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MICHAEL JOSEPH PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE TRANSLATION RIGHTS GUIDE TRANSWORLD London Book Fair 2020 Translation Rights

Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, crime, thrillers, cookery, memoirs and lifestyle books. Many of its authors are now, or soon will be, household names in the UK and around the world.

GENERAL FICTION

Michael Joseph specialises in women’s fiction, publishing established brands like Marian Keyes, Jojo Moyes, Liane Moriarty, Conn Iggulden and Fredrik Backman as well as signing and launching debut novelists. Other authors include Dawn French, Sylvia Day, Giovanna Fletcher, Stephen Fry and Lesley Pearse.

CRIME FICTION

Michael Joseph publishes crime fiction by authors at home on the bestseller lists, whether they’re up-and- coming or established in the genre, including M.J. Arlidge, Tim Weaver, Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.

NON-FICTION MEMOIR

Either the secrets behind the success of the already famous, or a story that no-one has heard before, the authors writing memoirs include Sue Perkins, Tom Jones, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson, Michael McIntyre, and Steven Gerrard.

COOKERY

Whether it is the country’s bestselling cookery writer – Jamie Oliver – or a debut from the brightest and freshest young chefs, Michael Joseph’s list covers everything from gourmet baking to healthy eating, to catering for events or how to eat well on a budget. As well as Jamie Oliver, authors include Rachel Khoo, Nadiya Hussain and Chrissy Teigen.

NON-FICTION LIFESTYLE

Health and wellbeing is a core specialist area for Michael Joseph, and from exercise and style advice to mindfulness and well-being, its range of publishing is extensive. Key authors include Lucy Mecklenburg, Chloe Brotheridge and Tanya Burr.

World class writing. Beautiful design. Ideas that matter.

We publish some of the world’s most thought-provoking, unforgettable, beautifully designed books – from contemporary trail blazers to our red-spine Vintage Classics. We’re not just publishers – we’re passionate book lovers, dedicated to creating beautiful books for people who love to read.

The Bodley Head

Founded in 1887, the Bodley Head publishes influential, compelling non-fiction that explores the ideas, the people, the human obsessions that shape our world. Its authors are united by their originality, by their expertise and by their gifts as communicators.

Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape has been the home of some of the finest writing in the world for nearly a century. With more Booker Prize wins and shortlistings than any other publisher, Cape is renowned for its prizewinning fiction, non-fiction, poetry and graphic novels.

Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus can trace its origins back to 1855, continuing a long tradition of publishing outstanding literary fiction and contemporary international writers as well as the best literary biography, memoir, history, cultural commentary and poetry.

Harvill Secker

Founded in 1910, Harvill Secker is the dynamic, international imprint at Vintage, with books ranging from prizewinning literary fiction and non-fiction to bestselling crime and thrillers.

Hogarth

In 1917 Virginia and Leonard Woolf started The Hogarth Press from their Richmond home – Hogarth House – armed only with a hand press and a determination to publish the newest, most inspiring writing. Hogarth continues to be a home for a fresh generation of literary talent: an adventurous fiction imprint with an accent on the pleasures of storytelling and a broad awareness of the world.

Square Peg

Square Peg publishes 10 to 12 standout, contemporary non-fiction books each year. Across a range of genres including trend-led narrative, humour and entertaining reference.

Yellow Jersey

Launched in 1998, Yellow Jersey Press has become synonymous with quality sports writing, covering all sports from the perspective of player, professional observer and passionate fan. Sport is about more than simple entertainment; it represents a determination to challenge and compete. It binds individuals with a common goal, and often reflects our experiences in the wider world. Yellow Jersey understands this as much as its readers.

Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics is home to writers from across the centuries and around the world. With striking red spines and stylish design, world-renowned writing and lost classics alike are championed by leading cultural figures, making Vintage Classics a list that’s open to the world.

Vintage Paperbacks

Vintage Paperbacks does things differently. It takes the literary gifts handed to it by its hardback colleagues and reimagines them – from cover and copy to the marketing and publicity campaign – for a paperback market. This makes it unique in UK publishing.

‘A commercial publishing house with heft.’ We are first and foremost lovers of great stories. It is this collective passion that drives all our publishing – fiction and non-fiction. We publish fewer books annually than any other division within Penguin Random House, but have a greater number of titles on the bestsellers lists - year in, year out - than anyone else, with 566 titles in the Sunday Times top ten charts in the last 10 years, 134 of them reaching No.1.

Doubleday Where the greatest stories begin. Our literary and ideas-led imprint, Doubleday is home to prize-winners Kate Atkinson, Bill Bryson, Hallie Rubenhold (Baillie Gifford), Sue Black (Saltire), Sarah Jane-Blakemore (Royal Society Science Prize), John Boyne, Paula Hawkins, Anna Hope, Rachel Joyce, Terry Pratchett, Donal Ryan, Diane Setterfield, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Markus Zusak.

Bantam Press Transworld’s commercial hardback list Bantam Press publishes many of the biggest brand-names in fiction - including Belinda Bauer, Dan Brown, Lee Child, Jilly Cooper, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth, Ruth Jones, Sophie Kinsella, Shari Lapena, Andy McNab and Simon Mayo - and ‘expert voices for a mainstream audience’ in non-fiction - including Jason Fox, Bear Grylls, Stephen Hawking, James Holland, Alan Johnson, Robert Iger and Paul McKenna.

Corgi The paperback imprint for Bantam Press titles.

Black Swan The paperback imprint for Doubleday titles.

MICHAEL JOSEPH Michael Joseph Fiction

The Shadow Friend Alex North

An outstanding new thriller from Alex North, author of The Whisper Man - gripping, moving and brilliantly creepy

25 years ago, troubled teenager Charlie Crabtree committed a shocking murder. Plenty of people still remember what happened: Charlie's crime attracted a dark infamy.

Paul Adams can remember the case too - Charlie and his victim were his friends. Paul left town as soon as he could, and he's never returned. But then his mother, old and senile, takes a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it's time to come home.

It's not long before things start going wrong. Paul hears another copycat has struck. His mother is insistent that there's something in the house. Someone is following him, which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterwards, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...

‘Alex North has achieved the seemingly impossible. The Whisper Man is a thriller that is both terrifying and utterly heartbreaking. Mesmerising and masterful’ - Mark Billingham

Alex North studied Philosophy at Leeds University, and prior to becoming a writer he worked there in their sociology department. He is the author of The Whisper Man which published in 2019 and has been sold in 28 territories.

09 July 2020 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 368 pp Rights sold: US (Celadon Books), German (Blanvalet), Italian (Mondadori), Portuguese (2020 Editora), Serbian (Laguna)

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Lie Beside Me Gytha Lodge

You wake up next to a man who's not your husband - and he isn't breathing... The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of She Lies in Wait

Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy and she suspects she's done something bad.

She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. The man who, until recently, made her feel loved.

But it's not Niall who's lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before. And he's not breathing...

As Louise desperately struggles to piece her memories back together, it's clear to Detective Jonah Sheens and his team that she is their prime suspect - though they soon find out she's not the only one with something to hide.

Did she do it? And, if not, can they catch the real killer before they strike again?

Gytha Lodge is a writer and multi-award- winning playwright who lives in Cambridge. After studying creative writing at UEA, she was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Arts' Council England fiction awards.

18 February 2021 | Joel Richardson for Michael Joseph | 384 pp Rights sold: US (Random House Inc)

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Michael Joseph Fiction

Conviction Hope Adams

Inspired by a true story, Conviction is a devastating and thought-provoking tale about female anger, subservience and ultimately, strength

London, 1841. Two hundred Englishwomen file aboard the RAJAH, embarking on a three-month voyage to the other side of the world.

They're daughters, sisters, mothers - and convicts. Transported for petty crimes. Except one of their number is a secret killer, fleeing justice.

When a woman is mortally wounded, the hunt is on for the culprit. But who would attack one of their own, and why?

Based on a true story, Conviction is a sweeping tale of confinement, loss, love and, above all, hope in the unlikeliest of places.

Hope Adams was born in Jerusalem and spent her early childhood in many different countries, such as Nigeria and British North Borneo. She went to Roedean School in Brighton, and from there to St Hilda's College, Oxford.

18 February 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 400 pp Rights sold: US (Berkley), Germany (Droemer Knaur)

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The Deception Hilary Boyd

A new, thought-provoking, emotional novel about marriage and family from the bestselling author of Thursdays in the Park and The Anniversary

Helen and her husband Devan have led a charmed life since they married in their 20s. 40 years on and they are the couple their whole village envies.

Until one summer in Lake Como, when Helen meets someone else. She tries to resist at first, but Jared gets under her skin and soon she's breaking the marriage vows to which she had always held true. At least her indiscretion happened far from home and ended when the summer did.

But less than two weeks after she comes home, Helen discovers Jared has moved into her village. Her charmed life becomes a nightmare as Jared worms his way in until Helen wonders if more than her marriage is in danger...

Hilary Boyd was a nurse, marriage counsellor and ran a small cancer charity before becoming an author. She has written eight books, including Thursdays in the Park, her debut novel which sold over half a million copies and was an international bestseller. The film rights for Thursdays in the Park have been acquired by Charles Dance, who will be directing and starring.

‘As canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life - and better at jokes’ - Daily Mail

‘Smart, with true-to-life characters whose dilemmas will tear at your heartstrings’ - Sunday Mirror

‘Boyd is terrific at cutting to the quick of modern relationships’ - Woman & Home

08 July 2021 | Maxine Hitchcock for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Michael Joseph Fiction

The Metal Heart Caroline Lea

A sweeping novel about two sisters and the prisoners-of-war whose lives will entwine with theirs, inspired by a true story

Orkney, 1942. On a remote island, a prisoner- of-war camp is being constructed. The arrival of 500 Italian soldiers from the heat of the North African desert to the freezing cold of an Orkney winter divides a community already living under the terror of war.

Orphaned sisters Dorothy and Constance are amongst the first to volunteer to nurse the men. Dot is immediately drawn to Caesar, a young man fighting on the wrong side of the war, broken by the destruction around him.

The soldiers spend their days relentlessly building a secret barricade between the islands. By night, however, the men begin to construct an extraordinary reminder of their native land - an exquisite chapel. Among the prisoners, bricklayers, carpenters, electricians and artists come together to turn shipwrecked debris and worthless rubble into a work of art. The creation of something beautiful in the midst of war captivates the islanders.

For a moment, the line between ally and enemy is blurred.

But as the war progresses and tensions between the islanders and outsiders grow, the sisters' loyalty is tested. Each must weigh duty against desire. One fateful evening, their choice will be made with devastating consequences.

Caroline Lea grew up in Jersey and gained a First in English Literature and Creative Writing from Warwick University, where she now teaches writing. Her fiction and poetry have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her first novel The Glass Woman was sold in five territories.

15 April 2021 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 464 pp

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The Honey and the Sting E C Fremantle

An exquisite historical thriller from the author of the electrifying The Poison Bed - unsettling, sweeping and deliciously creepy

Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall...

Forcibly seduced by George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and king's favourite, doctor's daughter Hester was cast aside to raise her illegitimate son, Rafe, alone and in secret. She hopes never to see his father again.

Melis' visions cause disquiet and talk. She sees what others can't - and what has yet to be. She'd be denounced as a witch if Hester wasn't so carefully protective.

Young Hope's beauty marks her out, drawing unwelcome attention to the family. Yet she cannot always resist others' advances. And her sisters cannot always be on their guard.

So when the powerful Duke decides to claim his son against Hester's wishes, the sisters find themselves almost friendless and at his mercy. But are their secrets their undoing or their salvation?

Because in the right hands a secret is the deadliest weapon of all...

E.C. Fremantle holds a First for her BA in English and a MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. She is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Queen's Gambit, Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower.

‘A twisting psychological thriller based on a real Jacobean murder. Unputdownable’ - The Times

06 August 2020 | Jillian Taylor for Michael Joseph | 416 pp

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Michael Joseph Fiction

The Return Jack Grimwood

A rich, atmospheric World War Two thriller from award-winning author of Moskva and Nightfall Berlin

An unlikely spy. July 1940. Ex-soldier, Billy O'Hagan had seen enough of the battlefield. Deftly avoiding Britain’s latest war, O'Hagan gets by as a con artist and thief. But when a job goes wrong, O'Hagan finds himself in the hands of the authorities with two options: hang for his crimes, or serve his country once more.

A reluctant king. After an attempt on his life, the recently abdicated Edward VIII seeks refuge in Spain. Believing the hit to have been ordered by British intelligence, Edward and his new wife, Wallace Simpson, welcome the hospitality of his country's enemies. The fate of a nation in their hands.

Dropped on an occupied channel island without backup, O'Hagan must assume the identity of a local aristocrat and known Nazi sympathiser. With an invasion of England imminent, O'Hagan must overcome the islanders' hostility and German suspicion to gain enough intel to stop Hitler's grand plan: to put Edward VIII back on the throne.

'A powerful new voice in thriller writing' - Sarah Pinborough

Jack Grimwood, a.k.a Jon Courtenay Grimwood, was born in Malta. He writes for national newspapers including The Times and the Telegraph.

04 March 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Don't Let Him In H. A. Linskey

He's always been there. Now he's looking for you

There have always been deaths in the small town of Eriston over the years - more than can easily be explained. People dying in their houses, behind locked doors.

Sean Cole thought he'd spotted a pattern. Thought he was on the trail of a killer. Now he's dead too.

When his daughter Rebecca returns to the town, she realises that her father might have been onto something.

But can she find the murderer before he finds her? Because if she can't, her father's shabby old Victorian house is no place to hide.

H. A. Linskey is originally from Ferryhill in County Durham, but now lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and daughter. Under Howard Linskey, he is the author of a series of crime novels set in the North-East, featuring detective Ian Bradshaw and journalists Tom Carney and Helen Norton.

29 October 2020 | Joel Richardson for Penguin | 400 pp

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Michael Joseph Fiction

Arkhangel James Brabazon

The brutally authentic, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author and frontline war reporter James Brabazon

Officially Max McLean doesn't exist. An off-the- books government asset, he operates alone and without back-up.

But when a routine mission is fatally compromised Max is lucky to escape alive. His only clue is a marked $100 dollar bill prised from the hands of a dead man. And the knowledge that he's been set up.

To reveal the bill's secrets, Max must follow a trail that leads him from Paris to Tel Aviv and to a remote Russian village: Arkhangel. If only he can stay alive long enough, because it's soon clear there are other forces who will stop at nothing to get there first. And that the consequences of failure are too terrible to contemplate...

For fans of I Am Pilgrim or Frank Gardner's Luke Carlton series, Arkhangel is a stunningly dynamic thriller infused with the insights, intrigue and authenticity hard won by an author with many years of experience as a foreign correspondent and war reporter.

James Brabazon is an award-winning frontline journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in London, he has travelled in over 70 countries, investigating, filming and directing in the world's most hostile environments.

20 August 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 352 pp Rights sold: Penguin Group US (Berkley)

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The Black Art of Killing Matthew Hall

An action packed adventure thriller for fans of Frank Gardner and James Swallow

Dr Leo Black is one of Oxford University's rising stars. His lectures play to a packed audience of adoring students and he seems destined for tenure amongst the gleaming spires. But Worcester College has never employed a man like Leo Black before.

For 20 years Leo served the SAS with distinction. And when the friend he served alongside is killed in Paris trying to prevent the abduction of a young British scientist, the world Leo has tried to put behind him begins to reel him back in.

When Leo's former Commanding Officer reveals that Paris represented far more than just a single, isolated tragedy, Leo reluctantly agrees to help. Whatever the cost to his new life.

But as Leo gets closer to the startling truth about his friend's death, he also faces an uncomfortable recognition, while he might be a promising academic, he is a truly exceptional soldier...

A high-concept international thriller set across the UK, France and Venezuela.

Matthew Hall was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and graduated in Law from Worcester College, Oxford. He worked as a criminal barrister and is now a screen writer producing over 60 hours of prime-time TV drama, including the BAFTA winning crime series, Keeping Faith.

02 April 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 464 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

Leaving Time The Seven Ages of Death Dr Richard Shepherd

Forensic pathologist and bestselling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd, brings his unparalleled honesty and insight to a new book about life and death

How can death tell us about life? Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine bodies of every age. From old to young, and from murder, to accident, to natural illness, each body has taught him something: about human development, about life's risks, about its owner's life story, about homicide and even about himself.

In Leaving Time, Shepherd helps readers to recognise death as part of an immense, natural life cycle which is common to all living things - an ending as much a part of us as our beginning.

Richard Shepherd trained as a doctor at St George's Hospital medical school at Hyde Park Corner, qualifying in 1977 and then completed his postgraduate training as a forensic pathologist in 1987. He immediately joined what was then the elite forensic department at Guy's Hospital.

He has been involved nationally and internationally in the forensic investigation of thousands of deaths from unnatural causes, from headline-making murders to mass natural disasters, and many sudden and unexplained deaths that his investigations showed were from natural causes or due to accidents. His skills and expertise still remain in demand around the world.

11 February 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

The Book About Getting Older (For people who don’t want to talk about it) Dr Lucy Pollock

This is the definitive book for anyone who is getting older or loves someone who is

We might all be living to unprecedented ages, but most of us don't really know how to be that old, how to get the most out of later life, or how to live among and care for people when they are super-old.

We are bombarded with instructions about exercise, sleep, diet, vitamins and supplements: drink more wine, or less wine, or only ever black tea - but which advice should we follow? How do we face taboos like falling out of love with someone who has dementia, or wishing someone we truly love would simply die? At what point does 'fiercely independent' become badly behaved?

What are the medicines a specialist wouldn't give to their own mother? What operations that sound hair-raising might actually be worth having? What do you do if a doctor isn't listening? How can we be happy at ninety?

As a geriatrician with 20 years of experience, Lucy Johnson specialises in the care of those who are frail and elderly. In this book she shares the lessons she has learned from patients, families and colleagues on illness, recovery, life, death and joy.

Ageing isn't easy, and we each will be faced with difficult decisions for ourselves or on behalf of those we love. This book presents those decisions and explains how to talk about them, teaching us how to die with dignity, and live better for longer.

Lucy Johnson trained in medicine at Cambridge and at Bart's Hospital, and worked as a junior doctor in East London before moving to Somerset, where she is a consultant specialising in the care of those who are frail and elderly.

09 July 2020 | Louise Moore for Michael Joseph | 320 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

The Wild Silence Raynor Winn

The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlisted title, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story of the couple who lost everything

Following the hugely successful Sunday Times bestseller, Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize nominee and Costa shortlister, The Salt Path, comes a new book from the hugely talented Raynor Winn.

In The Wild Silence, Raynor tells us about taking on a chronically over-farmed piece of land that was given to her and Moth by a reader who was moved by their story in The Salt Path. This book is about readjusting to life after homelessness, but also about recovering trust and self- belief after a traumatic event - feelings that can translate to many episodes in the life of any of us. Through Raynor's exceptional writing she will explore the hope she has of revitalising and of re-wilding this land - and also themes of lifelong love, nature and what it means to find a home.

Since travelling the South West Coastal Path, Raynor Winn has become a regular long-distance walker and writes about nature, homelessness and wild camping. She lives in Cornwall. Her first book, The Salt Path, sold over 300,000 copies across all formats in the UK and was translated into 12 languages.

30 April 2020 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 288 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

The Consequences of Love Gavanndra Hodge

A beautifully written, poignant, fearless account of grief, memory, trauma and the love between two sisters

At the age of seven Gavanndra Hodge realised that if her home caught fire it would be up to her to rescue her family. Neither her mother lost in a world of grief, nor her drug-addled father were capable of even realising the house was burning down, let alone saving Gavanndra and her little sister, Candy.

When Candy dies suddenly and tragically on holiday aged nine, their family already damaged and fragile, implodes, and a teenage Gavanndra is left to rebuild her life, piece by piece.

And she does. The life she cultivates for herself is such a long way away from the chaos of her past. She becomes a mother - carefully crafting the idyllic childhood that she never had, for her children. But there is one thing missing in the happy ending she creates for herself. Candy.

Gavanndra has no memories of her sister at all, only of Candy's awful final moments. So, she embarks on a journey to write her way back to her sister.

The Consequences of Love is a story of loss and recovery, trauma and memory. Ultimately it is a joyous and compelling account of the strength of the love between two sisters and how nothing is ever truly lost if we are brave enough to return to where we began.

Gavanndra Hodge is a writer and journalist. She has worked in newspapers and magazines for over 20 years, at the Daily Mail, Independent, ES Magazine and Tatler. In 2018 she left Tatler and became a freelance writer, contributing to publications including the Sunday Times and The Times. She writes a column for The Times LUXX Magazine about how to talk to children about difficult subjects, such as privilege, grief and fairness.

14 May 2020 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 320 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

Broken Lives Dr Duncan Harding

A harrowing exploration of the origins of violence from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding

As a forensic psychiatrist, Duncan Harding has worked on some of the most harrowing cases one can imagine, spending time in the prison service, the Old Bailey and at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. His life is spent working with serial killers, psychopaths and children who kill their family and friends. From notorious cases of gang violence and repeated domestic abuse, to a twelve year old boy who set fire to his classmate's face, Harding reckons daily with humankind's unspeakable capacity for sadistic violence.

Yet it is the humanity of these perpetrators that is most stark – how nothing more than the wrong push at the wrong time can drive an innocent life towards brutality. The people Harding has met and the stories they tell paint a chilling picture of modern Britain, and the paths our society leads people down towards the most horrific of acts.

In his attempts to make sense of these unimaginable crimes, Harding confronts agonising questions - of when to call for justice, when to argue for mercy, when to break confidentiality, when to look closer, when to believe, and when to forgive.

Duncan Harding is a consultant forensic child psychiatrist, working with young people who commit serious crimes. He is the clinical lead for child forensic community services across South London, and has a research interest in conduct disorder and criminal psychopathy.

13 May 2021 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

Aquanaut Rick Stanton with David Rose

The enthralling autobiography of cave-diver Rick Stanton, who played a leading role in the Tham Luang cave rescue in 2018

‘To explore the wild, secret places of the world, and to revel in adventure’

When Rick Stanton searched through mud and floodwater in the Tham Luang caves in 2018, finding the twelve missing boys and their football coach alive was more than anyone dared hope. In a rescue mission that held the entire world in its thrall, Rick and his team successfully brought all thirteen to safety.

A former firefighter and cave-diver, Rick has never shied from danger, exploring where few dare venture and rescuing people from unimaginable peril.

Aquanaut reveals what it takes to become capable of such extraordinary acts of bravery and skill in the most hostile, remote environments on earth. And how it feels, when a person is trapped miles underground, cut off from food, air and contact with the outside, to know that you are one of the few people in the world with the skills to bring them to safety.

Rick Stanton MBE and his friend, John Volanthen, were awarded the George Medal by her Majesty the Queen for their roles in the rescue. He has explored vast newly-discovered caves in countries including Britain, Mexico, France, Vietnam, Spain and the United States.

David Rose has been a journalist since the 1980s. His many accolades include being named Reporter of the Year for 2015 and Feature Writer of the Year for 2018 in the prestigious Society of Editors British National Press Awards. His previous books include Regions of the Heart, which was the winner of the Trento Mountain Literature Festival prize and Beneath the Mountains, an account of exploring Pozu del Xitu in Spain, the deepest cave ever discovered by British cavers, in which he played a central role.

23 July 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 400 pp

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Michael Joseph Non Fiction

Shackleton Ranulph Fiennes

An authoritative biography of Sir Ernest Shackleton from polar adventurer Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ernest Shackleton is perhaps the most famous polar explorer in history. Of all the names that inhabited the golden age of polar exploration, it's Shackleton's that has endured in the century since he first made his name.

In Shackleton, Sir Ranulph Fiennes brings his own unique insights to bear on Shackleton's life and legend.

Unlike his great rival Scott, with whom he first visited the Antarctic, Shackleton was not a member of the British establishment. As an outsider he understood the importance of courting public support. But it was as a leader of men that the Irish born Merchant Navy officer established his towering reputation.

Unlike Amundsen, Shackleton was not first to the South Pole, nor did he achieve his ambition to be first to cross the Antarctic continent, but in falling short, he achieved greatness, mounting perhaps the most famous rescue mission in history - crossing the southern ocean in a small boat, traversing South Georgia's fearsome Beardmore glacier - he achieved immortality.

But critics have since wondered whether what he set out to do was even possible. In Shackleton, Fiennes considers the great man's life and achievements in light of his own extraordinary experience in this gripping new biography. Separating myth from reality and getting under the skin of Shackleton's story, Fiennes' new account is both reappraisal and valediction.

Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have travelled around the Earth's circumpolar surface. He is the bestselling author of titles such as Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know, and the biography Captain Scott.

15 October 2020 | Rowland White for Michael Joseph | 448 pp

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Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed. Chris and Rosie Ramsey

A laugh-out-loud exploration of the highs and lows of dating, relationships, marriage, and everything in between

One minute you're spending four hours getting glammed up for a Saturday night out, flirting like it is a competitive sport, and then next you’re dating someone, who’s possibly The One. Life becomes filled with candlelit dinners, flowers, lazy Sundays spent in bed, meeting each other's parents and making plans for a long and happy future.

Before you know it though, the honeymoon period has worn off and your conversations no longer revolve around care-free, spur of the moment weekends away and cosying up to watch a Netflix box set in bed. Instead you talk about the right way to load the dishwasher, mortgage rates, paint charts and whose turn it is to take the bins out. The complaints about your other half come thick and fast and you wonder if your wedding day is supposed to be the happiest of your life, or is it all downhill from there?

From Chris and Rosie Ramsey comes a hilarious exploration of all the highs and lows of dating, relationships and marriage that will have you crying with laughter and nodding along in solidarity. For better or for worse... right?

Chris Ramsey is a critically acclaimed Stand Up Comedian and TV personality. Rosie Ramsey is an actress, presenter, Radio DJ, event host, singer and influencer. Together they host the hit podcast, Shagged, Married, Annoyed.

03 September 2020 | Charlotte Hardman for Michael Joseph | 304 pp

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Hinch Yourself Happy All The Best Cleaning Tips To Shine Your Sink And Soothe Your Soul Mrs Hinch

So much more than a cleaning book; this is a holistic guide to achieving a happy home and a happy mind

Cleaning isn't just necessary; it can be incredibly therapeutic too. A domestic guru who makes household chores fun, Mrs Hinch reveals how to get your home sparkling with her top cleaning hacks and the best cleaning products, most of which are available for no more than £1 on the high street. Whilst her pals Minkeh the Sponge, Dave the Duster and her loyal and trusty steed, Sharon the Shark have captured an audience of 1 million, Mrs Hinch addresses something much more profound. Hinch Yourself Happy shows that cleaning is a brilliant way to taper anxiety and manage your mental health. She has captivated a legion of followers by reminding us of our deep-rooted desire for a calm and orderly space in an increasingly chaotic world.

Including daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal cleaning plans and a list of must- have products, Mrs Hinch will guide you effortlessly room by room to a cleaner house and a calmer you.

Sophie Hinchliffe (Mrs Hinch) is 28 years old and - in her own words - loves to clean AKA Hinch.

Sophie coined the term 'Hinching' for cleaning, and shares her Hinching adventures on her hugely popular Instagram account. Sophie is a big believer in the idea that a happy home can help create a happy mind, and decided to write a book packed with tips to help shine your sink and soothe your soul.

4 April 2019 | Fenella Bates for Michael Joseph | 288 pp Rights sold: Chinese Simplified (Citic Publishing), German (Heyne Verlag), Turkish (Profil Kitap)

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Vintage Fiction

One by One Ruth Ware

The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, which finds a group of colleagues trapped by snow in their hotel in the French Alps, with deadly consequences

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

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?

Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway and The Turn of the Key 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.

12 November 2020 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 352 pp

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Who Killed Oscar Lomas? Jo Jakeman

A clever mystery novel for fans of the classic whodunit, with a modern twist

When the body of Beth Lomas’ husband, Oscar, is found at the bottom of a remote cliff in the Peak District called Cloud Drop, all signs – including the ‘Sorry’ note he left behind, point clearly to suicide. Plans for the funeral begin, but Beth cannot accept that her husband took his own life and sets out to discover what really happened.

As Beth investigates she soon discovers that Oscar had kept many secrets from her; secrets that involve a whole cast of characters from their small town and beyond. Her husband had enemies – that’s for sure. But who killed Oscar?

Packed with a wonderful cast of characters, this clever, entertaining mystery is perfect for fans of the classic whodunit, with a modern twist.

Jo Jakeman was the winner of the Friday Night Live 2016 competition at the York Festival of Writing. Born in Cyprus, she worked for many years in the City of London before moving to Derbyshire. She’s the author of Sticks and Stones and Safe House and she is published in nine territories.

1 April 2021 | Jade Chandler for Vintage | 256 pp Rights sold: Canada (Penguin Canada)

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The Waiter Ajay Chowdhury

From the winner of the Harvill Secker Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Award, Ajay Chowdhury, comes a unique debut crime novel, The Waiter

Kamil Rahman, Kolkata detective turned London’s Brick Lane waiter, has a new case on his hands...

Disgraced detective Kamil Rahman moves from Kolkata to London to start afresh as a waiter in an Indian restaurant. But the day he caters a birthday party for his boss’s friend on Millionaire's Row, his simple new life becomes rather complicated. The event is a success, the food is delicious, but later that evening the host, Rakesh, is found dead in his swimming pool.

Suspicion falls on Rakesh's new wife, Neha, and Kamil is called to investigate for the family, with the help of his boss's daughter Anjoli. Kamil and Anjoli prove a capable team – but as the investigation progresses, Kamil struggles to keep memories of the case that destroyed his career in Kolkata at bay… and his past will soon catch up with him in some rather unexpected ways.

Full of wit and wisdom, The Waiter is sure to set your taste-buds tingling and will help you brush up on your detective skills too.

Ajay Chowdhury is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who lived the first third of his life in India before moving to London, where he cooks experimental meals for his wife and daughters. His first children’s book, Ayesha and the Firefish, was published in 2016 and The Waiter is his debut crime thriller.

11 March 2021 | Sara Adams for Harvill Secker | 384 pp

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The Guest Book C. L Pattison

The bestselling author of The Housemate, C. L. Pattison returns with her new haunting psychological thriller The Guest Book

Welcome to The Anchorage, for a honeymoon you’ll never forget...

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, but Charles convinces her it was only her imagination. However the next day she finds a warning scrawled in the guest book: Leave now. Do not trust them.

As the days go by the storm continues to rage on, cutting phone lines, disconnecting wifi and disrupting transport links. Grace is desperate to leave, pleading with Charles who 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 20 years as an entertainment journalist, before embarking on a career in the police force. She lives on the south coast of England.

19 November 2020 | Sara Adams for Vintage | 336 pp

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A Christmas Murder Ada Moncrieff

Downton Abbey meets Poirot in this Christmas murder mystery, perfect for fans of the British Library crime classics

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.

05 November 2020 | Victoria Murray-Browne for Vintage | 304 pp

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Life Sentences Billy O'Callaghan

A sweeping historical epic about one family’s fight for survival – the most ambitious novel yet from the Irish writer who ‘grips from the opening page’ - Bernard MacLaverty

Life Sentences is the story of an ordinary family, and their extraordinary resilience through more than a century of poverty and war. In 1920 we meet Jer, an ex-soldier for whom grief, war trauma, too many drinks and a bitter grudge conspire to land him in a prison cell. In the 1870s we follow Jer’s mother Nancy through her teenage love affair with Jer’s father Michael Egan, and her plight when she discovers she is pregnant, only for Egan to let her down. A century later, Jer’s daughter Nellie has her own experience of becoming pregnant out of wedlock, and is determined to claim back what’s right for her family.

Set in the quiet south-coastal Irish village where Billy O’Callaghan’s family has lived for generations, Life Sentences is based in part on his own ancestral history, and he has poured everything into it. His writing sparkles with liveliness and radiates empathy, making it impossible to let go of his characters.

Billy O’Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into eight languages. His story The Boatman was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.

21 January 2021 | Robin Robertson for Jonathan Cape | 288 pp

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A Lover's Discourse Xiaolu Guo

A funny and charming new novel from Xiaolu Guo about love, language, displacement and finding our place in the world

A Chinese woman comes to London to start a new life - away from her dead parents, away from her old world. She knew she would be lonely, but will her new relationship with the Australian-British-German landscape architect bring her closer to this land she has chosen, will their love give her a home?

A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in Britain still reeling from the Brexit vote, Xiaolu Guo shows us how this couple navigate these differences, and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling flat share in east London. A Lover’s Discourse is suffused with a wonderful sense of humour. This intimate and tender novel asks universal questions: what is the meaning of home when we've been uprooted? How can a man and woman be together? And how best to be a woman and a mother?

Xiaolu Guo’s books include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and I Am China which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her recent memoir, Once Upon a Time in the East, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, the Jhalak Prize and the Rathbones Folio Award 2018, and was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. In 2013 Xiaolu was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She was a judge for the Booker Prize in 2019, and is currently a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.

21 May 2020 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 288 pp Rights sold: US (Grove)

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Epitaphs for Underdogs Andrew Szepessy

This is a beguiling dystopian tale of a young man confronted with the truth about freedom

‘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

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.

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.

03 September 2020 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 288 pp Rights sold: French (Payot & Rivages), Spanish (Siruela)

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The Drowned Places Damian Le Bas

Damian Le Bas beautifully weaves together nature, travel and family writing in this exploration of strange underwater worlds

Damian Le Bas’ The Stopping Places offered a portrait of gypsy Britain which had not been previously seen or celebrated in literature. Damian won the Somerset Maugham and was praised for his travel and nature writing as well as the story of the atchin tans, the network of places across the country which connect the Romany people.

Damian’s Gypsy relatives warned him off the ocean but when he married into a family of divers he became increasingly fascinated by the sea, and what lies beneath. For his new book he plans to explore The Drowned Places, the places under the sea, where humans are present by their absence - shipwrecks, disappearing buildings, sea burials - and which inspire myths and legends, from selkies, pirates and Davy Jones’s Locker to modern-day plane wrecks. This journey follows Damian as he learns to dive and takes him from the cool waters of the Orkney Islands to the shark-frequented blue bays of Jamaica. It will include travels with family, and encounters with other divers, told with the distinctive earthy wit and charm he deployed so brilliantly in his first book.

Damian Le Bas was born in 1985 into a long line of Gypsies and Travellers. He was awarded scholarships to study at Christ’s Hospital and the University of Oxford. Between 2011 and 2015 he was the editor of Travellers’ Times, Britain’s only national magazine for Gypsies and Travellers. His first book, The Stopping Places, was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and the Jhalak Prize, shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award and won the Somerset Maugham Award.

15 June 2023 | Clare Farmer for Chatto & Windus | 320 pp

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The SS Officer's Armchair In Search of a Hidden Life Daniel Lee

An historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian’s hunt for answers as he delves into the life of an ordinary Nazi officer

It began with an armchair and the surprise discovery of a stash of personal documents covered in swastikas sewn into its cushion. The SS Officer’s Armchair is the story of what happened next, as Daniel Lee follows the trail of cold calls, documents, coincidences and family secrets, to uncover the life of one Dr Robert Griesinger from Stuttgart. Who was he? What had his life been – and how had it ended?

Lee reveals the strange life of a man whose ambition propelled him to become part of the Nazi machinery. He discovers Griesinger’s unexpected ancestral roots, untold stories of SS life and family fragmentation. As Lee delves deeper, his responsibility as an active participant in Nazi crimes becomes clearer.

To understand the inner workings of the Third Reich, we need to know not just its leaders, but the ordinary Nazis who made up its ranks. Revealing how Griesinger’s choices reverberate into present-day Germany, and among descendants of perpetrators, Lee raises potent questions about blame, manipulation and responsibility. The SS Officer’s Armchair is at once an unique addition to our understanding of Nazi Germany and a chilling reminder of how such regimes are made not by monsters, but by ordinary people.

Daniel Lee is a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. He is a lecturer in modern history at Queen Mary, University of London, and the author of Pétain’s Jewish Children.

21 May 2020 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 320 pp Rights sold: Czech (Albatros Media), Dutch (Unieboek), French (Liana Levi), German (DTV), Hebrew (Modan), Italian (Nottetempo)

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Spoon-Fed Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong Tim Spector

One of the world’s leading scientists of food and nutrition reveals why so much of the current advice about food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate, misleading and often downright wrong

Is salt really bad for you? Is fish good for you? What about coffee, red meat, or saturated fats? Can pregnant women rely on their doctor’s advice about what to eat? Does gluten-free food carry any health benefits at all? Do doctors know anything about nutrition?

In the course of research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little scientific evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In Spoon-Fed he reveals why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong. He highlights the scandalous lack of good science behind many medical and government food recommendations, and how the food industry holds sway over these policies and our choices. These are urgent issues that matter not just for our health as individuals but for the future of the planet.

Spoon-Fed forces us to question every diet plan, official recommendation, miracle cure or food label we encounter, and encourages us to rethink our whole relationship with food.

Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is a multi-award-winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome, and the author of four books, including the bestselling The Diet Myth. He appears regularly on TV and radio around the world, and has written for the Guardian, BMJ, and many other publications.

14 May 2020 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape 288 pp Rights sold: Chinese Simple (New Star Press), Italian (Bollati Boringhieri), Japanese (Hakuyo – Sha), Dutch (Nieuwezids), Romanian (Lifestyle), Russian (Mann, Ivanov & Ferber), Turkish (Kitap Yayinlari)

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The Swallow Stephen Moss

A year-in-the-life biography of one of our most-loved birds

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, both 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 biography reveals the hidden secrets of this iconic bird that lives right on our doorstep.

'A superb naturalist and writer' - Chris Packham

'Inspired, friendly and blessed with apparently limitless knowledge' - Peter Marren

Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and broadcaster. In a distinguished career at the BBC Natural History Unit his credits included Springwatch, Birds Britannia and The Nature of Britain. He is the President of the Somerset Wildlife Trust and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

29 October 2020 | Rowan Yapp for Square Peg | 208 pp

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The Age of The Strongman Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman explores the spread of leadership cults, polarised politics and urban-rural divisions to understand the rise of 'strongmen' and a new global nationalism

We are in a new era: the age of the strongman. Authoritarian leaders have become a central feature of global politics. Over the last decade, self- styled ‘strongmen’ have risen to power in capitals as diverse as Moscow, Delhi, Tokyo, Brasilia, Budapest, Rome, Riyadh and Manila. This trend began well before the EU referendum or Donald Trump’s presidency and will continue regardless of the outcomes of impeachment or Brexit. There is no going back to the world that existed before 2016.

When and where did this change take place? How long will this period last? And how likely is it to lead the world into war, economic collapse or unchecked environmental disaster? This is a story in three acts: the rise of the strongmen; the liberal fightback; and the probable consequences of the strongman era.

From Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Xi and Modi, to the opposition of Merkel, Macron, Arden, Soros and Sanders, Rachman pays full attention to the strongman phenomenon in countries that are too often eclipsed, uncovers a complex interaction between rising Asian powers and a declining West, where very different reasons explain growing nationalisms.

The Age of the Strongman finds the common themes in our local nightmares and offers a bold new paradigm for understanding our world; whilst others have tried to understand these situations individually, Gideon Rachman’s will be the first truly global treatment of the new nationalism, underpinned by an exceptional level of access to world leaders and key actors in this drama.

Gideon Rachman is the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. He is the author of Easternisation.

12 May 2022 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 288 pp

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The Secret Body How Science Reveals Our Hidden Nature Daniel M Davis

One of our most lauded scientist-writers shows how astonishing breakthroughs in medical science are changing previously immutable aspects of humanity

This book takes us to the frontier of medical research and reveals recent advances that are changing our understanding of how the body works, how we combat and prevent disease and how we understand what it means to be human.

We see how super-resolution nano-scopes are revealing hitherto hidden operations within our cells and opening up new ways of manipulating the immune system. The Secret Body reveals how human embryos can now be preserved alive long enough to see how genetic abnormalities can be corrected during the early stages of foetal development; how light is being used to excite pathways in the brain allowing us to understand and manipulate thoughts and feelings; how our rapidly increasing understanding of the microbiome is radically changing every aspect of human biology.

These and many more astonishing discoveries are related as gripping dramas of discovery by an award-winning scientist at the very forefront of this adventure.

Daniel M. Davis is Professor of Immunology at the University of Manchester. His research, using super-resolution microscopy to study immune cell biology, was listed in Discover magazine as one of the top 100 breakthroughs of the year. His previous book The Beautiful Cure was published in 15 territories. He is also the author of over 120 academic papers, which have been collectively cited over 10,000 times, including articles in Nature, Science and Scientific American.

05 August 2021 | Will Hammond for Bodley Head | 288 pp Rights sold: US (Princeton University Press)

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The Bookseller of Florence Ross King

A gripping story of rivalry, new technology and the finest illuminated manuscripts known to history, all set against a backdrop of Renaissance Florence

Ross King, whose Brunelleschi’s Dome defined a genre, is back with a perfect follow-up book about the Renaissance ‘king of the world’s booksellers’, Vespasiano da Bisticci, and the threat posed by the setting up of the first printing press in Florence, which was operated by a convent of Dominican nuns.

The Bookseller of Florence will be the most beautiful and significant books in the Renaissance world – including the Urbino Bible (one of the finest illuminated manuscripts ever made) and the Dialogues of Plato (the first translation into Latin of the complete dialogues of Plato) – and the explosion of ideas they fuelled. It’s also about the arrival of a new technology, and the clash between old and new.

There haven’t been any books about Vespasiano or the nuns and their Ripoli Press for the general reader, so while this book occupies perennially popular territory, to a great extent owned by Ross King himself, it will also cover new ground for a wide audience.

Ross King is the author of the highly praised Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling and Brunelleschi's Dome, a celebrated account of how the Renaissance architect Brunelleschi constructed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.

04 March 2021 | Becky Hardie for Chatto & Windus | 352 pp Rights sold: Canadian (Doubleday Canada), Dutch (Bezige Bij BV), Italian (Garzanti), Japanese (Tokyo Sogen Sha), Simplified Chinese (Penguin China)

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Metropolis A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention Ben Wilson

Metropolis is 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 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.

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 our lives. Metropolis combines scholarship and storytelling in a stylishly written history of the world through an urban lens.

Ben Wilson is the author of five critically acclaimed books, including the Sunday Times bestseller Empire of the Deep; and Heyday: The Dawn of the Global Age. He writes regularly for publications such as The Times, Daily Telegraph and Prospect.

03 September 2020 | Bea Hemming for Jonathan Cape | 448 pp Rights sold: Canadian (Doubleday Canada), Catalan (Edicions 62), Chinese Simplified (China South Booky Culture Media), Czech (Dobrovsky), Danish (Turbine), Dutch (Unieboek), US (Doubleday), Estonian (As Tanapaev), German (S Fischer), Greek (Dioptra), Hungarian (Gabo Kiado), Italian (Il Saggiatore), Korean (Maekyung), Latvian (VZ), Lithuanian (Kitos Knygos), Norwegian (SolumBokvennen), Polish (Czarna Owca), Portuguese (Grupo Saida De Emergencia), Portuguese in Brazil (Companhia Das Letras), Romania (Trei), Russian (Eksmo), Spanish (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial), Swedish (Natur Och Kultur), Turkish (Domingo), Vietnamese (Nha Nam)

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A Coup in Turkey Jeremy Seal

Jeremy Seal explores the startling parallels between the state of affairs in modern day Turkey under President Edogan and that of Turkey in the 1960s under Prime Minister Menderes with an investigation into the dramatic coup as well as the trials and executions which followed

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 of the events leading up to the coup of 1980 as well as the 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 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 also highlights the importance of the personality cult in Turkey, with the ideals of 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 book explores the predicament in which Turkey finds itself 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. His most recent book is Meander: East to West Down a Turkish River.

05 November 2020 | Poppy Hampson for Chatto & Windus | 288 pp

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We Can Do Better Than This 40 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

Campaigners, writers and celebrities on how we can make our world safer for LGBTQ+ people

We talk about LGBTQ+ equality, but what does it actually mean? And how do we get there?

In this powerful and thought-provoking essay collection, 40 people – from actors, pop stars and athletes to scientists, writers and activists – set out to answer these vital questions.

We Can Do Better Than This meets the famous drag queen who wants to eradicate the stigma around dating trans people, the gay Bangladeshi activist calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality after his best friends were murdered in a hate crime and the Russian lesbian sex blogger skirting around the law to educate young people.

Featuring deeply moving personal stories and provocative new arguments, this is a book about how we can make our world better, and why LGBTQ+ equality should matter to everyone.

Amelia Abraham is a journalist and author. She has worked as a commissioning editor at VICE and Refinery 29, and is currently Features Editor at Dazed. She writes for the Guardian, Observer, Independent, Sunday Times, New Statesman, ES Magazine, i-D Magazine and Vogue. Her main interest is LGBTQ+ culture and politics, and her debut was Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture.

‘This book will resonate with a new generation of queer people and all those who seek to be their allies – a brilliant book’ - Owen Jones

‘A voice that is profound, vulnerable and hilarious in turn’ - Naomi Wolf

03 June 2021 | Alex Russell for Vintage | 384 pp

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A Dutiful Boy A memoir of a gay, Muslim’s journey to acceptance Mohsin Zaidi

A coming of age memoir about growing up queer in a strict Muslim household

Mohsin grew up in a deprived pocket of east London; his family was close-knit and very religiously conservative. He went to a failing inner city school where gang violence was a fact of life. Mohsin felt different but in a home where being gay was inconceivable he also felt alone.

As he grew up life didn’t seem to offer teenage Mohsin any choices: he was disenfranchised as a poor, brown boy, and he was isolated from his family as a closet gay Muslim. However Mohsin had incredible drive and he used education as a way out of his home life and to throw himself into a new kind of life. He became the first person from his school to go to Oxford University and there he found the freedom to come out to his friends. But Oxford was a whole different world with its own challenges. Matters came to a head when Mohsin went back to visit his parents only to be confronted by his father and a witchdoctor who he had invited to 'cure' Mohsin.

Although Mohsin's story takes harrowing turns, it is full of life and humour. Through his irrepressible spirit Mohsin breaks through emotional and social barriers and in the end finds acceptance from his family. Now Mohsin is a top criminal barrister. Having faced battles growing up, he truly understands the importance of justice as a way of life.

Mohsin has worked at a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague and at the UK's Supreme Court. He is an advocate for LGBT rights, BAME representation and social mobility. He is on the board of Stonewall, the UK's biggest LGBT rights charity and is a governor of his former secondary school.

14 May 2020 | Rowan Yapp for Square Peg | 288 pp

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On the Trail of the Serpent The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj Richard Neville and Julie Clarke

Soon to be the subject of a major Netflix drama, this is the only full-length study of the life of Charles Sobhraj

Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world’s greatest con men whose life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity. He was imprisoned in France and stripped of his multiple nationalities.

Floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake.

First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj’s life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke.

Richard Neville was an Australian writer and commentator who first came to prominence as the editor of the counterculture magazine OZ.

Julie Clarke trained as a journalist on the Sydney Telegraph before joining ABC television. She later became a New York correspondent for Australian Consolidated Press and worked as a TV producer.

07 May 2020 | Nick Skidmore for Vintage | 368 pp

47 TITLES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

Death in the East Abir Mukherjee

The fourth novel in the award-winning Sam Wyndham historical mystery series

***WINNER OF THE 2017 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 WILBUR SMITH AWARD A RISING MAN, WON THE CWA ENDEAVOUR DAGGER FOR THE BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL OF 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MWA EDGAR FOR BEST NOVEL A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH***

A Rising Man (2016, Harvill) A Necessary Evil (2017, Harvill) Smoke and Ashes (2018, Harvill)

14 November 2019 | Jade Chandler for Harvill Secker | 432 pp Rights sold: Italian (Sem Libri), US (Pegasus Books)

Things We Say in the Dark Kirsty Logan

LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020

A shocking contemporary collection of dark, feminist short stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing horror

These dark tales explore women’s fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence.

Kirsty Logan was selected as one of Britain’s ten most outstanding LGBTQ writers by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase 2019

3 October 2019 | Elizabeth Foley for Harvill Secker | 240 pp

48 TITLES YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

Maoism A Global History Julia Lovell

*** WINNER OF THE 2019 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR DEUTSCHER PRIZE***

The first global history of Maosim that explores his life, ideas, influence and legacy as a power that shaped the world well beyond the borders of China

Julia Lovell, professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London, re- evaluates Maoism as both a Chinese and an international force, linking its evolution in China with its global legacy.

14 April 2019 | Stuart Williams for Bodley Head | 624 pp Rights sold: Polish (Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy), Spanish (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial), US (Alfred A Knopf)

Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney

Tells the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer

With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.

In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.

7 June 2018 | Victoria Murray-Browne for Vintage | 352 pp Rights sold: Croat (VBZ), Czech (Dobrovsky), Dutch (Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers), French (Editions Albin Michel), German (Carl Hanser Verlag), Italian (Marsilio Editori), Spanish (Editorial Planeta S.A), US (Public Affairs)

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Tall Bones Anna Bailey

Tall Bones marks the debut of an explosive new talent. A novel about secrets within secrets in a town where there is nowhere to hide

When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her only friend Emma, who’s compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at the Tall Bones party, sets out to discover the truth about what happened that night. As the details unfold, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigail’s family and the people of Whispering Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.

Among those secrets are those harboured by the members of Abi’s family: her older brother Noah’s unworldly yet horribly dangerous love for the handsome Rat, a Romanian immigrant who recently entered town; her 12-year-old brother Jude, who is filled with a shining goodness yet walks with a stick because his father threw him down the stairs. And what about Dolly, Abi’s mother, who married the bible-bashing Samuel on a whim, and now has a frozen heart and watches her children unravel? Not to mention the crazy pastor who incites hatred, filling his congregation with tales of fire and brimstone.

Tall Bones is at its core a story about love and hate, acceptance and intolerance, that explores how religious devotion can manifest as rage and violence with utterly dangerous consequences.

Anna Bailey grew up in Gloucestershire but then moved to Colorado. Tall Bones is based on her own personal experience of an intensely suffocating and destructive community, where religious devotion manifested as rage and violence. In 2018, she returned to the UK where she enrolled in the Curtis Brown Creative novel-writing course.

08 April 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 352 pp Rights sold: Canadian (Doubleday Canada), French (Sonatine), Swedish (Modernista), USA (Simon & Schuster US)

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Just Friends Holly McCulloch

It’s easy to put someone in the friend zone. But what happens if you change your mind?

Bea isn’t happy. Desperate for a change, she looks to her friends for inspiration. Every single one of them is paired off, perhaps that’s what she needs too.

So, she starts dating again. But everywhere she goes – amid the hilarious and scarring dates – there’s Peter. Good old, oddball Peter, her closest friend from university. He’s always been firmly in the friend zone but something’s happened lately - he seems taller, more handsome and suddenly making him smile is Bea’s favourite thing.

But how can Bea possibly risk their friendship? And how do you even go about taking someone out of the friend zone? What if Bea and Peter were only ever meant to be just friends...

Laugh-out-loud and moving, Just Friends is a feel-good ‘will they, won’t they’ love story perfect for reading by the pool or on a rainy afternoon from an exciting new voice in women's fiction.

Holly McCulloch lives in Oxfordshire and bakes beautiful (and delicious) cakes for a living. Just Friends is her debut novel.

11 June 2020 | Molly Crawford for Transworld | 304 pp

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Dog Days Ericka Waller

An uplifting novel about turning points, new starts, and the love of dogs for fans of Eleanor Oliphant, When God was a Rabbit and A Man Called Ove

George is a curmudgeon in his late 70s and has just lost his wife. She has left him notes around the home and a miniature dachshund puppy called Poppy. But George doesn’t want a dog, he wants to fight everyone who is trying to help him.

Dan has OCD but has channelled his energy into his career as a therapist. Afraid to acknowledge his true feelings, his most meaningful relationship so far is with his dog Fitz. That is, until Atticus walks into his surgery and his life.

Lizzie is living in a women’s refuge with her son Lenny. Her body is covered in scars and she has shut herself off the world. She distrusts dogs, but when she starts having to walk the refuge’s dog Maud, her life begins to change.

Dog Days is a charming novel about human beings overcoming difficult circumstances, our will to live and love, what goes wrong when we suffer in silence, and the way dogs provide a bridge for human beings to communicate better with each other.

Ericka Waller abandoned a career in marketing to pursue her dream of writing for a living after her best friend passed away from a sudden aneurysm. It taught her life is not fair, nor guaranteed. She spent years working as a blogger and columnist, but when she lost two more friends to the Shoreham Air Disaster and to suicide, Ericka turned to fiction and joined a Faber Academy course. As she worked through her own grief, Ericka became fascinated by the myriad ways through which we process tragedy and from that fascination, Dog Days was born.

11 March 2021 | Kirsty Dunseath for Doubleday | 320 pp Rights Sold: Italian (Longanesi)

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Two Wrongs Rebecca Reid

She made a mistake - now's her chance to make it right. The explosive new thriller from the acclaimed author of Perfect Liars and Truth Hurts

When Chloe goes to university and meets wild, carefree Zadie, she is utterly seduced by her and her lifestyle. It doesn’t take long for Chloe to ditch her studies in favour of all-night parties at huge houses off campus.

But when something goes badly wrong one night and Zadie disappears in the aftermath, Chloe knows she should have done more to help her friend. It’s something she’ll always regret.

15 years later, Chloe finally gets the chance to make it right. But in order to do so, she’ll have to put everything at stake.

How far would you go to correct the mistakes of your past?

Rebecca is the digital editor of Grazia magazine. She is a columnist for the Telegraph Women’s section, and has written for Marie Claire, the Guardian, the Saturday Telegraph, the Independent, amongst others. She is a regular contributor to Sky News and Good Morning Britain. She graduated from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA in 2015, and has published two novels, Perfect Liars and Truth Hurts.

25 August 2020 | Natasha Barsby for Transworld | 384 pp

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Lost Leona Deakin

How can you solve a crime if you can’t remember the clues? With explosions, missing people, and a global mystery, Dr Bloom returns in the gripping follow up to Gone

There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. Captain Harry Peterson is missing.

His girlfriend calls upon her old friend Dr Augusta Bloom, who rushes to support the investigation. But no one can work out what connects the bomb and the disappearance.

When Harry is eventually discovered three days later, they hope he holds the answers to their questions. But he can’t remember a single thing.

Leona Deakin started her career as a psychologist with the West Yorkshire Police. She is now an occupational psychologist and lives with her family in Leeds. Her first novel, Gone, was sold in 12 territories.

6 August 2020 | Natasha Barsby for Transworld | 480 pp

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Actual Persons, Living or Dead Jeff Noon

The new novel in the Detective Henry Hobbes series, set in the south of England in the 1980s and for fans of True Detective

At first glance, Leonard Graves’ death was unremarkable. Sleeping pills, a bottle of vodka, a note saying goodbye. But when Detective Henry Hobbes discovers a grave in the basement, he realises there is something far more sinister at work.

Further investigation unearths more disturbing evidence. Scattered around the old house are women’s dresses. All made of the same material, same colours and all featuring a rip across the stomach, smeared in blood.

As the investigation continues and the body count rises, Hobbes must also deal with the disappearance of his son, the break-up of his family and a growing sense that something horrific happened in the Graves’ household. And he’s running out of time to find out what.

Jeff Noon trained in visual arts and drama and was active on the post-punk music scene before becoming a playwright, and then a novelist. His novels include Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove, Falling Out of Cars, Channel SK1N, Mappalujo (with Steve Beard), A Man of Shadows, and The Body Library. He has also published two collections of short fiction, Pixel Juice and Cobralingus.

3 September 2020 | Bill Scott-Kerr for Doubleday | 384 pp

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Chaos A D Swanston

This tense historical thriller is set against the backdrop of treason, terror and civil unrest in Elizabethan England and marks the return of intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff…

February, 1574. Rumours of papist plots and a Spanish invasion run riot through the streets, mob violence is commonplace, all it takes is spiteful gossip and a whispered word for a woman to be accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake.

Following his part in foiling the Incendium plot against Queen Elizabeth's life, intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff's standing within the Earl of Leicester's staff is high. Word has reached him of counterfeit coinage circulating on the city's streets, inns, gambling dens and brothels: coins which show the likeness of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. This in itself is a treasonous offence, but simultaneously slogans have begun to appear, daubed on walls and doorways - slogans that suggest there is treachery at court, that someone close to the queen harbours malign thoughts. London's citizens are left in no doubt that the individual is none other than Robert Dudley himself...

Christopher Radcliff and his team of informers are tasked with finding out whoever is behind the crimes. And fast. As his investigations lure them into a duplicitous web of greed and murder, they find they are in a race against time. For when rumour and gossip catch fire, then surely violent insurrection and bloody chaos will follow...

Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium Plot – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos.

20 August 2020 | Simon Taylor for Bantam Press | 400 pp

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Strange Flowers Donal Ryan

The dazzling new novel from multi-award- winning author of The Spinning Heart and From a Low and Quiet Sea

In 1973 Moll Gladney goes missing from the Tipperary hillside where she was born. Slowly her parents, Paddy and Kit, begin to accept that she’s gone forever. But she returns, changed, and with a few surprises for her family and neighbours.

Nothing is ever the same again for the Gladneys, who learn that fate cares little for duty, that life rarely conforms to expectation, and that God can’t be relied upon to heed any prayer.

A story of exile and return, of loss and discovery, of retreat from grief and the saving power of love.

Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first three novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and All We Shall Know, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018. A former civil servant, Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

27 August 2020 | Fiona Murphy for Doubleday | 208 pp

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Tennis Lessons Susannah Dickey

The dark, funny, fiercely honest debut novel about a spirited young misfit and her rocky road to womanhood, stopping at each year along the way

You’re strange and wrong. You’ve known it from the beginning.

This is the voice that rings in your ears. Because you never say the right thing. You’re a disappointment to everyone. You’re a far cry from beautiful – and your thoughts are ugly too.

You seem bound to fail, bound to break.

But you know what it is to laugh with your best friend, to feel the first tentative tingles of attraction, to take exquisite pleasure in the affront of your unruly body.

You just need to find your place.

From dead pets and crashed cars to family traumas and misguided love affairs, Susannah Dickey's revitalizing debut novel plunges us into the private world of one young woman as she navigates her rocky way to adulthood.

Susannah Dickey is from Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She is the author of two poetry pamphlets, I had some very slight concerns (2017) and genuine human values (2018). Her poetry has been published in Ambit, The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review and Magma, amongst others. In 2018 she was shortlisted for The White Review short story prize, and in 2017 she was the winner of the inaugural Verve Poetry Festival competition.

16 July 2020 | Alice Youell for Doubleday | 256 pp

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Coming up for Air Sarah Leipciger

A rich, powerful story of a toy-maker, a journalist and the girl whose life - and death - links them across oceans and centuries

Three extraordinary lives intertwine across oceans and time.

On the banks of the River Seine in 1899, a young woman takes her final breath before plunging into the icy water. Although she does not know it, her decision will set in motion an astonishing chain of events. It will lead to 1950s Norway, where a grieving toy-maker is on the cusp of a transformative invention, all the way to present-day Canada where a journalist, battling a terrible disease, risks everything for one last chance to live.

Taking inspiration from a remarkable true story, Coming Up for Air is a bold, richly imagined novel about the transcendent power of storytelling and the immeasurable impact of every human life.

'An extraordinary, three-century braid of air and water: the way we float, the way we drown, the way we surface again against the odds' – Francis Spufford

'Vivid, evocative, moving. I loved it' – Claire Fuller

19 March 2020 | Alice Youell for Doubleday | 320 pp Rights sold: German (Arche Litera), Lithuania (Alma Littera)

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The Weight of Love Hilary Fannin

Maggie O'Farrell with bite: a powerful love story set between London & Dublin, from the much lauded Irish Times columnist who counts Roddy Doyle among her fans

London, 1996. Robin and Ruth meet in the staff room of an East London school. Robin, desperate for a real connection, instantly falls in love. Ruth, recently bereaved and fragile, is tentative.

When Robin introduces Ruth to his childhood friend, Joseph, a tortured and talented artist, their attraction is instant. Powerless, Robin watches on as the girl he loves and his best friend begin a passionate and turbulent affair.

Dublin 2017. Robin and Ruth are married and have a son, Sid, who is about to emigrate to Berlin. Theirs is a marriage haunted by the ghost of Joseph and as the distance between them grows, Robin makes a choice that could have potentially devastating consequences.

The Weight of Love is a beautiful exploration of how we manage life when the notes and beats of our existence, so carefully arranged, begin to slip off the stave. An intimate and moving account of the intricacies of marriage and the myriad ways in which we can love and be loved.

'This is heartache for grown ups. The Weight of Love pulls you in and does not let go' – Anne Enright

'Beautiful and painful, exquisitely written, shot through with nostalgia for our earlier selves' – Marian Keyes

19 March 2020 | Fiona Murphy for Doubleday Ireland | 352 pp

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How to Master Your Monkey Mind Don Macpherson

Don Macpherson, one of Britain's top mind coaches, gives you the tools you need to tune your brain and regain control of your life

Are you a worrier? Do everyday challenges weigh you down? Do you wish you could tackle the bigger issues with more confidence and clarity? Do you struggle to stay on top of challenges both at work and socially?

With more than 25 years' successful mind coaching under his belt, Don Macpherson will show you his ten simple tools to turn down the volume on the negative chatter in your head and take back control of your life. His techniques have turned around the performances of countless elite sports stars from the worlds of motorsport and rugby union.

Here, for the first time, Macpherson shares the secrets of how he helps people to find their confidence, be more assertive and change their lives for the better.

Don Macpherson is a British mind coach with a background in sports psychology. He works with many world-class sports professionals - F1 racing drivers, England rugby players, Wimbledon tennis champions and snooker stars - to help them to overcome psychological barriers to their performance.

28 January 2021 | Michelle Signore for Bantam Press | 288 pp

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Brain Power The New Science of Maintaining a Healthy Brain, from Childhood to Old Age James Goodwin

The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing

The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience.

Yet most of us know precious little about how our brains actually work, or what we can do to optimise their performance. Whilst cognitive decline is the biggest long-term health worry for many of us, practical knowledge of how to look after our brain is thin on the ground.

Combining the latest scientific research with insightful storytelling and practical advice, The Healthy Brain reveals everything you need to know about how your brain functions, and what you can do to keep it in peak condition. In this ground-breaking new book, leading expert Professor James Goodwin explains how simple strategies like exercise, diet, social life and sleep can transform your brain health paradigm, and shows how to keep your brain youthful and stay sharp across your life.

James Goodwin is Special Advisor to the Global Council on Brain Health. He holds a Chair at Exeter University Medical School and is a Professor of Physiology at Loughborough University. Goodwin was previously Chief Scientist at Age UK, Britain’s foremost non-profit, dedicated to improving the lives of older people and delivering the benefits of research into ageing. He is also a regular media commentator, appearing on Today, the Jeremy Vine Show, BBC TV News, local radio, ITV and Sky News.

14 January 2021 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 262 pp

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God is Dead The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling's Great Wasted Talent Andy McGrath

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by William Hill award-winning author Andy McGrath

They called him God. For his grace on a bicycle, for his divine talent, for his heavenly looks. Frank Vandenbroucke had it all, and in the late 90s he raced with dazzling speed.

The Belgian won several of cycling’s most illustrious races, including Liège- Bastogne-Liège, Paris-Nice and Ghent-Wevelgem. He was a mix of poise and panache. Off the bike, he only had one enemy - himself. Vandenbroucke dabbled in nocturnal party sessions, mixing sleeping pills and alcohol. By 1999 his team had suspended him, resulting in a long, eventful fall from grace. Depression, a drug ban, addiction, car crashes, divorce and countless court appearances subsumed his life. He threatened his wife with a gun and tried to commit suicide twice. When police found performance-enhancing drugs at his house, Vandenbroucke said they were for his dog.

It seemed he had finally learned from his mistakes. Then, on 12 October 2009, aged just 34, Vandenbroucke was found dead in a hotel room in Senegal.

Guided by exclusive contributions from his family, friends and team-mates, William Hill award-winning author Andy McGrath lays bare Vandenbroucke’s chaotic and complicated life. God is Dead is the remarkable biography of this mercurial cycling prodigy.

Andy McGrath is the managing editor of Rouleur Magazine. Having previously worked at Cycling Weekly and Cycle Sport, he has also written on cycling for the Guardian and Financial Times. He is the co-author of Official Treasures of the Tour de France, has contributed chapters to several volumes of The Cycling Anthology, and is the author of Tom Simpson: Bird on the Wire, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017. 17 June 2021 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 304 pp

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Running The World Nick Butter

An inspiring story of adventure and endurance, following one man's world record breaking attempt to run a marathon in every country in the world

On January 6th 2018, Nick Butter tied his laces and stepped out on to an icy pavement in Toronto, where he took the first steps of an epic journey that would see him run 196 marathons in every one of the world's 196 countries. Spending almost two years on the road and relying on the kindness of strangers to keep him moving, Nick's odyssey allowed him to travel slowly, on foot, immersing himself in the diverse cultures and customs of his host nations.

Running through capital cities and deserts, around islands and through spectacular landscapes, Nick dodges bullets in Guinea-Bissau, crosses battlefields in Syria, survives a wild dog attack in Tunisia and runs around an erupting volcano in Guatemala. Along the way, he is often joined by local supporters and fellow runners, curious children and bemused passers-by. Telling their stories alongside his own, Nick captures the unique spirit of each place he visits and forges a new relationship with the world around him.

Running the World captures Nick’s journey as he sets three world records and covers over 5,000 miles. As he recounts his adventures, he shares his unique perspective on our glorious planet, celebrates the diversity of human experience, and reflects on the overwhelming power of running.

Nick Butter is an endurance runner, adventurer and motivational speaker. He lives in Bristol.

13 August 2020 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 304 pp

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Taking on Gravity Richard Browning

An entertaining and inspiring guide to innovation from ‘Real-Life Iron Man’, Richard Browning, inventor of the world’s first jet-powered flying suit

From Icarus to Iron Man, the dream of human flight has always inspired and challenged us. Now, with his pioneering jet suit, Richard Browning has redefined what is possible.

Richard Browning’s story is one of groundbreaking innovation. Building an aviation business from his garage, he has invented a whole new form of personal flight - a fantasy previously reserved for the pages of science fiction. His iconic jet suit has captured the imaginations of millions around the world, triggered ongoing developments in technology and engineering, and inspired a new generation of creative minds to pursue their dreams.

In Taking on Gravity, Browning reveals the creative principles of his multimillion- pound company, Gravity Industries, and shows us how grass-roots innovation can disrupt established industries in exciting and unexpected ways. On this journey into the sky we’ll experience what it’s like to take flight, to test the limits of the human body, and to convert moonshot ideas into tangible results.

The gravity story is an inspiring example of human creativity and our ceaseless desire to push the boundaries of what is possible. Where we go next is up to you.

Richard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology start-up Gravity Industries Ltd, which he officially launched in March 2017 after inventing, building and patenting an ‘Iron Man-like’ flight system, the Daedalus flight suit. A former Royal Marine reservist, Richard worked on a number of innovations and new technologies at BP before becoming involved in several start-ups, including a solar project in Kenya, lighting schools via reconditioning old car batteries. His passion for flight and his vision for Gravity are inspired by his father, an aeronautical engineer and inventor.

14 May 2020 | Henry Vines for Bantam Press | 256 pp

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