CONTENTS

Allen Lane 3

Particular Books 31

Pelican Books 41

Penguin Classics 49

Penguin Modern Classics 55

Penguin Paperbacks 75

Penguin Press 80 Strand London 1

1 2 3 3 3 The Secret World Money and Government A History of Intelligence Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics Christopher Andrew

A stupendous history of intelligence, its uses and its neglect A major challenge to economic orthodoxy, by one of - by the world's leading historian of intelligence Britain's leading historians and economists

The history of espionage is far older than any of today's The dominant view in economics is that money and intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence government should play only a minor role in economic life. operations has been largely forgotten. The first mention of Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of espionage in world literature is in the Book of Exodus.'God exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the sent out spies into the land of Canaan'. From there, 'invisible hand' of the market. The view taken in this important Christopher Andrew traces the shift in the ancient world from new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money divination to what we would recognize as attempts to gather and government essential features of any market economy. real intelligence in the conduct of military operations, and One reason we need money is because we don't know what considers how far ahead of the West - at that time - China and the future will bring. Government - good government - makes India were. He charts the development of intelligence and the future more predictable and therefore reduces this kind of security operations and capacity through, amongst others, demand for money. Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Revolutionary America, Napoleonic France, right up to sophisticated modern After Adam Smith orthodoxy persistently espoused non- activities of which he is the world's best-informed interpreter. intervention, but the Great Depression of 1929-32 stopped the What difference have security and intelligence operations artificers of orthodox economics in their tracks. A precarious made to course of history? Why have they so often forgotten balance of forces between government, employers, and trade by later practitioners? This fascinating book provides the unions enabled to emerge as the new answers. policy paradigm of the Western world. However, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the rejection of Keynesian policy and a Christopher Andrew is Professor of Modern and Contemporary return to small-state neoclassical orthodoxy. Thirty years later, History and former Chair of the Faculty of History at Cambridge the 2008 global financial crash was severe enough to have University. He is also chair of the British Intelligence Study shaken the re-vamped classical orthodoxy, but, curiously, this Group, Founding Co-Editor of Intelligence and National Security, did not happen. Once the crisis had been overcome - by Keynesian measures taken in desperation - the pre-crash former Visiting Professor at Harvard, Toronto and the June 2018 July 2018 Australian National University, and a regular presenter of BBC orthodoxy was reinstated, undermined but unbowed. Since 9780241352823 9780713993660 2008, no new 'big idea' has emerged, and orthodoxy has Radio and TV documentaries. His most recent book, The Royal Octavo Royal Octavo Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, was a maintained its sway, enacting punishing austerity agendas £25.00 : Hardback £35.00 : Hardback that leave us with a still-anaemic global economy. major international bestseller. His fifteen previous books 896 pages 384 pages include The Mitrokhin Archive volumes 1 and 2, and a number of path-breaking studies on the use and abuse of secret This book aims to familiarise the reader with essential intelligence in modern history. elements of Keynes's 'big idea'. By showing that much of economic orthodoxy is far from being the hard science it claims to be, it aims to embolden the next generation of economists to break free from their conceptual prisons and afford money and government the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve.

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the . His three volume biography of (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes,

4 5 4 Money and Government Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics Robert Skidelsky

A major challenge to economic orthodoxy, by one of Britain's leading historians and economists

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Money, it is claimed, is nothing more than a medium of exchange; and economic outcomes are best left to the 'invisible hand' of the market. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty make money and government essential features of any market economy. One reason we need money is because we don't know what the future will bring. Government - good government - makes the future more predictable and therefore reduces this kind of demand for money.

After Adam Smith orthodoxy persistently espoused non- intervention, but the Great Depression of 1929-32 stopped the artificers of orthodox economics in their tracks. A precarious balance of forces between government, employers, and trade unions enabled Keynesian economics to emerge as the new policy paradigm of the Western world. However, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the rejection of Keynesian policy and a return to small-state neoclassical orthodoxy. Thirty years later, the 2008 global financial crash was severe enough to have shaken the re-vamped classical orthodoxy, but, curiously, this did not happen. Once the crisis had been overcome - by Keynesian measures taken in desperation - the pre-crash July 2018 orthodoxy was reinstated, undermined but unbowed. Since 9780241352823 2008, no new 'big idea' has emerged, and orthodoxy has Royal Octavo maintained its sway, enacting punishing austerity agendas £25.00 : Hardback that leave us with a still-anaemic global economy. 384 pages This book aims to familiarise the reader with essential elements of Keynes's 'big idea'. By showing that much of economic orthodoxy is far from being the hard science it claims to be, it aims to embolden the next generation of economists to break free from their conceptual prisons and afford money and government the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve.

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes,

5 5 Adam Smith The Bank That Lived a Little What He Thought, and Why it Matters Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market Jesse Norman Philip Augar

A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing The roller-coaster story of one of the UK's biggest national importance of the world's greatest economist financial institutions over the past thirty years

Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern Barclays is one of the biggest names on the British high street. economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with But what he really thought, and what the implications of his thrilling pace and drama, Barclays: The Bank that Lived a Little is ideas are, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent the story of Barclays since Big Bang, Britain's financial services advocate of capitalism and the freedom of the individual? Or a revolution of 1986. Philip Augar describes in detail three prime mover of 'market fundamentalism' and an apologist for decades of boardroom intrigue driven by greed, ambition and a inequality and human selfishness? love of power, and by shifting alliances between rival camps - one desperate for Barclays to join the top table of global This exceptional book, by a writer who combines to an unusual banks, the other preferring a smaller domestic role. degree intellectual training and practical political experience, dispels the myths and caricatures and gives us Smith in the But this is much more than a corporate thriller and chronicle of round. It lays out a succinct and highly engaging account of personal feuds: Augar shows that Barclays' experiences are Smith's life and times, explores his work as a whole and traces also a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life since the his influence over the past two centuries. Finally, it shows how mid-1980s. The financial services revolution saw the City move a proper understanding of Smith can help us grasp - and from the edge of the economy to its very centre, creating address - the problems of modern capitalism. The Smith who unprecedented prosperity and then blowing it all away, making emerges from this book is not only the first thinker to place governments' reputations and then leaving them in ruins. The markets at the heart of economics but also a pioneering decade of austerity, the rise and fall of governments, the theorist of moral philosophy, culture and society. leveraged society, and the winner-takes-all mentality can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book Jesse Norman is an MP and a former Energy Minister; he was tells this extraordinary story from the perspective of many of previously Chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select the participants and also of those affected by the grip they Committee. Before entering politics he was a Director at came to have on Britain. Barclays, and did research and taught philosophy at University July 2018 July 2018 College London. His previous books include a celebrated study Philip Augar, a former banker with a doctorate in history, is 9780241328491 9780241335970 of Edmund Burke. Royal Octavo the author of several previous books including the celebrated Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2000). He has £25.00 : Hardback 416 pages held numerous public and private sector directorships, and is 416 pages currently chair of the UK government's review of higher education. He contributes regularly to the Financial Times and the BBC.

6 7 6 The Bank That Lived a Little Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market Philip Augar

The roller-coaster story of one of the UK's biggest national financial institutions over the past thirty years

Barclays is one of the biggest names on the British high street. Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with thrilling pace and drama, Barclays: The Bank that Lived a Little is the story of Barclays since Big Bang, Britain's financial services revolution of 1986. Philip Augar describes in detail three decades of boardroom intrigue driven by greed, ambition and a love of power, and by shifting alliances between rival camps - one desperate for Barclays to join the top table of global banks, the other preferring a smaller domestic role.

But this is much more than a corporate thriller and chronicle of personal feuds: Augar shows that Barclays' experiences are also a paradigm for Britain's social and economic life since the mid-1980s. The financial services revolution saw the City move from the edge of the economy to its very centre, creating unprecedented prosperity and then blowing it all away, making governments' reputations and then leaving them in ruins. The decade of austerity, the rise and fall of governments, the leveraged society, and the winner-takes-all mentality can all be traced to the influence of banks such as Barclays. Augar's book tells this extraordinary story from the perspective of many of the participants and also of those affected by the grip they came to have on Britain. July 2018 Philip Augar, a former banker with a doctorate in history, is 9780241335970 the author of several previous books including the celebrated Royal Octavo The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2000). He has £25.00 : Hardback held numerous public and private sector directorships, and is 416 pages currently chair of the UK government's review of higher education. He contributes regularly to the Financial Times and the BBC.

7 7 The Coddling of the American Mind Brazil: A Biography Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling

A timely investigation into the new safety culture in A superb new history of one of the most grand, beautiful and universities and the dangers it poses to free speech, mental varied countries on Earth, from its origins to today health, education, and ultimately democracy Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an Your feelings are always right unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any You should avoid pain and discomfort other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest You should look for faults in others and not yourself beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. These three Great Untruths are part of a larger philosophy that sees young people as fragile creatures who must be protected Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and supervised by adults, resulting in a culture of safety that and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to began on American college campuses and is spreading convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge throughout academic institutions in the English-speaking country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than world. the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to In this book, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and free create both political institutions and social frameworks that speech campaigner Greg Lukianoff argue that increasing would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all intolerance of opposing viewpoints is contributing to rising its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very rates of depression and anxiety among young people and short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the leaving many students unprepared for adult life, with world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as devastating consequences for them, for their parents, for the compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders. companies that will soon hire them, and for democracies that are increasingly pushed to the brink of violence over growing Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at São political divisions. Paulo University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures in Latin In tracing the origins of this phenomenon, Haidt and Lukianoff American Studies at Princeton University. Two of her books offer a comprehensive set of reforms that will strengthen both have been translated into English: The Emperor's Beard: Dom individuals and institutions, allowing us all to reap the benefits Pedro II and his Tropical Monarchy in Brazil and The Spectacle of of diversity, including viewpoint diversity. July 2018 the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in July 2018 9780241308356 Brazil, 1870-1930. 9781846147937 Jonathan Haidt is a social and cultural psychologist and the Royal Octavo Royal Octavo Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York £20.00 : Hardback Heloisa Murgel Starling is Professor at the Federal University £30.00 : Hardback University's Stern School of Business. He is the author of The 304 pages of Minas Gerais and author of Os senhores das Gerais, 704 pages Righteous Mind and The Happiness Hypothesis. Lembranças do Brasil and Uma patria paratodos.

Greg Lukianoff is a lawyer and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. His writings on campus free speech have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

8 9 8 Brazil: A Biography Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling

A superb new history of one of the most grand, beautiful and varied countries on Earth, from its origins to today

Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity.

Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at São Paulo University and Visiting Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. Two of her books have been translated into English: The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and his Tropical Monarchy in Brazil and The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in July 2018 Brazil, 1870-1930. 9781846147937 Royal Octavo Heloisa Murgel Starling is Professor at the Federal University £30.00 : Hardback of Minas Gerais and author of Os senhores das Gerais, 704 pages Lembranças do Brasil and Uma patria paratodos.

9 9 Crashed Roller-Coaster How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Europe, 1950-2017

The definitive story of the Great Financial Crisis and how it The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the continues to haunt our lives aftermath of the Second World War to the present

In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade later century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as its spectre still haunts us. As the appalling scope and scale of having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 the crash was revealed, the financial institutions that had brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. symbolised the West's triumph since the end of the Cold War, Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. seemed - through greed, malice and incompetence - to be The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever about to bring the entire system to its knees. more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities. Crashed is a brilliantly original and assured analysis of what happened and how we were rescued from something even Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear worse - but at a price which continues to undermine democracy threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. across Europe and the United States. Gnawing away at our Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the institutions are the many billions of dollars which were sense that they were flung through a series of events which conjured up to prevent complete collapse. Over and over threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in again, the end of the crisis has been announced, but it charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA continues to hound us - whether in Greece or Ukraine, whether and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures through Brexit or Trump. Adam Tooze follows the trail like no whose fates were dictated to them depending on the vagaries previous writer and has written a book compelling as history, of the Cold War. There were, by most definitions, striking as economic analysis and as political horror story. successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But Adam Tooze is the author of the highly praised The Deluge and accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of The Wages of Destruction, both published by Allen Lane. The interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Wages of Destruction won the Wolfson Prize for History and the Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability. Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize. He has taught August 2018 August 2018 at Cambridge and Yale and is now Kathryn and Shelby Cullom In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand 9781846140365 9780241187166 Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. Royal Octavo panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Royal Octavo £30.00 : Hardback Drawing on examples from all across Europe, Roller-Coaster will £30.00 : Hardback 704 pages make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European. 656 pages Sir Ian Kershaw is one of the UK's most distinguished historians. His most famous books include Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. The first volume in his history of modern Europe, To Hell and Back, was described by the Observer as 'superb... likely to become a classic' and by Harold Evans in The New York Times as 'chilling epic-size history... should be required reading'. He lives in Manchester.

10 11 10 Roller-Coaster Europe, 1950-2017 Ian Kershaw

The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in his previous book as having gone 'to Hell and back', the years from 1950 to 2017 brought peace and relative prosperity to most of Europe. Enormous economic improvements transformed the continent. The catastrophic era of the world wars receded into an ever more distant past, though its long shadow continued to shape mentalities.

Europe was now a divided continent, living under the nuclear threat in a period intermittently fraught with anxiety. Europeans experienced a 'roller-coaster ride', both in the sense that they were flung through a series of events which threatened disaster, but also in that they were no longer in charge of their own destinies: for much of the period the USA and USSR effectively reduced Europeans to helpless figures whose fates were dictated to them depending on the vagaries of the Cold War. There were, by most definitions, striking successes - the Soviet bloc melted away, dictatorships vanished and Germany was successfully reunited. But accelerating globalization brought new fragilities. The impact of interlocking crises after 2008 was the clearest warning to Europeans that there was no guarantee of peace and stability. August 2018 In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand 9780241187166 panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Royal Octavo Drawing on examples from all across Europe, Roller-Coaster will £30.00 : Hardback make us all rethink Europe and what it means to be European. 656 pages Sir Ian Kershaw is one of the UK's most distinguished historians. His most famous books include Hitler, Fateful Choices and The End. The first volume in his history of modern Europe, To Hell and Back, was described by the Observer as 'superb... likely to become a classic' and by Harold Evans in The New York Times as 'chilling epic-size history... should be required reading'. He lives in Manchester.

11 11 Japan Story Our Boys In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present The Story of a Paratrooper Christopher Harding Helen Parr

A magical new cultural history of modern Japan An unflinching, brilliant new book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid 19th Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the century to the present, through the eyes of people who paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines the always had their doubts about modernity - who greeted it not long aftermath of that conflict. It is a first in many ways - a with the confidence and grasping ambition of Japan's familiar social and cultural history of a regiment with an elite and modernizers and nationalists, but with resistance, conflict, aggressive reputation; a study of close-quarters combat on distress. the Falkland islands; and an exploration of the many legacies of this short and symbolic war. Told through the experiences of We encounter writers of dramas, ghost stories and crime people who lived through it, Our Boys shows how the Falklands novels where modernity itself is the tragedy, the ghoul and the conflict began to change Britain's relationship with its soldiers. bad guy; surrealist and avant-garde artists sketching their It is also the story of one particular soldier: the author's uncle, escape; rebel kamikaze pilots and the put-upon urban poor; who was killed during the conflict, and whose fate has haunted hypnotists and gangsters; men in desperate search of the both the author and his fellow paratroopers ever since. eternal feminine and feminists in search of something more than state-sanctioned subservience; Buddhists without Helen Parr was aged seven when she was woken up by her morals; Marxist terror groups; couches full to bursting with the mother with the news that her uncle had been killed in the psychological fall-out of breakneck modernization. These Falklands War. This book is based in part on her wish to people all sprang from the soil of modern Japan, but their understand what happened and why - the result was this personalities and projects failed to fit. They were 'dark remarkable book, which is both about a specific paratrooper, blossoms': both East-West hybrids and home-grown varieties the world in which he lived, and the Falklands War itself. She is that wreathed, probed and sometimes penetrated the new Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. masonry and mortar of mainstream Japan. Her essay 'The Eurosceptic's Moment' was co-winner of the 2017 Hennessy Prize. Christopher Harding teaches at the University of Edinburgh and frequently broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. August 2018 September 2018 9780241296486 9780241288948 Royal Octavo Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback £20.00 : Hardback 512 pages 400 pages

12 13 12 Our Boys The Story of a Paratrooper Helen Parr

An unflinching, brilliant new book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War

Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines the long aftermath of that conflict. It is a first in many ways - a social and cultural history of a regiment with an elite and aggressive reputation; a study of close-quarters combat on the Falkland islands; and an exploration of the many legacies of this short and symbolic war. Told through the experiences of people who lived through it, Our Boys shows how the Falklands conflict began to change Britain's relationship with its soldiers. It is also the story of one particular soldier: the author's uncle, who was killed during the conflict, and whose fate has haunted both the author and his fellow paratroopers ever since.

Helen Parr was aged seven when she was woken up by her mother with the news that her uncle had been killed in the Falklands War. This book is based in part on her wish to understand what happened and why - the result was this remarkable book, which is both about a specific paratrooper, the world in which he lived, and the Falklands War itself. She is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University. Her essay 'The Eurosceptic's Moment' was co-winner of the 2017 Hennessy Prize.

September 2018 9780241288948 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback 400 pages

13 13 The British in India Living with the Gods Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs David Gilmour Neil MacGregor

A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated of British people of all classes in the most important author of A History of the World in 100 Objects territory of the British Empire No society on Earth lacks beliefs about where it has come from, The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the its place in the world, and the connection of individuals to the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. They eternal. Until recently, it was widely assumed that religion was were soldiers, officials, businessmen, doctors and missionaries on the wane almost everywhere: now, far from becoming of both sexes, planters, engineers and many others, together marginalised, the relationship between faith and society has with children, wives and sisters. This book describes their lives, moved to the centre of politics and global conversation. Neil their work and their extraordinarily varied interactions with the MacGregor's new book traces how different societies have native populations; it also records the very diverse roles they understood and articulated their place in the cosmic scheme. played in the three centuries of British-Indian history. Gilmour He examines mankind's beliefs not from the perspective of writes of people who have never been written about before, institutional religions, but by focusing on the shared narratives men and women who are presented here with humanity and that have shaped societies - and on what happens when often with humour. The result is a magnificent tapestry of life, different narratives run up against each other. MacGregor an exceptional work of scholarly recovery which reads like a brilliantly turns his kaleidoscope of objects, places and ideas to great nineteenth-century novel. It makes a highly original and set these pressing contemporary concerns in the long engaging contribution to a long an important period of British perspectives of time and place. and Indian history. Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the 2015. His previous books include A History of the World in 100 author of lives of George Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Objects, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize) and of The Ruling of a Nation, all available in Penguin and now between them Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, an acclaimed study of translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2010, he was the administrators of Victorian India. His other works include made a member of the Order of Merit, the UK's highest civil The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa honour. He is now Chair of the Steering Committee of the September 2018 September 2018 (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. 9780241004524 9780241308295 modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of Royal Octavo Royal Octavo £30.00 : Hardback the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of £30.00 : Hardback St Antony's College, Oxford. 608 pages 512 pages

14 15 14 Living with the Gods 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs Neil MacGregor

The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects

No society on Earth lacks beliefs about where it has come from, its place in the world, and the connection of individuals to the eternal. Until recently, it was widely assumed that religion was on the wane almost everywhere: now, far from becoming marginalised, the relationship between faith and society has moved to the centre of politics and global conversation. Neil MacGregor's new book traces how different societies have understood and articulated their place in the cosmic scheme. He examines mankind's beliefs not from the perspective of institutional religions, but by focusing on the shared narratives that have shaped societies - and on what happens when different narratives run up against each other. MacGregor brilliantly turns his kaleidoscope of objects, places and ideas to set these pressing contemporary concerns in the long perspectives of time and place.

Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery, London from 1987 to 2002 and of the British Museum from 2002 to 2015. His previous books include A History of the World in 100 Objects, Shakespeare's Restless World and Germany: Memories of a Nation, all available in Penguin and now between them translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2010, he was made a member of the Order of Merit, the UK's highest civil honour. He is now Chair of the Steering Committee of the September 2018 Humboldt Forum in Berlin. 9780241308295 Royal Octavo £30.00 : Hardback 512 pages

15 15 Thomas Cromwell Gandhi A Life The Years That Changed the World, 1915-1948 Diarmaid MacCulloch Ramachandra Guha

This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading - Hilary Mantel historian

Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a such that in the 1530s he was effectively running the country permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to for the King. That decade was one of the most momentous in destroy, using revolutionary and inspirational tactics. In a English history: it saw a religious break with the Pope, world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution of all and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was monasteries, and the coming of the Protestantism. Cromwell armed with nothing more than his arguments and example. was central to all this, but establishing his role with precision has been notoriously difficult. This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a Diarmaid MacCulloch's biography is the most complete life ever book with a Tolstoyan sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi written of this elusive figure, making connections not as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, previously seen and revealing the channels through which unbelievably varied Indian societies and landscapes which he power in early Tudor England flowed. It overturns many travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on received interpretations, for example that Cromwell and Anne many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful Boleyn were allies because of their common religious sense of drama and politics, the publication of Gandhi is a sympathies, showing how he in fact destroyed her. It major event. introduces the many different personalities contributing to these foundational years, all worrying about the 'terrifyingly Ramachandra Guha is the author of a number of major history unpredictable' Henry VIII, and allows readers to feel that all books, including India After Gandhi. He lives in Bangalore. this is going on around them. For a time, the self-made 'ruffian', as he described himself - ruthless, adept in the September 2018 September 2018 exercise of power, quietly determined in religious revolution - 9781846144295 9781846142673 was master of events. MacCulloch's biography for the first time Royal Octavo Royal Octavo reveals his true place in the making of modern England and £30.00 : Hardback £30.00 : Hardback Ireland, for good and ill. 640 pages 1,040 pages Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. His Thomas Cranmer won the Whitbread Biography, James Tait Black and the Duff Cooper prizes; Reformation won the Wolfson and prizes. A History of Christianity was awarded the Cundill and Hessel- Tiltman prizes.

16 17 16 Gandhi The Years That Changed the World, 1915-1948 Ramachandra Guha

The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian

Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary and inspirational tactics. In a world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with nothing more than his arguments and example.

This magnificent book tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his contemporaries and the vast, unbelievably varied Indian societies and landscapes which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of drama and politics, the publication of Gandhi is a major event.

Ramachandra Guha is the author of a number of major history books, including India After Gandhi. He lives in Bangalore.

September 2018 9781846142673 Royal Octavo £30.00 : Hardback 1,040 pages

17 17 Brothers York Land at the Crossroads An English Tragedy An Ecological History of Europe Thomas Penn Tim Flannery

The gripping new history of a dynasty that seized the A history of Europe unlike any before it: an ecological English throne - then tore itself apart history of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it

In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown for the past 100 million years Europe has literally been at the of England: Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York. crossroads of the world. By virtue of its geology and The country was in need of a new hero. Magnetic, narcissistic, geography, evolution in Europe proceeds faster than Edward found himself on the throne, and alongside him his two elsewhere. The continent has absorbed wave after wave of younger brothers: the unstable, petulant George, Duke of immigrant species over the millennia, taking them in, Clarence, and the boy who would emerge from his shadow, transforming them, and sometimes hybridising them. Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Flannery's exploration of the nature of Europe reveals a Charismatic, able and ambitious, the brothers would become compelling intellectual drama, with a cast of heroic researchers the figureheads of a spectacular ruling dynasty, one that laid - of whom Tim Flannery is the most recent - whose discoveries the foundations for a renewal of English royal power. Yet a have changed our understanding of life itself. web of grudges and resentments grew between them, generating a destructive sequence of conspiracy, rebellion, Professor Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and conservationist deposition, fratricide, usurpation and regicide. The house of who frequently presents programmes on ABC Radio, NPR and York's brutal end came on 22 August 1485 at Bosworth Field, the BBC. He is a leading writer on climate change and his with the death of the youngest brother, then Richard III, at the previous books include Here on Earth (2010) and The Weather hands of a new usurper, Henry Tudor. Makers (2005).

The house of York should have been the dynasty that the Tudors became. Its tragedy was that it devoured itself.

Thomas Penn is the author of the acclaimed, bestselling Winter King, which won the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize. October 2018 October 2018 9781846146909 9780241358078 Royal Octavo Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback £20.00 : Hardback 640 pages 272 pages

18 19 18 Land at the Crossroads An Ecological History of Europe Tim Flannery

A history of Europe unlike any before it: an ecological history of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it

A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, for the past 100 million years Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world. By virtue of its geology and geography, evolution in Europe proceeds faster than elsewhere. The continent has absorbed wave after wave of immigrant species over the millennia, taking them in, transforming them, and sometimes hybridising them.

Flannery's exploration of the nature of Europe reveals a compelling intellectual drama, with a cast of heroic researchers - of whom Tim Flannery is the most recent - whose discoveries have changed our understanding of life itself.

Professor Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and conservationist who frequently presents programmes on ABC Radio, NPR and the BBC. He is a leading writer on climate change and his previous books include Here on Earth (2010) and The Weather Makers (2005).

October 2018 9780241358078 Royal Octavo £20.00 : Hardback 272 pages

19 19 The Scottish Clearances The Future of Capitalism A History of the Dispossessed, 1500-1900 Facing the New Anxieties T M Devine Paul Collier

A definitive new history of the terrible process by which From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid much of Scotland was 'cleared' of many inhabitants, written diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and by Scotland's foremost living historian realistic vision for how we can repair it

Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the world. But there was in the same period another side to the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus history of the nation. Many of Scotland's people were developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change: the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the traditional and customary relationships were overturned and rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been replaced by the 'rational' exploitation of land use. The Scottish answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit sometimes terrible process, which changed the Lowland and the return of the far right in Germany. We have heard countryside forever, as it also did, more infamously, the old many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic society of the Highlands. way to fix it, until now.

Based on an extensive use of original sources, this pioneering In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume, Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north these rifts - economic, social and cultural - with the cool head and south of the Highland line. In the process, old myths are of pragmatism, rather than the fervour of ideological revivalism. exploded and familiar assumptions undermined. With many He reveals how he has personally lived across these three fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story, The divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper- Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, were irreparably changed in the interests of economic ©Times and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. efficiency. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of The result created the landscape of Scotland as we know it the world's most distinguished social scientists, he shows us October 2018 October 2018 today, but that came at a price. This is a story of forced how to save capitalism from itself - and free ourselves from the 9780241304105 9780241333884 clearance, of the destruction of entire communities and of large Royal Octavo intellectual baggage of the 20th century. Demy Octavo -scale emigration. Some winners were able to adapt and £20.00 : Hardback £20.00 : Hardback exploit the new opportunities, but there were also others who 400 pages Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at 320 pages lost everything. the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of The Bottom Billion, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the T M Devine has written four books for Penguin: The Scottish Arthur Ross Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations, Nation, Scotland's Empire, To the Ends of the Earth and The Plundered Planet, Exodus and Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Independence or Union. He is Sir William Fraser Professor Collier has served as Director of the Research Department of Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University the World Bank, and consults with the German and many other of Edinburgh. In 2001 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal governments around the world. and has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research. He was knighted in 2014.

20 21 20 The Future of Capitalism Facing the New Anxieties Paul Collier

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit and the return of the far right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now.

In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts - economic, social and cultural - with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervour of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper- competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession.

Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world's most distinguished social scientists, he shows us October 2018 how to save capitalism from itself - and free ourselves from the 9780241333884 intellectual baggage of the 20th century. Demy Octavo £20.00 : Hardback Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at 320 pages the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of The Bottom Billion, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations, The Plundered Planet, Exodus and Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Collier has served as Director of the Research Department of the World Bank, and consults with the German and many other governments around the world.

21 21 The Penguin Book of the Churchill Contemporary British Short Story Walking with Destiny: The Biography Andrew Roberts Philip Hensher A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of The A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories Greatest Briton, by one of Britain's best-selling historians published in the last twenty years Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in We are living in a particularly rich period for British short the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young stories. Despite the relative lack of venues in which they can aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the be published, the challenge the medium represents has mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for attracted many remarkable writers. the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, Philip Hensher, following the great success of his definitive two the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold -volume Penguin Book of British Short Stories, has been reading Standard, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike a vast trove of material and has chosen thirty great stories, in 1926, and then spent more than ten years in the political written between the death of Princess Diana and the present wilderness - and who, finally, was summoned to save his day. The authors and their stories will be revealed on country in 1940. 'I felt that I was walking with destiny, and all publication. my life had been but preparation for that hour.' Philip Hensher is the editor of the highly praised two-volume Andrew Roberts' titanic new biography re-interprets all these Penguin Book of the British Short Story. He is Professor of events, especially Churchill's leadership during the Second Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. His most recent novel World War, which he sees through the prism of all Churchill's is The Friendly Ones (2018). earlier life. He gives full visibility to Churchill's flaws, and brilliantly explains his genius. He has used over forty collections of papers not available to Churchill's previous biographer Roy Jenkins (2001) and he is the first Churchill biographer to be granted access by the Queen to the private ©Sebastian Meyer diaries of King George VI. This is the Churchill biography for our times. October 2018 October 2018 9780241347461 Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international 9780241205631 Royal Octavo renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback £30.00 : Hardback 600 pages the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and 768 pages The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on bestseller list. His most recent book was Napoleon the Great (2014), which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

22 23 22 Churchill Walking with Destiny: The Biography Andrew Roberts

A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of The Greatest Briton, by one of Britain's best-selling historians

Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century - the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T. E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness - and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940. 'I felt that I was walking with destiny, and all my life had been but preparation for that hour.'

Andrew Roberts' titanic new biography re-interprets all these events, especially Churchill's leadership during the Second World War, which he sees through the prism of all Churchill's earlier life. He gives full visibility to Churchill's flaws, and brilliantly explains his genius. He has used over forty collections of papers not available to Churchill's previous biographer Roy Jenkins (2001) and he is the first Churchill biographer to be granted access by the Queen to the private ©Sebastian Meyer diaries of King George VI. This is the Churchill biography for our times. October 2018 Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international 9780241205631 renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, Royal Octavo £30.00 : Hardback the Wolfson Prize for History); Masters and Commanders; and 768 pages The Storm of War, which reached No. 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. His most recent book was Napoleon the Great (2014), which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and Arts. He appears regularly on British television and radio and writes for the Sunday Telegraph, Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

23 23 Capitalism in America Blueprint A History How DNA Makes Us Who We Are Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge Robert Plomin

The story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that colonies to an unsurpassed engine of wealth and innovation we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are

Where does innovation come from, and how does it spread The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that through a society? And why do some eras see the fruits of differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our innovation spread more democratically, and others, including introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, our own, see the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects Greenspan distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA into a master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US differences. economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale In Blueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural spanning vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the breakthroughs, enlightenment ideals as well as profound moral case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we failings. Every crucial debate is addressed - from the role of are. Our families, schools and the environment around us are slavery in the antebellum Southern economy to the real impact important, but they are not as influential as our genes. This is of Roosevelt's New Deal and America's violent mood swings in why, he argues, teachers and parents should accept children its openness to global trade. At heart, the authors argue, for who they are, rather than trying to mould them in certain America's genius has been its tolerance for the effects of directions. Even the environments we choose and the signal creative destruction, the ceaseless churn of the old giving way events that impact our lives, from divorce to addiction, are to the new, driven by new people and new ideas. At a time influenced by our genetic predispositions. Now, thanks to the when productivity growth has again stalled, stirring up the DNA revolution, it is becoming possible to predict who we will populist furies, and the continuation of American pre-eminence become, at birth, from our DNA alone. As Plomin shows us, seems increasing uncertain, Capitalism in America makes for these developments have sweeping implications for how we urgent reading. think about parenting, education, and social mobility.

Alan Greenspan worked as a Juilliard-trained professional A game-changing book by a leader in the field, Blueprint shows musician before studying Economics at New York University, how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin October 2018 October 2018 where he earned his PhD. From 1974 to 1977, he served as our lives can impact our behaviour as adults. 9780241365908 9780241282076 chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Royal Octavo Royal Octavo Gerard Ford. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan appointed him £25.00 : Hardback Robert Plomin is a leading behavioural geneticist who works £20.00 : Hardback chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, a position he held until 512 pages at King's College, London. He has published more than 800 320 pages his retirement in 2006. He is the author of the bestselling The papers in scientific journals and is the author of the best- Age of Turbulence and of The Map and the Territory 2.0. selling textbook in the field. In 2012, he was awarded a highly prestigious five-year Advanced Investigator Award from the Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's political editor and European Research Council. He was the youngest president of writes the Bagehot column. With John Micklethwait he is the the international Behaviour Genetics Association, and has been author of The Fourth Revolution, The Right Nation, and God is given lifetime achievement awards from that association as Back. well the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research in Child Development, among others.

24 25 24 Blueprint How DNA Makes Us Who We Are Robert Plomin

One of the world's top behavioural geneticists argues that we need a radical rethink about what makes us who we are

The blueprint for our individuality lies in the 1% of DNA that differs between people. Our intellectual capacity, our introversion or extraversion, our vulnerability to mental illness, even whether we are a morning person - all of these aspects of our personality are profoundly shaped by our inherited DNA differences.

In Blueprint, Robert Plomin, a pioneer in the field of behavioural genetics, draws on a lifetime's worth of research to make the case that DNA is the most important factor shaping who we are. Our families, schools and the environment around us are important, but they are not as influential as our genes. This is why, he argues, teachers and parents should accept children for who they are, rather than trying to mould them in certain directions. Even the environments we choose and the signal events that impact our lives, from divorce to addiction, are influenced by our genetic predispositions. Now, thanks to the DNA revolution, it is becoming possible to predict who we will become, at birth, from our DNA alone. As Plomin shows us, these developments have sweeping implications for how we think about parenting, education, and social mobility.

A game-changing book by a leader in the field, Blueprint shows how the DNA present in the single cell with which we all begin October 2018 our lives can impact our behaviour as adults. 9780241282076 Royal Octavo Robert Plomin is a leading behavioural geneticist who works £20.00 : Hardback at King's College, London. He has published more than 800 320 pages papers in scientific journals and is the author of the best- selling textbook in the field. In 2012, he was awarded a highly prestigious five-year Advanced Investigator Award from the European Research Council. He was the youngest president of the international Behaviour Genetics Association, and has been given lifetime achievement awards from that association as well the American Psychological Association and the Society for Research in Child Development, among others.

25 25 Whiteshift Humble Pi Populism, Immigration and the Future of White A Comedy of Mathematical Error Majorities Matt Parker Eric Kaufmann Planes, buildings, the internet, the global economy are all A provocative, ground-breaking book that will change the based on complex maths. This dark web of formulae goes conversation about ethnic diversity and populism by offering unnoticed until someone forgets to carry a one and YouTube a new narrative based on a wealth of data breaks, or planes nearly fall from the sky

Across the West, anti-immigration populists are tearing a path We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a through the usual politics of left and right. Immigration is practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. remaking Europe and North America: over half of American This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' - babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority in it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill many countries. the gaps in what our brains can do naturally.

Drawing on an extraordinary range of surveys, Whiteshift Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, explores the majority response to ethnic change in Western we love to read about what happens when maths errors make Europe, North America and Australasia. Eric Kaufmann, a the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and leading expert on immigration, calls for us to move beyond explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the empty talk about national identity and open up debate about internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how the future of white majorities. He argues that we must ditch important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. the 'diversity myth' that whites will dwindle, replacing it with This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster whiteshift - a new story of majority transformation that can stories with a happy ending. help lift anxieties and heal today's widening political divisions. Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now A bold, original work, Whiteshift will redefine the way we think lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video- about ethnic diversity and populism. game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write ©Steve Ullathorne your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he'll University of London. A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2018 November 2018 be doing stand-up or converting photographs into Excel he was born in and spent eight early years in 9780241317105 9780241360231 Tokyo. His previous books include Shall the Religious Inherit the Royal Octavo spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Royal Octavo Earth? and The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America. £25.00 : Hardback Fourth Dimension. £16.99 : Hardback 576 pages 256 pages

26 27 26 Humble Pi A Comedy of Mathematical Error Matt Parker

Planes, buildings, the internet, the global economy are all based on complex maths. This dark web of formulae goes unnoticed until someone forgets to carry a one and YouTube breaks, or planes nearly fall from the sky

We would all be better off if everyone saw mathematics as a practical ally. Sadly, most of us fear maths and seek to avoid it. This is because mathematics doesn't have good 'people skills' - it never hesitates to bluntly point out when we are wrong. But it is only trying to help! Mathematics is a friend which can fill the gaps in what our brains can do naturally.

Luckily, even though we don't like sharing our own mistakes, we love to read about what happens when maths errors make the everyday go horribly wrong. Matt Parker explores and explains near misses and mishaps with planes, bridges, the internet and big data as a way of showing us not only how important maths is, but how we can use it to our advantage. This comedy of errors is a brilliantly told series of disaster stories with a happy ending.

Originally a maths teacher from Australia, Matt Parker now lives in Godalming in a house full of almost every retro video- game console ever made. He is fluent in binary and could write ©Steve Ullathorne your name in a sequence of noughts and ones in seconds. When he's not working as the Public Engagement in Mathematics Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, he'll November 2018 be doing stand-up or converting photographs into Excel 9780241360231 spreadsheets. He is the author of Things to Make and Do in the Royal Octavo Fourth Dimension. £16.99 : Hardback 256 pages

27 27 I Saw Eternity the Other Night Unruly Waters King’s College Cambridge and an English Singing Style A History of the Battle to Understand the Monsoons Timothy Day and Mountain Rivers that Have Shaped South Asia’s History A brilliant and original history of the evolution of England's Sunil Amrith best-loved singing style

Like so many ancient English customs, the singing style of the A bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting choir of King's College, Cambridge is of Victorian origin. Before the long quest to tame its waters then, most of the singers had possessed only the most rudimentary musical knowledge, and the worlds of scholarship Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly Waters, and music rarely mixed. But in 1878 King's established a historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the boarding school for the sons of the clergy and other stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the professional men, and in 1881 the first undergraduate was weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers given a scholarship to sing in the choir. By the 1930s all the who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he men were choral scholars, and the choir directed by a fellow of shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of the College. A century before the singing had been rough and political independence and economic development, provoked harsh; now it was distinguished by its sweetness and efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and brightness. The choir quickly became famous through unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. broadcasts and especially with the Christmas Eve transmission of the Ceremony of Nine Lessons and Carols, whose 100th Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams anniversary falls this year. But it was with the long-playing disc in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of in the 1950s and 60s, when the choir was directed by David millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and Willcocks, that the singing style became fixed in public storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is consciousness as the quintessence of English cathedral music. essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only Asia's past and its future. Singing styles of whatever kind intimately reflect the societies Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian and communities that nurture them. When middle-class English ©Derek Foxton ©Stephanie Mitchell men and boys learned to sing at King's their music-making Studies at Harvard University. He is also the author of Crossing demonstrated fastidious control and restraint and an absence the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of of vibrato and of strong dynamic contrasts. Why did they sing Migrants. He has been a Research Fellow at Trinity College, November 2018 December 2018 like that? How had this style evolved? Why did it draw in and Cambridge and in 2017 was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' 9780241352182 Fellowship. 9780241247051 move so profoundly many men and women of different faiths Royal Octavo Royal Octavo and of none all round the world? This book provides original £25.00 : Hardback £25.00 : Hardback answers to these questions. 416 pages 400 pages Timothy Day was for many years curator of western art music in the British Library's Sound Archive. He has written and lectured widely on English cathedral music, was a visiting senior research fellow at King's College, London 2006-11, and served on the Management Committee of the Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. For his work on this book, he was awarded with a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. His previous books include A Century of Recorded Music: Listening to Musical History and Hereford Choral Society: An Unfinished History.

28 29 28 Unruly Waters A History of the Battle to Understand the Monsoons and Mountain Rivers that Have Shaped South Asia’s History Sunil Amrith

A bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters

Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations.

Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only Asia's past and its future.

Sunil Amrith is the Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies at Harvard University. He is also the author of Crossing ©Stephanie Mitchell the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants. He has been a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and in 2017 was awarded a MacArthur 'Genius' December 2018 Fellowship. 9780241247051 Royal Octavo £25.00 : Hardback 400 pages

29 29 PENGUIN MONARCHS ‘A publishing venture in the best Penguin tradition’ Financial Times

The latest titles for 2018 in the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers – from Athelstan to Elizabeth II – in a collectible format.

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30 31 30 31 31 A Boy in the Water Uncle Oscar's Chairs A Memoir From A to Z Tom Gregory Magnus Englund and Daniel Frost

The poignant, life-affirming story of a determined boy, a It's a rainy day in Uncle Oscar's house. What are Jack and visionary coach, and how the dream of a record-breaking Molly going to do? Why, explore the alphabet through the Channel swim became reality wonderful world of designer chairs of course!

Eltham, South London. 1984: the hot fug of the swimming pool A is for Ant ... designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1952 and the slow splashing of a boy learning to swim but not yet B is for Ball ... designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 wanting to take his foot off the bottom. Fast-forward four C is for Coconut ... designed by George Nelson in 1955 years. Photographers and family wait on the shingle beach as a boy in a bright orange hat and grease-smeared goggles A lovely collaboration between a traditional book on the swims the last few metres from France to England. He has alphabet and a guide to the world's iconic chairs, written by a been in the water for twelve agonizing hours, encouraged at Scandinavian furniture expert and designed by a leading British each stroke by his coach, John Bullet, who has become a illustrator (also nuts about chairs), Uncle Oscar's Chairs is the second father. children's book you'll find in design stores, or the design book you'll find in the children's section of the bookshop. This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a coach and a boy, and a love letter to the intensity and freedom of Magnus Englund is a renowned interior design retailer who co- childhood. founded Skandium, the chain responsible for helping popularise Scandinavian design in the UK. He has written Tom Gregory grew up in Eltham, south-east London. He holds several books about Scandinavian design and architecture, the record of being the youngest person to swim the English and is a Trustee of the Isokon Gallery. Channel, completing the crossing aged eleven in September 1988. (He still owns the Gold Blue Peter badge he received for The art of Daniel Frost is colourful, deceptively simple, and the feat and the box tickets he was given to see Leyton Orient unmistakable. His work often blends the latest digital play at home.) Today, Tom Gregory lives in Surrey with his wife techniques with traditional mediums, and his unique, Oberon and two children. He takes his daughters swimming every Award-winning art has been used by Nike, The New York Times, weekend. and Transport for London. August 2018 September 2018 9780241354124 9781846149450 Demy Octavo Other £14.99 : Hardback £12.99 : Hardback 256 pages 176 pages

32 33 32 Uncle Oscar's Chairs From A to Z Magnus Englund and Daniel Frost

It's a rainy day in Uncle Oscar's house. What are Jack and Molly going to do? Why, explore the alphabet through the wonderful world of designer chairs of course!

A is for Ant ... designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1952 B is for Ball ... designed by Eero Aarnio in 1963 C is for Coconut ... designed by George Nelson in 1955

A lovely collaboration between a traditional book on the alphabet and a guide to the world's iconic chairs, written by a Scandinavian furniture expert and designed by a leading British illustrator (also nuts about chairs), Uncle Oscar's Chairs is the children's book you'll find in design stores, or the design book you'll find in the children's section of the bookshop.

Magnus Englund is a renowned interior design retailer who co- founded Skandium, the chain responsible for helping popularise Scandinavian design in the UK. He has written several books about Scandinavian design and architecture, and is a Trustee of the Isokon Gallery.

The art of Daniel Frost is colourful, deceptively simple, and unmistakable. His work often blends the latest digital techniques with traditional mediums, and his unique, Oberon Award-winning art has been used by Nike, The New York Times, and Transport for London. September 2018 9781846149450 Other £12.99 : Hardback 176 pages

33 33 Ricochet Where the Wild Cooks Go David Bowie 1983 My Travels with Food and Music Denis O’Regan Cerys Matthews

A breathtaking, never-before-seen glimpse into life on tour BBC broadcaster and musician Cerys Matthews tours the with David Bowie, by the late singer's official tour world from her kitchen, mixing up recipes with the music, photographer poetry and cultures that have inspired her over a lifetime of cooking and travelling In 1990, on their third world tour together, photographer Denis O'Regan told David Bowie what inspired him to take up A kitchen these days is a wonderful place. You can cook your rock photography. 'It's because of you,' said Denis. He was way right round the world without spending a fortune and inspired by Bowie's 1973 Ziggy Stardust concert at the without even leaving your home. This is exactly what Cerys Hammersmith Odeon. Bowie's response: 'Nah, you'll probably Matthews, food enthusiast, finds herself doing, with tried-and- tell Bono the same thing tomorrow night.' tested recipes from all over the globe. Shall we go Spanish? Japanese? Scottish? Shall I cook inside? Light a fire?? Here, In Ricochet: Bowie 1983, the official photographer of one of the low-meat, vegan and vegetarian options, as well as cocktail most celebrated musicians of all time reveals intimate stories recipes, offer up the world as your oyster. Accompanied by and pictures that offer an exclusive insight into David Bowie stories and folklore from each country, with a wonderful list of the man and musician. Taken on the 'Serious Moonlight Tour' - tracks to inspire while you cook and eat, this is a failsafe way Bowie's largest ever tour that took in 99 concerts in over 60 to keep things interesting in the kitchen. With a recipe base cities - Denis's photos provide a thrilling, intimate view of life and song list built over years of touring and discovering new on the road with a unique pop icon. From capturing the theatre places, Cerys has found that a simple list of ingredients and a and mime of Bowie on stage to unguarded snapshots of the great playlist on the go means there's always a ticket to ride. artist at his most human, every single image in Ricochet was personally approved by Bowie himself, and the result is a music Cerys Matthews MBE is a musician, author and broadcaster. A photography book like no other. DJ on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, where she programmes and hosts an award-winning weekly Witty, poignant, and beautifully produced, Ricochet is a rare show, she is also a cultural roving reporter for , ©Nenad Obradovic and spirited look into the life of an inimitable artist, whose and has written and presented documentaries on BBC Radio 4, music and performances have inspired - and continue to inspire BBC Radio 2, S4C and BBC Television. The founder member of - generations of listeners around the world. the multi-million selling band Catatonia, she is also a co- September 2018 September 2018 founder and owner of the Good Life Experience festival. A mum 9781846149610 9781846149726 of three, she cooks every day. Denis O'Regan has toured the world as official photographer Other Crown Quarto to David Bowie, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and £30.00 : Hardback £25.00 : Hardback Duran Duran. He was the official photographer at Live Aid, and 320 pages 272 pages continued that tradition as official photographer at the Concert For Diana, MTV European Music Awards, and most recently Download, Coachella and Glastonbury festivals. In an eventful career - and purely in the line of duty - Denis has enjoyed dinner for two in Japan with Joni Mitchell, picknicked with David Bowie in Australia, partied with Prince in a park in Minnesota, and argued with Bob Marley in his native Jamaica. (They made up.) He was known as 'Doris' by Freddie Mercury, 'Reg' by Duran Duran, 'Scoop' by Bob Geldof and, on one occasion, 'Yob' by Keith Richards.

34 35 34 Where the Wild Cooks Go My Travels with Food and Music Cerys Matthews

BBC broadcaster and musician Cerys Matthews tours the world from her kitchen, mixing up recipes with the music, poetry and cultures that have inspired her over a lifetime of cooking and travelling

A kitchen these days is a wonderful place. You can cook your way right round the world without spending a fortune and without even leaving your home. This is exactly what Cerys Matthews, food enthusiast, finds herself doing, with tried-and- tested recipes from all over the globe. Shall we go Spanish? Japanese? Scottish? Shall I cook inside? Light a fire?? Here, low-meat, vegan and vegetarian options, as well as cocktail recipes, offer up the world as your oyster. Accompanied by stories and folklore from each country, with a wonderful list of tracks to inspire while you cook and eat, this is a failsafe way to keep things interesting in the kitchen. With a recipe base and song list built over years of touring and discovering new places, Cerys has found that a simple list of ingredients and a great playlist on the go means there's always a ticket to ride.

Cerys Matthews MBE is a musician, author and broadcaster. A DJ on the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, where she programmes and hosts an award-winning weekly show, she is also a cultural roving reporter for the One Show, ©Nenad Obradovic and has written and presented documentaries on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, S4C and BBC Television. The founder member of the multi-million selling band Catatonia, she is also a co- September 2018 founder and owner of the Good Life Experience festival. A mum 9781846149610 of three, she cooks every day. Crown Quarto £25.00 : Hardback 272 pages

35 35 Heimat Made Out of Stars A Memoir of History and Home A Journal for Self-Realization Nora Krug Meera Lee Patel

A powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that A beautifully illustrated journal that celebrates individuality, explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home for a from the bestselling author of Start Where You Are postwar German Meera Lee Patel's first guided journal, Start Where You Are, Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the inspired thousands of readers through a rare combination of end of the Second World War, struggling with a profound stunning watercolour art and thoughtful, empowering prompts ambivalence towards her country's recent past. Travelling as a and quotations. teenager, her accent alone evoked raw emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and shared. Made Out of Stars will pick up the journey once more, encouraging readers to recognize and embrace what makes Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug them truly special. A booster shot of self-care when you need it decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting most, this beautiful, intimate book will be a touchstone for where she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey anyone looking to better understand themselves so they can investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi clear out the noise and be who they are. regime, visually charting her way back to a country still tainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist raised in America by the powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the New Jersey shore, where she swam the bright waters and meaning of history and home. climbed cherry blossom trees until she grew old enough to draw them. Her illustrations are inspired by the magical Nora Krug is a German-American author, illustrator and mysteries of nature, the quiet stories that lace through associate professor in the Illustration Program at the Parsons everyday life, and the bold colours of her native India. She is School of Design in New York City. Her drawings and visual the author of Start Where You Are and My Friend Fear. narratives have appeared in publications including The New York Times, and le Monde Diplomatique, and in a Meera lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her online number of anthologies. A recipient of numerous prestigious at www.meeralee.com, or follow her work on Instagram fellowships, her books are included in the Library of Congress @merelymeeralee. and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia October 2018 October 2018 University. Her illustrations have been recognized with three 9780241183564 9780241355268 gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and a Silver Cube Other 192x148 from the New York Art Directors Club. Krug's work has been £25.00 : Hardback £10.99 : Trade Paperback exhibited internationally, and her animations shown at the 304 pages 128 pages Sundance Film Festival.

37 36 36 Made Out of Stars A Journal for Self-Realization Meera Lee Patel

A beautifully illustrated journal that celebrates individuality, from the bestselling author of Start Where You Are

Meera Lee Patel's first guided journal, Start Where You Are, inspired thousands of readers through a rare combination of stunning watercolour art and thoughtful, empowering prompts and quotations.

Made Out of Stars will pick up the journey once more, encouraging readers to recognize and embrace what makes them truly special. A booster shot of self-care when you need it most, this beautiful, intimate book will be a touchstone for anyone looking to better understand themselves so they can clear out the noise and be who they are.

Meera Lee Patel is a self-taught artist raised in America by the New Jersey shore, where she swam the bright waters and climbed cherry blossom trees until she grew old enough to draw them. Her illustrations are inspired by the magical mysteries of nature, the quiet stories that lace through everyday life, and the bold colours of her native India. She is the author of Start Where You Are and My Friend Fear.

Meera lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Visit her online at www.meeralee.com, or follow her work on Instagram @merelymeeralee. October 2018 9780241355268 192x148 £10.99 : Trade Paperback 128 pages

37 37 Seashaken Houses Penguin Classics A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet The Best Books Ever Written Tom Nancollas Henry Eliot

An enthralling history of Britain's historic rock lighthouses, A complete and wondrous guide to all of the Penguin exploring the enduring appeal of these magnificent, isolated Classics, from the Creative Editor of the series sentinels Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. in the world. From The Epic of Gilgamesh to the poetry of the For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this utilitarian than that. Today we still depend upon their guiding reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than and 4,000 years of world literature. in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland which form a ring of nineteen towers built between 1811 and 1905, so- Stuffed full of stories, author biographies, book summaries and called because they were constructed on desolate rock recommendations, and illustrated with thousands of historic formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to Penguin Classic covers, this is an exhilarating and withstand the power of its waves. comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to explore and discover the best books ever written. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, the people who risked their lives building and Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics. Before rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by changing world. William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Born in Gloucester in 1988, Tom Nancollas is a writer and Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on building conservationist based in London. After university, he Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is the author of Follow This Thread joined English Heritage to work on church repair grants before and Curiocity (with Matt Lloyd-Rose). moving on to the City of London and its historic townscape. Of Cornish ancestry, Tom maintained a love of seascapes during his work in the capital and became fascinated with offshore October 2018 November 2018 rock lighthouses, finding in them a new way of looking at 9781846149375 9780241320853 buildings, heritage and, unexpectedly, family. Demy Octavo Crown Quarto £16.99 : Hardback £30.00 : Hardback 224 pages 400 pages

38 39 38 Penguin Classics The Best Books Ever Written Henry Eliot

A complete and wondrous guide to all of the Penguin Classics, from the Creative Editor of the series

Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. From The Epic of Gilgamesh to the poetry of the First World War, and covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books and 4,000 years of world literature.

Stuffed full of stories, author biographies, book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with thousands of historic Penguin Classic covers, this is an exhilarating and comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to explore and discover the best books ever written.

Henry Eliot is the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is the author of Follow This Thread and Curiocity (with Matt Lloyd-Rose).

November 2018 9780241320853 Crown Quarto £30.00 : Hardback 400 pages

39 39 40 41 40 41 41 Think Again Parenting the First Twelve Years How to Reason and Argue What the Evidence Tells Us Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Victoria L. Cooper, Heather Montgomery, Kieron Sheehy A deeply enlightening master class in how to be persuasive from an inspiring philosopher who teaches one of the most Concrete, research-driven advice on humanity's oldest, popular open online courses hardest job

Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and Why is parenting so fraught and so difficult in today's society? disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to There has never been a time when advice was so readily compromise and understand the other side is widespread available, and yet there is also a prevailing sense that parents today. What can we do to change this? In Think Again are getting it wrong. This book examines the arguments and philosopher Walter Sinnott-Armstrong draws on a long counter-arguments supported by research on how best to tradition of logic to show why we should stop focusing on parent children, from birth to twelve years. By taking an winning arguments and instead argue in a more constructive impartial approach to the evidence and, by discussing case way. studies from across the world and from a number of academic disciplines, this book is designed to show how good parenting Based on a hugely popular online course with more than a comes in many shapes and forms. million followers around the world, Think Again explains how to analyse, evaluate and make better arguments while also Victoria Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth spotting bad reasoning and avoiding certain fallacies. Through Studies and Co-director of the Children's Research Centre at lively, practical examples from everyday life, politics and the Open University. As a social scientist her research interests popular culture, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong offers brilliantly broadly fall into three key areas; childhood identity, straightforward, wise advice that we can all use at work, at educational research methods and professional development home and online. in education.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is the Chauncey Stillman Professor Heather Montgomery is Reader in the Anthropology of of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Childhood at the Open University. She is a social Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His class, Think anthropologist who conducted research in Thailand among Again: How to Reason and Argue, is one of the most popular young prostitutes and writes more generally on children's courses available online via the global platform Coursera. His July 2018 experiences of violence and vulnerability and also on children's August 2018 books include Morality Without God? and Moral Skepticisms. 9780141983110 rights. 9780241270509 A Format A Format £8.99 : Paperback Kieron Sheehy is Professor of Education and Innovation £8.99 : Paperback 304 pages Pedagogies at the Open University. His international research 256 pages and teaching encompasses examining the relationship between notions of learning, play and new technologies.

42 43 42 Parenting the First Twelve Years What the Evidence Tells Us Victoria L. Cooper, Heather Montgomery, Kieron Sheehy

Concrete, research-driven advice on humanity's oldest, hardest job

Why is parenting so fraught and so difficult in today's society? There has never been a time when advice was so readily available, and yet there is also a prevailing sense that parents are getting it wrong. This book examines the arguments and counter-arguments supported by research on how best to parent children, from birth to twelve years. By taking an impartial approach to the evidence and, by discussing case studies from across the world and from a number of academic disciplines, this book is designed to show how good parenting comes in many shapes and forms.

Victoria Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies and Co-director of the Children's Research Centre at the Open University. As a social scientist her research interests broadly fall into three key areas; childhood identity, educational research methods and professional development in education.

Heather Montgomery is Reader in the Anthropology of Childhood at the Open University. She is a social anthropologist who conducted research in Thailand among young prostitutes and writes more generally on children's experiences of violence and vulnerability and also on children's August 2018 rights. 9780241270509 A Format Kieron Sheehy is Professor of Education and Innovation £8.99 : Paperback Pedagogies at the Open University. His international research 256 pages and teaching encompasses examining the relationship between notions of learning, play and new technologies.

43 43 Social Mobility A Political History of the World And Its Enemies Three Thousand Years of War and Peace Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin Jonathan Holslag

A closer look at how declining social mobility affects us all, A three-thousand year history of the world that examines and what we can do about it the causes of war and the search for peace

What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict chances? during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The parents? dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in the Western world. The lack of movement in who gets where in In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has society - particularly when people are stuck at the bottom and produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the top - costs the nation dear, both in terms of the unfulfilled the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between talents of those left behind and an increasingly detached elite, empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy disinterested in improvements that benefit the rest of society. and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world This book analyses cutting-edge research into how social politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax mobility has changed in Britain over the years, the shifting role Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the of schools and universities in creating a fairer future, and the creation of the United Nations. key to what makes some countries and regions so much richer in opportunities, bringing a clearer understanding of what This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for works and how we can better shape our future. patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade Lee Elliot Major is Chief Executive of the Sutton Trust, a fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does foundation dedicated to improving social mobility in the UK environmental change affect stability? Is war a universal sin of through evidence-based programmes, research and policy power? At a time when the threat of nuclear war looms again, advocacy. this is a much-needed history intended for students of September 2018 October 2018 international politics, and anyone looking for a background on 9780241317020 9780241352045 Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics at the London A Format current events. A Format School of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic £8.99 : Paperback £8.99 : Paperback Performance. 480 pages Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free 320 pages University Brussels. He is the author of several books including China's Coming War with Asia and Trapped Giant. He is a special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, a Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a Nobel Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. He has appeared on CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, CCTV and Al Jazeera, and written for newspapers such as the Financial Times and the Guardian.

44 45 44 A Political History of the World Three Thousand Years of War and Peace Jonathan Holslag

A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peace

In three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman Empire was in conflict during at least 50 per cent of its lifetime. Since 1776, the United States has spent over one hundred years at war. The dream of peace has been universal in the history of humanity. So why have we so rarely been able to achieve it?

In A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag has produced a sweeping history of the world, from the Iron Age to the present, that investigates the causes of conflict between empires, nations and peoples and the attempts at diplomacy and cosmopolitanism. A birds-eye view of three thousand years of history, the book illuminates the forces shaping world politics from Ancient Egypt to the Han Dynasty, the Pax Romana to the rise of Islam, the Peace of Westphalia to the creation of the United Nations.

This truly global approach enables Holslag to search for patterns across different eras and regions, and explore larger questions about war, diplomacy, and power. Has trade fostered peace? What are the limits of diplomacy? How does environmental change affect stability? Is war a universal sin of power? At a time when the threat of nuclear war looms again, this is a much-needed history intended for students of October 2018 international politics, and anyone looking for a background on 9780241352045 current events. A Format £8.99 : Paperback Jonathan Holslag teaches international politics at the Free 320 pages University Brussels. He is the author of several books including China's Coming War with Asia and Trapped Giant. He is a special advisor to the Vice-President of the European Commission, a Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, and a Nobel Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. He has appeared on CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, CCTV and Al Jazeera, and written for newspapers such as the Financial Times and the Guardian.

45 45 National Populism Our Universe The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy An Astronomer's Guide Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin Jo Dunkley

A crucial new guide to one of the most important phenomena Internationally-acclaimed astrophysicist and feminist Jo of our time: the rise of populism in the West Dunkley tells the story of space and our place in it: what is out there, where we fit in, and how we got here Across the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the economics. Many of these voters are turning to national stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of populist movements, which pose the most serious threat to stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few the Western liberal democratic system, and its values, since decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astronomy the Second World War. From the United States to France, - steps which have let us venture ever further across space Austria to the UK, the national populist challenge to and time, with telescopes that let us see, in ever greater mainstream politics is all around us. detail, those distant parts of the universe that lie far beyond our Solar System's planets, and even give us a glimpse of the But what is behind this exclusionary turn? Who supports these first moments of the Universe. movements and why? What does their rise tell us about the health of liberal democratic politics in the West? And what, if Yet these extraordinary advances in our understanding of the anything, should we do to respond to these challenges? wider Universe have led us to even greater mysteries. What happened in the first moments after the Big Bang? What are Written by two of the foremost experts on fascism and the rise the mysterious 'dark' parts of the Universe? Is space is infinite? of the populist right, National Populism is a lucid and deeply- Is there is life elsewhere? And, what happens in those parts of researched guide to the radical transformations of today's space where conditions are so intense that our laws of physics political landscape, revealing why liberal democracies across break down? the West are being challenged-and what those who support them can do to help stem the tide. In this new Pelican book, practising cosmologist and Professor of Astrophysics Jo Dunkley guides us through the history of our Roger Eatwell is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University Universe as we know it, taking us to the heart of these many of Bath. He has published widely on fascism and populism, unsolved questions. November 2018 November 2018 including Fascism: a History. 9780241312001 9780241235874 A Format An internationally renowned academic, Jo Dunkley is Professor A Format Matthew J. Goodwin is Professor of Politics at the University of £8.99 : Paperback of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. £8.99 : Paperback Kent and a Senior Fellow at Chatham House. He has published 384 pages She was part of the science team for NASA's WMAP space 320 pages five books, including Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the satellite, and now works on the Atacama Cosmology European Union and the Paddy Power Political Book of the Year Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic 2015 (for Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Survey Telescope. She has been the recipient of many awards, Right in Britain). He writes regularly for The New York Times, the including the the Maxwell Medal, the Fowler Prize for Financial Times and Politico, and has worked with more than Astronomy, the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin award and the 200 organisations on issues relating to political volatility in the Philip Leverhulme Prize. West. He lives in London.

46 47 46 Our Universe An Astronomer's Guide Jo Dunkley

Internationally-acclaimed astrophysicist and feminist Jo Dunkley tells the story of space and our place in it: what is out there, where we fit in, and how we got here

For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astronomy - steps which have let us venture ever further across space and time, with telescopes that let us see, in ever greater detail, those distant parts of the universe that lie far beyond our Solar System's planets, and even give us a glimpse of the first moments of the Universe.

Yet these extraordinary advances in our understanding of the wider Universe have led us to even greater mysteries. What happened in the first moments after the Big Bang? What are the mysterious 'dark' parts of the Universe? Is space is infinite? Is there is life elsewhere? And, what happens in those parts of space where conditions are so intense that our laws of physics break down?

In this new Pelican book, practising cosmologist and Professor of Astrophysics Jo Dunkley guides us through the history of our Universe as we know it, taking us to the heart of these many unsolved questions. November 2018 9780241235874 An internationally renowned academic, Jo Dunkley is Professor A Format of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. £8.99 : Paperback She was part of the science team for NASA's WMAP space 320 pages satellite, and now works on the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the the Maxwell Medal, the Fowler Prize for Astronomy, the Royal Society's Rosalind Franklin award and the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

47 47 48 49 48 49 49 The Romance of the Three The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong Ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, A new translation and abridgement of one of the four Burton's masterpiece is really an all-encompassing classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of the fall of examination of the human condition the Han dynasty and rise of the Three Kingdoms The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, Part historical and part legendary, The Romance of the Three the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the Kingdoms dramatizes the lives of feudal lords and their condition of melancholy, or depression, as we know it today, and in retainers, recounting their personal and military battles, doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including intrigues and struggles to achieve dominance for almost a goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, hundred years. It is one of the most beloved works of East alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for Asian literature, and the most famous historical novel in China. melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorizable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very Luo Guanzhong was a Chinese writer who lived probably condition it describes. during the fourteenth century, during the Yuan and Ming periods. Very little is known about his origins and life, but he is attributed with writing The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and December 2018 editing Outlaws of the Marsh - the first two of the 'Four Great 9780141192284 Classical Novels' of Chinese literature. £16.99 B Format : Paperback Martin Palmer is Director of the International Consultancy on 1,424 pages Religion, Education and Culture (ICOREC) and Secretary General of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC). His previous translations include The Book of Chuang Tzu and The Most Venerable Book (both Penguin Classics), The Dao de Jing and The I Ching.

July 2018 9780241332771 Crime and Punishment B Format £12.99 : Paperback Fyodor Dostoyevsky 608 pages Back by popular demand, the original Clothbound Classics edition of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry, a suspicious detective, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of July 2018 redemption. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true 9780241347683 identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a £16.99 world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and B Format : Hardback evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. 720 pages

50 51 50 The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton

Ostensibly a guidebook to melancholia or depression, Burton's masterpiece is really an all-encompassing examination of the human condition

The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the 17th-century English priest and scholar. It 'opens and cuts up' the condition of melancholy, or depression, as we know it today, and in doing so explores a dizzying range of additional topics, including goblins, beauty, the geography of America, digestion, the passions, alcohol and kissing. Burton believed that reading was a cure for melancholy, and so the book itself - one of the most unique and uncategorizable works of all time - can be seen as a tonic for the very condition it describes.

December 2018 9780141192284 £16.99 B Format : Paperback 1,424 pages

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Back by popular demand, the original Clothbound Classics edition of Dostoyevsky's masterpiece

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with Porfiry, a suspicious detective, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of July 2018 redemption. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true 9780241347683 identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a £16.99 world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and B Format : Hardback evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. 720 pages

51 51 Don Quixote The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems Miguel Cervantes Alexander Pushkin

A beautiful clothbound edition of Miguel de Cervantes' A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote verse, translated by Antony Wood

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman is the second-most famous poem in designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable Russian literature after his Eugene Onegin, and notoriously difficult to and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth translate. This new translation, described by Robert Chandler as 'truly with foil stamped into the design. wonderful', is accompanied here by Pushkin's greatest shorter verses. They range from lyric poetry to narrative verse, based on traditional Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry Russian stories of enchanted tsars and magical fish. Together, they that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold show the dazzling range and achievement of Russia's greatest poet. adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray, tilting at windmills, fighting with friars, and distorting the rural Spanish landscape into a fantasy of impenetrable fortresses and wicked sorcerers. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first July 2018 November 2018 modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular 9780241347768 9780241207130 literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with. £20.00 £9.99 B Format : Hardback B Format : Paperback 1,056 pages 288 pages

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Nicomachean Ethics Arthur Conan Doyle Aristotle

A beautiful clothbound edition featuring some of the One of the most important philosophical works of all time, famous detective's most famous cases in a new Penguin Classics translation

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, Aristotle's classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth deficiency. Reacting against Plato's absolutism, Aristotle insisted that with foil stamped into the design. there are no definitive moral standards, and that ethical philosophy must be based on human nature and experience. This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's Treating such topics as moral worth, intellectual virtue, pleasure, most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, friendship and happiness, Aristotle's work asks above all: what is the Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple good life and how can we live it? with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. In 'Silver September 2018 December 2018 Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the 9780241347782 9780140455472 violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last £16.99 £8.99 comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - B Format : Hardback B Format : Paperback 'the Napoleon of crime'. 384 pages 400 pages

53 52 52 The Bronze Horseman and Other Poems Alexander Pushkin

A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood

Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman is the second-most famous poem in Russian literature after his Eugene Onegin, and notoriously difficult to translate. This new translation, described by Robert Chandler as 'truly wonderful', is accompanied here by Pushkin's greatest shorter verses. They range from lyric poetry to narrative verse, based on traditional Russian stories of enchanted tsars and magical fish. Together, they show the dazzling range and achievement of Russia's greatest poet.

November 2018 9780241207130 £9.99 B Format : Paperback 288 pages

Penguin Classics

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a new Penguin Classics translation

Aristotle's classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency. Reacting against Plato's absolutism, Aristotle insisted that there are no definitive moral standards, and that ethical philosophy must be based on human nature and experience.

Treating such topics as moral worth, intellectual virtue, pleasure, friendship and happiness, Aristotle's work asks above all: what is the good life and how can we live it?

December 2018 9780140455472 £8.99 B Format : Paperback 400 pages

53 53 54 54 55 55 John le Carré

New to Penguin Modern Classics, eleven titles from one of the foremost espionage writers and literary voices of our time. Published to coincide with a major new BBC TV adaption of The Little Drummer Girl.

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56 56 Penguin Classics’ long-term project to publish all 75 Maigret novels, in authentic new translations, continues in Winter 2018 with six new titles in the series.

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57 57 Norman Mailer Willa Cather

Five monumental books by Norman Mailer, new to Penguin Modern Classics. From a New to Penguin Modern Classics in 2018, four major works from the fictional portrayal of the psychological damage war inflicted on a generation of young men in the forties, to a ‘non-fiction novel’ showing the mayhem of the 1968 political great novelist of frontier life and one of the most significant American conventions amid a United States already in turmoil, no-one captured the tumultuous writers of the twentieth century. With jackets featuring landscape twentieth century like Norman Mailer. photography by Ansel Adams.

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58 Willa Cather

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59 Zami Flight to Canada A New Spelling of my Name Ishmael Reed Audre Lorde A wickedly funny, surrealist tale of three slaves on the run in Civil War-era America A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' Deep in the American South, 'land of the hunted and the haunted,' three young slaves have broken free. But they have If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other their former master hot on their heels, and they must outrun, people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. outwit, or outgun him and his personal 'CIA' if they are to secure their freedom--all while dodging the bullets of the Civil A little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a War raging on around them. When the three men part ways, heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the the adventure begins: the first buys up a huge number of arms stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native in readiness for a final showdown; the second sells his body Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, for pornographic flicks; while the third, Raven Quickskill, hero, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her poet, heartbreaker, swigs champagne on a non-stop jumbo jet older sisters. On she stumbles through teenage hardships -- to Canada. Flight to Canada is fun, pacey, adventurous, and suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone -- until she touched by Reed's taste for the absurd. Reed takes us on a emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington wild ride through a nineteenth-century Virginia that looks a lot Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a like the West today, littered with everything from Xerox copiers journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, to jumbo jets, and casts an unsettling sideways look at tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk. This is history, race and the American media. Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich Novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, essayist, activist and with poetry and fierce emotional power. MacArthur genius, Ishmael Reed has been a major figure in American letters for the past four decades. His ground- Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, breaking literary output has inspired generations of artists and as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. writers - from Thomas Pynchon, Paul Beatty, and Colson Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published Whitehead, to 2pac, George Clinton and David Murray - and he while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory is widely recognized as one of the great American writers. worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in July 2018 Reed was born in 1938. He grew up in working-class July 2018 Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, 9780241351086 neighbourhoods in Buffalo, New York, attended Buffalo public 9780241315194 essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, B Format schools, and the University of Buffalo. He taught at Harvard, B Format lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. £9.99 : Paperback Yale, Dartmouth and, for thirty-five years, at the University of £9.99 : Paperback She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when 256 pages California Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California, where he 192 pages she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also teaches at the California College of the Arts. awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. She died of cancer in 1992, aged 58.

61 60 60 Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed

A wickedly funny, surrealist tale of three slaves on the run in Civil War-era America

Deep in the American South, 'land of the hunted and the haunted,' three young slaves have broken free. But they have their former master hot on their heels, and they must outrun, outwit, or outgun him and his personal 'CIA' if they are to secure their freedom--all while dodging the bullets of the Civil War raging on around them. When the three men part ways, the adventure begins: the first buys up a huge number of arms in readiness for a final showdown; the second sells his body for pornographic flicks; while the third, Raven Quickskill, hero, poet, heartbreaker, swigs champagne on a non-stop jumbo jet to Canada. Flight to Canada is fun, pacey, adventurous, and touched by Reed's taste for the absurd. Reed takes us on a wild ride through a nineteenth-century Virginia that looks a lot like the West today, littered with everything from Xerox copiers to jumbo jets, and casts an unsettling sideways look at history, race and the American media.

Novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, essayist, activist and MacArthur genius, Ishmael Reed has been a major figure in American letters for the past four decades. His ground- breaking literary output has inspired generations of artists and writers - from Thomas Pynchon, Paul Beatty, and Colson Whitehead, to 2pac, George Clinton and David Murray - and he is widely recognized as one of the great American writers.

Reed was born in 1938. He grew up in working-class July 2018 neighbourhoods in Buffalo, New York, attended Buffalo public 9780241315194 schools, and the University of Buffalo. He taught at Harvard, B Format Yale, Dartmouth and, for thirty-five years, at the University of £9.99 : Paperback California Berkeley. He lives in Oakland, California, where he 192 pages teaches at the California College of the Arts.

61 61 Great Expectations The Half-Finished Heaven Kathy Acker Selected Poems Tomas Tranströmer Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex Luminous, surreal, and suffused with a meditative calm, the and art selected poems of the Nobel Prize-winning poet who defined late-20th century Scandinavian verse Great Expectations is a punk, fairy-tale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and Over the course of his career, Tomas Tranströmer - a poet who unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. S/he global voices. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw. Kathy Acker in 2011, his luminous, almost mystical work had been is a literary anarchist and here she is at the very top of her translated into more than 50 languages. riotous game. Gathering his poems from the early, nature-focused work to Kathy Acker was born in 1948 and was raised in New York. In the later poetry's widening of the scope to take in painting, her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a travel, urban life, and the impositions of technology on the stripper, while writing and publishing with the underground natural world, and stirred throughout by the poet's profound literary scene. She burst into the mainstream with Blood and love of music, The Half-Finished Heaven is a unique selection Guts in High School, which caused a sensation upon publication from Tranströmer's work. It is also, in its way, a deeply in 1987 - the book was banned in several countries. After intimate one: the poems hand-picked here are not only the being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, she abandoned most beloved, but also those which were translated in the Western medicine after a traumatic experience of surgery to course of Tranströmer's nearly thirty-year correspondence with treat the cancer, which was unsuccessful. She died in an his close friend and collaborator, the American poet Robert Bly. alternative treatment centre in Tijuana, Mexico in 1997. Few names are more strongly associated with Tranströmer's; and few people have understood not only his poetry, but the Her major novels include Blood and Guts in High School, Great processes behind it, more profoundly. The result is perhaps the Expectations, Don Quixote and Pussy, King of the Pirates. A best English-language introduction to this great and strange collection of her emails with McKenzie Wark was published in poet's work that there could be. 2015, titled I'm Very into You. July 2018 August 2018 9780241352144 9780241362822 Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1931, B Format B Format and spent his career as a psychologist. His poetry has been £9.99 : Paperback £8.99 : Paperback translated into more than fifty languages. He received the 160 pages 208 pages Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, and numerous other honours from around the world during his lifetime. He died on March 26, 2015.

63 62 62 The Half-Finished Heaven Selected Poems Tomas Tranströmer

Luminous, surreal, and suffused with a meditative calm, the selected poems of the Nobel Prize-winning poet who defined late-20th century Scandinavian verse

Over the course of his career, Tomas Tranströmer - a poet who could look on the barren isolation of Sweden's landscapes and seascapes like no other, and find in them something hauntingly transcendent - emerged as one of the 20th century's essential global voices. By the time he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, his luminous, almost mystical work had been translated into more than 50 languages.

Gathering his poems from the early, nature-focused work to the later poetry's widening of the scope to take in painting, travel, urban life, and the impositions of technology on the natural world, and stirred throughout by the poet's profound love of music, The Half-Finished Heaven is a unique selection from Tranströmer's work. It is also, in its way, a deeply intimate one: the poems hand-picked here are not only the most beloved, but also those which were translated in the course of Tranströmer's nearly thirty-year correspondence with his close friend and collaborator, the American poet Robert Bly. Few names are more strongly associated with Tranströmer's; and few people have understood not only his poetry, but the processes behind it, more profoundly. The result is perhaps the best English-language introduction to this great and strange poet's work that there could be. August 2018 9780241362822 Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1931, B Format and spent his career as a psychologist. His poetry has been £8.99 : Paperback translated into more than fifty languages. He received the 160 pages Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011, and numerous other honours from around the world during his lifetime. He died on March 26, 2015.

63 63 The Penguin Book of the Prose Promise at Dawn Poem Romain Gary From Baudelaire to Anne Carson A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic The essential guide to the beguiling, mysterious and often misunderstood form which has attracted many of our most Promise at Dawn begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice: beloved writers alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Romain Gary chronicles his childhood in Russia, Poland, The last decades have seen an explosion of the prose poem. and on the French Riveria; he recounts his adventurous life as More and more writers are turning to this peculiarly rich and a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But flexible form; it defines Claudia Rankine's Citizen, one of the above all he tells the story of the love for his mother that was most talked-about books of recent years, and many others, his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland such as Sarah Howe's Loop of Jade and Vahni Capildeo's "Born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise Measures of Expatriation, make extensive use of it. Yet this whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice fertile mode which in its time has drawn the likes of Charles and love". Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Seamus Heaney remains, for many contemporary readers, something of Romain Gary was one of the most important French writers of a mystery. the 20th century. He won the once-in-a-lifetime honour the Prix Goncourt twice, the only person ever to have done so, by The history of the prose poem is a long and fascinating one. writing under a secret nom de plume. He was married to the Here, Jeremy Noel-Tod reconstructs it for us by selecting the American actress Jean Seberg and served in the RAF during the essential pieces of writing - by turns luminous, brooding, Second World War. He died in Paris in 1980 from a self-inflicted lamentatory and comic - which have defined and developed the gunshot wound. form at each stage, from its beginnings in 19th-century France, through the 20th-century traditions of Britain and America and beyond the English language, to the great wealth of material written internationally since 2000. Comprehensively told, it yields one of the most original and genre-changing anthologies to be published for some years, and offers readers the chance to discover a diverse range of new poets and new kinds of poem, while also meeting famous names in an unfamiliar guise. September 2018 September 2018 9780241285794 9780241347638 Jeremy Noel-Tod is a lecturer in the School of Literature, Demy Octavo B Format Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, £25.00 : Hardback £9.99 : Paperback and lead poetry reviewer at the Sunday Times. He has 448 pages 352 pages previously written for the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Prospect, the , the Guardian, and the London Review of Books. His books as an editor include the revised edition of the Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry (2013) and the Complete Poems of R. F. Langley (Carcanet, 2015).

65 64 64 Promise at Dawn Romain Gary

A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic

Promise at Dawn begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice: alone and poor, she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Romain Gary chronicles his childhood in Russia, Poland, and on the French Riveria; he recounts his adventurous life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But above all he tells the story of the love for his mother that was his very life, their secret and private planet, their wonderland "Born out of a mother's murmur into a child's ear, a promise whispered at dawn of future triumphs and greatness, of justice and love".

Romain Gary was one of the most important French writers of the 20th century. He won the once-in-a-lifetime honour the Prix Goncourt twice, the only person ever to have done so, by writing under a secret nom de plume. He was married to the American actress Jean Seberg and served in the RAF during the Second World War. He died in Paris in 1980 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

September 2018 9780241347638 B Format £9.99 : Paperback 352 pages

65 65 My Poems Won't Change the World The Blizzard Patrizia Cavalli Vladimir Sorokin

Poems of the self, the body, pasta and love from one of the A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's truly singular poets of 20th and 21st-century Italy leading contemporary novelists

Two hours ago I fell in love Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the and trembled, and tremble still, village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is and haven't a clue whom I should tell. transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this epidemic, but a Any hall she reads her poetry in is invariably filled to the gills. terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A In Italy, Patrizia Cavalli is as beloved as Wislawa Szymborska trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, is in Poland, and if Italy were Japan she'd be designated a in which he encounters strange beasts, apparitions, national treasure. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this said of Cavalli that she has written 'the most intensely ethical existential storm, Sorokin's characters fight their way through poetry in Italian literature of the 20th century'. One could add a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's 19th-century that it is, easily, also the most sensual and comical. Though Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Cavalli has been widely translated into German, French, and Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once Spanish, she remains little known in Britain; My Poems Won't answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce Change the World is the first substantial gathering of statement about life in contemporary Russia. translations of her work into the English language. Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, The book is made up of poems from Cavalli's collections including The Day of the Oprichnik, also published as a Penguin published by Einaudi from 1974 to 2006, here translated by an Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy and The Queue. His works have illustrious group of poets including Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, Jonathan Galassi and Gini Alhadeff. Thoughtful, sly and full of including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In life, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. traversed on foot or by car, and - always, and above all - love. He lives in Moscow.

Patrizia Cavalli was born in Todi, Umbria, and now lives in Rome. She has published seven collections of poetry, including Poesie 1974-1992, L'io singolare proprio mio, Sempre aperto November 2018 November 2018 teatro, Pigre divinità e pigra sorte and, most recently, Datura. 9780141987880 9780241355138 She has also published popular and well-regarded translations B Format B Format of Shakespeare and Molière. £9.99 : Paperback £8.99 : Paperback 176 pages 256 pages

67 66 66 The Blizzard Vladimir Sorokin

A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia's leading contemporary novelists

Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is transforming the villagers into zombies. He has with him a vaccine which will prevent the spread of this epidemic, but a terrible blizzard turns his journey into the stuff of nightmare. A trip that should take hours turns into a metaphysical odyssey, in which he encounters strange beasts, apparitions, hallucinations and dangerous fellow men. Trapped in this existential storm, Sorokin's characters fight their way through a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov's 19th-century Russia as it does to near-future, post-apocalyptic literature. Fantastical, comic and richly drawn, The Blizzard at once answers to the canon of Russian writers and makes a fierce statement about life in contemporary Russia.

Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, including The Day of the Oprichnik, also published as a Penguin Modern Classic, The Ice Trilogy and The Queue. His works have been translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow.

November 2018 9780241355138 B Format £8.99 : Paperback 256 pages

67 67 Day of the Oprichnik Fiasco Vladimir Sorokin Stanislaw Lem

Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New New York Times Russia There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of Moscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.' the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the twenty-four-hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has and torture, in the name of the czar he fears and adores. gone terribly wrong... Shimmering with invention, fierce social commentary and razor- sharp wit, Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore. July 2018 9780241334355 Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) is the author of eleven novels, £9.99 including The Blizzard, also published as a Penguin Modern B Format : Paperback Classic, The Ice Trilogy andThe Queue. His works have been 160 pages translated into thirty languages and won many prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize and the Maxim Gorky Prize. In 2013 he was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Moscow.

Child of Fortune November 2018 Yuko Tsushima 9780241355114 B Format The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged £8.99 : Paperback 256 pages 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the female psyche'

Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interior world with memorably visual imagery. The narrative is patterned with themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.

It follows the course of an unexpected pregnancy which threatens to sever frayed family bonds. The story is interwoven with repressed memories of childhood dreams, missed opportunities and a trio of unsatisfactory men. There is darkness in the novel, but it is not ultimately depressing, and it concludes with a sense of optimism. August 2018 9780241335031 £8.99 B Format : Paperback 176 pages

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68 Fiasco Stanislaw Lem

A stunningly inventive fantasy about cosmic travel' - The New York Times

There were two kinds of landscape characteristic of the inner planets of the Sun: the purposeful and the desolate.'

The planet Quinta is pocked with ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network draped from spindly poles. It is a kingdom of phantoms and of a beauty afflicted by madness. The Earth spaceship Hermes arrives on Quinta with the best of intentions towards the humans' 'brothers in intelligence'. But something on the planet has gone terribly wrong...

July 2018 9780241334355 £9.99 B Format : Paperback 160 pages

Child of Fortune Yuko Tsushima

The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the female psyche'

Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering on the edge of tragedy. It covers a year in the life of a single mother with an eleven-year-old daughter, combining a complex interior world with memorably visual imagery. The narrative is patterned with themes of loss, despair and fragmentation.

It follows the course of an unexpected pregnancy which threatens to sever frayed family bonds. The story is interwoven with repressed memories of childhood dreams, missed opportunities and a trio of unsatisfactory men. There is darkness in the novel, but it is not ultimately depressing, and it concludes with a sense of optimism. August 2018 9780241335031 £8.99 B Format : Paperback 176 pages

69 69 The Girl on the Via Flaminia War with the Newts Alfred Hayes Karel Capek

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries In Love and Your Face for the World to See to conquer the world...

Rome, December 1944. The city has been liberated by the Allies, but no War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of one feels like celebrating. A bitter wind blows down Via Flaminia, where early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony Signora Adela Pulcini keeps her boarding house and discreetly finds of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use Italian girls for lonely America soldiers. Robert is one such soldier; Lisa tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures is the girl procured to keep him company in return for food and shelter. and their wonderful capabilities, it is clear that this new species is ripe But the simple exchange doesn't go to plan, as Robert and Lisa find for exploitation - they can be traded in their thousands, will do the work themselves tangled in a dark, mutually destructive affair. Exposing the no human wants to do, and can fight - but the humans have given no fault-lines between men and women, the old and new worlds, and thought to the terrible consequences of their actions. victor and vanquished, Hayes's spare, taut novel is an incisive portrayal of sexual economics and the dark side of love.

August 2018 August 2018 9780241342329 9780241343456 £7.99 £9.99 B Format : Paperback B Format : Paperback 160 pages 352 pages

A Short History of Decay The Unwomanly Face of War E. M. Cioran Svetlana Alexievich

Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's most remarkable philosophers experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid "Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's pieces are pessimistic in of that war. A women's history." the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, History of Decay dissects man's decadence in a remarkable series of The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up moving and beautiful pieces. surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had August 2018 experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in September 2018 9780241343463 occupied territories. 9780141983530 £9.99 £9.99 B Format : Paperback With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in B Format : Paperback 192 pages 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in 384 pages five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.

71 70 70 War with the Newts Karel Capek

A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world...

War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek's darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also to speak. As the rest of the world learns of the creatures and their wonderful capabilities, it is clear that this new species is ripe for exploitation - they can be traded in their thousands, will do the work no human wants to do, and can fight - but the humans have given no thought to the terrible consequences of their actions.

August 2018 9780241343456 £9.99 B Format : Paperback 352 pages

The Unwomanly Face of War Svetlana Alexievich

The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."

In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official narratives. Travelling thousands of miles, she spent years interviewing hundreds of Soviet women - captains, tank drivers, snipers, pilots, nurses and doctors - who had experienced the war on the front lines, on the home front and in September 2018 occupied territories. 9780141983530 £9.99 With the dawn of Perestroika, a heavily censored edition came out in B Format : Paperback 1985 and it became a huge bestseller in the Soviet Union - the first in 384 pages five books that have established her as the conscience of the twentieth century.

71 71 The Hopkins Manuscript A Maigret Christmas R. C. Sherriff Georges Simenon

New to Penguin Classics, this is the funny and deeply Three newly translated Christmas tales featuring moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small Inspector Maigret and other characters from the Maigret village in England novels

Self-important and more or less friendless, retired teacher Edgar It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that world is shattered when he discovers that the moon is about to come lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected crashing to the earth, with probably apocalyptic consequences. The visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious manuscript he leaves behind will be a testament - to his growing intruder dressed in red and white. In 'Seven Small Crosses in a humanity and to how one English village prepared for the end of the Notebook', the sound of alarms over Paris send the police on a cat and world... mouse chase across the city. And 'The Little Restaurant near Place des Ternes (A Christmas Story for Grown-Ups)' tells of a cynical woman who Written in 1939 as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, is moved to an unexpected act of festive charity in a nightclub - one R. C. Sherriff's tragicomic novel is a classic work of science fiction, an that surprises even her... elegy for a lost way of life, and a powerful warning from the past. September 2018 November 2018 9780241349076 9780241356746 £9.99 £7.99 B Format : Paperback B Format : Paperback 432 pages 224 pages

French and Germans, Germans and French Lady Sings the Blues A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, Billie Holiday 1914–1918/1940–1944 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday A magnificent account of Occupied France in both the First "I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word and Second World Wars 'love'."

The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the Europe was between the French and the Germans. Twice, cataclysmic greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 wars were fought out on their borders, successfully by the French in Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But 1914-18 and unsuccessfully in 1940. Both wars led to military Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in occupation--for the large block of northern France behind the German jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, trenches in the First World War and ultimately the whole country in the her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her Second. adventures in love. Billie Holiday is a wise and aphoristic guide to the story of her unforgettable life. Richard Cobb's extraordinary book is a meditation on the whole idea of occupation. How do you survive? When do you collaborate? What moral September 2018 November 2018 compromises are necessary? Above all, it is a book about the way that 9780241351314 9780241351291 history gives a shape and rationality to events which for those living £9.99 £9.99 through them are completely mysterious, and terrifying. For those B Format : Paperback B Format : Paperback trapped under German rule--frightened, confused, malnourished--what 304 pages 240 pages is the right course of action? French and Germans, Germans and French recreates, with a brilliant mix of wit and sympathy, the story of one of the modern era's great dramas.

73 72 72 A Maigret Christmas Georges Simenon

Three newly translated Christmas tales featuring Inspector Maigret and other characters from the Maigret novels

It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious intruder dressed in red and white. In 'Seven Small Crosses in a Notebook', the sound of alarms over Paris send the police on a cat and mouse chase across the city. And 'The Little Restaurant near Place des Ternes (A Christmas Story for Grown-Ups)' tells of a cynical woman who is moved to an unexpected act of festive charity in a nightclub - one that surprises even her...

November 2018 9780241356746 £7.99 B Format : Paperback 224 pages

Lady Sings the Blues Billie Holiday

The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday

"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'."

Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her adventures in love. Billie Holiday is a wise and aphoristic guide to the story of her unforgettable life.

November 2018 9780241351291 £9.99 B Format : Paperback 240 pages

73 73 75 74 74 75 75 American Sonnets for My Past and Another Kyoto Future Assassin Alex Kerr with Kathy Arlyn Sokol Terrance Hayes An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan Written during the first 200 days of the Trump administration, a seventy-poem roller-coaster ride through Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit politics, music, life and love of Alex Kerr's half-century of living in Japan and of lore gleaned from people he's met along the way: artists, Zen monks and The black poet would love to say his century began Shinto priests, Japanese literati, and expat personalities from With Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actually days past, such as legendary art dealer David Kidd. Kerr turns It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors, what we thought we knew about Kyoto inside-out, revealing Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset the inner ideas behind simple things like walls, floors, and Bridges & windows. In a second I'll tell you how little sliding doors. Writing rescues. After this book, one can never walk through a Zen gate in the So begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of same way again. America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. Over seventy poems, each titled 'American Sonnet for my Past and Future Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Assassin' and shot through with the vernacular energy of Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his way between first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and creation, Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan. tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of the enemies of the good.

American Sonnets builds a living picture of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression which define the early 21st century. It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be. July 2018 July 2018 Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 9780141989112 9780141988337 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics B Format B Format Circle Award. His other books are Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and £9.99 : Paperback £9.99 : Paperback Muscular Music. His honors include a National Endowment for 112 pages 336 pages the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.

77 76 76 Another Kyoto Alex Kerr with Kathy Arlyn Sokol

An evocative, definitive work on Kyoto, the most beautiful city in Japan

Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit of Alex Kerr's half-century of living in Japan and of lore gleaned from people he's met along the way: artists, Zen monks and Shinto priests, Japanese literati, and expat personalities from days past, such as legendary art dealer David Kidd. Kerr turns what we thought we knew about Kyoto inside-out, revealing the inner ideas behind simple things like walls, floors, and sliding doors.

After this book, one can never walk through a Zen gate in the same way again.

Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.

July 2018 9780141988337 B Format £9.99 : Paperback 336 pages

77 77 Curiocity The Cold War An Alternative A-Z of London A World History Henry Eliot and Matt Odd Arne Westad 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' Lloyd-Rose On Where Eagles Dare A major history of the conflict Geoff Dyer 'The greatest book about that shaped every aspect of London published in modern our world An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard times ... an illuminated Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published manuscript for the 21st as the film approaches its 50th anniversary century city' - Londonist

Where Eagles Dare is both a thrillingly realized Alpine Second World War adventure with tough, compelling acting from its July 2018 July 2018 two great stars, Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, and a 9780141980799 9780141979915 flippant travesty, infantilizing the central disaster in Europe's £22.00 £10.99 modern history in favour of huge explosions and camp SS Paperback Paperback officers. 464 pages 720 pages

Geoff Dyer has loved Where Eagles Dare since childhood and in 'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' he twists and turns very entertainingly to both extoll and denigrate the acme of the late 1960s action movie. Like his earlier Zona - on Andrei Red Famine Asia's Reckoning Tarkovsky's Stalker - this is a scene-by-scene reaction to Stalin's War on Ukraine The Struggle for Global watching the film. The book might have as an ideal reader Anne Applebaum Dominance somebody who has not even seen Where Eagles Dare, but who Richard McGregor will enjoy it simply as a comic tour-de-force. But for the film's A powerful history of one the legions of fans, whose hearts will always belong to Ron most devastating episodes in Goodwin's theme tune and the opening shots of a snow- The dramatic story of the the twentieth century, by 'the camouflaged Junkers Ju-52, this book will be the fulfilment of a relationship between the leading historian of Soviet dream. world's three largest crimes' (Sunday Times) economies, one that is Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous non- shaping the future of us all, fiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the by one of the foremost experts on east Asia Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a October 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a July 2018 July 2018 9780141987620 Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of 9780141978284 9780141982854 A Format Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, £10.99 £9.99 £8.99 : Paperback the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Paperback Paperback 128 pages a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and a 512 pages 416 pages Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in California. Auschwitz Life 3.0 A History Being Human in the Age of Sybille Steinbacher Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing A.I. is the future of science, ground technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark

July 2018 July 2018 9780141987484 9780141981802 £9.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 176 pages 384 pages

79 78 78 Curiocity The Cold War An Alternative A-Z of London A World History Henry Eliot and Matt Odd Arne Westad Lloyd-Rose A major history of the conflict 'The greatest book about that shaped every aspect of London published in modern our world times ... an illuminated manuscript for the 21st century city' - Londonist

July 2018 July 2018 9780141980799 9780141979915 £22.00 £10.99 Paperback Paperback 464 pages 720 pages

Red Famine Asia's Reckoning Stalin's War on Ukraine The Struggle for Global Anne Applebaum Dominance Richard McGregor A powerful history of one the most devastating episodes in The dramatic story of the the twentieth century, by 'the relationship between the leading historian of Soviet world's three largest crimes' (Sunday Times) economies, one that is shaping the future of us all, by one of the foremost experts on east Asia July 2018 July 2018 9780141978284 9780141982854 £10.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 512 pages 416 pages

Auschwitz Life 3.0 A History Being Human in the Age of Sybille Steinbacher Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing A.I. is the future of science, ground technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future than Max Tegmark

July 2018 July 2018 9780141987484 9780141981802 £9.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 176 pages 384 pages

79 79 What You Did Not Tell Winter King Victorious Century Special Relativity and A Russian Past and the The Dawn of Tudor England The United Kingdom, 1800– Classical Field Theory Journey Home Thomas Penn 1906 Leonard Susskind and David Cannadine Art Friedman The unforgettable and bestselling story of the A superbly told history of A family memoir, The third volume in Leonard turbulent birth of Tudor Victoria's Britain in all its encompassing some of the Susskind's one-of-a-kind England, from a brilliant grandeur and misery, triumph most fascinating aspects of physics series cracks open historian and doubt twentieth century European Einstein's special relativity history, from the acclaimed and field theory author of Dark Continent

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Stalin, Vol. II Bread for All Collecting the World The Atlas of Beauty Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 The Origins of the Welfare The Life and Curiosity of Hans Women of the World in 500 Stephen Kotkin State Sloane Portraits Chris Renwick James Delbourgo Mihaela Noroc One of the great works of modern history - the definitive A landmark book from a A fascinating, vivid biography Photographs of women from biography of one of the remarkable new historian, on of the founder of the British more than 50 countries, with world's most powerful and a subject that has never been Museum and exploration of captions that reveal each frightening rulers more important - or imperilled the itch to accumulate woman's unique story and environment

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Improbable Destinies Where The Animals The Internationalists Lost Kingdom How Predictable is Evolution? Go And Their Plan to Outlaw War A History of Russian Oona A. Hathaway and Nationalism from Ivan the Jonathan Losos Tracking Wildlife with Great to Vladimir Putin Technology in 50 Maps and Scott J. Shapiro A dazzling tour of evolution in Serhii Plokhy Graphics action that sheds light on one James Cheshire and A timely and fascinating of the greatest debates in history of how law rather than An astonishingly wide-ranging science Oliver Uberti war became the norm in history of Russian nationalism settling disputes between from a pre-eminent scholar of A pioneering book that uses nations Eastern Europe big data to map the movements of 50 different August 2018 animals on land, sea and sky, August 2018 September 2018 September 2018 9780141981192 from ants to humpback 9780141982229 9780141981864 9780141983134 £9.99 whales, bats to the great £14.99 £12.99 £10.99 Paperback white shark Paperback Paperback Paperback 384 pages 174 pages 608 pages 432 pages 24pp

81 80 80 Victorious Century Special Relativity and The United Kingdom, 1800– Classical Field Theory 1906 Leonard Susskind and David Cannadine Art Friedman A superbly told history of The third volume in Leonard Victoria's Britain in all its Susskind's one-of-a-kind grandeur and misery, triumph physics series cracks open and doubt Einstein's special relativity and field theory

September 2018 September 2018 9780141019130 9780141985015 £10.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 624 pages 272 pages

Collecting the World The Atlas of Beauty The Life and Curiosity of Hans Women of the World in 500 Sloane Portraits James Delbourgo Mihaela Noroc

A fascinating, vivid biography Photographs of women from of the founder of the British more than 50 countries, with Museum and exploration of captions that reveal each the itch to accumulate woman's unique story and environment

September 2018 September 2018 9780718194437 9780141985695 £12.99 £10.99 Paperback Paperback 544 pages 240 pages

The Internationalists Lost Kingdom And Their Plan to Outlaw War A History of Russian Oona A. Hathaway and Nationalism from Ivan the Scott J. Shapiro Great to Vladimir Putin Serhii Plokhy A timely and fascinating history of how law rather than An astonishingly wide-ranging war became the norm in history of Russian nationalism settling disputes between from a pre-eminent scholar of nations Eastern Europe

September 2018 September 2018 9780141981864 9780141983134 £12.99 £10.99 Paperback Paperback 608 pages 432 pages 24pp

81 81 The Poetry Pharmacy The Butchering Art Tried-and-True Prescriptions Joseph Lister’s Quest to for the Heart, Mind and Soul Transform the Grisly World of William Sieghart Victorian Medicine Lindsey Fitzharris The hit self-help poetry anthology that won't stop The spellbinding story of a winning hearts and minds - visionary British surgeon who now with 12 new poems changed medicine forever

September 2018 October 2018 9780141987576 9780141983387 £9.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 176 pages 256 pages

The Origins of The Future of War Creativity A History Edward O. Wilson Lawrence Freedman

The legendary biologist A new approach to ideas Edward O. Wilson offers his about war, from one of the most philosophically probing UK's leading strategic thinkers work to date

October 2018 October 2018 9780141986340 9780141975603 £9.99 £10.99 Paperback Paperback 256 pages 352 pages

Beneath Another Sky The Worm and the A Global Journey into History Bird Norman Davies Coralie Bickford-Smith

Where have the people in any An uplifting story from the particular place actually come winner of Waterstones Book from? What are the historical of the Year 2015, now complexities in any particular redesigned as a classic place? This evocative paperback picture book historical journey around the world shows us

October 2018 October 2018 9780141976983 9781846149238 £12.99 £8.99 Paperback Paperback 656 pages 64 pages

82 82 Enemies and A History of Judaism Neighbours Martin Goodman Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its Ian Black origins to the present

'Excellent ... A detailed, even -handed account of the world's most intractable and damaging political dispute' Sunday Times October 2018 October 2018 9780141979144 9780141038216 £10.99 £9.99 Paperback Paperback 400 pages 512 pages

The Gritterman Orlando Weeks

A haunting, beautifully illustrated story about a seasonal hero and the work he loves

November 2018 9780141986623 £9.99 Paperback 80 pages

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