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This Flawless Place Between Bruno Portier

A beautiful, modern-day reimagining of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, one of the world’s most influential and treasured spiritual texts

Evoking inspirational classics like The Alchemist, This Flawless Place Between is a transcendent story about the end of life. It is a story of love, of the choices we make and the paths we walk, and how the great divide that we have built between the living and those that have passed is no divide at all.

Fiction On an isolated stretch of road in the Tibetan About the Author: ••UK: April 2012 mountains, a motorbike skids off the road. Bike and Bruno Portier is a writer, photographer, and ••US: May 2012 riders spin over the edge, plunging into a ravine. A ••Hardback documentary maker. He Tibetan peasant hurries to help, but while the young ••B Format travelled around Asia ••208 pages husband tries in vain to save his wife’s life, the stranger for twelve years before ••£10.99/$16.95 focuses on guiding her spirit along the new path it undertaking a PhD in social anthropology and writing ••9781851688500 must take. So begins a cathartic journey that carries this, his first novel. Ebook: Anne away from her broken body and back through ••9781851688517 the traumas and ecstasies of her life. As she revisits her past, and the futures of those she will leave behind, she begins to accept not only her death but also her life – and that what happens next will be up to her.

A luminous novel for all those who loved Siddhartha and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

“This inspiring novel will quench anyone’s thirst for knowledge and spirituality.” Psychologies magazine

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Running the Rift Naomi Benaron

Winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction

Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical – where the man who used to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Fiction About the Author: Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, ••UK: March 2012 Naomi Benaron teaches at a feat he believes might deliver him and his people ••Paperback Original Pima Community College, from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean ••B Format Arizona and online through ••384 pages the Afghan Women’s Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, ••£8.99 Writing Project. An advocate the family, and the country he loves. Finding them ••9781851689217 for African refugees in again is the race of his life. her community, she has Ebook: worked extensively with The Bellwether Prize is awarded biennially by ••9781780740782 genocide survivor groups in Barbara Kingsolver for an unpublished novel that Rwanda. She has won the G. S. Sharat Chandra Prize for addresses issues of social justice. It has previously Short Fiction and the Lorian been awarded to The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Hemingway Short Story (also published by Oneworld). Competition. She is also an Ironman triathlete.

“Truly fearless writing...culturally rich and completely engrossing.” Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible “Unflinching and beautifully crafted...a memorable read...Highly recommended.” Library Journal

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I Turn Out the Lights Zoya Pirzad

The internationally acclaimed bestseller from Iran now debuting in the English language

This multi-award winning novel set in southern Iran follows an Iranian-Armenian housewife’s struggles to find fulfilment within her family’s expectations. A model 1960s wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life. She has all she’s ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood of Abadan. Swaddled in the comforting monotony of cleaning, cooking, sewing, shopping, and dining at the Oil Company club, Clarisse’s greatest anxiety is keeping the peace with her critical mother, unmarried sister, distant husband, and Fiction About the Author: quarrelling children. ••UK: May 2012 Zoya Pirzad is a renowned ••US: June 2012 Iranian-Armenian writer and But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival ••Paperback Original novelist. She has written of an enigmatic Armenian family across the ••B Format two novels and three street. The debonair widower, his beguiling collections of short stories, ••288 pages tween daughter, and his mother, a domineering ••£8.99/$15.00 all of which have enjoyed aristocrat with an exotic past, steal their way ••9781851689255 international success. Her most recent collection of into Clarisse’s home. And before she has time Ebook: stories The Bitter Taste of to understand what’s happening, passions, ••9781780740843 Persimmon won the prize for Best Foreign Book of 2009 politics, and a plague of locusts have whipped up in France. She grew up in emotions that she never knew she had. Suddenly, Abadan, where this novel is there are options, opinions, desires, a wholly set, and now lives in Tehran. different life ready for the taking – but only if she can figure out what they are.

Published to instant acclaim in Pirzad’s native Iran and winning multiple awards, including the prestigious Houshang Golshiri award for Best Novel of the Year, I Turn Out the Lights is a humorous yet poignant insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led to the Islamic Revolution.

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No Worse Enemy The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan Ben Anderson

The most intimate and gripping account of the Afghan War

Informed by five years embedded with the Grenadier Guards and US Marines (one described him as a “brave motherf***er”), critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ben Anderson (Panorama and Dispatches) provides a gripping account of the chaos at the heart of the Afghanistan war. The only journalist to Current Affairs/ have witnessed every recent major Afghan military About the Author: Military History campaign, Anderson reveals the disturbing chasm Ben Anderson has been ••UK: March 2012 between the official rhetoric of peaceful withdrawal making documentaries and writing for over 14 years, ••US: March 2012 and the deadly reality on the ground. ••Hardback producing over 40 films ••234 x 156mm Including interviews with military top brass, Anderson for the BBC, Channel 4, and the Discovery Channel. He ••304 pages charts the progress of the West’s counter-insurgency has presented five of his ••£16.99/$24.95 strategy, the so-called ‘Good War’, and recounts how own series for BBC2, and ••9781851688524 the country, and Taliban-stronghold Helmand province fronted four programmes Ebook: in particular, has descended into ever-increasing levels for Panorama. He has been ••9781851688630 a finalist for a BAFTA award of violence. Detailing IED explosions, multiplying UK and has written for The and US casualties, civilian deaths, and Taliban fighters Times, Guardian, Esquire, who melt into the local population, No Worse Enemy is London Review of Books, a bold and frightening insight into the longest war of Daily Mirror, and the Daily Mail. modern times.

“One of the best war reports I have ever seen. Brilliant is an overused word but I thought it was truly brilliant.” David Dimbleby on Ben Anderson’s film,Taking on the Taliban

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Inside Job The Rogues Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century Charles Ferguson

The definitive big picture on the financial crisis – and our financial future – from the man behind the Academy Award–winning documentary

When Charles Ferguson’s documentary film Inside Job hit cinemas, it was a sensation – opening the public’s eyes to the mistakes and misdeeds that dragged the global economy into crisis. But Ferguson was only able to show 2 percent of the material he gathered. Now, he Business/ delivers the rest, in this shocking, must-read sequel. About the Author: Current Affairs Charles Ferguson won the Based on explosive interviews conducted personally ••UK: May 2012 Academy Award for Best ••Paperback Original by Ferguson, as well as primary documents buried in Documentary Feature in 2011 ••216 x 135mm court records and archives, Inside Job the book traces for his acclaimed film Inside ••288 pages in gripping detail how the financial industry and its Job, which was narrated by Matt Damon and is among ••£11.99 enablers went rogue. Ferguson shows how three decades the top 30 documentary ••9781851689156 of deregulation on both sides of the Atlantic invited the releases of all time. A former Ebook: crisis, particularly as key players cycled through positions entrepreneur with a PhD ••9781780740720 of power in government, “independent” academia, and in political science from MIT, he began his career big-ticket finance. And he argues that the continuing in filmmaking with a 2007 dearth of criminal prosecutions and liability charges are documentary on the Iraq sending a message – that the bankers and their cronies war, No End in Sight. can continue their dangerous “business as usual”.

With clarity, toughness, and stunning freshness, Ferguson offers an unrivalled accounting of our political and economic leadership – and our prospects for eventual recovery.

“As gripping as any thriller...Perhaps the most sensational aspect... is Ferguson’s contention that the crash corrupted the discipline of economics itself.” The Guardian on Charles Ferguson’s filmInside Job “One of the outstanding journalistic achievements of the past decade.” Daily Mail on the filmInside Job

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Megacatastrophes! Nine Strange Ways the World Could End David Darling & Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Discover the mind-boggling science behind the imminent (or not) apocalypse!

With centuries of failed predictions and the continual absence of a nuclear holocaust, it sometimes feels like the Day of Reckoning has been permanently delayed. Well, now you can celebrate the year of the Mayan Apocalypse in style with David Darling and Dirk Schulze-Makuch, as they delve into the amazing science behind the strangest Popular Science About the Authors: ways the world could end. ••UK: April 2012 David Darling is an ••US: April 2012 Could it be the asteroid hurtling towards us from outer astronomer, freelance science ••Paperback Original space, or super-volcanoes veiling the Earth beneath a writer, and creator of one of the most popular online ••216 x 135mm cloud of ash; Swiss black holes gobbling up the solar ••256 pages encyclopaedias of space and system, or a tiny army of nanobots in a deranged feeding ••£10.99/$15.00 astrobiology. He is the author ••9781851689057 frenzy? Oh, and don’t forget – there’s always the risk of numerous works, including of alien invasion. Ranking each potential disaster with the bestselling Equations of Ebook: Eternity. their ‘Catastrophometer’, David and Dirk provide the best ••9781780740270 Dirk Schulze-Makuch is guide to the worst that could happen, and explore what currently an Associate we could do to avert potential disaster. So sit down, face Professor in Astrobiology at the inevitable, and prepare to discover the awesome Washington State University. science behind our inevitable doom. His research has been widely published in media ranging from academic journals to New Scientist. Together, they were the critically acclaimed authors of We Are Not Alone.

“An exhilarating ride.” The Times Higher Educational Supplement on We Are Not Alone “Well-written and provocative.” New Scientist on We Are Not Alone

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About Time From Sun Dials to Quantum Clocks, How the Cosmos Shapes Our Lives Adam Frank

From Stonehenge to beyond the Big Bang, an exhilarating scientific exploration of how we make time

Time is the grandest conception of the universe that we humans have been able to imagine – and its most intimate, the very frame of human life. In About Time, astrophysicist and award-winning writer Adam Frank tells the scientific story of this wonderful and tyrannical invention. Popular Science/ About the Author: A Palaeolithic farmer moved through the sun-fuelled day Astronomy Adam Frank is Assistant and star-steered night in a radically different way than the ••UK: March 2012 Professor of Astrophysics ••Paperback Original Elizabethan merchants who set their pace to the clocks at the University of ••216 x 135mm newly installed in their town squares. Since then, science Rochester in New York. The ••432 pages has swept time into increasingly minute and standardized recipient of a prestigious Hubble Fellowship, he ••£12.99 units – the industrial efficiency of ironworks’ punch writes frequently for ••9781851689095 clocks; the space-age precision of atomic fountains and Discover, Astronomy, Ebook: GPS satellites; the fifteen-minute increments of Outlook’s and Scientific American ••9781780740607 digital revolution. And in the past decade, string-theory magazines. He is also a co-founder of NPR’s top- branes, multiverses, and “clockless” physics have begun to ranking science and culture overturn our ideas about how the universe began – the blog, 13.7 (npr.org/13.7). Big Bang – in ways that will completely rewrite time and our experience of it.

Weaving cosmology with day-to-day chronicles and a down-to-earth style, About Time is both dazzling and riveting as it confronts what comes next.

“A phenomenal blend of science and cultural history.” Kirkus Reviews, starred review “From prehistory to the Enlightenment, through Einstein and on to the multiverse, this is a rich and inspiring tour through some of the biggest ideas that have ever been thought.” Sean Carroll, author of From Eternity to Here

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Then They Came for Me 118 Days in Iran’s Most Notorious Prison Maziar Bahari with Aimee Molloy

Documenting the false imprisonment of a UK journalist by the Iran police state, and the global campaign to free him

Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran’s presidential election. He believed he’d return in just a few days – a week at most – to his pregnant fiancée and the rest of his family. In fact he was to spend the next four months in Iran’s most notorious prison, Current Affairs About the Authors: enduring brutal interrogation sessions. His release ••UK: February 2012 London-based Iranian- came only after mounting global outrage and a final ••Paperback Original Canadian journalist and ••216 x 135mm condemnation from US Secretary of State Hillary filmmaker Maziar Bahari ••384 pages Clinton. was reporting for Newsweek ••£10.99 magazine when he was Gripping and powerfully told, Then They Came for Me ••9781851688937 arrested without charge delves into Iran’s history of oppression, and details how during the 2009 Iranian Ebook: the democratic impulses of the youth are violently election protests. He was ••9781780740836 held for 118 days until the oppressed by a government that grows ever more Iranian state was forced totalitarian. An intimate account of contemporary Iran, by international pressure it is also the moving story of one family’s extraordinary to release him. In absentia courage in the face of repression. Bahari has been sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison, and 74 lashes. Aimee Molloy is a New York- based writer and journalist. She has co-authored books with Senator John Kerry and Chaplain James Yee, the Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo.

“A profound, yet intimate insight into modern day Iran...A wonderful book.” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News “Incredible.” Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

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Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World’s Top Companies William Poundstone

Pit yourself against the minds of the world’s best companies

You are shrunk to the height of a ten-pence piece and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Careers/Popular Google, or any of the world’s top employers, you’ll need About the Author: Psychology to have a convincing answer to this and countless William Poundstone is ••UK: April 2012 other tricky puzzles. the author of over ten ••Paperback Original bestselling non-fiction ••234 x 156mm Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? reveals the books, including Priceless: The ••304 pages new extreme interview questions in the post-crash, Hidden Psychology of Value. He has written for The New ••£12.99 hypercompetitive job-market, and uncovers the York Times, The Economist, ••9781851689170 extraordinary lengths the best companies will go to Esquire, Psychology Today, Ebook: find the right staff. William Poundstone guides readers and Harvard Business Review. ••9781780740751 through the surprising solutions to over a hundred of the most challenging conundrums actually used in interviews, as well as covering the importance of creative thinking, what your Facebook page says about you, and much, much more.

“[The book’s] remarkably engaging prose style kept me glued to the page. Fascinating and fun, and I definitely think you should buy it. 5/5” BBC Focus on Priceless

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What a Plant Knows A Field Guide to the Senses of Your Garden (and Beyond) Daniel Chamovitz

A captivating journey into the inner lives of plants – from the colours they see to the schedules they keep

How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it feel an insect’s spindly legs? How do roses know when it’s spring? Do they actually remember the weather?

Now, in What a Plant Knows, renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents a beguiling exploration Popular Science/ About the Author: of how plants experience our shared Earth – in terms Natural History Daniel Chamovitz is Director of sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, memory, and ••UK: June 2012 of the Manna Centre for ••Paperback Original even awareness. Combining cutting-edge research Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv ••216 x 135mm with lively storytelling, Chamovitz explains how a University. His career has ••256 pages willow tree knows when its neighbours have been been marked by groundbreaking discoveries in plant ••£10.99 commandeered by an army of ravenous beetles to why biology, with his research ••9781851689101 an avocado ripens when you give it the company of a published in the leading Ebook: banana in a bag (it’s the pheromones). And he settles journals. This is his first book. ••9781780740621 the debate, once and for all, over whether your beloved basil cares if you play Led Zeppelin or Bach.

Chamovitz reveals that plants have much in common with people – far more than we realize. Whether you are a green thumb, a science buff, a vegetarian, or simply a nature lover, this rare, inside look at the life of plants will delight.

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Meat The Story Behind Our Greatest Addiction Brian J. Ford

The definitive exploration of the history, science, and culture of eating meat

Whether you’re a fundamentalist vegetarian or BBQ fanatic, meat-eating is an integral part of everyone’s life. It has shaped our countryside, our economy, our society – even our brains, giving us that tasty evolutionary leg-up to develop our intelligence.

In this groundbreaking tour through several millennia of meat consumption and production, esteemed scientist and author Brian J. Ford leaves the moralizing at home and provides the first Popular Science/ About the Author: balanced exploration of the science, history, and Food Brian J. Ford is a leading ••UK: June 2012 scientist and writer. He possible future of the world’s favourite food. How ••US: July 2012 is an associate fellow at did mass-farming begin? Why don’t Westerners ••Paperback Original Gonville & Caius College, eat dogs? Could meat be produced without Cambridge, UK, a fellow ••216 x 135mm harming animals? Would you eat meat made of Cardiff University and a ••304 pages former fellow of the Open from recycled poo? ••£10.99/$15.00 University. Author of over ••9781851689187 At turns fascinating, mouth-watering, and thirty popular science books, Ebook: his science articles have disgusting, Meat also broaches the darker side ••9781780740768 appeared in New Scientist, of our addiction, from world food shortages to Scientific American, Nature, health risks. Acknowledging that we are unlikely The Times, and many other to stop eating meat anytime soon, Ford – a journals and magazines. His television appearances devoted carnivore himself – asks how we can, and include Newsnight and Any if we should, temper our addiction in the future. Questions? on the BBC, as well as co-presenting the series Food for Thought on Channel Four TV in the UK.

“The cleverest man in Britain.” Anne Robinson

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Like a Virgin The Science of a Sexless Future Aarathi Prasad

An adventurous romp to the frontiers of reproduction

Like all mammals, humans seem to have no choice: even though it is costly, inefficient, and dangerous, if we want to reproduce we simply have to “do it”. Still, most cultures tell the tale of a maiden who gives birth untouched by a man; and in the wild there are plenty of creatures – turkeys, komodo “dragons”, sharks, and the “Jesus Christ” lizard (which walks on water, too) – that take various approaches to making babies without having sex.

In Like a Virgin, biologist Aarathi Prasad explores Popular Science/ About the Author: when and how reproduction without sex has History of Science Aarathi Prasad has a PhD been achieved and why evolution hasn’t made ••UK: May 2012 in biology and previously that an option for humans – yet. She looks at ••US: June 2012 worked in cancer genetics ••Paperback Original at Imperial College, London. inconceivable ideas about conception, from ••216 x 135mm In 2005, she moved out of Paracelsus’s recipe for creating a child (bury the lab and into the world ••288 pages semen in manure for forty days, then feed the of science communication, ••£12.99/$16.95 first joining Sense About tiny being that emerges with human blood) ••9781851689118 Science, a charity aimed to the nationwide search for a virgin mother, Ebook: at promoting the use of spurred by the geneticist Helen Spurway, in ••9781780740676 evidence-based science in the 1950s tabloids. Prasad then takes us to public debate. She presented Channel 4’s controversial maverick laboratories that are today inventing documentary Is It Better to the equivalent of “non-sexual selection”, from Be Mixed Race? and wrote egg-fertilizing computer chips to artificial wombs and presented the BBC Radio for men. 4 documentary The Quest for Virgin Birth. A single mother, Prasad’s book is a highly provocative, entertaining Prasad lives in London. This is look at the mysteries of sex, reproduction, and her first book. evolutionary biology – past, present, and future.

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Losing the Head of Philip K. Dick A Bizarre But True Tale of Androids, F’rubber, and Left Luggage David Dufty

Stranger than science fiction

The Philip K. Dick android looked eerily like the iconic science fiction writer and counter culture guru. The android would “watch” people as they approached, “hear” their voices, answer their questions in Dick’s own words. It won awards and captured the imagination of scientists and the media.

Courtesy of Eric Mathews Then, a young roboticist on his way to Google headquarters lost the android head on a flight to Popular Science About the Author: Las Vegas. It has never been recovered. ••UK: March 2011 David Dufty was a ••Paperback Original postdoctoral fellow at the In a story that could have been lifted from one ••216 x 135mm University of Memphis of Philip K. Dick’s celebrated novels, which have ••288 pages at the time the Philip K. been made into such blockbuster films as Blade Dick android was being ••£10.99 Runner, Total Recall, and The Adjustment Bureau, ••9781851689224 developed; he was a confidant to the team of scientists and David Dufty brings to light the incredible but true E-book: had access to the android events surrounding the creation of the android ••9781780740799 itself. Now a science writer replica and its disappearance. Along the way, based in Australia, he has a he explores how the science fiction of artificial PhD in psychology. This is his first book. intelligence will soon meet the very real future.

“The best kind of popular science…Leaves you hungry to know more, and wondering at the possibilities that may lie ahead.” Australian Bookseller & Publisher

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The Philosophical Life Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom, from Socrates to Nietzsche James Miller

Life lessons from history’s greatest thinkers

Before philosophy became the often dry, academic discipline it is considered today, it was concerned with a universal dilemma we all face: how to live well.

In The Philosophical Life, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous thinkers, examining the interplay of their life and thought. From Diogenes the Cynic, who reportedly Philosophy About the Author: lived in a clay jar, to Kant, who wrestled with ••UK: February 2012 James Miller is Professor of hypochondria while advocating arch-rationality ••Paperback Politics and Chair of Liberal in his writings, each thinker took their own ••225 x 146mm Studies at the New School unique approach to “the good life” and often for Social Research in New ••432 pages struggled to put their theories into practice. ••£14.99 York. He is the author of The ••9781851688593 Passion of Michel Foucault With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, among other books. He lives Ebook: in Manhattan, New York. The Philosophical Life confirms the continuing ••9781851688678 relevance of philosophy today – and provides a captivating insight into history’s greatest thinkers, their contradictions, and their courage.

“A set of beautifully written and richly informative mini-biographies of a dozen philosophers…Each of them is a little gem in its own right.” AC Grayling “Fascinating.” The New York Times

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Twice Born Margaret Mazzantini

The international phenomenon – a sweeping epic of love and loss in war-torn Sarajevo

From the multi award-winning Irish-Italian author of Don’t Move, winner of the Campiello Prize, comes million-copy bestseller Twice Born, an acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war.

Gemma hasn’t been back to Sarajevo in sixteen years. Her last memories of that war-scarred city were of fleeing on a Red Cross cargo plane with her son, only hours old, leaving behind her husband Diego and the makeshift family of survivors they had come to love. She finally decides to return to teach her son Pietro about Fiction About the Author: the country of his birth and the father he ••UK: April 2012 Margaret Mazzantini was never knew. But the streets are flooded with ••Paperback born in Dublin and now lives impassioned memories of her love affair with ••B Format in Rome. She trained as an Pietro’s father, their determination to have a child actress but left the stage to ••464 pages whatever the cost, and their deep connection to ••£8.99 concentrate on writing. Her the city even as war threatened to destroy it. ••9781851689163 first novel, Don’t Move, won the prestigious Strega Prize, Brought to life by an unforgettable cast of Ebook: and sold over 2m copies. ••9781851688494 characters, Twice Born masterfully plumbs the depths of love, grief, and what it is to be a family.

Twice Born, already a blockbuster in Italy, has been optioned for a film starring Penelope Cruz.

“This stunning novel about the nature of grief, love, and motherhood blew me away with the quality and depth of her haunting story.” The Bookseller “Mazzantini’s depictions of love, maternal and romantic, are powerfully raw.” Kirkus Reviews

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Partitions Amit Majmudar

Set during the violent partition of India, this is a powerful story of entire communities uprooted and set adrift in a swarming mass of humanity

August, 1947

India is torn in two. Violence erupts on both sides of the new border and waves of refugees flee the carnage and chaos.

Fighting to board the last train to Delhi, six- year-old Hindu twins Shankar and Keshav are torn from their mother’s arms and must begin a terrifying trek to find her again. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, having escaped the honourable death planned for her by her father, dreams of a spiritual sanctuary at the temple of Amritsar. Fiction About the Author: And Ibrahim Masud, a timid doctor driven from ••UK: February 2012 Amit Majmudar is the winner his home, treats all those he finds along the way of the 2011 Donald Justice ••Paperback as he struggles towards the new state of Pakistan. ••B Format Poetry Prize. His first poetry ••224 pages collection, 0˚, 0˚: Poems, was This is the story of their journeys across a ravaged published in 2009, and his ••£7.99 land, of the acts of compassion and cruelty that ••9781851688401 second collection, Heaven & Earth, in 2011. Partitions is his shape their new lives and their new nations. Ebook: first novel. A blistering debut, Partitions introduces an ••9781851687855 extraordinary new author who writes with poetic skill and unforgettable elegance.

“Amit Majmudar’s exceptional debut brilliantly captures India at its most turbulent, in a dazzling narrative.” Daily Mail “Poignant...Majmudar interjects three story lines for a frank but greatly human dramatization of the persecution each religious group experienced at the hands of the others.” Booklist, starred review

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Metamorphosis Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms Frank Ryan

A wholly new view of life and evolution, “a must for…the downright curious.” (New Scientist)

Scientist Frank Ryan explains how metamorphosis – the intricate trick of nature by which caterpillars transform into butterflies – reveals secrets that are shaking some of our longest-held beliefs about evolution. We follow the young Vincent Wigglesworth as he stalks the woods of Hertfordshire and invents modern entomology, and the controversial Don Williamson, who creates what may be the first artificial life form in his lab on the Isle of About the Author: Man. Enchanting and thought-provoking, Metamorphosis offers a A biologist and consultant physician, new understanding of the most ancient miracles of nature. Frank Ryan is the author of the critically acclaimed Virolution, “[A] lively and thoroughly entertaining read; one of the best Darwin’s Blind Spot, and Virus X, scientific books of recent years.” among others. An Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, New Internationalist he lectures frequently on evolution Natural History/Popular Science | April 2012 | B Format | 352 pages | £9.99 and the role of viruses in life. 9781851689132 | ebook: 9781851688623 Libya From Colony to Revolution Ronald Bruce St John

A compelling insight into the history of this complex country, from ancient times right up to the toppling of Qadaffi

Skilfully navigating Libya’s eventful past, this fully updated edition of Ronald Bruce St John’s authoritative work includes an in-depth examination of the 2011 rebellion that finally put an end to over 40 years of Qadaffi’s authoritarian rule. From early Greek settlements to the infamous Lockerbie bombing, and from the colonel’s astonishing return to the international stage to the events that led to his ousting, this is an essential introduction to About the Author: this turbulent land on the cusp of Africa and the Middle East. Ronald Bruce St John served on the International Advisory Board of The “Of all the books on Libyan history, Bruce St John’s is easily the Journal of Libyan Studies and The most comprehensive and approachable.” Atlantic Council Working Group on Libya. He is the author of numerous Washington Post books on Libya. History/Politics | UK: November 2011 | US: December 2011 | B Format | 320pp £10.99/$16.95 | 9781851689194 | ebook: 9781780740829

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The 4-Percent Universe Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality Richard Panek

“A fascinating tale of cosmology’s known unknowns.” BBC Focus

Over the past decades, a handful of scientists have been probing a disturbing aspect of our universe: only 4% of it consists of the matter that makes up the stuff of our lives; the rest is completely unknown. This is the dramatic story of the race to unlock the secrets of “dark matter” and “dark energy”, the greatest mysteries remaining in science.

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From Eternity to Here The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time Sean Carroll

“Forget Stephen Hawking’s Brief History: this mind-blowing book is the real deal.” Times Higher Education

You can’t unscramble an egg and you can’t remember the future. But what if time doesn’t (or didn’t!) always go in the same direction? In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll delivers his dazzling new theory of the mysterious “arrow of time” and how we came to exist.

“An original piece of deep thinking, which covers some of the About the Author: most advanced ideas in physics today.” Sean Carroll is a theoretical BBC Sky at Night physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He is also one of the “Audacious.” founders of the group blog Cosmic Wired Variance (cosmicvariance.com), Popular Science/Physics | March 2012 | B Format | 512 pages | £9.99 named one of the five top science blogs by Nature. 9781851688951 | ebook: 9781851688906

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My Beautiful Genome Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time Lone Frank

The first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics – and the extent to which our genes determine our destiny

Taking a uniquely cheeky approach, Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to investigate who we are – and who we will be – as personal genomics hits the pharmacy. She tests the limits of genetic fortune-telling, from undergoing surgery before cancer cells appear to choosing a child’s education based on promising biological “snips”. And she explores how much environment matters – a quest made all the more gripping as Frank considers her family’s and her own struggles with depression. About the Author: Lone Frank is the author of The “It’s not often you can wholeheartedly recommend a Neurotourist (9781851687961). A book...but this is it.” prize-winning science journalist Daily Mail and TV documentary presenter, she has written for such publications as “Enthralling.” Newsweek and the Guardian, New Scientist among others. Popular Science/Biography | May 2012 | B Format | 336 pages | £8.99 9781851689149 | ebook: 9781851688647 Pleasure How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity & Gambling Feel So Good David J. Linden

Why we can’t stop ourselves from liking some things, even when we think we can…

Eating, having sex, doing a good deed – the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive in all humans. Now, award-winning neuroscientist David J. Linden describes how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level – in our brain – and explains why it is so hard to escape alcohol addiction but easier to end compulsive video-gaming.

About the Author: “This cheerful summary of the brain’s reward system is a David J. Linden is Professor of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins profound experience...utterly compelling.” University School of Medicine and The Observer the author of The Accidental Mind. “You’re sure to get pleasure from Pleasure.” BBC Focus

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Pink Brain, Blue Brain How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps – and What We Can Do About It Lise Eliot

The 2010 smash hit arrives in mass-market paperback!

Turning conventional thinking about gender on its head, Lise Eliot issues a call to close the troubling gaps between boys and girls, and help all children reach their full potential. Drawing on the latest research in neuroplasticity, Eliot argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences at birth become amplified as parents, teachers, and culture unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes. Indicating points of intervention, she offers concrete About the Author: advice to help all children grow into well-rounded individuals. Lise Eliot is a mother of three and Associate Professor of “Read it if you’re a parent seeking some savvy insight on child Neuroscience at The Chicago rearing...or just for the pleasure of understanding yourself.” Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University. She is the author of Deborah Blum – Pulitzer Prize winning author of Sex on the Brain What’s Going on in There? and How Parenting/Popular Psychology | March 2012 | B Format | 432 pages the Brain and Mind Develop in the £10.99 | 9781851687992 | ebook: 9781780740867 First Five Years of Life. Welcome to Your Child’s Brain From In Utero to Uni Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang

Two top neuroscientists wittily dissect how children’s brains really work

Brain researchers Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang put common child-rearing wisdom under the scientific microscope to illuminate how and why the mind grows as a child grows. Along the way, they explain why France was right to ban “baby TV”, why teenagers stay up late, how social awkwardness decreases IQ, and why learning a second language increases empathy. Filled with myth-busting facts and clever advice, this is the essential and entertaining guide to understanding your child’s brain. About the Authors: Sandra Aamodt is a former Editor- “An excellent book – one that all parents should read.” in-Chief of Nature Neuroscience. Lorraine Kelly Sam Wang is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton “An authoritative overview...littered with practical tips for University. Together, they are the parents...and fascinating factoids.” authors of the acclaimed Welcome New Scientist Culture Lab to Your Brain. Popular Science/Parenting | April 2012 | B Format | 336 pages | £9.99 9781851689125 | ebook: 9781851688654

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A Cupboard Full of Coats Yvvette Edwards

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011

For fourteen years Jinx has been haunted by the brutal murder of her mother. Crushed by loss and guilt, she is unable to move on from the memories of her childhood that are poisoning her life and her relationship with her husband and son. The sudden arrival of Lemon, an old friend of her mother’s, changes everything. He wants to talk about that night and he won’t leave until she’s shared her story – her whole story.

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Bernie Madoff, The Wizard of Lies Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle Diana B. Henriques

“A riveting history of Mr Madoff’s shady dealings and the shattering consequences of his theft.” The Economist

Since the news broke of Bernie Madoff’s world- circling $65 billion Ponzi scheme, many have speculated about how he did it. But no reporter had been able to get the full story – until now. Based on Henriques’s unprecedented access to Madoff, including extensive correspondence and his first interviews for publication since his arrest, Bernie Madoff, The Wizard of Lies is the ultimate true-life financial thriller – and an international bestseller. Business/Biography About the Author: Longlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman ••Paperback Diana B. Henriques is a Sachs Business Book of the Year 2011 ••B Format senior financial writer for ••448 pages the New York Times and ••£9.99 the author of two previous ••9781851689033 books on Wall Street. Since joining the newspaper’s staff Ebook: in 1989, she has won several ••9781780740430 awards for her reporting, including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She has led the Times’s coverage of the Madoff scandal.

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The Gendarme Mark Mustian

What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost – only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered?

Emmett Conn is near the end of his life when he is beset by vivid and disturbing dreams. He is a young officer of the Ottoman army in 1915 escorting Armenians on a death march out of Turkey. He is in love with one of the prisoners but loses her in the chaos. Slowly he realizes the truth that he had wiped from his mind: these aren’t dreams, but memories. As his grasp on reality begins to break down, Emmett sets out on a final journey to find About the Author: the girl and beg forgiveness. Mark Mustian is an author, attorney, and city commissioner. He lives Shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2011 with his wife and three children in Tallahasse, Florida. “Gripping.” The Times Literary Supplement

The Shadow Market How Sovereign Wealth Funds Secretly Dominate the Global Economy Eric J. Weiner

A “remarkable” inside track on the super-rich, super secretive funds that are buying up the world, piece by piece – now updated to cover the latest market take-aways (Financial Times)

In this startling investigation, Eric J. Weiner uncovers the true leaders guiding our shaky recovery from the financial crisis: unregulated sovereign wealth funds. Taking advantage of liquidity problems in Europe and the US, cash-flush nations including China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Norway are buying About the Author: up major stakes in corporations and massive tracts of farmland Eric J. Weiner is a critically and natural resources. This is the Shadow Market, quietly yet acclaimed business reporter and the author of What Goes Up: The aggressively forming the power structure of tomorrow’s economy. Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street. “Highly informative and genuinely startling...A must read.” The Market

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Sorry, I’m British! An Insider’s Romp Through Britain from A to Z Ben Crystal & Adam Russ Illustrated by Ed McLachlan

An original and funny take on what it is to be British

Discover the fate of a pitbull named ASBO, find out exactly why we get bank holidays when we do, and learn why it’s better to drive on the left with this mini-encyclopaedia of British behaviour. Peppered with illustrations from the legendary British cartoonist Ed McLachlan (Punch, Private Eye, The Spectator), this is the perfect book for a nation that loves to laugh at itself.

About the Authors: “Full of strange facts, clever insights, and amusing Ben Crystal has worked in TV, film, observations...adds up to a surprisingly comprehensive and theatre, and is the author of several books on Shakespeare. summary of what it means to be British.” Adam Russ is an actor and writer Daily Mail whose books include 101 Places Humour/Gift | Paperback | B Format | 224 pages | £7.99/$12.95 Not to Visit. Ed McLachlan is an 9781851688562 | ebook: 9781780740409 acclaimed British cartoonist.

Packing for Mars The Curious Science of Life in Space Mary Roach

The armchair astronaut’s “eye-openingly” hilarious guidebook to space, now in mass-market paperback (Time Out)

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? Or smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Mary Roach answers these questions and more in her latest laugh-out-loud-funny international bestseller.

About the Author: Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 Mary Roach is the internationally “Don’t miss this – Roach is seriously funny.” bestselling author of Stiff: The The Times Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Six Feet Over: Adventures in the “The kind of book that’ll have you reading out the juicy bits Afterlife, and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science. to friends and family...like a sassier – i.e. ruder – Bill Bryson.” Daily Mail

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How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer Mick Conefrey

The retro gift for all intrepid lady-folk

Ever wondered how to cook a locust or which woman first climbed Everest? Pairing intrepid stories of yester-year with hilarious retro tips from history’s greatest female adventurers, this is the perfect gift for both seasoned explorers and office workers dreaming of getting away.

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Why Don’t Spiders Stick to Their Webs? And 317 Other Everyday Mysteries of Science Robert Matthews

“Ideal fodder for the curious mind.” Roger Highfield, Editor of New Scientist and author of The Science of Harry Potter

What would happen if you fell into a black hole? When can you drive through the end of a rainbow? Is it ever possible to hurt your brain by thinking too much? In this entertaining and enlightening scientific tour of answers both cosmic and quotidian – a Oneworld bestseller drawn from his popular Sunday Telegraph column – Robert Matthews tackles everything from the puzzling mathematics of odd socks to the real “string theory” mystery: how About the Author: does string acquire all those unwanted knots? Robert Matthews is Visiting Reader in Science at Aston University, “Matthews takes things that seem hopelessly complicated Birmingham, a science consultant and explains how simple they are.” to BBC Focus, and the winner of an Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for Ian Stewart, author of Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical his studies of Murphy’s Law. He Curiosities is also the author of 25 Big Ideas Popular Science | Paperback | B Format | 256 pages | £7.99/$14.00 (9781851683918). 9781851689002 | ebook: 9781780740027

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How to Save the World with Salad Dressing And Other Outrageous Science Problems Thomas Byrne & Tom Cassidy

An interactive introduction to the science of everyday life

Dismissing the idea that physics has to be dull, Byrne and Cassidy serve up a rip-roaring science adventure that puts the reader in the driving seat. Can you speed up light? Is time travel possible? And will farting make you weigh less, or more?

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You Kant Make It Up! Strange Ideas from History’s Great Philosophers Gary Hayden

Could you be convinced that you don’t exist?

Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make It Up! sends readers on a thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Harry Potter is real. Matter doesn’t exist. Dan Brown is better than Shakespeare. All these statements stem from philosophy’s greatest minds, from Plato to Nietzsche. What were they thinking! Overflowing with compelling arguments for the downright strange – many of which are hugely influential today – this unconventional About the Author: introduction to philosophy will challenge your assumptions, Gary Hayden is a journalist and expand your horizons, and infuriate, entertain, and amuse you. popular philosopher. He has a master’s degree in philosophy and “A delightful read, fun and informative. Truth is stranger than has written for The Times Educational Supplement, Scotsman, Church Times, fiction, and philosophical truth is the strangest of all!” and a selection of magazines. He William Irwin, Professor of Philosophy, King’s College Pennsylvania is the author of This Book Does Not and editor of The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series Exist: Adventures in the Paradoxical. Philosophy/Gift | Paperback | B Format | 248 pages | £7.99/$14.95 9781851688456 | ebook: 9781851688708

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The Oil Kings How the U.S., Iran & Saudi Arabi Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East Andrew Scott Cooper

The first exposé of the secret U.S.–Saudi plot that broke OPEC’s monopoly and brought down the Shah

The Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Ford (hoping to secure his re-election), helping to precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Andrew Scott Cooper reveals the fatal struggle between the “oil kings”, both Middle-Eastern and American, as they jockeyed for power, playing games that led directly to the rise About the Author: of Iran’s radical anti-American theocracy, which still exists today. Andrew Scott Cooper has worked for the United Nations, Human “A revelatory, impressive debut.” Rights Watch, Working Assets, and Kirkus Reviews other nonprofit organisations. This is his first book. Current Affairs/Military History | Paperback | 234 x 156 mm | 528 pages £12.99 | 9781851688609 | ebook: 9781851688692

Seeds of Terror How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War Gretchen Peters

The “meticulously researched” exposé that changed the West’s policy towards the Afghan heroin trade and shows how the region’s cycle of extremism can finally be broken (The Sunday Times)

With the breakneck pace of a thriller, fearless journalist Gretchen Peters reveals the deepening relationship between the Taliban and drug traffickers, from the vast poppy fields of Afghanistan’s south to the money launderers of Karachi and Dubai. Based on hundreds of interviews with fighters, smugglers, and government agents, Seeds of Terror is an eye-opening investigation of the About the Author: narco-terror nexus. Gretchen Peters has covered “Stunning...A must-read.” Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade. A Harvard graduate, Ahmed Rashid, bestselling author of Taliban and Descent into Chaos she was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the 2007 “Compelling.” assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Time Politics/International Relations | Paperback | B Format | 320 pages | £9.99 9781851687510 | ebook: 9781851688913

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