PENGUIN GENERAL 2020 AUTUMN CATALOGUE JULY – DECEMBER CONTENTS
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JULY 2020
2 Penguin
The Tuscan Contessa A heartbreaking new novel set in wartime Tuscany Dinah Jefferies
A sweeping new novel from the Number One bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife, set in wartime Tuscany
In 1943, Contessa Sofia de' Corsi's peaceful Tuscan villa among the olive groves is upturned by the sudden arrival of German soldiers. Desperate to fight back, she agrees to shelter a wounded British radio engineer in her home, keeping him hidden from her husband Lorenzo - knowing that she is putting all of their lives at risk.
When Maxine, an Italian-American working for the resistance, arrives on Sofia's doorstep, the pair forge an uneasy alliance. Feisty, independent Maxine promised herself never to fall in love. But when she meets a handsome partisan named Marco, she realizes it's a promise she can't keep...
Before long, the two women find themselves entangled in a dangerous game with the Nazis. Will they be discovered? And will they both be able to save the ones they love?
Dinah Jefferies is the author of seven novels: The Separation; The Tea Planter's Wife, a Number One Sunday Times bestseller; The Silk Merchant's Daughter; Before the Rains; The Sapphire Widow; The Missing Sister and The Tuscan Contessa. She lives in Gloucestershire.
July 2020 9780241987315 B Format £7.99 : Paperback 368 pages
3 Fig Tree
Belladonna Anbara Salam
A coming-of-age novel about young love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy
It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma.
When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket to Europe and - better still - a chance to spend nine whole months with her glamorous and unpredictable best friend.
There, lodged in a convent of nuns who have taken a vow of silence, the two girls move towards a passionate but fragile intimacy. As the year rolls on, Bridget grows increasingly fearful that she will lose Isabella's affections - and the more desperate she gets, the greater the lengths she will go to keep her.
Belladonna is a hypnotizing coming-of age story set against the stunning and evocative backdrop of rural Northern Italy. Anbara Salam tells a story of friendship and obsession, desire and betrayal, and the lies we tell in order to belong.
Anbara Salam is half-Palestinian and half-Scottish, and grew up in London. She has a PhD in Theology and now lives and works in Oxford. Her first novel, Things Bright and Beautiful, is also published by Penguin. July 2020 9780241404799 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 352 pages
4 Viking
If I Had Your Face 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of DAISY JONES & THE SIX Frances Cha
A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel about four young women struggling to survive in South Korea
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerizing world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extreme plastic surgery is as routine as getting a haircut, where women compete for spots in secret 'room salons' to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours, where K-Pop stars are the object of all-consuming obsession, and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move.
Navigating this cut-throat city are four young women balancing on the razor-edge of survival: Kyuri, an exquisitely beautiful woman whose hard-won status at an exclusive 'room salon' is threatened by an impulsive mistake with a client; her flatmate Miho, an orphan who wins a scholarship to a prestigious art school in New York, where her life becomes tragically enmeshed with the super-wealthy offspring of the Korean elite; Wonna, their neighbour, pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they will afford to raise in a fiercely competitive economy; and Ara, a hair stylist living down the hall, whose infatuation with a fresh-faced K-Pop star drives her to violent extremes.
Frances Cha is a former travel and culture digital editor for CNN in Seoul. She grew up in the United States, Hong Kong July 2020 and South Korea. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the 9780241396070 Columbia University MFA writing programme, she has written Demy Octavo for The Atlantic, The Believer, Yonhap News and other £12.99 : Trade Paperback publications, and has lectured at Columbia University, Ewha 288 pages University, Seoul National University and Yonsei University. She lives in Brooklyn. If I Had Your Face is her first novel.
5 Hamish Hamilton
Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi
For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
This is a love story and it is a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Avni Doshi tests the limits of what we can know for certain about those we are closest to, and by extension, about ourselves.
Avni Doshi was born in New Jersey in 1982 and is currently based in Dubai. She won the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize in 2013 and a Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2014. Her debut novel is published in India by Fourth Estate under the title Girl in White Cotton.
July 2020 9780241441510 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 240 pages
6 Penguin
Supporting Cast Kit de Waal
A deeply moving collection of stories featuring characters from My Name is Leon and The Trick to Time
As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning. A blind man on his wedding day celebrates the pursuit of love. And a young man leaves prison with only one desire - to see his son again.
Kit de Waal's characters light up the page in vivid stories of thwarted desire, love and loss. With power and precision, humanity and insight, Supporting Cast captures the extraordinary moments in our ordinary lives, and the darkness and the joy of the everyday.
Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah is shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working class memoir, Common People, which was published in 2018. Kit was named the FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019.
July 2020 9780241973424 B Format £8.99 : Paperback 144 pages
7 Sandycove
Nothing But Blue Sky Kathleen MacMahon
A wise, thoughtful, beautifully observed and impossible-to- put-down portrait of a marriage
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?
David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to.
Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secrets that she kept - some of these hidden in plain sight - makes David wonder if he really knew her. Did he even know himself?
Nothing But Blue Sky is a precise and tender story of love in marriage - a gripping examination of what binds couples together and of what keeps them apart.
Nothing But Blue Sky is Kathleen MacMahon's third novel. Her first, This is How it Ends, published in 2012, was translated into more than twenty languages, spent five weeks at the top of the bestseller lists in Ireland, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice in the UK. Her second novel, The Long, Hot Summer was published to much acclaim in 2015 and was also a bestseller in Ireland. Kathleen is a former radio and television journalist with Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, and she lives in Dublin with her family.
July 2020 9781844884759 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 320 pages
8 Penguin Life
The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone Over 200 Delicious Recipes That Anyone Can Make David and Stephen Flynn
The bestselling Happy Pear authors are back with an inspiring one-stop guide for everyone who wants to master vegan cooking
If you have decided you want to be vegan, where do you start? Or if you are an experienced cook, how do you make plant-based meals that are delicious and full of variety? And if you are already vegan, but looking for inspiration, are there simple principles to help you come up with your own dishes?
The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone is the answer to your questions. David and Stephen Flynn understand that the idea of vegan cooking can be daunting. But after twenty years of plant-based cooking, they have developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of how it works and how to make it simple, creative and totally irresistible.
Dave and Steve's new book distils all their knowledge into ten chapters that are full of master recipes, step-by-step guides, fun variations and top tips, and an approach to plant-based eating that will inspire you to become the best cook of vegan food you can possibly be.
David Flynn (Author) Nearly twenty years ago David and Stephen Flynn, a.k.a the July 2020 Happy Pear twins, discovered the joys and benefits of a plant- 9781844884872 based diet and embarked on a mission to encourage everyone Crown Quarto to 'eat more veg'. Now, with fans like Russell Brand, Joe Wicks, £20.00 : Hardback Rangan Chatterjee and Fearne Cotton, sales of over a quarter 352 pages of a million copies of their three cookbooks, a social audience of nearly one million, bestselling vegan products throughout Ireland and the UK, and their original Happy Pear cafés still thriving in Ireland, David and Stephen Flynn's vision goes from strength to strength.
9 Penguin
Fey's War The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler Catherine Bailey
From the bestselling historian comes an extraordinary true account of resistance and survival during the Second World War
In September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize her two sons, aged just two and three. If Hitler has his way she will never see them again. For Fey Pirzio-Biroli is the daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, executed days before after the failed assassination of the Fuhrer. Mercilessly cast into the Nazi death machine, Fey must cling to the hope that one day she will escape and rescue her lost children . . .
Catherine Bailey is the author of two bestselling works of twentieth-century history: Black Diamonds and The Secret Rooms. She lives in London.
July 2020 9780241989449 B Format £8.99 : Paperback 480 pages
10 Viking
The History of Magic From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present Chris Gosden
A unique history of the forgotten, oldest strand of human history, and its resurgence today
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history - science, religion and magic. Over the last few centuries, magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe, and that the universe responds to us - has developed a bad reputation. But it is still with us, as it has been for millennia, as Professor Chris Gosden shows in this extraordinarily bold and unprecedented history.
As Gosden argues, magic preceded religion and science. It has been with us from the curses and charms of ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish magic, to the shamanistic traditions of Eurasia, indigenous America and Africa, the alchemy of the Renaissance, colonial dismissals of magic as backwards, and quantum physics today - where magic and science converge. Today seventy-five per cent of the adult population of the Western world holds some belief in magic, whether in our attitude toward the relationship between mind and matter or in our treatment of everyday objects like living beings.
Drawing on his decades of research around the world, with incredible breadth and authority, and stunning detail - from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos - Gosden reveals magic's positive traits and how we might use it to July 2020 rethink our relationship with the world. This timely history of 9780241294819 human thought across thousands of years rightly shows the Royal Octavo role that magic has played in shaping civilization. £25.00 : Hardback 512 pages Chris Gosden is Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Previously he was a curator and lecturer at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, where he encountered many magical objects, displayed in a scientific manner. Chris is a fellow of the British Academy and the Society of Antiquaries, as well as a trustee of the Art Fund, the British Museum and chair of trustees for Oxford Archaeology. He has written or edited eighteen academic books. This is his first trade book.
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Beethoven A Life in Nine Pieces Laura Tunbridge
An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music, for the 250th anniversary of his birth
Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven.
Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise in a refreshing way. Each chapter focuses on a period of his life, a piece of music and a revealing theme, from family to friends, from heroism to liberty. It's a winning combination of rich biographical detail, insight into the music and surprising new angles, all of which can transform how you listen to his works. We discover, for example, Beethoven's oddly modern talent for self-promotion, how he was influenced by factors from European wars to instrument building, and how he was heard by contemporaries.
This tour de force - published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth - provides a fresh overview and a wealth of material that has never been revealed to the wider public before. It's a compelling, human portrayal of Beethoven and a fascinating journey into one of the world's most amazing creative minds.
Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow of St July 2020 Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. She is the 9780241414279 author of three monographs - Schumann's Late Style, The Song Demy Octavo Cycle and Singing in the Age of Anxiety - and the recipient of a £16.99 : Hardback three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme 288 pages Trust for a project on string quartets. She has spoken about Beethoven on BBC Radio 4 and at major events, including at the Southbank Centre. This is her first trade book.
12 Penguin Life
Who Cares Wins Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World Lily Cole
A radical guide to thinking differently about the world and initiating change
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible.
We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarisation of mainstream politics. But, there is a constructive way to meet this challenge, there is a reason to keep on fighting and there are plenty of reasons for optimism.
Lily Cole has met with some of the millions of people around the world who are working on solutions to our biggest challenges and committed to creating a more sustainable and peaceful future for humanity. Exploring issues from fast fashion to fast food and renewable energy to gender equality, and featuring interviews with Stella McCartney, Elon Musk and Extinction Rebellion co-founder Dr. Gail Bradbrook, Who Cares Wins is a beacon of hope in dark times.
This book is a rousing call to action that will leave you feeling hopeful that we can make a difference. We are the ancestors of our future: a generation who will either be celebrated for its activism or blamed for its apathy. It is for us to choose July 2020 optimism, to make a change and to show what is possible. 9780241309124 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback Lily Cole is an environmental activist, model, actress and 448 pages filmmaker. She holds an MA in history of art from the University of Cambridge, was an affiliate at The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Glasgow, for her contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes through social businesses. Lily has spoken at Davos, Google's Zeitgeist conference and Wired. She regularly writes for media including the Guardian, Huffington Post, Vogue and Financial Times. Lily has directed multiple short documentaries. Lily was the Brontë Parsonage Museum's creative partner for 2018, for whom she made her first fiction film.
13 Penguin Business
Leading Without Authority Why You Don’t Need To Be In Charge to Inspire Others and Make Change Happen Keith Ferrazzi
The bestselling author of Never Eat Alone reveals a new management approach for the 21st century - that every one of us can be a leader in our jobs, on our teams, in our companies and in our lives, whatever our titles
The world of work is changing at an unprecedented rate leaving many organisations struggling to cope. At a time when constant innovation, agility, and speed often mean the difference between success and failure, we can no longer afford to waste time navigating the complex bureaucracy present in most companies.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi argues that in times like these the ability to lead without authority is the essential workplace competency. Leading Without Authority reveals the secret to getting those around you to collaborate and cooperate to reach their full potential, whatever your title. The answer involves a shift in mindset that Ferrazzi calls co-elevation - working to elevate those around us. And you don't have to have formal authority, or direct reports, to utilize the co-elevation process. In fact, you can take initial steps forward without the other person even being aware of your efforts.
Drawing on a decade of research and over thirty years helping July 2020 CEOs and senior leaders drive innovation and build high- 9780241473504 performing teams Ferrazzi reveals how we can all transform Royal Octavo our business and our relationships with the people around us. £14.99 : Trade Paperback The result is a new roadmap for thriving amid the disruptive 256 pages pressures afflicting every industry.
Keith Ferrazzi is the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, a management consulting and team coaching company that works with many of the world's biggest corporations. A graduate of Harvard Business School, Ferrazzi rose to become the youngest CMO of a Fortune 500 company during his career at Deloitte, and later became CMO of Starwood Hotels. He is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Fortune and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who's Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone. His mission is to transform teams to help them transform the world.
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AUGUST 2020
15 Hamish Hamilton
Summer Ali Smith
The unmissable conclusion to Ali Smith's dazzling, Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet is crowned in 2020 with Summer
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.
This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
Summer.
Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of Spring, Winter, Autumn, Public library and other stories, How to be both, Shire, Artful, There but for the, The first person and other stories, Girl Meets Boy, The Accidental, The whole story and other stories, Hotel World, Other stories and other stories, Like and Free Love. Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. The Accidental was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. How to be both won the Bailey's Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Autumn was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and August 2020 Winter was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2018. Ali Smith lives 9780241207062 in Cambridge. Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback 400 pages
16 Hamish Hamilton
Must I Go Yiyun Li
Richly expansive and deeply moving, an intimate novel of secret lives and painful histories from the critically acclaimed author of Where Reasons End
Lilia Liska is eighty-one. She has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children and seen the birth of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to a strange little book published by a vanity press: the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair.
Drawn into an obsession over this fragment of intimate history, Lilia begins to annotate the diary with her own, rather different version of events. Gradually she undercuts Roland's charming but arrogant voice with her sharply incisive and deeply moving commentary. She reveals to us the surprising, long-held secrets of her own life. And she returns inexorably to her daughter, Lucy, who took her own life at the age of twenty- seven.
How does the past shape the future? How do we live in the face of the unanswerable? Must I Go considers these questions underlying an extraordinary life, exploring both the painfully finite nature of human life and the infinite depths of human beings.
Yiyun Li is the author of three novels, Where Reasons End, The Vagrants and Kinder Than Solitude, and two short-story collections, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, August 2020 Emerald Girl, as well as the memoir, Dear Friend, From My Life I 9780241284285 Write to You in Your Life. She has won literary awards including Demy Octavo the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the £16.99 : Hardback Guardian First Book Award, and was listed among Granta's 21 368 pages Best of Young American Novelists 2007. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review and elsewhere. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.
17 Viking
All Men Want to Know 'Intense, gorgeous, troubling, seductive' SARAH WATERS Nina Bouraoui
A haunting, lyrical French bestseller set in Paris and Algiers about desire, shame and violence
All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country.
In Paris, eighteen-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her way to The Kat, a legendary gay nightclub, where she watches women from the sidelines, afraid of her own desires, her sudden and intoxicating freedom. In her solitude, she starts to write - and finds herself writing about her mother.
All Men Want to Know is a haunting, lyrical international bestseller about mothers and daughters, about shame and sexuality, about existing between two cultures and belonging to neither. A phenomenon in France, this is a defining portrait of womanhood from one of Europe's greatest living writers.
Nina Bouraoui (Author) Nina Bouraoui was born in 1967 to a French mother and an August 2020 Algerian father. She lived in Algiers until the age of fourteen 9780241447727 before moving to France and becoming a writer. She is one of Demy Octavo France's most renowned living novelists, and has won several £12.99 : Trade Paperback prestigious literary prizes, including the Prix Emmanuel Robles, 192 pages the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Renaudot, and she was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her novels have been translated into over 15 languages.
Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator) Aneesa Abbas Higgins is an award-winning translator. Her most recent translation is Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin. She lives in London.
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Blue Ticket Sophie Mackintosh
A chilling new novel about motherhood, luck and animal instinct, from the Man Booker-longlisted author of The Water Cure
Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticket grants you freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And, once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back.
But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?
Blue Ticket is a devastating enquiry into free will and the fraught space of motherhood. Bold and chilling, it pushes beneath the skin of female identity and patriarchal violence, to the point where human longing meets our animal bodies.
Sophie Mackintosh is the author of The Water Cure, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 and won a Betty Trask Award 2019. She also won the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist Short Story competition, and has been published in Granta and TANK magazine among others.
August 2020 9780241404454 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Hardback 304 pages
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Beach Read The ONLY laugh-out-loud love story you’ll want to escape with this summer Emily Henry
TWO WRITERS, ONE HOLIDAY. A ROMCOM WAITING TO HAPPEN...
He doesn't believe in happy endings. She's lost her faith that they exist. But could they find one together?
January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie. Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale.
But January and Gus have more in common than you'd think: They're both broke. They've got crippling writer's block. And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends.
The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first. The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely...
Emily Henry studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Beach Read is her debut adult novel.
August 2020 9780241989524 B Format £7.99 : Paperback 368 pages
20 Viking
The Search Party You won’t believe the twist in this compulsive new thriller from the ‘Stephen King-like’ Simon Lelic Simon Lelic
FIVE GO INTO THE WOODS TO FIND A MISSING GIRL. ONE WILL NOT RETURN. BECAUSE THEY'VE TAKEN THE KILLER WITH THEM.
Everyone thinks that Sadie Saunders is dead. Missing now for a week - there are whispers of murder. As the police flounder, five of Sadie's friends set off into the woods to find her.
Mason, Sadie's boyfriend, is sick of the accusations that are flying his way. Rebel Cara has always been jealous of Sadie's popularity, and doesn't appear to care that she's gone. Good guy Luke seems to get on with everyone. But no one's that nice, are they? Abi, supposedly Sadie's best friend, is hiding a terrible secret. And Fash, the outsider, was always treated kindly by Sadie. But does anyone really know him?
As the search continues and tensions rise, they begin to fear the killer is among them. What really happened to Sadie Saunders? And will they survive long enough to find out?
Simon Lelic is the author of five highly acclaimed thrillers: Rupture (winner of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the John Creasy Debut Dagger), The Facility, The Child Who (longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger), The House and The Liar's Room. August 2020 9780241422687 Royal Octavo £9.99 : Hardback 352 pages
21 Viking
Operation Morthor The Last Great Mystery of the Cold War Ravi Somaiya
A PLANE CRASH IN THE JUNGLE. A LEGENDARY STATESMAN DEAD. A TRAGIC ACCIDENT... OR THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY?
For nearly sixty years, the circumstances surrounding the death of renowned diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld have remained one of the Cold War's most tightly guarded secrets. Now, with exclusive evidence, investigative journalist Ravi Somaiya finally uncovers the truth.
In 1961 the Congo was in crisis, fragmented and at war with itself. The streets of Leopoldville, the capital, were crawling with CIA operatives, MI6 agents and Soviet infiltrators. Belgian colonialists, Rhodesian white supremacists and corporate mercenaries massed in the south of the country. The chaos conspired to make it one of the most dangerous places on earth.
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, the man John F. Kennedy called 'the greatest statesman of our century' flew into the maelstrom. He was an idealist. The Congo's best hope for peace and independence. But en route to a diplomatic summit to reunite the country, Hammarskjöld's plane mysteriously disappeared. Soon afterward he was discovered dead in the smoking wreckage, an Ace of Spades playing card placed on his body. August 2020 A riveting work of investigative journalism based on new 9780241240649 evidence, recently revealed first-hand accounts, and Demy Octavo groundbreaking interviews, Operation Morthor reveals the plot £16.99 : Hardback behind one of the longest-standing murder mysteries of the 304 pages Cold War, with dark implications for governments and corporations alike.
Ravi Somaiya was most recently a correspondent for the New York Times. He has written for the Guardian, Rolling Stone and New York Magazine among others, and has presented and produced documentaries for Vice and HBO. He has covered Islamic extremist terrorism, disinformation, mass shootings, Anonymous and Wikileaks, among other long-running stories.
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The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of twentieth century literature
"I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career - years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982.
The Scandal of the Century brings together the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fiction -like reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points to his fiction in its style, wit, depth, and passion, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be 'the best in the world'.
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the August 2020 author of several novels and collections of stories, including 9780241444184 Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to B Format the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral £10.99 : Paperback (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira 336 pages and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books are published by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014.
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Expert Understanding the Path to Mastery Roger Kneebone
The expert on experts shows that while the outcome is always different, the journey is always the same
What do lace makers share with vascular surgeons? Savile Row tailors with molecular scientists? Jazz musicians with fighter pilots? Seemingly they have little in common, other than being skilled at what they do. But Roger Kneebone, an expert on experts, has spent his life finding points of connection. As he shows, while the outcome may be very different, the journey to becoming expert is always the same.
Kneebone describes a path we're all following. You start by 'doing time' as an Apprentice, copying how things are already done by other people. Then you set out on your own as a Journeyman, developing your own voice and taking responsibility for your work. Finally, you become a Master, refining your knowledge and passing it on to future generations. Whatever your passion, there's comfort in locating yourself, understanding how far there is to go, and seeing how far you've come.
In this ground-breaking book, Kneebone combines cutting- edge research, including his own work with extraordinary experts, with traditions from the medieval guilds. He reveals with colour and panache the symbiotic system that creates and sustains experts, whatever their field. He explains how you can become one yourself, whether you're learning a language, August 2020 giving a presentation, or simply becoming the person you want 9780241392034 to be. Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback Professor Roger Kneebone directs the Imperial College Centre 336 pages for Engagement and Simulation Science and the Royal College of Music - Imperial College Centre for Performance Science. His first career was as a surgeon, operating on trauma patients in southern Africa. He then changed direction, becoming a general practitioner in southwest England. Now, as an academic at Imperial College London, he researches what experts from different fields can learn from one another. His unorthodox and creative team includes clinicians, computer scientists, musicians, magicians, potters, puppeteers, tailors and fighter pilots. This is his first book for a general readership.
24 Penguin Life
Luna Harness the Power of the Moon to Live Your Best Life Tamara Driessen
A practical guide to harnessing the power of the moon to positively transform your life.
From the author of The Crystal Code, comes Luna - the positive catalyst for change that we all need.
Luna is your essential guide to harnessing the moon's healing potential and achieving a happier, more fulfilling life. Tamara Driessen is guaranteed to help you to realise your potential, turn challenges into transformative opportunities and become more connected with yourself. Luna empowers by grounding you in the moment, inspiring you to celebrate the positives in your life and helping you find a clear sense of purpose.
Luna nourishes you with moon rituals for every occasion, from crystals to tarot and meditation, that you can use during the moon's cycles. Tamara guides you through New Moon Rituals to inspire new beginnings and positive life change, Waxing Moon Rituals to help you take action and achieve personal goals, Waning Moon Rituals to help you shed self-limiting beliefs, and Full Moon Rituals to promote abundance and help you thrive in life.
By aligning yourself with the lunar phases and developing a deeper connection with the moon, you'll gain balance and clarity, master the art of self-care and develop a true sense of what you want. Set your intentions with Luna, awaken your August 2020 intuition and discover the potential that comes with living by 9780241418130 the moon's mystic cycles. Other £12.99 : Hardback What can you do today to change your life? Let Tamara 288 pages Driessen show you.
Tamara Driessen (a.k.a. Wolf Sister) is a crystal healer, shamanic practitioner, reiki master and tarot advisor. She's an intuitive healer who infuses mystic wisdom into everyday life. She trained with a shaman in Bali and now runs regular moon ceremonies and crystal healing workshops in the UK and beyond. She is the author of the bestselling book The Crystal Code.
Instagram: @__wolfsister
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26 Viking
The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
Four unlikely friends A shocking murder Welcome to THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
Richard Osman is a British television producer and presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is his first and, so far, best novel.
September 2020 9780241425442 Royal Octavo £14.99 : Hardback 400 pages
27 Viking
Just Like You Nick Hornby
From the million-copy bestselling author comes a brutally funny novel about finding love when you least expect it
The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster.
Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right.
Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.
Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of non-fiction including his ground-breaking debut, Fever Pitch. He has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.
September 2020 9780241338551 Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback 320 pages
28 Viking
Agent Sonya Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy Ben Macintyre
The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's most acclaimed historians
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.
However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb.
Far from an obedient homemaker, Sonya Burton was a dedicated communist, a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race.
In Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre reveals the astonishing story behind the most important female spy in history.
Ben Macintyre is the multimillion-copy bestselling author of books including Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat and A Spy Among Friends. He is a columnist and Associate Editor at The Times, and has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in September 2020 New York, Paris and Washington. He regularly presents BBC 9780241408506 series based on his acclaimed books. Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback 400 pages
29 Penguin Life
And Now For The Good News... To the Future with Love Ruby Wax
Bestselling author and comedian Ruby Wax demonstrates how social and technological change is turning the world into a better place
When was the last time that reading the news made you feel good?
In recent years, the endless news cycle has kick-started our fear engine and put us in a state of constant pessimism. But what if the facts were different? Literacy is at an all-time high, age expectancy has doubled since the 1950s, technology has reduced repetitive work. And better yet: the world has never been as peaceful as the past decade, and world-hunger is likely to be eradicated this century. All in all, things are looking up!
In And Now for the Good News, Ruby Wax investigates how recent and new developments across technology, education, business, health, food and social change are turning our world into a better place than it's ever been. Drawing on brand new research, compelling case studies and exercises to reframe your thinking, this is your guide to embracing change.
Filled with hope, actionable tips and memorable facts, And Now for the Good News will inspire you to look at the world around you with a renewed sense of optimism. It will also empower you to take action to make the world a kinder, better place. September 2020 9780241400647 Ruby Wax is a successful comedian, TV writer and performer of Demy Octavo over 25 years. Ruby additionally holds a Master's degree in £14.99 : Hardback Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University, 272 pages and was awarded an OBE in 2015 for her services to mental health. She is the author of books Sane New World and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled, and has toured all over the world with the accompanying one-woman shows. Both books have reached the number one spot on The Sunday Times bestsellers list. She has 145k followers on Twitter.
30 Viking
JFK Volume 1: 1917-1956 Fredrik Logevall
The definitive biography of JFK, from Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish-American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's political machine, Kennedy was bred for public service and he rose meteorically rise to become America's youngest president. And yet, in the decades since his death, contrasting portrayals of his charisma, extramarital affairs, and political legacy have made him more mysterious than ever.
Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall has spent seven years combing through material unused or unseen by previous biographers, searching for and piecing together the 'real' John F. Kennedy. The magisterial result is a sweeping two-volume biography that, for the first time, paints the full picture of JFK and of his role in the international events of the twentieth century. This first volume spans the first thirty-nine years of his life, from sickly second son of a wartime ambassador to Britain and politics-obsessed mother, through playboy Harvard undergraduate, bestselling author and World War II hero, to young Senator - ending with his decision to run for president.
In chronicling Kennedy's extraordinary life and times, with authority and novelistic sensibility - putting the reader in every September 2020 room where it happened - this landmark work offers the 9780241185896 clearest portrait we have of one of the most fascinating figures Royal Octavo in history, who still inspires individuals around the world. £30.00 : Hardback 784 pages Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School and Professor of History at Harvard University. A specialist on US foreign relations history and modern international history, he was previously the Anbinder Professor of History at Cornell University. Before that he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he co-founded the Center for Cold War Studies. Logevall is the author or editor of ten books, most recently Embers of War, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 2013 Francis Parkman Prize, as well as the 2013 American Library in Paris Book Award and the 2013 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations.
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AZADI Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Arundhati Roy
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time
Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes round the streets of the country that most Kashmiris view as their coloniser. What lies between the silence of one street and the sound of the other? Is it a chasm, or could it become a bridge?
In this series of penetrating essays on politics and literature, Arundhati Roy examines this question, challenging us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. Azadi, she warns, hangs in the balance for us all.
Arundhati Roy is the author of The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2017. Roy has also published several works of non-fiction, including The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers and Broken Republic. She lives in Delhi.
September 2020 9780241470022 A Format £6.00 : Paperback 304 pages
32 Viking
The Hurt Dylan Hartley
From the former England rugby captain, a story of hard men and harsh truths
In The Hurt, Dylan Hartley, one of England's most successful captains, tells a story of hard men and harsh truths. From the sixteen-year-old Kiwi who travelled alone to England, to the winner of ninety-seven international caps, Hartley shows us his life and his sport, warts and all.
Hartley addresses the ever-increasing physical and psychological demands on international players, and the toll it can take on their mental health. He describes with brutal clarity the effects of multiple concussions, and his fear of the potential long-term damage caused by a game he fell in love with as a boy in rural New Zealand. Hartley has survived old-school brawls, and thrived in the high-pressure, high-performance culture created by Eddie Jones before his dream of leading England on the biggest stage in the 2019 World Cup was shattered by untimely injury. Along the way, he learned a lot about leadership and about himself.
The Hurt reveals rugby in the raw, a unique insight into the price of sporting obsession.
Dylan Hartley is a New Zealand-born English rugby union player who played at hooker for Northampton Saints. He was the captain of England from January 2016 until the end of his international career in 2018 and is the country's most capped hooker of all time, earning his first cap in 2008. Dylan September 2020 captained England to the Grand Slam in 2016, the first time 9780241348956 that England had done this since 2003, and to a 3-0 series win Royal Octavo in the 2016 Cook Cup against Australia. He retired from rugby £20.00 : Hardback in 2019. 336 pages
33 Viking
The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves Arik Kershenbaum
An out of this world - and scientifically-sound - exploration of how aliens might look, move and communicate
We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.
Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution - which applies throughout the universe - Cambridge zoologist Dr Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like.
Observing fishes whose electrical pulses indicate social status, we can see that conditions on other planets might allow for communication by electricity. As there was evolutionary pressure to wriggle along a sea floor, Earthling animals tend to have left/right symmetry; on planets where creatures evolved mid-air or in soupy tar - to be ready to move in any or multiple directions - they might be lacking any symmetry at all. Dr Kershenbaum uses cutting-edge science to paint an entertaining and compelling picture of extra-terrestrial life.
Moreover, as The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy is the story of September 2020 communication, intelligence, cooperation and technology, on 9780241406793 Earth and in space, we see how life really works - and what it Demy Octavo means to be human. £18.99 : Hardback 368 pages Dr Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist, College Lecturer, and Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He has researched animal vocal communication for the past ten years in Europe, Israel and the United States and has published more than twenty academic publications on the topic. He is also a member of the international board of advisors for METI.org, a think tank on the topic of Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence. This is his first trade book.
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Unquiet Linn Ullmann
An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers
Each summer of her childhood, the daughter visited her father at his remote Faro island home on the edge of the Baltic Sea.
Years later, when she is grown with children of her own and he's in his eighties, they plan to write a book together. It will be about age and time, language and memory. She will ask the questions. He will answer them. The tape recorder will record. But old age has caught up with him in ways neither could have foreseen. And when the man is gone, only memories - both remembered and recorded - remain.
Heart-breaking and spellbinding, Unquiet is a seamless blend of fiction and memoir in pursuit of elemental truths about how we live, love, lose and age.
Linn Ullmann is the author of six award-winning and critically- acclaimed novels. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages, and adapted for both stage and screen. Unquiet has received multiple awards, spent more than a year on the Scandinavian bestseller lists and was heralded as a modern classic in Norway. In 2017 Ullmann received the Doubloug Prize from the Swedish Academy for her body of work. She lives in Oslo with her family.
September 2020 9780241464618 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 416 pages
35 Penguin Life
Exhale How to Use Breathwork to Find Calm, Supercharge Your Health and Perform at Your Best Richie Bostock
A practical guide on how to use the practice of Breathwork to have more energy, less stress, better sleep and happier lives.
Breathe in. Hold for 10 seconds. Breathe out. Hold for 10 seconds, repeat.
Exhale will teach you how to harness the potential of your most overlooked tool - your breath. Written by a world-leading Breathwork practitioner, this practical and accessible guide will teach you how to overcome life's everyday challenges and boost your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing by simply breathing with purpose.
Breathing is something we all do - but very few of us know how to breathe in a way that benefits our health and enhances our quality of life. Breathwork is the art of becoming aware of your breathing and using it to spark creativity, sleep soundly, alleviate pain, improve performance and re-energise yourself.
By equipping you with the tools and techniques needed to optimise your breathing, this book will help you to discover a whole world of Breathwork possibilities and health benefits that are, quite literally, right under your nose. September 2020 Richie Bostock began researching alternative therapies 9780241404423 following his father's life-altering MS diagnosis. Richie is now Demy Octavo one of the world's leading practitioners and a pioneer in £12.99 : Trade Paperback Breathwork. He has travelled the world exploring the 208 pages possibilities of Breathwork, learning from Breathwork masters, doctors, psychologists, physiotherapists and elite athletic coaches.
Richie holds workshops and retreats across the world and is dedicated to spreading the life-changing possibilities of Breathwork.
Instagram: @thebreathguy
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Here’s the Story A Memoir Mary McAleese
A two-term President of Ireland and feminist icon tells the remarkable stories of her life
When a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what she went on to achieve - despite those obstacles, and despite a sectarian attack that forced her family to flee their home - is even more improbable.
In this luminous memoir, Mary McAleese traces that astonishing arc: from the tight streets of north Belfast, to a professorship in Dublin while still in her twenties, behind-the-scenes work on the peace process, and two triumphant terms as President of Ireland. She writes of her encounters with prime ministers, popes and royalty with the same easy candour and intimacy with which she describes her childhood. And her account of the latest act in her remarkable career - quietly pursuing a doctorate, and loudly opposing the misogyny of the Church - is inspiring.
Here's the Story is warm, witty, often surprising and relentlessly fascinating: an extraordinarily intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable public figures of our time.
Mary McAleese was born in Belfast in 1951. In 1975 she was appointed Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College Dublin, and September 2020 in 1987 she became Director of the Institute of Professional 9781844884704 Legal Studies at Queen's University Belfast. She was elected Royal Octavo President of Ireland in 1997, and re-elected unopposed in £20.00 : Hardback 2004. Since stepping down as President in 2011, she has 368 pages earned a PhD in canon law while emerging as a forceful critic of the institutional Church's misogyny.
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Champagne Football The Rise and Fall of John Delaney and the Football Association of Ireland Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan
A shocking exposé: the inside story behind the fall of the most powerful man in Irish sport
Over the course of fifteen years, John Delaney ran the Football Association of Ireland as his own personal fiefdom. He had his critics, but his power was never seriously challenged until last year, when Mark Tighe and Paul Rowan published a sequence of stories in the Sunday Times containing damaging revelations about his personal compensation and the parlous financial situation of the FAI. Delaney's reputation as a great financial manager was left in tatters. He resigned under pressure, and the FAI was left hoping for a massive bail-out from the Irish taxpayer.
In Champagne Football, Tighe and Rowan dig deep into the story of Delaney's career and of the FAI's slide into ruin. They show how he surrounded himself with people whose personal loyalty he could count on, and a board that failed to notice that the association's finances were shot. They detail Delaney's skilful cultivation of opinion-formers outside the FAI. And they document the culture of excess that Delaney presided over and benefited from, to the detriment of the organization he led.
Champagne Football is a gripping, sometimes darkly hilarious and often enraging piece of reporting by the award-winning September 2020 journalists who finally pulled back the curtain on the FAI's 9781844884933 mismanagement. Royal Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback Mark Tighe (Author) 256 pages Originally from Donegal, Mark Tighe is the legal correspondent of The Sunday Times in Ireland. As well as covering legal affairs, he specialises in investigative reporting. He was Irish newspaper news reporter of the year in 2018 and 2019. In 2019 he also won the Journalist of the Year award for his reporting on the FAI.
Paul Rowan (Author) Born and raised in Dublin, Paul Rowan is the Irish football correspondent for The Sunday Times, and the author of The Team That Jack Built. In 2019 he was joint winner of the NewsBrands Campaigning Journalism and Investigative
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To Love a Dog The Story of One Man, One Dog, and a Lifetime of Love and Mystery Tom Inglis
A moving and engaging exploration of life alongside man's best friend
Tom Inglis and his Wheaten terrier, Pepe, have lived together for eighteen years: countless days of walks and play and the odd bit of chaos. Now, though, they are both getting old.
To Love a Dog tells the story of Tom's life with Pepe, and looks at the ancient connection between humans and dogs. It explores why we take on the hassle of caring for these pet animals who rely on us so completely, who can create mess and upset in our lives, and who will probably die before us, leaving us behind to grieve.
Wise, life-affirming, and often deeply moving, this is a book for everyone who has ever loved a dog.
Tom Inglis is a sociologist and a life-long dog lover. Born and raised in Dublin, he now lives in a former schoolhouse (the school was once attended by John McGahern) in County Roscommon. For eighteen years he lived alongside Pepe, his beloved Wheaten terrier bitch. He is the author of several books, including Making Love: A Memoir and Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Modern Ireland.
September 2020 9781844884919 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 192 pages
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OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea Patrick Freyne
Funny, gripping, and sometimes heartbreaking essays from a big new comic talent
Patrick Freyne has tried a lot of stupid ideas in his life. Now, in his scintillating debut, he is here to tell you about them: like the time (aged 5) he opened a gate and let a horse out of its field, just to see what would happen; or the time (aged 19) he jumped out of a plane for charity, even though he didn't much care about the charity and was sure he'd end up dead; or the time (aged old enough to know better) he used a magazine as a funnel for fuel when the petrol cap on his band's van broke.
He has also learned a few things: about the power of group song; about the beauty of physically caring for another human being; about childlessness; about losing friends far too young. Life as seen through the eyes of Patrick Freyne is stranger, funnier and a lot more interesting than life as we generally know it. Like David Sedaris or Nora Ephron, he creates an environment all his own - fundamentally comic, sometimes moving, always deeply humane. OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is a joyous reading experience from an instantly essential new writer.
Patrick Freyne spent most of his twenties trying to be a rock star before turning to the much more stable and secure world of journalism. He is a features writer at the Irish Times. OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea is his first book.
September 2020 9781844884889 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 224 pages
40 Penguin Business
Reimagining Capitalism How Business Can Save the World Rebecca Henderson
How can ethical business save the world?
Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions, and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But it's also on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society in its single-minded pursuit of maximizing shareholder value.
Rebecca Henderson, McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, argues for a new framework; one that can simultaneously make a positive societal impact by confronting the realities of the environment and the need to address social and economic inequality, while also delivering sustained financial performance to ensure economic growth that brings prosperity and wellbeing to society as a whole.
Drawing on the lessons of companies from around the world who are acting on this responsibility - who are not only surviving but are thriving, becoming leaders in their industries and beginning to drive the wheels of change - Professor Henderson proves that this is not only a moral imperative for business but also the only way to remain competitive in our changing world.
Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University and teaches the Reimagining Capitalism course at Harvard Business School. She is a September 2020 research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research 9780241379660 and is a member of the British Academy and of the American Royal Octavo Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Henderson is an £20.00 : Hardback advisor to some of the world's leading companies and a board 336 pages member of Amgen and IDEXX Laboratories. The Financial Times recently named her a 'director of the year.'
41 Penguin Business
Competition is Killing Us How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It Michelle Meagher
Why we need to break up big business and how it would make the world a better place
We live in the age of big companies where multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else.
This leads to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these companies and hold them to account.
In Competition is Killing Us, lawyer and campaigner Michelle Meagher, establishes a new framework to control capitalism, presenting a fair and comprehensive approach to competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance. By debunking six myths about the free market, Meagher shows how corporate capitalism concentrates power at the cost of people and planet, and shares a new vision for anti-trust for the 21st century.
It's time capitalism worked for the many and not just the few.
Michelle Meagher is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University College London Centre for Law, Economics and Society and co- September 2020 founder of the Inclusive Competition Forum, a think tank 9780241423011 focused on democratising corporate power and the B Format enforcement of competition law. Michelle is a UK and US- £16.99 : Hardback qualified lawyer, specialising in competition law and corporate 256 pages governance. Michelle sits on the corporate governance committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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43 Fig Tree
Ghosts The Debut Novel from the Bestselling Author of Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton
The razor-sharp debut novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love
32-year-old Nina Dean is a successful food writer with a loyal online following, but a life that is falling apart. When she uses dating apps for the first time, she becomes a victim of ghosting, and by the most beguiling of men. Her beloved dad is vanishing in slow motion into dementia, and she's starting to think about ageing and the gendered double-standard of the biological clock. On top of this she has to deal with her mother's desire for a mid-life makeover and the fact that all her friends seem to be slipping away from her . . .
Dolly Alderton's debut novel is funny, tender and painfully relatable, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships and the way we live today.
Dolly Alderton is an award-winning journalist. She has a column in the Sunday Times and has written for publications including the Daily Telegraph, GQ, Marie Claire, Red and Grazia. She is the co-host of The High Low, a weekly pop culture and current affairs podcast, and also writes for television.
October 2020 9780241434543 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Hardback 336 pages
44 Viking
Trio William Boyd
From one of Britain's best-loved writers, the story of three people living secret lives in the tumultuous summer of 1968
A producer. A novelist. An actress.
It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.
As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.
From one of Britain's bestselling writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?
William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed, bestselling novels and five collections of stories. He is married and divides his time between London and south- west France.
October 2020 9780241295953 Royal Octavo £18.99 : Hardback 320 pages
45 Hamish Hamilton
The Lost Spells Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The unmissable sequel to the bestselling, award-winning, multi-adaptation hit The Lost Words
Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but new in form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treasure, a new collection of 'spells' - acrostic poetry and artwork - by beloved creative duo Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris.
Written to be read aloud, calling to forest, field, riverbank, ocean, and also to the heart, these 'spells' summon back what is often lost from sight and care, and inspire protection and action on behalf of the natural world. From Jay to Jackdaw, Oak to Barn Owl, Silver Birch to Grey Seal, they capture the special, individual spirit of each plant and creature. Above all, they celebrate a sense of wonder, bearing witness to nature's power to amaze, console and bring joy.
Robert Macfarlane is the bestselling author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks and Underland. He is also co-creator of The Lost Words, with Jackie Morris, and Ness, with Stanley Donwood. His work has won multiple awards including most recently the Wainwright Book Prize 2019. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.
Jackie Morris has written and illustrated over forty children's books, including Song of the Golden Hare and Tell Me A Dragon, October 2020 which have collectively sold more than a million copies 9780241444641 worldwide. She is co-creator of The Lost Words, for which she Other won a Kate Greenaway Medal, and most recently introduced £14.99 : Hardback and illustrated a new edition of Barbara Newhall Follett's lost 240 pages classic The House Without Windows.
46 Viking
Hitler and Stalin The Tyrants and the Second World War Laurence Rees
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants
This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants during the Second World War, when Germany and the Soviet Union fought the biggest and bloodiest war in history. Yet despite the fact they were bitter opponents, Laurence Rees shows that Hitler and Stalin were, to a large extent, different sides of the same coin.
Hitler's charismatic leadership may contrast with Stalin's regimented rule by fear; and his intransigence later in the war may contrast with Stalin's change in behaviour in response to events. But at a macro level, both were prepared to create undreamt-of suffering, destroy individual liberty and twist facts in order to build the utopias they wanted, and while Hitler's creation of the Holocaust remains a singular crime, Rees shows why we must not forget that Stalin committed a series of atrocities at the same time.
Using previously unpublished, startling eyewitness testimony from soldiers of the Red Army and Wehrmacht, civilians who suffered during the conflict and those who knew both men personally, bestselling historian Laurence Rees - probably the only person alive who has met Germans who worked for Hitler October 2020 and Russians who worked for Stalin - challenges long-held 9780241295205 popular misconceptions about two of the most important Royal Octavo figures in history. This is a master work from one of our finest £25.00 : Hardback historians. 656 pages Laurence Rees is the author of several acclaimed books on the Second World War and is a former Head of BBC TV History Programmes. His work includes the television series and bestselling books The Nazis: A Warning from History, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', World War II: Behind Closed Doors, The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler and The Holocaust: A New History. Rees holds honorary doctorates from the University of Sheffield and the Open University. His many and varied awards include a British Book Award, a BAFTA, a George Foster Peabody award, a Broadcasting Press Guild award, a Grierson award, a Broadcast award, two International
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How Spies Think Ten Lessons in Intelligence David Omand
From the former director of GCHQ, learn the methodology used by the British intelligence agencies to reach judgements, establish the right level of confidence and act decisively.
Intelligence officers discern the truth. They gather information - often contradictory or incomplete - and, with it, they build the most accurate possible image of the world. With the stakes at their absolute highest, they must then decide what to do.
In everyday life, you are faced with contradictory, incomplete information, too. Reading the news on social media, figuring out the next step in your career, or trying to discover if gossip about a friend is legitimate, you are building an image of the world and making decisions about it.
Looking through the eyes of one of Britain's most senior ex- intelligence officers, Professor Sir David Omand, How Spies Think shows how the big decisions in your life will be easier to make when you apply the same frameworks used by British intelligence. Full of revealing examples from his storied career, including key briefings with Prime Ministers from Thatcher to Blair, and conflicts from the Falklands to Afghanistan, Professor Omand arms us with the tools to sort fact from fiction, and shows us how to use real intelligence every day.
David Omand was the first UK Security and Intelligence October 2020 Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the 9780241385180 professional health of the intelligence community, national Demy Octavo counter-terrorism strategy and "homeland security". He served £20.00 : Hardback for seven years on the Joint Intelligence Committee. He was 352 pages Permanent Secretary of the Home Office from 1997 to 2000, and before that Director of GCHQ.
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Numbers Don't Lie 71 Things You Need to Know About the World Vaclav Smil
Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter
Is flying dangerous? How much do the world's cows weigh?And what makes people happy? From earth's nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself - in Numbers Don't Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking.
Packed with 'Well-I-never-knew-that' information and with fascinating and unusual examples throughout, we find out how many people it took to build the Great Pyramid, that vaccination yields the best return on investment, and why electric cars aren't as great as we think (yet). There's a wonderful mix of science, history and wit, all in bite-sized chapters on a broad range of topics. Urgent and essential, Numbers Don't Lie inspires readers to interrogate what they take to be true in these significant times. Smil is on a mission to make facts matter, because after all, numbers may not lie, but which truth do they convey?
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, October 2020 food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk 9780241454411 assessment and public policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Demy Octavo Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada. £16.99 : Hardback 384 pages
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Fuel Seán O'Brien
From a rural farm to the highest levels of the game, the Irish rugby legend tells his story
'He's one of the best players I've ever played with. As a forward, I'd say he's the best' Johnny Sexton
Seán O'Brien does not come from a traditional rugby background. He grew up on a farm in Tullow, far from the rugby hotbeds of Limerick and Cork or the fee-paying schools of Dublin. But as he made his way up through the ranks, it soon became clear that he was a very special player and a very special personality.
Now, Seán O'Brien tells the remarkable and unlikely story of his rise to the highest levels of world rugby, and of a decade of success with Leinster, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.
Seán O'Brien is from Tullow, Co. Carlow. He was a key figure in a golden era for Leinster and Ireland, and widely considered amongst the very best forwards in the world. He toured with the Lions in Australia in 2013 and in New Zealand in 2017. He currently plays for London Irish.
October 2020 9781844884599 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback 288 pages
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Good Hair The Essential Guide to Afro, Textured and Curly Hair Charlotte Mensah
A comprehensive practical guide to caring for Afro and curly hair, from the first black woman to be induced into the British Hairdressing Hall of Fame.
An essential, practical guide to caring for Afro, textured and curly hair.
In 2018, award-winning British-Ghanaian hairstylist and salon owner Charlotte Mensah was the first black woman to be inducted into the British Hairdressing Hall of Fame. Having spent three decades styling thousands of people, she has now written the first guide to loving and caring for your curls.
Featuring case studies of clients who came to her looking for a 'hair fix', and informed by her own story from apprentice to business-owner, this book will dispel common hair myths and give you the knowledge and tools to attain good hair health.
Good Hair is the ultimate guide on how to:
- identify and understand your curl texture(s) - promote hair growth and find good products - choose the right protective styles - overcome hair loss, itchiness or dryness - do styles such as cornrows, locs and bantu knots - devise your own tailored hair care routine October 2020 Packed with expert advice, nourishing recipes and top 9780241423523 maintenance tips, this is a celebration of the unique beauty Other and history of black hair. £14.99 : Hardback 224 pages Charlotte Mensah is a hairstylist, owner and artistic director of the Hair Lounge salon, and founder of the Charlotte Mensah Manketti Oil products. She trained at the London College of Fashion in the late '80s, under the guidance of 'The Godfather of British Afro Hairdressing', the late Winston Isaacs. Charlotte welcomes a constant tide of devoted clients, from the business, music and TV worlds. In 2018, she was crowned 'Afro Hairdresser of the Year' for the third time at the British Hairdressing Awards, subsequently entering the British Hairdressing Hall of Fame. Mensah has been at the forefront of the natural hair care movement since the early 2000 and has been a columnist on the subject since 2005. She is recognised
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How to be Strategic Fred Pelard
Upgrade Your Strategic Thinking at Work
Being strategic is a critical skill. It enables you to solve problems on a day-to-day basis while also keeping an eye on the long term, anticipating and mitigating opportunities and threats along the way.
How to be Strategic is an accessible but thorough guide to strategic thinking in any situation based on 20 years' experience training executives at all levels from leading companies across the UK, Europe and beyond. It offers a range of smartly-illustrated, workable methodologies to enable the reader to understand each approach and find their own path to the right solution every time.
Fred Pelard specialises in helping teams and organisations solve strategic problems. A rocket-scientist by training, he's been lecturing on strategic thinking and complex problem solving to the CEOs and management teams of major corporations and consulting firms around the world for the best part of 20 years with clients including BBC, Barclays, BAE Systems, Booz Allen, Channel 4, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Expedia, HSBC, IKEA, InterContinental Hotels, John Lewis, Johnson & Johnson, London Business School, Nike, OC&C Strategy, PaddyPower Betfair, Sainsbury's, Sky and Thomson Reuters. Fred started his career in management consulting with Deloitte, completed his MBA at INSEAD and has worked as a strategist ever since. October 2020 9780241423035 Royal Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 224 pages
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Bad Buying How Organisations Waste Billions Through Failures, Frauds and F**k-ups Peter Smith
In this hilarious, fascinating and insightful expose, industry insider Peter Smith reveals the massive blunders and dodgy dealings taking place around the world as private companies and public sector bodies buy goods and services
Why is the Berlin Brandenburg Airport ten years behind schedule and nearly four billion euros over budget? What possessed Kenya's government to spend a whopping $35 million on a chain link fence just six miles long?
Organisations large and small spend up to 90% of their budgets on external suppliers of goods and services. Huge amounts of money flow between firms, yet most pay little attention to this element of their business. All too often billions are wasted on large-scale projects and the damage caused by corruption, ineptitude and mismanaged buying is hidden from shareholders and the public. By turns an entertaining account of some of the worst procurement scams in history and also a resounding lesson in how not to operate, Bad Buying offers clear and practical advice on how to avoid embarrassing mistakes, minimise needless waste and make sound, strategic procurement decisions on your next initiative.
October 2020 9780241434598 Royal Octavo £14.99 : Trade Paperback 240 pages
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The Searcher Tana French
A missing boy A small town A question that needs answering
Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens.
But then a local kid comes looking for his help. His brother has gone missing, and no one, least of all the police, seems to care. Cal wants nothing to do with any kind of investigation, but somehow he can't make himself walk away.
Soon Cal will discover that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren't always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door.
Our greatest living mystery writer weaves a masterful tale of breath-taking beauty and suspense, asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice, and the dangers of finding what we seek.
Tana French is the award-winning, Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling author of In the Woods, The Likeness, Faithful Place, Broken Harbour, The Secret Place and The Trespasser. She has won many awards for her fiction, including the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and IVCA Clarion awards, the LA November 2020 Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book 9780241459416 Award for Best Crime Fiction. She grew up in Ireland, Italy, the Royal Octavo US and Malawi, and trained as an actress at Trinity College £14.99 : Trade Paperback Dublin before becoming a writer. She lives in Dublin with her 320 pages family.
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Mr Wilder and Me Jonathan Coe
The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of Middle England
A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the sweltering summer of 1976. She knows nothing about him or his work, but this chance encounter will change her life for good. But while Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself - struggling to raise the money for his next feature film - is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane.
In his new novel that is, by turns, funny, tender and profoundly truthful, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze to the nature of time, fame, family and nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go?
Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England, which won the Costa Novel of the Year Award and the Prix du Livre Européen. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.
November 2020 9780241454664 Royal Octavo £18.99 : Hardback 320 pages
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Darling India Knight
A razor-sharp, dazzling update of Nancy Mitford's best-loved novel, The Pursuit of Love
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock-star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.
When Linda eventually moves to London, she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But love, and her new life in London, are not quite what she expected . . .
India Knight is the author of four novels: Mutton, Comfort and Joy, Don't You Want Me? and My Life on a Plate. Her non-fiction books include The Shops, the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook, The Thrift Book, In Your Prime and The Goodness of Dogs. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in Suffolk with her partner and three children.
November 2020 9781905490851 Demy Octavo £14.99 : Hardback 256 pages
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Women Mihail Sebastian With an introduction by John Banville
A gorgeous Romanian modern classic about love and relationships, with an introduction by Booker-winner John Banville
Stefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass through his guesthouse. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the lover, and at others observing shrewdly from the periphery.
Women's four interlinked stories offer nuanced and deeply moving portraits of romantic relationships in all their complexity, from unrequited love and passionate affairs to tepid marriages of convenience. In light, elegant prose, Mihail Sebastian, widely regarded as the greatest Romanian writer of the 20th century, explores longing, otherness, empathy, and regret.
Mihail Sebastian was born in Romania in 1907 as Iosef Hecter. He worked as a lawyer and writer until anti-Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. Having survived the war and the Holocaust, he was killed in a road accident early in 1945 as he was crossing the street to teach his first class. His long-lost diary, Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, was published to great acclaim in the late 1990s. November 2020 John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the 9780241442906 author of fourteen previous novels including The Sea, which B Format won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. He was recently awarded the £8.99 : Paperback Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Dublin. 176 pages
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COUCH FICTION A Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy Philippa Perry Flo Perry
Bestselling writer and psychotherapist, Philippa Perry, takes us on a journey with psychotherapist, Patricia, and her first- time client, James.
Ever wanted to know what really happens in a therapist's consultation room?
Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vividly explores a year's therapy sessions as a search for understanding and truth.
Beautifully illustrated by Flo Perry, author of How to Have Feminist Sex, and accompanied by succinct and illuminating footnotes, this book offers a witty and thought-provoking exploration of the therapeutic journey, considering a range of skills, insights and techniques along the way.
I loved it. I smiled and laughed. And nodded. One to read - Susie Orbach, author of 'In Therapy'
(full of) wit and good sense (...) Philippa is a tonic even if you're not her patient - Rachel Cooke, Observer
Philippa Perry (Author) November 2020 PHILIPPA PERRY has been a psychotherapist for the past 9780241461785 twenty years. She is an agony aunt for Red Magazine, a 214x153 freelance writer, and a TV and radio presenter. She has written £16.99 : Hardback two other books: Couch Fiction and How to Stay Sane. She lives 160 pages in London with her husband the artist Grayson Perry, and they have a grown-up daughter, Flo. Her bestselling book The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read was published in 2019.
Flo Perry (Illustrator) Flo Perry is a writer and illustrator, former BuzzFeed editor and expert on making illustrations go viral. She was born and raised in the wilds of North London and still lives there with two lovely homosexual housemates and a terrible cat. Her book How to Have Feminist Sex was published in 2019.
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If You Should Fail A Book of Solace Joe Moran
To fail is human. Get used to it...
Do you ever feel like a failure? Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, not to tell you that everything will be OK in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. It is the small print in life's terms and conditions.
If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of broadcasting success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters; so we need more narratives of failures, and to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.
It is encouraging to read that the seemingly invincible Leonardo da Vinci or Virginia Woolf, for example, felt like failures. Woolf wrote that she wanted to 'look life in the face and to know it for what it is'; the truth is cruel, but it can be loved.
Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human and his critique of how we live now offers comfort and hope. As Samuel Beckett advised, despair young and never look back . . .
Joe Moran is Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University and is the author of six November 2020 books, including Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life 9780241422793 from Breakfast to Bedtime, Armchair Nation: An Intimate History B Format of Britain in Front of the TV and Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to £14.99 : Hardback Shyness. 224 pages
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The Cypher Files An Escape Room… in a Book! Dimitris Chassapakis
The new interactive puzzle book from the creator of the bestselling cult phenomenon Journal 29
The Cypher Files is unlike any book you've experienced before. In this unique interactive game, you will solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle, you'll need to think outside the box.
You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R., the secret international agency working on 'unsolvable' code-based cases. With fellow agents missing left and right and a mysterious foe bearing down on you, the clock is ticking to crack the codes and avoid a certain fate.
To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold pages, and think laterally to reveal your enemy and solve the mystery.
All you need to play is a pencil, an internet connection, and a curious mind.
Dimitris Chassapakis is a digital creative director by day. In 2015 he published a viral mobile puzzle app game called none* which was featured in the Daily Mail and Business Insider. In 2017 he crowdfunded and published Journal 29 and in 2018 a sequel, Journal 29: Revelation. After finding a cult audience online both books have been translated into multiple November 2020 languages. Dimitris lives with his wife and children in Athens. 9780241481745 Royal Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 128 pages
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The Moth and the Mountain A True Story of Love, War and Everest Ed Caesar
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest alone.
In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran named Maurice Wilson conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan: he would fly a Gipsy Moth aeroplane from England to Everest, crash land on its lower slopes, then become the first person to reach its summit - all utterly alone.
Wilson didn't know how to climb. He barely knew how to fly. But he had pluck, daring and a vision - he wanted to be the first man to stand on top of the world. Traumatised by his wartime experiences and leaving behind a trail of broken hearts, Wilson believed that Everest could redeem him.
This is the tale of an adventurer unlike any you have ever encountered: an unforgettable story about the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Maurice Wilson is a man written out of the history books - dismissed as an eccentric and a charlatan by many, but held in the highest regard by renowned mountaineers such as Reinhold Messner. The Moth and the Mountain restores him to his rightful place in the annals of Everest and in doing so attempts to answer that eternal question - why do we climb mountains? November 2020 Ed Caesar is forty years old. He lives in Manchester, and writes 9780241262313 for the New Yorker. He has won eleven major journalism Royal Octavo awards - including a British Press Award, PPA Writer of the £18.99 : Hardback Year and the 2014 Foreign Press Award for Journalist of the 256 pages Year. His subjects have included conflict in central Africa, the world's longest tennis match, stolen art, money-laundering, and the trade in diamonds. His first book, Two Hours, won a Cross Sports Book Award in 2016.
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Investing To Save The Planet Alice Ross
Make sure your money doesn't cost the earth
Your money, and how you invest it, could help solve the global climate crisis.
In Investing to Save the Planet, Alice Ross reveals why green investing is an untapped opportunity for you to make a positive impact on the health of the planet and your portfolio.
The world is changing. The climate crisis has given rise to a wave of companies that are developing cutting-edge, technological solutions to climate change; from improving energy efficiency to engineering alternative meat. These companies, part of an increasingly-popular investment segment collectively known as Environmental, Social and Governance strategies (ESG), are helping tackle our environmental challenges and reshaping the investment landscape.
Urgent and indispensable, this investor's guide will provide you with the vital information you need to build your successful ESG investment strategy to secure a positive future for you and the planet.
Alice Ross has been a Financial Times journalist for more than a decade writing on topics from personal investment to corporate activity to market movements. She has held roles as the deputy editor of the weekend Money section, editor of the Wealth Magazine and now holds a role as the editor of the November 2020 newsletter, Trade Secrets, which examines issues affecting 9780241457238 globalisation including climate change. Alice has a degree in Demy Octavo philosophy from Cambridge University and an MA in European £14.99 : Trade Paperback Thought from University College London. 192 pages
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BANKING ON IT How I Disrupted an Industry Anne Boden
An awe-inspiring story of how one woman took on the financial establishment and founded the fast-growing digital bank, Starling
I surprised myself the first time I fully articulated the words "I'm starting a bank"'
BANKING ON IT is the first-hand account of one woman's quest to rebuild Britain's broken banking system.
After a lengthy career at the top of some of Britain's leading banks Anne Boden had become disillusioned with the status quo - the financial crash had broken trust in the whole sector but there seemed to be little appetite to make the most of emerging technologies to revolutionise customer experience. Increasingly frustrated with the inertia within the industry she decided to shake things up herself by doing something totally radical - setting up her own bank.
In this awe-inspiring story Anne reveals how she broke through bureaucracy, tackled prejudice and successfully countered widespread suspicion to realise her vision for the future of consumer banking. She fulfilled that dream by founding Starling, the winner of Best British Bank at the British Bank Awards 2018 and in doing so has triggered a new movement that is revolutionising the entire banking industry. November 2020 Anne Boden is the CEO and founder of Starling Bank, the UK's 9780241453582 first digital-only bank which she founded in 2014. She Royal Octavo graduated in Computer Science and Chemistry and started her £20.00 : Hardback career at Lloyds Bank where she helped establish the UK's the 320 pages first real-time payments system. She has held various executive-level jobs in the banking sector, including being Head of EMEA Global Transaction Banking across 34 countries for RBS and ABN AMRO, before leaving to start her own bank that could realise the potential of technology in financial services. She also runs the #MakeMoneyEqual campaign to address gender inequality in the banking industry.
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