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2 3 Entertainment & Popular Culture Entertainment & Popular Culture HEY! LISTEN! CAT vs TRUMP Steve McNeil Who’s smarter - your cat or Donald Trump? A history of the golden period of video games, from Pong to Playstation, written by comedian Already read The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump? and Twitch streaming legend Steve McNeil Gobbled up Fire and Fury? Well, how about some Fire and FURRY. It’s time to give your cat a pick me It is fair to say Steve McNeil likes video games. up, as we pit its wits against the President . . . When he took his Nintendo Wii on honeymoon (obviously), he played it so much he damaged You know Donald Trump, right? Wobbly orange an eye and had to wear an eye patch. The locals trumpet on legs? The answer to the question: ‘What nicknamed him ‘the pale pirate’. would the offspring of a Wotsit and a dolphin look like?’ Yeah, that guy. Well, he also happens to be Steve’s obsession with video games can be traced the 45th President of the United States of America. back to the golden period from the late 70s to the mid 90s. In this book he will delve into these games There are many questions to be asked of Trump – – from the appallingly bad to the breathtakingly did he collude with Russia? Is his hair made from Headline good. He will also take us through the nerdy Headline caramelised orangutan farts? More pressing than geniuses who created them, their fierce rivalries all of them, though, is this: Is he smarter than your UK Pub: April 2019 and risks often leading to some of the most farcical UK Pub: September 2018 cat?* moments in the history of entertainment. UK Editor: Richard Roper UK Editor: Richard Roper There’s only one way to find out . . . This is a story of obsession, full of tales of Space MS due December 2018 Invaders, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Mario, Sonic, Page Extent: 96pp To complete the Cat vs Trump test you will need: 3D Wolf, Lemmings and Worms. It will also answer important questions about the golden age. A cat Questions like: Why did Namco feel they had to change the name of Puck Man to Pac Man A pencil because they were worried about graffiti, when Nintendo were more than happy to bring out Duck The ability to forget that the world feels like it’s on Hunt? the brink of nuclear apocalypse for a bit

Joysticks at the ready. Let’s Play! A reminder of POTUS’s biggest gaffes and a genuine cat IQ test all in one, this is the perfect About the Author: present for cat lovers and Donald detractors alike Steve McNeil is a stand-up comedian and creator of Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit, the most successful *SPOILER ALERT - NO videogaming TV show of the last 15 years. He has appeared on more video gaming shows than anyone else in the UK. He has written for Time Out, Shortlist, Den of Geek and more. His live show ‘WiFi Wars’ has a residency at the Royal Insititution in Mayfair. He is a Twitch streaming partner, and in 2018 was nominated for streamer of the year at the UK ESPORTS awards.

4 5 Entertainment & Popular Culture Entertainment & Popular Culture GET SMART: MATHS SECRET SERVICE BRAINTEASERS Julia Collins Sinclair Mackay

Put your mathematical muscle to the test with this Pit your wits against the greatest minds of our time entertaining and essential guide to 50 of the world’s with brain bogglers, puzzles and hidden codes greatest problems. inspired by the secret services. Can you explain Fermat’s Last Theorem? What is the shape of the Universe? And how do you add up to The sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley infinity? Park Brainteasers and perfect for fans of The GCHQ Puzzle Book. Challenge yourself with Get Smart: Maths and learn to think and talk like the world’s greatest mathematical Whether you have linguistic flair, an instinct for Quercus geniuses. technology or good old common sense, pit your wits against some of the greatest minds of our Taking you on a journey through the mathematical ideas UK Pub: September 2018 time with ingenious brainteasers including secret that underpin our world – from imaginary numbers and Turing machines to chaos theory and mathematical languages, sabotage themed brain bogglers, UK Editor: Wayne Davies paradoxes; from the search for primes and game theory deadly countdowns and hidden codes. to relativity and the arithmetic of altruism – Get Smart: Headline Page Extent: 224pp Maths demystifies 50 key concepts and provides you with Weaving astonishing stories of the men and the tools to master the very biggest ideas. UK Pub: September 2018 women who operate from the shadows, the secret heroes and heroines of MI5 and MI6 who have UK Editor: Sarah Emsley faced extraordinary and terrifying challenges and a wide range of mind twisting puzzles, Secret GET SMART: PHILOSOPHY Page Extent: 288pp Service Brainteasers will test your mental agility to Marcus Weeks discover: Do YOU have what it takes to be a spy?

Can you master the ideas of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and About the Author: Sartre? Sinclair McKay is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley Park Brainteasers as well as the What does ‘I think, therefore I am’ really mean? Do you bestselling Secret Life of Bletchley Park. He writes know the arguments for and against the existence of for the Spectator and the Telegraph and spends god? And what do the great philosophers tell us about much of his life eyebrow-deep in dusty archives! knowledge and truth, good and evil? Take Get Smart: He lives in east London. Philosophy and learn to think and talk like history’s greatest philosophical minds.

Quercus Packed with bite-sized briefings, shortcuts and bluffs, Get Smart: Philosophy demystifies 50 key philosophical UK Pub: September 2018 concepts and provides you with all you need to speak out about the very biggest ideas, including: UK Editor: Wayne Davies The nature of reality; Free will; Ethics; Philosophy of the mind; Justice and liberty; Relativism; Utilitarianism; Capitalism and democracy; Paradoxes and fallacies; Page Extent: 224pp The Social Contract; Existentialism; Metaphysics; Chinese philosophy; Beauty and art; Artificial intelligence; Human rights; Analytic, Linguistic and Continental philosophy . . . and many more.

6 7 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction THE LAST SANCTUARY IN ALEPPO BAILEY Alaa Aljaleel with Diana Darke Andy Hutchins

A remarkable true story of bravery, resilience and The heart warming tale of how a street dog and a kindness by a Syrian ambulance driver, who built a homeless man saved each other from the streets cat sanctuary in war-torn Aleppo and found a reason to live.

When the Syrian civil war forced the people of ‘He saves my life every day. I wake up, I think of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the drugs, but I walk my dog and ten minutes later my city’s pets were abandoned. Heartbroken by mindset’s changed.’ the desperate situation, ambulance driver Alaa Headline Aljaleel vowed to stay behind, caring for the Bailey is the heart warming tale of Andy Hutchins, children and pets caught in the crossfire. He built a former drug addict and homeless man, and his UK Pub: March 2019 a cat sanctuary for Aleppo’s helpless creatures, life-saving relationship with his dog, Bailey. After and named it after his kitten Ernesto, who he had twenty years of living on the streets, addiction and UK Editor: Fiona Crosby rescued from the streets of rubble. being in and out of prison, Andy bought Bailey on the street as a four-week-old puppy, still blind, on MS Available / 288pp It became a place of escape and tranquillity for Headline the day in late 2011 when he left prison for the last children living through the bombardment, and time. Alaa’s extraordinary courage and compassion UK Pub: February 2019 touched the hearts of people all around the world. From this puppy Andy learned long forgotten Through the kindness of strangers who had heard UK Editor: Grace Paul life lessons, about giving and receiving love, about his story online, Alaa was able to feed responsibility, trust and companionship. Bailey thousands of local families and save hundreds of MS due October 2018 transformed his life and continues to do so. With animals. But when a bomb destroyed their little their story, they raise awareness about the realities refuge and Alaa narrowly escaped with his life, of being homeless as well as how a small gesture of he vowed not to give in on his dream, and later kindness can change someone’s life for the better. returned to Aleppo to rebuild his sanctuary, where it thrives to this day. About the Author: Andy Hutchins is amazed and grateful to have The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo is a unique modern reached the grand old age of fifty. Unwanted at day war story, providing both a shocking insider home, he was raised in a Hells Angels clubhouse. account from the siege of Aleppo as well as Twenty years of homelessness, drug addiction and heartwarming tale about how one person’s crime followed but somehow failed to claim him. actions can make a difference against all odds. At his lowest point, he met a helpless four-week- old puppy and named him Bailey. Andy now has About the Author: a home and is free from the grip of addiction. The Alaa’s co-author is Diana Darke, an expert on scarf-wearing, bag-carrying Bailey is a well-known the Middle East whose previous books include My and loved member of his local London community. House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria. After studying Arabic at Oxford University, Diana Darke worked for the British government and GCHQ, and has lived in Syria, Egypt and with a Bedouin tribe.

8 9 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction OUR MAN IN NEW YORK OTTOMAN ODYSSEY Henry Hemming Alev Scott

When William Stephenson – “our man in New York” A journey across the former Ottoman Empire - arrived in the United States towards the end of reveals the legacy of its influence on people from June 1940 with instructions from the head of MI6 the Balkans to the Levant, and the integral diversity to secure aid for Britain and ‘organise’ American threatened amid rising nationalism. public opinion, Britain was on the verge of defeat to Nazi Germany. Surveys at that time showed Alev Scott’s odyssey began when she looked that just 14% of the population wanted to go to beyond Turkey’s borders for contemporary traces war against Germany. But over the months that of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended followed, public opinion in the US began to shift . . . a century ago – and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, Those campaigning against America’s entry she uncovers a legacy that’s vital, relevant and Quercus into the war had many theories about who or surprising. what was behind this shift in public opinion. The UK Pub: September 2019 American aviator Charles Lindbergh, by 1941 the Faced by questions of exile, diaspora and chief spokesman for the isolationist America First riverrun collective memory, Alev Scott searches for answers UK Editor: Ben Brock Committee, referred to a British-led plot to bring among Erdoğan supporters in Serbia, Druze sheikhs the US into the war. Others believed that the UK Pub: October 2018 in Lebanon, refugees in Lesbos and Armenian MS due March 2019 British were somehow manipulating the American descendants in Jerusalem, before returning to her media, that the government was riddled with British UK Editor: Rose Tomaszewska family’s roots in Cyprus. Her enlightening, often stooges, and that the British were meddling in US funny journey shows that diversity is the enduring, politics and using dirty tricks to smear prominent Page Extent: 336pp endangered heart of this fascinating region and anti-war politicians. will make you see it with fresh eyes.

These claims were shocking, wild, even paranoid: About the Author: they were also true. That truth is revealed here Alev Scott was born in London in 1987 to a Turkish for the first time by bestselling author Henry mother and a British father. She studied Classics at Hemming, using access to hitherto private and Oxford. In 2011 she moved to Istanbul, where she classified documents, including the diaries of his taught Latin at the Bosphorus University. Her first own grandparents, who worked for Stephenson’s book, Turkish Awakening, was published in 2014. organisation. Stephenson – who later saved the life of Henry Hemming’s father – was a maverick figure of unique brilliance and daring whose work changed the course of the war, and can now be told in full.

About the Author: Henry Hemming is the author of five works of non- fiction including the Sunday Times bestsellerM , the Dolman Travel Award-shortlisted Misadventure in the Middle East and Churchill’s Iceman, the New York Times bestseller.

10 11 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction THE PRICE OF PARADISE THE SECRET CIVIL SERVANT Iain Overton Anonymous

An urgent and pertinent exploration of how and An explosive insider account behind-the-scenes why the suicide bomber has shaped the modern of government amid the chaos of Brexit age, written by a multi-award winning investigative journalist and human rights campaigner. “It’s a cliché to say that Westminster is a village. But it works. Everybody knows everyone, everyone Investigative journalist Iain Overton addresses the knows who’s having it off with whom, and secrets fundamental drivers of modern day suicide attacks are kept so poorly that Julian Assange might as well in this fascinating and important book, showing be given a junior ministerial position. Seeing as the how the suicide bomber has played a pivotal role inhabitants can’t resist stabbing each other in the in the evolution of some of the most defining forces back, it could well be the inspiration for the type of the modern age – from Communism and the of English village depicted in Midsomer Murders.” Cold War, to the modern day War on Terror. In this unique and revealing book, an anonymous Interviewing Russian anarchists, Japanese civil servant shares the truth about what goes Quercus kamikazes, Hezbollah militants, survivors of suicide Headline on behind closed doors, from the corridors of bombings and countless other sources of valuable Westminster to the EU negotiating table. It’s a story UK Pub: April 2019 information, while travelling to places such as UK Pub: March 2019 that makes political satires look tame, highlighting Iran, Irak and Pakistan, Overton skilfully combines the incompetence of the people we elect to serve UK Editor: Katy Follain historical narrative, travelogue, interviews and UK Editor: Fiona Crosby us, as well as the frightening scale of the political testimonies, and brings his research alive thanks to challenges today. MS Available / 352pp potent facts and visceral storytelling. Proposal Available About the Author: Rights Sold: The result is a powerful and unforgettable read, The author is a civil servant in the British government, Netherlands (Uitgeverijen Q) the first non-academic attempt to chart the rise of writing anonymously because Theresa May this horrific weapon. probably won’t find any of this funny.

About the Author: Iain Overton is a multi-award winning journalist and human rights campaigner, and has reported from over two dozen conflict zones worldwide. Today he runs the London based charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). He is the recipient of two Amnesty Media Awards, a BAFTA, and a Peabody Award, and holds two degrees from Cambridge University.

12 13 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction WAR GARDENS ANIMAL HOUSE Lalage Snow James Brown

War Gardens is a surprising, tragic and beautiful Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown’s loaded journey through the darkest places of the modern magazine became the fastest payback in IPC world, revealing the ways people make time and Media’s publishing history - the must-buy and must- space for themselves and for nature even in the be-in publication of the decade. It won every middle of destruction. Illustrated with Lally Snow’s award going, year after year, and came to define own award-winning photography, this is a book to not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, treasure. loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless it was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the In this millennium, we have become war weary. England dressing room at Euro ‘96. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank. Animal House follows James Brown’s remarkable Living through it are people just like us with ordinary career from a high school drop-out fanzine writer jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against to NME features editor aged 22, and loaded a new landscape of horror and violence it is up founder at 27. In between, his mother died in Quercus to them to maintain a modicum of normality and Quercus tragic circumstances and gradually his own drug colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve and alcohol use took over. Loaded’s unexpected UK Pub: September 2018 this. UK Pub: May 2020 success legitimised (and paid for) James’s lifestyle, and it wasn’t until he crashed and burned at UK Editor: Richard Milner Working in the world’s most dangerous war zones, UK Editor: Richard Milner GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of freelance war correspondent and photographer perspective kicked in. Page Extent: 384pp Lally Snow has often chanced across a very Proposal Available moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the Recuperating on the island of Mustique, whilst human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and plotting his return with Oz founder Felix Denis, James beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: are tended by a centenarian gardener, though “How on earth did you manage to sell so many the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored magazines whilst taking so many drugs?” soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment’s peace; on both sides of the dividing This book is his answer. line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed About the Author: landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens James Brown worked on the NME, founded in the middle of a surreal, frozen war. loaded, Jack and Leeds, Leeds, Leeds magazines, and was Editor-in-Chief of British GQ. He is a media About the Author: entrepreneur, journalist and hosts a weekly show Award winning photographer, filmmaker and on talkSPORT. He is now down to three matches a writer Lalage Snow has covered conflict and week. unrest since 2007. Her personal projects have been published and exhibited to critical acclaim around the world. She has also given a number of public talks at literary festivals, museums and academic institutions including MIT.

14 15 Narrative Non-Fiction Narrative Non-Fiction PIG: TALES FROM AN ORGANIC FARM TRY THIS AT HOME Helen Browning with Tim Finney Frank Turner

An evocative and illuminating account of the A songwriting memoir from bestselling author and wonder of pigs, from one of the pioneers of the folk-rock icon, Frank Turner organic farming movement. A perfect read for fans of The Secret Life of Cows and A Shepherd’s Life. From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a brand new memoir. What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts? Taking 30 songs from his back catalogue, folk- punk legend Frank Turner explores his songwriting In a frosty field on the longest night of the year, process - from the stories that inspired the songs, eight little piglets snuffle their first breaths, and jostle how they involved, his favourite performances close to their mother to feed . . . of them, and tales from the recording studio, the road, and beyond. A must-have for any FT fans So begins the life of the farm animal that you think and anyone who’s ever picked up a pen and you already know. But think again . . . paper and wanted to write. Wildfire Headline This is the magical account of the life and times of About the Author: UK Pub: September 2018 a gang of Saddleback pigs, from one of the most UK Pub: March 2019 Frank Turner is an English folk/punk singer-songwriter forward-thinking organic farmers in the United from Winchester. He was the lead singer of post- UK Editor: Alex Clarke Kingdom. UK Editor: Richard Roper hardcore band Million Dead, before embarking on a solo career. He is the Sunday Times bestselling Page Extent: 320pp Helen Browning shines a light on the secret lives MS due September 2018 author of The Road Beneath My Feet. of these mischievous, intelligent, and inventive animals – and shares her vision for the future of Turner has released seven solo albums as well ethical farming. as EPs and rarities, and has played thousands of shows across 38 countries. He sometimes lives in Praise for Helen Browning: London, but mostly on the road. ‘A woman who won’t be cowed in the war against titan farms’ Independent

‘Pioneering’ Guardian

About the Author: Helen runs Eastbrook Farm in Wiltshire, where she grew up. There she tends her beloved pig herd, as well as running the Helen Browning’s Organic brand which sells pork to retailers large and small, and the village pub, the Royal Oak. She is Chief Executive of the Soil Association, a charity which campaigns for a more organic, humane and healthy future for farming and food.

16 17 Narrative Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction MOTHER COUNTRY: Real Stories of the READING BETWEEN THE LINES: WHAT Windrush Children YOUR HANDWRITING SAYS ABOUT Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (Ed.) YOU Emma Bache A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation. Written by the UK’s leading handwriting expert, Reading Between the Lines will show you how to “The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story judge someone’s handwriting as a whole and how of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, to examine it in detail. success and failure. It’s one that is too often neglected in our media, but this volume acts as Our handwriting exposes how we interact with the a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask world and the people around us, and also how we you to both savour and share.” David Lammy MP cope with stress and express emotions. It can help us make choices for our future, showing us what For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain our desires are, and even what jobs and partners was ‘the Mother Country’. They made the long Quercus may suit us best. journey across the sea, expecting to find a place Headline where they would be welcomed with open arms; UK Pub: August 2018 Using real-life examples, including celebrity a land in which you were free to build a new life, UK Pub: October 2018 samples, you will be challenged to put your new- eight thousand miles away from home. UK Editor: Katy Follain found knowledge to the test. UK Editor: Fiona Crosby This remarkable book explores the reality of their Page Extent: 336pp By the end of the book you will have amassed a experiences, and those of their children and Page Extent: 304pp wealth of knowledge that will help you understand grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories human nature – including your own – in all its spanning more than 70 years. colours. Featuring: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, About the Author: David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard The UK’s leading handwriting expert, Emma Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Bache has worked as a graphologist since 1989, Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, analysing handwriting in both the Corporate and Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna private sectors. With additional qualifications in Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy, Emma has Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle- helped to solve cases of fraud for both private Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll. individuals and the corporate world, giving a valuable insight into the criminal mind. About the Author: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is an award-winning writer, editor and columnist of Jamaican-Cuban heritage, who focuses on issues surrounding race, feminism, social justice and media. She is the deputy editor of gal-dem, a magazine written and produced exclusively by women of colour and non-binary people of colour aiming to diversify the journalism landscape, and contributes to publications including the Guardian, iPaper and Dazed

18 19 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE STORIES FOR KIDS WHO DARE TO BE DIFFERENT 2 DIFFERENT Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter

More true tales of amazing boys who found True, inspirational and amazing tales of boys and the courage to be themselves, and achieved girls who stood up and stood out. something remarkable at the same time. Björk, Dr Seuss, Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Warhol, This is the follow-up to the much loved and hugely Ellen MacArthur, Greta Gerwig, Andrea Bocelli, successful Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, Hua Mulan . . . these are men and women who all the bestselling book that changed countless dared to be different. boys’ lives around the world and gave them the confidence to be themselves. Boys will be boys and girls will be girls – or so the meaningless saying goes. Because what if you’re Quercus What have the footballer Kylian Mbappé, the Quercus a girl and you like cage fighting? Or you’re a boy philosopher Socrates and the singer Ed Sheeran and you love ballet? And what if you’ve always UK Pub: March 2019 all got in common? All three of them defied UK Pub: October 2018 dreamed of being a scientist but you can’t see expectations – going against the grain and anyone who looks or sounds like you, and who UK Editor: Katy Follain pursuing their dreams – despite a seemingly UK Editor: Katy Follain has left a legacy – in the form of microscopes and impossible barrage of obstacles and difficulties. Bunsen burners – for you to follow? Partial Available Their stories are incredible, as are those of the Page Extent; 208pp tap-dancer Evan Ruggiero, the Pokémon creator This is the book for children who want to know Rights Sold in Previous Title: Satoshi Tajiri, and the other inspirational boys who Rights Sold: about the lives of those heroes who have led the Croatia (Znanje) fill the pages of this extraordinary book. Bulgaria (Ciela Norma) way, changing the world for the better as they go. Czech Republic (Presco) US (Running Press) Finland (Readme.fi) It’s books like these that can make a huge Following the runaway success of Stories for Boys France (Librairie Artheme) difference to parents and their children’s lives. Who Dare to be Different, parents asked for a Germany (Loewe) In this day and age, any publication that shows celebration of role models of both genders for Italy (Adriano Salani) how we can triumph in the face of adversity and boys and girls within the same book. Stories for Kids Israel (Argaman) prejudice deserves to be read over and over Who Dare to Be Different is the answer. These are Japan (Kawade Shobo again. the extraordinary stories of 100 famous and not- Shisha) so-famous men and women, every single one of Norway (Fontini Cappelen About the Author: them an inspiring pioneer and creative genius in Damm) Ben Brooks was born in 1992 and lives in Berlin. He their own way, who broke the mould and made Poland (KE Liber) is the author of several books, including Grow Up their dreams come true. Portugal (Editorial Presenca) and Lolito, which won the Somerset Maugham Romania (Grup Media Litera) Award in 2015. Like Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different, this is Spain (Penguin Random a beautifully illustrated, evocative and inspirational House Grupo Editorial) Quinton Winter is a British illustrator, artist and book of amazing stories of amazing people, that will Slovenia (Ucila) colourist. He has worked for many clients delight sons and daughters, nephews and nieces, Sweden (Bokforlaget) including the Guardian newspaper, Walker Books, and give them the courage to be themselves. Turkey (Eksik Parca) Gogglebox, 2000AD, Vertigo Comics, Mojo and US (Running Press) the BBC. .

20 21 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction UNTITLED YEAR OF MUSIC Nadiya Hussain Clemency Burton-Hill

‘I am their daughter. They are me. I am my Baba’s On the surface, there might be seemingly nothing stubborn back bone and his great brows. I am my that connects Bach to Be-Bop to the Beatles to mum’s resilience and wide birthing hips. I am their Beyoncé and beyond. But Clemency Burton-Hill profanity, their nerves, I am their traditions, their believes fervently that music is music, made up of hang ups, their loss, their tears. I am their human, the same building blocks. their child, their daughter.’ Following on from her bestselling book Year of Since the moment she was born a girl, Nadiya Wonder, award-winning musician, broadcaster Hussain has taken on many different roles assigned and writer Clemency Burton-Hill brings her vast to her by gender, culture, society and religion. passion, enthusiasm and expertise to a whole new volume of daily delights. Born to parents who had emigrated to Britain from Bangladesh, her first roles were those of With her as your guide, discover a different piece daughter and sister. Considering her later roles as Headline of music for every day of the year. From classical Headline Home a devout Muslim entering an arranged marriage symphonies to pop songs, via sonatas, show tunes, and becoming a wife and mother herself, Nadiya UK Pub: October 2019 sambas, sea shanties and soul, this is the author’s UK Pub: October 2019 questions the barriers that many women, no matter ultimate playlist which she invites you to share. Her who they are or where they live, have to cross in UK Editor: Lindsey Evans love-letter to the world of music. UK Editor: Lindsey Evans order to be accepted or heard. MS due February 2019 Beginning on January 1 and ending on December MS due January 2019 Each chapter deals with a different role, and 31, she delves into a thousand years of human Nadiya writes with warmth, humour, honesty and Rights Sold in Previous Title: history to present her readers (and listeners) with deep emotion about what each one means China (Ginkgo) 366 diverse and life-enhancing works of music to her and how she embodies all the different Poland (Foksal) encompassing myriad genres, styles and forms expectations of these roles in her life. Writing about Romania (Editura Vellant) along the way. With a compelling reason to listen growing up in a large family, who were culturally Russia (Eksmo) to that particular piece on that particular day, torn between two countries, to her thoughts on Spain (Ediciones Urano) we’ll meet some extraordinary people, hear their becoming a celebrity, after winning The Great US (Harper) fascinating stories and learn about the surprising British Bake Off, the later chapters cover her more parallels and connections between disparate recent roles of ‘baker’, ‘Twitter handle’ and ‘TV musical forms. presenter’. As soulful as it is surprising, as engaging as it is This very personal book documents the journey of inspiring, Year of Music is, quite simply, a delight. ‘girl number three’. And shows us how, at the core of it all, we are essentially tackling the same roles About the Author: throughout our lives despite our cultural, social and Clemency Burton-Hill is one of the UK’s leading religious differences. arts broadcasters and writers. An award-winning violinist, Clemency has performed all over the world under leading conductors. She is the co- founder of Aurora Orchestra and a patron of the music and arts education charities The Choir of London Trust and Dramatic Need.

22 23 General Non-Fiction General Non-Fiction REMARKABLE MINDS: A CELEBRATION KILLER WOMEN OF THE REITH LECTURES Nigel Cawthorne BBC Radio 4 The inside story of the 50 most evil female murderers Learn something new in half-an-hour through in world history iconic talks by the world’s great thinkers Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling Delve into an extraordinary archive of talks with of all criminals, representing the very darkest side BBC Radio 4’s Reith Lectures. of humanity and subverting the conventional view of women as the weaker sex. A time capsule into how much the world has changed over the last seven decades, they chart From Elizabeth Bathory, ‘The Bloody Countess’ Britain’s shifting values and place in the world, whose vampire-like tendencies terrorised from the decline of the British Empire in the ‘50s, sixteenth-century Hungary, to the Moors Murderer to the rise of teen culture in the ‘60s to joining the Myra Hindley and the Florida Highway Killer Aileen European project in the ‘70s. But they also show Wuornos, these women transfix us with their remarkable foresight, with talks about the age of extreme ability to commit savage acts of cruelty Headline the automaton and climate change that only now Quercus and depravity. can be fully appreciated for their prescience. UK Pub: August 2019 UK Pub: September 2018 Most chilling is the fact that many of their victims Right up to the present day, the Reith Lectures represent the most vulnerable in society: babies, UK Editor: Fiona Crosby have delighted audiences across the world, with UK Editor: Alison the ill and infirm, and the elderly. In some cases their recent lecturers including Hilary Mantel on how MacDonald methods of disposing of the corpses fall nothing stories can bring the dead back to life, Grayson short of ingenious: meet Leonarda Cianciulli, ‘The Perry on whether ‘anything goes’ when it comes Page Extent: 240pp Soap-Maker of Correggio’, who used the fat from to art, and Stephen Hawking on why black holes her victims’ bodies to make soap and teacakes aren’t black. to sell to unsuspecting customers. These killers’ backgrounds, methods and their crimes are Gathering together the Reith transcripts together described in forensic and gripping detail. for the very first time, as a beautifully packaged hardback, this is a rich and remarkable collection. About the Author: Nigel Cawthorne is the author of a number of successful true crime and popular history books. His writing has appeared in over 150 newspapers, magazines and partworks – from the Sun to the Financial Times, and from Flatbush Life to The New York Tribune. He lives in London.

24 25 General Non-Fiction Popular Science THE NORSE MYTHS THE MATHS OF LIFE AND DEATH Dr Tom Birkett Kit Yates

The greatest legends, battles and heroics of Maths is a story worth telling Norse Mythology, brought to life and explained in fascinating detail Maths ends at school and has nothing to do with real life – or so the popular misconception The great Norse Myths are among the most goes. In fact, it turns out that maths is present in dramatic and unforgettable stories in all human every single one of our decisions. When we tap history. These fascinating, fantastical tales have our foot to music, sing in the shower or admire inspired centuries of art, culture and literature, a snowflake, we are unconsciously performing including the storytelling of Tolkien, Neil Gaiman, maths. George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones, Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Marvel Comics. Instead of explaining complex formulae, mathematical biologist Kit Yates is here to make Quercus The Norse Myths takes us on a thrilling journey Quercus real-life sense of the equations that rule our lives. through the Norse cosmos, from the creation of From deciding which seat on the train to pick, UK Pub: November 2018 the world to Ragnarok, the final world-destroying UK Pub: September 2019 searching for our life partner and coping with conflict; via the Nine Worlds, and the exploits of worrying medical results, to drugs tests, inaccurate UK Editor: Ben Brock the mighty gods and goddesses – mystical Odin, UK Editor: Katy Follain profiling and social media algorithms, maths has malicious Loki, mighty Thor and more - and their a lot of answers – and even more questions. Page Extent: 320pp quarrel with the giants. MS due March 2019 How can maths prevent innocent people being Rights Sold: Bringing to life the magical world of monsters Rights Sold: convicted for crimes they didn’t commit? When Russia (Azbooka-Atticus) and mythical creatures, this also introduces Arabic (Arab Scientific) is alarm fatigue useful or fatal? And does DNA the adventures of humankind: folk heroes and Brazil (Grupo Editorial Record) always reveal the full truth? Maths is the story of tricksters; Sigmund’s great battle in the Volsung China (China Citic) the world around us, and the wisdom it can give Saga; the exploits of Kings and Princes; and Viking Czech Republic (Albatros) is there for the taking. If we listen up it could be exploration and settlement of new lands including Germany (Piper) the difference between life and death. Iceland, Greenland, America, and Viking life in the Hungary (Athenaeum) Mediterranean and the East. Israel (Tchelet Books) About the Author: Italy (RCS Media) Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in mathematical As well as a treasure trove of these epic stories of Japan (Soshisha) biology at the University of Bath. His job consists heroism and cruelty, squabbles and seductions, Korea (Woongjin Think Big) of taking real-world phenomena and uncovering The Norse Myths is a comprehensive study of Netherlands (Bezige Bij) the mathematical truths that lie behind them. He their origins, survival and interpretations – as Norway (Bazar) extracts the common patterns that underlie these academically important as it is exhilarating. Poland (Insignis Media) processes and communicates them. He works in Portugal (Saida de Emergencia) applications as diverse as embryonic disease, Romania (Grup Media Litera) the patterns on egg-shells and the devastating Russia (Eksmo) swarming of locust plagues – teasing out the Slovakia (Albatros) mathematical connections in the process. Spain (Blackie Books) Sweden (Pagina) US (Simon & Schuster)

26 27 Popular Science Popular Science THE DEEP TRUE OR POO? Alex Rogers Nick Caruso & Dani Rabaiotti

From one of the world’s leading experts in marine Dozens of further filthy animal facts and falsehoods: biology and oceanology comes The Deep. the follow-through to the international bestselling sensation Does it Fart? There’s so much we don’t know about what lies deep beneath the ocean’s surface – and the time How many spiders do you eat in your sleep? What to find out is growing increasingly precious . . . does the ice-cream you eat have to do with the back end of a beaver? Do komodo dragons have Professor Alex Rogers is one of the world’s leading toxic slobber? Is it true that a scorpion that sheds its experts in marine biology and oceanology, and tail dies of constipation? How far actually are you has spent his life studying the deep ocean – and from the nearest rat? Can you get high from licking in particular the impact of human activity on the toads, or is that . . . fake newts? ecosystems of the oceans. All this and far, far more can be found in True or Quercus In this timely, galvanising and fascinating book Poo, a guide to the wonders of the natural world: Wildfire – replete with stunning photography of strange and a manual for disgusting and one-upping your UK Pub: October 2018 and beautiful creatures – Professor Rogers offers friends and enemies for years to come. UK Pub: April 2019 a fundamentally optimistic view of humanity’s UK Editor: Ben Brock relationship with the oceans – and also a very About the Author: UK Editor: Alex Clarke personal account of his own interaction with the Nick Caruso is a PhD student and salamander Page Extent: 160pp seas. expert at the University of Alabama. Partial Available Rights Sold: About the Author: Dani Rabaiotti is a PhD candidate and zoologist Denmark (Lindhart and Rights Sold: Alex Rogers is Professor of Conservation Biology at who studies African wild dogs and climate change Ringhof) Germany (Deutscher Oxford University. at London Zoo. France (Marabout) Taschenbuch Verlag) Netherlands (Meulenhoff Spain (Atico de los Libros) As one of the leading marine biologists in the Boekerij) world, Alex is scientific consultant on theBBC’s Blue Norway (Cappelen Planet II series. Damm) US (Hachette Book Group) He also advises the UN, Greenpeace, WWF and the G8 countries on ocean ecology.

The Deep will be the definitive book on the deep oceans, and on the importance of conserving the habitat of the many weird and wonderful creatures of the deep.

28 29 Popular Science MBS and Food & Drink FEMINISM IN MINUTES THE HOLLYWOOD BODY PLAN Shannon Weber David Higgins

200 key ideas, movements and feminists explained Personal trainer David Higgins turns actors into in an instant. superheroes – in this book he will teach you how just 21 MINUTES of exercise a day can transform Never has having an understanding of feminism your body for life. been so important. But what really is feminism – in all its forms? Who were the key feminists – and what Learn the 3-step programme that has helped stars are their beliefs? What do feminists think about like Claudia Schiffer, Margot Robbie and Samuel abortion, sex, religion, pornography and beauty? L. Jackson reach their bodies’ full potential – and Quercus And have women achieved equality – or is there move freely, flexibly and confidently. still much to do? UK Pub: May 2019 1. RESET Feminism in Minutes is the quickest, easiest way to 21-day exercise and food plan to help you exercise UK Editor: Alison understand the big ideas and history of feminism, Headline without pain, lose weight and feel great! MacDonald from its ancient roots to the #MeToo movement of today. UK Pub: December 2018 2. TRANSFORM MS due October 2018 Get leaner, stronger and more toned as you follow UK Editor: Lindsey Evans this exercise and food programme.

Page Extent: 256pp 3. FOREVER FIX David’s self-care programme is the third part of the THE FUTURE IN MINUTES plan and will help you treat muscle soreness, neck Keith Mansfield pain or backache. Learn simple tricks to keep you on track for life. 200 futuristic concepts, technologies and their consequences, explained in an instant. David’s Hollywood Body Plan is a unique and corrective approach to exercise and diet, based What does the future hold? How will we live, work on his belief that until you undo all the dysfunctional and entertain ourselves? What new technologies movement that you have developed over the will emerge? Will humanity evolve – and perhaps years, all the exercise and diets you try will only be live forever? Or are we facing threats that could short-time fixes. This book will truly reset, transform end us – and even the whole universe? and forever fix your body for life. Quercus The Future in Minutes tackles these and many other About the Author: fundamental questions, concisely and lucidly David Higgins is a personal trainer and physical UK Pub: May 2019 explaining everything from cryptocurrencies therapist who specialises in body mobility and and world governments to gene therapy and flexibility, from which stem strength, muscle tone, UK Editor: Alison colonizing planets – and painting our options for weight loss and leanness. David’s expertise means MacDonald utopia or disaster. that he is the first call that Hollywood actors make when they prepare for roles. Film credits include MS due October 2018 Avengers: Age of Ultron, the Kingsman films, The Legend of Tarzan, Justice League and Mission Impossible 6.

30 31 MBS and Food & Drink MBS and Food & Drink A CELEBRATION OF VERMOUTH SINGLE MALT Jack Adair Bevan Clay Risen

This book is a love letter to vermouth, a collection A curated yet comprehensive primer of the single- of recipes that allow this versatile drink to shine. malt whiskies any growing aficionado needs to be familiar with. As a drinks maker and writer Jack Bevan has visited some of the best bars in the world and has tried A follow-up to American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: vermouth in as many ways and drinks as he could. A Guide tothe Nation’s Favorite Spirit, this book is In this book he will tell you all you need to know an introduction to the history, science, and diversity about vermouth and why you should be drinking it. of malted whisky. With maps of important whisky What on earth is it? How do you drink it and what regions of Scotland, profiles of each of the makers, do you mix with it? Alongside techniques, tips and and a full bottle shot and tasting notes for each cocktail recipes for drinking ‘before sunset’ and of the most widely available expressions, you’ll ‘after sunset’, Jack will include some excellent learn as much about single-malt whisky as you vermouth-based food recipes for you to try at already know about whiskey, bourbon, and rye. home. With over a hundred active distilleries in Scotland, Headline Home Quercus US the 300 expressions featured in this book provide About the Author: a curated yet comprehensive primer of the single- UK Pub: June 2019 Jack Adair Bevan is an award-winning drinks and US Pub: November 2018 malt whiskies any growing aficionado needs to cocktail creator. He writes a regular drinks column be familiar with. Additional features include a UK Editor: Lindsey Evans for the Guardian Weekend magazine and also US Editor: Amelia Iuvino directory of distilleries, Risen’s top picks in various writes for Imbibe. In 2013 he was awarded Young categories of single-malt whisky, and a full index of Proposal Available British Foodie of the Year in the cocktail category Page Extent: 384pp the expressions features in the book. for his Old Fashioned, and in 2015 was named Innovator of the Year at the Imbibe Awards. Co- About the Author: owner of The Ethicurean restaurant, near Bristol, Clay Risen is an editor at The New York Times, where which was hailed as ‘the UK’s answer to NOMA’ he has written extensively on whiskey, rum, and by Fiona Beckett and ranked number 2 in the other spirits. He has also written for Smithsonian, Guardian’s top 50 UK restaurants of 2015. Jack also The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He wrote co-wrote The Ethicurean Cookbook. American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit in 2013. Risen grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two young children.

32 33 MBS and Food & Drink MBS and Food & Drink WRITTEN IN THE STARS CONFIDENCE: The Journal Debbie Frank Katie Piper

Discover the language of the stars and help your Find confidence each and every day! life shine. Don’t look to other people for confidence, find it In Written in the Stars Debbie Frank, renowned in yourself. The Confidence Journal will guide you media astrologer, deciphers the language of the through daily affirmations and creative prompts stars with wit, sincerity and insight. Her powerful, to help you live the life you want, whenever you nurturing insights will connect you to the cosmic want. Katie Piper’s warm and honest voice will forces guiding your destiny and empower you inspire you to achieve goals and happiness you to live your best life. The book covers the four only ever dreamed of and will allow you to be the elements of wind, earth, fire and water as well as star of your own life. the 12 star signs. With true confidence, anything and everything is LIFE possible. Discover your core personality qualities, the mantra Quercus Headline Home you should live by and the key objects to keep close to you for positive energy. UK Pub: October 2018 About the Author: UK Pub: November 2018 Katie Piper is a TV presenter and charity campaigner. LOVE UK Editor: Jane Sturrock In 2008 she survived an attack and her moving, UK Editor: Lindsey Evans Know the people to surround yourself with and the BAFTA-nominated Channel 4 documentary Katie: tribe you belong to. Find your perfect match: how Page Extent: 192pp My Beautiful Face was watched by 3.5 million MS Available / 448pp to date them, hold them or let them go. viewers and shown in more than 15 countries. Katie founded her own charity, The Katie Piper DESTINY Foundation, to help people living with burns and Is your destiny written in the stars? What is your star scars and she has received numerous awards power and what can you give to the world? and accolades for her charity work, including a prestigious Woman of the Year Award. She is now Find out the answers to all of these questions and a presenter on Channel 4 and the author of five more . . . books: Confidence, Beautiful Ever After, Things Get Better, Start Your Day with Katie and From Mother About the Author: to Daughter. Debbie Frank has been an astrologer to the stars since 1984. She is a leading figure in her field, with celebrity and corporate clients. From her first horoscope column in She magazine to writing for Daily Mail, Sunday Express, Hello, InStyle, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sun on Sunday – she is often called upon for her insight into the life and experience of Princess Diana, who was both a client and a friend for a decade.

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34 35 Sport Sport THE TOUR ACCORDING TO G: My THE LINE: Where Medicine and Sport Journey to the Yellow Jersey Collide Geraint Thomas Dr Richard Freeman

The inspirational inside story of the 2018 Tour de As team doctor for British Cycling and Team Sky, France from Geraint Thomas, the first Welshman Dr Richard Freeman treated the world’s most and third Brit ever to win the Tour successful cyclists, such as Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott and Victoria Pendleton. For years Geraint Thomas appeared blessed with From 2009 until 2017, the ‘Doc’ was part of the extraordinary talent but jinxed at the greatest bike team who became national heroes with Olympic race in the world: twice an Olympic gold medallist and Tour de France victories. on the track, Commonwealth champion, yet at the Tour de France a victim of crashes, bad luck In The Line, Dr Freeman reveals the medical and his willingness to sacrifice himself for his team- principles and practices that helped lead these mates. In the summer of 2018, that curse was blown athletes to success – ideas that we now consider away in spectacular fashion – from the cobbles commonplace, but many of which were in fact of the north and the iconic mountain climbs of the Doc’s own innovations. And in a sport where Quercus the Alps to the brutal slopes of the Pyrenees and, Wildfire there’s an ethical line as well as a finishing line, finally, the Champs-Elysees in Paris. As a boy, G Dr Freeman gives a frank and open account UK Pub: November 2018 had run home from school on summer afternoons UK Pub: July 2018 in response to allegations of misuse of medical to watch the Tour on television. This July, across treatment to enhance performance. UK Editor: Richard Milner twenty-one stages and three weeks, and under UK Editor: Alex Clarke constant attack from his rivals, he made the race Praise for Dr Richard Freeman: MS Available / 320pp his own. Page Extent: 336pp ‘Dr Freeman is a man of great integrity and kindness. His care has helped me through the With insight from the key characters around good times and the hardships of competing in the Geraint, this is the inside story of one of the most highest level of sport’ Sir Bradley Wiggins thrilling and heart-warming tales in sport. ‘There are many fascinating issues – personal, Not only can nice guys come first – they can win medical and ethical – documented in The Line, but the biggest prize of all. cycling enthusiasts will perhaps be most fascinated in the detail of how elite athletes train’ Matthew About the Author: Syed, The Times Geraint Thomas MBE is the winner of the 2018 Tour de France, a double Olympic gold medallist and About the Author: multiple world champion. A Tour de France veteran, Dr Richard Freeman was Head of Medicine at he had both completed the entire race with a Bolton Wanderer’s Football Club and the English fractured pelvis and been essential in piloting Chris Premiership, before moving on to become team Froome to the yellow jersey multiple times before doctor at British Cycling and Team Sky between his own win. In 2014 he won Commonwealth road 2009 and 2017. race gold in Glasgow. He became the first British rider to win the E3 Harelbeke: in 2016 he won Paris-Nice and in early 2018 won the Criterium du Dauphine.

36 37 Sport Sport THE THREE KINGS UNTITLED AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jonny Owen & Leo Moynihan Steve Bruce

Three of the greatest football clubs: Celtic, Liverpool The legendary Manchester United captain, and and Manchester United. Their three greatest experienced manager, with a fascinating account managers: Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Matt Busby. of his time at Old Trafford under Sir Alex Ferguson, as well as the rest of his more than 35 years in the Three men born within a 20-mile radius of each game. other in the central lowlands of Scotland; forged in mining communities to subsequently shape the Steve Bruce’s Autobiography will enthrall fans course of modern football. of both Manchester United and English football generally with its absorbing assessment of Sir Alex More than the sum of its parts, The Three Kings Ferguson’s tenure at United, and with its insightful promises a narrative beyond any single biography portraits of United greats. of its three subjects could. The track record of Jonny Owen and his producers promises a film of Forming the bed-rock of the United chapters critical and commercial importance – loved by all are insights and stories galore that speak to the Quercus fans of the beautiful game, as well as by fans of the Headline character, training methods and management three greatest clubs in the UK. Together these three techniques of Ferguson and the culture of success UK Pub: October 2019 clubs have a combined 170,000 season-ticket UK Pub: October 2019 he created within the football club, giving United holders, and social-media followings worldwide of fans an unparalleled assessment of life at Old UK Editor: Richard Milner over 200,000,000 people. UK Editor: Jonathan Taylor Trafford at that time.

Material due 2019 MS Available / 320pp About the Author: Of course, Bruce is now a manager with eight clubs, Leo Moynihan has been a sportstwiter for almost and well over 800 matches, to his name. In his later twenty years, and has written for FourFourTwo, the chapters he provides an intriguing assessment of Sunday Telegraph, The Times and Esquire. the changing face of football management.

Writer and filmmaker Jonny Owen is the producer About the Author: and director of Bafta-winning Svengali as well as Born in Northumberland in 1960, Steve Bruce 2015’s much-lauded I Believe in Miracles (Baby played for Gillingham and Norwich City before Cow), and co-author of the accompanying being signed by Sir Alex Ferguson for Manchester bestselling book. In The Three Kings Jonny is United. He quickly became Sir Alex’s captain and collaborating for the first time with On the Corner talisman, leading United to three Premier League Productions. On the Corner are the multi-Bafta titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup and one and Academy-Award winning producers of Amy European Cup Winners’ Cup. and Senna. His playing career finished with Birmingham City and Sheffield United. A six-year spell in charge of Birmingham City brought two separate promotions to the Premier League. Bruce took the reins at Wigan Athletic for two years, keeping them in the PL, then Sunderland for a further two years. He then achieved two further promotions to the PL as manager of Hull City. He is currently manager of Aston Villa.

38 39 Sport Recent Highlights AUTOBIOGRAPHY HUMANS: A Brief History of How We F*cked Warren Gatland It All Up Tom Phillips The definitive autobiography of the legendary Wildfire rugby coach who has led Wales for over a decade, and master-minded two hugely successful Humans: An exhilarating journey through the most creative southern hemisphere tours at the helm of the British and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very and Irish Lions. first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day. Warren Gatland is one of the most renowned rugby coaches of the last 20 years, leading Wales ‘A light-touch history of moments when humans have got to three Six Nations titles, two Grand Slams and a it spectacularly wrong . . . Both readable and entertaining’ World Cup semi-final, and delivering two successful Telegraph tours as Head Coach of the British and Irish Lions. Rights Sold: Brazil (Record), China (Thinkingdom Media), Czech Headline As he leaves his post as Head Coach of Wales Republic (Jota), Estonia (Tanapaev), Finland (Tammi), France (La at the end of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, his Libraire Vuilbert), Germany (Goldmann), Greece (Psichogios), Italy (Newton Compton), Israel (Yedioth) Japan (Kawade UK Pub: November 2019 autobiography chronicles a highly eventful and successful three decades in rugby. The personal Shobo), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Netherlands (Bezige Bij), Poland journey spans New Zealand, Ireland, England and (Albatros), Portugal (PRH Portugal), Romania (Editura Trei), Russia UK Editor: Jonathan Taylor (AST), Serbia (Laguna), Spain (Espasa Libros), Sweden (Tukan Wales, and Gatland reflects in characteristically Forlag), Ukraine (KM Books), US (Harlequin US) Material due 2019 forthright fashion on a lifetime spent playing and coaching the sport which has been his passion since first picking up an oval ball as a child in the land of the mighty All Blacks. THE LITTLE BOOK OF IKIGAI Ken Mogi About the Author: Quercus Born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1963, Warren Gatland played rugby for the provincial side The Little Book of Ikigai reveals all about this mysterious and Waikato for eight years, and made 17 non- fascinating miracle that is at the heart of Japan’s record- international appearances for the All Blacks, breaking long life, astonishing appreciation of sensory before turning to coaching. beauty and inherent mindfulness.

He was the Head Coach of the British & Irish Lions Rights Sold: Arabic (Arab Scientific Publishers), Brazil (Alto Astral), Bulgaria (Ciela Norma), Croatia (Planetopija), Czech Republic squad. He has been Head Coach of Wales since (Euromedia), Estonia (Kirjastus Kunst), Finland (Otava Publishing), 2007, and in that time the Welsh have won the France (Libraire Artheme Fayard), Germany (DuMont), Hungary Grand Slam twice and the Six Nations three times. (Central Mediacsoport), Italy (Giulio Einaudi), Indonesia (Noura Books), Japan (Shinchosa Publishing), Korea (Balgunsesang), During his career, Gatland has also coached Lithuania (UAB Jotema), Netherlands (Lantaarn), Poland (Wiekla Connacht and the Irish national team, as well as Litera), Portugal (Presenca), Romania (Grup Media Litera), Russia Wasps. (Azbooka Atticus), Spain (Ediciones B), Slovakia (Ikar), Slovenia (Ucila), Taiwan (Linking), Thai (Mono Generation), Turkey (Aykiri), Ukraine (Machaon-Ukraine), Vietnam (Nha Nam Publishing), US (The Experiment)

40 41 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights LAGOM I’M SORRY I LOVE YOU: A History of Lola A Åkerström Professional Wrestling Headline Home Jim Smallman Headline Find the balance in life that is just right for you with this authentic guide to the Scandi trend of 2017 A rip-roaring ride through the history of pro-wrestling from comedian and PROGRESS founder Jim Smallman. Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Ibis Publishing House) China (China South Booky), France (Marabout), Germany (Knesebeck), Italy (Rizzoli), Comedian and PROGRESS Wrestling founder Jim Smallman takes Indonesia (Renebook), Korea (Woongjin Think Big), Netherlands us on a wild ride through the history of pro-wrestling, from its (AW Bruna), Poland (Wydawnictwo Marginesy), Romania (SC beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century to the pop-culture, Publica), Russia (Azbooka Atticus), Portugal (Presenca), Spain pay-per-view juggernaut that it is today. (Urano), Thailand (A Book Publishing), Ukraine (KM Books), US (Ulysses Press)

THE INCREDIBLE UNLIKELINESS OF BEING HOW TO LIVE PLASTIC FREE Alice Roberts Marine Conservation Society Quercus Headline Home SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE This book will teach you everything you need to know about The presenter of the BBC’s The Incredible Human Journey gives us removing unnecessary plastic from your life. Whether you decide a new and highly accessible look at our own bodies and into the to go plastic free for an hour, a day or a year, this book will equip past to uncover the evolutionary secrets hidden in all of us. you with little steps we can each take to make a big difference. Rights Sold: Japan (Gakken Education Publishing), Korea Let’s turn the tide on plastic now - our oceans will thank you for it. (Sowadang), Netherlands (Lannoo), Romania (SC Humanitas), Russia (Azbooka Atticus), Spain (Pasado & Presente), Sweden (Fri Rights Sold: Vietnam (Huy Hoang Cultural Joint Stock Company) Tanke Forlag), Turkey (Ginko)

THE FLOOR IS LAVA SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Ivan Brett Quercus Headline Home With over a million copies already sold, this is the newly updated Packed with 100 different games, this is a how-to for turning time edition of the definitive collection of great speeches ancient and together into quality time together. modern. From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures In The Floor is Lava there are games to start a party, ideas to the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers trigger conversation, story-telling setups and fiendish puzzles, plus and statesman, placing them in historical context. physical challenges, activities to soothe a weary brain and plenty more. Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Hermes), Denmark (Lindhart and Ringhof), France (Dunod), Germany (Insel & Surhrkamp), Malaysia (Institut Rights Sold: Spain (Editoral Planeta), US (Simon & Schuster) Terjemahan & Buku), Mongolia (Bolor), Romania (Editura Trei), Russia (Mann Ivanov and Ferber), Serbia (Evro Giunti), Turkey (Indigo Kitap), Ukraine (KM Books)

42 43 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights FLIGHT RISK: The Highs and Lows of Life as a IN MINUTES SERIES Doctor at Heathrow Airport Quercus Dr Stephanie Green The In Minutes Series: The In Minutes series has sold over 225,000 copies and has Headline been published into multiple languages. An accessable and comprehensive series packed with information and illustrations, with titles including: Ancient World • Art A candid insight into the exhilarating drama of life and work as one • Architecture • Astronomy • Big Ideas in Brief • Brain • Countries of the World • of Heathrow airport’s on-site doctors. Economics • Evolution • Genetics • Management • Maths • Myths • Science in Seconds • Periodic Table • Philosophy • Physics • Politics • Psychology • Quantum Flight Risk reveals the thrilling drama that takes place behind-the- Physics • Religion • Solar System • Human Body • World History scenes of an airport and what is needed to make critical decisions in this hidden no-man’s land of geopolitics, terror, tragedy and medicine.

CONFESSIONS OF A SINGLE MUM Amy Nickell Headline

A witty and inspirational memoir of the realities of being a single mum.

Want to know what it’s really like to be a single mum? Perfect for fans of Part-Time Working Mummy and Why Mummy Drinks, this will inspire you to own your single status and make you realise that you’re not alone.

EAT, DRINK, RUN Bryony Gordon Headline

The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon.

Bryony Gordon was not a runner. A loafer, a dawdler, a drinker, a smoker, yes. A runner, no. But, as she recovered from the emotional rollercoaster of opening up her life in her mental health memoir MAD GIRL, she realised that there were things that might actually help her: getting outside, moving her body and talking to others who found life occasionally challenging. As she ran, she started Rights Sold: Bulgaria (Knigomania), China (P&T Press), France (Tredaniel), Japan to shake off the limitations that had always held her back and she (Diamond Inc), Korea (Contents Crew), Latvia (Janis Roze), Malay (Institut Terjemahan saw she had actually imposed them on herself. Why couldn’t she & Buku), Russia (Eksmo), Turkey (Pegasus) be a runner?

44 45 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights 50 IDEAS SERIES THE LITTLE WAYS TO LIVE A BIG LIFE SERIES Quercus Quercus The 50 Ideas Series is a hugely successful series with over a million copies sold across The Little Ways to Live a Big Life: Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks 20 territories. 200 Key ideas explained in an instant, written by renowned experts in to the Little Ways to Live a Big Life books! Each book in this life-enhancing series each area with titles including: Architecture • Art • Astronomy • Big Ideas • Biology is written by an expert in that field. Titles include: How to Play the Piano by James • Capitalism • Chemistry • Digital • Earth • Economics • Ethics • Genetics • History Rhodes • How to Count to Infinityby Marcus du Sautoy • How to Understand E=MC2 of War • Human Brain • Islam • Literature • Management • Maths • Philosophy by Christophe Galfard • How to Land a Plane by Marc Vanhoenacker • How to Draw • Philosophy of Science • Physics • Political • Psychology • Quantum Physics • Anything by Scriberia • How to Make Children Laugh by Michael Rosen • How to Religious • Science • The Future • World History • Universe Remember Everything by Richard Wiseman

• Beautiful books full of guidance and wonderment. • Learn anything, from playing the piano and landing a plan to understanding e=mc2 and making children laugh. • Titles have sold almost 40,000 copies to date

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46 47 Recent Highlights Subagents THIS BOOK WILL... SERIES Albania, Bulgaria & Macedonia - Anthea Agency Quercus [email protected]

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Praise for the This Book Will series: China and Taiwan - Peony Literary Agency (Headline & JMP) Top tips for making your life loads better.’ Cosmo [email protected] ‘The answer to all my problems.’ Katie Piper The Grayhawk Agency (Hodder & Quercus) ‘Take on January with new-found serenity with this series of self-help books’ Stylist [email protected]

Czech Republic & Slovak Republics - Kristin Olson Agency [email protected]

Greece - OA Literary Agency [email protected]

Hungary, Croatia, Serbia & Slovenia - Katai and Bolza Literary Agency [email protected] (Hungary) [email protected] (Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia)

Indonesia - Maxima Creative Agency [email protected]

Japan - The English Agency (Headline & Quercus) [email protected] Tuttle-Mori Agency (Hodder & JMP) [email protected] Japan Uni [email protected]

Korea - Eric Yang Agency [email protected]

Romania - Simona Kessler International [email protected]

Spain & Portugal - Julio F Yanez Agencia Literaria [email protected]

Thailand and Vietnam – Grayhawk Agency [email protected] Rights Sold: Arabic (Jarir), China (Intellectual Property Publishing), Estonia (Kirjastus Pegasus), Greece (Metaichmio), Latvia (Vieda), Portugal (Topbooks), Romania (AR Turkey - AnatoliaLit Agency Network), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Laguna), Spain (Roca), Sweden (Bokforlaget Lind [email protected] & Co), Turkey (Pegasus)

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