Penguin General Autumn 2016

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Fig Tree Cookery
Fresh India
130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Recipes for Every Day
Meera Sodha
From the author of top ten bestseller Made In
India, a vegetarian Indian cookbook
With over 500 million non-meat eaters, India is the best place
for vegetarian food on this earth and previous cookbooks
have barely scratched the surface. All the food in Fresh India
is fresh, quick to cook and flavour-packed, with ingredients
available from your local supermarket. Recipes include sweet
potato kebabs, pomegranate and onion seed parathas,
beetroot pachadi, cashew and lemon rice, fresh coconut
chutney and so much more. People know they ought to be
eating more vegetables, and love Indian food, but have
historically been a bit scared of cooking both. This book
shows how easy and exciting vegetarian Indian food can be.
Meera Sodha is the author of Made In India, which was a top
ten bestseller and was shortlisted for the 2014 André Simon
Awards and the 2015 Guild of Food Writers Jeremy Round
Award for Best First Cookbook. When not travelling round
India, collecting recipes, Meera Sodha chefs, writes and lives
in London.
This book is full of real charm, personality, love and garlic . . .
There's so much to be inspired by - Yotam Ottolenghi on Made
in India
July 2016
9780241200421
£20.00
Crown Quarto : Hardback
304 pages
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Penguin Ireland Fiction
Lying in Wait
Liz Nugent
An absorbing, twisty, brilliantly observed story of
murder in high places by the author of the
bestselling Unravelling Oliver
The last people who expect to be mixing with a drug-addicted
prostitute are a respected judge and his society maven wife.
And they certainly don't plan to kill her and bury her in their
exquisite suburban garden.
Yet Andrew and Lydia Fitzsimons find themselves in this
unfortunate situation.
While Andrew, mindful of the gravity of the situation, begins
to falls apart Lydia becomes ever more determined to protect
their social standing and their son, Laurence.
But Laurence is not as innocent as his mother thinks. And his
obsession with the dead girl's family may be the undoing of
his own.
Liz Nugent worked in Irish film, theatre and television for most
of her adult life. In 2014 her first novel, Unravelling Oliver, was
a No 1 bestseller and won the Crime Fiction prize in the 2014
Irish Book Awards. Her second novel, Lying in Wait, went
straight to No 1 in the Irish bestseller charts and remained
there for nearly two months. She is now a full time writer. She
lives in Dublin with her husband.
A tense, taut, almost gothic thriller where the tension
tightens to near unbearable proportions. I devoured it in one
sitting because it was impossible to stop reading. A brilliantly
written, stand-out novel - Marian Keyes
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July 2016
9781844883639
£12.99
Royal Octavo : Trade Paperback
320 pages
Viking Non-Fiction
Turner
The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J. M.
W. Turner
Franny Moyle
One of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and
celebrated artists
J. M. W. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet
beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man
himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his
mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to
effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he
chose to lead in the last years of his life.
A near-mythical figure in his own lifetime, Franny Moyle tells
the story of the man who was considered visionary at best
and ludicrous at worst. A resolute adventurer, he found new
ways of revealing Britain to the British, astounding his
audience with his invention and intelligence. Set against the
backdrop of the finest homes in Britain, the French Revolution
and the Industrial Revolution, this is an astonishing portrait of
one of the most important figures in Western art and a vivid
evocation of Britain and Europe in flux.
Franny Moyle studied Art History at St John's College,
Cambridge. She enjoyed a career in arts programming at the
BBC that culminated in her becoming the corporation's first
Commissioner for Arts and Culture. She is now a freelance
executive producer and writer and lives in east London. She is
the author of Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs
Oscar Wilde and Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the
Pre-Raphaelites.
Riveting. Moyle captures vividly the texture and colour of this
world - Independent on Sunday on Desperate Romantics
July 2016
9780670922697
£25.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
528 pages
24 pp colour, 16 pp black and white
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Hamish Hamilton Fiction
To Be Continued
James Robertson
A madcap Highland adventure about surviving
midlife crisis and finding redemption in the
unlikeliest of places
Douglas Findhorn Elder is in a sorry state. He's just turned
fifty, split up with his girlfriend and been pushed out of his job
at the local news rag. On the night of his birthday, he makes
an unexpected new friend: a talking toad.
Setting aside the obvious problem, Mungo the toad is the
most sensible person Douglas has met for years. And when
the man gets embroiled in a wild-goose chase that leads him
out of Edinburgh and across the country, naturally the toad
goes with him. Awaiting the duo at crumbling Glentaragar
Manor are a hundred-year-old firebrand grandmother, a splitpersonality alcoholic/teetotaller, an elaborate whiskysmuggling conspiracy, and maybe even a shot at redemption .
..
This gloriously surreal romp proves once and for all that the
important things in life - friendship, romance, a funeral hearse
stuffed with crates of bootlegged whisky - come when you
least expect them.
James Robertson was born in Scotland in 1958. He is the
author of The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay
Still, among other novels, and has won the Saltire Society
Scottish Book of the Year Award twice. The Testament of
Gideon Mack was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.
Robertson is also the author of four short-story collections,
most recently 365: Stories, as well as poetry collections and
children's books in both English and Scots. He runs the
independent publishing house Kettillonia and also co-founded
the Scots language children's books imprint Itchy Coo.
August 2016
9780241146842
£16.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
336 pages
A great storyteller - The Times
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Fig Tree Fiction
Accession
Livi Michael
A captivating new novel concluding the dramatic
story of Margaret Beaufort, the woman who gave
birth to the Tudor dynasty
Margaret Beaufort and Margaret of Anjou - two women who
have fought to the bitter end to see their sons take the
English throne.
But with her son Edward killed in battle, and imprisoned
herself, what next for Margaret of Anjou? And will Margaret
Beaufort live to see Richard III deposed, and her son Henry
Tudor finally ascend the throne? In this powerful and dramatic
conclusion to Livi Michael's Wars of the Roses trilogy, the
stakes are higher than ever, the sides are ever-changing, and
all will be decided at the Battle of Bosworth . . .
Livi Michael has published six novels for adults: Rebellion and
Succession, the other two novels in her Wars of the Roses
trilogy; Under a Thin Moon which won the Arthur Welton award
in 1992; Their Angel Reach which won the Faber prize in 1995;
All the Dark Air (1997) which was shortlisted for the Mind
Award; and Inheritance, which won a Society of Authors
award. Livi has two sons and lives in Greater Manchester. She
teaches creative writing at the Manchester Metropolitan
University and has been a senior lecturer in creative writing at
Sheffield Hallam University.
Has the colour and power of the best of the chronicles Sunday Times
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August 2016
9780241977637
£8.99
B Format : Paperback
432 pages
Penguin Life Non-Fiction
The Fit Foodie
Derval O'Rourke
Be at your best with fabulous simple healthy
recipes and top tips for keeping fit from a former
elite athlete
Derval O'Rourke believes that the secret to being your
healthiest happiest self is to eat well and keep moving. Derval
discovered the importance of nutrition as an elite athlete.
After a poor performance in the 2004 Olympics she learned
about food, fell in love with cooking - and then won a world
title in her sport, hurdling. She believes eating well made all
the difference to her form.
Now that Derval is retired from athletics and is a busy young
mum, her focus is on fitting exercise and healthy, pleasurable
eating into a hectic schedule. The Fit Foodie is full of simple,
delicious and totally doable recipes such as Laid-Back Lamb
Tagine, Mediterranean Salmon and Spaghetti, Butternut and
Bean Stew, Almond, Hazelnut and Pine Nut Bread and a
stunning Chocolate Fondant Cake. Derval also shares smart
and inspiring advice on how to get organised so that good
food and exercise are a seamless part of your life.
Derval O'Rourke is a former World Champion hurdler,
European medallist and three times Olympian. She now works
with Munster Rugby as a player development manager. Her
first book, Food for the Fast Lane, was a No 1 bestseller in
Ireland. Derval lives in Cork with her husband, Olympic sailor,
Peter O'Leary, their baby daughter, Dafne, and their dogs,
Berlino and Chaz.
It's easy - that's the brilliant thing about it - and it's all
healthy - Ray D'Arcy, Today FM, on Food for the Fast Lane
August 2016
9780241976005
£15.99
Other : Paperback
224 pages
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Viking Non-Fiction
Mind = Blown
Amazing Facts About this Weird, Hilarious, Insane
World
Matthew Santoro
YouTube star Matthew Santoro dazzles with eyeopening trivia - this is his first book for his five
million fans
WARNING: This book will blow your mind.
Matthew Santoro is a fact-filled YouTube sensation. Now
comes his first ever book packed full of trivia, laughs and facts
that seem too mind-melting to be true. From videogame
characters that were based on real people to myths you still
believe about space, Santoro brings together the world's
most amazing facts in mind-boggling Top Ten lists and mythbusting revelations.
Did you know that it's illegal to die in the Houses of
Parliament? Or that under extreme pressure peanut butter
can be turned into diamonds?
If you like to learn new things and laugh a little while you're
at it, you won't believe what you'll discover in Mind = Blown.
www.youtube.com/MatthewSantoro
Matthew Santoro is a YouTube star whose videos have been
viewed more than 500 million times. He is best known for his
Top Ten lists of strange and surprising facts, and his popular
series '50 Things to Blow Your Mind'. A former accountant, he
won the 2015 Hubub #AcademySocial Award, as well as the
fan vote for the 2015 Shorty Awards 'YouTube Star of the
Year.' He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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August 2016
9780241975879
£12.99
Other : Hardback
256 pages
Viking Fiction
My Husband's Wife
Jane Corry
First comes love... Then comes marriage...
Then comes murder.
'This thrilling page-turner kept me guessing till the very
end' Katerina Diamond, bestselling author of THE TEACHER
The book readers are calling 'masterfully written', 'gripping',
'so addictive I couldn't put it down', and 'a novel I didn't
want to end'.
THERE'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN MARRIAGE...AND MURDER
When lawyer Lily marries Ed, she's determined to make a
fresh start. To leave the secrets of the past behind.
But then she meets Joe. A convicted murderer who Lily is
strangely drawn to. Who she will soon be willing to risk
anything for.
But is he really innocent?
And who is she to judge?
Jane Corry is a writer, journalist, and creative writing
teacher. After spending three years working as the writer-inresidence at a high-security male prison she was inspired to
start writing thrillers. Her first was the summer 2016
bestseller My Husband's Wife.
A rollercoaster of suspense and intrigue...A cleverly
constructed novel in which we have no idea who we can
trust. But we can trust the author to bring us through the
tangled maze of complex relationships and out the other side!
- Rosanna Ley
August 2016
9780241256480
£7.99
B Format : Paperback
544 pages
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Viking Non-Fiction
SAS
Rogue Heroes – The Authorized Wartime History
Ben Macintyre
The first ever authorized history of the SAS,
commemorating the 75th anniversary of the
regiment
In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the
Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David
Stirling, came up with a plan that was imaginative, radical and
entirely against the rules: a small, undercover unit that would
wreak havoc behind enemy lines. Despite intense opposition,
Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit
the most ruthless soldiers he could find. So began the most
celebrated and mysterious military organization in the world:
the SAS.
The history of the SAS is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness
and heroism, recklessness and tragedy; of extraordinary men
willing to take monumental risks. It is a story of the meaning
of courage.
Ben Macintyre is the bestselling author of several books
including A Spy Among Friends, Operation Mincemeat and Agent
Zigzag, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award
and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year
2008. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times.
Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely
entertaining and often very moving - John le Carré on Agent
Zigzag
September 2016
9780241186626
£25.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
384 pages
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Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction
Ireland: The Autobiography
One Hundred Years in the Life of the Nation, Told by
Its People
John Bowman
Vivid, gripping firsthand accounts of the key
moments in Irish life since 1916
Ireland: The Autobiography offers a fresh, vivid take on the last
century of Irish life through a brilliant collection of eyewitness
accounts and recollections. Broadcaster and historian John
Bowman has spent years mining archives, diaries and
memoirs to create a remarkably varied and intense mosaic of
voices and perspectives. Collectively, they give us an image of
Ireland unlike anything we've read before.
John Bowman is a broadcaster and historian. Since the 1960s
he has presented programmes on current affairs and history
on RTE television and radio. He is the author of De Valera and
the Ulster Question, which was awarded the Christopher
Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, and of Window and Mirror: RTE
Television 1961-2011. He lives in Dublin.
September 2016
9781844881581
£20.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
496 pages
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Fig Tree Non-Fiction
The Goodness of Dogs
The Human's Guide to Choosing, Buying, Training,
Feeding, Living With and Caring For Your Dog
India Knight
A funny and loving guide to the joys (and a few
troubles) of dog ownership from bestselling nonfiction author India Knight
With dogs more popular than ever, The Goodness of Dogs
presents every facet of dog ownership in manageable,
research-heavy sections. With chapters ranging from how to
choose a breed (and where to get it from), to feeding and
training your dog, to choosing a vet and how to cope with
illnesses and death. At once a companion, a manual and a
repository of useful information, this book also contains
autobiographical asides about the goodness of dogs and
their life-enhancing qualities. Full of India Knight's inimitable
wit and the sound advice she is famous for, and beautifully
illustrated by Sally Muir, this book will make the perfect gift for
any dog-lover.
India Knight is the author of four novels and five previous non
-fiction books: In Your Prime, the bestselling diet book Neris
and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the accompanying bestselling
cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook, The Thrift
Book and The Shops. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times
and lives in London with her partner and three children.
Knight's words feel like you're speaking with that friend who
always gives you the best advice...an entertaining and
informed read - Stylist on In Your Prime
September 2016
9780241216712
£14.99
Other : Hardback
304 pages
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Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Pivot
The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Jenny Blake
The Lean Startup meets a personal playbook for
career change
Borrowing from the Silicon Valley mindset of building lean,
agile companies that thrive under conditions of risk and
uncertainty, Jenny Blake shows you how to apply the same
attitude to your career.
In Pivot, Blake removes the feelings of confusion and panic
that often come with trying something new. Instead, she
shows you how to build upon existing assets - your
strengths, interests and networks - to launch a new career
filled with meaning, adventure, learning and growth.
Jenny Blake is a career and business strategist and
international speaker who helps people move beyond
burnout and create sustainable careers they love. She left her
job in career development at Google in 2011 after five and a
half years at the company to launch her first book, Life After
College, and has since run her own consulting business in New
York City.
Looking to make a career change? Pivot is the book you will
turn to again and again - Dan Pink, author of To Sell is Human
and Drive
September 2016
9780241975466
£14.99
Other : Trade Paperback
288 pages
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Penguin Ireland Fiction
Game of Throw-ins
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
The greatest comeback story since Jesus Christ
got up on Easter Sunday and said, 'That was a
weekend we won't forget in a hurry!'
I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year
-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was
trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life.
My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate
tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who
looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk
up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was
still 1936.
I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the
contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby
player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until
a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me
realize that it wasn't enough.
I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be
honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All
Ireland League.
Or die trying.
Game of Throw-Ins is the sixteenth novel in Paul Howard's
'Ross O'Carroll-Kelly' series. Ross books - annual No 1
bestsellers - have sold over a million copies, are annually
nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book
Awards - where they have won the prize an unprecedented
three times - and are also critically acclaimed as satirical
masterpieces. Paul's Ross column in the Irish Times Magazine
is one of the most viewed items on its website. He also writes
for the hit TV series, Irish Pictorial Weekly, and is a highly
respected and liked commentator and writer.
September 2016
9781844883455
£13.99
Royal Octavo : Trade Paperback
384 pages
A national treasure - Irish Independent
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Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Feminist Fight Club
An Office Survival Manual (For a Sexist Workplace)
Jessica Bennett
A battle guide for the intentional and
unintentional douchebaggery we sometimes call
sexism
This is a call to arms.
Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status
quo? Ready to kick ass and take names?
Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime
membership.
Feminist Fight Club provides an arsenal of weapons for
surviving in an unequal world. You will learn how to fight micro
-aggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with male
colleagues who can't stop 'manterrupting' or 'bro-propriating'
your ideas - and how to lean in without falling the f*ck over.
Every woman needs this book - and they needed it
yesterday.
This is not a drill.
Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and critic who
writes on women, sexuality, and culture. She is a columnist at
the New York Times, where you can regularly find her byline in
the Sunday style section. She recently authored the first
profile of Monica Lewinsky in a decade, capturing her plight to
redefine her story. Jessica is also a contributing editor at
LeanIn.org, the nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, where
she cofounded and curates the Lean In Collection, a photo
partnership with Getty Images to change the way women are
depicted in stock photography.
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September 2016
9780241244838
£12.99
214x153 : Trade Paperback
336 pages
Viking Non-Fiction
Bella Younger's Deliciously Stella
Bella Younger
Instagram phenomenon Deliciously Stella shows
you how to eat well and live well to achieve the
#wokeuplikethis natural glow
Deliciously Stella is the world's latest Instafoodie to take the
chia seed-eating yoga-pant-wearing health world by storm.
Here she tells all on how to get that elusive glow without
breaking sweat and shares the #cleaneating life hacks she
swears by to achieve a #strongnotskinny look and a
#blessed outlook on life.
Deliciously Stella is not your average superfoodie; she would
rather turn her pictures upside down than brave a headstand
and she thinks that Fruit Pastilles are one of your five-a-day.
She's not a chef or a nutritionist, but in this day and age who
needs to be? Anything can be a recipe if you put the right
filter on it.
Her first book is packed full of recipes, words of inspiration
and yoga poses to help you #gettheglow in the time it takes
you to massage your kale. This book will leave you feeling
energised, happy and ready to hashtag your way to health.
Bella Younger is a Hackney based comedian who started her
viral Instagram hit, Deliciously Stella, as a reaction to the
endless shots of people doing yoga on the beach and baking
vegetables masquerading as cakes. She was named by
Glamour magazine as one of the top eight comedians to see
at Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and the Evening Standard named
her one of the most influential people in London.
@deliciouslystella
Hysterical and brilliant - Davina McCall
September 2016
9780241257562
£9.99
Other : Hardback
160 pages
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Viking Non-Fiction
How To Watch Football
Ruud Gullit
Every armchair pundit's new favourite book
How can one striker be better than three? Why do the best
defenders never need to make a tackle? What's the secret of
Tiki-taka?
Welcome to Ruud Gullit's masterclass on how to 'read' a
match.
From his unrivalled perspective as player, manager and
pundit, the Dutch football legend shows us everything to look
for in a 90-minute match. From formations and tactical
decisions to player qualities and pivotal moments, Ruud Gullit
unveils the hidden patterns on the pitch - as if he's sitting
right there on the sofa next to you.
Packed with his acute insights, original observations and
talking points sure to dazzle down the pub, How to Watch
Football will quite simply change the way you see - and enjoy the beautiful game.
Ruud Gullit was twice voted World Football Player of the Year
and is widely regarded as one of the world's best ever
players. Born in 1962 in Amsterdam, he was captain of the
Netherlands team that was victorious at Euro 88 and played
in the 1990 World Cup. He went on to manage Chelsea,
Newcastle, Feyenoord, LA Galaxy and Terek Grozny. His
career now extends to broadcasting, public speaking and
hosting. He speaks five languages.
He manages to convey the sense that football is really quite
simple if you're a genius like him, but without actually being
annoying. A rare talent - Metro
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September 2016
9780241274583
£16.99
Other : Hardback
288 pages
Viking Non-Fiction
The Pigeon Tunnel
Stories from My Life
John le Carré
The extraordinary memoir from one of the world's
greatest living novelists
The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of
non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret
sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most
enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat
in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the
great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec
Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling
winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys
into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the
author's inimitable voice.
In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and
private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest
writers.
John le Carré was born in 1931. His third novel, The Spy Who
Came in from the Cold, secured him a worldwide reputation,
which was consolidated by the acclaim for his trilogy Tinker
Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's
People. His recent novels include A Most Wanted Man, Our Kind
of Traitor and A Delicate Truth.
John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen
- Financial Times
September 2016
9780241257555
£20.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
320 pages
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Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Together is Better
A Little Book of Inspiration
Simon Sinek
Aphorisms and inspiration from the bestselling
leadership guru and TED talk sensation
A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is
a group of people that trust each other'
'We'd achieve more if we chased the dream instead of the
competition'
Every day, hundreds of thousands of fans eagerly wait on
social media for Simon Sinek's aphorisms on leadership,
teamwork and motivation. Now he has collected his best
axioms and anecdotes into a small, beautifully illustrated
book.
Tackling the realities and foibles of modern work, from initial
doubts to ever-escalating obstacles, Together is Better will lift
readers out of their rut and inspire leaders at every level.
Simon Sinek is the bestselling author of Start with Why and
Leaders Eat Last, which have helped organizations around the
world inspire their people to reach new heights. He has
presented his ideas to Fortune 100 companies and small
startups; to non-profit organizations and members of
Congress; to foreign ambassadors and the highest levels of
the US military, among many others. His TED Talk based on
Start with Why is the third most popular video of all time on
TED.com, with more than 27.9 million views.
As refreshingly simple and easy to follow as it is thoughtprovoking - Management Today on Leaders Eat Last
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September 2016
9780241187296
£12.99
Other : Hardback
160 pages
Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction
Estuary
Out from London to the Sea
Rachel Lichtenstein
An immersive journey into the world of the
Thames Estuary and the people who spend their
lives there
The Thames Estuary is one of the world's great deltas,
providing passage in and out of London for millennia. It is
silted up with the memories and artefacts of past voyages. It
is the habitat for an astonishing range of wildlife. And for the
people who live and work on the estuary, it is a way of life
unlike any other - one most would not trade for anything,
despites its many dangers.
Rachel Lichtenstein has travelled its length and breadth many
times. Here she gathers these experiences in an
extraordinary chorus of voices: mudlarkers and fishermen,
radio pirates and champion racers, the men who risk their
lives out on the water and the women who wait on the shore.
Estuary is a thoughtful and intimate portrait of this profoundly
British place, both the community and the environment,
examining how each has shaped and continues to shape the
other.
Rachel Lichtenstein is the author of Rodinsky's Room, which
she co-authored with Iain Sinclair, Rodinsky's Whitechapel,
Keeping Pace: Older Women of the East End, A Little Dust
Whispered, On Brick Lane, and Diamond Street: The Hidden
World of Hatton Garden. She trained as a sculptor, and has
exhibited her work in several British and international venues,
including the Whitechapel Gallery, the Barbican, the British
Library, Woodstreet Galleries in Pittsburgh in the USA, and
the Jerusalem Theatre in Israel. From 2002 to 2004, she was
the British Library's first Pearson Creative Research Fellow.
Her forthcoming book, Estuary, will be published by Hamish
Hamilton in Autumn 2016.
September 2016
9780241142882
£18.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
336 pages
A collage of beady-eyed topographical study, family history
and oral testimony… an intriguing, vivid memorial - Telegraph
on On Brick Lane
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Viking Non-Fiction
First Dates
The Art of Love
The book of the most talked about, heartwarming
show on TV: First Dates
'There's someone out there for all of us...'
First Dates, Channel 4's runaway hit TV show, has captured
the hearts of the nation. Each week millions of us cosy up on
our sofas to watch nervous singletons arrive in the restaurant
in the hope of finding love.
Now Fred Sirieix, the insatiably charming Maître'd of the First
Dates restaurant, is here to help all of us - whether we're on
a quest to find 'the one', or simply want to discover more
about how to connect with someone and sustain the magic.
With his unique take on romance, Fred reveals his recipe for a
perfect date, and hopefully a perfect match.
This beguiling book brings the First Dates world to the page:
all the heart-warming twists and turns of the most awkward
meal of the daters' lives, the larger-than-life characters we
have grown to love, and the timeless wisdom of Fred and his
team. They share their match-making secrets: from breaking
the ice to dealing with surprises and getting to grips with the
rules of attraction, along with all the toe-curling moments and
across-the-table triumphs as couples seek to find The One.
This is First Dates. This is The Art of Love.
First Dates is Channel 4's BAFTA-winning TV series which
pairs singletons in search of love. Its loyal audience has
doubled since first broadcast, peaking at three million for its
special episodes, and drawing a huge social media response.
In the last two years over 100,000 people have applied to be
on the show. The fifth series returns to Channel 4 in
September 2016 and will run through to early 2017.
Fred Sirieix is Maitre'd of the First Dates restaurant, where
he welcomes the show's singletons and calms their nerves
before the most stressful meal of their lives. He's also general
manager at the Michelin star Galvin at Windows, and creator
of hospitality-training programme The Art of Service. He grew
up in Limoges in France, before moving to London in 1992 and
working in the city's best restaurants with names such as
Michel Roux and Chris Galvin.
First Dates is just as slick and classy as ever, with that
warmth and humour that makes Gogglebox so popular - Radio
Times
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September 2016
9780241279878
£14.99
Other : Hardback
256 pages
Hamish Hamilton Fiction
Here I Am
Jonathan Safran Foer
A monumental new novel from the bestselling
author of Everything Is Illuminated and
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and
Abraham replied obediently, 'Here I am'.
This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis.
Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington
DC, three sons watch their parents' marriage falter and their
family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a larger catastrophe is
engulfing another part of the world: a massive earthquake
devastates the Middle East, sparking a pan-Arab invasion of
Israel. With global upheaval in the background and domestic
collapse in the foreground, Jonathan Safran Foer asks us what is the true meaning of home? Can one man ever
reconcile the conflicting duties of his many roles - husband,
father, son? And how much of life can a person bear?
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is
Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Eating
Animals. He has also edited a new modern edition of the
sacred Jewish Haggadah. He edited the anthology A
Convergence of Birds and his stories have been published in
the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Everything
Is Illuminated won the National Jewish Book Award and the
Guardian First Book Award. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches
Creative Writing at New York University.
Foer writes like a dream. . . big-hearted, courageous and jawdroppingly clever - Deborah Moggach
September 2016
9780241146170
£20.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
592 pages
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Penguin Life Non-Fiction
The Little Book of Hygge
The Danish Way to Live Well
Meik Wiking
The definitive guide to the Danish wellbeing
concept, Hygge, from happiness expert and CEO
of the Happiness Research Institute in
Copenhagen
The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that
doesn't directly translate into English, but it more or less
means comfort, warmth or togetherness.
Hygge is the feeling you get when you are cuddled up on a
sofa with a loved one, in warm knitted socks, in front of the
fire, when it is dark, cold and stormy outside. It that feeling
when you are sharing good, comfort food with your closest
friends, by candle light and exchanging easy conversation. It
is those cold, crisp blue sky mornings when the light through
your window is just right.
Denmark is the happiest nation in the world and Meik puts
this largely down to them living the hygge way. They focus on
the small things that really matter, spend more quality time
with friends and family and enjoy the good things in life. The
Little Book of Hygge will give you practical steps and tips to
become more hygge: how to pick the right lighting, organise a
dinner party and even how to dress hygge, all backed up by
Meik's years' of research at the Happiness Research Institute
in Copenhagen.
This year live more like a Dane, embrace hygge and become
happier.
Meik Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute
in Copenhagen. He is committed to finding out what makes
people happy and has concluded that hygge is the magic
ingredient that makes Danes the happiest nation in the
world.
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September 2016
9780241283912
£9.99
Other : Hardback
288 pages
Viking Non-Fiction
At the Edge
Riding for My Life
Danny MacAskill
The adrenalin-fuelled story of the stunt cyclist
who has taken YouTube by storm
'I edged forward, scoping out the summit for loose rock.
The ridge was only three feet wide but I felt pretty stable.
I checked my balance and peered at the sheer drop below.
I could feel the confidence surging through me. I was in
control.
Besides, I knew that I could always bin my wheels off the
cliff face if the worst came to the worst...'
Danny MacAskill lives on the edge.
The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The
Ridge, Cascadia and Imaginate: nerve-racking montages of
stunts which scale everything from mountain peaks, rooftops,
ghost towns and movie sets. His life is one of thrills, bloody
spills and millions of online hits.
It hasn't been an easy ride. Doubt, stress and the 'what if?'
factor circle every trailblazing trick, which require imagination,
fearlessness, groundbreaking techniques and an eye for a
good camera angle. He has spent his life pushing the
extremes; somehow, he's still around to tell the tale.
In this unflinching memoir of mayhem, Danny shares his
anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a
street trials rider, takes us behind the scenes of his training
and videos, and reveals what it takes to go the next level both mentally and physically.
September 2016
9780241206522
£14.99
Other : Hardback
288 pages
Join Danny for a nerve-shredding ride. Just be sure to bring a
crash helmet.
Danny MacAskill is professional street trials rider for Red Bull
and Santa Cruz Bicycles. Raised in Dunvegan, a remote
Scottish outpost on the Isle of Skye, he was a bike mechanic,
but his passion for trials riding turned into an unlikely career
when his debut video - jaw-dropping stunts played out on the
streets of Edinburgh - went viral. Danny has built over 150
million YouTube hits with films including 'The Ridge' - an epic
ride across the Isle of Skye's Inaccessible Pinnacle, filmed
with GoPro. He has been nominated for Action Sportsperson
of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards and the
National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Award.
His back flips and hair-raising stunts made him an internet
sensation - Daily Mail
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29
Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction
Pippa
Simple Tips to Live Beautifully
Pippa O'Connor
A book on stylish living from Ireland's best-loved
fashion, beauty and lifestyle blogger
Pippa O'Connor's easy style and approachability has won her
a huge and loyal following. Now Pippa shares her top tips and
insights for how to live well, look good and feel great.
Drawing on her own experiences as a model, businesswoman
and busy mum, Pippa reveals how to look fabulous without
spending a fortune. Whether it's how to get ready in ten
minutes, wardrobe essentials for every woman, or being the
hostess with the most-est (without slaving in the kitchen!),
Pippa's engaging mix of stories and practical advice shows
that everyone can be stylish.
Stuffed with tricks, inspiration and beauty secrets, this is a
book for everyone, aged 16 or 60, who wants to discover
their own personal style and to build the confidence to
celebrate it.
As a busy mum, style icon and savvy businesswoman former
model Pippa O'Connor is the leading lifestyle voice in Ireland.
Pippa's tips are shared with over 500,000 people each day
across her social media pages and her style and make-up
workshops sell out across the country. She is married to TV
personality Brian Ormond and they have a son, Ollie, and a
baby on the way.
September 2016
9781844883783
£16.99
Other : Hardback
304 pages
30
Penguin Ireland Non-Fiction
The Battle
Paul O'Connell
Passion, intelligence, pride, leadership: the
autobiography of a rugby colossus
There has never been a rugby player quite like Paul
O'Connell. His name is synonymous with passion, heart and
determination. But he is also the thinking man's rugby player,
a legendary student of the game.
As the heartbeat of Munster, British and Irish Lions captain in
2009, and captain of the first Ireland team to retain the Six
Nations championship, O'Connell became the most beloved
and respected of the golden generation of Irish rugby players
- and was widely regarded as one of the very best players in
the world. There was nothing inevitable - or even likely about any of this, and in an autobiography as intense and
thoughtful as its author, O'Connell explores the forces and
struggles that turned him into the player and leader that he
became. The Battle is a book for everyone who wants to
understand the roots of achievement and the inner world of
an elite sportsman. It will take its place alongside the very
finest sports books of recent years.
Paul O'Connell was born in Limerick in 1979. He was selected
for three British and Irish Lions tours, including as captain in
2009. He won three Six Nations championships with Ireland,
including two as captain, in 2014 and 2015; and he won two
Heineken Cups with Munster.
October 2016
9781844882236
£20.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
432 pages
31
Hamish Hamilton Fiction
Autumn
Ali Smith
An unconventional love story playing across the
boundaries of time and history from the 2015
Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both
The first of four novels in a shape-shifting series, wideranging in timescale and light-footed through histories. Fusing
Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the
immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very
contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is a
witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a
stripped-branches take on popular culture, and a meditation,
in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on
what richness and worth are, what harvest means. Autumn is
part of the quartet Seasonal: four stand-alone novels,
separate yet interconnected and cyclical (as the seasons are),
exploring what time is, how we experience it, and the
recurring markers in the shapes our lives take and in our
ways with narrative.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of
Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other
Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The
Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories,
There but for the, Artful, How to be both, and Public library and
other stories. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
and the Orange Prize and The Accidental was shortlisted for
the Man Booker and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and
the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Man
Booker and the Folio Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.
A delight. A masterpiece. Magical - The Sunday Times on How
to be Both
October 2016
9780241207000
£16.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
272 pages
32
Penguin Life Non-Fiction
Zombies, Run!
Keeping Fit and Living Well in the Current Zombie
Emergency
Naomi Alderman
How to keep fit in body and mind during the
current zombie apocalypse. Based on the
bestselling app Zombies, Run!
It has been three years since the start of the zombie
apocalypse and, although we have all lost a lot, we are
surviving. Together we will overcome the outbreak but we
need every man, women and child to do their bit. This is an
informational guide to help you stay fit during the crisis. We
can become stronger. We can become fitter. And together we
will survive.
As the outbreak progresses contact with zombie hoards are
becoming unavoidable. It is vital that you have the ability to
outrun the undead and, when necessary, the upper-body
power to beat them away. The vital skills of strength, speed
and flexibility within the pages of this guide will prove the
difference between life and death when the inevitable occurs.
Part fitness guide, part zombie adventure; whether you're
new to running, training for a marathon or just want to shed
a few pounds, Zombies, Run! is a fun and immersive way to
motivate you to get moving.
Naomi Alderman (Author)
Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won
the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was
named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as
being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the
Future. All of her novels have been broadcast on BBC Radio
4's Book at Bedtime. In 2013 she was selected for the
prestigious Granta Best of Young British Writers. She lives in
London.
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October 2016
9780241256442
£14.99
Other : Trade Paperback
208 pages
Fig Tree Fiction
The Devil's Feast
The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 3)
M. J. Carter
Blake and Avery investigate a murder in London's
newest gentlemen's club
London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible
death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest
gentleman's club. A death the club is desperate to hush up.
Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate, and soon
discovers a web of rivalries and hatreds, both personal and
political, simmering behind the club's handsome façade - and
in particular concerning its resident genius, Alexis Soyer, 'the
Napoleon of food', a chef whose culinary brilliance is matched
only by his talent for self-publicity.
But Avery is distracted, for where is his mentor and partner-in
-crime Jeremiah Blake? And what if this first death was only a
dress rehearsal for something far more sinister?
M. J. Carter is a former journalist and the author of the Blake
and Avery series, The Strangler Vine, The Printer's Coffin
(formerly published as The Infidel Stain) and The Devil's Feast,
and two acclaimed works of non-fiction, Anthony Blunt: His
Lives and The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires
and the Road to World War One. M. J. Carter is married with two
sons and lives in London.
Witty and unfailingly readable...its contemporary resonance
[is] all the more effective for being implicit - The Spectator on
The Infidel Stain
October 2016
9780241146361
£14.99
Royal Octavo : Hardback
368 pages
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Fig Tree Non-Fiction
Walk Through Walls
Becoming Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
The extraordinary memoir of the world's most
successful performance artist
This memoir spans Marina Abramovic's five-decade career,
and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and
extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking
us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time
as an a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, the book
also describes her relationship with the West German
performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole
collaborator for twelve years. Best known for her recent
pieces 'The Artist is Present' and '512 Hours', this book is a
fascinating insight into the life of one of the most important
artists working today.
Marina Abramovic is a Serbian performance artist based in
New York. Her work explores the relationship between
performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the
possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades,
Abramovic has been described as the 'grandmother of
performance art'.
October 2016
9780241235652
£14.99
Royal Octavo : Trade Paperback
365 pages
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Viking Fiction
The Power
Naomi Alderman
From one of Britain's most original writers comes
an astonishing novel that exposes the horrifying
connection between violence and power
'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward
and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body.
The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his
chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his
heart and stopped him dead.'
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a
flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even
death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of
Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly
transformed, and we look at the world in an entirely new
light.
What if the power to hurt were in women's hands?
Naomi Alderman is the author of three previous novels:
Disobedience, The Lessons and The Liars' Gospel. She has won
the Orange Award for New Writers and the Sunday Times
Young Writer of the Year Award. She was selected for
Granta's once-a-decade list of Best of Young British Novelists
and Waterstones Writers for the Future. She presents
Science Stories on BBC Radio 4, she is Professor of Creative
Writing at Bath Spa University and she is the co-creator and
lead writer of the bestselling smartphone audio adventure
app Zombies, Run!. She lives in London.
Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer - Sunday Times
October 2016
9780670919987
£12.99
B Format : Hardback
352 pages
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Penguin Life Non-Fiction
Sleep
The Myth of 8 Hours, the Power of Naps... and the New
Plan to Recharge Your Body and Mind
Nick Littlehales
Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep
guru' to sports stars, including Cristiano Ronaldo
One third of our lives are spent trying to sleep. Most us have
disturbed, restless nights and rely on a cocktail of caffeine
and sugar to drag us through the day. Yet the hours we
spend in bed shape our mood, motivation and decisionmaking skills - defining our performance in work, at home and
while keeping fit.
We need a new approach to sleep.
In this ground-breaking book, Nick Littlehales, elite sleep
coach to some of the world's leading sports stars and teams,
lays bare his strategies for us all to use. Discover how to map
your own sleep cycle, what the optimum room temperature is,
which bedding is best and why napping is actually good for
you.
Read Sleep, learn from the best in sport, and kickstart a more
confident, successful and happier you.
Nick Littlehales is the leading elite sport sleep coach to the
biggest names in the sporting world, including British Cycling
and Team Sky's recording-breaking cyclists, top Premiership
and international football teams and players, Rugby Union
and Rugby League, and Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Chairman of the UK Sleep Council and a former professional
golfer, he has thiry years' experience in the world of sleep
science, and has spent sixteen years working with elite
athletes. His proven approach to achieving the optimum
night's sleep is endorsed by leading professionals in sport
and business. sportsleepcoach.com
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October 2016
9780241975978
£9.99
Other : Paperback
176 pages
Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Business for Bohemians
Live Well, Make Money
Tom Hodgkinson
An irreverent and indispensable guide to the
pleasures (and pitfalls) of working for yourself
Everyone should work for themselves. But don't cashflow
forecasts, tax returns and P&Ls all sound a bit of a faff?
Fear not: help is at hand. In Business for Bohemians, Tom
Hodgkinson combines practical advice with laugh-out-loud
anecdote to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of
us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working
lives.
Whether you dream of launching your own startup or profiting
from your creativity in your spare time, Business for Bohemians
will equip you with the tools to turn your talents into a
profitable and enjoyable business. Accounting need no longer
be a dark art. You will become au fait with business plans and
a friend of the spreadsheet. You will discover that laziness
can be a virtue. Above all, you will realize that freedom from
the nine-to-five life is achievable - and, with Hodgkinson's
comforting, pragmatic and extremely funny advice at hand,
you might even enjoy yourself along the way.
Tom Hodgkinson is the founder and editor of The Idler and
the bestselling author of How to be Idle, How to be Free, The
Idle Parent and Brave Old World. In 2011 he and his partner
Victoria launched the Idler Academy of Philosophy, Husbandry
and Merriment, a business which offers online and real-world
courses in the liberal arts and practical skills, from philosophy
and ukulele to business skills and singing. For a weekly
update of news and comment from the world of The Idler, join
Tom's mailing list at idler.co.uk
October 2016
9780241244791
£12.99
B Format : Hardback
256 pages
A wonderful call to parents to JUST BACK OFF. The most easyto-follow-without-being-made-to-feel-inadequate parenting
manifesto ever written - The Sunday Times on The Idle Parent.
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39
Hamish Hamilton Fiction
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
The unmissable new novel from the one and only,
bestselling, prize-winning, generation-defining
Zadie Smith
Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story
about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape
us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west
London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music
of time.
Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one,
Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and
time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a
tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but
complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their
early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite
forgotten, either...
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The
Autograph Man, On Beauty and NW, as well as The Embassy of
Cambodia and a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is
a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has twice been
listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists. She
has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread First
Novel Award and the Guardian First Book Award among many
others, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith lives in London
and New York with her husband and two children. Swing Time
is her fifth novel.
Smith packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into
any given scene than anyone else of her generation - Sunday
Telegraph
November 2016
9780241144152
£18.99
Royal Octavo : Hardback
464 pages
40
Hamish Hamilton Non-Fiction
Venice, An Interior
Javier Marías
Take a spell-binding trip to Venice with the award
-winning author of Thus Bad Begins
'Venice is a hypercity. Here the narrow becomes wide, the near
becomes far, the timeless becomes transient, the limited
becomes infinite...'
Venice is a place of fascinating contradictions, equally full of
glamour and chaos. It has a unique romantic appeal that
lingers in the imagination, attracting millions of travellers each
year, and yet truly native Venetians are a secretive, elusive
tribe.
As a young man, Javier Marías briefly made his home in
Venice. Since then he has left and returned to the city many
times, exploring it over the course of more than thirty years.
With characteristic thoughtfulness and elegance, he sets out
to uncover the heart of this strange and enchanting place.
Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He is the author of
sixteen works in Spanish, which have been translated into
forty-two languages including English. His translated English
works are All Souls, A Heart So White, Tomorrow in the Battle
Think on Me, When I Was Mortal, Dark Back of Time, The Man of
Feeling, Voyage Along the Horizon, Written Lives, the Your Face
Tomorrow trilogy (Fever and Spear, Dance and Dream, and
Poison, Shadow and Farewell), Bad Nature, While the Women Are
Sleeping, The Infatuations and Thus Bad Begins. Javier Marías
has received numerous literary prizes including the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Prix
Formentor, and he is the King of Redonda. He lives and works
as a translator and columnist in Madrid. Venice is taken from
his forthcoming work, Between Eternities, which will be
published in English translation by Hamish Hamilton in 2017.
A writer of genius... Marías can lay defensible claim to being
the greatest novelist above ground - Spectator
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November 2016
9780241248874
£5.00
Other : Paperback
96 pages
Fig Tree Fiction
The Wangs vs The World
Jade Chang
A fast-paced, extremely funny novel about a
Chinese American family who lose everything,
only to find themselves
Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up
since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses, the cars,
and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss, he decides to
take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his
ancestral lands.
But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their
foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York retreat of his
eldest daughter, Saina. Charles takes his other two children
out of schools that he can no longer afford and packs them
into the only car that wasn't repossessed - along with their
wealth-addicted stepmother.
But with his son waylaid by a much-older temptress in New
Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1,000-threadcount sheets, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina,
Charles may have to choose between the old world and the
new, between keeping his family intact and finally, finally
fulfilling his dream of China.
Jade Chang has covered arts and culture for publications like
Metropolis Magazine (where she was the West Coast Editor for
several years), the BBC, the Los Angeles Times magazine,
Glamour, and others. She recently worked at Goodreads, but
has left to concentrate on her writing. The Wangs VS The
World is her first novel.
Fresh, energetic, and completely hilarious, The Wangs vs. the
World is my favorite debut of the year - Jami Attenberg, author
of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins
November 2016
9780241243480
£14.99
Royal Octavo : Hardback
368 pages
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Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Rules for Modern Life
Sir David Tang
The Financial Times agony uncle answers all the
questions about society you never knew you
needed to ask
The twenty-first century is an age of innumerable social
conundrums. What is the correct way to deal with dinner
guests who check their emails throughout the meal? Can
shorts and sandals ever be acceptable attire for a
gentleman? And just what is the correct etiquette if you find
yourself sitting next to Julia Roberts on a plane?
In Rules for Modern Life, Sir David Tang offers a satirical
masterclass in navigating the social niceties of modern life.
Whether you're unsure of the correct footwear for shooting or
how to look professional in a bath towel, debating the
etiquette of doggy bags or installing a massage room in your
second home, Sir David has the answer to all your social
anxieties - and more besides.
Sir David Tang is founder of the China Club, Shanghai Tang
and China Exchange. Prior to his career in business he taught
philosophy at Peking University. He writes a weekly column
for the Financial Times, in which he answers readers'
questions about property, interiors, architecture and gardens
- although he often strays beyond his remit to debate
concerns about everything from etiquette to grammar. He
lives in Hong Kong.
November 2016
9780241258514
£12.99
B Format : Hardback
224 pages
43
Viking Fiction
Cousins
Salley Vickers
Love knows no boundaries...
Will Tye, a teenage boy from a middle-class, suburban family,
develops his first intense crush on a girl. But this familiar love
story has a dark twist - the girl is his own cousin Cecelia.
News of the infatuation spreads through generations of the
complex and eccentric Tye family, leaving ripples of
resentment and disquiet. When Will experiences a lifechanging accident, Cecelia is the most closely affected by his
suffering - and her own life is forever changed by how she will
respond to it.
Told through the eyes of three women close to Will, his sister,
his grandmother and his aunt, Cousins takes us from the
outbreak of the Second World War to the present day,
exploring the recurrence of tragedy, the nature of
transgression, and the limits of morality and love.
Salley Vickers is the author of several bestselling novels
including Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr Golightly's Holiday, The Other
Side of You and Dancing Backwards. Her most recent books are
The Cleaner of Chartres (Viking 2012) and short story collection
The Boy Who Could See Death (Viking 2015). She has worked
as a cleaner, a dancer, a teacher of children with special
needs, a university lecturer and a psychoanalyst.
Absorbing, subtle and utterly joyous - The Sunday Times on
The Cleaner of Chartres
November 2016
9780241187715
£16.99
B Format : Hardback
368 pages
44
Viking Non-Fiction
The Zoo
The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of
London Zoo
Isobel Charman
How a seemingly mad mission became one of the
best-loved places in the world
The creation of a zoo in Dickensian London - when only one
other existed across the world - is a story of jaw-dropping
audacity. It is the story of trailblazing scientists, rival
zookeepers and aristocratic naturalists collecting amazing
animals from all four corners of the globe.
It is the story of a weird and wonderful oasis in the heart of a
swirling city, and of incredible characters, both human and
animal - from Stamford Raffles and Charles Darwin to Jenny
the orang-utan and Obaysch the celebrity hippo, the first that
anyone in Britain had ever seen.
Against a background of global Empire, domestic reform and
industrialisation, this is a new history of a new world.
Isobel Charman is an award-winning television producer. She
has spent the last decade working in factual documentary
production as a writer, researcher, producer and director and
has worked on award-winning films for UK, European and US
broadcasters. For The Zoo she has made unprecedented use
of the vast archives at the Zoological Society of London. She
lives in London.
Deeply moving, fascinating and powerful - Sunday Mirror on
The Great War
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November 2016
9780241240687
£16.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
368 pages
Viking Non-Fiction
Diary of a Wartime Affair
The True Story of a Surprisingly Modern Romance
Doreen Bates
The true story of a surprisingly modern romance
in war-stricken London
London in 1934. Clever young civil servant Doreen Bates is
working in the same office as E, an older married man. In the
years just before the war, they develop an irresistible
attraction to one another and strike up a passionate affair.
Doreen records it all with startling candour in her diary secret midnight walks, countryside escapades and stolen
moments of intimacy.
But Doreen starts to long for a child with E. Despite all the
taboos of the time, and against the wishes of E, she is
determined to become a mother - even though she knows
that her decision will provoke anger and shame from her
family, friends and colleagues. Eventually she gets pregnant
and is amazed when twins are born during the war. However,
Doreen faces an uncertain future - will E ever leave his wife
and join his new family?
This is the story of a young woman forging her own path in a
period of turbulence and uncertainty.
Doreen Mary Bates, the author of this diary, was born on 25
April 1906, the first child of Rosa and Wyndham Bates. When
Doreen joined the Inland Revenue, E had been working in it
for several years and was married to Kathleen, a ballet
teacher. Doreen Bates' children, Margaret and Andrew, edited
this diary.
November 2016
9780241250068
£16.99
203x140 : Hardback
336 pages
Photographs throughout on text
paper
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Viking Non-Fiction
Jonathan Swift
The Reluctant Rebel
John Stubbs
A rich and riveting portrait of the man who wrote
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift's world-famous works - from Gulliver's Travels
to A Modest Proposal - are unparalleled in their piercing critique
of modern society. But Jonathan Swift was a man of great
contradictions: a man who satirized the powerful but aspired
to political greatness, who mocked men's vanity but held
himself in high esteem, a religious moralizer famed for his
malice - a man sharply aware of humanity's flaws, but no less
susceptible to them.
As with his acclaimed biography of John Donne, John Stubbs
paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary man and a turbulent
period of English and Irish history.
John Stubbs was born in 1977 and studied English at Oxford
and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he
completed a doctorate in 2005. Donne: The Reformed Soul was
shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and longlisted for
the Guardian First Book Award. Reprobates was shortlisted for
the Samuel Johnson Prize.
November 2016
9780670922055
£25.00
Royal Octavo : Hardback
752 pages
47
Fig Tree Fiction
The Purple Swamp Hen and Other
Stories
Penelope Lively
A new collection of short stories from the Man
Booker Prize-winning writer
A dream house that is hiding something sinister; two women
having lunch who share a husband; an old woman doing her
weekly supermarket shop with a secret past that no one
could guess; a couple who don't know each other at all even
after fifteen years together; and, in the story from which this
collection takes its name, a bird and a servant girl in ancient
Pompeii who cannot converse, but share a perfect
understanding. In this new and varied collection of short
stories, Penelope Lively shows that she remains a master of
her craft, and one of our finest English writers.
Penelope Lively is the author of many prize-winning novels
and short-story collections for both adults and children. She
has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: once in 1977
for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield, and again in 1984 for
According to Mark. She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her
highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger. Her other books include
Going Back; Judgement Day; Next to Nature, Art; Perfect
Happiness; Passing On; City of the Mind; Cleopatra's Sister; Heat
Wave; Beyond the Blue Mountains, a collection of short stories;
Oleander, Jacaranda, a memoir of her childhood days in Egypt;
Spiderweb; her autobiographical work, A House Unlocked; The
Photograph; Making It Up; Consequences; Family Album, which
was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award, and How It
All Began. She is a popular writer for children and has won
both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Award. She was
appointed CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List, and DBE
in 2012. Penelope Lively lives in London.
November 2016
9780241281147
£14.99
Demy Octavo : Hardback
208 pages
Sensuous and beautiful prose...proof that the best novelists
change and grow - The Times on Consequences
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Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
The Road to Ruin
The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial
Crisis
James Rickards
The bestselling author of The Death of Money on
how the next financial panic is coming sooner
than you think.
The global economy has made what seems like an incredible
comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback
is artificial. Central banks have propped up markets by
keeping interest rates low and the supply of money freeflowing. They won't bail us out again next time. And there will
be a next time - soon.
In The Road to Ruin, bestselling author James Rickards
identifies how governments around the world are secretly
preparing an alternative strategy for the next big crisis: a
lockdown. Instead of printing money to reliquify markets and
prop up assets, governments are preparing to close banks,
shut down exchanges and order powerful asset managers
not to sell. They're putting provisions in place that will allow
them to do so legally. What's more, the global elite has
already started making their own preparations, including
hoarding cash and hard assets.
When the next one comes, it will be the average investor who
suffers most - unless he or she heeds Rickards' warning and
prepares accordingly.
James Rickards is the bestselling author of Currency Wars and
The Death of Money. He is a portfolio manager at West Shore
Group and an adviser on international economics and financial
threats to the Department of Defence and the US intelligence
community. He served as facilitator of the first-ever financial
war games conducted by the Pentagon.
We can't trust the Federal Reserve to do the honest work
that Jim Rickards has done in writing this book ... Essential
reading - David A. Stockman, former OMB director and author
of The Great Deformation, on The New Case for Gold
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November 2016
9780241189207
£14.99
Royal Octavo : Trade Paperback
304 pages
Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Outside Insight
How to Use Data to Understand the Future and
Transform Your Business
Jorn Lyseggen
Is your business looking out?
Internal data won't cut it. In a world where a company's
future performance is increasingly explained by external
rather than internal factors, without the tools to look beyond
your industry and act on data from outside you're just trying
to grow in the dark.
Drawing on examples of transformative data-led decisions
made by Nike, L'Oreal, Manchester United, Barack Obama and
many more - like choosing simple product repackaging over
expensive ad campaigns, or football clubs using customized
intelligence to gauge a foreign player's popularity - Outside
Insight offers a persuasive account of the most powerful
strategic tool available to today's forward-looking
organizations. Delivering real-time intelligence through
monitoring all mentions online, in the press and even on TV
and radio, Meltwater's software is unique in the world - and
now this book, packed with useful tips, opens up a 3-D
understanding of the marketplace which is applicable to any
industry in any role.
Jorn Lyseggen did his entrepreneurship training at Harvard
Business School. He is a Norwegian/Korean who founded
Meltwater News in 2001 with $15,000 of his savings and has
since then grown it into a global leader in online intelligence
with revenues in excess of $153 million. Jorn also founded the
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), a non
-profit organization designed to provide training and
mentoring to young African entrepreneurs.
January 2017
9780241273722
£20.00
Demy Octavo : Hardback
320 pages
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Viking Non-Fiction
A Christmas Cornucopia
The Hidden Stories Behind Our Yuletide Traditions
Mark Forsyth
The curious origins and meanings of our cracking
Christmas customs
For something that happens every year of our lives, we really
don't know much about Christmas.
We don't know that the date we celebrate was chosen by a
madman, or that Christmas was first celebrated on 28 March
in 243 AD - and only moved to 25 December in 354 AD. We're
oblivious to the fact that the advent calendar was actually
invented by a Munich housewife to stop her children pestering
her for a Christmas countdown. We're unaware of the recipe
that inspired the Twelve Days of Christmas. And we would
never have guessed that the invention of crackers was
merely a way of popularizing sweet wrappers.
Luckily, like a gift from Santa himself, Mark Forsyth is here to
unwrap this fundamentally funny gallimaufry of traditions and
oddities, making it all finally make sense - in his wonderfully
entertaining wordy way.
Born in London in 1977, Mark Forsyth (a.k.a The Inky Fool)
was given a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary as a
christening present and has never looked back. His book The
Etymologicon was a Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller, and his
TED Talk 'What's a snollygoster?' has had more than half a
million views. He has also written a specially commissioned
essay 'The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the Delight of
Not Getting What You Wanted' for Independent Booksellers
Week and the introduction for the new edition of the Collins
English Dictionary. He lives in London with his dictionaries,
and blogs at blog.inkyfool.com.
Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly. He
also writes beautifully - David Marsh, Guardian
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November 2016
9780241267738
£9.99
A Format : Hardback
192 pages
52
Penguin Life Non-Fiction
Wake Up!
Escaping a Life on Autopilot
Chris Barez-Brown
Stop living on autopilot. Here are 52 ideas to help
you live a more conscious, Technicolor and
extraordinary life
Most of our days are lived on autopilot. They whizz by in a
blur because our unconscious mind is in control. It doesn't
need to be that way. We can wake up to the amazing world
and amazing people around us. We can be more tuned in,
alive and ultimately happier.
Wake Up! gives 52 simple and fun ideas and activities to help
us enjoy life that little bit more, break free from our habits,
and be more alert to the wonders we speed past. From
climbing a tree to spreading an infectious smile, from cooking
from scratch to slowing down to really notice the world
around us.
Wake up, live life and be awesome.
Bestselling author, speaker and business beatnik Chris Baréz
Brown has a rather unusual view of the world: he knows that
everybody is perfect. As we grow, develop and socialise we
can lose touch with that brilliance and often become
somebody we're not. Chris founded his company Upping Your
Elvis in 2009 to help people reconnect with their inner genius
and become confident in being who they truly are. Described
as a 'long-haired twinkly-eyed cross between Richard Branson
and a wizard' (Guardian) Chris has written the bestselling
books Shine: How to survive and thrive at work and Free: Love
your work, love your life. In 2016 he became a columnist for
Psychologies magazine and launched his latest mission: The
Great Wake Up!
Buy this book and free your mind, life and career - Shaa
Wasmund, bestselling author of Stop Talking, Start Doing
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December 2016
9780241977422
£9.99
Other : Paperback
304 pages
Portfolio Penguin Non-Fiction
Find Your Why
A Practical Guide to Discovering Purpose for You or
Your Team
Simon Sinek
The next step for applying the life-changing
lessons of the international bestseller Start With
Why
With Start With Why, Simon Sinek inspired a movement to
build a world in which the vast majority of us can feel safe
while we are at work and fulfilled when we go home at night.
However, many people have had trouble bringing the book's
message into their own career and company. Now, along with
two of his colleagues, Peter Docker and David Mead, he has
created a guide to the most important step any business can
take: finding your why.
This easy-to-follow guide starts with the search for your
personal why, and then expands to helping your colleagues
find your organization's why. With detailed instructions on
every stage in the process, the book answers common
concerns, such as: What if my why sounds like my
competitor's? Can you have more than one why? And, if my
work doesn't match my why, what do I do?
Whether you're entry level or a CEO, whether your team is
run by the founder or a recent hire, these simple steps will
lead you on a path to a more fulfilling life and long-term
success for you and your colleagues.
Simon Sinek is the bestselling author of Start with Why and
Leaders Eat Last, which have helped organizations around the
world inspire their people to reach new heights. He has
presented his ideas to Fortune 100 companies and small
startups; to non-profit organizations and members of
Congress; to foreign ambassadors and the highest levels of
the US military, among many others. His TED Talk based on
Start with Why is the third most popular video of all time on
TED.com, with more than 27.4 million views.
May 2017
9780241279267
£16.99
Other : Trade Paperback
224 pages
As refreshingly simple and easy to follow as it is thoughtprovoking - Management Today on Leaders Eat Last
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Viking Fiction
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family
and history - this is Beloved for the 21st century
Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies.
One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The
consequences of their fate reverberate through the
generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of
Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the
missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem,
spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi
has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of
a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the
very story of America itself.
Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a
searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana and raised in
Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers'
Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in African
American Review, Guernica and Callaloo. Homegoing is her first
novel.
Gyasi's characters are so fully realized, so elegantly carvedvery often I found myself longing to hear more...Homegoing is
an inspiration - Ta-Nehisi Coates
January 2017
9780241242728
£16.99
Royal Octavo : Hardback
320 pages
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Viking Fiction
My Sister's Bones
Nuala Ellwood
THE ONE PERSON YOU SHOULD TRUST
IS LYING TO YOU
'An accomplished and page-turning thriller...it's impossible
to guess where it's going next' Nicholas Searle, author of
THE GOOD LIAR
Kate Rafter is a high-flying war reporter. She's the strong
one. The one who escaped their father. Her Kate Rafter is a
high-flying war reporter. She's the strong one. The one who
escaped their father. Her younger sister Sally didn't. Instead,
she drinks.
But when their mother dies, Kate is forced to return home.
And on her first night she is woken by a terrifying scream.
At first Kate tells herself it's just a nightmare. But then she
hears it again. And this time she knows she's not imagining it.
What secret is lurking in the old family home?
And is she strong enough to uncover it...and make it out
alive?
Nuala Ellwood moved to London in her twenties to pursue a
career as a singer-songwriter, but ended up writing novels
instead. She comes from a family of journalists, and they
inspired her to get Arts Council funding to research and write
a novel dealing with psychological trauma in the industry. My
Sister's Bones is her debut thriller.
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February 2017
9780241977279
£12.99
Royal Octavo : Hardback
400 pages
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Index
Alderman, Naomi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 36
Barez-Brown, Chris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Bates, Doreen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Bennett, Jessica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Blake, Jenny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Carre, John le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Carter, Miranda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Chang, Jade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Charman, Isobel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Corry, Jane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Ellwood, Nuala. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Forsyth, Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Gullit, Ruud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Gyasi, Yaa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Hodgkinson, Tom. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Knight, India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Lichtenstein, Rachel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Littlehales, Nick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Lively, Penelope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Lyseggen, Jorn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
MacAskill, Danny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
MacIntyre, Ben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Marías, Javier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Michael, Livi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Moyle, Franny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Nugent, Liz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
O'Connell, Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
O'Connor, Pippa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
O'Rourke, Derval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rickards, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Robertson, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Safran Foer, Jonathan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Santoro, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sinek, Simon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 54
Smith, Ali. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Smith, Zadie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Sodha, Meera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Stubbs, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Tang, Sir David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Vickers, Salley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Wiking, Meik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Younger, Bella. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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