HarperCollinsPublishers FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2020 TRANSLATION RIGHTS NON-FICTION Contents History & Reference 3 Society 13 Art, Music & Literature 26 Life stories & Personal Narratives 34 Nature & Environment 39 Tech & Science 49 Sports & Adventure 52 Health & Wellbeing 61 Gift & Humour 77 Food & Drink 92 Parenting & Children’s Reference 108 True Life 111 Contacts 117 History & Reference ELIZABETHANS How Modern Britain Was Forged Andrew Marr Through these sung and unsung titans of the modern Elizabethan era, Andrew Marr tells the history of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse, contradictory and divided country it is today. Imprint: William Collins In 1953 when the Queen ascended her throne, Britain was a very Editor: Arabella Pike different nation. People wore more hats and uniforms, went regularly to Publication: 1 Oct 2020 Format: Hardback church and were deeply class conscious. The Windrush generation had Extent: 512pp arrived just five years earlier, and many African-Caribbean and Indian people new to the UK were being denied housing, work, entry to pubs, clubs and places of worship. There was division over immigration, food Genre: History rationing and debate about what a late twentieth century Britain should Themes: Society and Culture, look like. How did we get from there to here? British History Bestselling author and broadcaster Andrew Marr offers up an answer: The author: Andrew Marr is change came from the people. Telling Britain’s modern history through a British journalist, former editor of the Independent and diverse cast of individuals from all walks of life, Marr shows how women BBC Political Editor. He hosts started owning their sexuality; how black activists changed the way we BBC 1’s Andrew Marr Show, talked about race; how attitudes changed towards everything from and presented Radio social inequality to immigration, music, sexuality and freedom of 4’s Start the Week from 2005 to 2012. His acclaimed expression. Celebrating activists and artists, sports heroes and business television documentaries leaders, this book moves from Sylvia Plath to Elvis Costello, Frank Critchlow include the series Andrew to Bob Geldof, Winston Churchill to Marcus Rashford, Zaha Hadid to Marr’s History of Modern James Dyson, Dusty Springfield to David Attenborough. Britain and The Making of Modern Britain. He also writes hugely successful non-fiction Through these sung and unsung titans of the modern Elizabethan era, this books. is a history that gets to the heart of how 1950s Britain evolved into the diverse, contradictory and divided country it is today. Praise for Andrew Marr: ‘Absolutely gripping… Tells the whole story of where we are now. Can’t put it down. A book full of stories’ Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 4 • ‘It is the clarity of his judgements, the arresting insights and the irrepressible wit that keep us hanging on to his words. Among his other qualities, Marr is the ideal history teacher that most people never had at school … A damned good read … This FBF 2020 book will be read with pleasure, for Marr's ironic tone and ever-present pleasant presence.’ Bernard Crick, Edinburgh Review ‘A fine example of popular history … engaging and intelligent.’ Financial Times PUBLISHERS • ‘He has the rare gift of being able to explain complex issues in a few crisp sentences.’ Sunday Telegraph HARPERCOLLINS THE YOUNG ALEXANDER Alex Rowson In this brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery: Alexander the Great. Imprint: William Collins Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, Editor: Arabella Pike known now both for his accomplishments and his precocity – he Publication: 14 Apr 2022 Format: Hardback achieved it all before dying abruptly at the age of thirty-two. But while Extent: 336pp much is known of his later years, almost nothing had survived of his first two decades – until now. Genre: Biography Since the astonishing discovery of the tomb of Macedon – that of Themes: Ancient History Alexander’s father – in 1977, archaeologists have been scouring what is The author: Alex Rowson is a now northern Greece to uncover extraordinary details of life in ancient writer and award-winning TV Macedonia. producer who has worked on some of the most In this book, Alex Rowson tells this story, drawing from new knowledge to successful history and archaeology programmes of portray the tempestuous relationship between Alexander’s parents, Philip recent times, including and the Molossian princess Olympias, his education by Aristotle, and the Richard III: The King in the strict military training which would serve him so well in later years. Car Park & Time Team on Channel 4 and Digging for In a rare explosion of fresh understanding of the ancient world, Rowson Britain (BBC 4). offers a new story about a figure we all thought we knew. 5 • FBF 2020 PUBLISHERS • HARPERCOLLINS PALACES OF RESTORATION The Palaces, Lives and Loves of the Stuart Kings Dr Simon Thurley In Palaces of Restoration, Dr Simon Thurley tells the fascinating story of the Stuart dynasty, a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years, in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Imprint: William Collins Although the Tudors are the nation’s favourite royal dynasty, the story of Editor: Myles Archibald/ the Stuarts is much more exciting. It’s the remarkable tale of James I, Hazel Eriksson Publication: 27 May 2021 whose favourite son dies and is succeeded by his second son, Charles, Format: Hardback an aesthete incapable of ruling. Charles I goes to war against his own Extent: 368pp people – he loses, and is executed. His son, also Charles, gets crowned king in Scotland but, exiled, holds court in Europe. England under Oliver Genre: History and Cromwell, meanwhile, is still a monarchy in all but name. When Cromwell architecture dies nobody knows what to do. Themes: True stories, political and military Short on options, Charles II is restored to the throne; but he has no legitimate children and, unlike Henry VIII, does not divorce his queen – The author: Dr Simon Thurley the heir is his brother, a bigoted and narrow-minded Roman Catholic. is one of Britain’s leading architectural historians. A When he comes to power he turns everyone against him and is driven regular broadcaster on out and replaced by his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her Dutch television and radio, he was husband William of Orange. Mary tragically dies and William leaves no until 2015 the Chief heir, the throne going to James II’s younger daughter Anne. She also fails Executive of English to have issue and the Stuarts are extinguished as a royal line. Heritage, the government’s principal advisor on the historic environment in Simon Thurley shows us these places in graphic detail. It takes us from England. Previous posts have Royston and Newmarket, where James I appropriated most of the town included Curator of the centre as a sort of rough-and-ready royal housing estate, to the steamy Historic Royal Palaces and Director of the Museum of Turkish baths at Whitehall where Charles II seduced his mistresses. The London. Simon is the author book is thus about the everyday life of the monarchy, presented of a number of acclaimed chronologically, through the buildings in which they lived. It will present books on architectural new stories and information about the period not only in the text but history, including Whitehall through maps and plans that bring life to the Stuart age. Palace, Hampton Court, The Building of England and 6 Praise for Simon Thurley: Houses of Power. He is • married to the historian and writer Anna Keay, and lives ‘An absorbing account of the lives of these royal houses. It is a journey not just in London and Norfolk. from palace to hunting lodge to castle, but into the small and poignant details of FBF 2020 domestic existence’ Times Literary Supplement ‘This is a landmark book. Nobody interested in Tudor England can afford not to own a copy of this gateway into a lost world . compulsively readable’ Country Life PUBLISHERS • ‘Unrivalled architectural expertise . Superb writing . A triumph: a masterly collective biography of [Tudor Royal] buildings, replete with insights into their owners’ private lives and into politics, diplomacy and court etiquette’ Literary Review HARPERCOLLINS AN ATLAS OF EXTINCT COUNTRIES The Remarkable (and Occasionally Ridiculous) Stories of 48 Nations that Fell off the Map Gideon Defoe An Atlas of Extinct Countries meets David Nicholl’s Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. Imprint: Fourth Estate Countries die. Sometimes it’s murder, sometimes it’s by accident, and Editor: Helen Garnon- sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous they didn’t deserve to Williams Publication: 3 Sep 2020 exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip Format: Hardback away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either ‘got too Extent: 144pp greedy’ or ‘Napoleon turned up’. Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. Genre: History This is an atlas of nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing For: Amateur historians and geographers, map and an obituary is: dwell on the good bits, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. miscellanies geeks This book fails to do that. And that is mainly because most of these dead nations (and a lot of the ones that are still alive) are so weird or The author: Gideon Defoe is borderline nonsensical that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff.