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Contents

Recently Announced 4

Allen Lane 13

Particular Books 49

Pelican 59

Penguin Classics 63

Penguin Modern Classics 75

Penguin Paperbacks 91

Penguin Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, SW1V 2SA Recently Announced What White People Can Do Next From Allyship to Coalition Emma Dabiri

An incisive and deeply practical essay from the acclaimed author of Don’t Touch My Hair

Stop the Denial Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the African Stop the False Equivalencies Languages, Cultures and Literatures Section of the Interrogate Whiteness African department at SOAS, a Visual Sociology Interrogate Capitalism PhD researcher at Goldsmiths and the author of Denounce the White Saviour Don’t Touch My Hair, which was an Irish Times Abandon Guilt bestseller. She has presented several television and radio programmes including BBC Radio 4’s We need to talk about racial injustice in a new critically-acclaimed documentaries Journeys into way: one that builds on the revolutionary ideas of Afro-futurism and Britain’s Lost Masterpieces. the past and forges new connections.

In this robust and nuanced examination of race, class and capitalism, Emma Dabiri draws on years of academic study and lived experience, as well as personal refl ections on a year like no other. With intellectual rigour, wit and clarity, Dabiri articulates a powerful vision for meaningful and lasting change.

APRIL 2021 9780141996738 A FORMAT PAPERBACK £7.99 | 176 PAGES

4 The Bomber Mafia A Story Set in War Malcolm Gladwell

The international bestselling author returns with an exploration of one of the grandest obsessions of the twentieth century

‘The Bomber Mafi a is a case study in how In this tale of innovation and obsession, Gladwell dreams go awry. When some shiny new idea asks: what happens when technology and best drops from the heavens, it does not land softly intentions collide in the heat of war? And what is in our laps. It lands hard, on the ground, the price of progress? and shatters.’ Malcolm Gladwell is the author of six In the years before the Second World War, in a international bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. and most recently, Talking to Strangers. He is What if we made bombing so accurate that wars the host of the podcast Revisionist History, a staff could be fought entirely from the air? What if we writer at the New Yorker, and co-founder of the could make the brutal clashes between armies on audio company Pushkin Industries. He graduated the ground a thing of the past? from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. Gladwell was born in This book tells the story of what happened when England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in that dream was put to the test. The Bomber Mafi a New York. follows the stories of a reclusive Dutch genius and his homemade computer, Winston Churchill’s forbidding best friend, a team of pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard, a brilliant pilot who sang vaudeville tunes to his crew, and the bomber APRIL 2021 commander, Curtis Emerson LeMay, who would 9780241535004 order the bloodiest attack of the Second ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK World War. £16.99 | 288 PAGES

5 The New Breed How to Think About Robots Kate Darling

A bold, optimistic exploration of the relationship between robots and humans based on our history with animals, from a renowned MIT researcher

The robots are here. They make our cars, they – not just to non-humans, but also to each other. deliver fast food, they mine the sea fl oor. And in the near-future their presence will increasingly Kate Darling is a researcher at the Massachusetts enter our homes and workplaces – making Institute of Technology (MIT), where she human-robot interaction a frequent, everyday investigates social robotics and conducts occurrence. What will this future look like? What experimental studies on human-robot interaction. will defi ne the relationship between humans and robots?

Here Kate Darling, a world-renowned expert in robot ethics, shows that in order to understand the new robot world, we must fi rst move beyond the idea that this technology will be something like us. Instead, she argues, we should look to our relationship with animals. Just as we have harnessed the power of animals to aid us in war and work, so too will robots supplement – rather than replace – our own skills and abilities.

A deeply original analysis of our technological future and the ethical dilemmas that await us, APRIL 2021 The New Breed explains how the treatment of 9780241352991 machines can reveal a new understanding of our ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK own history, our own systems and how we relate £20.00 | 336 PAGES

6 The Premonition A Pandemic Story Michael Lewis

From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid-19

‘It’s a foreboding,’ she said. ‘A knowing that everything; and to do all of this fast, in order something is looming around the corner. Like to act, to save lives, communities, society itself. how when the seasons change you can smell Fall It’s a story about the workings of the human in the air right before the leaves change and the mind; about the failures and triumphs of human wind turns cold.’ judgement and imagination. It’s the story of how we got to now. In January 2020, as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan, China, few really Michael Lewis’s global bestselling books lift understood the magnitude of what was the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They happening. Except, that is, a small group of include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of scientifi c misfi ts who in their different ways high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was had been obsessed all their lives with how made into a hit Oscar-winning fi lm; Moneyball, viruses spread and replicated – and with why the story of a maverick outsider who beat the the governments and the institutions that were system; and Liar’s Poker, the book that defi ned supposed to look after us, kept making the same the excesses of the 1980s. Michael Lewis was mistakes time and again. born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. This group saw what nobody else did. A pandemic was coming. We weren’t prepared.

The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a MAY 2021 group who anticipated, traced and hunted the 9780241512470 coronavirus; who understood the need to think ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK differently, to learn from history, to question £25.00 | 336 PAGES

7 Wake The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez

A stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts ‘Not only a riveting tale of Black women’s on slave ships during the passage across the leadership of slave revolts but an equally Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that the Americas. And then they were erased enabled its discovery’ – Angela Davis from history. Rebecca Hall is a lawyer, historian and activist. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a She has taught history at UC Berkeley, and was granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted a visiting professor of law at the University of by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With Utah. Her writing focuses on the history of race, in-depth archival research and a measured use on gender and law, and on feminist theory. of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom Hugo Martinez is a comic book illustrator and on slave ships bound to America, as well as artist from California. the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall’s own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences.

Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful JUNE 2021 reminder that while the past is gone, we still live 9780241523551 in its wake. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £20.00 | 224 PAGES

8 Nice Racism How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm Robin DiAngelo

An incisive follow-up to the Sunday Times bestseller White Fragility asserting that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of colour

Racism will not be interrupted by a hug or a themselves as racist and therefore have not smile. Dismantling white supremacy requires developed the skills necessary for examining white people to commit to a lifetime of education their role in perpetuating racism. This is because and accountability. Continuing the work she white progressives are often steeped in a culture began in White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo of niceness which is animated by a belief that challenges white readers to rethink their ideas racism is limited to bad individuals who commit about racism and to confront their role in intentionally violent acts. The fl ip-side to this maintaining it. logic is the idea that a nice person with good intentions could never be a racist. But that’s The common moves white progressives make simply not the case. Racism is a system in which to telegraph their niceness are: avoiding all white people are implicated. social discomfort, focusing on connections and commonalities, privileging concern for Robin DiAngelo has been an educator and the feelings of perpetrators of racism over the trainer on issues of racial and social justice victims, elevating intentions over impact and for more than 20 years. She is the author credentialing. Writing candidly about her own or co-author of several books including the missteps and struggles, and drawing on over international bestseller White Fragility. She is an twenty years working as an anti-racist educator, affi liate associate professor of Education at the Nice Racism models a path forward, helping University of Washington white readers to face their complicity and embrace humility. JUNE 2021 9780241519356 Often touting their own liberal credentials ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK as evidence, white progressives do not see £16.99 | 400 PAGES

9 The Plague Year America in the Time of Covid Lawrence Wright

A definitive account of the shocking American response to Covid-19, from the acclaimed author of The Looming Tower

‘In the twenty-fi rst century, infectious disease With insight, sympathy, clarity and rage, seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat’ The Plague Year allows the reader to see the unfolding of this great tragedy, talking with Just as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower individuals on the front line, bringing together became the defi ning account of our century’s fi rst many moving and surprising stories and painting devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will a devastating picture of a country literally and become the defi ning account of the second. fatally misled.

The story starts with the initial moments of Covid’s Lawrence Wright has written for many years appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph for the New Yorker and is the author of the Biden’s inauguration in an America ravaged by bestselling The Looming Tower, which won the well over 400,000 deaths – a mortality already Pulitzer Prize. some ten times worse than US combat deaths in the entire Vietnam War.

This is an anguished, furious memorial to a year in which all of America’s great strengths – its scientifi c knowledge, its great civic and intellectual institutions, its spirit of voluntarism and community – were brought low, not by a terrifying new illness alone, but by political JUNE 2021 incompetence and cynicism on a scale for which 9780241530443 there has been no precedent. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £20.00 | 304 PAGES

10 Allen Lane Home in the World A Memoir Amartya Sen

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world’s leading public intellectuals

Where is ‘home’? For Amartya Sen home has been many places: Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of resistance to it and the terrible famine of 1943. Santiniketan where he was raised by his Some of Sen’s family were imprisoned for their grandparents as much as by his parents, opposition to British rule. Forty-fi ve years after Calcutta where he fi rst studied economics and he fi rst arrived at ‘the Gates of Trinity’, one of was active in student movements, and Trinity Britain’s greatest intellectual foundations, Sen College, Cambridge, to which he came aged became its Master. nineteen. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and formation was the intellectually liberating school Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for conversations in the famous Coffee House on Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate include Development as Freedom (1999), The at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and leading fi gures of the day. This is a book of Violence (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010). ideas – especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow – In 2012 he received the National Humanities as much as of people and places. Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes ‘the Book Trade. rivers of Bengal’ along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral JULY 2021 villages. The book explores at fi rst hand, the 9781846144868 history and culture of Bengal, the political ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK infl aming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the £25.00 | 416 PAGES

13 This Is Your Mind On Plants Opium—Caffeine— Mescaline Michael Pollan

From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs

Of all the many things humans rely on plants ways we can. This ground-breaking and singular for, surely the most curious is our use of them book holds up a mirror to our fundamental human to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds or completely alter the qualities of our mental and our entanglement with the natural world. experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan explores three very different Michael Pollan is an award-winning author, drugs – opium, caffeine and mescaline – and activist and journalist. His international bestselling throws the fundamental strangeness of our books about the way we live today – including thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring How to Change Your Mind, In Defence of Food and participating in the cultures that have grown and Food Rules – combine meticulous reporting up around these drugs, while consuming (or with anthropology, philosophy, culture, health and in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) natural history. Time magazine has named him them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human one of the hundred most infl uential people in the attraction to psychoactive plants, and the equally world. He lives in the Bay Area of California with powerful taboos. his wife.

In a unique blend of history, science, memoir and reportage, Pollan shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively. In doing so, he proves that there is much more to say about these plants than simply debating JULY 2021 their regulation, for when we take them into our 9780241519264 bodies and let them change our minds, we are ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK engaging with nature in one of the most profound £20.00 | 320 PAGES

14 Democracy Rules Jan-Werner Müller

One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century

After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of been essential for democracy’s success ever since Trump, and the continued pull of Putin and Xi the nineteenth century. Taking on many of the most it seems that democracy is in a state of decay. diffi cult political questions we face, this book is a And as governments around the world struggle vital rethinking of what democracy can mean in an to combat the coronavirus – often adopting age of big data, curated news feeds, collapsing draconian measures as a response – there is a parties and social alienation – and how we can sense, a panic, that democracy’s decline may be reinvent our democratic social contract. terminal. But how many of us are certain about what democracy actually is? Jan-Werner Müller is Professor of Politics at Princeton University and the author of several Acclaimed political philosopher Jan-Werner books, most recently the critically acclaimed What Müller lucidly argues that in order for us to Is Populism? He contributes regularly to London understand the true risks of our current moment, Review of Books, the Guardian, and the New York we must fi rst establish an understanding of fi rst Review of Books. principles. What is essential for democracy to fl ourish? How can we defend it without forever distorting its DNA?

In this elegant volume, he explains how democracy is founded not just on liberty and equality, but also on uncertainty. Drawing on JULY 2021 history, art and examples from around the globe, 9780241382936 he shows that we need to re-invigorate political ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK parties and free media, the institutions that have £20.00 | 256 PAGES

15 Pessoa An Experimental Life Richard Zenith

A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic writers

For many thousands of readers Fernando called ‘heteronyms’, demonstrating how they Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet is almost a were projections, spin-offs or metamorphoses of way of life. Ironic, haunting and melancholy, Pessoa himself. this completely unclassifi able work is the masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s Zenith’s monumental work confi rms the power most enigmatic writers. of Pessoa’s words to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of modern life. It is also Richard Zenith’s Pessoa at last allows us to a wonderful book about Lisbon, the city which understand this extraordinary fi gure. Some Pessoa reinvented and through which his different eighty-fi ve years after his premature death in selves wandered. Lisbon, where he left over 25,000 manuscript sheets in a wooden trunk, Fernando Pessoa Richard Zenith is an acclaimed translator and (1888-1935) can now be celebrated as one of literary critic. His translations include Pessoa’s The the great modern poets. Setting the story of his Book of Disquiet and Fernando Pessoa and Co.: life against the nationalistic currents of European Selected Poems, which won the PEN Award for history, Zenith charts the heights of Pessoa’s Poetry in Translation. The recipient of Portugal’s explosive imagination and literary genius. Pessoa Prize, Zenith lives in Lisbon.

Much of Pessoa’s charm and strangeness came from his writing under a variety of names that he used not only to conceal his identity but also JULY 2021 to write in wildly varied styles with different 9780241534137 imagined personalities. Zenith traces the back ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK stories of virtually all of these invented others, £30.00 | 992 PAGES

16 Prisoners of Time Prussians, Germans and Other Humans Christopher Clark

A collection of illuminating essays from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers

Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers has Brexit to the signifi cance of battles. Perhaps the become one of the most infl uential history books most important piece in the book is ‘The Dream of of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the Nebuchadnezzar’, a virtuoso meditation on the origins of the First World War, which has had a nature of political power down the ages, which will huge impact on how we see both the past and become essential reading for anyone drawn to the the present. meaning of history.

For the many readers who found the narrative Christopher Clark is the Regius Professor of voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark’s History at the University of Cambridge. He was writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time will knighted in 2015. He is the author of The Politics of be a book fi lled with surprises and enjoyment. Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Iron Kingdom, The Bringing together many of Clark’s major essays, Sleepwalkers and Time and Power and is currently Prisoners of Time raises a host of questions about writing a history of the revolutions of 1848. how we think about the past, and both the value and pitfalls of history as a discipline.

The book includes brilliant writing on German subjects: from assessments of Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck to the painful story of General von Blaskowitz, a traditional Prussian military man who accommodated himself to the horrors AUGUST 2021 of the Third Reich. There is a fascinating 9780241519042 essay on attempts to convert Prussian Jews to ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Christianity, and insights into everything from £25.00 | 352 PAGES

17 Antwerp The Glory Years Michael Pye

A rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century – ‘the indispensable place in Europe’

Before Amsterdam another North Sea city was Tyndale and smuggled out copies of his bible the hub of the known world. Antwerp, writes in English. Michael Pye, ‘rapidly became a world city, a centre of stories published across Europe, This glory was erased when the Dutch rebelled a sensation like nineteenth-century Paris or against their Spanish masters and mutinous twentieth-century New York, one of the fi rst cities troops burned the city records. Pye uses novels, where anything could happen or at least be paintings, schoolbooks and archives from believed. Other cities showed the power of kings Venice, to London, to the Medici to uncover the or dukes or empires, but Antwerp showed only hidden story of the years when Antwerp was the itself: a place of trade, where people wanted, ‘exception’ to all Europe. needed to be, or couldn’t afford not to be. It was famous on its own terms.’ Michael Pye’s twelve previous books have been translated into fi fteen languages; three have been New trade routes into the city brought pepper New York Times ‘Notable Books of the Year’, and diamonds from India, silver from America two were British bestsellers and one became and gold from Africa that tracked by cart and a Hollywood movie. He won various prizes in river to the Ottoman Empire in the East. Antwerp Modern History at Oxford, and went on to be made possible escape routes to Istanbul for Jews journalist, broadcaster and columnist in London facing the Inquisition in Portugal, including for and New York. He lives in Amsterdam. the woman running the largest merchant banking house in Europe. And in just a few generations, AUGUST 2021 the city inspired Thomas More’s Utopia, taught 9780241243213 Erasmus about money, modelled for Pieter ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Bruegel’s Tower of Babel, protected William £25.00 | 336 PAGES

18 The Awakened Brain The Psychology of Spirituality and Our Search for Meaning Lisa Miller

A ground-breaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing and resilience

Whether it’s an uplifting walk in nature, professional pragmatism gave way to a greater meditation or prayer, there are many ways to appreciation of insights that are important to experience heightened awareness and escape so many people and yet so often dismissed the relentless demands of modern life. The range as unscientifi c. Brimming with inspiration and of opportunities of this kind suggest that it isn’t compassion, this landmark book will revolutionize dependent on faith or religion, but that it’s about your understanding of spirituality, mental health a different mode of living; an innate spirituality. and how we fi nd meaning and purpose in life.

Lisa Miller has spent decades researching the Lisa Miller is a professor in the clinical effects of spirituality on the brain. In this book she psychology program at Columbia University, draws on her clinical experience and award- Teachers College, and holds a joint appointment winning research to show how an active spiritual in the department of Psychiatry at Columbia life can transform our physical and psychological Medical School. She is the New York Times wellbeing. Bringing scientifi c rigour to the most bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and intangible aspect of our lives, Miller offers founder and director of the Spiritual Mind Body insights into the neurological basis for the Institute, the fi rst Ivy League graduate program in increased resilience that comes with nurturing spirituality and psychology. spirituality and highlights its measurable positive effects: decreasing the likelihood of depression and substance abuse, and shifting the course of recovery in many other clinical settings. AUGUST 2021 9780241401934 Woven throughout is Miller’s personal story of ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK how, while confronting her own challenges, her £20.00 | 256 PAGES

19 The World According to Colour A Cultural History James Fox

A beguiling cultural history of colour, by one of the rising stars of art history

The subject of this book is mankind’s antiquity to the blue horizons which framed the extraordinary relationship with colour. It is Age of Discovery; the pristine aspirations of composed of a series of voyages, ranging across Enlightenment, the technicolour innovation which the world and throughout history, which reveal fuelled the Industrial Revolution and the colour the meanings that have been attached to the which most embodies the environmental crisis colours we see around us and the ways these which now faces us. have shaped our culture and imagination. It takes seven primary colours – black, red, yellow, blue, James Fox is an art historian and Fellow of white, purple and green – and uncovers behind Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. His many each a root idea, based on visual resemblances acclaimed BBC television documentaries include or properties so rudimentary as to be common to programmes on the history of Cornish art, the all societies. British Renaissance and the culture and politics of Vienna in 1908, Paris in 1928 and New York The book traces these meanings to show how in 1951. they changed and multiplied, the role that they have played in our culture and history, and how understanding them allows us to see many of the milestones in the history of art – from Bronze Age gold-work to Turner, Titian to Yves Klein – in a new way. It proceeds by stories, which cumulatively tell another, larger one: a history of AUGUST 2021 the world from the black nothing which preceded 9781846148248 existence to the birth of our red-blooded species; ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK the gilded gods who animated the world in £25.00 | 352 PAGES

20 Blood and Ruins The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 Richard Overy

A bold new approach to the © Richard Overy Second World War from one of its foremost historians

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to World War, which will compel us to view the war recast the way in which we view the Second in novel and unfamiliar ways. Thought-provoking, World War and its origins and aftermath. He original and challenging, Blood and Ruins sets argues that this was the ‘great imperial war’, out to understand the war anew. a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the of History at the University of Exeter and one of 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into Britain’s most distinguished historians. His major the largest and costliest war in human history and works include The Bombing War, The Dictators the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. and The Morbid Age.

How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justifi ed forms the heart of this new account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fi ghting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order. AUGUST 2021 9780713995626 Blood and Ruins is a masterpiece from of one ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK of the most renowned historians of the Second £40.00 | 1,152 PAGES

21 Inflamed Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

A doctor and an economist explore the hidden links between health and structural injustices, and set out a radical vision for a fairer world

What is the link between gut biodiversity, Rupa Marya is Associate Professor of Medicine structural racism, and mental health? at the University of California, San Francisco, How does colonialism continue to cause lethal and a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, disease around the world? a collective of health workers committed to Why are First Nation people who speak addressing disease through structural change. their native language better protected A physician and activist, she is also a composer against diabetes? and musician whose music was described by legend Gil Scott Heron as ‘Liberation Music’. Infl amed journeys through the human body illuminating the hidden relationships between our Raj Patel is a research professor at the University biological systems and the profound injustices of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B Johnson School of of our political and economic systems. This Public Affairs, a Research Associate at Rhodes boldly original book shows how infl ammation is University, South Africa, and a member of the connected not just to the food that we eat and International Panel of Experts on Sustainable the air that we breathe, but is also linked to the Food Systems. He is the author of Stuffed and traumatic events we experience and the arts of Starved, and the New York Times bestseller diagnosis that physicians practice every day. The Value of Nothing.

Combining the latest scholarship on globalization and biology with the stories of patients in marginalized communities and the science of AUGUST 2021 Indigenous groups, Infl amed points the way 9780241483619 toward a deep medicine that has the potential to DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK heal not only our bodies but the world. £18.99 | 288 PAGES

22 What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents Nina Power

What exactly do men get out of being men in the twenty-first century?

It would be easy to write a feminist polemic Nina Power is a writer and philosopher. She has denouncing men. This is not that book. written regularly for The Telegraph, Art Review and The Spectator, amongst other publications. Something is defi nitely up with men. From millions She is the author of One-Dimensional Woman who follow Jordan Peterson to the #metoo (Zer0, 2009), which the New Statesman called backlash, from Men’s Rights activists and incels to ‘a joy to read’. spiralling suicide rates, it’s easy to see that, while men still rule the world, masculinity is in crisis.

How can men and women live together in a world where capitalism and consumerism has replaced the values – family, religion, service and honour – that used to give our lives meaning? Feminism has gone some way towards dismantling the patriarchy, but how can we hold on to the best aspects of our metaphorical Father?

With illuminating writing from an original, big- picture perspective, Nina Power unlocks the secrets hidden in our culture to enable men and AUGUST 2021 women to reach true mutual understanding and a 9780241356500 lifetime of love. DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK £18.99 | 256 PAGES

23 How to Stop Fascism History, Ideology, Resistance Paul Mason

How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right

The far right is on the rise across the world. From want to live in? And what are we going to do Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s about it? Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is Paul Mason is an award-winning writer, happening again – and we need to fi nd a better broadcaster, and fi lm- maker. Previously way to fi ght it. Economics Editor of Channel 4 News, his books include PostCapitalism, Clear Bright Future: In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers A Radical Defence of the Human Being, Why a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global defeating the new far right. The book is both a Revolutions, and Rare Earth: A Novel. chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, and it has haunted us throughout the twentieth century.

History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out. From the AUGUST 2021 ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to 9780141996394 create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we £20.00 | 256 PAGES

24 What’s Eating the Universe? And Other Cosmic Questions Paul Davies

The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums

In the constellation of Eridanus lurks a cosmic and other mysteries, Davies boldly tackles the mystery. It appears as if something has taken a greatest outstanding enigmas of all: why does the huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super- universe exist in the fi rst place? Why are the laws void. What is the culprit? A super massive of nature what they are? And, how did a system black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an of mindless, purposeless particles manage to expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop bring forth conscious, thinking beings? and annihilate everything in existence? This is a dazzling tour of the puzzles and Today, scientists understand the history of our paradoxes currently keeping cosmologists busy, universe better than we understand the history set to entertain, enchant and inspire us all. of our own planet. But this understanding has uncovered some startling riddles – the hole in Paul Davies is a Regents Professor of Physics and the universe being just one. In this electrifying Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental book, award-winning astrophysicist and best Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. selling author Paul Davies lucidly explains what The bestselling author of some thirty books, his we now know about how the cosmos works, many awards include the Templeton Prize and and explores the tantalizing – and sometimes the Faraday Prize of the Royal Society. He is a terrifying – possibilities that lie before us. What Member of the Order of Australia and has an happened before the Big Bang? Are we alone asteroid named after him. in the universe? And can black holes remember what they ate? SEPTEMBER 2021 9780241459850 Walking us through the audacious research DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK that has offered mind-bending solutions to these £16.99 | 192 PAGES

25 Index, A History of the A Bookish Adventure Dennis Duncan

A riveting story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order

Most of us give little thought to the back of the evolving literary and intellectual culture, Duncan book – it’s just where you go to look things up. shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely Search, we are all index-rakers at heart, and we realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and have been for eight hundred years. politicking, pleasure and play. Here we might fi nd Butchers, to be avoided, or Cows that sh-te Dennis Duncan is a writer, translator and lecturer Fire, or even catch Calvin in his chamber with a in English at University College London. He has Nonne. This is the secret world of the index: an published numerous academic books, including unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an Book Parts and The Oulipo and Modern illustrious but little-known past. Here, for the fi rst Thought, as well as translations of Michel time, its story is told. Foucault, Boris Vian, and Alfred Jarry. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Charting its curious path from the monasteries Supplement, and the London Review of Books, and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to and recent articles have considered Mallarmé Silicon Valley in the twenty-fi rst, Dennis Duncan and jugs, James Joyce and pornography, and the reveals how the index has saved heretics from the history of Times New Roman. stake, kept politicians from high offi ce and made us all into the readers we are today. We follow it through German print shops and Enlightenment coffee houses, novelists’ living rooms and university laboratories, encountering emperors SEPTEMBER 2021 and popes, philosophers and prime ministers, 9780241374238 poets, librarians and – of course – indexers ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK along the way. Revealing its vast role in our £20.00 | 256 PAGES

26 The Transgender Issue An Argument for Justice Shon Faye

An era-defining, agenda- setting call for trans liberation which will reshape our current conversation on transgender rights

Trans people in Britain today have become a for change, and a call for justice and solidarity culture war ‘issue’. Despite making up less than between all marginalized people and minorities. one per cent of the country’s population, they are Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized of what our society is and what it could be; it ‘debate’. This media frenzy conceals a simple offers the possibility of a more just, free and joyful fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, world for all of us. a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a Shon Faye was born in Bristol, where she is meaningful voice. currently based. Originally training as a solicitor before leaving the law for the arts, she has In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims worked variously as a writer, presenter, editor, the idea of the ‘transgender issue’ to uncover screenwriter and cabaret comedian, and in the the reality of what it means to be trans in a charity sector with Amnesty International and transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a Stonewall. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed, compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives and her writing has been published by the from youth to old age, exploring work, family, Guardian, the Independent and Vice, among housing, healthcare, the prison system and others. This is her fi rst book. trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond. SEPTEMBER 2021 The Transgender Issue is a landmark work 9780241423141 that signals the beginning of a new, healthier ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto £20.00 | 240 PAGES

27 The Radical Potter Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain Tristram Hunt

A spectacular new biography of the great designer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and beacon of the Industrial Revolution, by the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Josiah Wedgwood, perhaps the greatest English potter who ever lived, epitomized the strongly based on Wedgwood’s notebooks, best of his age. From his kilns and workshops in letters and the words of his contemporaries, Stoke-on-Trent, he revolutionized the production brilliantly captures the energy and originality of of ceramics in Georgian Britain by marrying Wedgwood and his extraordinary contribution to technology with design, manufacturing effi ciency the transformation of eighteenth-century Britain. and retail fl air. He transformed the luxury markets not only of London, Liverpool, Bath and Dublin Dr Tristram Hunt is Director of the V&A Museum but of America and the world, and helping and one of Britain’s best-known historians. He to usher in a mass consumer society. Tristram served as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central from Hunt calls him ‘the Steve Jobs of the 2010 to 2017 (when he led the campaign to eighteenth century’. save the Wedgwood Museum) and as Shadow Secretary of State for Education between 2013 But Wedgwood was radical in his mind and and 2015. He was a senior lecturer in British politics as well as in his designs. He campaigned history at Queen Mary, University of London. for free trade and religious toleration, read His previous books include The Frock-Coated pioneering papers to the Royal Society and Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich was a member of the celebrated Lunar Society Engels, Ten Cities that Made an Empire and of Birmingham. Most signifi cantly, he created Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the the ceramic ‘Emancipation Badge’, depicting a Victorian City. slave in chains and inscribed ‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’ that became the symbol of the SEPTEMBER 2021 abolitionist movement. 9780241287897 ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Tristram Hunt’s hugely enjoyable new biography, £25.00 | 352 PAGES

28 Shutdown How Covid Shook the World’s Economy Adam Tooze

From the author of Crashed comes a short, high-speed history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us now

When the news fi rst began to trickle out of China new world we will fi nd on the other side. In this about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse fast-paced, compelling and at times shocking fi nancial markets were alert to its potential for analysis, Adam Tooze surveys the wreckage, and disruption. Yet they could never have predicted looks at where we might be headed next. the total economic collapse that would follow in Covid-19’s wake, as stock markets fell faster and Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised harder than at any time since 1929, currencies Crashed, The Deluge and The Wages of across the world plunged, investors panicked Destruction, all published by Allen Lane. He and even gold was sold. has been the recipient of the Wolfson Prize for History, the Longman-History Today Book of the In a matter of weeks, the world’s economy was Year Prize and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Tooze brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying has taught at Cambridge and Yale and is now to contain a spiralling public health catastrophe. Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Flights were grounded; supply chains broken; History at Columbia University. industries from tourism to oil to hospitality collapsed overnight, leaving hundreds of millions of people unemployed. Central banks responded with unprecedented interventions, just to keep their economies on life-support. For the fi rst time since the Second World War, the entire global economic system contracted. SEPTEMBER 2021 9780241485873 This book tells the story of that shutdown. We ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK do not yet know how this story ends, or what £25.00 | 320 PAGES

29 Rationality What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters Steven Pinker

A user’s guide to rationality in an age of unreason

Can reading a book make you more rational? presented clearly and entertainingly in a single Can it help you understand why there is so much book – until now. irrationality in the world? These are the goals of Steven Pinker’s major new book. Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is In the twenty-fi rst century, humanity is reaching new the ultimate driver of social justice and moral heights of scientifi c understanding – and at the progress. Brimming with insight and humour, same time appears to be losing its mind. How can Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, Steven Pinker is an experimental cognitive quack cures and conspiracy theorizing? scientist. Currently Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, he has also taught at Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are Stanford and MIT. He has won many prizes an irrational species. After all, we discovered for his research, teaching, and eleven books, the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our including The Language Instinct, How the Mind lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. Works, The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Instead, he explains that we think in ways that are Nature, and The Sense of Style. sensible in the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, SEPTEMBER 2021 correlation and causation, and decision-making. 9780241380277 These tools are not a standard part of our ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK educational curricula, and have never been £25.00 | 416 PAGES

30 Devil-Land England Under Siege, 1588-1688 Clare Jackson

A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history

This dazzling, original and hugely engaging Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and book tells the story of a nation in a state of near Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness continual crisis. To many foreigner observers, accounts – many penned by stupefi ed foreigners seventeenth-century England was ‘Devil-Land’: – to dramatize her great story. Starting on a country riven by political faction, religious the eve of the Spanish Armada’s descent in difference, fi nancial ruin and royal collapse. 1588 and concluding with a not-so ‘Glorious Revolution’ a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth spectacular reinterpretation of England’s vexed I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, and enthralling past. while her Stuart successors, James I and VI of Scotland and Charles I, were seen as Clare Jackson is the Senior Tutor of Trinity Hall, impecunious and incompetent, unable to manage Cambridge University. She has presented a their three kingdoms of England, Scotland and number of highly successful programmes on the Ireland. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and Stuart dynasty for the BBC and is the author of a republican Commonwealth were followed by Charles II in the Penguin Monarchs series. the fl oundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II and VII of Scotland, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed.

Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, SEPTEMBER 2021 a ‘failed state’: endemically unstable and 9780241285817 constantly rocked by devastating events from the ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. £30.00 | 496 PAGES

31 The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow

A breathtakingly ambitious Lathigra © Kalpesh retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world history

For generations, our remote ancestors have range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and a been cast as primitive and childlike – either free faith in the power of direct action. and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Here David Graeber and David Wengrow David Graeber was a professor of revisit this origin story, with startling implications anthropology at the London School of for how we make sense of human history today. Economics. He is the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. An Drawing on path-breaking research in iconic thinker and renowned activist, his early archaeology and anthropology, the authors efforts helped to make Occupy Wall Street an show how history becomes a far more era-defi ning movement. He died on 2 interesting place once we learn to perceive September 2020. what’s really there. If humans did not spend their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter- David Wengrow is a professor of comparative gatherers, what were they doing? The answers archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, are often unexpected, and suggest that the University College London. He is the author of course of human history may be more full of three books, including What Makes playful, hopeful possibilities than we tend Civilization?. Wengrow conducts archaeological to assume. fi eldwork in various parts of Africa and the Middle East. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past OCTOBER 2021 and offers a path toward imagining new forms 9780241402429 of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK is a monumental book of formidable intellectual £30.00 | 608 PAGES

32 The Man from the Future The Visionary Life of John von Neumann Ananyo Bhattacharya

The exhilarating new biography of John Von Neumann – the genius who shaped our century

The smartphones in our pockets and computers wherever he went. Insightful and illuminating, like brains. The vagaries of game theory and The Man from the Future is a thrilling intellectual evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases biography of the visionary thinker who shaped and nuclear weapons. All bear the fi ngerprints of our century. one remarkable man: John von Neumann. Ananyo Bhattacharya is a science writer who Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before Neumann is one of the most infl uential scientists journalism, he was a medical researcher at the to have ever lived. His colleagues believed Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. he had the fastest brain on the planet – bar He holds a degree in physics from the University none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography Project and helped formulate the bedrock of from Imperial College London. Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory. He created the fi rst ever programmable digital computer. He prophesied the potential of nanotechnology and, from his deathbed, expounded on the limits of brains and computers – and how they might be overcome.

Taking us on an astonishing journey, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination OCTOBER 2021 of genius and unique historical circumstance 9780241398852 allowed a single man to sweep through so many DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK different fi elds of science, sparking revolutions £20.00 | 272 PAGES

33 George III The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch Andrew Roberts

One of Britain’s premier historians overturns received wisdom on a much-maligned king

George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’ robbed him of his mind for the last 10 years (Thomas Paine), and is now widely perceived as of his life – his other main claim to the the pompous, camp and sinister monarch of the popular imagination. musical ‘Hamilton’. Roberts argues that, far from being a tyrant Andrew Roberts’s magnifi cent new biography takes or incompetent, George was one of our most entirely the opposite view. It convincingly portrays admirable monarchs. George III shows one of George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously Britain’s premier historians at his sparkling best. devoted to the constitution of his country and, navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. He international renown, most recently of the best- was a devoted husband and family man, a great selling Churchill: Walking with Destiny. His previous patron of the arts and sciences, keen (‘Farmer books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner George’) to advance Britain’s agricultural capacity of the Wolfson Prize for History), Masters and and determined that her horizons should be global. Commanders (winner of the Emery Reves Award), Storm of War (winner of the British Army Book The book gives a detailed, revisionist account of Prize) and Napoleon the Great, which won the the American War of Independence, amongst Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon and the other things persuasively taking apart a signifi cant Los Angeles Times Biography Prize. proportion of the Declaration of Independence. In a later war, it shows how George’s support OCTOBER 2021 for William Pitt was crucial to the battle against 9780241413333 Napoleon. And it makes a credible, modern ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK diagnosis of George’s terrible malady which £30.00 | 656 PAGES

34 Eight Days in May How Germany’s War Ended Volker Ullrich

A gripping history of Germany’s ‘zero hour’, the Hecke © Roswith eight days between Hitler’s death and the war’s end

The fi nal week of the Third Reich’s existence has phrase, stuck in ‘the gap between no longer and begun. Hitler is dead, but the war has still not not yet’. ended. Everything has both ground to a halt and yet remains agonizingly uncertain. Translated by Jefferson Chase.

Volker Ullrich’s remarkable book takes the reader Volker Ullrich is a historian and journalist whose into a world torn between hope and terror, previous books include biographies of Bismarck violence and peace. Ullrich describes how each and Napoleon, as well as a major study of day unfolds, with Germany now under a new Imperial Germany, The Nervous Superpower, Führer, Admiral Dönitz, based improbably in 1871-1918. Ullrich was for many years editor the small Baltic town of Flensburg. With Hitler of the political books review section of Die Zeit. dead, Berlin in ruins and the war undoubtedly His two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler was a lost, the process by which the fi ghting would German bestseller. end remained horrifyingly unclear. Many major Nazis were still on the loose, wild rumours Jefferson Chase is a writer, translator and continued to circulate about a last stand in the journalist based in Berlin. He has translated Alps and the Western allies falling out with the more than a dozen German texts into English, Soviet Union. including Volker Ullrich’s acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler. All over Europe, millions of soldiers, prisoners, slave labourers and countless exhausted, grief- OCTOBER 2021 stricken and often homeless families watched 9780241467268 and waited for the war’s end. Eight Days in May ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK is the story of people, in Erich Kästner’s striking £20.00 | 400 PAGES

35 Free Lea Ypi

An unforgettable coming of age story exploring the meaning of freedom – personal, collective, political – from an extraordinary new voice

Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated herself questioning what freedom really meant. countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had offi cially replaced religion. Albania, Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost amid political upheaval. With acute insight and impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces executions and secret police. To Lea, it was between ideals and reality, and the hopes home. People were equal, neighbours helped and fears of people pulled up by the sweep each other, and children were expected to build of history. a better world. There was community and hope. Lea Ypi is a professor of political theory at the Then, in December 1990, a year after the fall London School of Economics. of the Berlin Wall, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked, and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared, and thousands fl ed to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to OCTOBER 2021 civil unrest. As one generation’s aspirations 9780241481851 became another’s disillusionment, and as her DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK own family’s secrets were revealed, Lea found £20.00 | 304 PAGES

36 Hitler’s American Gamble Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman

A thrilling account of Pearl Harbor and the five history- making days that followed

This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily Brendan Simms is Professor of the History compressed and terrifying period between the of International Relations at the University of surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Cambridge. His major books include Unfi nest Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States. Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia These fi ve days transformed much of the world (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize) and and have shaped our own experience ever since. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present, which was published in 2013 to Simms and Laderman’s aim in the book is extraordinary reviews. to show how this agonizing period had no inevitability about it and that innumerable Charlie Laderman is a Lecturer in International outcomes were possible. Key leaders around History at King’s College London. He is the the world were taking decisions with often poor author of Sharing the Burden: The Armenian and confused information, under overwhelming Question, Humanitarian Intervention and pressure and knowing that they could be facing Anglo- American Visions of Global Order and personal and national disaster. And yet, there (with Brendan Simms) Donald Trump: the Making were also long-standing assumptions that of a Worldview. shaped these decisions, both consciously and unconsciously.

Hitler’s American Gamble is a superb work of history, both as an explanation for the course OCTOBER 2021 taken by the Second World War and as a study in 9780241423509 statecraft and political choices. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £25.00 | 304 PAGES

37 The Lyrics 1956 to the Present Paul McCartney Edited and Introduced by Paul Muldoon

A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter

‘More often than I can count, I’ve been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I’ve always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to We learn intimately about the man, the creative recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have process, the working out of melodies, the moments no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul hundreds of them, which I’ve learned serve much McCartney sings off every page. There has never the same purpose. And these songs span my been a book about a great musician like it. entire life.’ Born in Liverpool in 1942, Paul McCartney was In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled raised in the city and educated at the Liverpool candour, Paul McCartney recounts his life and art Institute. Since writing his fi rst song at 14, through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of McCartney has dreamed and dared to be his career – from his earliest boyhood compositions different. He lives in England. through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Paul Muldoon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Arranged alphabetically to provide a of fourteen full-length collections of poetry, kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, including his new collection Howdie-Skelp. it establishes defi nitive texts of the songs’ lyrics for the fi rst time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now. Presented with this is a treasure trove of material NOVEMBER 2021 from McCartney’s personal archive – drafts, letters, 9780241519332 photographs – never seen before, which make this TWO HARDBACK VOLUMES, IN SLIPCASE also a unique visual record of one of the greatest NOT AVAILABLE SEPARATELY songwriters of all time. £75.00 | 960 PAGES

38 The Ruin of All Witches Life and Death in the New World Malcolm Gaskill

The dark, compelling history of a colonial witch-hunt, from the author of Witchfinders

In the frontier town of Springfi eld in 1651, Through the gripping micro-history of a family peculiar things begin to happen. Precious tragedy, we glimpse an entire society caught in food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes agonized transition between superstition and and people suffer convulsions as if possessed enlightenment, tradition and innovation. We see, by demons. Disturbing dreams and visions in short, the birth of the modern world. proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early and the community becomes tangled in a web Modern History at the University of East Anglia. of distrust, resentment and denunciation. The He is one of Britain’s leading experts in the fi nger of suspicion falls on a young couple with history of witchcraft, whose previous works two small children: Hugh Parsons the prickly include the highly acclaimed Witchfi nders: brickmaker and his troubled wife, Mary. It will A Seventeenth- Century English Tragedy and be their downfall. Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans. The Ruin of All Witches tells the dark, real- life folktale of witch-hunting in a remote Massachusetts plantation, where dreams of love and liberty, of a ‘city upon a hill’, gave way to paranoia and terror, rage and violence. Drawing on unique, previously untapped source material, Malcolm Gaskill brings to life a frontier past in NOVEMBER 2021 which lives were steeped in the divine and the 9780241413388 diabolic, in omens, curses and enchantments. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £20.00 | 320 PAGES

39 Christendom The Triumph of a Religion Peter Heather

A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians

In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded capacity for self-reinvention and astonishing out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of willingness to mobilize well-directed force. Rome, and converting the Emperor Constantine in the process, it resoundingly defeated a host of Christendom’s achievement was not, or not other rivals. Almost a thousand years later, all of only, to defi ne offi cial Christianity, but – from its Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and scholars and its lawyers, to its provincial offi cials the religion, ingrained within culture and society, and missionaries in far-fl ung corners of the exercised a monolithic hold over its population. continent – to transform it into an institution that But, as Peter Heather shows in this compelling wielded effective religious authority across nearly new history, there was nothing inevitable about all of the disparate peoples of medieval Europe. Christendom’s rise to Europe-wide dominance. This is its extraordinary story.

In exploring how the Christian religion became Peter Heather is Chair of Medieval History at such a defi ning feature of the European King’s College, London. His many books include landscape, and how a small sect transformed The Fall of the Roman Empire, Empires and into a mass movement, Peter Heather shows how Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Christendom constantly battled against both Birth of Europe, The Restoration of Rome and, so-called ‘heresies’ and other forms of belief. most recently, Rome Resurgent. From the collapse of the Roman empire, which left the religion teetering on the edge of extinction, to the astonishing revolution of the NOVEMBER 2021 eleventh century in which the Papacy emerged 9780241215913 as the head of a vast international corporation, ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Heather traces Christendom’s chameleon-like £30.00 | 480 PAGES

40 The Global Merchants The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty Joseph Sassoon

The first full history of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century’s preeminent commercial families and ‘the Rothschilds of the East’

The Sassoons were one of the great commercial historians, The Great Merchants is at once an dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent intimate history of a single family across three as traders as the Rothschilds were as bankers. generations and an extraordinary panorama, In his rich and nuanced portrait of the family, revealing their place in the world-historical Joseph Sassoon uncovers the secrets behind their developments of the 150 years of their phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish prominence: from the American Civil War to refugees from Ottoman Baghdad forged a the establishment of the British Raj, the Opium mercantile juggernaut trading cotton and opium Wars to the Japanese occupation of China, in exile in India, the role of their vast network of and the true beginning of globalization in all agents, informants and politicians in extending its dimensions. their reach beyond their new home, bridging East and West. Joseph Sassoon is Professor of History and Politics at Georgetown University. He is also Through the lives these ambitious fi gures built for a Senior Associate Member at St Antony’s themselves in Bombay, London and Shanghai, College, Oxford and a Trustee of the Bodleian the reader is drawn into a captivating world of Library. His previous books include the prize- politics, business, society and empire – for their winning Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, The Iraqi meteoric rise was facilitated by their ties to the Refugees and The Anatomy of Authoritarianism in British imperial project, and its waning coincided the Arab Republics. with their own. NOVEMBER 2021 Utilising for the fi rst time the family archives, 9780241388648 which were largely written in an obscure ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Judeo-Arabic script indecipherable to previous £25.00 | 544 PAGES

41 The Greek Revolution 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe Mark Mazower

A thrilling history of the © Mark Mazower revolutionary birth of modern Greece

In the exhausted, repressive years that followed across the Eastern Mediterranean and far Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, there was one cause beyond, he explores the central place of the that came to galvanize countless individuals struggle in the making of Romanticism and a new across Europe and the United States: freedom kind of politics that had volunteers fl ocking from for Greece. across Europe. A story of how statesmen came to terms with an even more powerful force than Mark Mazower’s wonderful new book recreates themselves – the force of nationalism – this is one of the most compelling, unlikely and above all a book about how people decided to signifi cant events in the story of modern Europe. see their world differently and, at an often In the face of near impossible odds, the people terrible cost to themselves and their families, of the villages, valleys and islands of Greece changed history. rose up against Sultan Mahmud II and took on the might of the imperial Ottoman armed forces, Mark Mazower is Ira D. Wallach Professor of its Turkish cavalrymen, Albanian foot soldiers and History at Columbia University where he directs the fearsome Egyptians. Despite the most terrible the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. He is the disasters, they held on until military intervention author of Governing the World, Hitler’s Empire by Russia, France and Britain fi nally secured the and The Balkans: A Short History, winner of the kingdom of Greece. Wolfson Prize for History, among other books.

Mazower brilliantly brings together the stories of revolutionary conspirators, itinerant priests, sailors NOVEMBER 2021 and slaves, ambiguous heroes and defenceless 9780241004104 women and children struggling to stay alive amid ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK a confl ict of extraordinary brutality. Ranging £30.00 | 472 PAGES

42 The Book of All Books Roberto Calasso

A splendid reimagining of key © Giorgio Magister stories from the Bible, by the author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

A man named Saul is sent to search for some Roberto Calasso is the author of an ongoing series lost donkeys and on the way is named king of of books which began with The Ruin of Kasch his people. The queen of a remote African realm (1983) and includes The Marriage of Cadmus travels for three years with her multitudinous retinue and Harmony, Ka, and The Celestial Hunter. to meet the king of Jerusalem and pose him a few He is based in Milan. riddles. A man named Abraham hears a divine voice speaking words that reverberate throughout the Bible: ‘Go away from your land, from your kindred and from the house of your father toward the land that I will show you’.

In The Book of All Books, Roberto Calasso weaves together stories of promise and separation from one of the founding texts of Western civilization. These tales of grace and guilt, of the chosen and the damned, cast many Biblical fi gures and indeed the whole book in a light as astonishing as it is disquieting.

NOVEMBER 2021 9780241446720 ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £25.00 | 432 PAGES

43 The Sinner and the Saint Dostoyevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment Kevin Birmingham

From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated murderer would be chilling because he wants so writer, but his involvement with the radical politics desperately to be good. of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals Dostoevsky’s great subject was self- that were his companions. Upon his return to consciousness, and Crime and Punishment St Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way advanced a revolution in artistic thinking. It also through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky’s career. epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him and The Sinner and the Saint now gives us the thrilling literary banishment to craft an enduring classic. and defi nitive story of that triumph.

The germ of Crime and Punishment came Kevin Birmingham received his Ph.D. in English from the sensational story of Pierre François from Harvard, where he was a Lecturer in English Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and in History & Literature as well as an instructor and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire in the university’s Writing Program. He is the was a glamorous egoist who embodied the author of the New York Times bestselling The instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western- Most Dangerous Book. It received the PEN New infl uenced philosophy inspiring a new generation England Award for Nonfi ction in 2015 and the of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a in 2016. character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be NOVEMBER 2021 Raskolnikov. Dostoevsky was determined to tell 9780241235942 a murder story from the murderer’s perspective, ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK but his character couldn’t be a monster. No. The £25.00 | 352 PAGES

44 Osebol Voices from a Swedish Village Marit Kapla

Luminous, illuminating – lose yourself in the lives and stories of a woodland village © trinidad-carrillo in Sweden, at the quiet edge of a turning world

Near the river Klarälven, snug in the dense loves, and their triumphs and losses. To read forest landscape of northern Värmland, lies the Osebol is to lose oneself in its gentle rhythms Swedish village of Osebol. It is a quiet place: of simple language and open space, and to one where relationships take root over decades, emerge feeling like one has really grown to know and where the bustle of city life is replaced by the inhabitants of this varied community, nestled the sound of wind in the trees. among the trees in a changing world.

In the last half-century, the automation of Marit Kapla grew up in Osebol in the 1970s. the lumber industry and the steady drip of She has served as a Creative Director for the relocations to the cities for work have seen Gothenburg Film Festival, and as editor at Osebol’s adult population dwindle to only the Swedish cultural magazine Ord & Bild. 40-odd residents. But still, life goes on. Those Osebol, her fi rst book, was awarded Sweden’s who have inherited their farms for generations prestigious August Prize in 2019. live alongside recent arrivals from near and far. People age; children grow up. Heirlooms are Peter Graves is an Honorary Fellow of the passed from hand to hand, and stories from University of Edinburgh, and an award-winning mouth to mouth. translator of August Strindberg, Selma Lagerlöf, Carl Linnaeus and others. In this extraordinary book, Marit Kapla has gathered the voices of the villagers themselves, interviewing almost all of those remaining NOVEMBER 2021 between the ages of 18 and 92. Arranged with 9780241535202 only a handful of lines on each page, they tell B FORMAT HARDBACK of their griefs and joys, their resentments and £20.00 | 800 PAGES

45 A History of Masculinity From Patriarchy to Gender Justice Ivan Jablonka © Philip Provily/Lumen Photo

A highly acclaimed, best-selling essay from one of France’s preeminent historians

What does it mean to be a good man? To be a Widely acclaimed in France, this is a landmark good father, or a good partner? A good brother, work from a major thinker. or a good friend? Ivan Jablonka is a French historian. His work In this urgent, clear-sighted analysis, social focuses on the Holocaust, gender violence, historian Ivan Jablonka offers a re-examination of masculinity and new forms of historiography. In the patriarchy and a new way of thinking about 2016, he received the prestigious Prix Médicis. masculinity. Ranging widely across cultures, from He is currently professor of Contemporary Mesopotamia to Confucianism to Christianity to History at Université Paris XIII. 18th century revolutions, Jablonka uncovers the origins of our patriarchal societies. He then offers a new model of masculinity based on a theory of gender justice, which aims for a redistribution of gender, just as social justice demands the redistribution of wealth.

Arguing that it is high time for men to be as involved in gender justice as women, Jablonka shows that in order to build a more equal and respectful society, we must gain a deeper understanding of the structure of patriarchy – and DECEMBER 2021 form new masculinities that defi ne themselves by 9780241458792 the rights of women. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £20.00 | 448 PAGES

46 Particular Books In Adventures in Time, acclaimed In AdventuresIn AdventuresIn in Adventures Time in Time, acclaimed, inacclaimed Time , acclaimed historian Dominic Sandbrook brings historianhistorian Dominic historianDominic Sandbrook SandbrookDominic brings Sandbrook brings the brings past alive for twenty-first-century the pastthe pastalive alive thefor pasttwenty-first-century for twenty-first-centuryalive for twenty-first-centurychildren, inviting readers aged 8 to 12 to children,children, inviting children,inviting readers readers inviting aged aged readers8 to 812 to agedto 12 discover to 8 to 12 the to thrills and spills of the past. discoverdiscover the thrillsthediscover thrills and the spillsand thrills spills of the and of past.the spills past. of the past. “History shouldn’t just be homework”, Sandbrook argues, “and it shouldn’t be spoon-fed. 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49 In Adventures in Time, acclaimed historian Dominic Sandbrook brings the past alive for twenty-first-century children, inviting readers aged 8 to 12 to discover the thrills and spills of the past.

“History shouldn’t just be homework”, Sandbrook argues, “and it shouldn’t be spoon-fed. I’ve tried not to simplify too much, and not to shy away from the strange and obscure words and ideas that I think children often relish. As a boy, what I loved about history was that it was fun. Knights and castles, journeys into foreign lands – what novel offers greater drama, or more colourful characters?”

Each book tells a complete story, based on the most up- to-date historical research, with memorable characters and cliffhanging chapters. In the first four titles, the reader soars into the sky in the Battle of Britain, joins Anne Boleyn on the walk to the scaffold, braves the mud of the Somme and rides to India with Alexander the Great. Publishing July: THE SECOND WORLD WAR – 9780241469774 These are real history books; nothing is made up. But they THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII – 9780241469736 all have gripping, novelistic narratives, every bit as exciting as the escapades of Lyra Belacqua or Harry Potter. The Publishing November: only difference is that they happen to be true. ALEXANDER THE GREAT – 9780241469743 THE FIRST WORLD WAR – 9780241469668

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50 Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now Seven Scenes from the Life of a House The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, with John-Paul Stonard

A strikingly modern portrait of Chatsworth, the grandest of English country houses

No house embodies the spirit of one dynasty As Chatsworth’s forward-looking current better than Chatsworth. Set in an unspoilt occupant, the twelfth Duke of Devonshire, likes Derbyshire valley, surrounded by wild moorland, to point out: ‘Everything was new once.’ Leafi ng and home to the Cavendish family for more than through this exquisite volume will be as close as four hundred years, this treasure house is fi lled possible to holding a piece of the house itself in with works of art and objects that have all, in your hands. their time, represented the very best of the new – from Nicolas Poussin’s Et in Arcadia Ego and John-Paul Stonard studied art history at the Antonio Canova’s Endymion to seminal modern Courtauld Institute of Art. He was curator of the works by Lucian Freud, David Hockney and acclaimed exhibition ‘Kenneth Clark: Looking Michael Craig-Martin, among many others. for Civilisation’ at Tate Britain in 2014, and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Today, since the recent completion of a decade- Books, Times Literary Supplement, Burlington long programme of renovations, the exterior of Magazine and Apollo. He lives and works the house is gleaming, its stone façade newly in Suffolk. cleaned and its window frames freshly gilded. Inside, through the brilliant juxtaposition of old and new, its rooms crackle with creative energy. Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now tells the story of this extraordinary house through seven ‘scenes’ in its life which provide the book’s narrative structure; SEPTEMBER 2021 running alongside is a stunning photographic 9780241461914 portrait of the house and its collections at this HARDBACK most optimistic point in its history. £50.00 | 420 PAGES

51 Atlas of the Invisible Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti

An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society – visualised through the world of data

Humans create data with nearly everything we James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti’s do. This world of information is invisible, but it complementary skills enable them to produce shapes society in profound ways. graphics and book pages that few others can match. As a professor at University College In Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning London, Cheshire applies his cartographic and geographer-designer team James Cheshire and programming skills to the staggering amount of Oliver Uberti redefi ne what an atlas can be. data that scientists are now collecting. In 2017, Transforming enormous data sets into rich maps he was awarded the Royal Geographical and cutting-edge vizualisations, they uncover Society’s Cuthbert Peek Award in recognition of truths about our past, refl ect who we are today, his work ‘advancing geographical knowledge and highlight what we face in the years ahead. through the use of mappable Big Data’. Uberti With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire has more than a decade of experience and Uberti explore happiness and anxiety levels visualizing and writing about wildlife research around the globe; they trace the undersea – from 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design cables and cell towers that connect us; they department of National Geographic, most examine hidden scars of geopolitics; and recently as Senior Design Editor. illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj.

Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of SEPTEMBER 2021 data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of 9781846149719 a newly visible world. CROWN QUARTO HARDBACK £20.00 | 224 PAGES

52 Nests Susan Ogilvy

A unique celebration of the architectural ingenuity of birds, by an acclaimed illustrator

Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost This wondrous book is all the more special for by accident. One day, while tidying up her its rarity. Few modern books exist specifi cally garden after a storm, she found a chaffi nch nest on the subject of bird nests; among the author’s – a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a reference works, the most recent was published in fi r tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a 1932. Exquisitely designed and packaged, Nests newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water will be an essential addition to the libraries of all drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into nature lovers. a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact Susan Ogilvy’s work has been shown at the life size. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, and the Kew Garden Ogilvy has since painted more than fi fty bird Gallery, London, amongst other places; it is nests from life, each time marvelling at its included in several public and private collections, ingenious construction. Every species of bird including Dr Shirley Sherwood’s world-renowned has its own vernacular, but sources its materials collection of contemporary botanical paintings. – most commonly twigs, roots, grasses, reeds, She was awarded an RHS Gold Medal in 1997, leaves, moss, lichen, hair, feathers and cobwebs, and lives in rural Somerset. less usually mattress stuffi ng and string – according to local availability. Ogilvy would, of course, never disturb nesting birds; instead she relies upon serendipity, which is why all her nests OCTOBER 2021 have either been abandoned after fulfi lling their 9780241481714 purpose, or displaced by strong winds. HARDBACK £20.00 | 128 PAGES

53 Modern Buildings in Britain A Gazetteer Owen Hatherley

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture

Modernism is now a century old, but its these structures – many of which are threatened consequences are all around us, built into our by demolition – two linked questions emerge: what everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain’s happens to a building after it has been lived in, and history is fi ercely contested, and its role in our future what becomes of an idea when its time has passed? is the subject of ongoing controversy. Whatever you might think of its grand ideals or its architectural With over 600 pages of trenchantly opinionated, innovations, a hundred years of modernist often witty analysis, and featuring 300 buildings have changed our cities, politics and photographs in both duotone and colour, this is identity forever. a landmark contribution to the history of British architecture. From iconic Brutalist classics to the In Modern Buildings in Britain, Owen Hatherley works of forgotten Expressionist visionaries, Modern applauds the ambition, chronicles the history and Buildings in Britain is the indispensable reference to explores the signifi cance of this most divisive of modernism’s monuments. architectures. Hatherley travels the length and breadth of Britain, from St Ives to Shetland, from Owen Hatherley writes for Architectural Review, the Hunstanton to Aberystwyth, in search of our Guardian and the London Review of Books, among most important and distinctive modern buildings. others. He is the author of several books, including Drawing on hundreds of examples, we learn how Trans-Europe Express and Landscapes the concrete of Brutalism embodies post-war civic of Communism. principles, how corporate values were expressed in the glass facades of the International Style, OCTOBER 2021 and why Ecomodernist experimentation is often 9780241534632 consigned to the geographic fringes. As Hatherley HARDBACK considers the social, political and cultural value of £50.00 | 624 PAGES

54 The Ship Asunder A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels Tom Nancollas

A sharply poignant history of British seafaring, from the © Phil Fisk Bronze Age to the present day

If Britain’s maritime history were embodied in a celebrates the richness of Britain’s seafaring single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, tradition in all its glory and tragedy, triumph a mast plucked from a Victorian steamship, the and disaster, and asks how we might best hull of a modest fi shing vessel, the propeller of memorialize it as it vanishes from our shores. an ocean liner and an anchor made of stone. We might call her Asunder, and, fantastical Born in Gloucester in 1988, Tom Nancollas though she is, we could in fact fi nd her today, is a writer and building conservationist based scattered in fragments across the country’s creeks in London. After university, he joined English and coastlines. This extraordinary book collects Heritage to work on church repair grants before those fragments for a profound and haunting moving on to the City of London and its historic exploration of our seafaring past. townscape. Of Cornish ancestry, Tom maintained a love of seascapes during his work in the In his moving and original new history, Tom capital and became fascinated with offshore Nancollas goes in search of eleven relics that rock lighthouses, which were the subject of together tell the story of Britain at sea. From the his critically acclaimed fi rst book, Seashaken swallowtail prow of a Bronze Age vessel to a Houses, published in 2018. stone ship moored at a Baroque quayside, each one illuminates a distinct phase of our adventures upon the waves; each brings us close to the people, places and vessels that made a maritime nation. Weaving together stories of great naval OCTOBER 2021 architects and unsung shipwrights, fi shermen 9780241434147 and merchants, shipwrecks and superstition, DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK pilgrimage, trade and war, The Ship Asunder £16.99 | 320 PAGES

55 The Penguin Modern Classics Book Henry Eliot

The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book

For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics has been a century-defi ning, ever-evolving imprint, Book and the presenter of the podcast On the Road encompassing works by daring modernist pioneers, with Penguin Classics. He has organized various avant-garde iconoclasts, postcolonial visionaries literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage and timeless storytellers. This reader’s companion for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), showcases every title published in the series so far: a recreation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which 600 authors and more than 1,800 books, from raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory’s Morte D’Arthur. He Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading is also the author of Follow This Thread: A Maze lists, key literary movements and over two thousand Book to Get Lost In and Curiocity: An Alternative images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is A to Z of London. an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature the twentieth century has to offer.

NOVEMBER 2021 9780241441602 CROWN QUARTO HARDBACK £30.00 | 624 PAGES

56 Pelican Around the World in 80 Books A Literary Journey David Damrosch

A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with Lyons © Derek one another and with the world around them

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki David Damrosch set out to counter a pandemic’s Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret restrictions on travel by exploring eighty Atwood today. exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London Around the World in 80 Books is a global to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and invitation to look beyond ourselves and our via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel surroundings, and to see our world and its laureates Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan literature in new ways. and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor the ways the world bleeds into literature. and Chair of Comparative Literature at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Institute To chart the expansive landscape of world for World Literature. He is the author or editor literature today, Damrosch explores how writers of twenty-fi ve books, and has lectured in fi fty live in two very different worlds: the world countries around the world; his online Harvard of their personal experience, and the world course, Masterpieces of World Literature, has of books that have enabled great writers to been taken by nearly 100,000 people. give shape and meaning to their lives. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising NOVEMBER 2021 inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia 9780241501023 to combat and the patriarchal structures within DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK and against which many of these books’ heroines £20.00 | 304 PAGES

59 How Religion Evolved Robin Dunbar

A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the © Andre Camara internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist

Religion is both unique – as far as we can a fascinating and far-reaching analysis of this judge – and universal to humans. Our species quintessentially human impulse – to believe. diverged from the great apes six to eight million million years ago and since then, along with Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary language, our propensity towards spiritual Psychology at the University of Oxford. He is thinking and ritual emerged. How, when and why a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been did this occur, and how did the earliest, informal awarded the Osman Hill Medal and the Huxley shamanic practices evolve into the world religions Medal. His popular science books include The familiar to us today? What is the evolutionary Human Story, How Many Friends Does One purpose of religion, and are some individuals Person Need? and Human Evolution, and have more inclined than others to be religious? been translated into a dozen languages.

Robin Dunbar, Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford, explores these and other key questions, mining the distinctions between religions of experience – as practised by hunter-gatherer societies since the earliest human history – and doctrinal religions, from Judaism, Christianity and Islam to Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and their many derivatives. Examining religion’s origins, NOVEMBER 2021 social function, the effects of religious practice 9780241431788 or feeling on the brain and body, and its place DEMY OCTAVO HARDBACK in the modern era, How Religion Evolved offers £20.00 | 384 PAGES

60 Penguin Classics Penguin Books | Green Ideas In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the essential writings of the great environmentalists – the visionary campaigners, biologists, conservationists, philosophers, zoologists, farmers and ecologists – whose insights and discoveries have revolutionised the way we think and talk about the living Earth, and might help us to save it.

63 August 2021 / A Format Paperback / £4.99

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference Greta Thunberg Hot Money Naomi Klein All Art Is Ecological Timothy Morton This Can’t be Happening George Monbiot An Idea Can Go Extinct Bill McKibben Uncanny and Improbable Events Amitav Ghosh A Warning from the Golden Toad Tim Flannery The Clan of One-Breasted Women Terry Tempest Williams Food Rules Michael Pollan The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer The Most Dammed Country in the World Dai Qing The World We Once Lived In Wangari Maathai The Last Tree on Easter Island Jared Diamond What I Stand for Is What I Stand On Wendell Berry Every Species is a Masterpiece Edward O. Wilson We Belong to Gaia James Lovelock The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah Masanobu Fukuoka There is No Point of No Return Arne Naess Man’s War Against Nature Rachel Carson Think Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold

64 In Youth is Pleasure Denton Welch

A gay classic coming-of-age novel and an unforgettable slice of British interwar upper- middle class life

Orvil Pym does not fi t in. A waifi sh, eccentric, Denton Welch was born in 1915 in Shanghai, sensitive fi fteen-year-old, he hates school and the youngest of three brothers. After attending longs to be alone. Spending his summer holidays boarding school in England, he enrolled at in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious Goldsmiths’ School of Art in April 1933 to study father and two brothers who don’t understand painting. In June 1935, while still a student, he him, he explores ancient churches, spies on a was involved in a cycling accident that left him man rowing in the river and collects antiques, bedridden for the rest of his life, and he turned to escaping into his own singular aesthetic world. writing instead of painting. He died in December Flagrantly controversial on fi rst publication in 1948, at the age of 33. 1945, this is an unforgettable portrayal of a young man’s sensuous coming of age.

JULY 2021 9780241464137 B FORMAT PAPERBACK £8.99 | 160 PAGES

65 The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas Machado de Assis

A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the Americas

Machado de Assis is not only Brazil’s most he wrote many novels, stories, plays, and celebrated writer but also a writer of world poems, eventually becoming the fi rst President stature, who has been championed by the likes of of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and gaining Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John recognition as Brazil’s greatest writer. Updike and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Flora Thomson-DeVeaux is a translator, writer, Brás Cubas (also translated as Epitaph of a and researcher who studied Spanish and Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and Portuguese at Princeton University and earned disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian studies from memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing Brown University. She lives in Rio de Janeiro. at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and half-hearted political ambitions, serves up hare- Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of more brained philosophies and complains with gusto than ten books, including A Hologram for the from the depths of hisgrave. King, a fi nalist for the National Book Award; What Is the What, a fi nalist for the National Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty and ahead of Book Critics Circle Award; and A Heartbreaking its time, the novel has been compared to works Work of Staggering Genius, a fi nalist for the by Cervantes, Sterne, Joyce, Nabokov, Borges Pulitzer Prize. and Calvino, and has infl uenced generations of writers around the world. JULY 2021 Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839- 9780143135036 1908), the mixed-race grandson of freed slaves, B FORMAT PAPERBACK was born in Rio de Janeiro. Largely self-taught, £12.99 | 368 PAGES

66 The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton

Robert Burton’s labyrinthine, beguiling, playful Celebrating the 400th masterpiece is his attempt to ‘anatomize and cut up’ every aspect of the condition of melancholy, anniversary of Burton’s from which he had suffered throughout his masterpiece, this newly edited, life. Ranging over beauty, digestion, the planets, alcohol, goblins, kissing, poetry and modern edition is published as the restorative power of books, among many a landmark hardback volume other things, The Anatomy of Melancholy has fascinated fi gures from Samuel Johnson to Jorge Luis Borges since the seventeenth century, and remains an incomparable examination of the human condition in all its fl awed, endless variety.

Robert Burton (1577-1640) spent most of his life in Oxford, fi rst as a student and later as a scholar. His most famous work, the enormous Anatomy of Melancholy, was fi rst published in 1621 and expanded in further editions throughout Burton’s life.

Angus Gowland is a Reader in Intellectual History at University College London.

JULY 2021 9780241533758 ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £40.00 | 1,376 PAGES

67 The Penguin Book of Exorcisms

A Hallowe’en treat: haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth- century South Africa

Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Joseph P. Laycock is an assistant professor of Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing religious studies at Texas State University and a stare. The signs of spirit possession have been co-editor of the journal Nova Religio. He is the documented for thousands of years and across author or editor of several books about religion, religions and cultures, even into our own time. including Speak of the Devil, Spirit Possession Unsettling and chilling, The Penguin Book of Around the World, and The Seer of Bayside, and Exorcisms brings together the most astonishing has written for Quartz and The New Republic. accounts: Saint Anthony set upon by demons in He lives in Austin, Texas. the form of a lion, a bull, and a panther, who are no match for his devotion and prayer; the Prophet Muhammad casting an enemy of God out of a young boy; fox spirits in medieval China and Japan; a headless bear assaulting a woman in sixteenth-century England; the possession of an entire convent of Ursuline nuns in a French town; a Zulu woman who daily fl oated to a height of fi ve feet; the exorcism in Earling, Iowa in 1928 that inspired the fi lm The Exorcist; a Filipina girl ‘bitten by devils’; and a rare example of a priest’s letter requesting permission of a bishop to perform an exorcism – after witnessing a boy SEPTEMBER 2021 walk backwards up a wall... 9780143135470 B FORMAT PAPERBACK £12.99 | 336 PAGES

68 The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable A revelatory and richly collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic varied collection of Korea’s twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation greatest short stories and colonial era, to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of Korea’s vibrant short story tradition.

Here are peddlars and prostitutes travelling across snow-laden fi elds; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul; soldiers fi ghting for survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea’s greatest writers, including Yi Sang, Hwang Sŏgyŏng, Yi Munyŏl and Pak Wansŏ, as well many brilliant contemporary voices, such as Han Kang and Kim Yŏngha. Curated by Bruce Fulton, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle and delight.

Bruce Fulton is Associate Professor and Young- Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation at the University of British Columbia. He has translated many major works of Korean literature over the past forty years.

OCTOBER 2021 9780241448489 ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK £25.00 | 496 PAGES

69 The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse 100 Poets on the Divine Edited by Kaveh Akbar

An exciting new collection of poems exploring faith, the divine, and doubt, written by poets across the world from antiquity to the present

Poets have always looked to the skies for interconnectedness of these incantations orbiting inspiration, and have written as a way of getting the most elemental of all subjects – our spirit. closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This Kaveh Akbar is an Iranian-American poet and anthology serves as a truly holistic and global scholar. His celebrated fi rst collection, Calling survey to a lyric conversation about the divine a Wolf a Wolf, was shortlisted for the Forward that has been going on for millenia. Prize. He teaches Poetry of the Divine at Purdue University, Indiana. Beginning with the earliest attributable author in all of human literature, the twenty-third century BC Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna, and taking in a constellation of voices – from King David, to Lao Tzu, to the fourteenth century Ethiopian national religious epic, the Kebra Nagast – this anthology presents a number of canonical voices like Blake, Rumi, Dickinson and Tagore, alongside lesser-anthologized diverse voices that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways in which humanity has responded to the Divine across the centuries. NOVEMBER 2021 These poets’ voices commune across the 9780241391587 centuries, offering readers a chance to B FORMAT HARDBACK experience for themselves the vast and powerful £16.99 | 400 PAGES

70 Fifty-Two Stories Anton Chekhov

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov’s stories from famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky

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The Little Prince And Letter to a Hostage Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic tale – beloved by children and adults alike – now in a beautiful clothbound edition

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The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter

The ultimate festive anthology of the best Christmas stories of all time, selected from around the world – and now in beautiful clothbound edition

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A Christmas Memory Truman Capote

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote form a captivating tribute to the Christmas season

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71 Penguin Modern Classics Len Deighton

Len Deighton was born in 1929 in London. He did his national service in the RAF, went to the Royal College of Art and designed many book jackets, including the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. The enormous success of his first novel, The IPCRESS File (1962), was repeated in a remarkable sequence of books over the following thirty or so years. These varied from historical fiction (Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction (SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War (Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly).

His spy novels chart the twists and turns of Britain and the Cold War in ways which now give them a unique flavour. They preserve a world in which Europe contains many dictatorships, in which the personal can be ruined by the ideological and where the horrors Images © Getty of the Second World War are buried under only a very thin layer of soil. Deighton’s fascination with technology, his sense of humour and his brilliant evocation of time and place make him one of the key British espionage writers, alongside John Buchan, Eric Ambler, Ian All his novels and non-fiction books will be Fleming and John Le Carré. published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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75 Pereira Maintains Antonio Tabucchi

‘Subtle, skillful, and clear . . . It’s the most impressive novel I’ve read for years, and one of the very few that feels truly necessary’ Philip Pullman

In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of António Salazar’s dictatorship, a journalist is coming to terms with the rise of fascism around him and its insidious impact on his work. When he meets a young, charismatic activist, his life takes a dramatic turn that culminates in a devastating act of rebellion. Tabucchi’s celebrated masterpiece is an ode to courage and solidarity in the face of political oppression.

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Little Misunderstandings of No Importance Antonio Tabucchi

The collection of short stories that launched one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature to fame

A short story collection pivoting on life’s ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi’s fi ction: is it choice, fate, accident, or even, occasionally, a kind of magic that plays a decisive role in the protagonists’ lives? Set in Paris, Lisbon, Madras and New York and blended with the author’s wonderfully intelligent imagination, Tabucchi refl ects on the elemental aspects of the human experience, exploring grief, uncertainty, adventure, memory and love.

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Requiem Antonio Tabucchi

A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi’s adopted city

In the city of Lisbon, Requiem’s narrator has an appointment to meet someone on a quay by the Tagus at twelve. As the day unfolds he has many unexpected encounters – with a young drug addict, a disorientated taxi driver, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel and the ghost of the late great poet Fernando Pessoa – each meeting between the real and illusionary. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fi ction, Requiem is an homage to a country, its people, and the source of Tabucchi’s literary inspiration.

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76 Letters Personal and Political, 1947-1967 Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

A new selection of the letters of Che Guevera, from birth to death, many released for the very first time

Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and In one of his last letters to his young children, Che diarist throughout his short but extraordinary advised them to ‘always be capable of feeling life. His letters and diaries are those of a master deeply any injustice committed against anyone, narrator, characterized by a brutal honesty, a anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful remarkable lack of ego, a razor-sharp wit, an quality in a revolutionary.’ iron will and a great capacity to express his love and affection for his closest friends and family. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born into a wealthy family in Argentina in 1928 and trained as a This selection of Che Guevara’s correspondence, doctor, but became radicalized by the poverty beginning with letters penned in his early travels and hunger he witnessed in South America. He around Latin America as a medical student, played a key role in the Cuban Revolution and shows how he polished his unique style over the served in Fidel Castro’s government. He then years. This selection maps the emergence of a travelled to Bolivia to lead the rebellion there, dedicated revolutionary and original political where he was executed by the Bolivian and thinker from the wide-eyed young Argentine who US forces in 1967. In 1997 his remains were set out to discover Latin America. Covering the discovered and returned to Cuba, where he entirety of Che’s life, from his famous motorcycle was reburied. journey around South America to the Cuban Revolutionary War, from the setting-up of the pioneering communist state of Cuba to his revolutionary travels to the Congo and Bolivia. SEPTEMBER 2021 But it also reveals a more intimate, personal side 9780241465110 to Che, including his letters to his mother, wife B FORMAT HARDBACK and children. £14.99 | 192 PAGES

77 The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

An iconic bestseller: Che Guevara’s account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle

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The Bolivian Diary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death: the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary

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Guerrilla Warfare Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

The revolutionary Che Guevara’s guide to guerrilla war

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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success

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78 Poems 1962–2014 Louise Glück © Katherine Wolkoff A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet

For the past fi fty years, Louise Glück has been a landscape seen from above, at once familiar and major force in modern poetry, distinguished as unspeakably profound. much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of Louise Glück is the author of twelve books of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems and two essay collections. Her many poems. This volume brings together the twelve awards include the Nobel Prize in Literature, collections Glück has published to date, offering the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer readers the opportunity to become immersed Prize, the National Book Award, the National in the artistry and vision of one of the world’s Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, greatest living poets. and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the Yale University and Stanford University and lives myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes in Cambridge, Massachusetts. of The House on Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night – each of Glück’s collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and fi nds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfi gured – Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and AUGUST 2021 father and sister, a garden, a husband and 9780241526071 son, a horse, a dog, a fi eld on fi re, a mountain. ROYAL OCTAVO HARDBACK Taken together, the effect is like a shifting £30.00 | 736 PAGES

79 Averno Louise Glück

A widely revered collection from the Nobel prize- winning poet, publishing in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

This startlingly original reworking of the Louise Glück is the author of twelve books of Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of poems and two essay collections. Her many Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient awards include the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Romans as the entrance to the underworld. National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal the National Book Award, the National Book are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss – by a Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the mother’s possessive grief, an abducted girl’s Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of equivocal memories, a farmer’s lament for a lost American Poets. She teaches at Yale University harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor and Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow Massachusetts. textured by the poet’s luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to fi nd it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.

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80 Betty Georges Simenon

A searing exploration of a woman’s hidden destructive impulses from one of the great writers of the twentieth century

‘There was no longer that ambivalent Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, inconsistency between her words and thoughts, in 1903 and died in 1989 in Lausanne, no more fever, no more artifi cial heat, no Switzerland where he had lived for the latter part more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its of his life. He is best known for his celebrated rawness, in black and white, in stark, cruel lines.’ series of novels featuring Inspector Maigret.

Adrift and alone, Betty fi nds herself propped up at the bar of a sleazy establishment on the Champs-Élysées. When an older woman takes her under her wing, Betty’s tortured past returns to haunt her. Excluded by her high-society peers and overwrought with jealousy, she struggles with a desperate compulsion to tear her picture- perfect life apart.

Originally published in 1961, this gripping psychological thriller caused a sensation and inspired a fi lm adaptation by Claude Chabrol.

‘A brilliant portrait of betrayal, hypocrisy, love and loss’ – Chicago Tribune JULY 2021 9780241487082 B FORMAT PAPERBACK £8.99 | 144 PAGES

81 Crossing the Mangrove Maryse Condé

A mesmerizing novel from one of the most important writers working today, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize

Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by Maryse Condé was born at Pointe-à-Pitre, some and reviled by others, is found dead, face Guadeloupe, in 1937 and spent most of her life down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au in West Africa (Guinea, Ghana and Senegal), Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe. No one is France and the US, where she taught at the particularly surprised since Sancher, a secretive University of California, Berkeley, UCLA and and melancholy man, had often predicted an Columbia. The publication of her bestselling third unnatural death for himself. As the villagers come novel, Segu (1984), established her pre-eminent to pay their respects, they each reveal another position among Caribbean writers. She won piece of the mystery behind his life and death. Le Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme in 1986 as well as Le Prix de L’Académie Française in Like pieces of an elaborate puzzle, their memories 1988 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker interlock to create a rich and intriguing portrait International Prize in 2015. In 2018 she was of a man and a community. A beautifully crafted, awarded the alternative Nobel prize for literature Rashomon-like novel, this gripping story, fi rst and described as a ‘grand storyteller who published in France in 1989, is imbued with all the belongs to world literature’. nuances and traditions of Caribbean culture.

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82 Second Class Citizen Buchi Emecheta

A tale of survival from one of

the most beloved Nigerian Wilmer © Val writers, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time

When Adah’s dream of moving to England the racism at the heart of her adopted home. becomes a reality, she soon discovers that life It also captures in vivid and moving detail, the for a young Nigerian woman living in London experience of so many West African families who in the 1960s is far from what she had imagined. arrived in the UK at that time. Funny, poignant The cold weather and cramped, crumbling and profound, Emecheta’s ground-breaking novel accommodation might become bearable, were resonates as powerfully today as when it was it not for her tyrannical husband who abuses fi rst published. the power conferred on him by traditional Igbo culture and provides precious little support of Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017) was born in Lagos, any kind. Nigeria and moved to London in 1961. A writer and academic, she wrote sixteen novels, three As Adah fi nds herself providing for her rapidly children’s stories and numerous articles and growing family – rescuing her children from television plays. the hands of a slovenly childminder, learning the unspoken rules of society and negotiating everyday slights and wounding insults along the way – she takes refuge in her work as a librarian and resolves to salvage her dreams of becoming a writer.

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83 The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara

The tale of a woman transformed by a Black healing community in 1970s America, publishing for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics

Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to Author, activist, fi lmmaker and academic Toni be well? Cade Bambara was born in Harlem, New York, in 1939. Bambara’s award- winning fi ction was Georgia, 1970s. Velma Henry, once a celebrated during her lifetime for its centring of formidable political activist, has grown weary female characters and its grounding in African- and disillusioned with the fi ght for civil rights. American culture, spaces and dialects; she would Burdened with depression, she fi nds herself in later be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of the hands of a community of Black faith healers Fame. She died in Philadelphia in 1995. after a suicide attempt. Embracing their methods, Velma begins to work back through her rage and fear, slowly releasing herself from a traumatic past.

First published in 1980, The Salt Eaters is a rich, optimistic and formally experimental novel – ‘a book full of marvels’ (New Yorker). It is boldly political in its exploration of intersectionality, and its commentary on the self is profound, illuminating how the health of the individual depends upon shared cultural identity and spiritual connection. OCTOBER 2021 9780241521380 B FORMAT PAPERBACK £9.99 | 304 PAGES

84 A Taste of Power

“I have all the guns and all the money. I can The incredible memoir of withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” So said Elaine Elaine Brown - the first Brown on becoming the fi rst female leader of female leader of the Black the Black Panther Party in 1974. By that time the group had grown from a small local outfi t into Panthers a national revolutionary movement, described by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover as ‘the greatest threat to the internal security of the country’.

Brown’s gripping memoir charts her rise from an impoverished neighbourhood in Philadelphia, through a political awakening during a bohemian adolescence, and on to her time as a foot soldier for the Panthers and her ascent into its upper echelons. As an unfortgettable portrayal of Black girlhood in 1950s Philadelphia and the revolutionary experience in 1960s California, A Taste of Power is a seminal exploration of power, prejudice and the struggle for justice.

Elaine Brown is an American activist, writer, singer and former leader of the Black Panther Party. Born in 1943, Brown was raised in Philadelphia. She moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the music, and there became politicized as she further experienced the daily injustices of racism. She joined the Black Panther Party in 1968, and, in 1974, was appointed leader of the group – a role she held until 1977. She has since been intimately involved in campaigns for prison and education reform.

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85 The End of Nature Bill McKibben © Nancie Battaglia One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism’s lodestars

‘Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves Bill McKibben is a writer and environmental with infi nite slowness,’ begins the fi rst book activist. His The End of Nature (1989) is to bring climate change to public attention. considered the fi rst book for a general Interweaving lyrical observations from his life audience about climate change. He serves in the Adirondack Mountains with insights as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in from the emerging science, Bill McKibben Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, sets out the central developments not only as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts of the environmental crisis now facing us but and Sciences, and he has won the Gandhi also the terms of our response, from policy Peace Prize. He has campaigned on every to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our continent, including Antarctica, for climate action. relationship with the natural world which he In recognition of his activism, a new species of argues could save us. A moving elegy to nature woodland gnat – Megophthalmidia mckibbeni – in its pristine, pre-human wildness, The End of was in 2014 named in his honour Nature also marks a milestone in environmental thought, indispensable to understanding how we arrived here.

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86 The Strangers in the House Georges Simenon © Images Bettmann/Getty A new translation of a twisting detective novel from the celebrated author of the Maigret series

Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since in 1903 and died in 1989 in Lausanne, his wife left him eighteen years previously. Switzerland where he had lived for the latter part Unmoored from society and estranged from his of his life. He is best known for his celebrated daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by series of novels featuring Inspector Maigret. endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town – and Loursat’s isolation – to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins’ by-ways and back streets.

In the progressive break down of Loursat’s self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man’s tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.

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87 Speaking Out Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 Albert Camus

A new collection of Albert Camus’ most brilliant speeches and lectures

‘Truth is mysterious, fl eeting, always to be won. Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He is exalting’ studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important This defi nitive new collection of Albert Camus’ works include The Outsider, The Myth of public speeches and lectures gives an Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the unparalleled insight into the thought of one of the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, twentieth century’s most enduring writers. From Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of his pre-war speech on the politics and culture of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road the Mediterranean – delivered when he was just accident, and his last unfi nished novel, The First 22 – to his impassioned Nobel Prize acceptance Man, was published posthumously. speeches, Speaking Out makes manifest Camus’ ‘stubborn humanism’, his longing for freedom and justice. In a Europe scarred by the horrors of the early twentieth century, these speeches mark a singular artist’s commitment to a kinder, truer world.

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88 Letter from America 1946-2004 Alistair Cooke

A defi ning collection from Alistair Cooke’s legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States

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Rumpole’s Return John Mortimer

‘A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind’ Sunday Times

NOVEMBER 2021 | 208 PAGES | £8.99 9780241474440 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

89 Penguin Paperbacks Another Bangkok Reflections on the City Alex Kerr

The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok – a wonderful mixture of history and culture – from the author of Lost Japan

One of Asia’s most extraordinary cities, Bangkok Alex Kerr is an American writer and Japanologist is also one of the most baffl ing. It is fi lled with whose previous books include Lost Japan, Dogs remarkable people and glittering golden palaces and Demons and Another Kyoto (with Kathy and temples, but is also a maze of concrete and Arlyn Sokol). He was the fi rst foreigner to be twisting overhead utility wires. Alex Kerr has awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok the best work of non-fi ction published in Japan. and is uniquely qualifi ed to write about it. As First visiting Bangkok in the 1970s, since 1990 with his bestselling books on Japan (Lost Japan he has lived half of each year in Kyoto, the other and Another Kyoto), he revels in the secret, half in Bangkok. tucked-away corners, the great contemporary artists and the sheer wonder of so many aspects of Thai dance and design. While deploring the loss of much of old Bangkok, he is never merely nostalgic for a past but fi nds inspiration in Thailand’s dynamic modern fusions.

Another Bangkok will delight both those who think they know the city well and those visiting for the fi rst time. Kerr is a uniquely wry and eloquent guide to everything from ceramics to puppetry, from fl ower patterns to old houses. JULY 2021 9780141987170 B FORMAT PAPERBACK £9.99 | 240 PAGES

91 Gathering Moss A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer

Intriguing and uplifting stories of the world’s oldest plants, from the revered botanist © Dale Kakkak and indigenous teacher Robin Wall Kimmerer

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed decorated professor, and enrolled member of the element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She lives in Syracuse, a beautifully written mix of science and personal New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished refl ection that invites readers to explore and Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. In these interwoven essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Kimmerer explains the biology of mosses clearly and artfully, while at the same time refl ecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.

Drawing on her experiences as a scientist, a mother, and a Native American, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientifi c terms as well as within the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history JULY 2021 and cultural relationships of mosses become 9780141997629 a powerful metaphor for ways of living in B FORMAT PAPERBACK the world. £9.99 | 256 PAGES

92 Stereo(TYPE) Jonah Mixon-Webster

The award-winning poet’s darkly riotous poetry debut, exploring stereotypes of © Aslan Chalom Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt system

Lyrical, loud and radically urgent, Jonah Mixon- Jonah Mixon-Webster is a poet and conceptual/ Webster’s debut aims its sights at the words and sound artist from Flint, Michigan. His debut images that shape us and the corrupt forces that collection, Stereo(TYPE), has been a fi nalist for stand in the way of our freedom. Stereo(TYPE) the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry is a reckoning and a force. It is a revision of and the winner of the 2019 PEN America/Joyce our most sacred mythologies – and a work of Osterweil Award. He is an alumnus of Eastern documentary poetry reporting from Mixon- Michigan University and Illinois State University, Webster’s hometown of Flint, Michigan, where and in addition to having served as a PEN untainted tap water is still not guaranteed and the America Writing for Justice Fellow in 2019-2020, legacies of racist policies persist. received the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University. His poetry and cross-genre works Challenging stereotypes through scenes are featured in publications including Harper’s, scattered with satire, violence, and the extreme The Yale Review, The Rumpus, Best New Poets vagaries of everyday life, Mixon-Webster and Best American Experimental Writing. explores the places where space and body, race and region and sexuality and class meet and intersect. He invents visual/sonic forms, recasts poems as FAQs and transcripts, and dives into dreamscapes and modern tragedies. Interrogating language and the ways we wield it as both sword and shield, Stereo(TYPE) is a JULY 2021 rapturous collection of vital and beautiful poems. 9780141996370 PAPERBACK £9.99 | 128 PAGES

93 Cheryl’s Destinies Stephen Sexton

The highly anticipated follow up to the Forward Prize- winning If All The World and Love Were Young, a fantastical exploration of history and the present history is what we call / what might have A thrillingly strange exploration of the comfort happened differently / and didn’t of the fantastical when the real is hard to bear, Cheryl’s Destinies is the enchanting follow-up to It is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us the Forward Prize-winning If All the World and our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers Love Were Young, by one of the most exciting fl irt in a bowling alley, and the dead are young poets writing today. cherished. In these inventive, playful, dream-like poems, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast. His debut If through the past and the present, while Cheryl All the World and Love Were Young won the translates from the future, showing us how we Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was exist in all three at once. named ‘a debut fi t to compare to Seamus Heaney’ (Sunday Times). His poems have Reckoning with both public and private tragedies, appeared in Granta, POETRY and Best British the book is divided into three parts. In Part One, Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, was the Poetry the poems range across old Europe: ‘Edelweiss’ Book Society’s Winter Pamphlet Choice. He and Titanic setting sail, to a transatlantic, cross- was the winner of the 2016 National Poetry century symposium in Part Two, where Competition, the recipient of an ACES award W.B. Yeats and Billy Corgan of the Smashing from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Pumpkins perfect their arts in collaboration. In was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. Part Three we are back in the land where the past keeps breaking through, it’s practically AUGUST 2021 always the anniversary of something terrible, but 9780141997520 there’s always Cheryl in the moonlight and her B FORMAT PAPERBACK deck of tarot cards. £9.99 | 128 PAGES

94 Ravenna Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe Judith Herrin

A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize

JULY 2021 | 576 PAGES | £12.99 9780241954454 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals Millie Marotta

A bold menagerie of the world’s weird, wonderful, and disappearing animals, perfect for young adventurers and budding conservationists

JULY 2021 | 112 PAGES | £12.99 9781846149252 | PAPERBACK

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) Katie Mack

An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. When will it take place? How is it likely to happen? How do scientists know?

JULY 2021 | 240 PAGES | £9.99 9780141989587 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Greed Is Dead Politics After Individualism Paul Collier and John Kay

Two of the UK’s leading economists call time on selfi shness as the engine of prosperity

JULY 2021 | 208 PAGES | £9.99 9780141994161 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

95 The Sirens of Mars Searching for Life on Another World Sarah Stewart Johnson

A talented young planetary scientist charts our centuries-old obsession with Mars

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Calling Bullshit The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter’s guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists

AUGUST 2021 | 336 PAGES | £9.99 9780141987057 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Stephen Hawking A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Leonard Mlodinow

An intimate, powerful account of Stephen Hawking and his universe

AUGUST 2021 | 240 PAGES | £10.99 9780141991320 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Bunker What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse Bradley Garrett

An astonishingly prescient journey through one of the fastest- growing phenomena of our age, by one of our most exciting young thinkers and urban explorers

AUGUST 2021 | 352 PAGES | £10.99 9780141987552 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

96 Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

An enthralling memoir from the inspiring astronaut who spent six months in space

AUGUST 2021 | 400 PAGES | £10.99 9780141989549 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Entitled How Male Privilege Hurts Women Kate Manne

A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly infl uential philosopher who has been described as ‘the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century’

AUGUST 2021 | 288 PAGES | £9.99 9780141990743 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Analogia The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines George Dyson

A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next

AUGUST 2021 | 304 PAGES | £10.99 9780141975436 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Time of the Magicians The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 Wolfram Eilenberger

‘Weaves together the biographies and the developing thought of the four philosophers with great bravura and wit’ – Sunday Telegraph

AUGUST 2021 | 432 PAGES | £10.99 9780141988580 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

97 The Children of Ash and Elm A History of the Vikings Neil Price

‘As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read’ Tom Holland. Chosen by both The Times and Sunday Times as their ‘History Book of the Year’

AUGUST 2021 | 624 PAGES | £14.99 9780141984445 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Time’s Monster History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire Priya Satia

An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire

AUGUST 2021 | 384 PAGES | £10.99 9780141993928 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Feminisms A Global History Lucy Delap

An authoritative and original history of global feminism from an award-winning historian

AUGUST 2021| 416 PAGES | £10.99 9780141985985 | A FORMAT PAPERBACK

Just Us An American Conversation Claudia Rankine

The ‘skyscraper in the literature on racism’ (Christian Science Monitor), exploring whiteness, division and the conversations that can keep us in the room together

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 352 PAGES | £12.99 9780141994086 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

98 English Pastoral An Inheritance James Rebanks

The moving story of how, in just three generations, an ancient way of life was lost – as witnessed from the fi elds of a small Lake District farm

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 304 PAGES | £9.99 9780141982571 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Tyranny of Merit What’s Become of the Common Good? Michael J. Sandel

The world’s ‘most important and infl uential living philosopher’ (Paul Collier, TLS) on how we can restore social solidarity and overcome our rancorous politics

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 288 PAGES | £9.99 9780141991177 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Invention of Medicine From Homer to Hippocrates Robin Lane Fox

A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world’s leading ancient historians

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 432 PAGES | £10.99 9780141983967 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

King of the World The Life of Louis XIV Philip Mansel

The fi rst full biography for twenty years, which places Louis XIV in a broader European and global context. Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize, 2019

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 640 PAGES | £14.99 9780241960585 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

99 The Weirdest People in the World How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Joseph Henrich

‘A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most infl uential social scientist of the fi rst half of the twenty-fi rst century’ Matthew Syed

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 704 PAGES | £16.99 9780141976211 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The New Map Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations Daniel Yergin

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert reveals how climate battles and energy revolutions are mapping our future

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 512 PAGES | £12.99 9780141994635 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Caste The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson

A startling and transformative account of how we are all tied up in a caste system, from NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 496 PAGES | £10.99 9780141995465 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Japanese A History in Twenty Lives Christopher Harding

Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals

SEPTEMBER 2021 | 528 PAGES | £12.99 9780141992280 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

100 Owls of the Eastern Ice The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl Jonathan C. Slaght

The Times Nature Book of the Year 2020 – A breathtaking portrait of Russia’s remote far eastern forest, and of the world’s most extraordinary owl

OCTOBER 2021 | 368 PAGES | £9.99 9780141987262 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Ten Equations that Rule the World And How You Can Use Them Too David Sumpter

Is there a secret formula for getting rich? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current job, Netfl ix series, or even relationship?

OCTOBER 2021 | 240 PAGES | £9.99 9780141991092 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Knowledge Machine How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science Michael Strevens

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it

OCTOBER 2021 | 320 PAGES | £9.99 9780141981260 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Bookseller’s Tale Martin Latham

A lively cultural history of the book from a charmingly idiosyncratic bookseller

OCTOBER 2021 | 320 PAGES | £9.99 9780141991238 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

101 Unlocking the World Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 John Darwin

The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order

OCTOBER 2021 | 400 PAGES | £9.99 9781846140877 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria

The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator shows how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world

OCTOBER 2021 | 256 PAGES | £9.99 9780141995625 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Conquistadores A New History Fernando Cervantes

A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations

OCTOBER 2021 | 400 PAGES | £12.99 9780141982380 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Feline Philosophy Cats and the Meaning of Life John Gray

A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it

OCTOBER 2021 | 400 PAGES | £9.99 9780141988429 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

102 The Habsburgs The Rise and Fall of a World Power Martyn Rady

The defi nitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries

OCTOBER 2021 | 416 PAGES | £9.99 9780141987200 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Underground Asia Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire Tim Harper

The story of the hidden struggle waged by secret networks around the world to destroy European imperialism

OCTOBER 2021 | 864 PAGES | £14.99 9780241957943 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

Black Spartacus The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture Sudhir Hazareesingh

The defi nitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2020

NOVEMBER 2021 | 464 PAGES | £10.99 9780141985060 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Pattern Seekers A New Theory of Human Invention Simon Baron-Cohen

‘Celebrates human cognitive diversity, and is rich with empathy and psychological insight’ – Steven Pinker

NOVEMBER 2021 | 256 PAGES | £9.99 9780141982397 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

103 Finding the Heart Sutra Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan Alex Kerr

‘Both a primer and a paean to one of the central texts to Buddhism... Alex Kerr delves into the Japanese soul in Finding the Heart Sutra’ – Literary Review

NOVEMBER 2021 | 256 PAGES | £8.99 9780141994208 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

The Species That Changed Itself How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity

An inquisitive, expansive and fascinating exploration of humans as creatures of our own making

NOVEMBER 2021 | 400 PAGES | £9.99 9780141984988 | B FORMAT PAPERBACK

104 A biannual magazine published by Penguin Classics in collaboration with the award-winning publication Fantastic Man.

The concept of the magazine is simple: the first half is a long form interview with a notable book fanatic and the second half explores one classic ‘Book of the Season’ from an array of angles, through fashion, art, lifestyle, history, film and more.

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