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2018 FIFA WORLD CUP RUSSIA™ THE OFFICIAL BOOK

Carlton Books 128pp, PB 978-1-78739-030-0 150 images April 2018 45,000 words 246 x 189 mm £12.99

*-*%;SVPH'YT6YWWME8LI3J½GMEP&SSO is the most authoritative and comprehensive preview of football’s greatest tournament. Licensed by world football’s governing body, it is packed with stunning photography and expert analysis of all 32 teams, their star players and TVSWTIGXWMRXLI½REPW-XJIEXYVIWEKYMHIXSEPPWXEHMYQW and 11 host cities, a comprehensive review of the qualifying competition, a history of the FIFA World Cup™ and a

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KEIR RADNEDGE has covered football and the FIFA World Cup for more than 50 years and written more than 50 football books, from tournament guides to encyclopedias. As an analyst, he appears regularly on the BBC, Sky Sports and the US cable news network CNN. He was editor of ;SVPH7SGGIV, the leading English language magazine on the global game.

SELLING POINTS • This tournament guidebook is officially licensed by the • The opening ceremony will be held on Friday 14 June 2018 Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA). and the final on Sunday 15 July, both in Moscow (at the Luzhniki Stadium). • Russia is the first nation from Eastern Europe to host the FIFA World Cup finals. The 32 teams will play 64 matches in • England made it to the finals with one round of qualifying to 12 stadiums across 11 cities. spare. 6+ 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP SELLING POINTS • Packed full of RUSSIA™ incredible FIFA World Cup™ facts KIDS’ HANDBOOK and records. • Bursting with Carlton Kids 48pp + 1 sticker sheet, PB 978-1-78312-338-4 100 images football puzzles, April 2018 8,000 words quizzes and games. 246 x 189 mm £6.99 • Fill-in progress chart lets young As excitement builds in the run-up to the 2018 FIFA fans record World Cup™, the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ Kids’ match results as ,ERHFSSO provides the perfect tournament companion for the tournament younger football fans. Featuring Zabivaka™, the 2018 FIFA progresses. ;SVPH'YT6YWWMESJ½GMEPQEWGSXXLMWFSSOMWFYVWXMRK with information about the host country, Russia, plus the • Includes fantastic stadiums, star players, teams, FIFA World Cup™ facts and reusable football stats, as well as loads of games and quizzes. stickers.

AUTHOR: KEVIN PETTMAN

8+ 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP SELLING POINTS • Bite-sized profiles RUSSIA™ of star players are accompanied by FACT FILE in-depth profiles of all 32 teams. Carlton Kids 64pp, HB 978-1-78312-337-7 More than 100 images • Includes a match- April 2018 15,000 words by-match results 280 x 216 mm £8.99 chart to fill in. • Packed with This in-depth guide for younger readers contains everything amazing quick- they need to become true 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ fire Super Stats, I\TIVXW%PPXIEQWEVIJIEXYVIHXSKIXLIV[MXLTVS½PIW giving unusual or of star players who will light up the tournament, including Sport recordbreaking Thomas Müller, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo facts about past 5 and many more. Read special features on the teams and FIFA World Cups. GSQTPIXIXLI½PPMRQEXGLWGLIHYPIEWXLIHVEQESJXLI tournament unfolds.

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5+ 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP SELLING POINTS • More than 150 RUSSIA™ reusable stickers. • Featuring ACTIVITY AND Zabivaka™, the 2018 FIFA World COLOURING Cup Russia™ BOOK official mascot.

Carlton Kids 16pp + 2 sticker sheet, PB 978-1-78312-339-1 Colour illustrations and images April 2018 1,000 words 280 x 216 mm £4.99

Pick up your pens and pencils and get creative – the biggest ever FIFA World Cup™ is here! The 2018 FIFA World Cup 6YWWME%GXMZMX]ERH'SPSYVMRK&SSO is packed with star players Œ*-*%*-*%´W3J½GMEP0MGIRWIH to colour in, plus spot the difference games, dot to dots Product Logos, and the Emblems, and word searches, all based on the 2018 FIFA World Cup Mascots, Posters and Trophies of the FIFA World Cup™ Russia™! Includes amazing football facts and more than 150 tournaments are copyrights and/ AUTHOR: EMILY STEAD colourful football stickers to use with the activities. or trademarks of FIFA. MANUFACTURED UNDER LICENCE BY Carlton Books. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE FIFA WORLD CUP™

Carlton Books 304pp, HB 978-1-78739-018-8 750 images October 2017 120,000 words 280 x 230 mm £30.00

8LI3J½GMEP,MWXSV]SJXLI*-*%;SVPH'YT™ is an authoritative and comprehensive review of the 20 FIFA World Cups to have taken place since the inaugural tournament in 1930. It is packed with stunning photography, reports and noteworthy moments from IEGLXSYVREQIRXEW[IPPEWWXEXMWXMGWYRMUYISJ½GMEP documents and memorabilia from the FIFA World Football Museum.

No other event in the sporting world can rival the glamour, impact, fervent following and universal appeal of the FIFA World Cup. This unique volume tells the stories THE FIFA WORLD FOOTBALL MUSEUM, located behind the scenes, as well as analysing the most famous in the heart of Zurich, is the home of the FIFA World and infamous incidents. It also features the biggest stars Cup Trophy, which is on permanent display. With an from around the world and many previously unknown interactive, multimedia display of exhibits, the Museum ones too, all with a unique point of view. explores the emotions that football awakens. With exhibition space of more than 3,000m2 – roughly the size of a football pitch – the Museum offers a fascinating journey through time. Along with its permanent collection, there is a library and research centre with more than 7,000 books. The Museum is a place Sport of discovery for visitors of all ages, featuring many educational displays connecting football with society.

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SELLING POINTS • This is the only World Cup history to be officially licensed • FIFA has more members (211) than either the International by the Federation of International Football Associations Olympic Committee or the United Nations; 208 nations (FIFA). participated in the qualification competition for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. • According to FIFA.com’s statistics, 113 million fans connected with official World Cup content on handheld • The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Russia for the electronic devices at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the first time. The hosts and defending champions Germany will official app was downloaded 24 million times. be joined by 30 other countries in the finals. Sport 7

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MANUFACTURED UNDER LICENCE BY CARLTON BOOKS. No sport has greater coverage around the world than football and Carlton Books is at the forefront of football publishing, with every type of illustrated book.There are books for statisticians, historians, trivia buffs and loyal supporters.

Every age group is catered to, stalwarts of the grandstand or armchair experts. Sport

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THE WORLD CUP IN 100 THE WORLD OF OPTA: WORLD FOOTBALL THE RANDOM HISTORY OBJECTS FOOTBALL INFOGRAPHICS OF FOOTBALL 978-0-23300-519-5 978-1-78097-997-7 978-1-78097-995-3 978-1-85375-991-8 £25.00 £25.00 £25.00 £7.99

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Carlton Books 224pp, HB 978-1-78739-057-7 240 images May 2018 140,000 words 280 x 230 mm £25.00

8LI9PXMQEXI)RG]GPSTIHMESJ8IRRMW is the pre-eminent single volume illustrated work of tennis reference, tracing the game from its relaxed beginnings as a pastime of the 1800s through to what has become the LMKLIRIVK]KPSFEPWTSVXSJXLIX[IRX]½VWXGIRXYV] John Parsons’ celebrated book includes comprehensive GLETXIVWTVS½PMRKXLIPIKIRHWSJXLIKEQIERHQSVI than 150 top players through history; analysis of tennis’s greatest matches; world famous tournaments and global development, as well as extensive features on the politics, controversies and oddities of the game.

Packed with 240 photographs and complete with a record of every Grand Slam winner, the players, tournaments and Writer and broadcaster JOHN PARSONS wrote issues of importance in tennis are highlighted in detail in about sport for half a century, starting at age 14. He the book. Written by two of the game’s leading authorities covered tennis for more than 30 years, wrote 8LI3JJMGMEP and fully revised, updated and expanded to include all ;MQFPIHSR%RRYEP for 20 years and was awarded the Ron the stories of 2017, 8LI9PXMQEXI)RG]GPSTIHMESJ8IRRMWis Bookman Media Excellence Award for his writing in 1998. XLIHI½RMXMZI[SVOSRXLIWYFNIGX[MXLIZIV]TEKIER information-packed celebration of one of the world’s most HENRY WANCKE is the editor of 8IRRMW8SHE] exhilarating sports. magazine and the Secretary of the Association of British Tennis Writers. Sport 9

SELLING POINTS • A stunning illustrated celebration of tennis written by two of • The foreword has been written by former British No.1 and the sport’s leading authorities. world No.4, Tim Henman – now a respected commentator and analyst. • British tennis is beginning to show the shoots of recovery, with Jo Konta reaching the Top 5 in the women’s game and Andy Murray becoming men’s world No.1 in autumn 2016. SELLING POINTS TOUR DE • Fully revised and updated, this is the FRANCE: CLIMBS second edition of the innovative high- FROM ABOVE definition satellite atlas of the Tour 20 HORS CATEGORIE ASCENTS IN HIGH- de France’s most famous, historic DEFINITION SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY and toughest climbs (known in the sport Carlton Books 224pp, HB 978-1-78739-046-1 220 images as ,SVW'EXqKSVMI) May 2018 55,000 words – roads so steep 245 x 283 mm £25.00 and punishing they are beyond Experience the thrill and intensity of the Tour classification. de France’s most challenging climbs using the RICHARD ABRAHAM is a journalist with • Google Earth breathtaking photography of Google Earth. In Tour de ']GPMRK;IIOP] and Rouleur magazines, for whom photography *VERGI'PMQFWJVSQ%FSZI, 20 notorious Tour de France he has covered the Tour de France, the sport’s provides unique and ,SVW'EXqKSVMI climbs – ascents that are beyond biggest stage races and one-day classics. His work unsurpassed levels GPEWWM½GEXMSR¯EVIMPPYWXVEXIHYWMRK+SSKPI)EVXL´W has also featured in Tour,']GPMRK*MXRIWW and ']GPMRK of detail – the Tour LMKLHI½RMXMSRWEXIPPMXIMQEKIV] %GXMZI magazines. He lives in Reading and his de France has never favourite climb is the Col du Galibier. been seen this way The book features such monumental climbs as the before. 2,715-metre Col de la Bonette, the historic Great St Bernard Pass, Col du Galibier’s incredibly 15 per cent • The Tour de France gradient climb, Alpe d’Huez’s famous hairpins and the is the most popular terrifying Mont Ventoux. As well as providing expertly endurance sport ERRSXEXIHLMKLHI½RMXMSRQETWSJXLIWIGPMQFWXLI in the world, now book also explores their rich history, and charts watched by more the daring Tour exploits of great Tour riders such as than one billion Fausto Coppi and Marco Pantani. viewers in almost 200 countries every There are more than 220 photographs, providing year. a unique aerial guide to the twists, turns and

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THE OFFICIAL HISTORY

Carlton Books 176pp, HB 978-1-78739-085-0 315 images May 2018 45,000 words 283 x 245 mm £20.00

0I8SYVHI*VERGIMWXLISJ½GMEPTYFPMGEXMSRSRXLI history of the event, written in association with Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) by three experts. It is a celebration of one of the world’s most famous annual events, generally considered to be the greatest test of endurance in the sporting world.

This new edition, containing a Foreword by 1987 Triple Crown (Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and World Road Race Championship) winner Stephen Roche, comprises an authoritative narrative account of each major era up to and including the 2017 Tour – when Britain’s Chris Froome joined an elite club of four-time and three-in- has followed the Tour since 1954 when, SERGE LAGET a-row winners. It includes more than 300 photographs, on holiday aged seven years old, he watched the peloton some dating back to the nineteenth century, and there pass by. As a journalist he has covered the race for L’Équipe are features on the superstars and memorable moments – France’s leading sports newspaper – for more than for each era. The photos include souvenir brochures, 30 years and also written numerous Tour-related books. period newspapers, posters, stickers, postcards and items LUKE EDWARDES-EVANS is a keen cyclist and of correspondence, together with action shots of all the freelance writer who regularly contributes articles to major stars both in the saddle and associated with what ']GPMRK;IIOP], ']GPI7TSVX and ']GPMRK%GXMZImagazines. is universally known as Le Tour.

ANDY MCGRATH is the editor of the award-winning Rouleur magazines. Sport 11

SELLING POINTS • An official publication of Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), • The Tour de France is broadcast in 186 countries around organizers of the Tour de France and publishers of L’Équipe, the world, and claims the largest worldwide audience for any the famous French sports daily newspaper. annual sporting event. • This new edition is fully updated to include the drama from Tours right up to 2017, featuring the legendary achievements of four-time winner Chris Froome and one of the most prolific stage winners, Mark Cavendish.

SELLING POINTS HARRY & • The wedding of HRH Henry MEGHAN of Wales to Miss Meghan Markle AN INVITATION TO THE ROYAL is the most highly WEDDING anticipated royal event of recent Carlton Books 144pp, HB times. 978-1-78739-133-8 150 photographs • More than 500 March 2018 25,000 words 266 x 200 mm £16.99 million people are predicted to This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and watch the event Meghan’s relationship celebrates the announcement worldwide. of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly • The event will modern royal romance. be attended by a glittering array of The book charts their very different individual lives royalty, film stars from childhood to shared global stardom, revealing and luminaries from LS[XLIGSYTPI½VWXQIXSRERYRPMOIP]FPMRHHEXIERH across the globe. then secured their love for one another while camping • Interest in the in the wilds of Botswana. wedding will generate income in &EWIHSR½VWXLERHERIGHSXIWSJXLIGSYTPI´WPMJI excess of £1 billion ANGELA PEEL is a journalist and author who has together, Harry & Meghan: An Invitation to the Royal in sales of wedding produced a series of books on royal subjects. She Wedding traces the fairytale-like romance between souvenirs, tourism has written for a variety of magazines, including XLI9/´W½JXLMRPMRIXSXLIXLVSRIERHXLIWXEVSJ and television rights Hello!, Glamour, Marie Claire and Elle, and is a television’s Suits up to the day of their engagement in worldwide. regular contributor to The Times and Vanity Fair. November 2017. It also explores their plans for this highly anticipated royal wedding. Reference

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HARRY & MEGHAN: THE ROYAL WEDDING ALBUM 978-1-78739-134-5 £16.99 QUEEN ELIZABETH II

A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE AND REIGN

André Deutsch 128pp, HB 978-0-23300-555-3 100 photographs June 2018 22,000 words 250 x 216 mm £14.99

Written by the former ITV News Royal Editor Tim Ewart, this beautifully illustrated book looks at the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history.

It contains more than 100 photographs, many of which are from the National Archives, and reviews the Queen’s reign, which has continued during the eventful years since 1953. During this time Her Majesty has maintained traditions that link the United Kingdom of today with a history that stretches back more than a thousand years. Featuring engagements that range from royal tours to state visits, and from the day-to-day to notable family TIM EWART was the ITV News Royal Editor. He joined events and grand occasions such as Trooping the Colour, ITV News in 1981 and one of his first jobs was as part of Queen Elizabeth II is a delightful celebration of this the team covering the marriage of the Prince of Wales and LMWXSVMGEP½KYVI Lady Diana Spencer. He has reported on all major royal events from Jubilee celebrations to international tours and has interviewed all the senior members of the Royal Family. Reference 15

SELLING POINTS • Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 photographs. • Focuses on notable events in the life of HM the Queen, with sources from institutions including the National Archives. • Written by Tim Ewart, the former ITV News Royal Editor, it is the ideal gift for those interested in the history of the Royal Family. SELLING POINTS EINSTEIN • Written by Walter Isaacson, the first THE MAN, THE GENIUS, AND THE author allowed THEORY OF RELATIVITY access to Einstein’s private papers. André Deutsch 160pp, HB Isaacson wrote 978-0-23300-547-8 180 photographs and the celebrated May 2018 illustrations 237 x 185 mm 45,000 words Einstein: His Life and £20.00 Universe (which sold close to a million Einstein is an introduction to the man who has copies in the US) contributed more to theoretical physics than anyone and the authorized IPWIMRXLIPEWX]IEVW;VMXXIRF]XLI½VWX biography of Steve author allowed access to his private papers, and with Jobs. fascinating imagery and accounts from his friends • Einstein is the and family, the private aspects of Einstein’s life are most well-known illuminated just as much as his science. scientist of the past century; Walter Isaacson chronicles Einstein’s youth and his his theories and I\TIVMQIRXWMR+IVQER]LMWWXVYKKPIXS½RH[SVOEX discoveries have XLI7[MWWTEXIRXSJ½GIXLIE[EVHMRKSJXLI2SFIP4VM^I changed the for Physics and Einstein’s role in the development of the scientific world WALTER ISAACSON is the President and atomic bomb. Isaacson also describes the family life of forever. CEO of the Aspen Institute, an international non- XLIVIRS[RIHTYFPMG½KYVI • Filled with fantastic profit organization. He was the Chairman and images and CEO of the international news organization CNN accounts from the and managing editor of Time. He has also written Einstein family. Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography (2011). Reference

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DARWIN 978-0-23300-536-2 £18.99 SELLING POINTS THE BRONTËS • Written by expert author Jane O’Neill, TREASURY a life member of the Brontë Society and THE LIFE, TIMES AND WORKS OF author of several CHARLOTTE, EMILY AND ANNE publications on their works. André Deutsch 176pp, HB • Provides intriguing 978-0-23300-554-6 B&W line illustrations throughout June 2018 30,000 words facts and insights 198 x 129 mm £9.99 about the life and works of the The Brontës Treasury is a collection of fascinating facts Brontës in an easily about one of Britain’s most lauded literary families. accessible and engaging way. It looks at the lives and works of the sisters • The bicentenaries (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) in a time of great of the Brontë WSGMEPGLERKIERHI\TPSVIWXLIMR¾YIRGISJXLIMV siblings are being surroundings on their books. Divided into chapters marked with a five- on their family life, works, historical context and year programme of legacy, The Brontës Treasury reveals why novels such events up to 2020, as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have intrigued, including a new MRWTMVIHERHWLSGOIHQMPPMSRWWMRGIXLI][IVI½VWX exhibition of Emily’s published over 170 years ago. possessions at the Parsonage Museum. JANE O’NEILL was educated at Trinity College, This book considers the facts and myths of their lives Dublin, and Girton College, Cambridge, and is and times and reveals little-known stories about the a life member of the Brontë Society. She has family, including the provenance of the surname Brontë, run workshops on Wuthering Heights and Jane why the siblings all died so young, the passionate love Eyre, and wrote and produced for the Brontë XLEXMR¾YIRGIHVillette, and much more. Parsonage Museum The Young Person’s Guide to the Brontës of Haworth. She has published books on Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Reference Reference ALSO AVAILABLE 17 IN THIS SERIES:

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THE SHAKESPEARE TREASURY 978-0-23300-496-9 £9.99 TROY

THE MYTH AND REALITY BEHIND THE EPIC LEGEND

Carlton Books 128pp, HB 978-1-78739-091-1 110 photographs and illustrations May 2018 45,000 words 280 x 230 mm £16.99

This is the story of the mighty city of Troy, which gave birth to one of the greatest legends ever told. Sumptuously illustrated, Troy uncovers the archaeological history of the city and describes the compelling tale of the siege, the mythical characters involved and the bloody battles that ensued, while answering many pressing questions about this extraordinary place.

Drawing on the works of Homer and Virgil, it provides a captivating and complete account of the legend of Troy, a legend that continues to fascinate.

NICK MCCARTY has been a professional author since the age of 22. He has written widely for television and radio, winning the Sony Best Radio Adaptation for A Tale of Two Cities. He has written non-fiction books about Alexander the Great and Marco Polo, and a series of historical novels set during the reign of Charles I. Reference

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SELLING POINTS • Nick McCarty reveals the myth and reality behind Troy in a • A high-profile series Troy: Fall of a City, a co-production highly illustrated and captivating story of tension, obsession, between the BBC and Netflix, is currently in production and drama, naked ambition, ruthlessness, greed and war. will be released in early 2018. TUTANKHAMUN

EGYPTOLOGY’S GREATEST DISCOVERY

André Deutsch 160pp, HB 978-0-23300-548-5 200 photographs and illustrations June 2018 30,000 words 283 x 245 mm £25.00

On 26 November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. Never before had a tomb been found in such perfect condition, with the richness of its contents still intact.

Tutankhamun details this discovery, drawing on the personal archives of Howard Carter himself. It also puts the boy king’s short life into context by describing and explaining the rituals of life in Ancient Egypt. The book goes on to explain the stories that have since grown up around the discovery of the tomb and of the king who lay undisturbed for more than 3,000 years.

JAROMIR MALEK is an Egyptologist and former Keeper of the Archives at the Griffith Institute at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England. He has written a number of books including The Treasures of Ancient Egypt (André Deutsch, 2009). Reference Reference 19

SELLING POINTS • The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb remains the • Full of fascinating insights into the lost civilization of Egypt, in greatest in the history of Egyptology, almost 100 years addition to the excavation by Howard Carter. after the event.

OUT OF THIS CENTURY: CONFESSIONS OF AN ART ADDICT

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEGGY GUGGENHEIM

André Deutsch 456pp, PB 978-0-23300-552-2 82 photographs June 2018 100,000 words 198 x 129 mm £12.99

This is the fascinating autobiography of a society heiress who became the bohemian doyenne of the art world. Written in her own words, it is the frank and outspoken story of her life and loves: her stormy relationships with such men as Max Ernst and Jackson Pollock, and her discovery of new artists.

Known as “the Mistress of modern art”, Peggy Art collector, patron and enfant terrible, PEGGY Guggenheim was a passionate collector and major patron. GUGGENHEIM (1989–1979) was born Marguerite She amassed one of the most important collections of Guggenheim to a wealthy New York family. She became early twentieth-century European and American art, one of the most prominent cultural movers and shakers of embracing cubism, surrealism and expressionism. the twentieth century. A must-read for anyone with an interest in these important artists, this seminal period of art history, and

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SELLING POINTS • Foreword by Gore Vidal, the celebrated American writer • Features four plate sections of fantastic images, including and political commentator. those from her personal collection. • Frank and engaging, the book details her private and professional life, including her relationships with Picasso, Pollock, Ernst, Dalí and many others.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 –1918

IN ASSOCIATION WITH IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUMS

André Deutsch 256pp, HB 978-0-23300-532-4 250 photographs and artworks April 2018 45,000 words 250 x 216 mm £25.00

Produced with Imperial War Museums, The First World War 1914–1918 WLS[WXLI[MHIW[IITSJXLIGSR¾MGX spotlighting some of the obscure but important actions as well as the major battles and the soldiers who fought them.

Combining a vivid narrative informed by up-to-date research with an array of original documents and memorabilia, including photographs, propaganda, newspapers, letters and military orders, The First World War 1914–1918 records one of the most terrible wars the world has ever known. PROFESSOR GARY SHEFFIELD is the foremost authority on the First World War and a bestselling author who has been published worldwide. He frequently leads parties to historic battlefields on the Western Front and at Gallipoli, and to the Second World War battlefields of France and Italy. His books include Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities (2001), The Somme (2003), and Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914–18 (2005), edited with John Bourne. Reference Reference 21

SELLING POINTS • Published to commemorate the centenary of the end of the • Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, First World War in November 2018. The anniversary will whose London museum welcomes over 2 million visitors ensure continued publicity for the subject and numerous each year. events will be held to mark it. • Includes photographs of personal as well as military items, • Covers the entire Great War, including the Western and such as soldiers’ letters and diaries, annotated maps, coded Eastern Fronts, the war in Africa, the Russian Revolution, telegrams and battle reports. the war at sea and the Home Front.

ADELE: THE OTHER SIDE

Carlton Books 160pp, HB 978-1-78739-087-4 120 images May 2018 30,000 words 237 x 185 mm £16.99

Adele: The Other Side reveals the stories behind the hugely popular songs that have made Adele the global megastar she is today. With a detailed exploration of the meanings behind her personal, sometimes enigmatic lyrics, and full of revelations about her musical journey both on and off the stage, this is the perfect book for any fan of Adele and the soulful, heart-wrenching music she has written.

;VMXXIRF]'EVSPMRI7YPPMZER¯XLI½VWXNSYVREPMWXXS interview “Adele Adkins” for a national newspaper () – this insightful, approachable book reveals the history of every song in Adele’s discography, providing stories and anecdotes on their inspiration, meaning and production.

CAROLINE SULLIVAN is a New York-born music journalist who has written for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Time Out and The Independent. Starting her career with Melody Maker, Sullivan became the Chief rock critic at the Guardian. Throughout her career she has interviewed some of the biggest names in music, including Lady Gaga, The Spice Girls and Radiohead, as well as Adele. Music 23

SELLING POINTS • Adele has sold more than 58 million albums worldwide, and • This is the first book to explore the meaning of Adele’s has reached Number 1 in over 30 territories, including the celebrated lyrics, many of which were written about her UK, USA and Australia. own personal experiences. U2: SONGS + EXPERIENCE

Carlton Books 192pp, HB 978-1-78739-089-8 150 images May 2018 50,000 words 283 x 245 mm £25.00

As U2 embark on a mammoth world tour to support their album Songs of Experience, fans and media alike will be following the band’s every movement, keen to read more about their musical heroes. This book delivers an authentic, insider’s view of the music and history of one of the greatest rock bands in the world.

Written by Niall Stokes, editor of Ireland’s legendary Hot Press magazine, and featuring a history of the group by music journalist Brian Boyd, the book recounts the band’s incredible career and analyses the songs from all of their studio albums, from 1980’s Boy to 2017’s Songs of Experience.

8LIWXSV]SJXLIFERHXLIMVMR¾YIRGIWERHXLISVMKMRW NIALL STOKES is the award-winning editor of Ireland’s of their immensely popular music is accompanied by famous Hot Press magazine, and a longstanding champion classic and rare photographs, including portraits, live of Irish music. He has known all members of the band shots and many items of rare U2 memorabilia. since their early days as U2. BRIAN BOYD is a highly respected music journalist and feature writer who pens the weekly music column “The Ticket” in the Irish Times. He contributes to the BBC, RTE and various radio stations abroad. He has been served tea by Morrissey, Bono has cooked him lunch and he has sung karaoke with Eminem. Music Music

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SELLING POINTS • U2’s huge Experience + Innocence 2018 world tour includes • U2 have sold more than 150 million records around the two stadium concerts in the UK in October. world – and counting! • U2 is the only group to have had Number 1 albums in the • The band has won 22 Grammy awards, more than any other 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s in the USA. band. PRINCE: AN ORIGINAL LIFE IN PICTURES

Carlton Books 144pp, PB 978-1-78739-095-9 120 images June 2018 30,000 words 280 x 230 mm £16.99

News of Prince’s untimely death in 2016 was met with shock and surprise – a great artist had passed. Prince was a paragon of artistry and individuality, a symbol (quite literally, at one point in his career) of independence; a man who lived for the art of his music. ,IGLSWIXSTSWMXMSRLMQWIPJSYXWMHIXLIGSR½RIWSJXLI music industry and recorded, played and performed the way he[ERXIH,MWJERW[IVIHIZSXIHLMWMR¾YIRGILYKI his music popular, and his live shows legendary.

For his 2015 documentary Hunting For Prince’s Vault, Mobeen Azhar interviewed some of Prince’s associates; he spoke to many more musicians, friends and members of Prince’s entourage when writing this book. Prince’s MOBEEN AZHAR is a BBC journalist, regular reporter character is revealed through the personal stories for NPR’s This World, and a Prince fanatic. In 2017, that demonstrate how Prince was kind, hard-working, Mobeen was awarded a BAFTA for producing the BBC2 eccentric, eclectic, and above all, unique. documentary Muslims Like Us. This book also contains beautiful images of Prince from all stages of his career, including rare images from regular Paisley Park photographer Steve Parke and 6SFIVX;LMXQERXLIQER[LS½VWXWLSX±4VMRGI6SKIVW Nelson”, as the artist was then known. Music 25

SELLING POINTS • An insider’s view of Prince, including many anecdotes from • Prince was a hugely influential and popular musician who his closest companions and personal entourage. sold more than 100 million albums. • Includes previously unpublished photographs. • Prince left behind hundreds of hours of music, much of it expected to be released. THE BEATLES IN 100 OBJECTS

WHAT MADE THE FAB FOUR FAB

Carlton Books 256pp, PB 978-1-78739-096-6 200 images May 2018 60,000 words 237 x 185 mm £20.00

This book tells the story of the Fab Four through 100 of XLIQSWXWMKRM½GERXSFNIGXWJVSQXLVSYKLSYXXLI&IEXPIW´ unparalleled career. It includes instruments (Paul’s Hofner bass, George’s Gretsch); clothing (Beatles boots and suits, Paul’s Afghan coat); music (the Decca audition tape, the infamous “Butcher” cover, “My Bonnie”); tickets XSXLIQSWXMQTSVXERXIZIRXW ,YPQI,EPPXLI½REP concert at Candlestick Park); and many other fascinating artefacts (Lennon’s Rolls–Royce, Ringo’s Abey Road ash tray, George’s camera, previously unpublished photos of Paul, an Apple Corps watch, Julian Lennon’s drawing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”). With an incisive text from Brian Southall – who worked with all four Beatles at EMI – and photographs of all the objects, this book BRIAN SOUTHALL began writing about pop music in HIXEMPWXLIMQTSVXERGIERHWMKRM½GERGISJIEGLMXIQERH the 1960s on a local newspaper before graduating to the tells the Beatles’ story as never before. likes of Melody Maker and Disc. He then pursued a 30-year career in the record business working for A&M, Tamla Motown, EMI and Warner Music. He wrote the official history of Abbey Road Studios, Northern Songs, The Rise and Fall of EMI Records, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Beatles Memorabilia: The Julian Lennon Collection. Music Music

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SELLING POINTS • Tells the Beatles’ story from a totally new perspective. • Prime authorship from an acknowledged Beatles expert. • An illustrated collection of unique items, with details of how • November 2018 marks 50 years since the release of the they played a part in the history of the Fab Four. “White Album”. SELLING POINTS BRIAN MAY’S RED • Every aspect of this famous musical SPECIAL instrument is examined. THE STORY OF THE HOME-MADE GUITAR • Includes rare THAT ROCKED QUEEN AND THE WORLD photographs of the Red Special guitar, Carlton Books 144pp, PB Brian and his father, 978-1-78739-078-2 200 images May 2018 30,000 words and Queen. 280 x 216 mm £16.99 • The guitar was fully dismantled and Brian May is one of the world’s biggest rock stars. His photographed for group Queen has played concerts around the world, sold the book. QMPPMSRWSJVIGSVHWERHMR¾YIRGIHERIRXMVIKIRIVEXMSRSJ musicians. Brian May, PhD, also built his own electric guitar • Contains a chapter in 1963. With help from his father, Brian used objects about Brian May he found around the house – an old bike seat spring, a playing ‘God Save ORMXXMRKRIIHPIERHERSPHQELSKER]½VITPEGIWYVVSYRH¯ The Queen’ on the and others he purchased, to construct a superb-sounding roof of Buckingham BRIAN MAY is best known as the lead instrument that he played on every Queen album from Palace. guitarist of the group Queen, which he when the group was formed in 1970. co-founded in 1970. He continues to write, record and perform music as a solo artist, as This book tells the full, fascinating story of the Red Special, well as with Queen + Adam Lambert. and includes exclusive photography, from hand-drawn SIMON BRADLEY has been a guitar blueprints and x-rays to live shots and close-up details of journalist since 1996. He has written hundreds every component. of articles and interviews on all aspects of the instrument for many magazines and websites, There is no instrument like the Red Special, and no other including Guitarist, Total Guitar, What Guitar?, book like this one. Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Future Music, MusicRadar.com, Brianmay.com and more.

SELLING POINTS Music ELTON JOHN: • First time in paperback, fully 27 THE BIOGRAPHY updated.

Carlton Books 432+16pp, PB • Elton is third 978-0-23300-551-5 30 images (after the Beatles May 2018 125,000 words and Madonna) in 198 x 129 mm £12.99 Billboard magazine’s list of the top 100 Meticulously researched and drawing on many original artists of all time. interviews with close friends and associates, Elton John: The Biography is a serious and highly entertaining biography • Elton John has sold of one of the most important popular musicians of the more than 300 X[IRXMIXLERHX[IRX]½VWXGIRXYVMIW%JEWGMREXMRK½KYVI million records, this book sheds light on all aspects of his development, making him one from pub pianist to global superstar. More than 50 years of the bestselling MRXS)PXSR´WMRGVIHMFPIGEVIIVXLMWMWXLIHI½RMXMZIFMSKVETL] artists ever. of a showbiz legend.

DAVID BUCKLEY is the author of three other highly acclaimed music biographies, David Bowie: Strange Fascination, R.E.M. and Roxy Music: The Thrill of it All.

KATE: HOW TO DRESS LIKE A STYLE ICON

FASHION FROM A ROYAL ROLE MODEL

Carlton Books 208pp, HB 978-1-78739-071-3 200 photographs April 2018 30,000 words 246 x 189 mm £20.00

This essential fashion guide to the Duchess of Cambridge’s wardrobe celebrates her unique, ladylike ]IX]SYXLJYP¾EMVERHKMZIW/EXI´WJERWEHIXEMPIHKYMHIXS achieving her look.

It reveals Kate’s fashion secrets, her favourite designers and high street shops, and gives tips on copying her WX]PI*IEXYVMRKXLI(YGLIWW´QSWXRSXEFPISYX½XWWYGL as the Alexander McQueen dress she wore during her 2016 visit to Canada or the Prada number in which she appeared just before the announcement of her third pregnancy in August 2017, it records the evolution of a CAROLINE JONES is a writer specializing in beauty, style role model. fashion and lifestyle subjects. Former Women’s Editor of the Daily Mirror, she writes regularly for the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, Red, Grazia and Top Santé. She is the author of more than 10 books, including Fashion Hacks. Lifestyle 29

SELLING POINTS • This book charts Kate’s current styles: what she wears • Over 40 outfits – including the jewellery, hats, shoes and as a mum and mum-to-be and her beautiful choices for bags – are analysed, revealing why her look is a success and formal events. how it can work for you. • Numerous blogs chart Kate’s every sartorial choice, showing • Includes a directory of Kate’s favourite shops and designers how the public admires her style. – from high street to couture. EARTH VIEW

EXTRAORDINARY IMAGES OF OUR PLANET FROM THE LANDSAT NASA/USGS SATELLITES

Carlton Books 224pp, HB 978-1-78739-066-9 200 photographs June 2018 6,000 words 245 x 283 mm £25.00

See the world as you’ve never seen it before with this GSPPIGXMSRSJQSVIXLERLMKLHI½RMXMSRWEXIPPMXI photos of our planet.

Using images from NASA’s Landsat satellite program, Earth View takes you on a journey of discovery around the globe. It reveals geological features in stunning detail, MRGPYHMRKXLIQSWXVIQSXIKPEGMIVWZSPGERMG½IPHWWLMJXMRK sands and frozen wastelands, extraordinary man-made structures and natural wonders with a perspective that can only be viewed from above. Lifestyle

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SELLING POINTS • Features more than 200 breathtaking satellite images of • Bird’s-eye photography is perenially popular, with books our planet, including extraordinary natural and man-made such as Earth from Above selling in their millions worldwide. features. • Displays the incredible natural patterns and structures that are only truly revealed from above. PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY: HOW TO SHOOT LIKE A PRO

THE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO TAKING GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS

Carlton Books 208pp, PB 978-1-78739-067-6 400 photographs April 2018 80,000 words 280 x 230 mm £16.99

Practical Photography: How to Shoot Like a Pro is published in association with Practical Photography and delivers a unique photography course. Divided into 20 subject-based projects, and featuring more than 400 photographs, its tips start simple and become more challenging, enabling the reader to get the best from their camera. Teaching all the skills necessary to shoot fantastic images – with modules on self-portraits, artistic light paintings, landscapes, night photography, Practical Photography is the magazine for everyone with a REXYVIVI¾IGXMSRWEGXMSRWLSXWERHQSVI¯How to passion for photography, combining inspirational images, Shoot Like a Pro offers a fresh approach to improving expert hands-on advice, and the most authoritative the quality of your photography. gear reviews. Its editor BEN HAWKINS has been a photographic journalist for more than 15 years and is an experienced picture editor and competition judge. With friendly, jargon-free tuition on getting to know your DSLR, understanding camera settings and editing images, this book will teach you how to take better photographs. Lifestyle 31

SELLING POINTS • Published in association with Practical Photography magazine, • The perfect companion to Camera School, an online course which has an audience of over 100,000 through readership sponsored by Nikon and run by the magazine. and social media channels • Features 20 projects made up of accessible step-by-step lessons and is illustrated with over 400 photographs. VINTAGE TATTOOS

A SOURCEBOOK FOR OLD-SCHOOL DESIGNS AND TATTOO ARTISTS

Carlton Books 256pp, HB 978-1-78739-105-5 400 illustrations and photographs June 2018 30,000 words 210 x 210 mm £17.99

This achingly cool book explores the bold, colourful and enduringly popular designs that were perfected across two World Wars.

Each chapter focuses on a particular group of tattoos, beginning with the circus displays that kick-started the golden age of vintage design, through maritime and CAROL CLERK was one of Britain’s most influential patriotic emblems, and culminating in the current revival rock music writers, an expert on popular culture, author SJXLMWEVX9RPMOISXLIVWSYVGIFSSOWMXMRGPYHIWTVS½PIW and award-winning journalist. After many years on the on the most famous practitioners, as well as interviews staff of Melody Maker, she became a freelance writer with tattooing’s living legends. contributing to Uncut, Classic Rock and the Independent, as well as appearing on radio and TV programmes and in music documentaries. Lifestyle

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SELLING POINTS • Reality television shows such as Tattoo Fixers (Channel 4) • Hand-drawn vintage tattoo “flash” memorabilia sells for have popularized the art form by delving deep into the up to $5,000 on eBay and through private collectors, with history of tattoos and showcasing the ever-evolving themes. designs by such artists as Owen Jensen and Sailor Jerry especially covetable. • Old-school tattoos are sported by many celebrities today and have entered mainstream consciousness. RAVE ART

ART FROM THE BIRTH OF ACID HOUSE, CLUBS AND RAVES

Carlton Books 192pp, PB 978-1-78739-100-0 200 illustrations and photographs June 2018 15,000 words 185 x 237 mm £14.99

Rave Art documents the explosion of the Rave scene in the late 80s and early 90s, through this superb collection SJ¾]IVWMRZMXEXMSRWERHTSWXIVWXLEX[IVIGSPPIGXIHEX the time by the author. Parties were advertised publicly ERHTVMZEXIP]XLVSYKLXLIWIFVMKLXEVXMWXMG¾]IVWERH invitations, and an enormous underground culture – of CHELSEA LOUISE BERLIN studied art and design at warehouse takeovers and loud, raucous light shows in Chelsea School of Art and started a company in the mid- small sweaty clubs – developed across the UK, much of it 1980s, producing hand-printed and painted T-shirts, paintings driven by exclusive invitation. and banners. She is custodian of her “Berlin Collection”, which comprises thousands of items of ephemera and It is written by Chelsea Berlin, who lived through the collectables from the 1980s onwards, including nightclub movement in its entirety and attended many of the and rave flyers, VIP cards and memberships, postcards, tart now legendary events, from Club Shoom to Energy cards, magazines and film posters. and Beyond. Together with personal reminiscences and quotes from infamous and not-so-famous attendees, Rave Art paints a picture of what is probably the last real, rebellious youth culture movement of modern times – a sociocultural phenomenon that changed music, the law, drug culture, dance and more. Lifestyle 33

SELLING POINTS • 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the “Second Summer of • A fascinating insight into a sociocultural phenomenon that Love”, when rave culture was firmly established in the UK. changed music, the law, drug culture, dance, fashion and design. • A unique and stunning collection of flyers, exclusive invitations and rare memberships to legendary clubs and events.

SELLING POINTS THE RELATIVELY • Einstein’s theories and discoveries DIFFICULT changed the way we see science. PUZZLE UNIVERSE • These puzzles are inspired by his PUZZLES INSPIRED BY ALBERT EINSTEIN works.

Carlton Books 144pp, HB • The book contains 978-1-78739-072-0 80 images more than 60 April 2018 15,000 words puzzles, enigmas 198 x 129 mm £7.99 and conundrums.

In 8LI6IPEXMZIP](MJ½GYPX4Y^^PI9RMZIVWI]SY[MPP½RH puzzles, enigmas and tests of logic, all inspired by the incredible mind of the greatest physicist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. A selection of the wisest quotes from the genius himself enhance the book, and the puzzles are devised to challenge even the brightest of brains!

Einstein said: “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else” – a challenge that all puzzle enthusiasts will recognize ERH½RHMVVIWMWXMFPI TIM DEDOPULOS is an author, puzzle setter and editor. He worked for Wizards of the Coast and

Puzzles & Humour White Wolf, and has written role-playing games and fiction. He wrote The Sherlock Holmes Puzzle Collection and The Great Houdini’s Puzzle Vault.

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INSPIRED BY THE RENAISSANCE GENIUS

Carlton Books 144pp, HB 978-1-78739-086-7 100 images April 2018 15,000 words 198 x 129 mm £7.99

Delve into the mind of this great man in Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventive Puzzles, which contains more than 60 puzzles inspired by his works as well as illustrations in the style of his artworks.

Many of da Vinci’s works are reputed to hold all sorts of secrets in the form of cryptic codes. Full of riddles, enigmas, and logic challenges, this puzzle book is for the most astute of minds. RICHARD WOLFRIK GALLAND is a writer and games designer. He has worked as a magazine editor for Games Workshop, and as a games designer for Hasbro in the UK and Sony Japan. He is currently the creative director of Warm Acre Games, a successful independent publisher of various types of game. Puzzles & Humour 37

SELLING POINTS • The book contains more than 60 puzzles of varying difficulty, • Da Vinci and his works are part of the world’s cultural written in the style of the great inventor. heritage. Recent examples of his influence range from Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code to a variety of successful TV • 2019 will mark 500 years since the death of Leonardo shows, and even a presence in the popular videogames da Vinci, and plans to commemorate him are already franchise Assassin’s Creed. in progress. Acclaimed puzzle-writer Dr Erwin Brecher’s How Do You? series continues with two titles VIUYMVMRKWMKRM½GERXPEXIVEPXLMROMRK

SELLING POINTS HOW DO YOU FIND • These are great collections, each NORTH WITHOUT A containing hundreds of puzzles. COMPASS? • The books provide a varied puzzle AND OTHER PUZZLES AND BRAINTEASERS challenge.

Carlton Books 160pp, HB • There are now 978-1-78739-073-7 230 puzzles 10 titles in Erwin April 2018 30,000 words Brecher’s puzzle 198 x 129 mm £7.99 series.

This book offers the puzzle-lover a superb assortment of riddles, lateral thinking problems, mathematical posers and mysteries of all kinds.

More than two hundred brainteasers, both old and new, have been compiled in this unique collection. The puzzles examine various aspects of your problem-solving abilities, ranging from relatively

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Carlton Books 160pp, HB 978-1-78739-081-2 175 puzzles April 2018 30,000 words 198 x 129 mm £7.99

How Do You Survive a Duel? contains more than 175 ways to improve ]SYVPEXIVEPXLMROMRKERHOIIT]SYVKVI]QEXXIV½X8LIVIEVIE wealth of puzzles inside, and you’ll have to keep your wits about HOW DO YOU TURN WATER INTO WINE? you in order to solve mathematical head-scratchers such as the 978-1-78739-053-9 Swiss Smugglers’ puzzle, to break codes like the one found in the PC £7.99 Problem and expose fallacies like the Three-coin Fallacy.

Mensan ERWIN BRECHER, PHD, has written many puzzle books of high quality and wide variety. He received the Order of Merit from the city of Vienna in recognition of his literary achievements.

HOW DO YOU MAKE A TORNADO IN A BOTTLE? 978-1-78739-055-3 £7.99 A pair of books containing the greatest puzzles ever solved, from the very earliest Egyptian conundrums to modern brainteasers.

SELLING POINTS CLASSIC PUZZLES • This is an original variety of taxing FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO THE teasers, including MODERN ERA the world’s oldest puzzle. Carlton Books 144pp, HB 978-1-78739-097-3 100 images • All of the puzzles June 2018 15,000 words have been compiled 198 x 129 mm £7.99 by an acclaimed puzzle-setter. Classic Puzzles: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern Era is a compendium • The books contain of premier puzzles from the most intelligent civilizations. Alongside a superb variety XLI½RIWXVMHHPIWERHTY^^PIWVIGIRXKIRIVEXMSRWEVIXLSWIWSYVGIH of challenging from ancient Greek philosophers, sage Japanese masters and conundrums, intellectual Egyptian thinkers. This book is full of mysteries that have including the puzzled the most intelligent humans who ever lived, beginning with world’s most the oldest ever recorded, found on a papyrus text written 4,000 popular puzzle years ago. types. Puzzles & Humour 39 MODERN PUZZLES

FROM THE VICTORIANS TO THE COMPUTER AGE

Carlton Books 144pp, HB 978-1-78739-093-5 100 puzzles June 2018 15,000 words 198 x 129 mm £7.99

Modern Puzzles: From the Victorians to the Computer Age is a GSQTIRHMYQSJXLI½RIWXVMHHPIWERHGSRYRHVYQWJVSQEGVSWWXLI KPSFI8EOIRJVSQXLIFVMKLXIWXQMRHWXLIWIFEJ¾MRKQ]WXIVMIWERH brainteasers are the best the world has to offer when it comes to quizzical questions. This book is full of problems that have puzzled the most intelligent humans of our age, with a focus on the most popular modern puzzle types, such as the Sudoku and the crossword.

TIM DEDOPULOS is an author, puzzle setter and editor. He worked for Wizards of the Coast and White Wolf, and has written role-playing games and fiction. He wrote The Greatest Puzzles Ever Solved and many puzzle books for Mensa, including Mensa Assess Your IQ. Mensa is the international society for people with a high IQ. They have more than 100,000 members in over 40 countries worldwide.

SELLING POINTS MENSA: KEEP YOUR • The books contain more than 100 BRAIN FIT colour puzzles. • The questions MORE THAN 100 PUZZLES TO CHALLENGE increase in difficulty YOUR GREY MATTER to help develop your problem- Carlton Books 176pp, PB solving abilities step 978-1-78739-080-5 130 images May 2018 3,000 words by step. 198 x 129 mm £7.99 • Routinely training your brain can Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of 130 colour improve your puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Written memory. by Robert Allen, the former director of Mensa Publications, these TY^^PIWEVIKVEHIHMRHMJ½GYPX]TVSZMHMRKETVSKVIWWMZISTTSVXYRMX] • The Mensa to develop your puzzle-solving abilities. puzzle series is exceptionally The brain is like a muscle and should be exercised in order to stay strong, with more ½X8LMWFSSOMW½PPIH[MXLTY^^PIWERHGLEPPIRKIWHIWMKRIHXSXIWX than a dozen titles published in the Puzzles & Humour your brain as well as help it to strengthen and stay in good shape. past two years. ROBERT ALLEN was the Editorial Director of Mensa Publications. He was highly involved with Mensa for much of his life and wrote many puzzle, game and self-help books.

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EXERCISE YOUR MIND WITH THESE COMING SOON: COLOURFUL PUZZLES

Carlton Books 176pp, PB 978-1-78739-079-9 130 images May 2018 3,000 words 198 x 129 mm £7.99

Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Between the covers of this FSSO]SY´PP½RHEXVIEWYV]SJQER]TY^^PIX]TIW8LIVIEVIVMHHPIW visual puzzles, pattern conundrums and more – all guaranteed to MENSA: MENTAL provide you with hours of fun. Best of all, you’ll give your mind a CHALLENGE wonderful workout too! 978-1-78739-092-8 £7.99 JOHN BREMNER is a highly experienced puzzle setter and author, who has published numerous Mensa puzzle books over the past 20 years.

MENSA: PUZZLE CHALLENGE 978-1-78739-094-2 £7.99 SELLING POINTS MENSA: QUICK • The books include puzzles designed by TRAVEL PUZZLES Mensa to be solved on the move. ENHANCE YOUR JOURNEY WITH MORE • There are a wide THAN 150 PUZZLES variety of puzzle types included. Carlton Books 224pp, PB 978-1-78739-098-0 100 images • The Mensa June 2018 20,000 words puzzle series is 198 x 129 mm £7.99 exceptionally strong, with more Mensa: Quick Travel Puzzles brings the challenge of Mensa to you than a dozen titles every day for your journey or vacation with a book of puzzles published in the specially designed for you to take on any trip. These 150 quick past two years. TY^^PIWGERFIWSPZIH[LIVIZIV]SYQE]½RH]SYVWIPJ[MXLEJI[ minutes to spare.

There are all sorts of challenges and special quizzes, and the emphasis in this book is on puzzles that you can solve quickly! Puzzles & Humour 41 MENSA: CHALLENGING TRAVEL PUZZLES

PROBLEMS TO BROADEN YOUR MIND WHEREVER YOU ARE

Carlton Books 224pp, PB 978-1-78739-099-7 100 images June 2018 20,000 words 198 x 129 mm £7.99

Mensa: Challenging Travel Puzzles brings the challenge of Mensa to you every day for your journey or vacation. This is a book of puzzles specially designed for you to take on any trip.

There are all sorts of challenges and special quizzes – from visual and spatial teasers to crafty conundrums – with the emphasis in this book being on tough puzzles! The Wrinklies™ series continues with two puzzle titles certain to befuddle even the wisest minds.

™ SELLING POINTS WRINKLIES • Solving puzzles has been shown to PUZZLE BOOK improve memory and cognition. CLEVER CONUNDRUMS FOR OLDER INTELLECTS • The books include specially selected Prion 192pp, HB 978-1-91161-009-0 150 puzzles puzzles to appeal to May 2018 15,000 words older readers. 198 x 129 mm £9.99 • They are part of a growing series of As you age, it becomes more and more vital to keep your brain seven WrinkliesTM regularly exercised, and that is where the Wrinklies Puzzle Book puzzle books. comes in. Specially selected puzzles are included to appeal to an older reader’s ever-changing brain.

In the Wrinklies™ Puzzle Book]SY´PP½RHE[IEPXLSJGETXMZEXMRK puzzles of all shapes and sizes, including crosswords, Sudoku and word searches. Younger readers can still enjoy the book too, of course! Puzzles & Humour

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Wrinklies™ Logic Puzzles contains more than 150 classic puzzles from word puzzles and lateral thinking to Sudoku and tricky logic problems.

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WRINKLIES™: WIT & WISDOM 978-1-85375-985-7 £9.99 SELLING POINTS THE GREAT QUIZ • More than 1,000,000 Carlton NIGHT BOOK quiz books have been sold. 10,000 QUIZ QUESTIONS TO BE ENJOYED AT • The book is a HOME OR IN THE PUB! one-stop shop for setting your own Carlton Books 288pp, PB quizzes or cribbing 978-1-78739-107-9 10,000 questions June 2018 20,000 words for others. 198 x 129 mm £7.99 • There are questions on a huge spectrum This superb book contains a wealth of fascinating information of categories. SRELYKIZEVMIX]SJWYFNIGXW¯TIVJIGXJSVUYM^E½GMSREHSW 8LIVIEVILYRHVIHWSJUYM^^IWHMZMHIHF]HMJ½GYPX]PIZIPERH • Two more titles are subject matter. Many are themed, along the classic lines of coming soon in the music, sport, geography, politics and entertainment. quiz night series.

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SELLING POINTS Puzzles & Humour EMBARRASSING • The book is the largest survey ever 43 SEXUAL compiled of the topic. MISADVENTURES • It includes strange and ridiculous sex 1001 OF THE MOST TRAGICALLY HILARIOUS stories from around EXPLOITS EVER the world. • A comprehensive Prion 320pp, PB 978-1-91161-016-8 70,000 words list of the weirdest May 2018 £7.99 ways people have 198 x 129 mm been caught with their pants down – More than 1,000 entertaining, factual accounts of bad often literally! bonking, fruitless fornication and misplaced masturbation are chronicled in this unique book. It is a huge collection of MRGVIHMFPIGEYXMSREV]XEPIWEFSYXXLIQSWXYRHMKRM½IH[E]W you can be caught getting your rocks off – and they’re all true!

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'EVPXSR´WSJ½GMEP%YKQIRXIH6IEPMX]FSSOMWNEQTEGOIH with exclusive movie imagery and background facts, and lets you experience original Jurassic World dinosaurs through mind-blowing next-generation, fully interactive Digital Magic. Learn how to bond with and train alpha :IPSGMVETXSV±&PYI²ERH½RHERHGSPPIGXEPPXLIHMRSWEYVW with your app as you work your way through the book. From brand-new movie dinosaur characters to old favourites like T. Rex and Stegosaurus, this Jurassic World AR book will wow readers all over again. CAROLINE ROWLANDS is a highly successful children’s book writer, specializing in activity and licensed titles. She is the author of Carlton’s bestselling titles Jurassic World: Where Dinosaurs Come to Life and Jurassic World: From DNA to Indominus Rex.

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SELLING POINTS • The official AR guide to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the sequel to the highly definitive dinosaur property throughout the world. successful Carlton title Jurassic World: Where Dinosaurs Come to Life, which has sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide. • More than 20 years after the release of Jurassic Park, the Jurassic brand is still culturally relevant; it is one of the most • With its real-world settings and exclusive, hybrid dinosaurs, successful film franchises of all time, extending into sequels, Jurassic World is the premier and definitive dinosaur brand. merchandise, interactive games and theme park attractions. STEM, shorthand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, is increasingly becoming an important part of our everyday lives, encouraging and engaging children, giving them hands-on problem- solving skills so they can grow up to be the innovators and inventors of the future.

7+ 7+ Carlton Kids

STEM QUEST STEM QUEST ASTONISHING TOOLS, ROBOTICS 46 ATOMS AND AND GADGETS MATTER MAYHEM GALORE

Carlton Kids 80pp, PB Carlton Kids 80pp, PB 978-1-78312-345-2 illustrations throughout 978-1-78312-350-6 illustrations throughout June 2018 14,000 words June 2018 14,000 words 270 x 216 mm £9.99 270 x 216 mm £9.99

Build a model atom with marshmallows, pick up an ice 1EOI]SYVS[RWXIXLSWGSTIFYMPHEWTIIH]NIX cube without touching it, create your own compass boat, concoct your own plastic and create a bio-tech ERHQEOI]SYVS[RZSPGERS8LIWIEVINYWXWSQI ]YQQ]]SKLYVX8LIWIEVINYWXWSQISJXLIJYR of the fun, do-at-home activities featured in STEM do-at-home activities featured in STEM Quest: Tools, Quest: Astonishing Atoms and Matter Mayhem. Activities Robotics and Gadgets Galore. Activities are accompanied are accompanied by bite-size factoids explaining the F]FMXIWM^IJEGXSMHWI\TPEMRMRKXLIWGMIRXM½GXLISVMIW WGMIRXM½GXLISVMIWERHTVMRGMTPIWFILMRHXLIQ and principles behind them.

AUTHOR: COLIN STUART AUTHOR: NICK ARNOLD STEM QUEST is an exciting new series created to encourage boys and girls from all backgrounds to take up the STEM challenge. Each book has 30 mind-blowing experiments as well as showing the fun science behind them. Who could resist making their own volcano?

7+ 7+ SELLING POINTS • Features quality, contemporary, “this ain’t no school book” illustrations and graphics. • Includes easy-to- follow, step-by-step instructions for the activities and experiments. • Contributions by Georgette Yakman, founding researcher and creator of STEAM Education, a US organization that provides education programmes to encourage innovative learning in science and STEM QUEST STEM QUEST technology.

FANTASTIC FABULOUS Carlton Kids FORCES AND FIGURES 47 INCREDIBLE AND COOL MACHINES CALCULATIONS

Carlton Kids 80pp, PB Carlton Kids 80pp, PB 978-1-78312-346-9 illustrations throughout 978-1-78312-349-0 illustrations throughout June 2018 14,000 words June 2018 14,000 words 270 x 216 mm £9.99 270 x 216 mm £9.99

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AUTHOR: NICK ARNOLD AUTHOR: COLIN STUART 6+

Stretch your imagination to the limit with this amazing papercraft activity book series that will take you to the moon and PAPERPLAY back, to the land of the dinosaurs or to a world bursting with enchanted fairies and TO THE MOON magical creatures! AND BACK Each book is packed with models to TVIWWSYXERHFYMPHEVXTVSNIGXWXSHMWTPE] OVER 25 PAPERCRAFT PROJECTS FOR masks to accessorize and model, and KIDS WHO LOVE SPACE gorgeous stationery to pull out and send. Carlton Kids 80pp including 2 sticker sheets, PB 978-1-78312-355-1 TVSNIGXW 8LITVSNIGXWHMJJIVMRGSQTPI\MX][MXL April 2018 100 words some taking minutes and some an entire 283 x 245 mm £12.99 (incl. VAT) afternoon. Reusable stickers are included to help decorate your creations, while the &YMPHERSVMKEQMWTEGI[EXGLHIWMKR]SYVQSSR¾EK notebook binding makes it easy to tear construct an alien space buddy and much more with out the paper for each activity. this beautiful Paperplay book! Stunning illustrations and a range of space-related activities make this craft title stand out from the crowd. MAKE IT Including 3D models to press out, pop-ups to construct and origami shapes to fold WEAR IT Including masks and other accessories to cut out, personalize and model SEND IT Beautiful postcards to press or cut out and customize and send to friends and family SHOW IT %VXTVSNIGXWXSGVIEXIERHHMWTPE]MRGPYHMRK collages, 3D paper sculptures and decorations PLAY IT AUTHOR: SUSIE BROOKS Board games and other ideas for creative play with friends and family 6+ 6+ SELLING POINTS • Contains a range of different craft activities and prompts for active play in which the material of the book – the paper – is the star. • Including activities kids can complete on their own, ones to share and ones to play together, these books are the perfect family time package. • Notebook binding makes it easy to tear out the pages PAPERPLAY for each activity. PAPERPLAY • 7SQITVSNIGXWXEOI minutes; some ENCHANTED TO THE LAND OF will fill an entire afternoon. FAIRY FORESTS THE DINOSAURS • Includes a page of reusable stickers OVER 25 PAPERCRAFT PROJECTS FOR OVER 25 PAPERCRAFT PROJECTS FOR for decorating your KIDS WHO LOVE FAIRIES KIDS WHO LOVE DINOSAURS creations.

Carlton Kids 80pp including 2 sticker sheets, PB Carlton Kids 80pp including 1 sticker sheet, PB 978-1-78312-356-8 TVSNIGXW 978-1-78312-357-5 TVSNIGXW April 2018 100 words April 2018 100 words 283 x 245 mm £12.99 (incl. VAT) 283 x 245 mm £12.99 (incl. VAT)

Build beautiful paper fairy dolls, play a fairy forest Build a T. Rex paper skeleton, make a Triceratops face

board game, construct a secret treasure box and mask, construct a pair of explorer binoculars and Carlton Kids much more with this beautiful paper craft book full much more. And the best thing is: almost everything 49 you need is contained in the book! of dino fun!

AUTHOR: GEMMA BARDER AUTHOR: MELANIE HIBBERT 8+

Packed with amazing infographics and awesome stats, this bestselling series has a fun and accessible world-record book approach. With bold and colourful illustrations, eye-catching photographs and the latest expert research, Record Breakers books are the perfect purchase for kids who love brain- bending facts!

DINOSAUR RECORD BREAKERS

Carlton Kids 112pp, PB 978-1-78312-381-0 240 images June 2018 28,000 words 269 x 205 mm £9.99

Dinosaurs are the most incredible creatures ever to have lived. They ruled the Earth for millions of years, and now they rule the record books! Dinosaur Record Breakers takes a fresh look at the facts and statistics that made these amazing animals so extraordinary. From the fastest to the biggest, brainiest and most ferocious, it brings you the most extreme dinosaurs in an exciting world-record book format. Packed with the latest dinosaur information, it’s a must for every dinosaur fanatic.

DARREN NAISH is a writer and palaeozoologist with specialist knowledge of Cretaceous era dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Darren has written many children’s books. 8+ 8+ SELLING POINTS • The Record Breakers series features the biggest, the fastest, the tallest and the smallest on a wide range of topics, delivering solid educational facts in a fascinating and colourful package. • Statistics are presented in the form of attractive graphics, with lots of freaky facts to hold kids’ attention. • Fact panels summarize the key info on each record breaker. CAR RECORD ANIMAL RECORD BREAKERS BREAKERS

Carlton Kids 112pp, PB Carlton Kids 112pp, PB 978-1-78312-380-3 240 images 978-1-78312-382-7 240 images June 2018 18,000 words June 2018 28,000 words 269 x 205 mm £9.99 269 x 205 mm £9.99

Welcome to the world of extreme autos, speed From man-eating sharks to snakes that grow longer ALSO AVAILABLE machines and crazy cars! Discover amazing hypercars than buses, check out the greatest record breakers IN THIS SERIES: at the cutting edge of technology, the world’s fastest of the animal world! Animal Record Breakers is packed race cars and outrageous one-off autos. Find out with awesome and extreme creatures, on land, in which records are held by the Porsche 918 Spyder and the sea and in the sky. Every page really brings these McLaren F1 cars in this exciting and informative book, extraordinary creatures to life! Carlton Kids perfect for techincally-minded and imaginative kids. 51

FOOTBALL RECORD BREAKERS 978-1-78312-334-6 £9.99

GAMING RECORD BREAKERS 978-1-78312-297-4 £9.99

PAUL VIRR has a long and diverse history of STEVE PARKER is a UK-based author who has working on a wide range of children’s books, with written more than 200 non-fiction titles, including WYFNIGXWVERKMRKJVSQHMRSWEYVWXSXIGLRSPSK] many illustrated books on the animal world. He is SPACE RECORD and cars. a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society BREAKERS of London. 978-1-78312-072-7 £9.99 10+ MY FAVOURITE ME

A FILL-IN-JOURNAL ALL ABOUT YOU!

Carlton Kids 128pp, PB 978-1-78312-342-1 illustrations throughout April 2018 8,000 words 246 x 189 mm £8.99 (incl. VAT)

My Favourite Me will be your new best friend! Following XLITSTYPEV±FYPPIXNSYVREP²JSVQEXMX[MPPEPPS[]SYXS PIEVRQSVIEFSYX]SYVWIPJEW]SY½PPMRXLIFPEROWMRXLMW JYRNSYVREPNYWXJSVKMVPW

What’s your perfect start to the day? What is your favourite hobby and how do you relax? What goals would you like to achieve in the next year? This book will help you dream, plan and track who you are now and shape the person you want to become. With inspirational quotes for children and practical tips and tricks along the way, this book will bring out your favourite “you”!

ANNA BRETT is a creative author and editor, whose 10+ years of experience span everything from curriculum-based reference to popular culture and books with digital extras, pop-ups and stickers. Carlton Kids

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SELLING POINTS • /IITWEOINSYVREPWERHHMEVMIWEVIETIVIRRMEPFIWXWIPPIV • Perfect way to capture a special time in your life – as for girls. a keepsake or to start a time capsule! • 8ETTMRKMRXSXLI±FYPPIXNSYVREP²PSSOXLMWFSSOYWIWLMKL • Ideal antidote to digital overload: this book taps into the quality typographic design with vignette illustrations to digital detox and mindfulness trend. recreate a pretty stationery feel. • Book includes recording/logging spreads, list pages and aspirational planning-ahead features.

6+ SELLING POINTS MY BRILLIANT BIG • A fantastic bumper book of diverse ACITIVITY BOOK activities for kids. • Activities include BURSTING WITH THINGS TO DRAW, drawing, colouring COLOUR, WRITE AND PLAY! in, dot to dot, mazes and makes. Carlton Kids 192pp, PB 978-1-78312-367-4 illustrations througout • Perfect for kids May 2018 7,000 words to come back to 270 x 216 mm £9.99 again and again and complete over time. Packed with brilliant activities for kids, this book guarantees hours of fun! From solving mazes, connecting the dots, • Bold illustrations colouring in pictures or spotting the difference, kids will love perfect for coming back to this book to complete these fun activities. youngsters.

Covering a wide range of topics, including dragons, pirates, space and holiday fun, this book is the ultimate activity book to keep kids busy and entertained. ANDREA PINNINGTON has written and edited all kinds of books for children and is the creative whizz behind a stack of children’s craft and activity books.

SELLING POINTS Carlton Kids 7+ THE TOTALLY • A bright, highly interactive atlas 53 AMAZING, FACT- designed to make the vast reaches PACKED, FOLD- of our planet tangible to a young OUT ATLAS OF audience. • Three lavish THE WORLD gatefolds show the QENSVGSRXMRIRXW Carlton Kids 56pp, PB in rich detail with 978-1-78312-365-0 illustrations throughout April 2018 14,000 words pictorial insets 283 x 245 mm £9.99 featuring people, places and wildlife. Hold the world in your hands with The Totally Amazing, Fact- Packed, Fold-Out Atlas of the World, a bright and colourful atlas! (IWMKRIHWTIGM½GEPP]XSQEOIXLIZEWXVIEGLIWSJSYVTPERIX tangible for a young audience, it presents the world as a place rich in discoveries with fascinating facts about cities, JEN GREEN is a highly experienced cultures and landmarks. It includes a comprehensive map of children’s non-fiction writer. She has written XLI[SVPHWLS[MRKIZIV]GSYRXV]EW[IPPEWXLIMV¾EKW more than 200 books, mainly on geography, nature, the environment and history. She Divided by continent, there are three fantastic gatefolds currently teaches writing skills at the with textured artworks, presenting biomes and terrains in University of Sussex. an accessible and colourful way. Discover further maps that show wildlife, people and political boundaries. Children will love to learn more about amazing man-made features and TPEGIWERH½RHSYXLS[IZIV]TEVXSJSYVTPERIXMWFSXL vital and connected. 5+ SELLING POINTS UNICORNS AND • Open the magical stable door on MAGICAL HORSES a collection of classic myths CARLTON ORDER FORM A SPELLBINDING RIDE THROUGH CLASSIC featuring unicorns TALES OF WONDER and horses. The bewitching mix ISBN TITLE PAGE PRICE Carlton Kids 32pp, PB of fiction and 978-1-78312-368-1 illustrations throughout imaginative make- April 2018 5,000 words believe play is ideal 228 x 262 mm £5.99 for young horse- lovers the world Saddle up for this sparkling collection of magical over. horse stories from across the world. From shy moonlit KATHERINE ROBERTS won the Branford unicorns, to brave winged stallions, this book is full of • Features stunning, Boase Award in 2000 for her first children’s enchantment and adventure – as well as enticing spells, whimsical artwork book Song Quest. She has since written many fairy charms and secret surprises! to stimulate the books for children including I am the Great imagination. Horse, which was longlisted for the 2008 • The theme of Carnegie Medal, as well as numerous fantasy horses, particularly and science fiction stories for adults. She magical ones, is an worked with racehorses for 10 years and enduring classic for still enjoys riding for pleasure. young girls. Carlton Kids

5+ SELLING POINTS THE COMPLETE • George is an Form Order 54 evergreen character 55 ADVENTURES OF who has appeared in books, on TV CURIOUS GEORGE and even in his own Hollywood film André Deutsch 400pp, PB (Curious George, 978-1-78312-366-7 350 images 2006). May 2018 2,000 words 203 x 163 mm £16.99 • The stories have CUSTOMER NAME & ADDRESS: DELIVERY ADDRESS: been translated into Curious George, a little monkey whose curiosity always dozens of languages gets the better of him, has been a favourite with several and have generated generations of children. This complete collection contains all tie-ins ranging from his adventures, with their original full-colour illustrations by cuddly toys to video husband and wife team Hans and Margret Rey. games. • A definitive book of tales is the obvious addition to a fan’s ORDER REF: SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: collection. HANS AND MARGRET REY were both born in Germany. They lived in Brazil and went on honeymoon to Paris, where they stayed for four years. There, Curious George was first created: Margret wrote the story DATE: TERMS: REP: and her husband drew the illustrations. In 1940 they moved to New York, where the first Curious George books were published in 1941. Hans died in 1977 and Margret in 1996. ORDER: Customer orders which have to be processed and delivered as standard to the customer Tel: +44 (0) 20 3014 4155 Email: [email protected]