January–June 2021 'Through all aspects of society, be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology, or communications, we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation — the result of which is impossible to predict.' Malcolm McLaren (2009) January–June 2021 Contents The Diet Compass 1 Our Hormones, Our Health 14 Bas Kast Dr Susanne Esche-Belke & Dr Suzann Kirschner-Brouns Beowulf 2 Maria Dahvana Headley The Just 15 Jan Brokken Sex at Dawn 3 Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá Monsters 16 Alison Croggon #ENTRYLEVELBOSS 4 Alexa Shoen The Changing of the Guard 17 Simon Akam Prosopagnosia 5 Sònia Hernández A Room Called Earth 18 Madeleine Ryan Repentance 6 Alison Gibbs Little Brother 19 Ibrahima Balde & The New Climate War 7 Amets Arzallus Antia Michael E. Mann The Invention of Miracles 20 Promises to Keep 8 Katie Booth Joe Biden Black and Blue 21 Literary Lion Tamers 9 Veronica Gorrie Craig Munro Plunder 22 The Beach Caves 10 Menachem Kaiser Trevor Shearston Higher Ground 23 The Speechwriter 11 Anke Stelling Martin McKenzie-Murray The Walls Came Tumbling Down 24 How We Are Translated 12 Henriette Roosenburg Jessica Gaitán Johannesson Cop This Lot 25 We See It All 13 Tobias McCorkell Jon Fasman Contents continued The Chief Witness 26 Rewilding the Urban Soul 32 Sayragul Sauytbay Claire Dunn A Matter of Death and Life 27 So Tell Me About the Last Time Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom You Had Sex 33 Ian Kerner Two-Week Wait 28 Luke C. Jackson, Kelly Jackson, All That I Remember About & Mara Wild Dean Cola 34 Tania Chandler An Unconventional Wife 29 Mary Hoban The Union of Synchronised Swimmers 35 King Richard 30 Cristina Sandu Michael Dobbs Recent Releases 36 The Ghost in the Garden 31 Jude Piesse Foreign Rights Sub-Agents 48 POPULAR HEALTH / POPULAR SCIENCE JANUARY 2021 Bas Kast The Diet Compass Translated by David Shaw the 12-step guide to science-based nutrition for a healthier and longer life What do people with a particularly long life-span eat? How can you lose weight efficiently? Are illnesses in old age avoidable? Can you ‘eat yourself young’? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this practical, science-based guide to eating well and living longer, which has sold over a million copies worldwide. When science journalist Bas Kast collapsed with chest pains, he feared he had ruined his health forever with a diet of junk food. So he set off on a journey to uncover the essentials of diet and longevity. Here, filtered from thousands of sometimes conflicting research findings, Kast presents the key scientific insights that reveal the most beneficial diet possible. From analysing how BAS KAST was born in 1973, and studied psychology and biol- much sugar you should consume to looking at the impact of ogy in Constance, Bochum, and supplements, fasting, and even whether you should drink tea or Boston. He works as a science coffee, Kast breaks down diet myths to present the key facts you journalist and author. His pub- lications include I Do Not Know need to know in clear, accessible language. What I Want (2012), and And Suddenly CLICK! (2015). DAVID SHAW works as a journal- ist for Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, as well as translating from several languages, including German, Dutch, Russian, and French. He lives in Berlin. RRP: $32.99 RIGHTS HELD: WORLD ENGLISH 234 x 153mm paperback, 288pp OTHER RIGHTS: VERLAGSGRUPPE ISBN: 9781925849844 RANDOM HOUSE 1 JANUARY 2021 EPIC POETRY Maria Dahvana Beowulf Headley a new translation A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. This radical new verse translation ofBeowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history — it has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a #1 significant shifts lost over centuries, transforming the binary New York Times bestselling author and editor, most recently of the narrative of monsters and heroes into a thrilling tale in which the novels The Mere Wife, Magonia, two categories often entwine. and Queen of Kings, and the memoir The Year of Yes. With Kat Howard she is the co-author of The End of the Sentence, and with Neil Gaiman she is the co-editor of Unnatural Creatures. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and her work has been supported by the MacDowell Colony and by Arte Studio Ginestrelle. She was raised with a wolf and a pack of sled dogs in the high desert of rural Idaho and now lives in Brooklyn. RRP: $27.99 RIGHTS HELD: UK & C’WEALTH 210 x 135mm paperback, 176pp (EX. CAN) ISBN: 9781925713886 OTHER RIGHTS: THE GERNERT 2 COMPANY PSYCHOLOGY / HUMAN SEXUALITY JANUARY 2021 Christopher Ryan & Sex at Dawn Cacilda Jethá how we mate, why we stray, and what it means for modern sexuality The 10th-anniversary edition of the book that radically re-evaluates the origins and nature of human sexuality. Since Darwin’s day, we’ve been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science — as well as religious and cultural institutions — has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man’s possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman’s fertility and fidelity. In this groundbreaking book, however, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá argue that human beings evolved in egalitarian groups that shared food, child care, and, often, sexual partners. Weaving together evidence from anthropology, archaeology, primatology, anatomy, and psychosexuality, the authors show how far from human nature monogamy really is. With intelligence and humour, Ryan and Jethá explain how CHRISTOPHER RYAN received our promiscuous past haunts our contemporary struggles. They his PhD in research psychology at Saybrook Graduate School explore why many people find long-term fidelity so difficult, in San Francisco, focusing on why sexual passion tends to fade even as love deepens, why prehistoric sexual behaviour. He homosexuality persists in the face of standard evolutionary logic, has taught at the University of Barcelona Medical School, and and what the human body reveals about the prehistoric origins of published both scientific and modern sexuality. popular articles and book chap- ters on human sexuality. Shocking, enlightening, and ultimately inspiring, Sex at Dawn offers a revolutionary understanding of why we live CACILDA JETHÁ is a practis- ing psychiatrist, specialising and love as we do. in psychosexual disorders and couples therapy. She has done field research on sexuality for the ‘Sex at Dawn is the single most important book about human World Health Organization. Ryan sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the and Jethá are married and live in Human Male on the American public in 1948.’ Dan Savage Barcelona. RRP: $29.99 RIGHTS HELD: ANZ 210 x 135mm paperback, 416pp OTHER RIGHTS: TRIDENT MEDIA ISBN: 9781922310316 GROUP 3 JANUARY 2021 CAREER / SELF-HELP Alexa Shoen #ENTRYLEVELBOSS a 9-step guide for finding a job you like (and actually getting hired to do it) Banging your head against the wall with the job search? #ENTRYLEVELBOSS will help you stop freaking out. Miserable in your current role but no idea what to do next? With this book you’ll be able to make a decision, no personality tests required. Convinced that you are the most unhireable person on this planet? That’s statistically improbable — and you’ll be amazed at how employable you’ll be by the time you have finished reading. This is personal training for your career, based on a step-by-step plan that includes: • All the intel you need about getting hired in today’s world, in today’s industries, and with today’s tools. • Hyper-specific advice, including templates for networking ALEXA SHOEN, born in 1989, is emails, CVs, and cover letters. the internet’s leading confidant • Straight-to-the-point guidance about what not to do. for panicking jobseekers and the CEO of #ENTRYLEVELBOSS: an • A solid dose of humour and emotional support from online education company that someone who really has been there. transforms those jobseekers into hired, happy professionals. She previously worked in design for The world of work has changed, and getting hired today Facebook, leading cross-plat- for a job you actually want is going to take a lot more than a form initiatives to optimise the neatly typed cover letter and a well-pressed suit. But along with company’s multi-billion-dollar advertising business. Before that, all the challenges of the new economy come unprecedented she was one of the most sought- opportunities, and careers expert Alexa Shoen is here to after communication consultants in the European tech industry unlock them for you. and advised high-growth companies in Berlin, London, and New York. Alexa is also an acclaimed independent jazz vocalist. She is originally from San Diego, California. RRP: $24.99 RIGHTS HELD: UK & C’WEALTH 198 x 129mm paperback, 256pp (EX. CAN) ISBN: 9781925849424 OTHER RIGHTS: THE 4 BARTHOLOMEW KILLINGLEY SPACKMAN AGENCY TRANSLATED FICTION JANUARY 2021 Sònia Hernández Prosopagnosia Translated by Samuel Rutter A sly and playful novel about the many faces we all have.