NEW BOOKS | July–December 2014 HIGHLIGHTS

FICTION | 10 FICTION | 14 FICTION | 17

HISTORY | 24 HISTORY/MATHS | 26 PSYCHOLOGY | 30

POPULAR SCIENCE | 34 POPULAR SCIENCE | 36 BIOGRAPHY | 38 CONTENTS

CONTENTS

FICTION New Titles 2 New in Paperback 14 Recent Releases 19 Key Backlist 22

NON-FICTION New Titles 24 New in Paperback 49 Recent Releases 55 Beginner’s Guides 56 Key Backlist 60

DISTRIBUTORS & REPRESENTATIVES 64 CONNECTICUT: 1913–1920

HE ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1913 ON A BOAT NAMED TRIESTE. His face open, the brow smooth, eyes with the at once earnest, at once insecure gaze of hopeful, wanting youth. He began work fast. First at the Remington Arms Company, making ammunition for the Russian Imperial Army, rising up the ranks to become an inspector of the Mosin – Nagant rifle and later working for the Hitchcock Gas Engine Company. In Bridgeport, Connecticut. His early mornings spent among the others. The hordes of men shuttling to and from factories in lines and masses of gray or black through the dim light of winter mornings and in the spring when the morning sun was like a secret, coy and sparkling, the water flashing on the sound. They found each other though. Through all of that, they, the Russians, found each other. They learned to spot each other through mannerisms, glances. This was later. In 1919. Then, the restrictions came at work and in the boarding house. ‘English! You must speak English! That, or go back home,’ the foreman always said. The warehouses loomed up around the men like capes. Their windowpanes caked with dirt, small rectangles of frosted, beveled glass. Sometimes, the broken panes were replaced by colored lozenges – sea green, slate blue, dark ruby red. Austin liked to connect them, making up constellations, innumerable designs and geometries. ‘English!’ The foreman’s voice would resound off the tin walls, echoing off the glass, the workers all seated in rows solemn and silent, some standing. Once he made the mistake of speaking Russian to a worker. ‘Bolshevik! Go back to Russia and bring your revolution with you!’ the foreman yelled. In those early years he sometimes spoke Russian in his sleep and woke in a sweat, the others around him, snoring or stirring as he peeled back his covers to step out of bed, springs creaking. ‘The bastard is up again.’ ‘Hey, Polak – can’t you sleep like a normal person?’ The inaccuracy, or the intent, of the slander – he was not sure which had been the more injurious. Cautiously, he’d slip out of the room and with overcoat on, make his way through the narrow hallways and down to the first floor, feeling for the latch underneath the stairs – its wrought iron handle cool and coarse. He’d made a deal with the proprietor. For one more dollar a month he agreed to keep Austin’s books safe – notebooks mostly. The owner wouldn’t touch them, he’d promised. And in the milky white of those winter mornings, Austin would sit at the large kitchen table working. His drafting paper spread across the table. A compass. A slide rule. Then he was obsessed with the scientist Faraday, examining his notebooks, reading his reports on electromagnetic wave theory for radio. He was fascinated with Maxwell’s question: What is light? He’d read Maxwell’s Matter and Motion, Theory of Heat. NEW FICTION 3

THE INVENTION OF EXILE Vanessa Manko

The devastating story of one man’s desperate attempts to be reunited with his family

Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor and an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee. Retreating with his new bride to his home in Russia, he and his American family become embroiled in the Civil War and must flee once again, to Mexico.

While his wife Julia and their children are eventually able to return to America, the black mark on Austin’s record leaves him indefinitely stranded in Mexico City. As they struggle to remain a family across a distance of two countries, Austin ‘A brilliant debut.’ Salman Rushdie becomes convinced that an FBI agent is monitoring his every move and blocking his return to the United States. ‘Vanessa Manko is a voice for the years to come.’ Colum McCann In this dazzling, sweeping debut, Vanessa Manko uses her own family history as the starting point for a novel which ‘A beautiful, bewitching and profound deals with themes of exile and invention, and explores how novel.’ Francisco Goldman loss reshapes and transforms lives. ‘Vanessa Manko’s fantastically ambitious and rewarding novel, The Invention of Exile, lovingly and carefully details the terrible but wondrous twinning of one man’s fate with Russian, Mexican and American history.’ Rivka Galchen

FICTION VANESSA MANKO earned her MFA in Creative UK/ROW 3 JULY 2014 Writing from Hunter College, where she received a Demy Hardback Hertog Fellowship, and has taught creative writing (216×135mm) at NYU and SUNY Purchase. An excerpt of this £14.99 novel was originally published in Granta. She lives 304 pages in Brooklyn, New York. ISBN: 978-1-78074-553-4 eISBN: 978-1-78074-554-1 Credit: Beowulf Sheehan 4 FICTION NEW

ISHMAEL’S ORANGES Claire Hajaj

A provocative debut novel about the marriage between a Jewish woman and an Arab man and the legacy of hatred their children inevitably inherit

It’s April 1948 and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven- year-old Salim is dreaming of claiming his first harvest from the family orange tree with his father; the next he is swept away by the ‘Great Catastrophe’ into a life of exile. Meanwhile Jude is growing up in the north of England, a girl from a Jewish family which has survived the Holocaust. When their paths collide in swinging-sixties London and they fall in love, they think they are aware of the many challenges ahead of them, but before long they both face unexpected choices. Can they defy the lessons of their childhoods and build a life together? Or can nothing stop old seeds ripening to bitter fruits?

Revisiting its characters as the decades pass, Ishmael’s Oranges tells the story of two cultures clashing through the lives of Salim and Jude as the relentless tides of history wash over the many crossroads of the Middle East. Spanning three generations, it follows the journeys of those cast adrift by war – as well as by their own impulses – and asks what is the birthright of the generations that follow? Through Salim, Jude and their twins, we explore the longest conflict of our era in universally human terms: the families we build, the loyalties we owe and the stories we pass on to our children.

CLAIRE HAJAJ has spent her life building bridges FICTION between two worlds, sharing both Palestinian and UK/ROW 17 JUL 2014 Jewish heritage, and a childhood split between the USA & CAN 12 AUG 2014 Middle East and rural England. She has lived on four Demy Hardback continents and worked for the UN in war zones from (216×135mm) Burma to Baghdad. A former contributor to the BBC £16.99/$24.99 World Service, Claire’s writing has also appeared in 336 pages Time Out and Literary Review. She has an MA in Classical ISBN: 978-1-78074-494-0 and English Literature from Oxford University. eISBN: 978-1-78074-495-7 There were two ways to get from Al-Ajami to the souks of Jaffa’s Clock Tower Square. The route from Salim’s house led straight through the silent inland. It passed the sun- bleached whiteness of the seaside villas, their walled gardens spilling glorious streams of red bougainvillea and the dusty tang of oranges. It turned left onto old Al-Ajami Street, where new motorcars whined past donkeys trundling loads of pomegranates and lemons. The door of Abulafia’s bakery was always open, even in in the bracing winter months. Salim had waited there a hundred times, his senses scorched by the smell of pastries rising in clouds of cinnamon and allspice. His mother liked manquish, a flatbread sprinkled with thyme and sesame. He used to eat it from her hands, a little piece at a time, as they walked out into Jaffa’s old city, with its coffee shops and yellow plumes of nargile smoke. The other way to the Square belonged to Jaffa’s boys; it was a rite of passage. As soon as a boy was old enough to walk, another would dare him to try it - crossing down across the wild beaches, braving the slippery rocks and then inching out step by step under the ancient port wall. Today, the sun beat down on the great crescent of the Mediterranean; the water shone gold against the black land like a ring in an African ear. Salim and Mazen jumped across the tide pools, splashing the bare-armed boys fishing for crabs. They picked their way across the jagged rocks until the port of Jaffa emerged in white, sea-stained stone. ‘Jaffa’s harbour is as old as the sea,’ Brother Phillipe had taught them. ‘It was here before the Arabs or the Jews. God himself led Japhet here, Noah’s son, in the times before time. The bones of twenty-two armies rest here. The pagans of Thebes chained their maiden sacrifice just there,’ his wrinkled hand pointed and a dozen pairs of eyes followed it, ‘There, out on the rocks that we call Andromeda, waiting for the sea monster to devour them. The British King Richard the Lionheart, lay in his sickbed on the port just there, begging Salah Al Din for peace. The godless Emperor Napoleon camped by the lighthouse, while the plague destroyed his army and his righteous prisoners rose against him. He learned a lesson that I tell you now, mes enfants: that Jaffa is God’s beloved place, and they are cursed who come to harm it.’ Ben stares at his face in the mirror, just stares, trying to see who’s in there. He feels like his body’s a coat that belongs to someone else. He’s put it on by mistake and now he can’t get it off. It feels like at school when you write down the wrong answer in pencil, then rub it out and write over it, but the dent of the old writing’s still there underneath – and it was right all along. NEW FICTION 7

HERRING GIRL Debbie Taylor

A troubled boy; the possibility of past life regression; and an unsolved murder from 100 years ago that threatens to take another life

Twelve-year-old Ben believes he is a girl. When therapist Mary suggests hypnosis, he recalls a past life as a herring girl called Annie. The session ends abruptly and Mary begins to suspect that Annie might have been murdered. As the therapy continues, the events surrounding Annie’s final days start to emerge: her secret affair with young fisherman Sam; the violent jealousy of his rival Tom; the illegitimate pregnancy of her best friend Flo; the emerging homosexuality of her brother Jimmy.

Mary and Ben soon discover that all of these people lived and died over a century earlier in the fishing port where they live. If others have also been reincarnated, perhaps Ben’s friends and family were involved in the dramas of 1898, Praise for Hungry Ghosts and the murderer is still among them. Can they solve the mystery before tragedy strikes again? ‘Sensuous, absorbing, evocative.’ Hilary Mantel

‘Fabulous, beautifully written and vividly colourful. This is a terrific book.’ Joanne Harris

FICTION DEBBIE TAYLOR is the founder and editorial UK/ROW 7 AUG 2014 director of Mslexia. She has worked as editor at New Royal Hardback Internationalist and Writing Women magazines and as (23 4×153mm) a writer, researcher and project manager for many £16.99 organisations, including Oxfam, Anti Slavery, BBC 2, 480 pages Channel 4, UNICEF, and WHO. Her novels include ISBN: 978-1-78074-492-6 The Fourth Queen and Hungry Ghosts (Penguin). She eISBN: 978-1-78074-493-3 lives in a decommissioned lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne with her husband and daughter. 8 FICTION NEW

WHAT ENDS Andrew Ladd

A compelling story of one family’s struggle to cope with a vanishing way of life – and a challenge to those who would call that struggle progress

In 1980 the McCloud family welcomes Trevor, their third child and the last to be born on Eilean Fìor, a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Life there is grim: the population, once in the hundreds, now hovers around thirty; his parents stubbornly maintain the guesthouse, despite their increasing trouble turning a profit; and a plague of rats threatens to wipe out the island’s last remaining hopes.

Against this backdrop, and through a series of interlocking narratives from Trevor’s birth to the present day, What Ends follows each of the McClouds as they navigate their ever-more fragile lives. Lyrical, atmospheric and poignant, What Ends is a stunning debut from an emerging new Scottish talent.

‘This is no debut but a masterwork, an absorbing micro-saga whose completion we mourn.’ Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn

‘A sparkling and eloquent debut.’ Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy

‘In exquisite prose, Andrew Ladd tells the heartbreaking story of the McCloud family and their life together on Eilean Fìor. What Ends is the rare debut by a writer whose work you know you’ll be reading for many years.’ Ladette Randolph, author of Haven’s Wake Credit: Maureen Cotton ANDREW LADD is the blog editor for Ploughshares FICTION Literary Magazine, and his work has appeared in UK/ROW 7 AUG 2014 Apalachee Review, Memoir Journal and The Rumpus, Demy Hardback among others. He grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, (216×135mm) and has since lived in Boston, Montreal, and New £12.99 York. He currently lives in London. 272 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-498-8 eISBN: 978-1-78074-499-5 That life revolved so completely around the guesthouse was mainly an accident of circumstance – the islanders all knew it, despite their fondness for the place. The old general store was derelict; the granite chapel towards the jetty had been padlocked shut for years. So where else could they go? The ferry to the mainland took two hours, and even at the height of summer there was only one crossing a day – two on the weekends – so the nightlife in Mallaig, such as it was, was hardly worth the trip. (Doubly so in the winter, when the ferry ran just three days a week.) And while the other islands were close enough, the smaller boats they used to hop between them, for visiting the post office or the doctor or the farmer’s market, struggled when the sound was even moderately rough – and when a full-blown storm descended it was the ferry or nothing. Sometimes not that either. For a long time none of that had seemed to matter, to the McClouds or to the rest of Eilean Fìor. They always had enough food, in their vegetable plots and larders and sheep pens, to survive heartily even if the ferry never returned; they had enough water, tapped from a well near the centre of the village, to last them far beyond what they could ever need. They even had a school for the children, set up by the board of education long before Barry became its only student, back when its single classroom was regularly filled to bursting. And most importantly they still had each other, and their livelihoods, and the guarantee at almost any time of day of a warm welcome in the pub. Or, at least, they’d had all that once. By the eve of Trevor’s birth, though, that older way of life had begun to falter, and a skulking sense of the end, impending – however optimistically ignored, however strong their sentimental bonds – was slowly beginning to take hold. 10 FICTION NEW

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS Marlon James

Set amidst 1970s reggae culture, slum violence, sex and excess, this is a remarkable re-imagining of the historic assassination attempt on Bob Marley

On 3 December 1976, just weeks before the general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions, seven gunmen from West Kingston stormed his house with machine guns blazing. Marley survived and went on to perform at the free concert, but the next day he left the country and didn’t return for two years. Not much was recorded about the fate of the seven gunmen, but much has been said, whispered and sung about in the streets of West Kingston, with information surfacing at odd times, only to sink into rumour and misinformation.

Praise for The Book of Night Women Inspired by this near-mythic event, A Brief History of Seven Killings takes the form of an imagined oral biography, told ‘An exquisite, haunting and beautiful by ghosts, witnesses, killers, members of parliament, drug novel... like the best of literature [it] dealers, conmen, beauty queens, FBI and CIA agents, deserves to be passed down hand to reporters, journalists, and even Keith Richards’ drug dealer. hand, generation to generation.’ Marlon James’s bold novel traverses strange landscapes Dinaw Mengestu, author of The and shady characters, as motivations are examined – and Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears questions asked – in this compelling work of monumental scope and ambition. ‘It reads like Faulkner in another skin. It is a brave book. And like the best, and most dangerous of stories, it seems as if it was just waiting to be From the author of told.’ Colum McCann, author of Zoli The Book of Night Women (see Backlist and Dancer Highlights, page 22)

MARLON JAMES was born in Kingston, Jamaica FICTION in 1970. He graduated from the University of the UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 West Indies with a degree in literature. The author Royal Hardback of the acclaimed novel The Book of Night Women, (23 4×153mm) winner of the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace £18.99 Prize, he currently teaches a creative writing course 832 pages in Minnesota. ISBN: 978-1-78074-587-9 eISBN: 978-1-78074-588-6 We see and wait. Two men bring guns to the ghetto. One man show me how to use it. But ghetto people used to kill each other long before that. With anything we could find: stick, machete, knife, ice pick, soda bottle. Kill for food. Kill for money. Sometimes a man get kill because he look at another man in a way that he didn’t like. And killing don’t need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. But you say you not no madman, and the madness in you is not crazy people madness but angry madness, because you know the man throw it away because he want you to see. And you promise yourself that one day rudeboy going to start walking with a knife and next time I going jump him and carve sufferah right in him chest. But he know boy like me can’t walk downtown for long before we get pounce on by Babylon. Police only have to see that me don’t have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing round decent people, and give me two choices. Run and he give chase into one of the lanes that cut through the city so that he can shoot me in the private. Plenty shots in the magazine so at least one bullet must hit. Or stand down and get beat up right in front of decent people, him swinging the baton and knocking out my side teeth and cracking my temple so that I can never hear good out of that ear again and saying let that be a lesson to never take you dutty, stinking, ghetto self uptown again. And I see them and I wait. The two men who bring guns to the ghetto watch you sing yourself out of their hands and they not happy at all. Nobody uptown singing thanks and praises for you. IT BEGAN WITH THE FIELDS. Othniel Assis was living in Ma’ale Hermesh, where he enjoyed raising a goat, cherry tomatoes and rocket in his garden. The goat was for the children, the tomatoes and rocket for his wife Rachel’s salad. Othniel was pleased with these pursuits, and tired of his work as a bookkeeper. Since leaving his job, he had allowed his beard and hair to grow out, and wore dark-blue work clothes every day. He hiked through streams and crannies, over nearby hilltops, and reached a broad plain that was not particularly rocky and not occupied by the olive trees of the neighboring Arab village of Kharmish. ‘Here I shall plant my fields,’ he said. He requested authorization from the Council to manage an agricultural farm and to set up a shipping container as his office and warehouse. And since the military requires government authorization for such plans unless they fall under Mandate-era legislation, Othniel Assis said, ‘The plans are Mandatory, of course they are, whatever you say, brethren,’ and received his permits without the knowledge of government authorities. The Regimental Commander said that one wintry night he was notified over the walkie-talkie that five 260-square-feet prefab trailers had been installed next to the Assis farm. He arrived at the site and found several trucks and trailers. The settlers, he says, blocked his command-car from entering. The Regional Council Chair arrived, arguments and verbal confrontations ensued, and expletives were hurled at the Regimental Commander, who called the Civil Administration and asked what to do. He was told there was no permit for the trailers. But nor was there authorization to remove them. The soldiers put the local residents on military vehicles and drove them away, which meant that in the records of the army and the Ministry of Defense, the outpost was reported evacuated. The settlers came back the next day, and the Commander moved on to more urgent matters. NEW FICTION 13

THE HILLTOP Assaf Gavron

A brilliant and hilarious satirical novel about the state of twenty-first century Israel

In the heart of the West Bank, Othniel Assis discovers a hilltop. He shifts a large container there, acquires a generator, constructs a path and establishes a small community. But when a local army commander arrives at the site, tempers flare. The Israeli Civil Administration for the Occupied Territories claims that there is no permit to settle on the hilltop - and, absurdly, also no permit to remove them either.

Thus the outpost Ma’ale Hermesh C is established.

The hilltop blossoms: a playground, organic fields, and a syna- gogue; families and singles, farmers and teachers, religious and secular, an assortment of individuals who are as different from each other as are their reasons for being there. Years go by until one day a Washington Post correspondent stumbles into their ‘Probably the best political novel to midst, and suddenly the settlement’s existence becomes the be written in Israel in a long while.’ focus of an international diplomatic scandal. Haaretz

Winner of the Bernstein Prize for Literature, The Hilltop is a ‘The new Great Israeli Novel.’ high-energy, absurdist romp through the machinations of Time Out Israeli governmental bureaucracy – and looks set to be the first Great Israeli Novel. ‘An intense, funny and violent novel... Gavron’s Magnum Opus.’ Yediot Ahronoth

FICTION ASSAF GAVRON is a writer and translator. He grew UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 up in Jerusalem, studied in London and Vancouver, Royal Hardback and now lives in Tel Aviv. He is the author of four (23 4×153mm) prize-winning novels – Ice, Moving, Almost Dead, and £16.99 Hydromania – and a short-story collection. Gavron 384 pages is responsible for the highly-regarded English-to- ISBN: 978-1-78074-557-2 Hebrew translations of J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, eISBN: 978-1-78074-558-9 Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint and Jonathan

Safran Foer’s novels. Steinweg Heike Credit: Praise for Simon Van Booy ‘The elegance of Van Booy’s evocative prose has led to comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald; it’s some claim but one this little gem of a book completely justifies.’ Daily Mail ‘Van Booy writes with muted, unsentimental elegance about the impulses that bind us together.’ Sunday Times ‘Simon Van Booy’s reputation can only grow... There’s a crispness to [his] writing... It is the beginnings of poetry... it carries you with it effortlessly.’ Independent on Sunday ‘There is a sustaining pleasure in wondering how the strands of the story will tie together.’ Guardian ‘Vivid and meticulous.’ Metro ‘Highly sophisticated and absolutely sincere.’ Irish Times ‘Incurable romantics will savour Simon Van Booy’s tender, Maupassant-like fables.’ New York Times ‘Breathtaking... chillingly beautiful, like postcards from Eden... Van Booy’s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking.’ LA Times ‘He shows an uncanny ability to create intense moods and emotions within the space of a few poetic paragraphs.’ Booklist ‘Each of these stories has moments of sheer loveliness.’ Publishers Weekly NEW IN PAPERBACK FICTION 15

THE SECRET LIVES OF PEOPLE IN LOVE Includes the award-winning collection Love Begins in Winter Simon Van Booy

The first complete collection of short stories of a celebrated master of the form – including the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award-winning collection Love Begins in Winter

Simon Van Booy has been hailed as one of the most exciting and talented short-story writers in Anglo-American fiction. This magnificent collection brings together twenty-four stories by a writer of unparalleled lyricism, generosity and emotional power. Set in a range of locations, from Cornwall, Wales, and New York to Paris and Rome, these stark and beautiful stories are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, isolation and the power of memory ‘Its combination of staccato are Van Booy’s themes, and in spare, economical prose he sentences and tidy symbolism writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain transforms the finest passages into our humanity, and about the redemptive power of love in a little haikus of prose.’ violent world. Daily Telegraph

‘Incurable romantics will savour Simon Van Booy’s tender, Maupassant-like fables.’ New York Times

FICTION SIMON VAN BOOY was born in London. He is the UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 author of two novels and two collections of short B format Paperback stories, including Love Begins in Winter, which won (198×129 mm) the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award £9.99 in 2009. He is the editor of three philosophy books 384 pages and has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, ISBN: 978-1-78074-559-6 and the BBC. His work has been translated into eISBN: 978-1-78074-594-7 fifteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. 16 FICTION NEW IN PAPERBACK

THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATENESS Simon Van Booy

An exquisite novel about the ways in which our actions shape the lives of strangers, and the invisible ties that bind us to one another

In The Illusion of Separateness, award-winning author Simon Van Booy tells the haunting story of how one man’s act of mercy on a World War II battlefield changes the lives of six strangers across time and place. From wartime Britain and Nazi-occupied France, to modern-day Los Angeles, the characters of this gripping novel include a child on the brink of starvation, a blind museum curator looking for love, a German infantryman, and a humble caretaker at a retirement home in Santa Monica. Whether they are pursued by old age, shame, disease, or regret, these incandescent characters remain unaware of their connection until seemingly random ‘The elegance of Van Booy’s acts of selflessness lift a veil to reveal the vital parts they evocative prose has led to play in each other’s lives. comparisons with F. Scott Fitzgerald; it’s some claim but one this little gem of a book completely justifies.’ Daily Mail

‘Van Booy writes with muted, unsentimental elegance about the impulses that bind us together.’ Sunday Times

SIMON VAN BOOY was born in London. He is the FICTION author of two novels and two collections of short UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 stories, including Love Begins in Winter, which won B format Paperback the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (198×129 mm) in 2009. He is the editor of three philosophy books £8.99 and has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, 224 pages and the BBC. His work has been translated into ISBN: 978-1-78074-394-3 fifteen languages. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife eISBN: 978-1-78074-325-7 and daughter. NEW IN PAPERBACK FICTION 17

REASONS SHE GOES TO THE WOODS Deborah Kay Davies

Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014

When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid!

Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she’s just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery?

Told in vignettes across Pearl’s childhood years, Reasons She Goes To The Woods is a nervy but lyrical novel about a normal girl growing up, doing the normal things little girls do. ‘Exquisite… to be marvelled at.’ Guardian

‘Outstanding... with black humour and heartrending accuracy. Davies is a poet, and this is a poet’s novel in the very best sense — every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place.’ The Times

‘A sexy, contrary book.’ TLS

‘A rounded, complex portrait of growing-up that has an atmosphere all of its own.’ We Love This Book

‘A spiky echo of Angela Carter.’ Scotsman

FICTION DEBORAH KAY DAVIES won the Wales Book of the UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 Year 2009 award with her first work of fiction, the B format Paperback short story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the (198×129 mm) Beautiful. When her debut novel, True Things About £8.99 Me, came out in 2010, she was selected by BBC 256 pages TV as one of the 12 best new British novelists. And ISBN: 978-1-78074-531-2 when the novel was published in New York in 2011, eISBN: 978-1-78074-377-6 Lionel Shriver chose it as her personal book of the

year. Deborah Kay Davies lives in Cardiff. www.jeffmoreau.com Credit: 18 FICTION NEW IN PAPERBACK

THE SWAN GONDOLA Timothy Schaffert

For all lovers of Water for Elephants and The Night Circus, a lush, enchanting novel set amid the gothic amusements, scandalous burlesques, and flimflam men of the 1898 Omaha World’s Fair

‘Each of [Schaffert’s] books is a quirky little gem.’ New York Times

‘A fresh, gorgeous, witty page-turner full of twists and surprises and all the romance in the world. I couldn’t put it down.’ FICTION Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 B format Paperback ‘A highly imaginative, vividly told tale of whimsy, hucksters, (198×129 mm) soothsayers, ghosts and, most of all, star-crossed lovers.’ £8.99 Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Painted Girls 464 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-560-2 ‘Schaffert has magically transformed a stretch of field near Omaha eISBN: 978-1-78074-491-9 into a white, shimmering vision... fans of historical fiction will not be disappointed.’ Library Journal

ZEBRA CROSSING Meg Vandermerwe

Set in the underbelly of a pulsating Cape Town, Meg Vandermerwe’s arresting debut is a bold, lyrical imagining of what it’s like to live in another person’s skin

Praise for Meg Vandermerwe’s short-story collection This Place I Call Home

‘A chilling must-read.’ Sindiwe Magona

FICTION ‘Zebra Crossing is one of the very best works of socially conscious UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 fiction produced in 2013, one that provides ample evidence of B format Paperback tremendous literary ability and a fine understanding of form.’ (198×129 mm) Litnet.co.na £7.99 224 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-561-9 eISBN: 978-1-78074-431-5 RECENT RELEASES FICTION 19

THE HEN WHO DREAMED SHE COULD FLY Sun-mi Hwang Translated by Chi-Young Kim with illustrations by Nomoco

The 2-million-copy bestselling modern fable from Korea that is winning hearts around the world, for all lovers of The Little Prince and Jonathan Livingstone Seagull...

This is the story of a plucky hen named Sprout, who longs to raise a chick of her own but whose eggs are collected daily by the farmer’s wife. Through the barn door she glimpses other animals roaming free - and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild and hatch an egg of her own.

An anthem for freedom, individuality and self-determination, The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a novel of universal resonance, which, with its array of animal characters — the ‘Recalling Jonathan Livingston Seagull, hen, the duck, the rooster, the dog, the weasel — calls to this slim but powerful tale will resonate mind such classics as Animal Farm and Charlotte’s Web. with readers of all ages, who can take it at face value or delve deeper into its Featuring specially commissioned illustrations, this first meditations on living courageously and English-language edition of Sun-mi Hwang’s fable beautifully facing mortality.’ Booklist captures the journey of an unforgettable character in world literature. ‘A novel uniquely poised at the nexus of fable, philosophy, children’s literature, and nature writing.’ Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son

‘A simply told but absorbing fable.’ Publishers Weekly

‘A note-perfect masterstroke of a novella... Sublime.’ Toronto Star

FICTION SUN-MI HWANG is a bestselling writer in South Korea, UK/ROW 27 FEB 2014 where she has won many awards and published more B format Paperback with than forty books enjoyed by adults and children alike. flaps (198×129mm) Born in 1963, she was unable to attend middle school £7.99 due to poverty, but taught herself to read and eventually 144 pages graduated from the creative writing departments at ISBN: 978-1-78074-534-3 Seoul Institute of the Arts and Gwangju University, and eISBN: 978-1-78074-535-0 from the graduate school of Chung-Ang University. She lives in Seoul, South Korea. 20 FICTION RECENT RELEASES

IN PARADISE Peter Matthiessen

The final novel by one of the most accomplished writers alive; and the only writer ever to win National Book Awards for both fiction and non-fiction

In the late autumn of 1996, more than a hundred people gather at the site of a former death camp. Throughout that week, they offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection plat­form, eating and sleeping in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths in this single camp.

These people are joined by Clements Olin, an American academic of Polish descent, there to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor, even as he questions what a non-Jew with no connection to its history can contribute to the un­derstanding of so monstrous a catastrophe. As the days ‘The fiction of Peter Matthiessen is the pass, tensions, both political and personal, sur­face among the reason a lot of people in my generation participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution decided to be writers.’ Richard Ford or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering inten­sity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer’s ‘Peter Matthiessen has created a role and to bear witness, not only to his family’s ambiguous unique body of work. It is the work of a history but to his own. man in ecstatic contemplation of our beautiful and inexplicable planet... We A profoundly searching new novel by a writer of incomparable behold a writer of phenomenal scope range and power, In Paradise is a stunning achievement by the and versatility.’ William Styron three-time National Book Award Winner.

‘I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Matthiessen.’ Thomas Pynchon

‘One of the most admired and admirable writers of our time.’ The New York Review of Books Credit: Linda Girvin PETER MATTHIESSEN is the author of thirty books, FICTION including Shadow Country, which won the National UK/ROW 5 JUN 2014 Book Award for Fiction in 2008, and The Snow Demy Hardback Leopard, which won the National Book Award in (216×13 8mm) two nonfiction categories nearly three decades £12.99 before. A cofounder of The Paris Review and a world- 256 pages renowned naturalist, explorer, Zen teacher, and ISBN: 978-1-78074-555-8 activist, he lives on the South Fork of Long Island. eISBN: 978-1-78074-556-5 RECENT RELEASES FICTION 21

A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE Bennett Sims

Turning typical zombie fare on its head, Bennett Sims delivers a wise and philosophical rumination on the nature of memory and loss in this remarkable debut novel

In the wake of an infection that has left Baton Rouge unsettled and roiling with undead, three young friends Mazoch, Vermaelen and Rachel band together to search for Mazoch’s missing father. Over the course of a week, day after day, they haunt the places Mazoch’s father once haunted, confronting the same persistent hope that faces all who grieve: that whomever, whatever they have lost, will return to them, in one shape or another. As hurricane season looms, uncertainty and suspicion of each other’s motives threatens to pull the group apart, but still, the friends’ search continues.

‘Bennett Sims is a writer fearsomely equipped with an intellectual and linguistic range to rival a young Nabokov’s... A Questionable Shape announces a literary talent of genre- wrecking brilliance.’ Wells Tower, author of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned

‘Playful, absorbing, bittersweet, and intelligent, and, like a bite, it gets under your skin.’ Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead

FICTION BENNETT SIMS is 26 years old and was born in UK/ROW 5 JUN 2014 Baton Rouge. He graduated from Pomona College B format Paperback in 2008 and from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in (198×129 mm) 2012, where he held a Truman Capote Fellowship £7.99 and a John C. Schupes Fellowship in Fiction. He is 256 pages currently a Provost Postgraduate Visiting Writer at ISBN: 978-1-78074-585-5 the University of Iowa. His stories have appeared in eISBN: 978-1-78074-586-2 A Public Space, Zoetrope, Orion, Subtropics, Tin House and Electric Literature. 22 FICTION BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

THE ABUNDANCE BEACONS BENEATH THE DARKENING THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN Amit Majmudar STORIES FOR OUR NOT SO DISTANT SKY Marlon James FUTURE Majok Tulba ‘A sweet-and-spicy story of Bestselling winner of the Dayton parenting across generational Gregory Norminton (ed.) Shortlisted for the Literary Peace Prize. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and cultural gaps.’ Short stories on climate change ‘An undeniable success.’ and Dylan Thomas Prize 2013 Good Housekeeping from a stellar list of writers New York Times 978-1-78074-268-7 including Joanne Harris, Alasdair Winner of the Sydney Morning 978-1-85168-721-3 £8.99 | Paperback Gray and Liz Jensen Herald Young Novelists’ Award £9.99 | Paperback 978-1-85168-969-9 978-1-78074-241-0 £8.99 | Paperback £11.99 | Paperback

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TELLING THE BEES THINGS WE LEFT UNSAID THE UNIT WHAT THE RIVER WASHED Peggy Hesketh Zoya Pirzad Ninni Holmqvist AWAY Translated by Frank Lewis Translated by Marlaine Delargy Muriel Mharie Macleod Albert Honig is haunted by the murder and loss of one woman, The internationally acclaimed An incredible debut novel Inspired by real-life events, his friend and neighbour since bestseller from Iran of humour, sorrow, and rage Muriel Macleod has penned childhood, whose presence and 978-1-85168-967-5 about love, the close bonds of the remarkable and long absence in his life have £8.99 | Paperback friendship, and about a cynical, uncompromising story of one never been reconciled utilitarian way of thinking child’s refusal to accept her fate disguised as care 978-1-85168-987-3 978-1-78074-234-2 £12.99 | Paperback 978-1-85168-744-2 £11.99 | Paperback £7.99 | Paperback THE TELEPHONE WAS DEAD. So was another, and another—all five, including the red telephone provided for Gorbachev as commander in chief of the Soviet armed forces. Now there could be no doubt: it was a coup. Gorbachev’s bodyguards had approached the arriving limousines armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles. One of the bodyguards’ commanders, General Viacheslav Generalov, had arrived with the plotters: he rushed toward them, telling them to put their rifles aside so as not to repeat the Romanian scenario, when Ceauşescu’s guards provoked bloodshed that led to his execution. The guards obeyed Generalov’s order and let the unannounced visitors pass their checkpoint. Gorbachev’s main line of defense had failed. NEW NON-FICTION 25

THE LAST EMPIRE The Final Days of the Soviet Union Serhii Plokhy

A world-renowned historian presents a profoundly revisionist, page-turning account of the Soviet Union’s collapse

On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union. By the next day the USSR was officially no more and the USA had emerged as the world’s sole superpower.

Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy gives us a vivid account of the preceding five months of dramatic events, including the failed coup and Yeltsin’s erratic political machinations. Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period and based on exclusive access to new sources and interviews with the key players, Plokhy shatters the established myths of 1991 and boldly argues that the ‘A brilliant work of political US actually wanted to preserve the Soviet Union and keep narrative: vivid, original, urgent, Gorbachev in power. With its spellbinding narrative and and above all, wise.’ strikingly fresh perspective, this is the essential account of Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov’s one of the most important turning points in world history. Magic Lantern

‘Combines a colourful, fast-paced narrative with trenchant analysis of key players in the Soviet collapse... By far our best account yet of the death spiral of the USSR.’ William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of Khrushchev

‘A masterful account of the end of the Soviet Union.’ Timothy Colton, Professor of Government, Harvard University

HISTORY SERHII PLOKHY is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University Royal Hardback and a leading authority on Soviet history. He has (23 4×153mm) won the first prize of the American Association for £25.00 Ukrainian Studies three times, and his book Yalta: 496 pages The Price of Peace won the Ukrainian National 8pp b&w illustrations Women’s League of America Book Prize and was ISBN: 978-1-78074-529-9 shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Foundation Prize.

eISBN: 978-1-78074-530-5 He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wilson Susan Credit: 26 NON-FICTION NEW

INFINITESIMAL How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

Amir Alexander

The epic battle over an infinitely small problem that divided Europe and created the world we know

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgement on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen they set off a war for the soul of the modern world.

Amir Alexander takes us from the bloody religious strife of the sixteenth century to the battlefields of the English civil ‘Told with high drama and thrilling war and the fierce confrontations between leading thinkers tension.’ Kirkus Reviews, starred review like Galileo and Hobbes. The legitimacy of popes and kings, as well as our modern beliefs in human liberty and ‘Fascinating... You will never look at progressive science, hung in the balance; the answer hinged calculus the same way again.’ Professor on the infinitesimal. Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not To Be Wrong Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal will forever change the way you look at a simple line. ‘Clever and enthralling… With considerable wit and unusual energy... Infinitesimal shows why the lessons of mathematics count so much in the modern world.’ Professor Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge

‘A real-world Da Vinci Code.’ Publishers Weekly Credit: Ronna Kovner AMIR ALEXANDER teaches history at UCLA. He is HISTORY/MATHS the author of Geometrical Landscapes and Duel at UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 Dawn. His work has been featured in Nature, and the Royal Hardback Guardian, among others. He lives in Los Angeles, (23 4×153mm) California. £20.00 368 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-532-9 eISBN: 978-1-78074-533-6 THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF THE ORIGIN OF CALCULUS The foundation of modern science, engineering, economics, medicine etc.

DRAMATIC, SWEEPING STORY-TELLING Infinitesimal will appeal to fans of Richard Holmes and Jenny Uglow

GRIPPING NARRATIVE Interweaves tumultuous 16th and 17th century religious and political history with the development of radical mathematical concepts

APPROACHABLE EXPLANATIONS Alexander makes complicated maths easy to understand 28 NON-FICTION NEW

MISQUOTING MUHAMMAD The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy

Jonathan A.C. Brown

A much needed and timely work on the contentious issues of Islamic thought in the modern world

Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation or stoning under Shariah law. Sometimes rumour, sometimes based in fact, and frequently misunderstood, the tenets of Islamic law and dogma were not set in the religion’s founding moments. They were developed over centuries by the clerical class of Muslim scholars. Praise for Jonathan A.C. Brown’s Hadith Misquoting Muhammad takes the reader back in time ‘A comprehensive study... A synthesis through Islamic civilization and traces how and why such of critical analysis and informed controversies developed, offering an inside view into how understanding that presents a key and controversial aspects of Islam took shape. From significant new perspective on a the protests of the Arab Spring to the trade routes of Islam’s much-debated subject.’ Indian Ocean world, Misquoting Muhammad lays out how John Voll, Professor of Islamic Muslim intellectuals have sought to balance reason and History, Georgetown University revelation, weigh science and religion, and negotiate the eternal truths of scripture amid shifting values.

JONATHAN A.C. BROWN is Associate Professor of RELIGION Islamic Studies and Muslim–Christian Understand- UK/ROW 7 AUG 2014 ing in Georgetown University’s School of Foreign USA & CAN 9 SEPT 2014 Service. His publications include, among others, Mu- Royal (234×153mm) hammad: A Very Short Introduction and Hadith: £25.00/$29.99 Muhammad’s Legacy in the Medieval and Modern 384 pages World; he is also the editor-in-chief of the Oxford ISBN: 978-1-78074-420-9 Encyclopedia of Islam and Law. He lives in Wash- eISBN: 978-1-78074-421-6 ington DC. NEW NON-FICTION 29

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Gary Sheffield

All you need to know about World War I from one of the world’s foremost experts

The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time.

Synthesising the latest scholarship, acclaimed historian Gary Sheffield cuts to the heart of the conflict. Sheffield explores such key issues as:

>> the causes of war >> the great battles on land, sea and in the air >> the search for peace and the peace settlements ‘Gary Sheffield is one of Britain’s >> the political, social and economic consequences foremost historians of the First World >> the impact of ‘total war’ on the belligerents and the War – insightful, original and superbly individual informed’. Max Hastings >> the place of the Great War in the history of warfare Praise for Gary Sheffield’s The Chief: Accessible and authoritative, this is the ultimate introduction Douglas Haig and the British Army for anyone wanting a clear understanding of what happened and why. ‘Well written and persuasive… objective and well-rounded.’ Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday

‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy.’ Sunday Telegraph

HISTORY GARY SHEFFIELD is Professor of War Studies at the UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 University of Wolverhampton. He is President of the USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 International Guild of Battlefield Guides and a Vice B format Paperback President of the Western Front Association. He has (198×129 mm) published widely on the First World War and regularly £8.99/$14.99 broadcasts on television and radio, as well as contribut- 208 pages ing to numerous journals, magazines and newspapers. ISBN: 978-1-78074-364-6 Previous books include the acclaimed Forgotten Victory eISBN: 978-1-78074-512-1 and The Chief: Douglas Haig and the British Army. FIND OUT HOW TO OUTGUESS: Rock, Paper, Scissors Multiple-Choice Tests The Lottery Tennis Serves Football Penalty Kicks Card Games Passwords Crowd-Sourced Ratings Fake Numbers Manipulated Numbers Ponzi Schemes Sports Betting Oscar Pools Big Data Retail Prices House Prices The Stock Market

...AND EVERYTHING ELSE YOU PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT WAS UNPREDICTABLE NEW NON-FICTION 31

HOW TO PREDICT THE UNPREDICTABLE The Art of Outsmarting Almost Everyone William Poundstone

From rock-paper-scissors to the stock market, the economics and psychology that will help you play to win

We are hard-wired to believe that the world is more predictable than it is. We chase ‘winning streaks’ that are often just illusions, and we are all too predictable exactly when we try hardest not to be.

In the 1970s, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky coined the phrase ‘representativeness’ to describe the psychology of this behaviour. Since then representativeness has been used by auditors to catch people fiddling their tax returns and by hedge fund managers to reap billions from the emotions of small investors. Now Poundstone for the first time makes Praise for the bestseller Are You Smart these techniques fun, easy, and profitable for everyone, in Enough to Work at Google? the everyday situations that matter. You’ll learn how to tackle multiple choice tests, what internet passwords to avoid, how ‘Subtle and sophisticated... you will to know when to invest in the stockmarket, and if your house love this book.’ is overvalued. Observer

‘As usual, Poundstone delivers. Delightful, fun, and worth a read.’ The Times

From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? and Priceless (see Backlist Bestsellers, page 60)

POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY WILLIAM POUNDSTONE is the author of fourteen UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 books, including the international bestseller Are You Demy Paperback Smart Enough to Work at Google? (978-1-85168-917-0). (225×14 6mm) He lives in Los Angeles. £12.99 288 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-407-0 eISBN: 978-1-78074-408-7 32 NON-FICTION NEW

ANOTHER MAN’S WAR The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain’s Forgotten African Army

Barnaby Phillips

He swore an oath to King and Empire, but they forgot him

At age sixteen Isaac Fadoyebo ran away from his West African village to join the British Army. The Second World War was raging, and Nigeria’s colonial masters were desperate to find men to defend the Empire.

He was taking breakfast deep in the Burmese jungle when the Japanese ambushed his unit and left him for dead. With the help of a local family he survived, but in every other way Isaac was forgotten, all the more so as Nigeria struggled to come to terms with newfound independence. Yet Isaac could not forget the debt he owed to the Burmese family, now trapped in a simmering sectarian conflict.

In Another Man’s War, veteran foreign correspondent Barnaby Phillips delivers the gripping, unforgettable story of a Burma Boy in the Second World War and the legacy of the British Empire in Africa and Asia. Credit: Nicole Itano BARNABY PHILLIPS is a senior correspondent for HISTORY Al Jazeera English, which he joined at the time of its UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 launch in 2006. His documentary Burma Boy won USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 the prestigious CINE Golden Eagle Award. Previ- Demy Hardback ously, he was for fifteen years a correspondent for (225×14 6mm) the BBC, reporting primarily from Africa. Phillips £18.99/$27.99 grew up in Kenya and now lives in Islington, North 320 pages; 8pp b&w illust. London. This is his first book. ISBN: 978-1-78074-522-0 eISBN: 978-1-78074-523-7 ISAAC FADOYEBO WOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER THE KALADAN AS A WIDE AND CALM RIVER, AS SILENT AS A GRAVEYARD. They had been drift- ing down it for four days. Trees lined the banks and monkeys played in the branches that reached above them. He had woken that morning with no sense of foreboding. He didn’t know that for the rest of his long life, he would always think in terms of before and after this day. That morning Bassey Duke was warming to one of his favourite themes: life after the war. When it was all over, he told Isaac, they’d return home with some money to spend, and some stories to tell. Bassey Duke was a giant of a man. He wore blue shorts and a white vest, and would have been easily visible from the far side of the river. It was the end of the dry season, so the opposite bank was only 100 or so yards away. Bassey Duke jerked and spun, and only then did Isaac hear the shots. He watched his friend fall to the ground, still clutching his red enamel mug. Tea spilled from it and trickled down the bank. There were flashes of light in the jungle on the opposite side of the river. Bullets buzzed past Isaac’s head. Like angry wasps, he thought. He fell face down into the reeds. His heart thumped against the cold ground. They were in a terrible position, exposed on the steep, slip- pery bank. Machine guns had opened up now. How many? One, at least, probably two. He caught a glimpse of Major Murphy stum- bling past, walking like a drunk. That was strange. From higher up on the bank, he could hear screaming. Then he saw that Major Mur- phy’s head was covered in blood. The shooting stopped. Someone nearby was gasping in a quiet voice. ‘Take me, O God, take me, O God.’ He tried to crawl towards the voice, but as soon as he moved the shooting resumed. More angry wasps spun through the air. The Japanese had Isaac in their sights. THE NEXT TIME YOU VISIT A ZOO, WALK PAST THE APE CAGES. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair and that next to them was a cage holding some unfortunate people who had lost their clothes and couldn’t speak but were normal in every other way. Now try guessing how different the apes’ genes are from the humans’ genes. Would you guess that a chimpanzee shares 10 percent, 50 percent, or 99 percent of its genetic makeup with humans? In recent decades, science has answered that question. Even though many other questions remain unanswered, we now know more about our origins than ever before. Every human society has felt a deep need to make sense of its origins, and has met that need with its own story of creation. The creation story of our time is the tale of three chimps. NEW NON-FICTION 35

THE THIRD CHIMPANZEE The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal For Young Readers Jared Diamond with Rebecca Stefoff

Pulitzer Prize-winning Jared Diamond’s first foray into illustrated young adult non-fiction

At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behaviour that distinguished us from other animals, eventually creating language, art, religion, bicycles, spacecraft, and nuclear weapons – all within a heartbeat of evolutionary time. Now, faced with the threat of nuclear weapons and the effects of climate change, it seems our innate tendencies for violence and invention have led us to a crucial tipping point. Praise for the adult edition

Where did these traits come from? Are they part of our ‘Written with great wit and a pleasure species’ immutable destiny? Or is there hope for our species’ to read... forces one to reflect future if we change? thoroughly on the puzzle of human evolution, on where we came from Brilliantly adapted by Rebecca Stefoff in consultation and where we may be heading.’ with the author, this is a fantastic introduction for New York Times every curious young adult. ‘Plenty of provocative ideas... Diamond is as sharp as his name.’ Kirkus Reviews

From the acclaimed author of the ‘Informative, most fascinating, and bestselling books Collapse and Guns, very readable.’ Germs and Steel Library Journal

CHILDREN’S REFERENCE JARED DIAMOND is the author of the bestselling Collapse and Guns, Germs, SCIENCE, AGE 10–14 and Steel. A professor of geography at the University of California, Los Ange- KEY STAGE 2 les, he has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Hardback (203×140mm) He is a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the National Medal of Science. £14.99 REBECCA STEFOFF is the author of more than 150 books and has adapted 368 pages the works of historian Howard Zinn, science writer Charles C. Mann and ISBN: 978-1-78074-604-3 ethnic studies pioneer Ronald Takaki for young audiences. She lives in eISBN: 978-1-78074-605-0 Portland, Oregon. 36 NON-FICTION NEW

ZOOM! How Everything Moves, from Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees

Bob Berman

From the speed of light to moving mountains – and everything in between – Zoom! reveals the universe’s never-ending journey

If you sit still in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are swirling around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound.

In Zoom!, Bob Berman explores the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe from Praise for Bob Berman the ground up. Spanning astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology and history, he explains how clouds stay ‘Light-hearted and fun... Above all, aloft, how the earth’s rotation curves a ball’s flight, how the author’s enthusiasm for science a mosquito’s whine is tuned to a perfect A sharp, how the shines through.’ day gets 1/700th of a second longer every century, and Wall Street Journal much more.

‘Berman... goes a long way to answering the questions you thought were too dumb to ask, but it does much more than simply provide facts... Berman is a master storyteller.’ New Scientist Credit: Philip Kamras, Albany Times Union Kamras, Philip Credit: Hailed as a ‘master storyteller’ by New Scientist, POPULAR SCIENCE BOB BERMAN is one of America’s most acclaimed UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 science writers. He is currently a columnist B format Paperback for Astronomy magazine and science editor of the Old (198×129 mm) Farmer’s Almanac and lives in New York State. £8.99 304 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-549-7 eISBN: 978-1-78074-550-3 THE TIME IT TAKES FOR A STALACTITE the speed of rain TO GROW AN INCH 22 MPH 500

40 FEET YEARS DISTANCE COVERED BY THE FASTEST SNAILS IN 1 HOUR

4 MINUTES THE TIME IT TAKES FOR SPERM TO SWIM 1 INCH MILES PER SECOND 186,282 THE SPEED OF LIGHT

45 MPH the speed of ocean waves

RATE OF SEA LEVEL RISE

2 INCHES IN THE 21ST CENTURY hackleton had maintained a calm, reassuring composure throughout the months of confinement, Srarely seeming to be in a hurry or flustered by events far beyond his control. But the gale of July 13 changed everything. Wild and Worsley were called to Shackleton’s cabin for a council of war. Against a background grind of ‘ungreased axles’ Shackleton revealed the true extent of Endurance’s peril which he had secretly known for months. ‘The ship can’t live in this, Skipper,’ he told Worsley. ‘You had better make up your mind that it is only a matter of time.’ Worsley was desolate. Losing a ship is the ultimate ig- nominy for any captain and Worsley, who sailed by the old time code of the sea, felt the loss acutely. He also under- stood that Endurance was the most potent symbol of the hope which Shackleton had carefully fostered for months. But, as Shackleton warned Worsley: ‘...what the ice gets, the ice keeps.’ NEW NON-FICTION 39

SHACKLETON By Endurance We Conquer Michael Smith

The first comprehensive biography in a generation, published to mark the Endurance mission’s centenary

Ernest Shackleton is one of history’s great explorers, an extraordinary character who pioneered the path to the South Pole over 100 years ago and became a dominant figure in Antarctic discovery. A charismatic personality, his incredible adventures on four expeditions have captivated generations and inspired a dynamic modern following in business leadership. None more so than the Endurance mission, where Shackleton’s commanding presence saved the lives of his crew when their ship was crushed by ice and they were turned out onto the savage landscape of drifting ice. But Shackleton was a flawed character whose chaotic private life, marked by romantic affairs, unfulfilled ambitions, overwhelming debts and Praise for Unsung Hero failed business ventures, contrasted with his celebrity status as a leading explorer. ‘The epic struggles, heroics and unbelieveable hardships of the Drawing on extensive research of original diaries and voyages are wonderfully told. personal correspondence, Michael Smith’s definitive Compulsive reading.’ biography brings a fresh perspective to our understanding The Irish Times of this complex man and the heroic age of polar exploration.

HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY MICHAEL SMITH, a former journalist, is an established authority on UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 polar exploration. He has written a number of books including An Unsung USA & CAN 11 NOV 2014 Hero: Tom Crean Antarctic Survivor, which was short-listed for the Banff Royal Hardback Mountain Book Festival 2002. The illustrated version was shortlisted for (23 4×156mm) the Irish Published Book of the Year 2007. He contributes to TV and radio £20.00/$30.00 documentaries and lectures on polar history. 400 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-572-5 eISBN: 978-1-78074-573-2 The power of natural selection is beyond dispute, but this power has limits. Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. And calling the change that creates them random is just another way of admitting our ignorance about it. Nature’s many innovations – some uncannily perfect – call for natural principles that accelerate life’s ability to innovate, its innovability.

For the last 15 years, I have been privileged to help uncover these principles, first in the United States, and later joined by a group of highly talented researchers in my laboratory at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Using experimental and computational technologies unimagined by Darwin or Rutherford, our goal is not to discover individual innovations, but to find the wellsprings of all biological innovation. What we found so far already tells us that there is much more to evolution than meets the eye. It tells us that the principles of innovability are concealed, even beyond the molecular architecture of DNA, in a hidden architecture of life with an otherworldly beauty.

– Andreas Wagner NEW NON-FICTION 41

THE ARRIVAL OF THE FITTEST How Life Invents Itself Andreas Wagner

Discover the laws behind nature’s creativity in this landmark book from one of today’s most inventive scientists

We all know about natural selection and the so-called survival of the fittest, which governs how evolution preserves useful adaptations in each subsequent generation of a species. Unfortunately, random change alone could not have produced life as we know it – the maths don’t add up, according to cutting-edge research by Andreas Wagner in the revolutionary field of computational biology.

Over the last decade, Wagner has detected the biological networks guiding the creation of innovation. His investigations of the genes of everything from bacteria to humans is rewriting our understanding of how exactly evolution works and providing insights into the origins of creativity, with lessons that can be applied far beyond genomes.

In The Arrival of the Fittest, Wagner delivers a breathtaking new look at our origins, from the genes up.

POPULAR SCIENCE ANDREAS WAGNER is Professor in the Institute of UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 Evolutionary Biology at the University of Zurich and an Royal Paperback award-winning science writer. He has held research po- (225×14 6mm) sitions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin and £12.99 the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. 304 pages The author of more than 150 scientific papers pub- ISBN: 978-1-78074-516-9 lished in leading journals including Nature and Science, eISBN: 978-1-78074-517-6 this is his first book popularizing his new evolutionary systems research. He lives in Zurich. ON DECEMBER 30, 1607, an Englishman was dragged before the paramount chief of the Virginia Indians. His abductors brought out two large rocks, and placed him with his head resting on the boulders. He lay prostrate, waiting for a mercifully swift execution. It was dark inside the longhouse, and as the prisoner’s eyes slowly adjusted to the gloom, he became aware that around him, about two hundred people were looking on in fascination. For most, it was their first sight of a European. The man was a few days short of his twenty-eighth birthday, an anniversary which he did not expect to celebrate. As he lay prostrate on the ground, his Indian guards raised their war clubs above his head, waiting for the command from their chief to execute him in their traditional manner – by beating the brains out of his skull. From the shadows of the smoke-filled longhouse, a young girl of perhaps ten or twelve emerged, naked from the waist up, and with only a wisp of black hair hanging down from the back of her shaved head. She turned to the great man presiding over the ceremony with a familiarity and self- confidence that suggested she knew the chief well. She did, for he was her father. The girl pleaded that the stranger’s life be spared. The Englishman understood little about what was being said, for his comprehension of the Algonquian language was still rudimentary. The chief considered his daughter’s appeal carefully. He was an old man, perhaps sixty or seventy years old, broad-shouldered, fit and powerfully built for his age. He wore a robe of raccoon skins with the tails still attached, and around his neck hung a chain of pearls. He was clearly held in awe by all those present, and ‘at the least frown of his brow, their greatest will tremble’. The chief was dispassionate as he considered the young girl’s request, his face showing ‘a grave and majesticall countenance’. The Englishman had no option but to await the judgement which would soon seal his fate. NEW NON-FICTION 43

A MAN MOST DRIVEN Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Invention of America

Peter Firstbrook

Discovering the New World in an entirely new way

He fought and beheaded three Turkish commanders in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He was captured by pirates – twice – and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved seconds before the noose dropped over his head. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life.

Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune Praise for Lost on Everest than these tales suggest – and a far more ambitious self- promoter, too. Now, in this first new major biography of ‘Fascinating, well-told history.’ Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author New York Times Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer’s astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith’s claimed biography ‘A thrilling detective story... Moving.’ against the historical and geographical reality on the ground. Independent on Sunday

With A Man Most Driven Firstbrook delivers a fascinating, en- lightening dissection of this mythology-making man, England’s arrival on the world stage and the founding of America.

HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY PETER FIRSTBROOK is author of The Voyage of Mat- UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 thew (about the explorer John Cabot), Lost on Everest USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 (about George Mallory), and The Obamas: The Untold Royal Hardback (234×156mm) Story of an African Family. For twenty-five years, he £20.00/$30.00 worked for the BBC as a television producer, director 352 pages and executive producer specializing in historical doc- 30 b&w illustrations; 10 maps umentaries, winning over thirty international awards, ISBN: 978-1-85168-950-7 including the Royal Television Society award for best eISBN: 978-1-78074-107-9 documentary, twice. He lives in Ealing, West London. 44 NON-FICTION NEW

THE OXBRIDGE INTERVIEW BOOK Perplexing Problems in Maths, Physics and Engineering, with Solutions

Thomas Povey

The essential guide for would-be maths and science students at Oxbridge – and other nerds

Consisting of over 100 of the toughest puzzles tested on maths and science students at Oxbridge interviews, this is the essential guide for all those wanting to apply to either of these two enigmatic universities – as well as for those who are just plain curious to see whether they have what it takes to study at Oxbridge.

Compiled in an easy-to-use format with 10 chapters split across the sciences – including visual aids and historical asides – each section offers a new way of thinking about the maths and physics you already know, with each answer providing a humorous blend of personal anecdote, scientific history and application. Uncompromisingly challenging, this book is a valuable guide and fascinating insight into the strange world of Oxbridge.

THOMAS POVEY studied Physics at St Catherine’s EDUCATION College in Oxford in the 1990s and then went on UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 to complete a DPhil in the Turbomachinery Group; USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 he was subsequently appointed as the Rolls Royce Royal Paperback Industrial Fellow before taking up his current post (23 4×156mm) as Tutorial Fellow at University College in 2004. £14.99/$24.99 He lives in Oxford and, as a Tutorial Fellow, has 288 pages interviewed over 500 candidates for admission to ISBN: 978-1-78074-602-9 Oxford university. eISBN: 978-1-78074-603-6 Aztec Stone Movers There is some uncertainty about how the Aztecs and Egyptians moved such huge stones the great distances to their temples and pyramids, even when an unlimited supply of slaves is assumed to have been available. There is even more uncertainty about how the Neolithic man behind such structures as Stonehenge could have accomplished what even today would have been quite a feat of engineering. The Sarsen stones which form the outer circle of the monument weigh 50 tonnes. To lift such a stone would take the strength of about 1000 men – unfortunately only around 20 men fit round the perimeter of each stone. The nearest known source of Sarsen stone is 25 miles from the monument. And the stones were transported in about 2000 BC.

Most theorists, for we have almost no direct evidence of how such a feat was accomplished, have it that the stones were moved using sledges and ropes. The sledges were made of tree trunks and the ropes of leather, and the sledges were loaded onto rollers, also of tree trunks. It has been estimated that using this relatively sophisticated system it would have required 500 men to pull and a further 100 men to place the rollers.

If a block of stone 2 m long is to be pulled 1 km, how many times do rollers need to be placed in the path of the stone? 46 NON-FICTION NEW

ABDULLAH GÜL AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW TURKEY

Gerald MacLean

The only English Language biography of Abdullah Gül – a significant figure in Turkey’s recent political developments and the lead candidate as Turkey’s next Prime Minister

Drawing on original research, including in-depth interviews with President Abdullah Gül himself as well as his wife and close circle of colleagues and friends, this fascinating account offers readers a portrait of a man who has been at the heart of the political, economic and cultural developments, which have brought Turkey to international prominence in recent years.

A key player in Turkey’s attempts to receive an accession date for the European Union, Gül became the first president of Turkey who was also a devout Muslim in 2007, causing political commentators to hail his victory as a ‘new era in Turkish politics’. He has since been a major figure in Turkey’s diplomatic relationships in the Middle East and international political arena.

An essential source for students of contemporary Turkish culture and society, Gerald MacLean’s absorbing account of this enigmatic individual is written to be accessible to a wide circle of readers, and throws light on important episodes of Turkey’s recent history.

GERALD MACLEAN is Professor of English Literature at the University of BIOGRAPHY/POLITICS Exeter, founder and co-director of Exeter Turkish Studies, and a Fellow of UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Historical Society of London. USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 He lives in Exeter. Royal Hardback (23 4×153mm) £35.00/$50.00 400 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-562-6 eISBN: 978-1-78074-563-3 NEW NON-FICTION 47

ISLAM AND ROMANTICISM Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson

Jeffrey Einboden

A sweeping new work revealing Islam’s influence on literary Romanticism, mapping the impact of Muslim sources on the West’s most seminal authors

Revealing Islam’s formative influence on literary Romanticism, Islam and Romanticism traces a lively lineage of interreligious exchange, surveying the RELIGION/LITERATURE impact of Muslim sources on the West’s most seminal authors. Spanning UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 continents and centuries, the book surveys Islamic receptions that bridge USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 Romantic periods and personalities, unfolding from Europe to Britain and Royal Paperback America, and embracing figures from Goethe to Byron and Emerson. Broad (23 4×153mm) in historical scope, Islam and Romanticism is also specific in personal detail £20.00/$30.00 – exposing Islam’s role as a creative catalyst – but also as a spiritual resource, 272 pages with the Qur’an and Sufi poetry infusing Western literary publications. ISBN: 978-1-78074-566-4 eISBN: 978-1-78074-567-1

IBN TUFAYL

Taneli Kukkonen

A timely biography of Ibn Tufayl that sets one of the most famous Arabic philosophical works of all time – Hayy ibn Yaqdhan – in its historical and philosophical context

Ibn Tufayl (1105–1185) was an Andalusian courtier, philosopher, Sufi master and royal physician to the Almohad Caliphs. He inspired the twelfth- century Andalusian revolt against Ptolemaic astronomy and through his sponsorship he was also responsible for the career of the most renowned Aristotelian of medieval times, Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd (the Latin Averroes). BIOGRAPHY/RELIGION UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 Ibn Tufayl’s own intellectual outlook is preserved for us in Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 a philosophical romance that is one of the most beloved and best read Demy Hardback pieces in all Arabic literature. A popular and often-copied work in early (216×135mm) modern Europe, Hayy has for many come to represent what is distinctive £30.00/$40.00 of high classical Arabic philosophy. Kukkoken’s biography sets one of the 160 pages most famous Arabic philosophical works of all time in its historical and ISBN: 978-1-78074-564-0 philosophical context, painting a vivid portrait of the world as Ibn Tufayl eISBN: 978-1-78074-617-3 saw it and as he wished for it to be seen. 48 NON-FICTION NEW

SHAH ABBAS

Sholeh Quinn

A new biography of the life of Shah Abbas – generally considered the greatest ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran

Shah Abbas (1597-1629) is the most well-known king of Iran’s Safavid dynasty (1501-1722) who ruled over Iran when the dynasty was at its height of power and prestige. When Shah Abbas came to power his country was in chaos. Yet, within eleven years he had regained territory lost to his enemies, moved his capital city and begun a transformation of Iranian society. BIOGRAPHY/RELIGION UK/ROW 6 NOV 2014 In this wide-ranging profile, Sholeh Quinn explores his rise to power USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 and subsequent interactions with religious movements and artistic Demy Hardback developments, reaching beyond historical narrative to assess the (216×135mm) true impact of the man and his politics. This thought provoking and £30.00/$40.00 comprehensive account is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life 160 pages and thoughts of a man who ruled during a period described by many as a ISBN: 978-1-85168-425-0 golden age for the arts in Iran. eISBN: 978-1-78074-568-8

IBN ABD AL-WAHHAB

Michael Crawford

A timely biography on the founder of the Wahhabi movement and the man who helped establish the first Saudi state

Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703–1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death, he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religious activist who fought to establish a regime of Islamic godliness in the least promising of environments. For others, especially Muslims associated with mystic orders or who belong to the BIOGRAPHY/RELIGION Shi‘i branch of Islam, he is a hate figure. Few would contest that he shaped the UK/ROW 1 DEC 2014 Muslim world. USA & CAN 9 DEC 2014 Demy Hardback This provocative and wide-ranging biography, which charts the relationship (216×135mm) between religious doctrine, political power and events on the ground, is ideal £30.00/$40.00 for readers interested in uncovering the life and thoughts of the man who pages helped establish the first Saudi state, and who began a dynastic alliance that ISBN: 978-1-78074-589-3 continues to the present day. eISBN: 978-1-78074-590-9 NEW IN PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 49

THE MEN WHO LOST AMERICA British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire Andrew O’Shaughnessy

A leading British expert exposes the myth of Britain’s incompetence during the American Revolution

‘Fascinating, well written and extensively researched.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘First-rank revisionist history.’ Independent

‘Captivating.’ TLS

‘Brilliant.’ BBC History Magazine Winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize ‘Fasctinating.’ Guardian Winner of the Cincinnati History Prize ‘Fresh and compelling... This is a great book.’ Jon Meacham Winner of the New York Roundtable of the American Revolution ‘There is no book quite like this... Crisp, sensitive... compelling... A must-read...’ Maya Jasanoff Finalist of the Guggenheim- Lehrmann Prize in Military History ‘Engaging... keeps the whole picture firmly in view.’ Wall Street Journal Finalist of the George Washington Book Prize ‘Enormously enjoyable.’ Sir Michael Howard, Emeritus Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford

HISTORY ANDREW O’SHAUGHNESSY is the Saunders Direc- UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 tor of the Robert H. Smith International Centre for Royal Paperback Jefferson Studies at Monticello, the leading centre of (225×14 6mm) revolutionary studies in the US, and Professor of His- £14.99 tory at the University of Virginia. He is the author of An 496 pages Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British ISBN: 978-1-78074-501-5 Caribbean. Originally from Britain, he lectured at the eISBN: 978-1-78074-247-2 University of Oxford before moving to the US, where he currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. 50 NON-FICTION NEW IN PAPERBACK

THE BLUNDERS OF OUR GOVERNMENTS

Anthony King and Ivor Crewe

Winner of the Paddy Power Practical Politics Book Award

With over 15,000 copies sold in hardback, this Christmas 2013 bestseller is now fully udpated for mass-market paperback

‘This is an astonishing achievement – that very rare thing, a genuinely original book and an immediately essential guide to the failures of British politics.’ Andrew Marr

‘Fascinating and zeitgeisty.’ David Aaronovitch, The Times

‘Two of our most brilliant political analysts focus ‘One of the hottest books of the entertainingly on an endless succession of great British season... a deeply depressing cock-ups... thoroughly entertaining and erudite.’ Observer catalogue of major projects championed at the highest level that ‘A powerful new book.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail have turned into turkeys.’ Scotsman ‘Illuminating and disturbing.’ Philip Johnston, Daily ‘Rivetingly told... a feast of fiascos, a Telegraph banquet of balls-ups.’ Francis Wheen, Literary Review ‘Timely and intelligent.’ Prospect

‘This is a very apposite book and ‘Fascinating.’ Alan Johnson MP, New Statesman should be read by ministers, shadow ministers, parliamentarians and civil ‘Grimly entertaining... This book should be a servants.’ Total Politics compulsory text for every would-be minister and permanent secretary.’ Financial Times

‘Compelling.’ Independent on Sunday

ANTHONY KING is Millennium POLITICS Professor of Government at UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 the University of Essex. He has USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 written for the Daily Telegraph, B format Paperback the Daily Mail, the Observer and (198×129 mm) the Financial Times. Sir IVOR £9.99/$22.99 CREWE is Master of University 512 pages College, Oxford University. ISBN: 978-1-78074-405-6 eISBN: 978-1-78074-618-0 NEW IN PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 51

DRUNK TANK PINK The Subconscious Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Adam Alter

Adam Alter shows how understanding subconscious cues is the key to smarter decision-making, more effective marketing, and better outcomes for our selves and our societies

‘The best science book I’ve read all year... really provocative.’ Malcolm Gladwell

‘Reading Adam Alter’s book will change the way you look at our world.’ Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational

‘I’ve read lots of books about how the brain can be tricked and how the things we think we see are not ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll gasp, you’ll shake necessarily the things we are looking at. This is one of your head in disbelief as Alter shows the best.’ Evening Standard you that we are all, to some degree, balls in a giant pinball machine. If you ‘A fantastic introduction to the wealth of weird and want to regain some control of your wonderful psychology research that is out there.’ destiny, read this delightful book.’ BBC Focus Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind ‘Adam Alter has collected the most wonderfully strange and surprising nuggets of recent psychological research in one book. I guarantee you’ll want to share the incredible anecdotes in Drunk Tank Pink with friends.’ Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein

PSYCHOLOGY ADAM ALTER is marketing professor at New York UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 University. His research focuses on decision making B format Paperback and social psychology, and has been published in (198×129 mm) leading psychology journals and featured in popular £8.99 media across the world. 272 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-583-1 eISBN: 978-1-78074-265-6 52 NON-FICTION NEW IN PAPERBACK

THE GREAT TAX ROBBERY How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

Richard Brooks

An acclaimed exposé uncovering the UK government’s complicity in tax avoidance – fully updated for mass market paperback

‘Fascinating… not only does [Brooks] have a near- encyclopaedic knowledge, he also has an ear for resonant detail.’ Financial Times

‘Important... Brooks demonstrates that financial amorality is endemic among Britain’s elite.’ The Times

‘This year’s indispensable book.’ Observer

‘A “must read”... exposes the financial immorality of the ‘Richard Brooks exposes the very rich as never before.’ Professors Richard Wilkinson and British scandal in which we are Kate Pickett, bestselling authors of The Spirit Level inflicted with austerity whilst corporations and wealthy individuals ‘A call to arms and a tour de force. It is about time are permitted to cart their tax someone explained to all of us what is required if we obligations to havens over which don’t want our country, our cities, and our schools to enter the UK government has far more a cycle of decline where paying tax is just for the little influence than it pretends.’ people.’ Danny Dorling, author of Injustice and Jon Snow, Channel Four News So You Think You Know About Britain?

‘Detailed and comprehensive – and ‘Richard Brooks is a digger and a troublemaker who shocking – whilst also being an niggles away at difficult subjects in a meticulous, enjoyable and wicked read, spiced punchy and highly effective way.’ with scurrilous examples of breath- Alan Rusbridger, Editor, the Guardian taking cheating and greed.’ Michael Meacher MP

Former tax-inspector RICHARD BROOKS reports POLITICS/CURRENT AFFAIRS for Private Eye on a range of subjects and has con- UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 tributed to the Guardian, the BBC, and many other B format Paperback media outlets. With David Craig he was co-author of (198×129 mm) the bestselling Plundering the Public Sector. In 2008 £9.99 he was awarded the Paul Foot Award for Investiga- 304 pages tive Journalism. He lives in Reading. ISBN: 978-1-78074-371-4 eISBN: 978-1-78074-619-7 NEW IN PAPERBACK NON-FICTION 53

THE STATE VS. NELSON MANDELA The Trial that Changed South Africa Joel Joffe with an introduction by Denis Goldberg

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela’s defence lawyer

On 11 July 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heavily armed police had burst out and arrested the entire high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. ‘A remarkable piece of contemporary In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, historical writing that will serve as gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial one of the most reliable sources for in South Africa’s history, vividly portraying the characters of understanding what happened at those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and that trial and how we came to live rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as to see democracy triumph in South showing their incredible courage under fire. Africa.’ Nelson Mandela

‘A hard-hitting and compulsively readable account of one of the great state trials of the 20th century.’ Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, former acting judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

HISTORY LORD JOEL JOFFE CBE is a crossbench peer in the UK/ROW 17 OCT 2014 House of Lords. He has previously served as Chair- B format Paperback person of Oxfam and worked as a human-rights (198×129 mm) lawyer. £10.99/$16.99 312 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-580-0 eISBN: 978-1-78074-615-9 54 NON-FICTION NEW IN PAPERBACK

NAZI GERMANY AND THE HUMANITIES How German Academics Embraced Nazism

Edited by Anson Rabinbach and Wolfgang Bialas

An impressive collection of important scholarship that asks why the ‘Nazification’ of German universities encountered so little resistance

With few exceptions, the academic elite welcomed and justified the acts of the Nazi regime, uttered no word of protest when their Jewish and liberal colleagues were dismissed, and did not stir when Jewish students were barred admission.

The subject of how German scholars responded to the Nazi regime continues to fascinate and be an area of scholarship. In this collection, Rabinbach and Bialas bring some of the best scholarly contributions together in one cohesive volume, to deliver a shocking conclusion: whatever diverse motives German intellectuals may have had in 1933, the image of Nazism as an alien power imposed on German universities from without was a convenient fiction.

ANSON RABINBACH is a specialist in modern European history with an HISTORY emphasis on intellectual and cultural history. He has published extensively UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 on Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and USA & CAN 12 AUG 2014 twentieth century. He is currently director of European Cultural Studies at Royal Paperback Princeton University. (225×14 6mm) £25.00/$40.00 WOLFGANG BIALAS is a specialist in 19th and 20th century German culture, 480 pages German literature, intellectual history and film. He is currently Associate ISBN: 978-1-78074-434-6 Professor of Philosophy at Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates University. eISBN: 978-1-78074-616-6 RECENT RELEASES NON-FICTION 55

BLOOD A Biography of the Stuff of Life Lawrence Hill

From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Book of Negroes, an absorbing, illuminating look at this vital fluid

It’s everywhere: from the laws of citizenship to the detection of doping in sport; from the books of the Old Testament and Macbeth to the mudbloods of Harry Potter and the vampires of Twilight. Blood fills our imagination, just as fully as it fills our veins.

In this provocative exploration of the scientific and social history of blood, from ancient times to today, award- winning novelist Lawrence Hill considers blood’s physical, cultural, psychological and political aspects. He vividly explores William Harvey’s bloody dissection table on which the physician used a live dog to prove that blood circulates, shocking his seventeenth century peers. But blood isn’t just about the body, and Hill also reveals how ideas about blood purity have spawned rules about who gets to belong to a family, who enjoys the rights of citizenship, and what defines a person’s identity. A fascinating view of blood through the lenses of science and culture, Hill reveals the myriad ways in which this substance so powerfully unites and divides us.

CULTURAL HISTORY LAWRENCE HILL is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The UK/ROW 5 JUN 2014 Book of Negroes, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He lives in B format Paperback Hamilton, Ontario, Canada with his family. (198×129 mm) £9.99 320 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-546-6 eISBN: 978-1-78074-547-3 56 BEGINNER’S GUIDES

ONEWORLD BEGINNER’S GUIDES The Perfect Introductions Oneworld Beginner’s Guides feature accessible, expert analysis on a vast range of topics. With over 100 titles available, these affordable and fascinating guides feature the most in-depth introductions for anyone curious about the way the world works and the big ideas of our time – perfect for students and general readers.

All Beginner’s Guides are B format (198mm × 129mm) paperbacks, priced at £9.99/$14.99.

ETHICS A Beginner’s Guide

Peter Cave

A bestselling thinker combines theory and practice in this essential primer to the most popular branch of philosophy

From Confucianism to Kant’s Categorical Imperative, from the Ancient Greeks to Amnesty International, Peter Cave presents ethics through a fascinating global historical lens, and relates it to everyday life and 21st century politics. He traces the development of this key branch of PHILOSOPHY philosophy up to the present day, introducing readers to all the main UK/ROW 2 OCT 2014 schools of thought. With his characteristic wit and clarity, Cave takes USA & CAN 11 NOV 2014 on good and evil, power and politics, and liberalism and relativism, B format Paperback and handily guides us around some of the most common potholes in (198×129 mm) ethical reasoning. Applying moral theory to contemporary concepts like £9.99/$14.99 ‘corporate social responsibility’ and bioethical issues such as ‘designer 224 pages babies’, this is the essential primer to the subject. ISBN: 978-1-78074-576-3 eISBN: 978-1-78074-577-0 ‘Britain’s wittiest philosopher.’ Raymond Tallis

‘Unputdownable... a must-read book.’ Professor Timothy Chappell, The Open University on Can a Robot Be Human?

‘Few readers can fail to come away armed with invaluable knowledge after dipping into Oneworld’s Beginner’s Guides series.Insightful and informative, they make mind-boggling concepts simple and stimulate further inquiry.’ Christina Borg, Sunday Times BEGINNER’S GUIDES 57

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS A Beginner’s Guide

Patrick Little

Travel back to when England killed its king and established a republic

The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1642-51 was more dramatic, abolishing the monarchy and the House of Lords, replacing them with a republic and military rule. HISTORY UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 In this wonderfully readable account, Patrick Little explores the events of this USA & CAN 12 AUG 2014 period and their origins, including the battles between King and Parliament, B format Paperback the execution of Charles I, the establishment of the Commonwealth and (198×129 mm) Charles II’s attempts to retake the throne. Scrutiny is also applied to the £9.99/$14.99 nature and practicalities of conducting a civil war on English soil, as well as 224 pages the experiences and motivations of key factions and combatants, making ISBN: 978-1-78074-331-8 this a uniquely balanced and rounded account of the conflict. eISBN: 978-1-78074-332-5

WORLD WAR II A Beginner’s Guide

Christopher Catherwood

A fresh introduction to the most widely studied and read about event in history

With over sixty million casualties WWII was the bloodiest conflict in history. In this incisive introduction, esteemed academic Christopher Catherwood covers all the key battles and campaigns, while also giving the larger story behind them, putting familiar events into the perspective of the war at large: HISTORY >> The huge impact of the preceding Sino-Japanese War on WWII itself UK/ROW 7 AUG 2014 >> The relative unimportance of the British conflict in Africa USA & CAN 9 SEP 2014 >> The near moral-equivalence of the Red Army and the Nazis B format Paperback >> The impact of the Hiroshima bombing (198×129 mm) £9.99/$14.99 Full of text-boxes revealing key details about British intelligence, weaponry, 224 pages and the social milieu of the conflict, there is no better brief introduction to this ISBN: 978-1-78074-510-7 landmark event. eISBN: 978-1-78074-511-4 58 BEGINNER’S GUIDES

THE CRUSADES A Beginner’s Guide

Andrew Jotischky

Discover the wars that first polarised Islamic and Christian civilisations

In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the first crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The conflict would rage for over 200 years, transforming Christian and Islamic relations forever.

HISTORY Professor of Medieval History at Lancaster University, Andrew Jotischky UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 takes readers through the key events, focussing on the experience of USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 crusading, from both sides, and asking crucial questions: What were the B format Paperback motivations of the crusaders? What was it like to be a crusader or live in a (198×129 mm) crusading society? How do these events, nearly a thousand years ago, still £9.99/$14.99 shape the politics of today? 224 pages ISBN: 978-1-78074-593-0 eISBN: 978-1-78074-502-2

ARCHAEOLOGY A Beginner’s Guide

Joe Flatman

How to think like an archaeologist and why it’s important for understanding the world we live in

Archaeology is more popular than it has ever been. TV and film have made it accessible and exciting, and the number of budding amateurs is on the rise, as is government support for archaeological initiatives on a global scale.

ARCHAEOLOGY From coins and combs to battlefields and plantations, archaeologist Joe UK/ROW 7 AUG 2014 Flatman provides an incisive introduction to the practice of archaeology. USA & CAN 9 SEP 2014 Through comparative case studies he demonstrates how the archaeological B format Paperback mindset reveals unexpected truths about the most modern phenomena. (198×129 mm) Suddenly a landfill site can expose more about our drinking habits than £9.99/$14.99 we may like to admit, and airports become sites as intriguing and complex 224 pages as the towns and villages they were built over. Flatman also trains his eye ISBN: 978-1-78074-503-9 on the future and reveals how archaeology can help us predict – and even eISBN: 978-1-78074-504-6 prevent – the crises that are facing us today. BEGINNER’S GUIDES 59

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE A Beginner’s Guide

Mark Jackson

A wide-ranging introduction that reveals the fusion of East and West, science and quackery, in the roots of modern medicine

In a world burdened by chronic conditions, mutating viruses and a health service strained to its limits, the history of medicine challenges our understanding of what it means to be healthy. By illuminating the ailments and methods of the past, our own dilemmas about medical practice and policy can be put into a new perspective. HISTORY UK/ROW 3 JUL 2014 Professor of the History of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Medical USA & CAN 9 SEP 2014 History at the University of Exeter, Mark Jackson takes us from the dawn of B format Paperback medicine in the ancient world to the most recent developments pioneered (198×129 mm) in the twenty-first century’s hospitals. On the way, Jackson explores eastern £9.99/$14.99 traditions as well as the origins of today’s ‘alternative’ therapies, offering 232 pages piercing insight into how medicine has reflected and shaped society ISBN: 978-1-78074-520-6 throughout the ages. eISBN: 978-1-78074-527-5

19TH CENTURY ART A Beginner’s Guide

Laurie Schneider Adams

An unmissable tour through Western art’s avant-garde century

Munch’s The Scream. Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Rodin’s The Thinker. Monet’s water lilies. Constable’s landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. At the time however, their avant-garde nature was the cause of much controversy. ART Professor Laurie Schneider Adams vividly brings to life the paintings, UK/ROW 4 SEP 2014 sculpture, photography and architecture of the period with her infectious USA & CAN 14 OCT 2014 enthusiasm for art and detailed explorations of individual works. Offered B format Paperback fascinating biographical details and the relevant social, political and cultural (198×129 mm) context, the reader is left with a deep appreciation for the works and an £9.99/$14.99 understanding of both how revolutionary they were at the time and their 224 pages enduring appeal. ISBN: 978-1-78074-541-1 eISBN: 978-1-78074-542-8 60 NON-FICTION BACKLIST BESTSELLERS

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