ALLENDE AMIS ATWOOD AUSTEN BARNES BARRY BINET BOLAÑO BORGES BULGAKOV BURNSIDE BYATT CALVINO CARROLL CARTER CARVER CHANG CHATWIN COETZEE CONRAD DARWIN De BERNIÈRES DE WAAL DIAMOND DI LAMPEDUSA DICKENS DOSTOEVSKY DOYLE ECO ENRIGHT FAULKNER FAULKS FIELDING FITZGERALD FOULDS FOWLES GIBBONS GRASS GREENE GROSSMAN HADDON HELLER HIGHSMITH HOUELLEBECQ HUXLEY ISHERWOOD JACOBSON JOHNSON JONES JOYCE KAFKA KENNEDY KNAUSGAARD KUSHNER LEE LENNON MAK MARÍAS MATTHIESSEN MAXWELL McCARTHY McEWAN MISHIMA MORRISON MUNRO MURAKAMI MURDOCH NADAS NÉMIROVSKY NIFFENEGGER OGAWA ONDAATJE OZ PASTERNAK PENROSE PEREC PETTERSON POLITKOVSKAYA PROUST PYNCHON REMARQUE RIVAS ROTH RUSHDIE SARAMAGO SCHAMA SEBALD SHUTE SNYDER SOLZHENITSYN STEVENSON STYRON TAN TANIZAKI Thiong’o THIRLWELL TVINTAGEHORPE BOOKS THU CATALOGUEBRON TOLSTOY TREMAIN TJULY–DECEMBERYLER VARGAS 2020 VONNEGUT WARHOL WELSH WESLEY WHEELER WIGGINS WILLIAMS WINTERSON WOLFE WOOLF WYLD YATES ZOLA ALLENDE AMIS ATWOOD AUSTEN BARNES BARRY BINET BOLAÑO BORGES BULGAKOV BURNSIDE BYATT CALVINO CARROLL CARTER CARVER CHANG CHATWIN COETZEE CONRAD DARWIN De BERNIÈRES DE WAAL DIAMOND DI LAMPEDUSA DICKENS DOSTOEVSKY DOYLE ECO ENRIGHT FAULKNER FAULKS FIELDING FITZGERALD FOULDS FOWLES GIBBONS GRASS GREENE GROSSMAN HADDON HELLER HIGHSMITH HOUELLEBECQ HUXLEY ISHERWOOD JACOBSON JOHNSON JONES JOYCE KAFKA KENNEDY KNAUSGAARD KUSHNER LEE LENNON MAK MARÍAS MATTHIESSEN MAXWELL McCARTHY McEWAN MISHIMA MORRISON MUNRO MURAKAMI MURDOCH NADAS NÉMIROVSKY NIFFENEGGER OGAWA ONDAATJE OZ PASTERNAK PENROSE PEREC PETTERSON POLITKOVSKAYA PROUST PYNCHON REMARQUE RIVAS ROTH RUSHDIE SARAMAGO SCHAMA SEBALD SHUTE SNYDER SOLZHENITSYN STEVENSON STYRON TAN TANIZAKI Thiong’o THIRLWELL TBODLEYHORPE HEAD THUBRON TOLSTOY TREMAIN TJULY–DECEMBERYLER VARGAS 2020 VONNEGUT WARHOL WELSH WESLEY WHEELER WIGGINS WILLIAMS WINTERSON WOLFE WOOLF WYLD YATES ZOLA Why We Drive On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control Matthew Crawford Why We Drive is about the defining question of our times: who is really in control? Driving requires some of our most important abilities and liberties. We share the road but decide for ourselves which way to go. We are bound by laws but free to exercise our skill and judgement. We take risks and responsibility, and trust others to do the same. Forced to put other cares aside and attend to the here and now, many of us take great pleasure from it. Who doesn't get a certain thrill from the open road? And yet automation and driverless technologies are set to relieve us of this apparent burden, providing us with more screen- time (and them with more data). All in the name of safety, convenience and progress, of course. Drawing on reportage, science, philosophy and memoir, Matthew Crawford exposes the colonisation of our lives by invisible bureaucracy and surveillance technology, and speaks up for the endangered values of rivalry and play, solidarity and dissent, democracy and joy. As well as the importance of occasionally being scared shitless. To ask why we drive is really to ask ‘what drives us?’ Wry, humane and occasionally hilarious, Why We Drive answers this question with a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit. Matthew Crawford is the author of The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad For Us and Fixing Things Feels Good and The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction, which have been translated around the world. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Independent, July 2020 Wall Street Journal as well as numerous magazines and journals. 9781847925114 Matthew is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for £20.00 : Hardback Advanced Studies in Culture, lectures internationally and runs a 368 pages motorcyle repair shop. The Cubans Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times Anthony DePalma A revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the world. Famed for its equality and good health, sunshine and beauty, many celebrate Cuba, one of the world’s five remaining Communist countries, for bravely holding out against the rampant capitalism of the West. But after six decades of socialist state control, the Cubans themselves now tell a different story. Still the government decides what work you can do and where you live. Food is rationed, milk and eggs are often scarce and basic medicines unavailable. Buildings collapse and rubbish goes uncollected. Millions break the law every day to run small businesses or simply to get by. In the desperate 1990s, after Soviet support for Cuba’s economy disappeared, people resorted to making steaks from grapefruit rinds and hair dye from old batteries. Those who attempt to cross the ninety miles of ocean to Florida have at times been imprisoned, tortured and even killed. And yet even after the death of Fidel Castro in 2016, with no free press to report such crimes or galvanise opposition, the regime shows few signs of loosening its grip. In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families – some whose loyalty to the system led to great personal reward but ultimately disillusionment, others turned against it by tragedy – to lay their complex reality bare. Through their extraordinary journeys, from Castro’s heyday, through the devastation of post-Soviet collapse, to the false dawn and retrenchment of recent years, we see how the revolution that once July 2020 inspired its people has tested their faith, and we witness the daily 9781847925152 acts of heroism and the endlessly adaptive resilience of a people £20.00 : Hardback determined to survive. 400 pages Anthony DePalma is the author of City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance and 9/11, The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. He was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times focusing on Latin America for twenty-two years, and continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications. Science Fictions The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science Stuart Ritchie Science Fictions exposes a worrying fact: much of the science that underpins expert advice on health, parenting, economics and more is unverifiable or plain wrong. Medical prescriptions, dietary advice, political claims, legal rulings, children’s education, road safety, environmental conservation: so much depends on published science being reliable and true. But while the scientific method will always be our best and only way of knowing about the world, in reality the current system not only fails to safeguard against scientists’ inescapable flaws and foibles, it actively encourages bad science - with sometimes deadly consequences. Stuart Ritchie was among the first people to expose these problems, sparking what became known as the ‘replication crisis’. In this vital investigation, he presents their full and shocking extent: rampant incompetence, pervasive fraud and methods of funding and publication that actively promote bias and exaggeration. From papers that claimed the existence of psychic powers to widely accepted advice about ‘priming’ and ‘growth mindset’, we can trace their effects in austerity economics, the anti-vaccination movement and dozens of bestselling books – and occasionally count the cost in human lives. Both witty and deadly serious, Science Fictions is at the vanguard of a new scientific movement: one that aims to save, reform and protect this most valuable and important of human endeavours. Dr Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and winner of July 2020 the 2015 ‘Rising Star’ award from the Association for Psychological 9781847925657 Science. He has published numerous scientific papers in prestigious, £18.99 : Hardback peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National 368 pages Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Neuroscience and Current Biology as well as articles for the Spectator, Washington Post, Wired and Aeon. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes The Infinite Monkey Cage, More or Less and Bringing Up Britain. His Twitter account is @StuartJRitchie. Clean The New Science of Skin and the Beauty of Doing Less James Hamblin Clean reveals the harm that excessive soap, washing and skin- care products are doing to our health and environment – and introduces a new way to think about cleanliness. Every time you wash, you are harming your skin’s natural ecology and defences. Hygiene prevents the spread of disease and saves countless lives. But in recent decades, rather than safeguarding us from illness, an obsession with ‘cleanliness’ seems to have been having the opposite effect. As we are now starting to realise, our overuse of soap, sanitizers and untested, misleading skin-care products is doing untold damage to our skin’s vital microbial layer, which influences everything from acne, eczema and dry skin to how we smell. Not only might our obsession with soap-based cleanliness be exacerbating or even causing many of the skin conditions we seek to remedy or avoid, it may even be weaking our immune defences and increasing our vulnerability to allergies. Lucid, accessible, and deeply researched, Clean explains how we got here – thanks to the concerted efforts of the multi-billion-dollar cosmetics industry – and introduces us to the emerging science that will be at the forefront of health and wellness conversations in coming years. The new goal of skin care will be to cultivate a healthy biome and to embrace a natural approach to being clean that is cheaper, simpler and better both for our health and the James Hamblin is a doctor and holds a masters in Preventive August 2020 Medicine from Yale University. He is a staff writer at The Atlantic, a 9781847925558 lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health and a specialist in £16.99 : Hardback preventive medicine. He is the author of If Our Bodies Could Talk 288 pages and hosted a video series of the same name. His Twitter account is @jameshamblin. He only uses soap on his hands.