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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. Himalaya A Human History Ed Douglas

This is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world’s highest mountains.

Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment at the ‘roof of the world’.

From all around the globe, the unique and astonishing geography of the Himalaya has attracted those in search of spiritual and literal elevation: pilgrims, adventurers and mountaineers seeking to test themselves among the world’s most spectacular and challenging peaks. But far from being wild and barren, the Himalaya has throughout the ages been home to an astonishing diversity of indigenous and local cultures, as well as a crossroads for trade, and a meeting point and conflict zone for the world’s superpowers. Here Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans employed Nepali craftsmen, Armenian merchants exchanged musk and gold with Mughals. Here too the East India Company grappled for dominance with China’s emperors, independent India has been locked in conflict with Mao’s Communists and their successors, and the ideological confrontation of the Cold War is now being buried beneath mass tourism and ecological transformation.

Featuring scholars and tyrants, bandits and CIA agents, go-betweens and revolutionaries, Himalaya is a panoramic, character-driven history on the grandest but also the most human scale, by far the most comprehensive yet written, encompassing geology and genetics, August 2020 botany and art, and bursting with stories of courage and 9781847924131 resourcefulness. £25.00 : Hardback 560 pages Ed Douglas has been travelling in the Himalaya as a mountaineer 2x8pp colour plates and journalist for over twenty years. He has met two of the last three kings of Nepal, spent a month living with a platoon of Maoist rebels during that country’s civil war and has interviewed the Dalai Lama, as well as dissidents and activists both inside and outside Tibet. As well as reporting from across the region for the Guardian, Observer, National Geographic and New Scientist, he has contributed to several documentaries and is the author of several books about the Himalaya, including a biography of Tenzing Norgay, the first man to climb Everest with Edmund Hillary, and a travelogue about change on the world's highest mountain. Another Now Dispatches from an Alternative Present Yanis Varoufakis

What would a fair and equal society look like?

Imagine it is now 2025 and that years earlier, in the wake of the world financial crisis of 2008, a new post-Capitalist society had been born. In this ingenious book, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis draws on the greatest thinkers in European culture from Plato to Marx to offer us a dramatic and tantalising glimpse of this brave new world, where the principles of democracy, equality and justice are truly served.

But in setting out what would be needed to forge such a society, he identifies a painful but important truth: that the greatest obstacles to making such a vision a reality lie within each of us.

This book offers answers to some of the most pressing questions of today. It also challenges us to consider how we might answer them in our lives.

**A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ IN 2020**

Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece and the author of a memoir, Adults in the Room, and a history, And the Weak Suffer What They Must?, which reveal and explain the catastrophic mishandling of Europe since the financial crisis. Both were number one bestsellers. His latest bestseller is Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism. Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before he entered government and is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. Since resigning from Greece's finance ministry he has co-founded an international September 2020 grassroots movement, DiEM25, campaigning for the revival of 9781847925633 democracy in Europe and speaks to audiences of thousands £18.99 : Hardback worldwide. 224 pages yanisvaroufakis.eu / @yanisvaroufakis Left Out The Inside Story of Labour Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire

A blistering narrative exposé of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party

Left Out by Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire draws on exceptional access throughout the Labour party and Corbyn’s inner circle to reveal in full and for the first time the extraordinary story of Labour’s tumultuous transformation in the last three years.

A gripping narrative account of the party’s journey from Corbyn’s zenith, immediately after the general election of 2017, to its humbling at the election of 2019 and a new leadership contest, it will reveal a party riven by infighting, factionalism and crisis. By turns shocking, farcical and tragic, it will be essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand one of the most remarkable periods in the history of the British Left.

As well as an authoritative account of the war within Labour over its Brexit policy and whether to back the calling of a general election, it will shed dramatic new light on what was happening behind the scenes during the antisemitism scandal and the formation of the break-away Independent Group, as well as the plots, failed coups and secret negotiations that were taking place throughout the 2019 general election campaign itself. Ultimately, it will help explain Labour’s collapse at the polls and reveal a party that has fundamentally shifted on its axis, with profound implications for its long-term future.

Gabriel Pogrund (Author) Gabriel Pogrund is a political correspondent for The Sunday Times. He was 2018 Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post, and 2017 September 2020 Young Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards. 9781847926456 £18.99 : Hardback Patrick Maguire (Author) 304 pages Patrick Maguire is the New Statesman’s political correspondent. He previously worked in Westminster for The Times and the Observer, and won the 2016 Anthony Howard Award for young journalists. Chelsea Manning 2020 Memoir Chelsea Manning

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.

In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the United States Army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison.

In her as yet untitled memoir, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. She reveals her challenging childhood, her struggles as an adolescent, what led her to join the military, and the fierce pride she took in her work. We also learn the details of how and why she made the decision to send classified military documents to WikiLeaks.

This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of the digital age.

**CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2020, A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ IN 2020 AND ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN’S BEST BOOKS OF 2020**

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning is an American activist, whistleblower, politician and former United States Army soldier. October 2020 9781847925619 Her Twitter account is @xychelsea. £16.99 : Hardback 224 pages Go Big How To Fix Our World Ed Miliband

Twenty transformative solutions, inspired by the Reasons to be Cheerful podcast

Think of any problem that we face and there is already a solution out there. We just need to know where to look – and have the courage to think big.

All around the world, people are successfully putting into action ingenious ways to tackle everything from inequality and climate crisis to the challenges of housing, technology and demographic change.

In his award-winning podcast Reasons to Be Cheerful, Ed Miliband has captured the imagination of millions by investigating how these schemes came about and why they work. In Go Big, he shows that a different world is entirely possible and how to get there by combining the best and most ambitious of these solutions – on a large scale.

We stand at one of those rare moments in history when most people think big change is needed. The opportunity is immense if we can come together, and it is the solutions that will unite us. It’s time to Go Big.

Ed Miliband is the MP for Doncaster North and was Leader of the Labour Party from 2010 to 2015 and Climate Change Secretary from 2008 to 2010. In October 2017, Ed and his co-host Geoff Lloyd launched the Reasons to Be Cheerful podcast to explore the ideas, people and movements solving the biggest challenges facing society, through interviews with smart thinkers and inspiring campaigners from around the world. It has since had over 6 million downloads across a diverse listenership and was awarded Podcast of the Year by the October 2020 Broadcasting Press Guild in 2018. 9781847926241 £14.99 : Hardback 288 pages The Great British Biscuit Lizzie Collingham

Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps. Which is your favourite?

British people eat more biscuits than any other nation; they are as embedded in our culture as fish and chips or the Sunday roast. But biscuits are not only tasty treats to go with a cup of tea, the sustenance they afford is often emotional, evoking nostalgic memories of childhood.

Lizzie Collingham begins in Roman times when biscuits – literally, ‘twice-baked’ bread – became the staple of the poor; she takes us to the Middle East, where the addition of sugar to the dough created the art of confectionery. Yet it was in Britain that bakers experimented to create the huge variety of biscuits which populate our world today. And when the Industrial Revolution led to their mass production, biscuits became integral to the British diet.

We follow the humble biscuit’s transformation from durable staple for sailors, explorers and colonists to sweet luxury for the middling classes to comfort food for an entire nation. Like an assorted tin of biscuits, this charming and beautifully illustrated book has something to offer for everyone, combining recipes for hardtack and macaroons, Shrewsbury biscuits and Garibaldis, with entertaining and eye-opening vignettes of social history.

Lizzie Collingham taught History at Warwick University and was a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge before becoming an independent historian. Her books include Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors and The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. She is currently an Associate Fellow of Warwick University and the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She recently completed a project researching the history of the kitchens of October 2020 the Indian President’s palace and regularly lectures on a gastronomic 9781847926128 tour of Kerala. She works in a garden shed near Cambridge. £18.99 : Hardback 304 pages The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain Ian Mortimer

In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller’s Guides – after the Middle Ages, Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain – Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency (aka Georgian England). Bookended by the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the death of George IV in 1830, this is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain’s military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; and the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre.

A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic and political change; it was dominated by population growth, urbanisation and industrialisation, fear of social unrest and demands for political reform. And like all periods in history, it was an age of many contradictions – where Beethoven’s thundering Fifth Symphony could premier in the same year that saw Jane Austen craft the delicate sensitivities of Persuasion.

Once more, Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sounds and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral – the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time November 2020 Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller’s Guide to 9781847924568 Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval £20.00 : Hardback biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in 360 pages date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor. The Janus Point A New Theory of Time Julian Barbour

What is time? Why is the past so different from the present and the future?

This simple question is in fact one of the deepest, most longstanding problems in physics. None of the known laws of the universe can explain it. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour presents a bold new thesis and a possible solution, with radical implications for our understanding of the Big Bang and the nature of time itself.

His argument rests on two vital insights. The first is that the most common explanation for time – entropy – is flawed: firstly, because we have no way of explaining how the concentration of energy that would allow the Big Bang to take place came about, and secondly because none of our understanding of entropy takes into account the fact that the universe is infinitely expanding. In addition, our universe is actually becoming ever more complex and ordered as it expands, not less so. The second is a phenomenon which Barbour labels ‘The Janus Point’: any system of particles in motion will pass through a single moment of smallest size, never to be repeated.

Combining these two observations, Barbour argues that the universe, and therefore time itself, may not have begun at the Big Bang, but rather at The Janus Point, thus solving the conundrum of entropy.

Monumental in vision and scope, The Janus Point offers a groundbreaking challenge to our understanding of the universe and a brilliant solution of breath-taking elegance and import to this most fundamental of problems.

Julian Barbour has been a Visiting Professor in Physics at the November 2020 University of Oxford since 2008. He is the author of two books, The 9781847924728 Discovery of Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2000) and The End of £20.00 Time (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999). He is featured on national UK C/Wealth ex Can : Hardback radio and TV, including BBC documentaries, regularly. He has 344 pages appeared along with Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose in the widely acclaimed Reality on the Rocks on Channel 4 in the UK. Ten Tips for Surviving a Black Hole Janna Levin

What would happen if you fell into a Black Hole?

Black Holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions.

Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contain nothing at all. They are bigger on the inside than the outside suggests. They are dark on the outside but not on the inside. They invert time into space and space into time.

Black Holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our sun. Our solar system is currently orbiting a Black Hole 26,000 light years away at a speed of 200 km per second.

In Ten Tips for Surviving a Black Hole physicist and novelist Janna Levin takes you on a journey inside a black hole, explaining what would happen to you in there and why. In the process you’ll come to see how their mysteries contain answers to some of the most profound questions ever asked about the nature of our universe.

Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University and Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, a centre for art and innovation in Brooklyn. She has contributed to the understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions and gravitational waves. She was the first scientist- in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford University with an award from NESTA, and was a Guggenheim fellow. Her previous books are How the Universe Got Its Spots, a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, which won the PEN/Bingham prize, and Black Hole Blues, the first book to describe the detection of gravitational waves in 2016. She has also appeared at TED and November 2020 contributes to numerous radio and television programmes. 9781847926166 £12.99 : Hardback 192 pages The Interest How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery Michael Taylor

For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation – but no longer.

In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained in slavery. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful ‘West India Interest’. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment – including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator – the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders. Worth £340 billion in today’s money, this was the largest pay-out in British history before the banking rescue package of 2008, incurring a national debt that was only repaid in 2015 and entrenching the power of slaveholders and their families to shape modern Britain.

Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and groundbreaking history shows that the triumph of abolition was also one of the darkest episodes in British history, revealing the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit.

Michael Taylor is an historian of colonial slavery, the British Empire and the British Isles. He graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD – and also won November 2020 University Challenge. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British 9781847925718 History at Balliol College, Oxford, and he is currently a Visiting Fellow £20.00 : Hardback at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies. 448 pages 8pp colour inset 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 tJONATHANhorpe CAPEthuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA Sisters Daisy Johnson

The electrifying new novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under.

‘A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller whose tension ratchets up and up to an ending of extraordinary lyricism and virtuosity’ Observer, Fiction to Watch Out For in 2020

Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September.

Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of its own. Noises come from behind the walls. Lights flicker of their own accord. Sleep feels impossible, dreams are endless.

In their new, unsettling surroundings, July finds that the fierce bond she’s always had with September – forged with a blood promise when they were children – is beginning to change in ways she cannot understand.

Taut, transfixing and profoundly moving, Sisters explodes with the fury and joy of adolescence. It is a story of sibling love and sibling envy to rival Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. With Sisters, Daisy Johnson confirms her standing among the most inventive and exciting young writers at work today.

** A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ IN 2020**

Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel July 2020 Everything Under. She is the winner of the Harper's Bazaar Short Story 9781787331624 Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She £14.99 : Hardback currently lives in Oxford by the river. 192 pages The Hungover Games Sophie Heawood

What happens when you have an accidental baby on your own in your mid-thirties?

The Hungover Games is the true story of one woman’s adventures in single-motherhood. It’s about what happens when Mr Right isn’t around, so you have a baby with Mr Wrong, a musician who tells you, halfway through your pregnancy, that he’s met someone else – just after you’ve given up your LA life and moved back to England to be with him, so you’re now six months up the duff and sleeping on a friend’s sofa in an art studio in Dalston.

It’s about what it’s like raising a baby on your own when you feel more at home on the dance floor than in the kitchen. It’s about how to invent the concept of a two-person family, when you grew up in a traditional nuclear unit, and your kid’s friends all have happily married parents too, and you are definitely not, in any way, ticking off the days until all those lovely couples get divorced.

Brilliantly funny, unflinchingly honest and emotionally raw, The Hungover Games is the true story of what happens if you’ve been looking for love your whole life and you finally find it where you least expect it.

‘Unflinching yet comic’ Cosmopolitan

**AN EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BEST BOOK OF 2020**

**AN OBSERVER NON-FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2020**

Sophie Heawood grew up in Yorkshire. She has since lived in July 2020 Barcelona, working as an au pair, in Hong Kong, working as an extra 9781787330511 in Chinese soap operas, and in Los Angeles, where she interviewed £14.99 : Hardback the famous and wrote columns on modern life. She now lives in 272 pages Hackney, East London, with her daughter. She has written for many publications including The Times, Guardian, Observer and Vogue. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union A Memoir and a Reckoning Alex Halberstadt

Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a cycle of estrangement that had endured for nearly a century.

His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather - most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin - to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. He returns to Lithuania, his Jewish mother’s home, to revisit the legacy of the Holocaust and the pernicious anti- Semitism that remains largely unaccounted for, learning that the boundary between history and biography is often fragile and indistinct. And he visits his birthplace, Moscow, where his glamorous grandmother designed homespun couture for Soviet ministers’ wives, his mother dosed dissidents at a psychiatric hospital, and his father made a living by selling black-market jazz and rock records.

Finally, Halberstadt explores his own story: that of a fatherless immigrant who arrived in America, to a housing project in Queens, New York, as a ten-year-old boy struggling with identity, feelings of rootlessness and a yearning for home. He comes to learn that he was merely the latest in a lineage of sons who grew up alone, separated from their fathers by the tides of politics and history.

As Halberstadt revisits the sites of his family’s formative traumas, he uncovers a multigenerational transmission of fear, suspicion, melancholy, and rage. And he comes to realize something more: nations, like people, possess formative traumas that penetrate into the most private recesses of their citizens’ lives. August 2020 9780224084918 Alex Halberstadt is the author of the award-winning Lonely Avenue: £14.99 : Trade Paperback The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. His writing has appeared in 320 pages The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, GQ and The Paris Review. He is a two-time James Beard Award nominee and a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He works and lives in New York. The Candlelight Master Michael Longley

‘I can’t bear the thought of a world without Michael Longley, yet his poetry keeps hurtling towards that fact more and more urgently as it stretches in an unflinching way beyond comfort or certainty.’ So wrote Maria Johnston, reviewing Longley’s previous book Angel Hill. Yet The Candlelight Master does not only face into shadows. The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection, named after a mysterious Baroque painter. Other poems about painters – Matisse, Bonnard – imply that age makes the quest for artistic perfection all the more vital. A poem addressed to the eighth-century Japanese poet, Otomo Yakamochi, says: ‘We gaze on our soul-landscapes / More intensely with every year.’ The soul-landscape of The Candlelight Master is often a landscape of memory. But if Longley looks back over formative experiences, and over the forms he has given them, he channels memory into freshly fluid structures. His new poems about war and the Holocaust speak to our own dark times. Translation brings dead poets up to date too. The bawdy of Catullus becomes Scots ‘Hochmagandy’. Yakamochi and the lyric poets of Ancient Greece find themselves at home in Longley’s Carrigskeewaun.

Michael Longley has received many awards, among them the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the Griffin International Prize. His Collected Poems was published in 2006, and Sidelines: Selected Prose in 2017. In 2001 Longley received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and in 2003 the Wilfred Owen Award. He was appointed a CBE in 2010, and from 2007 to 2010 was Ireland Professor of Poetry. In 2017 he received the PEN Pinter Prize, and in 2018 the inaugural Yakamochi Medal. In 2015 he was made a Freeman of the City of Belfast, where he and his wife the critic Edna Longley live and work. August 2020 9781787332034 £10.00 : Trade Paperback 80 pages Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald

Animals don’t exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.

Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. There are essays here on headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.

Vesper Flights is a book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make the world around us. Moving and frank, personal and political, it confirms Helen Macdonald as one of this century’s greatest nature writers.

**CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2020 AND A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ IN 2020**

Helen Macdonald is a writer, poet, illustrator and historian. Her book H is for Hawk won many prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Book of the Year, the Prix due Meilleur Livre Etranger in France, and in the US was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She writes a regular column in New York Times Magazine, and lives in Suffolk.

August 2020 9780224097017 £16.99 : Hardback 272 pages Metropolis A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention Ben Wilson

A dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind’s greatest invention: the city.

From its earliest incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these world- changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben Wilson’s book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key metropolises of history, from Urk, Athens, Alexandria and Rome, to Baghdad, Lübeck and Venice, to Lisbon, Amsterdam, London, Paris, New York, LA, Shanghai and Lagos.

Managing and re-imagining the city is already one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first century. With over half the world’s population now living in cities, and with the cosmopolitanism of the major world metropolises under attack from revived nationalism and hostility to globalisation, it has never been more important to understand cities and the role they have played in making us who we are.

Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis combines scholarship and storytelling in a terrifically engaging, stylishly written history of the world through an urban lens.

Ben Wilson is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including What Price Liberty?, for which he received the Somerset Maugham Award; the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Deep; and, most recently, Heyday: The Dawn of the Global Age. Born in London in 1980, September 2020 he has worked in television, broadcast on the radio in several 9781787330436 countries, and writes regularly for publications such as The Times, Daily £25.00 : Hardback Telegraph and Prospect. He lives in Suffolk, UK. 448 pages Inmates Sean Borodale

The poems of Inmates stage encounters with insects at sites and moments of their refuge, torpor, hatching or fighting, of traversing a floor in the night or climbing a wall, of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer, with whom they are sharing time, as fellow inmates.

There is an urgency to these poems, emerging from the instant of their writing, and the close attention Borodale brings to his observation of the natural world results in poems of real intensity. Inmates is an attempt to co-exist with the natural world – examining it, intimately, at the edge of language itself, where the human voice begins to break apart.

Sean Borodale was born in London and works as a poet and artist. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the 2012 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the Costa Poetry Book Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2014 he was selected as one of twenty Next Generation Poets. He currently teaches Creative Writing at Royal Holloway.

September 2020 9781787331792 £10.00 : Trade Paperback 80 pages Inside Story How to Write Martin Amis

This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers – a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic.

His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis’ extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. This novel had its birth in a death – that of the author’s closest friend, Christopher Hitchens. We also encounter the vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis, from his father Kingsley, to his hero Saul Bellow, from Philip Larkin to Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard, and to the person who captivated his twenties, the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps. What begins as a thrilling tale of romantic entanglements, family and friendship, evolves into a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die? In his search for answers, Amis surveys the great horrors of the twentieth century, and the still unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first – and what all this has taught him about how to be a writer. The result is one of Amis’ greatest achievements: a love letter to life that is at once exuberant, meditative, heartbreaking and ebullient, to be savoured and cherished for many years to come.

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. He lives in New York.

September 2020 9781787332751 £20.00 : Hardback 560 pages Dirt Bill Buford

From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat – a hilarious, highly obsessive account of the author’s adventures in the world of French haute cuisine.

Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, but convinced that he can master the art of French cooking – or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered – he begins what becomes a five-year odyssey by shadowing an esteemed French chef in Washington, DC. But when Buford quickly realizes that a stage in France is necessary, he moves – with his wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow – to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France.

Studying at L’Institut Bocuse, cooking at the storied, Michelin-starred La Mère Brazier, enduring the endless hours and exacting rigeur of the kitchen, Buford becomes a man obsessed – with proving himself on the line, proving that he is worthy of the gastronomic secrets he's learning, proving that French cooking actually derives from (mon dieu!) the Italian. With his signature humour, sense of adventure and masterly ability to immerse himself – and us – in his surroundings, Bill Buford has written what is sure to be the food lover’s book of the year.

Bill Buford has been a writer and editor for the New Yorker since 1995. Before that he was the editor of Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He is also the author of Among the Thugs. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up in California, and was educated at UC Berkeley and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons. October 2020 9780224071857 £16.99 : Hardback 432 pages Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Heather Clark

The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath.

Determined not to read Plath’s work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath’s scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid- twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia’s world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English.

Clark’s clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath’s suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first- rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark’s meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

Heather Clark earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. She is the author of two award-winning books on post-war poetry, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972. She divides her time between Chappaqua, New York, and Yorkshire, England, where she is October 2020 Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield. 9781787332539 £25.00 : Hardback 992 pages Gigantic Cinema Writing About Weather Edited by Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan

‘It is in very truth a sunny, misty, cloudy, dazzling, howling, omniform Day...’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Sotheby, 27 September 1802

This anthology of poems and prose ranges from literary weather – Homer’s winds, Ovid’s flood – to scientific reportage, whether Pliny on the eruption of Vesuvius or Victorian theories of the death of the sun. It includes imaginary as well as actual responses to what is transitory, and reactions both formal and fleeting – weather rhymes, journals and jottings, diaries and letters – to the drama unfolding above our heads.

The entries narrate the weather of a single capricious day, from dawn, through rain, volcanic ash, nuclear dust, snow, light, fog, noon, eclipse, hurricane, flood, dusk, night and back to dawn again. Rather than drawing attention to authors and titles, entries appear bareheaded, exposed to each other’s elements, as a medley of voices. Rather than adding to our image of nature as a suffering solid, the anthology attends to patterns, events and forces: seasonal and endless, invisible, ephemeral, sudden, catastrophic. And by assembling a chorus of responses (ancient and modern, East and West) to air’s manifold appearances, Gigantic Cinema offers a new perspective on what is the oldest conversation of all.

Alice Oswald’s poetry collections include Dart, which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize, Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize), A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize), Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award), Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing), Falling Awake, which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry and Nobody (2019). She is currently the Oxford University October 2020 Professor of Poetry. 9781787332652 £15.00 : Trade Paperback Paul Keegan has been Penguin Classics Editor and Poetry Editor at 256 pages Faber and Faber. His edited collections include The Penguin Book of English Verse and Collected Poems of Ted Hughes. Queens of the Crusades Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors Alison Weir

Queens of the Crusades covers the period 1154 to 1291 and tells the story of the first five Plantagenet queens: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Margaret of France, Berengaria of Navarre, Isabella of Angouleme and Eleanor of Provence.

This was a dramatic period in English history that saw the dawn of the age of chivalry and the birth of parliament. Wars, crusades, family feuds, treachery, murder, betrayal, extravagance and the interplay between powerful rivals form the backbone of this book. Alison Weir portrays one of the most tempestuous of royal marriages, another that dramatically failed, a third into which the bride was forced, and two love matches. Forget romantic Victorian notions of the queens of England, these women were feisty, pro-active and determined players on a world stage. Beyond the traditional accounts of the lives of these Plantagenet queens consort lies a somewhat different tale.

Alison Weir is one of Britain’s top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York and, most recently, The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces. She is married with two adult children and lives and works in Surrey.

November 2020 9781910702093 £25.00 : Hardback 544 pages 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 tCHATTOhorpe & WINDUSthuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA Break a Leg A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre Jenny Landreth

A joyful celebration of amateur theatre

This is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain. In a triumphant mix of memoir, social history, interviews and manifesto, Jenny Landreth opens our eyes to am-dram and shows us a vibrant world that is a crucial part of our culture.

Starting with the Mystery Plays of the Middle Ages, we move, via Shakespeare, to the Georgian aristocrats who built opulent private theatres in their own homes, then to the halcyon days of radical lefties taking political theatre to the streets, and on to the present day. Along the way, we visit several thriving theatres – across the country, and beyond our shores – and meet a cast of characters who tell us about the joy amateur theatre brings them. And we follow the full arc of a production at the Midlands theatre where Jenny's parents met and she started out, from first auditions to last night party, with all the mishaps and forgotten lines that come in between.

In Britain today there are millions of people involved, and amateur theatre takes many forms, from classic productions to panto, but also cutting-edge new work. Without it, there would be no professional theatre, no Judi Dench or Kenneth Branagh or Brenda Blethyn. Break a Leg is an emphatic celebration. It is also a rallying cry, a call to appreciate how amateur theatre enriches communities and many people’s lives – and how, if you join in, it might just do the same for you.

Jenny Landreth is a script writer and editor. She has written for all July 2020 sorts of publications, and was the main contributor to the Guardian's 9781784742751 weekly swimming blog. Her last book, Swell: A Waterbiography, was £14.99 : Hardback shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and was a 320 pages Sunday Times Book of the Year. Jenny comes from a family of devoted am dram fanatics, and lives in London. The Good Sharps The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World Hester Grant

The story of an eighteenth-century family and their extraordinary achievements.

Four brothers, three sisters. From a genteel, religious childhood in the north-east of England, the family would become known in London and across the country as ‘The Good Sharps’. In 1781, the celebrated painter Johan Zoffany made the final strokes on the luminous portrait that attested to their rise, and to their remarkable unity and passion for life.

Ambitious, free-thinking and courageous, the Sharps were pioneers in the major movements that defined the eighteenth century – from politics and philanthropy to medicine and industry. John, an eminent priest and scholar, established a model welfare state and commissioned the world’s first lifeboat; William became surgeon to George III; and James, a visionary engineer, transformed the transport network and agricultural practices. Most famously of all, Granville, the youngest son, battled tirelessly as Britain’s leading campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade. Despite the social strictures of their day, Elizabeth, Judith and Frances claimed significant independence and played key roles in the family’s musical concerts and famed boating parties.

In this vivid, moving biography, Hester Grant charts the siblings’ shared journey to prominence, and explores the values and enduring bonds that inspired their success. The Good Sharps brings to life not just the family who realised that the future could be different, but the new world that they created. July 2020 9781784742133 Hester Grant studied modern history at Christ Church, Oxford, where £20.00 : Hardback she was awarded the J. L. Field Exhibition and the Keith Feiling 384 pages History Prize. She subsequently trained and practised as a barrister. Hester gave up her legal career to bring up her three children, and to pursue her great loves of writing and eighteenth-century British history. Her fascination with the Sharps began when she saw their portrait at the 2012 Johan Zoffany exhibition at the Royal Academy. Stranger in the Shogun's City A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Amy Stanley

A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change

The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces – and with a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval – she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak.

With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just before the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet, which would open Japan up to trade and diplomacy with the West for the first time. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai and eventually ends up in the service of a famous city magistrate. An extraordinary woman at an extraordinary time, Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture – and a rare view of a woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, despite social conventions.

Immersive and gripping, Stranger in the Shogun’s City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered in beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city and a culture.

Amy Stanley received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. During her graduate training, July 2020 she spent years studying in Japan at Kansai University (Osaka) and 9781784742300 Waseda University (Tokyo). She is now an associate professor of £16.99 : Hardback History at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, but Tokyo will 352 pages always be her favourite city in the world. Antiemetic for Homesickness Romalyn Ante

Born on the fiesta of San Sebastian in her hometown of Lipa Batangas, Romalyn Ante left the Philippines at 16, when her mother – a nurse in the NHS – brought the family to the UK. The poems in her debut collection, Antiemetic for Homesickness, are a bridge between these two worlds: lush with the smells and tastes of home back in the Philippines, they piercingly explore notions of identity, homeland and heritage across cultures, languages and the place one calls home.

Soaked in a rich landscape of memory, Philippine mythology, and folklore, and studded with Tagalog, her poems speak of the ache of assimilation and the complexities of belonging, but also the healing and restoration that can be found through her work as a nurse.

From a talented young poet already garnering prizes and praise, this is a debut alive with vitality and possibility, a feast for the senses, and one that offers a dazzlingly unique perspective on identity in an ever-expanding world.

Romalyn Ante was born in 1989 on the fiesta of San Sebastian in her hometown of Lipa Batangas, Philippines. She left the Philippines at 16, when her mother, a nurse in the NHS, brought the whole family to the UK. Romalyn Ante currently lives in Wolverhampton, West Midlands where she works as a CAMHS Nurse Practitioner.

Her debut pamphlet, Rice & Rain (V. Press) won the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet 2018. She also won the Poetry London Clore Prize 2018, joint-won the Manchester Poetry Prize 2017, and was awarded Platinum Poetry in Creative Future Literary Awards 2017. She is a fellow of the 57th Silliman University National Writers Workshop in the Philippines. Antiemetic for Homesickness will be her first full collection. July 2020 9781784743000 £10.00 : Trade Paperback 80 pages The Last Migration Charlotte McConaghy

‘An extraordinary novel… as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I’ve ever read’ Emily St. John Mandel

A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.

How far would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica.

As animal populations plummet and commercial fishing faces prohibition, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore and safety, the dark secrets of Franny’s life begin to unspool. A daughter’s yearning search for her mother. An impulsive, passionate marriage. A shocking crime. Haunted by love and violence, Franny must confront what she is really running towards – and from.

The Last Migration is a wild, gripping and deeply moving novel from a brilliant young writer. From the west coast of Ireland to Australia and remote Greenland, through crashing Atlantic swells to the bottom of the world, this is an ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened, and an epic story of the possibility of hope against all odds.

Charlotte McConaghy has been writing from a young age. She has both a Graduate Degree in Screenwriting and a Masters Degree in Screen Arts, and has worked in script development for film and television for several years.

Though she grew up in Australia, McConaghy has always felt a connection to the UK, where her ancestors emigrated from, and where August 2020 9781784743178 many of her relatives still live today. While roaming along the Irish £12.99 : Hardback coastline, seeking roots and family and watching the birds, the first 288 pages germ of an idea for The Last Migration was born. It wasn’t long before her passion for wildlife and her distress over the disastrous extinction crisis faced by the world today collided in the story of a woman’s pursuit of the world’s last birds. Designing Your Work Life How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

‘Life has questions. They have answers’ New York Times

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.

But how best to use those hours is one of our most challenging questions.

We all want to find meaning at work, but our managers can’t get it for us. And as companies work to be more nimble and shift according to changing markets, the workplace is increasingly unpredictable. It’s up to each of us to define and find our own happiness in this ever- moving landscape, which is rich with opportunity and possibility.

Designing Your Work Life helps you understand the politics and psychology of work and equips you with the ‘design thinking’ principles – the innovative methodology pioneered at Stanford that has been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley – to build a working life that works for you. Designers don't analyse, worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way forward.

Perfect for anyone hoping to improve their current job, aiming for a promotion or even switching career paths, as well as recent graduates thinking about their future, Designing Your Work Life is a deeply empowering read. Part business book, part inspirational and innovative self-help, this book will help you answer one of life’s most challenging questions.

Bill Burnett (Author) August 2020 Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at 9781784742805 Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has £14.99 : Trade Paperback worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging from award 304 pages -winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first ‘slate’ computer.

Dave Evans (Author) Dave Evans is the Co-Founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. Early in his career he worked for Apple, where he led the mouse-design team and introduced laser printing to the masses. He then helped found the pioneering interactive and game software developer Electronic Arts. Daddy Emma Cline

** An exceptionally impressive collection of stories from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girls, Emma Cline **

‘I don't know which is more amazing, Emma Cline's understanding of human beings or her mastery of language’ Mark Haddon

The stories in Cline’s first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past and present. A man travels to his son’s school to deal with the fallout of a violent attack and to make sure his son will not lose his college place. But what exactly has his son done? And who is to blame? A young woman trying to make it in LA, working in a clothes shop while taking acting classes, turns to a riskier way of making money but will be forced to confront the danger of the game she’s playing. And a family coming together for Christmas struggle to skate over the lingering darkness caused by the very ordinary brutality of a troubled husband and father.

Emma Cline’s outstanding stories explore masculinity, male power and broken relationships, while revealing – with astonishing insight and clarity – those moments of misunderstanding or miscommunication, when something can slip, or go off-kilter, that can have life-changing consequences. There is a simmering violence lurking, in the depiction of the complicated interactions between men and women. Subtle, sophisticated and displaying an extraordinary understanding of human behaviour, these stories are unforgettable.

Emma Cline is from California. Her first novel, The Girls, was a Sunday Times bestseller and the highest selling debut novel of 2016. It has been published in over 40 countries worldwide. In 2017 Emma was selected as a Granta Best Young American Novelist. September 2020 9781784743710 Her short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and the £14.99 : Hardback Paris Review, where she was awarded the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and have been selected for inclusion in the 2017 and 2018 Best 224 pages American Short Story anthologies. Her story ‘What Can You Do with a General’ was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award 2019. The Paper Chase The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Pamphleteers who Sought to Bring Down the Government Joseph Hone

An adventure story of politics, ideas, espionage and printing from the age of Queen Anne

The Paper Chase follows the apprenticeship, career and manhunt of David Edwards, a shady publisher who in 1705 printed a seditious pamphlet (The Memorial of the Church of England) that threatened to topple the government and was part of a much larger revolutionary campaign.

A mysterious “woman in a vizard mask” first delivered the manuscript to Edwards’ workshop in Nevil’s Alley and secrecy cloaked all of her dealings. When the anonymous pamphlet is published, it is the talk of Nando’s on Fleet Street and all of the coffeehouses where society gathered to discuss the ideas of the age. And when Edwards is suddenly nowhere to be found, his wife is imprisoned and the book is burnt at the stake in his place…

Secretary of State Robert Harley leads the investigation into the identity of the pamphlet’s author and an energetic chase ensues through the halls of power and the back alleys of London. Edwards switches allegiances and turns detective but the trail through this “time of scribbling” seems impossible to untangle and lives and livelihoods are under threat.

Full of original research, Joseph Hone shows us a nation in crisis through the fascinating story of a single incendiary document. September 2020 Dr Joseph Hone is a writer and academic based at Newcastle 9781784743062 University, where he researches and teaches the literature of the long £18.99 : Hardback eighteenth century. He previously studied and taught at the University 368 pages of Oxford, following which he was appointed to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Since 2014 he has held visiting fellowships at Harvard, Yale and the Institute of English Studies in London. His first book, Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne, explored the question of royal succession at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. He is currently preparing the early verse of Alexander Pope for a major new edition and writing a companion book about Pope’s rise to greatness, both for OUP. Medusa’s Ankles Selected Stories A S Byatt

Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A. S. Byatt’s short stories.

Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion will delight readers.

‘A cabinet of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful. Byatt is a vivid colourist’ Sunday Times ‘A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with ideas’ Spectator

‘These little stories by one of Britain’s foremost grandes dames of the writing world are a delightful surprise, packing a much greater punch than many full-length novels... They are moving, thought- provoking, witty and shocking all at once’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Antonia Byatt’s first collection of stories displays all her talent as a novelist, but spiced with additional friskiness... a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather than describe’ Penelope Lively, Evening Standard

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award. November 2020 9781784743765 £18.99 : Hardback 496 pages A Coup in Turkey Jeremy Seal

This is the story of the first of modern Turkey’s coups, which took place in 1960 and has proved the template, and often the inspiration, for the coups which have punctuated the national story ever since, including the failed one of July 2016. These defining events continue to fuel the ongoing feud which rages in a society riven between west and east, secularism and Islamic traditionalism, democracy and populist autocracy.

A dramatic account, told by a veteran of the Turkish scene, of the events leading up to that coup as well as the even more dramatic trials and executions which followed, the book includes reports from first-hand witnesses encountered in Istanbul, Ankara and elsewhere in Turkey, and unfolds against the backdrop of the author’s investigations which by chance took place in the months leading up to the attempted coup of 2016. It is a narrative rich in contemporary context, but also a powerful story of political subterfuge and score- settling, courtroom drama, state execution and ideological division.

It’s also about the importance in Turkey of the personality cult, with founder and liberator Ataturk pitted against Prime Minister Adnan Menderes – since his execution in 1961 a martyr in the eyes of many Turks and the man on whom the current autocrat, President Erdogan, likes to model himself. This is the book, then, that makes sense of the predicament in which Turkey finds herself today – torn between the western and secular ambitions of a minority elite and the religious and conservative instincts of the rural majority.

Jeremy Seal is a travel writer, teacher and broadcaster with a life-long fascination for Turkey. His first book, A Fez of the Heart, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. He is also the author of The Snakebite Survivors' Club, The Wreck at Sharpnose Point, and Santa: A Life, which was Radio 4's Book of the Week. His most November 2020 recent book is Meander: East to West Down a Turkish River. He has 9781784741754 written for the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Condé Nast Traveller, the £16.99 : Hardback Weekend Australian and the New York Times, among others. He lives in 288 pages Bath. Sybille Bedford Selina Hastings

The gripping life-story of writer Sybille Bedford’s extraordinary peripatetic life

Born in Germany to aristocratic parents, Sybille Bedford's (1911– 2006) life contained all the grand feeling and seismic event of the twentieth century: war and peace, love and trauma, friendship and death, as well as the need to write and rescue something from this wreckage. Openly gay, Bedford once said ‘I wish I’d written more books and spent less time being in love. It’s very difficult doing both at the same time.' In her forties she published her breakthrough novel, A Legacy, continuing to publish until her early nineties, writing some of the outstanding and most original novels, memoirs and travel books of the century.

Bedford’s father died when she was just fourteen and her mother, a great socialite and litterateur, fell victim to a debilitating morphine addiction. Striking out on her own, Bedford fell under the spell of Aldous Huxley, who was to become her friend and mentor. Staying with Aldous and his wife Maria in their sunlit villa in the south of France between the wars were some of the happiest and most enlivening years of Bedford’s life – even as she failed and failed again at finding her own voice on the page. And yet it was these years that would provide the material for Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education, widely considered to be her masterwork and which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.

A bon viveur, lover of French wine and cuisine, and admired by her peers (‘One of the most dazzling practitioners of English prose’ Bruce Chatwin once commented) she roamed from country to country – Germany, France, England, Italy and the United States – in search of fresh experience, with ear and eye attuned to her surroundings, typewriter at the ready. Full of intense friendships (Martha Gellhorn November 2020 and Elizabeth Jane Howard among them), a fierce commitment to the 9781784741136 craft of writing, as well as an insatiable appetite for love and sex, £20.00 : Hardback Sybille Bedford blazed her own path in her life and her art. 416 pages

Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist, biographer of Somerset Maugham, Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford and Rosamund Lehmann and, in The Red Earl, of her father.

She is the winner of the Marsh Biography Prize, the Spear's Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Award. Asleep and Awake John Fuller

An elegant collection of personal poems that celebrate a long creative life.

Here are lucid poems about childhood (‘In War Time’); about the author’s father, poet Roy Fuller (‘In Whose Head’); and about the author meeting his wife at Cambridge and building a life with her (‘Before We Met – and After’).

In the centre of Asleep and Awake, is a powerful sequence about the Gaza Siege, that is both immediate and urgent and reminds us again that the political is personal, and the personal is political.

John Fuller, born in Ashford, Kent, is an acclaimed poet and novelist. His collection Stones and Fires (1996) was awarded the Forward Prize; Ghosts (2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award for Poetry; The Space of Joy (2006) was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award, and The Grey Among the Green (1988), Song & Dance (2008) and Pebble & I (2010) were all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. His 1983 novel Flying to Nowhere, a historical fantasy, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was nominated for the Booker Prize. He has also written collections of short stories and several books for children. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

November 2020 9781784743659 £10.00 : Trade Paperback 80 pages Snakes and Ladders The great British social mobility myth Selina Todd

Politicians claim social mobility is real – a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.

From servants’ children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century. Drawing on hundreds of personal stories, Snakes and Ladders tells the hidden history of how people have really experienced that social mobility – both upwards and down.

It shows how a powerful elite on the top rungs have clung to their perch and prevented others ascending. It also introduces the unsung heroes who created more room at the top – among them adult educators, feminists and trade unionists, whose achievements unleashed the hidden talents of thousands of people.

As we face political crisis after crisis, Snakes and Ladders argues that only by creating greater opportunities for everyone to thrive can we ensure the survival of our society.

Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. She grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and was educated at Heaton Manor Comprehensive School and the Universities of Warwick and Sussex. She writes about class, inequality, working-class history, feminism and women’s lives in modern Britain. Her book The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class 1910–2010 was a Sunday Times bestseller and was described by the Observer as ‘A book we badly need’. Based on the voices of working-class people themselves, it charted the history of ordinary workers, housewives, children and pensioners over the turbulent twentieth century. November 2020 9781784740818 £25.00 : Hardback 464 pages Dearly Poems Margaret Atwood

The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet

By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged environment.

Before she became one of the world’s most important and loved novelists, Atwood was a poet. Dearly is her first collection in over a decade. It brings together many of her most recognisable and celebrated themes, but distilled – from minutely perfect descriptions of the natural world to startlingly witty encounters with aliens, from pressing political issues to myth and legend. It is a pure Atwood delight, and long-term readers and new fans alike will treasure its insight, empathy and humour.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. She established herself as a poet in the 1960s and has published sixteen books of poems, most recently The Door in 2007.

Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts in 2017, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the release of the award- winning Channel 4 TV series. Its sequel, The Testaments, was November 2020 published in 2019 and was a global number one bestseller and won 9781784743895 the Booker Prize. £14.99 : Hardback 144 pages Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada. 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 tHOGARTHhorpe thuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA The Glass Kingdom Lawrence Osborne

A tense, stunningly well-observed heist novel following an American woman on the run in the blazing heat of Bangkok, from ‘a modern Graham Greene’ (Sunday Times)

Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has gone to Bangkok to disappear. Arriving with a suitcase containing $200,000, she rents an apartment at The Kingdom, a high-end complex run by conveniently discreet staff, housing rich expatriates with similarly unknown pasts.

An innocent in the oppressive heat of the city and unaware of its codes and networks, Sarah is drawn into the orbit of three mysterious women who also live in The Kingdom: Ximena, the Chilean chef, creator of mouth-watering dishes for the well-heeled; Nat, the British hotelier with the curious husband and even more curious maid; and the alluring half-Thai Mali, who takes Sarah into her glittering world with all its shadow-play. They meet to play poker, drinking yadong and smoking hash late into the night, loosening talk of lovers and shady dealings in the city.

When Sarah witnesses something unspeakable through one of The Kingdom’s windows, she quickly becomes an accomplice and is pulled deeper into an unseen web of organised criminality. The question Sarah must now ask herself is: who can she trust? And as a coup looks to unseat the Thai government, everyone begins to flee the city, leaving Sarah alone with her conscience as the gunfire and wild dogs encroach into The Kingdom.

Born in England, Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven, The Ballad of a Small Player, Hunters in the Dark and Beautiful Animals. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays, including Bangkok Days, Paris Dreambook August 2020 9781781090787 and The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best £16.99 : Hardback American Short Stories 2012, and he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, the New Yorker, Forbes, Harper’s and 304 pages other publications. He lives in Bangkok. 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 tSQUAREhorpe PEG thuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA Eat A Peach A Memoir David Chang

‘David Chang writes about a chef’s life in a way that feels completely fresh. The recipes, including those from the ginger-scallion noodles and roasted pork belly served at Noodle Bar, are almost perks; this would be a great read even without them.’ The New York Times

In 2004, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant named Momofuku in Manhattan’s East Village, not expecting the business to survive its first year. In 2018, he was the owner and chef of his own restaurant empire, with 15 locations from New York to Australia, the star of his own hit Netflix show and podcast, was named one of the most influential people of the 21st century and had an online following of over 1.2 million. In this inspiring, honest and heartfelt memoir, Chang shares the extraordinary story of his culinary coming-of-age.

Growing up in Virginia, the son of Korean immigrant parents, Chang struggled with feelings of abandonment, isolation and loneliness throughout his childhood. After failing to find a job after graduating, he convinced his father to loan him money to open a restaurant. Momofuku’s unpretentious air and great-tasting simple staples – ramen bowls and pork buns – earned it rave reviews, culinary awards and before long, Chang had a cult following.

Momofuku’s popularity continued to grow with Chang opening new locations across the U.S. and beyond. In 2009, his Ko restaurant received two Michelin stars and Chang went on to open Milk Bar, Momofuku’s bakery. By 2012, he had become a restaurant mogul with the opening of the Momofuku building in Toronto, encompassing three restaurants and a bar.

Chang’s love of food and cooking remained a constant in his life, July 2020 despite the adversities he had to overcome. Over the course of his 9781529110340 career, the chef struggled with suicidal thoughts, depression and £20.00 : Hardback anxiety. He shied away from praise and begged not to be given 448 pages awards. In Eat a Peach, Chang opens up about his feelings of paranoia, self-doubt and pulls back the curtain on his struggles, failures and learned lessons. Deeply personal, honest and humble, Chang’s story is one of passion and tenacity against the odds.

David Chang is the chef and owner of the Momofuku empire, with 15 locations from New York to Australia, and the creator and producer of the hit Netflix series Ugly Delicious. Chang has been named a Food & Wine Best New Chef, a GQ Man of the Year, a Rolling Stone Agent of Change, and a Bon Appetit Chef of the Year. He has taken home five James Beard Awards, including Best New Restaurant (2009, Momofuku Ko) and Outstanding Chef (2013). His game-changing and New York Times bestselling cookbook, Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, 2009) has sold nearly 200,000 copies. Be More Keanu James King

The last few years have marked a ‘Keanaissance’. Keanu has inspired countless memes from as far back as 2010 when the internet shed a tear about ‘Sad Keanu’ sitting alone on a park bench eating a sandwich, and pronounced 15th June official ‘Cheer Up Keanu’ day. 2019 brought even more joy with a video of Keanu with puppies alongside other uplifting sightings.

In this illustrated black and white tillpoint gift and humour book Radio 2 film critic James King shows us what makes Keanu so special. Alongside quotes, jokes and illustrations, each chapter looks at different iterations of Keanu, for example, The Friend, The Pioneer, The Rockstar and The Guru. We get inside Keanu’s questing spirit: what friendship means in Bill and Ted; communing with nature in Point Break; and, in The Matrix, tearing through dimensionality itself.

And IRL Keanu’s a free spirit too. He travels without minders, he’s always doing random acts of kindness, he takes pay cuts to support his crew, and he actually respects women in Hollywood. Plus he’s never happier than when riding his motorbike through the desert thinking deep thoughts.

We would all do well to #BeMoreKeanu.

James King is a writer, broadcaster and film critic whose book about 1980s teen Hollywood, Fast Times & Excellent Adventures , was published in the UK and US in 2018. He is the resident movie reviewer on BBC Radio 2, having spent many years in the same position at Radio 1 (where he made documentaries on, among other things, The Matrix). He has met and interviewed Keanu Reeves on several occasions: twice in London, once in Berlin and once at the Cannes Film Festival. July 2020 9781529110326 £9.99 : Hardback 160 pages The Swallow A Biography Stephen Moss

From the bestselling author of The Robin, The Wren and The Twelve Birds of Christmas.

With around 5.3 million breeding pairs, the swallow is one of the most common birds in Britain. Known for living close to human settlements, including rural and urban areas, it is also one of the most-sighted. But how much do we really know about this bird?

In The Swallow Stephen Moss documents a year of observing the swallow close to home and in the field to shed light on the secret life of these extraordinary birds. We trace the swallow’s lifecycle and journey, from its arrival in the UK in spring to its epic winter migration to warmer climes, and how the swallow takes its place in popular culture and literature across the centuries.

With beautiful illustrations throughout, this captivating year-in-the-life biography reveals the hidden secrets of this iconic bird that lives right on our doorstep.

PRAISE FOR STEPHEN MOSS:

‘A superb naturalist and writer’ Chris Packham

‘Inspired, friendly and blessed with apparently limitless knowledge’ Peter Marren

‘Moss has carved out an enviable niche as a chronicler of the natural world’ Daily Mail October 2020 Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and broadcaster. In a 9781529110265 distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits £12.99 : Hardback included Springwatch , Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. His 208 pages books include The Wren, The Robin, Mrs Moreau’s Warbler and Wonderland. He is the President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Originally from London, he now lives with his wife and children on the Somerset Levels. Christmas Angels A Collection Rowan Dobson

With a unique perspective atop the tree, Christmas Angels are the ultimate observers of the festive period. They see us when we’re sleeping (4pm comatose in front of the telly), they know when we’re awake (4am in frenzied anticipation of The Big Day), they realize when family tensions are starting to resurface, and which gifts were bought in haste.

But like the snowflakes speckling our windows, each blessed angel is one of a kind; each has its own story of creation and arrival into every household. Some are antiques passed down through generations, others are homemade, some embody the spirit of Christmas, others could be more suited to Halloween.

Through this unusual collection of portraits, Christmas Angels showcases the variety of styles, stories and personalities embodied by our favourite Christmas companions.

Rowan Dobson is a long-time lover of Christmas. Fuelled by mince pies and mulled wine, she is all about the festivities. With the firm belief that every day should be the most wonderful time of the year, she has a vast collection of her own weird and wonderful angels.

November 2020 9781529110364 £8.99 : Hardback 128 pages The Queen Speaks Lady Leshurr

Lady Leshurr is a rapper with a difference. A woman, from Birmingham, she reigns in a male-dominated scene thanks to the strength of her talent and grit. Everything she has achieved, she has done it herself, so she says and does what she wants. Now she brings the attitude and integrity, humour and honesty that underpin her lyrics to a book. Her story includes frank conversation about anxiety, the secrets behind her musical and business success, social media and haters, and, of course, hair.

From her tough start on an estate in Birmingham to the top of the scene, Lady Leshurr has a unique vantage point and The Queen Speaks is as entertaining as it is relevant.

Lady Leshurr is a British rapper, producer and singer from Birmingham. Following her Queen's Speech freestyle series going viral in 2016, she won a MOBO for Best Female Act. Lady Leshurr has supported Nicki Minaj on tour and collaborated with the likes of Wiley, Mr Eazi, will.i.am and Krept and Konan.

November 2020 9781910931806 £14.99 : Hardback 256 pages 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 tHARVILLhorpe SECKER thuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA Dark Waters G.R. Halliday

The haunting new novel from G. R. Halliday, author of FROM THE SHADOWS, shortlisted for THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE

'DARK WATERS is dark and disturbing from page one - in the best possible way. The plot is intricate and layered, and peppered with revelations that will keep you reading into the night' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

THREE MISTAKES. TWO MURDERS. ONE MORE VICTIM TO GO . . .

Annabelle has come to the Scottish Highlands to escape. But as she speeds along a deserted mountain road, she is suddenly forced to swerve. The next thing she remembers is waking up in a dark, damp room. A voice from the corner of the room says ‘The Doctor will be here soon’.

Scott is camping alone in the Scottish woodlands when he hears a scream. He starts to run in fear of his life. Scott is never seen again.

Meanwhile DI Monica Kennedy has been called to her first Serious Crimes case in six months – a dismembered body has been discovered, abandoned in a dam. Days later, when another victim surfaces, Monica knows she is on the hunt for a ruthless killer.

But as she begins to close in on the murderer, her own dark past isn’t far behind …

Perfect for fans of James Oswald, Ann Cleeves and Val McDermid.

G.R. Halliday was born in Edinburgh and grew up near Stirling in Scotland. He spent his childhood obsessing over the unexplained mysteries his father investigated, which has proved excellent July 2020 inspiration for From the Shadows. The book was shortlisted for the 9781787301436 McIlvanney Debut Prize 2019. G.R. Halliday now lives in the rural £14.99 : Hardback Highlands outside of Inverness, where he is able to pursue his 384 pages favourite pastimes of mountain climbing and swimming in the sea, before returning home to his band of semi-feral cats. Dark Waters is his second novel. The Sandpit Nicholas Shakespeare

A sophisticated literary thriller in the vein of Le Carré and William Boyd involving the disappearance of a nuclear scientist in Oxford.

'A remarkable contemporary thriller – with shades of Graham Greene and Le Carré about it – but also a profound and compelling investigation of a hugely complex human predicament. Brilliantly observed, captivatingly written, grippingly narrated – a triumph' William Boyd

When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn't expect to find them both in danger. Every day is the same. He drops Leandro at his smart prep school and walks to the library to research his new book. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent in Rio is over.

But the rainy streets of this English city turn out to be just as treacherous as those he used to walk in the favelas. Leandro’s schoolmates are the children of influential people, among them an international banker, a Russian oligarch, an American CIA operative and a British spook. As they congregate round the sports field for the weekly football matches, the network of alliances and covert interests that spreads between these power brokers soon becomes clear to Dyer. But it is a chance conversation with an Iranian nuclear scientist, Rustum Marvar, father of a friend of Leandro, that sets him onto a truly precarious path.

When Marvar and his son disappear, several sinister factions seem acutely interested in Marvar’s groundbreaking research at the Clarendon Lab, and what he might have told Dyer about it, given Dyer was the last person to see Marvar alive.

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957. The son of a diplomat, much July 2020 of his youth was spent in the Far East and South America. His books 9781787301764 have been translated into twenty-two languages. They include The £16.99 : Hardback Vision of Elena Silves (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), 304 pages Snowleg, The Dancer Upstairs, Inheritance, Priscilla and Six Minutes in May. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Family Clause Jonas Hassen Khemiri

A tender, bruising novel of a family in crisis, The Family Clause reveals one of the real challenges in life: to not let your family circumstances define your destiny.

A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather, the proud patriarch, is perfect – at least, according to himself.

Over the course of ten intense days, their relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather is confronted by his past. The daughter is faced with an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. But the son is duty- bound to the father through a longstanding family agreement – the so-called father clause. Can this clause be renegotiated, or will it forever chain the family to its past?

Through a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri evokes an intimate portrait of a chaotic and perfectly normal family, deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.

Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Author) Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of five novels, six plays and a collection of plays, essays and short stories. Among his many honours are the August Prize, the highest literary award for Swedish literature; the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize; the Borås Tidning Award for Best Literary Debut Novel; and an Obie Award. His novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and his six plays have been performed by more than one hundred companies around the world. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden. July 2020 9781787301139 £14.99 : Hardback 320 pages Don't Turn Around Jessica Barry

A gut-wrenching, psychologically intense and fast-paced thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Perfect for fans of LISA GARDNER and CLARE MACKINTOSH.

'Barry writes with an eye for detail, an ear for voices, and a desire to show readers something about our world and those who inhabit it' Independent

Two strangers, Cait and Rebecca, are driving across America. Rebecca is trying to escape something. Cait doesn’t know what Rebecca has left behind her – she doesn’t ask any questions – her job is solely to transport women to safety. But the secrets Rebecca holds could put them both in danger.

Cait too has a past of her own – there’s a reason she chooses to spend time on the road, looking out for others. Because she knows what it’s like to be followed. As the two women travel across America, it quickly becomes clear someone is right behind them, watching their every move. The question is: who, and why?

Praise for Jessica Barry's LOOK FOR ME:

'Opens at full throttle and never lets up' Karin Slaughter

'A daring tightrope walk of a novel. Exhilarating, emotional' A. J. Finn

Jessica Barry is a pseudonym for an American author who has lived and worked in London for the past fifteen years. Look for Me (previously published as Freefall), her debut thriller, has sold in more than twenty-two territories around the world and has also secured a major Hollywood film deal. July 2020 9781787301115 £12.99 : Hardback 288 pages Without Ever Reaching the Summit A Himalayan Journey Paolo Cognetti

An awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth, from the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains

Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and guides, and a well-worn copy of The Snow Leopard. Written in 1978, Matthiessen's classic was also turning forty, and Cognetti set out to walk in the footsteps of the great adventurer.

Without Ever Reaching the Summit combines travel journal, secular pilgrimage, literary homage and sublime mountain writing in a short book for readers of Macfarlane, Rebanks and Cognetti's own bestseller, The Eight Mountains . An investigation into the author's physical limits, an ancient mountain culture, and the magnificence of nature, it is an awestruck love letter to one of the most spectacular places on earth.

Paolo Cognetti was born in 1978 in Milan. He divides his time between the city and his cabin 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps. His international bestseller, The Eight Mountains, is published in 38 countries, and won both Italy’s Premio Strega and the French Prix Médicis étranger. Without Ever Reaching the Summit: A Himalayan Journey is his most recent book.

August 2020 9781787302273 £10.99 : Hardback 128 pages Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The year is 1984, and life in Oceania is ruled by the Party. Under the gaze of Big Brother, Winston Smith yearns for intimacy and love – “thought crimes” that, if uncovered, would mean imprisonment, or death. But Winston is not alone in his defiance, and an illicit affair will draw him into the mysterious Brotherhood and the realities of resistance.

Nineteen Eighty-Four has been described as chilling, absorbing, satirical, momentous, prophetic and terrifying. It is all these things, and more.

The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by the distinguished novelist Robert Harris.

George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty- Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

August 2020 9781787302549 £12.99 : Hardback 336 pages Down and Out in Paris and London George Orwell

With a new introduction by Kerry Hudson.

The Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

A vibrant and searing memoir of George Orwell's years living as a down and out in his twenties: working as a dishwasher in Paris, tramping south-east England, and struggling to become a writer.

It gives a vivid picture of the kind of life he led 'in the lower depths' -- staying in bug-infested hostels, gettting by on scraps and cigarette butts and learning the survival skills of fellow tramps -- and exemplifies Orwell's belief that 'The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.'

The Authoritative Text: this edition of Down and Out in Paris and London restores material censored by its original publisher in 1933.

George Orwell (1903–1950) is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. He is the author of the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is also well known for his essays and journalism, particularly his works covering his travels and his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War. His writing is celebrated for its piercing clarity, purpose and wit and his books continue to be bestsellers all over the world.

August 2020 9781787302532 £12.99 : Hardback 272 pages Animal Farm George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell peope what they do not want to hear.

Orwell's immortal satire Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written.

Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Elio, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945 in an edition of 4500 copies. One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.'

Seventy-five years since its first publication, Orwell's fable of the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep -- which could be read in 1945 as savage attack on Stalin -- remains an unparalleled masterpiece and more relevant than ever.

The Authoritative Text. With an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

August 2020 9781787302525 £10.99 : Hardback 128 pages The Less Dead Denise Mina

'Denise Mina is the cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions and never fails to deliver.' IAN RANKIN

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.

Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone...

A brilliant, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching new thriller about identity and the value of a life, from the award-winning author of The Long Drop and Conviction.

Denise Mina is the author of the Garnethill trilogy, the Paddy Meehan series and the Alex Morrow series. She has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award twice and was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. The Long Drop, her latest novel, won the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year and the Gordon Burn Prize. Denise has also written plays and graphic novels, and presented television and radio programmes. She lives and works in Glasgow.

August 2020 9781787301726 £14.99 : Hardback 384 pages The Kingdom The new thriller from the no.1 bestselling author of the Harry Hole series Jo Nesbo

*A STUNNING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HARRY HOLE SERIES*

In the mountains of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems.

Set in a small town filled with secrets, this compellingly dark new thriller from the Sundays Time number one bestseller has a plot as explosive and multi-layered as any of the Harry Hole novels.

*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 45 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE*

Jo Nesbo is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers, with The Leopard, Phantom, Police, The Son and his latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, all topping the Sunday Times bestseller charts. He’s an international number one bestseller and his books are published in 50 languages, selling over 40 million copies around the world.

Before becoming a crime writer, Nesbo played football for Norway’s premier league team Molde, but his dream of playing professionally for Spurs was dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee at the age of eighteen. After three years military service he attended business school and formed the band Di Derre (‘Them There’). They topped the charts in Norway, but Nesbo continued working as a financial analyst, crunching numbers during the day and gigging at night. When September 2020 commissioned by a publisher to write a memoir about life on the road 9781787300798 with his band, he instead came up with the plot for his first Harry Hole £20.00 : Hardback crime novel, The Bat. 320 pages Sign up to the Jo Nesbo newsletter for all the latest news: jonesbo.com/newsletter In the Land of the Cyclops Essays Karl Ove Knausgaard

Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide- ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction.

Collected here is a selection of his writing for the New York Times, the Paris Review, and a host of international publications and lectures alongside new essays on everything from his intense and intensely personal readings of literature, philosophy and art, to the limits on privacy, how we view ourselves and the world, and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes Out of the World, A Time for Everything and the Seasons Quartet, is published in thirty-five languages.

Martin Aitken (Translator) Martin Aitken has lived in Denmark for nearly 30 years. He is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels, including work by Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen and Pia Juul, and has translated many short stories and poems. In 2012 he was awarded the American- Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.

October 2020 9781846559419 £20.00 : Hardback 400 pages The Perfect Nine The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi Ngugi wa Thiong'o

A magical, feminist reimagining of the origin story of Kenya’s Gikuyu tribes, told in verse.

In this glorious epic poem, Ngugi wa Thiong’o tells the story of the founding of the Gikuyu people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. Blending folklore, mythology, adventure and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gikuyu founders made to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters – called ‘The Perfect Nine' – and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humour and sacrifice.

Ngugi’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, ‘The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.’

Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world.

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the leading writers and scholars at work in the world today. His books include the novels Petals of Blood, for which he was imprisoned by the Kenyan government in 1977, A Grain of Wheat and Wizard of the Crow; the memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War, In the House of the Interpreter and Birth of a Dream Weaver; and November 2020 the essays, Decolonizing the Mind, Something Torn and New and 9781911215998 Globalectics. Recipient of many honours, among them ten honorary £10.00 : Trade Paperback doctorates, he is currently Distinguished Professor of English and 112 pages Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. The Dublin Railway Murder Thomas Morris

An astonishing real-life locked-room murder mystery set in Victorian Dublin, packed with gripping, perplexing twists. This meticulously researched true-crime tale reads like a quintessential Victorian thriller and is perfect for fans of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

One morning in November 1856 George Little, the chief cashier of the Broadstone railway terminus in Dublin, was found dead, lying in a pool of blood beneath his desk. His head had been almost severed; a knife lay nearby, but strangely the office door was locked, apparently from the inside. This was a deed of almost unheard-of brutality for the peaceful Irish capital: while violent crime was commonplace in Victorian London, the courts of Dublin had not convicted a single murderer in more than thirty years.

From the first day of the police investigation it was apparent that this was no ordinary case. Detectives struggled to understand how the killer could have entered and then escaped from a locked room, and why thousands of pounds in gold and silver had been left untouched at the scene of the crime. Three of Scotland Yard’s most celebrated sleuths were summoned to assist the enquiry, but all returned to London baffled. It was left to Superintendent Augustus Guy, the head of Ireland's first detective force, to unravel the mystery.

Five suspects were arrested and released, with every step of the salacious case followed by the press, clamouring for answers. Under intense public scrutiny, Superintendent Guy found himself blocked at almost every turn. But then a local woman came forward, claiming to know the murderer….

Thomas Morris worked for the BBC for seventeen years making programmes for Radio 4 and Radio 3. For five years he was the November 2020 producer of In Our Time, and previously worked on Front Row, Open 9781787302396 Book and The Film Programme. His freelance journalism has appeared £14.99 : Hardback in publications including The Times, The Lancet and The Cricketer. In 400 pages 2015 he was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction. He lives in London. The Autumn of the Ace Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the master of historical fiction which makes you both laugh and cry. This book follows an unforgettable family after the Second World War.

Daniel Pitt has seen a lot of action. He was an RAF fighter in the First World War and an espionage agent for the SOE in the Second. Now the conflicts he faces are closer to home.

Daniel and Rosie's marriage has fractured beyond repair and Daniel's relationship with their son, Bertie, has been a failure since Bertie was a small boy. But after his brother Archie's death, Daniel is keen for new perspectives. He first travels to Peshawar to bury Archie in the place he loved best, and then finds himself in Canada, avoiding his family and friends back in England. But some bonds are hard to break. Daniel and Bertie's different experiences of war, although devastating, also bring with them the opportunity for the two to reconnect. If only they can find a way to move on from the past.

Louis de Bernieres' new novel is a moving account of an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Daniel is a flawed but captivating hero, and this coming-of-old-age story illuminates both the effect of two World Wars on a generation and the irrepressible spirit and love that can connect families despite great obstacles.

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

November 2020 9781787301337 £16.99 : Hardback 288 pages The Twelve Nights Urs Faes

‘I’ve been gone a long time, but I’m not a stranger here...’ This is the deeply atmospheric story of a man’s return to his childhood village, to reconcile with his estranged brother. Manfred has been away for many years and has not spoken with Sebastian since their bitter argument over the love of a woman and the inheritance of the family farm. As he walks alone through the Black Forest, on the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, Manfred’s memories are triggered by the winter landscape – the stillness of the snow-covered hills, the dense woods, the cold and mist – whose sounds, scents and sights unlock the story of his past, and gesture to the possibility of a future. Tautly and beautifully written, this short gem also contains ten haunting illustrations by award-winning German artist Nanne Meyer.

Urs Faes (b.1947) is a Swiss writer, the author of fourteen novels, several poetry collections and a number of plays. He has been twice nominated for the Swiss Book Prize. The Twelve Nights (Raunächten) is his first work to be published in English.

November 2020 9781787301962 £12.99 : Hardback 96 pages One by One Ruth Ware

A luxury mountaintop chalet The opportunity of a lifetime Until guests start to disappear…

**The unmissable new thriller from the queen of the modern-day murder mystery.**

Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine, as the shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold.

The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want?

Praise for Ruth Ware’s addictive thrillers:

‘So clever and original . . . from the first gripping page to the last shocking twist’ Erin Kelly, author of He Said/She Said

'Atmospheric and eerie with Agatha Christie vibes' Prima

'Ruth Ware just gets better and better’ Lisa Jewell, author of The People Upstairs

'A dark tale by one of the best thriller writers around' Independent

'Will hold you captive until the brilliant ending' Shari Lapena, author November 2020 of Someone We Know 9781787300415 £12.99 : Hardback ‘Powerfully atmospheric, unguessably twisty’ Louise Candlish, 352 pages bestselling author of Our House

Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs Westaway have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times. Her books have been optioned for TV and film and she is published in more than 40 languages. Ruth lives near Brighton with her family.

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A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*

At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs.

Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing – especially not the shame of a childhood incident that has hung over him like an oppressive cloud ever since.

There’s very little life remaining for either of them, but perhaps just enough to heal some of the hurt inflicted along the way, and find new meaning in what’s left. Told with Jacobson’s trademark wit and style, Live a Little is in equal parts funny, irreverent and tender – a novel to make you consider all the paths not taken, and whether you could still change course.

Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five works of non- fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.

May 2020 9781529110555 £8.99 : Paperback 288 pages What Red Was Rosie Price

‘An urgent story told beautifully’ – Dolly Alderton

‘Gripping, unflinching and elegant’ – Sophie Mackintosh

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When Kate meets Max in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begins. Over the next four years, the two become inseparable. But loving Max means knowing his family: the wealthy Rippons, all generosity, social ease and quiet repression.

Theirs is not Kate’s world, and yet she finds herself drawn quickly into their gilded lives, and the secrets that lie beneath. Until one summer evening at the Rippons’ home, just after graduation, her life is shattered in a bedroom while a party goes on downstairs.

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An Observer Hottest-Tipped Debut Novelist and Elle One To Watch

‘Unforgettable . . . subversive and sophisticated’ Elle

‘Outstanding . . . brilliantly told’ Observer

‘A writer with a voice as fresh as new paint . . . Beautiful ’ The Times

‘One of the most powerful debuts you’ll ever read’ Stylist

Rosie Price is 26 years old and lives in London. What Red Was is her debut novel. July 2020 9781529110784 £8.99 : Paperback 352 pages The Outlaw Ocean Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier Ian Urbina

‘Just incredible’ NAOMI KLEIN

**New York Times Bestseller**

The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet.

Too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these treacherous waters play host to the extremes of human behaviour and activity.

From traffickers, smugglers and pirates to vigilante conservationists, stowaways and seabound abortion-providers, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. Through their extraordinary stories, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries – but to which all of us are connected.

** LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019 **

Ian Urbina spent five years, more than three of them at sea, uncovering the stories in The Outlaw Ocean, which began life as a series of articles for The New York Times that won seven major awards. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times where his investigations have covered oil and mining disasters, sex July 2020 trafficking, high-school shooting, criminal justice, worker safety and 9781529111392 the environment. Several have been made into films, and he has £9.99 : Paperback been nominated for an Emmy. Urbina has degrees in history from 512 pages Georgetown and the University of Chicago, and lives in Washington, D.C., with his family. They Don't Teach This Eniola Aluko

First class honors law degree. 102 appearances for England women’s national football team. First female pundit on Match of the Day. UN Women UK ambassador. Guardian columnist.

All of these achievements belong to Eni Aluko, who, with her forthcoming memoir They Don't Teach This, is keen to share her experiences, aiming to inspire readers to be the best possible versions of themselves. Aluko was appointed UN Women UK ambassador with a focus on promoting gender empowerment in 2016, and in October 2018 she was named by Marie Claire as one of ten Future Shapers Award Winners, recognising individuals who are changing women’s futures for the better. She is currently playing football for Juventus in Italy and writing a weekly column for The Guardian.

They Don’t Teach This steps beyond the realms of memoir to explore themes of dual nationality and identity, race and institutional prejudice, success, failure and faith. It is an inspiring manifesto to change the way readers and the future generation choose to view the challenges that come in their life applying life lessons with raw truths of Eni’s own personal experience.

Eniola Aluko has 102 caps for England and thirty three goals to her name. She has played for Chelsea and Birmingham City, spent three years playing in the States and most recently joined Juventus in 2018.

Eni was the first female pundit on Match of the Day, she is an ambassador for UN Women and has a weekly football column with the Guardian.

She also holds a first-class honours degree in Law. July 2020 9781529112856 £9.99 : Paperback 496 pages Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth- Century China Jung Chang

From the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled seismic transformations these three women left an indelible mark on history.

Red Sister rose to be Mao’s vice-chair. Little Sister became first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China. Big Sister made herself one of country’s richest women.

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister takes us on a sweeping journey from exiles’ quarters in Japan and Berlin to secret meeting rooms in Moscow, and from the compounds of the Communist elite in Beijing to the corridors of power in democratic Taiwan. By turns intimate and epic, Jung Chang reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape twentieth-century China.

Jung Chang is the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China; Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday); and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine who Launched Modern China. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside Mainland China, where they are banned. She was born in China in 1952, and came to Britain in 1978. She lives in London.

July 2020 9781784703967 £9.99 : Paperback 368 pages 24 pages b&w plate sections, 8 pages colour plate sections The Benefit of Hindsight Simon Serrailler Book 10 Susan Hill

In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home.

One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It’s an act they will regret for the rest of their lives.

On the other side of town a woman is brutally murdered and her husband is left unconscious.

Are the two crimes connected? Serrailler sets out to investigate but will his own demons get in the way?

Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk. www.susanhill.org.uk

July 2020 9781529110548 £8.99 : Paperback 336 pages Happy Ever After C. C. MacDonald

She made one terrible mistake… and someone isn’t going to let her forget it.

**Picked as a 2020 'Unmissable Debut' by the Daily Express**

'Kept me gripped and kept me guessing' Erin Kelly, author of He Said/ She Said

'Excellent domestic noir, chillingly plausible… I loved the ending' Jo Spain, author of The Confession

'An absorbing story, a bunch of unexpected twists, great writing. I totally lost myself in this book' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Naomi seems to have everything. A beautiful daughter, a gorgeous house, a perfect life.

Behind the scenes, though, she and her husband are drifting from one another and struggling to conceive their second child.

Then Naomi meets a parent at her daughter's nursery. Sean understands her, or so she thinks. Looking for a connection, for a friend, Naomi makes a terrible mistake.

Weeks later, when Naomi attempts to contact Sean, he has disappeared without a trace. But it becomes clear that someone else knows her secret. Someone who wants to make sure she never forgets what she did.

July 2020 A twisting, addictive thriller about desire and deceit, perfect for fans 9781529111385 of Apple Tree Yard, Blood Orange and Our House. £7.99 : Paperback 288 pages 'Sexy, chilling and wonderfully twisty' Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake

'Clever, perceptive...explores obsession, marital discord...the final twist chills' Literary Review

READERS LOVE HAPPY EVER AFTER:

'A brilliant, engrossing thriller’

‘Amazing debut…Terrifying and electric’

'A clever psychological thriller with twists that I didn’t see coming'

'An interesting take on the stalker genre'

'Read this in a day! Brilliant book’

C. C. MacDonald is a writer and actor based in Margate where he lives with his wife, two children and dog Frankie. This Poison Will Remain Fred Vargas

** Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month ** The exhilarating new Inspector Adamsberg novel from France’s multi -million-copy bestselling crime fiction star

‘Adamsberg is one of my favourite detectives... I so enjoyed This Poison Will Remain’ ANN CLEEVES

‘Absorbing… Full of twists and spiced with Vargas’s characteristic wit and style’ PETER ROBINSON

‘Vargas’s books are…cunning, corkscrew murder mysteries’ A.J. FINN

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears.

It isn’t long before Adamsberg is investigating a series of rumours and allegations that take him to the south of France. Decades ago, at La Miséricorde orphanage, shocking events took place involving the same species of spider: the recluse.

For Adamsberg, these haunting crimes hold the key to proving that the three men were targeted by an ingenious serial killer. His team, however, is not convinced. He must put his reputation on the line to trace the murderer before the death toll rises…

Fred Vargas was born in Paris in 1957. A historian and archaeologist by profession, she is now a bestselling novelist. Her books have sold August 2020 9781784708290 over 10 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 45 £8.99 : Paperback languages. 416 pages The Starless Sea Erin Morgenstern

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER

Are you lost or are you exploring?

When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood.

Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover – a bee, a key and a sword. They guide him to a masquerade ball, to a dangerous secret club, and finally through a magical doorway created by the fierce and mysterious Mirabel. This door leads to a subterranean labyrinth filled with stories, hidden far beneath the surface of the earth.

When the labyrinth is threatened, Zachary must race with Mirabel, and Dorian, a handsome barefoot man with shifting alliances, through its twisting tunnels and crowded ballrooms, searching for the end of his story.

You are invited to join Zachary on the starless sea: the home of storytellers, story-lovers and those who will protect our stories at all costs.

Erin Morgenstern is the author of The Night Circus, a bestseller that has enchanted readers around the world and has been translated into thirty-seven languages. She has a degree in Theatre from Smith College, an ever-growing collection of jewellery made from skeleton keys, and a cat on her lap. She lives in Massachusetts. August 2020 9781784702861 www.erinmorgenstern.com £8.99 : Paperback 512 pages Harvest The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects Edward Posnett

‘An exceptional first book; Harvest is a subtle, fascinating braiding of travel, cultural and natural history… It is a pleasure and an education to journey with him in these pages’ Robert Macfarlane

In a centuries-old tradition, farmers in north-western Iceland scour remote coastal plains for the down of nesting eider ducks. High inside a cast cave in Borneo, men perched on rickety ladders collect swiftlets’ nests, a delicacy believed to be a cure for almost anything.

These luxury products are two of the seven natural wonders whose stories Harvest tells: eiderdown, vicuña wool, sea silk, vegetable ivory, civet coffee, guano and edible birds’ nests. It follows their journey from the wildest parts of the planet, traversing Iceland, Indonesia, and Peru, to its urban centres, drawing on the voices of the gatherers, shearers and entrepreneurs who harvest, process and trade them.

Blending interviews, history and travel writing, Harvest sets these human stories against our changing economic and ecological landscape, and makes us see the world with wonder, curiosity and new concern.

Edward Posnett was born in London and studied at Cambridge and Oxford before working in the City in financial investigations.

Shortly after leaving financial services, he learnt about the Icelandic tradition of eiderdown harvesting in which farmers offer protection to wild sea ducks in return for their valuable lightweight down. Enchanted by its promise of symbiosis and cooperation, he travelled to Iceland and wrote an account of the trade, 'Eiderdown', which won The Bodley Head/Financial Times Essay Prize. His first book, Harvest, builds on this August 2020 essay, introducing the reader to small harvests around the globe 9781784703028 through the stories of seven wondrous objects that can be held in the £9.99 : Paperback hand. 336 pages

He lives in Philadelphia and is a keen linguist, swimmer and amateur potter. Lost You Haylen Beck

The compulsive new American page-turner from the author of 5* reader favourite HERE AND GONE. When a little boy goes missing, his mother desperately wants to find him . . . before someone else does. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Shari Lapena and Cara Hunter.

Libby would do anything for her three-year-old son Ethan. And after all they’ve been through, a holiday seems the perfect antidote for them both. Their hotel is peaceful, safe and friendly, yet Libby can’t help feeling that someone is watching her. Watching Ethan. Because, for years, Libby has lived with a secret.

Just days into their holiday, when Libby is starting to relax, Ethan steps into an elevator on his own, and the doors close before Libby can stop them. Moments later, Ethan is gone.

Libby thought she had been through the worst, but her nightmare is only just beginning. And in a desperate hunt for her son, it becomes clear she’s not the only one looking for him.

Who will find him first?

Haylen Beck is the pen name of internationally prize-winning crime writer Stuart Neville. Writing under his own name, Stuart won the LA Times Book Prize for his debut novel and received critical acclaim for his Belfast-set detective series starring Serena Flanagan. His Haylen Beck novels are set in the US and are inspired by his love of American crime writing.

August 2020 9781784705879 £8.99 : Paperback 304 pages The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa

‘A masterpiece’ Guardian

A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers.

Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.

When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan’s greatest writers.

‘One of Japan’s most acclaimed authors explores truth, state surveillance and individual autonomy. Echoes 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own’ Time Magazine

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE**

Yoko Ogawa (Author) Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Publicp S ace and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. August 2020 9781784700447 £8.99 : Paperback 352 pages How To Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

‘Could hardly be more relevant... it feels like a light switch being flicked on’ OWEN JONES

Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.

In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.

Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.

In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism – what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.

Ibram X. Kendi is founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington, DC, where he is a Professor of History and International Relations. His previous books are Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Winner of the National Book Award 2016, and The Black Campus Movement, Winner of the W. E. B. Du Bois Book Prize. He is August 2020 also a columnist at the Atlantic. 9781529111828 £9.99 : Paperback 240 pages Epitaphs for Underdogs Andrew Szepessy

‘A wonderful discovery’ (Ian McEwan), this is a beguiling dystopian tale of a young man confronted with the truth about freedom.

On a hot summer night, a young man sits in a dark cell in a Hungarian prison. The guards do not explain why he is here; he does not know if he will ever be released. But he is far from alone. Others, too, are trapped within the stone walls – singers and students, sages and spies. As he witnesses their outlandish acts of rebellion, he decides it’s time to play their game.

Drawing on lived experience, Epitaphs for Underdogs is a beguiling and exhilarating novel about power, justice and freedom, and about the solidarity that can be found in even the most unexpected places.

‘Beautiful… With its sense of the absurd, its laughter in the dark, it belongs in the great tradition of dystopian literature, with echoes of early Kundera and Nabokov’ IAN McEWAN

Andrew Szepessy was born to Hungarian refugees in Brighton in 1940. After spending his childhood in London, he read English at Oxford and studied at the Budapest Academy of Drama and Film. Szepessy worked in Norway and England as a film director, editor and scriptwriter before settling in Hungary, where he continued to write until his death in 2018.

September 2020 9781529111231 £8.99 : Paperback 288 pages How to Catch a Mole And Find Yourself in Nature Marc Hamer

Longlisted for the Wainwright Book Prize 2019

A life-affirming book about the British countryside, the cycle of nature, solitude and contentment, through the prism of a brilliant new nature writer’s experience working as a traditional mole-catcher, and why he gave it up.

I have been catching moles in gardens and farms for years and I have decided that I am not going to do it any more. Molecatching is a traditional skill that has given me a good life but I am old now and tired of hunting and it has taught me what I needed to learn.

Although common, moles are mysterious: their habits are inscrutable, they are anatomically bizarre, and they live completely alone. Marc Hamer has come closer to them than most, both through his long working life out in the Welsh countryside, and his experiences of rural homelessness as a boy, sleeping in hedgerows.

Over the years, Marc has learned a great deal about these small, velvet creatures who live in the dark beneath us, and the myths that surround them, and his work has also led him to a wise and uplifting acceptance of the inevitable changes that we all face. In this beautiful and meditative book, Marc tells his story and explores what moles, and a life in nature, can tell us about our own humanity and our search for contentment.

How to Catch a Mole is a gem of nature writing, beautifully illustrated by Joe McLaren, which celebrates living peacefully and finding wonder in the world around us. October 2020 Marc Hamer was born in the North of England and moved to Wales 9781784709938 over thirty years ago. After spending a period homeless, then working £8.99 : Paperback on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art in 144 pages Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent. He has worked in art galleries, marketing, graphic design, as a magazine editor and taught creative writing in a prison before becoming a gardener. A Christmas Murder Ada Moncrieff

Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at the family seat in Sussex. The champagne flows, the family silver sparkles and upstairs the bedrooms are made up ready for their occupants. But one bed will lie empty that night…

Come Christmas morning David Campbell-Scott is found lying in the snow, crimson staining the white around him. A hunting rifle is lying beside him and there’s only one set of footprints but something doesn’t seem right to amateur sleuth Hugh Gaveston. Campbell- Scott had just returned from the East with untold wealth – why would he kill himself? Hugh sets out to investigate…

Ada Moncrieff was born in London and has lived in Madrid and Paris. She studied English at Cambridge University, and has worked in theatre, publishing and as a teacher. A Christmas Murder is her first novel.

November 2020 9781529113297 £7.99 : Paperback 304 pages The Guest Book C. L. Pattison

WELCOME TO THE ANCHORAGE, FOR A HONEYMOON YOU'LL NEVER FORGET . . .

C. L. Pattison, bestselling author of THE HOUSEMATE, returns with THE GUEST BOOK: a haunting psychological thriller for fans of Louise Jensen and Jane Corry.

Charles and Grace wanted a quiet staycation honeymoon, but when their train terminates early due to a storm up ahead, they wonder if they made the wrong decision. Forced to take shelter in the nearest seaside town, Saltwater, they discover their fellow passengers have filled all the recommended B&Bs to the brim. There is only one guesthouse left. Unlike the rest of Saltwater, The Anchorage is entirely deserted.

That night, with the storm howling relentlessly, Grace is woken by a child crying. She is haunted by the sound, until Charles convinces her it was only her imagination. But the next day, she finds a warning scrawled in the guest book: Leave now. Do not trust them.

As the storm rages on, days go by and phone lines are down, transport links cut off. Grace is desperate to leave, but Charles remains unaffected by the eerie stillness of the house. Is it just Grace's imagination or do the owners, and Charles, have something to hide?

THANK YOU FOR STAYING AT THE ANCHORAGE. WE HOPE YOU'LL BE BACK SOON...

C. L. Pattison spent twenty years as an entertainment journalist, before embarking on a career in the police force. She lives on the south coast of England. November 2020 9781529113617 £7.99 : Paperback 336 pages 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 CLASSICS thuBron tolstoy tremAin tJULY–DECEMBERyler vArgAs 2020 vonnegut wArhol welsh wesley wheeler wiggins williAms winterson wolFe woolF wyld yAtes zolA Cinderella Liberator A Fairy Tale Revolution Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit retells ‘Cinderella’. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

‘She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl…’

In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party. Enter her fairy godmother...

But that is where the familiar story ends. Cinderella's transformation turns out to be much less about ballgowns, glass slippers and carriages, and much more about finding her truest self. Finally free from the kitchen cinders, who will she turn out to be?

Rebecca Solnit (Author) Writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of October 2020 My Nonexistence, is scheduled for release in March 2020. A product of 9781784876197 the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate £12.99 : Hardback school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to 32 pages Literaryb. Hu

Arthur Rackham (Illustrator) Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was an English illustrator, recognised as a leading figure in the Golden Age of British book illustration. Specialising in pen and ink, as well as watercolour, some of his best- known works include his illustrations for Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. What? Why? Witch? A Fairy Tale Revolution Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson retells ‘Hansel and Gretel’. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out.

Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

October 2020 9781784876333 £12.99 : Hardback 32 pages Blueblood A Fairy Tale Revolution Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman retells ‘Bluebeard’. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

‘Please don’t even try to get down to the basement. Just leave it alone – okay? Otherwise you’ll ruin things for both of us…’

Nia has met the man she wants to marry. Marcus is kind, clever and handsome, with a beard so dark it is nearly blue-black. Nia demands a single promise from him – that Marcus will never enter her study in the basement, her private space.

But when Marcus’s curiosity begins to mount Nia feels more and more uneasy. Will he betray her? Can he accept that no mean no? Can a woman ever have a room of her own?

Malorie Blackman has written over seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and a science-fiction thriller, Chasing the Stars. Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-award- winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a Pilot Theatre stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses. There is also a major BBC production of Noughts & Crosses, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z’s entertainment company) curating the soundtrack as executive music producer. In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books. In 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children’s Laureate. Most recently Malorie wrote for the Doctoro Wh series on BBC One, and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children’s October 2020 in summer 2019. 9781784876418 £12.99 : Hardback 32 pages Duckling A Fairy Tale Revolution Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie retells ‘The Ugly Duckling’. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.

‘A duck unlike other ducks. A raincloud-duck, with the heart of a lion, who struck out into the world on her own…’

On the farm, some eggs are hatching. A flock of sweet ducklings are popping out. But one duckling looks different from all the others…

Cast out and all alone, this odd duckling will need all her bravery and curiosity to survive. Her journey is a search for belonging, but what she finds is the right to be different.

Kamila Shamsie is the author of six novels including Home Fire which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2018, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the London Hellenic Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013; she was also awarded a South Bank Arts Award in 2018. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.

October 2020 9781784876319 £12.99 : Hardback 32 pages The Old Man and the Sea Vintage Classics Most Red Series Ernest Hemingway

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'"But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."'

In the baking sun, in a small village off the coast of Havana, lives an old fisherman named Santiago. It has been eighty-four days since he last caught a fish. The locals call it bad luck. Refusing to accept defeat, Santiago sets off in his tiny skiff alone, fishing further out than ever before. It is here, over a number of days, that he, his will and his character are tested beyond imagination. Faced with bad weather, hunger and thirst, the old man finds himself in battle with a giant marlin, a fish bigger than any to have been caught before.

Nature is not kind and gentle in this fable, nor is Hemingway. You hold in your hands one of the very best pieces of writing to have ever been created.

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.

In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism July 2020 were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style. 9781784875947 £9.99 : Paperback Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten 112 pages Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms.

He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961. Catch-22 Vintage Classics Most Red Series Joseph Heller

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'He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.'

It's the closing months of the Second World War and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him. But the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem – it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.

No book has satirised military madness so hilariously and tragically. It is the tale of one man's struggle to survive the sheer lunacy of war.

Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, on a Fullbright scholarship. He taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22 . Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened, was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven.

July 2020 9781784875923 £9.99 : Paperback 544 pages The Handmaid's Tale Vintage Classics Most Red Series Margaret Atwood

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'Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.'

Imagine a world where women's bodies are controlled by men. Where society has descended into religious patriarchy and censorship. Where the environment has been destroyed and a powerful few hold the reins to all wealth and freedom. Welcome to Gilead. This is the story of Offred, a Handmaid forced into sexual servitude, in the country once known as the USA.

Atwood's Handmaids have become a symbol of feminist resistance. This masterpiece blurs the boundaries between fiction and news headlines.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY NAOMI ALDERMAN

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when The Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. July 2020 She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright 9781784875930 and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada. £9.99 : Paperback 336 pages Slaughterhouse 5 Vintage Classics Most Red Series Kurt Vonnegut

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'So it goes.'

Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?

Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel, Player Piano (1952), achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five, was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut was the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. July 2020 Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. 9781784875954 £9.99 : Paperback 208 pages To Kill A Mockingbird Vintage Classics Most Red Series Harper Lee

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'It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.'

Summers for Scout in the Deep South are long and golden. Her story is one of innocence, and growing up. It is also about justice. When Scout's father Atticus Finch, a lawyer, agrees to defend a black man against an accusation by a white girl, he takes on the prejudice of the whole town. Through the case, Atticus teaches Scout that your imagination is not just for childhood games, but for understanding other people. Because you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

This evocative, funny, anti-racist novel has charmed and inspired generations. No matter if you didn't read it as a child. It is for everyone.

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She attended Huntington College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the acclaimed novels To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous other literary awards and honours. She died on 19 February 2016.

July 2020 9781784875978 £9.99 : Paperback 320 pages Brighton Rock Vintage Classics Most Red Series Graham Greene

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'Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.'

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, Pinkie is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to uncover him.

Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence, class, and gang warfare inspired many imitators. Few, if any, can match the originality of Brighton Rock, and of Pinkie – one of fiction's most unnerving and compelling villains.

Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.

July 2020 9781784875916 £9.99 : Paperback 288 pages When Breath Becomes Air Vintage Classics Most Red Series Paul Kalanithi

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'Even if I'm dying, until I actually die, I am still living.'

We often ask ourselves how we should be living. In Paul Kalanithi's deeply moving memoir, he is forced to ask himself the question, 'how do you live when you are dying?' At thirty-six, having just finished his training to become a neurosurgeon, he was faced with a devastating cancer diagnosis. This is his memoir. From student, to doctor, to patient, to father, and to writer, Paul preserved his last years and legacy in this truly unforgettable book.

This magnetic, hopeful book was first published in 2016. Adored by millions of readers, it is a Vintage Classic already and a book that will stand the test of time.

PAUL KALANITHI was a neurosurgeon and writer. He held degrees in English literature, human biology, and history and philosophy of science and medicine from Stanford and Cambridge universities before graduating from Yale School of Medicine. He also received the American Academy of Neurological Surgery’s highest award for research.

His reflections on doctoring and illness have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Paris Review Daily.

Kalanithi died in March 2015, aged 37. He is survived by his wife, Lucy, and their daughter, Elizabeth Acadia.

July 2020 9781784875886 £9.99 : Paperback 192 pages Brave New World Vintage Classics Most Red Series Aldous Huxley

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'Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they'll go through anything.'

Science. Technology. Want for nothing. Maximum pleasure. Welcome to a world where society exists without war, poverty, sickness or unhappiness, where instant gratification and mass consumerism sooth the inhabitants into happy conformity. One man stands to challenge all this: Bernard Marx, alone in harbouring a longing to break free. His attempt to do so sets off a chain of events that could disrupt everything.

Is this Brave New World that Huxley imagined where we are headed, or are we already there? Take the drugs and float away through Huxley's relentless cityscape, and you might find answers to questions you didn't know you should be asking.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY YUVAL NOAH HARARI

Aldous Huxley came to literary fame in 1921 with his first novel, Crome Yellow. With the novels Antic Hay, Those Barren Leaves and Point Counter Point, Huxley quickly established a reputation for bright, brilliant satires that ruthlessly passed judgement on the shortcomings of contemporary society. In later life, exploration of the inner life through mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs dominated Huxley’s writing, including his first-person account of experiencing mescaline in The Doors of Perception. Aldous Huxley died in 1963.

July 2020 9781784875909 £9.99 : Paperback 288 pages Stoner Vintage Classics Most Red Series John Williams

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'He learned silence and did not insist upon his love.'

This is the great forgotten novel of the last century – a quiet book; the story of a quiet life. William Stoner is a man who learns to contain himself, but beneath the surface lie passions and principles. An undistinguished career, an unhappy marriage, a bitter conflict with a colleague; Stoner endures. He is a different kind of hero. This wise, moving story seethes with the power and beauty of an individual life.

For nearly fifty years this book existed as quietly as its protagonist before it was rediscovered. It is now regarded as one of the most heart-stopping and beautiful classics of the twentieth century.

John Williams was an author, editor and professor. Born in 1922 in Texas, he served in the United States Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 in China, Burma and India. His first novel, Nothing But the Night, was published in 1948. After receiving his PhD in 1954, Williams returned to the University of Denver where he first studied to teach literature and creative writing for thirty years. It was during this time that he wrote the novels Butcher's Crossing (1960) and Stoner (1965). His last novel, Augustus, won the National Book Award in 1973. John Williams died in Arkansas in 1994.

July 2020 9781784875961 £9.99 : Paperback 304 pages The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Vintage Classics Most Red Series Angela Carter

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'Nursery fears made flesh and sinew; earliest and most archaic of fears, fear of devourment.'

We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories – stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern: the tales in this book pulse with a vivid, radical imagination.

Turn the key, enter the chamber. Carter untwists our old tales and offers them up with sensuality, depravity, humour – and a mirror held up to ourselves.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY LAURA DOCKRILL

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize, and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.

July 2020 9781784875893 £9.99 : Paperback 208 pages The Mayflower Pilgrims Nick Bunker

16 SEPTEMBER 1620: 400 YEARS SINCE THE MAYFLOWER SET SAIL

On a blustery day in September 1620 a small ship, the Mayflower, set sail from the English port of Plymouth. Known to history as the Pilgrims, the passengers on board were beginning an adventure to find religious freedom, undeterred by the daunting prospect of establishing a colony in uncharted territory thousands of miles from home. They were successful. At least 10 million US citizens are their descendants.

This short edition is the essential guide to the fascinating story of the Mayflower – a project that changed history on both sides of the Atlantic. It is taken from the longer work, Making Haste from Babylon by renowned historian Nick Bunker.

Nick Bunker is the author of An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, Young Benjamin Franklin: the Birth of Ingenuity and Making Haste from Babylon: the Mayflower Pilgrims and their World. In 2015 An Empire on the Edge won the George Washington Prize in the United States and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. In 2010 Making Haste from Babylon was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A graduate of King’s College, Cambridge, and Columbia University, Bunker lives in Lincolnshire with his wife Susan and their otterhound, Champion Teckelgarth Mercury.

July 2020 9781784876494 £4.99 : Paperback 128 pages In the Absence of Men Phillipe Besson

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIE WITH ME

It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. For Vincent, the sixteen-year-old son of a prestigious family, the tranquillity of the city sits at odds with the salons and soirees he attends. But, after an electrifying encounter with the enigmatic writer, Marcel P, draws Vincent’s desires out into the light, his ever-riskier liaisons with a young solider begin to shape Vincent’s future.

Translated by Frank Wynne

'A short, bold and original novel which beautifully captures the romance and amorality of gilded youth' Independent

Philippe Besson is the author of a number of award-winning novels and screenplays. The French edition of Lie With Me sold over 120,000 copies, was a number one bestseller, and won the prestigious Maison de la Presse prize.

August 2020 9781784876364 £8.99 : Paperback 192 pages Revenge Yoko Ogawa

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE

'A conspicuously gifted writer…To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian

Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders – locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven stories here in Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge. As tales of the macabre pass from character to character – an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman – Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.

Translated by Stephen Snyder

Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Publicp S ace and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and The Memory Police.

August 2020 9781784876371 £8.99 : Paperback 192 pages Nada Carmen Laforet

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with relatives in their crumbling apartment, her dreams of independence are dashed among the eccentric collection of misfits who surround her, not least her uncle Roman. As Andrea’s university friend, the affluent, elegant Ena, enters into a strange relationship with Roman, Andrea can’t help but wonder what future lies ahead for her in such a bizarre and disturbing world.

Translated by Edith Grossman

‘One of the great classics of contemporary European literature’ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carmen Laforet (Author) Born in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood in Las Palmas until, like the heroine of her novel, she returned to her native city to attend university. Her first novel Nada (Nothing) was published in 1945. She died in Madrid in 2004.

August 2020 9781784876210 £8.99 : Paperback 224 pages Vintage Classics Diary

A paper diary is a beautiful thing, a chance to plot your time and mark the days – to do what you can with what there is, as Hemingway says.

This 2021 diary features gorgeous book covers from Vintage Classics, reading lists for each month and plenty of space to note appointments. As you make your way through the year each page will provide inspiration from the best writers in the world.

Complete with a flexible, cloth-finish cover, wraparound elastic band and a ribbon.

‘Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.’ The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

VINTAGE CLASSICS is home to writers from across the centuries and around the world, featuring icons like Dickens and Austen, and twentieth-century stars such as Graham Greene, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Harper Lee and Virginia Woolf. With striking red spines and stylish design, world- renowned writing and lost classics alike are championed, making VINTAGE CLASSICS a list that's open to all.

August 2020 9781784876487 £12.99 : Paperback 176 pages The Search Warrant Dora Bruder Patrick Modiano

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014

Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder – a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir – Nobel Prize- winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her. From her name on a list of deportees to Auschwitz to the fragments he is able to uncover about the Bruder family, Modiano delivers a moving survey of a decade-long investigation that revived for him the sights, sounds and sorrowful rhythms of occupied Paris. And in seeking to exhume Dora Bruder's fate, he in turn faces his own family history.

Translated by Joanna Kilmartin

‘Absolutely magnificent’ Le Monde

Patrick Modiano was born in an outlying quarter of Paris in 1945. He published his first novel, La Place de l'Étoile, when he was 21, and has made a distinguished career as a novelist ever since, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. He has won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt. His fiction is haunted by the trauma of the German Occupation of France, and this subject also features in the screenplay of Lacombe Lucien which he wrote for the film director Louis Malle.

Joanna Kilmartin is the translator and editor of Marcel Proust's Selected Letters: Volume Four, 1918–1922. She has been awarded the Scott-Moncrieff translation prize twice: in 1971 for Sunlight on Cold Water by Françoise Sagan, and in 1974 for Bernadini's Terrace by Suzanne Prou. August 2020 9781784876388 £8.99 : Paperback 176 pages The War Between the Tates Alison Lurie

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, a stable relationship, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is startling. Things spiral when a protest against a sexist professor at the university ramps up and Brian, hopelessly compromised by split loyalties, gets caught up in the action.

The warring Tates find the turbulence of a changing world coming all the way to their doorstep. Can their marriage survive? Lurie skewers both sides in this brilliant campus satire of late-60s feminism, parenthood, infidelity and academic pomposity.

Alison Lurie, born in 1926, is an American writer and academic. She has published nine novels, including Foreign Affairs, which won the Pulitzer Prize, one collection of short stories and several works of non-fiction. She has also taught literature, folklore, and creative writing at Cornell University since 1969 and is the Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita. She lives in upstate New York but during her career has routinely spent time in Florida and London, providing inspiration for her novels. Her career as a writer has seen critical and commercial success, and in both her fiction and academic work she has done much to promote the study of children’s literature. She has three sons and three grandchildren.

September 2020 9781784876265 £9.99 : Paperback 320 pages Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie

‘If you’re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs’ Guardian

Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children’s literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots. She never imagines she’ll see him again. But gusty, wet London turns out to be the setting for fresh beginnings, and for Vinnie, a place to take up space, breathe the air, and to refuse to become a minor character in one’s own life.

Foreign Affairs is a comic, heart-wrenching masterpiece of unexpected romance.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE

September 2020 9781784876241 £8.99 : Paperback 304 pages The Last Resort Alison Lurie

Jenny has devoted her life to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as rare a creature as the endangered species he works to preserve. But this year, as winter comes on, Wilkie seems distant and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to visit Key West, but the sun and tropical scenery do nothing to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny becomes involved with some exotic local characters – including Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically attractive manager of a women-only guest house.

September 2020 9781784876272 £9.99 : Paperback 272 pages Sula Toni Morrison

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

As young girls in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable. But their paths as adults couldn’t be more different: while Nel settles in town to raise a family, Sula escapes for the progressive ideals of the big city. When Sula reappears ten years later, she comes face to face with a community whose values are at odds with her fierce individualism and rebellious ways. Reunited, Nel and Sula must confront the consequences of their actions and the dreadful secret they shared in childhood.

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. Terrifying, comic and tragic, Sula overflows with love and life, friendship and betrayal.

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. She was the author of many novels, including The Bluest Eye, Sula, Beloved, Paradise and Love. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize for her fiction and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour, in 2012 by Barack Obama. Toni Morrison died on 5 August 2019 at the age of eighty-eight.

September 2020 9781784876463 £9.99 : Paperback 208 pages Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Soon after a local eccentric leaps from a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight, Macon ‘Milkman’ Dead III is born. Brought up by his well-off black family to revere the white world around him, Milkman strives to make sense of his conflicting identities. Always seeking flight in some way, he leaves his Michigan home for the South, retracing the steps of his forebears in search of his own buried heritage and is introduced to an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins; the inhabitants of a fully realised black world.

Evocative and kaleidoscopic, Song of Solomon is a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age tale.

September 2020 9781784876456 £9.99 : Paperback 448 pages Beloved Toni Morrison

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home – the farm where she was kept as a slave for many years. Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, Sethe is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child, the daughter who died nameless and whose tombstone is etched with a single word, ‘Beloved’.

A tale of brutality, horror and, above all, love at any cost, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece and best-known work.

September 2020 9781784876432 £9.99 : Paperback 352 pages The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

Stunningly-designed new editions of Toni Morrison’s best-known novels, published by Vintage Classics in celebration of her life and work.

Pecola Breedlove longs for blond hair and blue eyes, so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the marigolds in her garden will not bloom, and her wish will not come true. Pecola's life is about to change in other painful and devastating ways.

A powerful interrogation of what it means to conform to an idea of beauty, The Bluest Eye asks vital questions about race, class and gender and remains one of Toni Morrison’s most unforgettable works.

September 2020 9781784876449 £9.99 : Paperback 172 pages Black Boy Richard Wright

Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African- American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.

At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was – temporarily – an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, a grandmother in Jackson, an aunt in Arkansas, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year's formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjection, about fear, hunger and hatred, while his mother's long illness taught him about suffering.

The same alertness and independence that made him the 'bad boy' of his family and the victim of endless beatings also lost him numerous jobs. Gradually he learned to play Jim Crow in order to survive in a world of white hostility, secretly satisfying his craving for books and knowledge until the time came when he could follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.

Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908. As a child he lived in Memphis, Tennessee, then in an orphanage, and with various relatives. He left home at fifteen and returned to Memphis for two years to work, and in 1934 went to Chicago, where in 1935 he began to work on the Federal Writers' Project. He published Uncle Tom's Children in 1938 and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the following year. His other titles include his autobiography, Black Boy (1945), and The Outsider (1953). After the war Richard Wright went to live in Paris with his wife and daughters, remaining there until his death in 1960. October 2020 9781784876135 £9.99 : Paperback 272 pages Native Son Richard Wright

Discover Richard Wright’s brutal and gripping masterpiece.

'The most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America' James Baldwin

Gripping and furious, Native Son follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime.

Native Son shocked readers on its first publication in 1940 and went on to make Richard Wright the first bestselling black writer in America. This new reissue, published on the 80th anniversary of the book, reintroduces the drama and power of Wright's writing.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION

October 2020 9781784876128 £10.99 : Paperback 480 pages Dickens at Christmas Charles Dickens

A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings, in one beautiful edition

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill.

This beautifully produced Vintage Classics edition gathers together not only Dickens' Christmas Books ('A Christmas Carol', 'The Chimes', 'The Battle of Life','The Cricket on the Hearth' and 'The Haunted Man') but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and a festive tale from The Pickwick Papers.

A must-have for Christmas, this edition should be as necessary to your festivities as holly, mistletoe and silver bells.

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had be taken to the debtors' prison.Fagin is named after a boy Dickens disliked at the factory. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers , his first commercial success, was published in 1836. In the same year he married the daughter of his friend George Hogarth, Catherine Hogarth. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837 while The Pickwick Papers was still running. Many other novels November 2020 followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame 9781784876524 and he became a celebrity America as well as Britain. He separated £9.99 : Paperback from his wife in 1858. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, leaving 592 pages his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. The Rings of Saturn W G Sebald

Hugely original and erudite travelogue-come-memoir from one of Europe's most lauded writers

The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, and an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

‘Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century’ The Times

W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and the author of The Emigrants, which won a series of major awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. W.G. Sebald wrote in his native tongue, German, and worked closely with his translator, Michael Hulse, to translate his work into English. He died in December 2001.

Michael Hulse has translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Jacob Wasserman's Caspar Hauser, as well as the contemporary German authors Luise Rinser, Botho Strauss and Elfriede Jelinek. He is also an award-winning poet. He lives in Amsterdam.

November 2020 9780099448921 £9.99 : Paperback 320 pages 75 A Vision of the World Selected Short Stories John Cheever

The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer.

SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN BARNES

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever – variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ – forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the New Yorker, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing Sixties.

Up until now, John Cheever’s stories have only been available in Collected Stories, but with Julian Barnes’ selection we have the first fully authorised introduction to Cheever’s work. Satirical, fantastical, sad and transcendent, these are stories that speak directly to the heart of human experience, and remain a testament to the wit and vision of one of the most important and influential short story writers of the twentieth century.

John Cheever (Author) John Cheever was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1912, and he went to school at Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He is the author of seven collections of stories and five novels. His first novel, The Wapshot Chronicle, won the 1958 National Book Award. In 1965 he received the Howells Medal for Fiction from the National Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1978 he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer prize. Shortly before his death in 1982 he was November 2020 awarded the National Medal for Literature. 9781784875824 £16.99 : Hardback Julian Barnes (Introducer) 320 pages Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and The Noise of Time. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur. RIGHTS INFORMATION REST OF THE WORLD:

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