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JANUARY 2021

3 Hamish Hamilton Consequences of Capitalism Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'

Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.

'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.'

How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of 'common sense' is actually driven by the ruling classes' needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet?

Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen connections between neoliberal 'common sense' and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.

Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, January 2021 Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say 9780241482612 Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Royal Octavo Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also £14.99 : Trade Paperback been the subject of numerous books of biography and 416 pages interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

Marvin Waterstone is Professor Emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member for over 30 years. He is also the former director of the University of Arizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. His research and teaching focus on the Gramscian notions of hegemony and common sense, and their connections to social justice and progressive social change. His most recent books are Wageless Life (co- authored with Ian Shaw) and Geographic Thought (co-edited with George Henderson).

4 Viking Sensehacking How to Use the Power of Your Senses for Happier, Healthier Living Charles Spence

The world expert in multisensory perception on the remarkable ways we can use our senses to lead richer lives

How can the furniture in your home affect your wellbeing? What colour clothing will help you play sport better? And what simple trick will calm you after a tense day at work?

In this revelatory book, pioneering and entertaining Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses change how we think and feel, and how by 'hacking' them we can reduce stress, become more productive and be happier.

We like to think of ourselves as rational beings, and yet it's the scent of expensive face cream that removes wrinkles (temporarily), the noise of the crowd really does affect the referee's decision, and food not only tastes 10 per cent better if you use a tablecloth, you'll also eat 50 per cent more of it. By understanding our senses, we can take greater control of our lives.

Sensehacking explores how the senses are stimulated in nature, at home, in the workplace and at play. In a world where we're suffering from the sensory overload of 24-hour cycles and also prioritising physical distance from one another, Spence explains 'touch hunger' and shows how we can overcome it. Understanding how our senses interact can January 2021 produce incredible results. This is popular science at its 9780241361139 unbelievable best. Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback Professor Charles Spence is the world expert in 384 pages multisensory perception and experience design, having spent over 20 years researching how people perceive the world around them at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University. He has consulted for many multinational companies, including Unilever, PepsiCo and Nestlé, advising on various aspects of multisensory design, packaging, and branding.

'Spence does for the senses what Marie Kondo does for homes - he shows us how to rearrange and declutter our way to better living' Avery Gilbert, author of What the Nose Knows

'Everything you need to know about how to cope with the hidden sensory overload of modern life, engagingly told' Robin Dunbar, author of How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

'A tour de force' David Howes, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto

'Especially timely in these pandemic times' Roger Kneebone, author of Expert

5 Viking Empireland How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain Sathnam Sanghera

An illuminating portrait of contemporary Britain as a product of its imperial past for readers of Akala's NATIVES

Britain as we know it is a direct product of our imperial past. And yet, empire is barely taught at school and continues to be a subject of both shame and glorification. Covering everything from our national habits to how we live - from the foundation of the NHS, to the nature of our racism, to our economic status and our wealth - Empireland argues that imperialism is everywhere, though we often choose not to see it. It is central to the way we think and conduct politics, from the distrust of intellectuals in public life, to the exceptionalism that inspired Brexit and our response to the COVID crisis. Sathnam Sanghera's deeply impassioned, enlightening and unsettling book demonstrates that we can only truly understand who we are by knowing who we were.

Sathnam Sanghera was born to Punjabi immigrant parents in Wolverhampton in 1976. He entered the education system unable to speak English but, after attending Wolverhampton Grammar School, graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1998. He has been shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards twice, for his memoir The Boy With The Topknot and his novel Marriage Material, the former being adapted by BBC Drama in 2017 and named Mind Book of the Year in 2009. He has won numerous prizes for his journalism at The Financial Times and , including Young Journalist of the Year in 2002 and January 2021 Media Commentator of the Year in 2015. He lives in London. 9780241445297 Royal Octavo 'This remarkable book shines the brightest of lights into £18.99 : Hardback some of the darkest and most misunderstood corners of our 320 pages shared history' James O'Brien

'Lucid but never simplistic; entertaining but never frivolous; intensely readable while always mindful of nuance and complexity - Empireland takes a perfectly-judged approach to its contentious but necessary subject' Jonathan Coe

6 Penguin Our Little Cruelties A new psychological suspense from the No.1 bestseller Liz Nugent

Three brothers are at the funeral. One lies in the coffin.

Will, Brian and Luke grow up competing for their mother's unequal love. As men, the competition continues - for status, money, fame, women ...

They each betray each other, over and over, until one of them is dead.

But which brother killed him?

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in Irish film, theatre and television. Her three novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait and Skin Deep have each been Number One bestsellers in Ireland and she has won four Irish Book Awards (two for Skin Deep). She lives in Dublin with her husband.

'Liz Nugent is a force to be reckoned with' Lisa Jewell

'Liz Nugent has a gift for filling us with a terrible fascination for truly horrible people' Val McDermid

'MAGNIFICENT. Her best yet, and that's really saying something' Marian Keyes

'That ability - that gift - of being able to hook a reader and keep them hooked is rare and Liz has it' Graham Norton January 2021 9780241979747 B Format £7.99 : Paperback 384 pages

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FEBRUARY 2021

8 Viking Fall The Mystery of Robert Maxwell John Preston

From the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell.

In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand and children asked for his autograph. But just ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in the water soon afterward.

Maxwell was the embodiment of Britain's post-war boom. Born an Orthodox Jew, he had escaped the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, fought in World War 2, and was decorated for his heroism with the Military Cross. He went on to become a Labour MP and an astonishingly successful businessman, owning a number of newspapers and publishing companies. But on his death, his empire fell apart, as long-hidden debts and unscrupulous dealings came to light. Within a few days, Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed and corruption. No one had ever fallen so far and so quickly.

What went so wrong? How did a war hero and model of society become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck? In this February 2021 gripping book, John Preston delivers the definitive account of 9780241388679 Maxwell's extraordinary rise and scandalous fall. Royal Octavo £18.99 : Hardback John Preston is a former Arts Editor of the Evening Standard 352 pages and the Sunday Telegraph. For ten years he was the Sunday Telegraph's television critic and one of its chief feature writers. His most recent book, A Very English Scandal, was published to great acclaim in 2016 and turned into a major BBC programme.

'Preston is a natural storyteller' The Times

9 Viking Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British artists falling in and out of love

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.

At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.

Caleb Azumah Nelson is a 26-year-old British-Ghanaian writer and photographer living in South East London. His photography was shortlisted for the Palm Photo Prize and won the People's Choice prize. His short story PRAY is shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2020. OPEN WATER is his first novel.

'A love song to black art and thought, an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with each other in a world that hardens February 2021 against black people.' Yaa Gyasi, bestselling author of 9780241448779 HOMEGOING B Format £12.99 : Hardback 'A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and 176 pages sometimes painful depths of love' Candice Carty-Williams, bestselling author of QUEENIE

'Caleb is a star in the making.' Nikesh Shukla, editor of THE GOOD IMMIGRANT

'A stunning piece of art' Bolu Babalola, bestselling author of LOVE IN COLOUR

10 Penguin Bernard and the Cloth Monkey Black Britain: Writing Back Judith Bryan

A shattering portrayal of relationships, guilt and unshakable bonds as a family's deepest secrets explosively unravel

When Anita finally returns to London after a long absence, everything has changed.

Her father is dead, her mother has disappeared, and she and her sister Beth are alone together for the first time in years.

They share a house. They share a family. They share a past.

Tentatively, they reach out to one another for connection, but the house echoes with words unspoken. Can they confront the pain of the past together?

Dazzling and heart-breaking, Bernard and the Cloth Monkey is a shattering portrait of family, a rebellion against silence and a testament to the human capacity for survival.

Judith Bryan (Author) Judith Bryan is a writer, playwright and academic. Her first novel Bernard and the Cloth Monkey won the 1997 Saga Prize. Her short fiction and non-fiction have been published in various anthologies including IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (edited by Courttia Newland and February 2021 Kadija Sesay, Penguin 2000), Gas and Air: Tales of Pregnancy, 9780241482681 Birth and Beyond (edited by Jill Dawson and Margo Daly, B Format Bloomsbury 2002) and Closure: Contemporary Black British £8.99 : Paperback Stories (edited by Jacob Ross, Peepal Tree Press 2015). Her 224 pages play, Keeping Mum was produced at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London, in 2011 (directed by Rebecca Manson Jones) for the WriteNow2 Festival of New Writing. Judith is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Hawthornden Fellow. She has taught creative writing at City Lit, Arvon, Spread the Word and to community groups. She is working on her second novel.

Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

11 Penguin The Dancing Face Black Britain: Writing Back Mike Phillips

A sensational, original art heist thriller about the high stakes theft of a priceless African artefact and its dark consequences

University lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless Benin mask, The Dancing Face, from a museum at the heart of the British establishment will gain an avalanche of attention.

Which is exactly what he wants.

But such a risky theft will also inevitably capture the attention of characters with more money, more power, and fewer morals.

Naively entangling his loved ones in his increasingly dangerous pursuit of righteous reparation, is Gus prepared for what it will cost him?

Mike Phillips was born in Guyana, but grew up in London. He worked for the BBC as a journalist and broadcaster on television programmes including The Late Show and Omnibus, before becoming a lecturer in media studies at the University of Westminster. He has written many critically-acclaimed crime novels, including Blood Rights, which was adapted for BBC television, The Late Candidate, winner of the Crime February 2021 Writers' Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Point of 9780241482674 Darkness, An Image to Die For, A Shadow of Myself and Kind of B Format Union. He co-wrote Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi- £8.99 : Paperback Racial Britain to accompany the BBC television series, and an 336 pages essay collection, London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain (2001). Appointed the first Cross Cultural Curator for the Tate Galleries in 2005, Mike also wrote for , and his public service includes trusteeships of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Most recently, he served as an independent adviser to Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams' Windrush; Lessons Learned Review for the Home Office. Mike Phillips lives in London.

Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with Bernardine Evaristo contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

12 Penguin The Fat Lady Sings Black Britain: Writing Back Jacqueline Roy

A groundbreaking novel exploring the intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK

It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song. After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.

Unable to confide in their doctors, they agree to journal their pasts. Whispered into tape recorders and scrawled ferociously at night, the remarkable stories of their lives are revealed.

In this tender, deeply-moving depiction of mental health, Roy creates a striking portrait of two women finding strength in their shared vulnerability, as they navigate a system that fails to protect them. Life-affirming and fearlessly hopeful, this is an unforgettable story.

Jacqueline Roy (Author) Jacqueline Roy is a dual-heritage author, born in London to a black Jamaican father and white British mother. After a love of art and stories was passed down to her by her family, she became increasingly aware of the absence of black figures in the books she devoured, and this fuelled her desire to write. In her teenage years she spent time in a psychiatric hospital, February 2021 where she wrote as much as possible to retain a sense of 9780241482698 identity; her novel The Fat Lady Sings is inspired by this B Format experience of institutionalisation and the treatment of black £8.99 : Paperback people with regards to mental illness. She rediscovered a 304 pages love of learning in her thirties after undertaking a Bachelors in English, and a Masters in Postcolonial Literatures. She then became a lecturer in English, specialising in Black Literature and Culture and Creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she worked full time for many years, and was a tutor on The Manchester Writing School's M.A. programme. She has written six books for children, and edited her late father's novel No Black Sparrows, published posthumously. A second novel for adults will be published in 2022. She now lives in Manchester.

Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with Bernardine Evaristo contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

13 Penguin Incomparable World Black Britain: Writing Back S. I. Martin

A visceral reimagining of 1780s London, showcasing the untold stories of African-American soldiers grappling with their freedom after the American revolution

In the years just after the American revolution, London was the unlikely refuge for thousands of black Americans who fought for liberty on the side of the British.

Buckram, Georgie and William have earned their freedom and escaped their American oppressors, but on the streets of London, poverty awaits with equal cruelty.

Ruthless, chaotic and endlessly evolving, London forces them into a life of crime, and a life on the margins. Their only hope for a better future is to concoct a scheme so daring, it will be a miracle if it pays off.

Pulsating with energy and vivid detail, Incomparable World boldly uncovers a long-buried narrative of black Britain.

S. I. Martin (Author) S. I. Martin is a museums consultant and author, specialising in Black British history and literature. He is the author of several books of historical fiction and non-fiction for teenage and adult readers, including Britain's Slave Trade (written for Channel 4 to tie in with its documentary of the same name), Jupiter Amidshops, Jupiter Williams and Incomparable World. S. February 2021 I. Martin lives in London. 9780241482704 B Format Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to £8.99 : Paperback -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote 240 pages about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with Bernardine Evaristo contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

14 Penguin Minty Alley Black Britain: Writing Back C.L.R. James

The only novel from the revolutionary intellectual C.L.R. James, and the first novel by a black West Indian to be published in the UK

It is the 1920s in the Trinidadian capital, and Haynes' world has been upended. His mother has passed away, and his carefully mapped-out future of gleaming opportunity has disappeared with her.

Unable to afford his former life, he finds himself moving into Minty Alley - a bustling barrack yard teeming with life and a spectacular cast of characters. In this sliver of West Indian working-class society, outrageous love affairs and passionate arguments are a daily fixture, and Haynes begins to slip from curious observer to the heart of the action.

Minty Alley is a gloriously observed portrayal of class, community and the ways in which we are all inherently connected. An undisputed modern classic, this is an exceptional story told by one of the twentieth century's greatest Caribbean thinkers.

C.L.R. James (Author) C. L. R. James was born in Trinidad in 1901 and was one of the prominent figures in the West Indian diaspora. He was a writer, socialist and pioneering voice in literature. He wrote extensively on Caribbean history, Marxist theory, literary criticism, Western civilisation, African politics, cricket and February 2021 popular culture. His works include World Revolution, The Black 9780241482667 Jacobins, Beyond a Boundary and his only novel, Minty Alley. B Format He died in 1989. £8.99 : Paperback 272 pages Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with Bernardine Evaristo contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

15 Penguin Without Prejudice Black Britain: Writing Back Nicola Williams

A gripping, propulsive courtroom drama following a barrister as she uncovers the dark secrets of London's obscenely rich

Lee Mitchell is a thirty-year-old barrister from a working-class Caribbean background: in the cut-throat environment of the courtroom, everything is stacked against her.

After she takes on the high-profile case of notorious millionaire playboy Clive Omartian - arrested along with his father and stepbrother for eye-wateringly exorbitant fraud - the line between her personal and professional life becomes dangerously blurred. Spiralling further into Clive's trail of debauchery and corruption, she finds herself in alarmingly deep waters.

Can she survive her case, let alone win it?

Nicola Williams (Author) Nicola Williams started her career as a barrister in private practice, specialising in Criminal Law, including three successful Commonwealth death penalty appeals before the House of Lords sitting as the Privy Council. She was a legal expert on BBC World for the OJ Simpson trial verdict in 1995 and a member of the first Independent Advisory Group to the Metropolitan Police Service (following recommendations arising from the Stephen Lawrence Report [1999]). She has been a part-time Crown Court Judge since 2010. A former February 2021 winner of Cosmopolitan magazine Woman of Achievement 9780241482650 Award, she is an active volunteer for the Speakers for B Format Schools programme, a charity which encourages young £8.99 : Paperback people from disadvantaged and under-represented 384 pages communities to enter the professions. Nicola Williams lives in London.

Black Britain: Writing Back is a new series of lost or hard-to -find books, now rediscovered, by black writers who wrote about black Britain and the diaspora across the last century. The series will launch under Hamish Hamiton with six novels ranging from literary thrillers to historical fiction-with Bernardine Evaristo contributing introductions to each. Every title will be repackaged with a fresh, bold look, featuring cover artwork by black British artists.

16 Viking The Cold Millions Jess Walter

The wonderfully rich novel of early 20th century America from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins

Spokane, 1909. The Dolan brothers are living by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. When Rye finds himself drawn to suffragette Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, her passion sweeps him into the world of protest and dirty business. But a storm is coming, threatening to overwhelm them all . . .

The Cold Millions is an intimate story of brotherhood, love, sacrifice and betrayal set against the panoramic backdrop of an early 20th century America.

Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.

'A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history. Jess Walter is a national treasure' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See

'A work of irresistible characters, harrowing adventures and February 2021 rip-roaring fun . . . One of the most captivating novels of the 9780241374573 year' Washington Post Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback 'Warm and deeply humane, this transporting novel is a 352 pages staggering achievement from a landmark writer' Esquire

'A vivid, propulsive, historical novel with a politically explosive backdrop that reverberates through our own' USA Today

17 Viking The Spymaster of Baghdad The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS Margaret Coker

The gripping true story of a spymaster, a bomb-maker and two brothers - one undercover in ISIS, the other his handler

The Spymaster of Baghdad is the gripping story of the Falcons: the top-secret Iraqi intelligence unit that infiltrated the Islamic State. Against the backdrop of the most brutal conflict of recent decades, we chart the spymaster's struggle to develop the unit, follow the fraught relationship of two of his agents, the al-Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS, the other his handler - and track a disillusioned scientist as she turns bomb-maker. With unprecedented access to characters on all sides, Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker challenges the conventional view that Western coalition forces defeated ISIS and reveals a page-turning story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft.

Margaret Coker is an investigative journalist. She has lived and worked in Iraq and the wider Middle East since 2003. An ex-Baghdad Bureau Chief for the New York Times, she honed her reporting skills at The Wall Street Journal where she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as part of a team chronicling Turkey's failed coup, political purges and teetering democracy. Her coverage of national security issues won the Overseas Press Club Award and the Edwin M. Hood Prize from the National Press Club, America's top prize for diplomatic reporting. This is her first book. February 2021 9780241409091 'Authentic, moving, visceral, chilling, utterly revelatory, truly Royal Octavo masterful. A stunning tour de force by an author who has £20.00 : Hardback lived every word of it on the ground. A story of our time that 320 pages absolutely needs to be told' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo

'Who needs spy fiction, when fact can provide as thrilling a story as this? In Margaret Coker's deeply reported, unputdownable account, the previously unknown Iraqi heroes of the war against the Islamic State turn out to be braver than Bond and as subtle as Smiley. Until this book, we had no idea how much we owe the spymaster of Baghdad and his operatives' Lindsey Hilsum, author of In Extremis

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19 Viking The Western Front A History of the First World War Nick Lloyd

The definitive history of the Western Front - from the acclaimed author of the bestselling Passchendaele

In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly of war. However, here bestselling historian Nick Lloyd reveals that the story is not, as so many assume, one of pointlessness and stupidity.

Drawing upon the latest scholarship, wrongly overlooked accounts and archival material, Lloyd explains the achievements that have been obscured by legends of mud, blood and futility. He recreates the decision-making and experiences of the war as it was and redefines our understanding of this monumental tragedy.

Nick Lloyd is Reader in Defence Studies at King's College London, and based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College near Swindon. He specializes in British military and imperial history in the era of the Great War and is the author of four books, Loos 1915 (2006), The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day (2011), Hundred Days: The End of the Great War (2013) and Passchendaele: a New History (2017) which was a Sunday Times bestseller.

'This well-researched, well-written and cogently argued new analysis overturns all our assumptions and received wisdom about the fighting on the most important front of the Great War. Nick Lloyd deserves congratulation for having written March 2021 what will undoubtedly now take its rightful place as the 9780241347164 standard account of this vital theatre of the conflict' Andrew Royal Octavo Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny £25.00 : Hardback 688 pages 'A model of what a work of military history should be . . . the definitive account of this phase of the war on the Western Front' The Telegraph on 'Passchendaele'

'Both as narrative and analysis, this book is masterly' The Scotsman on 'Passchendaele'

20 Viking Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi

From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America

As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away.

Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts.

Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. March 2021 9780241433379 'It is a novel for all times. The splendor and heart and insight Royal Octavo and brilliance contained in the pages holds up a light the rest £14.99 : Hardback of us can follow' - Ann Patchett 288 pages 'Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative about a woman trying to survive the grief of a brother lost to addiction and a mother trapped in depression while pursuing her ambitions' - Roxane Gay

'A book of blazing brilliance . . . A double helix of wisdom and rage twists through the quiet lines of this novel. Yaa Gyasi is one of the most enlightening novelists writing today' - Washington Post

21 Viking Life Support Diary of an ICU Doctor on the Frontline of the Covid Crisis Jim Down

A powerful, moving account of an intensive care doctor's life on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As a doctor running the intensive care unit at one of London's top hospitals, Jim Down has spent his life working as healthcare's last resort, where the unexpected is always around the corner, and life and death decisions are an everyday occurrence.

But nothing had prepared Jim and his team for the events of spring 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic descended. In Life Support, he tells the extraordinary month-by-month story of how as the nation came to a standstill, he and his colleagues donned PPE, received an unprecedented influx of patients, transformed their hospital and ultimately faced down the biggest challenge in the history of the NHS.

The pandemic raised impossible questions for Jim: how do you fight a new disease? How do you go home at night to your wife and young children when you've spent all day around highly infectious patients? How do you tell a mother that her healthy young son has died, only days after falling ill?

With warmth, honesty and humour, this book is a gripping, moving testament to the everyday heroism of the NHS staff in a global crisis, and an unforgettable insight into what was March 2021 really happening in the wards as we clapped on our 9780241506318 doorsteps. Demy Octavo £14.99 : Hardback Dr Jim Down is a consultant in critical care and anaesthesia 212 pages at University College London Hospitals. He chairs the ICU consultants' group, the department of anaesthesia weekly scientific meetings, and the UCLH Trust guideline committee. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he has been on a new full- time, full-shift clinical rota for ICU, and was appointed Trust Lead for Ethics. This is his first book.

22 Sandycove The Best Catholics in the World The Irish, the Church and the End of a Special Relationship Derek Scally

A compelling account of why Ireland was so very Catholic for so long, why that changed - and what remains now that the special relationship has ended

When Berlin-based journalist Derek Scally goes to the Christmas Vigil Mass on a visit home to Dublin, the once- packed suburban church where he was altar boy is quiet and ageing like its congregants. The dwindling power of the Church in Ireland is undeniable. Scally sees that the Irish are dealing with just as great a shock to their sense of collective identity as the East Germans after the fall of Communism.

The Best Catholics in the World is Scally's response - an empathetic and engaging voyage into the story of Irish Catholicism: why the Church had a unique hold on the Irish; what went wrong; and how the Irish are facing - or not facing - a relationship that was dysfunctional in many respects.

Researched over two years, and including dozens of interviews conducted in Ireland and further afield, The Best Catholics in the World is a lively, original, moving and thought- provoking account of a country grappling with its troubling past and confusing present.

Derek Scally has written for the Irish Times since 2000. He is based in Berlin. The Best Catholics in the World is his first March 2021 book. 9781844885268 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback 352 pages

23 Penguin On Wanting to Change Adam Phillips

From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.

We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.

We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too.

We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks.

So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . .

This sparkling book is about that fact.

Adam Phillips, formerly Principal Child Psychotherapist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, is a practising psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English department at the University of York. He is the author of numerous works of psychoanalysis and literary criticism, including most recently Attention Seeking, In Writing and Unforbidden Pleasures. He is General Editor of the Penguin Modern Classics Freud translations, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. March 2021 9780241291771 A format 181x111 £7.99 : Paperback 224 pages

24 Viking The Whole Truth Cara Hunter

THE LATEST IN THE DI FAWLEY SERIES FROM THE BIGGEST CRIME BRAND TO BE LAUNCHED IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS

She has everything at stake; he has everything to lose. But one of them is lying, all the same.

When an Oxford student accuses one of the university's professors of sexual assault, DI Adam Fawley's team think they've heard it all before. But they couldn't be more wrong.

Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player.

Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. What they don't realise is that someone is watching.

And they have a plan to put Fawley out of action for good...

Cara Hunter is the author of bestselling crime novels Close to Home, In the Dark, No Way Out and All the Rage, all featuring DI Adam Fawley and his Oxford-based police team. Close to Home was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, was shortlisted for Crime Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2019 and No Way Out was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 best crime novels since March 2021 1945. Cara's novels have sold more than a million copies 9780241985137 worldwide. Cara Hunter lives in Oxford, on a street not unlike B Format those featured in her books. £7.99 : Paperback 416 pages PRAISE FOR CARA HUNTER: 'Twist follows twist at a breathtaking pace' Daily Mail

'A masterful, engrossing, twisty novel' Rosamund Lupton, author of THREE HOURS

'A top-notch psychological thriller' JP Delaney, author of THE GIRL BEFORE

'Fresh, fast-paced, and confident - with a mass of cork- screwing twists' Sarah Vaughan, author of ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL

25 Fig Tree Unsettled Ground Claire Fuller

What if the life you've always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?

Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.

But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly dangerous world as their mother's secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. This is a thrilling novel of resilience and hope, of love and survival, that explores with dazzling emotional power how the truths closest to us are often hardest to see.

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has written three previous novels: Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, Swimming Lessons, which was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award, and Bitter Orange. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband. March 2021 PRAISE FOR CLAIRE FULLER: 9780241457443 'Extraordinary, gripping. Fuller writes with a singing simplicity Demy Octavo that finds beauty amid the terror' Sunday Times £14.99 : Hardback 304 pages 'A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day Daphne du Maurier' The Times

'Bewitching, otherworldly, full of dark foreboding. Claire Fuller is a dazzling storyteller' Scotsman

'So sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading it, dazzled by Fuller's mastery and precision' Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies

26 Viking The World Before Us How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins Tom Higham

The story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters

Fifty-thousand years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's groundbreaking discovery was Oxford Professor Tom Higham. In The World Before Us, he explains the scientific and technological advancements - in radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, for example - that allowed each of these discoveries to be made, enabling us to be more accurate in our predictions about not just how long ago these other humans lived, but how they lived, interacted and live on in our genes today. This is the story of us, told for the first time with its full cast of characters.

Tom Higham is Professor of Archaeological Science at the and Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. He has worked on the remains of Richard III, The Elephant Man and Egyptian pharaohs. Since 2010 he has been at the forefront of research on a new species of human, the Denisovans. This is his first trade book.

'The application of new genetic science to pre-history is analogous to how the telescope transformed astronomy. Tom Higham, one of the world's leading scientists in the field, March 2021 brings us to the frontier of recent discoveries with a book 9780241440674 that is both gripping and fun. And the results are Royal Octavo astonishing. It matters: understanding our evolutionary £20.00 : Hardback origins reveals our innate strengths as a species' Paul 320 pages Collier, author of The Bottom Billion

'A brilliant exposition of the way in which archaeology and science are completely changing our understanding of early humans. This is a fast-moving story written with verve and enthusiasm by one of the scientists deeply involved in tracking down the evidence. Essential reading for all interested in our early ancestors and the sheer excitement of their discovery' Barry Cunliffe, author of The Scythians

'A brilliant distillation of the ideas and discoveries revolutionising our understanding of human evolution. Tom Higham, one of the leaders of the revolution and the cutting- edge science on which it is based, introduces us to a complex world of many human species, whose genes and deeds live on in us today' Chris Gosden, author of The History of Magic

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28 Viking Fragile Monsters Catherine Menon

A spellbinding novel of war and family betrayal set in Malaysia - for our century

Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp -tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the dark memories home brings, for as long as it takes to escape.

But a reckoning is coming. Stuck together in the rising heat, both women must untangle the truth from the myth of their family's past. What happened to Durga's mother after she gave birth? Why did so many of their family members disappear during the war? And who is to blame for the childhood tragedy that haunts her to this day?

Catherine Menon's stunning debut novel traces one family's story from 1920 to the present, unravelling a thrilling tale of love, betrayal and redemption against the backdrop of natural disasters and fallen empires. Written in vivid technicolour, with an electric daughter-grandmother relationship at its heart, Fragile Monsters explores what happens when secrets fester through the generations.

Catherine Menon has Malaysian heritage and lives in London. She is a lecturer in computer science at the University of Hertfordshire and also holds an MA in Creative Writing. Fragile Monsters is her first book. April 2021 'Supple, artful, skilful storytelling - it takes an immediate grip 9780241439289 on the reader's imagination and doesn't let go' - Hilary Royal Octavo Mantel £14.99 : Hardback 256 pages 'A brilliant novel about homecoming and the layered, unstable past that haunts and hurts . . . I admire it enormously' - Colm Tóibín

29 Viking The Summer Job The hottest new debut of 2021 – WARNING: this is not your typical rom com Lizzy Dent

Birdy just got her dream job. The problem is, it's not hers.

Have you ever imagined running away from your life?

Well Birdy Finch didn't just imagine it. She did it. Which might've been an error. And the life she's run into? Her best friend, Heather's.

The only problem is, she hasn't told Heather. Actually there are a few other problems...

Can Birdy carry off a summer at a luxury Scottish hotel pretending to be her best friend (who incidentally is a world- class wine expert)?

And can she stop herself from falling for the first man she's ever actually liked (but who thinks she's someone else)?

Lizzy Dent (mis)spent her early twenties working in Scotland in hospitality, in a hotel not unlike the one in this novel. She somehow ended up in a glamorous job travelling the world creating content for various TV companies, including MTV, Channel 4, Cartoon Network, the BBC and ITV. But she always knew that writing was the thing she wanted to do, if only she could find the confidence. After publishing three young adult novels, she decided to write a novel that April 2021 reflected the real women she knew, who don't always know 9780241470909 where they're going in life, but who always have fun doing it. Royal Octavo The Summer Job is that novel. £12.99 : Hardback 352 pages 'What a welcome escape; it's witty and funny and it packs an emotional punch too. Loved it, I'm in the queue for more Lizzy' - Josie Silver

'Fresh, funny and oh so relatable - the perfect tonic' - Abbie Greaves

30 Viking Barbarossa How Hitler Lost the War Jonathan Dimbleby

The gripping tale of the largest military campaign ever, by the much-acclaimed WW2 historian

Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, was the largest military operation in history, its aim nothing less than 'a war of extermination' to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create lebensraum for the so-called German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and was entirely cataclysmic; in six months of warfare no fewer than six million were killed, wounded or registered as missing in action, and soldiers on both sides committed heinous crimes behind the lines on a scale without parallel in the history of warfare.

In Barbarossa, drawing on hitherto unseen archival material - including previously untranslated Russian sources - in his usual gripping style, Jonathan Dimbleby recounts not only the story of the military campaign, but the politics and diplomacy behind this epic clash of global titans. With authority and panache, he charts the crucial decisions made in the world's capitals and the bitter struggles on the front lines, giving vivid insights into the experiences of all players, from the leaders on all sides to the men and women on the ground. Above all, Dimbleby reveals the significance of 1941 - the year in which the destroyed Hitler's chance of realising his demented vision - as the most important struggle in the annals of the twentieth century. The definitive book on Barbarossa, this is a masterwork for the ages. April 2021 9780241291474 Jonathan Dimbleby is the author of the highly-acclaimed Royal Octavo Second World War histories The Battle of the Atlantic and £25.00 : Hardback Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein, which was 512 pages followed by his BBC 2 programme Churchill's Desert War. His other books include, Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and Its People, Richard Dimbleby: A Biography, The Palestinians, The Prince of Wales: A Biography and The Last Governor. He was the chairman of BBC Radio 4's weekly Any Questions? programme and presented ITV's flagship weekly political programme, This Week, for over ten years.

31 Hamish Hamilton Under the Wave at Waimea Paul Theroux

From renowned writer Paul Theroux comes a dazzling novel following a big-wave surfer in Hawaii as he confronts ageing, privilege, mortality and whose lives we choose to remember

Joe Sharkey knows he is passed his prime.

Now in his sixties, the younger surfers around the breaks on the north shore of Oahu still revere him as the once- legendary 'Shark', but his sponsors have moved on, and Joe wonders what new future awaits him on the horizon. Uninterrupted quality time with the ocean, he hopes.

Life has other plans.

When he accidentally hits and kills a man near Waimea while drunk-driving, he fears he will never rebound. Under the direction of his stubbornly loyal girlfriend Olive, he throws himself into uncovering his victim's story. But what they find in Max Mulgrave is entirely unexpected: a shared history - and refuge in .

Set on the stunning Hawaiian coast, Theroux captures the glory and nostalgia of looking back at a rich and adventurous past, whilst learning to ride out life's next unexpected wave.

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The April 2021 Mosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for 9780241504444 Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Royal Octavo Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the £18.99 : Hardback Hawaiian islands. 320 pages 'One of the most accomplished and worldly-wise writers of his generation' The Times

32 Penguin Why Rebel Jay Griffiths

A blazing call-to-arms for living a life in rebellion, inspired by the author's unshakeable, deep-rooted love for our planet

Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important. Because we need a politics of kindness, but instead libertarian fascism is on the rise. Because nature is not a hobby. It is the life on which we depend, as Indigenous societies have never forgotten. From the author of Wild, this passionate, poetic manifesto for urgent rebellion against our imminent extinction is also a paean to the deep and extraordinary beauty of the natural world.

Jay Griffiths is the author of Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression, Wild: An Elemental Journey; Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time; A Love Letter from a Stray Moon and Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape. She won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA, and the Orion Book Award. She has also been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and a World Book Day award. Jay Griffiths lives in Wales.

April 2021 9780241992722 A format 181x111 £7.99 : Paperback 176 pages

33 Viking The Frontiers of Knowledge What We Know About Science, History and The Mind – And How We Know It A. C. Grayling

From the bestselling polymath, a gripping history of science, life on earth and the human mind - and what we might know in the future

In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5% of the universe; pre- history is still being revealed, with thousands of historical sites yet to be explored; and the new neurosciences of mind and brain are just beginning.

What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever.

Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science, history, and psychology. A remarkable history of science, life on earth, and the human mind itself, this is a compelling and fascinating tour de force, written with verve, clarity and remarkable breadth of knowledge.

Professor A C Grayling is Master of the New College of the April 2021 Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's 9780241304563 College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books Royal Octavo on philosophy and other subjects, and has written on non- £20.00 : Hardback Western philosophy. For several years he wrote columns for 352 pages the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man .

'If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling' - The Times

34 Viking The Power of Strangers The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World Joe Keohane

An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and wellbeing, in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Rutger Bregman's Humankind

When was the last time you spoke to a stranger?

In our cities, we stand in silent buses and tube carriages, barely acknowledging one another. Online, we retreat into silos and carefully curate who we interact with. But while we often fear strangers, or blame them for the ills of society, history and science show us that they are actually our solution. Throughout human history, our attitude to the stranger has determined the fate and wellbeing of both nations and individuals. A raft of new science confirms that the more we open ourselves up to encounters with those we don't know, the healthier we are.

In The Power of Strangers, with the help of sociologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, philosophers, political scientists and historians, Joe Keohane learns how we're wired to sometimes fear, distrust and even hate strangers, and discovers what happens to us when we indulge those biases. At the same time, he digs into a growing body of cutting-edge research on the surprising social and psychological benefits that come from talking to strangers; how even passing interactions can enhance April 2021 empathy, happiness, and cognitive development, ease 9780241399132 loneliness and isolation, and root us in the world, deepening Demy Octavo our sense of belonging. £16.99 : Hardback 288 pages Warm, erudite and profound, this deeply researched book will make you reconsider how you perceive and approach strangers: paradoxically, strangers can help us become more fully ourselves.

Joe Keohane first saw interactions with strangers as the son of a funeral director. He has since practised talking with strangers as a journalist who has written and edited many types of stories for publications including Esquire, New York magazine, Wired, the Boston Globe and New Republic. He has also been the executive editor of Entrepreneur magazine. This is his first trade book. Joe Keohane lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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36 Viking Facing The Mountain

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II

On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.

In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the unforgettable story of the Japanese-American men who volunteered for the US Army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team and displayed incredible courage on the brutal battlefields of Europe. Achieving the impossible in often near-suicidal missions, including rescuing a 'lost battalion' surrounded by Nazis in the French mountains, the 442nd went on to become one of the most decorated units in US history. Yet at the same time, their parents were put in camps and stripped of their livelihoods, and an equally brave battle was being fought in the courtroom back home.

A cinematic tour de force, Facing the Mountain puts a real-life band of brothers in the history books where they belong and reminds us that victory is rarely as simple as we think.

Daniel James Brown is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, The Indifferent Stars Above, and Under a Flaming Sky. He has taught writing at San Jose State University and Stanford University. He lives outside Seattle.

'Exciting and dramatic, and it is impossible not to get wrapped up in the emotion' The Times, on The Boys in the Boat

'A moving, enlightening and gripping tale' Financial Times, on May 2021 The Boys in the Boat 9780241356586 £20.00 'Not only a great and inspiring true story; it is a fascinating work 464 pages of history' Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea, on The Boys in the Boat

37 Hamish Hamilton Real Estate Deborah Levy

Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'

Following the international critical and commercial success of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Levy's 'Living Autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it. It resumes and expands Levy's pioneering examination of a female life lived in the storm of the present tense, asking essential questions about womanhood, modernity, creative identity and personal freedom. From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, Real Estate is a memoir and a manifesto for radical emancipation - as an artist, as a woman, and as an inheritor of the real estate of the now.

Deborah Levy is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants, Swallowing Geography, The Unloved, Billy and Girl, Swimming Home, Hot Milk and The Man Who Saw Everything. She has been shortlisted twice each for the and the Man Booker Prize. Her short story collection, Black Vodka, was nominated for the International Frank O'Connor Short Story Award and was broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as were her acclaimed dramatizations of Freud's iconic case studies, Dora and The Wolfman. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and her pioneering theatre writing is collected in Levy: Plays 1. Her work is widely May 2021 translated. 9780241268018 B Format Deborah Levy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. £10.99 : Hardback She is also the author of a formally innovative and 128 pages emotionally daring trilogy of memoirs, a living autobiography on writing, gender politics and philosophy. The first two volumes, Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living, won the Prix Femina Etranger 2020.

'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian on Things I Don't Want to Know

'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer on The Cost of Living

'Wise, subtle and ironic, Levy's every sentence is a masterpiece of clarity and poise... A brilliant writer' Daily Telegraph on The Cost of Living

'Extraordinary and beautiful, suffused with wit and razor- sharp insights' Financial Times on The Cost of Living

38 Viking Three Summers Margarita Liberaki

A gorgeous Greek modern classic about three sisters coming-of-age over the course of three summers, introduced by Victoria Hislop

'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .'

Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed. Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults and decide what kind of adults they hope to become.

The latest in the Penguin European Writers series; forgotten classics by writers of different European nationalities published as a response to Brexit.

Margarita Liberaki (1919-2001) was a Greek novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Her acclaimed novel Three Summers is still taught in Greek schools and tops lists as one of the country's favourite books of all time. It is also widely beloved in France, where it was first published on the recommendation of Albert Camus, who wrote to Liberaki: "The sun has disappeared from books these days... You are May 2021 one of those who pass it on." 9780241475065 B Format 'A dreamy modernist gem of a novel... elegant and striking' £8.99 : Paperback Publishers Weekly 336 pages 'A leisurely, large-hearted coming-of-age novel, earthy and innocent, nostalgic and beautifully rendered' Kirkus

'A dreamy, cinematic tapestry of Greek village life' NPR

'We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark time'

39 Viking The Fortune Men Nadifa Mohamed

A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . .

Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, petty criminal. He is a smooth-talker with rakish charm and an eye for a good game. He is many things, but he is not a murderer.

So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him, Mahmood isn't too worried. Since his Welsh wife Laura kicked him out for racking up debts he has wandered the streets more often, and there are witnesses who allegedly saw him enter the shop that night. But Mahmood has escaped worse scrapes, and he is innocent in this country where justice is served. Love lends him immunity too: the fierce love of Laura, who forgives his gambling in a heartbeat, and his children. It is only in the run-up to the trial, as the prospect of returning home dwindles, that it will dawn on Mahmood that he is in a fight for his life - against conspiracy, prejudice and cruelty - and that the truth may not be enough to save him.

Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland, in 1981. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize; it was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, May 2021 the Dylan Thomas Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. 9780241466940 Nadifa was selected for the Granta Best of Young British Demy Octavo Novelists. She lives in London. £14.99 : Hardback 352 pages 'Mixing startling lyricism and sheer brutality, this is a significant, affecting book' Guardian, on Black Mamba Boy

'A first novel of elegance and beauty... a stunning debut ' The Times, on Black Mamba Boy

'With the unadorned language of a wise, clear-eyed observer, Nadifa Mohamed has spun an unforgettable tale' Taiye Selasi, on The Orchard of Lost Souls

'A haunting and intimate portrait of the lives of women in war -torn Somalia' New York Journal of Books, on The Orchard of Lost Souls

'Just as Half of a Yellow Sun drew out the little documented dramas of the Biafran war, Mohamed describes an East Africa under Mussolini's rule . . . such an accomplished first novel' Independent, on Black Mamba Boy

'A moving and captivating tale of survival and hope in a war- torn country, and confirms Mohamed's stature as one of Britain's best young novelists' Stylist

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JUNE 2021

41 Viking Connections The Story of Human Feeling

In this ground-breaking tour of the human mind, a world- renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist uses the stories of his patients to explore the origins of human emotion.

Since the dawn of humankind, mental illness has been one of our greatest causes of suffering as a species. But for the majority of our history, its causes have remained a mystery. Now, science has reached a tipping point. In Connections, Professor Karl Deisseroth - whose breakthrough discovery, Optogenetics, allows us to decipher the brain's inner workings using light - reveals what mental illnesses really are, why we suffer from them, and the unexpected role they have played in our evolution.

With moving and revelatory stories from both personal and professional experience, Deisseroth takes us on a dazzling journey through the depths of emotion, illuminating the roots of depression and schizophrenia, the causes of sociopathy and autism, and the sometimes counter-intuitively positive effects disorders such as mania have had on human survival. With a novelist's flair and nuance he sheds new light on much misunderstood diseases and conditions like dementia and psychosis, and shows us just what is at stake in his psychiatric practice - the collapse of the self.

Answering some of the most timeless questions about the human condition - why do we feel what we feel? How do we define 'sanity'? Can a lost mind be found again? - Connections transforms the way we understand the brain, June 2021 and our very selves. 9780241381861 £20.00 Karl Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering 352 pages and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is known for creating and developing the technologies CLARITY and Optogenetics, which enables scientists to study brain structure and function intact and bring causality to the question of how emotions arise from cells. A National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences member, Deisseroth has received numerous prizes for his discoveries, including a Fresenius Prize, Keio Prize and Breakthrough Prize. This is his first trade book.

'This is a crucial book for anyone who loves science, anyone who loves someone suffering from a disorder of the brain, or anyone who, like so many of us, loves both' Lucy Kalanithi

'This is a masterpiece written for each and every one of us' Patricia Churchland, author of Conscience

42 Sandycove Rememberings Sinéad O'Connor

An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter

Sinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on American television. Unapologetic and impossible to ignore, she called out hypocrisy wherever she saw it, and has done so for three decades.

Now, in Rememberings, O'Connor tells her story - the heartache of growing up in a family falling apart; her early forays into the Dublin music scene; her adventures and misadventures in the world of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; the fulfilment of being a mother; her ongoing spiritual quest - and through it all, her abiding passion for music.

Rememberings is intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and full of hard-won insights. It is a unique and remarkable chronicle by a unique and remarkable artist.

Sinéad O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter and recording artist. She rose to international fame in 1990 with her arrangement of Prince's "Nothing Compares 2 U", and her critically-acclaimed albums have won or been nominated for five Grammys. She lives in Wicklow. June 2021 9781844885411 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback 320 pages

43 Hamish Hamilton Assembly Natasha Brown

Blistering and unignorable, mordant and fearless - an unmissable literary debut from one of the most original voices you will read this year

'I don't want to be a part of it. I want to grab at it, grab its face and pull open its mouth, prise its jaws apart and reach down, in, deeper. Touch what's inside.'

The narrator of Assembly is an unnamed Black British woman. We meet her as she is preparing to attend a garden party at the beautiful country estate owned by her boyfriend's parents. At the same time, she is weighing up a life and death decision.

The woman has spent her life climbing against the current, being twice as good, always reaching for that glass ceiling. Now she's got it all: the glistening City career, the wealthy boyfriend with political aspirations, a marriage proposal in the offing. She is a success story. So what's the problem?

Over the course of twenty-four hours, as the garden party looms and the future beckons, she considers the assembled pieces of herself. Her mind darts across centuries, tallying up the profit and the cost of her own existence, and of all those who have gone before her and will come after. And she begins to look hard at the British establishment that has watched her all her life.

Assembly is a story about the stories we live within - those of June 2021 race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers. And 9780241515709 it is about one woman daring to take control of her own B Format story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering £12.99 : Hardback gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of 128 pages whiteness, lining up the rubble in a neat row and calmly walking away.

Natasha Brown has spent a decade working in financial services, after studying Maths at Cambridge University. She developed Assembly after receiving a 2019 London Writers Award in the literary fiction category.

44 Sandycove Holding Her Breath Eimear Ryan

A beautiful coming of age story in the shadow of a complex love affair

When Beth Crowe starts university, she is shadowed by the ghost of her potential as a competitive swimmer. Free to create a fresh identity for herself, she finds herself among people who adore the poetry of her grandfather, Benjamin Crowe, who died tragically before she was born. She embarks on a secret relationship - and on a quest to discover the truth about Benjamin and his widow, her beloved grandmother Lydia. The quest brings her into an archive that no scholar has ever seen, and to a person who knows things about her family that nobody else knows.

Holding Her Breath is a razor-sharp, moving and seriously entertaining novel about complicated love stories, ambition and grief - and a young woman coming fully into her powers.

Eimear Ryan is a writer, editor and camogie player. Her fiction has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, and the anthologies The Long Gaze Back (New Island) and Town & Country (Faber). She is a co-founder and co-editor at Banshee Press, an independent publisher that publishes the literary journal, Banshee, as well as a select list of books. From Co. Tipperary, Eimear now lives and works in Cork city.

June 2021 9781844885466 Demy Octavo £12.99 : Trade Paperback 288 pages

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About Time A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks David Rooney

A horological history of human civilisation, told through twelve world-changing clocks

Since the dawn of civilization, we have kept time. But time has always been against us. From the city sundials of ancient Rome to the era of the smartwatch, clocks have been used throughout history to wield power, make money, govern citizens and keep control.

In About Time, time expert David Rooney tells the story of timekeeping, and how it continues to shape our modern world. Over twelve chapters we discover how clocks have helped us navigate the world, build empires and even taken us to the brink of destruction.

This is the story of timing. And the story of timing is the story of us.

David Rooney, historian and former curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a director of the Antiquarian Horological Society and sits on the management committee of the Clockmakers' Museum, the world's oldest clock and watch museum.

'Rooney has a gift for making difficult concepts easily graspable, and a riveting way of setting scenes, describing characters and relating anecdotes' - Daily Telegraph June 2021 9780241370490 Demy Octavo £16.99 : Hardback 352 pages

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Cut Short Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City Ciaran Thapar

The urgent and beautifully written story of Britain's 'knife crime' - and how things could be different

Demetri wants to study criminology at university to understand why people around him carry knives. Jhemar is determined to advocate for his community following the murder of a loved one. Carl's exclusion leaves him vulnerable to the sinister school-to-prison pipeline, but he is resolute to defy expectations. And Tony, the tireless manager of a community centre, is fighting not only for the lives of local young people, but to keep the centre's doors open.

Drawing on the latest research and interviews with experts, this refreshingly-nuanced and beautifully-written book interweaves the stories of a cast of characters at the sharp end of London's serious youth violence epidemic, with chapters on subjects such as social media, gentrification and criminal justice. Showing how we are all connected to this tragedy, Cut Short is a gripping, urgent, sympathetic and often painful portrait of a society fracturing along lines of race, class and postcodes. It is a blueprint for positive change, and a book we desperately need.

Ciaran Thapar is a youth worker and journalist living in Brixton. His journalism on knife crime, violence, youth services and UK rap can be found in the Guardian, BBC Stories, New Statesman, Prospect, i-D, GQ (for whom he writes a column), June 2021 Pitchfork, CRACK and Vice. Ciaran has advocated on behalf of 9780241434987 young people in the House of Lords and House of Commons, Demy Octavo and has featured on ITV and BBC News as well as BBC Radio, £16.99 : Hardback talking about youth violence in the UK. This is his first book. 288 pages 'Ciaran's work is informed by lived experience at the frontline of social change. It takes a sensitive and respectful look at the truths less often told' - George the Poet

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The Paper Palace Miranda Cowley Heller

A magnificent literary debut about the myriad loves that make up a life

Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle glances through the screen porch at the uncleared table from a dinner party the previous evening; empty wine glasses, candle wax on the table cloth, echoes of laughter of family and friends. Then she dives beneath the surface of the freezing water to the shocking memory of the sudden passionate encounter she had the night before, up against the wall outside the house, as her husband and mother chatted to the dinner guests inside.

So begins a story that unfolds over 24 hours and across 50 years, as decades of family legacies, love, lies, secrets, and one unspeakable incident in her childhood lead Elle to the precipice of a life-changing decision. Over the next 24 hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made with her much-loved husband, Peter, and the life she imagined would be hers with her childhood love, Jonas, if a tragic event hadn't forever changed the course of their lives.

Miranda Cowley Heller was raised in New York. After graduating from Harvard she became a books editor, before working for a decade as Head of Drama Series at HBO. She July 2021 divides her time between Los Angeles, London and Cape Cod. 9780241470718 The Paper Palace is her first novel. Royal Octavo £14.99 : Hardback 372 pages

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