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Frankfurt Book Fair 2020

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CONTENTS

Fiction BLACK SUN — Owen Matthews………………………………………………. p. 4 RED TRAITOR — Owen Matthews……………………………………………. p. 5 THE BEAUTY — Aliya Whiteley……………………………………………….. p. 6 MALICE PEPPER AND THE WITCH’S KEY—Mary Victoria………………. p. 7 NEMESIS — Anthony Stone…………………………………………………… p. 8 THE GHOST OF CHISWELL STREET— Siobhan MacGowan…………… p. 9 WE ARE NOT THE SAME — Serena Molloy………………………………… p. 10 LIBERATION — PP Wong……………………………………………………… p. 11 THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD — Amy Borg………………………………… p. 12 THE EXTRAORDINARY CURIOSITIES OF IXWORTH AND MADDOX — Jeff Coles……………………………………………………………………… p. 13 THE CALLING — Lawrence Jones…………………………………………… p. 14

Non-Fiction WILD DANCES — William Lee Adams………………………………………. p. 15 THE LAST SLAVES — Hannah Durkin………………………………………. p. 16 CONFLICTED — Ian Leslie……………………………………………………. p. 17 THE AGE OF UNPEACE — Mark Leonard………………………………….. p. 18 MUSTN’T GRUMBLE — Graham Lawton…………………………………… p. 19 FEMINISM FOR THE END OF THE WORLD — Mary Harrington……….. p. 20 THE EMPEROR’S NEW ROAD — Jonathan Hillman………………………. p. 21 ON THE BRINK: A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1989 — Chris Bickerton p. 22 THE JOYFUL ENVIRONMENTALIST — Isabel Losada…………………… p. 23 HEAD, HAND, HEART — David Goodhart…………………………………… p. 24 AN IMPECCABLE SPY — Owen Matthews…………………………….……. p. 25 THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY — Ivan Krastev…………………………… p. 26

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 2 of 37 THE MOVES THAT MATTER — Jonathan Rowson………………………… p. 27 A WOMAN’S GAME — Suzanne Wrack……………………………………… p. 28 UNDER THE INFLUENCE — Olivia Yallop…………………………………… p. 29 WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM (OR THE SOLUTION) — Kenan Malik…………………………………………………………………… p. 30 TOMORROW’S PEOPLE — Paul Morland…………………………………… p. 31 IS IT TOMORROW YET? — Ivan Krastev…………………………………….. p. 32 PLANET OF DUST — Jay Owens…………………………………………….. p. 33 SENTIENCE — Nicholas Humphrey………………………………………….. p. 34 SOCRATES IN LOVE — Armand D’Angour…………………………………. p. 35 THE LIGHT THAT FAILED — Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes …………. p. 36 MORBID SYMPTOMS — Donald Sassoon…………………………………… p. 37

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 3 of 37 OWEN MATTHEWS BLACK SUN

Matthews’ acclaimed thriller inaugurates a new series, set in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, as the Cold War thaws, just a lit- tle.

‘Welcome to Arzamas-16. The city that doesn’t exist.’

It is the dawn of the 1960s. Alexander Vasin, a KGB Major in the department of ‘Special Investigations’, travels across the Soviet Union to a city that does not appear on any map. He has been sent to investigate the gruesome death of a young physicist. There, he finds a scientific community of eccentrics, patriots and dissidents who’ve been ordered to build the most powerful atomic bomb ever made. It is a project of such vital national importance that unlike their fellow Soviet citizens, they have the freedom to think and act, live and love as they wish. Some of them, it seems, even believe they can get away with murder.

Owen Matthews’ thriller is based on an incredible sequence of true events and inaugurates a major new series set in Moscow in the early 1960s featuring Alexander Vasin, a homi- cide detective seconded, against his will, to the KGB.

‘Brilliantly plotted and all the more satisfying because it is based on the true story… Read- ing Black Sun is like stepping into a time machine and setting the dial for Soviet Russia, 1961.’ JOHN SWEENEY

Book of the Month: [A] stunning debut… His marriage of fact and fiction is masterly’ The Times Saturday Review

‘A superbly crafted thriller…The prolific author, a former Moscow correspondent, knows his terrain inside out’ The Economist: Books of the Year 2020

OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of the non-fiction books, including An Impeccable Spy (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and War (Blooms- bury, 2008). Stalin’s Children has been translated into 27 languages, and the French edition (Belfond, 2009) was shortlisted for the Prix Medicis Etranger, 2009 and the Grand Prix des Lectrices d’Elle, 2010.

CRIME / THRILLER Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: July 2019 (US); October 2019 (UK) Rights: US & Canada (Doubleday); UK/Commonwealth (Transworld); Germany (Lubbe); Poland (Amber); Greece (Klidarithmos)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 4 of 37 OWEN MATTHEWS RED TRAITOR

The highly anticipated follow up to Black Sun.

Alexander Vasin returns in the stunning new thriller from Owen Matthews, set against the background of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

MOSCOW. SUMMER. 1962 Alexander Vasin is a Moscow homicide detective seconded to the KGB. With his reputa- tion as a spy-catcher preceding him, he has been directed to find a high-ranking US mole within the Kremlin. His suspect, Colonel Oleg Morozov, is surveilled around the clock, but won’t — or can’t — reveal his double life.

As Vasin learns to his cost, Morozov has redoubtable friends. With the pressure on Vasin to expose Morozov becoming almost unbearable, he finds himself in the middle of a vi- cious knife-fight between powerful Kremlin factions. One group is alarmed by the decision to send Soviet atomic weapons to Cuba. The other believes that a preemptive nuclear at- tack on the United States wouldn’t be the end of the world…

Owen Matthews’ thriller is based on terrifying, little known real events. It confirms Matthews’ as a major new talent.

*Praise for BLACK SUN*

‘Matthews is an excellent storyteller… Black Sun is the kind of thriller you want to savor as you turn the pages, suspenseful and thought provoking’ MICHAEL J. McCANN, New York Journal of Books

OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of three non-fiction books, including An Impeccable Spy (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and War (Blooms- bury, 2008). He’s the author of Black Sun.

CRIME / THRILLER Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: 2021 Rights: US & Canada (Doubleday); UK (Transworld)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 5 of 37 ALIYA WHITELEY THE BEAUTY

** Film rights acquired at auction by a major Hollywood director **

A beautiful novella by a Clarke Award, Shirley Jackson Award and Tiptree Award shortlisted author.

Somewhere away from the cities and towns, a group of men and boys gather around the fire each night in the Valley of the Rocks to tell each other their stories. The women are all gone and the men are waiting to pass into the night. Nate is a storyteller, and brings new secrets back from the woods. William rules the group with youth and strength, but how long can that last? And what about Uncle Ted, who spends so much time out in the forest? What can man hope to achieve in a world without women? When the past contains only grief, for how long should we hold on to it? What secrets can the forest offer to change it all? 'One of the most original, innovative and intelligent writers of speculative fiction working in Britain today’ NINA ALLEN, author of The Dollmaker andThe Race ‘ Beguiling, brilliant and odd’ BENJAMIN MYERS, Walter Scott Prize winning author of The Gallows Pole ‘ Brilliant… brimming with humour and flair… Aliya Whiteley's distinctive talents [are] something to get excited about’ IRENOSEN OKOJIE, Caine Prize Winner and author of Nudibranch ALIYA WHITELEY is author of four books of speculative fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlisted The Loosening Skin. Her novels have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Clarke Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the James Tiptree Jr. Award. She lives in Sussex with her husband and teenage daughter.

FICTION Agent: Max Edwards Manuscript available Rights: UK (Unsung Stories); US (Titan Books); Spain (Dilatando Mentes); Italy (Carbonio Editore)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 6 of 37 MARY VICTORIA MALICE PEPPER AND THE WITCH’S KEY

When a young witch is forced to attend her local school, she has no idea how much magical adven- ture awaits her.

Malice Pepper is the 11-year-old daughter of witches. But instead of attending a glam- orous boarding school to be taught the Dark Arts alongside other famous witches and wizardlings, magic must be set aside when she is enrolled at the local ‘Normal School’. Malice hates the idea of having to hide who she truly is but her parents are insistent. Yet Malice has no idea what danger and adventure awaits…

Malice soon finds herself battling a dark power working at the very heart of her school – one so dangerous, it threatens to take everything from Malice, including those she loves most. As demonic forces gather strength she must make new and unexpected allies to overcome them. Can Malice discover the source of this evil and defeat it? And just as importantly, can she find a way to be her extraordinary self, in a less than ordinary world?

VICTORIA M. ADAMS worked in the film animation industry for many years. She lives in North London with her husband and daughter.

YA FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 7 of 37 ANTHONY STONE NEMESIS

The BBC’s Bodyguard meets Lee Child’s Jack Reacher in this debut pulse-pounding thriller.

Nemesis stars Mickey Bale, a close protection officer at the Met, who is tasked with guarding the Defence Minister, just as Chinese-British relations hit boiling point. In a dangerous political climate, Mickey must keep his principal safe, whilst navigating the precarious realm of close protection work. Meanwhile, Mickey has other pressing – and deadly – matters at hand…

Mickey’s sister, Katie, was recently killed by a lethal ecstasy pill sold to her by a local dealer. Devastated, Mickey vows to exact revenge. He plans to work his way up the chain of command of a ruthless crime gang, until he makes his way to the very top. Mickey has the means, the know-how and the drive to destroy a terrifying organisation single-handed. But will he get away with it – or will his colleagues in the police figure out that the man on a deadly killing spree is actually one of their own?

ANTHONY STONE has a degree in Military Studies and a life-long interest in all things defence, security and policing related. He lives in rural Suffolk with his life partner and irritable cat.

FICTION / THRILLER Agent: Sara O’Keeffe Manuscript available Publication: March 2021 Rights: UK (Head of Zeus)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 8 of 37 SIOBHAN MACGOWAN THE GHOST OF CHISWELL STREET

A sweeping and heart-breaking historical debut set in London in the early 1900’s, charting one woman’s journey from victim to survivor.

London, at the dawn of the twentieth century. When Lotta Rae, a working-class fifteen-year-old, is viciously raped by a wealthy gentleman, she makes the brave decision to testify against her attacker. But Lotta is betrayed by the man appointed to defend her: her own barrister, William Lindon.

When Lotta’s attacker is found innocent, her world falls apart. Hounded by the press and in the depths of despair, she learns of William’s terrible betrayal of her. But it isn’t until Lotta is introduced to William’s handsome and idealistic son, Ralph, that a chance for vengeance presents itself, leading to a series of shocking events as powerful as they are tragic.

SIOBHAN MACGOWAN is from a family of great storytellers, the most prominent of which is her brother Sean McGowan (of the Pogues). Siobhan is a journalist and musi- cian, formerly living in London and now Tipperary, Ireland.

WOMEN’S FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 9 of 37 SERENA MOLLOY WE ARE NOT THE SAME

A deeply moving, powerful and ultimately uplifting young adult novel about a teenage girl growing up as the child of an alcoholic.

Lu Byrne does all she can to protect her siblings from the worst elements of their moth- er’s alcoholism. Lu cares for her younger sister and baby brother whilst lying to her teachers, social services and even her best friend, too frightened to reveal what really goes on at home. To the outside world Lu is a happy teenager. But inside, Lu is being crushed by the terrible weight of her existence.

Until the very worst happens. It is only then that she can let people in, beginning to imagine a life guided not by shame, but by hope. We Are Not the Same is a stunning, authentic and moving portrait of a young life lived in near impossible circumstances.

SERENA MOLLOY is a secondary school teacher, living in Galway, West Ireland. Sere- na has had the privilege of teaching brave young girls like Lu over the course of her ca- reer and they have provided the inspiration for this extraordinary novel.

YA FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 10 of 37 PP WONG LIBERATION

An extraordinary and timely novel about a teenage boy coming of age on an island ruled by a tyrannical, despot- ic king.

Liberation is set on the lush island nation of Mahana. It is ruled by a despotic, book- pulping tyrant, who uses unjust laws to subjugate his people. As conditions worsen on the island, an underground movement, ‘Unservile’, dedicated to peaceful demonstration, begins to gather momentum.

Sixteen-year-old Fred idolises his father and loves his village life. But when Fred’s fath- er, a political dissident, ‘disappears’, the young man joins the ranks of Unservile, pro- pelling him into an extraordinary series of events that promises to change his destiny – and the future course of his country — utterly.

Liberation is a brilliant portrait of the struggles faced by disempowered people in an un- just social system, written with great originality and invention. PP Wong is an incredible talent who has crafted a powerful, bittersweet, but ultimately optimistic novel that can be enjoyed by young and old alike.

PP WONG’s debut novel The Life of a Banana was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives between London and Vancouver.

FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 11 of 37 AMY BORG THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD

The Shape of the World is an epic, immersive debut that is a sweeping exploration of society — and a paean to the power of language.

Song lives on the deserted island of Nilaya, surrounded by endless ocean. She dreams of one day leaving the island to discover the universe beyond – full of cloudships, tower- ing cities and best of all, more of her kind: Cantors, who can sing the world into new ways of being.

Song lives for visits from Lan, her mentor and teacher. Until, that is, Lan fails to show up for her fifteenth birthday. Desperate to figure out what happened to him, she finally es- capes her island. As Song searches for Lan, she delves deeper into the power that con- nects her to the Cantors and soon learns how thin the line between hero and monster can be…

Reminiscent of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, this is an outstanding debut and the start of a planned series.

AMY BORG is a Maltese-American who lives in London and works as a bookseller for Waterstones. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston Uni- versity.

YA FANTASY FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 12 of 37 JEFF COLES THE EXTRAORDINARY CURIOSITIES OF IXWORTH AND MADDOX

Set in a magical curiosity shop in the heart of London’s Mayfair, this sparkling debut brims with imagination and evokes a sumptuous world of adventure and intrigue.

When eleven-year-old Chloe Ashley stumbles upon a curiosity shop in the heart of Lon- don’s Mayfair, she has no idea what magical adventure awaits. That is, until one of the owners disappears under mysterious circumstances. Chloe learns of London's secret Magician's Guild and real magic from the shop's remaining proprietor — Mr. Maddox. Soon, Mr Maddox takes Chloe on as his apprentice and together they set out to find his dear friend, Mr Ixworth.

Working in a magician's shop isn't without its hardships: Magic is a tricky business, and not all magicians are kind; some are greedy, others ambitious, and a few, frighteningly evil. While meeting her obligations as a magician's apprentice, Chloe must learn to track spells using a Billyfish, travel by hat stand and suffer the effects of various, unpre- dictable, spells.

JEFF COLES works as a producer and content developer for the state of Ontario, Canada. He currently resides in Ontario.

MIDDLE GRADE FICTION Agent: Sara O’Keeffe Manuscript available

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 13 of 37 LAWRENCE JONES THE CALLING

Patrick and Grace wake up one Saturday morning, preparing to lounge in front of the TV until their par- ents finally emerge from bed. Only they never come downstairs. When Patrick finally goes in search of them, he discovers their parents are missing. It doesn’t take long for Patrick to realise that all the adults in the neighbourhood seem to have mysteri- ously disappeared, leaving only children behind.

The adults are being called to mysterious objects found floating in the air around the globe. But what are these strange, magnetic objects and what do they want with their parents? Patrick and Grace set out to find their Mom and Dad before it’s too late…

Reminiscent of The Girl with All the Gifts, The Calling is a high concept young adult de- but, full of dark, gripping atmosphere and compulsive storytelling.

LAWRENCE JONES works in property development and lives in North London with his wife and two children.

YA DYSTOPIA / HORROR Agent: Sara O’Keeffe Manuscript available November 2020

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 14 of 37 WILLIAM LEE ADAMS WILD DANCES A JOURNEY THROUGH THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

WILD DANCES is the first complete account at the global phenomenon that is the Eurovision Song Contest. It’s the story of music and belong- ing by the world’s pre-eminent expert on the sub- ject.

With a fabulous blend of cultural biography and memoir, William Lee Adams pulls back the curtain on the Eurovision Song Contest. From national selection contests in Finland, to backstage at the 2019 final in Tel Aviv, and with access to everyone from Conchita Wurst to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lee Adams traces the cultural and historical impact of Eurovision since its founding in 1956. It's not all kitsch: Nationalism, nation branding, and its role in giving marginalised groups a platform, are key elements of the story. Eurovision means the world to many people, be they politicians trying to raise their country’s profile (or impress their own people), or a young gay American finding his feet in London having escaped the Deep South. Within the story of Eurovision sits William's own – the son of a Vietnamese mother and army vet father, he grew up in a family in Georgia dominated by the needs of his severely disabled brother. Out in his teens, and acting as his brother's primary caregiver for much of his childhood, he moved from the US to London, inadvertently falling in love with Eurovision – a place that for him, like so many millions of others, became home. By day, WILLIAM LEE ADAMS works for the BBC World Service. By night, he runs Wiwibloggs, the world's largest and most influential Eurovision website, with a multina- tional editorial staff of 30 and 6 million unique hits annually. He's the former London Cor- respondent for TIME magazine, and his bylines on Eurovision have appeared in The New York Times, Vice,The Guardian, Financial Times and New Yorker among others.

POPULAR CULTURE / MEMOIR Agent: Max Edwards Proposal available Rights: On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 15 of 37 HANNAH DURKIN THE LAST SLAVES

THE LOST STORIES OF THE LAST SURVIVORS OF THE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE

** US RIGHTS SOLD TO AMISTAD IN MAJOR 8-WAY AUCTION **

** UK RIGHTS PRE-EMPTED IN 3 HOURS **

This blockbuster work of history combines original archival research with vivid historical narrative to uncover an unknown American story. It sheds new light on the realities of slavery — and its long reach into the 20th century and beyond.

In THE LAST SLAVES, Hannah Durkin tells the intimate stories of the five survivors of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, 52 years after a federal law banning the human transportation. The subjects of Durkin's book, who ranged in age from two to nineteen when they were kidnapped, died between 1922 and 1940.

They were not just the last survivors of the Clotilda, but the last documented survivors of any slave ship, and thus the final act of a terrible period in world history.

Reminiscent of The Five by Hallie Rubenhold and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, The Last Slaves is a gripping and unforgettable account work of biographical history.

DR HANNAH DURKIN is an academic specialising in the Atlantic slave trade history. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Nottingham, and teaches at the University of Newcastle. She is the recipient of more than a dozen academic prizes, including a prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship

HISTORY Agent: Max Edwards Proposal available Publication: Summer 2023 Rights: UK/Commonwealth (William Collins); North America (Amistad / Harper Collins); Netherlands (Querido)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 16 of 37 IAN LESLIE CONFLICTED

WHY ARGUMENTS ARE TEARING US APART AND HOW THEY CAN BRING US TOGETHER

This book explains why evidence doesn’t change people’s minds; why terror sus- pects don’t succumb to intimidation; and why students are having less sex than their parents.

In Conflicted, Ian Leslie explains how human beings communicate with each other. It turns out that most people are actually not very good at communicating at all. This didn’t matter when people lived in small, homogenous groups. But now we live in diverse, interconnec- ted societies, it has become a serious problem. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Conflicted describes the latest research of a group of cutting-edge ‘interpersonal’ psycho- logists and the work of ground-breaking experts in ‘high stakes’ communication, like host- age negotiators, interrogators and addiction counsellors. to show that it is possible for hu- man beings to learn how to resolve disagreements peacefully and without escalation into conflict.

IAN LESLIE writes about ideas, culture and politics in the Britain and United States. His book Born Liars was hailed as ‘consistently startling and fascinating’ by the Daily Mail and was BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book of the Week’. His book Curious was described by Tyler Cowen as ‘a beautiful and fascinating tribute to one of mankind’s most important virtues.’

PSYCHOLOGY / POPULAR SCIENCE Agent: Toby Mundy Manuscript available Publication: February 2021 Rights: UK/Comm, exc. Canada (Faber & Faber); North America (HarperCollins); China (Renmin University Press); Japan (Kobunsha); Russia (Azbooka-Atticus); Grece (Porphyra)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 17 of 37 MARK LEONARD THE AGE OF UNPEACE HOW GLOBALISATION SOWS THE SEEDS OF CONFLICT

This book reveals that the growing international crisis is a result of the very process of linking up the world that is dri- ving us further and further apart.

Since the Cold War, global leaders have been integrating the world's economy, transport and communications and eliminating borders to reach an ideal: to make war impossible. In this way, these same leaders have unwittingly created a formidable arsenal of weapons for new kinds of conflict and a reason to keep fighting. This new-found rise in nationalism is not a bump in the road, but part of the paving.

As a leading authority on international relations, Mark Leonard's work has placed him in the rooms where our futures are being decided, from Facebook HQ and facial recogni- tion labs in China to meetings with world leaders to advise on trends in geopolitics. In pursuing an understanding of the ways that globalisation has broken its promise to make our world safer and more successful, Leonard explores how we might wrestle a more hopeful future from an age of unpeace.

‘Mark Leonard has reshaped how we look at the world.’ WILL HUTTON

MARK LEONARD is Director of the pan-European think tank, The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which he founded in 2007. His first book, Why Europe will run the 21st century was translated into 19 languages. His next book, What does China Think? was translated into 16 languages (including Chinese); led the Amazon best-seller list for China books for many months. Bill Gates included it in his recommended reading list; George Soros described it as ‘masterful and highly readable’; while Baroness Ashton, when she became EU Foreign Minister, was photographed with a copy of it in her hand- bag (which lead to a media frenzy in China).

POLITICS Agent: Toby Mundy Proposal available Publication: May 2021 Rights: UK/Comm, exc. Canada (Transworld)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 18 of 37 GRAHAM LAWTON MUSTN’T GRUMBLE

THE SURPRISING SCIENCE OF EVERYDAY AILMENTS

In this authoritative and highly entertaining book, science writer Graham Lawton describes what science can — and cannot — tell us about everyday aliments.

One of the many strange effects of the Covid-19 crisis has been to make us much more vigilant about the state of our health in general — and about minor symptoms in particu- lar. And this, in turn, has made us more conscious that we all feel slightly out of sorts a great deal of the time.

This book is not about what happens when we’re ill with something sufficiently serious to send us to the doctor or confine us to bed. Instead, it focuses on the multitude of mild, irksome, distracting illnesses, aches and pains with which we all put up with con- stantly.

In 120 short chapters — some very short, some a little longer — Graham Lawton ex- plains the latest scientific thinking about everything from blackheads to chilblains; dead legs to haemorrhoids; ear wax to hiccups; and hay fever to heat stroke.

GRAHAM LAWTON is a staff writer and columnist at New Scientist, and the author of The Origin of (Almost) Everything and This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better. He has a BSc in biochemistry and an MSc in science commu- nication, both from Imperial College, London. He lives in London.

HEALTH / POPULAR SCIENCE Agent: Toby Mundy Proposal available Publication: Rights: UK/Comm, exc. Canada (Headline Home)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 19 of 37 MARY HARRINGTON FEMINISM FOR THE END OF THE WORLD

HOW TO STAY LIBERATED AFTER THE APOCALYPSE

This book argues that many of the conditions that gave rise to women’s liberation in the early 1960s — social democracy; economic growth; high-birth rates; tech- nological progress — are today being swept away by powerful new forces that present huge risks to women’s freedoms.

In this book, Mary Harrington argues that feminists need to prepare for a series of pro- found economic, political and ecological shocks for which they are currently deeply un- prepared.

Even if only some of the threats on the horizon come to pass, women fortunate enough to live in the liberated, prosperous West could rapidly find themselves in a world in which feminism — as we know it today — is no longer compatible with reality.

Feminism for the End of the World argues that if women don’t want to wake up one day and discover that the rules governing their lives have been re-written by people who don’t care about them, then they need to talk, urgently, about what feminism looks like after the end of the world.

MARY HARRINGTON is a writer and journalist. After graduating from Oxford in 2002 with a first-class degree in English Literature, she spent her twenties experimenting with different forms of living, with stints in intentional communities in London and Kentucky. She joined the influential online journal of commentary and analysis, UnHerd, as a regu- lar columnist in 2019

POLITICS Agent: Toby Mundy On submission

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 20 of 37 JONATHAN HILLMAN THE EMPEROR’S NEW ROAD HOW CHINA’S NEW SILK ROAD IS REMAKING THE WORLD

This book, by America’s foremost authority on the subject, will be the first account for general readers of what China’s colossal ‘Belt and Road’ initiative means for the world.

"The Emperor's New Road is a small book that shows the industriousness of a big one: a complex blend of travel, history, politics, and economics about the greatest long- running geopolitical story of our time, China's new Silk Road."--Robert D. Kaplan, au- thor of The Return of Marco Polo's World and The Revenge of Geography

"China's Belt and Road is reshaping the world's economic and strategic landscape, and in this sweeping and thought-provoking tour, Jonathan Hillman reveals the gaps between Beijing's grand rhetoric and ground reality. Required reading for the C-Suite and the Situation Room."--Stephen J. Hadley, former U.S. National Security Advisor

"An outstanding book by one of the most interesting and original thinkers about the rise of China, the Belt and Road Initiative, and what both mean for the rest of the world. Filled with insights into the changing world of the twenty-first century--essential reading."--Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

"An insightful contribution that helps cut through the noise on one of the most important projects of China's foreign policy."--Graham Allison, Kennedy School of Government

JONATHAN HILLMAN was born in 1987 and is the Director of the ‘Reconnecting Asia’ project at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, the world’s pre-eminent national security and defence think tank. He’s a regular commentator for the Washington Post, WSJ, Financial Times, LA Times and Nikkei Asian Review.

CURRENT AFFAIRS Manuscript available Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: November 2020 Rights: World English (Yale University Press General list); China (Editions de Mai- son Quaille); Taiwan (Editions de Maison Quaille)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 21 of 37 CHRIS BICKERTON ON THE BRINK

A HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE 1989

A MAJOR NEW HISTORY OF EUROPE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR.

This sweeping work of narrative history argues that Europe has been at the centre of a number of critical historical trends of the last thirty years: the revolt by citizens against political elites; the disappearance of the nation as the foundation of collective identities; and a reassertion of the power of the state over the market.

Many analysts and commentators view the last 30 years in Europe see it as story of its rise and fall. This account is pessimistic and for many, ends in cataclysm.

In ON THE BRINK, Chris Bickerton, a brilliant young Cambridge academic argues the opposite. There was a period of stability after the Cold War; but what’s happening now in Europe is the return of politics. This book argues that rather than being something to mistrust and close down, this renewal is critical for good government and a good soci- ety. This return of politics marks the continent’s re-emergence as a history maker. It is also, as this book shows, broadly good news, even if some of its current manifestations are disagreeable.

CHRIS BICKERTON was born in 1980. He’s Reader in Modern European Politics at Cambridge University, and Official Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Born in Glasgow to a French mother and English father, he completed his first degree at the University of Oxford, and completed a Masters at the Graduate Institute for Internation- al Studies in Geneva. He then worked for a Swiss government-funded project on border security in Europe, which involved extended visits to Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Mon- tenegro, Serbia and the Baltic states. He has taught at the University of Amsterdam and at the Paris School of International Affairs, a graduate school of Sciences Po. He’s the author of the best-selling The European Union: A Citizen’s Guide (Penguin).

HISTORY Proposal available Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: 2023 Rights: UK/Comm, exc. Canada (Penguin Press UK)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 22 of 37 ISABEL LOSADA THE JOYFUL ENVIRONMENTALIST

HOW TO PRACTICE WITHOUT PREACHING

Isabel Losada describes every single way we can take care of the planet; how we live and work, travel, shop, eat, drink, dress, vote, play, volunteer, bank everything. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully.

This book is based upon the simple and very timely premise: the climate change crisis is so big and so alarming it makes many of us feel fatalistic and powerless. Yet as this won- derfully funny and inspiring book shows, there’s a terrific amount that each of us can to save the planet — and in a way that makes us feel positive.

‘She gave my spirit a lift and my feet somewhere to stand.’ SIR MARK RYLANCE

‘Told with humour and candour, The Joyful Environmentalist is a manifesto of brilliant advice offered with humility and good grace it is a practical guide to empower us all.’ ISABELLA TREE

‘This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader’s eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change.’ DR ROWAN WILLIAMS

ISABEL LOSADA is the bestselling author of six previous books including The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment. She has worked as an actress, singer, dancer, researcher, TV producer, broadcaster, public speaker, comedian and author.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 23 of 37 DAVID GOODHART HEAD, HAND, HEART WHY INTELLIGENCE IS OVER-REWARDED, MANUAL WORKERS MATTER, AND CAREGIVERS DESERVE MORE RESPECT

In his follow-up to his bestselling The Road to Somewhere, David Goodhart divides society into people who work with their Heads, with their Hands, and with their Hearts, and shows how the status of each group has changed over the last 50 years.

This book argues that, cognitive ability, the analytical intelligence that helps people to pass exams and then process information efficiently in their professional lives — has become the gold standard of human esteem. Consequently, people with cognitive ability — the cognitive elites — now shape society too much in their own interests.

‘Goodhart is one of the most important intellectuals in the country, if not Europe. He has consis- tently been ahead of the curve, no doubt because of his willingness to point out flaws in our liberal consensus before it was fashionable to do so.’ MATHEW GOODWIN, Sunday Times

‘Goodhart makes a strong case for reviving the status of work outside the "knowledge economy”, as the age of automation approaches’ JULIAN COMANA, The Guardian

‘Anyone wanting to think about the way forward in a post-Covid world can learn much from this valuable book.’ MARTIN BENTHAM, Evening Standard

DAVID GOODHART worked for the Financial Times before founding Prospect magazine in 1995. He now heads the Demography, Immigration and Integration Unit for the Policy Ex- change think tank. This is his third book.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 24 of 37 OWEN MATTHEWS AN IMPECCABLE SPY RICHARD SORGE: STALIN’S MASTER AGENT

The definitive account of the incredible life of Richard Sorge – the man John le Carré called 'the spy to end spies', and whose turned the tide of World War Two.

*Selected as a ‘Book of the Year’ by The Economist and the Sunday Times *

Richard Sorge — ‘Stalin's James Bond.’ (Le Figaro) — was a Soviet spy during the Sec- ond World War who worked, apparently without fear, as an undercover German journalist in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. After a string of intelligence coups — including warn- ing Stalin about Hitler’s plan to attack the Soviet Union — he was captured by the Ja- panese and executed for espionage. This book tells Sorge’s story for the first time from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese.

‘Gloriously readable… Every chapter of Matthews’s superb biography reads like some- thing from a thriller.’ DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times

‘Owen Matthews… is the first to use newly available sources in the former USSR, includ- ing KGB archives... a vividly told story… superbly narrated... full of Bond-like drama.’ VIKTOR SEBESTYEN, Financial Times

‘A spy thriller that doubles as an enthralling history of revolutionary Germany in the 1920s, Tokyo during the country’s prewar militarization, and Moscow in the 1930s, where Stalin’s mass terror consumed, among others, seven of Sorge’s military intelligence boss- es.’ Foreign Affairs, ‘Best Books of 2019’

OWEN MATTHEWS is the author of three previous non-fiction books, including Stalin’s Children (Bloomsbury, 2008), which was translated into 27 languages.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 25 of 37 IVAN KRASTEV THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

In this short book ‘one of the great European minds of today’ (TIMOTHY SNYDER) analyses the most profound political question facing the western world: how will sweeping demographic change affect democracy?

In a democracy, numbers matter. We used to believe that democratic power changes hands when people change their minds. But what if power instead shifts with population changes, when newcomers with different ethnic, cultural or political identities enter the body politic?

Ivan Krastev argues that the greatest transformation Western democracies will face in the twenty-first century is intense demographic change, driven by ageing populations and mass migration. The Future of Democracy examines how democracies will survive the transfer of power from an old and relatively homogenous majority to a racially and cultural- ly diverse one.

Krastev describes how past demographic change has influenced politics, including the broadening of the franchise at the end of the US Civil War to include African Americans; the unification of Germany in the 1990s; and the emigration of over a million Soviet Jews to Israel in the late 1980s. He uses these examples to demonstrate that when faced with major demographic change within their electorates, threatened majorities find it very hard to resist trying to re-write the rules of the political game.

IVAN KRASTEV was the 2019 Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. He is chair of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times.

POLITICS / CURRENT AFFAIRS Manuscript available Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: February 2021 Rights: World English (Penguin Press UK); Germany (C.H. Beck); Spain (Debate); Poland (Krytyka)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 26 of 37 JONATHAN ROWSON THE MOVES THAT MATTER A CHESS GRANDMASTER ON THE GAME OF LIFE

‘You do not need to play chess to love this book…in Row- son’s hands chess emerges as a kind of jazz, a dialectic of rules and rule-breaking, surface glitter and profound hid- den depths.’ MARINA BENJAMIN

In this profoundly original book, Jonathan Rowson blends memoir — his teenage years as a chess prodigy; how his father and brother’s mental illness broke his family; the ferocious- ly intense life of a chess grandmaster — with deep reflection, to draw out 64 life lessons from the game of chess. It is a book about life’s transitions; how we become ourselves and, perhaps above all, about falling in and out of love with something. It can be read with huge profit and pleasure by chess players and non-chess players alike.

‘A remarkable, highly original and personal book, unlike anything else you have read.’ IAIN MCGILCHRIST

‘A powerfully unconventional and mind-expanding book.’ OLIVER BURKEMAN

JONATHAN ROWSON is an applied philosopher and Director of the think tank Perspecti- va. He has degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities; he is also a chess Grandmaster and was British Chess Champion from 2004–06.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 27 of 37 SUZANNE WRACK A WOMAN’S GAME THE RISE, FALL, AND RISE AGAIN OF WOMEN’S FOOTBALL

The Guardian's women's football correspondent and award-winning journalist tells the first ever general history of the women's game.

From the factories of a war weary England in the 1910s to the gleaming stadia of mod- ern France in 2019, the rich history of women's football has never been told in book form. It is a sport that is bookended by the 50,000 in attendance for a match between Dick, Kerr Ladies and a Paris XI in 1921, and the brilliance of the 2019 World Cup.

But it’s also the story of discrimination and struggle: a 50 year ban across the UK and much of Europe, tabloid ridicule, ejection from the footballing authorities, and oceans of old-fashioned sexism (ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter memorable called for "tighter shorts" when pressed on how to improve the popularity of the sport).

A Woman's Game tells a history of women's football, charting its global rise, fall, and rise again, situating it within the wider fight for equality in society. But it’s also a mani- festo for a better game: one that isn't simply a mirror of the men's sport, but is an inspi- ration in its own right, on and off the pitch.

This is a vital, agenda-changing book, that will be published in English in time for the 2022 women's European Championships.

‘Vitally, massively important' MEGAN RAPINOE

SUZANNE WRACK is the Guardian's Women's Football Correspondent. She was the first person to write full time about women's football for a national UK newspaper. She has won or been shortlisted for awards from the Sports Journalists Association, the As- sociation Internationale de la Press Sportive, the British Press Association and beyond.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 28 of 37 OLIVIA YALLOP UNDER THE INFLUENCE HOW WE’VE ALL BEEN HOOKED BY SOCIAL MEDIA CELEBRITY

This wide-ranging narrative by an astounding young talent is a deep investigative dive into these overlooked and underestimated group of digital pioneers, influencers, who have now moved from selfie-takers to change-makers.

If you’re not a follower, fan, stan or subscriber, you’re increasingly in the minority. You only have to look at the media frenzy over 2017’s Fyre Festival fiasco, or Love Island’s hypnotic grip on the UK during the summer months to see that public interest in the in- fluencer phenomenon is unrelenting. Influencers have officially captured the minds, and clicks, of the modern digital world.

Combining a range of personal anecdotes with primary research material from an array of industry contacts, influencers, and the cast of hidden characters they overshadow – from managers to ‘Instagram husbands’.

Under the Influence is the first full-length narrative nonfiction book exploring the social media influencer phenomenon; engaging critically with a new wave of social media celebrity and exploring how it is shaped by, and shaping, the development of popular culture in today’s social media-driven world, in the vein of Michael Lewis of Marshall McLuhan.

OLIVIA YALLOP is an influencer strategist and trend forecaster at The Digital Fairy, a creative agency and digital consultancy based in London. She has lectured at the Lon- don College of Fashion and hosts a monthly panel series, #DigiDebates, at Soho House. She has a degree from Oxford University and lives in London.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 29 of 37 KENAN MALIK WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT THE PROBLEM (OR THE SOLU- TION) HOW IDENTITY POLITICS HELPED RACISM REBRAND ITSELF

Most people take concepts such as ‘white identity’ and ‘white privilege’ at face value. Few ask about how these ideas are related. Fewer still have taken the long view, to look at the history behind these concepts, and think about how we have ar- rived at where we are.

In this book Malik examines how issues surrounding: whiteness, white identity, white su- premacy and white privilege have come to dominate some much public discourse today. He argues that the political and economic marginalisation of the working class, and the rise of populism, and of far-right and anti-immigrant movements, has provoked discussions of ‘white identity’, while campaigns against racism, and the emergence of Black Lives Mat- ter in particular, have led to widespread discussions of ‘white privilege’. What these vari- ous perspectives all have in common is a view of white people as either the problem or the solution to myriad social ills.

This book takes that longer view, telling the history of these ideas and explaining why they have suddenly become so politically significant.

KENAN MALIK is an Indian-born English writer, lecturer and broadcaster who trained in neurobiology and the history of science and writes a regular column for the Observer and International New York Times. He’s the author of The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000), Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008) and the bestselling From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy (2009).

POLITICS Proposal available Agent: Toby Mundy Publication: 2022 Rights: World English (C. Hurst Publishers)

Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 30 of 37 PAUL MORLAND TOMORROW’S PEOPLE HOW POPULATION IS TRANSFORMING HUMANITY

Population is the vast hidden force shaping our future. It is breaking existing institutions and building their replacements; disrupting and destroying an old-world order and bringing into existence a new one, quite unlike any known in human history.

Tomorrow’s People spans five continents to explore ten revealing numbers that crystallise transformative trends in global human life: falling infant mortality; rising populations in sub- Saharan Africa; increasing urbanisation; the collapse of established patterns of childbear- ing in Europe and Asia; widespread general ageing (including exploding numbers of the super-old in Japan and an eruption of youth in Nigeria); population decline in large parts of Asia and Europe; the dramatic speed of ethnic change in much of the West; the elimina- tion of illiteracy; and the near-miraculous increase in agricultural output.

Tomorrow’s People argues that we are seeing the end of modern demography and wit- nessing the emergence of new kinds of populations. Where once, demographic changes were wrought by the daily conditions of existence, increasingly they are predominantly shaped by people’s values. Full of gripping and mind-expanding stories, this book provides a map to the radical demographic forces which are shaping our future.

Praise for The Human Tide: ‘This is a readable, trenchant, up-to-date overview of the biggest story on the planet’ LIONEL SHRIVER, The Spectator

Paul Morland is an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and an authority on the interfaces between nationalism, ethnicity and demography. He is the au- thor of The Human Tide (2019), a critically acclaimed work of population history, which was published in 8 languages. An Anglo-German citizen, Morland is married with three chil- dren, and divides his time between London and French Catalonia.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 31 of 37 IVAN KRASTEV IS IT TOMORROW YET?

In this brilliant, stimulating essay, one of the world’s most stimulating and original thinkers explores COVID-19’s im- mediate consequences and its long-term legacy.

Ivan Krastev provides an international perspective on the global coronavirus pandemic: Will things be different for the communities most harmed, and for those who escaped the worst? Where are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how will we think our way through the unthinkable?

‘A great paradox of COVID-19 is that social distancing has brought the opening of the Eu- ropean mind. Closing the borders between EU member states and locking people in their apartments has made us more cosmopolitan that ever.’

‘One of the great European minds of today’ TIMOTHY SNYDER

IVAN KRASTEV is the 2019 Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. He is a also chair of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, a perman- ent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 32 of 37 JAY OWENS PLANET OF DUST THE ENORMOUS IMPACT OF TINY PARTI- CLES

Dust is the ultimate legacy of the rapid progress and seismic shifts of the twenti- eth century, and a profound threat to life in the twenty-first. And yet it is some- thing we hardly ever consider – so small and mundane as to slip below the threshold of thought.

Planet of Dust travels across continents to tell an extraordinary global history of dust. From the American Dust Bowl of the 1920s to the Greenland ice sheets today, via the dusty sea bed of the now-dry Aral Sea in Uzbekistan and the nuclear fallout of Cher- nobyl, Planet of Dust reveals that the changes in science, climate, and geopolitics that shape our modern world all share a commonality: dust.

Planet of Dust introduces the people who have to live in these dusty landscapes – and those who are restoring them, from foresters and farmers to sci-fi visionaries. It shows how we got to the current precipice – and describes how we could have a better future.

Mixing vivid, on-the-ground reportage with incredible narratives from history and at the cutting edge of science, Planet of Dust reminds us that small things can exert great power too.

‘Unmistakably a major book … this is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but also a vitally important ethical argument to advance.' ROBERT MACFAR- LANE

Jay Owens is a is a writer and researcher based in London. Her newsletter Disturb- ances, showcased her fascination with dust to thousands of readers. Her writing on sci- ence, technology and media culture has appeared in the Guardian, WIRED, Quartz and beyond.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 33 of 37 NICHOLAS HUMPHREY SENTIENCE THE INNER LIFE OF HUMANS, ANIMALS AND MACHINES — AND WHY IT MATTERS

In this book, the product of a lifetime’s thought and research, one of the world’s pre- eminent psychologists explains his radical new theory of consciousness.

Humphrey challenges the popular assumption that sentience is linked to intelligence (it’s not: machines can be intelligent without being sentient), or that it exists across the animal kingdom wherever there are complex brains (it doesn’t). Instead, he argues that the evolu- tion of sentience has happened only once, and came about in humans through a series of extraordinary accidents. This means that even if intelligent life has evolved elsewhere in the universe, sentience as it exists on Earth is almost certainly a one-off.

On one level, this book is a gripping philosophical whodunnit. What changes in the brains of our ancestors first switched on the light of consciousness? What clues do we have to the existence of sentience in creatures other than ourselves?

It's also a book with implications for how we think about some big ethical questions, as governments pass laws to protect sentient animals (if only they can say just which these are); and futurists talk about conscious robots. This book re-sets the terms of the debate.

‘The writing is as elegant, and hypnotic, as cool jazz stacked on the record player. His argument feels as crystalline and bracing as that double Martini going down, though you might find yourself a little woozy afterward. And his tone is as warm and inviting as that big, crackling fire… [Soul Dust] has really interesting and original ideas about con- sciousness.’ ALISON GOPNIK, New York Times, reviewing Soul Dust

NICHOLAS HUMPHREY is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the London School of Economics and Senior Member at Darwin College, Cambridge. He studied mountain goril- las with Dian Fossey in Rwanda; he was the first to demonstrate the existence of ‘blind- sight’ after brain damage in monkeys; he proposed the celebrated theory of the ‘social function of intellect’; and he is the only scientist ever to edit the literary journal Granta. In 2015, he was awarded the international Mind & Brain Prize. This will be his eighth book.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 34 of 37 ARMAND D’ANGOUR SOCRATES IN LOVE THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER

‘In this brilliant study, Armand D’Angour re-focuses the works of Socrates the Philosopher by looking afresh at the life of Socrates the Man. In doing so, D’Angour does not just pro- vide new insights into Socrates, but into ancient Greek think- ing as a whole.’ PETER FRANKOPAN

In this ground-breaking biography, Oxford classicist Armand D’Angour reconstructs Socrates’ early life, to present an entirely new account of one of history’s most famous fig- ures. His book shows that Socrates was not just a thinker. He was a soldier, who served in many campaigns with distinction, and a lover. Although he married for the first time in his fifties, he had many other liaisons. One in particular, with Aspasia of Miletus, the cleverest woman of the age, would transform his life and the future direction of Western philosophy.

‘Fascinating and revelatory. A penetrating combination of tremendous scholarship, imagination and sympathetic understanding’ WILLIAM BOYD

‘Succeeds brilliantly in achieving something that I had always assumed was impossible: providing a historically grounded portrait of the man Socrates may actually have been. Not merely eye-opening, it is thrilling and moving.’ TOM HOLLAND

'This is a bravura challenge to past and present thinking, so beautifully paced as to be almost Platonic in itself.’ PETER STANFORD, Financial Times

‘A tour de force of scholarship... Open-minded but not credulous, [D’Angour] accom- plishes what was long thought to be impossible: a reliable, consistent account of the man who forged the matrix of Western philosophy’ JAMIE JAMES, Wall Street Journal

ARMAND D’ANGOUR is a British classical scholar and musician. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of the acclaimed study The Greeks and the New (2011).

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 35 of 37 IVAN KRASTEV & STEPHEN HOLMES THE LIGHT THAT FAILED A RECKONING

A landmark account of how the West won the Cold War, but lost the peace. Krastev and Holmes examine how, after the triumph of 1989, the world America made unravelled.

‘A bracing analysis of post Cold War politics, upending cherished assumptions and for- cing us to look afresh at the complex dialectic of liberalism and illiberalism.’ GEORGE SOROS

‘This is a book about imitation by a couple of utterly inimitable authors. It is the most original explanation of the self-destruction of the liberal West as universal utopia. Its analysis is rooted in an unparalleled understanding of the resentment fuelled revolt (and revolting resentment) of political elites.’ PETER POMERANTSEV

‘Witty, incisive, devastating: an unforgettable analysis of why the light of liberalism failed in Eastern Europe, and why resentment towards imitation of the West has fuelled the furies of the populist revolt.’ MICHAEL IGNATIEFF President, Central European Uni- versity, Budapest

‘This is an important book that fizzes with ideas…There is a smart insight or elegant paradox on almost every page.’ VICTOR SEBESTYEN The Times

IVAN KRASTEV is the 2019 Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. He is a also chair of the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, a perman- ent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna and contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times.

STEPHEN HOLMES is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

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Aevitas Creative Management Rights Guide — Oct 2020 36 of 37 DONALD SASSOON MORBID SYMPTOMS ANATOMY OF A WORLD IN CRISIS

'The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.’ Antonio Gramsci

* ITALIAN BESTSELLER *

Donald Sassoon, one of Europe’s pre-eminent historians and public intellectuals, has been watching the events of the last few years with mounting anger and consternation. The res- ult is this remarkable essay.

Morbid Symptoms is informed by a powerful historical understanding but is a muscular polemic, dazzlingly international in its scope and reference, about all that is going wrong in the world, and the manifest iniquities of market liberalism in the early twenty-first century.

The result is a pulsating and accessible work by a heavyweight left-wing intellectual at a time when conservatism is exhausted, and the Left is making its strongest showing for a generation.

DONALD SASSOON is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. In 2019, he won the Acqui Award of History (Premio Acqui Storia) for lifetime achievement in the field of history. His landmark books, which include One Hundred Years of Socialism; Mona Lisa; Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism; and The Culture of the Europeans, have been translated into 15 languages. His book,The Anxious Triumph: The Global History of Capitalism,1860 to 1914 (2019), was published in the UK by Penguin Press.

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