moved over from America. Age,
Sex, Location is her début novel.
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The Tea Planter’s Wife
Dinah Jefferies
publication date
07 May 2015
A young woman’s determined journey
through love, motherhood and loss
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Gwendolyn Hooper’s goal in life is to be a
perfect wife and mother. But when she is
faced with a choice between her husband or
her child, how can she reconcile the conflict
between her desire to be a good wife and her
strong maternal instincts? And how, in the tight
confines of the elite colonial world of Ceylon,
will she protect a secret so dark, that if ever
discovered she stands to lose everything?
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Add to the mix a vindictive sister-in-law, and
an adored husband whose first wife’s death is
shrouded in mystery - plus a cast of characters
who span the social and racial spectrum of
Ceylon, including a rich American widow and
a Sinhalese painter, neither of whom are quite
what they seem.
Captivating, powerful and passionate, this novel
will capture the imagination of anyone who
loves Lucinda Riley or Kate Morton.
The Tea Planter’s Wife is Dinah Jefferies’ second
novel, following The Separation which Penguin
publishes in May 2014.
Praise for The Separation:
‘I read (it) in big gulps - I simply didn’t want to
put it down. It’s so vivid and atmospheric - you
can smell the tropics, feel the drenching heat and the story is so well told.’ Isabel Wolff
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Fiction
The First Time We Met
#1 in The Oxford Blue Series
Pippa Croft
For fans of Sylvia Day and E.L. James, an
exciting new romance series
When US Senator’s daughter, Lauren Cusack,
arrives at the enchanting Wyckham College
of Oxford University she hopes to mend her
broken heart by throwing herself into her
studies.
But then English aristocrat Alexander Hunt
walks into her life and everything changes.
Handsome, brooding, and with his own dark
past to escape, Alexander is exactly what
Lauren doesn’t need - but she finds herself
helplessly drawn towards him.
Both Alexander and Lauren know that
they should stay away from each other...
but sometimes desire is so powerful that it
conquers all else.
The First Time We Met is the first book in a
triology, to be followed by The Second Time
I Saw You , publishing in November 2014 and
Third Time Lucky., publishing in December
2014.
Pippa Croft is the pen name of an awardwinning romantic novelist. After studying
English at Oxford, she worked as a copywriter
and journalist before writing her debut novel,
which won the RNA’s New Writers’ award and
was later made into a TV movie.
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Aren’t We Sisters?
Patricia Ferguson
publication date
03 July 2014
A gripping novel about buried secrets and
unlikely friendship
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1933, and the world is still changing, even in a
quiet corner of the English countryside...
If there’s one thing Lettie Quick believes in, it’s
contraception. Trained by ‘the Madam’, Marie
Stopes herself, Lettie teaches married women
about contraception. Her job is technically legal,
but the things that the typed, unsigned letters that
arrive at Lettie’s office ask her to do certainly
aren’t.
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Norah Thornby can’t even utter the phrase
‘family planning’ without blushing. Her mother’s
death and mounting debts have forced her to do
the unthinkable and take on a lodger, one Lettie
Quick.
No-one is supposed to know, but Rae Grainger
is living in isolation in a large house by a lake. Her
glittering film career isn’t finished, she’s simply
waiting a few more weeks until others - paid,
professional others - resolve her problem, leaving
her to forget the whole ghastly business.
Patricia Ferguson’s first book, Family Myths and
Legends, won the Betty Trask, David Higham and
Somerset Maugham awards. Her recent books,
It So Happens and Peripheral Vision were both
longlisted for the Orange Prize. The Midwife’s
Daughter is published by Penguin.
Praise for Patricia Ferguson:
‘One of the most brilliant novelists around... funny,
gripping, wonderfully shrewd’ The Independent
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What She Left
T. R. Richmond
publication date
23rd April 2015
A uniquely modern portrayal of revenge
and redemption, and a reminder that
sometimes secrets simply won’t stay
buried. A brilliant psychological thriller
for fans of Gone Girl and Before I Go to
Sleep
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234mm x 153mm
February 2012. 25-year-old Alice Salmon
returns to her university town for a night out
with friends. Seven years ago in this same spot
she was on the brink of adulthood - wide-eyed,
curious, insatiable. Seven years on and Alice is
about to unravel a secret that pulls that past
into dangerously sharp focus. But it’s too late.
The next morning her body is found washed
up by the river.
Professor Jeremy Cooke’s career is over. Alone
in his office he embarks on a research project
- Jeremy is documenting Alice’s life. He pores
over the internet, diaries, letters; he talks to
friends, family, boyfriends; and bit by bit he
unravels a deeply disturbing version of a girl he
actually knows better than anyone.
Exposing dark obsessions and painful secrets
that date back generations, What She Left offers
a fresh twist on the contemporary unreliable
narrator.
T.R. Richmond is an award-winning journalist
who has written for regional and national
newspapers and websites.
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Fiction
Pop Goes the Weasel
M. J. Arlidge
publication date
11 September 2014
Pop Goes the Weasel is the second,
furiously-paced entry in M. J. Arlidge’s DI
Helen Grace series
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198mm x 129mm
A body is discovered in Southampton’s red light
district. Leading the investigation, Detective
Inspector Helen Grace is called to the horrific
scene of a middle-aged man dumped in an
alleyway with his heart cut out. Just hours later barely cold - it’s delivered by courier to his wife
and children. And it falls on Grace to reveal to
his family the man’s long, secret history of visiting
prostitutes.
Then another victim is found dead and
eviscerated, his heart once again arriving with
his family soon after the killing. Is this Jack the
Ripper in reverse; someone taking their revenge
on men who thought they could get away with
double lives?
For Grace, there are two imperatives: to end the
killer’s brutal campaign of violence, and somehow
to do so without sacrificing the young woman
whose life once promised so much . . .
M. J. Arlidge has worked in television for the
last 15 years, specialising in high-end drama. He
has run an independent production company,
producing a number of crime serials. Pop Goes the
Weasel is the follow-up novel to his début novel
Eeny Meeny.
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Fiction
GRETEL AND THE DARK
Eliza Granville
publication date
6 February 2014
A dark, distinctive and compelling novel
set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and Nazi
Germany - with a dizzying final twist
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Vienna, 1899. Celebrated psychoanalyst Josef
Breuer is about to encounter his strangest
case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum, thin and
shaven-headed, she claims to have no name, no
feelings - to be, in fact, not even human.
Years later, in Germany, we meet Krysta. Her
Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the
‘animal people’, so Krysta plays alone, lost in
the stories of Hansel and Gretel and the Pied
Piper. When everything changes and the world
around her becomes as frightening as any fairy
tale, Krysta finds her imagination is more powerful than she could ever have guessed...
Eliza Granville lives in the Welsh Marches. She
has had a life-long fascination with the enduring
quality of fairytales and their symbolism, and
the idea for Gretel and the Dark was sparked
when she became interested in the emphasis
placed on these stories during the Third Reich.
Hamish Hamilton published in February to
great critical acclaim.
Praise for Gretel and the Dark:
‘Powerful,
heartbreaking,
heart-racing,
terrifying’ The Times
‘Atmospheric and beautifully written, Gretel
and the Dark will be one of the best books of
2014’ The List
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Fiction
A Man Should
A collection of short stories
Andrew Fox
A collection of clever, witty and
mysteriously intense stories capture the
passions and befuddlements of the young
and rootless, equally dislocated at home
and abroad
A young man rushes to the bedside of his ex,
knowing the baby she’s delivering is not his
own. A misdirected parcel sets off a complex
psychodrama involving two men, a woman
and a dog. Travelling colleagues have an eerie
moment of truth when a fire starts in their
hotel.
Set in America and Ireland - and, at times, in jets
over the Atlantic - A Man Should showcases a
brilliant new talent.
A native of Dublin, Andrew Fox lives in New
York. He has published stories in The Dublin
Review and The Stinging Fly, and he has been
commissioned to write a story for Faber’s next
anthology of Irish fiction, coming in 2015.
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publication date
05 February 2015
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The Tower
Uwe Tellkamp
publication date
03 July 2014
A touching, intricate and candid portrait
of a family in crisis amid the turbulent fall
of the Berlin Wall
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234mm x 153mm
In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middleclass family does all it can to cope amid the
Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of
the East German experience is told through
the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and
publisher. With evocative detail, Uwe Tellkamp
masterfully reveals the myriad perspectives
of the time as people battle for individuality,
retreat to nostalgia, choose to conform, or toe
the perilous line between East and West. Poetic,
heartfelt and dramatic, The Tower vividly
resurrects the sights, scents and sensations
of life in the GDR as it hurtled towards 9
November 1989.
Uwe Tellkamp was born in 1968 in Dresden.
After completing his military service, he lost
his place to study medicine on the grounds
of ‘political unreliability’. He was arrested in
1989 but went on to study medicine in Leipzig,
Dresden and New York, later becoming a
surgeon. He has won numerous regional prizes
for poetry, as well as the Ingeborg Bachmann
Prize for The Sleep in the Clocks. In 2008, he
won the German Book Prize for The Tower.
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Last Judgement
John Carter
publication date
31st July 2014
Historical research + legend + adventure
= fast-paced Templar thrills
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198mm x 129mm
In a hidden chamber off the coast of Nova
Scotia an ancient tablet has been unearthed.
Under layers of dirt is a series of symbols that
will lead to one of the greatest treasures the
world has ever known. For over 650 years it
had remained undiscovered.
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Angela Derby, the woman behind the discovery,
enlists the help of ex-army Captain, Jack
Shepherd and together they decipher the runes
and begin a journey across the world. But they
are not the only ones seeking the treasure and
their quest soon becomes a race to stay alive.
John Carter is an historian living in the US. Last
Judgement is his first novel.
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Fallen
Lia Mills
publication date
05 June 2014
A gripping story of love, loss and conflicting
loyalties in a time of violence
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Spring 1915, Dublin. Katie Crilly gets the news
she has long been dreading: her beloved twin
brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western
Front.
A year later, when Dublin is suddenly engulfed
by the violence of the Easter Rising, Katie finds
herself torn between her loyalty to her brother,
her instinctive Irish patriotism, and her love for
her city and its people.Taking refuge in the home
of friends, she meets Hubie Wilson, a comrade of
Liam’s from the Front.There unfolds a remarkable
encounter between two young people, both
wounded and both trying to imagine a new life.
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A magnificent portrait of a young woman coming
of age amidst violence and loss, this is a novel
that can stand alongside Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
and Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room.
Lia Mills is the author of two previous novels,
Another Alice and Nothing Simple, and a memoir,
In Your Face. She lives in Dublin.
Praise for Fallen from Anne Enright, winner of
the Man Booker Prize:
‘Lia Mills writes superbly about the human heart.
This is an historical story with an urgency that is
completely modern: Fallen is shot through with
the pleasure and the difficulty of being alive’
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Fear the Dark
Chris Mooney
publication date
01 Jan 2015
A nail-biting new thriller from the
critically acclaimed Chris Mooney
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Darby McCormick is a lone wolf - a woman
who lives under different identities as she
travels across the United States, hunting down
the people who tried to kill her.
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She’s living in Montana when the FBI arrives and
shares the chilling news: her former lab partner
and friend, Jackson Cooper, has gone missing
in Red Hill, Colorado. As Darby travels to the
small town to help in the search, she embarks
on a harrowing journey. As she hunts for Coop,
Darby becomes hunted by “The Night Stalker”,
a vicious serial killer who has been roaming
through Red Hill and the surrounding town
for over a quarter of a century, kidnapping his
victims in the middle of the night - and targeting
anyone who crosses his path.
Chris Mooney is the author of eight previous
thrillers, of which Remembering Sarah was
nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for
Best Novel. The Missing, The Secret Friend and
The Soul Collectors are available as Penguin
paperbacks. Chris lives in Boston with his wife
and son.
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Science
A Farewell to Ice
Peter Wadhams
publication date
04 September 2015
An exploration of Ice
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234mm x 153mm
The natural state of the earth’s polar ice caps is
changing fast. Our increasing reliance on fuels,
travel and other trappings of modern life is
putting an unsustainable pressure on these caps.
It is estimated that within the next 18 months,
there will be no more ice on the North Pole.
An exceptionally well informed and passionate
piece of writing, A Farewell to Ice takes
the reader on a tour of the scientific, the
geographical and the historical - explaining the
importance of ice through its physical make-up.
Incorporating discussions on climate change,
social responsibility and pure science, Peter
Wadhams brings an unarguable and unmatched
level of expert knowledge.
Captured in a lifetime’s body of research, this is
an homage to Ice; a call to arms; and an elegy to
the fascinating substance that binds our planet
together.
Peter Wadhams is Professor of Oceanography
at Cambridge University. He has dedicated his
career in research to Ice, and he has visited the
Poles no fewer than 45 times.
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The Invention of Science
A New History of the Scientific Revolution
David Wootton
A landmark new account of the Scientific
Revolution 1500-1700
The Scientific Revolution is one of the defining
periods in modern history - perhaps more than
any other, the series of events and discoveries
which have shaped the modern world. How
did Europe, and then the rest of the world,
separate empirical knowledge from supposition
and superstition, and what extraordinary
transformations did this bring about?
This account of the Scientific Revolution
will replace all other existing accounts, by
the breadth of its thinking, the colour of its
portraiture, and the originality of its vision.
David Wootton is one of the UK’s foremost
intellectual historians. He is Anniversary
Professor of History at the University of
York, and the Carlyle Lecturer for 2014 at the
University of Oxford. His biography of Galileo
was published in 2010 by Yale University Press.
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publication date
02 April 2015
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History
A History of the Bible
John Barton
publication date
05 September 2018
A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible’s
creation: how it came to be written, how
its contents were selected - and how it
really relates to the religions that endorse
it
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The Bible is the central book in western culture,
yet extraordinarily there is no proper history
of it. This exceptional work, by one of the
world’s leading Biblical scholars, provides a full
account of how the different parts of the Bible
came to be written; how some writings which
were regarded as holy because canonical were
included in the Bible, and others were not; what
the relationship is of the different parts of the
Bible to each other; and how, once it became a
stable text, the Bible has been disseminated and
interpreted around the world.
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It gives full weight to discussion of the
importance of the Tanakh (Old Testament) in
Judaism as in Christianity. It also demonstrates
the degree to which, contrary to widespread
belief, both Judaism and Christianity are not
faiths drawn from the Bible texts but from
other sources and traditions. It shows that if
we are to regard the Bible as ‘authoritative’ it
cannot be as believers have so often done in
the past.
John Barton is a theologian, Oriel and Laing
Professor of the Interpretation of the Holy
Scripture at Oxford University, and a priest in
the Church of England.
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Germany
Neil MacGregor
publication date
15th September 2014
From the author of A History of the
World in 100 Objects, this is a view of
Germany like no other.
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Today, as the dominant economic force in
Europe, Germany looms as large as ever over
world affairs. But how much do we really
understand about it, and how do its people
understand themselves?
In this enthralling new book, Neil MacGregor
guides us through the complex history, culture
and identity of Germany by telling the stories
behind 30 objects in his uniquely magical way.
Beginning with the fifteenth-century invention
of the Gutenberg press, MacGregor ventures
beyond the usual sticking point of the Second
World War to get to the heart of a nation that
has given us Luther and Hitler, the Beetle and
Brecht - and remade our world again and again.
This is a view of Germany like no other.
Neil MacGregor has been Director of the
British Museum since August 2002. He was
previously Director of the National Gallery
in London from 1987 to 2002. His celebrated
books include A History of the World in 100
Objects, which has been translated into a dozen
languages, and Shakespeare’s Restless World.
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History
Elizabeth and islam
Jerry Brotton
publication date
07 January 2015
A richly-detailed tour of the little-known
networks of cultural and political exchange
which existed between Elizabethan
England and the Islamic world
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In Elizabeth and Islam, Jerry Brotton explores the
little-known relationship between Protestant
England under Elizabeth I, and the Islamic
countries of the East; and its extraordinary
cultural legacy.
The book will show that England’s relations
with the Muslim world were far more extensive,
and in some cases more amicable, than we have
ever appreciated, and that their influence was
felt across the political, cultural, commercial and
domestic landscapes of Elizabethan England.
Jerry Brotton is Professor of Renaissance
Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
He is the author of Renaissance Bazaar, The
Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and
his Art Collection (shortlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the HessellTiltman History Prize), and the celebrated A
History of the World in Twelve Maps, which has
been translated into 11 languages.
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History
The Edge of the World
Light, Life and Brilliance in the Dark Ages
Michael Pye
A magnificent 1000-year history of
northern Europe that shows what life was
actually like during the ‘dark ages’
This is a story of craftsmen, businesswomen,
artists, warriors, intellectuals and spies. It takes
place between the end of the Roman Empire
and the flourishing of seventeenth-century
Amsterdam, featuring Viking raiders, Dutch
diggers, Flemish fishermen and Hanseatic
hustlers. It’s about tastes, diseases, languages,
customs, sports, technologies and manners; it’s
about fashion, sex, power and money. Recreating
the food people ate, the homes they lived in, the
clothes they wore and the things they thought,
The Edge of the World uses an astounding
breadth of sources and the most lively storytelling to bring a vast sweep of history vividly to
life.
Michael Pye is the author of eleven books,
including two British bestsellers and two New
York Times Notable Books of the Year. A prizewinning graduate in History from Oxford
University, he was for many years a highly
successful journalist, editor and columnist.
He lives mostly in rural Portugal. He has been
praised by Vogue as ‘a master storyteller’.
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06 November 2014
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History
Ring of Steel
Alexander Watson
publication date
07 August 2014
A major new history of the First World
War that rewrites the story of the conflict
from a completely new perspective
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234mm x 153mm
For the empires of Germany and AustriaHungary, the Great War - which had begun
with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic
outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of
both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe.
For four years the fighting turned into a siege
on a quite monstrous scale. Europe became
the focus for fighting of a kind previously
unimagined.
Despite local successes - and an apparent
triumph in Russia - Germany and AustriaHungary were never able to break out of the
iron grip of the Allies. In Alexander Watson’s
compelling new history of the Great War, all
the major events of the war are seen from the
perspective of Berlin and Vienna.
Alexander Watson is Lecturer in History at
Goldsmiths College, University of London.
He has been a Research Fellow at Clare Hall,
Cambridge, a British Academy Postgraduate
Fellow at the University of Cambridge and,
from 2011-13, Marie Curie Inter-European
Fellow at Warsaw University. His first book,
EGreat War, won the Fraenkel
Prize.
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Futebol Nation
A Footballing History of Brazil
David Goldblatt
The greatest footballing country, as
recorded by the greatest football writer
today
No nation has so closely aligned its national
identity with playing and watching football as
Brazil.
Football is regarded as a thing of joy, its yellow
shirts a delightful amalgam of sport and art,
entwined with its cultures of music and religion.
This is true, but there is another side to the
story. Brazil may now be the sixth largest
economy in the world but the corruption of
its football authorities is characteristic of its
society as a whole.
To write the history of Brazilian football is to
write the history of Brazil itself. This is the
whole story - the players, the fans, the politicians,
the passion - from the arrival of football in the
country in 1894 just after the last Emperor had
been deposed, to the social unrest and riots at
the Confederations Cup in 2013.
David Goldblatt was born in London in 1965.
He is the acclaimed author of the classic football
book The Ball is Round, and an expert at
writing lively and accessible sporting histories.
He also wrote the superb How To Watch The
Olympics, published in the UK in 2012.
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Hidden City
Adventures and Explorations in Dublin
Karl Whitney
The hidden places and untold stories of a
great, haunted city: Dublin
Dublin is a city much visited and deeply
mythologized. Versions of its shabby grandeur
live on vividly in the works of its great novelists
and playwrights; and the boom and bubble years
of the 2000s created a fresh myth of prosperity
and a patina of modernity.
In Hidden City, Karl Whitney - who has been
described as ‘Dublin’s best psychogeographer
since James Joyce’ - explores the places the
city’s citizens easily overlook, and unearths
stories of the sort that the tourist board
would prefer visitors not hear. Whitney
haunts Dublin’s edgelands, from his native
Tallaght, a marginalized working-class suburb, to
Loughshinny, on the coast north-east of the city.
He finds hidden places and untold stories in
the heart of the city, too: Karl Whitney shows
us a Dublin - or a collection of Dublins - that
we’ve never seen before. Hidden City is a fond
but searching portrait of a place that has been
hiding in plain sight.
A native of Dublin, Karl Whitney has published
essays in the Dublin Review and the White
Review, and journalism in the Guardian, Belfast
Telegraph and Irish Times. He is a research
associate at the UCD Humanities Institute.
Hidden City is his first book.
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04 September 2014
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Last Man Off
A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the
Antarctic Seas
Matt Lewis
The Perfect Storm meets Captain Phillips
- A thrilling first-hand account of an ocean
tragedy
In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of
miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is
swallowed by waves as high as houses.
The captain is fatally slow to act, and then
paralyzed by fear.The officers flee for their lives.
Only the actions of Matt Lewis, a 23-year-old
British marine biologist and one of the most
inexperienced men aboard, will save the lives
of the crew.
Lewis is the last man off the sinking boat, and
leads the escape onto three life rafts. There the
battle for survival begins.
Matt Lewis was born in Bristol, England, in 1974.
He trained as a marine biologist first at Bangor
University and then at Aberdeen University.
He now lives with his wife and two children
in Aberdeen. Last Man Off is Matt’s first book.
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31 July 2014
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Probably Nothing
A Diary of Not-Your-Average Nine Months
Matilda Tristram
Moving, funny and inspiring - a remarkable
graphic memoir by a woman who
discovered she had cancer whilst she was
pregnant
At 31, Matilda Tristram was 17 weeks pregnant
and looking forward to having her first baby.Then
she discovered she had cancer.This touching and
hilarious memoir in graphic novel form starts
at the moment Matilda was diagnosed and ends
when her course of chemotherapy finishes
in October 2013. Recording the awkward
conversations, the highs and lows of treatment,
the mixed blessings of receiving ‘Get Well’ cards,
and the reality of still having to queue too long
for croissants, Matilda captures her experiences
with characteristic style and warmth - never
morose or self pitying.
Along the way she cherishes the small details of
life, and learns not to sweat the big things. Her
beautiful and boisterous son was born without
complications and is reliably keeping her up
most nights.
Matilda Tristram studied animation at the Royal
College of Art. She has worked as a children’s
writer, lecturer and filmmaker. She was co-writer
on two animated BBC TV shows for CBeebies
with Ragdoll Productions, The Adventures of
Abney and Teal and Dipdap. Dipdap won a BAFTA
in the short form category. Her short films have
screened at over 30 festivals internationally.
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07 August 2014
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The Climb
The Autobiography
Chris Froome
publication date
05 June 2014
The revealing, inspirational memoir from
the 2013 winner of the Tour de France
Chris Froome’s journey has been unlike any
other in the history of cycling. As a boy he raced
through townships and passed wild animals in
Kenya. As a 21-year-old, with no opportunities
as an aspiring cyclist, he entered himself into
the world championships as the sole rider and
manager for Kenya’s national team (he even
made his own shirt). In 2013, he rode his bike
up the Alpine slopes of the Tour de France to
victory.
The Climb reveals the passion and will to win
that has seen him overcome a troubling family
life, the death of his mother, a debilitating illness,
a fierce rivalry with Bradley Wiggins and, most
recently, the pressures of Lance Armstrong’s
dark legacy.
Chris Froome was born in Nairobi to British
parents. He was educated and raised in South
Africa and now races for Team GB and Team
Sky. Before he won the Tour de France, he
finished runner-up in 2012, when he helped
Bradley Wiggins to overall victory.
The Climb was co-written with David Walsh,
author of the acclaimed account of the downfall
of Lance Armstrong, Seven Deadly Sins.
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Warsaw Boy
A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Andrew Borowiec
The remarkable true story of a sixteenyear old boy soldier in war-torn Poland
In the autumn of 1944, 16 year-old Andrew
Borowiec, wearing two left shoes and bleeding
from numerous shrapnel wounds, limped into a
German prisoner-of-war camp.
Andrew was one of the youngest boy soldiers
who fought in the Warsaw Rising, witnessing
the worst street fighting since Stalingrad.
Wounded in the leg, he emerged from the
sewers and gave himself up, taking a chance as a
prisoner of war.
In the prison camp he secretly kept a diary on
toilet paper, and this became the basis of his
extraordinary account of a young boy facing
the horror of war.
Andrew Borowiec was born at Lodz in Poland
in 1928. At fifteen he joined the Home Army,
the main Polish resistance during the Second
World War, and fought in the ill-fated Warsaw
Uprising. After the war he left Poland and
attended Colombia University’s Graduate
School of Journalism. He lives in Cyprus with
his English wife Juliet.
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03 July 2014
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My Fellow prisoners
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
publication date
10 April 2014
Moving and dignified account of life as a
prisoner of conscience
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In 2003 the businessman and outspoken Kremlin
critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested at
gunpoint. After his first trial in 2005 he was
held in Russian penal colonies for eight years.
Written during this time, this is his account of
prison life and the people he encountered.
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There is the guard who delivers blows with no
visible traces. The fraudster stitched up by the
police for murder.The man who refuses to lie for
a packet of cigarettes. The abandoned teenager,
the down-and-out, the grass… He describes a
hidden world of brutality and corruption, yet
one where moments of humanity still manage
to shine through.
One in ten Russian men pass through prison
at some point in their lives. This book is a
denunciation of an entire system of bureaucratic
criminality, and a passionate call to recognise a
human tragedy.
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STUFFOCATION:
How to Live More, With Less
James Wallman
An inspiring exploration into how to live
more, with less.
Do you open your bursting wardrobe and fail
to find a stitch to wear? Are you so drowned
in clutter that you can’t find the one thing
you need? Is the sheer volume of objects
bought to make you happy, now making you
miserable? If so, you are one of many suffering
from the defining problem of the 21st century:
Stuffocation.
In this well-written and witty account, which
sees the author flying in helicopters and treading
the halls of the Elysée palace, James Wallman
explains his unique theory of less-is-more. We
are in a clutter-crisis and the only way out is to
start valuing experiences over objects. It’s not
what we have, it’s what we do.
Proposing a fresh new take on living the perfect
de-cluttered existence, Stuffocation is set to
be the only ‘must-have’ item for the new-wave
21st century minimalist.
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In Your Prime
India Knight
publication date
04 September 2014
Humane, witty, wise and full of practical
advice: India Knight’s guide to ageing is
the book every woman has been waiting
for
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“Our mothers’ fifty is not our fifty. We have
no map, no blueprint, no nothing. We have no
sense of what is and isn’t age-appropriate, or
even of whether age-appropriateness is still
relevant. We’re supposed to be grown-up, but
we seldom feel it.’
Part guide, part memoir, part manual, in In Your
Prime India Knight seeks to provide proper,
weighty answers to the questions women
are asking themselves now. Covering a wide
range of subjects from clothes and cosmetics,
being a parent to older children, having older
parents and what that entails, and of course,
the menopause, In Your Prime is the definitive,
much-needed guide to approaching middle age
with confidence and panache.
India Knight is the author of three previous
novels: My Life on a Plate, Don’t You Want
Me and Comfort and Joy. Her non-fiction
books include The Shops, the bestselling diet
book Neris and India’s Idiot-Proof Diet, the
accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and
India’s Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook and The
Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday
Times and lives in London with her three
children.
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Walking Home
Clare Balding
publication date
11 September 2014
The hugely anticipated new book from
the much-loved author of My Animals and
Other Family
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From the Highlands to the South Downs, the
North East of England to the Welsh coast, Clare
Balding takes us on a walking tour of the British
isles, in all its mud and glory.
Through apocalyptic thunderstorms and blazing
sunshine, Clare tells of the people she meets
along the way, of the catharsis walking, and of
the natural thrill of moving from A to B through
a beautiful landscape.
Clare Balding’s first book, My Animals and Other
Family, was a number one bestseller and won
Autobiography of the Year at the 2012 National
Book Awards. Clare won a BAFTA Special
Award for her coverage as lead presenter
for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic
Games, and has presented horse racing on
television and radio for nineteen years.
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The Lost Christmas Puppy
Linda Steliou
publication date
06 November 2014
A heartwarming true story about a
woman whose Christmas wish for a
puppy was finally granted after 60 years
of waiting
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Little Linda was three years old when she told
Father Christmas a secret. “What I want more
than anything is to have a puppy of my own to
love”.
But with every Christmas that went by, no
puppy appeared. Linda grew up into a busy
working mum and wife, and her dreams of a
puppy were pushed to the back of her mind. It
wasn’t until a special visitor one dark and cold
Christmas eve, that she began to remember the
wish she had made sixty years earlier...
Full of charming and touching stories, and
in the wake of A Streetcat Named Bob and
Christmas at the Ragdoll Orphanage, comes an
unforgettable true story about childhood, love,
and how an animal can change one’s life.
Linda Steliou is the winner of Penguin and Take
a Break magazine’s life-story competition. She
lives in Greece with her husband Stephen and
several four-legged friends.This is her first book.
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Missing
Shelley MacKenney
publication date
22 May 2014
The remarkable true story of a girl who
decided to go missing...
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Abandoned by her mother as a young girl,
with a father always on the run, Shelley’s life
was never normal. Her family formed part of
South London’s criminal underworld which left
her feeling ostracized and lonely. Falling deeper
and deeper into depression and mania, one day
- she snapped. Shelley got on the first coach
out of London with only £30 in her pocket,
and decided to become a ‘missing person’.
For years she lived on the street as a shell of
woman, often stealing to survive. It would take
something spectacular to bring her back to the
real world...
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Shelley now lives in Birmingham with her
daughter Alyssia and her grandmother Eileen,
the author of Borstal Girl.
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Biography
publication date
05 March 2015
Seneca:
A New Biography
Emily Wilson
The Greatest Empire:A Life of Seneca
This book traces the eventful life of Seneca,
the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and
rhetorician of the first century CE, who came
from Spain to Rome, spent his youth in Egypt,
was exiled to Corsica under Claudius but
recalled after eight years, and rose to dizzying
heights of wealth, power and social influence
under Nero, before falling from favour and
being forced to kill himself.
The book analyzes the relationship of Seneca’s
life story to his literary self-fashioning, and
the tensions between the external worlds of
politics, consumerism, and social success, with
the Stoic ideals of asceticism, virtue and selfcontrol.
Emily Wilson is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Classical Studies. She has a BA
from Oxford in Classics, an M. Phil., also from
Oxford, in English Literature (1500-1660), and
a Ph.D. from Yale in Classics and Comparative
Literature. Her first book was Mocked with
Death: Tragic overliving from Sophocles to
Milton. Her second book was The Death of
Sophocles: Hero,Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.
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Turner
Franny Moyle
publication date
10 March 2016
The man behind the paintings: the
extraordinary life of JMW Turner, one of
Britain’s most admired, misunderstood
and celebrated artists
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JMW Turner is Britain’s most celebrated
landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic
achievements little is known of the man himself.
In this beautifully produced new biography,
Franny Moyle explores both the well-known
and secret aspects of Turner’s life and work: an
incredible story of greed, ambition, scandal and
tragedy.
Set against the backdrop of the French
Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the
Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing
portrait of one of the most important figures
in Western art and a vivid evocation of Europe
in flux.
For readers of Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens:
A Life, Martin Gayford’s Michelangelo: His Epic
Life and Shelia Hale’s Titian: His Life and the
Golden Age of Venice.
Franny Moyle has a degree in English and Art
History from St John’s College, Cambridge.
She is the first Commissioner for Arts and
Culture for the BBC, and a freelance executive
producer and writer. She lives in East London,
and is married with three children.
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Tove Jansson
Tuula Karjalainen
publication date
04 December 2014
A stunning written and visual exploration
of Tove Jansson’s life and art from her
unsual childhood and through war-torn
Finland
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The definitive illustrated biography of one of the
most unique and beloved children’s authors of
the 20th century, the creator of the Moomins.
Tove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colourful
and productive life, impacting significantly the
political, social and cultural history of 20th
century Finland.
And while millions of children have grown up
with Little My, Snufkin, Moomintroll and the
many creatures of Moominvalley, the life of
Jansson - daughter, friend and companion - is
more touching still. This book weaves together
the myriad qualities of a painter, author,
illustrator, scriptwriter and lyricist from fraught
beginnings through fame, war and heartbreak
and ultimately to a peaceful end.
Dr Tuula Karjalainen is a Finnish art historian and
non-fiction writer who has previously worked
as a director of the Helsinki Art Museum and
the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
in Helsinki. As the author of Tove Jansson’s
biography, Karjalainen has become an expert
not only on Jansson’s writing and art but also
on her decades of personal correspondence
and journals.
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Art
Think Like an Artist
Will Gompertz
publication date
05 March 2015
Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and
self-help from Da Vinci to Cezanne, Frida
Kahlo to Ai Weiwei
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Wouldn’t it be nice to be an ‘artist’? They are
the mothers and fathers of invention. They are
celebrated in history as geniuses. What makes
them ‘special’? What are their secrets? And what
sets them apart from the rest of us? The answer
is that artists are not super-human, eccentric or
other-worldly. The real truth is that we are all
born artists, it’s just that Da Vinci and Picasso
chose to apply themselves in a way that we
haven’t.Yet.
In this ground-breaking book, art historian
Will Gompertz has chosen ten of the greatest
painters, sculptors, designers and performance
artists in history, and identified ten pieces of
wisdom that we can all apply to our own lives.
This book will not only make you more creative,
but happier, more confident and more equipped
to thrive in the future economy.
Will Gompertz is a journalist, author, curator,
broadcaster and critic - and the BBC’s Arts Editor.
He was ranked as one of the 50 most original
thinkers in the world by Creativity Magazine. He
lives in Oxford with his wife and four children.
His book What Are You Looking At?:150 Years
of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye has been
published in 15 languages.
‘Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never
had’ The Guardian
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Art
Lives of the Artists
Conversations with nineteen of the world’s
greatest artists, architects and sculptors
Hans Ulrich Obrist
A unique opportunity to learn about the
lives and creativity of the world’s leading
artists
publication date
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Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting
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living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged
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Here he chooses nineteen of the greatest
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offering the reader intimacy with the artists and
insight into their creative processes. Inspired
by the great Vasari, Lives of the Artists explores
the meaning of art and artists today, their
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Including David Hockney, Gilbert and George,
Gerhard Richter, Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Marina Abramovic, Louise Bourgeois, Rem
Koolhaas, Jeff Koons and Oscar Niemeyer,
this is a wonderful and unique book for those
interested in modern art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and writer. Since
2006 he has been co-director of the Serpentine
Gallery, London. He is the author, with Ai Wei
Wei, of Ai Wei Wei Speaks.
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Art
Playing to the Gallery
Grayson Perry
publication date
04 September 2014
Based on Grayson Perry’s popular and
acclaimed Reith Lectures, a book with
words and images that upturns your
thinking about “art”
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How does the stuff we see in art galleries or the
middle of roundabouts come to be made and
valued? Drawing on his life as an artist, Grayson
Perry sets off to explore the boundaries and
tensions at the heart of modern art, with many
visual aids along the way.
From the slippery subject of quality, to the
problem of rebelling in a world that thrives on
rebellion, to the tricky question of what can or
can’t be a work of art, Playing to the Gallery
hopes to give everyone the essential tools with
which to understand and appreciate art.
Grayson Perry, a celebrated artist and winner of
the Turner Prize, presented the Reith Lectures
on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. He has had major
solo exhibitions at, amongst others, The British
Museum (London), the Stedelijk Museum,
(Amsterdam), the Andy Warhol Museum
(Pittsburgh), and the 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan).
Perry won a BAFTA for Best Specialist
Factual Programme in 2013 for his three-part
documentary on taste and class, All in the Best
Possible Taste, as well as the award for Best
Presenter at the Grierson British Documentary
Awards.
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Face of Britain
Simon Schama
publication date
01 October 2015
A stunning new 500-year history of
the British people, told through their
portraits
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A person’s face encapsulates their identity; a
portrait opens a window into their life: who
they were, who they wanted to be, how they
were seen, how they saw themselves. From the
‘warts and all’ portrait of Oliver Cromwell to
the iconic photograph of ‘bulldog’ Churchill;
from poets and industrialists to boxers and
princesses, from anonymous workers to
the artists themselves, Simon Schama uses a
fabulous and surprising array of images to tell
the story of the British and their ever-changing
identity.
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art
History and History at Columbia University
and the prize-winning author of sixteen
books, which have been translated into twenty
languages. They include The Embarrassment of
Riches, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s
Eyes, and Rough Crossings, which won the
National Book Critics Circle Award. He has
written widely on music, art, politics and food
for the Guardian, Vogue and the New Yorker.
His award-winning television work for the
BBC stretches over two decades and includes
the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the
eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art. His
most recent work The Story of the Jews was
published in 2013 to great acclaim.
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Working On My Novel
Cory Arcangel
publication date
31 July 2014
From an arresting artist of the digital age,
a work of fiction about the act of writing
fiction
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He’s made art out of YouTube cat videos, Super
Mario clouds and Space Invaders. Now Cory
Arcangel uses tweets from Twitter to create his
first book that’s also a work of art. Or is it a
work of art that’s also a book?
What’s going through a writer’s mind when
they tweet while writing? This eagle’s eye
view shows both the ecstasy and despair of
the creative writing process. This writingabout-writing-about-writing chronicles the
relationship between the projected self and the
creative self - a collision of tears, anxiety, selfdoubt, romance and unfettered joy.
Cory Arcangel (born 1978) is an American artist
whose work explores the relationship between
technology and culture. His work is in New
York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian,
and the Tate. A classical guitar player and coder,
he has a Web site that automatically updates
every time someone tweets the phrase “follow
my other Twitter,” and the blog, Sorry I Haven’t
Posted, that re-posts other people’s apologies
for not blogging.
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Philosophy and Psychology
How We Are
Vincent Deary
publication date
04 September 2014
A story told in three acts, How We Are is
a journey of human understanding which
also marks the début of an extraordinary
literary talent
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The first volume of the How To Live trilogy,
How We Are is a profound and startling
exploration of habit and change that gets right
to the heart of what it means to be human.
Drawing on a staggering range of cultural and
literary references - from Jacques Lacan to Mad
Men, Marcel Proust to Chicago dance crazes Vincent Deary shows us how much of our lives
are lived automatically, according to beaten
paths, and why we are so resistant to conscious
change.
Yet How We Are offers more than the insight of
understanding; Deary reveals how we can and
must occasionally change our lives nonetheless.
Part psychologist and part philosopher, Deary
shows us how to avoid being mere habit
machines, and make our acts truly ours.
Vincent Deary is a health psychologist at
Northumbria University who specialises in
helping people change their lives for the better.
This is his first book.
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Philosophy and Psychology
The Age of Earthquakes
Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans
Ulrich Obrist
Quick hits of images and ideas, stark
statistics and scary slogans. Welcome to
The Age of Earthquakes.
We haven’t just changed our brains these past
few years. We’ve changed the structure of the
planet.
Human experience - love, money, belief,
progress, politics, time - doesn’t look or feel the
way it used to. Wonder why? Because you are
the last generation that will die.
The Age of Earthquakes is a book of perceptions
set in our ‘extreme present’, a new history of
the world and a portrait of our digital era.
The book is a unique collaboration between
three people. Douglas Coupland is a columnist
for the Financial Times, an artist, a performer
and an author. Shumon Basar is a author,
magazine editor and curator. Hans Ulrich
Obrist is a curator, a writer and, since 2006, codirector of the Serpentine Gallery, London. His
previous books include Ai Wei Wei Speaks and
Ways of Curating, He is widely considered one
of the most influential contemporary curators
in the world.
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Philosophy and Psychology
Why Grow Up?
Susan Neiman
publication date
25 September 2014
World-renowned philosopher Susan
Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal
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Becoming an adult today can seem a grim
prospect. As you grow up, you are told to
renounce most of the hopes and dreams of
your youth, and resign yourself to a life that will
be a pale dilution of the adventurous, important
and enjoyable life you once expected. But who
wants to do any of that?
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In Why Grow Up, Neiman explores the forces
that are arrayed against maturity, and shows
how philosophy can help us want to grow up.
Neiman discusses childhood, adolescence, sex,
and culture, and asks how the idea of travel can
help us build a model of maturity that makes
growing up a good option and leaves space
in our culture for grown-ups. Refuting the
widespread belief that the best time of your life
is the decade between sixteen and twenty-six,
she argues that being grown-up is itself an ideal:
one that is rarely achieved in its entirety, but all
the more worth striving for.
Susan Neiman is an American moral philospher
who has taught at Yale and Tel Aviv University.
She lives in Germany, where she is the Director
of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.
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Philosophy and Psychology
Trouble in Paradise
Communism After the End of History
Slavoj Žižek
How to end the crisis of capitalism and
reimagine communism, by probably the
most famous living philosopher
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist
paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to
imagine a way out of the crisis we’re in? It is
as if the trouble feeds on itself: the march of
capitalism has become inexorable, the only
game in town.
Setting out to diagnose the condition of global
capitalism, the ideological constraints we are
faced with in our daily lives, and the bleak
future promised by this system, Slavoj Žižek
explores the possibilities - and the traps - of
new emancipatory struggles.
Drawing insights from phenomena as diverse
as Gangnam Style to Marx, The Dark Knight
to Thatcher, Trouble in Paradise is an incisive
dissection of the world we inhabit, and the new
order to come.
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian
psychoanalyst, and Communist political activist.
He is the author of numerous books on
dialectical materialism, critique of ideology and
art. His main work is Less Than Nothing, a study
on the actuality of Hegelian dialectics.
‘The most dangerous philosopher in the West’
New Republic Magazine
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06 November 2014
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Business
GET SHIT DONE
Lauris Liberts & Startup Vitamins
publication date
06 November 2014
Get Shit Done. Fewer Meetings, More
Doing. Passion Never Fails.
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These mantras have bred the likes of Twitter and
Instagram. Now the essence of the startup world
has been captured in book form.
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There’s rocket-fuelled insight from the pioneers
of the Lean revolution, alongside timeless wisdom
from Zuckerberg, Bezos and Jobs.
Whenever you’re in search of inspiration and
motivation, pick up this book. And then Get Shit
Done. You’ll be in good company: high achievers
from companies as varied as Google, Linkedin,
Twitter and Nike use Startup Vitamins inpirational
posters in their workspaces.
‘It’s the new buzz acronym taking over the start-up
world and kicking workers into action’
Evening Standard
Lauris Liberts is a serial entrepreneur and the
founder of Startup Vitamins. In Latvia he built the
only European competitor of Facebook that’s still
locally dominant, then expanded globally with the
Draugiem Group, Behappy.me and DeskTime.
Startup Vitamins offers inspiration through
posters, mugs, t-shirts and more. It’s based in
California and Latvia and ships globally – fast.
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THE IDEA IN YOU
How To Find It, Build It, and Change Your Life
Martin Amor and Alex Pellew
An inspirational toolkit of processes
and insights from two world experts in
innovation
We all have an idea in us: a passion, a project, a
product. We dream of using that idea to change
our lives – whether than means working from
home, helping other people or building a
business worth millions – and more of us every
year are trying to make that dream a reality.
We do need a little expert advice, both to help
us avoid pitfalls and to make sure our idea is
not just right, but right for us. The Idea In You is
that advice in a simple step-by-step guide.
Alex Pellew is a former marketing head at Nike.
He leads projects for ?What If! Innovation, and
coaches and launches digital start-ups. Martin
Amor, the Inventing Director at ?What If!, has
led product development and creative training
programmes for Mars, Telefonica, Unilever,
Samsung, Shell and Kraft.
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Business
Spark!
How to reignite your passion for life
Norah Casey
Norah Casey - broadcaster and publishing
entrepreneur - offers a unique perspective
on how to live a life less ordinary
When did you last light up the room just by
entering it? When was the last time you kept
someone spellbound with rapt attention just
through being you?
Most people start out believing they will achieve
great things and along the way that self-belief
diminishes ... life takes over and people settle.
Instead of letting life pass you by Norah Casey
wants you to rediscover your passion and your
ambition, and to become a better you.
Losing her husband shortly after he was
diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer
forced Norah Casey to take stock of her life
and begin a journey of self-discovery. Along the
way she found that she could reinvent herself.
In Spark!, drawing on a mixture of personal
insight and the wisdom of twenty years as a top
business woman, Norah Casey will help you to
start your journey towards becoming the best
you can be.
Norah Casey is a broadcaster and publisher
with RTE and Newstalk, and CEO of Harmonia,
Ireland’s largest magazine company.
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publication date
28 August 2014
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FREE
Chris Baréz-Brown
publication date
05 June 2014
From the author of SHINE, a book which
inspires you to set your own rules at work,
and make your job work for you
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If we want to live an extraordinary life, we have
to make our work equally extraordinary.
When your work resonates with purpose, you
jump out of bed every morning, excited by the
possibilities the day holds for you. Everything
else in your life seems to have a glow about it,
and you exude much more personal shine.
Chris Baréz-Brown is on a mission to bring
creative leadership and mindfulness to the
business world and beyond. After helping turn
Carling Black Label into the first British billion
pound brand, he joined ?What If!, the innovation
and ideas agency. In 2009 he founded Upping
Your Elvis, a business whose focus is to release
the genius of organisations by helping their
people shine more brightly. He works with the
likes of Coca-Cola, Nike, Diageo and WPP to
help their teams make an extraordinary impact.
His previous book, Shine, has sold over 20,000
copies worldwide
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Business
Flying High
Tony Fernandes
publication date
04 September 2014
The inspiring story of business hero and
Apprentice Asia star Tony Fernandes
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Flying High is the memoir of an exceptional
business leader; the man who created Asia’s
first budget airline, democratising air travel in
Asia and building AirAsia into a multi-billion
dollar company in the process.
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As a boy,Tony Fernandes wanted to be a pilot, a
footballer or a racing driver. By 2011 he’d gone
one better: founding his own airline and his
own Formula One team, as well as becoming
Chairman of Queens Park Rangers.
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Fernandes
worked
for Virgin
Communications and Warner Music before
acquiring AirAsia and relaunching it as Asia’s
first low-cost carrier in 2001/2. He is currently
Group CEO of AirAsia, Chairman of QPR
football club and owner of the Caterham F1
team.
Tony has been awarded a CBE, titled twice by
the King of Malaysia and awarded the Legion
d’Honneur by the French government. He
has also received awards from major business
media outlets including the International
Herald Tribune, Business Times, Business Week,
Fast Company and Forbes.
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Cookery
A GIRL CALLED JACK
Jack Monroe
publication date
3 March 2014
100 budget-busting, easy and delicious
recipes from an internet sensation.
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When Jack Monroe found herself with a
shopping budget of just £10 a week to feed
herself and her young son, she addressed
the situation with resourcefulness, creativity
and her local supermarket’s ‘basics’ range.
She created recipe after recipe of delicious,
simple and defiantly upbeat meals that were
outrageously cheap.
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Jack Monroe is a 25-year-old single mother
and local newspaper reporter. Sharing her
thrifty and nutritious recipes with a local food
bank, to help others in her situation, she then
began to publish them online on her blog, A
Girl Called Jack, which now has over 50,000
followers. Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum
and Mason Judges’ Choice Award for her blog.
She lives in Essex with her son.
A Girl Called Jack went straight to number one
in the UK paperback non-fiction chart in its
first week on sale.
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Cookery
Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook
Rachel Khoo
publication date
01 February 2015
From the bestselling author of The Little
Paris Kitchen, a brand new culinary
adventure
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Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook is packed to
the brim with 100 standout recipes, full-colour
photography and Rachel’s very own sketches of
the food and places she encounters.
Out and about, she finds the most delicious fare,
recording it all in her kitchen notebook. From
a Ham Hock Tiffin Box to Slow Roasted Pork
Belly with Sloe Gin, and Rhubarb and Custard
Millefeuille, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook
will inspire even the most jaded cook to try
something new.
After graduating from Central Saint Martin’s
College with a degree in Art and Design, Rachel
was lured to Paris to study pâtisserie at Le
Cordon Bleu. Rachel shot to fame when her
TV series, The Little Paris Kitchen, was broadcast
by BBC. Her beautiful tie-in cookbook and the
follow up, My Little French Kitchen, have been
published around the globe. Rachel now travels
the world working on a variety of projects,
including a weekly recipe column for the
Evening Standard.
‘Rachel Khoo is the queen of creating culinary
masterpieces’ - Glamour Magazine
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Lindhart and Ringhof
(Danish)
Luxury (Italian)
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(Poland)
Come Together (Chinese
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Cookery
Made in India
Cooked in Britain - Recipies from an Indian
Family Kitchen
Meera Sodha
A fresh and accessible guide to making
delicious authentic home cooked Indian
food
publication date
03 July 2014
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The best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at
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Real Indian food is fresh, simple and packed
with flavour and in this book, Meera Sodha
introduces Britain to the food she grew up
eating every day. Unlike the stuff you get at your
local curry house, her food is fresh, vibrant and
surprisingly quick and easy to make.
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In this collection, Meera serves up a feast of
over 130 delicious recipes collected from three
generations of her family: there’s everything
from hot chapatis to street food (chilli paneer
and beetroot and feta samosas), fragrant curries
(spinach and salmon or perfect cinnamon lamb
curry), to colourful side dishes (pomegranate
and mint raita, kachumbar salad), and mouthwatering puddings (mango, lime and passion
fruit jelly and pistachio and saffron kulfi). Made
in India will change the way you cook, eat, and
think about Indian food, forever.
When not travelling round India, collecting
recipes, Meera Sodha chefs, writes and lives in
London. This is her first cookbook.
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Cookery
The Groundnut Cookbook
Duval Bankòle Timothy, Folayemi Brown, Jacob
Fodio Todd
The only contemporary African
cookbook on the market, written by the
most exciting young foodies around
African food is some of the best on the
planet. It’s easily shopped for and cooked but
remains, for some reason, off the culinary
radar. This cookbook will change that.
Written by three energetic, imaginative
Londoners of African heritage, their recipes
have been tried and tested by the thousands
of customers who have clamoured to get
tickets for their renown pop-up restaurants.
Packed full of gorgeous full-colour
photography and easy to follow recipes such
as Groundnut Stew, Okra Muffins and
Spinach, Green Bean and Pistachio Salad, this
cookbook is one to fall back on for a quick,
cheap, healthy mid-week supper or a
weekend feast with friends. With tips on how
to shop for ingredients and accessible menu
plans it offers an inviting detour from the
staid making you wonder why it’s taken you
this long to explore Africa’s culinary gems.
Duval Bankòle Timothy, Folayemi Brown
& Jacob Fodio Todd met at Goldsmiths
University in London and started their first
supper club in January 2012. These are now
sold out events. This is their first cookbook.
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09 April 2015
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Cookery
The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook
Lee Watson
publication date
07 May 2015
Join the meat-free revolution
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The big ‘V” is definitely the way forward: tasty
food which is good for you, good for animals
and good for the planet.
Vegan cooking is eclectic, diverse, nutritious,
easy, cheap and most of all, utterly delicious.
The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook recipes range
from basics to gourmet delights. This is a
completely new way of eating for everybody,
with an incredible range of vibrant textures and
flavours. From wholesome, cheap quickies to
more lavish special occasion recipes, burgers,
and sweet treats, this book is set to rock your
concept of cooking vegan!
Lee Watson is a vegan chef who runs a
restaurant and retreat on a Welsh mountainside.
He is one half of the presenting duo for the Fox
Networks show Meat v Veg. Dynamic with his
message about cooking and eating vegan food,
without preaching, Lee will revolutionise the
way we think of vegan cooking. .
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Jamie’s Food Tube
Jamie Oliver has personally chosen his favourite subjects for
this Food Tube series.
Michael Joseph , June 2014, 128pp
Rights sold: Dutch (Kosmos), Czech (MLD)
The BBQ Book
DJ BBQ
Step into the hot, hot world of CATERTAINMENT with DJ BBQ!
DJ BBQ’s top BBQ set-up advice, cooking techniques and collection of
exciting barbecue recipes will transform your barbecue from entertaining
to catertaining. Goodbye sad burnt sausages, hello Bodacious Burgers
and Rad Rum Ribs! DJ BBQ’s smokin’ hot recipes include: Cherry-wood
smoked chicken, Bodacious burgers and Classic Texan brisket, as well as
Candied pork tenderloin, Kick-ass fish tacos and Grilled tomato slabs.
A man of many talents, Christian Stevenson, aka DJ BBQ, is a food columnist
for FHM magazine, he won a BAFTA for his Channel 5 show RAD, has had
a successful career in radio, gaming and acting, and his food van in Brighton
was voted Best BBQ Shack in 2013.
The Cake Book
Cupcake Jemma
The cupcake Queen of Food Tube helps you make the perfect
cake
Jemma is part of the London street food scene with a strong online
following. Her seasonal collection of recipes takes cupcakes to the next
level while still being accessible and fun.
She makes her cakes with plenty of love, exciting flavours and a large
spoonful of creativity. Her inventive creations include: Hot cross bun
cupcakes, a Super-lemony meringue cake, Earl Grey breakfast cupcakes
and an Epic raspberry ripple layer cake.
Jemma Wilson started baking professionally with her own Brick Lane
market stall in 2006, which has turned into her hugely successful company
Crumbs and Doilies. She loves to get creative, and her challenges have
included baking four giant cupcakes for a Harry Potter movie launch, each
decorated in the style of a Hogwarts house!
The family cookbook
Kerryann Dunlop
The standout character of Jamie’s Kitchen - this is real cooking
for real families
Kerryann takes you from snacks to evening meals with advice for getting
kids more involved in cooking and eating different foods.
With plenty of tips to get the most out of fresh, simple ingredients,
Kerryann’s recipes show that it’s more than possible to eat delicious
food on a budget. Simple twists on meat, fish and veg classics include:
Homemade fish fingers and minty smashed peas; Potato, chickpea and
cauliflower curry and Majestical mac ‘n’ cheese.
Viewers first came across Kerryann when she appeared as one of Jamie
Oliver’s original ‘Fifteen’ apprentices on Channel 4. Originally from
Hackney, East London, she qualified as a silver-service waitress. She has
continued to work as
63a chef and is now a mum.
Beggar’s Feast
Randy Boyagoda
Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in Ceylon, resolves to make
his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. When
twenty years reckoning with the streets of Colombo, the docks of Sydney and the brothels of Singapore lead Sam back to Ceylon, he coldly
pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power.
Families are torn apart, fortunes are made and lost, and old ways collide
with modernity’s new machines. Ambition, reinvention, tradition and
family each demand an answer: what does it cost a man to rewrite his
history?
Viking, January 2014, 336pp
Beautiful Day
Kate Anthony
Rachel is looking for her beautiful day. She’s worried about everything:
being a good mother, money and starting a new job.
Philip is a lost soul in the world and he could do with a friend. They are
just about to meet and when they do everything will change. Rachel
and Philip don’t know it yet, but they each have what the other needs.
They can save one another, and not in the way you might expect.
This is a story about finding happiness and love in all their forms. And
how sometimes you can find them in the most unlikely of places.
Penguin, April 2014, 384pp
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Em and the Big Hoom
Jerry Pinto
In a tiny flat in Bombay, Imelda Mendes - Em to her children - holds her
family in thrall with her flamboyance, her manic affection and her cruel
candour. Her husband - to whom she was once ‘Buttercup’ - and her
two children must bear her ‘microweathers’, her swings from laughout-loud joy to dark malevolence.
Brilliantly comic and almost unbearably moving, Jerry Pinto’s portrait
of a woman finding it difficult to stay sane - and what happens to those
who can’t help but love her - is one of the most powerful and original
fiction debuts of recent years.
Viking, 01-May-14, 224pp
Rights sold: Italian (Adriano Salani), French (Editions Actes Sud), US (Viking)
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Eeny Meeny
M. J. Arlidge
A young couple wakes disorientated, trapped and without food or
water. There’s no escape. Instead there’s a gun loaded with a single
bullet and a mobile phone with charge enough only to deliver a short
message: when one of you kills the other, the survivor will walk free
Other pairs are soon taken. The victims appear to be chosen at
random, but the planning is meticulous. And until DI Helen Grace
can establish a connection, a twisted killer will remain out of reach. A
breakthrough is elusive, but then the investigation begins to turn full
circle . . .
Penguin, 08-May-14, 464pp
Rights sold: Greek (Dioptra), Czech (Beta), Brazilian (Distribuidora), Complex
Chinese (Doing), French (Editions First), Hungarian (Gabo Kiado), Italian
(Garzanti), Bulgarian (Hermes), Dutch (JM Meulenhoff), Turkish (Pegasus),
German (Rowohlt), Russian (Sindbad), Norwegian (Vigmostad & Bjørke )
Ways of Curating
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Drawing on his own experiences and inspirations - from staging his
first exhibition in his tiny Zurich kitchen in 1986 to conversations
with artists and thinkers, Ways of Curating looks to inspire all those
engaged in the creation of culture.
From meetings with artists and figures who have inspired him (including
Gerhard Richter, Gilbert and George, Diaghilev and Walter Hopps) to
the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, Obrist
skips between exhibitions, continents and centuries and argues that
curation is far from a static practice.
Allen Lane, March 2014, 192pp
Rights sold: German (Beck), Italian (De Agostini), Brazilian (Editora Cobogo),
US (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
B is for Bauhaus
Deyan Sudjic
This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know
about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It’s not an autobiography,
though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of
contemporary culture.
It’s an essential tool kit for understanding the modern world. It’s about
what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities;
the mania to collect; the world seen from the rear view mirror of
Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection.
It’s about fashion and technology, about politics and art.
Particular Books, ,March 2014, 480pp
Rights sold: Spanish (Ediciones Turner), Korean (HongC Communication),
Russian (Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design), Polish
(Wydawnicto Karakter)
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Human Evolution
Robin Dunbar
What makes us human?
How did we develop language, thought and culture?
Why do we need them?
The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human
history when there has been only one human species. How did this
extraordinary proliferation of species come about - and then go
extinct? And why did we emerge such intellectual giants? Robin Dunbar
shows it was our social and cognitive changes rather than our physical
development which truly made us distinct from other species.
Pelican, May 2014, 256pp
The Domesticated Brain
Bruce Hood
What makes us social animals?
Why do we behave the way we do?
How does the brain influence our behaviour?
The brain may have initially evolved to cope with a threatening world of
beasts, limited food and adverse weather, but we now use it to navigate
an equally unpredictable social landscape. Renowned psychologist
Bruce Hood provides an essential introduction to the hidden operations of the brain, and explores what makes us who we are.
Pelican, May 2014, 336pp:
Greek and Roman Political Ideas
Melissa Lane
What is politics?
What are the origins of political philosophy?
What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans?
In Greek and Roman Political Ideas, acclaimed classics scholar Melissa
Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political
thought, from the Greeks, who invented democracy, to the Romans,
who created a republic and then transformed it into an empire. Tracing
the origins of political philosophy from Socrates to Cicero to Plutarch,
Lane reminds us that the birth of politics was as much a story of
individuals as ideas.
Pelican, May 2014, 256pp
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Mrs Moneypenny’s Financial Advice for
Independent Women
Mrs Moneypenny with Heather McGregor
In Mrs Moneypenny’s Financial Advice for Independent Women, we
show you how to set your own financial finish line, and then how to
go about reaching it. From cutting your grocery bills to buying a house,
from starting a business to saving a pension, we give new, easy ways
to think about your money and take control of your life. Whether
you struggle to remember what interest rate you are paying on your
mortgage, or are an entrepreneur trying to raise the finance for your
business, this book will inspire you, inform you, and above all, help you.
Portfolio Penguin, April 2014, 320pp
Your Hormone Doctor
Leah Hardy, Susie Rogers and Dr Daniel Sister
Take control of your health, your moods and your future! This is the
first accessible book that helps women how to handle the unwanted
effects of hormonal imbalances.
Did you know: you can instantly boost your sexy hormones by slightly
changing the way you sit and stand? That when you eat may be as
important as what you eat?
Your Hormone Doctor reveals exactly why hormones matter and how
they change with age. Written by 3 experts, this looks set to become
the bedside handbook for all women from 35 upwards who want to
stay well and vibrant in the second half of their lives.
Penguin, May 2014, 288pp
Bread, Cake, Doughnut, Pudding
Justin Gellatly
Justin Gellatly is one of Britain’s best bakers and he has been Head Baker and Pastry Chef at St John for twelve years. In Bread, Cake, Doughnut, Pudding, Justin shows us how to make mouth-watering treats
ranging from the classics (Madeleines, Croquembouche and bread), to
classics with a twist (Banana sticky toffee pudding, Salted caramel custard doughnuts and Deep fried jam sandwiches) to the uniquely original
(Fennel blossom ice cream and Courgette and carrot garden cake).
With over 150 recipes covering bread, buns and cakes, hot and cold
puddings, ice cream and savoury baking, this beautiful book is full of
recipes you’ll want to make again and again.
Fig Tree, May 2014, 272pp
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Alex Elam, Head of Rights
East Asia, Italy, Brazil, Serial & Film
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Alison Faulkner, Rights Manager
France, Germany, Scandinavia & Netherlands
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Lucy Beresford-Knox, Rights Manager
Eastern Europe, Turkey, Israel, Audio & Serial
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Khan Lawrence, Rights Manager
Spain, Portugal, Latin America, India, Middle East, Poland,
Slovakia & Czech Republic
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Celia Long, Rights Executive
Russia, Greece, Book club, Large Print & 2nd Serial
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*non-exclusive
Brazil – TASSY BARHAM ASSOCIATES
231 Westbourne Park Road
London W11 1EB
Tel: 020 7792 5899
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Baltic states - ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES BALTIC
PO Box 77, Riga LV 1011, Latvia
Tel: +371 750 6495, Fax: +371 750 6494
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Bulgaria and Serbia - ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES SOFIA
jk.Yavorov bl. 56 - B, floor 1, ap. 9
Sofia 1111, Bulgaria
Tel: + + 359 2 986 2819, Fax: 00359 2 986 2819
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100020, China
Tel: +86 10 8587 7712, Fax: +86 10 8587 7506
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Czech and Slovak Republics - KRISTIN OLSON LITERARY AGENCY
Klimentska 24, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
Tel/Fax: +420 2 2258 0048/2042
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Hungary - ANDREW NURNBERG BUDAPEST
1123 Budapest, Gyori ut 20, Hugary
Tel: +361 302 6451
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Indonesia - MAXIMA CREATIVE AGENCY
JL.Kelapa Puan 19 Blok AJ-4 No. 11, Gading Serpong - Tangerang 15810 Indonesia
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*Italy - BERLA & GRIFFINI RIGHTS AGENCY
via Stampa 4, 20123 Milano, Italy
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*Japan - THE ENGLISH AGENCY (JAPAN) LTD
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Tel: +81 3 3406 5385, Fax: +81 3 3406 5387
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*Japan – JAPAN UNI INC.
Tokyodo Jinbocho No. 2 Building, 1-27 Kanda Jinbocho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051, Japan
Tel: +81 (3) 3295 0301, Fax: +81 (3) 3294 5173
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*Japan - TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY INC
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Tel: +81 3 3234 4081, Fax: +81 3 3234 5249
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Korea - ERIC YANG AGENCY
3f. e B/D, 54-7 Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-802, KOREA
Tel: +82 2 592 3356/7/8, Fax: +82 2 592 3359
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Poland - GRAAL LTD
ul. Pruszkowska 29, 02-119 Warszawa, Poland
Tel: +48 22 828 1284, Fax: +48 22 828 0880,
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Romania - INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT AGENCY
Str. Banul Antonache 37, 70 000 Bucharest 1, Romania
Tel: +40 2 1 316 4806, Fax: +40 2 1 316 4794
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Russia - ANDREW NURNBERG AGENCY
Apartment 72, Stroenie 6, 21 Tsvetnoy Blvd. Moscow 127051, Russia
Tel: +70 95 625 8188
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Taiwan - ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL LTD
9F-2, No. 164, Sec. 4, Nan-King East Road, 10553 Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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Tel: +886 22579 8251
Thailand - TUTTLE-MORI BIG APPLE AGENCY
6th Floor, Siam Inter Comics Bldg, 459 Soi Piboonoppathum, (Ladprao 48)
Samsen Nok, Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10310, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 694 3026, Fax: +66 2 694 3027
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Turkey - ONK AGENCY LTD.
Cumhuriyet Cad. 30, 9 Elmadag
34367 Istanbul, Turkey
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